Following.

The sixth day of Jiang Cang's return to the real world, that is, the day of the third fog.

Inside the hotel.

Jiang Cang got up early to pack his things, carried a travel bag, and went to the tourist area in the south.

And today is not a holiday, and this tourist attraction is not a holiday destination.

No congestion or crowding along the way.

Jiang Cang walked for about half an hour, walked around, and according to the vague hints, he came to the path next to the woods near this scenic spot.

At a glance.

There were no guardrails on either side or anything like that, and there was no one on the trail.

When Jiang Cang saw it, he entered the forest, walked two or three hundred meters, and waited until the branches were luxuriant, so he found a place to hide the travel bag in the crack of the tree.

Small items were put in pockets, and the double knife dagger was carried on the body.

Finally, take a closer look around and check what you're carrying.

When he was sure that no one was coming, and that he was ready, he walked to the intersection of several large trees, sat on the side of a large stone half a meter high, and waited for the fog to fall while adjusting his strength.

And according to memory.

Jiang Cang vaguely remembered that after the 'Third Mist' descended here, it covered a radius of about one mile, next to the tourist attractions next to it.

The fog lasts for a day.

It's not much different from the foggy time of the previous world.

Now, I just don't know how long the Yuan Energy World lasts.

And as time passes.

At twelve o'clock in the afternoon, when the fog descended, covering the surrounding trees.

Jiang Cang, who had already adjusted to his peak state, did not delay, so he stood up from under the tree, began to count in the fog, and walked back and forth nearby.

After waiting until about 300 counts, an illusory door appeared in front of him.

Jiang Cang stepped forward with a familiar car, tapped three times, and pushed away suddenly.

Moment.

When I stepped in, the scene changed instantly.

Near him is a mountain forest scene.

With the clear blue sky overhead, I am in the middle of this rolling mountain range.

It's just that when Jiang Cang looked forward, he saw a small village sitting on the side of a mountain two or three hundred meters away, and a circle of small peaks was a hundred meters away from the village.

There was also a van parked in front of the village, but it was not parked properly.

Now there are three big men shouting and pushing behind them.

It is estimated that the wheel has sunk into the mud and slipped.

At the same time, when Jiang Cang was looking around, three vague hints appeared in his mind.

Sort it out yourself.

First, it is the time when the element energy appears. 'After forty days, three Yuan Energy will appear at the same time within a radius of 500 kilometers. ’

Second, the handwriting task, 'Tea and wine, it seems to have been handed over to someone in the village'

Third, identity memory. It's probably because I'm a person from the village in front of me.

But this time it was more specific, recording that 'I' wandered to the village at the age of seven or eight, and was brought up by the village chief 'Old Man Sun'.

It's just that when I was admitted to high school eight years ago, I said goodbye here.

Now, it has been eight years since I returned to the village in this big ravine.

Because in the memory of my identity, 'I went to high school and college eight years ago to work now' are thousands of kilometers away from this village, and it is too troublesome to transfer cars, and the road is not easy to walk.

Old man Sun was also distressed about money, and even felt that people were tossing, so he wouldn't let Jiang Cang come back.

Anyway, it sounded to Jiang Cang, it was a bit too inauthentic, and he didn't come back for eight years.

And I can have such a detailed identity.

Jiang Cang thought about it carefully, eighty percent of it was related to these two yuan things, so he let himself come into contact with a 'force' at the beginning. ’

Similar to the first world, it's like 'sending chance'?

Jiang Cang thought about it and felt that he should be right.

Maybe this 'tea and wine' was used to pay for the sins of the past eight years.

It's just a little too cheap.

But anyway.

In the eight years I have been going to school and working, I can well hide a series of problems such as my ability to box.

And wait for all three prompts to be clear.

Jiang Cang felt a little cold.

This is because the temperature is about 10 degrees below and above freezing.

I guess it's winter.

But he only wore wolf skin and practice clothes, which was too thin.

But for his 2.3 physique, he can withstand it in a short period of time and will not affect his peak state.

Therefore.

Jiang Cang moved his limbs, tightened the clothes on his body again, warmed them a little, and then walked towards the village in front of him, preparing to connect the Yuanwu task first and find warm clothes.

"Let's go!"

And with the sound of 'whirring' wheels rubbing against the dirt road.

When Jiang Cang came to the entrance of the village, he also took a few steps forward, went over to take a hand with those big men, and pushed the car out.

"Thank you, master!"

Several big men smiled honestly and hurriedly thanked them.

But when they saw that Jiang Cang was wearing such a thin coat in winter and carrying two scabbards on his back, they were surprised, but they still pointed to the car door and said, "Where are you going, master, give you a ride?" It's cold, don't freeze when you wear so thin. ”

"Right ahead." Jiang Cang smiled, raised his feet and walked into this small village, and then walked towards the old man Sun at the west end of the village.

And along the way.

The potholed roads, coupled with the cold winter, except for a few children running after each other madly, there are few people on the street.

Jiang Cang passed by an old store, glanced at the idea wall behind the wall through the window, and saw that the time was displayed as '2016, December'

The numbers further back are blocked by the window, and they can't be seen clearly.

Anyway, it was cold like this, and it was almost the end of December.

Especially since the world is not much different from the real year, which is a good thing.

At least familiar.

It's just that.

When Jiang Cang walked towards Old Man Sun's house, he saw a middle-aged woman and young man walking out of the courtyard in front of him, saying some strange words.

"Is it true that Sister-in-law Li said that the mountains are haunted?" The middle-aged woman carried a vegetable basket, "I heard that she said that the mountain god was angry, found the king of Hades, opened the separation between heaven and earth, and released the ghost!" ”

"Oops! My dear mother! The young man smiled helplessly and snatched the vegetable basket, "What years have you been, if there is such a big movement, we have already been covered." It was a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and the earth's crust was moving."

As the young man spoke, he was stunned for a moment when he saw Jiang Cang walking over with two scabbards on his back, feeling that something was wrong with this person!

But then he recalled, thinking that although he had never seen Jiang Cang in the village, he vaguely felt that Jiang Cang's appearance was familiar, so he pulled his mother who was about to speak again, and gradually walked towards the outside of the village, and explained in a low voice,

"Mom! You can't talk nonsense, the folks in the street will laugh at our family when they hear it."

The words are getting farther and farther away.

After Jiang Cang couldn't hear clearly, he didn't tilt his head to listen anymore, but walked another hundred meters and came to the outside of the courtyard of a house.

At this time, there was a sturdy old man in the courtyard, fetching clean water by the well.

Jiang Cang glanced at it a few times, suddenly smiled, and shouted across the courtyard: "Uncle Sun, are you busy?" What do you eat at night? ”

"Jiang Cang?"

Old man Sun turned around suddenly, and the bucket fell into the well.

But Old Man Sun didn't care, but instead glanced at Jiang Cang outside the courtyard, and suddenly scolded with a smile: "The little rabbit cub still knows to come back?" ”

"Don't blink your waist." Jiang Cang walked into the courtyard, took over the work in Old Man Sun's hand, and brought a bucket of water, "It's not like I'm back, I'm bringing you something." ”

"Go back to the house." Old man Sun saw that Jiang Cang was dressed so thinly, so he reproached Jiang Cang and entered the house in the courtyard.

As soon as I entered the door, a fishy smell of earth came, the same as the smell of home.

Old man Sun walked briskly to the back room again, rummaging through the wardrobe,

"You don't know if you can wear the clothes from a few years ago, you can put them together first, and I'll go to the town to buy you a few more later."

Old man Sun said, taking a few thick clothes out for a comparison.

The slag of the soil, Zhao Shao in the nineties will not wear it.

Jiang Cang saw it, so he picked one casually and put it on.

"It's okay!" Old man Sun looked at it a few times, picked up a cigarette gun from the table, added tobacco, lit it, and took a puff of cigarette, "How have you learned in the past eight years?" A knife on your back? ”

"That's it. I learned a little martial arts. Jiang Cang took out the wine and tea, "You taste it, I brought it to you." ”

"Don't give me a set." Old man Sun's face was pale, but he smiled suddenly, put down the cigarette gun, and accepted the bottle of wine, "If someone else comes and sends me something, this is called bribery!" ! Lao Tzu burned him with matchsticks! ”

Old man Sun said, and pushed the tea to Jiang Cang again, "I'm used to drinking a big bowl of tea, this good tea foam, give it to 'Old Dao'." Especially when it's cold, don't go out.."

"Don't go out." Jiang Cang looked at Old Man Sun's chapped hands, and he didn't know what to feel in his heart.

But I can also imagine the 'self' in the identity memory, and it must be that I have a very deep relationship with Old Man Sun.

When Old Man Sun saw Jiang Cang taking the tea, he picked up the cigarette gun again and explained the matter of Lao Dao, "You just went out to school, and there is a 'Taoist chief' in our village." It's a person with real skills! He writes a good hand, and he also knows astronomy and geography, and he is a strange person! ”

After Old Man Sun finished speaking, he said with a straight face: "So, don't think that it's cold to let you be at home, it's for you to play!" I can tell you, since you're back, you still have to learn! Asking you to send tea is to let you learn skills with the Taoist. Don't worry, I'll tell him about it, and he'll teach you. ”

'Dao Chief? Jiang Cang pondered for a moment, but didn't say anything.

Because I found that the 'straw man' appeared as a prompt, it was faintly 'five days later, the east end of the village.' ’

And Old Man Sun didn't explain much about Dao Chang, so he took Jiang Cang to a distant town to eat and drink to celebrate the return of the college students.

Afternoon.

Jiang Cang said that he was looking for a friend in his town, but in fact, he took a few grams of gold and sold it.

Changed money.

Jiang Cang grabbed Old Man Sun again, added him a few pieces of clothes, and a box of good wine, which was not very expensive, a few hundred yuan.

By the way, I also bought some medicinal herbs in a nearby town and prepared a medicinal diet.

At night, he stayed at Old Man Sun's house, waiting for the Taoist chief.

In the next few days.

Jiang Cang also found that he did not encounter the task of 'getting the right door to the point'.

Anyway, every day is to chat with Old Man Sun, and go around the small village, chatting door to door, all familiar and familiar.

After all, I'm from this village.

There are no tasks, you have to find something to do.

Wait about five days for it to pass.

At noon on the sixth day.

Falling with light snow.

Jiang Cang, who was practicing boxing in the courtyard, heard the news that the Taoist chief had returned from a nearby city.

It was also three or four o'clock in the afternoon on this day.

The snowflakes gradually get bigger.

Jiang Cang pinned the straw man to the obvious trouser leg pocket, took the bag of tea, and at the urging of Old Man Sun, he went to the east of the village to visit the old man by himself.

And the old way may have just returned.

When Jiang Cang came to the gate of this courtyard, he saw a middle-aged man wearing a Taoist robe, sorting out his luggage in the courtyard at this time, and letting the snowflakes fall on him.

Look at it again.

Jiang Cang saw that these luggage were peachwood swords, sacrificial tables, yellow paper, paper money, and a half-human-sized female paper figure with blush and braids, as if she was looking at the snowflakes in the sky.

"Huh?"

At the same time, when Jiang Cang was just aiming at the old way.

Lao Dao, who was about fifty years old, also turned around at the same time and suddenly looked at Jiang Cang outside the hospital, making Jiang Cang feel 'dangerous' for a moment!

And this feeling still comes from my own 'beast sense! ’

The danger is so dangerous that your palm is about to be placed on the flames!

You can get hurt at any time!

But Jiang Cang also had a faint feeling, coupled with the observation of his eyes, he felt that even if this old way was a real 'cultivator', as long as he was close, he should not lose much to the old way of '1.3' physique.

"It's Jiang Cang."

When Lao Dao asked Jiang Cang, he recognized that the person who came was a friend and not an enemy, and his face turned into a smile, which made Jiang Cang's sense of danger disappear.

"It's cold outside, come inside and say." As he spoke, he took a few steps forward and opened the courtyard door like an ordinary person, "Otherwise, you'll freeze, and Old Man Sun should talk about me again." ”

"Thank you, Chief."

Jiang Cang thanked him, entered the yard with his eyes impartial, passed by the pile of luggage, and shook the snowflakes on his body before entering the door, before stepping into Lao Dao's home.

The number of rites is very positive, and I can't find any fault.

"Dao Chief, this weather has come to bother you." Jiang Cang clenched his fists and saluted, his eyes were unintentional, and he saw that the Taoist chief's house had a stone bed and a low wooden table, which were still placed on the bed.

"It's fine." Lao Dao turned around and looked at Jiang Cang carefully, pondered for a while, and then said: "Old man Sun asked you to learn art from me, he told me many times three years ago, and I agreed. It's just that you haven't come back, and you're still out going to school, so this matter has been delayed.."

"But." Lao Dao touched the beard on his chest, "Lao Dao, I have acted all my life, I am jealous and hateful, I have killed people and eliminated ghosts." I don't know if Old Man Sun told you? ”

'Kill ghosts? Is it really a cultivator? When Jiang Cang heard this, he pondered in his heart, and actually wanted to say, "Uncle Sun didn't say anything, but you have said it now." ’

But.

Jiang Cang didn't know what this seemingly unsimple old way meant, so he nodded and said, "Say it." ”

"Okay." Lao Dao nodded, "Then let's not talk about anything else." ”

The old saying fell, and he sat down on the edge of the bed, "I don't know how many souls people die in, but I can keep a soul and let them tell me what they haven't finished." And I will relay these words to their descendants. After saying that, I forgot about it, and I didn't worry about other people's family affairs. ”

Lao Dao said, looking at Jiang Cang, "So I often deal with dead people, and I can feel that you have also killed people!" And you have a good breath, and you kill as much as I am."

When Lao Dao said this, he paused for a moment, and suddenly asked, "Okay?" ”

"Yes." Jiang Cang didn't deny it, but instead hugged his fists squarely, "I don't remember how many people Jiang Cang killed, there are about hundreds." ”

"Good!" Lao Dao smiled, "Well said, it's good to kill, I didn't lie to Lao Dao!" And I can't teach you, you are also a master, let's talk about it as equals! ”

Lao Dao invited Jiang Cang to come and sit, poured Jiang Cang another cup of tea, and suddenly changed the topic, pointing to the straw man pinned to Jiang Cang's trouser leg: "This villain is a little interesting." Can you take a look at it? ”

"Please." Jiang Cang didn't say a word, he happily handed the straw man into the hands of Lao Dao, and picked up the tea and tasted it.

And Lao Dao took a closer look at the straw man, reversed it back and forth, frowned and thought for a while, and then asked Jiang Cang, who was letting himself look at the straw man: "Master Jiang.. If it's convenient, can you tell me where this villain came from? ”

"A friend." Jiang Cang put down the teacup.

"A friend?" Lao Dao sighed and suddenly laughed, "The person who gave you the straw man is a nobleman!" ”

Lao Dao said, stood up, and returned to Jiang Cang's previous etiquette, "And your object has an aura, as if it is alive." ”

"Alive?" Jiang Cang paused, got up and saluted back, and looked at the straw man a few times by the light in the room.

Let's be honest.

I really didn't see anything weird and bizarre.

But since this straw figure is a primitive thing, it has undergone so many repairs, and finally it finally came into the hands of this seemingly 'cultivator'.

Whoever sounds to it, this must be a good thing!

can only say that he is not good enough, and he can't see it.

"Do you know the 'Nailhead Seven Arrows Book'?"

And the old way pinched the straw man, and without waiting for Jiang Cang to say anything, he explained a 'magic weapon' similar to the straw man.

"The 'Nailhead Seven Arrows Book' is a manuscript of Lu Zhuandao's people."

Lao Dao gestured according to the straw man, "It records a kind of magic, which is 'Seven Arrows with Nail Head', which is a straw man, the name of the scholar, a lamp on his head, and a lamp on his feet." And the 'Golden Immortal Zhao Gongming' in "Romance of the Gods" was killed by the Nailhead Seven Arrows Book! ”

"Book of Seven Arrows?" Jiang Cang asked rhetorically, "You said this is a murderous object?" ”

"Just an analogy." The old man waved his hand and looked at the straw man a few times, "And look at the appearance of your little straw man, it should be a life-saving object, a stand-in straw man." ”

"You're talking a little mysterious." Jiang Cang remembered the words of the old Tao, but did not answer randomly, but changed the question again: "The Taoist can exorcise ghosts and read novels, so Jiang Cang has a question, does he want to ask if the characters in the Romance of the Gods are true?" Are there really fairies and ghosts in the world? ”

"Yes, there are ghosts." Lao Dao wrapped the hairpin on the top of his head, "And I have basically read all the books that talk about family affairs." For example, the Romance of the Gods, I watched it when I was a child, and I longed for that magic weapon in my heart, the battle of the gods."

Lao Dao's eyes were yearning, but when he said this, he smiled again, "But it's useless." The first opening of the universe in the heavens and on the earth is all nonsense! But it was precisely because I read that novel that my brain was hot, and I couldn't study, so I went to cultivate..."

"Luckily."

Lao Dao smiled happily, "I really worshiped Master Zu right, and I have gained some skills in talking to ghosts." Although it is far inferior to the immortals in the Romance of the Gods, it can be regarded as letting me know that there is really a humane, authentic, and heavenly way in the world! ”

"Then you have real skills!" Jiang Cang clenched his fists, looked at the straw man again, and before he could speak, Lao Dao picked up again.

"This straw man is interesting, I'll help you find a way to fix it." Lao Dao didn't know whether it was for Old Man Sun's face, or for the sake of tea, or for the help of his peers, anyway, his words were all sincere, "Lao Dao also wants to see what this object looks like after it is repaired." Is it really the magic weapon described in the book? ”

"I'm sorry for you." Jiang Cang clenched his fists.

"You're welcome." Although Lao Dao was helping Jiang Cang, he also returned the favor, feeling that Jiang Cang let him see a fresh treasure.

But it's also after the ceremony.

Jiang Cang hadn't chatted with Lao Dao for a while.

With the sound of 'click' footsteps came from outside the hospital.

Old man Sun trotted into the courtyard, stood by the window of the old road and waved his hand,

"Sure enough, it's all here!"

Old man Sun smiled, and said to Jiang Cang through the window: "Jiang Cang, there were a few drivers at the door just now, and they looked like rich people!" I thought that you had been to a big place, and you saw a lot of people in the market, so you should be able to deal with these people, so I came over and asked you to entertain them, don't lose the face of our village! You also know more people, so that you can find a job in the future, and you can't always stay in our blind pimple! ”

"That's what you said." Jiang Cang just responded, but saw that Old Man Sun left after speaking.

So, Jiang Cang looked at Lao Dao and hugged his fists again, "Dao Chief, Uncle Sun is kind to me, and the words have been spoken, then I will go first to accuse the guilt, and the straw man will leave this for you, you have more guarantees." ”

"Okay." Lao Dao said a word, and when he looked at Jiang Cang who was going out, he didn't know why, and his heart became more and more wrong, so he suddenly shouted to Jiang Cang, who had just gone out,

"Don't go to the mountains!"

"On the mountain?" Jiang Cang's footsteps paused, and he thought about it for a while, thinking that this was the Yuan Energy World, and he would definitely see it a few days ago, so he suddenly turned around and returned to the house.

Because it is the first time I have seen such a 'strange person' as Lao Dao, it is difficult to guarantee that if others say a word, I will be able to suffer less sin!

You must know that there really are ghosts in this world, and they can't be killed with two knives and one edge!

"Dao Chief, what's on the mountain.." Jiang Cang clenched his fists and looked at Lao Dao, and suddenly remembered that he had only come to this world, and said: "When I came back a few days ago, I heard that something strange happened on the mountain in the previous section."

"It's fine." Lao Dao's expression calmed down again, and he shook his head, "Hearsay, people talk nonsense." ”

"You're not talking nonsense." Jiang Cang hugged his fists and walked closer, "If you give me a letter, my heart is also tight." ”

Click..

Lao Dao turned the cup, glanced at Jiang Cang, who was clenching his fists, and after a while, he suddenly lowered his voice, "Master Jiang, we just met, if I want to let you kill someone, will you feel wrong in your heart?" ”

"You speak." Jiang Cang clenched his fists and saluted without moving, "Although Jiang Cang's hands are full of blood, he will also listen to his ears and know more about right and wrong." ”

"Good!" Lao Dao saw that Jiang Cang trusted him, so he didn't talk nonsense, hugged his fists and said politely, "If they are here for a vision and want to go to the mountain, Master Jiang will follow." If they have other intentions on the way, or want to harm you, you will kill them! ”

Lao Dao touched the straw man, "The life-saving straw needs to be condensed in the heart." This does not matter whether it is humane or authentic, God has its own justice. will exchange the lives of the wicked for the lives of chivalrous! ”