Chapter 18: In Search of the Master
After dinner, Xie Cheng offered to accompany Fu Xin to train his mental power. When the other three heard about it, they also asked to go with them. Thereupon. A group of five people came to the spiritual training room in the main building of Xie's Energy and Mineral Mining Center.
Fu Xin's mental power had been stagnant in the B rank for quite some time, and she faintly felt that there were signs of a breakthrough.
When she came to the training room, she couldn't wait to get into training.
The mental training room here is designed for soil masters, not for students majoring in soil kneading, and the difficulty and trickiness of the training are relatively high.
Fu Xin obviously felt the struggling during training, but he still went all out to attack the perfect score.
The familiar feeling of headache and dizziness soon struck, and this time the pain and loss of strength were stronger than ever. Fu Xin took off his training helmet tremblingly, opened the hatch with the little strength he had left, and slowly walked out with his body hunched over and holding on to the bulkhead.
Xie Yuan, who was paying close attention to Fu Xin's condition on the side, rushed over as soon as possible, and walked quickly to the rest area with Fu Xin in his arms.
Seeing this, Yao Jingyu, who happened to be resting in the rest area, hurriedly stood up and took a towel and energy water.
"Fu Xin, this is the ...... Mental power breakthrough? Yao Jingyu asked in surprise as she handed over the things.
"Maybe, I don't know." Because Xie Cheng knew that Fu Xin's mental strength had always been hidden from the outside world, he did not answer Yao Jingyu directly.
After Yao Jingyu heard Xie Yuan's answer, he was thoughtful and his eyes were uncertain.
Because the impact of this breakthrough was greater than usual, Fu Xin rested on the sofa for a while before gradually relieving himself.
She also knew that her breakthrough was more obvious, and she was also seen by Yao Jingyu on the spot, so she didn't choose to hide it anymore. When Lu Jiayao and Lu Jiaxi came over to ask, they generously admitted that they should have made a breakthrough in their mental power.
After hearing this, Lu Jiayao was sincerely happy for Fu Xin. Although the D-level spiritual power is still relatively weak for the soil kneader, compared to the E-level spiritual power that even a low-level soil kneader can't do, at least being able to enter the soil sneader industry is a good result.
After Yao Jingyu heard Fu Xin's personal admission, she was a little surprised and a little surprised, and finally looked at her with a complicated face.
Xie Yuan, who was focused on caring about his girlfriend, and Lu Jiayao and Lu Jiaxi, who were immersed in the atmosphere of being happy for their friends, did not notice Yao Jingyu's eyes, but Fu Xin inadvertently raised his head and instantly saw a trace of indescribable complex emotions in his eyes, and he was a little suspicious.
In order to celebrate Fu Xin's breakthrough in mental power, Lu Jiayao strongly asked Fu Xin to invite everyone to have supper, so a group of people frolicked and walked to the restaurant outside.
Because it was late when he returned to the dormitory after supper, Fu Xin didn't tell his grandfather about his mental power returning to Class A, and simply sent a message.
After sending the message, Fu Xin thought about it and sent another one to Fu Chunlin, after all, his cousin also chose to come to the border city because of himself, and he couldn't treat him as an outsider if there was any good news.
At breakfast the next day, Fu Xin was still sitting with Xie Yuan. Yao Jingyu was pulled by Lu Jiayao to sit at a table across from them.
Seeing this, Fu Xin quietly told Xie Yan that when she told everyone about the breakthrough of her spiritual power yesterday, Yao Jingyu's strange eyes, and through the conversation between Yao Jingyu and his father that she overheard at the Lu family's celebration banquet before, she guessed that Master Yao might know something about her spiritual power.
When Xie Yan heard this, he frowned slightly, thought for a while, and proposed: "As far as I know, Master Yao has been engaged in research work in the Border City Spiritual Power Research Institute, and Yao Jingyu should also grow up in the border city, so it stands to reason that he can be regarded as a border city person." It will take us at least a month to investigate in the border city, and then we can use the excuse of visiting his house to meet Master Yao and learn about your situation when you were a child. ”
Fu Xin also felt that it was more reasonable after hearing this, so he smiled and nodded.
Just then, her communicator rang. Fu Xin clicked on it and saw that it was Fu Chunlin's call request.
As soon as she connected, Fu Junlin's impatient voice came from the other end of the communicator: "You really broke through to A-level?" ”
"I know you're amazing! Now you can completely replace me as the proudest descendant of the Fu family. Before Fu Xin could answer, Fu Chunlin said jokingly again.
For Fu Chunlin's eagerness, Fu Xin has some understanding. After all, Fu Junlin, as the proud son of the innate bloodline, has always been pressed by Xie Cheng, an acquired genius, and the pressure is really great, and now that his spiritual strength has recovered, in his opinion, he can represent the Fu family and Xie Cheng in the future.
Thinking of Xie Xin, Fu Xin looked back at her boyfriend who was concentrating on eating, probably noticing Fu Xin's gaze at him, Xie Xin raised his head and smiled gently at Fu Xin.
Fu Xin shook his head helplessly, what is this comparable. Whether it is congenital or acquired, it is just to do a part for the society as a soil digger.
"By the way, have you remembered anything about staying in the border city for the past two days?" Seeing that Fu Xin didn't respond, Fu Junlin asked again.
"Nope." Fu Xin replied, "But ......" Fu Xin brought up the matter of Yao Jingyu and Master Yao, and told him that he and Xie Yan were going to visit Yao's house at a time after they were ready.
After hearing this, Fu Junlin immediately said that as Fu Xin's cousin, he naturally had to accompany Fu Xin to go over.
Fu Xin smiled and responded.
At the end of the communication, breakfast was already a little cold, and Xie Cheng just offered to give her a new one, but Fu Xin refused. She hurriedly ate a few bites, and then rushed back with Lu Jiayao and others, who had been waiting on the side, to continue to make a research report.
Fu Xin and Xie Yan hadn't mentioned it to Yao Jingyu for a while, because it was Sunday soon, and the appointment to find and visit the mysterious master was coming. As for going to Yao's house, Fu Xin and Xie Cheng both decided to hold off for the time being.
The day before Sunday, the five of them began to prepare for the next day's search for the mysterious master. To this end, they also deliberately logged on to the alliance's public network to search for information about this forest and some forest exploration strategies.
The name of this forest is very clear: Border City Wild Forest. The overall terrain of the forest is undulating, and there are many rare wild plants and a small number of dangerous wild animals, so it is not recommended to go in crowds.
Many netizens who have been to the adventure suggest that they must wear protective suits, bring self-defense weapons, and bring water, food and wilderness survival equipment.
There are even a few netizens who broke the news that there is an area in the center of the forest where no signal can be found, and electronic devices such as communicators will completely fail after entering, but as long as they leave that area, it will be fine.
In this regard, Xie Yuan's suggestion at the beginning to take the aircraft directly to the coordinate point, and then put down the ladder and let them climb down one by one did not work.
However, the trip to the forest was so challenging, and several young people who had grown up in the city were slightly scared and at the same time very curious.
As for whether the coordinates of the mysterious master's residence they were looking for were not in the area where the signal was missing, the five of them did not worry too much about it, and unanimously decided to try to find it first.
In the end, the five of them decided to prepare everything according to the strategy, drive the landwalker to the outskirts of the forest, and then walk in on their own.
Because the location of the forest shown on the map is far away from the Xie Energy Mineral Mining Center, the five of them got up early in the morning on Sunday.
After packing up, Xie Cheng drove the land walker borrowed from Xie the day before, carried the other four people, and set off neatly towards the wild forest of the border city.
When they came to the periphery of the forest, the five of them got off the land walker, only to find that this place was really inhabited. At least from the edge of the forest, there were only five of them.
Lu Jiayao's face was slightly frightened. Seeing this, Xie Yan stepped forward and arranged: "I'll explore the way at the front, Yao Jingyu will protect at the rear, Fu Xin, you and Lu Jiayao and Lu Jiaxi will walk in the middle together." ”
Fu Xin nodded, "Then I'm behind you." As he spoke, he took out his self-defense weapon and walked behind Xie Yuan.
Seeing this, the other three also came over in turn and lined up behind.
"Although there are dangerous animals in this forest, there are very few of them. Moreover, yesterday I also saw on the Internet how to deal with them, so you don't have to worry, as long as you don't go into the signal loss area, how we get in can get out. Xie Yan comforted everyone as he walked.
The five of them followed the navigator for more than an hour, and apart from the various birds flying overhead, the occasional rabbit scurrying out of the woods, and the squirrels and monkeys bouncing on the branches, they did not encounter any aggressive animals, not even snakes.
The tension of the crowd gradually eased, and they couldn't help but sigh at their good fortune, and began to enjoy the beauty of the forest while relaxing.
After walking for almost an hour, Lu Jiayao proposed to rest for a while, her physical strength was almost unable to keep up.
Xie Yan first observed the surrounding environment and found that there were no animal footprints around, so it should be safe.
Then he looked at the navigator again, and by this time they were only halfway from the coordinates, so he told everyone to rest for a quarter of an hour.
"How do you feel? Tired or not? As soon as Fu Xin sat down, Xie Yan came over and handed over water and bread.
"It's fine! What about you? Walk in front, your spirit is tighter, or you can lie on my lap and close your eyes and rest for a while. Fu Xin took the thing and asked Xiang Xie with concern.
Xie Cheng just wanted to say that he was not tired, but when he heard Fu Xin's second half of the sentence, he hurriedly held his forehead, "I'm a little tired, then I'll rest for a while." As he spoke, he calmly lay on Fu Xin's lap.
"Tsk! It's really the wind of the world~ In broad daylight, Lang Lang Qiankun, in front of the public, you kiss me and me like this, where are we! Lu Jiayao, who was next to him, watched Xie Yan and Fu Xin's movements, and quipped.
"Hurry up and rest, you!" Fu Xin smiled when he heard this, and glanced at Lu Jiayao.
A quarter of an hour later, Fu Xin called out to Xie Cheng, and the five of them sorted out their equipment, picked up their weapons, and set off again.
As everyone walked deeper into the forest, the eerie atmosphere and dangerous atmosphere became heavier and heavier, and they encountered poisonous snakes several times. Under Xie Yan's judgment and command, everyone avoided facing the poisonous snake head-on.
When the distance between the five people and the coordinates was less than a kilometer, Xie Yan suddenly found that the navigator had no signal, so he decisively took a few steps back.
Seeing Xie Yan's state, everyone asked the reason.
After about four hours of pathfinding work, Xie Cheng was already a little tired at this time, he looked at everyone and said regretfully: "We are only less than a kilometer away from the target coordinates, but from there it is the signal loss area. As he spoke, he gestured to where he had just retreated.
"Shall we not go then?" Lu Jiayao asked with a little pity.
"To be on the safe side, I don't recommend going over." Xie Yan shook his head.
"I agree. The previous pathfinding work had already consumed a lot of Xie Cheng's energy, and we didn't know about the danger of the signal loss area, and we couldn't conclude that Xie Cheng had the energy to deal with it again. Fu Xin said approvingly.
"Although I didn't contribute much along the way, but now the situation seems that Xie Cheng is a little tired, and I suggest going back and letting me walk in front to explore the way. So I don't agree with spending any more energy on unknown dangers. Yao Jingyu also echoed approvingly.
Just as several people were discussing fiercely, in the forest behind them, a dog and bear was slowly walking towards them.
Lu Jiaxi saw it first because he was facing the direction of the bear. With a look of surprise and wide-eyed eyes, she raised her arm tremblingly and pointed in the direction of the bear, reminding everyone, "Bear! ”
When everyone heard this, they were shocked, and when they turned around, they saw a nearly two-meter-tall bear staring at them, issuing a "whoosh" warning sound.
"Don't be afraid, everyone! Bears don't normally attack people, and now giving a warning is telling us to leave. Yao Jingyu, you took Lu Jiayao and Lu Jiaxi to run in the direction we came from. ”
"Okay!" After Yao Jingyu agreed, he picked up the two and ran out.
Xie Yan pulled Fu Xin and was about to run out, but a little dog bear more than a meter old came out from the side, and suddenly stopped a meter away from the two of them.
"Oops!" The moment they saw the little bear, the two realized that it was not good.
Sure enough, the female dog bear, who was still sounding a warning just now, saw that there was a strange creature near the child, and immediately attacked.
The two had no choice but to turn around and run towards the area where the signal was missing.
Because of the rush to escape, the two did not leave marks along the way.
By the time the two realized that they should be some distance away from the bears, they had already been running in this area where the signal was missing for a long time.
"Now, we can only go around here. Maybe I'll be able to leave soon, and maybe I'll meet the mysterious master! Xie Yan looked at Fu Xin, who was still panting, and said comfortingly.
Fu Xin nodded, "I think the forest over there looks different from the surroundings, maybe it's where the master stays, go over and take a look." After speaking, he took Xie Yan's hand and walked forward slowly.
"Do you feel this tree familiar? We seem to have been here a few times. After nearly half an hour of turning around the forest that Fu Xin felt was special, Xie Cheng finally discovered the abnormality.
When Fu Xin heard this, he seemed to have this impression, "Could it be that the ghost hit the wall!" After saying that, I was also surprised.
She walked over to a tree, looked at it carefully, and finally reached out and patted it, ready to make a mark, "Oops! ”
Xie Yan was startled by her sudden scream, "What's wrong?" ”
I saw a bead of blood coming out of Fu Xin's fingertips, which was probably pierced by a wooden thorn or something when he just slapped the tree.
Xie Xin was very distressed when he saw this, and just wanted to take her finger into his mouth, but was stopped by Fu Xin, who hurriedly asked him to take a tissue out of his backpack and wipe it for himself.
However, before Xie Yan could take out the tissue, the blood beads on Fu Xin's fingertips fell to the ground.
I saw that the moment the blood beads fell to the ground, they were absorbed by the soil, and then the entire ground lit up with a pattern-like light.
"I didn't expect anyone to find where I lived!" As the surrounding scene changed, a clear voice came from behind the two.