Chapter XVIII: Animals and People
After Yu Qianer left, I was left alone here to meditate.
As an old guy who has lived here for I don't know how many years, his vision is often broader and clearer than mine.
He was able to distinguish between good and bad, and had a spirit of great wisdom and foolishness.
So what he said is quite credible.
The Chinese are strong, peace-loving, and have a very high sense of tolerance, but the Linhu clan is very violent, although they can fight well, but for the surrounding ethnic groups, it is really not a good thing.
This can be seen from the prey that is kept in the sheepfold and is hungry and cold.
They are tough, and they don't take human life seriously in the slightest.
At the feast, when I first saw the other man with a stone hammer, hammering the sacrifice of the same human with a hammer, without the slightest compassion, I had already decided to leave the place.
If nothing else, it's just that I'm disgusting.
I escaped originally to avoid Jing Ke of the Linhu clan, and naturally I have no opinion on what the old man said about strengthening the arrangement.
When he was gone, I didn't dare to move, so I stayed here honestly.
When I was bored, I began to study the baobab in my hand.
The Chinese name this thing is very accurate, although it is a fruit from the tree, but because it is rich in a lot of starch and protein, it really has a taste of food, and it is precisely because of such a good quality that the Chinese do not hesitate to cross such a long distance and risk great danger to find it.
If this baobab tree can be popularized, then it will be able to feed a larger population, and in this seemingly primitive tribe, more population will mean more power.
That's the fundamental.
The fruit of that baobun is huge, and for ordinary people, eating half of it is almost enough, but as a cultivator, I still feel a little dissatisfied after eating one, and I see another one next to it, which must be the old man's dinner.
I was hungry and you're welcome, so I knocked it open and ate it, and I didn't even let go of the sac, and after I finished chewing it all, I had a full burp, which felt really good.
No wonder Yu Qianer has been able to live here for so long, first of all, the way of the mind is close to nature, and in addition, coupled with this simple lifestyle, as well as natural food, it is difficult to hang the ball early.
Moreover, an old man who can survive in the valley of death is definitely not a mortal.
I ate his portion, and I didn't panic, I took out two packets of instant noodles from the Qiankun bag, put them in the fruit scoop left by the baobab, looked left and right, and found that there was a fire in the corner of the house, and there was hot water in the clay pot on it, which was just right, so I took it, soaked the noodles, and put the ingredients in it.
Not long after I had just finished soaking here, Yu Qianer jumped in through the window, sniffed and shouted, "Oh my, what kind of thing is this, Texiang." ”
I folded my hands and bowed to the old man, saying that I was entertained by you, and I didn't want to go, there is a little survival here, pasta, for the seniors to try it.
Face?
Yu Qianer's eyes lit up, and he said Oh my God, Lao Tzu seems to have not eaten this thing for hundreds of years, where is it, where is it? Hurry up and bring it to me......
I heard it funny for a while, to be honest, this place is so rich, I really want to get something out, it's not complicated, it's just that this old man has been thinking about cultivation all day long, and he doesn't care about food and clothing, so he can live so roughly.
It is precisely because of his asceticism that he has such powerful means.
In this way, every drink and pecking has cause and effect.
Yu Qianji snatched the instant noodles in the baobab shell bag from my hand, first smelled the aroma of cheap fried noodles, and then without hesitation, grabbed the two broken branches I handed over and began to eat.
To tell the truth, my instant noodles are the cheapest instant noodles sold in supermarkets, more than 30 yuan a box, there are only two packets of seasonings, a packet of salt powder, a packet of oil, and not even dehydrated vegetables.
However, it was this thing that made Yu Qianer burst into tears, and even drank all the soup, and finally licked the oil star in it regardless of the image.
I thought that with this fresh meal, Yu Qianer could recall what he had promised me before he got drunk, but he didn't say a word, but pulled me and said that he wanted to show me this ancient tree of life that he had guarded for two hundred years.
The Ancient Tree of Life?
What secrets are there in this that can be worth guarding for more than 200 years?
For more than 200 years, that's accumulated day by day.
If it were me, I wouldn't be able to hold back my run.
How strong is the old man's willpower to be able to stick here?
In the night, Yu Qianer and I walked among the towering trees like a building, we walked among the dense branches and leaves like a forest, he introduced me to the scenery of this road, and looked away, telling me about the areas of the Death Butterfly Valley.
Before, I thought that Death Butterfly Valley was just a small place, but now I realized that it is so vast that there is no limit to it.
And inside, it is guarded by one after another desolate beasts or powerful races, which have formed their own territory and rules for thousands of years, maintaining a barely peaceful peace.
We weren't able to visit the whole tree, because at the top of the clouds, he stopped and said to me, "The upper part has been struck by lightning, forming a terrifying minefield, and ordinary people can't resist the power of thunder in it, so let's go back." ”
He said it plainly, but I felt a psychological fluctuation that I felt that there must be some secret in it that he was unwilling to reveal.
But since they didn't want to let me know, I didn't say anything more, nodded and followed him.
Going up and down the tree, it was more difficult than going up and down, and after walking for a while, Yu Qianer suddenly smiled, stretched his hand forward, and a ripple floated, but I saw many figures floating in front of me.
As the fog faded, I saw a familiar figure.
It's Luo Xiaobei.
Not only her, but also Kuai Mengyun and other members of the Linhu Clan's hunting team around her, because of the clarity of the angle, I can't see it completely, but I also know that after the previous battle of the worms, the team has been attritional.
I searched hard, but I couldn't find the Chinese in the crowd.
In the same way, I didn't see Jing Ke.
Luo Xiaobei, Kuai Mengyun and others lurked in a place, and not far in front of them, a reptile more than two meters long with a sword spine on its back appeared, they held their breath and waited patiently, and when the thing approached, someone raised their hands, and everyone rushed up to surround the reptile.
This thing is the poisonous dragon gecko that Luo Xiaobei is looking for?
I was a little surprised that it looked a little like the thing I'd seen before.
Yu Qianer pointed to Luo Xiaobei in the fog in front of him and said to me: "This little girl, it seems to be a little familiar?" ”
I'm right, she's Luo Feiyu's sister-in-law.
Yu Qianer nodded and said, oh, I see, it looks like the face is a little similar, but how did she get mixed up with the people of the Linhu clan?
I smiled wryly and said I told you before that I had escaped from there.
Yu Qianer asked, why didn't she run away?
I said that Luo Xiaobei has a good relationship with the people of the Linhu clan, the leader likes Luo Feiyu, and she also calls him her brother-in-law, these people came here to help her catch a thing called a poisonous dragon gecko and reborn her limbs, so she is naturally reluctant to leave.
Hearing my explanation, Yu Qianer shook his head, saying that the Linhu clan is not a good person, their minds are very strange, and they believe in evil gods, and being with them is simply seeking skin with tigers.
I said why don't we go and save her?
Yu Qianer shook his head and sneered: "Things gather by like, people by groups, she doesn't need to be saved; Besides, the little girl surnamed Luo tricked me back then, why should I help her again? ”
Uh, old man, you're pretty small-minded......
I didn't speak, but carefully looked at the scene in the fog, and saw that the reptile with a long sword spine had been caught by the Linhu clan, and Luo Xiaobei seemed to be yelling, instructing others to cut it open.
However, when the reptile was dismembered, Luo Xiaobei's face showed a disappointed expression.
She reached out and played with it, ignoring the dirt, and finally threw it on the ground in a huff, and stomped on it a few times.
Ha ha......
Yu Qianer laughed, reached out and touched the scene, and then said to me: "Since you can be reborn with broken limbs, how can the poisonous dragon gecko be so easy to find?" If you don't respect nature, how can nature give you gifts for no reason? Remember, boy, that reverence for the place we live in, for nature, is more important than anything else. ”
After he summed up this, he didn't pay any attention to the people of the Linhu clan, but led me to a baobab forest near the Ancient Tree of Life.
He showed me the thick, strong, bottle-like dwarf tree, and gave me dozens of seeds full of vitality.
By the way, he introduced me to his friends, a bunch of strange-looking three-armed monkeys.
These monkeys are very stout, they are a head shorter than me, and they look fierce, but under Yu Qianer's introduction, more than a dozen particularly strong monkeys came over to shake hands with me one by one.
Yu Qianer got some leftover Erguotou from before, and each monkey licked a drop, which was so spicy that these monkeys were very excited, why did we sing and dance.
Seeing these cute monkeys, Yu Qianer smiled and said to me: "Sometimes, do you think that animals are cuter than people? ”