Chapter 38: A bottle of mineral water
Walking aimlessly all the way, Lu Xiaonan found that this Linjiang Divine City was extremely prosperous, in stark contrast to the desolation outside the city, as if there were two worlds.
He came to a lakeside pavilion in the city, this lake is crescent-shaped, there are ten miles in a circle, the clear water is weeping willows, dozens of painting boats float between the lake, the elegant sound of silk and bamboo comes leisurely from the painting boat, and in the distance you can see that there is a pagoda on the small island in the middle of the lake hidden between the green trees, and there is a sense of relaxation and joy at a glance. He sat down to rest, took out a bottle of mineral water and took a sip, stretched his waist, leaned on the pillar of the pavilion and closed his eyes slightly, he was really tired from walking into the underworld, and he was even more worried about the ultimate goal of finding Lu Yanran.
At this time, a scholar next to him saw the bottled mineral water in his hand, and couldn't help but show a strange look, put down the scroll in his hand, and bowed his hand to him, "This son is invited, Xiaosheng is polite." ”
Lu Xiaonan turned his head and pointed to his nose, "Are you talking to me?" ”
The scholar smiled and nodded, "Late Yao Chuanyan, take the liberty to disturb, and ask the son to forgive me." ”
Lu Xiaonan was very helpless about these literary crepe words, fortunately, he had read many ancient books, and some literary terms could be dealt with, he also wanted to find a local to understand the situation here, and just dozed off, the scholar sent a pillow to greet him, so he said to the scholar named Yao Chuanyan, "It's okay, the son has something to say." ”
"The so-called reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles, walking many cities in the world in his later life, thinking that he has seen a lot of rare things, but he has never seen the things in the hands of his son, I wonder if his son can solve his doubts for his later life?"
Lu Xiaonan was stunned for a moment, and then shook the mineral water bottle in his hand, "You are asking this?" ”
"Exactly." Yao Chuanyan's eyes were full of anticipation.
Lu Xiaonan smiled, took out a bottle from his purse and handed it to him, "This is bottled mineral water, mainly for people to drink, in my hometown, most people go out with this." ”
Yao Chuanyan took the bottle of mineral water with both hands and observed it carefully, "The color of this bottle is similar to that of glass, but it is extremely soft, I have never seen it in my later life, and it is really a strange thing." ”
Lu Xiaonan secretly thought that this plastic bottled mineral water had just emerged on the earth for a short time, and it was normal for people in the underworld to have never seen it, so he said, "This is just a bottle, mainly for the convenience of holding water, you can open the lid and taste it, what is the difference between this water and local water?" ”
Under Lu Xiaonan's teaching, Yao Chuanyan unscrewed the lid, took a sip, closed his eyes slightly and savored it, and said after a long time, "This water is sweet and refreshing, very similar to the mountain spring that I drank in Jiming Mountain in my later life......
Through a bottle of mineral water, Lu Xiaonan and scholar Yao Chuanyan quickly established a small sailboat of friendship, in Yao Chuanyan's mouth, he knew many things about Linjiang City and this underworld, the Yin Si of the place where the soul went seemed to be a little far away, and it was really troublesome to find Lu Yanran's soul.
Lu Xiaonan and Yao Chuanyan sat at the stone table under the Bibo Pavilion and chatted very happily, this scholar seems to be Muna, but in fact he is erudite and talented, and he has a lot of treasures.
Through Yao Chuanyan's words, Lu Xiaonan confirmed the idea that the underworld is infinitely vast.
Yao Chuanyan began to aspire to travel the world at the age of nine, so he secretly escaped from home, or took a caravan or footsteps, and spent ten years only walking through dozens of cities in the underworld, large and small, according to him, he only walked through the world. The distance between the cities of the underworld is infinitely far away, and there are many cities between them that are blocked by the sea of space full of nothingness, this sea of space swallows all the material, people can't cross, it is extremely difficult to reach from one city to another, if a person only walks on his feet, it may be difficult to reach in his lifetime, not to mention that there are countless unimaginable fierce birds and beasts and demons in the wild of the underworld waiting for food with their mouths open, of course, the rich are different, as long as they pay a high spirit stone, they can take the teleportation array, Even crossing the two farthest cities was only a few hours.
Lu Xiaonan listened a little big, this underworld is far bigger than he imagined, there are countless floating continents and planets large and small, but there are not many human beings living and reproducing, different cities are far away, many cities are on different planets, and there are several cities in different dimensions and spaces stacked together, and there is even only one city on a continent where some starry sky floats, and Linjiang Divine City is such a single city.
These cities have their own characteristics and different degrees of development, including primitive cities in the era of ignorance, immortal cities where martial arts prevail, and some highly developed cities of science and technology, but most of them are the cities of cultivation where countless cultivators live. It's like walking through the stars, and the questions that scientists have been exploring and looking for aliens may be answered here.
Of course, the people who live here do not have the name of the underworld, they only call this world the world, and the world is boundless. And their life is like the earth, there are birth, old age, sickness and death, there are also wars and disputes, but the wars are basically foreign conquests against those fierce beasts and demons, there are very few wars between real cities, mainly the problem of distance, each city is an independent kingdom, dominating a large area of uninhabited land.
Yao Chuanyan's knowledge is far wider than that of Lu Xiaonan, everything is said in a clear manner, so that Lu Xiaonan, the best and most loyal listener, quickly sorted out the line, the so-called underworld is another space parallel to the human world, it is independent but ubiquitous, and does not interfere with the human world. The only place where the two worlds are connected is what people call the underworld, but it is only a relatively special city, where only souls can cross the border through the ghost gate.
Lu Xiaonan specially inquired about the underworld, and Yao Chuanting really knew no more than him, that city was called Xudu, which was the same name as the famous city in Huaxia, and it was the place where people returned after death. Although Yao Chuanyan knew the location of the capital city, he had never been there, and he only knew some legends and records, because the living were forbidden to enter there, and only the soul was the master there.
Getting this news made Lu Xiaonan mixed with joy, the joy was that he finally learned the location of Xudu, and the hope of finding Lu Yanran's soul added a trace, and the sad thing was that Xudu was separated by four cities from Linjiang City, which was far away, and it could not even be expressed as thousands of miles away, it was a journey in hundreds of millions. Lu Xiaonan's heart is full of slots, the formation of the old foxes of the Lu family is really unreliable, and he can't teleport closer when he is smuggling?
A bottle of mineral water in exchange for so much news made him start to think about how to earn some spirit stones to ride the teleportation array, maybe he should sell the dried corpse, as for whether the living can enter the capital, will it be torn to pieces and eaten in minutes, this is something he needs to think about when he goes to the earth realm.
Thinking of that perverted corpse, he suddenly became a little worried, is that guy really rich? It doesn't look like a rich dry corpse, going to the land of fireworks to pick up the overlord girl, and in the end it won't be torn apart by those women, right?
At this time, a handsome young man in a white shirt walked with a folding fan in his hand, he looked at the two people who were talking happily in the pavilion, smiled slightly, his lips were red and his teeth were bright, giving people a feeling of bathing in the spring breeze, and his demeanor instantly overshadowed the two people in front of him.
"Two brothers, can you sit here?" The white-shirted boy's gaze lingered on the two of them for a moment, but more of them were aimed at Lu Xiaonan.
"This is a public place, of course Childe can sit, you don't need to be polite." Yao Chuanyan hurriedly got up and moved the bookcase and made way for a stone bench, "Childe, please take a seat." ”
The white-shirted boy nodded slightly and thanked him, but his eyes were always fixed on Lu Xiaonan's face, and Lu Xiaonan also looked at him calmly, seeing that the skin exposed between the other party's neck was whiter and more tender than his own, you must know that he took the Ten Absolute Pills to reshape his body, and the other party was not inferior to himself, as well as the feminine temperament revealed by the other party, which made him always feel that the person in front of him was by no means a good stubble.
The white-shirted boy gently arched his hand at Lu Xiaonan, "Looking down, this brother Tai is majestic and handsome, and he must be an extraordinary person, dare to ask Brother Taizun's name, can you tell me?" ”