Chapter 12: A Familiar and Unfamiliar New Country (Ask for Recommendations)
"White and tender?" Liu Hong touched his chin, then looked at Tucker not far away and smiled: "Compared with you, it is indeed much whiter and tenderer!" ”
"Tsk! And the guts hippie smiley? Tucker spread his hands to the sides and said in a mocking tone, "Do you know where you are now?" I'm not one of those backward Ishbals! ”
"But I'm pretty skilled!" Liu Hong also spread his hands like Tucker and said with a smile: "You just ate me like this?" ”
"You're fast with bullets?" The mockery on Tucker's face became more and more obvious: "Alright, hand over the valuable things!" Maybe I'll be kind enough to let you go! ”
"I don't know if it's faster than a bullet. But I know you've only been here for a short time. Liu Hong also had a mocking smile on his face.
"Huh?" Tucker raised his eyebrows, feeling that something was wrong, this was not the reaction of ordinary people.
"Look at the sweat on your body, and the sound of panting uncontrollably, you're a little tired from running!" Liu Hong put his hand down and put it on the waistband of his trousers.
"Don't move!" When Tucker saw Liu Hong put down his hand, he suddenly became nervous and stretched out his hand into his arms.
But
"Ding" "Ah! The hand that had reached into his arms was pinned by a throwing knife, but because he had a pistol in his arms, the knife did not shoot into Tucker's chest, but only got stuck between the hand bone and the pistol!
"It's a pity!" Liu Hong took another flying knife between his fingers and slowly walked towards Tucker: "Not only am I not good, but I can also play with flying knives." ”
The stunt of shooting knives was practiced by Liu Hong when he was in Lisaibul. When he came to the world of "Fullmetal Alchemist", Liu Hong carried a crossbow as a means of long-range attack, but the winding was too slow, which was really not in line with Liu Hong's wishes, and because of the addition of internal force in this world, throwing a stone after blessing internal force would cause good damage, so Liu Hong thought of throwing a hidden weapon as a long-range attack.
Speaking of hidden weapons, Liu Hong's first thought was not the Tang Sect, but Xiao Li's flying knife, so he asked Edward to use alchemy to make a few flying knives to practice. The internal force is already good, and the body can operate freely, so Liu Hong only practiced the flying knife with extraordinary accuracy in just one or two months, and he can't say that he can hit a target that doesn't move.
And now, when Tucker took out the gun in his arms, he didn't move his body, and he was directly hit by Liu Hongzheng's heart.
"What do you want?" Tucker's aching teeth are almost crushed now, because the weather is cold now, which makes the pain even more obvious!
"What do you think I want?" Liu Hong suddenly made a move and pulled out the flying knife.
"Ahh When the knife was pulled out, it also pulled Tucker's flesh and skin, causing Tucker to cry out in pain.
"What would you do if you said you would give it to you again?" Liu Hong pasted the bloody flying knife on Tucker's face, causing Tucker, who was already shivering, to sweat like pulp.
"Please spare Tucker!" In the shadow of a dilapidated stone pillar, a man who came out was the boss of the caravan!
"Harled, save me!" Tucker was relieved to see Harold appear.
Harled didn't respond to Tucker either, just frowned and looked at Liu Hong, while lowering his body a little and making an easy offensive stance.
"It's not impossible to let him go!" With a little force, Liu Hong tore off the flying knife that had frozen on Tucker's face due to the cold weather, and Tucker grinned in pain, and then said with a smile: "But I am an alchemist, based on the principle of equivalent exchange, what to exchange for his life?" ”
"When you joined our caravan before, you said that if you want to go to Xinguo, I can draw a map for you!" Harold's movements didn't change at all, but his tone was slightly quicker.
"Is his life worth that? Besides, your map, I'm not sure it's true. Liu Hong played with the flying knife in his hand and said in a somewhat casual tone.
"You didn't mean to kill him, did you?" Khaled was not moved at all: "Besides, the new country only needs to go east, I just give you a rough map of the water resources along the way!" ”
With a flash of red light, Liu Hong's flying knife brushed past Khaled's ear, and then buried deep in the yellow sand.
"I'll go get the map from you tomorrow morning." Liu Hong took a look at his surroundings, and then walked along the stone pillar to the depths of Keseluxes.
After Liu Hong walked away, Hardold put away his offensive posture, then walked up to Tucker, who was still trembling, and said coldly: "If there is such a thing in the future, you will wait for death." ”
"Yes!" Tucker's head suddenly lowered.
"Let's go back!" Halold touched the place where the knife had skimmed, wiped off a few broken strands of hair, and then walked to the place where the tent had been set up, while silently reciting in his heart: "If you are not a child of Micia"
"Harled." Liu Hong walked forward along the stone pillar, silently remembering the captain of the caravan. Because Liu Hong found that when he shot the flying knife, Haled's eyes narrowed, but in the end, there was no movement, and there was no palpitation after the flying knife crossed: "There are so many people who are not simple." ”
As he walked, Liu Hong saw a wall with the upper half missing standing not far away.
"Have you arrived?" Liu Hong hurriedly stepped forward, and then looked carefully through the moonlight: "Two-headed dragon, sun, moon, and" Liu Hong opened the suitcase and took out a screenshot of some animations: "The lion that devoured the sun!" ”
Taking out the pen and paper, Liu Hong recorded all the patterns on the wall, and then added the lion that devoured the sun: "It's done!" ”
After depicting a broken refining array, Liu Hong carefully smoothed out the two refining arrays, and then put them into the box where the sage's stone was placed.
"That's it!" Liu Hong got up and moved his body, and then found a leeward place to draw a refining array, refining into a pyramid-like wall to surround himself: "The next thing is to rest peacefully for a night!" There's something to do tomorrow. ”
Early the next morning, Liu Hong found Harled, and under Harold's indifferent and Tucker's unhappy gaze, he led the camel away from Xeluxes.
Now that the purpose of going to Keseluxes has been achieved, does Liu Hong still have a reason to stay in Xesruxes? The grave of the Rockbells? Wouldn't it be better to go when you come back? It's not that he won't come after going to Xinguo, he just goes to Xinguo to learn alchemy!
A month later, Liu Hong finally came to Xinguo with a wave of caravans.
However, Liu Hong didn't say a few words all the way, because only one person in the team knew a little bit of Ameslis, but it was only limited to simple and commonly used words such as eating and drinking, and they didn't know Chinese characters.
Xinguo,It is an overhead country created by Arakawa Hiroshi based on ancient China.,Look at the blood book written by Yao Lin to Lan Fang in the anime.,It's completely simplified Chinese! So before Liu Hong entered the new country, he was still a little sure that he could communicate, but the reality hit Liu Hong hard!
The text does look like Chinese characters, but it's just a lot of it!
"Find a place with a lot of people and use the NZT-48!" Although it is a border city, there are still a lot of people here! Compared to Ameslis, it's much more popular!
Wandering all the way, Liu Hong saw that the road was similar, and there were obviously different costumes and languages, and he couldn't help but feel sour in his heart, which was better than when he was in Ameslis!
I don't know if I don't think so, Liu Hong hummed a tune, and finally sang it again:
I don't know all these years, they sang and sang
What song is sung, it rings in my heart
I only know that it is more beautiful than all the lines of poetry
Like a dark wilderness, there is a light lit
I will remember it until my gray hair grows
Remember its melody, gentle and sad
When I hear it in the middle of the night, I always think of time
The wind from the sky, how many places it passes
How many beautiful scenery have been seen, how much sorrow has been seen
People who come and go will become the past
Only that song, never forgotten
I will remember it until my gray hair grows
I remember its tail note, hoarse and long
How many late nights, warm my face
Later who cried, heavy rain fell in the distance
Ask why, the way back is so long
Go ahead and push the window open hard
Look, the sky is full of moonlight
Think back to how to sing that song!
There was a voice, withered and fragrant
Many dreams are treasured in the bottom of my heart
In the vast sea of people, how many times have I looked back
Find yourself, the appearance of a teenager
With tears in their eyes, they clapped their hands and sang softly
When I was a child, the old moonshine
Willow leaves green, lotus fragrance of the most beautiful hometown
I will remember it until my gray hair grows
The melody, gentle and sad
Willow leaves green, lotus fragrance of the most beautiful hometown
Sing softly, the melody is gentle and sad
This song is a song by Mo Ming Qimiao, the song is called "Hometown", and the original song is Finale, but Liu Hong prefers to listen to the version of HITA's cover. However, when it was sung, Liu Hong found that his melody was closer to Finale, more civilian and casual, but it also seemed more sad!
Walking all the way, singing all the way, Liu Hong unconsciously approached a bazaar, took out the NZT-48 and swallowed it in the confusion or ignorance of the people around him.
Standing in the corner, Liu Hong quietly watched the life of this bazaar. Yelling, bargaining, laughing, scolding, first guessing, then confirming, and finally Liu Hong took out a piece of gold and walked into a jewelry store.
"Boss! Exchange some money! Liu Hong snapped the gold on the counter: "At the same time, I will ask you about something!" ”
"What's the matter?" After taking the gold over and looking at it carefully, and after confirming that it was not fake, the owner of the jewelry store took the scale on one side and weighed it, took out some currency from under the cabinet and counted it, handed it to Liu Hong and said: "Your gold is in good condition, count you 2,000 yuan." ”
"Thank you." Liu Hong just swept it and put the Tongyuan given by the owner of the jewelry store into his pocket, as for whether he was pitted, there is no need to worry at all, because all the jewelry, gold and silver here are purchased at a clear price, Liu Hong has already seen several groups of people come here to sell gold, silver and jewelry: "I want to know where to learn alchemy!" ”
"Alchemy?" The owner of the jewelry store frowned: "That kind of thing is not something that ordinary people can learn!" Why are you asking about this? ”
"Of course I want to learn!" Liu Hong said as a matter of course.
After being silent for a while, the owner of the jewelry store pointed to the east and said, "You go east, that is the territory of the Zhang family, you go over there and have a look." ”
"Thank you!" Liu Hong happily made a gesture to the owner of the jewelry store, and then planned to go directly to the Zhang family's territory.
"Wait!" The owner of the jewelry store suddenly stopped Liu Hong: "What's your name?" ”
"Liu Hong." Liu Hong didn't know what the owner of the jewelry store asked and suddenly asked his name, but since someone asked, it would be rude not to answer: "I haven't asked Your Excellency how to call him?" ”
"You can call me Lao Chen!" Lao Chen waved his hand, then narrowed his eyes and said with a smile: "Why did the people of the Liu family come here to learn alchemy?" ”
"I'm not from Xinguo." Liu Hong gave a concise and powerful answer.
"I see!" Lao Chen made a look of sudden realization, and then said politely: "Then I won't disturb your time." ”
"It's fine." After Liu Hong replied, he walked towards the Zhang family's territory with doubts.