Volume 3 City of Water Chapter 344 Stammering
"What are those three words you just said?" Zhou Nian didn't seem to hear clearly, and asked again.
Stammering and squinting his eyes repeated, he said solemnly, "Mountain Guardian God!"
"Shhh...... What do you mean is the supreme ruler of the City of Water, one of the five regions of the Lost Forest?"
"Exactly!"
"That'...... And how does she compare to Lord Blood Cicada?"
"Hmph, it's not the same at all, Lord Blood Cicada is in front of her, that's a younger brother! ”
"Huh, can't even the Blood Cicada-sama?"
"Hehe, there's no comparison at all. ”
"Hiss......" gasped, Zhou Nian suddenly looked stunned, stared at a place and was stunned for a few seconds, and couldn't help muttering, "It seems that this mountain guard god is not small." ”
When he heard this, his face was slightly surprised, and he immediately rolled his eyelids and said, "Cut, that is, otherwise can she become the strongest overlord of the Water Domain?" Although Lord Blood Cicada is also very powerful, it is limited to the small Water City, one is a city, the other is a domain, there is only a word difference, but it is not a concept at all, it cannot be compared, and it is the same day. ”
Zhou Nian came back to his senses when he heard this, and a question suddenly popped up in his mind, so he simply asked directly, "Since you said that the mountain guard god is so powerful, then why is her child so weak?"
Stammered for a moment, this question is indeed worth pondering, after all, the tiger father has no dog, and the deer is not so weak that it is easily controlled by Zhou Nian.
Glancing at the fawn on the ground a few times, he stammered, although he couldn't figure out the real reason, but deduced a possibility, "Maybe...... Maybe it's because it's still young and the spirit is not yet civilized, no one can say what the potential of the mountain guard spirit is, but as long as it is a mountain guard spirit, it must follow a theorem. ”
"Theorem? What theorem?"
"Hmm......" he made a long note and muttered, "Although the Mountain Guardian Spirit will grow older, its strength will increase dramatically until it reaches the level of the Mountain Guardian God!"
"That'...... What level is it estimated?"
When he heard this, he suddenly rolled his eyes impatiently, "Hey, you can't help but think too highly of me, right? What is the strength of the mountain god, where do I know where to go as a little hunter? In short, it is very strong, so strong that it makes you afraid!"
"Fear?"
Zhou Nian lowered his head, just one Blood Cicada Lord was enough to give him a headache, he had been preparing intensively for so long, but now he hadn't even seen the face of others, and a mountain guard god stronger than him appeared in this cold, it seems that the fragment of the soul of the mud in this despicable forest is not so easy to grab.
"Alas, the soul of the nine pieces of mud, it is so difficult to get one now, and there are so many strong people waiting for the opportunity to move, eyeing the tiger, it seems that we have to quickly improve our strength, and we must strike first to be strong. ”
After urging himself in his heart, Zhou Nian suddenly looked up at the stammering and asked, "Last question, how did you tell that this little deer was from the mountain guard?"
Stammered and scratched his head, these words should not have been revealed to a child with a big fart, but after he saw Zhou Nian's good performance just now, he always felt that the other party was far from being as simple as it seemed, so he simply told him honestly and frankly, "Why? Because I can see it with my eyes." ”
"Huh, how do you see with your eyes?"
"This ...... I can't say this, because this is the method that my ancestor taught me, and I once made a poisonous oath in front of him, if I tell the way to distinguish the mountain guarding spirit, it will make me have poisonous sores in my mouth and I will not be able to speak for the rest of my life. ”
"Huh?"
Zhou Nian suddenly glanced at him when he heard this, and looked at the current physical condition of the stammer, and the poisonous oath was also a little fake.
"Hey, you're talking so badly, what's the difference between not being able to speak? This poisonous oath, whether you keep it or not won't affect you at all, anyway, you're talking so slowly, it's not bad. ”
I didn't expect the stammering to be unhappy when I heard it, and retorted with a little disdain in his eyes, "That's not possible, can't say it and can't say it, but it's two completely different concepts, I only stutter when I usually speak, when it comes to business, do you see me stammer?"
"This ......"
Zhou Nian was choked for a moment, and after thinking about it carefully, it was really like that.
However, he was not in a hurry to identify the way to distinguish the mountain guard, the only thing he cared about now was another matter.
"Hey, you just said that you learned from your ancestor how to identify the mountain guarding spirit, and you also swore a poisonous oath in front of him, right?"
"That's right. ”
"That'...... Then your ancestor Gui Geng? You call him your ancestor, how can you learn his skills in front of him? Could it be him...... More than a hundred years old?"
There is still a certain reason for Zhou Nian to ask this question, the ancestor teaches the juniors by word and deed, if this kind of thing is put on the cultivator, it is not unusual, after all, the cultivator can increase his longevity through certain pills and his own cultivation, but the ordinary little old man in a small village can easily live to the age of communicating with the juniors?
Seeing that the stammering age is almost in his thirties, his ancestor is more than a hundred.
It's strange to think about.
Stammered and shook his head, "No, no, you underestimate my ancestor too much, he may be an old man, he has less to worry about, life is boundless, his ears are not deaf and his eyes are not dazzling, his body is still quite tough, he was still wrestling with me two months ago, he is 206 years old this year!"
"Ha?206?......" Zhou Nian was stunned, a person who can live for more than a hundred years is considered to be a long life, but he has lived for more than two hundred years, which is much more powerful than some powerful cultivators.
Puzzled in his heart, Zhou Nian couldn't help but ask, "That, could it be your ancestor, a cultivator?"
Stammered and looked confused when he heard this, "What do you mean by a cultivator?"
Zhou Nian, "......"
Definitely, I don't know anything, and I work hard according to my mood.
Shaking his head speechlessly, Zhou Nian continued, "Then apart from your ancestor, are all your other elders alive?"
"They're all alive. ”
"That'...... Then you're from Huayu Village?"
"Huayu Village?" stammered for a moment, then shook his head, "No, I'm not from that short-lived ghost village, Huayu Village is our neighboring village, and I'm from Changshou Village." ”
"Longevity Village?"
"Yes, the people in our village are quite able to live, the average old man, most of them can live to about 180 years old, so they are respected as longevity villages, as for the Huayu Village you asked, it is an ominous village, the people in the village are relatively short-lived, it seems that they have done bad things, and they have been punished by God, there are no old people in their village, and they will basically have to braids when they live to be forty or fifty years old. My ancestor is 206 years old this year, and he is the oldest and highest-ranking person in our village. Speaking of this, the stammering face couldn't help showing a hint of pride, and after a while, he slowly hung a touch of bitterness, "Alas, but that was also the previous situation, since his old man had that serious illness, he seems to be a little powerless, and now he doesn't care much about the affairs of the village, and the village chief is in charge." ”
"Oh, you mean, he's sick now?"
The stammerer nodded bitterly, "Well, yes." ”
"And what disease does he have?"
Stammered and shook his head and said, "I don't know, it's a very strange disease, I just got sick from the cold, and the people in our village were all anxious, and I tried all kinds of methods to treat him, but it was all to no avail. ”
"What conclusion?"
"Hmm...... It is said that the ancestor was frightened. ”
"Scared?" Zhou Nian was curious, "He has lived to be 206 years old, what wind and waves have he not seen?"
The stammerer echoed casually, "Well, who knows, I was very skeptical of this conclusion at the beginning, but there are facts to prove it, and other reasons are ruled out." ”
"Facts, what facts?"
"Hmm...... About a month ago, a mysterious woman suddenly came to our village, dressed in black, wearing a hat on her head, her whole face was covered by a black veil, and she couldn't see her appearance clearly, she only said that she wanted to meet my ancestor, saying that it was an old acquaintance of his, and wanted to take away something that originally belonged to her from the ancestor. But since she left, the ancestor's body has been changing day by day, he has been in a panic all day long, staring out of the window in a daze all day long, as if he has lost his soul, he can't eat well, he can't sleep well, and after a few days, he can't afford to get sick. ”
"Mysterious Woman......" Zhou Nian lowered his head and muttered, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that this matter was extraordinary, and after pondering for a few seconds, he suddenly raised his head and asked, "Then after your ancestor fell ill, did you mention the name of that mysterious woman, or something about her?"
"Hmm......" stammered against his chin and recalled, "The matter was mentioned a little, or he accidentally said it in his sleep, but what he said was too vague, I didn't hear it too clearly, probably only one sentence." ”
"What are the words?" Zhou Nian asked urgently.
Stammered and thought seriously, "Hmm...... The meaning is probably like this-Yuan Sin, I didn't expect you to be dead, you have been lingering in the ten forces for so long, and to this day, are you still thinking about the mud in my hand or something? That's what it means, I didn't hear the details. ”
"What!"
With an incomplete description, Zhou Nian almost jumped up from the ground, his pupils dilated, and his breathing was suddenly short!
This information is simply too powerful, so strong that it is enough to make Zhou Nian uncontrollable!
"Gollum!"
Swallowing his saliva hard, Zhou Nian stared at the stammering in front of him, his eyes were about to glow green, and his heart almost rose to his throat!
After staring for a moment, he suddenly took a step forward, and in a low voice, he repeated cautiously, "Your ancestor's words, is this not the case-Yuan Sin, I didn't expect you to be dead, you have been in the evil forces of the Ten Directions for so long, and to this day, are you still worried about the soul of Nili in my hand?"
Zhou Nian shouted, his voice piercing the intestines and making a loud sound!
The stammering was a little hairy by him, and he suddenly wondered why a little kid had such a powerful deterrent power.
"He's really just a child, why did I have a hint of fear in front of him!"
Shaking his head vigorously, he stammered intentionally or unintentionally to avoid Zhou Nian's cold eyes, and his voice trembled slightly, "Uh...... Probably, but how do you know that? How do you know all those strange names?"
"Hmph!" snorted coldly, and Zhou Nian suddenly fell silent.
Because he began to pay attention, to the point that he could abandon everything around him!
It is related to the "Ten Evil Forces" and the "Soul of Nili", no matter which of these two things is, it is enough for Zhou Nian to put it on the agenda as soon as possible and devote himself to it, but now that these two things are extremely coincidentally linked, then its importance is even more urgent than dealing with Lord Blood Cicada.
"The soul of Nili, the evil forces of the ten directions, it seems that the secret of this longevity village is really not small, but who is that primordial sin? What could it be that she took from the stammering ancestor?"
His brows were twisted into a twist, Zhou Nian was full of doubts in his heart, and the information in his mind was like a huge spider web, connected and interlocking, although it was a little intermittent, but as long as he knew how to peel off the cocoon and touch the melon, I believe that sooner or later, he would definitely find out!
After pondering for a long time, Zhou Nian naturally understands the truth that "practice is better than hypothesis", and some clues are useless just by scrutiny, which is tantamount to making a car behind closed doors, and it will only be in vain.
Thinking of this, Zhou Nian immediately regarded the trip to Changshou Village as the top priority at present, suddenly raised his head and stared at his stammer, and said urgently, "Take me to see your ancestors, now, immediately, immediately!"
Stammered for a moment, didn't understand, glanced at Zhou Nian up and down, and asked, "Why?"
"Because I can cure him!" Zhou Nian exclaimed.
"Huh, you?" stammered even more stunned, although it was not good to speak, but he was not a fool, even the famous old pharmacist could not look down on the disease, he was a little child, what use could he do?
It's impossible to think about.
He raised his eyebrows, stammered and raised his eyelids lightly, and said, "Child, are you sincere in making fun of me? How can you cure my ancestor's strange illness as a child? This is not a joke, it will be bad if something goes wrong! I admit that your skills are good, but one yard is one yard, and looking at the disease is not a showmanship, how can you know the way of medicine, a practitioner who can only practice martial arts? What should you do, why don't you go, obediently let this mountain keeper go back, let it return to its mother, and then the mountain keeper will be angry and affect us. ”
After saying that, he walked away, and his old-fashioned rhetoric was exactly the same as the prejudice of those laymen.
This word is not new at all, Zhou Nian is used to hearing it, and he is numb, since he has seen too much, he has a trick, and the fastest way to deal with this kind of person is to show the real guy.
Raising his eyebrows slightly, Zhou Nian suddenly followed closely, and when he got closer, he suddenly patted the stammering shoulder, and said lightly, "Hey, if you don't believe it, you can find someone to let me try." ”
"Huh?" As soon as these words came out, he stammered and suddenly stood in place, "How do you want to try?"
"Hehe, it's just a small test, or I'll help you cure your stammer?"
"Huh, can stammering be cured?" stammering sounds fresh, he has had this problem since birth, and he has never looked for anything in his mother's womb.
It's not that he can't look at it, but he is reluctant.
"How is it? Do you want to talk smoothly like a normal person all the time?" Zhou Nian made his own conditions and began to implement his first step plan.
But what surprised him was that after hearing this suggestion, the stammerer shook his head vigorously, and when he said it, it was an angry person, "I don't want to, it's good, I'm happy to stammer." ”
"Huh?" Zhou Nianke was stunned, there are people in the world who like to stutter, they are simply an anomaly!
"Why, why!" Zhou Nian asked, holding back his stomach with nowhere to play, this kind of taste was uncomfortable.
The stammering face didn't care, not only was he not ashamed, but he showed it, "Hehe, you don't understand this, right?" Sometimes when a stammer, it is far better than a normal person who is straightforward and fast-talking, slow half a beat is equivalent to silence, silence is golden, the so-called disease from the mouth, disaster from the mouth, others speak faster than me, but fast also has fast trouble, talking stuttering can make me less trouble, avoid unnecessary trouble, besides, I like to see others anxious and angry but too lazy to worry about a stammer, hehe......
Zhou Nian, "......"
This logic is crooked to the limit, it's just a strange flower in the aliens.
However, since he didn't want to be cured, Zhou Nian didn't need to be strong, in order to show his ability, he simply changed his goal and changed to another one.
"Alas, well, since you are not happy, then I will not be reluctant, but although the people of your longevity village have a long life, there is always a sick one, you can take me over, find someone to let me see him, and you will know it by trying." ”
"Look?" stammered, looking at the confident look of the child in front of him, could it be that he really had two brushes?
It doesn't matter if you give it a try, after all, you don't need money, if he really has that ability, it adds a glimmer of hope to the ancestor to live, but if he misses it, it will be a pity.
In line with the mentality of "a dead horse is a live horse doctor", he stammered and simply believed in Zhou Nian for the time being, whether he succeeded or not, it all depends on his next performance.
"Hmm...... Well, I'll believe you once, and if you succeed, I'll take you to our ancestors. ”
"Then why are you still stunned, let's go quickly?" Zhou Nian was also anxious, and after speaking, he picked up the deer on the ground, held it with his left hand, and pushed the stammering with his right hand and left immediately.
"Hey, what are you anxious about, it's wrong, it's not here, it's over there. The stammering was abruptly corrected, and it was really uncomfortable to be pushed by a little kid, so he suddenly turned around and quickened his pace in the other direction.
"Oh. ”
Zhou Nian muttered quietly, reversed his pace, and hurried to follow.
The two of them walked on the secluded path one after the other, and after a short period of effort, they came to the small village where they had lived for nearly 30 years-Changshou Village.