Chapter 16: What if
Lao Lin and I were helpless, extremely decadent, and as soon as people were depressed, all kinds of negative thoughts followed.
I think it is very likely that Zeng Shizu died in the Snake Intestine Valley, otherwise Weishenme would not have gone home? If the great-master died, it would be impossible for me to prolong my life, even if the great-master did not die, the clues were still in the snake intestine valley, and there was no hope if I couldn't enter the snake intestine valley. I feel hopeless than ever, can I only live to be thirty years old?
"How powerful is the old monster inside, do you have a chance to go back and invite your master to come?" Lao Lin asked.
I shook my head, depressed and too lazy to explain, my master has no hands-on ability at all now. As for the monster in the Snake Intestine Valley, I can't know how powerful it is, but I can feel like a child standing in front of a giant, not a level at all.
"Second Master, if you know that you can only live for a short time...... For example, if you only have one more year to live, what will you do? "I suddenly asked Lao Lin, although I have spent all my time practicing and studying in the past three years, trying not to think about this problem, I have always been depressed and uneasy in my heart. I didn't dare to talk to Master about this topic, and no one else knew about it except Master, so I didn't have anyone to talk to and talk to.
"You figured out I'm going to die?" Lao Lin changed color in vain.
"No, no, just a casual conversation."
"Say it, I can bear it......" Although Lao Lin's tone was hard, his face was even more ugly.
I couldn't help laughing: "I said it, it's just a hypothesis, you can answer me." β
"I don't assume!"
"Maybe it will help me think about how to save Uncle Wu."
Lao Lin is not a simple-minded person with developed limbs, in fact, his mind may be more developed than his limbs, thick on the outside and thin on the inside, most people are confused by his rough, rude and straightforward appearance, so Lao Lin is not easy to deceive. He stared at me suspiciously: "If it's to save him, it's okay to assume it, if I can only live for another year......"
Lao Lin's eyes lit up suddenly, revealing a decisive look: "If I can only live for another year, I will rob money, rob women, and do whatever I want!" TMD, I'm going to die anyway, what else is there to be afraid of? β
I sweated profusely, and then I was speechless, Lao Lin's personality is different from me, I can't be like Lao Lin, I have too many things that I can't let go.
"Second Master, can you really do this? First of all, the legal society does not allow you to mess around like this, secondly, your behavior will bring trouble to your loved ones, and thirdly, your behavior will hurt innocent people. Would you be happy if someone else did the same and hurt you? Human beings are social animals, inseparable from others, inseparable from social ......"
Lao Lin patted me on the shoulder and said meaningfully: "Your master is a Mr. Yin and Yang, and there are too many stinky fart rules; When he was young, he studied private school for many years, and Kong Lao Er also drank a lot of urine, so there are too many bullshit ethics and principles, and you must not learn from him. Life is so short, you have to enjoy it when you should enjoy it, and you have to let go when you should let go, how can you take care of so much? If I'm dying, I'm going to do at least what I want to do without regrets, within the bottom line that I think I can. β
I nodded, Lao Lin's words are very reasonable, but I already owe a lot of people, my mother's nurturing grace, my master's cultivation grace, and ...... I suddenly remembered Chen Xing, although I didn't take the initiative to hurt her, but the fact had already caused some damage to her and left a shadow on her life. The root cause of all this is the demon fox, and now the demon fox and I are one, so I also have some obligations to repay the debts owed by the demon fox.
Thinking of Chen Xing, my heart is a little warm, after all, I have had the closest contact between men and women with her, and I have completely seen her body, she is my "fiancΓ©e"! Maybe before leaving this shijie, you should visit her once and help her do something.
Lao Lin slapped me hard: "What are you stunned about, have you come up with a way?" β
"Uh, uh, I'm thinking." I pulled myself together, got the mess out of my mind, and focused on the problem at hand.
Looking at the fog for a while, I suddenly had an idea, if I just want to save people, I don't necessarily have to go into the snake intestine valley! I leaned into Lao Lin's ear and said a few words, and Lao Lin looked at me with a puzzled expression: "Okay?" β
I said with great certainty: "Just do what I say, there's an 80% chance!" β
"Well, let's give it a try."
The two of us seemed helpless, and we were grinding around until almost noon, and our stomachs were rumbling with hunger, and we hadn't eaten breakfast today. Lao Lin took the repair haode fire gun out for a while, the beast was rare during the day, and he hid when he met a large person, and the barrel was a little deformed, and the iron sand spread too much, and only brought back two unknown birds.
All the food we ate the night before, including the spices, was stolen by the savages, but Lao Lin had his own way, peeled and washed the two birds, put some grass roots and tree bark into it, and the soup was still sweet and delicious.
In the afternoon, I went to the pine forest to probe my brain, and every time I found that the yin qi was condensed and formed, I ran out, and after "teasing" the yin spirit several times, I could be sure that the old monster in the snake intestine valley was somewhat restricted, and its influence could not exceed that of the pine forest, and all kinds of poisonous insects would not run out.
There is a large area outside the pine forest that has no trees, only a few thatch, thorns, and low shrubs. I chose a place more than 100 meters from the pine forest and set up camp, and picked up a large amount of dry wood for the fire. Lao Lin cut down some small trees, sharpened some wooden sticks and drove piles into the ground, and some wooden sticks were tied together with ropes, as if they wanted to build a thatched hut here to live for a long time.
Tossed into the evening, Lao Lin really built a wooden house, but there is no roof and no wall, and it is impossible to stay tonight. I shouted that I was hungry, and Lao Lin had to look for something to eat, and when I came back ten minutes later, the prey was actually two birds again, but it was a little better than noon, there was a pheasant, and the meat was slightly more.
The food was really not enjoyable, after dark Lao Lin attacked again, and soon after he left, a gunshot rang out, and he quickly carried back a wild boar weighing hundreds of pounds, and dragged an arm-thick python behind him. It turned out that a wild boar was hunting a python, and when he was about to succeed, he was shot in the eye by Lao Lin, and the half-dead python also became a trophy.
God help me, let's do it immediately, the snake meat is still in the pot to cook the soup, and the wild boar is cut down and grilled one by one.
Wild boar meat is relatively heavy, and it is not delicious to roast without condiments, but Lao Lin has a way, and has already collected a lot of grass roots, bark and wild fruits during the day, smashed them and boiled them in water for a while, and the soup was smeared on the roasted meat, and soon the extremely attractive aroma spread.
I picked up a large piece of roast pork that was roasted golden and dripping with fat, blew and took a few bites, some sweet, some spicy, slightly less salty, but already delicious, not only did it not smell fishy, but it was also very flavorful.
"Second Master, how can you make it so delicious?" I asked vaguely as I bit it.
Lao Lin was a little proud, pointed to the bark and grass roots around him and said: "Cinnamon bark, orange leaves, star anise, and the like are originally wild spices, and they can be found on the mountains; There are also wild garlic and wild onions, which can not only be seasoned, but also have great benefits for the body; Yams, yellow essences and the like can be eaten raw directly, and the stewed soup is also good...... If it weren't for the abundance of food in the mountains, I would have gone back to the city long ago, where you would never have eaten real game. β
Saying that, Lao Lin wrapped a large piece of wild boar skin around his calf and tied it tightly, and then cut another piece and tied it to his wrist, like a wrist guard used by ancient martial arts practitioners. I asked with some curiosity, "Second Master, what are you doing here?" β
"Wild boar is the natural enemy of poisonous snakes, poisonous snakes will be soft as long as they smell the smell of wild boars, and the poisonous snakes will not dare to bite you if they tie the wild boar skin to their hands, and now we have no snake repellent medicine, so we can only use this. After eating, you also tie a few pieces to your hands and feet. β
I answered, and continued to barbecue while eating, in fact, the two of them couldn't eat so much at all, and I dug deep into the pit and accumulated grain.
After eating and drinking, Lao Lin came to his senses, tore his throat and sang. He sang the "commentary" of his hometown, singing for a while and talking for a while, a bit like talking about cross talk, anyway, I didn't understand a word, and the rhyme was not good.
After singing for more than ten minutes, Lao Lin asked, "How am I singing?" β
I said bluntly: "It's so ugly, like an old man crying and mourning......"
"What, what did you say?" Lao Lin jumped up, "I'm a round word, original, if you don't understand, you can say you don't understand, how can you scold me for crying and mourning?" β
"It's not a question of whether you can understand or not, it's a question of rhythm and realm, you see Uncle Wu sang last night with full devotion, drunkenness, full of energy, and lingering sounds; Second Master, you sang twisted and pinched, hypocritical, absent-minded, and didn't enter the state at all......"
"You dare to say that I don't sing as well as him? I'm going to kill you, you eater inside and out! Lao Lin yelled and threw a punch in my chest.
"If you can't sing well, you're still ashamed to beat people angrily, you're too much!" I picked up the stick with the sparks and wild boar and threw it at the old forest.
Lao Lin hurriedly raised his hand to block it, and the wrist of a wild boar skin blocked the stick, but the sparks and greasy were on his body, which angered him even more, and he kicked me angrily: "It's against you, you dare to beat me, you want to bully the teacher and destroy the ancestors, don't you?" β
I waved the wooden stick and retreated while blocking the grid: "You are a master who is disrespectful to the elderly, and you have no ability to die, and I don't recognize you as a master anymore!" β
"Little bastard, you dare to say that I have no ability, I'll kill you, I'll kill you......"
"If you have the ability, go and rescue Uncle Wu!"
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The two of us scolded and fought, Lao Lin was fierce and merciless, I didn't dare to fight with him, but fortunately, I had a weapon in my hand, and I retreated while blocking the grid, getting farther and farther away from the bonfire. After fighting for a while, I turned around and ran away, Lao Lin was chasing after me, but he had no night vision, and it was not convenient to rely on the head-mounted miner's lamp to illuminate, so he couldn't catch up with me at all.
We were far away from the campfire and disappeared silently, when a black shadow flashed from the pine forest, nearly three meters tall and huge, striding towards the camp.
The shadow soon arrived at the campfire, and picked up my roasted haode wild boar with a stick, and did not spare the meat that was roasted on the fire. Unexpectedly, it walked to the campfire and stepped on it, and the ground suddenly sank, and the whole leg sank.