Less than two hours after noon, the sky in Osan began to change color, and dark clouds gathered over the town, shrouding the whole town in darkness. There was a roar in the distance, a thunderclap exploded in the air, and a bolt of lightning swept across the sky, illuminating the town unusually brightly. The poultry and livestock in the town were so frightened that they hid in their nests and shrunk their heads and did not dare to come out, making a frightened sound.

Lu Chen was a little nervous, his body was a little stiff, even if he had experienced countless such weathers, the corners of his mouth would inevitably tremble every time he faced it. I still remember the first time I entered the mountain in such weather, my feet were numb with fright, and I plucked up my courage to grope behind the group of adults with a bamboo cane, and I don't know how many times my young body fell on the road, and I don't know how many times I got lost in the mountains because of misjudgment of the direction and almost couldn't come back, those difficult days seem to be vivid.

Taking a deep breath, Lu Chen straightened his clothes, turned around and entered the house, took off the coat hanging on the wall and draped it, put on the hat, carried the small medicine basket on his back, turned out the small hoe from under the table, threw it into the medicine basket, walked into the kitchen and packed a few pieces of dry food on the table into his arms, Lu Chen was like this, silently sorting out his outfits.

Bang! Bang!

There was a quick knock on the door outside the house, "Ah Chen, are you alright, you are leaving, hurry up!" A young man's voice sounded outside.

"Okay, okay, I'll be fine, Brother Ding, you wait for me there, I'll be there soon!" Lu Chen responded.

Brother Ding's name is Ding Nan, and he is the son of the mayor of the town. Ding Nan is a few years older than Lu Chen, and he is called a big brother. At the same time, Ding Nan is also one of the few friends of Lu Chen's peers in the town.

Ding Nan had just passed the age of sixteen, with a powerful body and a burly and tall figure, and he was the medicine collection team that entered at the same time as Lu Chen. At that time, Lu Chen was still in the medicine collection team that he had been begging for a long time to enter, but Ding Nan was directly recruited by the unanimous approval of the old people who collected medicine, and he was definitely not relying on the identity of the mayor's son.

Ding Nan was born with great strength, and he has always been praised in the town, he can resist the rice bag that two adult men in the town can't carry, and he is only sixteen years old. After careful consideration, the town's herb-collecting team unanimously agreed to recruit the young man.

The wind was still blowing outside, crunching the wooden door.

"Okay, Brother Ding, let's go!" Lu Chen pushed open the wooden door and shouted to the side.

So, the two walked side by side to the team of collecting medicines.

Osan Mountain, at the foot of the mountain.

A few sparse herb pickers gathered together and waited until Lu Chen and the two arrived. An old man with a medicine basket on his back stood up and began to tell everyone some precautions for going up the mountain. There are not many people who go up the mountain this time, plus Lu Chen, there are only ten people in total, and less than half of the people really have experience in collecting medicine, and the others are just young men from the town that the old people have found to help the old people collect medicine.

The mountains are dangerous, and everyone knows that. Among them, the poisonous snakes and beasts are not to say, in the strange weather of the town, the problem is not too big, these beasts are often snails in the nest and dare not go out, the action of the herb picker will benefit a lot more conveniently, as long as you are not too unlucky to walk into the nest of some fierce beasts, generally speaking, the poisonous snakes and beasts on the mountain are not too big a problem on your way to collect medicine.

Another very dangerous place is the back mountain, and the old man also repeatedly emphasized in his words that it is the iron law of the medicine picker not to set foot in the back mountain at will until the last resort. The back mountain is connected to the Nanyu Mountains. The Nanyu Mountains span the entire rain country for tens of thousands of miles, as the largest mountain range in the rain country, stretching out of nowhere, among which the medicinal materials, beasts are countless, and the danger can be said to be ambushed everywhere, countless. There is such an example in Lu Chen's more than two years of experience in collecting medicine, it is a young and strong guy in the town, who may have gained bad luck when collecting medicine, and there is no gain, so he unconsciously attracted the attention of the back mountain, and never came back after stepping into it.

It should also be noted that the night in the mountains is the most dangerous, and the people who collect medicine never dare to spend the night in the mountains, even the experienced old people who collect medicine do not dare to spend the night in the mountains easily. There is a lot of fog in the mountains, and if you are not careful, you risk getting lost. In this case, if you step into the mountains casually and wander around the mountains like a headless fly, it is the most taboo and often dangerous behavior of the herb pickers.

After the old man finished talking about the precautions, he sternly admonished him several times, and then waved his hand and beckoned everyone to follow him into the mountain.

The team entering the mountain was divided into two columns, and Lu Chen followed closely behind Ding Nan, although he couldn't see it, but Lu Chen couldn't be more familiar with the road into the mountain. After several years of experience in collecting medicine, although Lu Chen's eyes could not see, his collection of medicine on Wushan would not be hindered.

The bamboo cane in his hand lit rhythmically on the road, and Ding Nan talked carefully about some changes on the road for Lu Chen in front. The sky was getting darker and darker, and although Lu Chen couldn't see it, he also felt that the temperature in the air was gradually dropping, and the bare skin in the air was stimulated by a small bump, which was not a good omen. Everyone quickened their pace, Ding Nan didn't speak, and after prompting Lu Chen, he lowered his head and hurried up the mountain. Lu Chen buried his head, listened carefully to the movements around him, carefully measured it with a bamboo cane, and gradually accelerated his steps.

After about half an hour, the procession stopped, which was about three-quarters of the height of Osan Mountain, densely wooded and overgrown with weeds, and everyone stood on a narrow mountain road, flanked by dense bushes, and the silence was somewhat unusual. If it weren't for this weather, it would be a place where poisonous snakes are entrenched.

Everyone was accustomed to this, and after the old man in the lead gave everyone a few more words, he waved his hand and told everyone to disperse and go to the mountains to search for usable herbs. Lu Chen turned around, used a bamboo cane to push the bushes away, and halfway through his movements, a voice came from behind him, "Ah Chen, I'll be with you" Ding Nan followed from behind with a smile, patted Lu Chen's shoulder, and said.

"Okay, Brother Ding, then let's pick herbs together, you help me find the herbs, and I'll identify and pick them. Hearing this, Lu Chen's heart warmed slightly, and his face also showed joy, he knew that it was Ding Nan who was taking care of him.

In the past, Lu Chen was the least one to go up the mountain to collect herbs every time, although Lu Chen could find herbs through other methods, but he couldn't see it, or he was a big obstacle to collecting herbs, so that Lu Chen's efficiency was always not high enough, and the amount of medicine collected was often less than half of others.

Fortunately, although there are not many medicines collected by Lu Chen, each plant is a real herb, and its medicinal value is relatively high. And the other young and strong medicines that do not know the herbs are quite mixed, seriously damaged, and the medicinal effect is lost, and even occasionally there are unknown weeds in them, which provokes the people who know the medicine to laugh and laugh, and in the end they are divided and re-decorated.

"With Brother Ding's help this time, I think I will be able to gain something. Thinking of Ding Nan's joining, Lu Chen's heart also had a warm current surging through, Brother Ding has helped him a lot over the years, just like his real big brother, taking care of himself. It's just that when I think of my eye disease, I can't help but feel a little gloomy in my heart. At the beginning, Song Lao said that he could be treated with elixir, Lu Chen always remembered it, and because of this, he joined the team of collecting medicine, but for so many years, the so-called elixir has not been any news, thinking of this, he can't help but sigh deeply.

"Brother Ding, have you heard of the elixir?" With a hint of tentative eagerness, Lu Chen raised his head and asked, after asking Lu Chen, he couldn't help but feel a little disappointed, even the oldest old man in the town who collected medicine had never heard of the elixir, let alone seen it, how could Brother Ding know.

"Elixir, why are you asking this, is it because of Ah Chen's eyes?" Ding Nan seemed to be a little surprised, he didn't think of this question, and when he saw Lu Chen's godless eyes, he seemed to understand something, and replied, " I've heard it, but I haven't seen it, it's a cultivator's thing, the elixir, the year before last when I went to the city with Abba to sell herbs to those big pharmacies, there were other merchants who came to sell medicines when they chatted about it, saying that I don't know where the stinky boy stepped on the shit and transported it into Nanyu Mountain and came out alive, with a glowing golden herb, quite extraordinary, sold at a sky-high price in the pharmacy, said that it was thousands of gold coins, I was still listening to it very carefully, the shopkeeper there said that I was afraid that it was an elixir, and the elixir was generally in the hands of cultivators, and ordinary people like us didn't even have the opportunity to get in touch, which was really enviable。 ”

"Really?Brother Ding!" Lu Chen didn't seem to expect that Ding Nan would hear about the elixir, and he couldn't help but be so excited that he couldn't control himself, his hands trembled, he had been asking around for the news of the elixir for so many years, but it was all useless, and he didn't expect to get news of it from Ding Nan.

Lu Chen wiped his eyes with his hands, but the tears couldn't stop flowing down, and those godless eyes seemed to have some invisible light. When Ding Nan saw this scene, he was also sad in his heart, stepped forward, hugged Lu Chen, and said, "Don't worry, Ah Chen, your eyes will definitely get better, Wushan is so big, maybe we will be able to collect that elixir soon." ”

Although Lu Chen knew that Ding Nan was kind and comforting, he had been collecting medicine for so long, and he had never seen half a shadow of the elixir, but he finally had the news of it, but it was so expensive, how could he have the opportunity to get it.

Coming back to his senses, Lu Chen looked into the distance, where was the location of the back mountain, and the tall peaks were shrouded in a haze.

"Someone has picked up the elixir in the Nanyu Mountain Range, in this case, is it going to enter the back mountain?" Lu Chen thought of the key point, and the glimmer of hope in his heart seemed to be rekindled, and he couldn't help but murmur, and his words were full of a trace of close and imperceptible hope.