In the mountains and forests in the morning, the mist has not yet lifted. The sunlight spreads through the fog and falls on the red, yellow and green leaves, which is a bit fairyland. Because it is early autumn, there will be a creaking sound when stepping on the dead branches and leaves. From time to time, the birds will be startled, and there will be a few crisp cries in the somewhat quiet forest.

Ye Zi wore a fiery red jacket and walked in the forest. She held a red tassel gun in her hand and leaned it over her shoulder. The spear was half a body taller than her, very imposing, but it could not stand up to scrutiny, it turned out that the spearhead was made of daggers tied to wooden poles, and the red tassels were nothing more than the sleeves of a T-shirt cut into strips. But she sometimes used it to beat the grass, and sometimes she used it as a crutch, which was very handy.

She excitedly cleared the way for the group and climbed a small slope first. Look back where you came from. The school down the hill had become a somewhat vague shadow due to the fog. She looked down the trail behind her, where seven other people were slowly trekking up.

"Hey, Teacher Zhang, I can't see the school clearly from here, how far have we come?" Ye Zi put his hand to his mouth and asked loudly to the person behind him.

Zhang Sicheng is a tall man over thirty years old, and he is away all the year round, which makes his skin a little dark, but he still has the temperament of a scholar between his eyebrows and eyes. He wore a blue jacket with a waistcoat on the outside, some of the upper and lower pockets were filled with something, a dogleg knife hanging from his waist, a pair of hiking boots under his feet, a large bag high above his head, and most notably, he also carried a modern American hunting bow. He is a geology teacher and the leader of this field exploration team.

Zhang Sicheng looked at some distant schools, took out a few small stones from his pocket, and nodded: "From the straight-line distance, it is about four or five kilometers, but we have walked about nine and a half kilometers." ”

"Why do you want to count the stones?" Ye Zi asked curiously.

Zhang Sicheng said: "Usually I walk 800 steps is one kilometer, and every time I walk, I put a small stone from one pocket into another, so that I don't forget." ”

"Following an expert like Mr. Zhang, we can feel much more at ease. Xiao Chen also walked up from behind. He wore a jacket and a bag, and walked briskly.

"Now there is no electricity, no satellites, no pedometers and mobile phones, so I have to think of something else. Zhang Sicheng smiled, "Xiao Xiao, Xiao Ye, your spirit is really good, and your physical fitness is also good, which impresses me." ”

"I'm a practitioner, and a little hike can't make it difficult for me. But I really didn't see that Senior Xiao was thin, his endurance was really good, and he walked such a long mountain road without panting. Senior, how far does the guide say?" Ye Zi stood on a stone with a gun and asked Xiao Chen.

Awad said there was less than half the way to go. Awad was the local guide walking beside Xiao Chen, a thin, middle-aged man who hunted in the woods for a living.

A few days earlier, the school had taken out ore specimens from the geology department and collected similar stones from the surrounding villagers, and Awad had brought a number of stones picked up in the mountains. One of the red stones was identified as hematite by teachers and students in the Department of Geology, one of the most valuable iron ores. According to Awad, he found a number of such stones by the river in a valley behind the mountain, which the committee attached great importance to, and the value of a shallow vein near the school was self-evident for industrial development. So there was Xiao Chen's expedition this time.

Xiao Chen and the others spoke, and the people behind them also followed, and one was Lin Youping, a professor in the Department of Biology who studied plants, and he took his student Zhao Rui and followed them into the mountains to collect plant specimens. Last, followed by two fighters, Shi Hao and Li Tianrui, both of whom were wearing combat uniforms and armed with guns.

Shi Hao stepped forward and said to the leading people with some seriousness, "You guys are walking too fast, you should let me take the lead, otherwise what if you encounter danger?"

Ye Zi raised the gun in his hand with a big grin, and said, "Your gun may not be as good as mine, and we haven't competed." You won't forget it so quickly, will you?"

Shi Hao's old face turned red and said, "From the public, I am a soldier, and you are a citizen." The head of the regiment told me to take care of your safety, so naturally I should go ahead. Privately, I'm a man, you're a woman, so you should be a man in the lead. ”

"Yo, there are a set of big truths, but the deep mountains and old forests are not easy to use, and the fists are the most effective. Do you want to try again?" Ye Zi shook his small fist and said triumphantly.

"You ......" Shi Hao was so aggrieved that he didn't know what to say.

"Alright. Everyone, don't fight. If you still recognize me as the captain, you will listen to me. Lao Shi walked ahead, and Ye Zi followed me. Stay safe, everyone. Zhang Siguo broke off and stopped Ye Zi's commotion.

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At noon, Zhang Sicheng asked his guide to take them to a sparsely wooded clearing to eat and rest.

The logistics team gave priority to equipping them with biscuits, ham sausages and mineral water. These things that many people used to be too lazy to eat, but now everyone eats them deliciously.

Ye Zi took a few bites of ham sausage, but when he looked up, he saw Awad, who was the guide, carefully putting the ham sausage and biscuits distributed to him into his back, and then took out a black biscuit and a piece of bacon that was also black and hard from his arms, squatted in the corner and ate it.

She leaned over to Xiao Chen's side and asked gently, "Senior, why doesn't he eat, is it for his family?" Xiao Chen was also a little curious, so he walked over and asked a few words, and came back and shook his head at Ye Zi and said, "Our food looks very good, so he stayed and prepared to offer it to the gods." ”

Ye Zi frowned and said, "It's too stupid for him to eat such disgusting things himself, but to leave good things to the ethereal gods." ”

Xiao Chen shook his head and said, "To him, God is not ethereal. I just heard him praying before eating. The god he worshipped was 'the source of all things, the protector of nature, the lord of the sky, the earth and the sea, the observer of the stars.'"

"The name of the good earth, are there several gods?"

"It seems to be one, it seems that this god likes to give himself nicknames. ”

Ye Zihe laughed, and suddenly patted Xiao Chen's shoulder: "By the way, when it comes to strange things, there is something I want to ask you, you have to tell me the original." ”

"What's the matter?"

"What the hell happened in the library that day? I was patrolling from afar, and I saw that the library was on fire, and when we went to fetch water, the fire was extinguished, and the whole library felt like it had been flooded. Later, for two days in a row, they organized us to go to read and dry books. That's when I heard that you and Teacher Luo came out after the flood, you must know something, right?"

Xiao Chen saw that her face was full of curiosity, thought for a while and said, "Since you arrived at the scene, then you know that Principal Guo has given a gag order, right?"

"Hey, who of us is with whom! You and Li Jia are buddies, and I know Li Jia very well, so we are naturally our own people." Ye Zi came up with a trick to deal with Li Jia, pulled Xiao Chen's sleeve, and pulled the ground, "Senior, let's talk about it." We can't figure it out. ”

Xiao Chen stood up with a smile and said, "I am a good comrade who obeys orders and listens to commands, and I have to listen to Principal Guo." ”

"Don't be serious. Ye Zi chirped.

"In this world, there are many things that may not be good to know. It's like if you watch a horror movie and you might regret it when you go to bed at night. ”

"I'm not afraid of any horror movies!" Ye Zi retorted, but his tone was not very powerful.

"Don't make a fuss, let me rest for a while. Xiao Chen didn't pay attention to Ye Zi anymore, but walked to the edge of a stone, leaned down like a nap, and closed his eyes. Slowly, the sound of waves and storms sounded in his ears, and when he opened his eyes again, he saw the huge waves covering the sea in front of him......

Xiao Chen once again greeted the storm on the ship, and the book spirit that first appeared as the captain of the ship was long gone, leaving him alone to face the violent and lonely world. However, since Xiao Chen burst out in the library to control the scrolls with all his might, he has noticed a noticeable change, and his will seems to be more able to influence the world. The ability was still weak enough to slightly change the direction of the rain on his cheeks so that it would avoid his eyes, but he knew he was on the right path.

Before leaving, the book spirit said to him, "If you want to be strong, you must learn to control the world." At that time, he didn't understand what the so-called manipulation was, but when a drop of water changed the direction of the glide because of his thoughts, he understood the method of cultivation. What he saw and felt here was actually something in his mind. In that case, manipulation is to change them with consciousness.

He could feel the manipulation improving day by day, insignificant, but never stopping. Does this mean that one day he can calm the storm and the turbulent sea, and he will be able to completely control his mental power?

Xiao Chen didn't know how long he had been in the meditation space until a scream woke him up. He opened his eyes and saw Ye Zizheng shouting loudly, using her gun to force a humanoid creature of about one meter and trapping it in a corner, and the others were also looking at it with great nervousness and shock, Zhang Sicheng picked up the dogleg knife, and Shi Hao and the two picked up their rifles. The little man also seemed to be stunned, trembling as he looked at so many people surrounding him.

Xiao Chen took a closer look and found that his skin was a strange yellow-green, his head was a little larger than his figure, with a pair of copper bell-like eyes and thin and long ears on it, and his mouth was also very large, baring its fangs, and roaring at Ye Zi. The only clothing it had on was a tattered grass skirt, a short spear made of sharpened wooden sticks in one hand, and Ye Zi's backpack in the other.

Thief?

"It's a goblin!How can there be a goblin here?!" Guide Awad exclaimed, Xiao Chen could see confusion and worry in his eyes.