Chapter Forty-Eight: The First Battle of the Tiger Forest
Huangzhou City is huge, and the northern suburbs are dozens of miles away from the western suburbs, not to mention that the place where Bian Yao lives is still in the far suburbs.
Early the next morning, Bian Yao held an iron sword in his hand and carried a burden, and hurried to the western suburbs of the imperial city.
For the sake of prudence, before breaking through to the late stage of Dream Walker, Bian Yao didn't want outsiders to know that he had a space bag and a Wusha sword, both of which were very valuable.
So after being alone, before rushing to Huangzhou City, he bought an iron sword at an ordinary weapon shop in Cave City, and began to walk with his baggage.
Near noon, after some inquiries and inquiries, Bian Yao finally arrived at Fanchuan Town, which is located in the western suburbs.
The intersection in the center of the town is particularly busy, with a constant stream of pedestrians and itinerant vendors. Bian Yao walked quickly to the northeast corner of the intersection, scanned back and forth a few times, and finally turned his gaze to the uncovered carriage in the southwest corner. In front of the car sat an old groom, with three wooden boxes and two men.
"Are you going to Breeze City?" asked Bian Yao as he stepped closer to the middle-aged man sitting sideways in the carriage.
"Not bad~ young man, stumped you are the third person to accept this mission?" The middle-aged man turned his face and stared at Bian Yao first, and then smiled faintly.
Bian Yao nodded with a smile on his face, and he found that there was a deep scratch on this person's right cheek that was more than two inches long, which looked a little scary.
"Yo~ You have reached the realm of a dream walker at such a young age, and you will be a dream king in the future!" Another young man in the car suddenly came over with a playful expression.
Bian Yao smiled, and couldn't help but stretch out his hand to spare his head, looking a little embarrassed.
Actually, the young man is not entirely right. Although there are very few dreamwalkers like Bian Yao at his age, there are still some, probably a few out of every thousand people. Generally speaking, being able to become a dream walker at the age of fourteen or fifteen is a very talented person, and it is very likely that he will become a dream king in the future! But this is not absolute, and there are a few people who will be trapped in the dream mania realm.
At this time, the groom in front of him suddenly spoke, "Since all the cultivators have arrived, let's go." ”
Hearing this, Bian Yao turned over and jumped easily, happily got into the carriage, and sat on the left side with the young man, while the middle-aged man sat alone on the right side.
At this time, the old man turned around again, took out three small bags from his arms and threw them to Bian Yao and the others, and said: "This is the employer's entanglement for you, two hundred dream coins per person, and it is said that it is not included in the remuneration." ”
After Bian Yao and the three of them took the money bag, the old man flicked the whip, and the tall red "thousand pound horse" opened its hooves and pulled the carriage westward.
"Light Breeze City" is located in the northwest of the imperial city and belongs to a county seat. Although the distance from Huangzhou City is much farther than that of Cave City, the road is much easier to walk. There are no mountains and deep water to block the way, so the time to travel to and from the Imperial City is shorter than that of the Cave City.
It normally takes about twenty days to get from the Imperial City to Light Breeze City. There are only two relatively dangerous places on the way, one is the tiger forest, and the other is the white sand desert. However, the danger there is mainly for ordinary people, and generally as long as there is a Dream Walker's realm, they can pass through smoothly.
This mission is to transport three wooden crates to Light Wind, which is escorted by three dreamwalkers, and the reward is 200 Spice Fruit each. Speaking of rewards, although this task is very easy and there is almost no risk, because it takes more than a month to communicate, the reward of 200 Spice Fruit is still very low.
The reason why Bian Yao chose this task was completely in accordance with the instructions left by the night corpse: he did not accept tasks that were easy to encounter trouble, he did not accept tasks that were easy to expose his secrets, and he did not accept tasks that seriously delayed his cultivation.
The old man driving the car was concentrating on driving the car, and the middle-aged man closed his eyes and was silent, cultivating silently alone.
"How many times have you taken on a mission?" the young man suddenly turned his head to look at Bian Yao.
"This is my first time on a mission. Bian Yao smiled slightly as he spoke, and asked, "Will the carriage take us all the way to Light Wind City?"
The man was stunned for a moment, then turned to the groom and asked, "Uncle, what did the person who hired you say to you?"
"Don't worry, as long as you don't let those beasts gnaw off my old bones, I'll send you all the way to your destination. The old groom replied with a smile.
"Didn't you see your employer? Could it be that this old man is the only one who has seen your employer?" Bian Yao couldn't help but feel a little curious.
"No, I arrived at about the same time as this eldest brother, and I saw this old man stopping there in a carriage, and I didn't ask if I was transporting three wooden boxes to Breeze City, and then you arrived. The young man replied, his face puzzled.
"Don't worry! This is the third time I've been employed by that person, and the other party knows that he is a rich person by looking at his appearance, not to mention that as long as the goods are lying on the car, I am afraid that the other party will not be able to cheat at that time. The old man smiled, looking very open-minded.
In this regard, although Bian Yao felt a little puzzled, he did not think about it further.
"Why do you still have a weapon?" the young man asked as he stared at the iron sword in Bian Yao's hand.
In the Dream Immortal Continent, most dream cultivators don't wear and use weapons, especially those high-level dream cultivators, they think that using weapons is a shameful and shameless thing. However, there are still quite a few people who carry weapons, especially those who have space bags, and they will store their weapons inside.
"What about carrying a weapon? What kind of bullshit is the so-called face, the most important thing is to save my life! Do you see the scratches on my face? If I had been armed in the first place, I would not have ended up in the field where I almost died. The middle-aged man who was silent on the side suddenly opened his eyes, and his tone was dissatisfied. It turned out that there was also a short knife at his side.
The young man smiled awkwardly and did not speak again. Bian Yao didn't say anything, but in his heart he deeply agreed with the middle-aged man's words.
The old man was very skillful in driving, and the carriage moved forward steadily.
On the way, the young man would talk to Bian Yao from time to time, while the old man and the middle-aged man rarely spoke, only occasionally chatting a few words.
Seven days passed in a hurry, and there were countless villages along the way, and the inhabited places could be considered safe areas. The four of them hurried during the day, and when it was dark, they found a random inn to rest. The old man who drove the car was an ordinary person, so he naturally slept peacefully at night, while Bian Yao and the other two dream cultivators took turns guarding the goods in the car.
Although the things that Dreamwalker transports are usually not robbed, they still have to be cautious! After all, losing the goods of the employer is a very troublesome thing! If you want to take on the task in the future, you will be subject to various restrictions.
Bian Yao couldn't help but miss the days when he walked with the night corpses, and he could sleep peacefully by arranging an enchantment casually, so why did he need to take turns on duty.
On the evening of the eighth day, while Bian Yao was sitting in the car meditating and cultivating, the old man driving suddenly shouted: "We will arrive at the 'Tiger Forest' not far ahead! Let's rest outside the forest tonight, and cross this forest early tomorrow morning." ”
As the name suggests, there are so many tigers in the "Tiger Forest" that ordinary people will never be able to make it through it alive. However, I heard that hundreds of years ago, there was a drunken martial arts warrior who walked through the forest alive with the body of an ordinary person. But that's just rumor.
Bian Yao slowly opened his eyes, and looked sideways with the other two Meng Xiu.
The sunset was shining at night, but I saw a few miles ahead, there was a long strip of wood, black and misty, and it was estimated that it was dozens of miles horizontally, but I didn't know how deep it was.
After the tea, half a mile away from the "Tiger Forest", the old man stopped the carriage. Night soon fell. Outside the woodland where the tiger roared, the four spent the night.
The next day, before the sun rose, a group of four people rode in a carriage towards the forest.
After entering the 'Tiger Forest', Bian Yao and the other two jumped out of the carriage and began to walk, and in a triangular shape, the old man and the carriage were maintained in the middle.
Bian Yao and the young man were both early dreamwalkers, and the two of them were on both sides of the carriage on the left and right, and the middle-aged man, who was in the middle of the dreamwalkers, followed behind the carriage.
Among the four of them, the old man and the middle-aged man have all been to Light Wind City, so they have a general understanding of the environment on the way. The road in the woods was not wide and winding, so the carriage did not go fast. If all goes well, they will be able to leave the "Tiger Forest" before the sun sets.
The group had only traveled a few miles before they met the owner of the woods.
"Roar~Roar~!" two half-foot-tall fire-patterned tigers blocked in front of the road.
"Hurry up~!Don't let the horse be frightened!" the old man stopped the carriage abruptly and hurriedly shouted.
When Bian Yao heard this, he suddenly exerted force under his feet, and his figure suddenly jumped forward. The young man on the right also rushed towards the two tigers in front of him almost at the same time.
Seeing that Bian Yao and the others did not run away, but took the initiative to rush towards them, the two fire-streaked tigers seemed to feel that their majesty was swept away. With an angry roar, they rushed towards Bian Yao and the young man respectively.
Just when the Fire Pattern Tiger was less than half a zhang away from him, Bian Yao's eyes flashed, his body spun up suddenly, and in an instant, he moved to the left side of the Fire Pattern Tiger, and his right hand held the iron sword and stabbed quickly into the tiger's abdomen!
"Roar~!" The fire-streaked tiger was stabbed in the abdomen, and suddenly roared in pain, then turned around and fled into the forest, leaving a pool of blood on the road. Bian Yao didn't chase after him, and turned his head to look to the side.
Although the young man was empty-handed, he still felt very easy to deal with this tiger. After a short spin, the fire-streaked tiger that attacked him was kicked into the forest by him in the air. First it crashed into a large tree, then fell to the ground, and the fire-streaked tiger let out a roar of pain and fled into the forest.
Bian Yao secretly estimated that although he could also twist and kick in the air, he definitely didn't have that much strength. The two fire-streaked tigers weighed more than a thousand pounds, and they could only kick them, but they couldn't kick them that far.
After easily eliminating the two fire-streaked tigers, the four of them continued on their way.
In the following time, they continued to encounter attacks, and the most common one was surrounded by more than a dozen Fire Pattern Tigers. However, all of them were successfully dealt with by the three of them, and for the Dream Walker, this beast was nothing terrible except for its ferocity.
Bian Yao also saw the strength of the middle-aged man, compared to the young man, his skills are much more agile, and the siege of seven or eight tigers can not touch his body at all, it can be seen that he has a lot of actual combat experience.
At sunset, the four of them finally came out of the "Tiger Forest", and they stopped not far away from exhaustion. The old man was also very tired, and controlling the frightened horse was also a skill. Bian Yao and the young man were both slightly injured, while the middle-aged man was unharmed.
Leaning on the carriage, while staring up at the starry sky of the autumn night, I couldn't help but sigh in my heart: although the outside world looks very novel, it is really not easy to go out and walk!
In any case, this first hurdle has passed, and I heard that the "white sand desert" that I passed through a few days later was a little more troublesome than the tiger forest.
"The old ghost said that a person has to go through a lot of things alone before he can grow up. The boy said to himself secretly before falling asleep.
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