Chapter 101: The Rat
After Long Yuan and Fluttershy separated, he found a shady place to sit down and read the ancient books in his hand. After reading for a long time, Long Yuan began to have a disappointed expression on his face.
In ancient books, it is rumored that the Treasure Book of Mountains and Seas is a sacred text, which records all the evolution of the world since Pangu incarnated into the stars of the earth, covering all aspects and everything.
In addition, most of the ancient books recorded some myths and legends, and then recorded the previous events of many forces to find and compete for the treasure books of mountains and seas.
However, these records only stayed 3,000 years ago, because at the end of the ancient books, there is a saying: "Legend has it that the Treasure Book of Mountains and Seas was born once in 300 years, but no one has seen what the Treasure Book is for tens of thousands of years, so it is inferred that the matter of the Treasure Book of Mountains and Seas is false, and I hereby advise future generations not to use bamboo baskets to fetch water." ”
"How can this be?" Long Yuan read the last sentence in the ancient book, and felt that his head was big, there was no clue to the mountain and sea treasure book in this ancient book at all.
Long Yuan was lying on the ground, scratching his hair indiscriminately, he felt that finding a copy of the "Treasure Book of Mountains and Seas" was even more difficult than climbing to the sky.
"No, I have to find it. Master's injuries still need to be healed by this treasure book. After calming down, Long Yuan decided to find the treasure book in the year after it was born anyway.
Carrying the ancient book into his arms, and putting the short sword on his back, Long Yuan continued to move forward. He found that the places where the ancient books recorded the birth of the Treasure Book of Mountains and Seas could be found in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, so he still followed his own ideas and searched along the ancient mountain area.
One day, Long Yuan walked between the mountains and wilderness, muttering in his belly, looking at the four fields, but he couldn't find half a star wild fruit, and naturally he couldn't look at the hares and pheasants.
At dusk, Long Yuan walked to the foot of a mountain. A faint aroma wafted from afar, teasing Long Yuan's hungry stomach.
Long Yuan was patient, hungry, and walked along the aroma. After a while, I saw a cave, and the source of the fragrance seemed to be this cave. Without thinking much about it, Long Yuan walked towards the entrance of the cave and filled his stomach first.
This cave looked no different from an ordinary cave from a distance, but the deeper Long Yuan went, the more he felt that the world in the cave was gradually getting bigger.
Soon after, three forks appeared in front of Long Yuan, and he only felt that his stomach was empty, and he was hungry, so without thinking carefully, he walked towards the fork filled with fragrance.
The depths of the cave should have been dark and lightless, but every short distance on the wall of the cave there is a piece of fluorite, which emits various kinds of light, or light yellow, light green, or clear blue. The stone reflects the things in the cave quite clearly, the stone wall is craggy, and the road is rugged.
The aroma of food grew stronger and stronger in the depths of the cave, and Long Yuan quickened his pace. After a short time, Long Yuan walked to the end of a fork in the cave, and there was a stone platform in front of the mountain wall at the end, and the platform was full of fragrant food.
Steamed buns, roast chicken, roast rabbit, and bright wild fruits are all in Long Yuan's eyes. Long Yuan salivated as if he had swallowed a sour plum, and he rushed forward, using both hands together, and kept stuffing the delicious food on the stone platform into his mouth. Before a moment passed, the food that was originally piled up like a hill on the stage completely turned into the pits and leftover bones under the stage.
The amount of food eaten by the disciples of the martial arts sect was several times that of ordinary people, and Long Yuan was as hungry as a ghost, and the stage was swept away by the wind and clouds. Long Yuan sat on the ground, his mouth clicking, tapping, touching, and the aftertaste was not finished.
Suddenly, a sharp voice said, "What person!" A spirit in Long Yuan jumped up from the ground, only to see a huge mouse standing in front of him. But the strange thing is that the rat stands on both feet like a human, with a straight body, a human-like length, and pure white hair.
Long Yuan looked at the mouse in front of him, stunned for a moment, and said in surprise: "The mouse can speak!
Seeing that the food on the stone platform behind Long Yuan was gone, and only a pile of bones and scraps remained on the ground, the rat said angrily: "You actually ate all our food!"
"What's the matter, Second Rat?" Behind the rat appeared a tall rat, a foot taller than the rat named Second Rat.
"Boss, I don't know where this one came from, and they have eaten up all the food we have worked so hard to steal from the city. The two rats crossed their waists with one hand and pointed at Long Yuan Dao with the other. The whiskers on both sides of the pointed beak blow up and down, and they look extremely angry.
The two eyes of the rat beside the second rat narrowed, obviously not having a good impression of Long Yuan, the thief.
When Long Yuan heard that the second rat said that the food was stolen from the city, he was so angry that he forgot that he was also stealing other people's food.
The halberd pointed out, Long Yuan glared angrily at the two rats in front of him, and said, "You scourges, you actually steal the food of the people in the city!"
The second rat saw that Long Yuan had stolen food that belonged to them, and he had to tear down the bridge after crossing the river, and scolded angrily: "You have stolen and eaten our things and have to bully us in turn, human beings really don't have many good things! The thief shouts to catch the thief! Do you want to die?"
Long Yuan was stunned by the second child's scolding, yes, he also stole other people's things. Thinking about it like this, he stood on the ground, extremely embarrassed, the sword in his hand was not collected, nor was he not collected, and his face was not suitable for anger or apology.
The second rat touched the ground with one foot, and when he went up, he gave Long Yuan a leg sweep.
The horizontal leg was fierce and domineering, and Long Yuan's forefoot jumped up a little bit, avoiding this leg.
"Huh! You...... The rat even knows martial arts!"
"You're a mouse!" The second rat roared angrily, and with a thud in his hand, he turned into an air sword, and was about to step forward and slash Long Yuan.
Long Yuan saw that the other party could gather qi into a blade, and he didn't think about how the mouse could do martial arts, and hurriedly put the sword in front of his chest.
Just as one person and one rat were tense, an old voice said, "Stop!"
An elderly mouse appears behind two rats, followed by five rats. The five rats are two tall and three short, and they are all white-haired like the previous two. Two of them were as tall as the rats in front of Long Yuan, and the remaining three were still small.
The old mouse was dressed in gray hair, in addition to a gray hair, he also wore a light brown short robe, a black belt around his waist, and a nanmu cane in his hand, but his body was very short and similar to that of three little mice.
Seeing the arrival of the old mouse, the second rat arched his waist with the rat next to him, put his hands together and said in unison: "Master." ”
"Hmm. The master nodded to the two mice, and then Long Yuan looked.
Long Yuan was a little stunned at this time, and said in his heart: "Did I break into the cave of the rat spirit? This old rat is called a master, so it must be an old goblin." What should I do, do I want to learn how to meow?"
"Huh?"
The master looked at Long Yuan for a moment, and a humanized look of surprise appeared on his face.
"This breath...... Who are you, Ling Jiutian?" the master asked.
Long Yuan blinked and said in surprise, "You...... Do you know my master?"
The master didn't answer immediately, he stared at Long Yuan, and then leaned back to the sky, looking thoughtful. The master recalled for a long time, and the past was still vivid in front of him.
"Like, really like. Jiutian was also that old ......," the master sighed to himself.
Long Yuan heard the master say his master's nickname, and saw that he was like a human being, and his face was quite nostalgic for the passage of time, and the old man was no longer there. At the moment, he asked, "May I ask if the seniors recognize the younger teachers?"
The master's mind turned back from the memories and smiled, "Of course I do." That was a hundred years ago, and now that I think about it, I have been your master for a few days. Although the master's voice was old, it gave Long Yuan a sense of kindness and wisdom.
Long Yuan listened to what the master said, and couldn't help but feel a sense of cordiality in his heart, and immediately clasped his fists and said respectfully: "Junior Long Yuan meets his seniors. ”
"Hmph, don't put it here, you ...... our food" The second rat was displeased, sneered sarcastically, and when he saw the master wave his hand in the middle of the sentence, he stopped making a sound, but the anger on his face remained unabated.
The tall rat looked at Long Yuan after listening to the conversation between the master and Long Yuan, and said to himself, "This is Ling Jiutian's disciple?"
"I am a guest from afar, I have a fate with this young man's master, and we will treat each other with courtesy in the future. The master turned to the mice.
The rats clasped their hands together and said in unison, "Yes!"
Long Yuan bowed down and thanked: "Thank you seniors for breaking the siege." “
"Hmph!" the second rat turned his face away and didn't look at Long Yuan.
Long Yuan could only scratch his head helplessly, who let himself steal other people's food and draw his sword against him. However, Long Yuan was also puzzled, are these rats alien beasts or goblins?
"Son, let's go to the other side first, this is where we eat. The master smiled at Long Yuan.
"Uh...... This ......" Long Yuan looked at the food bones all over the ground, and his face turned red.
"Haha, it's okay, young people know how to be ashamed, and it's not easy to be ashamed. Eat it and eat it. Seeing that Long Yuan's ears were red and he looked a little honest, the master said, "You are very similar to your master's personality in his early years." ”
Long Yuan was interested when he heard the master's words, and asked, "Did the junior mentor really come here when he was young?"
When he was in the villa, he often heard his senior brothers talk about his master's deeds when he was young, but they were also hearsay, because Ling Jiutian never talked to them about the past.
"Let's go over there and talk. The master said.
Long Yuan followed the master and a group of rats to another fork in the cave.
After some conversation along the way, Long Yuan realized that the master and these big rats were really not rats, nor alien beasts, nor rat goblins, but another extremely rare primate race: Shuo rats.
The two rats that had been rubbing with him before, the tallest and strongest were the rats, the other two were the three rats and the four rats, and the other three were juvenile rats.
There is an open area in the depths of the other fork, and the cave is as open as a hall, with several stone benches in the center, and fluorite lighting on the cave wall, which is spacious and bright.