The return journey was surprisingly smooth, as Ying Ci helped them avoid being intercepted by the Ying soldiers defending the city, and because of their acquaintance with Ling Feng, when they passed through the Huo territory, Ling Feng once again helped them avoid being searched by the guards, and the four of them quickly returned to the Qing territory. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

When he was in the Huo Clan, Li Yiheng asked Ling Feng: "Since you already have the strength to fight against the Ying Clan, what do you want to do?"

Ling Feng reminded Li Yiheng and said: "I don't remember the fact that the old men of the Huo clan gathered to march in crowds, because the thorn nets near the city began to become sparse in some places, and more light was needed to stimulate the growth of thorn strips, so it was necessary to use the power of the light seed to ensure the stability of the rear during the war." ”

Li Yiheng also has questions about this: If the people can live in peace, why do they still start wars to compete for so-called better resources?

But Ling Feng's answer surprised Li Yiheng, and Ling Feng simply replied with four words: the strong are suitable for survival.

Li Yiheng didn't know why at the time, and kept thinking about the meaning of these four words, until he saw the people of the Qing tribe again, with a lifeless appearance, as if he understood a little: In this world, if there is only tranquility and peace, it will only lead to the decay of the race in the end, and it must go through the baptism of war before these races can continue to grow stronger.

Just like these people of the Qing Nationality, although they were driven to the bottom of the life, they were obedient, and lived comfortably like this, never thinking of resisting and striving for a better life, if it weren't for the people who attacked and "whipped" the Qing people from time to time, these Qing people don't know how comfortable they would be.

"So, if you wipe out all the Heluo Niu, is it really the best choice?" Li Yiheng began to doubt his original intention of helping the Qing people.

After receiving the news of Qing Wanjin's return, the patriarch of the Qing clan took the elders and the city-residents to greet him outside the city gate early, and the city-dwellers didn't seem to be particularly excited about it, Li Yiheng guessed that they were forced by the elders to come out of the city to welcome, but these city-goers would still smile when they saw Li Yiheng, after all, Li Yiheng helped them resist the army of Heluo Niu and won a big victory.

The patriarch took them into the council hall and asked him what he had experienced along the way, and after seeing Yingci, he asked Qingping, "Qingping, who is this girl?"

Qingping knew that he couldn't hide it now, so he could only admit the facts: "Patriarch, her name is Yingci, I believe I don't say that you also know that she is from the Ying tribe, but she doesn't like her country, so she is willing to come back with me, hoping that the patriarch will be successful." ”

When the elders present heard that Yingci was from the Ying clan, they all looked at each other angrily for a while, and proposed to the patriarch that Yingci be imprisoned, so that he could be used as an important hostage to negotiate with the Ying clan in the future.

Qing Wanjin stood up at this time and said loudly: "If it weren't for Miss Yingci's help, we don't know if we can come back, don't you feel ashamed to just sit here and move your mouth?"

The elders heard Qing Wanjin's reprimand, and they all looked at the patriarch, the patriarch didn't know how to be good at this time, but he still had to hang on his face, no matter how great Qing Wanjin's merit was, after all, he was also a businessman, so he still had to abide by the etiquette of the monarch and ministers, so the patriarch coughed dryly, and Qing Wanjin also realized that he was a little impulsive just now, and bowed his head to the patriarch to apologize: "Please don't blame the patriarch, the old man just talked unintentionally." ”

"Mr. Qing is right, they are all indispensable this time, so you are not qualified to accuse them, but", the patriarch changed his words and continued: "Qingping, we also have national law, so we still have to let Miss Yingci live in the palace for a while, if you want, you can also live with Miss Yingci, do you have any objections?"

Everyone knows that this is to put Yingci under house arrest and put her under guard to prevent her from doing anything wrong.

Li Yiheng was about to argue with the patriarch, but Qingping stopped him and said to the patriarch: "The subordinates obey the patriarch's arrangement. ”

After speaking, he shook his head at Li Yiheng and motioned for him not to speak.

"Okay, since there is no objection, come on, please Captain Qingping and Miss Yingci go to the forest room in the palace to rest, so that they can be entertained. The patriarch instructed that a guard came in and wanted to take Qingping and Yingci away, and Qingping said to Li Yiheng: "You go back to my house first, Mr. Qingwanjin still needs your help, and please don't shirk." ”

Li Yiheng watched Qingping and Yingci leave, and he was also lonely in his heart, but since he had promised Qingping, he would keep his promise in difficulty, sit back in his position, and continue the conversation just now.

The patriarch said to Qing Wanjin, "Mr. Qing, why don't you take out the light seed for everyone to see now, so that everyone can know how to use it." ”

Qing Wanjin took out the light seed that emitted a dazzling white cold light from the cloth bag he carried with him, and showed it to everyone, but at this moment, the light seed was not placed by Qing Wanjin in the conversion container, so it had no actual power.

Looking at the glowing seed in Qing Wanjin's hand, the elders stood up one after another, wanting to get close and observe carefully, but Qing Wanjin stepped forward and handed it over to the patriarch, so the elders gave up and returned to their positions to sit down, which was a pity.

The patriarch looked at the light seed in his hand, and the color of surprise was overflowing, and the hand holding the light seed trembled involuntarily, and he spoke with a trill: "I finally got it, and our Qing clan also has a day to turn over." ”

When Li Yiheng heard the patriarch's words, he muttered in his heart: With the strength of the light seed alone, without a strong army, how to compete with the Huo clan and the Ying clan is just wishful thinking.

Qing Wanjin also seemed to be ashamed of the patriarch's words, but he couldn't confess it directly, so he arched his hand to the patriarch: "Patriarch, the light seed has not been converted into usable energy at this time, please hand it over to the old man to completely transform it, and then hand it over to the patriarch, during this period, please also ask the patriarch to strengthen the army, so as to defeat the Huo and Ying clans in one fell swoop." ”

Although the patriarch was reluctant to give up the light seed, only Qing Wanjin could fully release the energy of the light seed, so he exchanged it with Huo Yang very regretfully, and said: "There is also a lot of trouble for Mr. Qing, whether our Qing clan can turn over, it depends on this opportunity, in addition, the manufacturing process of the crossbow machine has also encountered some small troubles, and I also ask Mr. Qing and a hero to help." ”

"What's wrong?" asked Li Yiheng.

"When the soldiers were taking the strings, they didn't expect these thorns to suddenly burst out, and almost all the soldiers swept away, until now, there is still no way to get close to the thorns, and the slightest touch will trigger the attack of the thorn strip group, so the manufacturing process of the crossbow machine has been delayed, and only a small batch has been made so far. The patriarch was a little ashamed when he said this.

"Of course you have to be ashamed, you should go into the cracks of the ground on the spot", Li Yiheng and Qing Wanjin complained as they walked on the way to mining thorns, "How did you promise and arrange it at the beginning, but now such a little difficulty has been delayed, and it is still the patriarch who loses it!"

Qing Wanjin also comforted Li Yiheng on the side: "When did you have such a big temper? When I came back, I saw that you were different from usual, did Qingping's matter stimulate you?"

Li Yiheng told Qing Wanjin his feelings about Ling Feng's words, and Qing Wanjin didn't know how to answer for a while, after all, this was an idea that would cause everyone to spurn if he said it, and he would regard his previous efforts as worthless.

They first returned to Qingping's house to retrieve the iron crossbow, Qing Wanjin then took out the light seed and human claw-shaped conversion container, and placed the light seed in the round hole in the center of the container, at this time, the original white light of the time seed was gradually covered with blue cold light, and five pure blue balls of pure blue light the size of fingernails appeared from the round holes on the five fingers of the container, and the original crimson luster of the transformation container began to become a little dim.

"You see, it was the dragon's blood tree that fused the essence fat inside with the light seed to give birth to these five small sparks. Qing Wanjin said, pointing to the five blue glowing balls.

However, the more Li Yiheng looked at this conversion container, the more familiar he felt, especially with these glowing spheres, combined with the old man Qingwanjin, Li Yiheng suddenly realized: "Isn't this a magic staff? ”

"What is a staff?"

"It's just that those evil mages you read about in the books will always have such things in their hands, could this be the prototype?" Li Yiheng tried to explain to Qing Wanjin, but Qing Wanjin seemed to be more and more puzzled the more he listened.

"Okay, let's not talk about it, how do you use these?" One horizontal held the iron crossbow machine in one hand, and pointed to the blue balls of light with the other.

Qingwanjin asked Li Yiheng to take out a wooden arrow and put it on a blue ball of light, the front end of the wooden arrow was suddenly stained with blue light, and then Li Yiheng put the wooden arrow in a basket full of insects (these insects were originally the food stored by Qingping, but now they were used by Yiheng for experiments), as soon as the blue light touched these insects, these insects burned, and soon joined together, and the entire basket was blue light, and these insects were quickly burned to ashes, but the outer basket only had traces of being burned black on the surface, and it was generally intact。

"Strange, aren't these fires, why can't the basket burn?" Li Yiheng picked up the basket, felt the heat inside not dissipated, and wanted to reach out to touch the ashes inside, but was immediately blocked by Qingping Li Yiheng's restless fingers.

"No, as I said, these fires burn all living things, but they are very lethal to plants, so they can be used against the Holuo cow, and the light seed can be used to stimulate the growth of thorns. ”

Li Yiheng pondered: living organisms and plants, plants are also alive, Mr. Qing Lao said that it should be the difference between animals and plants, animals have higher fat and protein than plants, this should be the reason, these blue fires will trigger the violent burning of fat and protein, but whether it is fat or protein remains to be studied.

Seeing Qing Wanjin's confident appearance, Li Yiheng was inconvenient to explain to him, and he couldn't understand the explanation, but now that there are crossbow machines, fire and light seeds, it shouldn't be difficult to deal with Heluo Niu and thorn strips.