Between the words, they have returned to Qingping's residence, Xiao Ji has not woken up yet, it seems that this action is really beyond the limit of Xiao Ji's physical fitness, usually Xiao Ji will always be alert to the movement around him, this time even the piercing sound of the door opening failed to wake him up. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Qingping sat at the table, looked at the iron crossbow in his hand, and asked Li Yiheng: "Is there any other way to collect the inner core of the thorn strip?

Looking at Qingping, who kept muttering on the way from the palace to home, like a girl, Li Yiheng was a little irritable when he heard it, and decided to go out for a walk, so he asked Qingping: "I want to go out for a walk, if you want to go with you, don't mumble anymore, if you don't want to go, just mum at home." ”

Qingping realized his gaffe and apologized to Li Yiheng: "I'm sorry, I was too stressed today and disturbed you." ”

"It's hard for anyone to experience today's events, don't think about it yet, go out with me for a walk, and find something to eat by the way, I'm already hungry. Li Yiheng patted Qingping on the stomach.

"There's still food in the kitchen, or you can put the bottom on the floor first, and I'll cook now." Qingping said as he walked towards the kitchen.

Li Yiheng hurriedly grabbed Qingping and waved his hand at him: "I want to eat something special this time, you come with me." Li Yiheng dragged Qingping out of the door, Li Yiheng turned on the flashlight, and asked Qingping to fly further down the trunk of the tree where the Qing people lived.

Qingping refused, saying that the following is the resting place of the dead, and the Qing people will throw the dead into it, and the living cannot set foot there anyway, and finally Li Yiheng has no choice, and he heard that the place below is a place where the dead are piled up, and he also lost interest, so he said to Qingping: "Then you take me to the place where the thorns were cut down last time." ”

Qingping asked Li Yiheng the reason, Li Yiheng always used the reason of "tell you when you arrive", and finally the two came to the thorn net, through the gap in the thorn net to the periphery of the thorn net, Qingping looked at the starry sky and felt a lot more relieved, and said to Li Yiheng: "Since the thorn net has become denser and denser because of the invasion of Luo Niu, I have never come out to see the stars." ”

Li Yiheng asked him, "Is it always dark outside the thorn net?"

"It's polar night, and there will be up to ten months of night, and then two months of daylight, but even daylight, the herd of Ho Luo will still come back to attack. ”

"Then you haven't thought about moving out of here?" Li Yiheng asked rhetorically.

Qingping looked into the distance and said meaningfully: "My people have tried, but they are all gone, I don't know if it is because they don't want to come back because they find a better place, or because they can't find a place to die in the air, so they fall into the darkness." "Qingping said 'darkness', and when he looked down, it was true that the boundless darkness was both oppressive and terrifying.

Li Yiheng remembered that he drove the boat to float here, and encountered the attack of Heluo Niu, and the boat was also eaten by Heluo Niu, leaving only a skeleton, and those Qing people who went out to explore could not fly far with only a pair of wings, and the possibility of dying of exhaustion was a little greater.

"Again, it was already dark when I came here, and even if my ship had a powerful searchlight, it wouldn't be able to penetrate the darkness, let alone fly through it with physical strength alone. ”

"What is a powerful searchlight. Li Yiheng's words aroused Qingping's curiosity.

Li Yiheng shook the flashlight in front of Qingping: "No, that's it, but the beam is stronger than this, and the volume is larger." ”

Qingping took the flashlight and looked at the white light emitted from it, which was very dazzling: "The outside world is really so good, there are so many novel tools, and there are strange people?"

"Of course, not only are there many people, but there are also many dangers, the world is actually infinite, there are no so-called borders, as long as you can find a way, you can go to the farther world. Li Yiheng replied to Qingping solemnly, while reaching out to touch the necklace around his neck.

Qingping looked at the starry sky and seemed to have infinite emotion: "When will I be able to go to the outside world like you, but there are still many unsolved problems of my clan here." ”

Li Yiheng patted Qingping's shoulder heavily, and said very seriously: "Of course, when this is over, you can go with me, and we can explore the outside world together." ”

"Okay, that's it, you have to talk. Qingping was afraid that Li Yiheng would regret it at that time, because Qingping knew in his heart that his ability was too far behind Li Yiheng, and he was afraid that Li Yiheng would dislike himself as a burden at that time.

The two looked at the vast starry sky and had their own thoughts. Li Yiheng remembered his mother who told him stories when he was a child, and his father who didn't see much of him, their departure was like a star, leaving too many questions waiting for him to solve; Qingping thought of the clansmen who were struggling at the bottom, as well as his unrealized ambitions, and always felt that time was too short, if he could meet Li Yiheng earlier, would he be different, and would it be better here?

"By the way, what about your parents?" Li Yiheng thought of his parents at the same time, and thought of his parents who had not yet met Qingping.

Qingping thought for a long time and said: "I haven't seen them either, I was raised by the family's adoption home, and this adoption home doesn't exist now, I am an orphan abandoned by my parents." ”

Li Yiheng didn't hear the sad tone from Qingping's words, maybe he had already seen through this matter, or maybe he still had hatred for his parents who had never met in his heart.

"Okay, I've seen the stars, and I want to feel comfortable, it's time to help me now", Li Yiheng reminded Qingping, wanting to use this sentence to divert this heavy topic.

The two of them went back through the original crack in the thorn strip.

"What the hell are you bringing me here for?" Qingping asked Li Yiheng again.

Li Yiheng finally said to him mysteriously: "Look for food!"

"There is no food on the thorn net, even if there is one that has been sucked dry by the thorns", Qingping pointed to the corpse of Heluo Niu nailed to the thorns, "Look at these Heluo Niu, there is only an empty shell left, these thorns can't see blood, and a drop of blood will suck it madly." ”

Li Yiheng listened to Qingping's persuasion, did not make a sound, and held a torch to search carefully in the cracks of the thorn net. When he saw a wide gap, he beckoned Qingping to come over to help, let Qingping hold a torch to illuminate, his right hand reached in, and after a while, he grabbed a white larva the size of Luo Niu, the larva wriggled its fat body, it looked crystal clear, and its head was wrapped in a small ball of black.

Li Yiheng grabbed the larvae and shook it in front of Qingping: "I can't imagine it, when I came here, when I passed through the thorn gap, I found a big insect hidden here, at first I didn't know what kind of larva it was, but now I think about it, it should be the larva left by the He Luo Niu who was nailed here, and slowly grew up by gnawing on the thorns." ”

"No, Heluo Niu won't eat thorns, you have also seen it, thorns will take the initiative to attack when attacked, it can't live for so long. Qingping looked at the larvae in disbelief.

Li Yiheng looked at Qingping and still didn't understand, and explained: "What it eats is only the skin of the thorn strips, and it doesn't continue to gnaw deep, so it doesn't trigger the attack mechanism of the thorn strips, and we cut directly into the depths to cause the attack of the thorn strips, and we will use it for dinner today." ”

Although Li Yiheng's explanation is a bit far-fetched, it seems to be the most reasonable explanation at present, so Qingping grabbed the insect with a half-believing attitude, and observed it with the bright light of Li Yiheng's flashlight: I saw that the white Heluo Niu larvae opened their mouths full of fine fangs, trying to curl up their bodies, and made a "呑" sound from time to time, as if protesting against Qingping's rudeness.

"How do you make such a big strip, do you cut it into slices? When the juice in its body is sprayed clean, there will be a small lump left, and it is not enough to even plug the teeth", Qingping said and continued to shine the flashlight on the larva's stomach, "You see, you can see the organs inside by the light, and the water in the body is specified a lot." ”

"You don't understand this, in our call this tender, this is very delicious food, but also very luxurious food, ordinary people can't eat it at all. Li Yiheng replied proudly, as if he had eaten it himself.

"Have you eaten it before?" asked Qingping rhetorically.

I really hadn't eaten it before, and when I was in the city, I passed by a game restaurant and saw that the guests inside were eating small palm-sized insects, fried golden and yellow, at that time Li Yiheng hadn't reached that point, but since he went out of Cape City to explore the world, Li Yiheng added such a dish to his recipe, and he must taste what it tastes like.

"Well, that's not what I ate at your house before, it's just a little smaller, it's all the same. Li Yiheng thought about it again and again, but decided to fool the past.

Although Qingping has eaten a lot of insects, but the larvae of He Luo Niu are still eating for the first time, I don't know what it will taste like, and I think of the atrocities of He Luo Niu, looking at the fat body of the larvae, hatred mixed with desire, this wonderful emotional combination really appeared in Qingping's mind for the first time.

"Okay, let you do it this time, and I'll try it too. Qingping decided to give it a try.

Li Yiheng brought the fat worm back to Qingping's residence, lit a stove fire, and roasted the fat worm to eat; Qingping prepared all the seasonings and vegetable oil at home, Li Yiheng looked at the fat worm's body, if it was roasted, it was inevitable to find a wooden stick to penetrate the fat worm's body, and then the fat worm's body fluids would splash everywhere. Li Yiheng had an idea, unfolded half of the rigid shield, and put the fat worm on it-teppanyaki, which was even more vigorous.

The fat worm was burned by Li Yiheng, and the volume was reduced by nearly half, and the whole room was filled with the smell of meat, and even the sleeping Xiao Ji was attracted by the smell of meat, and flew to Li Yiheng's shoulder with drool, looked at the large piece of cooked meat in front of him, pecked it down, tore a large piece and ate it. Li Yiheng, Qingping and Xiao Ji will eat the fat worms, don't look at Xiao Yiheng's small size, eating meat and Li Yiheng must be no less inferior, Li Yiheng has to chew before he can swallow, Xiao Ji directly swallows, swallows a big mouthful, swallows his own, and goes to grab Li Yiheng's share.

After the three of them had a full meal, they fell on the sofa to rest, Qingping ate the so-called teppanyaki for the first time, and was very curious, so he asked Li Yiheng to tell the trick, and Li Yiheng came directly: "The trick is - you must use my umbrella shield to bake." Qingping looked at Li Yiheng in front of him, very relieved and very sad: relieved that he could know Li Yiheng: sad that Li Yiheng would eventually leave, the two fell silent and went back to their rooms to rest, because tomorrow, there will be an important task waiting for them to complete.