Chapter 2: The Mysterious Cave

Deep in the mountains, deep in the green primeval forest, the trees are abundant, and the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 The fragrance of info earth permeates the air, moistening the polluted lungs with the breath.

A snoring sound came from under a big tree, spreading out with great satisfaction and rhythm. A light fallen leaf, accompanied by a snoring sound, slowly fell from the tree, and when it was about to fall on Qin Chuan's face, it happened to be sucked into his mouth by him. With a choking sound, Qin Chuan stood up, kept spitting, and straightened out his tongue with leaves.

It's been almost a year since he came to this strange world, and slowly, Qin Chuan gradually adapted to everything here. There is no noise of big cities, no bad smelling car exhaust, and there are not so many human accidents. Of course, there are also those who should not be invisible, and those who should be done.

Stretch comfortably, yawn, and touch the smooth nose by the way. Qin Chuan raised his head and looked at the sky through the shade of the trees, shrugged his shoulders helplessly, and said easily, "It's all here, alas, I want to be scolded by the dead old man again." Then he put his hands behind his head and walked slowly deeper into the mountain.

If there were people who could speak Chinese here, they would be surprised to find that they couldn't understand the words that Qin Chuan had underestimated just now. Qin Chuan had been here for almost a year, and he had become accustomed to everything that was quiet, and he had also learned the language that initially made him feel incomprehensible.

Qin Chuan held an inexplicable piece of grass in the corner of his mouth, hummed a little tune, slowly stepped on the green grass, felt the touch between the soles of his feet and the earth, and slowly paced towards a thatched house not far away.

"Run to sleep again! You pig-headed! Young people don't look like young people, more loose than me, old man, you say you, alas!"

In the small shed next to the thatched house, a little old man with an unknown herb in one hand and a wooden bowl in the other looked at Qin Chuan, who was walking slowly, and kept nagging. The lips that were about to be squeezed together and kept opening and closing, Qin Chuan seemed to have seen nothing, dropped the flowers and plants he picked in his hand, still humming a little song, and swaggered towards the house in front of the little old man.

The chattering little old man looked at Qin Chuan like this, helpless and annoyed, he knew that he shouldn't have rescued this guy in the first place. Except for the first few days, I didn't eat or drink like I was enchanted by it, and finally got used to the life here, and now I enjoy it incomparably, and the old man's heart is broken. What he often said was that he had never seen a young man like Qin Chuan, who was completely full of vitality and older than an old man, with an attitude of not arguing with the world and not asking about the world, which was maddening.

The little old man's name was Balu, and he was dressed in a gray robe that reached his feet, but he wore a black peaked robe on his head, which must be as tall as him, and a pair of clear eyes covered under the long white eyebrows, which were not as cloudy as the other old men, and were extremely clear.

Balu stroked the long beard that was almost up to his stomach, sighed helplessly, and then picked up the flowers and plants picked by Qin Chuan and came to the wooden table under the grass shed. On this messy table, all kinds of utensils that don't know what to do, as well as all kinds of flowers and plants, are thrown away at random. Forgetting the unpleasant Qin Chuan, Balu happily took the flowers and plants, walked to the wooden table, and then tinkered with those things, and after a while, he was immersed in them. Only the occasional explosions, blackening his white beard, made him laugh, like those crazy doctors who were doing chemical experiments.

Qin Chuan lay comfortably on the wooden bed, crossed Erlang's legs, and carefully bit the unknown grass with indescribable relaxation and comfort.

"Stinky boy, you're cutting corners again!, you're a stupid pig!" Balu angrily pushed open the wooden door, his long eyebrows fluttering to show his inner unhappiness, and yelled at Qin Chuan who was lying on the bed.

Who knew that Qin Chuan seemed to know that Balu would come to find trouble, slowly half-opened his eyes, glanced at Balu, and said softly, "Isn't it just a few grasses, do it yourself, you can't always rely on me, you also have to learn to grow by yourself, you know." Huh?" said this lightly, closed his eyes weakly, shook his cocked calves again, and hummed a little tune.

I thought that Balu would say something to himself angrily, but I found that after a while, there was no movement at all. Curious, he opened his eyes and looked, only to find that Balu was no longer in the room. Qin Chuan chuckled, spit out the grass roots in his mouth, and lay down beautifully.

Unexpectedly, as soon as I lay down, I found that my body was like a fire, and my body temperature began to rise violently from the inside out. In just a few seconds, Qin Chuan felt that he was about to be ignited, and he was extremely stuffy, especially in his heart, as if he was burning, and he felt that his internal organs were about to melt.

Struggling to get up from the bed, he sat with his hands propped on the edge of the bed, but he saw that the edge of the bed had turned yellow, and he kept emitting white smoke, and his body temperature was about to burn the wooden board! Qin Chuan ran out of the house with a scream, and threw himself on the grass and rolled wildly, his face was flushed, and he was sweating in pain, but as soon as the sweat came out, it was evaporated by the hot cheeks, and at this moment Qin Chuan's whole person was emitting white smoke, which was all the water vapor that was evaporated when the sweat touched the skin.

"Hahaha...... Hey, boy, what does it feel like to be roasted by the fire?hahahaha" When Qin Chuan was in pain, Balu's hearty laughter came. Qin Chuan struggled to get up from the grass, looking at the laughing Balu fiercely, unable to even speak on his painful face.

"Alas, when a man is old, he is merciful, and for your sake, I will spare you. The joy between Balu's eyebrows, everyone could see it, threw a bottle of transparent liquid towards Qin Chuan, and said with a smile, "Come on, drink it all, otherwise I don't know if you will burn, haha." ”

Before Qin Chuan could even finish Balu's words, he pounced directly, grabbed the bottle, bit the cap, and drank it. The pain and torture were so painful that he was about to lose his mind, even if Balu gave him a bottle of poison, it was estimated that Qin Chuan would be able to drink it clean.

With the bottle of transparent potion in his stomach, Qin Chuan felt that the whole person was more refreshing than the happy excretion after constipation, and he gasped weakly, and he hummed softly in comfort. After all the burning sensation in his body disappeared, Qin Chuan lay on the grass weakly, gasping for breath.

When Qin Chuan was almost out of breath, Balu straightened his sleeves and walked towards Qin Chuan with his hands behind his back. Qin Chuan slowly raised his head, saw the old man smiling, recalled the painful feeling just now, and suddenly felt his scalp tingle, looking at Balu's approach, he subconsciously stepped back.

"Yo, I'm still scared, aren't you quite calm? I have a more painful way for you to taste if you are disobedient in the future, hehe"

Looking at Balu's face, which was constantly enlarged in front of him, the evil laughter made Qin Chuan nod his head in fright, and he was afraid that he would be slow to agree.

"I'll let you go, give me something to watch over myself, and I'll get some medicinal herbs. If I come back and find a little bit less glitched, hehe, you know. Balu's white eyebrows kept jumping, looking at Qin Chuan's scared appearance, indescribably happy, laughing and walking towards the depths of the forest.

Qin Chuan stood up from the grass with a trembling body, looking at the black and scorched marks on the grass, he was even more afraid, the burning feeling that was about to be ignited by himself made Qin Chuan shiver, and slowly walked towards the small wooden table under the grass shed, his cheap bones just can't be cured, now remember to help guard the stall, it was not so acute before.

Relieved, walked to the wooden table and looked at the bottles and cans on the table, all kinds of flowers and plants, smelling all kinds of smells that were both pungent and soft, and the momentary curiosity drove away the fear just now.

"Lanyou grass, oil fruit, fragrant snake flower......" Qin Chuan said the names of these unknown herbs as if he was enchanted, he had been here for almost a year, Qin Chuan did not say that he wanted to go out of the mountain to see, nor did he ask Balu for anything, he could see that Balu was using magic, and these things should be alchemy or something. But Qin Chuan never paid attention to it, and this time when he came to this small table, he said this thing as if he was sleepwalking.

Suddenly remembering something, Qin Chuan sleepwalked and picked up one of the yellow grasses, slowly put it into the wooden bowl and mashed it, then picked up a transparent crystal bottle, and then picked up another red flower and plant......

If Balu was here, he would definitely even have his eyeballs falling out, what Qin Chuan is doing now, the technique is simply more skilled than a professional alchemist, the alternation of various materials, the flipping, the use of various utensils, flowing smoothly, without the slightest delay.

As Qin Chuan's technique accelerated, the addition of the last drop of liquid slowly shook the crystal bottle of the final product. Qin Chuan looked at the liquid in the bottle with confused eyes, and finally seemed to wake up as if he was sleepwalking, looking at his shaking crystal bottle, slowly recalling everything that had just happened. In the scene just now, my body seemed to be controlled, and it was as if those things existed in the depths of my mind, so natural and so skillful. A bottle of finished potion was made by itself.

After traveling to this strange world for so long, Qin Chuan was also thinking about whether there would be anything abnormal in his body at first. Now that he has inexplicably made a bottle of potion, Qin Chuan doesn't know what to do, let alone what this inexplicable ability is for. There is also how to use this ability, everything makes Qin Chuan feel a headache.

"You stinky boy, I told you to look at it and it didn't make you move!Give me something down!" Balu was still immersed in the pleasure of rectifying Qin Chuan, and happily picked herbs and came back, but saw Qin Chuan holding a bottle of potion and shaking it constantly. trotted over from afar, for fear that Qin Chuan would mess up these treasures.

Hearing Balu's roar, Qin Chuan almost didn't hold the crystal bottle, carefully held the crystal bottle in the palm of his hand, and stood aside tremblingly. looked at Balu who trotted in embarrassment, for fear that Balu would be unhappy and give himself a spell, which would be uncomfortable.

"Can you touch these things? Really, it's still so dishonest, I'll see something less now, and if you don't have it, you'll die!" Balu yelled at Qin Chuan angrily, didn't say much, ignored Qin Chuan with a wave of his sleeves, and concentrated on counting the treasures on the table.

"There are two missing silver wheat, and half a heartless fruit is missing, ah! my Lanyou grass is all gone! my ......" Hearing Balu keep counting the materials, listening to the names of the materials reported, Qin Chuan's heart also rose to his throat......

As Balu finished counting the materials with a blanke, he slowly turned to look at Qin Chuan. A black line on his face, clenched fists, and trembling shoulders from time to time. Balu slowly raised his head and looked at Qin Chuan through gritted teeth, a pair of white eyebrows and angry eyes, as if eating people. Without speaking, Balu suddenly raised his right hand, and Qin Chuan, who saw this scene, was already frightened by the six gods, trembling, his legs and feet were suddenly raised, and he ran out screaming. The crystal bottle he was holding in his hand was also thrown out the moment he ran out.

Qin Chuan ran away suddenly, which made Ba Lu Lang stunned for a moment, and then looked at Qin Chuan who ran out even more angrily. yelled, "You'd better come back to me!" or you'd be worse off than dead!!

Qin Chuan, who had already run away, heard this angry roar, and instead of stopping, he ran faster, screaming and running away.

Before he could finish speaking, he felt something hit his hat and rolled down. Balu hurriedly picked it up, and just as he wanted to throw it out, he suddenly glanced at it and immediately stopped it. Surprised, he looked at the light blue potion in his hand.

Thinking about it, it seems that it was thrown out by Qin Chuan when he ran out just now. Looking at the crystal bottle, and then at the missing herbs on the table, Balu unscrewed the cap of the bottle in confusion, and sniffed it gently before taking it to his nose. Qin Chuan, who ran without smoke, was forgotten by Balu, and now for Balu, the most attractive thing is the bottle in his hand that he doesn't know what the name is.

A faint fragrance moistened into Balu's lungs, and suddenly Balu's eyes lit up, this thing smelled much better than the potions he made. After looking at it for a while, he timidly put his finger in, dipped it out a little, and carefully put his finger in his mouth.

There are no bitter and dry things as imagined, but it is very sweet and delicious, which makes Balu even more intoxicated, just the production level of this bottle of potion, not to mention the effect, can combine all kinds of complex flavors and different medicinal materials into such a delicious taste, this alone has surpassed most junior alchemists.

Thinking of this, there was no hesitation. Balu swallowed the potion in the crystal bottle in one gulp, and when he was done, he stuck out his tongue to lick the remnants of the bottle. The intoxicated appearance on his face is like Qin Chuan, who is extremely comfortable every day.

The light fragrance is not thick, but full of charm. Slowly reminiscing, Balu swirled his tongue in his mouth again, making a smack, that taste.

Just a short time after drinking this mysterious potion, Balu's face that was still aftertaste suddenly froze, and his eyes opened as if they were shining. After a while, Balu's solemn face suddenly froze, and the crystal bottle in his hand also fell down with the loosening of his fingers and fell to the ground. His wide-eyed eyes looked at the crystal bottle on the ground in disbelief, and his trembling hands showed that Balu's heart was now trembling, and even the rich and slightly drooping face on his face was trembling.

To calm down the thunderous excitement in his heart a little, Balu looked at the missing medicinal materials on the table and thought again, looked at the direction Qin Chuan ran, and then looked at the medicinal materials and utensils on the table, and flew out like the wind without the slightest hesitation.

Qin Chuan ran like a life, and he didn't look behind him at all, only feeling the trees in front of him passing backwards one by one. With wide-eyed eyes and a frightened and excited face, Qin Chuan was really scared this time.

I didn't know the direction, and I didn't think about where I ran to, at this time, Qin Chuan used the strength he usually used to eat, and ran selflessly. I don't know how long I ran, as if I had been running for a long time, and Qin Chuan couldn't hold it anymore. Slowing down slowly, I looked behind me and saw nothing but quiet trees, weeds, and branches.

Just when Qin Chuan was about to stop, he felt a bar under his feet, and his upper body flew out with a stagger, and he threw himself on the ground and kept rolling. He rolled forward twice, crashed into a pile of grass, and with a sudden thud, he disappeared......

"Stinky boy, come out quickly, I'm talking about playing, don't hide. Qin Chuan disappeared for a while, and Balu's voice came from the air, repeating it constantly, each more eager than the other. But Qin Chuan never responded, as if it had really evaporated.

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Tick, tick......

The sound of droplets of water dripping on the surface of the water spreads in the confined space, with an eternal frequency, a tone that is always the same.

"Hmm......" A low groan sounded in this confined space, Qin Chuan opened his eyes vigorously and shook his drowsy head. Somehow, this idea came to my head.

The whole body is weak, like sleeping for a long time. Qin Chuan slowly got up from the cold ground and slowly stood up. There was a huge stone wall with nothing on it, and he slowly turned around and turned his back, but Qin Chuan couldn't help but let out an exclamation.

A large pale blue crystal stood on the ground not far away, radiating a soft light that illuminated the entire space. The top is large and the bottom is small, like a standing spiky vertebrae. Not as symmetrical as any geometric shape, the misshapen crystal gives a natural beauty.

Standing not far away and walking around with the crystal, Qin Chuan finally figured out this place. It was an enclosed space, with a huge crystal at the center of the space, and there was nothing in it, except for a circular pool about two meters wide around the smaller end of the lower end of the crystal, but there was a path connecting the crystal to the outside. Just like the moat of an ancient city, the crystal is the city, the pool is the river, and a stone path leads to the huge light blue crystal.

This huge hemispherical space has no exit, it is surrounded by bluestone walls, and there is only a hole of about one meter on the top, if it weren't for Qin Chuan's careful inspection, it might have been ignored on the poorly lit roof. I must have fallen into the hole outside in the forest, and rolled in along this small passage.

Qin Chuan habitually touched his nose with his fingers, put his palm on his forehead, looked at the gorgeous crystal, looked around again, and walked towards the crystal.

After walking dozens of steps, the sound of his footsteps echoed in this enclosed space, and Qin Chuan found that this crystal was much bigger than he imagined.

The closer you get to the crystal, the more you seem to be attracted to it. stepped on the path on the pool, and the shadow of Qin Chuan seemed to be visible on the crystal.

Finally approaching this treasure-like crystal, looking at the crystal clear, Qin Chuan couldn't help but open his lips and admire it with a look of amazement.

On the crystal, a slightly pale face was reflected, a long curly hair almost covered the shoulders, ordinary double eyelids, an ordinary nose, and an ordinary mouth. Qin Chuan looked at his already long hair and that familiar face, and he didn't know what to think for a while, so he stayed like this.

While looking at himself intently, Qin Chuan also noticed a bright red on his forehead. Shine on the crystal and gently touch it with your fingers. A slight pain came, Qin Chuan put down his right hand, and his fingers pinched the blood stains, which should have been bruised when he rolled down from the small hole.

Looking at his face according to the crystal, he suddenly felt that there seemed to be something hidden in the crystal. Qin Chuan leaned his face closer, trying hard to see what was in the crystal.

His hands lay on the crystal, trying to look further inside the translucent crystal with his eyes wide open. At this time, Qin Chuan didn't notice the blood stains on his fingers and forehead, and while sticking to the crystal, he was also quietly sucked away by the crystal.

Qin Chuan didn't notice it at all, and changed his posture to look inside the crystal. While Qin Chuan was carefully probing the crystal, the crystal that had quietly absorbed Qin Chuan's blood was also slowly changing.

With a thud, a tiny crack appeared on the crystal. In this quiet space, the small cracking sound was so loud. Qin Chuan looked up suspiciously and looked at the crystal, just when Qin Chuan thought he was having auditory hallucinations. A more crisp cracking sound sounded again, and this time Qin Chuan was very sure that he was not hallucinating.

呲, 呲, 呲. Immediately after that, there was a crisp sound of crystal cracking, and it sounded densely. Like the rain, it is getting denser and more crisp. Qin Chuan hurriedly took two steps back, looking at the huge crystal, which had been completely covered by spiderweb-like cracks. The cracks like spider webs are getting denser and denser with a crisp sound.

With a thud, the crystal finally couldn't hold on, and as the last crack appeared, the huge crystal only paused for a moment. Suddenly, it fell to pieces with a clamour.

Qin Chuan had already left when the crystal broke, and at this time, he watched the countless fragments on the crystal slide off with a look of amazement. For a moment, the sound of pouring rain resounded throughout the space.

Like dominoes, crystal shards continue to fall from the periphery to the inside, smashing on the ground and dissipating like evaporation.

The fragments fell faster and faster, and the crystals became smaller and smaller, and the original volume of more than ten meters tall became only half. The debris fell and brought a large amount of mist, and for a time the entire stone cave became white mist. Qin Chuan covered his mouth and nose, and kept waving his hand to disperse the white mist, trying to see the appearance of the crystal clearly, but in vain.

After a while, the sound of sliding finally stopped. Qin Chuan kept dispelling the white mist with both hands, and slowly walked towards the crystal. Step by step, the white mist dissipated faster than when it appeared.

The huge volume of the crystal dissipated, and the entire stone cave seemed to be more spacious. Qin Chuan could finally see clearly in the thinning white mist, the place that was originally a huge crystal was replaced by another blurred black shadow with a long horizontal strip at this moment. With a little joy, Qin Chuan couldn't help but trot, wanting to see what kind of treasure this huge crystal could bring.

The black shadow slowly became clear, and Qin Chuan was getting closer and closer. Finally, when he cleared the last thin white mist, Qin Chuan also saw it clearly.

At this time, apart from being dizzy, it seems that there is no better adjective to tell. His eyes widened, and even his breathing stopped at this point. Qin Chuan looked at everything in front of him, as if his heartbeat had stopped, and he froze.