Li Chengfei was silent.

So many people are crossing thousands of miles as if they were dying, running the line to the Daqi Dynasty. As everyone knows, the mortals at the bottom of the Daqi Dynasty are also precarious.

"Sure enough, it's a harsh tax that is fiercer than a tiger!" He couldn't help but sigh.

When the medicine picking boy heard Li Chengfei's words, his face changed slightly, and he quickly explained:

"Uncle, don't say that! We didn't mean to complain about Xianmen. If it weren't for the immortal gate to protect us, in this deep mountain and old forest, there are so many man-eating beasts and spirits, how can we survive? It's too late for us to be grateful! ”

"Yes! Oh, yes! The immortals were originally immortal, but in order to protect us, they fought with the spirits and beasts in the mountains, and people died every year. There is still a stone statue at the entrance of our village, which was three years ago, when a stone devil came down from the mountains to feed from hunger. In order to protect our village, the Immortal Master of the Immortal Sect Zhao Jizi died with that stone owl ghost......"

When a medicine boy said this, his voice was even a little choked.

"We still remember the events of three years ago, that night, the sky outside the village turned blood-red, and half of the village was affected, and there were no corpses left in the tragic death. Afterwards, in order to thank the immortal master, the village chief set up a statue of the immortal master at the entrance of our village, and people worshipped in the morning and dusk! ”

Li Chengfei listened, and his heart was a little dazed for a while.

The villagers were exploited so badly that they even had to risk being eaten by wild beast spirits for the sake of taxes, and went up the mountain every day to pick medicinal herbs and worship the immortal master.

But if there is no protection from the immortal master, they are just mortals, and they don't even have a chance to survive in this world full of fierce beasts and monsters, maybe they will be wiped out long ago.

Therefore, although the villagers were knocked out of the bones and sucked the marrow, they were still grateful to the immortals, and even set up stone statues for them to worship in the morning and evening.

Is this right or wrong?

It seems that only in this way can the two sides coexist, that is, right?

At the same time, Li Chengfei was a little suspicious, because he had seen those "immortals" who would be taught tomorrow and tomorrow, and they seemed to be a little out of place with such a great and righteous image......

"Uncle, how did you survive when you met the Eye-Catching Tiger yesterday? The big worm was fierce. When you meet people, even if you are not hungry, you often have to bite to death! The medicine boy mentioned the tiger, and gritted his teeth with hatred.

"Oh, I'm afraid of death, I hid in the room and didn't dare to move, it didn't notice." Li Chengfei said.

"You're in luck! The nose of the eye-catching tiger is very smart, and you can smell people from afar...... "A boy who picks medicine seems to be a little strange.

"Uncle, your medicine field has a protective array, and the reason why the eye-catching tiger can enter is because the protective array is broken, you repair it, and if it is repaired, the beast will not be able to enter in the future." Another medicine picker said.

"The protective array is broken? How do you know? Li Chengfei was stunned.

"We listened to Lao Zhang. Lao Zhang told us before that the protective array was damaged and needed to be maintained, but he was old and frail and couldn't do anything, so he told us that he wanted to ask us to help repair it. It was already said, who would have thought that Lao Zhang would be bitten by poisonous insects......" A medicine picking boy sighed and shook his head, looking very regretful.

Li Chengfei suddenly heard it, it turned out that the formation was damaged, no wonder the eye-catching tiger could jump in at will.

"Is Lao Zhang the medicine boy before? Didn't he go back to his hometown to retire? ”

"Yes! Lao Zhang is the medicine boy who was here before. What do we raise as children? How can there be that blessing! He was bitten by a poisonous insect, and he couldn't do it on the spot, he was carried away by the corpse chaser, and he reported to his hometown to retire, otherwise he was registered in the book, and there were too many dead people who didn't look good at Xianmen's face. The medicine boy said.

Li Chengfei: "......"

The faces of the immortals matter!

Sure enough, it's like this everywhere.

"Two little brothers, I'm new here, I don't know how to repair this protective array? Do you know how to maintain formations? Li Chengfei humbly asked.

Although these two herb-picking boys don't have any mana fluctuations at all, they don't look like they can maintain the formation, but since the other party said that Lao Zhang wanted to ask them for help before, the other party should know some ways.

Besides, apart from these two people, Li Chengfei has no one else to rely on now.

Fortunately, the two medicine pickers smiled embarrassedly, and one of them scratched the back of his head and said:

"Where do we know how to maintain the formation? Lao Zhang didn't understand the formation either. However, he had been here for a long time, and Elder Tian, the owner of this medicine field, had told him that this protective array had a simple structure, so it was very durable, and it generally couldn't be broken. ”

"It's just that the formation is driven by a water canal. The canal was a small river 100 meters away. If the formation doesn't work, then the canal is blocked, as long as the canal is dredged. The last time Lao Zhang came to us, he also asked us to help dredge the canal. ”

"We can't repair the formation, it's still okay to dredge the canal."

"I see." Li Chengfei understood, and he was also relieved, "That is to say, as long as I dredge the canal, the formation will be able to operate normally." Thank you both. ”

"You're welcome. We go into the mountains every day to collect medicine, and we have to pass by here, and we will inevitably come to you to ask for water to drink, or to take shelter from the rain! ”

"Yes! We didn't know Lao Zhang originally, but we often saw each other, and we became friends. We promised Lao Zhang to help repair the canal, so we won't go to the mountains today, and we will repair the canal with you! ”

The two medicine picking boys had the enthusiasm of the mountain people and took the initiative to build the canal with Li Chengfei.

"What's so funny about that? Won't it delay you from going into the mountains to collect medicine? ”

"Out of the way! The day before yesterday, the two of us were lucky enough to pick up a big snake molt, which an old man in the village said was a big snake that fell when it turned. Leave it to the Immortal Master, and the two of us don't have to worry about taxes this year. ”

The two herb-picking boys were very happy.

The two put down the basket and were busy dredging the canal with Li Chengfei.

It's hard to be enthusiastic, and Li Chengfei is no longer polite.

There were hoes, pickaxes and the like in this small courtyard.

However, Li Chengfei found that the design of their tools was unreasonable, and the shovel was actually made of wood, and only a piece of iron was wrapped around the shovel.

Li Chengfei has a lot of equipment in the space ring, but he really doesn't have the tools for workmanship.

This thing can't be blown up with explosives.

First, because the two medicine pickers are here, Li Chengfei doesn't want to expose too many hole cards; Moreover, he didn't know the formation, and if the power of the explosives was not well controlled, it would be terrible to blow up the formation.

The three of them, because the tools were not strong, worked for most of the day before digging the culvert.

This culvert is about the thickness of a bucket, and it is full of debris such as aquatic plants and branches, and after it is dredged, the water flows smoothly, and the river flows through the culvert to the small courtyard.

For a moment, Li Chengfei felt that something seemed to be shaking slightly around the small courtyard, making a "buzzing" sound, and then calmed down. It's like some kind of appliance is turned on.

"How is this formation controlled? Start now, it won't even be impossible for me to get in, right? Li Chengfei suddenly thought of something and slapped his head.

"Of course not." The two herb-picking boys both laughed, "This courtyard formation only has an effect on fierce beasts, as long as they get close, they will be scared away." However, there is no obstacle for people to enter and exit, it will only be a warning. Every time we just approached the small courtyard, Lao Zhang knew. ”

"I see! It's amazing! Li Chengfei nodded and put his mind at ease.

"Of course! Immortal means! How can we mortals understand? "When the two medicine pickers mentioned the immortals, they were both inexplicably worshipping.

The culvert was re-covered, and when it was finished, it was not early.

The two herb-picking boys declined Li Chengfei's invitation to stay for dinner, and hurried back.

Li Chengfei also knew that it was not safe to walk at night, so he did not force them to stay.

In the courtyard, there is a plot of land planted with cassava, which is the ration left for the medicine boy.

Li Chengfei went to dig up some cassava and gave it to the two of them, which was counted as a reward. The two did not refuse this time, and after being polite, they accepted it embarrassedly.

Li Chengfei didn't dare to give the two tiger meat, not because he was reluctant, but because he was afraid that the explanation would not be clear.

He was a little medicine boy and suddenly took out tiger meat to give away...... It's too ostentatious! It's clear that he has a problem.

In the evening, Li Chengfei roasted two cassava and ate them with tiger meat and broth cooked in the morning.

After the restart of the nursing home formation, he found a formation operation instructions in the bedroom, which briefly introduced some common sense of daily maintenance of the formation, as well as the role of the formation.

It turns out that in addition to the role of warning and driving away the beasts that the two medicine picking boys said, this formation can also cover the breath of the small courtyard, so that the beasts can't smell the smell of the small courtyard outside, and there are lights at night, and they can't see it outside.

This is important.

It is surrounded by deep mountains and old forests, and it is dark at night, and when the lights are on, it is too ostentatious and easy to provoke danger.

Although the formation was restarted, Li Chengfei didn't dare to be careless at night, and watched with a thermal imaging telescope, when a fierce beast approached around, it would automatically turn around after approaching a certain range......

"It's very similar to the electronic pulse device used to repel sharks in some of the beaches on Earth!"

Li Chengfei thought of the teleportation array in the immortal ruins of the human realm again, which was similar to a chip......

He was very suspicious that whether it was a true cultivation civilization or a scientific and technological civilization, perhaps the essence was the same, and they were all using some means to control the rules of the Heavenly Dao...... That is, the laws of physics that scientific and technological civilization call and apply.