Chapter 422: Overnight Stays and Failures
Seeing the baby in his arms close his eyes, Xu Zhengning became even more anxious.
No longer caring about the consumption of Qi, the speed of power circulation in the body accelerated, and the feet began to unconsciously perform Yu steps to help him improve his speed.
Xu Zhengning is the scripture master of Baiyun Temple, and he came out this time because his practice has reached a certain level, so he went out to practice to polish his mind.
In the past few months since leaving the mountain gate, although it has been a bit difficult, Xu Zhengning has indeed gained a lot.
But this is the first time since he came down the mountain that he met an abandoned baby.
When he was a child, he often heard that people abandoned their babies, but now it's 2000 years, is anyone still doing such a thing?!
I didn't even bring a swaddling cloth when I threw it, and according to the weather that is now in winter, let alone a child, adults will freeze to death if they freeze outside all night.
If he hadn't found it earlier, maybe even the corpse would have been taken away by the wolf.
But it seems that this baby can't last long, and when he finds out, he can't even cry, and he just opens his eyes and closes them again.
continued to run Qi to deliver power to the baby in his arms to help him stay alive, but Xu Zhengning felt that the baby in his arms was like a bottomless abyss, no matter how much Qi he input, the other party could easily swallow it.
But now is not the time to think about these questions, as long as he can absorb Qi, it means that he is still alive, which is a good thing in this regard.
"Hurry up!"
In the desperation of saving people's hearts, Xu Zhengning took less than an hour to bring himself back from a day's journey this morning.
However, the days are already short in winter, and by the time Xu Zhengning arrived at the village where he had set off this morning, it was already completely dark.
The whole village was pitch black, and there were only a few families who could turn on the lights.
Xu Zhengning followed the route in his memory, and walked towards the few families in the village who had lights on.
Coming to the door of a house that looked slightly larger than the surrounding people, Xu Zhengning hesitated for a moment, and then reached out and slapped the door.
"Village Chief Wang, open the door!"
A sparse sound could be heard in the room, and it was a long time before a slightly older voice came out of the room vigilantly.
"Who?"
As he spoke, the people in the house had already reached the door, carefully opened the door a crack, and looked out.
"Oh, it's Daochang Xu, you're back again, is something wrong?"
With the help of his own light, he could barely see the faces of the people outside the door, and Village Chief Wang immediately threw the shovel in his hand aside and opened the door.
Crunch......
With the creak of the iron gate in disrepair, Xu Zhengning's figure also appeared in front of Village Chief Wang.
"Village Chief Wang, I'm very sorry to bother you so late, I met this baby on the road today, who should have abandoned it, I want to come to your house to ask for a bowl of goat's milk to drink."
"Oh, this winter's throwing children is causing evil. Fast forward, fast forward, old woman, go squeeze some goat's milk! ”
"Alas, good!"
The woman in the house answered, and a short time later she heard the sound of someone coming from the back door to the barn.
"Thank you, Village Chief Wang."
"You're welcome, Daoist Xu, if it weren't for your medical skills, I would still be lying in bed right now. Hurry up, come in first to warm up and warm your body. ”
Village Chief Wang welcomed Xu Zhengning to the door, closed the back door and led him to the house.
"Daochang Xu, you sit down first, and the goat's milk will be fine immediately."
Looking at the stool handed over by Village Chief Wang, Xu Zhengning nodded his gratitude and sat down without hesitation.
This wild run also made him tired enough, but looking at the bright electric lights that had just been installed in Village Chief Wang's house, and Village Chief Wang, who turned around to stir the charcoal fire to make the stove burn more vigorously, he still carefully pulled the blue Taoist robe on Zheng Shu's body and covered Zheng Shu's head as much as possible.
After a short time, Village Chief Wang's wife ran back from the back door with a bowl of still warm goat's milk, and a small spoon in her hand.
"Daochang Xu, goat's milk is here, let's feed the child first."
Looking at the baby in Xu Zhongning's arms with his eyes closed, the village chief and his wife also looked a little distressed.
"Thank you, thank you."
Xu Zhengning thanked him and asked Village Chief Wang's wife to put the goat's milk on the table in front of him, while he took a small spoon and fed it to Zheng Shu little by little.
"Ouch, this child looks like he has just been born, can he drink goat's milk? I remember that the youngest son of the second family in the east of the village has just given birth, and his daughter-in-law should be able to breastfeed, or should I call his daughter-in-law? ”
Seeing Zheng Shu's face that was a little purple from the cold, Village Chief Wang's wife was also a little unbearable.
"No, don't bother them when it's all over the place, look, this kid eats quickly, don't bother."
Xu Zhengning hurriedly waved his hand and motioned for the two old men to take a look at the baby in his arms.
At this time, Zheng Shu smelled the aroma of food and opened his eyes, and was gulping goat's milk, looking like he wanted to pick up the whole bowl and pour it.
Although the smell of freshly squeezed goat milk is very strong, Zheng Shu, who is already hungry, no longer cares about these things.
Moreover, there are still some problems left in the mental distortion of the Aort Enhancement Template, at least in the case of hunger, Zheng Shu's desire for food will become stronger and stronger, and his way of acting will become more and more irritable.
"Well, this little guy is a good guy, I haven't seen such a well-fed child at such an old age."
Village Chief Wang looked at Zheng Shu, who drank a large bowl of goat milk clean, and was amazed, this big bowl of goat milk is not to mention a child, even if an adult drinks it in one goat, he will feel like he has a stomach.
Looking at the way this milk is drinking, if it weren't for the fact that he was too young, it is estimated that he would be able to hold the sea bowl by himself if he was a little older.
After drinking the last sip of milk, Zheng Shu burped with satisfaction.
With sufficient food to provide energy and nutrients, his originally purple face quickly regained its ruddy appearance, which was not at all the sickly look just now.
"Daochang Xu, what should I do if this child is abandoned? If it's really inconvenient, or should I adopt him? Just since my youngest son also went to work in the city, our old couple has been a little lonely on weekdays, and although I am older, I can still take care of a child. You can rest assured, my children are enlightened people, and they definitely treat this little guy as their own species. ”
Village Chief Wang looked at Zheng Shu with a ruddy face, and the more he looked at it, the more he liked it, and couldn't help but put forward his thoughts to Xu Zhengning.
After three rounds of strengthening the template, Zheng Shu's body is no longer the wrinkled look, although he hasn't grown much hair, the whole person looks a lot rounder.
Coupled with the appearance of "swallowing mountains and rivers" when drinking milk just now, it perfectly conforms to an old man's fantasy of a big fat boy, which makes his sons a little greedy for village chief Wang, who is not at home all the year round.
"This ...... To tell you the truth, Village Chief Wang, I plan to go to the place where I found this child tomorrow and take another look to see if the people around me have lost the child. If you can't find the parents of this child, how about I come back and let you take care of it? ”
Xu Zhengning felt the enthusiasm of Village Chief Wang, and his expression was a little embarrassed.
"Oh, yes, yes, I'm also dizzy, old man, I should really look for if someone lost their child."
Village Chief Wang was stunned for a moment, and immediately shook his head and laughed: "Don't worry, Daoist Xu, I will inquire from door to door tomorrow morning to see if anyone knows anything about this child." ”
"Then it's troublesome Village Chief Wang......"
The two talked for a long time, mainly because Village Chief Wang expressed his gratitude to Xu Zhengning for treating his illness.
Village Chief Wang also asked his wife to set up a table to eat and entertain Xu Zhengning, but for some reason, even during the meal, Xu Zhengning held the baby with one hand and tried to make him not make too many movements.
Fortunately, this baby was relatively well-behaved, and he didn't cry or make trouble after feeding, but closed his eyes quietly again, which made Xu Zhengning, who had been frightened, secretly relieved in his heart.
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At night, Xu Zhengning came to the bedroom arranged by Village Chief Wang, carefully closed the door, looked at the baby in his arms, and felt the steady breathing sound from this little guy before finally breathing a sigh of relief.
Taking off his shoes and sitting cross-legged on the bed, Xu Zhengning did not turn on the light, but took advantage of the dim moonlight outside the window to carefully remove the robe covering Zheng Shu's head.
The dim moonlight made the scene in the room not very real, but Xu Zhengning's eyesight was much better than ordinary people after many years of practice, so he could vaguely see that on the baby's head, which had not yet grown hair, there was a pair of fleshy ears lying on top of his head.
The ears are the same color as the skin on the top of the head, and if you don't look at them if you don't pay attention to them, you will mistake them for scalp folds on your head.
Xu Zhengning carefully fiddled with his hand to confirm that this structure was indeed an ear, but it didn't look like a human ear, more like a cat's ear.
On either side of the baby's head, there are also a pair of human ears.
"This ...... unimaginable. ”
Even though he had discovered this problem before, after a closer inspection, Xu Zhengning still couldn't believe it, which was why he had previously rejected Village Chief Wang's proposal to adopt the baby.
In his opinion, this severe deformity was the reason for the abandonment of the baby.
In this day and age, this kind of rural village is still quite superstitious, and if the village chief and his wife find out about the change in the baby's head after adoption, they may throw him away as some kind of monster again.
Or it can be said that being thrown away is already the best outcome for this baby, and if you are a little unlucky, you may be thrown directly into the dung pit and drowned.
Fortunately, Xu Zhengning himself is a cultivator, so he also knows that there is such a special situation.
"But...... Although it is true that some people will have changes in appearance or shape, it is the first time that such a serious change has occurred, and this is basically an extra organ. ”
Xu Zhengning shook his head and wrapped Zheng Shu's head in his robe again.
"Little one, count yourself lucky, it's me who came across me. But what's next? ”
Xu Zhengning was a little worried, his trip down the mountain was to temper his mind, and he couldn't practice it with a baby, but he didn't feel at ease if he entrusted it to someone else.
"Is it possible...... Looking back? ”
As soon as this thought came out, it couldn't be stopped like a crazy weed, and it soon filled Xu Zhengning's heart.
After carefully calculating, it has been almost half a year since I went down the mountain, and before I knew it, it was almost the New Year.
As Xu Zhengning, who grew up in Baiyun Temple, he really hasn't left the mountain gate for such a long time.
This time I have gained a lot from the experience, and my mood has also made a breakthrough, and the next step is the kung fu of the water mill.
In the red dust, you may be able to temper a little faster, but it is not impossible to return to the mountain gate.
"Now that fate has arrived, let's go back to Baiyun Temple!"
As soon as he made a decision, he was immediately full of expectations for "going home", Xu Zhengning even had an urge to rush overnight, but he just thought about it and lay down on the bed.
Looking at Zheng Shu lying on the bed on the side, Xu Zhengning liked it more and more, and felt that this little guy was indeed destined for him.
"Little one, you are really my lucky star."
After shaving Zheng Shuyuan's face, Xu Zhengning suddenly found that Zheng Shu seemed to be holding something in his hand, but he was too urgent before, so he didn't pay attention to it.
Carefully taking out the object from Zheng Shu's hand, Xu Zhengjie realized that it was a flat piece of wood, which should be something like tree bark.
There are two words engraved crookedly on it, and the traces should be carved in stone, because the traces are very shallow, so Xu Zhengning can only take the bark to the window, and with the help of the moonlight, he can barely see what it is.
Zheng ...... Dawn? ”
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Zheng Shu didn't care about the outside affairs, and after drinking goat's milk to replenish his physical strength, he closed his eyes again, figuring out the magical power he had just come into contact with.
At first, Zheng Shu also felt that the energy level of this world was too low, and maybe there was nothing useful except for some scientific and technological knowledge.
But when Xu Zhengning hugged him and continuously conveyed that strange power all the way to replenish his vitality, Zheng Shu found that he might be a little too underestimated by the power system of this world.
The reason why Xu Zhengning felt that Zheng Shu's body was like a bottomless abyss was constantly devouring the qi he had input was because Zheng Shu was actually in a state of "malnutrition" now.
In this world, Zheng Shu has not found the conditions to use the power of the gods for the time being, so the enhancement of the divine bloodline in the reinforcement template of Hercules that he strengthened has also been eliminated.
Losing his divine power and divinity, Hercules' strengthening template is only the most basic physical strength and magical talent, but these two are also a little "unsuitable" because of the barren elemental power of this world.
A strong body requires enough energy to be able to drive, and with Hercules' physical talent, even a newborn body needs to consume a lot of power, and relying solely on the biological energy generated by cells is simply not enough to supply.
Without the nourishment of elemental power, Zheng Shu could feel that the cells in his body were becoming weaker and weaker.
And the energy that Xu Zhengning sent to his body helped him alleviate some of his "malnutrition".
The power he injected into Zheng Shu's body could be reversed into the purest life force, rejuvenating Zheng Shu's "hungry" cells.
However, correspondingly, during the time of rushing back to the village, Xu Zhengning spent a lot of strength.
Based on the standard of life breath revealed by Xu Zhengning's body that Zheng Shu felt, if calculated according to the vitality reversed into the power that Xu Zhengning injected into his body, Xu Zhengning probably delivered three times the vitality of his own vitality into his body during this time.
Such a terrifying difference, this is even if the magician of the Moon World has a magic furnace as a backup energy reserve, and after releasing the same proportion of magic power, he will be so tired that he will fall to the ground.
In addition to helping Zheng Shu provide a steady stream of vitality, Xu Zhengning was still consuming his strength to hurry quickly, but after arriving in the village, all he showed was a little panting.
This kind of outrageous thing made Zheng Shu almost pop out his eyes.
He didn't find any props on Xu Zhengning's body that could provide vitality, so the only possibility was that this special power cultivated by this person itself had the effect of converting his own biological energy or physical strength into vitality!
Although theoretically speaking, a person's vitality is somewhat related to physical strength, but it is only related.
If a large amount of life is consumed in a short period of time, then eating more food and recuperating in peace during the period of recovery can indeed promote the recovery of vitality.
But that's all there is to it, the transformation of biological energy into life force requires an extremely complex process that can hardly be artificially accelerated.
When Emiya Shirou summoned Jekyll, because he was not a magician, he could not use the method of converting his life force into magic, and could only use his own life force to drive the servants to fight.
In order to allow Hyde to fight for a longer time, Emiya Shirou chose to buy a bunch of rice balls and energy drinks as a way to replenish his vitality - after all, a large amount of life consumption is in the perception of ordinary people like fatigue caused by strenuous exercise for a long time.
And Jekyll's attitude towards Emiya Shirou's method is "I can't say it's useless", and from this point you can see how far the "distance" between biological energy and life force is.
At least in the first two worlds, Zheng Shu did not encounter a power system that could directly transform biological energy into life force.
Life force, as the most fundamental power of living beings, is itself an all-powerful "energy", which can replace various energies to activate the skills of different systems.
As for Zheng Shu, he himself can use violent blood to improve his digestion ability, and he can summon an unlimited amount of instant noodles as food to replenish his physical strength, such a power system has a much higher improvement for him than others.
If he mastered this power system, he could rely on his strong physical fitness to transform a life force far beyond ordinary people's imagination.
After understanding the basic rules of this world, it is possible to reproduce the spirit of speech with a sufficient amount of vitality: the Rhine, or even the imitation of the inherent enchantment: simple Nibelungen.
Thinking of this, Zheng Shu naturally wanted to try, and when Xu Zhengning was in a hurry just now, he had been silently remembering the other party's running path after transmitting energy into his body.
At the same time, it is also recording the process of reversing that energy into life force after entering the body.
With his knowledge, after knowing these two key points, it was easy to regain the power.
Zheng Shu, who was full of confidence, tried it without hesitation...... And then it failed very smoothly.
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Title: "I Knock on the World and Ask the Immortals"
After Liu Yuan came to this strange world, he entered a strange academy...
His original purpose was just to climb up step by step and be a willow in the literary world...
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Looking back, the old ones behind him are all white bones.
Life is a sea of seas, mountains and rivers, but Erer.
"Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in the Imperial Banner and join me in slaying the demons."
(End of chapter)