194. Longquan
When Lan En entered the celestial sphere meeting rift amid the smile of the lady in the lake, it was already the sun that was close to the afternoon.
But with one step, the world changes. The young man looked up and could discern the sunlight from among the lush foliage, but it was seven or eight o'clock in the morning.
The fickleness of time between worlds seemed too distant even for the warlocks of Erethusari who refined the concepts of space and time.
The biggest achievement of those guys in the field of time and space so far is the lady's handbag in Margarita's hand.
Maybe you will have the level of being able to really freeze the time of GΓΌnt Odim to understand this problem.
The place where Lan En is located is an empty mountain forest, and the main plant is a mountain forest of bamboo.
A few steps to the side, you can see the bluestone paved forest steps. This shows that there are intelligent beings in this world, that is, the situation where the Lady of the Lake needs him to 'work'.
Not knowing whether to be happy or frustrated, Lan En picked up his supplies and watched the shattered glass of the celestial sphere meet before walking towards the stone path.
Unlike the situation where there are no intelligent creatures, he only needs to survive in the wilderness for a limited time, and the beasts will not run around.
But the actions of intelligent beings are unpredictable. Rather than being passively engaged, it is better to probe actively.
It is said that the mountains of different countries have different temperaments, and Lan En feels that he has a lot of say in this.
Not only did he travel across borders, but he is also traveling across the world.
According to Lanne's insights, he generally felt that Temeria, or the mountains and forests of Arya's homeland, had a gloomy or grand religious temperament.
From afar, the projection of the towering mountains and clouds in the sky makes people feel like they are facing a chapel of nature.
And the mountains of the hometown of the world, there will be a feeling of emptiness and loftiness, and the clouds are deep and do not know where.
Lan En slowly descended on the stone path, and the left and right woods were mostly made up of bamboo.
The mountains here give Lan En the feeling of hometown, but it is different.
It is also deep, but the mountains in my hometown mostly give people a calm and distant feeling. And here it is. Treacherous and desolate.
In the shadowy gaps between the bamboo forests, the shadows seemed to be particularly gloomy.
Lan En walked down for about ten minutes before his footsteps stopped and he raised his head slightly.
"Whew, that's really"
A slightly stunned expression appeared on his face, and the man-made object in front of Lan En was made of wood, which looked like a solid wooden door frame framed on the bluestone path.
In the Japanese culture, which is very widespread, this door-frame-like building is called a 'torii'. It is a religious building in Shintoism that separates the dwelling of the gods from the human world.
In other words, this is Dongying?
"That's really the temperament of this kind of mountain forest. That's right. β
As we all know, the traditional Japanese aesthetic - mourning and sadness.
Lan En took a slight look at the small torii gate and found that the small wooden building looked a little old, but it was only about ten years old.
"Is it a shrine that has been newly built in more than ten years?"
Lan En patted the dust off his hands and continued walking.
After a walk around the wizarding world and Arya's world, Lan En suddenly returned to the East Asian cultural circle, and Lan En even felt a little unaccustomed to it.
"Mentos, can you handle it in Japanese?"
"Memories are being retrieved. If your vocabulary exceeds the minimum standard, the skill building in the building skill is completed - [Japanese], and the proficiency is -60%. β
Lan En, who has Mentos, is unforgettable, and the words and phrases that have been skipped in anime and movies have all emerged at this time.
60% proficiency, although you may not be familiar with the Japanese Rory's rambling honorific variants, but normal communication should be fine.
Covering his forehead slightly, Lan En's fingers kneaded his temples.
The genetic seed not only seems to have brought about a slow increase in physical fitness, but Lan En's brain endurance has also been raised in the [Memory Dive] again and again.
The ascension of the Space Marine is all-encompassing.
So it only took a few minutes for Lan's expression to calm down again.
During this time, the young man's footsteps did not stop, and he followed the road until he reached the bottom of the mountain.
The sound of the river was no longer absorbed by the dense vegetation, and was clearly heard by the witcher.
It was a thirty or forty meters wide river, and there was a stone draw along the river's edge.
There was a thick white rope hanging from the stone perimeter of this water draw, and although Lan En didn't know much about it, he thought it should be some kind of religious paraphernalia.
A stone tablet stands next to the water draw, and it reads 'Dragon Spring' in Chinese characters.
The words below are hard to read because of river erosion. But Lan En still speculates based on the commonalities of East Asian cultural circles.
"'Dragon Spring'? So this is the Longquan River? No, according to the Japanese language. Longquan River? It is a common custom to visit the river. β
"But. It always feels a little weird. β
There seemed to be a slight strange smell in the river, which made the witcher unconsciously a little concerned.
Lan En rubbed the stone tablet carved with Chinese characters in one hand and muttered in a low voice.
The next moment, the free arm suddenly lifted up and protected the side of the neck!
There was a sound of steel intersecting, and outside the thick arm armor, an arrow had already broken into two under the impact force and flew out.
At the same time, a noisy Japanese shout came from the mountains and forests not far from the water draw.
"Kill! Kill! He's only one man! β
"Pluck up courage! Pluck up your courage! β
The roar was vicious and noisy.
But Lan En frowned slightly, not panicking at all.
"Not scolding, but cheering? And this messy footsteps. Farmer? β
Bandits or armies often scold and insult their enemies when they rush to kill. Arithmetic is a way to build a psychological advantage.
It can also be seen that they are accustomed to fighting.
But now the group of people rushing towards Lan En could only hear six or seven footsteps. And the steps are messy, and there is not even a basic formation.
Proper layman.
Finally, the group rushed into Lan's field of vision.
To be honest, the few steps they rushed had already made them breathless.
This is an obvious novice symptom, the excessive excitement leads to physical discharge, and before the person can cut his own leg, he will be weak first.
Lan was there, standing sideways and looking at them.
With an expressionless face, he looked at a group of men about one and a half meters tall and in shabby clothes, holding firewood knives, sharp bamboo poles, and even wooden sticks in their hands, screaming and screaming at him.
Their eyes are generally bloodshot from excessive excitement, and the one who leads the way is the fiercest.
Lan En could see from a rough look at their expressions that the group was now so frightened and excited that they couldn't listen to anything at all.
Sighing softly, Lan En grabbed the pointed bamboo pole stabbed by the leader as if he had caught the chopsticks handed over.
Towards the side, the tip grazed Lan En's waist.
The leader's eyes changed from excitement to horror.
He wanted to stop, put away the gun, and stab again, but this series of actions was so simple that it would be too difficult for a layman with a gun to charge.
He couldn't hold his feet, and the two-meter-long bamboo pole slid away from Lan En's waist in an instant.
And he, too, entered the distance within Lan's reach.
The leader raised his head at this moment, and he realized how tall the man in front of him was.
Then, a big slap fell from the sky, which directly darkened his vision.
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