The two of them walked out of the exit of the passage and saw that this place was surrounded by mountains and was already in the basin. A mile away, is Qigong Village. Qigong Village is built against the mountain, facing the plain with a stone wall. Fifty or sixty miles from the village, there is a huge mountain peak, the summit of which is billowing black smoke, and it is an active volcano. Mingshu said that because Yuwan did not want to get close to the volcano, the extension of the root system to Qigong Village stopped.

Li Xiang asked, "Is there still a place where Yuwan's rhizome can't reach?"

"Of course, such as the extremely cold places of the north and south poles, such as volcanoes, or granite formations, are all areas that Yu Wan does not want to touch. There are many such places. ”

There is only one low-level soul master in Qigong Village, but he is the most self-reliant of all the villages. There are seven craftsmen in the village, all of whom are ordinary people. In order to alleviate the pressure on the village chief, they used the abilities of ordinary people to the extreme. All the houses in the village were made of earth and stone, and the materials that could not be collected allowed the village chief to plant his soul. They fired bricks and pottery in the crater, smelted metal products, and exchanged surplus goods in neighboring villages, so Qigong Village was the least affected by desertification.

When they approached the village, they saw a field in the desert, and a stranger was digging in the field with a hoe, and he was still shouting something.

Li Xiang asked, "Sister Shu, what is he talking about?"

Mingshu said: "He tossed and turned with only two sentences: 'How could there be nothing?'"

Mingshu shouted in the language of an alien: "This fellow, what are you doing?"

The alien looked up at the young man and woman who came by, and the two long, drooping ears stood up, and the lips that were divided into four lobes were exaggeratedly split, and a piercing scream came from his throat. The alien picked up the hoe, stretched out his long legs twice as long as his body, and ran towards Qigong Village with one leap and another, still shouting in his mouth.

Mingshu frowned and said, "We frightened him, he is a rabbit man, and he is timid by nature. ”

Li Xiang asked, "What is he shouting?"

Mingshu said: "He said that there are wicked people, and the wicked people are coming. It seems that Qigong Village has not been peaceful recently. If the village chief is not here today, we will be in trouble. ”

Lee wanted to ask why.

Mingshu said: "I also met their village chief in Mengfan Village the year before last, I have never been to Qigong Village before, and I don't know any of the villagers, if it causes misunderstanding, it is not a small trouble." ”

As he was talking, more than a dozen young men rushed out of the gate of the wall, holding sticks and hoes in their hands, and killed them violently. Mingshu hurriedly shouted, We have just come from Mengfan Village to visit Fan Zheng, the village chief of your village. As soon as the leader raised his hand, the crowd stopped. The leading man looked the pair of young men up and down, his face slowed down, and he asked Do you know the village chief Fan? Mingshu said that he had seen it in Mengfan Village, and we had traveled all the way, and we saw that the people in each village were having a hard time, so I wanted to come and see if there was anything we could do to help. The leading man thought for a moment, nodded, and said that the sage should come with me.

When I arrived at the entrance of the village, I saw an old man coming in a hurry. Mingshu shouted Grandpa Fan. The old man's face showed surprise, it was Miss Mingshu who came. The young men who were still vigilant behind them heard it and dispersed.

Village Chief Fan came to the front and asked, "Miss Mingshu is from Mengfan Village, can you see Lao Kan, how is he doing?" Mingshu's tears rolled in her eyes again.

Li Xiang continued: "Grandpa Mei, he went." ”

When Village Chief Fan heard the news, he stood for a long time before he paused and sighed. Seeing that Mingshu's tears had fallen, he took Mingshu's hand and said that the girl should not cry and go to her grandfather to sit down.

In the small courtyard of Village Chief Fan's house, Li Xiang told the cause and effect of Father Mei's death, and Mingshu wiped her tears beside her. Village Chief Fan paused and said, "This group of thieves is becoming more and more rampant! ”

Li Xiang asked: "I see that the village is quite wary of outsiders, has anything happened in the village recently?"

Village Chief Fan said: "Originally, Qigong Village was located in a basin, and it was difficult to travel by land, so there were not many people who used the underground passage in recent years, and few people came. It's just that in the past two or three years, it has been a bit unpeaceful, and there are often thieves who come to commit crimes and rob the young people and craftsmen in the village. A few months ago, the third and sixth dukes were also arrested. More than a dozen people have now been lost to the village. ”

Li Xiang confirmed with the village chief again that the young men who were captured were all apprentices of the seven craftsmen, and they had craftsmanship, but they were not guilty of the old and weak, and they felt more and more that this group of thieves had a deep meaning in plundering people. Li Xiang asked, "The old man has a mirror here, and I want to have a video call with Mr. Nine in Kunwu." ”

Village Chief Fan nodded: "Xiaoyou, come with me." "Brought the two into a room. When Li Xiang connected Yang Mingtai's video, Village Chief Fan exited the room and closed the door, and Li Xiang told him about the situation in Qigong Village. Yang Mingtai said: It just so happened that two days ago, we also caught a group of thieves and rescued a group of villagers, who were workers, farmers, engineers, and several scientific researchers in their hometowns, all of whom had come over in the past 100 years.

Li Xiang was taken aback, "Could it be that they want to create a technological civilization outside of the Tree God World?"

Yang Mingtai said: "If that's all it is, forget it, I'm afraid they have more than that." I also want to make Jiuqiu vibrant, but I don't want to repeat the mistakes of my hometown. ”

Li Xiang asked, "Can you tell me what will happen to my hometown in 600 years, and is it possible to avoid that disaster?"

Yang Mingtai lowered his head and thought for a moment, then shook his head: "We have made efforts, but history is irreversible. ”

Li Xiang saw that Brother Tai didn't mention the catastrophe of the earth, and knew that he didn't want to talk about it now, so he didn't ask any more, he thought for a while and asked, "Then what we are doing now is also going against the history of Jiuqiu?"

Yang Mingtai's eyes lit up, and he said very firmly: "No, we are creating the history of Jiuqiu. After a pause, he added, "When you come back, I will show you a different world, to be precise, the rudiments of a world." I hope that you will join me in creating this world, a new world that is different from my home civilization, a world of Datong that will never go astray. ”

Hearing some of Yang Mingtai's words, Li Xiang was also a little excited, and he replied yes. Yang Mingtai looked at Mingshu, and Mingshu's face was not dry with tears at this time. He asked with a joking face, Li wants to bully you? Mingshu hurriedly shook his head. Yang Mingtai sighed and said, I know that you and your father have a deep relationship, but crying at every turn is not a habit that the children of the Yang family should have, there is always a solution to everything, if my brother's idea can succeed, it may not be impossible to resurrect the deceased predecessors. Mingshu wiped the tears from her face with her hands, nodded to Mingtai, and said I believe in my brother.

Yang Mingtai said again: "Since you have come to Qigong Village, help them, the craftsmen of Qigong Village are a piece of fat in the eyes of those people." With that, he showed some drawings on the mirror.

Li Xiang was a little hesitant about the crossbow and feather arrow shaft in the drawing, and he asked, "With Yu Wan's personality, does she allow these killing weapons to be planted with souls?"

Mingtai dismantled the crossbow into parts drawings, saying, "There is no problem with a single part. I'm just thinking about killing, I don't want to take their lives, you see the inverted cone in front of the arrow shaft, which is to prevent the arrow shaft from getting into the flesh. Mingshu, do you still have the hemp I gave you?"

Mingshu said: "There are three more." ”

Mingtai said: "Give it to Qigong Village two, they are good at metallurgy, and the volcano also provides them with rare resources, let them make some fine needles out, let them be sure to install the fine needles on the arrow shaft, and then apply the hemp boiling powder." Mingshu nodded and said yes.

After the two of them memorized all the drawings, they closed the line. Li Xiang and Mingshu found Village Chief Fan and told Yang Mingtai about his arrangement, Village Chief Fan was very grateful, and he couldn't afford it, but it made the two young people a little at a loss.

The three of them acted separately, and Village Chief Fan went to arrange for the smelting of fine needles, Mingshu planted soul strong crossbows and hand crossbows, and Li Xiang planted soul arrow towers.

Three days later, eight towers of arrows stood within the walls, each with two powerful crossbows and one for each villager. Mingshu and Li Xiang also kept a handful each. Mingshu told Village Chief Fan that if he caught the thieves, he would contact Mr. Jiu, and he had his own way to send these people to Sifang Mountain.

Subsequently, Mingshu sent a video message to Master Jin, asking him to plant a batch of crossbows for the villagers of Mengfan Village, and the required seeds, energy points, and hemp boiling Yang family would send someone to send them afterwards. Master Jin only agreed to accept Ma Bingsan, saying that he had been obsessed with making utensils all his life, but had never done anything for the surrounding villagers, and that it was time for him to contribute.

After the matter was over, Li Xiang and Mingshu said goodbye and left, and the village chief Fan and the villagers saw each other off, out of the village, and saw that the rabbit people were still digging in the field, Li Xiang asked him what he was doing?

Village Chief Fan said: "He is crazy, the Xin Rabbit people are not used to eating the berries here, he wants to grow the Mao Zi taro that is a specialty of their hometown, but where the tree god is, how can these weak crops dare to take root and sprout?"