Chapter Forty-Nine: Through the Jungle
One by one, after a few days, Mei Xiao has lost count of how many trees he has cut down, but there is still no way to cut a road that can pass ahead, and Mei Xiao doesn't know how long he will have to cut before he can cross this forest. However, it is an indisputable fact that he is moving forward every moment.
The road ahead is long, Mei Xiao looked back, and could see a path opened up by him in the dense forest, this road is deep and quiet, it is his own path. Mei Xiao has a magical sense of achievement, in the past few days, little by little, he has gone from standing outside the woods to looking at Lin Xing and sighing, to now, he has a road behind him that he has opened up, such a record makes Mei Xiao feel that there is nothing in the world that he can't conquer.
Repeating the cutting of trees day after day, and waking up every day to face the same scenery, even if Mei Xiao's heart is tenacious, he gradually gave birth to a trace of boredom, he wants to give up, wants to turn around and leave, but he also understands that the topography of this place does not allow him to look for other roads, because looking for other roads, there may be no roads.
Fortunately, Mei Xiao's sword was sharp and tough enough, otherwise, in such a heavy work of using the sword as an axe, the ordinary sword would have already been broken. Although the sword is indispensable, Mei Xiao never uses brute force to cut down trees, but uses his own internal qi to bless, and sometimes directly emits sword qi. If you use brute force to cut down trees with a sword, maybe until now, Mei Xiao is still sweating outside the forest!
The light in the forest came through, the sky was gradually getting dark, and it was another day of hard work to cut down trees, Mei Xiao cut off the last branch of the day, and lay on a platform composed of several thick roots, in the dense forest, the roots were everywhere, intertwined, and many places could be used as beds to sleep.
As soon as Mei Xiao stopped, the green snake left him and went out to find something to eat, while Mei Xiao was eating the dry food that Yi Yi brought for him and the jerky she had marinated herself, even if it was so dry that Mei Xiao coughed, Mei Xiao still liked it, after all, it was made by Yi Yi himself.
Listening to the chirping of the birds in the forest, Mei Xiao fell asleep after a while, and did not wake up until dawn, the morning dew dripped on Mei Xiao's face, causing Mei Xiao to be a little thirsty, and he found that the water hyacinth he carried with him had bottomed out, so he had to go back to a small spring found two days ago to get water. Strange to say, although this small spring is small, every time Mei Xiao takes away or drinks the water inside, it fills up on its own, making people have to sigh at the magic of nature.
Standing at the place where she arrived two days ago and looking at the road that took two days to drive, Mei Xiao was a little frustrated, she only drove a distance of nearly 700 zhang in two days, which is really slow.
On a new day, Mei Xiao had to continue his work, but chopping and chopping, Mei Xiao suddenly noticed that something was wrong, and the power of the black sword in his hand had a faint tendency to become stronger.
Mei Xiao went down with a sword, and at first he could only cut three relatively thin trees, but now, Mei Xiao's sword can cut five decent trees, Mei Xiao can feel that this is not the limit, he can cut more.
Mei Xiao began to try to add internal qi and sword qi, and sure enough, as soon as the sword went down, a small piece of the tree fell directly, and the power was many times greater than when he first started cutting down the tree.
At first, Mei Xiao was very surprised by this, but after thinking about it carefully, it is not surprising that this day after day of cutting trees, although boring, but also invisibly exercised Mei Xiao's strength and internal qi, and the power of the sword mainly relies on these two aspects. At the beginning of the Wuyang Palace, although the training was hard, it was not as good as such continuous hard work.
Mei Xiao was very excited about the growth in kendo, and cut down the trees even harder, wanting to grow a little more. After cutting for a while, Mei Xiao found that more and more light was coming in front of her, as if this forest was coming to an end.
It is true that it took Mei Xiao a few days to make a way out of the dense forest.
But Mei Xiao didn't look very happy, and even a little disappointed, he originally wanted to use the matter of opening the way to hone his swordsmanship, but now it seems that this plan will not work.
Mei Xiao looked at the map, and his disappointment was suddenly swept away, because now, he was very close to Tongfan Mountain.
In the past, the disciples of Dianying Valley took a detour from the relatively flat place in the mountain to listen to the news, and it took at least half a month to reach the vicinity of Tongfan Mountain, but now, Mei Xiao arrived not far from Tongfan Mountain from Dianying Valley in less than ten days, and it was still the credit that he chose the right "road".
Deep in the mountains and dense forests, uninhabited, Mei Xiao looked at the mountains and valleys in front of her, and couldn't help but feel a little worried. Tongfan Mountain is right in front of you, but I don't know where the headquarters of the Dark Death Pavilion is?
Nearly ten days of sleeping in the open made Mei Xiao feel like a clay man, and in some places her clothes had been scraped into strips of cloth by the branches in the woods, looking like a wild man. He desperately needed a well-equipped village to clean himself up.
And finding a suitable village is a big problem in front of Mei Xiao, Mei Xiao can only rely on experience and unclear maps along the mountain to find the upper reaches of the terrain, fortunately, when he was a child, Luo Yi was filled with the geography of mountains and rivers, where there will be a village, where there will be water, or how to find water in the mountains, all of which have been remembered in his heart since he was a child.
Two days later, at noon, at the entrance of a larger village near Mount Tongfan, a tattered beggar appeared here, with only a sword on his body still clean, and the villagers thought he was a beggar because the ragged man was carrying a snake that looked very smart. The villagers avoided him in disgust, lest they get their hands dirty.
Amazingly, the beggar walked into one of the most luxurious inns in the village. The villagers gathered outside the door, waiting for the beggar to be blasted out, and it was very lively, but after waiting for a long time, they didn't see the excitement, but saw the guy at the inn respectfully welcoming the beggar into the house, serving the beggar as if he was serving his ancestors, which shocked all the villagers.
This village is the largest village and town in the vicinity, it can be regarded as the center of the nearby area, almost all outsiders will live in the inn here once, but I have never seen the inn so polite to anyone, everyone has heard of it, behind this inn is the Eagle Valley, is it possible that the beggar who came is the high-level of the Eagle Valley?
Their doubts were not answered, and some of the impatient ones had already gone home to do what they should do, and only some of the village idlers were still blocking the door of the inn waiting to see the end of the beggar.
After two more days of trekking, Mei Xiao finally found a decent village, and he could see his embarrassment in the eyes and actions of the villagers, and he ignored these and found the inn in the village. Fortunately, the control of Dianying Valley is strong enough, and even this remote village has their people, and thanks to Yi Yi's thoughtfulness, he informed all the strongholds close to Tongfan Mountain in advance that Mei Xiao was coming, so that they could prepare for it.
Mei Xiao took a pleasant hot bath in the comfortable inn, and changed into the clothes that Yi Yi had sewn and repaired in the baggage, and then exhaled comfortably, it was still comfortable in a regular inn, and it was many times more comfortable than in the mountains and forests.
Mei Xiao tidied up her clothes, walked out of the room, came to the hall of the inn, and called Xiao Er, "Xiao Er, what do you have to eat here, pick up some special dishes." ”
The little second brother agreed, "If you don't have a guest officer, you will come right away." ”
The second brother turned around and said, "Guest officer, you may not be used to eating our specialties here, do you want to mix them with ordinary dishes, and the guest officer will try them first, and then order other specialties?"
Mei Xiao nodded, "Okay, I'll listen to you." ”
The little second brother wiped the table, put the tea on the table and went down, and after a while, he came back with two dishes, one was the sauce beef that was also commonly eaten in the Central Plains, and the other dish had a bunch of white worms on the plate, which looked particularly scary.
As Xiao Er put the plate on the table, Mei Xiao saw the true face of the dish even more clearly, there was indeed nothing but insects.
For Mei Xiao, who had just spit out a bunch of bloody bugs from his body because of Zhong Gu, these bugs were more likely to cause him to be nauseous, and before Xiao Er put down the plate, Mei Xiao lowered his head first and vomited unashamedly.
The little second brother seemed to have been prepared, and a relaxed hand quickly took out a bucket out of nowhere to catch Mei Xiao's vomit that was about to land. Mei Xiao hugged the bucket and began to vomit, until she was about to collapse before stopping.
The little second brother stood beside Mei Xiao, I don't know whether to watch the excitement or want to stay and take care of Mei Xiao, the little second brother smiled, "I saw this dish vomit, the little one has seen it, but I have never seen it so powerful as the guest officer." ”
Mei Xiao left a big shadow on the insects this time, and told Xiao Er to remove the insects, and only serve some dishes that are also eaten in the Central Plains.
Mei Xiao felt comfortable at this time, and secretly congratulated herself that she had just listened to the advice of the little second brother and did not want this kind of 'special dish'. Mei Xiao gobbled up the dishes on the table, and then she burped comfortably.
It had been a long time since he had eaten such a serious meal, and although this small inn in the countryside could not make the taste of the dishes made by the real famous chefs of the Central Plains, it was enough to soothe Mei Xiao's stomach that had been wronged for many days.
After eating, Mei Xiao walked out of the inn and planned to take a stroll on the street, but as soon as she went out, she was startled by the idlers in the village who were blocking the door. At the door of the inn, a group of people stretched their necks and stared at Mei Xiao, as if they were going to eat him, and when they saw that Mei Xiao found them, they all scattered in a hurry, and there was no one left, like a group of hungry dogs seeing a tiger.
Mei Xiao stood at the door of the inn and looked at the backs of this group of people, already thinking about how much his arrival would affect this village, I am afraid that tomorrow, his affairs will spread throughout the village. This made Mei Xiao a little worried, what if the Dark Death Pavilion knew?
Behind Mei Xiao, the shopkeeper of the inn walked out, he has been the shopkeeper of the inn for many years, and his ability to see people is not bad, "Don't worry, I won't let the news leak out." ”
Mei Xiao gradually put her mind at ease, and the idea of going out for a turn was gone, so she had to go back to her house and think about the next trip.
The approximate place has arrived, and the next thing left is to find the headquarters of the Dark Dead Pavilion and blend in.
Mei Xiao thought, relying on the eyeliner of the Dian Eagle Valley and the Wuyang Palace, it is always not difficult to find a person in the headquarters of the Dark Death Pavilion to ask for news, as long as you find such a person, you can find a way to enter the headquarters of the Dark Death Pavilion.
Another small village not far from Mei Xiao's village, where Su Ting lived, was also thinking about his next move.
Su Ting looked at the somewhat gloomy sky and sighed, "I wonder if he can return safely this time?"