Chapter 10: The Deserted Garden
"Is there anyone here? But I don't see anyone moving. At this time, Zuo Liancheng had already patted off the dead grass and soil on his body, and looked around carefully for a while, but what he could hear was the "rustling" sound made by the wind blowing through the branches and dead grass around him, and what else could be heard except for the roar of beasts and insects and the singing of birds around you?
"Is there anyone here? If there is, please come out and see you. We are the pill masters of the Shenlong clan under the mountain, and this time we came into the mountain to collect medicinal materials. If there is any offense, please also have a lot of Haihan. Zuo Liancheng put his hand to his mouth, made it into a trumpet shape, and shouted loudly towards the front.
There was silence all around, and no one responded to Zuo Liancheng's question just now, except for the voice just now, which was still echoing.
"Is there anyone here?, we are the pill masters of the Divine Dragon Clan on the mountain, and we are only here to collect medicinal herbs this time, if there is any offense just now, please forgive me!" Zuo Liancheng used a louder voice this time.
Still no one answered, only his own voice echoing around.
"Is there anyone here?"
"Anyone?"
“......”
Zuo Liancheng did not give up, and asked several times in a loud voice in front of him, but he could only hear his own voice echoing around, so that he finally heard no one answer.
"You stay here first, I'll go over and see. Seeing that no one answered, Zuo Liancheng decided to try again.
However, when Zuo Liancheng's feet had just stepped over the strange-looking low tree in front of the open field, another inexplicable force hit his chest, and he didn't have time to react at all, so he was thrown into the air and fell back. However, unlike last time, it seems that the distance that was bounced back this time is slightly closer than the last time.
"It's a strange thing, I don't see anyone, but I clearly feel like someone is pushing me back. Zuo Liancheng used his hands and feet together, and after getting up from the ground, he was talking to himself while preparing to walk forward.
"Wait, this place is a little weird. Josia whispered to stop her husband, then picked up an arm-sized branch from the ground and threw it into the open field ahead.
The branches flew unhindered over the small tree that Zuo Liancheng had encountered just now, and flew far further before falling into the grass with a clear sound.
"Doesn't seem like anything? I'll take a look. Seeing that the branches were not hindered, Josia decided to try it herself.
The ending is still the same. When Josia had just stepped over the small tree, it was still a strong force pushing towards her chest, and although she had been prepared, she still fell back before she could react. However, what is reassuring is that the place where Josia fell is slightly closer than the place where Zuo Liancheng fell just now.
"It's so strange, is there any mechanism here, and it's only useful for people?" the two said in unison, looking at each other, staring at each other with big eyes, but they couldn't find the answer in each other's eyes.
"What should I do? Can I only try again and again, and then be bounced back again and again and fall to the ground?" Zuo Liancheng asked with a wry smile as he looked helplessly at his wife, who had just been thrown on her back and was facing the sky, and had just gotten up from the ground.
"It seems that the only way to do this is to take this stupid way, or else you have to give up. However, you find that no, that strange force is just pushing us out, and it doesn't mean to hurt us. And. That power seems to be diminishing again and again. We can move forward in a different position, or walk sideways or backwards, so that even if we are pushed back by that force, we will not fall on all fours like we did just now. Josia was still in her head, and she observed more carefully than her husband, and soon found the crux of the problem.
"Shall I try it?" Zuo Liancheng followed the method his wife had just said, and walked backwards and cautiously towards the open field.
As expected, when the foot of Zuolian City had just stepped over the small tree, another strong force struck. However, this time, because Zuo Liancheng had already prepared, and his back was to the open ground, although he was also pushed back, this time he did not fall, but stood and fell to the ground.
"You're going to work. Let's use this method to break down the obstacles ahead. ”
In this way, the two took turns to fight, and launched an attack on the inexplicable force on the small tree again and again. During this period, they did not think about entering the open field from other directions, but as long as they walked a certain distance from the open field, they would also be shocked out by a huge force. Not only that, but in other places, the strength they received was even greater, and that power showed no sign of abating, and the whole open land seemed to be shrouded in a huge net of formlessness and substance, and the area where the strange-shaped little tree they reached first was obviously the weakest point of this "giant net", and the only place where they could enter the open field. If they hadn't stumbled upon the little tree by chance, but had wanted to enter the open field from somewhere else, they would have been stunned by the tremendous force of the shock that would not weaken at all.
Fortunately, the hard work paid off, and after Zuo Liancheng and his wife tried dozens of times, the mysterious force of the shock finally disappeared.
"I should be able to go over and have a look now. At this time, Zuo Liancheng was already sore and dizzy, and his eyes were full of stars, but he was still very excited. You know, although he is now in his forties, this is the first time he has seen such a strange thing. Now that that the power is gone, and he can finally go and find out, how can he not be excited?
To their surprise, as soon as the two of them stepped over the small tree, the scene in front of them suddenly changed drastically. The grassy open field they had seen before was gone, and when they looked back at the road behind them, the trees were gone, revealing a huge gentle hillside. The slopes of the mountain seem to have been cultivated, and from the top of the mountain to the foot of the mountain, there are terraced rice fields. However, these terraces have obviously been abandoned for a long time, and they are covered with wild grass more than half a person high, and there is no crop in sight, and in some places even tall trees have grown. A narrow stone path covered with moss and wild grass, but vaguely recognizable, passes through the terraced fields, winding and twisting, winding up the mountain, looking up, but there is no end in sight.
"It seems that there used to be a village here, but now it seems that no one lives there. Zuo Liancheng looked at the scene that suddenly appeared in front of him and said in surprise.
"Shall we go up and have a look?" Faced with this sudden change, Josia was also very curious.
The two of them walked up the hill along the stone path, one after the other.
"Dad, look, there's a lot of soul grass here!" said Josia, pointing excitedly as they finally reached the top of the hill and came to a relatively flat land. The place that Hashia was referring to was an abandoned wasteland surrounded by a low stone wall. The low walls around the radius had collapsed in several places, and in addition to the soul-reviving grass that could be found everywhere, there were also various unknown weeds growing in the deserted garden.
"Most of the Soul Rejuvenation Plants here have seven or eight leaves! And there are so many of them, we have really made a fortune this time! Do you know? Such a large garden of Soul Rejuvenation Plants is enough for me to use for many years, and what is even more rare is that they are all so old. "As the best pill medicine master in the tribe, when he saw such a huge amount of soul rejuvenation grass in front of him, his heart almost jumped out with excitement.
"Look how happy you have become, you are in your forties, and you are still like a child. Josia looked at her husband who was almost about to dance, and she was also very happy, after all, there are so many soul rejuvenation plants here now, so how can she still risk her life with the piles of silver-horned flying snakes. "Let's take a look at the front, this is the first medicine garden we encountered, maybe there are bigger surprises waiting for us ahead. ”
"Well, okay. It is said that we didn't get anything yesterday, not because we were unlucky, but because God wanted to give us a surprise. , I think about it now, we saved that guy, and it was a wise move. If it weren't for him, we wouldn't have gone so far to collect medicine, and we wouldn't have found such a large medicine garden. ”
"Yes, it's the first time I've encountered such a strange thing. You said that just now we only saw an open field overgrown with wild grass, but suddenly it became the medicine garden we have built now. And it's all so real, it's like a dream, it's amazing. All this, after all, is really the good fortune that that young man brought us. Josia fully agreed with her husband's point of view, what she had just experienced was indeed unheard of and unseen before.
The two of them did not rush to dig up the resurrection grass in the garden, but continued to walk along the path just now while talking. As expected, along the way, they successively found seven or eight abandoned gardens similar to the medicine garden just now, although each garden was different in size, but each garden grew in different quantities of different varieties of medicinal herbs. There are seven-star grass that has grown for thousands of years with detoxification effects, there are special medicines for treating bruises - Shouwu thousand-knot vine that has grown for seven or eight hundred years, and four-leaf dragon beard grass, a nourishing miracle medicine that has grown for three or four thousand years, and there are many kinds of medicinal materials, even Zuo Liancheng, a well-known pill pharmacist, can't name it - the reason why I know that it must be medicinal materials and not other wild weeds and weeds is because most of these medicinal materials are not only planted alone, but also carefully protected by people with special fences. Although most of these fences are crooked and dilapidated, it can still be seen how much attention was paid to the medicinal herbs inside back then.
"There's a stone house up ahead!" Zuo Liancheng said, pointing to a raised hill in the distance. At this time, Zuo Liancheng was no longer as excited as he was at the beginning, and the constant discovery of medicinal materials and the constant surprises that came made him return to his previous calm. Medicinal herbs, which were difficult to see or even impossible to see before, have become the most common species in this deserted land. This seems to be an unbelievable thing, but it has become extraordinarily common at this moment. The land under their feet was obviously a medicine field that had long been abandoned, and the terraced fields on the hillside they had seen just now might not be used to grow crops at all, but to grow medicinal herbs. It's just that it was abandoned because of its age and no one managed it, and this large area of medicinal fields gradually turned into a paradise for the growth of all kinds of wild grasses and miscellaneous trees.
The two of them did not rush to dig up the medicinal herbs in the ground now, but walked towards the stone house they had just seen. The medicinal materials here are already ownerless anyway, digging early and digging later, they all belong to themselves, and there is not much difference. Now that I see a stone house in front of me, I might as well go over and take a look, maybe there will be something new to discover.