Chapter 55: The Jedi (I)

Zhong Qingzhu turned his head and glanced at Shen Shi with a strange expression, Shen Shi looked at her and said, "What's the matter, your face is not very good, is the injury on your hand hurting again?"

"Hmm...... No. Zhong Qingzhu shook his head and turned his gaze away.

Crawling all the way through the dark, deep, narrow cavern, it was only here that the two of them could really stand up straight, and they couldn't help but feel a sense of relaxation. Zhong Qingzhu slowly walked a few steps forward, standing in the middle of the tunnel where the fluorescent stone flickered and flickered, only to see a little bit of light like a soft and light starlight in the sky, with a little beautiful silver, shining around her head, gently hugging her.

In all directions, it was silent, Shen Shi didn't speak, just silently looked at the girl with a trace of joy on her face, her eyes shining like a reflection of the starlight in the sky, even if she was scarred and a little dirty along the way, but at this moment, under such a bright light, she was like a fairy who fell into the mortal world, gentle and beautiful, not like a mortal.

Zhong Qingzhu smiled and slowly opened her arms, as if she wanted to embrace this beautiful light, this magnificent scene that she had never seen in her life, embraced in her arms at this moment, as if she belonged to her alone.

"Oops!"

It's just that the next moment, she suddenly screamed, gasped, covered her left hand and turned pale. Shen Shi walked over to support her, and said angrily: "Hey, your hand is broken, don't move around when you're fine." ”

Zhong Qingzhu's cheeks were slightly red, he lowered his head and seemed a little embarrassed, and said, "I'm sorry ......"

Shen Shi sighed and said, "You're here again, didn't you tell you not to say it's okay if you don't move?" After a pause, he saw that Zhong Qingzhu's face was not very good-looking, as if he was forbearing, and shook his head and said, "Does your hand hurt?"

Zhong Qingzhu hesitated for a moment, and said softly: "It doesn't hurt......"

Shen Shi frowned and said, "Doesn't it hurt?"

Zhong Qingzhu hesitated, his voice became a little quieter, and said, "It's a little painful......"

Shen Shi glanced at her, and saw that Zhong Qingzhu was holding his arm, and his face seemed to be a little paler, and after a while, he saw that her beautiful and delicate face seemed to tremble, and then said in an almost mosquito-like voice: "It hurts......"

"You ......" Shen Shi was almost speechless to her, anyway, it was the first time in his life that he had seen a girl with such a temperament, but now looking at her such a pitiful appearance, his heart was inexplicably soft, and he walked over and gently held her left hand.

"Hiss......" Zhong Qingzhu frowned and bit his lip, and a tremor sounded from his mouth.

Shen Shi frowned and said, "Where does it hurt?"

Zhong Qingzhu endured the severe pain, and pointed to the elbow of his left hand with his right hand, which was the injury of the broken head in front of him. Shen Shi couldn't think of any good way for a while, and he didn't dare to touch Zhong Qingzhu's wound easily, and when he raised his eyes, he saw that the strip of cloth that had made a rope in the dark just now and hung her arm around her neck had slipped down, so he tentatively wanted to raise her arm higher and then put it into the rope loop.

Who knew that when he put his arm a little too high, Zhong Qingzhu snorted in pain, and at the same time, his eyes were slightly red, obviously in severe pain. Shen Shi was startled, and he didn't dare to do anything more, hesitated for a moment, and asked, "How can you swing your hand so that it doesn't hurt?"

Zhong Qingzhu hesitated for a moment and said, "It's just hanging like this, it will be better if you don't move it, but you will always encounter a swing when you walk around, so it hurts." ”

Shen Shi sighed, pondered for a moment, his eyes swept over the strip of cloth that was still hanging on Zhong Qingzhu's neck, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and said, "Well, I have a way." ”

As he spoke, he stepped forward, took off the strip of rope and cloth from Zhong Qingzhu's neck, took it to his hand and looked at it, only to find that the thing he had just torn off at random was really rough and ugly, and he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, and said with a dry smile: "It's a matter of urgency, don't worry about it." ”

Zhong Qingzhu didn't speak, his cheeks were slightly red, but he nodded slightly.

Shen Shi took this strip of cloth, let Zhong Qingzhu hang his left hand naturally on his waist, and then spared it from his wrist, tied it directly through his waist and tied it to her body, fixed his left hand on the side of his body, took a step back and looked at it, and felt that the rope just now seemed to be a little short, and it didn't seem to be very stable, looking like it would fall off at any time, he thought about it for a while, and simply took advantage of the light of the fluorescent stones around him, and tore off a few strips of cloth from his body.

Zhong Qingzhu saw this scene in her eyes, opened her mouth slightly, as if she wanted to say something, but for some reason she wanted to say something and stopped, and in the end, she just silently looked at Shen Shi in front of her, in this dark and cold cave, surrounded by a little silver light that shimmered and gentle like starlight, illuminating his serious and focused face.

Tear off the strips of cloth, intertwine them together into a dead knot, pull them tightly, and then divide them into two, one bind her wrist at the waist, the other avoided her elbow, and tied it from the top of her arm to the shoulder, but it bypassed Zhong Qingzhu's chest and passed under the armpit of her right hand, and wrapped it tightly like a waist, and finally completely fixed her left hand beside her, and she would no longer move at will.

For some reason, Zhong Qingzhu's cheeks suddenly turned so red, especially when Shen Shi helped her tie the second strip of cloth that fixed her arm, her body swayed subconsciously, as if she wanted to retreat and dodge. But when she looked up, she saw the boy standing in front of her, with a serious face, frowning slightly, as if he was afraid of hurting her. A little starlight was as gentle as water, quietly spilling down from the top of his head behind him, his forehead was faintly sweaty, his eyes were so clear, intertwined with the starlight, deeply reflected in her eyes and heart.

This foot, after all, can't be stepped on.

All the coldness and darkness, the fear and the terror, seemed to quietly recede, leaving only the gentle, caring and attentive eyes of the boy in the dreamlike starlight.

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"Whew", Shen Shi let out a sigh, took a step back and turned his somewhat sore neck, looked at the tied rope with satisfaction, laughed, and said, "Okay, now you don't have to worry about your arm moving around and hitting the injury." ”

Zhong Qingzhu lowered his eyes slightly, and suddenly he didn't dare to look at his eyes and face, as if he couldn't even speak, just nodded slightly.

Shen Shi suddenly let out a "huh", a little surprised, and said, "Zhong Qingzhu, why is your face so red?"

Zhong Qingzhu only felt that his cheeks were hot for a moment, as if he was about to burn, his head hung low, and it seemed that even the courage to raise it had been lost in an instant.

After a while, she suddenly felt a warm palm attached to her forehead, and after a while, she heard Shen Shi hesitate a little, and said to herself over there: "It doesn't seem to be hot, it doesn't look like a fever......

Zhong Qingzhu raised his head sharply and looked at Shen Shi, only to see Shen Shi standing not far in front of him, looking at him with a puzzled expression, although it looked very pleasing to the eye, he still felt a little stupid.

"Fool......" she couldn't help whispering, but for some reason, her heart seemed to be soft, as if there was a strange and indescribable joy, and it didn't seem to be so, even she didn't understand.

It was very quiet in the cave, although Zhong Qingzhu's voice was very small, but Shen Shi actually heard it, and immediately became angry, glaring and saying: "What, I took so much effort to help you, and you still call me a fool!"

Zhong Qingzhu looked up at him, the corners of her mouth slowly showed a little smile, the blush on her face receded slightly, but she was still as delicate and beautiful as a peach blossom, and her gaze when she looked at this boy seemed to be like water waves. After a while, I only heard her smile a little gentle, and said softly: "Brother Shen, you are not a fool, no one has ever been as good to me as you, you are a good person." ”

Shen Shi was stunned for a moment, and he didn't react for a while, although he didn't quite understand why Zhong Qingzhu suddenly became such a strange appearance, but at this moment, in this faint starlight, the girl in front of him exuded a strange beauty that he had never seen before, and even a little dazzling afterglow, so that the anger that had just risen made him disappear in a blink of an eye, and his originally tense face couldn't hold it, he grabbed his head and took a step back, and said:

"Uh...... Then, if it's not scolding me, then forget it. ”

"Poof", but Zhong Qingzhu suddenly laughed, the corners of his mouth were crooked, his eyes were like morning stars, and his smile was as delicate and beautiful as a flower.

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The wind and rain swept the world, and the whole herring island seemed to be immersed in a gray rain and mist, looking from afar, it was like a huge herring fish, swimming in the miserable sea of wind and rain.

In the herring fish collection hall, the atmosphere in the study was extremely cold.

Wang Gan's face darkened suddenly, he got up, stared at Zheng Zhe who hurried back with an anxious face, and shouted: "What do you mean over there, how can there be one less person?"

Zheng Zhe smiled bitterly and said, "After I passed, Senior Brother Zhong and Senior Brother Xu, who were on duty in the formation hall, were counting the number of people, counting them a few times, and found that there was indeed one missing. After a pause, Zheng Zhe glanced at Wang Gan's face, and said softly, "The two junior brothers are also in a hurry there." ”

Wang Gen said angrily: "If the matter is done, what is there to hurry!"

Zheng Zhe smiled awkwardly, not daring to plead more for the two of them, Wang Gen took a deep breath, calmed down, and said in a deep voice: "Who is the person who is lost? Is it an old disciple or a newcomer?"

Zheng Zhe said: "Zhong and Xu, the two junior disciples, have checked the heads, and the one who is not present now is a rookie female disciple who has just landed on the island, named Zhong Qingzhu. ”

"Zhong Qingzhu ......" Wang Gen frowned, thought for a moment, looked up at Zheng Zhe and said, "The surname Zhong is from the Qingzi generation, could it be that he is a child of the Zhong family in Liuyun City?"

Zheng Zhe nodded and said, "It's from the Zhong family, but I heard Senior Brother Zhong say that although this little junior sister was born in the Zhong family and has the same origin as him, her status in the family is not high, and she is not valued by the Zhong family. ”

"Zhong Qingzhu, Zhong Qingzhu ......" Wang Gen didn't seem to listen to Zheng Zhe's words of comfort to him, but stood there frowning, as if he was thinking carefully and thinking about something, "Why does this name always feel a little familiar?"

Chapter 56: The Jedi (Part II)

"Let's go. Shen Shi urged angrily, "I don't know if we can escape now, how can we stay here longer? ”

Zhong Qingzhu agreed, but his steps were very small, and his eyes just looked at the beautiful star-like scenery on the stone wall around him, as if he was intoxicated with it, and he was a little reluctant to leave.

Shen Shi snorted and repeated his opinion again: "Let's go, these stones are worthless." ”

Zhong Qingzhu turned around and smiled at him, "But don't you think it's really beautiful here?"

Shen Shi said disdainfully: "Pretty can be eaten as food?"

Zhong Qingzhu glared at him half disgusted and half happy, and said, "That spirit crystal can be eaten as food?"

Shen Shi laughed and said, "Ha, don't say it, Lingjing can really be eaten as food." ”

Zhong Qingzhu was stunned for a moment, and then he couldn't help laughing, shook his head and followed, and said with a smile: "You can say it." ”

In the words of the two of them, the allusion of the spirit crystal as a meal does have a origin, and it is widely known in the cultivation world, and the reason is that after the cultivators begin to cultivate and absorb the spiritual power of the spirit crystal, once the spiritual power enters the body, they will gradually begin to transform the human body, and many of the changes will be very different from the mortal body, among which there is a very obvious change, that is, after the spirit is introduced into the body, the spiritual power containing the magical power of heaven and earth creation is enough to support the consumption of the human body, and no other food is allowed to be eaten from now on, simply put, after the monk begins to cultivate, in fact, there is no need to eat......

After Shen Shi and Zhong Qingzhu, a group of newcomer disciples, entered Qingyu Island, in the first few days, Ling Xiao Sect still arranged some food for them, but since they began to cultivate and entered the stage of inducing spirits into the body one after another, these foods have stopped. For them who can already be called monks, in the future career, as long as there are spirit crystals for cultivation, there is basically no need to eat ordinary food, of course, in addition to the spirit crystals, heaven and earth creation heaven and earth treasures contain many elixirs containing spiritual power, which are of great help to cultivation, and they will also take them if they have the opportunity, but these rare things will depend on chance in the future.

In the deep cave tunnel, Shen Shi and Zhong Qingzhu continued to walk forward, during which Zhong Qingzhu turned back a few times, and it seemed that he was still reluctant to give up on the place where the fluorescent stones gathered just now. However, as they walked, the two found that there were actually some fluorescent stones on the stone wall of the tunnel in front of them, but there was no special concentration just now, most of them were sparsely scattered in the cracks or corners of the stone wall, and the light that seemed to be emitted was also a lot dimmer.

But Rao was like this, and this little glimmer of light could still vaguely illuminate the path in the cave, making it much easier for the two of them to walk.

As we walked away, the star-like stone wall behind me had gradually disappeared into the depths of the deep cave behind meandering, and the surroundings seemed to be quiet again, and darkness descended again, gently diffusing from all directions.

With the faint light on the stone wall, Zhong Qingzhu's heart became a little nervous inexplicably, the cave he was in at this moment seemed to have never been to before, and there were primitive and abrupt rock thorn strange stones everywhere, which seemed to turn into dark shadows in the faint light and shadow, fluctuating, with a bit of horror, like the legendary ghost and ghost spirit of Hell and Hades.

Unconsciously, she subconsciously moved closer to Shen Shi, and gently grabbed his sleeve with her uninjured right hand, who knew that the hand reached over and grabbed the air, Zhong Qingzhu was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that the sleeve here had been turned into two long strips of cloth, which were tied to his waist and chest, fixing the injured left arm.

Her face seemed to be red again in the shadows, and she stole a glance at the boy walking in front of her, and suddenly felt that the darkness around her did not seem so terrible.

"Hey, Zhong Qingzhu. Suddenly, Shen Shi in front of him suddenly shouted, as if he wanted to say something, but Zhong Qingzhu suddenly felt that it didn't seem to be very pleasant, and said:

"Brother Shen, don't call me that, it always sounds like we have an enmity, and it's very cold. ”

"Ah, is it?" Shen Shi couldn't have the delicate mind of a little daughter like Zhong Qingzhu, he was stunned for a moment, and said, "It seems to be right, then what do I call you, Senior Sister Zhong?"

The corners of Zhong Qingzhu's mouth twitched slightly, his bright eyes flickered in the darkness, and he said, "That's it, when there are others present in the future, you can call me Senior Sister Zhong, but when there is no one, you can just call me Qingzhu." After speaking, he paused, and seemed to feel that what he said was not clear enough, so he hurriedly explained again, and said, "That's what my mother called me, you saved me once on the day you entered the sect before, and you saved me once on the stone steps of worshipping immortals, and today is even more ...... Hmm, you're really good to me anyway, so when no one is around in the future, call me Qingzhu, okay?"

Shen Shi blinked, he always felt that there was something unavoidable in his mind, he was usually cautious, but he focused more on other things, in the final analysis, he was just a teenager who was only twelve years old, his love had not yet opened, and he was not as precocious as a little girl, and he really couldn't understand such ambiguous subtle words now. He only felt that what Zhong Qingzhu said seemed to be very reasonable, but there seemed to be something wrong, but he couldn't figure it out, so he simply didn't want to, anyway, the top priority now is to live first, where can he take care of these useless things called names, and said happily at the moment: "Okay, then I'll call you Qingzhu from now on, it's convenient to call it like this." ”

Zhong Qingzhu smiled, covered his mouth with his right hand, looked at Shen Shi's eyes as bright as water, and said, "Then what do I call you in the future, is it Brother Shen?"

Shen Shi waved his hand and said, "See you outside, just now you said that my mother will call you what I want to call you, so you can do the same, just let my father call me like that." ”

Zhong Qingzhu always felt that this boy was getting a little stupid the more he looked at Shen Shi like this, but he was strange again, but the more he looked at it, the more pleasing it became, he couldn't help laughing, and said, "Then why does your father call you?"

"Stones, or small stones. ”

"Hmm...... Okay," Zhong Qingzhu was silent for a moment, secretly despised the ability of Humpty Dumpty who had never met in his heart to choose a name, and then said, "Then in the future, I will call you Senior Brother Shen when there are outsiders, and I will call you Stone when there is no one, okay?"

"Whatever. Shen Shi waved his hand, looking unconcerned, and then frowned slightly, as if thinking about something.

Zhong Qingzhu looked at him and said, "What's wrong?"

Shen Shi was silent for a moment, laughed dryly, and said, "I just called you to ask you something. ”

Zhong Qingzhu nodded and said, "Then you ask, what's the matter?"

Shen Shi coughed, turned around and continued to walk forward, and said, "But because you suddenly pulled out a lot of things like names, I seem to have forgotten what I wanted to ask......

Looking at his back, Zhong Qingzhu shook his head and smiled, and followed.

The light in the cavern was like fireflies in the darkness, faint but so beautiful, floating gently behind them, as if it were eternal, floating in the darkness.

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I don't know when it started, Shen Shi suddenly found that the splashing sound that seemed to have been lingering in his ears seemed to have disappeared, and when he looked down, he found that he was no longer stepping on a puddle of water, but standing on a dry ground.

The direction of the entire cave, along the way, seems to have a tendency to slowly climb upward. Shen Shi was overjoyed in his heart, and said to Zhong Qingzhu, who was following him: "It seems that there is no water." ”

Zhong Qingzhu turned his head to look, and quickly reacted, with the same happy face, nodded with a little expectation, and said, "That means, are we about to go to the ground?"

Shen Shi smiled and said, "It's hard to say, but I hope a lot, you are not tired, if you are tired, take a rest, if you are not tired, we will continue to walk." ”

Zhong Qingzhu shook his head and said, "I'm not tired, let's go." ”

"Hmm. Shen Shi nodded in agreement, turned around and continued to walk. In this mysterious and deep cave, there seems to be a fluorescent stone vein, which has been continuing on the stone wall of the cave, sometimes bright and sometimes dim, but in the end, it illuminates the two of them in the darkness.

And as the water receded and the cave terrain gradually rose, Shen Shi and Zhong Qingzhu gradually felt that the hope of getting out of the predicament was growing, in this case, even the original fatigue was temporarily left behind by them, even if they were actually washed into the ground by the torrent from the beginning until now, they have been trekking in the dark cave for a long, long time.

The sound of footsteps echoed through the cavern, and there was still silence around them, wheezing louder and sweat began to trickle down their faces. But the terrain under his feet is getting higher and higher, as if to indicate that the exit is ahead, no matter who the two people are, even Zhong Qingzhu, whose left hand was seriously injured and broken, they all gritted their teeth and persevered, without stopping to rest.

Step by step through the darkness, through this deep and quiet cave, it feels like crossing thousands of mountains and rivers, chasing the last bit of hope.

Suddenly, a bright ray of light suddenly shone in front of him.

Shen Shi and Zhong Qingzhu saw it at the same time, and they both stopped and looked ahead.

There, there is a beam of light.

Familiar, warm light.

Shen Shi let out a long sigh of relief, and when he looked at Zhong Qingzhu again, he found that she was also very excited, her lips trembled slightly, and she happened to look at him.

Shen Shi nodded, smiled and said, "I'm saved." ”

Zhong Qingzhu seemed to have tears flashing in his eyes, and he couldn't say anything, just nodded heavily.

Shen Shi waved his hand and said with a smile: "Let's go, let's go out." ”

Anyway, he walked first, took Zhong Qingzhu and strode across the somewhat rugged ground on the ground, walked towards the light, and soon saw a hole in front of him, about one person as tall as one, full of moss, and the light shone in from outside the hole, although it was not very bright, but it was definitely above the ground.

Shen Shi was full of joy, and Zhong Qingzhu looked at each other and smiled, both with the relief and joy of the rest of their lives, and then walked out side by side.

It's just that at the moment when they stepped out of the hole, they saw the scene outside the cave clearly, and suddenly the two of them were stiff, in front of them, it was not the cave they fled into to avoid the huge waves, nor the beach where Zhong Qingzhu picked up shellfish before, at this moment in front of them, it was an extremely deep and narrow sinkhole, the bottom of the pit was only ten or so zhang square, and half of it was a waterhole, surrounded by cliffs, abrupt as a peak, as high as more than 100 zhang, and the two of them were at the bottom of this desperate Jedi sinkhole, like two extremely small ants。

(There's something going on tonight, and the two chapters are posted together.) ）