Chapter 5 The Fall of the Immortals

Bai Ya wanted to go to the wandering monk, not only to learn about this world, but he felt that he must have ignored something during the day.

Combined with what he has seen and heard in the past few days, during the day, those fierce gangsters should not be afraid of the bone chopping knife in his hand.

These people usually rely on fighting for their lives to eat, and face is more important than life. If the people of Shiyangji knew that they had become soft eggs in front of the fool's bone chopping knife, then they wouldn't have to mess around in Shiyangji anymore.

This matter must not be over, otherwise Lin Qigu and Lame San would not have discussed so much.

Bai Ya recalled the incident, and became more and more sure that he and Xiaoxin were saved by the wandering monk. This great monk who doesn't know where he came from, can travel to Shiyangji alone, he must be a capable person.

"If I really am a martial arts master, maybe I can ask him to teach me two tricks!" Bai Ya remembered the novel he had read before, and his eyes suddenly lit up, "Although the chance is not big, if you miss it, there will be no regret medicine to take." ”

It doesn't matter if you can't learn martial arts, at least you can learn more about the situation outside the Shiyang Set from the mouth of the monk in Youfang, at least you must be able to figure out what era you are in. Because of the identity of the fool, he usually didn't dare to ask other people in Shiyangji these questions.

After slipping out of the inn, Bai Ya walked in the direction that the wandering monk had left during the day.

Although the wandering monk said that he would not enter the house of tiles on the way to the ascetic, the cave has no bricks and no tiles. In the direction where the monk left, there were only a few caves, and if you took some time, you would definitely be able to find them.

The bright moon is cold tonight, the fierce cold wind is whistling on the street, there is not even a rooster or dog barking around, everything seems so quiet and cold.

Bai Ya shrunk his neck, wrapped his short jacket tighter, and walked along the leeward side of the cat's waist.

Suddenly, a dark shadow flashed across the air at the end of the street, and it disappeared into the darkness.

"Jackal, or wolf?" said White Cliff, cautiously halting and hiding his figure in the shadows of the street.

The Gobi Desert, where Shiyangji is located, is sometimes infested with jackals and wolves, perhaps because of the active life aura in this world, these animals are larger and more ferocious than the jackals on the earth.

They often sneak into the stone sheep market at night to steal food, and sometimes attack the old and weak women and children in the caves. Although these animals are not the legendary wild beasts, they will definitely not be able to deal with them if they are small in number.

It's just that the shape of the black shadow he saw just now was a little strange, and it was very sudden, almost fleeting, and he only saw a rough outline. After waiting for a while, seeing that the black shadow did not appear again, Bai Ya bypassed that side and continued to move forward.

......

"Master, master!" Bai Ya whispered a few words at the entrance of an empty cave, but could not hear any response, so he had to turn and leave.

He was slightly surprised, this was the third cave group he had found. The last cave group is in the north of the market town, a little far away, there is the edge of Shiyangji, there are fewer people, and the monk seems to not want to have too much interaction with the people of Shiyangji.

"Really, doesn't that big monk know that where there are many people, it's easier to turn into a relationship?" Bai Ya muttered, and continued to move forward helplessly, "It's been half a night and I haven't found it, could it be that the monk really left overnight?"

After walking for another ten minutes or so, Bai Ya approached the area where the last cave group was located, but he quickly stopped looking at the flickering firelight in the distance.

Although it is very cold at night in Shiyangji, there are still few people who burn fires to keep warm. The reason is simple: it is surrounded by the Gobi Desert, and there is very little firewood and charcoal for fire, and the price is very expensive, so it has to be transported from other places.

White Cliff ran towards the place where the fire was shining, but as soon as he approached the place, he was taken aback, and immediately hid his body behind the nearest small dirt slope, and he saw the thugs during the day again.

There were only three or four thugs, not as many as during the day, and they had torches in their hands and seemed to search for something.

"They're looking for that monk!"

There was a hint of solemnity in Bai Ya's eyes, he knew that these gangsters had lost so much face during the day, and they would definitely not give up. Unexpectedly, they didn't come to the Gu Lin Inn to look for trouble, and they really dealt with the wandering monk first.

"Hey, no, these gangsters are local snakes, how can it be that at this hour, they haven't found the monk yet. ”

After hiding in the dark and watching for a while, Bai Ya felt the disharmony, and thought carefully, "Could it be that the gangsters have already clashed with that monk, but they were escaped by the monk?"

Thinking of the conclusion he had reached, Bai Ya felt a little surprised. If those gangsters can win against that monk during the day, why do they have to wait until the night to do it, are they really afraid of the Gu Lin Inn behind him?

"Probably not!" Bai Ya shook his head in thought, the gangster's backer is a horse thief, and the horse thief is a lot of people, and he is not afraid of death. But just because there are two masters in the Gu Lin Inn, he will swallow his anger.

White Cliff slowed down, bypassing the torch-wielding thugs and walking in the direction they had come.

As he went deeper into this cave area, he suddenly saw a lot of traces of fighting along the way, and the gangsters had indeed done a fight with the big monk.

Following the traces of the fight, Baiya found a dilapidated cave.

There were a lot of footprints and blood stains left on the ground at the entrance of this cave, among which several large footprints left marks on the ground as deep as half an inch, which made Bai Ya look shocking, and there seemed to be a figure of a great monk stamping his feet and roaring in front of him.

Bai Ya squatted down, touching these footprints like knives and axes, and was amazed in his heart.

Although the ground here is all dirt roads, he can leave such footprints, which shows that his guess about the wandering monk is right, that monk is definitely a martial arts master.

Thinking of this, Bai Ya became a little excited, and probed his head into the cave in front of him.

The cave was empty, and there was a broken bowl and a clay pot broken into several pieces on the ground.

"It's ...... Goat's milk?" Bai Ya picked up the broken bowl and took a look, and found that there was actually a little white liquid left in it, and it did smell a little fishy like goat's milk.

Bai Ya felt strange in his heart, he had seen a debate on the Internet before, saying that monks can drink the milk of livestock!

The Central Plains taught Buddhism, and the monks abstained from meat and fishy. Meat is a genus of grass, referring to the five spices, onions, garlic, leeks, onions, and small garlic; Monks don't just eat plants and fungi, but they can eat anything without oil, meat, bones and blood.

Goat's milk is not fishy, because it is not fatal. Buddhist precepts do not specifically stipulate that goat's milk cannot be drunk, and Shakyamuni was once fed goat's milk by a shepherdess. But if you drink goat's milk, etc., if you take food from the lamb, you will leave the fruit of resentment.

Therefore, bhikshus who take the great vows generally do not drink goat's milk, even ordinary monks who do not drink it if they do not have other food.

"Who did the monk get the goat's milk from?" Bai Ya had an ominous premonition in his heart.

Although Shiyangji is located in the north of Saibei, the people in this place are basically Huaxia and do not have the habit of drinking goat's milk.

What's more, there is no grass or trees in the Gobi Desert, and there is no way to graze at all. Even the mutton in the Gulin Inn is basically delivered to the door by poor nomads, or regularly purchased from caravans from Liangzhou, but it is not as often as nomadic as the goat's milk can be obtained.

The newcomer may not know this, but Bai Ya is clear, so he feels very strange.

"Could it be ......" He suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly dipped his fingers into the remaining white liquid in the bowl, put it in his mouth and tasted it.

"It's not goat's milk, it's ...... Fairy milk?!" Feeling the faint sourness and numbness on the tip of his tongue, Bai Ya couldn't help but widen his eyes.

"Since there is fairy milk, then ......" Realizing what the liquid in the bowl was, Bai Ya looked at the cave floor a little nervously, and finally focused his attention on the crockpot that had broken into several petals.

He cautiously kicked the fragments of the crockpot with his foot, and then hurriedly jumped a little longer.

"Smack~" A relatively large crockpot fragment was kicked into the wall by him, and two small scorpions half a finger long actually fell out of it.

The two scorpions were small in size, light brown overall, except for some tiny spots on their backs, which were as black as ink as if they had been dripping with ink.

"Fairy milk, black spotted scorpion...... Sure enough, it's the Tengger Four, those damn horse thieves!" Bai Ya couldn't help but be full of anger looking at the two little scorpions crawling towards the corner, and now he knew why the horse thief leader wanted to wait until night to make a move.

The Gobi Desert, where Shiyangji is located, is on the edge of the Tengger Desert, and there are four things in this desert that are collectively known as the Tengger Four Fierces.

The first is called Poison Day, which is the sun in this area from June to July.

The sun in these two months has too long a sunshine time, and the caravan taking this trade route will not be able to withstand a few days even if it is well prepared. If you had to travel during these two months, the caravan would have been severely attritional, and sometimes a group would die in the desert.

The second is called the Red Lake, about 600 miles north of Shiyangji, there is a small oasis with a small lake with light brown water quality.

The water of the Red Lake is not poisonous, but it is more powerful than poison, it is alkaline water.

If a person who does not know the inside story drinks the water of the lake, there is nothing wrong at first, but before he knows it, he will ulcerate in the stomach and intestines and bleed in the internal organs. Next, don't say it's eating, even if you drink some water, you will vomit it out immediately. And this disease was born in the desert, and it basically didn't last for a few days.

Compared with the first two types of murderous creatures in the natural environment, the last two types of murderous animals in the Tengger Desert are plants and animals.

The plant is cactus milk, which itself is a cactus juice, milky white in color, and tastes and smells similar to goat's milk.

It's just that fairy milk carries neurotoxins that can make people hallucinate, and it is very toxic. A little dose can make people hallucinate, like being in a fairyland, so it is called fairy milk, and if you drink a little more, you will unconsciously go crazy.

If the monk really drank a bowl of fairy milk, Bai Ya was very worried about whether he would be able to come to his senses again.

The last of the Tengger Desert's murderous creatures is the black spotted scorpion, the venom of this small scorpion is not highly poisonous, but it is an excellent anesthetic.

The face of the young man surnamed Bai had been stung by this kind of scorpion before, and he suspected that the stupid child's facial paralysis was because his face was stung too much by a scorpion, and it was not treated in time, which caused the facial nerve to become what it is now.

Fairy milk and black spotted scorpion can refine the most commonly used sweat medicine for horse thieves - fairy pour!