Chapter 004: Distress
In the sea of yellow sand at night, the temperature drops quickly. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
In the past, Hu Jin was always busy digging a big pit, arranging oilcloths, small buckets, and collecting some drinking water.
However, when encountering the caravan of the shopkeeper Li, the clear water was enough. Of course, it is impossible to drink the snow water of Tianyun Mountain anymore, that thing is a luxury. Not only in the Yellow Sand Sea, even if it is out of the Yellow Sand Sea, it is just as expensive.
Finding a shelter from the wind and sand, Hu Jin began to set up a tent.
Of course, his tent can't be compared to Shopkeeper Li. It's just a small narrow tent that is more than one person long and half a person wide. The highest place in the middle was only enough for Hu Jin to barely stand up straight. If you change to an adult, you have to bow your head.
The tent is clearly a good thing, though. The support strips are all metal, light and tough, compared to the titanium alloys on the earth. In particular, the metal strips used to hold the tent at the four corners are put together like four slender pushpins, which can be deeply rooted in the ground to prevent the tent from being blown away by strong winds.
The bottom of the tent is supported by metal strips and is not in direct contact with the ground. Then spread the tarpaulin to prevent moisture and keep warm. Just be careful when you move, step on the metal bar, and don't step on the air. This is naturally not difficult for Hu Jin.
After setting up the tent, Hu Jin walked in, closed the curtain, took out a mat, and began to meditate. Slowly, his breathing became slow and steady, and the whole person entered a state of concentration. His eyes closed slightly, with the occasional blue glow shining through his seemingly closed eyelids.
"Tick...... Backbite...... ......Suddenly, the alarm sounded in Hu Jin's mind: "Someone sneaked into the sand under the tent and intended to assassinate." Hu Jin let out a long breath and withdrew from the state of concentration, his eyes opened slightly, and the sharp light flashed away.
He had only been pranayama for an hour, and he had just reached half of his usual time, and he was naturally a little uncomfortable when he was interrupted like this. "Tianhe, who is it?" Hu Jin's voice also sounded directly in his mind.
"It's a caravan guard. Tianhe replied flatly: "He took out a long sword, facing you, as if he was about to stab it." The body of the sword is blue, and the probability of poison on the sword is 87.11%," he said, calling up the image for Hu Jin to see. I saw the man lying in the sand, holding a sword in his hand, moving slowly, and after aiming at Hu Jin, he stopped moving. It can be clearly seen in the video that the man's arm muscles are tense and he is accumulating strength, and he will soon stab Hu Jin.
Hu Jin gently pulled out the long sword placed at his side and stabbed it down. It pierced through the heart of the man's top door. The man froze and could no longer move.
After pausing for a while, Hu Jin slowly withdrew his long sword. At this time, the night was already deep, and the night of the desert was extremely cold, and the blood on the sword quickly condensed into ice. Hu Jin flicked the sword lightly while pulling the sword, and the blood was scattered in the yellow sand, and no trace of it was brought into the tent. The man's body cooled quickly, and the blood clotted and did not spurt out. When Hu Jin's long sword was withdrawn back to the tent, not to mention the sword, even the bottom of the tent, there was not a trace of blood.
Hu Jin dared to join this strange caravan, and dared to settle down indifferently at night in a place surrounded by strangers, and his reliance was Tianhe, the super quantum computer.
Hu Jin traveled from the earth in the 24th century. Although his quantum computer was portable and had a rather retro name, it was the most advanced experimental new model in the world at the time.
If he weren't the military's CIO, he wouldn't have used it. Of course, the information officer is only good at processing information with the help of computers, and he is not an expert in computer hardware and software, nor is he a military expert or a combat expert, nor is he even a staff officer or secretary. His role is to give the most accurate information in the shortest possible time when the military chief asks.
The portable quantum computers of the 24th century do not have much in common with the 21st century, when the ancient Tianhe supercomputer just appeared.
It is deeply embedded in the DNA, and although it does not necessarily require a split to be implanted in the genetic material of every cell, it is quite numerous.
Theoretically, as long as one split exists, it can slowly replicate into every cell. Of course, adequate energy and nutrients are required. However, he was a soul piercing, and he didn't know how this latest experimental Tianhe entered his soul. The only thing he knew was that a month ago, on the day he became a Qi Refiner, Tianhe was successfully restarted. And in just a few days, it was fully recovered.
It was with the help of Tianhe that he was able to obtain Su Qinan's true biography in less than a month, and he was able to come out of the blue. As for the little things like getting taller and stronger, it's not worth mentioning at all.
Of course, another important reason for defeating Su Qinan was that he entered the first layer of Qi refining.
In the popular saying of the mortals of this world, he has entered the innate one. And Su Qinan is still the day after tomorrow.
Although there is only a slight gap with the innate one, this gap is also insurmountable.
As for Li Zhi, who is not good at bullishness during the day, he only has the seventh day after tomorrow, and he can barely be regarded as a first-class master among mortals. Compared with a top master like Hu Jin, it is still far behind. And the unlucky ghost who died under the tent, the acquired five-fold cultivation, among the second-rate masters, can not be regarded as the top.
Hu Jin was about to put away his long sword when the alarm sounded again. Immediately, an image came, of a figure busy by the sand dunes behind the tent.
"Tianhe, bring the image closer. Hu Jin commanded. "Okay. Tianhe said as he zoomed in on the image. This time, Hu Jin clearly saw that a man dressed in black and wearing a mask was hollowing out the roots of the sand dunes. While digging, it was temporarily supported by a not-so-solid wooden strip.
Obviously, he wanted to bury Hu Jin's tent deep after he left, when the sand dunes collapsed.
"Tianhe, who is this person?"
"Li Zhi. ”
Sure enough, it was him, Hu Jin secretly sighed, gently opened the door curtain, and walked out of the tent. The door curtain closed silently, and Hu Jin walked in the direction of Li Zhi.
With Tianhe's help, Hu Jin's every foothold was a dead end in Li Zhi's sight, and he easily walked behind Li Zhi and waved the long sword in his hand.
Li Zhi suddenly felt that something was wrong, and just as he was about to turn around and ask, 'Who is it?', a sharp long sword rested on his neck.
He swallowed with difficulty, and just as he was about to say something, a fist swept across the back of his head, and he immediately fainted.
When he woke up again, he found himself thrown over a campfire, and his whole body ached. The fire had been extinguished for a long time, and it was cold to the bone. Li Zhi couldn't help but shudder.
Early the next morning, when Hu Jin was about to have breakfast, someone walked up to his tent and said respectfully: "Hu Shaoxia, the villain is ordered by the shopkeeper Li to bring you breakfast." ”
Hu Jin looked at the jerky he had just taken out in his hand, smiled, and said outside, "Come in." Then he gathered away the jerky, which was as hard as a stone.
The people outside confessed, opened the curtain, and walked in with a big lunch box: "Hu Shaoxia, please use it slowly, after half an hour, the small one will come and pick up the lunch box." After saying that, he bowed his head and retreated.
Hu Jin took out the things, which were nothing more than steamed buns, porridge and two side dishes. These tricks are nothing on the earth, even on the oasis, Su Qinan's supply is more than that. However, in the heart of the desert, it is a luxury to be able to use a lot of water to steam steamed buns and cook porridge.
Plenty of stuff and enough for two adults to have a full meal. However, Hu Jin is different from ordinary people, he can easily eat more things, and he can easily cope with it if he doesn't eat for a few days. After all, he is also a top master in the eyes of mortals, and if you are serious, you have to be considered an immortal master. Bodily functions are far beyond what one can imagine.
However, there was another reason why he ate it all. Although these foods are not good-looking, they all contain a faint aura. This is true whether it is flour, meat or vegetables. This is extraordinary.
Don't say that there are no such things on the earth, even in Su Qinan's place, he has never eaten these. It is conceivable that Shopkeeper Li still paid the capital.
Hu Jin ate quickly. After eating, after walking slowly around the small tent twice, he returned to the small tent and sat down for half an hour, so as not to waste the aura in the food. After he had packed up the tent, the man came over again and took away the lunch box. When he set off, Shopkeeper Li personally came over and gave Hu Jin a sand horse. Then, he returned to his packer.
When he was on the road yesterday evening, the other party was not so polite, and he completely relied on Hu Jin to walk on two legs. Yesterday, I sent a bag full of water, but Hu Jin solved the dinner by himself.
Perhaps, this has something to do with Hu Jin not asking the other party for help.
However, today Hu Jin still has no intention of asking the other party for help, and the shopkeeper Li is delivering food and horses, which is quite intriguing.
If it was before, Hu Jin might still feel that it was useless and uneasy. However, he spared Li Zhi's life last night, and these things were naturally accepted calmly.
Of course, if Li Zhi dared to have a next time, he would definitely not spare the other party.
It may be that the gap between himself and Hu Jin is too big, and any small action is redundant, and Li Zhi is much more honest. Although Shopkeeper Li never invited Hu into his tent to drink blood and snow water from the Tianshan Mountains like he did for the first time, he was also quite enthusiastic.
The two sides are also fine.
Seven days had passed, and that morning the caravan marched as usual, while the sun was not intense.
After walking for less than half an hour, the people in front of them fled back with a crawl.
Walking to a place ten zhang away from Li Zhi, the man rolled down the saddle and dismounted, and shouted loudly with a pale face: "Big leader, there is a group of sand scorpions in front. If you don't have two pillars of incense, you will be killed. ”
"Panic what. Li Zhi glanced at the other party, and then gave orders to the people around him one by one: "Luo Tiancheng, pass the order, the whole team will be in a shrinking formation, and the defense will be circular." "Li Zhixiang, bring a group of capable guys and prepare to boil oil. After the team shrank, they dug a pit and poured oil. "Cao Wugen, order the guards to retract, all dismount, and get on the carriage to be on guard. The archers rested for the time being, while the rest of the men carried arrows and guarded the archers. ”
Li Zhi's orders were simple and clear, he was calm when he issued them, and his voice was loud and steady, and he was clearly a competent commander.
However, he wasn't really as calm as he seemed. After everyone got busy, he immediately whispered to Hu Jin: "Hu Shaoxia, don't you know if you are good at bows and arrows?" may feel that his question is a little unclear, he added: "Sand scorpions usually move in groups, and with the unified command of the Scorpion King, we are probably worse." So the Scorpion King must be killed. And the strength of the Scorpion King is between the first-class top master and the top master, and it is surrounded by a group of scorpions, so it is only possible to kill it with a strong bow. ”