"Haha, now that I have found you, it will be easy. Everyone must not be far away." Guan Heng was in a good mood at this time. He caressed the feathers of the snake-like bird and said, "Let's go and find them."
Just after walking a hundred steps, Shang Tianlin, who came after hearing the sound, appeared on the opposite side. She smiled bitterly and said: "Brother Guan, you have been here for several hours. If everyone didn't know your skills, you wouldn't be able to do it." If something goes wrong, everyone will rush out and look for you separately."
"Haha, I'm sorry, I forgot the time for fun." Guan Heng laughed at himself: "By the way, where are Brother Gou and Ruotao? Why don't you see them?"
At this time, Shang Tianlin said with a helpless look: "They, because something happened half an hour ago, they left me and the Ghost Swallowing Tiger, Xiang Snake Bird is waiting for you here, and ran away on their own. Will be back in a while.”
Hearing this, Guan Heng frowned slightly and asked casually: "What happened?"
"It has something to do with Ruotao carrying Qinghuang in the bamboo basket."
Shang Tianlin blinked and replied: "Not long ago, the bamboo basket Ruotao was carrying began to shine with colorful light again. Ruotao was yelling, saying that he had found traces of Qinghuang's remnant soul, and it happened that one of them moved very quickly. The monster rushed past the foot of the mountain, and Ruotao ran into the bamboo basket to catch up. Brother Agou was worried and followed him."
"So it turns out, this girl Ruotao is really concerned about Qinghuang's affairs." Guan Heng said at this time: "Have they not come back yet?"
Shang Tianlin shook her head: "No, they have been there for nearly an hour. I am a little worried. If it weren't for waiting for you to come back, I would have gone to find them, because whether it is the territory of the Poison Dragon Valley tribe, there are also people around here. The existence of 'foreign races', if Agou and Ruotao get into trouble with them and use force rashly, it will not end easily."
"You mean a foreign race?! Just like the Zhujian and Linghu tribes, they are foreign races that don't look much like ordinary people, right?" Seeing Shang Tianlin nod slightly, Guan Heng asked: "Nearby What’s the name of the alien race?”
"Well, let me think about it..." Shang Tianlin recalled it carefully, and then replied: "The range of seventy to eighty miles in the mountain forest on the left is the territory of the 'Yantou tribe'. Their characteristic is that they all have long mouths. They are very pointed, somewhat like a bird's beak, and the Yantou tribe is famous for worshiping the monster with a human face and a beak and two wings on its back."
Having said this, Tian Lin paused for a moment, then continued: "To the northeast on the right is the 'Fire-hating tribe'. The only difference between them and ordinary people is that they are covered with thick black hair. In addition, the Fire-hating tribe They are a foreign race that worships burning black fire. What they worship is a kind of monster with a human head, black hair, and an animal body. According to legend, it is the ancestor of the Fire-weary tribe."
"Yantou tribe, Yanhuo tribe..." Guan Heng read these two names carefully and then asked: "Tian Lin, are these two alien tribes not very friendly to ordinary people?"
"It's not just not very friendly." Shang Tianlin smiled bitterly and shook his head: "The people of the Tuantou tribe are hot-tempered and irritable by nature. When they meet business travelers passing through their territory, they will kill them if they disagree with them. They are extremely cruel. , I heard that the Fire-Tired Tribe has the habit of holding cannibal sacrifices on specific festivals since ancient times. In comparison, they are even more dangerous than the Yaotou Tribe!"
"My God, what kind of monsters are these?!" Guan Heng couldn't help but take a breath of air after hearing these anecdotes about alien races. He cursed in his heart: "Bah, bah, it's really unlucky to meet such alien races. I will stay far away from now on to avoid getting myself into trouble."
At this moment, the Ghost Swallowing Tiger, which had been resting nearby, suddenly growled and looked forward. It turned out that Agou and Ruotao, who was carrying a bamboo basket on his back, had run back quickly.
"Hey, young master." Ruotao saw Guan Heng and greeted him hurriedly: "You're back. Just now I noticed that Qinghuang's body in the bamboo basket had a flashing reaction, so I went to the foot of the mountain to check, and I saw one running very fast. The monster..."
"I know, so you and Brother Agou chased him, right?" Guan Heng asked at this time: "What happened next? Did you catch him?"
"Oh, talking about it really pisses me off." Ruotao stamped her feet at this time and said with a bit of anger and resentment: "Brother Agou and I chased that guy for half an hour, but we were blocked by a wide river. Blocking the way, let the monster beast run away."
"So that's it, I know." Shang Tianlin said at this time: "Brother Guan, that big river is called the Hun River, which is one of the largest water sources nearby, and across the river... is the territory of the Tuotou tribe. "
"Well, I can't avoid contact with those alien races, alas."
Guan Heng sighed softly at this time, and then he said: "Brother Gou, Tianlin, Ruotao, let's go to the bank of the Hun River now. I think it's getting late today. Let's stay on the bank." One night, we can set up a raft to cross the river tomorrow morning, it won’t be too late to go, anyway, I don’t believe that monster can reach the horizon.”
The other three people nodded slightly and said, "Well, that's all we can do."
…
That night, everyone sat around a bonfire on the bank of the Hun River and had a simple dinner.
Shang Tianlin looked at the gold snatched from Lishi Mountain and smiled with joy. She asked Agou and herself to gather the gold ore together, thinking about how to find the foundry in the next town and melt the gold ore. , to refine "pure gold shells" for everyone to carry easily, and at this moment, Guan Heng pulled Ruotao aside.
"This is a gold plate engraved with ancient characters. I can't read the handwriting completely. Please help me translate it." After listening to Guan Heng's words, Ruotao took the silk that Guan Heng handed over and looked at the rubbings on it. The ancient text didn't speak for a long time.
At this moment, Guan Heng waited a little impatiently and said: "Ruotao, what exactly is said on the golden disk?"
"Sir, these ancient texts talk about a magical thing called 'a thousand pieces of gold and heavy water'..."
After Ruotao heard Guan Heng's question, she replied: "The text says that this kind of thing is a thing left by the Western God of Gold in the human world. Although a thousand gold heavy water is in a liquid state, an ordinary person can hold a thousand kilograms of it in his hand. The weight, Liao Shuo once said, using this thousand gold heavy water to draw magical runes on the wrists and ankles can make an ordinary person feel like he is carrying several thousand kilograms of weight, and he can use this to hone his will and strength."
Having said this, Ruotao paused for a moment and continued: "But no one can completely withstand the power of the 'heavy water runes' from the beginning. Those runes can only be started from the first stroke, every day, every day." Gradually increase the strokes on the wrists and ankles every month. This is the safest way. In addition, the weight of water is very strange. Only when it is contained in a 'bamboo vessel' will its own weight disappear."
————(To be continued.) m.
