When Su Chen opened his eyes again, he saw the wooden roof. He was stunned for a moment, and then realized that what he heard before falling asleep was not an illusion.
Was he picked up and taken home?
After moving his fingers twice, the pain that affected his whole body had disappeared, and his body had obviously recovered a lot.
Su Chen released his spiritual consciousness and explored the environment he was in. He couldn't take it lightly until he was sure whether it was safe.
After investigation, he found that he was in a village. The houses were all built of wood. One thing that made him slightly concerned was that the pedestrians in this village were mainly women and children. Where have the young adults gone?
Finding that the people in this village had very low cultivation levels, Su Chen was a little relieved. At least in such an environment, safety issues could be guaranteed.
Withdrawing his consciousness, he suddenly realized that his consciousness covered most of the village, but Huang Qiaoqian and Yin Jiao were not found.
"Could it be that there was an error in the transmission and I was separated from them?"
Just when his mind was turning, the door was suddenly opened, and then he saw a slender figure coming in carrying a wooden bucket that was almost half his height.
"Hey!"
Su Chen looked around and saw that the other person seemed to be in his teens. He was wearing cloth clothes and had two braids. His facial lines were slightly angular, but his eyes were very clear and watery.
He looked at the little girl, who happened to put down the bucket, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and turned to glance at Su Chen.
When their eyes met, the little girl was stunned for a moment, and then a look of joy appeared on her face. The first words she casually said made Su Chen look shocked.
"Brother, you're awake!"
There is nothing wrong with the words themselves, but the other person has the appearance of a "little girl" but a real boy's voice!
The "little girl" obviously didn't realize this, and said happily: "Don't move yet, I'll call grandpa!"
After the "little girl" finished speaking, she turned around and ran out.
Seeing that the other party didn't give him a chance to speak at all, Su Chen laughed dumbly and lay peacefully on the bed, waiting for the person to come.
Not long after, there was a sound of footsteps coming from outside the house, from far to near, and then the "little girl" from before came in first, followed by an old man in his seventies.
"Brother, are you awake?"
The old man spoke out. Although he was seventy years old, his voice was full of vitality.
Su Chen nodded and sat up, "Thank you for saving me this time."
Before the old man responded, the "little girl" chirped: "Brother, we all thought you wouldn't wake up, because you fell from the sky and broke a big tree!"
Su Chen's expression was a little unnatural, not because of these words, but because he was clearly staring at the "girl's" appearance, but his voice was that of a boy, and he was really not used to it.
"Ahem, Dong'er, be careful what you say!"
The old man coughed twice and reminded him that this was just a casual conversation, how could he say it in front of others.
"Brother, don't be surprised. When Dong'er saw you waking up, she was inevitably excited and spoke without restraint for a while."
Hearing this, the corner of Su Chen's mouth twitched slightly, meaning you really said such things!
"It doesn't matter, children's words are not forbidden."
Su Chen smiled and didn't care. After all, the other party was also his savior.
The old man smiled and patted the "little girl" on the head, "Dong'er, be good, go play with Huya and the others."
The "little girl" nodded obediently, "Yeah, okay!"
After saying that, he turned around and ran out.
The old man withdrew his eyes from him, turned to look at Su Chen, his expression was extremely serious, and he asked cautiously: "Brother, are you from the three-party army?"
Su Chen noticed the change in the other party, he frowned, a little confused, "Three armies?"
Seeing Su Chen's puzzled eyes, the old man breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "It seems that this little brother is from somewhere else."
"So be it."
Su Chen was vague. He had already understood that the current Tianwaitian was different from the former Tianwaitian. It was better to keep the matter of his coming from the lower world a secret.
Realizing that Su Chen didn't want to confess, the old man smiled lightly and didn't care. As long as he wasn't from the three-party army, he would welcome anyone.
"Haha, brother has already discovered it, right?"
The old man moved a wooden stool next to him, sat on the edge of the bed, and said with a faint smile: "The contradiction in Dong'er."
Su Chen raised his eyes slightly and nodded slightly.
The old man seemed to be lost in memories at this time, and sighed, "If it weren't for the three armies, Dong'er wouldn't be wearing the clothes of a girl."
"Dong'er...is actually a boy."
It can be heard that the reason why boys pretend to be girls comes from this "tripartite army".
After the old man finished speaking, he stopped, looked at Su Chen, and blinked. Seeing that he didn't respond, after a while, the old man couldn't help but ask, "Aren't you curious?"
"What are you curious about?"
Su Chen looked at him sideways, curious about the three armies? This is just a place for him to stay temporarily. He will leave after his injury recovers. What does this so-called three-party army have to do with him?
The old man choked and sighed: "That's right. I come from somewhere else, so naturally I won't stay here for a long time."
"The next words should be regarded as the old man's complaints."
After the old man finished speaking, he began to talk to himself.
From his words, Su Chen understood that this place was in an extremely remote place in the east of the sky. How remote the place was, the old man didn't know. He was just a nobody and had been in this village all his life.
Originally, the people in the village relied on the "divine tree" left behind by their ancestors and lived a leisurely life without competing with the world.
But when the old man was a child, a war spread here. The Sanfang prefectures and counties that controlled this extremely remote place started fighting for the territory, and various groups of legions started fighting. They kept coming to the village to force young men to join the army.
A battle for the territory has been going on for hundreds of years, and in this village, apart from women and children, only the old and the weak are left.
In this way, the three armies still don't let go. They will suddenly come every five years and lower the age for forced recruitment. Now they don't even let children go. This is going to break the roots of the village. !
Fortunately, the three armies only recruited men, so the village came up with the idea of letting the boys pretend to be girls, hoping to avoid it once.
The old man said a lot in one breath, and then he took a deep breath and said, "Thank you, little brother, for listening to my complaint, old man."
Su Chen shook his head slightly, it was not in vain, he also got some useful information from it.
"Have you never thought that after those people came to the village and found that there were no men, they turned to attack women?"
Hearing this, the old man was stunned and said with some uncertainty: "Maybe... no?"
Su Chen said calmly: "They can even lower their age, what else can't they do?"
The old man was immediately speechless.
Su Chen continued: "Instead of being clever, why not practice hard and be strong enough to protect the people and things around you."
His series of words were so precise that the old man was speechless. After a long time, the old man sighed: "I don't know something. When our ancestors moved here, there was nothing left except the piece of divine tree."
"Everyone knows that there is an end to cultivation. If it were not for a long life, no one in the world would practice cultivation."
"Old man, my cultivation of pill formation is based on the few words left by my predecessors."
"Well, if those people are really so unrestrained, old man, I will risk my life to let the children escape!"
The old man looked absolutely determined and had obviously made a decision.
After saying that, he stood up and patted his butt, "Okay, I won't disturb your rest. After you recover, leave as soon as possible. Don't be targeted by the three-party army."
After watching the old man leave, Su Chen lay down again, looked at the roof, and called in his heart.
"Tiandao, I know you are here."
