Although Yun Ming and Pu Cha Shi set off more than an hour earlier than the pursuer Lin He, there was not much distance between them because... Yun Ming could not ride a horse.
Yun Ming has grown so old that, except for riding a horse a few times in the zoo before he was ten years old, he has no experience in dealing with such large livestock. In the city, horses are subject to speed restrictions, so Yun Ming can still pull the reins to make the horses go at a normal and steady speed; outside the city, when the two of them need to whip the horses and gallop, Yun Ming just catches them blind. ——This mount is not under his control at all.
No one can do anything about this situation. Yun Ming could only ride a horse and follow Pu Che Shi's horse, jogging in small steps. He couldn't go any faster. No matter how fast he was, he could drive the horse out of the road.
"Yun Ming, you are a mercenary, why don't you practice your riding skills? Even good horses have been turned into donkeys for you." Pu Chaoshi joked.
"Hmph, if it weren't for time constraints and I had been allowed to stay in this world for half a year, I could have launched the industrial revolution by the end of tomorrow." Yun Ming imagined the future amidst the bumps: "Who will still be riding horses and who will be practicing martial arts by then. With a heavy motorcycle on my hip and a submachine gun in my hand, I am invincible..."
"Okay, okay, stop dreaming." Pu Cheshi interrupted Yun Ming's talk: "Let's have a serious discussion about what we should do next."
"Before we start this topic, let me ask you one more question."
"what?"
"Pu Chai Shi, did you ride a lot of horses before?"
"Uh..." Pu Cheshi thought for a while: "I was indeed a member of the school equestrian team in high school..."
As soon as these words came out, Yun Ming instantly felt what it meant to humiliate himself: "The evil rich and aristocratic school... Isn't it good that your alma mater honestly established normal clubs such as basketball clubs, Go clubs, and dance clubs? ?”
"There are also relatively civilian societies... No, Yun Ming, what do you want to say?"
"Through my observations along the way, I found that your riding skills are very good. You can herd sheep just by setting up a horse pole." Yun Ming spared no effort to make it clear to the Pu chariot attendant that sheepherder is a profession that is very suitable for him: "Ordinary people should have similar reactions to me when they come into contact with equestrian sports, but you seem to be too skilled. I am also sure that you are not Mongolian or Tibetan, and you did not grow up in a horseback riding environment, so I feel strange. But since you I have received professional training in this area, so of course it’s nothing..."
Before Yun Ming finished speaking, Pu Chao Shi suddenly realized: "That's right! I can't possibly have such good riding skills!"
"Huh? Didn't you say you were on the equestrian team in high school?"
"Compared with the real riding skills, the kind of equestrian skills that focus more on ornamental effects are nothing like the same thing." Pu Cha Shi explained: "It's like no one would ride an acrobatic horse to participate in a horse race."
"Well, it seems I can add another item to my experimental record."
"how?"
"Obviously, your riding skills are inherited from the characters in the world of the book. The real frivolous young man written by Xiao Qi, it is completely reasonable to have this level of riding skills. And the NPC I replaced is a pure passerby. , it seems that there are no special skills that can be inherited."
"Hmm... Thinking about it this way, the world in the Book of Self-Redemption is really tailor-made for you." Pu Che Shi realized the important value of this power to Yun Ming: "My soul has returned to its place. In the end, everything that happened here is just a dream to me, and my riding skills will not be preserved, but it may be different for you."
Yun Ming raised the "Jinghong Sword Technique" in his hand: "That kind of thing can only be verified when we return to the real world. I will use these two days to study this sword manual. Is it like me? What I wish is that I can use the world in the book as a copy for my upgrade, and I will know once I have published the Book of Self-Redemption."
The original owner of this "Jinghong Sword Technique" is Peng Ou, the killer of the world whose whereabouts are still unknown, that is, Chu Zongyang. Last night, Ruan Dandan presented the sword manual on a starry night, and this item fell into the hands of Pu Che Shi. Yun Ming found it when he was packing his luggage in the young master's building.
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it. After obtaining the consent of the Pu Che Attendant, Yun Ming borrowed it and read it often.
"Let's go back to the follow-up action you asked just now." Yun Ming pursed his lips in front of him: "I have investigated everything clearly. The road we are taking now leads directly to Tianjin Wei. Let's hurry up and arrive in two days at most. .”
"What about after arriving in Tianjin?"
"There is nothing else. You forgot, the time we set with Xiao Qi to travel is one hour in the real world, which translates into sixty hours in the book world, or two and a half days. Calculated based on our footsteps, Unfortunately, when the agreed time to return came, we were still on horseback."
Pu Che Shi did some mental calculations and found out that at the speed they were traveling at, two days would be enough time unless they traveled both day and night. "Since there is a high probability that we will not be able to reach Tianjin, why should we go there?"
"This is related to the plan I will arrange later." Yun Ming began to explain his analysis to Pu Che Shi: "At the moment, our primary goal is to stay away from the capital. When countless heroes and heroes gathered in the imperial capital, the two of us did the opposite. To travel, first take the land route to Tianjin, and then take the water route by the Haihe River and take a boat out to sea."
"What, you want to go east to Japan?" Pu Che Shi asked seriously. He really felt that Yun Ming was not able to do this.
"Uh... I do want to explore the map, but I'm not crazy enough yet. In the future... we can stay in cities like Yantai, Yangzhou, and Quanzhou."
"I understand." Pu Cheshi understood Yun Ming's plan: "If you want to get away from the capital in the shortest time, sailing out to sea is the most effective way. At the same time, we can also complete the map exploration mission, which is simply killing two birds with one stone. .”
"Yes, that's what I meant."
"But..." Pu Che Shi changed the subject: "You also know that the background of this martial arts story written by Xiao Qi takes place in the capital, and other places are not described with much pen and ink. For example, Tianjin, which we are about to go to now , it’s not even mentioned in the original work.”
"How can you guarantee that Tianjin exists in this book world?"
Since Puche Shidao revealed this, Yun Ming had no choice but to tell the truth: "I can't guarantee it."
"Eh?"
"But don't forget, I sent out some servants from your house this morning." Yun Ming reminded: "I sent them to Chengde, Tianjin, Baoding and Datong to explore the road. Several people set out at nine o'clock in the morning , until we both left the house, no servants along the way came back to report the situation, which means that at least in the short term, everything is normal on the road ahead."
"That's it."
Yun Ming's flag didn't last long. Just as he and Pu Cheshi were riding leisurely on the official road, a fast horse galloped from directly opposite them, that is, from the direction of Tianjin. The two were more than a hundred meters apart. There was a young man in green shirt sitting on the horse, waving to the two of them and shouting:
"Master—Master—"
"Hmm..." The Pu chariot attendant narrowed his eyes and looked at the rider who came from a distance to pat his horse: "Yun Ming, the "young master" in his mouth is not talking about me, right?"
"It seems that Mr. Pu of yours lacks due consideration for the servants in the house." Yun Ming had already stood up and dismounted: "Even I, who only met him once this morning, can recognize this. This person is Li Gui, a servant of Pu Mansion."
"Tch...arrogant, domineering, and arrogant is Xiao Qi's character design for the frivolous young man. What does it have to do with my car attendant?"
The conversation between the two ended, and Li Gui happened to ride in front of them.
"Young Master!" Li Gui rolled off his horse and knocked the chariot attendant with a thud. He shouted in a tearful tone: "Little man... I almost never see you again!"
"Oh my god..." Puche said to his heart, "You make it seem like my behavior of disowning you just now makes people and gods even more angry."
Yun Ming stretched out his hand to help Li Gui up and pulled him to the side of the road: "Li Gui, please tell me if you have anything to do. Could it be that you encountered bandits and robbers?"
Yun Ming's conjecture
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, which is inferred from Li Gui's sentence "I almost never see you again." Ordinarily, this place is close to the capital and is an official road, so there shouldn't be any bandits cutting the path, but other than that, there is no possibility.
However, Li Gui's answer made the two of them confused: "No! I bumped into a ghost... The ghost hit the wall!"
Yun Ming and Pu Che Shi looked at each other in confusion: "A ghost beating the wall?"
"Exactly!" Li Gui swore, "Young Master, I never tell lies!"
"Hmm...please tell me your experience of meeting that ghost hitting the wall."
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A quarter of an hour later, the shocked Li Gui was left on the roadside by Yun Ming and Pu Chai Shi. The two walked to a distance and started talking quietly.
"What do you think about the ghost hitting the wall that Li Gui said?" Yun Ming asked.
Pu Chai Shi's expression was a little solemn: "According to what he said, he was riding normally on the official road, and suddenly the "way out" and "way back" were interchanged without warning. My understanding is that Li Gui traveled through a certain space. The node, from that node, the road ahead actually no longer exists.”
"I think so too." Yun Ming recalled a certain episode of Doraemon: "Li Gui's experience was equivalent to him trying to open a door to enter, but what he saw when he opened the door was his own side. The scene outside. It’s the same scene inside and outside the door, there’s no way to the interior.”
"This is a martial arts short story. It is impossible for Xiao Qi to force supernatural elements into it, so it is definitely not haunted." Pu Che Shi sighed: "The plan failed. The world in the book does have boundaries. We have arrived No more Tianjin.”
Yun Ming touched his chin, picked up a branch and counted on the sand: "At least we didn't get nothing."
"How to say?"
"Item 5 of the experiment record. The fictional world generated by the Book of Self-Atonement is suspected to be a circular sandbox with the main stage capital as the center and a radius of approximately 120 kilometers."
"Uh...how did you get this number?"
"It's just the Elementary School Mathematical Olympiad." Yun Ming drew a simple itinerary on the sand: "A horse can reach a speed of 50-70 kilometers per hour in sprinting, but according to Li Gui's explanation, he rode almost all the way to Tianjin without stopping. For a horse, running continuously for more than an hour is considered a long-distance run. In this case, the horse's speed is only about 30-40 kilometers per hour. Taking into account the loss of horsepower caused by fatigue, let's take 35 kilometers per hour."
"From nine in the morning to three in the afternoon, Li Gui ran back and forth non-stop for six hours. By the time he met us here, his horse had already traveled 210 kilometers. Including the distance we had traveled in the past hour or so. 30 kilometers, starting from Pufu and ending at the border, the total length of a round trip is 240 kilometers, so the one way is... 120 kilometers."
"Okay, Yun Ming." Pu Che Shi praised: "You are actually a little expert in arithmetic."
Yun Ming laughed dryly: "It's said to be the Elementary School Mathematical Olympiad... I don't feel honored if you praise me. Moreover, this conclusion is not necessarily accurate."
"Then why? The data sources are all estimates, too rough?"
"That's true for one thing. Another reason is that the official road leading to Tianjin is definitely not a straight line. The error between the real distance and the figure of 120 kilometers must be very large."
The two discussed it for a while, but it was obvious that they lacked basic tools and could not verify the authenticity of this conjecture. However, Yun Ming was still prepared to relay it to Xiao Qi after returning to the real world.
"what time is it?"
Puche's messenger used branches on the ground to build a simple sundial. This practical skill was naturally inherited from the NPC's knowledge. In reality, he would not look at this thing. "It's 2:30 p.m., that is, 3:30 p.m."
"Well... we don't have much time." Yun Ming squatted on the ground, supporting his head with his right hand, tapping his temples with his index finger rhythmically: "The original plan is ruined, then just come up with a new one... …”
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