Xiao Lingling's eyes welled up with tears. When she saw this, she seemed to understand everything instantly.
The Akang family lived hundreds of years ago and hid here to avoid war.
The family relied on his father's mining for a living, but one day the mine suddenly collapsed, burying Akang's father inside.
The mainstay of the family was lost, and his mother was in a daze. She lost her footing and fell into the water while washing clothes by the river. In a short period of time, Akang became an orphan.
What is the ultimate fate of children who lose their parents? He was warned not to run out alone, so he obediently waited for his parents to come back. Time passed day by day, and finally the hungry Akang had no strength to wait anymore, so he leaned against the pillar at the door of the room and died quietly...
Xiao Lingling burst into tears. Situ Wuya was also affected by his emotions and his nose was a little sore.
Their spirits did not dissipate after their death, because their father cared about their family, and their mother cared about A'kang, who was alone, and A'kang wanted to see his parents again...
Akang didn't know that he was dead. His knowledge still remained after his parents' accident, even hundreds of years later.
The spirits of his parents were also trapped at the place of death, unable to escape, wandering for hundreds of years.
That's why Akang followed his memory and came to the long-dried river to look for his mother who drowned that year, and to the mine that had been filled in to look for his father.
Situ Wuya held back his tears, picked up A Kang's thin withered bones, and wanted to bury him where his soul rested.
The thin and dry frame was very light, as if it had no weight. Just as he picked it up, a long wooden sign fell to the ground.
Xiao Lingling stepped forward to pick it up and cried again.
Situ Wuya couldn't help but glance at it and saw four small words engraved on the wooden sign: Health and Safety.
Suddenly, the lion-like man shed tears.
"God, you don't have eyesight!"
After burying Akang's bones, Situ Wuya thought of his mother who died in the river again. He went back to search for a long time, and finally found his mother's bones buried in the sand at the bottom of the river bed where he met the "female ghost".
Burying a family of three together in the mine was the only thing that the two witnesses, Situ Wuya and Xiao Lingling, could do.
At night, Situ Wuya lit a fire beside the mine and sat shoulder to shoulder with Xiao Lingling.
"Akang, it's quite embarrassing to be called brother and sister so many times by someone who was born hundreds of years before us. But... I hope that I can really have a little brother who calls me brother Wuya... ..." Situ Wuya "chatted" with Akang while warming himself by the fire.
He knew that A'kang couldn't hear, and what he said was of no use, but if he kept it in his heart... that would be really uncomfortable!
"Elder brother... don't make me cry..." After hearing Situ Wuya's words, Xiao Lingling's eyes suddenly became moist again, and the corners of her mouth curved slightly downward, looking pitiful.
Although they didn't get along with A'kang for a long time, they all liked this child from the bottom of their hearts. Of course, the more reason was that they felt sorry for him.
The bonfire was blown by the wind, and sparks flew towards the two people's faces. A golden bell shield appeared on Situ Wuya's body automatically, but Xiao Lingling was so smoked that she waved her hands vigorously.
"How annoying! Why does the fire always rush in the direction of people!" Xiao Ling said with a bulging spirit.
"Probably...Akang heard what I said and gave us a hug. I heard that people who are separated by yin and yang, it is taboo to touch each other. When the wind has a shape, what blows over is no longer a spark. , but because of the pain caused by the taboo of touching..." Situ Wuya sighed and started to feel EMO.
Xiao Lingling pinched Situ Wuya's golden bell hard, but found that she couldn't pinch it. She could only stamp her feet angrily and cry: "Elder brother, I hate you!"
After a night's rest, Situ Wuya replenished the Gang Qi in his body and led Xiao Lingling through the forest, looking for a way out.
Akang said that there were villages and towns near them. Although this happened hundreds of years ago, he still wanted to look for them first.
After a morning of searching, Situ Wuya finally saw a small town located on the edge of the forest.
After asking the local people, I found out that they moved here from a village in the forest. The original village was abandoned because the annoying fog often obscured the view and was not conducive to the growth of crops.
"Most of the people in this village are descendants of the residents of the villages and towns mentioned by Akang. I wonder if they know how to get to Mucheng." Situ Wuya said.
Mucheng is their next stop. Once they arrive at Mucheng, it will be quick. There are highway-like highways connecting the subsequent cities, making travel extremely convenient.
After asking about the direction and road to Mucheng from the people in the village, the two set off again.
"If nothing else happens, excluding the rest time, the more than 400 miles of road can be completed in about four days, which is almost the same as the time they spent on the journey in the original work. In other words, I prevented a lot of loneliness along the way, but on the contrary, I was able to finish it. I'm trying to restore what I saw along the way with my junior sister. After getting along with me these days, I feel like my junior sister is becoming more and more dependent on me?" Situ Wuya quietly stared at Xiao Lingling beside him, thinking to himself.
The difference is obvious when compared with the original work. Even Situ Wuya himself feels that he has violated the system's wishes and no longer wants to continue to fulfill his obligations as a villain.
"It would be nice if I could always do this...catching fish every day in the mountains, and leading my junior sister to fight monsters easily after coming down. No matter what the result is, what I saw along the way is worth remembering..." Situ Wuya was a little tempted.
But when I think about waiting for my relatives in the original world, maybe they are still worried about him missing for so many years. They can't sleep day and night. When they finally fall asleep, they will dream about his various deaths. Law.
Maybe they thought they were dead, or were suffering inhuman treatment. The sooner they went back, the sooner they would end the suffering of fear.
"No, no! I want to go back! This place has nothing to do with me!" Situ Wuya shook his head desperately.
"Elder brother, what's wrong with you? Is your head uncomfortable? Could it be that you caught a cold last night..." Xiao Lingling asked with concern.
"It's okay, it's just that my neck is a little sore." Situ Wuya prevaricated.
Suddenly, he remembered something.
"Wait a minute, why am I paying so much attention to these side plots? The previous main plot has been sidetracked. Maybe Lingling will no longer have entanglements with Han Xing after coming out this time. The relationship between them is at most written by the author to satisfy the readers. Yes, it won't have any impact on the main plot at all. I have worked hard to change it, so I might as well take it step by step. In addition, as long as Lingling is not in danger, I will become her biggest danger, so as not to let her My favorability is too high." Situ Wuya thought.
At this moment, a figure squatting on a tree in the dark flew into the sky, transformed into a vulture, and flew in the direction where Situ Wuya and the others were going.
"You are so powerful and you don't even wield a sword. It seems like this is our chance. Go back and report to the boss!"
It was much faster than Situ Wuya and the others, and it quickly passed over their heads and flew ahead.
Time soon came to night.
Situ Wuya and Xiao Lingling arrived at Mucheng before dark.
This is a relatively large city with a radius of over a million people, and it also gathers monks from all over the world. It is equivalent to a transit station in the five realms of the wilderness.
Situ Wuya and the others belong to the Great Wilderness East Region. In Mucheng, more than a few thousand miles to the west is the Central Region, and further west is the Western Region, spanning thousands of miles.
Xiao Lingling's hometown is close to the Northern Territory. To reach Mucheng, you still have to go north for more than four hundred miles.
Mucheng's economy is booming, and before entering the night market at this time, the streets are already lit up, looking particularly soft in the dusk.
Vendors of all sizes were hawking along the street. Situ Wuya also saw four men in short shirts pushing a cart with monsters in it. Everyone around them reacted with a normal expression.
"There is actually an industry of selling monster beasts?" Situ Wuya thought while stroking his chin.
In this world, even monsters can become a labor force as long as they are strong enough to enslave them.
Monsters that look ugly but are strong will be captured and used as coolies. Imprisoned by iron chains and runes, these monsters will continue to work until they die, and then they will be ruthlessly abandoned.
Monsters that look good, are not poisonous, and are edible will be treated as food, captured and sent to the slaughterhouse to provide to people in need.
Usually only nobles or monks buy the meat of monster beasts, because most of the edible monster meats are tonics. No matter where you eat them, they are at least beneficial to the body.
Finally, we need this relatively special existence, the humanoid monster.
Um... I don’t need to introduce this in detail. As long as this kind of monster that is born to look like a human can be seen through and is female, most of the endings are...
Of course, there are also those who are slaves and maids. As for the outcome, it all depends on how humans choose.
However, such behavior will naturally make the monsters dissatisfied. After all, monsters are not vegetarians and would not like their kind to be humiliated by humans.
In short, if a city wants to sell monsters, in addition to having the strength to enslave monsters, it must also have enough strength to resist the revenge of monsters, which is city defense measures.
I don’t know about other places, but the Eastern Region usually requires a monk in the transformation stage to be in charge before he dares to do such a thing.
"Thank you for your hard work. I wonder what the price of the monster beasts is today?" A fat-bellied businessman came to the man transporting the monster beasts, stopped the prison car and asked.
"We won't sell it for less than twice the normal price. Boss Zhu, seeing that we have cooperated so many times, if you can accept the order, we can get a better discount." One of the men said.
"Twice the usual price? But what happened?" asked the vendor named Boss Zhu.
"The monsters in Po Mao Mountain seem to have been summoned together by something. There are very few left alone. I'm afraid we won't be able to catch so many in the recent period. The supply of goods is tight!" replied the man who caught the monster.
"It can't be that a demon general has appeared! Didn't the city lord lead his troops to clean up once not long ago?" The businessman was stunned.
"Who knows, in short, the last cleaning has seriously damaged the city lord's vitality. I'm afraid he won't be able to control that monster in a short time. Although he is just a monster general, no one with a Nascent Soul stage cultivation level can't defeat him. What's more, What's more, it has summoned so many monsters, it can't be... that it wants to take revenge on us!" The man hesitated.
They are just small casual cultivators in the foundation-building period, and they can only catch some weak monsters and sell them to make a living. As for big monsters like monster generals, they can't do anything about it. They can only hope not to encounter monsters when they go out to catch them. superior.
Situ Wuya's sharp ears overheard their conversation and came to the conclusion that it was very dangerous outside.
"That's right, it's the Hidden Moon Period. It's probably because the city lord was worried that he couldn't defeat those monsters during the Hidden Moon Period, so he cleaned up before the time came. As a result, he missed a monster beast that was about to break through the Demon General." Situ Wuya reasoned.
