"The closest city to here, judging from the strength of the cow's legs, is estimated to be reached at seven or eight o'clock in the evening. If Zhou Wen doesn't want to sleep in the wild, there is a high possibility of living there, and he can guess at seven o'clock. That makes sense." Zhang Chunqiu said with a smile.
"I'm not as good as Brother Zhang. You can do calculations. It's just a random guess." Xia Liuchuan said with a smile.
"Then I'll just take a guess, it'll be seven and a half." Zhang Chunqiu said seriously.
"If you guessed 7:01, then I'll guess 6:59." Duguge also said.
"Hey, hey, isn't it a bit too much for you to bully others like this?" Xia Liuchuan said dissatisfied.
Zhang Chunqiu said with a smile: "Actually, it's too easy to guess the time. I think it's better to try another guessing method."
"If you don't guess the time, what can you guess?" Xia Liuchuan couldn't think of anything else to guess.
"Let's just guess which city he will take that piece of wood to. What do you think?" Zhang Chunqiu said.
"Okay, here's the bet, this time I'll let you guess first." Xia Liuchuan said.
"No, let's write it on paper and open it together." Zhang Chunqiu took the paper and pen and gave them to Xia Liuchuan and Duguge.
The three people typed down their answers separately and then opened them together.
After reading each other's answers, the three of them looked at each other, because two of the three of them wrote about the imperial capital, and only Xia Liuchuan wrote about Kyoto.
But Kyoto and Imperial Capital basically mean the same thing, but the locals in Imperial Capital are more accustomed to using the name Kyoto.
"It seems that this one is not a bet either." Xia Liuchuan said with a smile.
"It's better to keep it simple. Let's bet on whether he can reach the imperial capital alive." Duguge said.
"Yes or no, there are only two answers. How can the three of us bet?" Xia Liuchuan said.
"It's simple. Go to the Imperial City alive, go to the Imperial City after death, and not be able to go to the Imperial City. Aren't these three answers? The time limit is one month, what do you think?" Dugu Ge said.
"It makes sense, who chooses first?" Xia Liuchuan looked at Dugu Ge.
"Since I proposed the rules, I will make the final choice." Duguge said.
Zhang Chunqiu looked a little solemn. He calculated with his fingers for a long time before he said, "If no one wants to rob me, I will choose to die and go to the imperial capital."
"I won't compete with you. I choose him to go to Kyoto alive." Xia Liuchuan said.
"Then the remaining answer belongs to me. I guess he can't reach the imperial capital." Dugu Ge said.
"In that case, let's go together and follow him and see what the result is." Zhang Chunqiu suggested.
"That's fine." Dugu Ge stood up.
The three of them left the coffee shop together and followed the direction Zhou Wen left.
Zhou Wen left the city carrying the wood. Although he was riding the Great Vajra Ox, carrying the wood still required a lot of physical effort. When he left the city, Zhou Wen's forehead had begun to sweat, and his clothes were wet. Thoroughly.
In desperation, Zhou Wen could only switch to the ancient emperor's scripture, merge with the soul of the ancient emperor's life in reverse, and borrow the powerful life force blessing to be able to carry the wood and continue walking.
Dawei Vajra is not easy either. It is much slower than usual. It runs like an old cow pulling a tow truck.
After leaving the city, not long after entering the mountainous area, the sky suddenly darkened. The sky was covered with dark clouds. Strips of thunder and lightning were like looming dragons, and ferocious figures occasionally flashed among the dark clouds.
"Is it going to rain heavily?" Zhou Wen couldn't help but frown slightly when he heard the thunder, and stared at the thick dark clouds.
Brother Dugu, Zhang Chunqiu and Xia Liuchuan followed Zhou Wen from a distance. They did not pursue him very closely. With Zhang Chunqiu who was able to pinch and calculate, there was no need to worry about losing people, and there was no need to get too close. .
At this time, they also saw the dark clouds and thunder and lightning in the sky, but they were not as optimistic as Zhou Wen.
"Chunqiu, what do you think?" Xia Liuchuan asked, staring at the dark clouds in the sky solemnly.
Zhang Chunqiu counted his fingers and said, "It's an ominous sign..."
"Don't fool others with your stereotypes. I want to hear the truth." Xia Liuchuan interrupted Zhang Chunqiu.
"The truth is, a forbidden creature is about to be born, and it doesn't look too weak. It seems that you will be busy." Zhang Chunqiu said with a smile.
Among the three, only Xia Liuchuan needed Zhou Wen to reach the imperial capital alive before he could win the bet between the three of them. Naturally, he would not let Zhou Wen die here. As long as he could win, Xia Liuchuan would not mind helping Zhou Wen.
While they were talking, Zhou Wen had already sped up, wanting to reach the city in front of him quickly.
Unfortunately, the wood was too heavy. Even if the Vajra Ox tried its best to run, it couldn't run very fast.
"That's not right!" Zhang Chunqiu pinched his fingers as he walked and looked around. Suddenly, his expression changed and he shouted.
"What's wrong?" Xia Liuchuan asked strangely.
Before Zhang Chunqiu could answer, he heard an explosion in the sky and a bolt of lightning fell from the sky, hitting a mountain forest near them.
Strangely enough, when lightning struck the forest, arcs of electricity were visible to the naked eye. The forest shrouded by lightning only flashed with lightning, but no fire broke out.
And this was just the beginning. Large areas of thunder and lightning continued to fall in the forest, making all the flowers, plants and woods covered with thunder and lightning. However, those flowers, plants and trees did not die, but became more energetic.
"Zhen Shang Dui Xia Gua, Lei Ze returns as sister, it seems that something is not good." Zhang Chunqiu said while calculating.
Xia Liuchuan had been with Zhang Chunqiu for a long time and had some simple understanding of the hexagrams. Hearing this, he said: "Lei Ze's Guimei Gua shouldn't be a dangerous hexagram, right? I remember hearing you say that the meaning of the Guimei hexagram is It means that for the greater good, a certain price needs to be paid in exchange, just like marrying off your own sister."
"Although what you said is not entirely correct, it's not too far off, but..." Before Zhang Chunqiu finished speaking, he suddenly saw that the flowers, plants and trees covered by thunder and lightning seemed to have come to life, and their branches and leaves were messed up. Trembling, he shot out streaks of thunder and lightning.
For a moment, crisscrossing thunder and lightning enveloped Xia Liuchuan and the others.
This level of thunder and lightning naturally did not have much impact on them. Xia Liuchuan shattered the thunder and lightning with a wave of his hand.
The sound of thunder sounded again in the sky, this time the thunder was particularly loud, and the entire mountain range seemed to tremble. And among the dark clouds in the sky, there was a ball of cyan thunder and lightning, falling like a meteorite.
Boom!
A large area of forest was destroyed, and a figure radiating thunder and lightning appeared among the ruins of the forest.
