"Leader, this trip will take a long time" Qin Ruo asked as he came to the leader's side in confusion. 『』

The leader smiled: "It won't be too long, about half a month." ”

"Then we carry these supplies on our backs, enough for us to eat for several years. Qin Ruo couldn't help but say.

The leader smiled faintly: "Ice Wheel Wood and Ice Wheel Gold Collection, once a year, these materials are prepared for the soldiers who guard Ice Wheel Wood and Ice Wheel Gold. They are on a year's rotation there at a time. These fighters are there to replace them. They just carried a year's worth of supplies on their backs. ”

Qin Ruo understood, but he was a little confused: "Chief, but this secret place, doesn't it belong to your clan, do you still have to guard it, you mean it is not to prevent spirit beasts or anything?"

The leader laughed: "Yes, there is a kind of eagle here, called the golden-beaked eagle, which likes to peck and eat ice wheel fruit the most. But these guys are very annoying, they peck and eat the ice wheel fruit, and they always peck it until they are full, and they will peck all the ice wheel fruit before stopping. Without the Ice Wheel Fruit, there would be no Ice Wheel Gold. Therefore let someone keep watch. However, the Goldenbeak Eagle also needs the Ice Wheel Fruit to survive, so we only guard the main piece of Ice Wheel Wood, and the rest of the Ice Wheel Wood is left to them to collect. But the Goldenbeaked Eagle is us, we can coexist with each other, and they always want to get everything. It's like the east and the south, and the white people who used to come from the west. ”

Qin Ruo understood, and said with a smile: "Speaking of which, these golden-beaked eagles are a group of robbers. ”

"Well, almost. Mbato laughed.

One night, they slept, and Qin Ruo meditated and cultivated.

After sitting for a while, Qin Ruo felt that someone was moving around him, but there was no malicious intent. When he opened his eyes, he saw a young man in his twenties with a sturdy body.

"What's the matter, don't you rest," Qin Ruo said with a smile.

The young man looked at Qin Ruo, looked at Mbato's side carefully, and then whispered, "Can you tell me about the outside world?"

Qin Ruo looked at him, put away the posture of meditation, made it casually, took out a bottle of wine and handed it to him: "The wine from my hometown." ”

"I want to know the outside world," Qin Ruo looked at him.

He nodded, carefully opened it and took a sip, and suddenly narrowed his eyes comfortably: "This kind of wine is really comfortable to drink." ”

Qin Ruo smiled slightly: "The outside world, in fact, is not necessarily better than you here. You live here, it's a pure world. It may even be the last clean world in the world. Your hearts are as pure as the ice of the Arctic, crystal clear and transparent. But in the outside world, it's as if black dirt has been sprinkled in the ice, and it has lost its purity. ”

The young man looked at Qin Ruo and sat with his hands on his knees: "But you make me feel very warm and comfortable."

Qin Ruo smiled: "Bad people don't necessarily make you feel uncomfortable. ”

The young man was a little silent: "But I want to go out and see the outside world." I wonder how people live on the outside. I also wonder why we have 50,000 people, such a huge population. Just the cultivators, there are more than five hundred. Our power is so strong, why, we want to hide in this small world like rats. As long as you leave this small world, and then walk thousands of miles, you can't see the end of the world. ”

Qin Ruo didn't know what to say.

50,000 people, for their world, may be a lot. But 50,000 people, put into the world

"Mr. Qin Ruo, you don't have to worry about telling him the truth. Young people, always wanting to see more, go to the outside world. "Mbato didn't know when he came over.

Qin Ruo looked at the young man, then at Mbato, and saw the affirmative extension of Mbato, so he cleared his throat: "Fifty thousand people, not much." In China, there are 1.4 billion people. Of course, that's the secular population. In the world of Huaxia's sects, the population now exceeds 10 million. 50,000 people is only a very small part of China. Huaxia, on the other hand, is not the biggest. In the whole world, there are more than eight billion people. It's just that in the world of cultivators, the population is probably going to exceed 100 million. ”

The young man was dumbfounded, he couldn't digest the numbers a little.

At this time, more than a dozen people gathered around, and obviously, they couldn't sleep. With them, more people gathered around, and in the end, except for the sentry, the rest of the people gathered around.

Mbato didn't say anything, just nodded to Qin Ruo: "Tell them about the outside world." When I was younger, I was like them. They always have to know something. ”

Qin Ruo nodded: "This world is not as small as you think, but very big. It's not thousands of miles, if you want to see the whole world, you have to go out tens of thousands of miles. Across the vast oceans, across the infinite land, southward, all the way south, to the southernmost part of the world, where it is twice as cold as here. And then between your world and the southern world of ice and snow, there is the hot world, where the seasons are evergreen, there is no winter, there is no snow and ice. ”

"The hot world is evergreen all year round, and if there is no winter, is it as warm as our warm season?" asked a young man next to him.

"It's much, much warmer than your warm season. In your warm season, you still have to wear thick fur clothes. But there, you can't get dressed at all, because it's too hot. For example, eggs, well, are eggs like birds' eggs, and in the summer, take a flat stone and put it on the ground for a while, and the eggs will be cooked. Qin Ruo said with a smile.

A young man said in horror, "Isn't it as hot as fire, and the sea won't freeze?"

"Well, it's definitely worse than fire. But it's really hot. Ice is never seen there. Qin Ruo said.

"The leaves of the trees there are all huge, and you see, the leaves of the trees here are all needle-like, and you rarely see large leaves. Because it's so cold here, the plants need to maintain their temperature to survive, so they need to reduce the proportion of evaporation and get as much nutrients as possible. But in that place, it is not needed. The leaves there can even be much larger than people. Moreover, grain can be harvested three times a year, and each harvest yields several times higher than here. Qin Ruo continued.

The people around were silent.

"When grain is harvested three times a year, the yield is several times higher at one harvest. Isn't one acre of land over there equal to ten acres of land here?" asked a man in his thirties in silence.

Qin Ruo nodded: "Almost." However, each region has its own special circumstances. Although there are abundant products, the hot weather can also bring difficulties that can only be found in the tropics. For example, typhoons and rainy disasters are very severe. In addition, there are many special plants and animals, which are produced in different regions. For example, the Ice Wheel Wood and Ice Wheel Gold here are the only ones in the whole world. This is a unique specialty. When conditions allow, you can use the specialties here to exchange them with others for specialties from other regions. ”

"Disasters, like a blizzard here?" asked a young man.

"Well, it's similar in nature, but it's not the same. However, typhoons are sometimes more terrible than blizzards. It will directly uproot the hundred-year-old trees and destroy them. Qin Ruo said.

"Hiss" someone gasped.

For them, that kind of thing is really incredible.

No matter how strong a blizzard is, it is difficult to cause such immediate damage. It's more about the longer-term consequences.

"However, so many people, even if the land has ten times the output, it may not be able to feed so many people," one of them asked tentatively.

Qin Ruo said with a smile: "Yes, we have many mountains and forests here, and there is not much land that can be cultivated. But in other places, there are many places, and there are endless plains, and there are endless plains and cultivated fields. Of course, the situation in the secret land is better, there is more land, but most of them are not cultivated, but let them develop naturally. After all, the important thing in the secret place is true qi. However, I think that one day in the future, there may not be much gap between the secret places in the world and the mundane world, and the interconnection between the two will be inevitable in the future. Then, in the future, the land of the secret land will be better used to feed more people. ”

And then there's some questions that they ask that many people on the outside seem too simple, but for whom they may never have an answer.

For example, how can there be countless species of trees in a forest?

For example, how can countless crops be grown in one piece of land?

For example, in the winter greenhouse, is there really zài?

And so on and so forth

Qin Ruo patiently explained slowly, and it was almost until dawn that Mbato dared to open people.

"Mr. Qin, I'm sorry, our people have been isolated from the outside world for too long. Moreover, we can't trust other people and we can't communicate. Mbato's apologetic look at Qin Ruo.

Qin Ruo smiled: "Actually, it's blindly closed. Not necessarily a good thing. In today's world, the changes are too fast, and the tremendous changes that have taken place in the combination of worldly technology and our cultivators are already having an impact. In the near future, it will be impossible to rely only on pure cultivators to gain a foothold. When you say people from the east and south, you should mean Americans. The Americans have now obtained the method for ordinary cultivators to break through the Jindan realm, and when the future is not too far away, their ordinary cultivators may be able to obtain your current strength. At that time, it will be difficult for you to hold on to the strength of your own race. ”

Mbato let out a long breath: "I know, but I can't help it. But you're a member of Mr. Egawa's family, so maybe you can help us. I know that your world is too far away from us to help us, and it will not be easy. But we really don't have anyone else to believe. ”

Qin Ruo looked at Mbato: "Believe me, in the near future, as long as you go west, as long as you cross the Bering Strait, which is not wide, you will be able to touch our territory over there." We have made up our minds to get back our people, the land they lost. The land on the other side of the sea to your west belonged to our ancestors. But then it was lost for many reasons. But now, we're going to get it back. That won't be long. ”

Mbato looked at Qin Ruo, nodded slightly and smiled: "Mr. Jiang Chuanfeng once said that your race is a great race. You can do it. I'm looking forward to that day as well. It's time for us to go, or let's wait a day and leave tomorrow. ”

Qin Ruo smiled: "No, for cultivators, if you don't sleep for a few days, there's no problem." ”

On the way, Qin Ruo hurriedly and quietly took out some water and drank it: The body is fine, but the mouth is really tired