Volume 1 The Rhine Chapter 16 The Past
Stepping on the bluestone road of Banjiao Town, walking all the way to the north, until looking north, when the closed stone valley gradually showed a superimposed and staggered shape on the left and right, they finally came to the border of Banjiao Town, Su Xuan was a little impatient, if the scenery along the way was pleasant, he could ignore the fatigue of the road as much as possible, if he walked in a vast and monotonous gray world like yesterday, most of the time he would have a heart disease.
Similarly, a row of symbolic fences was placed at the entrance of the town, and next to it stood a pennant that he recognized as "Half Corner"
Walking here, the woman in white stopped, turned her head sideways and said to Su Xuan, "Don't move here, I'll go and come back with a bottle of water." ”
She raised the empty gourd bottle to Su Xuan, reminding him not to do anything that would anger the public.
Su Xuan nodded and watched the woman leave.
Suddenly, someone patted him on the shoulder, and someone heard someone say, "Little brother, do you want to ride in the car!" ”
For a while, Su Xuan thought that he was still in the Rhine order circle, the kind of motorcycle driver who came up to pick up passengers after getting off the train at the station.
But this is a sandbank, even if there is a trade route with the mainland, it is unlikely that this kind of business opportunity will be born, and it will be a loss.
He turned his head, and there was a short old man of seventy or eighty years old, straddling a small dilapidated and rusty tricycle, his eyes like an eagle.
"Put your luggage on! I'll take you away, the price is fair. Seeing the stunned young man, the old man looked stubborn.
"No, no, I'm still waiting for someone. And ....." Su Xuan shook his head again and again, and glanced at the rusty three-wheeled again, feeling that this guy was very unreliable, or he was here to touch porcelain. The head of every village is a place of right and wrong, and Su Xuan will not be easily fooled.
"What? Look down on me, old man? ”
In the face of his questioning eyes, the old man's butt left the mat, his body pressed the pedal, the front of the car turned left, and suddenly, he drifted from Su Xuan's left to the right.
This trick of the dragon flicking its tail is really chic. Su Xuan gave a thumbs up and praised, "Awesome!" The old gentleman is one in one, and the old man is stronger. ”
Su Xuan has also drifted on a car, but it is the kind of two-wheeled bicycle, living in the Rhine, unless he is in a city like the end of the city with leisurely living habits, he can't ride a bicycle just like the ancients couldn't ride a horse. It's not that you don't have the ability, but it's a basic skill.
But to learn to drift, not everyone can do it easily, for example, the ancients may not all be able to "pull the ground".
Therefore, there are 369 and so on who can ride, and there are actually 369 and so on who can drift.
It's like this old man, who turned the original "dragon tail flicking" trend into a small snake twisting his waist, small and exquisite, this subtle skill of the unity of heaven and man should be the third class. To be Su Xuan, you must have at least three meters wide and nine meters to run to complete this set of movements.
The layman looked at the excitement, and Su Xuan, who knew this way well, admired this old man from the bottom of his heart.
Unexpectedly, the old man was not finished, it was a pedal three-wheeler, and when the old man twisted the throttle handle, there was a series of "dedede" sounds under the iron basin.
The noise rumbles, such as scalpers snoring, and the dirty smoke wafts "fragrant", choking people's hearts!
Passers-by looked sideways and saw that the mount was running like a horse, galloping like lightning, and they all stopped to marvel.
Su Xuan.
I was so shocked that my eyes were about to pop out.
"How?" Sanlun stopped beside Su Xuan, and the old man asked with a smile, "Old man, I can still rely on my skills!" ”
"Ness!" Su Xuan nodded and gave the old man a thumbs up, leaving only amazement in his heart.
This isolated tribe would not be surprised if they encountered a horse, camel, ox cart, donkey cart, or whatever; But if you meet an old man who can not only drift, but also modify three-wheelers, it will really be a hell of a thing.
"My speed, I will ensure that you will reach the foot of Tiansheng Mountain in half a day! And you can also pay on credit, fair and fair. How is it? ”
"But ......"
Although it is true that if you have a powered car, you can get to your destination faster. However, it is better to ask the girl Hu first. If you are not familiar with the place, you may not know that you are being sold, so it is strange that such an old man who is out of place in the times appears in this tribe.
"Wait." Su Xuan's brain jumped, and suddenly a very critical question came to mind, "How do you know that I am going to Tiansheng Mountain?" ”
The old man smiled, "Because I'm ......"
"Patriarch ......"
A voice of surprise came from behind.
It turned out that the woman in white came back, carrying a gourd full of clear water, and was looking at the two of them with some surprise at this time.
"What? Patriarch! ”
When Su Xuan heard the woman's words, she retreated again and again, hid behind the woman, and pointed at the old man's nose, "It's you, the old guy!" ”
"Say, how do you know I'll be in that valley! I got lost with my companion, did you arrange it on purpose? Miss Hu, this old man is very dangerous, be careful. ”
Tear it or not, anyway, if it is a game set up by this old man, then the old man will not know that Su Xuan will not be able to guess this matter.
"Although the patriarch is an easy-going person, isn't it too rude for Childe to do this? Aren't the people in your circle the most courteous? ”
The woman did not help him this time, but respectfully walked up to the old man and whispered a few words to him.
The old man nodded, his sharp gaze became gentle, and then he stared at Su Xuan again, and said to the woman, "You go back first, I'll deal with this kid." ”
The woman turned over and jumped on the back of the big-footed creature named Qiluo, pulled the bridle, and left.
Su Xuan's heart was cold, forgetting that this woman was arranged by the patriarch to pick him up.
"Do you want to go?" The old man didn't bother with him, and said, "Don't go, you'll go by yourself later!" ”
When Su Xuan heard this, he jumped on the three-wheeled iron shell in three steps and two steps, "Let's go, old man!" ”
"You should be thankful for the guy who picked you up from the garbage in the first place, otherwise, you'd still be a lonely ghost, let alone have been through it like this."
The small tricycle was grinding on the ancient stone bricks, and the old man's voice came softly.
"Maybe that guy thought you were pitiful at the beginning, but don't force it, you're an outsider."
The youth is ordinary, and only when he experiences a different ordinary, the ordinary will become extraordinary.
"Come to me, don't be inhibited, now you have two choices. Give us what Old Man Lin left you, and we will deal with the rest of the matter, and you can continue to return to your previous peaceful life; The other option, take that thing, dispose of it according to your judgment, who to give it to, how to dispose of it, we don't care. My job is only to bring you out of the battlefield. When those of your companions take you in and leave, you will go as long as you want. Also, all your consumption here has to be repaid, if you dare to eat the overlord meal, I will break your legs! ”
Su Xuan said yes again and again, fortunately he is a reasonable person.
"Is it possible to take credit?"
"Plus interest."
“......”
The most threatening force that Su Xuan is facing now is the empire, he thought about it, but still didn't hand over the box.
The old man didn't say anything, and he could probably guess what he thought. After all, the old man showed in front of Su Xuan, but he was able to arrange for someone to pick him up in the camp a few days ago, and the ability to predict the future made him feel very amazing, and he always felt that the origin of this isolated sandbar tribe was not simple.
"Sir, there's one thing I want to tell you."
He made a little verification, and by the way, he returned the favor.
The old man really seemed to be able to anticipate his thoughts and said, "You want to talk about 'Longtan Wood'." ”
"Exactly."
Su Xuan reminded, "Before I went into the desert, I had heard similar words, and those people were the same kind of people as last night. But it seems that it shouldn't be the enemy of the girl in white. However, you also have to be careful, these people not only have knives, guns and clubs, they also have advanced internal weapons. ”
"Advanced?" The old man held a pipe in his mouth, swallowed the clouds and spitted mist, his eyes narrowed into a slit, and said very unfavorably, "It's just a bunch of brute monkeys who have learned to put on clothes, a long time ago, they plundered with stones, and after a long time, they just replaced the stones with gunpowder, and now, they just replaced the gunpowder with starships and cannons, do you think there is any difference between them?" ”
Su Xuan thought about the old man's words, and seemed to feel reasonable, if the empire was primitive, they must only be wearing skirts made of rotten leaves, holding sharpened stone tools in their hands, and rushing up with two golden bamboo pole legs, robbery.
But it seems a little wrong, they are driving starships and guns now, and when their brains are hot one day, they will directly order a certain star, and there will be no ashes left for you.
The difference is huge.
"Sir, although I know that this sandbar is very secretive, and the people here are 'stronger' than the people outside, if you underestimate them...... Well, if you think it's good, you think it's just that I think it's okay. ”
Halfway through speaking, Su Xuan immediately changed his words. It's dangerous, although I learned from the woman in white that this old man has seen the outside world, but who knows if he will have the stubborn root of closing himself and turning himself in, such as going to that Shuilian Town, telling those residents that there are no gods in this world, and ensuring that his hands and feet will not be broken.
Follow the customs, follow the customs, for what, so that you will not be killed.
The old man didn't point out anything about his grassy behavior, but there was a hint of displeasure and a little surprise in his eyes.
I marvel at what kind of environment can shape such a character as a teenager.
"Okay, I know you won't stay with us, with me, you can choose your own business, stay here for a while, and when the people who received you come here and find you, you can go. However, you have to pay for your own food, clothing, housing and transportation here, and we don't accept the young master. ”
The boy smiled, "It should be, it should be." ”
He could also see that although the old man didn't like him a little, he was still a good person.
The mountain turns around, and when I walk out of the narrow road of the valley that is straight and dangerous, my eyes suddenly light up.
Su Xuan couldn't open his eyes for a while, but he smelled a soft air, earth, grass, clear spring, river sand, full of vitality.
Abruptly, in the center of that field of vision, an icy and snow-capped mountain stands in the warm lake, the water in the lake melts from the iceberg, and there are large areas of grassland on the periphery, and countless eaves and houses are built on this pasture in such a patchwork, there is no such dense grass as the wind blows the grass and the cattle and sheep, and the head Su Xuan has seen the two-legged upright livestock before, looking from a distance, like brown, white, and black clouds, floating on this basin.
Su Xuan lived in a somewhat smoky town before, even if he came to the prosperous end city later, he felt that they were wrapped in a dark apocalyptic atmosphere, before that, Su Xuan had never seen such a place, even by looking at it, it made people feel comfortable and happy.
That abrupt glacier should be the Tiansheng Mountain that those people mentioned before.
At first glance, the only object that can be called a "mountain" is an iceberg.
Su Xuan was a little surprised, it was an iceberg, crystal clear, without any impurities, and huge in size, like a piece of meteoric ice outside the sky.
His surprise was that in this dry desert, he really couldn't imagine anything that could sustain the heat exchange of this iceberg.
"Do you really think we're only going to fight with fists? Do you really think we can't kill the lord trapped in the sand? Do you really think that the iceberg is a meteorite from outside the sky......" the old man said lightly, his tone slightly different from the arrogance and mockery of those in the end city with gold on their faces.
Then, Su Xuan heard him say, "Yes, that's right. ”
Su Xuan was stunned when he heard it, he thought of a word in the book of war, virtual and real, real and false, I don't know if it's true, I don't know if it's false, no matter which one, it's not easy to decide.
When they reached the place where there was a monument, the old man threw down the broken three-wheeled car that looked like an ox with asthma, got out of the car, and replaced them with a carriage with a nested two-legged monster.
The rest of the way was much quieter.
The old man continued, "Compared to the fancy weapons you have outside, we do only have fists; Fifty years ago, the Zerg Lord who came after Lin Su caused us so many casualties, and this account should be settled with you. I don't know the specific origin of that iceberg, but I know that my ancestors carried it together during the nomadic period. ”
Su Xuan said, "In other words, the incident that the old shopkeeper said about fifty years ago is not a rumor. ”
The old man was noncommittal.
"I wonder why those people want to kill you, and can't wait to grab that box and take it for themselves?"
Su Xuan said, "At least, I don't want to die one day without knowing it." ”
"That's all?" The old man asked.
Su Xuan replied affirmatively, "That's all." ”
"Don't you want to get this kind of thing yourself, you will get more things, such as power, money, beauty?"
Su Xuan thought about it for a while, and asked the old gentleman in a low voice, "Really?" ”
The old man slammed his fist on the kid's head, and he was angry, "Worthless guy, I don't dare to ask you for it when I hear you say this." ”
Su Xuan touched his aching forehead, inexplicably aggrieved.