Chapter 8: Red Clay
The five peaks of Wulong Mountain are different, among which the peak rich in oolongsaliva is the closest to the Wushan tribe, and further down, it is easier to meet people from other tribes.
Therefore, Su Ming is here most of the time, and only when he needs to collect some less herbs, he will move forward cautiously and always be vigilant.
Now in Su Ming's eyes, there was a mountain peak with billowing smoke at that time, and it was called Black Flame Peak.
This peak is said to contain a large amount of earth fire, and in the early days, it was the centerpiece of the land of fire. Now, I don't know how many years have passed, but if you get closer, you can still feel the heat wave on your face.
Su Ming is no stranger to this Black Flame Peak, he has stepped into it many times, and even met people from the Black Mountain tribe there, if it weren't for his flexible body to escape in advance, I am afraid that he would have already become a dead bone.
There, it is very close to the Black Mountain Department, and the Black Mountain Department and their Wushan tribe have a personal grudge for generations, the two tribes are about the same size, although there is no major war, but the small friction between the hunting teams is still bloody and cruel.
After hesitating for a moment, Su Ming's eyes showed a gleam, and after a long time, he withdrew his gaze towards the Black Flame Peak, walked a few steps quickly, and came to the depths of the platform where he was, where there were several large stones in the sunken position, and when Su Ming moved it away, there was a pressing thing under the stone.
It's a rough bow!
Although it was rough, the strings of the thick fingers were stretched straight, and you could faintly feel the explosive power contained in them.
The bow, in the Wushan tribe, only the hunting team can have, it is difficult for other tribesmen to get it, Su Ming's bow, after exchanging some materials for herbs, he made it himself, and he did not take it back to the tribe on weekdays, but stayed here, this secret, only Lei Chen knows.
Holding this bow, Su Ming's eyes flashed, and he took out five sharp arrows from under those big stones, the arrows were ground out of stones, and Su Ming would be here on weekdays with the tip of the arrow, which was extremely sharp.
Placing the five arrows in the basket behind his back, Su Ming took the bow and whistled to the little monkey, pointing to the herbs he had drawn on the ground.
The little monkey understood what it meant, bared his teeth, turned into a red shadow and went straight ahead.
Su Ming's expression was cautious, and he quickly followed him, and disappeared in place in a few flashes of one person and one monkey.
If you are familiar with this Oolong Mountain, even Su Ming can't compare with Xiaohong, under Xiaohong's guidance, when the sunset is red, the basket on Su Ming's back is already full of herbs.
There were seven or eight kinds of these herbs, each of which had a lot, all of which were similar to the patterns Su Ming was seeing, and he himself was a little indistinguishable, so he simply took them all away as long as they were similar.
"You say there's a similar herb here?" At this moment, seeing that the sun was about to set, Su Ming and Xiao Hong were in the jungle close to the Black Flame Peak, he pointed to the pitch-black silt in front of him and looked at Xiao Hong.
Xiaohong nodded again and again, and after gesturing towards Su Ming for a long time, she pointed to the sunset in the sky that was fading.
Su Ming's eyes flashed, and he squatted down, staring at the swamp and waiting for the sun to set. Time passed slowly, and after another half a ring, the light in the jungle dimmed by half, and it was as if the eyes would be swallowed up by darkness ten feet away.
At the moment when it was completely dark here, suddenly a large number of bubbling bubbles appeared in the mud, and a piece of red light loomed in it, as if it was swimming in a hurry, this strange scene made Su Ming's hair stand on end all over his body, but he still didn't move.
He couldn't take his eyes off it, watching the red rays in the mud continue to swim down, slowly emerging from the mud, which were red flower bones, their roots hidden in the mud, and the red rays were obviously moving.
Looking at the flower bones that came out of the mud, Su Ming saw them bloom with his own eyes, and there was an indescribable aroma spreading, Su Ming only took a sip, and immediately had an illusion of blood boiling, as if his whole body was surrounded by flames, and he wanted to spew out fire poison.
At this moment, Xiaohong on the side roared nervously, Su Ming did not hesitate, his body shook and went straight to the front and took a step, grabbing the red flower closest to him, holding a sharp stone medicine knife in his hand, he was extremely skillful, almost instantly cut off the flower and the root, and grabbed it and put it into the basket behind his back.
After doing this like a cloud, Su Ming did not hesitate to rely on the flexibility of his body, quickly retreated, and hurriedly left with that little red with all his might.
Just after Su Ming left, a beast's roar came out of the mud, and all the saffron flowers immediately shrank into flower bones, and instantly sank into the silt and disappeared, but soon, there was a piece of scarlet blood, oozing out of the mud, making the surrounding area covered with blood.
Su Ming and Xiaohong hurriedly fled until the sky was completely dark, and they looked at the day's harvest by moonlight on a big tree.
There were many herbs in the basket, and Su Ming was quite excited to see it, and the quenched scenes kept appearing in his mind, and he was even more looking forward to it.
"It's a pity that I don't know the specific effect of that dust-clearing dispersion...... But it shouldn't be bad!" Su Ming licked his lips and his gaze fell on the two herbs in the basket.
There is almost no difference in color between the two plants, and at first glance they are almost the same herbs, both of them are red, the only difference is that one of them has six petals, and the other has five petals.
Su Ming didn't know these two herbs, they were very unfamiliar, they were the only things he hadn't seen in the medicine that was refining and clearing dust, but fortunately, Xiaohong had some impressions of these two herbs, and he found them with Su Ming.
"Which one is what is needed to refine the medicine stone...... Su Ming frowned, his eyes swept over the two herbs, the six petals of which he obtained in the silt, thinking of the strangeness of its bloom, Su Ming faintly felt that if this thing was eaten in his stomach, he was afraid that he would die immediately.
Put these herbs back into the basket, Su Ming lay on the trunk of the tree, took a bite of the wild fruit, looked at the stars in the sky, breathed the breath of the jungle, and sometimes heard the sound of birds and beasts in his ears, as if his whole person became one with this jungle, this feeling made him very comfortable.
Xiaohong combed her hair beside her, looking around vigilantly from time to time.
A man and a monkey spent the night on the trunk of this jungle.
The next morning, when the early sun had just risen, the jungle was still in semi-darkness, and there was even a hazy mist looming, Su Ming and Xiaohong left the trunk and rushed towards the Black Flame Peak in the distance.
All the way Su Ming held the bow, extremely vigilant, the little red seemed to be also infected, and he was also cautious, when the sun completely rose and the fog in the jungle dissipated like snow, in front of Su Ming, a majestic mountain peak appeared, the mountain peak was brown all over, and a heat wave hit his face.
At the top of the mountain, a cloud of black smoke rose into the sky, and it was quite spectacular from a distance.
"Black Flame Peak ......" Su Ming muttered, after looking around cautiously, he rushed up the mountain without hesitation, he had prepared before he came, and there were a lot of heat-repelling herbs on the soles of his feet, and now his body did not pause at all, and he went straight to the top of the mountain to climb.
Although the climb was fast, Su Ming's caution not only did not decrease, but became more and more, and I don't know how long it had been, when he climbed the middle of the mountain, Su Ming was about to continue, when suddenly Xiaohong behind him hissed slightly.
This scream, Su Ming didn't think about it, the whole person shook to the side, directly against the cliff and hidden in a crack in the mountain, he clasped the mountain with both feet, opened the bow with his right hand, and quickly took out an arrow with his left hand, everything was completed in an instant, and that Xiaohong came one step ahead of time and stuck with Su Ming.
Su Ming breathed slowly, his eyes showed a cold light, in this position, once he met the people of the Black Mountain Department, if they showed up with each other, then it would inevitably be a life-and-death battle.
After a while, a faint sound of words came from within, and the sound of some stones falling off was mixed in.
"Early in the morning, let's dig up these broken stones, and I don't know what they're for. ”
"You've been talking all the way, and since it's the patriarch's request, we have to complete it. By the way, have you heard, Ah Gong seems to have broken through ......"
"I also heard someone in the clan yesterday say that Ah Gong seems to be different from usual, and now it looks a little scary. ”
"You said that the patriarch asked us to dig these stones, will it have anything to do with Ah Gong?"
After the voices of the two people gradually became clearer, they slowly moved away, and Su Ming leaned motionless against the crack, until he noticed that the two were moving away, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.
"The barbarians of the Black Mountain Department have broken through...... I remember Ah Gong once said that this barbarian of the Black Mountain Department is in the eighth layer of blood coagulation, but he has mastered an evil barbarian technique, so he can barely compete with Ah Gong. Su Ming's eyes flashed, and he was ready to report this matter to Ah Gong when he went back.
After waiting for a while and making sure that the two had gone far away, Su Ming was about to continue to climb upward, but at this moment, the little monkey beside him grabbed Su Ming's clothes.
Su Ming immediately turned around, but saw that the little monkey looked excited, and pointed to the depths of the crack where they were, where there was a small natural hole, and the heat in it was faintly dissipated.
Su Ming's eyes froze, and he immediately gave up continuing to climb, but approached the small hole, and after taking a closer look, he took off the basket he was carrying, and took it and drilled it in, and Xiaohong followed behind and drilled in together.
This small hole is not big, if it weren't for Su Ming's thin body, he would not have been able to pass through it at all.