Chapter 17 Chapter 17 Ripples.
At first, Fourteen's digging movements were a little stiff.
By the time he finished turning the floor over for the first time and then the second time, his movements had become very skillful.
With the hoe in his hand propped up at the edge of the field and his back supported, Lu Shisi looked at the new land he had turned over and sighed with satisfaction.
When he was a child, he was the best hoe swinger in the village.
"Village chief, I have finished turning the soil." Lu Shisi looked back and saw Qin Zhou was not idle either. He was squatting on the ground and placing a Lingxin fruit core in a small pit, just like a diligent... young man.
Fourteen touched his nose. He was still not used to the appearance of the young village chief. Although he could see that this body did not seem to be the village chief's own.
"Yes. Go back and fill up the holes where I planted the spiritual fruit cores. Don't use too much force."
"Oh!" Lu Shisi went there happily.
Halfway through the walk, Fourteen suddenly turned back—
"Village Chief, you still haven't told me where you have been all these years!"
Qin Zhou had anticipated his question, and without stopping to plant the fruit core, he replied: "...I went back to my hometown."
Fourteen was stunned for a moment, "Where is the village chief's hometown?"
"Heaven beyond heaven."
Lu Shisi suddenly realized: "No wonder we couldn't find the village chief before."
Qin Zhou knew that Shisi understood what he meant. Ten thousand years had passed, and the villagers who were still alive were no longer the ignorant teenagers they were back then.
"How are you doing?" Qin Zhou asked.
Fourteen swung his hoe and said happily, "I'm fine. I'm old now and have nothing to do all day, so I found a quiet hilltop, planted some flowers, raised some pets, and lived a carefree life."
Qin Zhou stared at his face for a while.
Fourteen's portrait is that of a baby-faced young man. Even now, he still looks only eighteen or nineteen years old. It is rather incongruous for him to speak in an old-fashioned manner.
"If you have nothing to do, come and farm for me." Qin Zhou replied.
Lu Shisi: “…”
Can you just pretend he didn't say it?
"Village Chief, I can't stay in the lower realm for long." Fourteen said seriously, "The laws of heaven and earth don't allow us to hang out in the mortal world. If we stay for too long, our souls will be damaged."
Qin Zhou raised his eyes and said, "Got it. Ask Lu Qi to come next time."
Hearing this, Lu Shisi's eyes changed, but only for a moment, he smiled again: "Yes, village chief, don't catch me and grab me."
"Then when can you go to the upper realm?"
Qin Zhou: "What kind of cultivation level can go to the upper realm?"
"Nascent Soul Stage?" Lu Shisi asked uncertainly, "I forgot." Hehehe.
Qin Zhou: "It's too early."
Lu Shisi also knew that he was now at the second stage of Qi Refining, so he smiled and said, "I'll come again next time and bring some good things for the village chief."
Qin Zhou: "Okay."
Qin Zhou did not refuse. He really needed to improve his cultivation. If the previous connections in the village could be put to good use, it would save a lot of trouble. Of course, Qin Zhou also heard some expectations from his words.
But Qin Zhou didn't ask.
Lu Shisi became happy again and swung the hoe faster.
"Fourteen, tell me about the others." Qin Zhou asked suddenly.
Hearing this, Fourteen's hoe tilted and almost broke the fruit core in the pit.
Looking back, Qin Zhou was staring at him. Fourteen laughed and said, "Who does the village chief want to know?"
Qin Zhou said nothing, but his eyes said it all.
Fourteen seemed to be blind and continued to talk to himself, "Second brother became a swordsman, while third and fifth brothers are still the same, one hiding in the mountains to refine weapons, and the other hiding in the mountains to refine pills." Fourteen laughed and listed all the treasures, "Some are like me, living a carefree life, and some have fallen."
Not everyone can live well. After all, time has passed and things have changed. Looking back, thousands of years have passed.
"Where's Lu Yi?"
A strange look flashed across Fourteen's face, "...The village chief is still the same."
His partiality is known to everyone.
He had reason to suspect that the village chief summoned him first just to ask about Lu Yi's whereabouts!
"If I say that Lu Yi is dead, what will the village chief do?" Fourteen asked.
Qin Zhou's eyes dimmed, "I should ask you the cause and effect."
"Village chief. Lu Yi is not dead." Fourteen said with a smile.
Qin Zhou: ...
"fourteen."
"I'm here, Village Chief."
"Go open up a new piece of wasteland later. Turn it over three times." Qin Zhou said mercilessly.
fourteen:"……"
You're such a biased person, you can't even tell a joke or make a fuss!
Just as he was about to walk away with the hoe, Qin Zhou's voice suddenly sounded behind him again.
"fourteen."
Lu Shisi turned around, "What?"
"Next time you come back, find a Soul-Growing Grass and bring it back."
Soul grass can be used as medicine to bring the dead back to life. Soul grass grows in the place with the most spiritual energy between heaven and earth. It is a legendary seventh-level elixir material and can be used to refine seventh-level top-grade elixirs.
Soul-giving Pill.
When Lu Shisi heard the words "Soul-Growing Grass", he almost jumped up, "Village Chief, forget about killing me. Soul-Growing Grass is a seventh-level elixir material. I can't find it even if I turn the upper realm upside down!"
"Soul-Growing Grass can save your life." Qin Zhou said calmly.
Fourteen's heart skipped a beat.
The relaxed and joyful atmosphere just now suddenly became quiet.
“Village Chief, you…” The playfulness on Fourteen’s face disappeared. He looked at Qin Zhou with his pupils shrinking slightly. Finally, he lowered his head slightly and said, “Village Chief, I can’t find the Soul-Growing Grass.”
"Three coins of White Crane Tears, five stalks of Soul-Replenishing Grass. The sixth-level Soul-Replenishing Pill can also extend your life."
Fourteen looked up suddenly.
"Can't find this either?" Qin Zhou couldn't help but frown. Are there fewer spiritual creatures in the upper realm than he imagined?
"I can find it, I can find it!" Fourteen responded repeatedly, his eyes almost wrinkled with smile.
"Um."
After Qin Zhou responded, he stood up, straightened his clothes, and prepared to leave.
"Village chief, where are you going?" Fourteen couldn't help but ask.
Let’s not talk about this anymore?
"Let's go check out the well." Qin Zhou said seriously, "We need water from the well to irrigate the water."
fourteen:……
Okay, okay, the village chief still cares most about this piece of broken land of his.
But how did the village chief know that his soul was severely damaged?
Whatever.
Fourteen shook his head, picked up his hoe, and ran to the next piece of wasteland.
When he reached a high place, he suddenly looked back and just caught a glimpse of the small village at the foot of a hill in the distance.
He had lived here for hundreds of years. Now, is it considered a return to his hometown?
There used to be beautiful mountains and rivers, his fellow senior and junior brothers, and a biased village chief.
All the excitement in the world was once gathered here.
Fourteen wiped away a handful of non-existent tears and felt deeply moved.
It's strange, why does he have a feeling that now that his father is back, he doesn't have to wander anymore?
…
It was not surprising that Qin Zhou could see Fourteen's situation.
When he played games before, he could also monitor the villagers' physical conditions through the character list. For example, Lu Yi was forced to take the marrow cleansing pill and became [weak].
Ever since he used the spirit essence to reactivate the character list of Zhutian Small Mountain Village, he can also see the status of the villagers.
In the upper right corner of the portrait of the baby-faced boy, the words [seriously injured] were clearly written.
This is also the reason why Fourteen was summoned here.
As for how Qin Zhou could tell that Fourteen's soul was injured... he saw it as soon as he opened his eyes. His soul had traveled to this world, but he seemed to still have some characteristics of the game mechanism. Even Qin Zhou himself had not figured out the reason yet, so let's not talk about it for now.
Fourteen was seriously injured.
Damage to the soul is more serious in this world than death of the physical body, and is more difficult to cure.
No one knew what had happened to Lu Shisi that caused his soul to be traumatized.
Qin Zhou can make the Soul-Fixing Pill, but the ingredients are hard to find. Any medicinal ingredient that can solidify the soul is at least a fifth-level spiritual object. Fortunately, according to Fourteen, he has the ability to be a free and easy person in the upper realm, so it shouldn't be difficult to find the ingredients.
It's just refining a pill.
Qin Zhou looked at his reflection in the well and felt calm.
The Lingquan Well can now be used.
If he collects the Spirit Heart Fruit once a month, his cultivation should improve rapidly.
It probably won’t take much time to go to the upper realm.
He knew that Fourteen was holding back when speaking today, but Qin Zhou did not expose him.
As far as he knew, Fourteen had the best relationship with Lu Yi and Lu Qi, but when he asked about the others' recent situation, Fourteen told him about the others one by one but avoided talking about those two.
In addition, in his character list, Lu Yi is still unsummonable.
All these things...are enough to show that a lot has really happened in the nearly ten thousand years since he left the game.
The well was rippling with light waves. Qin Zhou looked at it and suddenly a question popped up in his mind -
Although he cannot be summoned, Fourteen should not lie to him and Lu Yi is still alive.
But if Lu Yi is still alive...
How could the bright moon reflecting the snow be worn on Wen Jue's head?
A ridiculous thought suddenly popped up in Qin Zhou's mind -
Lu Yi and Wen Jue...
"Village chief, why did you give me a hairpin?" The young man, who was still young, stared at the white jade hairpin lying in his palm, his pupils shrank in shock. Then he thought of something and took two steps back suddenly.
"This is a birthday gift." Qin Zhou didn't think much about it at the time. He used an interactive gesture and touched the young man's head.
"No, how could you give me a hairpin?!" the young man raised his voice again.
"What's wrong with giving me a hairpin?"
The young man whispered, "...Old Seven said that when he was hanging around on the streets, he heard a storyteller say that hairpins were used as tokens of love."
Qin Zhou didn't think it was a big deal at the time. After all, the hairpin seemed to have some meaning.
However, Haoyue Yingxue was the first top-grade jewelry he had refined, and its properties were very suitable for Lu Yi, so he did not take it back.
At that time, my mind was full of training. I wanted to equip Lu Yi with all the best equipment, so I just sighed that the game AI was well done.
But if, from that time on...
Are the villagers he met no longer simply artificial intelligence?
After meeting Fourteen, Qin Zhou became even more certain of this.
If Lu Yi was not the character Lu Yi, but the living Lu Yi in this world.
It is not impossible that Lu gave the hairpin to someone else as a token of love.
If this is the case, it can explain why Wen Jue brought Haoyue Yingxue to set up a barrier for the village.
This idea was so absurd that Qin Zhou fell silent.
But only for a moment, he shook his head again.
Lu Yi would never give away the things he gave to others. Ever since he became his villager, that kid has always been competitive and vying for things.
Instead of asking him to believe that Lu Yi and Wen Jue have any relationship, it is better to make him believe that they are the same person.
After meeting Fourteen, Qin Zhou began to look forward to meeting Lu Yi.
And Wen Jue.
Wen Jue...
Thinking of this name, Qin Zhou seemed to be able to recall the touch from his fingers that day.
He looked down into the well.
The water surface, which should have been as calm as a mirror, was rippling for some reason.
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