Chapter 727 Lei Ze Gui Mei
"Judging from the cow's running speed, the nearest city from here can be reached around seven or eight o'clock in the evening. If Zhou Wen doesn't want to sleep in the wild, there is a high possibility that he will stay there. The seven o'clock guess makes sense." Zhang Chunqiu said with a smile.
"I'm not as good at fortune-telling as you, Brother Zhang. I'm just making a random guess." Xia Liuchuan said with a smile.
"Then I'll just make a random guess, let's say 7:01." Zhang Chunqiu said seriously.
"You guessed 7:01, so I'll guess 6:59." Dugu Ge also said.
"Hey, isn't it a bit too much for you to bully others like this?" Xia Liuchuan said dissatisfiedly.
Zhang Chunqiu laughed and said, "Guessing the time is actually too easy. I think we should try a different method."
"If not the time, what else should I guess?" Xia Liuchuan couldn't think of anything else to guess.
"Let's guess which city he is going to take the wood to. What do you think?" Zhang Chunqiu said.
"Okay, let's make a bet. This time I'll let you guess first." Xia Liuchuan said.
"No need, let's write it on paper and then open it together." Zhang Chunqiu took paper and pen and gave them to Xia Liuchuan and Dugu Ge.
The three of them wrote down their answers and then opened them together.
After looking at each other's answers, the three of them looked at each other in confusion, because two of them wrote the imperial capital, and only Xia Liuchuan wrote Kyoto.
But Kyoto and the Imperial Capital have basically the same meaning, it’s just that the locals in the Imperial Capital are more accustomed to using the name Kyoto.
"It seems that we can't bet on this one either." Xia Liuchuan said with a smile.
"Let's keep it simple and bet on whether he can reach the imperial capital alive." Dugu Ge said.
"Yes or no, there are only two answers. How should the three of us bet?" Xia Liuchuan said.
"This is simple. There are three answers: reaching the imperial capital alive, reaching the imperial capital after death, and not reaching the imperial capital. The time limit is one month. What do you think?" Dugu Ge said.
"That makes sense. Who will choose first?" Xia Liuchuan looked at Dugu Ge.
"Since I proposed the rules, I will have the final say," said Dugu Ge.
Zhang Chunqiu looked a little solemn. He counted on his fingers for a long time before he said, "If no one competes with me for it, I will choose to go to the imperial capital after I die."
"I won't compete with you. I choose him to reach 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 to see what the result is," Zhang Chunqiu suggested.
"Okay." Dugu Ge stood up.
The three of them left the cafe together and followed the direction Zhou Wen left.
Zhou Wen carried the wood and left the city. Although he was riding a mighty Vajra Bull, carrying the wood still required a lot of physical strength. When he left the city, Zhou Wen's forehead had already started to sweat, and his clothes were soaked.
In desperation, Zhou Wen could only switch to the Ancient Emperor Scripture, merge with the soul of the Ancient Emperor of Reincarnation, and use the powerful vitality to continue walking while carrying the wood.
The mighty King Kong bull was not having an easy time either. Its speed was much slower than usual, and it ran like an old bull pulling a cart.
Not long after leaving the city and entering the mountains, the sky suddenly darkened. The sky was covered with dark clouds, and lightning bolts were like looming dragons, with hideous figures occasionally flashing in the clouds.
"Is it going to rain heavily?" Zhou Wen couldn't help but frown when he heard the thunder, staring at the thick dark clouds.
Dugu Ge, Zhang Chunqiu and Xia Liuchuan followed Zhou Wen from a distance. They did not chase him very closely. With the help of Zhang Chunqiu, who was good at calculating, they did not have to worry about losing him, nor did they need to get too close.
At this time, they also saw the dark clouds and lightning in the sky, but they were not as optimistic as Zhou Wen.
"Chunqiu, what do you think?" Xia Liuchuan asked solemnly, staring at the dark clouds in the sky.
Zhang Chunqiu counted with his fingers and said, "This is an ominous sign..."
"Don't try to fool me with your tricks. I want to hear the truth." Xia Liuchuan interrupted Zhang Chunqiu.
"To be honest, a forbidden creature is about to be born, and it doesn't look too weak. It seems you will be busy." Zhang Chunqiu said with a smile.
Among the three, only Xia Liuchuan needs Zhou Wen to reach the imperial capital alive so that he can win the bet between the three. Naturally, he will not let Zhou Wen die here. As long as he can win, Xia Liuchuan does not mind helping Zhou Wen.
While they were talking, Zhou Wen had already sped up, wanting to reach the city ahead as quickly as possible.
Unfortunately, the wood was too heavy, and even if the mighty King Kong Bull ran as fast as it could, it couldn't run very fast.
"No!" Zhang Chunqiu counted something on his fingers as he walked, looking around. Suddenly, his face changed and he cried out.
"What's wrong?" Xia Liuchuan asked curiously.
Before Zhang Chunqiu could answer, he heard a loud explosion in the sky and a bolt of lightning fell from the sky and landed in a forest near them.
Strangely enough, when the lightning struck the forest, arcs of electricity were visible to the naked eye. The forest covered by lightning was just flashing with lightning, but no fire broke out.
And this was just the beginning. Large amounts of lightning continued to fall in the forest, covering all the flowers, plants and trees with a layer of lightning. However, those flowers, plants and trees did not die. Instead, they became more energetic.
"Zhen on top and Dui on bottom, Lei Ze Gui Mei, it looks like this matter is not going well." Zhang Chunqiu said as he calculated.
Xia Liuchuan and Zhang Chunqiu had spent a long time together, and had a basic understanding of hexagrams. Upon hearing this, he said, "Lei Ze Gui Mei shouldn't be a dangerous hexagram, right? I remember hearing you say that Gui Mei means that for greater benefits, a certain price must be paid in exchange, just like marrying off one's sister."
"Although what you said is not entirely correct, it is not far off. However..." Before Zhang Chunqiu finished his words, he suddenly saw that the flowers, plants and trees covered by lightning seemed to come alive, their branches and leaves trembling, and shooting out bolts of lightning.
All of a sudden, crisscrossing lightning enveloped Xia Liuchuan and the other two.
Lightning of this level naturally did not have much impact on them, and Xia Liuchuan shattered it with a wave of his hand.
The sound of thunder rang out in the sky again. This time the thunder was particularly loud, shaking the entire mountain range. In the dark clouds in the sky, a ball of green lightning fell like a meteorite.
Boom!
A large area of forest was destroyed, and a figure emitting lightning all over his body appeared in the ruins of the forest.
I finally finished writing the fifth chapter, but I still owe two chapters, and the debt has not increased.
(End of this chapter)
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