Inside the room, the lady exhaled steam evenly and deeply, and she was still sleeping.
Li Banfeng lay on the bed, counting the holes on his body.
Zhai Xiu’s recovery ability is very strong, but the iron wire worm’s ability to burrow holes is also very strong. After a day’s rest, Li Banfeng still hasn’t fully recovered.
But he's going out today.
This is not only the nature of travel cultivation, but also the fear of unfamiliar environments.
It sounds a bit contradictory. Isn't it the job of a traveler to venture into unfamiliar environments?
That depends on how unfamiliar it is.
When Li Banfeng just got off the train, he at least knew that the place he was in was called Yaowanggou.
Now he had no idea where he was, all he had seen before was a wasteland.
He was worried about leaving the keys in such a place for a long time.
Li Banfeng ate something, put on his top hat, and left Suishenju.
The key is still on the wasteland, more than 20 meters away from the rushing "Iron Wire River".
This wasteland is very flat, with no mountains, no trees, no grass, and not even a stone can be seen.
In this environment with almost no reference points, it is easy for people to get lost.
But Li Banfeng knew the way back.
Walking back along the river, at his speed, it wouldn't take long for him to get back to the familiar place.
Li Banfeng hadn't walked much for two days, and he felt his joints were a little stiff. After running nearly three miles, he was out of breath and sweating profusely.
Li Banfeng leaned on his knees and gasped for a long time.
That's not right!
No matter how bad the condition is, it is impossible for a second-level traveler to be unable to run three miles.
Moreover, his current cultivation level is not as simple as the second level. During this new land reclamation, Li Banfeng encountered Feng Daiku and the iron wire worm one after another. His cultivation level has increased for more than half a year and he is very close to the third level, but it is so difficult for him to run even three miles. This really does not make sense.
Li Banfeng opened the kettle and took a big sip, then looked at the "eternally flowing" Tiexian River and walked slowly along the river.
After walking another two miles, Li Banfeng stopped.
He couldn't walk anymore; his legs felt as heavy as if they were dragging heavy shackles.
And he didn't know where to go.
I had thought it through clearly before. I could return to the original place by walking back against the "Iron Wire River".
But he didn't expect that the Tiexian River had tributaries.
There are three tributaries ahead, which converge into the Tiexian River in front of us.
Which tributary should Li Banfeng follow to go back?
Judging from the width of the tributaries?
These three tributaries look similar.
The thing that Li Banfeng was most worried about happened. He got lost in the new place.
In this situation, Li Banfeng heard from Ma Wu that all those who had gotten lost in Xindi and survived had only one experience - to leave everything to fate.
In the new place, a lot of common sense does not apply. Judging the direction depends entirely on memory and intuition. If the intuition is correct, you can get out. If the intuition is incorrect, no one knows what will happen, because those with incorrect intuition are dead.
What should we do in this situation?
Li Banfeng calmed down and thought about countermeasures.
Li Banfeng doesn't believe in intuition.
He decided to go back along the first tributary on the left. He was unconscious in the portable room for a total of twenty hours, and the key to the portable room also followed the wire worm for twenty hours.
Li Banfeng felt that he was faster than the iron wire worm. If he walked backwards for twenty hours and found himself back in a familiar place, it would prove that he was on the right track.
If you don't take the right route, just go back and start over. The round trip will only take about 40 hours.
Maybe fifty.
There's something wrong with my current condition. I may not be able to move faster than a bug.
There are three rivers. If you take the wrong route on two of them, it will only take you a hundred hours at most. The last river must be the right direction.
Given the current situation, the worst-case scenario is that we will have to walk for more than 120 hours, 16 hours a day, and we will be able to get out in eight days.
There is enough food in the portable house, but drinking water is a little tight. If you really can't walk anymore, you can ask the record player for help.
It’s not that he doesn’t trust the record player, it’s because the record player has been sleeping and there’s no telling when it will wake up. She has eaten special ingredients and there’s no telling what the consequences will be if he wakes her up forcibly. What if by the time she wakes up, she has drunk all the water and it will be too late to say anything.
Moreover, the record player has always been in the portable house and is unaware of the outside environment, so there are definitely not many solutions that can be thought of.
Even if my wife can really think of a solution, it is easy to expose one thing when discussing the route. Li Banfeng has an extraordinary speed. My wife planned a route of 500 miles, and Li Banfeng completed it in three hours. This is very problematic. My wife will infer that Li Banfeng is a travel cultivator.
Of course, he could also tell his wife that he was on the road, but his wife was not so easy to fool. If she revealed any flaw, Li Banfeng’s life would be in danger.
But if the situation becomes a last resort, for example, if there are a few more tributaries ahead, Li Banfeng can only ask his wife for help, and even consider moving the record player outside.
Of course, my wife may not be willing to come out, so we will have to discuss it carefully when the time comes.
Li Banfeng started walking along the first tributary on the left. He gritted his teeth and walked for more than ten miles until his legs could no longer lift.
I opened my pocket watch and saw that it took me three hours to walk the ten miles!
It seems that he is in poor health.
Li Banfeng sat on the side of the road and rested for a while.
You know what, as long as you don’t walk, your physical strength will recover quickly.
This should be the effect of the house renovation. I should be able to recover faster after returning to the house.
Li Banfeng returned to his residence and found his wife still sleeping soundly.
Li Banfeng slept for more than half an hour, gathering up enough strength to move forward. After walking for another ten miles, his strength reached its limit again.
If you don’t have the energy, go back to your residence and rest for a while, eat something and then go on.
After walking back and forth like this for dozens of miles, they encountered a patch of thorns blocking the way ahead.
The thorns are distributed on both sides of the river, very densely. Li Banfeng now has two choices. One is to go through the thorn bushes, and the other is to enter the Tiexian River again and rush forward along the river surface.
He refused to enter the Tiexian River.
But this thorn bush seems difficult to walk through.
I don't know how many years each thorn has been growing here. The upper half is green and the lower half is burnt black, looking like charcoal.
Li Banfeng touched the sharp thorns on the bush and broke off one to use as a singing needle for his wife.
Li Banfeng doesn't have a body of steel, so how can he make the journey?
He had no choice but to take out his Tang sword.
Tang Dao looked at the thorns in front of him and said in astonishment: "Master, are you asking me to clear the way? For this matter, it would be more appropriate to ask the sickle."
"How big is the sickle?" A sickle that is only a dozen centimeters long is obviously not a good weapon for clearing the way in a thorn bush of this size.
"My Lord, I can only chop three times. What will happen will depend on fate."
Tang Dao was about to start chopping when Li Banfeng shouted, "Wait a minute! Let me think about which direction to chop first."
Which direction can I cut in?
Wouldn't it be better to just cut in the opposite direction of the river?
Li Banfeng felt something was wrong. Looking in the opposite direction of the river, Li Banfeng got goose bumps all over his body.
There is danger here, but Li Banfeng doesn’t know what the danger is yet.
After sensing for a long time using the technique of seeking good fortune and avoiding danger, Li Banfeng chose a position slightly to the left and used the Tang sword to strike with all its strength.
A large patch of thorns fell down, and there were still thorns behind them.
The road they had opened was only two meters deep, which made Li Banfeng a little disappointed.
There didn't seem to be any danger here, but this direction didn't bring any surprises either.
Li Banfeng continued to use the technique of seeking good fortune and avoiding danger to sense that the most favorable direction was still to the left.
What is so special about this location?
Li Banfeng was chopped again by the Tang sword.
This time, the cut was more than three meters deep, and the thorns seemed to have become softer.
Try again using the technique of seeking good fortune and avoiding misfortune, and it's still in this direction.
Li Banfeng decisively chopped out the third knife, and this time, Li Banfeng saw a path.
It was not a road he had opened himself, but an existing road in the thorn bush, extending to the left and right.
Li Banfeng walked into the thorn bush and looked around.
The road was not wide, only wide enough for two or three people to pass side by side. There were thorns on both sides, but the thorns did not grow towards the road. Instead, they grew densely on both sides of the road like a fence.
This path should be able to pass through this thorn bush, but which direction should I go?
Go left or right?
Li Banfeng took out the wire earrings and said, "You've been fed with all the oil and water, so you have to work hard."
Can the wire earrings tell the direction?
cannot.
But she could hear the change in the voice.
Only two sounds could be heard in the thorn bushes: one was the whistling wind, and the other was the "creeping" sound of the Tiexian River not far away.
Li Banfeng walked along the road to the right. This road was closer to Tiexian River. After walking out of the thorns, he should still be on the shore.
After walking to the right for a while, the road turns left.
After turning, a fork in the road appeared ahead, and Li Banfeng continued to walk in the direction close to Tiexian River.
After walking in the thorn bush for five hours and encountering more than a dozen forks in the road, Li Banfeng had only one criterion for choosing a road: it must be close to the Tiexian River.
The journey was very tiring. Every mile Li Banfeng walked felt like he had been running all day.
After walking more than three miles, Li Banfeng sat on the side of the road to rest for a while.
Through the string earrings, he could still hear the sound of the river, proving that he was not going in the wrong direction.
He looked carefully at the thorns on both sides, and he couldn't understand why they didn't grow towards the road.
Is it controlled by some force, or is there someone who comes to trim it regularly?
How could anyone possibly trim it?
Li Banfeng said something self-deprecating, stood up and was about to hurry on his way, when he suddenly heard another sound coming from the earrings.
Phew~
A sound of wind came over.
The tone is high and the sound is loud, proving that the wind is strong and coming very quickly.
Li Banfeng sniffed and smelled a slight scent in the air.
It smells like smoke.
It was very light, but was recognized by Li Banfeng's exquisite skills.
There was a smell of smoke approaching, and strong winds were approaching.
Oh no! There might be a fire.
Li Banfeng took out the key to open the door, threw the key into the thorn bush, and immediately closed the door.
After more than half an hour, Li Banfeng tentatively opened the door.
There was no danger outside the door, so he hurried out and picked up the key.
The road was empty, with only some remaining ashes.
There was smoke coming out from the roots of the thorns on both sides, and there were sparks in some places.
The key is a little hot, having just been exposed to fire.
The thorn bush is on fire?
Now the fire is out again?
This thorn bush is dangerous!
Li Banfeng ignored his tiredness and ran quickly along the road.
More than seven hours later, Li Banfeng smelled smoke again and hurried back to his residence to hide.
This time he entered the door a little slowly, and saw at the corner at the end of the road, a human head with a diameter of about three meters. It had no hair, but complete facial features, with a pair of eyes open, pupils moving back and forth, and flames spewing from its mouth. It slowly walked towards him on the road.
How did he leave?
Why can a head without legs walk?
It looks like he has feet under his neck.
Li Banfeng didn't dare to observe carefully. All the living creatures that appeared on the road, including the worms on the ground, the flying insects in the air, and the occasional thorns that grew over the boundary, were all burned to ashes by the flames spewed out by the human head.
There was indeed someone trimming these thorns, and this human head was patrolling back and forth on the roads, never stopping.
Li Banfeng quickly threw the key into the thorn bush. At the same time, the head opened its eyes and looked at Li Banfeng.
It’s been a long time since I saw a living person, and the head seemed to be very interested in Li Banfeng.
After being looked at by the head, Li Banfeng felt like his whole body was on fire.
It was really on fire, smoke started coming out of him.
Not daring to stay even a moment longer, he immediately closed the door and returned to his residence.
ps: This human head is of a very high level. Is it possible that it is also a local god?
(End of this chapter)
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