Chapter 47
◎Another pothole appears◎
Chapter 47
When the village chief heard Tang Ji's question, he paused, looked at the drunkard who was staggering in front of him, and sighed.
"There's nothing you can't know. Everyone in the surrounding area probably knows about his situation. It's just that we didn't have the ability to help before, and now we can't even help if we want to."
The village chief slowed down his pace and waited until he was some distance away from the drunkard in front of him. He spoke only after he was sure that the person in front could not hear him.
"His story is actually quite simple. The disasters that ordinary people can encounter are just a few.
Their family used to be well off. His parents worked diligently on the farm to support his education. Later, he left Daxi Village and moved to a big city. He later met a girl he loved who didn't mind his family's lack of money. They started a family and had a lovely child..."
Speaking of this, the village chief's mind became a little dazed, as if he was recalling the few memories in his head.
"His wife had a difficult labor with their second child and almost died in the delivery room. Their savings were low, so his parents hurried back to the village to borrow money. Since this was a matter of life and death, the villagers agreed."
Everything went smoothly until they had raised enough money and were rushing to the city to pay for his wife's medical treatment when they ran into danger.
The village chief stopped reminiscing at this point and pointed ahead.
"The house in front is the last one. They're spacious and you can move in."
As he spoke, he looked up at the drunk in front of him, and after making sure that the other party was fine, he led his men to that house.
After waiting for the people to enter the yard, he began to look around. Seeing that the light in one of the rooms was not turned off, he shouted in that direction, "I brought people here. Stay here for one night. Remember to take care of it tomorrow morning. Don't let them starve!"
"Okay, Village Chief, you mentioned it in the village group before, and we've all taken note of it. Don't worry!"
After hearing the sounds coming from the room, the village chief finally felt relieved.
It was a little late when they went up the mountain to Daxi Village. Many families in the village had already gone to bed. The people he contacted tonight were all in bed and had not yet slept, so he asked them to leave the door open for him.
The house he was visiting now was Nono's family. They had already cleaned the house before returning to the village. Their family had few people, so it was just right to have some more people living in the house now, and it wouldn't cause any trouble.
"Okay, let's go inside and continue talking."
After the village chief finished communicating with Nono’s father, he turned to look at the remaining Captain Dai and Tang Ji.
The first few team members were welcomed into the house when they knocked on the door, and they didn't have time to continue like Tang Ji, who was curious and wanted to hear everything.
"Hmm, hmm, hmm. Go on, what kind of danger did you encounter? Let's not talk about the world we're in right now, which is undergoing tremendous changes and some places are not peaceful. Back in the day, the Flower Country was one of the most orderly countries in the world. Unless it was force majeure, dangers caused by human intervention were rare, right?"
Tang Ji said this with a hint of urging in his eyes.
"Well, normally there wouldn't be any, but it's their bad luck at the time. Even with the warning, they still couldn't avoid it..."
Having said this, the village chief seemed to realize something, lowered his voice, and did not say the rest of the words.
In fact, when the couple returned to the village to ask the villagers for money, their godmother at the entrance of the village seemed to have seen something and specifically reminded them, but perhaps it was fate, they still met.
"Some kids from the city were racing on the main road and hit them."
In a simple sentence, two lives were lost.
"What about the back there? What happened to those kids who hit people?"
Hearing this, not only did Tang Ji completely focus his attention on the village chief, but even Captain Dai turned his gaze to him with a focused expression.
"Gone, both husband and wife are gone. Luckily, a kind-hearted person helped pick up the bag they were carefully protecting and put it away. Otherwise, not only would they have lost their lives, but also the money for their daughter-in-law's life-saving money."
The village chief said this, not hiding his negative view of human nature.
"Yeah, normal."
They have all done a lot of tasks and seen a lot of negative news. It is not surprising that some people would take advantage of others' difficulties to steal things. Such things have happened before.
"The elderly couple were rushed to the nearest hospital for emergency treatment, which happened to be the same hospital where their son was staying, but unfortunately, he died in the end.
In a hurry, his wife had just paid the bill and came out of the delivery room. He was busy running around. Later, because he was the only one who could not take care of them, his eldest son and the newborn son were taken away.
The incident happened so suddenly that even the villagers only found out about it afterwards, let alone being able to do anything to help.
At that time, Ying Huai couldn't even take care of himself. He could see that there was something wrong with the old couple, so he tried hard to remind them and put some luck on them. This was the best Ying Huai could do.
Unfortunately, the little bit of luck Ying Huai shared was still unable to save their family from disaster.
Overnight, the drunkard lost his parents. He had raised his eldest son in his arms and younger son, who was born with great anticipation but whom he hadn't even had a second look at. All that was left was his dying wife, who had just been pulled back from the brink of childbirth and was nearly dead.
During those days, he was completely mechanical, as if his brain had placed a program in him when he was about to collapse, allowing him to follow the programmed direction.
He took care of his parents' funeral, assisted the police in finding clues about his children, and paid attention to his unconscious wife, but he didn't care about his own body.
Later, his wife woke up and was also devastated. However, seeing her husband become so haggard in just a few days that he looked unrecognizable, she chose to endure it. Before her body had recovered, she got up and followed her husband around, busying around looking for their missing child.
Time does not fade the memories of the past, but only makes them more vivid after refinement.
It was as if the drunkard's mind was constantly replaying the scenes in the hospital and the panic when he found that his child was missing.
They also came back to find Ying Huai and asked him if he knew the whereabouts of the two children.
Ying Huai really calculated it carefully, and the conclusion he came to was in one direction. However, Ying Huai's ability was limited, so he could only calculate this much.
Knowing the direction was at least a goal, so the couple searched in that direction.
Later they really found their eldest son, but unfortunately, when they went to look for him, he was already dead.
The family that bought the son suddenly became pregnant in the second year after they brought the child home, even though they were originally infertile.
It is easy to imagine what conscience people have in their hearts when they go to such great lengths to buy a child and ignore the law to bring him home.
Their little son, who was only a few years old, started helping them with housework in order to repay the money they spent on buying the child. Later, he fell into the river and drowned while helping them wash clothes.
When the couple went to look for the child, he had been thrown into the back mountain. He was buried hastily with only a skeleton left.
The moment she saw the bone identification results, the wife collapsed. Her health had been very poor after the difficult childbirth, and her body, which had not yet recovered well, collapsed along with her emotions.
Almost the next day after she learned the results of the diagnosis, she followed her child silently.
The man from before has become a lonely man and a drunkard now.
"Isn't there another one? There was another one that was stolen right after birth? Why doesn't he go find it?"
When Tang Ji heard this, he asked with some excitement.
"It's impossible to find it. Godmother has never seen the child, and his horoscope is not accurate."
There was one more thing the village chief didn't say: that child shouldn't have been born. Even the drunkard's wife was able to hold on for so long thanks to her godmother.
Otherwise, the short delay would have been enough for both mother and child to die on the operating table.
"Okay, it's so late, you should go to bed early..."
After the village chief finished speaking, he was about to turn around and leave, but hesitated.
"I know there are definitely many people out there with extraordinary abilities. Could you please mention them when you meet them?"
In fact, this is the village chief's purpose, otherwise he would not waste so much time and effort talking so late at night.
"Um!"
Tang Ji turned to look at his captain, only to see Captain Dai nodded without any hesitation.
Given their team's current position, it is very easy to find out what abilities the capable people who will join the country later have. They can just put their minds at ease now. It would be a blessing to be able to ask for help when they meet them later.
Moreover, it is not necessary for him to ask for help.
Captain Dai still felt that it was a little strange that the drunkard was holding the cat and the cat continued to sleep so obediently.
He had some suspicions that the other person had also awakened abilities, but perhaps he himself was not aware of it.
Like these team members, they only used it unconsciously at the beginning and did not know how to control it, so they used it so chaotically.
Hearing Captain Dai's agreement, the village chief was relieved and left happily.
"Ah, there are so many unfair things in this world. Even a hemp rope breaks at its thinnest point..."
Tang Ji stood next to Captain Dai, watching him make his promise to the village chief, and he also put the matter on the back burner in his mind.
Although it is unclear whether they will meet someone with such abilities in the end, regardless of whether they can meet him or not, being able to remember him may be a kind of comfort.
"I hope your memory will improve. Rest and stop thinking about this."
Captain Dai turned around and saw Tang Ji still in deep thought, so he turned around and patted him on the shoulder.
He was the one who was curious and wanted to hear everything. Now that he knew what happened, he was the one who was racking his brains to think of how to help others.
"Why is my memory so bad?"
Tang Ji turned around and felt that what the captain said was a little off.
"You have a good memory, but you always forget the warnings and go out to smoke secretly?"
“…”
Ying Huai knew everything that happened in the village. After all, the area he could cover was limited to this size, and night was the time for him to practice.
Because he was woken up by someone coming up the mountain from the foot of the mountain, he observed him for a few more seconds and recognized the drunkard in the same way.
Although the other party is very different from his original high-spirited appearance.
After the changes in heaven and earth, some rules outside have also changed. Now Ying Huai's calculations of the heavens are not very accurate. While watching the village chief and his men walking around the village, he was trying to figure out where the child had gone.
In the end, only a vague answer could be obtained. The answer was too vague. In the world after the changes in heaven and earth, it was extremely difficult to ask people to go out and search based on a vague direction alone.
Not suitable.
After thinking for a long time, Ying Huai decided that as long as the other party didn't come to him to ask, he would pretend that he hadn't calculated anything.
Thinking of this, he breathed a sigh of relief and briefly let himself get away with it.
Just as Ying Huai coaxed himself into calmness and continued to practice quietly.
At this time, in an unknown place, Xiao Tiandao was rushing around, and was about to create another gap. However, before he could launch another attack towards the place where the crack had already appeared, he heard human voices outside again.
"This is it. The newly developed detector reacts most strongly to the energy here. It's very likely that there will be another spiritual energy explosion point or spiritual energy pit here."
The senior brother from the research institute held a detector in his hand and stood at the gap created by the small Tiandao. As long as it was knocked open, a hole would appear on the ground. He made a solemn conclusion.
"Oh my, it's coming again. Are we going to let people live?"
The younger brother stood by, looked at the detector in his senior brother's hand, lowered his head to look at the ground, and felt a little unwell.
Ever since the great changes in the world that produced mutant plants and animals, their research institute has been busy as a top, with not a single moment of rest. Just by looking at their hairlines that have begun to move back, you can tell how much they have been thinking lately!
"Alright, hurry up and find a way to stop it."
The leader standing behind urged them, saying that they were now in the wilderness. If it were in the wilderness before, they could spend as much time as they wanted, but now, it was not possible!
Because there are too many mutated animals and plants outside, and after two explosions of spiritual energy in the pit, their perception seems to be improving.
After sensing that the spiritual energy here was on the rise, it attracted all the mutated animals and plants around here.
If their leader hadn't called a small team of people with special abilities to protect them, they definitely wouldn't have had the time to say what they just said.
Instead, after the inspection, they chose to evacuate directly and then slowly study the matter after returning to the research institute.
"Stop it? No way. Now we can only find a way to clear this area and seal it off!"
After hearing what the leader said, the senior brother gave an answer that was completely opposite to the leader's.
After all, the current research institute really can’t figure out how to prevent the formation of that pit!
They don't even know how this pit was formed, so how can they know how to stop it? They can't stop it.
"Okay, you've been researching for so long, but you still haven't figured it out..."
The leader listened with some regret.
Hearing the tone, the two brothers next to him were speechless.
Did they really think the genius of the teachers and professors at the research institute was for nothing? Even they couldn't come up with a solution to stop it, and they were asked to stop it?
The reason why the teachers in the research institute asked them to come out to collect data samples was, of course, because they were young. You can't expect those old teachers to come out and play with the mutant animals and plants, right?
They were taking samples in an orderly manner, completely unaware that at this moment in the research institute, the teachers whom they called having genius brains were panicking.
"The seed sample has changed again!" an exclamation!
"What kind of fruit is being produced now?" someone asked.
"I'm not sure, but it's definitely not a normal dish!"
"You haven't even found the data yet, how do you know the sample has changed again?"
The old man was speechless.
"Of course I've tried it. I planted these together in the same pot, watered and fertilized them the same way as before. The results are the same as before. Some have mutated, while others haven't."
As the other person spoke, he looked down at his vegetable basket.
"The mutated vegetables before were all edible, but today's are suddenly not. Some are bitter!"
The other person said this with a bitter face, looking at the vegetable leaves he had pulled out and placed in his palm.
"What else?"
Because during the planting process, they cleared out any plants that showed signs of mutation as soon as they were discovered.
The species planted in the plant pots now are those that have not been able to mutate.
After the changes in heaven and earth, many plants mutated. Although many of the mutated plants would not actively attack humans, they would not allow humans to get close.
If this continues, ordinary people will not be able to grow crops, and when the country's grain reserves are eaten up, it will definitely be another disaster.
By then, as the degree of change in heaven and earth increases, those mutated plants will become stronger and stronger, and it will be much more difficult for them to obtain food from those plants!
So almost as soon as they realized this, they began to turn their attention to finding stable, non-aggressive breeds.
But judging from today's results, it seems that the effect is not very significant.
Now this situation only occurs with vegetable seeds. It can be predicted that the same mutations will occur in the planting boxes and in the fields outside.
It’s hard to imagine how many different flavors will be in their mouths every time they eat a bite of food.
The taste is too rich and not good!
"Look, the three pointed rows of leaves at the front of this plant are bitter when you pluck them off and eat them. The older leaves at the bottom aren't as bitter, but they're hard to bite! The one next to it is too sour, too astringent, the kind that makes you unable to open your mouth after taking a bite..."
Seeing other colleagues gathering around to watch, he didn't hide anything and told them everything he knew.
"Good boy, you are really capable. Have you taken a bite and tasted it?"
A person nearby looked in the direction of his finger, picked up a leaf that looked harmless and put it in his mouth.
Almost the next moment, a sticky, muddy smell burst out in his mouth, making him gag and almost vomit.
He quickly found a trash can to spit out the leaves, and took out a crumpled, unused tissue from his pocket to wipe his tongue.
After wiping several sheets of paper in a row, he finally recovered with a bitter face, smacking his lips, and occasionally spat, barely recovering.
"Your research results are truly terrifying..."
Seeing the sharp contrast between the two, the colleagues next to them couldn't help but sigh.
It's not easy to eat so many strange-tasting vegetable leaves and still maintain a normal expression without any expression collapse.
All departments at the research institute were conducting research in their own fields. Although the two brothers on the mountain could not figure out how to prevent the formation of potholes, they were fortunate enough to witness the formation of the next pothole.
As soon as they finished speaking, they saw the ground in front of them collapse silently, forming a hole that looked quite familiar.
Seeing this, they both turned around in tacit understanding and looked at the leader who was following them.
lead:……
Why look at him? He has no awakening ability and there is no way to check him!
Thinking of this, he felt a little regretful. Why did he let the Taoist go on a mission with other teams today? Now he couldn't even find someone to ask about the situation.
Fortunately, the team members who followed him out were all capable. They turned around and waved to one of the people guarding behind.
"Captain, come up here and help take a look at the situation of this pit."
After hearing his words, the team leader walked forward, looked at the newly appeared pit, and activated his ability.
"Right now, a layer of spiritual energy is slowly rising in the pit, aiming to merge with the existing spiritual energy."
The senior brother holding the detector next to him saw that others were using their abilities to investigate, so he began to analyze it himself.
"Well, they are all spiritual energy that can be absorbed, and the spiritual energy here is higher than the pits that appeared before."
The team leader withdrew his hand, turned to nod at his senior brother, and added.
"The spiritual energy content has increased again?..."
When the leader heard this, he looked deeply at the pothole that appeared in front of him.
The spiritual energy content of the two previous pits was similar. What caused the spiritual energy of the third pit to increase?
Is this a sign that the world is going to mutate faster?
If the little Tiandao underground that was absorbing the newly crashed debris could hear his thoughts, he would probably be so angry that he would spit in his face.
Was it Him who caused the previous incident? It was humans who took away the fragments that belonged to Him without permission!!!
The leader is not paying attention to the stone that caused the pit to become bigger and the spiritual energy to increase after it was moved out by Zhuangdun.
In their opinion, the stone placed underneath should be useful, and if they take it away, the spiritual energy will definitely increase.
Humans today don’t even have enough time to suppress the flying spiritual energy, so how could they possibly focus on stones that might indirectly lead to an increase in spiritual energy?
Xiao Tiandao should be thankful, because at the beginning the pit collapsed and the spiritual energy increased, causing humans to voluntarily give up competing with him for those fragments.
Otherwise, He would just stay in that cage and go around in circles in anger.
"Hmm? The spiritual energy seems to be increasing again? This world is changing a little slowly..."
Almost at the moment when the newly appeared pit spiritual energy merged with the previous spiritual energy, Ying Huai, who was practicing, sensed it.
After opening his eyes and muttering something softly, he still couldn't figure it out, so he stopped thinking about it.
He had heard stories about cultivators in the world of cultivation before. Those stories were about disasters that always occurred very quickly, so quickly that even the cultivators could not react and were in danger of their lives at any time.
Unexpectedly, the spiritual energy in this world had declined before, but now that the world has changed, the spiritual energy is recovering so slowly, like an old man in his twilight years, pacing slowly.
"Could it be that the Heavenly Dao in this world is really so old that it can't move? Can the Heavenly Dao also age? That's why there was no response at all when I sensed it before?"
Ying Huai muttered to himself while using the branches to feel the spiritual energy rising in the air.
Because there are many people with a strong sense of presence, even though Tiandao is still working hard to cultivate, he can still sense his words.
I was furious for a moment!
"I just can't answer you. You actually cursed me, a young cub of the Heavenly Dao Elder?!!!"
【Author’s words】
Fix the typo~
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