69novels Chapter 117 Snow Season
Chapter 117 Snow Season
[Xingaocheng Base: Go straight north for [-] kilometers]
The road sign with a height of more than ten meters has been buried by snow for six or seven meters. The number on it has been changed several times. At first, it was in the same font as the words "Xingaocheng Base: Go straight north", and the distance is [-] kilometers. Later, it was crossed out and changed to [-] kilometers, and then crossed out and changed to [-] kilometers, [-] kilometers and [-] kilometers.
Because there was not enough space, the fonts became smaller and smaller, and the colors were not the same.
"It seems that we chose the wrong fork in the road."
But Su Qing didn't expect that they would lead to the old Gaocheng from the wrong river.
At a glance, it is full of snow, flat, without any trace of urban buildings.
If it weren't for the street sign standing on the side of the road, after the air was drawn into the body, because his health improved, he was brought to Huang Bo's house several times by his grandfather. Su Qing, who is not unfamiliar with this place, would not dare to recognize it as Gaocheng.
A huge canyon across Gaocheng is like a huge mouth of an abyss, dividing Gaocheng into two halves, but the inside is not dead. I think the appearance of this canyon did not cause great casualties to Gaocheng. It is not as miserable as Fengcheng. , even if it is far away, you can see the black dead air that is almost condensed over there.
The road signs can be left behind, and you can come back and change them a few times. The relocation and subsequent development of Gaocheng should be relatively smooth, so this place will only become a city ruins in the future, not like Fengcheng even if there are doctor fish in the trench. Suppressing the dead energy, it is still developing towards death.
All the high-rise buildings in Gaocheng are gone. Presumably, like Fengcheng, it was wiped out by the tornado and sandstorm back then.
Su Qing and Qi Jiang found a few places in Gaocheng to dig up the snow on it, and found that some roadbeds, real estate and other places were covered by yellow sand, only some mountains, rivers and lakes remained in place, but these terrains were already large. Changes, or because of the low terrain, most of it has been covered by yellow sand.
It is deserted and uninhabited, but there are many earth-type and sand-type monsters living there. There are many dangers hidden under the yellow sand covered by snow, and there are many monsters hibernating in the canyon.
Su Qing came to the former site of the Huang family according to his memory. He was not sure if it was here, but he suddenly thought of something just now and wanted to revisit the old place. He wanted to rely on the sense of familiarity to find some answers from some of his forgotten memories. .
"What's wrong?" Qi Jiang didn't understand why he came here.
"I was thinking, after I drew my breath into my body, my grandfather told me not to tell anyone, but when he took me to Li's house, he talked with Li Nan's mother-in-law about cultivation and breaking into the ruins, and when he went to Huang's house But what he and Huang Bo were talking about was just family business and connections." Su Qing thought of these things again, and the more he talked, the more he felt that he had really overlooked a lot of details, "Now that I think about it, Grandpa and Grandma Li Nan are just tacit, and he wants to Huang Bo is the only one hiding it."
Qi Jiang frowned: "You mean, grandpa became wary of Huang Bo a long time ago?"
"It should be like this." Su Qing nodded slowly while recalling.
He carefully recalled his grandfather's attitude towards Huang Bo in the past, and found that his grandfather was indeed very close to Huang Bo, but compared to Granny Li Nan, the relationship was not so close, but it was not so close when it came to acting, after all, his grandfather cared very much most of the time. The matter of the Huang family.
It's like... There is a grudge in my heart, but like him, because there is no evidence, it is not easy to break up with the Huang family directly.
But his grandfather was obviously doing better than him. Su Qing just said he was sick and didn't go out, while his grandfather still maintained his previous attitude, but often he could hide it from outsiders, but he showed his feet in front of Su Qing.
Thinking of this, Su Qing felt depressed: "Grandpa will not take any risks in my affairs, if he hadn't become suspicious, he probably wouldn't have helped me guard against death like this."
It's a pity that grandpa guarded against Huang Bo for him, but he couldn't.
"Huang Bo hid it too well." Qi Jiang comforted softly, "Even Grandpa didn't find out, so how did you find out?"
The truth is this, but Su Qing can't control the guilt in his heart: "If I can find out earlier, I will definitely not let Grandpa have any contact with Huang Bo again."
"Don't get into such a horny situation." Qi Jiang said emphatically, "People are close and distant, even if you found out, with the relationship between Grandpa and Huang Bo at that time, you would never have thought that he would harm Grandpa."
Su Qing closed his eyes, no matter how much he blamed himself now, he still couldn't refute Qi Jiang's words.
If it wasn't for the fact that his grandfather was seriously ill and avoided talking about Huang Bo, Huang Bo only came to the door once, and his concern for his grandfather was no longer what it used to be.
Thinking of this, he remembered that his grandfather said before that he had a life-threatening friendship with Huang Bo and Li Nan, and if he was gone in the future, the only thing Su Qing could rely on were these two elders.
It's as if some things changed in the first place and didn't change in the first place.
"It's true that I was on the edge of a dead end." Su Qing was in a complicated mood, knowing that it would be useless to analyze the previous things. Only when he found Huang Bo and asked him, did he know whether his grandfather died of poison or was plotted against by Huang Bo.
This is very important to him.
Seeing that he had thought clearly, Qi Jiang was relieved and said, "Let's go to Gaocheng first."
The two flew to Gaocheng according to the directions of the road signs. As they flew, they found that many road signs had been blown off, some only left a pole, some only left half of the sign, and some fell to the ground and were covered by snow. up.
Flying [-] kilometers away, the two also encountered many road signs, but the only intact road signs were those around Gaocheng.
The new Gaocheng base is not [-] kilometers away from the old Gaocheng. Looking at the empty place in front of him, Su Qing understood: "It seems that after the last big earthquake, Gaocheng didn't have the energy to maintain the road signs."
Why are those street signs in Gaocheng not broken?That's because the terrain is low-lying, surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the wind is not as strong as outside to allow all the street signs to survive.
"After all, I have experienced so much, and the distance is far away, so I can't just come here if I want." Qi Jiang thought of the worm crisis and beast tide that Uncle Qi said, and he understood it.
In this world, no one will come to Gaocheng except for the survey team. The signposts have meaning, but they are not a necessity. Too much energy will not be worth the candle.
All the way to the north, they flew about [-] kilometers before they saw a large base that was more than ten times larger than the Fengcheng base, but this base seemed relatively empty, there were still some sinkholes on the road, and some houses were destroyed. It was broken and not repaired, but no one lived in it.
Gaocheng originally had a population of about 500 million, which was only half of that of Fengcheng. Uncle Qi said that when they moved, the loss in Gaocheng was not too great, and it was 600 million more than the current Fengcheng base.
But when he came back again, the population of Gaocheng dropped by a third, half of them died in the plague, and the remaining half died in the worm crisis and the beast horde.
Uncle Li Qi had seen Fengcheng before, and when he communicated with Su Qing, he said that the current situation in Gaocheng was similar to that of Fengcheng before.
Su Qingyin observed Gaocheng not far away in the wind and snow, and was a little surprised: "I thought it was Uncle Qi who spoke more seriously, but I didn't expect him to make an objective evaluation."
"Fengcheng Base also experienced several hardships before it really broke out of its cocoon and became a butterfly." Qi Jiang looked towards the direction of the inner city, and then looked at the aura of the king and monsters in the distance, "Even if the front is going well, the change of mentality Things, even Gaocheng can't hide."
Gaocheng has not been honed to a human condition like Fengcheng, and his strength is generally higher than Fengcheng's. It's just that his heart is broken now and he needs to cheer up again.
Fengcheng broke out of its cocoon and became a butterfly at the last moment, and Gaocheng's current situation will not be too bad even if it loses one or two opportunities. The people here are much luckier than Fengcheng people.
The two of them observed here for an hour or two, roughly matching the situation with what Uncle Qi said, and only after they had some ideas in their minds did they fly to the address given by Uncle Qi.
Three hundred kilometers east of the Gaocheng base, in an air-raid shelter under a short mountain, Li Qishu and Ah Jiu distributed today's spiritual mine share to everyone.
Before the sending was finished, the communication jade talisman in Li Qishu's arms vibrated slightly and lit up with a white shimmer. His heart was shocked, and he quickly put the spiritual mine aside, and shouted at a bald man sitting on the stairs doing wood carving over there. .
"Dayong, come to Faling Mine, Ah Jiu, follow me."
The thirty or so monks below looked at Uncle Li Qi who left in a hurry with some doubts, but at the same time they were still a little uneasy. Fortunately, Uncle Li Qi did not forget to comfort them, and he did not forget to leave a sentence when he went out: "Don't worry, there are guests coming Yes, there is no danger."
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, Ah Jiu handed over the spirit mine to Ah Yong who came from the stairs, followed Uncle Li Qi calmly and left, and after getting out of everyone's sight, he asked in a low voice with some doubts: "Uncle Qi, what kind of guest is visiting? "
"Two seniors." Uncle Li Qi said with a happy face, speeding up his pace, "It's Mr. Su's grandson and his Taoist companion."
Ah Jiu's face changed slightly: "You mean Xiao Su lacks him..."
Before he finished speaking, he finally realized why Uncle Seven had planned for the two seniors in Fengcheng as soon as he came back, and even took the risk to meet Peng Chengyu of the Huang faction and wanted to join forces with him to deal with Huang Lao.
It turned out that Young Master Su was not dead.
Ah Jiu also took the order with Uncle Li Qi, and was trapped in the mountains with him.
Being able to travel far and wide with Li Qishu is naturally because Ah Jiu grew up in Li's family and is also Li Qishu's right-hand man, so he also knows how good the relationship between Li and Su's two families is.
Moreover, he and Su Qing have also met face to face several times, although it is in the video.
Thinking that the person who came was an old friend, Ah Jiu couldn't make up his mind: "Then Seventh Uncle, should I call Senior Su or Young Master Su like before?"
"Just call them the same as before." Li Qishu's smile deepened, "I didn't expect them to arrive so soon, it seems that their strength has improved."
Ah Jiu was sincerely happy for Young Master Su, but when he thought that he had found a partner, his expression became serious: "What is the name of Young Master Su's Taoist companion?"
"Call Senior Qi, but before our plan is completed, just in case, you should call Senior Qing and Senior Jiang."
As they said that, they had already arrived at the exit of the air-raid shelter. The two monks standing guard at the door saw the two coming, and immediately stretched out their hands to open the door: "Uncle Qi, brother Jiu, are you going to go out?"
"Yes, to pick up two old friends." Li Qishu nodded with a smile, looking in a good mood.
Ah Jiu next to him was arranging his clothes, and he looked very serious. The doorkeeper was also from the Li faction, not other defectors. He was close to the two of them, so he asked curiously, "Seventh Uncle, why are you so happy?" ?”
Uncle Li Qi glanced at them: "Of course it's a good thing, you'll find out in two days, open the door and let us go out."
Hearing this, the two didn't ask any more questions, and opened the small door with a smile. After the two left, they restrained their smiles, and their expressions returned to the seriousness just now.
Outside the door, Uncle Li Qi brought Ah Jiu to the shelter against the strong wind and heavy snow, but no one answered Su Qing's communication jade talisman.
"Uncle Qi, we have arrived, how should we go?"
When Su Qing's voice came out, Ah Jiu suddenly gave a light snort: "Uncle Seven, why is Young Master Su's voice different from before? Is it the reason for the mutation?"
"Yes, his appearance has also changed a lot." Li Qishu nodded with a smile, "When I went to Fengcheng, I didn't dare to recognize him for the first time."
At that time, he thought that his voice and appearance didn't quite resemble Su Qing, so he was hesitant at first. If it wasn't for the testimony of others, he might not have recognized Su Qing in the end, just like Su Qing couldn't recognize him either. Just like him who changed his appearance.
"Is Young Master Su a mutant fox? His voice sounds a bit..." provocative.
"No, it's birds." Li Qishu waved his hand, raised the communication jade talisman and said to Su Qing, "Susu, Ah Jiu and I are already outside, you and Qi Jiangfei will be able to see us by walking around."
After he finished speaking, Ah Jiu continued: "No wonder the voice sounds so nice."
As for birds, it's normal that their voices are different from those of humans.
Su Qing, who had already noticed the two of them, flew to the sky, and when he heard the conversation between the two, he touched his face and throat with some doubts.
Thinking about it carefully, it seems that Uncle Seven is right, he is indeed quite different from before.
Su Qing looked at Qi Jiang again, recalling the appearance of Qi Jiang last year before he mutated, and found that Qi Jiang's facial features had also changed a lot.
The facial features became more profound, like a hidden fierce soldier, only the eyes were sharp.
In the past, his facial features were relatively mild, but his eyes were full of oppression. Now the gentleness of his facial features has long since disappeared, but the oppression in his eyes is stronger than before.
When outsiders look at him, they feel that he is not easy to mess with, while insiders feel very safe when they look at him.
When Su Qing was comparing the changes in Qi Jiang's appearance, Qi Jiang was also describing his facial features with his eyes.
Of course, Su Qing’s voice change has nothing to do with foxes, or birds, or even with the merman he guessed before. It’s just a skill that comes with his bloodline, but it looks a bit like a merman. That's all.
He used to think that his skills were tidal weaving, weeping tears and merman weeping songs, but he completely misunderstood them. The first one is actually killing the enemy with a tide cage, the second is to detoxify, and the third is to kill the enemy. The first is to use sound waves to achieve communication, positioning, and suppress the enemy, which is simply not comparable to the beautiful and peaceful skills of the merman.
The only thing that might be more beautiful is that his voice has indeed changed, and it does sound better, but because it has changed little by little, both Qi Jiang and him are only a little aware of it at the beginning, and then they didn't pay much attention to it.
Just like the faces of the two, they always thought that Su Qing's eyes and ears changed, while Qi Jiang's eyes and head horns changed. In fact, apart from these more obvious changes, the other facial features of the two of them There are some changes.
These are details that are difficult to discover in getting along day and night, even Master Han and the others just feel that Su Qing's strength has grown rapidly.
But Seventh Uncle hadn't seen Su Qing for a long time, so he naturally noticed this situation at a glance, but it's too common for people to change their appearance nowadays, if it didn't happen to be talked about, Seventh Uncle wouldn't bring it up to talk about it.
Both Su Qing and Qi Jiang liked this little discovery, like a little surprise, they both liked their changes very much.
Fearing that the Seventh Uncle below would wait too long, Su Qing quickly restrained the joy on his face, and stopped staring at Qi Jiang: "Go down."
Qi Jiang secretly sighed that it would have been better if he had found out earlier at home, but it is really inconvenient outside.
"Uncle Seven!"
Su Qing's voice came from above, Uncle Qi and Ah Jiu just raised their heads subconsciously, he had already flown in front of them, and put away the wings behind him, Qi Jiang was still following him, never letting him leave his lap line of sight.
"Susu is here." Li Qishu rubbed his cold hands and stood up with Ah Jiu. He just said hello and saw the "husband-stalker" Qi Jiang behind Su Qing, wondering why he was clingier than before .
Confused in his heart, he also greeted Qi Jiang, and introduced Ah Jiu to the two of them by the way, mainly to someone who is strong and clingy to his wife.
Su Qing remembered Ah Jiu, and nodded with a light smile: "Brother Ah Jiu, long time no see."
Qi Jiang divided half of his attention, and also called Brother Ah Jiu, which made Ah Jiu feel a little weak, and bowed to the two of them: "Young Master Su, Senior Qi."
This scene seemed familiar, this time Qi Jiang didn't return the salute, but nodded slightly with no expression on his face, but he seemed a little closer than before.
"It's cold outside, let's go in first." Li Qishu rubbed his hands again, "I tell everyone that you are old friends, so don't reveal your identities, I'm afraid there may be ghosts inside."
Su Qing wondered why there was an inner ghost in the lair while walking towards the entrance with Uncle Qi, and only after listening for a while did he know the reason.
It turned out that a few monks who were oppressed by the Yellow Sect came to join the Li Sect. Uncle Li Qishu brought them to the air-raid shelter, fearing that something would happen to them.
Of course, if you are not afraid of [-], you are afraid of an eventuality, and you still have to take precautions, so the less people know about Su Qing's identity, the better, so as not to cause complications.
The location of the air-raid shelter is very hidden, and it can be said to be very lucky to be able to keep it intact when the world is expanding wildly.
Uncle Li Qi came to the door and knocked on the door while explaining to Su Qing what the law of knocking meant, and opened the door before he finished explaining.
It was very warm inside. Su Qing felt a little hot when he came in, but it was still within the tolerance range. Qi Jiang beside him couldn't stand the temperature, so he quickly took off his gloves and scarf before he relaxed. breath,
The two monks guarding the gate saw that they were unfamiliar faces, and looked at Qi and Su curiously. Uncle Li Qi deliberately put on a tiger face, and coughed lightly to remind them to behave: "This is my old friend, you can just call Senior Qing and Senior Jiang. "
When the two heard that they were seniors, they immediately stood up in a proper manner: "Hello, Senior Qing, and hello, Senior Jiang."
"En." Su Qing and Qi Jiang nodded coldly.
The four of them walked in all the way, because today's spiritual mines are all distributed, and everyone has dispersed to do their own things, so the existence of Su Qing and Su Qing cannot be hidden from others, but Li Qishu is not afraid that someone will recognize Su Qing .
He almost didn't dare to recognize him before, let alone the other people who hadn't paid much attention to Su Qing before.
The air-raid shelter was very large and there were enough places. On the day they set off, Li Qishu packed a separate room, added a bed, and packed the door for them.
"The conditions here are quite difficult. I knew you would bring your own quilts, so I didn't take it upon myself to bring you animal skin quilts." Uncle Li Qi opened the door and let them see the room.
"Uncle Qi is bothering you." Su Qing felt that it was good to have an independent space outside the house.
With limited time during the day, Uncle Seven had to send someone to inform Peng Feiyu, so he didn't talk to them too much, and then exchanged a few words with the two of them, and finally said something to call Ah Jiu and took Ah Jiu out.
The temperature in the air-raid shelter was more than ten degrees above zero. Qi Jiang couldn't stand the heat. He took off his scarf and gloves before letting him relax. It took him more than ten minutes to walk from the door to the room. Qi Jiang, who was wearing an polar down jacket, had already started to leave Khan, after Uncle Qi left, he anxiously pulled the zipper and took off his coat and put it aside.
After taking off the coat, I immediately felt much more comfortable and didn't feel hot anymore.
Seeing it, Su Qing smiled and wiped his sweat with a cold towel: "Why are you so oblivious, you just took it off."
"When you go out, you have to be polite. This is not at home." Qi Jiang wiped his sweat with a towel. Seeing that Su Qing didn't sweat at all, he was a little envious, "You are more resistant to heat than before."
Su Qing frowned and nodded with a smile: "Yes, but I still can't stand the cold."
Qi Jiang's dragon scale battle armor can make him not afraid of the cold, but he is afraid of the heat, just like how he drove home from the large wood spirit vein before, although the place covered by the dragon scales will not get sunburned, but the heat is still hot, He even wondered if it had something to do with his original physique that was afraid of heat.
But thinking about it carefully, compared to other people, he is not afraid of heat, just like ordinary people, but compared with the heat-resistant Su Qing, he is more miserable.
Su Qing also took off his coat and hung it on the wall, took out the quilt and put it on the bed, and only after finishing the room did he have the time to observe the air-raid shelter.
"I thought that the previous buildings could not withstand the current cold and heat. It turns out that as long as they are not exposed to the wind and destroyed by the wind, their original functions will not be lost."
"This is a treasure land of geomantic omen." Qi Jiang feels that this is also a place that is warm in winter and cool in summer, even better than Little Cliff.
After all, the small cliff has to burn a kang to warm up the house, and the temperature of the air-raid shelter itself does not change much.
After resting in the room for two hours, they went out to stroll around the air-raid shelter, because there were only about 80 people inside, and there were less than No. [-] people who were on duty to mine spiritual veins, so the air-raid shelter seemed very empty. Only the front half is in use, and the inner part is not inhabited at all.
Because the people here are all from the cultivation world, although Su Qing used to be very low-key, even considered a semi-invisible person, but it is not sure that no one will recognize him.
Uncle Qi said it well, don’t be afraid of [-], just in case, Su Qing, who didn’t want to go to Huang Bo and was approached by Huang Bo before, didn’t wander around in crowded places, but stayed behind with Qi Jiang Place to look around.
They thought that the air-raid shelter was well preserved, but after about 10 minutes of shopping, they found that there were cracks on the second half of the wall, and there were more and more cracks as they went to the back, and the insulation function became worse and worse.
When they came to the last passage blocked by rocks and mud, they walked back boredly.
Su Qing and Qi Jiang, who didn't know how to run, did not expect that nothing happened when they came, but there was a surprise on the way back.
"Are you sure? There are really two new faces coming in? Colleagues that Gaocheng has never seen before?"
At the corner ahead, a purposely lowered and rough voice sounded.
Qi Jiang subconsciously put the lantern into the Qiankun bag, and stood with Su Qing in the dark, listening carefully.
The voice of the other person being questioned sounded relatively young, and the clear voice sounded very recognizable, even if it was deliberately lowered, it was pleasant, but the eagerness and insidiousness in the tone ruined the beauty: "Oh, I still lie You can't make it? Li Zezhi personally brought them in, and said that it was Senior Qing and Senior Jiang. I observed carefully when I saluted. Know where it came from."
"Senior?" The rough man's voice sounded a bit annoyed, "What do they look like?"
"It's easy to recognize. One has different pupils and the other has bifurcated horns. In short, you just look for the two that look the best, and you won't be mistaken."
The rough man was silent for two seconds: "Do you know how much they have cultivated? I am a little afraid that I will be discovered when I post the locator."
"I don't know about that, but since they are called seniors, these two people must have higher levels of cultivation than Li Zezhi. Maybe Li Pai will start to attack."
Because the air-raid shelter is tightly guarded, they have not been able to go back to report. Now it is a critical moment, and the rough man can only take risks.
Because he just went to dig the spiritual mine today, so his teammates can only report back tomorrow.
He figured out a way to make his teammates "disappear" by accident when they changed shifts tomorrow to mine the spirit veins, so that he could quietly report back to Gaocheng.
The two chatted for several minutes, and finally decided that there was nothing wrong with their actions, and then they left one after another. The rough man walked for 10 minutes, and the other one went out.
Another 10 minutes later, Qi Jiang took out the lantern again, raised his recording stone with the other hand, looked at Su Qing, and asked in a low voice, "Did you record it?"
Su Qing also picked up his recording stone, raised his eyebrows and nodded: "Of course."
The two looked at each other, smiled and put away the recording stone, and walked back to the room slowly.
In the evening, Ah Jiu quietly came to the door of the two of them and knocked on the door gently: "Seniors, the one surnamed Peng is here, and he is outside, you follow me out."