Myriad Paths

Dalu Kingdom, Lizhou City.

There is a big river running through the city, named Lishui.

Lizhou is named after Lishui. This river not only crosses the city of Lizhou, but also divides into two rivers downstream, one to the north and one to the south. The north enters the Song Kingdom and the south enters the sea. It can be said that it extends in all directions. , is a very important waterway transportation artery in Dalu Kingdom. Except for winter, it is extremely busy in other seasons. Hundreds of large ships and small boats pass through here every day.

Therefore, there is a poem from ancient times:

"If the Lishui River can be opened, the boat can go south to the sea and reach the pine tree in the north. It can send ointment through waves. A single stream of water can make the country rich."

It was obviously the time of winter and spring, when the river had just thawed, and it was still the season when cold winds were blowing. However, it was very hot and crowded at the dock. The heat of the laborers and trackers gathered together, and the stench and the heat rushed out together, which was particularly unusual. fierce.

Today is the beginning of spring. Lishui has been freed from the winter freeze. Even if it has not been freed, the people will be called on to break the ice and force the boat to pass. This process is called "opening the river."

Every year when the river is opened, people who rely on Lishui water transportation will gather here to cut the ice and weaken the ice. Then trackers will pull a heavy boat to crush the ice and completely dredge the river.

The trackers carried the boat, worked hard to break the ice, the wind blew the blood and sweat, the sun burned the skin, and the chanting continued.

"The rope on the shoulder is nine feet three! Hey!"

The trackers roared and worked together to pull the big ship. The thick bottom of the ship raised the sails and blew the wind. The sailors above also echoed, using the wind and manpower to crush the ice layer.

"You have worked so hard and are tied to your shoulders! Hey!"

This ship is not an ordinary ship, but a special ship that is hired every year to open the river. It has an iron bottom and a hull made of century-old wood. No ice can withstand it.

"Step on the stone and use your hands to dig the sand! Ho-ho!"

The ice layer was pushed open, cracks appeared everywhere, and some large ice lumps somersaulted in the water, even creating small icebergs.

"Don't say you can't sail against the current! Hey!"

A big river like Lishui is five miles wide. Opening the river is a big project. It takes a whole day and even the prefect of Lizhou will come to supervise it personally.

The iron-bottomed ship rushed towards the ice with astonishing force, and the ice was knocked away with a frightening crackling sound, like a battering ram. The ice fragments were projected high into the sky, falling like hailstones around the trackers, and Some fine dust and ice mist reflect sunlight and cast rainbows one after another.

Ice mist is steaming in the air, and people are steaming with heat. Hot and cold are intertwined, creating bursts of white smoke.

The first group of trackers were exhausted, and soon a second group caught up, took over the burden, and continued to pull the icebreaker.

The first group of trackers who had unloaded their heavy burdens hurriedly left, wanting to rest.

There was only one person standing there, not moving.

His skin is brown and black, and he appears to be extremely healthy. His muscles are bulging and his figure is well-proportioned due to years of training.

What makes him stand out even more is that most of the other trackers have rough looks and stooped backs. He is the only one who stands upright and has a handsome appearance. At first glance, he does not look like a tracker at all.

His name is Li Qi.

Li Qi, who had just put down the rope, looked at the big ship and the glacier in front of him and sighed. Even though it was the third time he saw it, he still thought it was spectacular.

However, before he could finish sighing, an old tracker next to him had already hugged him and pulled Li Qi away, who was standing there blankly admiring the scenery.

"Let's go, Xiao Li, it's our turn. Let's take a few sips of hot soup first!"

"Uh, ah... okay, Uncle Six." Li Qi nodded and walked to the shore with a group of shirtless trackers with only a crotch cloth.

Li Qi is also a tracker, but he is different from others. He has not been a tracker for generations.

On the shore, other people had already cooked hot soup and prepared clothes to warm up the trackers and sailors who were coming down the river, because after a while, they would have recovered their strength and would have to go up a second time.

Sitting together, the trackers changed their clothes, held the broth, and started to cook without looking good.

Only Li Qi squatted by the river. Although he was very tired, covered in sweat, and had scars from being pulled by the rope, he still waited quietly and did not grab the broth cooked by the government.

After everyone in the crowd had grabbed it, he walked up, took his own bowl, and returned to the river. While watching other trackers pulling the big boat, he sipped the soup in small sips.

"Brother Li! Come on, I'll find a stool for you!" A tracker brought a stool over from a distance. He didn't know where he got it.

"Thank you for your hard work. It's not necessary. We all don't have a stool..." Li Qi just wanted to say something, but was pushed down by the tracker next to him.

"Uncle Six also has one. Brother Li, please don't refuse. You and Uncle Six helped us get the opening of the river this time. It's just a chair. Why can't we sit on it?!"

"That's right!"

"The first rank was personally rewarded by the prefect Grandpa. Brother Li helped us get this position. What's wrong with sitting on a chair?"

"Yeah!"

"Me too!"

When Li Qi saw this, he stopped refusing and sat down. While resting, he watched the trackers of the "Second Path" pulling the big boat.

Before I knew it, I had seen the opening of the river three times.

It has been almost three years since I came to this world.

Yes, he is not from this world. When he saw the big ship, he felt this emotion again in his heart.

That big ship probably has a displacement of several thousand tons, but with one or two hundred trackers and a sail, it can actually pull it and break the ice!

He looked at the tendon meat on his body again. Among all the trackers, he didn't look thin. How could he have such a physique when he was an ordinary researcher?

But here...

Thinking of this, he suddenly stood up and punched hard!

The air seemed to be compressed, and as the fist roared, the ground not far away was filled with dust, as if something heavy had fallen to the ground.

When the other trackers saw this, they all praised: "Brother Li is so handsome with his powerful rows!"

"I've been practicing for ten years, but I can't compare to Brother Li's two or three years of effort!"

"Nonsense, who are you? Who is Brother Li?"

The trackers started laughing and joking, thinking it was just Li Qi suddenly wanting to move, and didn't think there was anything strange about it.

As for a man, it is perfectly natural for him to suddenly get up and punch the air twice. I don’t believe anyone has never done it before.

But Li Qi was sighing.

More than three years ago, his plane crashed and after he lost consciousness, he found that he was here, and he was in his true form. He had a broken game console and his own travel backpack in his pocket, but most of the things inside were burned. , there are only a few pieces of scrap metal left.

Even though I traveled through time, I still brought my body with me.

It’s not like I haven’t heard of time travel. What about inheriting the memories? What about the original identity you agreed on?

Nothing, not even a household registration.

Some people even brought their smartphones, but I only brought half a game console.

Fortunately, I met a local tracker and my life was saved. As a researcher, I had some brains. I established a solid foundation in the trackers. After gaining trust, my uncle Liu taught me some of the ancestral tracker training skills. Dharma door.

However, in just three years, he was now able to withstand a heavy bag weighing 700 to 800 kilograms. He even doubted whether he was still human. Can humans achieve this through exercise?

I heard from Uncle Liu that trackers' strength training methods are still very crude. Only the methods in the military, government, and sects are advanced, and they are not comparable to trackers.

At the beginning, he was extremely excited, thinking that he could achieve something big with what he had in his head!

Then he was mercilessly slapped in the face by reality, and he realized that this place was so developed that there was no need for his little cleverness...

He is good at mathematics. There is a sect in Lizhou City called Qianji Sect, which is good at divination. The members of the sect analyze various mental arithmetic tables and are very familiar with probability theory.

It is true that there are no cars here, but the people here can travel hundreds of miles a day on two legs. I heard that rich people have smart horses at home, so they can travel hundreds of miles a day.

This is still a mountain road, and there needs to be a highway. Can this horse race with F1?

Yes, there is indeed no machinery here, but what are those machinery used for?

The strange rules here have taken this world to a completely different path. Although there are no tools, almost all tools can be replaced by human power.

truck? The trackers can weigh seven to eight hundred kilograms, and each of the group of strong men can carry two to three thousand kilograms for a day's work.

Precision machine tools? Li Qi personally saw a craftsman using a needle to carve a picture of a hundred-man battle on rice within a quarter of an hour to show off his skills.

Doing research? Just kidding, the Thousand Machine Sect that I mentioned before, not to mention mental arithmetic ability, is not considered a big sect among the upper echelons of Lizhou. But when Li Qi heard that they were recruiting disciples, he discovered that these people were doing research on probability theory and chaos algorithms. Even in a world far beyond his own, he couldn't understand it.

Human power has been infinitely amplified in this world. Through things like "gongfa", humans have completely replaced all tools, and no tools are as useful as humans themselves.

Even if it was a weapon, Li Qi believed that even if an entire modern group army was released into this world, it would probably be wiped out by the Lizhou Armed Forces.

He had seen the people from the Armed Forces when he was pulling a boat for a big shot. At that time, the Armed Forces Soldier performed martial arts for the officials on the boat. He held a long knife and cut off the flow of the five-mile-wide Lishui River for a few seconds. bell.

That scene made Li Qi have nightmares for three nights.

Moreover, the productivity is not bad at all.

People from other worlds are said to have crazy brains, but they are still in a farming society after ten thousand years of development?

People are farming, but the question is, have you ever seen a rice yield of three to four thousand kilograms per mu? Moreover, it was Lingmi, and its energy was estimated to be frighteningly high. At first, before Li Qi practiced Pai Bo Jin, he couldn't even eat half a bowl of rice, and he felt uncomfortable.

But now, a three-pound meal can only be considered half-full.

I just can’t eat meat.

Because there is no breeding industry in this world, meat basically depends on hunting, but the cost of hunting is very high, so only during holidays, such as when the river is open now, can you eat some minced meat and broth.

Because of this, those trackers eat like starving ghosts.

There was almost no breeding industry. Li Qi thought it was a business opportunity at first, but he gave up after trying it.

In this world, people are so ferocious, and those beasts are even more ferocious. A pig is like a tank, and it is very difficult to tame it on a large scale. Li Qi has never seen a tiger in this world, and he guesses that it should be enough to dismantle a Gundam. It's not a big problem.

Until now, the only domesticated livestock he had seen were the occasional spiritual horses on the dock.

I heard that there are monsters and beasts, but they are too far away from Li Qi. He is a tracker and belongs to the lowest level of society, so he has no chance to see them.

It's not that he doesn't make progress. In the first two years, he didn't give up on climbing up, hoping that he could become a protagonist.

However, in such a world, "gongfa" will inevitably become the most cherished resource.

People rely on the exercises to gather into small groups one after another.

For example, in Lizhou City, there are three tracker gangs. One is their Paibo Gang, and the other two are called the Shuima Gang and the Lizhuang Gang. There are a total of seven to eight hundred trackers in total.

The internal martial arts of the three gangs are extremely tightly guarded. Only those who have undergone a wealth test, surrendered a name certificate, and been observed for a long time can be given the power to practice the martial arts and officially become a gang member.

After that, they have to swear a poisonous oath that the martial arts cannot be taught to outsiders after the written evidence is established. If there are traitors, not only will they be punished internally, but the government has also expressly stipulated that the martial arts after the written evidence is not allowed to be leaked. The punishment is extremely severe, and they can be exiled for thirty thousand miles. , and I don’t know how big this continent is.

Under this situation, small groups in various cities divided people according to their martial arts. The gangs and groups were so solidified that it was impossible for him to learn other people's martial arts.

In the past three years, apart from relying on his brains to gain a position as a think tank in the Paibo Gang and being respected by one or two hundred trackers, he has really accomplished nothing.

"Alas..." Thinking of this, he sighed.

Although I can eat rice every day because of my inactivity, I have to think carefully if I want to add some vegetables. As for meat... I have to rely on the rewards from the big shots above.

After time travel, life seems to have gotten worse... except that my body is stronger.

Oh, more than a few.

It's just that I'm a little reluctant.

"Uncle Li, Master Six is ​​looking for you!" At this moment, a child ran over with another tracker who looked to be in his forties or fifties and shouted to Li Qi.

The child was shouting and drooling, unable to stop.

Seeing the child's appearance, Li Qi was happy, and smiled and handed over the half bowl of broth that he had not finished drinking: "Okay, seeing as you look like this, take it, and remember to return the bowl when you're done!"

The child screamed, jumped up happily, grabbed the bowl, drank it with the saliva that had just flowed out, chewed the minced meat inside, and even forgot to thank him.

On the other hand, the old tracker known as Uncle Six frowned when he saw the child, put the stool next to Li Qi, and then sat down: "You can't eat meat only a few times throughout the year, so you can just give it to him when you lead the way? "

"You have been exposed to rain, so you will hold an umbrella for others, and you have been hungry, so you will know the value of a bowl of soup. If uncle Liu hadn't given me a bowl of soup, wouldn't I have died?" Li Qi said with a smile.

Then, he turned to business: "Okay, let's not talk about this. Uncle Six, what do you want from me?"

"What I gave you was vegetable soup!"

Uncle Six muttered, but he did not delay the matter and immediately brought up the business: "Xiao Li, you are smarter. Please help me think about it. We seem to have encountered something."

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