Obligations of the elderly

For others, this environment must be a bit difficult, but for Gong Si, he is quite kind to this environment.

Growing up in Xuexiang, he is very used to this snowy and cold environment, but the slightly dry air reminds him that this is not his hometown.

There are not so many slopes in Lengshui Town.

Finally slid down the ramp, the snow and ice on the last section of the slope seemed not thick enough, and my butt hurt a bit——Patting the clothes, Gong Si looked forward, walked to the place where the snow was on his back, and took out the snow from his bag. map.

When I unfolded it, Gong Si's expression turned slightly subtle: Is this a map?Are you sure it's not a slightly dirty leather?

The so-called map is just a piece of leather that can't be seen as an animal, it's not very clean, and a destination is marked with a triangle on it, fortunately, there are also directions on it, so he can see that the destination is in the northeast of the map .

He was not allowed to look at the map before departure, and he didn't even know that what he got was such a map.

Looking at the map again, Gong Si originally wanted to put it away, but after a pause, he took out a pen instead.

Pens were given to them along with the map.

At that time, he didn't think much about it, but now...

Closing his eyes, Gongsi stood in the snow and thought about it. If he was Palasauti back then, he only took the fire and left his hometown. The road under his feet is a journey without an end. He might find a fertile land. That is his end, but he may not be able to find such a place in his whole life, then what is under his feet is an endless journey...

Miyazaki opened his eyes.

However, they are not Palasauti. The purpose of their trip is not to find a new land where people can live, but to walk the road of Palasauti again, feel the hardships he has experienced, and then gain courage and perseverance.

The so-called traditional route refers to the route taken by Palasauti, but what is the route taken by Palasauti?Was it his path from the tribe to the holy land?No, that's meaningless, then they just followed the route and couldn't feel what Palasauti felt back then, because he must have taken a lot of wrong paths.

and so--

Right now, this is the correct way to give a destination as the end point of completing the coming-of-age ceremony. There is no route on it, because the so-called road is to be walked by themselves!

Quickly figured this out, holding the almost useless map, Gong Si calmed down, rolled up the map and put it in his pocket, he decided to find the stream first.

This is what they decided from the beginning. Anyway, this coming-of-age ceremony has another meaning, which is to find a real friend. Who is Palasauti's real friend in the story?It's his tool, looking for the other half of each other's contract on this completely separate big map, they plan to treat this as a game, see which group will gather first, and then everyone will see if they can match with each other by luck The rest of the people gathered together, but they couldn’t meet up, so they gathered at the finish line. Everyone felt that they could persevere to the finish line.

Their order was determined by guessing fists. Gong Si was unlucky and ranked last, while Xi Liu was the No.2 starter.

To be honest, when Malone proposed this competition, Gong Si thought that he would lose.

He really didn't feel any connection between himself and the stream!Especially here is a vast white mountain area, he felt that he might not be able to touch the stream when he reached the end.

however--

Strange to say, when he calmed down and thought about the stream, a feeling became more and more obvious in his heart.

A feeling that the stream is there.

"Really? So mysterious?" This is really a very magical feeling, at least it is the first time Gong Si felt it, but he also remembered: this is also the first time that there are no other people around him, so vast With only himself in the space, the vague sense of connection brought about by the deed between him and the stream finally appeared.

right there!The stream is there!Every cell in the body is telling him this, and there is a faint black energy flow in the air, thin as if two things sticking together are pulled apart, one end is here, and At the other end is-

East.

Gong Si formed fists with his hands, clenched his fists hard, and stabilized his mind. He had a feeling that if he couldn't hold it, he might turn into scissors and appear in the hands of the stream at any time.

It's so embarrassing if that's the case——Thinking to himself, Gong Si weighed the backpack behind him, and then walked steadily towards the east, where he sensed the stream, step by step.

But when he and Xiliu met an hour later, Gong Si realized that he didn't have much face.

The stream is sitting by a lake, he is sitting on his backpack, there is a fire in front of him, with a relaxed face, he is warming up to the fire.And then... the big head was jumping around in the lake in front of him to show off his tail.

Seeing Gongsi approaching, Datou pounced out of the lake with a loud bang, with a signature gesture of grabbing the fish's fins by the lake, Datou flicked his tail, and a big fish came out of the lake in an instant.

Xiliu also saw him, and waved his gloved hand at him. Xiliu smiled and said, "Ah Si, you lost to Datou! Datou appeared when I was standing by this lake."

Palace Si: ...

Well, feeling the breath of the stream, he restrained himself and didn't turn into scissors, but his fish couldn't hold back, and passed by flicking its tail.

Then, just over an hour into the journey, they had a meal of grilled fish first.

After eating the fish, the stream was extinguishing the fire and burying the fish bones. Gong Si took out the map from his pocket and took out a pen. A circle is placed on the side to represent the lake, and a fish is also placed in the lake at the end, which means that there are fish in the lake.

"Oh! This is the road map for both of us." Xi Liu said in an affirmative tone.

"En." Gong Si said, rolled up the map again, and then used the compass to identify the northeast direction, and the two started walking again.

The terrain is constantly descending, and I think so, they flew up to Xuefeng by helicopter and came down from the other side of the mountain. After all, it should be a journey down the mountain.

Today's Qizhou Continent is not as devastated as in the legend. It took a long time to finally walk out of the back of the snow mountain. When the sun shines on the ground again, the ice and snow on the ground melt. Although snow will still appear on the ground from time to time In a small area, where there is no snow, yellow-green vegetation is exposed. As the distance goes, the snow area becomes smaller and the proportion of vegetation is higher, so they saw animals.

It was a kind of animal that looked like a goat, with horns on the head, beards on the chin, and thick fur. They were grazing.

They didn't mean to hunt, after all, they ate big heads and caught fish as soon as they set off, and then they encountered one or two lakes, all of which were very small lakes, but every time they passed by the lake, the big heads would squat in it and catch fish feed them.

"In this way, will we not get exercise at all?" Gong Si frowned as he watched the big fish catch and they couldn't finish eating, he thought of this question.

"But the big head is you, and its fishing is equivalent to your fishing. We eat what you catch, so there is no problem." Xiliu relieved him: "Besides, we have only been walking for a long time, and we haven't arrived in a day. Woolen cloth!"

Looking at the sun that is about to set, Gong Si thinks the same.

After stringing up all the big fish and putting them in the backpack, we walked the palaces and streams for another two hours, then found a place with a lake, and rested.

People often don't notice anything when they are busy, and they feel tired when they rest. The same is true in the palace. He just spread the sleeping bag and rested in it for a while. Then he felt his feet hurt and tired. In fact, he also felt pain during the day , but he ignored it.

Taking off his socks, Gong Si looked at his feet by the light of the fire, only to find that there were several big blisters on his feet!

The stream is not much better than him, the water bubbles, the two people look at me and I look at you, and smile at the same time, and then they can only stand up again, one goes to the lake to fetch water, the other looks for tools to boil water, 5 A few minutes later, they filled the sleeping bags with backpacks and filled them with water and put them on the fire—they were not allowed to bring too many things, and the only thing around them was made of heat-resistant and water-resistant materials.

The two sleeping bags were filled with two large bags of water, and the water was taken off when the water was four minutes hot. The two of them soaked their feet beautifully in the sleeping bags, and then helped each other break the blisters with nail clippers, and then they went back to sleep. .

But this time they didn't sleep well, there were sounds from all kinds of wild beasts in all directions, and they didn't know how to fall asleep in the end.

The next day they met a lot of people who were attending ordinary coming-of-age ceremonies. They probably had the same route for a while, so they came together.

They were almost robbed, and there were always some people who couldn't find food. Seeing the fish hanging on the backpack in the palace, and seeing the two people's slender figures (compared to Qizhou people), several hungry people went Surrounded them with ill intentions...

However, nothing happened, Gongsi could clean them up by himself without the ability, after some exercise, Gongsi and Xiliu continued to move forward.

On the third day of walking, they arrived at a green grassland in a valley at the same time as a group of people who participated in the ordinary coming-of-age ceremony. A thin river meanders on the grassland, which is quiet and magnificent. They only knew it when they heard the cheers from the people next to them. , It turns out that the opponent's end has arrived.

Like the people in the same group, they are also very tired now. The accumulated fatigue broke out when they saw the end point. Many people sat on the ground directly. They talked and laughed with each other to celebrate their adulthood. This land is very fertile. There are not only wild fruits but also fat antelopes. Most of the teenagers in Qizhou are good at hunting. At that time, some people who were slowed down first got up to hunt. It didn’t take long for the antelopes to be dragged back and put on the grill. The partners shared and invited people they didn't know to eat. Gongsi and Xiliu looked at each other and didn't refuse each other's invitation, but in return, they took out several fish.

The celebrations of others continued, and the palaces and streams continued on their way.

The other party's destination is just a landscape they passed by, and their journey has only reached a quarter.

From the third day onwards, their speed dropped significantly. It is reasonable for the committee to shorten the distance of ordinary coming-of-age ceremonies to a quarter. For most people, this distance is a watershed, which is enough for most People feel extremely tired.

The soles of their feet were not just blood blisters, they were almost bloody. They couldn’t wear socks, the skin would stick to the socks, but it was cold without socks, and they started climbing the hill again. Here After all, it is a mountain plain, one mountain peak after another, even if there is a section of plain in the middle, there will be mountains soon.

When he had to stop to rest, Gong Si saw a tree next to him, although it was not too thick... A flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, he turned into scissors, and then asked the stream to "cut" a few trees by himself tree, and then he started to get busy.

It took him a few hours to turn these trees into a simple sled. He had been helping the uncle when he was making the sled. Although the conditions were limited, his skills were also limited, right?

Looking at the newly released "car", Gong Si generously invited Xi Liu to sit on it, seeing that Xi Liu sat down, he himself sat on it happily, and then——

"There's no dog, and no engine..." Xiliu whispered what he hadn't said all along.

Gong Si was instantly discouraged.

"It would be great if uncle was here, he will definitely be able to do better." Gong Si said, looking at the already formed sled, although it was very rough, it was the first sled he made. Under such conditions, Already the best he could make.

But the conditions did not allow them to leave with this sled, and the next step was a slow uphill road. Their luggage was not so heavy that it would be better to put it on the sled, and this sled became their burden... When Si was about to give up the sled and leave, someone who could pull the sled appeared.

After walking for so many days, they finally met a friend of their own, and they saw Emin!

On the road behind them, Emin walked slowly...

Don't get me wrong, it's not Emin who can pull the sled in Gong Si's heart, and they will not be easy when they are tired, and Emin will not be relaxed. You can tell from his extraordinarily steady steps that he is talking about the antelope that Emin is holding in his hand!

The antelopes were obviously not tame, and seeing Ai Min's pace slow down, one of them wanted to take the lead and break free from the shackles of the grass rope. Ai Min punched it hard on the head, eh—all the antelopes Then become honest again.

"Emin! Emin!" Gong Si waved his arms and shouted at Emin while sitting on the sled.

Seeing the palace and the stream, Amin's eyes lit up first, and then his eyes lit up again when he saw the sled they were sitting on.

The four antelopes were quickly fixed on the sled. Although they were still a little unruly, Emin was sitting behind them, still holding his fists.

A few antelopes must have been beaten by Emin these days. A few antelopes pulled up the sled. Although they were not professional, as long as Emin's fists were around, they could barely cooperate.

Seeing the sled running, sitting on the sled, the three of them exhaled at the same time.

"You guys are really good. You made the sled." After taking a sip of the hot water handed to him by the stream, Emin obviously felt a little more comfortable, and the usually taciturn man took the initiative to talk to them.

"You are amazing, and you even found the sledgeman." Looking at the fat buttocks of the antelope ahead, Gong Si's eyes sparkled.

"I never thought about pulling a sled. After all, I don't know how to do it." Amin scratched his head: "They are food reserves, and they can be eaten on the road after hunting."

"How did you catch it?" Xiliu asked him with interest, after all, they didn't bring any tools.

"... Weaved a straw rope and put it on."

Gong Si: ... In just a short time, Ai Min, you have become a Qizhou native.

"But... Where's Marlon?" He didn't see Marlon just now, but Amin put the antelope on the sled and sat on it directly, without mentioning Marlon at all, obviously Marlon wasn't by his side.

Emin's face drooped when he mentioned this: "We haven't met, I've been alone from the beginning to now."

Gong Si was speechless: "The competition was proposed by Marlon, I thought you two must have a special understanding, the kind that can find each other immediately."

Emin: "We have a tacit understanding in terms of living habits, but in terms of contract..."

He thought for a while: "No, in fact, I can't feel where he is."

"Just take your time, you're just not used to the ways of ability users." Xi Liu encouraged him, and then handed him a piece of leftover grilled fish.

It has to be said that tools are really the greatest invention in human history. With the sled and antelope, their speed has been greatly improved, and the three of them can finally rest their feet for a while.

They also met Nilu and Xingyun on the way, to be exact, Xingyun and Nilu who became his hand.

At first, when they saw Xingyun walking alone on the road, they thought that this couple had lost sight of each other like Marlon Emin, but after seeing it, they realized that the two had been together for a long time, and asked Xingyun, They even discovered that this group had met as early as the beginning. Feeling Xingyun's breath, Nilu directly transformed into a device shape, squeezed Xingyun's prosthetic limb, and grew himself onto the opponent's wrist.

"But because of this, all my clothes and backpacks were left in place. Xingyun didn't have any extra clothes. He wanted to wear them for me, but I didn't want him to freeze, so I just kept it in shape." 』Fortunately, everyone is capable, and they can still communicate with each other. Even in the form of a weapon, Nilu can still talk to everyone.

It was also fortunate that Nilu was in the shape of a vessel, otherwise their sled would really not be able to seat two people, and Xingyun was obviously very tired. When he sat on the sled, he was obviously relieved, but he did not relax like the others The shoe checks his feet, instead, he offers to be humane to others:

"Let me see your feet."

Seeing that everyone didn't react, he deliberately shook his white palm lightly, and everyone suddenly realized that they took off their shoes and socks one after another, revealing the scarred soles of their feet.

It is good to have Xingyun and Nilu around, this injury is nothing at all, a burst of warmth came from the soles of his feet, and when Gong Si lowered his head to look at his feet, his feet had recovered, even before Calluses are gone.

"This... this... such smooth feet, just keep the calluses." Gong Si was not used to it.

"Sorry, I can't control this yet." Xingyun apologized.

"It's just talking." He waved his hand and put on his shoes and socks again to feel it. A smile appeared on Gong Si's face.

So far, all the members of Class F's brigade have converged. Excluding Niu Liu who has probably sneaked away, only Marlon and Ge are left. Uh... Udi can barely be counted as one.

"However, since we have a sled, the speed should be the fastest among all of them, right? After all, Marlon doesn't know how to make a sled, and Ge...it seems he can't." Nilu still turns into a sled when resting at night. Humanoid, sitting by the fire, he looked around in the darkness—still no Go or Maron around.

As it turns out, Go and Maron really can't make a sled, but they can fight!No, it's hunting!

On the third day of the journey, while Gong Si was making a sled on the mountainside, Ge and Ma Long encountered a herd of wild horses.

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Yes, Malone didn't find Emin, but he found Ge.

Neither of them is the type who knows the way very well. When the others are driving on the right road to the destination, they have already gone astray. Instead, they encounter the most terrifying creature in the area.

Yes, the scariest creature in this area is not a bear, not a mountain wolf, but a wild horse, or a herd of wild horses to be exact.

Growing in the vast no-man's land of Qizhou, the wild horses are the largest group in this area. They always live in groups. A male wild horse leads the other wild horses to drink water and graze in different places every day, probably in this area. The land is really barren. Unlike the horses in other places, the wild horses here are omnivorous. In the absence of plants, they can still eat meat. Their teeth are so sharp that they can bite even thick bear skin. However, their weapons are not their teeth, but their hooves. When encountering an enemy, the wild horses will surround the enemy and kick the enemy with their hooves like a ball. Under their siege, no matter how thick the skin is, the enemy cannot stand Can be trampled into a piece of skin!

Tired, hungry and with sore feet, this is how Malone and Ge encountered wild horses.

"No wonder there is no prey here, so this is the territory of this group of wild horses." Looking at the wild horses across the grass, Ge said softly.

Completely different from other people who had no shortage of food and drink along the way, Marlon and Ge didn't hunt anything along the way. Fortunately, there was no shortage of ice and snow on the road and they still had water to drink, otherwise they would have fallen down a long time ago.

"How about it? Can I eat horse meat? I heard that horse meat is also delicious!" Unlike the serious-faced Ge, Malone's face was excited, and his eyes lit up!

"These are Qizhou plateau wild horses. They are different from the horses you know." Looking at the horses in front of him, Ge slowed his breathing: "They are one of the most ferocious creatures in this no-man's land. They are almost the same as other species. It's an indiscriminate attack."

"So fierce?!" Malone clicked his tongue: "Then what should we do? Let's retreat?"

Staring at the front, Ge barely shook his head: "Retreat is impossible. We have been delayed for too long, and we will encounter a herd of wild horses. We are probably on the wrong road. We cannot retreat. Far from retreating, We're going to hunt down these wild horses."

"A batch?" Malone blinked, suspecting that he had heard it wrong: "One will do, let's find a wild horse that is alone?"

"Impossible, don't say that wild horses are not alone easily, even if we kill the wild horses that are alone, as long as we still smell of that wild horse, other wild horses will seek revenge from us." Ge Dao.

"Is this still a horse? Tell me what to do." He lost his mind.

Turning his head to look at him, Ge whispered: "Find the leader of this batch of wild horses, and kill him in front of all the wild horses."

"Huh?! If you kill the single horse, you will be punished. If you kill the leader, won't you be hunted down to death?" Malone didn't understand.

"If you kill other wild horses, the leader of the wild horses will take revenge with the other wild horses, but if you kill the leader of the wild horses, the other wild horses will be leaderless in an instant, and the person who killed the wild horses will be the leader by default. Instead, we can harvest a whole group of horses." He explained: "However, the main point is to walk towards them with dignity, walk among them, and then kill the leader with one blow."

Looking at the fat and strong wild horses in front of him, he looked down at his own body. Although Malone thought that he was not bad in physique, he felt a little bit out of control.

"Don't look at them, you can't beat them with human power. Their hooves are very powerful. What's more, there is a group of them that you can't even hide. You have to rely on others." Ge spoke again from the side.

"Others?" Malone tilted his head.

"What is your shape, let me see." Ge asked him.

Although they have been classmates for a while, they have never shown their shape in front of each other's eyes.

Malone turned into a loudspeaker neatly.

It looks like the kind used by supermarket promoters to shout. It looks fancy, not particularly strong, and has no offensive power.

Ge was silent.

Then he turned into his own shape. It was a giant battle ax with a length of two meters. The face of the ax was quite wide, almost wider than Malone's body. Under the sun, the face of the ax shone cold Han Guang, that’s not counting, only the blade and face of the ax are cold weapons, and the top of the ax is a bullet hole covered by layers of precision metal. Both sides of the face of the ax are full of such bullet holes, densely packed, as you can imagine How many bullets can be fired at the same time!

And this is not a normal caliber bullet, these firing holes are so thick...

Looking at Ge in the form of a spear and ax lying on the grass, Malone swallowed nervously.

"Fortunately, it's you. If it were Nilu, I probably wouldn't be able to lift me up." In his consciousness, Ge spoke in a very ordinary tone: "But Nilu must have found Xingyun, and you are the only one who can get separated from his user." 』

"This...is this what you look like? So, what a scary look—" Ignoring Ge's teasing, Malone said.

『Without the user, I can only become like this. It is the elementary form, the simplest form, and the lightest. ”Ge Yun said lightly.

"God—then, what do we do now?" Malone swallowed again.

"Pick me up, walk straight up to the herd of wild horses, find their leader, and—" Ge said in his mind.

Pursing his lips, Malone picked up the dagger with all his strength, and then walked into the herd of wild horses one by one with an ax...

The author has something to say: Ge: It is estimated that the palace can also lift me up, what, you say Emin is easier?Sorry, I usually don't let users touch me, hum, I'm in charge.