Chapter 1231, Leaving
The so-called miasma is the rotting gas produced by the leaves and animal corpses that have been deposited in the woods for many years.
Symptoms such as headache, fainting shock, and itchy skin would occur after inhaling miasma, but fortunately, Zhang Baogen was a Transcendent, and his own cardiopulmonary and metabolic functions were already far superior to those of normal people, so his breathing immediately smoothed out after Li Shentan had just boiled the herbs for him.
Little Li Ren sat on the side, his back leaning against the large metal box, eating snacks.
During these few months, Li Shentan and Si Li Ren had also specially built their own home here, a wooden house with a two-story structure.
According to the customs of the Lian tribe, Si Li Ren as a girl has a higher status to live upstairs, while Li Shentan lives on the first floor …… This is also considered to be following the customs of the countryside.
In the past, every day, it was Lian Yi who ran to this small building more, but now, it is Lian Hua big sister who runs here five or six times a day, delivering clean clothes and delivering good food.
The enthusiastic Big Sister Lianhua was close to saying that she wanted to examine Zhang Baogen’s body.
This was something that caused the other males in the cottage to envy for a while.
At this moment, Si Li Ren asked while eating the dried fruits sent by Big Sister Lian Hua, “Brother Sheng Tan, are we leaving.”
Li Shentan turned around and smiled, “Why do you say that?”
“I see that your mind is no longer here,” Si Li Ren muttered, “In an hour, you’ve already muttered ‘I don’t know what’s going on over at Ren Xiaosu’ twice, so you’re definitely leaving Xiu Zhuzhou. But I’m curious, what will Sister Ripple do when you leave? Bring them along? They’re very capable of fighting, they should be able to help us.”
“We can’t take them with us,” Li Shentan said with a smile, “The world outside is getting more and more dangerous, it’s better for them to stay in Xiujiu Prefecture, with the protection of the Gold Corpse and Silver Corpse, I think that even if someone wants to trek across the mountains to invade this place, it will be very difficult.”
There was a natural miasma barrier near Xiu Zhu Zhou, and the natural environment was relatively harsh, which was already unsuitable for large-scale marching. Even a transcendent like Zhang Baogen would be struck by it, let alone ordinary people.
Therefore, anyone with a bit of brains would not send troops here to die.
Even if someone did send them, then the Lian Clan was more familiar with this place than the enemy, and there were so many places where they could hide and retreat that no one would be able to find them.
Li Shentan surely couldn’t abduct the Lian Clan to leave with him just to give himself more help.
Si Li Ren looked at Li Shentan and said, “Then when are we leaving?”
“We’ll leave when Baogen wakes up,” Li Shentan said.
“Wow,” Si Li Ren’s eyes widened, “Li Shen Tan, why don’t you let me stay as well, aren’t you afraid that I’ll be in danger if I go out?”
Li Shentan smiled and said, “Little Li Ren is so powerful, how could he encounter danger.”
“Also oh,” Si Li Ren smiled prettily.
That night, Zhang Baogen finally woke up leisurely, and as soon as he opened his eyes, he immediately jumped up alertly and looked around.
Li Shentan sat aside fiddling with the fire pit and laughed, “Grandpa really didn’t exercise you for nothing, now you have a few looks of surviving in the chaotic world.”
“Brother Shengtan,” Zhang Baogen’s eyes lit up, “I remember I mistakenly entered a cloudy forest and then fainted, how did you find me?”
“The place where you fainted is not far from the Lian Clan’s fortress, someone controlled the silver corpse to pick medicine, and ended up picking you back,” Li Shentan said with a smile, “Moreover, the other party seems to want to keep picking, the one that picks yin to replenish yang and yang to replenish yin. ”
Zhang Baogen immediately shivered, “What, are there still female ghosts in this Xiu Zhuzhou?”
“There are no female ghosts, but there are a lot of big sisters,” Li Shentan laughed cheerfully, “Let’s talk about what’s going on first, why did you abandon the satellite phone to Xiu Zhuzhou?”
“The Central Plains seems to have been controlled by artificial intelligence, when I was investigating Wang’s at Barrier 73, the residents of an entire barrier there unexpectedly became robot-like at the same time, their eyes completely unfocused and empty as if they were in an abyss,” Zhang Baogen said with palpitating heart It was with great difficulty that they escaped from the encirclement, there were other strange Transcendents in Barrier 73 at that time, and they ended up being caught up halfway.”
Li Shentan frowned, “It seems that this matter is related to the Fire Seed Sacred Mountain that Grandmaster talked about before, and I’m afraid that inside that sacred mountain is a huge nanobot production base. What happened afterward, Baogen what else did you see?”
“Those controlled people didn’t chase me, so they turned the corner towards the southwest direction, their traveling speed wasn’t too fast, probably the average fast walking speed of an ordinary person,” Zhang Bao Gen said, “Several people even wore out their shoes in order to chase me, but none of them looked at their paws for a second, and then their feet also wore out, leaving one blood-colored footprint after another on the ground.”
“It’s just like the people who controlled Li when I was there,” Li Shentan lamented, “When Grandmaster scouted the vehicles coming out of the Sacred Mountain, what places did they go to?”
Zhang Baogen hesitated for a moment and said, “All the ledges have been there, not just the ledges, even the grasslands, and this forested no-man’s land to the south has also been here.”
In just a moment’s effort, Li Shentan realized where the danger lay, “I’m afraid that all the residents and stragglers of the entire Central Plains are now on their way to the southwest and northwest. How many people must that be, even if the southwest and northwest armies are in full force and are willing to slaughter this group of civilians, they can’t stop them from advancing, can they?”
There were always people in the army who flirted with the idea that bullets in the army were the least valuable because there were so many of them that it wasn’t much of a challenge to produce them.
Seeing that now a situation had arisen that was so horrifying that everyone had never envisioned it, the enemies that the Southwest and Northwest had to face were probably more than the bullets they had in reserve.
Even if it was true that everyone was a sharpshooter, one bullet corresponded to one human life, and when the bullets ran out, the enemies couldn’t be killed.
What’s more, everyone couldn’t do a single shot to kill an enemy.
Li Shentan stood up, “Baogen you just rest here, the next thing is no longer suitable for you to participate in.”
Zhang Baogen froze for a moment, “What about you, Brother Shentan?”
“Little Li Ren and I will leave tonight,” Li Shentan said, “Li Ren, depart.”
Little Lioren was eating dried pork, and immediately froze, “In such a hurry?”
“Well, if we go at night, the Lian people shouldn’t be able to find out,” Li Shentan said.
They didn’t have much luggage here, and after Si Li Ren secretly stuffed a bunch of snacks into the metal case carrying Chen Wuxi, she put the case behind her back.
It felt as if she was asking her invincible brother to help guard the snacks.
However, Li Shentan was about to walk out of the small building when he suddenly turned back.
He took out a paper and a pen, and wrote cautions seriously: when the garlic is drying, it must be on a small fire, and it is turned over twice an hour for eight hours …….
When the second distillation of the liquor, it must be ……
Accounting for all this, is Li Shentan worried that after he left, Lian clan members will forget the process.
At that time, the clan will have another illness, and everyone will be blind again.
He continued to write: remember, if you encounter outsiders, you must use gold, silver, and copper corpses to meet the enemy, and remember not to go near strange animal corpses.
The reason for explaining this matter is that I am worried that the nanobots are controlling other creatures to approach the fortress and thus control the clansmen of the Lian Clan.
If they were fighting with gold corpses and copper corpses, then there was no need to worry, no matter how powerful the AI-controlled nanobots were, they couldn’t control people who were already dead.
It wasn’t until he finished explaining all this that he let out a long sigh of relief.
As Si Li Ren watched from the side, she realized that it seemed like it had been a long time since Li Shentan had been so preoccupied with anything.
The last time he was so preoccupied with thinking about others was when he was helping Ren Xiaosu.
“Brother Shentan, why don’t we not go?” Si Li Ren said.
“No way,” Li Shentan smiled, “We have to go to the Central Plains to make sure that Grandmaster is safe and sound before we can go, and besides, there are still things to do.”
“O,” said Si Li Ren, “I’ll listen to you, but, won’t you say goodbye to Sister Ripple.”
“No,” Li Shentan shook his head.
“Where are we leaving from?” Si Li Ren asked.
“We can’t go through the fortress gate,” Li Shentan said, “Ripple’s golden corpse is guarding there, let’s go over the side of Aunt Lianyun’s house.”
Zhang Baogen saw that they were really going to leave, and immediately became anxious, “Wait a moment, Brother Shentan, wait for me to recover for the night, I’ll go with you.”
Li Shentan smiled and said, “Why are you still going out, you are not a person who likes to fight per se, how good it is to be in this paradise, maybe your homecoming is destined to be here.”
Before leaving the fortress, Li Shentan looked back at this paradise, he thought to himself that the happiest time of his life was probably spent here.
Not having too many worries, not needing to face danger, performing magic tricks for the older sisters and aunts, all of them would look at him with amazement, and then one by one, they would applaud him like children.
Here there is fragrant bacon, thick slices of meat look greasy, but a bite does not feel greasy at all, instead, the mouth is full of flavor.
There were also simple people here whose favorite thing to do every day was to bask in the sun.
If there was a chance, Li Shentan was willing to return here after all the turmoil.
Originally, Li Shentan wanted to go to the south to watch the typhoon, but ended up stopping his footsteps here.
A traveler’s footsteps were kept by the scenery along the way, and so there was no need to care whether or not they reached the end.
It is just that Li Shentan has to be more aware than others that no one can be spared in this era, and what should be done, someone must do.
He still owed Ren Xiaosu a promise.
“Let’s go,” Li Shentan laughed.
In the night, Li Shentan tiptoed over the walled village, Xiao Li people are much easier, she can fly ……
However, originally should stand in front of the cottage door of the golden corpse old master, even early in the cottage outside the wooden fence waiting for Li Shentan.
In the middle of the night, the golden corpse old man didn’t look scary, but rather quite amiable.
Only Li Shentan knew that kindness was only superficial, this person’s combat power could solidly beat most of the Transcendents in the Central Plains.
Footsteps came from the woods, Ripple calmly looked at Li Shentan, “I knew from the time that friend of yours was brought back to the fortress that you were leaving, why are you leaving.”
Li Shentan said seriously, “I have reasons why I must leave.”
“Then will you come back?” Ripple said, “You said to that box, I know you are not willing to lie to the one in the box.”
These months of getting along toward each other, Ripple also had some understanding of Li Shentan.
Li Shentan cried and laughed, “Why even say it to him, it has nothing to do with him, and he doesn’t care about it.”
“You really are lying to me,” Ripple said.
“Let’s do it this way, let’s play a coin toss game, if it’s the portrait heads, then you let me go,” Li Shentan said, “If it’s tails, even if you win, I’ll stay.”
Ripple thought about it and said, “No, if it’s heads, I’ll go with you, if it’s tails, you stay.”
Li Shentan froze for a moment, he took out the silver coin in his pocket and flicked it high into the sky with his thumb, Ripple’s eyes then lifted up after it.
The silver coin made a clear sound as it tumbled through the air.
However, as the silver coin tumbled, Ripple’s gaze grew dull.
Li Shentan sighed, in fact, he had also controlled Transcendents, but it was quite difficult to control an expert in Transcendents like Ripple.
It wasn’t that he himself wasn’t strong enough, but the spiritual will as each person’s own home ground had a great advantage in itself, you wanted the other person to surrender their subconscious mind, then you had to be much stronger than the other person to be able to do so.
But now it was different, Li Shentan knew that the easier it was for Ripple to be hypnotized in front of him, it would mean that the more Ripple trusted him.
Hypnotizing such a trusting person would always be a bit unpleasant in the heart, but Li Shentan knew that although this might be the first time, it would definitely not be the last.
Si Li Ren said from the side, “Didn’t you say that you would no longer hypnotize good people in front of Brother Peerless?”
Li Shentan turned his head and smiled at him, “But this time it’s for a good cause, I’m sure he’ll understand.”
After saying that, Li Shentan added to Ripple, “Now go back to sleep, tomorrow at sunrise when the first sunlight shines on your face, you will wake up …… not that I don’t want to stay, it’s that I still have one more thing that I must do.”
As soon as the words fell, Li Shentan walked towards the north.
Si Li Ren floated beside Li Shen Tan and whispered, “Sister Ripple is shedding tears.”
Li Shentan’s figure paused for a moment, but he never turned around to look behind him again.