"Brother, look, look quickly." Shanshan held up the three-colored velvet flower in her hand and waved it excitedly in front of Tang Ling.
In early autumn, the morning wind had already gained some coolness and strength. Such shaking made the three-colored velvet flowers immediately turn into clusters of small colorful umbrellas, and then floated away.
"Haha." Tang Ling laughed.
But Shanshan puffed up her cheeks, and her big eyes were suddenly filled with tears. Why did the beautiful little fur balls she finally found become scattered and run away
"Bad brother." Shanshan stamped her feet, looking at tears that were about to flow out.
Tang Ling gently picked her up and put her on his shoulders.
"Let's go, brother will take you to find him again." In fact, it is not too difficult to coax her. She will always forget the sadness of the previous moment because of other happy things.
"Really? Really?" Shanshan happily fiddled with Tang Ling's hair.
"Of course it's true. In fact, you can often find these kinds of fur balls in three colors, but it's hard to find those in four colors." Tang Ling made random nonsense. In fact, he had never seen four-color fur balls. .
Real velvet comes in only three colors: white, purple and green.
"Ah? What will happen if you find the four colors?" Shanshan hugged Tang Ling's head.
"Well, I heard that the child who finds it will be happy for a week." Tang Ling was still talking nonsense. He just wanted to accompany Shanshan to do something interesting.
After breakfast, he will go to the wild forest. This time he may go there for several days, because he heard from the hunters in the settlement that a group of Kehua white-tailed short-leg sheep appeared in the wild forest, which is a good prey.
"Happiness for a week? Does it mean that you can eat meat every day for a week?"
"Well, that's right."
"Then brother, please take me to find him quickly."
"Okay, but you have to promise brother that you won't be sad when they turn into little umbrellas and fly away."
"why?"
"Because every little umbrella is a child. They need the help of the wind to find their own home. Once found, they will take root and become new little fur balls. This is the meaning of their survival. "
Shanshan tilted her head. She didn't understand, but when she heard that they were looking for their own home, she should help them.
"Well, I know. If there is no wind, I will blow hard, huff, huff."
"Haha." Tang Ling smiled again. Is there anything else, anything else, whether it's a person or a thing, that is cuter than my sister? No!
For twenty minutes, I only found three three-color velvet trees, but none of four colors.
Shanshan worked hard to blow away the third three-color velvet tree, and looked at Tang Ling expectantly: "Brother, can we find the four-color one today?"
At this point, she pretended to be mature and sensible, but could not hide her disappointment and said: "It doesn't matter if you can't find it. It may be hiding and wants me to find it next time."
Tang Ling rubbed Shanshan's hair, but quietly held a few red sage seeds in his hand, and said seriously: "I'm sure I can find it, and I can find it today. It's just that it's very shy. If we close our eyes, it will appear quietly."
"Otherwise, let's give it a try?"
"Ah?" Shanshan quickly closed her eyes.
Tang Ling took two quick steps, crushed the grass seeds in his hand, and dropped them on the tricolor velvet he had discovered early in the morning.
Tang Ling was very careful during this process, only daring to get out a little bit of juice, for fear that the weight of the water droplets would scatter the tricolor velvet tree in front of him.
Fortunately, it didn't happen. Instead, Rat Seed's powerful dyeing ability successfully added a little red trace to the tricolor velvet's hair ball.
"Wow, Shanshan, come and see. The four-colored velvet girl!" Tang Ling deliberately shouted excitedly.
Shanshan, on the other hand, smiled happily all the way and ran to Tang Ling's side.
"Come on, let's count together. How many colors are there?"
"one"
"two"
"three"
"Four"
"Ah, there are really four kinds. Brother, I want to help it find a home."
Whispering, Shanshan blew the four-color velvet that Tang Ling concocted hard, her eyes filled with happiness.
When the velvet flower slowly floated into the sky, Shanshan leaned on Tang Ling's arm.
"Brother, how far do you think they can fly?"
"Well, it's quite far. After all, they travel with the wind."
"No, brother, you lied to me." Shanshan suddenly turned her head, her little face turned pale and sad, she stood up and stepped back step by step.
At this moment, Tang Ling suddenly felt huge uneasiness in his heart. He wanted to hold Shanshan, but found that he could not move.
"They can't fly very far, they are too weak. Just like me, I can't leave here in my life, and I can only stay in the settlement forever, right?" Shanshan suddenly smiled, and that sad smile made Tang Ling's heart twist.
He wanted to say something, but he saw Shanshan floating up like a small tri-colored velvet umbrella, flying higher and farther.
Unfortunately, the wind suddenly stopped at this moment, and Shanshan looked at Tang Ling and fell heavily to the ground.
"Brother" she shouted at the end, her eyes were just like when she shouted these two words that night when she was surrounded by corpses.
There is infinite nostalgia for oneself, and there is also a large empty numbness
"No!" Tang Ling's heart was about to explode, and at this moment he finally shouted.
"No, don't." Tang Ling turned over and sat up. The night sky was approaching dawn. The wind was still so gentle, but the stars were no longer so bright.
The heart is like a knife, and the painful feeling cannot be forgotten even if it takes a hundred or a thousand years.
Tang Ling covered his chest, sweating heavily and panting unsteadily.
The sound of horse hooves came in the distance, and even though the fire was extinguished, Tang Ling could vaguely see a large carriage moving quickly towards the north through the hazy purple light.
Tang Ling wiped away the cold sweat and quickly calmed down.
In just this moment, the carriage pulled by eight red-maned iron-scaled horses came closer.
The faint sense of crisis in Tang Ling's heart had exploded at this moment.
But he didn't take any action. He lay down and fell asleep again the next moment, and soon fell into a deep sleep. Even his breathing that would slow down during sleep and his body temperature that would become slightly cooler were so realistic.
There is no way to act this kind of thing. The only way is to let yourself go and really fall asleep.
In a strong sense of crisis, to do this requires a strong heart, and Tang Ling's heart has always been strong after experiencing so much.
Tang Long was sitting in the carriage, frowning. He couldn't even enter cultivation, and his heart was just churning with something strange.
What is this strangeness? There are almost no things that can affect Tang Long's cultivation. Maybe only Bi'an has this ability.
But what's ridiculous at this time is that Tang Long doesn't even know what this strange thing is
Could it be that he is really connected with the boat-hunting plan? Do you ultimately need to decipher the secrets hidden in this grassland
As soon as this idea came up, Tang Long felt a little relieved, and he believed more firmly that maybe this feeling was right.
Since you have no intention of practicing, why not take a look at this backward grassland? After all, you always need to experience many differences in life in order to create the indifferent state of mind of a strong person.
Tang Long stretched out his hand and lifted up the curtains of the carriage. Then with his excellent eyesight, he saw a pile of burned out bonfires, with green smoke slowly rising under the starry sky. There seemed to be a person sleeping soundly beside the bonfire.
Tang Long turned his eyes indifferently, he didn't care about such things.
However, at this time, the carriage stopped. Li Wu walked to the carriage door and whispered: "Master Long, I seem to have found a homeless man in front of you. Do you want to ask?"
In fact, Li Wu didn't care much about the Rangers. He just wanted to bring Tang Long to the base quickly.
When you get along with such an extremely talented young man who can't figure out his thoughts at all and is somewhat aloof, you will feel tremendous pressure inexplicably.
Li Wu did not dare to miss any details, but he was also afraid that reporting any details would arouse Tang Long's resentment.
He stood in front of the car door uneasily, and had already thought of the reason. If Mr. Long showed a little impatience, he would say that anyone who could sleep in the wild on the night of the wolf disaster must be worthy of investigation.
Unexpectedly, Mr. Long didn't express any objection, just a faint 'hmm'.
Li Wu received the order and walked towards the fire with two people.
In fact, Tang Long still didn't care about wanderers in the wild. He just needed something else to calm down faster.
Even if he figured out the source of his strange mood, Tang Long didn't want this mood to affect him. At this time, something else could divert his attention.
It has to be said that this is exactly the same as Tang Ling's method of interrupting the continuation of a certain mood.
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Li Wu gradually approached the fire.
The wanderer sleeping next to the fire didn't seem to notice it yet.
He slept soundly, perhaps because he was too tired, but he was not completely unresponsive. He turned over uneasily to the approaching footsteps, but he looked too sleepy, and his eyes did not open. Not open.
"Get up." At Li Wu's signal, a third-level Bronze Star warrior from the Star Council strode over and kicked Tang Ling with a leather-booted foot.
Anyone who was so roughly disturbed in their sleep would be angry. Tang Ling was not surprised. He sat up suddenly, frowned, and yelled, "Who the hell is that?"
He spoke Sili, which is the common language of a safety zone on the west side of the grassland. Although it is different from the common language of Safety Zone No. 17, they are generally the product of the same language and culture.
It just has a unique accent and an occasional tongue snap.
I have to say that Tang Ling's words were very standard. This kind of language ability that suddenly emerged after being 'enlightened' by Kun was as natural as eating.
"Ahem." Li Wu coughed, and the Bronze Star warrior kicked Tang Ling again and shouted sternly: "Follow us."
Tang Ling's face instinctively showed resistance, but he seemed to wake up a little the next second. He saw clearly the people coming and the uniforms they were wearing, and suddenly became frightened.
He opened his mouth, what did he want to say? However, he just made a few strange noises in his throat and stood up silently.
He lowered his head, shrank a little, and silently followed the soldier's footsteps, not even having time to pick up the coat and luggage he had put aside.
Of course, Li Wu didn't care about this.
Then, Tang Ling was brought to the carriage.
Despite his efforts to suppress it, Tang Ling's sense of crisis completely exploded at this moment. Accompanying the sense of crisis was an indescribable strange emotion that kept stirring his heart.
These complicated emotions gave Tang Ling an impulse to pull open the car door and see who was inside the carriage. Why does it make him feel like this
"Tell me, why are you here?" Since Tang Long didn't respond at all, it was natural that Li Wu should be responsible for the interrogation.
But in fact, even if such a wanderer has his own little secret, what does it matter? They came here to prepare a big plan, and this kind of interrogation is indeed a bit baffling.
Faced with Li Wu's inquiry, Tang Ling acted very nervous. He stuttered a little and his tone was even more messy: "I'm here to get some salt and iron in exchange for some ore and meat. I'm not very capable, but it's safe here."
Indeed, apart from the greedy prairie wolves, there are no big dangers on this grassland, as long as the taboos are not touched, but what taboos can such a wanderer touch
"First time here?" Li Wu asked casually. As an officer in the Intelligence Department of the Star Council, he knew what questions were key, and when to ask them appropriately and in what tone.
Although he is not interested, his responsibilities and abilities as an intelligence officer must be demonstrated in front of Master Long.
"The first time, no, no no, it was once and a half. Last time I went to the giant village of Jijihar with my cousin Leo. It's not far from here. My cousin is doing business there, but I don't think I can take advantage of it. "I'll do whatever it takes." Tang Ling kept talking, but his voice became quieter and quieter because he saw the impatient expression on Li Wu's face.
"Why are you here?" Li Wu interrupted Tang Ling as expected.
"Howling wolves, I have very good ears. I heard howling wolves in the distance, and I judged it was a pack of wolves. I didn't dare leave at night." Tang Ling shrank his neck, showing appropriate fear.
Li Wu stopped talking, but took a cigarette and lit it. All his words were very reasonable and without any flaws.
And the direction where he slept happened to be the direction he had to pass when coming from the giant village of Jijihar.
The lucky guy heard the howl of the wolf and decided not to move forward. He went to seek refuge in a village or something. After all, this area of the Raziel Grassland was the only safe place that would not be affected by the wolf disaster.
On wolf disaster nights, wolves will attack the village crazily and will not come out to hunt on a large scale.
It would be strange if a person who could run a business in the wild really didn't have any survival skills.
"Let's go." After taking a few puffs of cigarette, Li Wu watched Tang Ling's micro-expression closely for a while, and then decided to let Tang Ling go.
It's really not fun to interrogate a penniless homeless person.
Tang Ling showed an expression of surprise, and then asked, "Just, are you leaving?"
"What else?" Li Wu glanced sideways at Tang Ling.
Tang Ling quickly took a few steps back, then turned around, looking a little embarrassed and eagerly walking forward, even falling a bit.
But at this moment, the carriage door opened. Tang Long stepped out of the carriage, looked at Tang Ling's back, and shouted: "Stop."
The voice was not loud, but it had a natural majesty and a huge pressure.
The emotions in Tang Ling's heart completely dissipated at this moment, spreading lightly to all the limbs and bones in his body, and dispersed lightly in the night wind, followed by a numb feeling of sadness.
He resisted the voice, but slowly turned back.
(End of chapter)