That night, Xu Qing had a dream.
This is the first time he has lived in such a luxurious house in more than six years, and it is also the first time he has not felt the cold outside, and it is also a rare night of dreams.
In the dream, the world is not cruel, the sky has no remnants of gods, his parents are also by his side, and there is even a brother.
And he went to school with a group of playmates carefree, returned to the warm home after school, ate a hot dinner with his relatives, and slept beautifully.
It's just the appearance of relatives in the dream, a little bit like a lake.
He wanted to see it clearly, but there was always a cloud of fog shrouded in it until morning came, and Xu Qing, who was lying on the bed, opened his eyes.
He looked at the roof, relaxed for a moment, seemed to have completely woken up from a dream, and looked around silently...
In the gray-black brick room, there are not only tables, chairs, and beds, but also a bathroom. The floor is full of residual heat, which is the remnant of the heat of the stove last night.
On the ground, there is a futon made of straw mats, and there is an empty bookshelf beside it.
It seems simple, but in Xu Qing's heart, this is already very luxurious.
Xu Qing took a deep breath, walked to the bathroom, and carefully placed his hand in the water. Seeing that his dirty hand was slowly melted away, he quickly lifted it up.
After staring down for a moment, wiping it on his body, and making it dirty again, he looked up at himself in the mirror.
A large leather jacket, black but messy hair, a small face full of dirt, and those clear eyes.
Just watching, as Xu Qing turned to look at the window, the clarity in his eyes was replaced by indifference.
In the heaven and earth outside the window, the snow has stopped, the early sun rises, the sun is falling, and the last snow of this winter is slowly disappearing from the ground.
On the trees in the distance, as the snow marks melted, a green bud bloomed, as if to tell everyone that spring… really came.
Xu Qing walked out of the room and glanced at Lei Team's house habitually. There were more than a dozen wild dogs in the yard, but they didn't raise their heads, but swept their tails on the ground as a greeting.
"Should do something." Xu Qing murmured in his heart, a look of firmness in his eyes.
So he pushed open the courtyard door and walked out, his goal was very clear, it was the tent where the team leader was.
In the early morning, there were not many scavengers in the camp.
As Xu Qing approached the convoy, the guards there all glanced at him, and Xu Qing gradually heard the faint sound of reading books in Langzhong's tent.
After hesitating for a while, Xu Qing silently stood outside the tent, waiting quietly.
The guards around the convoy looked at him with scrutiny. After observing, most of them retracted, but there were still a few, still paying attention to him.
Xu Qing didn't care about this, because with the sound of reading in the tent, he gradually became fascinated. At the same time, he also found that the sound of reading in the tent was not just reading, but also included assessment.
"Jinnew grass, also known as three-leaf pearl, cold-dissipating grass, is the whole grass of the sedge plant, the single-spiked water centipede. In the two states, Gong can disperse the lungs and relieve cough, clear heat and detoxify, dissipate blood stasis and reduce swelling, and has miraculous effects on poisonous snake bites and bruises.
The girl's voice was originally full of confidence, but as she spoke, she hesitated.
"What to cooperate with?" Inside the tent, Master Bai's majestic words seemed to be stern.
"With the use of rhinoceros to make medicine, it can form a drop of poison-avoiding complete liquid by using yang to transform yin, which is one of the basic materials of Dahua Dan." The girl seemed a little scared, and her speech speed was much faster, and she was relieved after speaking. tone.
Xu Qing was outside the tent, listening to this, becoming more and more serious.
"Baibeigen, also known as... er, is the root of Euphorbiaceae, a little bitter and slightly bitter, the place of origin... The root of the five internal organs..." Then came the young man, he hesitated as he spoke, and immediately after he got there Pause, apparently forgetting.
In the tent, the boy sitting with the girl was nervous and anxious at the moment, but he couldn't remember it, so he looked to the girl for help.
"Gene Era"
The girl beside her obviously knew the answer, but she just didn't remind her, so the boy could only cry in the end.
And Master Bai, who was in front of them, turned his head to look outside the tent, and the guards on the side immediately asked for instructions.
Master Bai thought for a while, shook his head slightly, and then snorted at the stumbling boy.
"Meditate the Book of Plants and Trees ten times tonight!"
The boy was really about to cry this time, but he didn't dare to refute it, so he could only bow his head and mourned silently.
After examining the two apprentices, Master Bai calmly spoke and began to talk about today's course. His voice was a little louder and clearer than before.
The young man hadn't noticed, but the girl was attentive and had some doubts. She blinked her eyes and glanced outside the tent. Following her gaze, she could see a thin figure appearing on the tent under the sunlight.
Xu Qing, who was outside the tent, listened more seriously. He kept every word and every sentence spoken by Master Bai in his heart, for fear of forgetting the slightest bit, because knowledge was extremely precious and longing for him. .
In this way, the time passed slowly, and this day, Master Bai's lectures were also more than before, almost double the time. It was not until three poles in the sun and scavengers outside the tent waiting to see a doctor that Master Bai finished the lecture. came out.
"Young man outside, come in."
Xu Qing was jolted, and woke up from his unfulfilled thoughts. He took a deep breath and carefully opened the tent door with a guilty conscience. After walking in, he stood silently aside, feeling a little embarrassed.
Originally, he wouldn't do this, but he came here today for consultation, and he eavesdropped outside for a long time. The latter's behavior is very disgusting in the slum.
Seemingly seeing the boy's nervousness, Master Bai slowed down and opened his mouth.
"What's the matter?"
As his words came out, the girl on the side looked at Xu Qing curiously.
She had a little impression of the child in front of her, remembering that the other party had come to see a doctor with an old man on his back a few days ago.
"I have seen Master Bai." Xu Qing bowed his head, imitating the appearance of Lei Dui before, and bowed deeply to Master Bai.
After hesitating, he said that he wanted to consult about Destiny Flower.
After speaking, Xu Qing took out five white pills from the leather bag and placed them in front of Master Bai.
The consultation fee is usually one white pill, but Xu Qing felt that he heard the other party's lecture, one white pill is not enough, even five are less.
So he took out ten spirit coins and put them together with Bai Dan.
After doing this, his heart settled down.
Master Bai gave Xu Qing a deep look, and slowly opened his mouth to the girl beside him.
"Tingyu, you answer."
The girl's body was straight, her expression was serious, and she spoke in a crisp voice.
"The Flower of Destiny, also known as Life-Changing Flame, the Spiritual Grass, is a variation of the Divine family plant Fumu. There are seventy-three variations of this variation recorded, but only the first one can be used as medicine and can grow anywhere in the restricted area. Regions, there are no rules, and the numbers are rare.”
"Gong can regenerate a severed limb, rekindle a life on the verge of death, except for the wound of the soul, the general practice can be treated." Said, the girl quickly picked up the book on the side, and after turning a few pages, revealed a book with pictures drawn on it. one page.
"That's what it looks like."
Tu Eucalyptus painted a flower and grass that didn't seem to be out of the ordinary, except for the serrations on the edges of the grass blades, which were a little obvious, and there was a strange symbol formed by a silk thread in the middle.
Xu Qing looked at it carefully, and after taking it in his heart, he bowed deeply to Master Bai and the girl, and turned to leave.
Before leaving, Master Bai's dandan voice came from behind him.
"This grass is hard to come by, and it is often accompanied by powerful alien beasts. You can do it yourself."
Xu Qing bowed again after hearing the words, and after leaving the tent, he galloped fast in the camp.
After returning to the residence with the fastest speed, he immediately took out a bamboo piece from the leather bag, and carved the flower of destiny and the totem described by the girl on it with an iron stick.
After thinking about it, he engraved what he heard today.
In the end, he looked at the dense bamboo pieces with countless small characters, and was very satisfied, and carefully put them away like a treasure.
"It would be great if I could still listen." Xu Qing murmured and began to think about how to continue listening. After a while, he put his mind away and began to practice.
That night, Xu Qing waited for Lei Team to return from going out and told the other party that he was going to the restricted area. After Lei Team heard it, he hesitated.
But in the end, he nodded and told Xu Qing about his own experience.
As if the old man in the family watched his son go out, Lei Dui said it in great detail.
It wasn't until it was almost dawn that Xu Qing wrote it all down, and Lei Dui gave him another leather bag, which contained all kinds of medicinal powder left by Luan Ya.
After understanding the specific role, Xu Qing left the camp in the early morning, leaving the camp and galloping in the wilderness. After a while, he arrived outside the restricted area.
The moment he stepped into the boundary, the warmth of the sunlight outside was cut off, and a sense of gloom penetrated into his body. Xu Qing narrowed his eyes, alert, his body turned into a scar, and went straight to the jungle.
In a few ups and downs, it disappeared without a trace.
The second time he stepped into the jungle in the restricted area, Xu Qing's familiarity with this place was different from before.
But the more so, the more cautious he is. While jumping forward, he also pays attention to the flowers and plants around him, and soon he arrived at the place where the silt was, and imitated Luan Ya's previous actions to pick up the silt and smear it on his body. move on.
Time passed, and soon the whole day passed.
This time, Xu Qing did not encounter the fog. As for the powerful alien beasts, they were all avoided by Xu Qing's caution as much as possible.
On the way, he also paid attention to the flowers and plants, looking for the flower of destiny.
At this moment, he arrived at the place where he encountered the black-scaled wolf, and looking around, he could barely see the arrangement at that time, but the wolf corpses on the ground were mostly turned into rotten bones.
After carefully observing the decay on these corpses, he found that there were no signs of bites, but after the natural decay, Xu Qing breathed a sigh of relief.
This shows that there is a high probability that no strange beasts will come here.
So he found an area nearby and planned to spend the night before moving on after dawn.
Soon as night fell, in the dark jungle, Xu Qing hid in a tree crevice, looking in the direction of the Seven Leaf Clover Canyon, and farther away, was the temple complex.
When he entered the restricted area this time, in addition to looking for the Flower of Destiny, he also had an idea, that is, to find a scar-removing stone for the little girl.
"Go and have a look." Xu Qing murmured.