January 10, 2017

Tengshandong, wild roads between mountains.

As the sun sets, the afterglow on the horizon reflects on Wang Jiu's face when he looks back, making the sword spirit with an ancient well-being look show a bit of the cold temperament of a golden-faced Buddha.

Seeing that the afterglow was about to end, Wang Jiu waved his hand: "Get camp."

A sigh suddenly came from behind.

"No, right? You have to stop again?" Chen Qingming's voice had already revealed a sense of unloving fatigue."

In the team, Li Wanqing was also a little impatient: "Tsk, how many distances have we walked this day? Is there a hundred miles?"

"One hundred and five to seventy miles, straight distance." Wang Jiu casually revealed a precise number that made people speechless, and then arranged, "It's Li Xinyu's turn to watch the night, and Chen Qingming is responsible for the camp and dinner."

"yes."

"good."

The two answers had different tones, but they were also full of fatigue.

Starting from Qingyun City, the group headed east to Shencheng. It had been five days since they were half the distance from the terminal Shencheng. The speed of traveling was so slow that it was incredible in this era of highly developed immortal civilization.

Exclude those experts who are amazingly powerful and can fly by themselves.

Normally, even if you travel from a big city like Qingyun City to other large cities, you only need to pass a teleportation array to do it. Including the teleportation array to the city, the time for queuing to pass security checks and destination inspections is generally not more than two hours.

Of course, such convenient service means extremely expensive fares, except for those noble families, it is really hard for ordinary people to bear. Therefore, they usually choose suboptimal solutions: flying shuttles, red wooden ox and horses, and the distance from Qingyun City to Shencheng will not exceed one day.

However, that is the general situation. Given that the relationship between Shencheng and Qingyun City has been at a low point in recent decades, and even once on the verge of war, the direct teleportation array between cities has long been closed, and transportation methods such as flying shuttles and wooden ox and flowing horses will also face stricter inspections and reviews than other cities, resulting in longer time.

As for Chen Qingming, there are special reasons that delay the journey to such a long time. If we retreated to 5 days ago...

January 5, 2018

In the early morning, Wang Jiu, Chen Qingming, Li Wanqing, Li Chaolu and Li Xinyu completed the assembly at the Li family compound. They each took their long luggage and a faint excitement to take the Li family's private shuttle to Shencheng.

Before leaving, Chen Qingming complained half out of tension and half out of sincerity: "It is said that the Li family's shuttle has not had a special budget update, so its performance is already very backward. It takes a whole day to fly in the air to reach Shencheng."

Li Wanqing added: "And for the sake of simplicity and pragmatism, the interior decoration and functional facilities are also bad. Last time I went to Yuqing Mountain, I took a small shuttle, which didn't even have a bed inside. I sat there for most of the day and couldn't even lie down."

Li Xinyu also complained: "And the maid is very perfunctory. She is fat, ugly and old, and she doesn't give her drinks if she wants it."

Li Chaolu kicked her directly: "Because you, the fat man who asked for the girl in public, was scared away!"

Chen Qingming summarized the statement: "In short, we have to stay in a narrow space and the waiter's ugly and fat shuttle all day? It's so boring..."

"It's really boring." The other people agreed, and then looked at the mistress of the family who was in charge of the Li family's budget with anticipation.

Lu Xin glared at Chen Qingming, who was leading the troublemaker, with anger, and said, "You are going to perform official duties, not travel!"

Hearing this, Wang Jiuze suggested: "If you feel bored, I have a way to make the journey very interesting, but the premise is that you strictly abide by my instructions. Are you interested?"

Li Wanqing said: "Is it a game to strictly abide by the instructions?"

"It can be said that." Wang Jiu nodded in agreement.

"Then I'll join." Li Wanqing said, "The game in the prehistoric era sounds very interesting."

Li Wanqing took the lead, and the rest of them had no objections and joined one after another.

After confirming everyone's intentions, Wang Jiu nodded: "Okay, then take the first step and hand over your shuttle ticket to me."

Several people took out the private shuttle tickets that Lu Xin had just handwritten, with the names of several people written on them, and their handwriting was neat and graceful, with cute patterns on the edges, and a private seal with Li Fengyun handed them to Wang Jiu. Then, they were surprised to see Wang Jiu burning the bills to ashes.

"Ha?!" Lu Xin was so shocked that he screamed softly, drawing four private shuttle tickets that he could take, but it took her a whole hour!

Wang Jiu had no consciousness to destroy other people's artistic achievements and said calmly: "Okay, let's go on foot next."

"on foot?!"

Wang Jiu smiled and said, "Yes, it sounds very exciting, right?"

In the next five days, everyone had to walk among the mountains between Qingyun and Shencheng.

At the beginning, this kind of hiking was indeed quite interesting for several young people. While enjoying the scenery along the way, they chatted about the topics of young people, and then casually imagined the possible experiences in Shencheng... But from the next day, everyone began to feel bored.

Not all mountain roads have scenery, and not all topics can be talked about all the time. In particular, Wang Jiu has extremely strict requirements for hiking. Not only should he maintain a warning throughout the whole process, he should beware of enemies that are actually impossible to appear. The many trivial and strict requirements when camping make people lose all their interest in hiking instantly.

"Li Xinyu, you should always pay attention to maintaining your attention when vigilant, don't be too focused or too distracted. The best way is to meditate in a specific way... Chen Qingming, dinner is the essence of night rest, you should not be too luxurious because it will waste time and energy, but you should not be too perfunctory, for example, like you are like this now! Rice is cooked into this kind of virtue, and you are simply the young girl in the rice world."

Chen Qingming was very dissatisfied: "There is clearly a ready-made Zuixianlou take-out package, why do you have to cook it yourself!"

Wang Jiu said: "Zuixianlou cannot be open forever, and take-out packages cannot be endless. You must learn to cook in the wild anytime and anywhere in order to quickly replenish yourself in the tense war period and relieve stress."

Chen Qingming continued to dissatisfied: "I have a body that is not moving, so there is no need to be so particular about food."

The next moment, Wang Jiu threw a piece of soil and rubble over and said, "Eat it."

"……I was wrong."

Wang Jiu said: "First, your immovable body is far from the point where you can sit and absorb soil and absorb external nutrients. Second, for monks at high levels, food is also an indispensable part of alleviating mental stress, so cook your rice well and don't always put yourself into the food. Except for perverts, no one likes young girls' rice."

"You've got enough!" Chen Qingming said angrily, "You promised us before that we would make the journey interesting, so we gave you the ticket to arrange everything. As a result, we walked more than a thousand miles in the wilderness. You told me where it was interesting?!"

Wang Jiu thought about it and said, "To be honest, I don't know either, but when Jiuxianzun asked me to arrange my itinerary before, even if my itinerary was tens of millions of times stricter than your experience, in the end they would still evaluate my itinerary as very interesting."

"Because they fear your force?"

Wang Jiu said: "I never approached my own people with force."

“…Who killed tens of thousands of people?”

Wang Jiu said: "Those tens of thousands of people are not their own people. Although they are indeed humans, I never judge the camp by the other party's race. After all, racial discrimination is not a good thing."

"Do I still need to praise you for this?! In short, since you are not threatening with force, what would you do if they just told you that your itinerary was painful and boring?"

Wang Jiu thought for a while: "Of course, I'm trying to find a way to make the journey interesting to make up for the previous problems, such as adding a period of physical training before going to bed to improve everyone's sleep quality. Or arrange a few more night watchers to relieve the mental stress of a single night watcher."

"……I see."

Wang Jiu asked: "So, considering that you all felt that the previous five days of hiking was very boring, so I..."

"No, no, no, Ajiu, you are definitely misunderstood! We don't feel bored at all. On the contrary, we can't wait to experience the content afterwards! The thousands of miles from Qingyun City to Shencheng seem too short under your arrangement, which makes people reluctant to leave..."

"That's right, that's right. Let's take a detour. There is a place that I think is necessary to take a detour."

"You did it on purpose!"
Chapter completed!