Chapter 30 Difficulties and dangers come from the heart of the people
Tian Jin carefully taught many students how to set up camp, how to set up guards, how to identify directions, and how to identify food.
At first, everyone was very interested, but after a month, most of the children from aristocratic families lost any interest due to the hardships on the road.
In other words, in the uncivilized wilderness, the children of these aristocratic families gradually took off their usual gentle disguise and returned to their aloofness as powerful people, disdaining to understand this knowledge.
The family has thought carefully about this trip, with expert guards, survival experts, and personal servants all arranged. Even if you sleep in the wilderness, troublesome matters will naturally be handled by others.
As a child of an aristocratic family, if you only have to give orders and enjoy the results, why should you learn such useless knowledge from Tian Jin?
Therefore, in the end, only three people were still following Tian Jin, naturally Jiang Liuer, Xu Lan and Luo Xiuxin.
After teaching him how to sense danger again, Tian Jin glanced at the children of aristocratic families who were chatting under the care of servants not far away, and couldn't help but shook his head.
Xu Lan said: "Since they have people accompanying them, there won't be any problem even so."
Tian Jin smiled, flicked the bonfire in front of him, and said, "There's not much dry food left."
Xu Lan frowned slightly, Jiang Liu'er glanced at Xu Lan and said, "I don't know, the two monks who came with me now pretended not to have anything to eat and secretly hid the dry food.
He got up and ate by himself, completely ignoring me, the abbot. If I hadn't been smart enough to learn so much from Master Tian and understand all kinds of food, I would have starved to death."
Luo Xiuxin said in surprise: "You should have told me earlier when you finished eating your dry food. It's not like we won't share it with you."
Jiang Liu'er laughed, pointed around, including the few people in front of him, and said with a smile: "The road is still long. Our team is said to be a collective, but in fact, secretly, none of these aristocratic families obeys anyone else. Because of the difficulties and dangers on the road.
, monsters, barbarians, wild beasts, food and other issues, conflicts will break out sooner or later, so I'd better be prepared in advance."
Tian Jin also said: "Although I was invited by them and commanded the guards to collect resources on weekdays, these young men are used to living a wealthy life and don't know how to cherish them at all.
Some of them have certain martial arts skills like Mr. Xu, which is fine, but as the journey continues, as they encounter more and more things, the conflicts will become more and more intense.
Those guards and servants seem to be very peaceful now, but when their lives are really at stake, how much is loyalty worth?"
The three of them all looked solemn upon hearing this.
Tian Jin looked at Jiang Liu'er and said: "I don't know why Your Majesty treats you so differently, but those two monks also work as monks and clock the clock. Ha, I don't need to remind you, you are all here anyway.
felt it.
Of all the people here, you have neither background nor strength. To be honest, when I set out from Chang'an, I thought you would not be able to go very far, so while we are not far from Anxi now, we can find a way to go back and still be safe.
A life."
Jiang Liuer looked a little struggling. How could he not know what Tian Jin said? Since leaving the area controlled by the Tang Dynasty, the two monks took him less and less seriously and often planned something in private.
, completely avoid Jiangliu'er.
That night, Jiang Liuer slept at the outermost edge of the entire Buddhist scripture-seeking team. There was no way he could be helped. He was an alien and was not welcome anywhere.
Even the two monks who were guarding him have now come together with a young man from a certain aristocratic family and joined their team, and all the good positions have been occupied by them.
Jiang Liuer could only light a bonfire and set up a simple tent here.
Most of the people on the outermost edge of the team were servants, and they were also closest to danger. During this period, several people would disappear inexplicably almost every night. The next day, everyone would search randomly. Often the young masters would become impatient and would directly urge them to go on the road.
He doesn't care about the life or death of his servants.
Some people even say that these servants have no strength. If they are picked up by ghosts or wild beasts in the middle of the night, there is nothing they can do about it, as long as there is no problem with their core combat strength.
The people above did not take human life seriously, but the guards who were also lower-class people could not help but be concerned about this. Their hearts were heavy and they became more and more silent. The eyes they looked at the young men also became strange.
Xu Lan and Luo Xiuxin couldn't bear to see Jiang Liu'er alone, so they simply shared a bonfire with him, which was regarded as taking care of each other.
That night, I wonder if it was because of the difficult journey and fierce fighting during this period that everyone seemed particularly sleepy.
Even if the guards were arranged to be on duty at night, they could not help but fall asleep with their eyes closed.
The three people on Jiang Liu'er's side had also fallen asleep. In the middle of the night, Jiang Liu'er suddenly opened his eyes, with a look of indifference and shrewdness in his eyes.
He glanced at Xu Lan and whispered: "This guy is still connected to the person in the dream. I wonder why I feel so familiar with him?"
Then he stood up, looked into the darkness not far away, and showed a sneer.
"Jiang Liu'er! No, you should be called Master Xuanzang!"
The voice came from behind, and Jiang Liu'er turned around suddenly, with a terrifying light shining in his eyes.
The man behind was startled and patted his chest, "What's going on? Why did your gaze become so scary?"
Jiang Liu'er saw the Supreme Treasure behind him and breathed a sigh of relief, then asked strangely: "They are all asleep, why are you still awake?"
Zhizunbao said: "I'm still wondering why you are still awake when you are clearly asleep!"
"You know what's going on?"
"Miss Liu reminded me that she sensed the existence of nightmares and had already entered the dream world to fight against them."
"nightmare?"
"Yes, there are more than one. It would be best if you don't sleep tonight, because once you fall asleep, you may not be able to wake up. It will be very difficult for Miss Liu to deal with one, and she may not be able to deal with so many."
As Zhizunbao said, he went to shake Xu Lan and Luo Xiuxin, but after shaking them for a long time, they couldn't wake up.
Then he went to shake the team leader Tian Jin. Unexpectedly, the top player on the ground list could not wake up at this time.
Jiang Liuer thought to himself: "This situation should not just be caused by nightmares. Well, there is a strange smell in the firewood."
As he said this, he picked up a bonfire. The bonfire roared loudly, and as expected, there was a strange fragrance. Smelling this strange fragrance, Jiang Liuer almost fell asleep again.
He quickly held his breath, pulled out a dagger and stabbed himself hard. He finally woke up from the pain.
He quickly stopped the monkey, "This is wrong, there is a mole!"
Zhizunbao said in surprise: "What kind of ghost?"
"Hurry up and put out all the bonfires. Someone has poisoned the firewood. I suspect that this poison was combined with the nightmare's spell to cause the current situation!"
Zhizunbao quickly went to extinguish the bonfire, and asked anxiously: "What should I do after extinguishing the bonfire?"
Jiang Liu'er glanced around and sneered: "The poison is for other people. The poisoner must have taken the antidote. It is impossible for him to be harmed as well."
While he was talking, the eight guards who had been sitting around pretending to be sleeping stood up. They held weapons in their hands and looked at Jiang Liu'er with gloomy expressions.
"Tianji Dream Powder is combined with Nightmare's Dream Technique. No matter what kind of master you are, it's basically impossible not to fall victim to it without precautions. You are a monkey and a bald donkey but you have no clue. It seems that you have quite a lot of secrets hidden in your body."
Zhizunbao felt the strong murderous intent, and the hair on his body almost exploded. He quickly rushed to Liu Menghan's side, took out a horizontal knife, and looked at the guard with bared teeth.
Jiang Liu'er played with the dagger in his hand and sneered: "You really can't sit still anymore. Do you want to betray the master?"
One of the guards said coldly: "They are unkind, how can we blame us for being unjust? This journey to the west to seek Buddhist scriptures was originally a game arranged by the upper-class royal family, but we innocent people are asked to use corpses to pave the way for it. How unfair!"
"That's right! Along the way, we faced barbarians, wild beasts, and monsters during the day, and we all fought with our hands.
The dead people were buried on the spot without even a thank you from the owner. Those who were injured and couldn't keep up with the team were simply abandoned and treated like we were dogs!"
"Huh, there are also those servants. They are ordinary people with little military power. They serve these young masters all day long, and at night they stay outside and act as human shields.
Even though they were dragged away by monsters, they didn't even care about them, and they didn't even investigate the cause of their disappearance. Once they are all dead, I'm afraid it will be our turn next."
The leader of the bodyguard said angrily: "We have killed them all this time and fed the nightmare. It will escort us back to Anxi. Then it will be a horse bandit or a ronin, and it will no longer work for the powerful!"
Monk! I heard that you were just a scholar from an ordinary family. You didn’t want to be a monk, let alone follow you to the West to learn Buddhist scriptures. Why don’t you join us? We are all pitiful people. What’s wrong with turning against him?
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Jiang Liu'er looked around and said: "We are also guards like you, but there are hundreds of them. You don't care about their lives anymore?
They are the same as you. If you don't even care about them, how can you care about my life? Haha, you are just worried about what cards I have, and you deliberately use words to deceive me so that you can stab me in the back at any time, right?"
The faces of the eight guards all darkened, and the leading guard sneered, "Whether you agree or not is now up to you. Those who obey me will prosper and those who go against me will perish. Monk, we all know that you don't know any kung fu, so why bother struggling.
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"Boss, kill this monkey first, it looks very annoying!"
"Hey, he has been protecting a woman. This woman is the top piano girl in Tingyuge. She is quite beautiful."
"We are all going to die anyway, so the waste can be used."
"The woman next to this scholar is also pretty good. She is the young mistress of Chixiao Sect. This time we will take advantage of her."
As he said this, the eight people laughed loudly and walked towards this side with the horizontal knives in their hands.
Jiang Liu'er sneered at the corner of his mouth and thought: He still wants to hide his strength, but this time the monkey will see it. It is better to kill him after dealing with it so as not to expose his whereabouts.
As soon as the thought came to his mind, he turned the dagger in his hand and was about to take action when his spiritual sense suddenly moved and he looked towards where Tian Jin was.
"Leader Tian, if you continue to pretend, I'm afraid two girls will be bullied. When Mr. Xu and the others wake up, you may not get good results."
The eight guards quickly turned their heads to look, and the boss sneered: "Don't listen to his nonsense. Although Tian Jin is number one on the earth rankings, no matter how experienced he is in the world, how can he prevent the nightmare from joining forces with us!"
Tian Jin gave a wry smile and sat up, "I haven't been to the Wild West for a long time to practice, but I was underestimated by others."
Then he looked at Jiang Liu'er and said, "You are much sharper than I thought. Suddenly I feel like I guessed wrong. You are probably not an ordinary scholar with no power."
Jiang Liu'er chuckled and said, "I was just lying casually. After all, you are also number one on the earth rankings. It's really unreasonable that you were tricked so easily."
Tian Jin said: "Oh? It's just a random guess. Then you must not have guessed that the two people around you are also pretending to sleep."
Xu Lan and Luo Xiuxin woke up at the same time, looked at Tian Jin, and then at Jiang Liu'er.
Xu Lan said: "We have already discovered the problem in the firewood, so we are planning to find out who is the culprit."
Luo Xiuxin smiled and said, "I just didn't expect that you and the monkey would be the first to wake up. I almost thought you two were colluding."
Jiang Liu'er's heart skipped a beat and he thought to himself: It's all my fault for this idiot Jiang Liu'er. I didn't expect such a situation to happen. Fortunately, I kept an eye on it and didn't show my strength, so I could continue to pretend.
"The most troublesome thing now is not me, but these eight people."
The eight guards had already run into the darkness regardless. Facing the top expert on the Earth Ranking and Luo Xiuxin, a strong man in the top 30 on the Earth Ranking, they had no hope of victory.
Xu Lan looked at Tian Jin and said strangely: "Don't chase?"
Tian Jin smiled and said, "Don't you think what they said before makes sense?"
Xu Lan fell silent, and Tian Jin continued: "Let them live. Since they have broken a contract with Mengmeng, Mengmai cannot spare them. Whether they can return to Anxi depends on their own lives."
"Master Tian is more kind than I thought." Xu Lan said seriously.
Tian Jin said: "I came from a humble background. If I hadn't had several adventures, or I was like them, I joined a powerful family to get a job or a family fortune, and then because of some conspiracy or transaction of the powerful, I was killed.
He died inexplicably, haha, it is inevitable that the rabbit will die and the fox will be sad."
That night, there was no conflict. When the young men of the aristocratic family woke up, they naturally noticed that eight guards were missing and two servants died suddenly in their sleep.
The young masters impatiently asked Tian Jin to investigate. Tian Jin casually said that it was a nightmare and did not mention the eight guards.
The young masters no longer took it seriously, and just ordered the guards to be on guard to be careful of the same situation happening again, which was similar to the way the servants disappeared before. Then they mounted their tall horses and continued to move forward like a sightseeing tour.
Tian Jin's eyes flashed, he said nothing, and continued to lead the way as the leader.
The two hundred guards in the team even talked to each other less often, but every time they went to look for food and water sources nearby, or explore the road, the time they spent away became longer and longer.
Jiang Liu'er also woke up the next day. This was the real Jiang Liu'er, not the zombie who woke up last night.
He already knew everything that happened last night from the memory of the wise corpse, and he remained silent and did not communicate with anyone after being reminded by the wise corpse.
At the same time, he vaguely felt that a storm was brewing in the westbound team, and it seemed that all that was needed to trigger this storm was a crisis.