In the afternoon, Lu Cheng went out for a stroll, bought some snacks and daily necessities, went to the tannery to pick up the remaining green wolf skins, and went to the tailor shop to ask someone to make two wolf skin hats.
Waiting until midnight, he lay on the bed, rubbed the jade ring, and his soul drifted to another world.
Opening his eyes, he found that he was lying on the wooden bed. Qingmei was curled up on the other side. There was a thick cowhide tent on his head and a soft green wolf skin on his body. The cold wind blew in from under the tent, and the temperature was estimated to be below zero.
It's four or five degrees Celsius, much colder than when we first entered the wilderness.
He lay on the bed and didn't move. He saw Qingmei still lying on the other side and thought to himself: "It seems that when I was away, Wu Kuang was quite honest and did not bully the fox girl Qingmei, otherwise she should have slept like this."
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Lu Cheng couldn't figure out what the mental state of Wu Kuang, the original owner of this body, was like.
"Perhaps Wu Kuang was influenced by me, and he silently obeyed what I said? Maybe even though my soul left this world, there was still a part of my subconscious left in the depths of the marrow sea, which restricted Wu Kuang's soul.
?Or, I am Wu Kuang, and Wu Kuang is me?"
Lu Cheng's mind was a little confused and he turned over slightly.
Qingmei woke up immediately and asked in a low voice: "Brother, are you cold?"
"It's not cold." Each of them has a green wolf skin, which is superimposed on top of each other. The two wolf skins cover the body. The body does not feel cold, and the head is exposed to the wind easily.
"Qingmei, how many days have we been in the wilderness?"
"It's been 33 days."
"How long do we have to walk before we can get out of the wilderness?"
"I heard from Jiong Sheng that we are not even halfway there yet and the whole journey will take 80 days."
"Oh, I didn't expect that crossing the wilderness would be so difficult."
"Yes, in the past ten days, people have died every day, either freezing to death, starving to death, or falling into muddy water... Most of the teenagers are still alive. They were forced to buy supplies from merchants. Some borrowed usury, and some
They signed the contract of sale... Those who died were the women who followed on the road. Almost all the girls from the human race died, and some of the women from our fox race couldn't hold on anymore."
Lu Cheng sighed: "There is no way, we can't help them."
Qingmei said: "Brother, I secretly gave the yellow rice I brought to two familiar little sisters, five kilograms to each of them. You won't blame me, right?"
Lu Cheng said: "It's okay."
Qingmei said: "Although there are snakes and insects in the wilderness, the weather is too cold and the snakes and insects have hibernated. It is not easy to find them. Otherwise, we women of the Fox tribe can survive."
Lu Cheng thought for a while and said: "Even if the snake is hibernating and hiding underground, there will still be Qi leaking out. Let's do this. Tomorrow, I will help you point out the Qi. You can quietly tell the little sisters and ask them to dig it out and analyze it.
If you eat enough, you may be able to survive this hard time."
"That's great, brother, thank you!"
"I suddenly remembered that there are two wolfskin hats. Let me put one on your head to keep you warmer when you sleep."
In the darkness, Qingmei reached out to take the hat and put it on her head. It felt soft and comfortable.
She felt strange in her heart: "You have been in the wilderness for so long, why did you take out your hat now?"
She had followed "Wukuang" for so many days, and she had already noticed that this person was abnormal. Sometimes he was smart and weird, and he spoke quickly, and sometimes he was taciturn and slightly dull, just like two souls living in one body.
She heard from her grandmother that there is a method of "seizing the body" in this world. After the body of some great witches is damaged, their souls remain immortal and they can be resurrected through corpses. However, if the soul is resurrected through corpses, the original soul will disappear, and only the soul of the great witch can completely control the body.
.That situation is different from "Wukuang".
After waiting for a long time, the sky finally dawned.
Lu Cheng put away the tent and wooden bed and looked around. There was still endless grassland around him, but the grass and trees had become sparse and shorter. When he first entered the wilderness, the weeds were as tall as a person; at this time, the weeds were only now
Knee-deep, it seems that the further you get to the center of the wilderness, the poorer the land becomes!
This is the real wilderness! There are no trees, no wild animals, even snakes and insects are scarce, there is simply nothing!
No wonder those fox girls couldn't hold on. If they didn't have storage rings and couldn't find anything to eat on the road, it would be damned if they could hold on!
Lu Cheng looked at those young people. Although they looked bad, they were still alive and well. After all, they were young people who had practiced cultivation and were carefully selected from all ethnic groups. Wu Tong couldn't just watch these people starve to death, so sooner or later there would be some.
Cooking porridge, not eating enough but not dying of hunger, as for being exposed to wind and rain? These people all carry fur coats, and the fur coats are wet by the rain and difficult to dry, so days like this are very painful.
Lu Cheng also went to get some porridge and gave half of it to Qingmei when he came back. He also took out some beef jerky to satisfy his hunger.
Qingmei looked at him and thought: "How much dried meat did you bring? You gave me some last time, why did you take it out again?"
She didn't ask, she just chewed silently and looked at the little fox girls in the distance. The condition of those people was very miserable. Some of the fox girls had already entered the innate state. Their condition was pretty good and they could survive for a long time without eating or drinking.
, some fox girls have not yet entered the innate world, and their condition is very poor. Their complexions are sallow and it is almost difficult to maintain their human form.
Lu Cheng and the other boys drank their porridge, and the whole group started on the road again.
The convoy was not moving fast, and everyone obviously had no strength, which was different from when they first entered the wilderness.
After walking for about an hour, a small river appeared in front of them. Wu Sheng sat in the cart, stretched out one hand and lifted it up. Then everyone stopped by the small river to rest.
Lu Cheng walked dozens of steps along the river and stood there motionless.
Qingmei followed him without saying a word.
Lu Cheng looked back at her, then stepped on the ground more than a dozen times, leaving footprints that formed a large arc. He pointed at the ground with his finger, and then he walked away.
Qingmei turned around and called the three fox girls and whispered a few words to them. Then she did not stay at the scene, but went to follow Lu Cheng again.
The three fox girls took out their swords and dug on the ground.
After digging three feet deep, I found a hibernating snake underground. Although it was not a big snake, it was thicker than an adult's arm and was two feet long when I dug it out.
The three fox girls were very happy. They excitedly cut the snake into three parts with their knives, one for each person, and hung them around their necks. This was their food for the next few days. As fox tribesmen, there was no need to barbecue, and there was no need to eat it raw.
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The spirit witch Wu Sheng sat in the cart and didn't care about the situation outside. For him, let alone starving these fox girls to death, even if half of the hundreds of teenagers died, it was normal.
Those merchants and 20 warriors are not short of food, and they don't care if a few fox girls dig up a snake.
And those teenagers began to envy the fox girls, and the other fox girls envied them even more. If they were familiar with them, they would approach them, hoping to get some snake meat.
Soon after, everyone continued on the road, walking on the muddy grass, one foot deep and one foot shallow, trudging hard.