"Master Zhao, what's wrong with you?" Big Eyed Deng asked.
"nothing."
Zhao Ya did not express his worries, after all, this was just a guess of his own.
Big Eyed Lantern didn't ask any further questions.
Although he is only ten years old this year, the environment in which he grew up has made him very good at observing words and emotions.
He had noticed it very keenly just now. After listening to his report about the strange beasts outside the city, Zhao Ya seemed to have a flash of worry on his face.
But since Zhao Ya refused to say anything, he must have a reason, so the big-eyed lamp obediently shut his mouth.
"How have you been practicing Kung Fu lately?" Zhao Ya asked.
"In response to what you said, Mr. Zhao, Brother Yan and I practice hard at home every day, and now we feel we have made some progress." Er Qiangzi rushed to say.
"Okay, then you two will practice for me."
Big Eyed Deng and Er Qiangzi started practicing Five Tiger Boxing in the courtyard.
Zhao Ya stood on the steps and watched, nodding secretly.
Although their boxing skills are far from exquisite, they are pretty good for their age.
At least he has developed momentum, and even has some power.
After finishing practicing, the two of them looked at Zhao Ya panting.
Zhao Ya nodded, "The training is pretty good. I can see that you haven't slacked off during this period. This attitude is very good. Now let me tell you where you have some shortcomings."
Zhao Ya pointed out the deficiencies exposed during their practice one by one and corrected them.
Zhao Ya's attainments in the Five Tiger Fists have reached the pinnacle, so often just a simple sentence can make Big Eyed Deng and the others feel enlightened.
After correcting them, Zhao Ya gave them some low-level dried meat.
"It's not peaceful outside the city these days, so you should be more careful, especially don't get carried away by profit and run out to hunt strange beasts," Zhao Ya warned.
Recently, with the increase in the number of strange beasts outside the city, many people in the county have begun to take action.
Some warriors have even made a lot of profits by hunting exotic beasts.
This also attracted the jealousy of more people.
For a time, it became a trend to go outside the city to hunt strange beasts.
Even some brave ordinary people dare to go out in groups to hunt exotic animals outside the city.
Naturally, they dare not touch high-level alien beasts, but first-level alien beasts have low strength and even lower IQ. Ordinary people can hunt them if they plan ahead.
Although one exotic beast is not worth much, it is a good profit if you accumulate a little and add up. If you are lucky enough to find a usable meat field, you can even make a small fortune.
Zhao Ya was worried that Big Eyed Deng and Er Qiangzi would cause unnecessary danger by running out of the city to hunt strange beasts because they had learned martial arts for a few days and were motivated by profit, so he gave them some warnings.
Regarding Zhao Ya's words, the two of them naturally did not dare to disobey, and both said that they would never be involved in danger.
Zhao Ya nodded and then let them leave.
After they left, Zhao Ya returned to the house and saw Zui'er tinkering with juice.
Recently, this girl has become obsessed with making juice. She enjoys it all day long, squeezing various fruits and blending them according to various proportions, trying to create the best taste.
Zhao Ya suspected that if she was given the right materials, she could even make milk tea.
But this hobby is harmless, at most it just costs a few more dollars to buy fruits.
"How have you been practicing Kung Fu recently?" Zhao Ya asked.
Zui'er blushed when he heard this, then lowered his head and muttered in a low voice: "I'm practicing every day."
"Okay, then you come to the courtyard and practice for me."
"ah……."
Zui'er seemed to have failed to finish his homework and was trying to muddle through, but was found out by the teacher, with reluctance written all over his face.
Zhao Ya didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but he still put on a straight face and said, "Ah, what? Hurry up and go."
In desperation, Zui'er had no choice but to move step by step to the courtyard, and then started practicing in front of Zhao Ya.
The first thing is naturally Qinggong Shenfa.
Thanks to Zui'er's talent in this area, he practiced pretty well.
But when it came time to practice swordsmanship later, I became timid.
I saw Zui'er holding a knife. After practicing one move, she forgot about the next move. She practiced a set of strong wind sword skills intermittently, which was terrible.
After the training, even Zui'er felt embarrassed, lowering his head and waiting for the training.
"My body skills are okay, but I need to continue practicing. My sword skills are very poor, but there is still a chance to save me."
Zhao Ya did not reprimand, but simply commented a few words, and then said.
"Starting from today, you will spend an hour every day practicing swordsmanship."
"Yeah!" Zui'er's little head nodded like a chicken pecking at rice.
"I will check you every five days to see if you have made any progress."
"ah……."
"Ah what? Is it too long? Then three days."
Zui'er didn't dare to say anything. She was afraid that the time would be shortened further, so she could only look at Zhao Ya pitifully.
Zhao Ya held back his laughter and said with a straight face: "Let's start practicing now."
Zui'er began to practice the Guangfeng Sword Technique.
After all, I have the foundation from before. Although I have neglected practice during this period, I quickly regained my proficiency with a little practice.
Zhao Ya was there to guide her throughout the whole process, and she felt relieved until she completely mastered it.
Prepare for a rainy day.
Although Zhao Ya was not sure whether this tide of beasts was really dangerous, he decided to make preparations in advance just to be on the safe side.
Improving Zui'er's strength is one of them.
In addition, Zhao Ya also bought a lot of medicinal materials and began to think about how to prepare possible poisons.
In the cave before, the poison Zhao Ya carried with him played a vital role.
Zhao Ya saw the huge potential of poison, so he decided to study it carefully.
He put all the highly toxic things that could be bought on the market into categories, and then began to mix them in various proportions, trying to find the most effective method.
If someone saw Zhao Ya doing this, they would definitely think that this person was crazy.
Of course there are ways to poison people in this world, but few people specialize in this.
It's not that I don't want to, it's that I don't dare.
After all, a poison has an antidote. After taking the antidote beforehand, you can poison people.
But if more than a dozen kinds of poisons are mixed together, and the properties of the drugs are superimposed, the toxicity suddenly becomes extremely complicated.
In this case, no one can guarantee that the antidote will still work.
And even if the antidote works, do you still dare to take more than a dozen antidotes at once?
As for general-purpose detoxification pills, they are often less effective. Even if they are more effective, they are extremely expensive and cannot be afforded by ordinary people.
This innate condition restricts people's research on poisons.
In addition, poisoning is a double-edged sword, which can hurt others as well as yourself.
If you are not careful, the enemy will be fine, but you will be poisoned to death first. Isn't that a joke?
For various reasons, poisoning has become a relatively useless method.
It is only used by those who live in Wumen when they are picking flowers and stealing willows, or opening a black shop to deceive passing customers.
But Zhao Ya is different.
Zhao Ya has the talent of being invulnerable to all poisons, and any poison that touches him is like boiled water.
So there is no need to worry about the conflicting properties of the medicines.
The intoxicating drugs obtained from the Paradise Cult are only available in limited quantities and will be gone once they are used up, so you still have to figure out the best way to mix them yourself.
But now the wild dogs outside the city have suffered.
A few of them must die from Zhao Ya's poison every day.
On this day, Zhao Ya came to the outside of the city with more than a dozen newly prepared poisons and skillfully caught several red-eyed wild dogs.
These red-eyed wild dogs have all eaten human flesh.
Once animals taste the taste of human flesh, they will become extremely ferocious and even dare to attack living people.
That's what these wild dogs are like.
Zhao Ya often heard news about lone travelers being attacked by wild dogs, bitten to death and then eaten.
Although the county has sent people to kill these wild dogs several times, these wild dogs are very cunning. They will flee into the mountains and forests when they see a large group of people, and it is impossible to catch a few of them.
Over time, these wild dogs have become a nuisance.
Therefore, Zhao Ya had no psychological pressure when using these red-eyed wild dogs to test the poison.
Soon, as the poison was poured into their mouths or smeared on their skin, these red-eyed wild dogs began to struggle.
But the form of struggle is different.
Some are vomiting desperately, while others are biting their bodies crazily.
Zhao Ya observed carefully, and from time to time he would take out his notebook and write down a few strokes.
This is very precious experimental data, which can help Zhao Ya grasp the intensity and properties of each poison.
soon.
These wild dogs were dying. Zhao Ya gave them a break and then stood there in deep thought.
After these two days of experiments, Zhao Ya has prepared all the poisons available on the market.
The toxicity ranges from strong to weak. The strong one can kill a wild dog in just a few breaths with just a spoonful of it.
The weak ones can't even kill a chicken.
Zhao Ya was not surprised by this.
It was normal for the poisons to conflict, so Zhao Ya wrote them all down in his notebook to accumulate data.
What worries him is that after these two days of experiments, he has not been able to find a poison that can produce effects similar to the intoxicating drugs of the Paradise Cult.
It seems that the intoxicating drugs used by the Bliss Cult are not those commonly available on the market.
Zhao Ya sighed and was about to return to the city.
Suddenly, a small snake with white stripes on a black background jumped out of the grass and fled away quickly.
The speed was so fast that it even caused a sharp sound of wind.
It's obviously a strange beast.
Zhao Ya didn't care at first.
This kind of situation has become more and more common recently, and we can encounter traces of strange beasts on official roads, so it is not surprising.
But when he saw that the vegetation where the little snake passed was slightly withered, his eyes suddenly brightened.
yes!
Since you can’t buy suitable poisons, why not collect them yourself?
You should know that most poisons are taken from exotic animals.
Nowadays, the most indispensable thing in the mountains and forests outside the city is strange beasts!
Zhao Ya was overjoyed. He ducked in front of the little snake, flicked out a finger, and hit it with a stone seven inches above it, knocking it unconscious.
Zhao Ya reached out to pick it up, put it into a porcelain bottle, and sealed it.
After having this idea, Zhao Ya caught some spiders, scorpions and other poisonous animals, which were all exotic beasts of the first and second realms, and then took them back and put them alone in a room.
Zhao Ya told Zui'er not to enter this room casually, and then he threw himself into the experiment.
At the same time, in a hidden courtyard in the county town, a man wearing a mask and a robe, who could not tell whether he was a man or a woman, was sitting on a chair.
There were several people kneeling in front of him.
These people were so scared that they didn't even dare to raise their heads.
"Do you think... Han Suyun, Qu Xiaoxiao and the others are likely to die at the hands of a person named Zhao Ya?"
"That's right, Hall Master!"
At this time, a man knelt and crawled forward and said in a trembling voice: "Master, after you left, Senior Brother Han got a batch of fabrics for making cloth armor. He wanted to donate them, but he didn't expect that they were taken away before they could be transported away.
That person named Zhao ruined a good thing."
"Then Senior Brother Han and Junior Sister Qu both died, and even the stronghold was destroyed by fire. Only a few of us managed to escape because we were out on business."
"Later we dug out the bodies of Senior Brother Han, Junior Sister Qu and others from the ruins. After several investigations, we found that Zhao Ya was the most suspicious. However, this person was very skilled in martial arts and was Lu Dingtai's apprentice, so we never dared to do so.
We are acting rashly, and we are just waiting for you, the Hall Master, to come back and give us this tone."