The next day, those children arrived as promised. A group of children in their early teens came to the small courtyard with their weapons in a hurry. They had already brought delicious food. I don’t know when they went out to catch them.
Of fish.
Zhaodi looked at the seafood in their hands. It was bigger than yesterday. She was deeply surprised. The fish and shrimp she ate yesterday already seemed big enough to Zhaodi. She didn't expect that today's was even bigger. She even envied the life here.
Yes, it can be said that the food they have is much better than that in that small village.
What Zhaodi didn't know was that there were a lot of fish and shrimps here, but there were very few other things. Just like the rice she bought yesterday, Zhaodi felt that she had been cheated, but for the boss, she was not cheated much.
This is the reason why those children only cared about eating last night and rarely ate fish or shrimp. In their eyes, rice is the most delicious.
The children's weapons were not wooden knives or anything like that. They were real weapons, just a little worn out.
"Where is the person who lives with you?" The leading child, named Ah Da, asked as he saw that there was only one older sister here.
The names of this group of children are particularly easy to remember. Maybe they are not names at all. They are sorted by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, from oldest to youngest. Yesterday, the little girl was called stingy because the sound of stingy and "xiaoqi" sounds very similar.
close.
"He's gone out, don't pay attention to him." Zhao Di replied.
"Then hurry up and teach us how to use a knife."
"I will fulfill my promise to you, but before that..."
"What's wrong? What should I do again? Is there too much to do?" Ah Da said dissatisfied.
"Nothing else. Since I taught you how to use a knife, I don't need you to call me master. From now on, you can call me sister."
Several children looked around and did not agree immediately, but Xiaoqi shouted cheerfully: "Sister."
"Xiao Qi is still good, then I will teach Xiao Qi first." Zhao Di's face lit up proudly.
After a while, several little boys rushed to call her sister.
...
On the other side, after Chen Mo gave instructions to Zhao Di, he went out early. After walking around for a while, he realized that the island was not very big. Except for the houses at the pier, there were no other houses in other tunnels.
In other words, the real Chilong Island is not here. Afterwards, Chen Mo walked into the forest of the island and came to the commanding heights of the island, a stone mountain.
Here, Chen Mo looked at other places and saw many islands, large and small.
"There are so many." Chen Mo sighed, looking at the particularly large island in the distance, and said, "That should be their home base."
After Chen Mo had a general understanding of the environment here, he calmed down to practice. He guessed that the island owner was most likely watching him on the island and refused to see him, and he must be trying to cause some trouble.
Breathing in and out, wisps of invisible spiritual energy slowly entered Chen Mo's body from Chen Mo's seven orifices and pores all over his body. Under the guidance of the qi machine in his body, he entered the Qi world, and was refined by the trees in the Qi world into reality.
Qi is stored in the Qi world.
It has been almost a year since Chen Mo entered the Third Realm. The body refining process seemed to have reached a bottleneck. After several days, it seemed that there was only a small gain. Even though it was so small, Chen Mo still did not stop refining the body.
Don’t let go of the gains, small things add up to big things.
However, now I can devote more energy to filling my Qi world.
When he was in Daotu Temple, Hao Jin told him that the watershed in martial arts is the line of promotion to the fourth realm. His master told Hao Wei that the real genius is a person who can reach the fourth realm. According to his master's words
It is said that the four realms are a carnival of mediocre people, and the people in the four realms disdain to associate with them. Even in the three realms, no matter how proud their achievements are, as long as they cannot break through the four realms, they are all mediocre.
As for Hao Jin's master, the old man's disciple Wen Buyu spoke highly of him. Chen Mo had seen Wen Buyu's methods, so he was naturally a very powerful person to be praised by him.
How to break through to the four realms is an unclear path. You can only explore it slowly by yourself. In a nutshell, it is a path of integration and induction.
Anyway, Chen Mo couldn't figure it out at this time, and he didn't have any famous teachers to give him guidance. Maybe he couldn't figure it out even if he gave him guidance. What Chen Mo did at this time was to practice his three skills to the extreme.
The first is physical strength, which is to constantly exercise the fire of his true energy to exercise his limbs and bones. This is something Chen Mo must do unless he really has no time.
The second is the power of perception. This thing cannot be practiced every day. It is very energy-consuming. This was the case when he was monitoring the conch outside the village. That time Chen Mo turned his perception to the extreme. When he was on the road the next day, he rode a horse.
You can even fall asleep. It's just that you can't feel the changes after practicing this thing like body training. The power of perception cannot feel the changes. Maybe you will notice that it seems to have improved at a certain moment when you are not paying attention.
The third thing is his own Qi. The Qi Realm is like a big tank, which needs to be flushed with water to show its effect. However, Chen Mo feels that his big tank is a bit big, and it always seems like it can’t be filled enough. Maybe it’s because of himself.
The efficiency is too slow.
Chen Mo thought, would it be possible to touch the edges of the four realms once the Qi Realm is filled?
Chen Mo entered the Qi Realm again after a long time. In the forest in the Qi Realm, the trees, flowers and plants were still the same. Even though he hadn't been here for a long time, Chen Mo could tell, no, he felt that things here had not changed.
Here, Chen Mo heard the sound of the sea. It was not what he saw in reality, but the forest sea here. The sea breeze was blowing the trees swaying with true energy, "Whoa~, Whoa~, Whoa~", and the sound was like a film.
The treetops were rolling like ocean waves.
This was a scene that he had never seen before. Chen Mo felt that in this state, how should I say, the Qi here seemed to be alive, like a pool of stagnant water. When it moved and became alive, it would cause many changes.
There are not many residents on this island, and even fewer people come to the forest. More people gather at the dock, waiting for the ship to come back to unload or load goods, so no one disturbs Chen Mo at all.
...
On the other side, several little kids followed Zhao Di and learned how to swing a knife. At first, the kids were not happy. Such a simple thing was not worth learning. They knew it after just seeing it.
But they were soon taught a lesson by Zhao Di, and the few children followed him obediently. Unknowingly, Zhao Di forgot their identities and just regarded them as ordinary children who longed for power.
When they were tired from training, they sat in a row and chatted with Zhao Di. They were very interested in the world outside the island and always asked about this and that. Fortunately, Zhao Di followed Chen Mo to many places and could talk about it.
There are a lot of things out there, otherwise I wouldn’t know what to say based on my previous experience in a small village, which is probably similar to the experience of kids like them.
In the evening, a group of children ate at Zhaodi's place and went back to eat. Not long after the children went back, Chen Mo came back and sat on the stone steps. Zhaodi brought him the food left for him, like a maid.
Zhao Di sat on the stone steps next to her and said: "They were born here, and their life was okay originally. But before we met, after a group of people changed, their lives changed a lot. Xiaoliu has a sister,
I work on other islands and do some pearl fishing. I used to see him once every few days, but now I only see him twice in two years. I used to come back often and brought back many good things. Now, I basically come back empty-handed.
....."
While Zhao Di was talking, Chen Mo was eating on the stone steps. I don’t know if she heard it, but what Zhao Di said was what Chen Mo wanted her to do. He wanted her to know more about these children and hang out with them.
If you are familiar with it, ask for more information, no matter what it is.
After finishing the bowl of food, Chen Mo put the empty bowl back into Zhao Di's hand. Zhao Di seemed to have no more to say.
"Go on, it seems like these kids really like you."
After saying that, Chen Mo walked back to the house.
...
In the evening of the next day, a ship slowly docked, and a tall, thick-set man stepped out of the ship. He made a thumping sound when he walked. Everyone on the dock saw him and greeted him with smiling faces.
"Brother Manatee, long time no see!"
"What kind of wind brings you here?"
"Brother Manatee, there's no pretty girl for you in this place where birds don't shit."
Brother Manatee greeted them with a straight face, just exchanged a few pleasantries and then left the dock.
As soon as Brother Manatee left with the men he brought, the people at the dock began to wonder.
"What's wrong, Brother Manatee? He doesn't look good."
"I don't know. Did you get scolded by the island owner again and take refuge here?"
"Then we are in trouble. Who can be used as a sandbag for him?"
"It doesn't look like it, otherwise we would have been in trouble just now. It should be something else."
"What else could it be? Could it be that Brother Manatee's position has been compared to others?"
"If that's the case, then he shouldn't be here."
"It's not this, and it's not that. Is it because of my identity?"
Everyone was talking a lot, and since they were bored and had no work, they began to make wild guesses.
"Hey, look, where is Brother Manatee going?" One of the people pointed in the direction where the manatee was walking and looked further away. There was a separate yard there. No one lived there originally, but the first two
Two guests came one day and stayed there.
"" Said that the two guests were not to be trifled with, and as soon as they got off the boat, they gave the people at the dock a slap in the face. Later, there was trouble again in the village. At night, the boss of the dock also went to look for them. What happened?
No one knows."
"I know what happened in the village. Those two birds were kicked until their dicks were broken. They will no longer be able to find women."
"I've heard about this too. Why haven't I seen him recently? Is he too embarrassed to see us now that he's a woman?"
"Would you like to tell Brother Manatee that someone lives there?"
"Whatever you say is none of our business. It would be fine if they create some sparks." One person said excitedly.