Before following Jiang Xiaorou home, Yi Yun had a hard time imagining that this "home" was actually like this.
Originally, when Yi Yun saw the swordsman riding the giant beast, he guessed that there might be many masters in this different world who could fly to the sky and escape from the earth. In that case, there should be many big families, many sects, and many outstanding people.
He had traveled through time inexplicably, and if he could be related to some big families or sects, then even if he had never practiced martial arts, had poor talent, or was even just a concubine and was unpopular, he could at least get along.
There are no worries about food and clothing during the day.
But……
Seeing the dilapidated house in front of him, Yi Yun was really drunk.
Yi Yun had been to remote rural areas before and had seen the houses there, but compared to the few houses in front of him, they were far from impressive.
The house was made of stone and yellow mud. The family was very poor. Apart from a table, two stools, two old beds and a stove, there was nothing else.
Jiang Xiaorou carried Yi Yun into the house. Along the way, Yi Yun was not used to being carried by a little girl and struggled to get down several times. However, his body was too weak. After walking for a long time, he was exhausted and panting.
Jiang Xiaorou was carrying her on her back again.
Yi Yun felt a little ashamed when he thought that he, a grown man, was being carried all the way by a little girl.
"Yun'er, are you hungry..." Jiang Xiaorou put Yi Yun on a small wooden bed and wiped the sweat from her face. Her face was full of joy. She was naturally happy that her brother was alive.
Yi Yun looked at Jiang Xiaorou's back. His clothes were wet with sweat. Although he was thin and very light, he had walked three to five miles along the way. Jiang Xiaorou was only fourteen or fifteen years old, and he had to carry it on his back from time to time.
How can I feel relaxed if I walk for a while by myself?
If it were a fifteen-year-old girl on Earth, she would be exhausted even if she walked three to five miles with nothing on her back, let alone carrying her so far.
"Well...yes...a bit."
Yi Yun opened his dry lips. This was the first time he spoke after traveling to this world. He thought it would be difficult to speak in a language that was not his own, but he did not expect that speaking this language would be like speaking Mandarin.
, as if this is also his mother tongue.
"I'm going to cook." Jiang Xiaorou smiled sweetly, carefully wiped the dirt on Yi Yun's face with her sleeves, pulled out a pillow for Yi Yun to lean on, pulled out a thin quilt, and carefully
After Yi Yun finished covering it, her hands and feet were quick and gentle, making Yi Yun feel a little dazed for a moment.
This girl was not his sister at all, but she carried him all the way here and took care of him meticulously, which made him feel a sense of warmth in his heart.
Jiang Xiaorou was going to make a fire to cook, and Yi Yun wanted to help, but Jiang Xiaorou pinned her down on the bed.
"You have just recovered from a serious illness. Don't catch the cold. Just lie down carefully. My sister will come as soon as she goes."
Jiang Xiaorou said as she picked up a light grain bag.
Fifteen minutes later, Jiang Xiaorou placed the old wooden table in front of the bed. On the wooden table was a large bowl of rice porridge, two unknown wild fruits, and a bowl of boiled wild vegetables.
Yi Yun had been hungry for several days before, and his chest had already pressed against his back. Seeing this meal, Yi Yun felt sour in his stomach.
At this time, Yi Yun really wanted to eat a meal of braised pork, roasted chicken, roasted duck, and boiled fish. Just thinking about the taste made Yi Yun's stomach twitch.
If you are so hungry, how can you be full after eating this?
He opened his mouth and took a sip of the rice porridge. The rice porridge was not too thin, but Yi Yun's stomach was completely empty. The hot rice porridge stimulated the peristalsis of Yi Yun's stomach and made him feel even hungrier.
.
He drank half of the rice porridge in a few mouthfuls, and ate some boiled wild vegetables that didn't even have a starch in them. The wild vegetables were astringent and bitter, and even though Yi Yun was very hungry, he found it difficult to swallow.
Yi Yun felt that he couldn't eat such a terrible meal. At this moment, he noticed that Jiang Xiaorou was just looking at him and didn't eat at all. He asked with some confusion: "Why don't you eat?"
"I have eaten it. I ate it when I went to look for you." Jiang Xiaorou's face turned pale slightly and she bit her lip lightly as she spoke.
Yi Yun's heart skipped a beat. He remembered that when Jiang Xiaorou came to the cemetery, it was not even three o'clock in the afternoon. He would have eaten at that time?
He suddenly realized that even such a meal was usually not enough.
What kind of world is this? Why are there such powerful warriors riding wild beasts, but also such poor people who are so poor that they are about to starve to death?
Yi Yun pushed the rice porridge and stood up to look at the grain bag in the corner of the room. Sure enough, the grain bag was empty.
Yi Yun immediately understood that the rice porridge Jiang Xiaorou usually cooked was probably much thinner than this. Today, Jiang Xiaorou had just come back to life and felt that her body was too weak, so she specially cooked thicker porridge to "replenish" herself.
"body".
"I'm full, you can eat." Yi Yun pushed the rice porridge to Jiang Xiaorou. Firstly, he couldn't eat it. Secondly, he couldn't let a girl save something for him.
He felt a little emotional in his heart. He was still thinking about whether he could go back to this different world. But since he couldn't go back, he looked for opportunities to practice his skills and become a strong man who could fly into the sky and escape from the earth.
But now it seems that even staying alive is a problem, and I might starve to death before I can research anything.
"I'm not hungry." Jiang Xiaorou pushed the bowl back stubbornly, "Tomorrow is the day of food distribution. I can get a piece of meat. Then I will stew it for you, brother."
When Jiang Xiaorou's pretty face was mentioned and she was slightly rosy, she was obviously looking forward to this "food delivery".
Yi Yun was silent. When he was on Earth, he felt that life was difficult for everyone, including Yi Yun himself. But compared to this other world, the pressure of life was nothing. He couldn't even eat enough, and even faced hunger.
The danger of death is what makes life really difficult.
The feeling of starvation is really painful.
…
Late at night, with the gentle night breeze, the croaking of frogs and the sweet chirping of crickets could be heard coming from the grass in the pond.
Yi Yun didn't sleep. He leaned on the bed, facing the moonlight, and turned over and over looking at the mysterious amethyst in his hand.
I was able to climb out of the collapsed mountain all because of the amethyst. This little crystal card is undoubtedly a treasure.
If you can study it clearly, you may gain some benefits.
This other world is extremely dangerous, but only for ordinary people. Think about the middle-aged man riding a giant beast that he saw in the wilderness before. How high-spirited he was. Compared with the poor people like them, his status is simply heavenly.
The difference with the place.
"If I can become a master, I will be free and at ease, at least I won't have to starve..."
Yi Yun touched his belly. After all, he had to give up some of the porridge for dinner to Jiang Xiaorou. It was the time when Yi Yun was growing, so the porridge was not digested at all, and he was already hungry now.
Just when Yi Yun felt empty in his stomach, the smooth and cold amethyst in his hand felt a faint chill again, as if...
Huh?
A flash of light flashed through Yi Yun's mind, like a spring, and he suddenly sat up from the bed. His eyes were staring straight at the amethyst in his hand, and a touch of surprise appeared on his face.
Yi Yun discovered that after looking at the purple crystal for a long time, there were some extremely subtle purple light spots around the purple crystal that could not be seen without looking carefully.
These light points were generated out of thin air, slowly flew into the amethyst, and then disappeared, seemingly absorbed by the amethyst. This process lasted for an unknown period of time, and the shimmer emitted by the amethyst became significantly brighter.
How is this going?
This discovery made Yi Yun's breathing quicken slightly.
As the light of the amethyst became brighter and brighter, Yi Yun could clearly feel that the amethyst was getting colder and colder. This very strange coolness spread along his hands and throughout his limbs, as if his whole body was filled with spiritual energy.
After washing in the spring, I felt extremely refreshed.
Yi Yun remembered this feeling. When he was digging a cave, every time he was out of breath from exhaustion, he would feel this faint chill, which would restore some strength to his body that was originally stressed.
Yi Yun knew that people can live and work because the metabolism in the body provides the energy needed for life activities.
If you don’t eat, there will be no nutrition and naturally no energy, so people will starve to death.
I survived for several days and nights without food, water, and high-intensity work, and completed such a long tunnel. There must be an energy supply. This chilly feeling should be the life energy provided by Amethyst.
flow.
Thinking about it carefully, when I first found the amethyst in the cave, the amethyst was emitting a shimmering light like a luminous pearl.
But after he traveled to this other world, the light of the amethyst became weaker, probably because a lot of energy was consumed.
But now, the light in the amethyst is slowly replenishing and strengthening. Is there something that replenishes the amethyst with energy?
Yi Yun observed carefully and found that these faint, extremely small light spots were connected together and stretched all the way to the window. They seemed to... come from the starlight in the sky.
Starlight can replenish the energy of amethyst?
Yi Yun thought for a while, then jumped out of bed. He went to the stove, took out a piece of burning charcoal from the stove, and lit a handful of hay with it, and the yellow flame began to glow.
Soaring up.
Yi Yun carefully placed the amethyst on the fire to roast it.
Yi Yun's idea is very simple. Since amethyst can absorb energy from the starlight in the sky, can it also absorb energy from the surrounding environment?
Flame is a kind of energy. In Yi Yun's understanding, it should be stronger than starlight. If the amethyst absorbs the energy in the flame, will it be faster?
As for whether the flames would burn the amethyst, this was something Yi Yun had never considered.
However……
No matter how Yi Yun burned the amethyst with fire, there was no change in the amethyst. He could not even feel any heat from the amethyst.
Amethyst seems to be a piece of ice that cannot be melted. It is always cold when you hold it until the charcoal and hay are burned out.
Yi Yun shook his head and had no choice but to give up the experiment.
He planned to go outside and take a look. The starlight outside was more brilliant, which might allow Amethyst to absorb more energy.
If Amethyst is saturated with energy, what changes will happen to it?
Yi Yun is looking forward to this very much!
Yi Yun quietly opened the door to the room and courtyard, and then closed it carefully. He was afraid of waking up his sister in the next room. However, when Yi Yun walked out of the courtyard, he was slightly startled.
He saw, under the shadow of a tree not far away, a girl in green clothes sitting on a small bench, carefully polishing an arrow in her hand.
The cold arrow, reflecting the cold moonlight, shines on the girl's delicate face, as if covered with a layer of silver gauze, and beside the girl, dozens of fireflies are flying, with dots of fluorescence, like surrounding the goddess.
As beautiful as an elf.
Jiang Xiaorou?
Yi Yun saw a bundle of feather arrows neatly stacked next to Jiang Xiaorou. Each arrow was carefully polished, the arrowheads were sharp, and the arrow shafts were shiny.
"This is……"
Although Yi Yun didn't understand cold weapons, he could still feel that these arrows were not ordinary.
"Yun'er, why are you out here? It's dewy at night and you're in good health. Go and lie down on the bed." Jiang Xiaorou stood up hurriedly and was about to push Yi Yun into the house.
"Sister, why are there so many arrows?" Yi Yun was a little confused. Looking at Jiang Xiaorou, she didn't look like she could bend a bow and shoot an arrow.
"This is to be exchanged for food tomorrow. It's always been like this..."
Jiang Xiaorou glanced at Yi Yun strangely.
"Uh..." How did Yi Yun know this? The strange thing is that when he traveled to this world, although he understood writing and language, he had no idea about "Yi Yun"'s life. All his memories were
My own, no more, no less.
This is similar to amnesia after a head injury. People with amnesia will forget everything, but they will not forget language.
Yi Yun had already thought of his words and explained: "Sister, after I died this time, I can't remember some things..."
"Don't remember?" Jiang Xiaorou was startled. Yi Yun fell off a rock wall and broke his bones while collecting herbs. He died of illness after lying on the bed for a while. Now that he thought about it, he might have hit his head at that time.
Thinking of this, Jiang Xiaorou felt distressed and worried.
"Yun'er, you..."
"I'm fine." Yi Yun quickly stopped Jiang Xiaorou to prevent her from unnecessary worries, "Sister, tell me about this world and what's going on with the middle-aged man riding a giant beast.