When the spirit and Brahma flow surges in the Chenghuang land, the place where the spirit and Brahma accumulates will turn into wild monsters. In the dictionary of the Chenghuang people, "wild monster" is an ominous word that is equated with disaster, disaster, etc., so the place where wild monsters inhabit
"Outer territory" is also generally regarded as a forbidden area by Chenghuang people.
"Outer territory" in a narrow sense usually refers to the area outside the city walls of Liyang. But in fact, in addition to Liyang city, there are hundreds of village settlements in the vast area of Liyang. These village settlements are scattered like pearls in the forest, mountainous wilderness.
and other landforms, and is connected to the main city of Liyang through several main trade roads. If they are also included, the scope of the "outer territory" will be much wider.
Of course, neither the residents of Liyang nor the residents of the settlement would easily set foot in the outside world.
The only ones who can come and go in the outside world as freely as breathing are "pioneers" with extraordinary military power.
The pioneers were marked by their weapons and weapons. In addition, they also had mounts that accompanied them as they trekked through the dangerous wilderness, a land-based raptor called the "Hammerhead."
Hammerheads have strong legs and courage to fight off monsters, so they are loyal to pioneers. Of course, loyal love is loyal, but hammerheads' habit of eating nuts makes raising them too expensive. Therefore,
Few pioneers would spend money to raise hammerheads individually, and most of them could rent them at the inn when needed.
The inn that raises hammerhead birds is right next to the station. Gu Chen's generous gift of elixirs to the workers not long ago made him a semi-celebrity in the station. The business owner who runs the inn heard that he was going to the outside world.
While collecting herbs, he suddenly became excited and rented him two strong-legged hammerhead birds as mounts at a particularly favorable price.
After thanking the merchant, Gu Chen and Fei Yan rode the hammer-headed bird into the outside world from the west gate of Liyang.
"Gu Chen, where are you going?"
"Five or six miles northwest of Liyang City, there is a place called 'Baicaopo', do you know?"
Gu Chen grabbed the hammer-head birdcage rope unskillfully and asked Feiyan.
Although the residents of Liyang are accustomed to calling the area outside the city wall "outer territory", in fact, there are still concepts of distance and depth. Areas that can be traveled back and forth in half a day by the foot of a hammerhead are considered "suburbs". Suburbs
The area is an area where there are relatively few wild monsters. However, the flowing spirit Brahma is still richer than that in the city, which has given rise to many high-quality natural medicinal herbs.
Among them, the "Cypress Grass Slope" in the northwest is famous for its rich production of perilla herbs, which is Gu Chen's target.
"I have been to Cypress Grass Slope and can help you lead the way." Feiyan replied happily. "Most of the wild monsters that live there are grass monsters, and occasionally there are tree monsters. Tree monsters are harder, while grass monsters are more numerous. I
We can handle it with Tuo Lei." As she spoke, Feiyan patted the sword monster hanging on her waist, overflowing with confidence.
"It's really reliable. I'll leave it to you when the time comes."
Gu Chen smiled bitterly and nodded.
Of course it's good to have reliable protection, but there is always something in Gu Chen's heart that he can't calm down.
Gu Chen subconsciously looked around. In front of him was a simple business road with compacted loess, and on both sides of the business road were wilderness paved with thin grass. Occasionally, dotted farmland could be seen in the wilderness, as well as blunt and heavy beasts of burden dragged by the farmland.
The colorful birds flying through the sky from time to time made Gu Chen realize that he was in an "outer land".
Speaking of which, back on Earth, Gu Chen was basically a homebody who rarely went out. He only participated in outdoor activities because he was persuaded by unscrupulous friends to join the university mountaineering club to join in the trouble, and he had no choice but to accompany them to make trouble. Although it was a mountaineering club.
, but the activity area is actually limited to the hills on the outskirts of the city, which can be reached by taking the subway in half an hour.
Compared with the leisurely excursions that were almost like sightseeing in the mountains and rivers at that time, Gu Chen now truly stepped into the unknown wilderness of a different world. Moreover, there are also mutant monsters lurking everywhere in the wilderness that are far more ferocious than tigers and wolves. To say the least,
It would be a lie if I didn't feel nervous.
Of course, he was nervous, but Gu Chen also clearly felt that there was another force in his heart that was ready to move. It was completely opposite to timidity and timidity. That force could be described as "fearless curiosity" or "unknown expectation"
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(It feels a bit like that time...) Gu Chen pulled the cage rope and let the hammer-headed bird run along the commercial road, but he couldn't help but recall the time when he was a child exploring the cave in his hometown.
The cave was on Nanshan Mountain near his hometown. It was rumored that the treasures of bandits during the war were buried in the cave, but no one had seen it with their own eyes. Gu Chen Mo was about six or seven years old at the time, and he was very curious and energetic.
Age. With the help of a flashlight, Gu Chen stumbled all the way to the deepest part of the cave, only to find that there was nothing there except a few broken stones.
Feeling deeply disappointed, Gu Chen wanted to go back and report, but unexpectedly he got lost on the way. Relying on the guidance of the hand-drawn map, Gu Chen was able to find the exit again. However, when he returned home, he was scolded by his family who had been looking for him all night.
Dog blood poured. That time was the memory of Guchen's childhood rarely being screaming, and since then Gu Chen inexplicably liked to travel and hand -painted maps on the table.
Perhaps the incident of getting lost in the cave frightened the family so much that Gu Chen's interest was not recognized by his parents. After the exquisite map he secretly drew was thrown into the stove by his family, Gu Chen, out of grief and anger, turned to training himself to draw maps by hand.
Keep it in mind. Although from the perspective of motivation, it was just the persistence of a child having a tantrum, from the result, Gu Chen, who spent a lot of effort, did master the ability to draw a holographic map in his mind.
When Gu Chen was a teenager, he gave this skill the secondary name "Ruisi Sandbox".
Like most of the second-phase works, it turns out that the "Ruisi Sandbox" is of little use in reality. The reason why Gu Chen agreed to the persuasion of his college friends and joined the mountain climbing club was because he wanted to make the Ruisi Sandbox more useful.
I had expectations, but I didn’t expect that I would be transported to a different world due to fate.
(If you turn right from this fork in the road, remember there is a river...yes, there.)
Gu Chen took in his eyes the river flowing on the right side of the business road and compared it with the impression of the sand table in his mind.
Before setting off, Gu Chen had investigated the information on the outskirts of Liyang and Baicao Slope in advance, and then used the Ruisi Sandbox to paint a rough impression in his mind. Of course, there must be deviations in the sandbox described based on textual information alone, and at this moment Gu Chen based it on
Actual information is being revised.
(There is a stone bridge on the river. After crossing the bridge, you are close to Cypress Valley. The stone bridge is often washed away during heavy rains in summer. Fortunately, it is early summer... I see. It seems that it has been washed away several times.
...)
The hammer-headed bird stepped onto the stone bridge at a leisurely pace, while Gu Chen focused his attention on the remains of several stone piles protruding from the river. Those stone piles were all former bridge pillars, and judging from their scattered distribution, this
This stone bridge has been rebuilt at least three times in different sections.
This means that the stone bridge in front of him has important value and needs to be repaired even if it is damaged repeatedly. At the same time, the level of masons in Chenghuang Dadi is also far beyond Gu Chen's expectation. Gu Chen secretly nodded and recorded these two points into the sand plate model.
inside.
Gradually completing the details of the sand table like this is Gu Chen's unique method of grasping the world around him.
(There are also wild monsters. Although the information says that this area is mostly infested by grass monsters, the actual situation can only be known by looking at it...) Gu Chen has seen three household monsters, but what do wild wild monsters look like?
But I have only read it in books.
The pioneers are just passers-by in the outer land, and the wild monsters are the masters of the outer land. If the correct information about the wild monsters cannot be obtained, then the models in the Ruisi Sandbox will be of no use. Gu Chen glanced around subconsciously, as if responding
As he expected, clusters of fireflies were emanating from the grass ahead.