Martial Arts Master Travelled to Ancient Time and Farms

   Chapter 24 The sun sets, ten rooms and nine empty spaces

   In the middle of the afternoon, Cheng Ling and his party walked eastward along Pingming Mountain for another twenty miles.

   When they went east, they walked down the mountain.

   It is too dangerous to sleep in the deep mountains at night.

  It is better to go to the foot of the mountain a little bit, and find a location that is not far from the foot of the mountain, can escape down the mountain at any time, and has enough shelter. If there is danger down the mountain, it is best to quickly escape into the deep mountain at the same time.

   Such a location is not easy to find. Cheng Ling brought a telescope, and it was only before dark that he finally found such a relatively suitable place.

After    found the camp, he handed over the composite crossbow in his hand, along with fifteen crossbow arrows, to Mu Sanniang.

   Mu Sanniang was very determined to refuse, but Cheng Ling said softly: "Aniang, have you forgotten my Qi?"

   Mu Sanniang was taken aback, Cheng Ling said, "Aniang, don't worry me."

   In the end, Mu Sanniang held the compound crossbow tightly in her hands, and tied the quiver holding the crossbow arrows to her waist.

  Cheng Ling taught Mu Sanniang how to fire crossbow arrows. The firing of this compound crossbow is not complicated. You can pull the trigger with your hands. Unlike bows and arrows, it requires extremely high requirements for users.

   But although the firing of the crossbow is not difficult, aiming is not an easy task.

   Even with the blessing of the sight, if Mu Sanniang wanted to achieve high precision in archery, it was not something that could be achieved in a short period of time.

   That's great, Cheng Ling doesn't ask Mu Sanniang to instantly become a master. She only needs Mu Sanniang to pick up this weapon to deter the enemy at a critical moment.

   Mu Sanniang was worried about Cheng Ling at first, but after practicing shooting a few arrows with this compound crossbow, her attitude changed instantly.

   She touched the cold body of the crossbow, her eyes were full of love and joy, she waved her hand directly to Cheng Ling and said, "Go away, go away!"

  嗐, isn't this having a new love and forgetting the old love?

  Cheng Ling laughed, sure enough, he didn't delay any longer, turned around and walked away quickly.

   What she didn't see was that just when her back disappeared into the shadow of the trees, Mu Sanniang suddenly put down her hand holding the compound crossbow, and turned her head to look in the direction where she disappeared.

  Cheng Ling went down the mountain at sunset.

   She was going west from the road at the foot of the mountain and turned around to go to the county seat of Lu County.

   On the one hand, it is to walk from the road down the mountain, the road will be easier to walk, and the speed will be faster, on the other hand, Cheng Ling wants to take advantage of the situation to see what the world under the mountain is like.

   She was very fast under her feet. After walking for about half an hour, she could clearly see a winding road at the foot of the mountain. On the other side of the road was a large farmland!

  The sun sets in the west, the sunset glows slightly, the mountains are green, and the farmland is endless.

   Cheng Ling's eyes lit up, but when he took a closer look, he found that the rice straws were lying down in the fields, and everything was messy.

   It turns out that these farmlands were all harvested violently!

  Cheng Ling stopped for a moment, then took out the telescope, and before he had completely descended the mountain, he looked around with the telescope condescendingly.

   Soon Cheng Ling discovered that not far to the west, a village appeared in the sight of the telescope.

  But...no smoke, no human, no roosters, no barking.

  This looks like a peaceful and uninhabited village.

   For a moment, Cheng Lin felt a coolness and rushed straight towards his body from his tailbone.

   She retracted the telescope, gritted her teeth lightly, turned the direction, and ran towards the village with a firm pace.

  No matter what, Cheng Ling still wanted to go there and take a closer look.

   Two quarters later, Cheng Ling covered his mouth and nose, and ran out of the village at a faster speed.

   In that village, what did she see?

  Cheng Ling hardly dared to recall.

   She saw the scattered corpses, the indescribable mess, and the indescribable sadness.

   And what made Cheng inspiration the most catastrophic was that no one had collected the corpses in the village. After being catalyzed by the high temperature in summer, they have long since become corrupted.

  There are mosquitoes and flies flying around, and there are rodents passing by. This is a breeding ground for diseases!

   The army that previously occupied the county seat of Lu County had probably left from Lu County.

  Cheng Ling could even imagine their route: after the locust-like army swept away the county seat of Lu County, they went west to east after exiting the city gate.

   Along the way, they scavenged for food, looted supplies, and killed people. Wherever he went, there were corpses everywhere!

  Cheng Ling felt that his heart, which came from the civilized era, was trembling deeply at this moment.

   She followed the road back to Lu County, running wildly under her feet. During the run, she hadn't forgotten to take out the alcohol spray, and she sprayed her whole body well.

   This time, Cheng Ling did not spare the supplies.

  Because she has roughly determined that the things she has eaten and used in the backpack space will automatically recover after twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, so for herself, she basically does not need to save.

  Cheng Ling finally washed his hands thoroughly with alcohol, and then put the alcohol spray bottle back into the backpack space.

   At the same time, she kept taking out convenient food from the backpack space and stuffing it into her mouth.

   There are chocolates, candies, energy bars and, of course, compressed cookies.

   are basically high-calorie foods, which are good at replenishing energy.

  Cheng Ling felt that his stomach was like a bottomless pit, no matter how much food came, it could digest quickly.

  If there is energy savings, these energy will be transformed into essence, which will be nourished from the dantian, and finally nourished to the yin and yang circulating in the body.

  Cheng Ling ran all the way and ate all the way.

   During this period, she actually encountered several villages located by the roadside.

   In short, no one of the farmland she could see was good, and they were all ruined.

   And the people in Zhuangzi... Cheng Ling didn't know if they were all slaughtered, or if some of them escaped and disappeared without a trace.

   In short, ten rooms and nine empty spaces, here, it is not an accurate adjective, it is more accurate to say: nothing is perfect.

   There is no living room, what kind of road is this?

When    was about to reach the edge of Lu County, Cheng Ling stopped at his feet.

   And here, she finally met someone!

  Cheng Ling stopped on the edge of a small high **** outside the city, and looked at the city gate with a telescope under the shelter of the trees.

   I saw that there were a number of soldiers stationed above and below the city wall with distinctive weapons. The exact number was hard to say, but at a glance, there were always a few hundred people.

  The city gate was tightly closed, and there was no one coming in or out. Only the soldiers were guarding the city, and the atmosphere was icy and chilling.

  Cheng Ling frowned slightly: Did she guess wrong again? The army hasn't left yet?

  No, not right!

   It's because she thought wrong just now. There are still soldiers stationed in Lu County. It doesn't mean that the rebels haven't left. There are many possibilities.

   Cheng Ling's telescope moved, and she noticed a detail.

   (end of this chapter)