out of time

Chapter 28

On this day, Tingyu, who had lived in Zitu since she was a child and hardly knew the sufferings of the world, had a dream.

In the dream, Chen Feiyuan made things difficult for Xu Qing fiercely, and she was very angry.

Until early in the morning, Tingyu woke up in a different mood than before. After arriving at Master Bai's tent, when she was sitting there reciting the Pharmacopoeia, she was also a little absent-minded, looking up from time to time outside the tent.

Until I saw... Chen Feiyuan.

Tingyu rolled her eyelids, remembering yesterday's dream.

Chen Feiyuan let out a sigh of relief, rubbed his eyes and opened the tent, and was about to sit beside Tingyu, when the futon was moved away by Tingyu the next moment.

Chen Feiyuan was taken aback, and looked at Tingyu.

"What are you doing?"

"Where do you sit?" Tingyu didn't bother to pay attention to Chen Feiyuan, and pointed to where Xu Qing usually sat.

"Why!" Chen Feiyuan quit immediately, his eyes widened.

"Just because you don't study hard, and because you often ask for leave during this period, I'm annoyed by you sitting here, is it enough?"

Tingyu stared and spoke very fast, hearing Chen Feiyuan stand there again, muttering a few words after a while, as if he didn't dare to provoke the other party, and sat in Xu Qing's seat with depression.

"Hey, Tingyu, you..." After sitting down, Chen Feiyuan just opened his mouth, but before he finished speaking, Tingyu's eyes showed unkindness.

"Don't say the word alas, what should you do if you are overheard and misunderstood."

"Ah? What's wrong with the word alas?" When Chen Feiyuan looked blank, the door of the tent was opened, and Xu Qing walked in.

Seeing Xu Qing, two small dimples appeared on Tingyu's face, she smiled, and patted the futon beside Chen Feiyuan that originally belonged to Chen Feiyuan.

"Junior brother, sit here."

Xu Qing was startled, and Chen Feiyuan was stunned.

"What are you still doing in a daze, the teacher is coming, come here quickly." Tingyu urged.

Xu Qing hesitated, looked at Tingyu, and then at Chen Feiyuan who was sitting in his seat.

It was indeed the time for Master Bai to come, so Xu Qing could only walk to Tingyu's side and sat in the seat that used to belong to Chen Feiyuan.

Chen Feiyuan was completely dumbfounded, pointing at Xu Qing just about to speak, Tingyu turned her head and gave him a fierce look.

"To shut up!"

"I haven't spoken yet." Chen Feiyuan was about to cry, he felt it was unfair, and just as he was about to continue talking, the tent door opened, and Master Bai walked in.

Chen Feiyuan could only hold back what he wanted to say, and sat there angrily. Tingyu on the other side seemed very comfortable, while Xu Qing felt a little uncomfortable, like sitting on pins and needles.

And Master Bai who came in, after seeing where Xu Qing was sitting, then looked at Tingyu and Chen Feiyuan who looked like a doormat, with a smile on his face, he didn't interfere, and started the assessment.

As always, Chen Feiyuan stuttered and was reprimanded, while Tingyu completed the assessment proudly, and looked at Xu Qing with expectation.

And Xu Qing's answer was even more perfect, and even asked some of his own questions during the assessment.

The whole process brought Chen Feiyuan's depression to the extreme.

So when the day's class was over, he was the first to run out of the tent, feeling that he had been discriminated against today.

Xu Qing also felt uncomfortable sitting there in this class. Now he stood up, bowed to Master Bai and was about to leave, but Tingyu called to stop him.

"Little brother, why is your face dirty again?"

Tingyu took out the handkerchief eager to try, Xu Qing frowned slightly, immediately avoided and left in a hurry.

Until he left, Tingyu looked a little aggrieved, and looked at Master Bai who was watching the fun.

"Teacher, why is this kid so dirty every day? It's kind of me to help him."

Master Bai laughed, patted the girl's head dotingly, and spoke softly.

"Because, for people who live in pain and danger, it is not a good thing to be too conspicuous."

Tingyu nodded thoughtfully.

Xu Qing didn't hear Master Bai's words, but what he thought in his heart was the same as what Master Bai said.

Growing up in a slum, he knew very well that the less conspicuous he was, the safer he would be. However, most of the people around him were dirty. If he was different, he would be like a torch in the night, increasing the danger.

This is the rule of his survival since he was a child. As for those who didn't do this, unless they are extremely powerful, most of them won't live for too long.

Because of this, Xu Qing developed the habit of not washing. He needs to blend into the environment and make himself inconspicuous.

Like a hunter who hides, only when he makes a move is the moment when he shows his sharpness.

At this moment, Xu Qing, who left the camp to the border of the restricted area, did the same.He picked up some rotten leaves from the jungle, crushed them and smeared them on his body, trying to integrate himself into nature as much as possible, and slowly stepped into the restricted area.

Although Team Lei went to live in the city, Xu Qing did not give up looking for the Destiny Flower.

The improvement in cultivation, the increase in strength, combined with his richer experience, knowledge of vegetation, and his vigilance as always, made him less dangerous in the outskirts of the forbidden jungle.

Therefore, the scope of Xu Qing's exploration gradually no longer stopped at the temple, but slowly explored towards the depths.

Although the crisis is greater, this kind of tempering has also continuously improved his combat power, and the harvest of vegetation has also been richer.

It's just that like the outer area, although there are more herbs in the depths, most of them are still evil and poisonous.

Most of the poisonous weeds also made Xu Qing's vegetation knowledge mostly focus on the configuration of poisons.As he became more diligent, his poison powder also increased in several types.

For this reason, he went to a clothing store and bought a coat full of pockets, each with a different poison in it.

As for the black gloves obtained from Captain Blood Shadow's leather bag, Xu Qing also put them on, and gradually felt more and more comfortable.

This glove can not only make his fists more lethal, but also have a certain degree of protection against poison, so together with the dagger given by the cross, it has become a daily weapon on his body like the iron stick.

Right now, as the sun was setting, Xu Qing, who had finished his day of sharpening and developing poisons, walked out of the small pharmacy in the canyon, sorted out his weapons and poison powder, swayed his waist, and went straight to the temple.

Every time before leaving the restricted area, he would go to the temple to find the scar removal stone.

Although he has gone to it many times before but failed, but he has inquired about this kind of stone, knowing that it is naturally generated, colorful in color, and can be seen occasionally, so he persevered until this time...

After he came to the temple, under the afterglow of the setting sun, he saw the position between the eyebrows of the stone sculpture head in the distance, and there seemed to be a colorful light shining.

Xu Qing's eyes froze, he quickly looked around, and checked his previous hidden layout. After finding that it was intact, he jumped to the top of a temple and squatted down to observe again.

After finally confirming that there is really no danger here, he went straight to the place where the head of the stone sculpture was located.

When he arrived, he saw a colorful stone growing out of the crack between his eyebrows.

This stone should have been ordinary once, but in this mysterious temple, after years of washing, it has become different on this day.

Xu Qing quickly took it off, and searched around quickly until he searched the entire temple complex. He found six such stones.

Looking at the stone in his hand, Xu Qing heaved a sigh of relief. He finally found one of these two items, the Destiny Flower and the Scar Removing Stone.

After carefully putting away the six small stones, Xu Qing took a deep look at the temple group, bowed down and bowed, then quickly left and disappeared into the distant jungle.

Galloping all the way, Xu Qing's figure jumped up and down on the treetops.

As the night fell, with the reverberation of the ferocious beast's roar, his pace remained the same, his speed changed from fast to slow, and he was getting closer and closer to the edge of the jungle.

Not long after, when Xu Qing jumped onto a tree trunk and wanted to use his strength to move forward, suddenly the mud on the ground next to him exploded, and a giant horned python rushed out, opened its mouth and swallowed him suddenly.

Its body was bigger than what he encountered in the camp that day.

Faced with this surprise attack, Xu Qing's expression did not change at all, but he raised a finger with his right hand and popped it out, hitting the head of the engulfed giant horned python.

With a bang, the giant horned python couldn't bear it, and the stern roar stopped abruptly. Its tough skin couldn't stop the power from Xu Qing, its head was torn apart, and its flesh and blood collapsed.

This collapse spread throughout the body in the blink of an eye until it became a cloud of blood mist.

Only his guts... kept it unscathed, fell from the blood mist, was grabbed by Xu Qing, and left in a flash.

In this way, at dawn, Xu Qing walked out of the jungle and returned to the camp.

In the pitch-black camp, there were few lights at this time. Xu Qing walked in it, and the mood of getting the small stones also became depressed as he approached the residence.

His residence was also pitch black, only the dozen or so wild dogs lying on the ground wagging their tails after realizing his return.

Xu Qing, who walked into the courtyard, glanced at Team Lei's former room habitually, and walked into the kitchen silently.

He reheated yesterday's leftovers and swallowed them just to fill his stomach. After packing up and returning to the room, he sighed softly.

"I don't know how the Lei team is doing in the city. It should be very good. If I still can't find the Destiny Flower in the end, I will save some more spirit coins and go buy a quota."

Xu Qing murmured, closed his eyes, and let himself sink into cultivation.

The next day, Xu Qing went to class as usual.

Tingyu became normal, but the seat was still reserved for him, and Chen Feiyuan also resigned to his fate, watching Xu Qing sitting in his original seat with longing eyes.

With the end of the class, Tingyu no longer opened his mouth to wipe his face, and there was more understanding in his eyes.

Xu Qing felt this understanding, he bowed his head slightly, and bid farewell to Master Bai.

When leaving the tent, Xu Qing touched the small stone in the leather bag and walked towards the grocery store where the little girl was.

But before he got close, he saw a group of strangers outside the grocery store from a distance!

Their clothes are very special. On the black robes, there are blood-colored suns embroidered on them. The chilling and bloody meaning is also particularly obvious on them.

-

I would like to share with you a real experience when I was a child. I don’t know why, but I still remember this incident. Maybe it’s because I’ve been in a daze for too long. I even went home and asked my parents...

That was when I was in the fourth grade of elementary school. My deskmate was a girl. One morning, she didn’t know why she looked at me very unpleasantly. Lend me."

Then she looked at me ferociously, and said to me: "Don't say the word ai, what should I do if others hear it and misunderstand it!" classmate……

Real experience, when I grew up in the class reunion, I still joked about it, but my old deskmate refused to admit it...

(End of this chapter)