After the fog, I became a birdman

About half an hour later, Qi Jiang and Deputy Mayor Zhou came out of the conference room. Their expressions couldn't tell anything, and no one else knew how they were talking.

"Let's go." Qi Jiang took the coat from the chair and stretched out his hand to pull Su Qing up.

The two smiled and said goodbye to the old foxes at the main table: "Then let's go first."

"Mr. Qi, Mr. Su, go slowly."

After the two left the banquet hall, Master Geng and the others looked at Deputy Mayor Zhou and asked silently: "How is it?"

Deputy Mayor Zhou shook his head slightly, with a wry smile on his face: "Not for sale."

"Is the method not sold, or the bag or the communicator?" Mr. Geng frowned.

"None." Deputy Mayor Zhou sighed helplessly, "I suspect that he is a businessman, and the initiative has always been in his hands. I didn't discuss anything, and I am really ashamed."

Mayor Zhang next to him stretched out his hand and patted him on the shoulder: "Don't worry, does he have any conditions?"

"As for the method, he said that our method is not wrong, so we don't need to buy from him." Deputy Mayor Zhou repeated briefly, "As for the other two, he thinks our asking price is low."

On the other side, Qi Jiang who returned home asked curiously, "By the way, what is that treasure map?"

"Ice coffin on the sea." Su Qing took out the treasure map from the envelope and handed it to Qi Jiang, and bought it, "This is fake."

"Fake?!" Qi Jiang frowned, walked over and sat next to Su Qing, and took the treasure map in his hands.

It was as cold as water, and there was a bit of aura on the paper. Moreover, the ice coffin on it was exactly the same as the one in Su Qing's ice stick. No one else had seen his ice stick before, so it should not be fake.

"It's fake, I'll show you a show." Su Qing blinked mischievously, took out a hairpin made from an ice stick, and poured a ray of frost into it, and the treasure map suddenly changed.

The yellow treasure map turned into ice blue, and the ocean above was shaking with realistic waves. An ice coffin they were familiar with was sinking and floating in the sea, and its position was slowly changing.

A route starts from the ice coffin and extends into the corner.

"Little liar." Qi Jiang smiled helplessly, and pinched Su Qing's face.

The little liar refused to admit that he was a liar, and slapped his hand away with a soft snort.

Qi Jiang returned to the topic, pointing to the end of the route that disappeared in the corner: "Is this the direction we are in?"

"I don't know." Su Qing shook his head lightly, "I'll go to the giant forest another day to see if the route will change."

The treasure map is covered with seas. They are on the south coast, so no matter how they change, they can’t verify it. Going to the east coast may prove this idea.

"It's best to be our location, so we can go directly to find it."

Su Qing carefully put away the treasure map, and was also a little curious about their situation in the lounge.

"What about you? How was the conversation in the break room?"

"The method is not for sale. If the Qiankun bag is the case, he offered a price of ten catties of spirit stones per cubic space. After he learned about the communicator, he offered one thousand catties of spirit stones." Qi Jiang hung his coat on the wall and shook his head lightly. , "I think the price is low."

It takes Qi Jiang three hours to make a [-]-cubic Qiankun bag, and the price is only [-] catties of spirit stones. If the time cost is removed, they can say that they can make a net profit of about [-] catties of spirit stones, which is a huge profit.

As for the communicator, it takes Su Qing about three hours to make one, which is more profitable, and only needs a piece of spirit stone or spirit mine, and then engraved with a magic circle.

But for them, the cost of time is above everything else. I hope that the orders placed by the base must be relatively large, and such prices cannot make up for the time they spent.

Especially Su Qing, he needs more time.

Now that he had awakened five times, he would have to consider breaking through the golden elixir when he awakened again. There was no way for him to recognize the owner of the ice coffin on the sea, so he had better rely on Xiangshengshu to break through the golden elixir.

But now he is only in the early stage of foundation establishment. Although Xiang Shengshu's powerful spiritual energy can increase his cultivation base, if he wants to take the opportunity to break through the golden core in one fell swoop, he'd better advance to the late stage first.

Cultivation is not drinking water, it takes a lot of time during this period.

They have no shortage of spirit stones, and there is no need to delay their cultivation progress for this price.

The next day, their little tree house ushered in an old friend.

Brother Chen's status in the hunting group was not high, and he went on a mission without getting a letter from Su Qing for a few days.

He came back last night and went home to rest because he was too tired, so he didn't know that they had also gone to the banquet. He only learned about it from someone else when he woke up this morning.

Two days ago, Su Qing sent a letter to him saying that he was at home, because Brother Chen was still outside at the time and said that he would get together with them when he came back.

Now that he came back from a mission, he was embarrassed to wait for his old friend to come to him, so he bought some gifts early and then left the base.

As soon as he walked out, he heard someone calling him: "Is it Mr. Chen Mingxing?"

It was a very unfamiliar voice. Brother Chen turned around expressionlessly, and when he saw the person coming, he understood something in his heart: "I am."

Liu Xingjie walked over: "Mr. Chen, do you have time to chat?"

Brother Chen was in a complicated mood. He knew that Liu Xingjie was able to find him because he wanted to talk to him about something. It must have something to do with his two old friends to get the celebrities from the management department to come to him. .

But he didn't want to get involved in the affairs of his old friends and Hope Base. It would be wrong for him to help anyone.

"I'm sorry, Team Leader Liu." Brother Chen's expressionless face slowly showed a trace of embarrassment, "I'm a soft-spoken person, I'm afraid I can't help you."

There were people coming and going at the gate, and many people were looking at them. Liu Xingjie didn't want to discuss this matter in public, so he pointed to an office inside the gate: "Where shall we go to talk?"

He didn't give Brother Chen a chance to refuse at all, and walked ahead with a hint of toughness.

Brother Chen sighed inwardly, and followed him into the office helplessly.

The door was closed, Liu Xingjie poured a glass of water: "Sit."

Brother Chen glanced at him silently, lowered his head and pulled out the chair to sit down, and began to think about whether he should not go to the tree house to see some old friends.

Doesn't this posture mean that they didn't get any advantage from Qi Jiang and the others, so they want to make peace with him?

When Brother Chen sighed repeatedly in his heart, Liu Xingjie glanced at the water he wasn't going to drink, and didn't care about his resistance: "Mr. Chen, do you know the two gentlemen who came to the base half a month ago?"

Brother Chen didn't speak, but nodded hesitantly.

"I looked at the registration book. You have been wandering before you came to the base. Can you tell me about your past?"

"I used to be from Fengcheng. Later, because of the volcanic eruption, my son died, my daughter disappeared, and my wife had mental problems." Brother Chen answered with his head down, "After the volcanic eruption, everyone left Fengcheng together. My wife couldn't accept it." The child's affairs ran out, and I was afraid that something might happen to her, so I went out to find her, and I have been wandering since then, and one day I was swept to the coast by a storm."

At that time, I hoped that the base was still by the sea, but after several expansions, they were getting farther and farther away from the coast, and now they are even separated by a large forest.

"Then when did you and Mr. Qi meet?"

Brother Chen forgot to confess to Su Qing before this incident, and after thinking hard, he didn’t know what Su Qing and the others said. He thought quickly for a few seconds before answering: “At that time, they seemed to say that they were going to go to the beach. How long did we go together? After a few days, we separated."

"Only a few days?" Liu Xingjie subconsciously didn't believe it. With Qi Jiang and Su Qing's temperament, the meeting in a few days is at most a chance meeting. If the relationship is so ordinary, how could they send a special task to find someone?

Afraid of saying too much and making mistakes, Brother Chen could only kill him for a few days, and nodded without hesitation: "Yeah."

"Then it seems that you have similar temperaments and have a good relationship." Liu Xingjie already knew that he would not tell the truth, so he didn't ask any more, but pushed the water glass over, "That's it, I came to you today to let you know Do me a favor."

"I'm afraid I can't help." Brother Chen didn't want to agree.

But this is out of his control, Liu Xingjie ignored his words and continued: "That's right, we had a business negotiation with Mr. Qi and the others last night, but we didn't agree on the price in the end, can you please help me when you are a guest?" Let's find out, Mr. Qi, what do they want?"

Brother Chen glanced at the gift at his feet, regretting it in his heart, he would not have bought it if he had known.

He's not Qi Jiang or Su Qing, he's just a second-time awakener, Team Leader Liu is a four-time awakener, and the celebrity from the management department has given enough face to find him in person. If he refuses, maybe ...

Brother Chen sighed: "I'm sorry, Mr. Qi and the others have saved my life, so I can't help with this matter."

life saving grace...

Liu Xingjie was a little surprised, and said after a while: "Mr. Chen can think about it while he's on the way, and I'll take you out."

"No need." Brother Chen picked up the gift at his feet with a heavy heart, "I can just go out by myself."

He hurried out, Liu Xingjie lifted the blinds on the window and frowned to see his back: "Thank you for saving my life?"

Brother Chen walked out of the base gate with the gift, looked at the direction of Su Qing's territory, hesitant, not knowing whether he should visit or not.

He didn't know the senior management of the base, but the people from the hunting group had more contact with the people from the management department, and he also knew that Team Leader Liu was always tough.

He had already refused, but he was not sure if Team Leader Liu would do anything to him if he failed to achieve his goal.

let him...

"That's it."

Brother Chen shook his head, and quickly headed to the jungle with the gift.

Although Su Qing had told him two days ago that he could go directly to the tree house, but after some questioning, Brother Chen, who didn't know if anyone was watching him behind his back, decided to put on a show.

"Mr. Qi, Mr. Su, may I come in?"

In the tree house, because they slept too late last night, the two who got up late this morning were still eating breakfast. Hearing this familiar voice, Qi Jiang was a little unsure.

"Is it really Brother Chen?"

"Can I still lie to you?" Su Qing snorted softly, "Hurry up and bring Brother Chen in, and I'll order some more wontons."

Qi Jiang put down the bowls and chopsticks and was about to go out. Su Qing, who had already walked to the door of the kitchen, suddenly turned around: "Oh, by the way, it's raining now, and the ground is too muddy. Brother Chen doesn't really want our things. You're not thinking about Feizhou Something? Give him a flying carpet, it will be convenient for him to travel by himself in the future."

"Well, let me persuade you."

Qi Jiang went out on the flying carpet, and it took about 2 minutes to reach the outside. Seeing Brother Chen whose temperament changed drastically below, Qi Jiang was shocked even though he was mentally prepared.

Brother Chen has become too much.

However, the friendship between them is still there.

Down below, Brother Chen had already discovered the existence of the flying carpet and found out that it was Qi Jiang. He was a little cautious and didn't know whether to say hello or not.

The flying carpet landed quickly, and Qi Jiang greeted him very familiarly as before: "Brother Chen, come up quickly!"

Seeing that his attitude remained unchanged, Brother Chen's restraint finally disappeared, and a smile appeared on his face: "Okay!"

The flying carpet quickly returned to the jungle, and while he was still on the road, Qi Jiang was afraid that Brother Chen would be uncomfortable, so he found a topic: "You come here as soon as you come, what are you bringing with you?"

"How can you come to the door empty-handed? I didn't bring it last time, so I have to bring it this time."

"I've never seen you so polite before." Qi Jiang bumped him with his shoulder reproachfully, and then manipulated the flying carpet to land in front of the door, "Come in."

The room was filled with the smell of shrimp wontons. Brother Chen didn't expect that they hadn't eaten yet, and his face turned a little red. Before he could say anything, Qi Jiang pulled him to sit at the table.

"I……"

"I know you've eaten, so I don't do much." Su Qing came out of the kitchen with wontons in his hand, "It's not good to leave you alone while we're eating, so just eat with us."

The last time Su Qing pointed at Sang Huai and scolded him for being a sissy, Brother Chen didn't dare to shirk this time: "Then I won't be polite, but you have to accept my gift."

"Got it." Qi Jiang put the gift aside.

After breakfast, the three of them went to sit in the living room to reminisce about the past. Brother Chen's mood is now more stable than when he reunited with his old friend for the first time that night, so when he talked about his own affairs, although there was a trace of pain in his eyes, more But calm.

Just like what Brother Qian said, after Sister Fang suddenly left the canyon coast gathering place, Brother Chen went out non-stop to find his wife.

Later, he couldn't find it anywhere on the coastline outside, so he made a small boat and rowed back to Fengcheng, and found Sister Fang near the Fuluoshan refuge.

They even lived there for a period of time. According to Brother Chen, the reason why they were not infected with the plague may be that they themselves were lucky.

But Qi Jiang knew that it was not luck, but necessity: "We later found out that there is a doctor fish in the sea that has been trying to purify the waters of Fengcheng. Did you catch the fish and eat it?"

"I didn't catch it." Brother Chen shook his head slightly, "However, I had a fever for a while, and my wife took care of me. At that time, I seemed to have eaten fish."

Sister Fang has been active in the waters of Fengcheng, and later found her daughter's trace by chance, and the couple left the refuge to pursue all the way, and then left Fengcheng.

Jing Yi is also a fish variation, so her range of activities is also in the water. Brother Chen made a raft and Sister Fang slowly entered the sea, but before finding any more clues, a storm hit the couple at sea both.

After waking up, Sister Fang was no longer by Brother Chen's side, and of course there was no trace of her daughter. Brother Chen didn't even know where he was.

He wandered all the way, thinking that he could find the canyon coast gathering place along the coastline, but later found that this was not the continent he was on before. After he entered the inland, he was lucky to come to the Land of Hope before winter.

After talking about his own affairs, Shen Mo rubbed his somewhat moist eyes, and sighed deeply: "What about you? What happened to Fengcheng later?"

Qi Jiang and Su Qing looked at each other, and roughly explained what happened afterwards.

"Another volcano?!" Brother Chen's eyes were full of hatred, his lips trembled, "God is too unfair to Fengcheng."

The eruption of Foshou Mountain has caused a fault in Fengcheng's management. The people of Fengcheng finally stood up, and there was another bigger volcanic eruption.

"It can only be said that luck is bad." Qi Jiang sighed, "But after the earthquake in December, Susu and I couldn't find where Fengcheng was. We thought we lived there for a long time. Just cross the ocean and see other parts of the world."

It seemed that they were not planning to find a place to settle down in their words. Brother Chen felt a little regretful, but it was understandable: "Then how long are you going to stay here?"

"We have found a suitable place to live on the east coast, and we will move there after a while." Qi Jiang said honestly.

"East Coast?" Brother Chen had never been there before, "How far is it?"

"It's about 90 kilometers away from here. There is a giant forest there. I like it very much." Su Qing took out the map he drew, "Here, it's here."

hiss~

Brother Chen gasped, smiled wryly and shook his head: "Then it seems that I can't go to be a guest."

"It's not like we won't come back." Qi Jiang said angrily.

Brother Chen smiled again, looked at the big map, and had an idea in his heart: "Then...Xiao Su, have you encountered other bases?"

"This is not."

Brother Chen was a little disappointed: "That's it."

"You want to go to another base?" Qi Jiang was a little puzzled, "Isn't it good here? I hope the base is strong, and it's quite safe here."

"I know too, but..." Brother Chen shook his head slightly, "But if there is a glimmer of hope, I still want to look for it."

It's just that today's expansion is too strong, I'm afraid he won't be able to leave Hope Base in his life.

"Su Qing and I will also go out for training after a while. If we encounter other bases, we will help you find the whereabouts of Sister Fang and Jingyi."

Brother Chen opened his eyes excitedly: "Then, thank you!"

"Sister Fang helped us a lot before."

The three of them spent a long time reminiscing about the old days. Around noon, Su Qing cooked a lunch himself, and Brother Chen left shortly after eating.

Qi Jiang sent him away with a flying carpet, and I don't know how he persuaded him. When he came back, the flying carpet was gone, obviously it was sent out.

Another two or three days have passed, and the time has come to the middle of February, but the blessing that Qi Jiang and Su Qing predicted has not yet come down.

Su Qing has been cultivating with spirit stones for the past two days. Under the advice of the Creation Tree, he did not forget to refine Ziqi in the morning.

Before, he only used the purple qi as the operating energy of the key, and he had never used it himself. Only after he really refined and absorbed it did he know how much the auspicious qi can benefit his cultivation.

In just a few days, Su Qing broke through to the middle stage of foundation establishment, twenty or thirty times faster than he imagined.

After the breakthrough, Su Qing thought about the three visits to the thatched cottage that the fortune tree had said, and started to work on the second visit to the giant forest.

"Brother Jiang, I'll go out to the giant forest later."

Qi Jiang heard him talk about the strategy of visiting the thatched cottage three times, and laughed on the spot: "Are you going to visit the thatched cottage for the second time? Do you want me to accompany you?"

Su Qing glanced at him: "I'm here to curry favor with Senior Xiang Shengshu, how can I take you there, it would be bad if Senior gets angry."

"Then you go early and come back early." Although Qi Jiang was disappointed but did not insist, he patted the pen and paper on the table, "When you pass by, remember to find a tree with a good view and draw the structure, and when you come back, let's design the future s home."

"Directly use the giant tree king in the center of the giant forest. Someday when this royal tree is promoted, maybe you can take advantage of it." Tree of Creation interjected.

"But isn't that tree Senior Xiang Shengshu?" Su Qing was shocked, "So, no, isn't it good?"

"The old guy Xiang Shengshu just lived on the giant tree king. He is still a little Miaomiao, about the same as me."

Su Qing suddenly realized, and relayed the words of the Creation Tree to Qi Jiang: "What do you think?"

"Isn't it good to build a house on the dignified royal family?" Qi Jiang felt that this was too presumptuous.

"It doesn't matter what the fortune tree said. To the giant tree king, our house is just like a bird's nest on other big trees."

Since there will be no accident, it is naturally impossible for Qi Jiang to disagree.

That afternoon, Su Qing put on his raincoat and set off for the giant forest.

Three days later, he came to this familiar place. After entering the giant forest, he took out the treasure map while flying, and found that the route on it had indeed deviated.

From this point of view, it is obvious that this treasure map is indeed pointing. Su Qing rolled his eyes and decided to go to sea with Qi Jiang to find the ice coffin after Xiang Shengshu recognized his master.

After flying for several hours, he finally came to the giant tree king. Looking at the majestic tree in front of him and the huge trunk that could be used as the ground, he flew around the giant tree king several times, and finally determined the location near the sea. a tree trunk.

Su Qing took the pen and paper and began to draw. The giant tree king was too big, and it was too time-consuming to finish the painting, so he just painted the area he selected.

Halfway through the painting, a very delicate leaf that had just grown fell on his shoulder. Su Qing brushed it away casually. Not long after he started to paint, another leaf fell.

The leaves of the giant tree are huge, one piece is like a small boat, but there are very few fallen leaves. Such frequent leaf fall is really rare, let alone the young leaves that have just grown.

Su Qing felt strange in her heart, just as she was about to reach out to brush the leaves again, the Creation Tree suddenly said: "Don't move, that old guy wants to attract your attention, hum, don't talk to him yet."

When Su Qing finished painting, his shoulders and the top of his head were covered with leaves. The poor giant tree king managed to grow so many young leaves, and he was wiped out by the Xiangsheng tree.

Putting away the pen and paper, Su Qing patted off the leaves on his body, looked around with some doubts, and said deliberately: "Creation Tree, do we want to say goodbye to Senior Xiang Shengshu?"

A piece of starlight loomed under the sun, and Xiang Shengshu's voice sounded in Su Qing's head: "Want to see me? Come in directly, don't put on such a pretense next time."

The Creation Tree snorted coldly, and complained in Su Qing's dantian: "I don't know who is pretending."

Su Qing followed Xingguang into the Xingguang field, came under the big Xingguang tree and saluted respectfully: "I have seen Senior Xiang Shengshu."

"Well, my cultivation has improved." Xiang Shengshu praised the old god, "Why did you think of coming here to paint today?"

Su Qing showed a shy smile: "It's my Taoist companion who said that he has never seen such a big tree, so let me draw a few pictures and go back for him to see."

"What's so good about a tree." Xiang Shengshu snorted coldly, "You, don't keep messing around with your Taoist companion, you have to work hard to practice on weekdays. You really can't even compare to that bastard of your ancestor."

Su Qing smiled obediently and nodded, rolled her eyes, and said, "Actually, my Taoist partner wanted me to draw you, but I didn't want to offend, so I drew the giant tree outside."

Xiang Shengshu was silent for a while, Su Qing was still thinking about how to continue complimenting when he heard the senior cough lightly.

"It's not impossible to draw..." The starlight on Xiang Shengshu's body seemed to flicker, "Since you like it so much, let's draw."

Su Qing, who was going to return home after a few compliments:? ? ?

"Why don't you draw?" Xiang Shengshu's doubtful voice suddenly sounded.

Su Qing turned her head abruptly, coughed lightly and hurriedly took out the pen and paper, and drew a sketch for the Starlight Tree with a suppressed smile.

After a while, Xiang Shengshu seemed to realize something was wrong with his expression: "Young man, what are you laughing at?"

"I'm happy." Su Qing smiled openly, "I didn't expect senior to be so generous. I said before that my Taoist companion's thoughts were too offensive."

"I'm also looking at the good fortune tree in your body." Xiang Shengshu snorted coldly, "If not, I wouldn't bother to talk to you."

Su Qing showed a bigger smile: "Senior said, I will definitely frame the painting when I get home."

"Well, it's up to you." Xiang Shengshu said indifferently.