msmithbooks Chapter 166 Year 2 Dry Season
Chapter 166 Year 2 Dry Season
By the gurgling stream, Qi Jiang and Su Qing are sitting on blankets refining the parts in their hands. Under the shade of a tree, there is a stream flowing. In front of it is a waterfall with a height of more than 30 meters. There is often a breeze with cold water vapor. , the heat outside did not affect this piece of world.
After a part was made, Su Qing put it aside, let go of the crossed legs, and lay down on the blanket to reach the drink in front.
Refining magic tools is risky. They are afraid that the black ash will stain food when it explodes, so they divide the blanket into a work area and a leisure area, with a distance of nearly two meters between them. Drinks are placed in the leisure area closest to the stream. Su Qing is not tall enough, and his hands are not enough, but he is too lazy to move, so he desperately uses his hands to reach.
He always likes to compete with himself in this way recently, obviously he just needs to move his legs to walk a distance or use something that can be touched by the wind, if Qi Jiang doesn't care, he can compete for about [-] minutes before giving up.
Like a child.
On the side, Qi Jiang saw what he was doing, but he pretended not to see what he was doing. With a light smile, he took another batch of materials and continued refining parts.
Nearly half an hour later, Su Qing's hands dropped, and he lay down on the stall in frustration, looking at Qi Jiang pitifully.
After refining the parts in his hand, Qi Jiang stretched out his hand to pinch his earlobe, and played with him on the blanket.
"Bao, what's the matter?"
"It's a bit boring." Su Qing turned around and rolled around, lying in Qi Jiang's arms.
Recently, it is difficult for Su Qing to stay focused at work, but he is fine when refining, and he always likes to wander off after refining a part.
Qi Jiang tightened his grip on him, lowered his head and kissed his forehead lightly: "Then why don't you sit there for a while?"
"I want you to stay with me." Su Qing looked up, looking straight into Qi Jiang's eyes, "Let's not make parts today, okay?"
"Who said a few days ago that he would quickly refine the production line to get him a fortune?" Qi Jiang smiled and nodded Su Qing's forehead, "Is there really no refining today?"
When he said this, Su Qing got a little tangled up. He wanted to rest with Qi Jiang for a day, but he felt that it was not good to waste time.
"Oh, okay." Su Qing sat up, "Continue to work."
Qi Jiang didn't want to force Su Qing to do something he didn't like to do, so he turned over and lay on his back and stretched out a hand to Su Qing: "Come."
"Huh?" Su Qing leaned back again, "What's wrong?"
"Are you really not interested in puppetry?"
Su Qing thought about it seriously, then shook his head lightly: "Actually, it's not that I'm not interested at all, but I'm still a little interested, but it's not as good as formations and talismans."
"But you have always been focused on doing things, and you never wandered off so much before. Is there any other reason?" Qi Jiang continued to ask in a soft voice.
"It's mainly because I think we will lose our own lives." Su Qing said sullenly, "I feel like we are like robots every day. Obviously, no matter how busy we were in the past, we would still have a little time for entertainment. , Now every day is work except for work, we agreed to eat hot pot a few days ago, but we didn’t make time for it after a few days, it’s boring every day.”
Qi Jiang suddenly realized, and sat up holding Su Qing guiltily: "Sorry, this is my problem."
Su Qing was startled, and subconsciously waved her hands: "No, it's me..."
"It's my problem." Qi Jiang grabbed his hand and nodded affirmatively, "My old problem of working overtime has happened again. I shouldn't have dragged you and me to work overtime."
"What overtime?" Su Qing was puzzled.
"In the past, if I had a new project, I would subconsciously work overtime and finish it first." Qi Jiang smiled helplessly, "I thought I had changed it now, but I didn't expect to make it again inadvertently."
Just like this production line, he just made it by himself at the beginning. Su Qing hadn't joined at that time, and would come to remind him to "go home from get off work for dinner" every day. Of course, he didn't have the opportunity to work overtime.
When Su Qing joined in, their time was synchronized, he was more focused on doing things, he didn't love life like Su Qing, and he didn't have too much concept of "vacation", so he would stop his hands every day when it was time to eat He goes out to cook for work, and Su Qing loves to be with him, so he won't go out if he doesn't move, and he will naturally feel that his time is being squeezed over time.
The scary thing is that their rest time is only a short four hours, minus the meal time and the daily morning class time, they have to work fourteen or five hours a day, which is much more terrifying than 996.
When the flying boat was still there, the two trees at home would go to barbecue or drink tea, chat and even sing when they were at the point of death. Su Qing would take Qi Jiang out to have a rest when he heard it, which could relieve the pain. Now that the flying boat is gone, After a few days, Su Qing couldn't take it anymore.
He has never experienced social beatings, and he doesn't know that this is called oppression. He only knows that it is called boredom, and he subconsciously uses desertion to make up for his emptiness.
After listening to his analysis, Su Qing suddenly realized, and clapped his hands: "Yes! That's it!"
Qi Jiang couldn't help but look at the sky: "I'll get a magic clock in the afternoon, and I'll check the time later, and I'll rest when it's time."
Su Qing nodded happily, looking at the materials that Qi Jiang had put away, she felt a little bit reluctant: "But if the working hours are reduced, won't the number of times I can see you work hard?"
"After that, I will work overtime, and you will watch?" Qi Jiang raised his eyebrows with a smile.
"Forget it." Su Qing was reluctant to let Qi Jiang work so long every day, and helped him pack his things with a smile, "But if you didn't count the time, I don't even know that we work so long every day."
"It's also the reason why there is no clock now." Qi Jiang gently shook his head, "In the future, you must remember to remind me not to work for too long, and don't follow me to work hard."
"Yeah." Su Qing now understands the reason, so naturally she won't torture herself like this anymore.
After they packed up their things, Su Qing happily took out the food from the leisure area, sat cross-legged on the side, added crushed ice to drinks, and lit a fire in the small stove to cook. Eat hot pot.
"Brother Jiang, what kind of pot are we eating?"
Qi Jiang watched him get angry again, and smiled coyly: "Mushroom soup."
"Then I'll fry the chicken." Su Qing started to get busy.
Qi Jiang went to help, and when he was arranging the ingredients, he occasionally turned his head to look at Su Qing, who was smiling and relaxed.
In fact, he and Su Qing are very different people, he is a workaholic, while Su Qing loves life.
In the past, Su Qing had a slow and leisurely life, which was what Qi Jiang yearned for, so he fell in love at first sight, but now Su Qing is lively and agile, and the new temperament blends with his original cold and lazy temperament, making Qi Jiang even more fascinated.
"Susu." Qi Jiang suddenly became curious, "I never asked, what do you like about me?"
Su Qing turned around: "Ah? Why did you ask this suddenly?"
"Just a little curious."
Su Qing fell into deep thought, and answered slowly after a few seconds: "You used to give me a great sense of security. At that time, I was envious of your muscles and calm personality. It felt like the sky was falling. You can do it too."
Qi Jiang squeezed his arm subconsciously, and suddenly laughed: "What about now?"
"There are more of them now, being gentle to me, tolerant and so on." Su Qing pursed her lips and smiled, "But what I like most is the sense of security brought by your strong and calm temperament, which is the same as before."
"Oh, that's right." Su Qing was suddenly agitated, and looked at Qi Jiang with embarrassment, blushing a little, "Actually, I quite like your serious and cold face, it feels so handsome, even more handsome when you are angry. "
But Qi Jiang would never be angry with him, nor would he treat him coldly, so only when they met outsiders would Su Qing have a chance to see Qi Jiang like this.
The smile in Qi Jiang's eyes was very strong, and he suddenly thought of a possibility: "Then, if I had a serious and indifferent personality when I moved to Fengcheng, would you like it more?"
"No." Su Qing curled her lips in disgust, "I don't want it."
Qi Jiang laughed: "Didn't you say this is handsome?"
"That's because what I really like is your double standard for me." Su Qing snorted softly, "If I can have a Qi Jiang who is super gentle, tolerant and pampering to me, then of course I have the heart to appreciate another An indifferent and handsome Qi Jiang."
Qi Jiang raised his eyebrows: "It seems that my strategy is correct."
"That's because I was stupid at that time, and I was deceived by you." Su Qing couldn't help laughing when he thought of himself before, "At that time, I was like doing a problem, seeing that your performance was in line with what Grandpa mentioned to me. The key word is to believe."
Qi Jiang touched his nose with some guilt: "You have such a strong psychological defense, how can I hug a beauty without any means?"
"Then Mr. Qi, you are really a clever ghost." Su Qing snorted softly.
The smell of chicken and mushroom came out, Qi Jiang couldn't accept this, so he quickly added water, put in some difficult-to-cook ingredients and covered it.
Su Qing snorted again and let him go.
Not long after, the sound of gurgling in the pot came out, and the two of them sat by the cool stream and ate the hot pot without feeling hot. When they were almost finished eating, Qi Jiang looked up towards the direction of the sea.
Su Qing's eyes flickered slightly: "Is that the white lion that came ashore?"
"Well." Qi Jiang continued to bow his head and sweep his tail, "His direction is very clear, he probably wants to go home, and then look around his territory to see if there is a human base."
Su Qing was already full, and looked curiously at Qi Jiang's direction just now. There were dense trees in the forest, but he couldn't see the white lion's figure, but he could sense its breath.
"I just don't know when he came into contact with humans. If it's been a long time, I'm afraid it's hard to find."
After the great earthquake in December, they woke up and started from the direction of the mountain range near their original residence. After the great expansion, the directions of various places will not remain in the original direction, and the whole world can be described as completely different.
If the white lion had been in contact with humans before December, it would be difficult to rely on him to find a human base, only a few clues.
After another day, the position of the white lion finally did not move.
Qi Jiang put down the clock he just made, and looked at the sun in the sky: "Susu, help me peel off a trace of the real fire of the sun and send it into the clock."
Su Qing hummed, intercepted a section of sunlight that came in through the gaps in the leaves, and finally refined a ray of real sun fire.
The clock merged with the real fire of the sun, and there was a clicking sound inside the clock, and the three hands began to rotate, and finally pointed to different positions.
"Eight twenty-five in the morning, the time is about the same as I estimated." Qi Jiang raised his eyebrows slightly.
Su Qing took the clock in his hand with some curiosity and fiddled with it for a few minutes, and it was easy to understand: "Then when will our working hours be arranged in the future?"
Qi Jiang shook his head: "There is no need to make special arrangements, just do it when the time comes, and we don't have to spend the whole day on puppetry, we can do more other things."
"Then I'll go through the inheritance memory in the morning, and you can also spare some time for alchemy, and we can have something to eat and play with during the period." Su Qing's eyes lit up, "What do you think?"
"Yeah." Qi Jiang nodded, "If you feel bored in the future, you can go out directly without waiting for me."
"it is good."
After the two reached a consensus, Su Qing began to check the feedback from the Qianjizi bird yesterday, and a few Qianjizi birds in the direction of the white lion's territory actually found something.
"Brother Jiang, look at this." Su Qing handed over the tablet that Qianji mother bird had turned into.
There is a 1-minute video in the tablet, which was shot by Qianjizi after he discovered the abnormality. The background of the video is a prairie, and a group of strange people with cow heads, cow hooves, and cow tails are carrying large bags by the river. walk.
"This is not the first time I have walked this road." Qi Jiang focused on their feet and enlarged the picture, "Look, there are some grasses in the luggage, and the road under their feet is not only traces of cow's hooves, but also plum blossoms. Footprints, it looks like a cat."
"You mean... there is a gathering place for these strange people?" Su Qing carefully looked at the appearance of these tauren, and found that their eyes were full of wildness, "This is not a human being, it should be a monster race."
"Yaozu?" Qi Jiang frowned, "Didn't the Yaozu have to go to the Golden Core to transform?"
"They're not completely transformed, they should have obtained some special medicine or some special method." Su Qing found out the message sent back by the bird that photographed all this.
The follow-up is almost all pictures of some tauren on their way. At the end, the tauren met with another group of tiger-headed men. They talked with each other in animal language. I don’t know what they said and walked together together. Nothing happened halfway. attacks on each other.
"These monster clans have shown signs of socialization, and they are very likely to have their own monster clan city." Qi Jiang made a bold guess.
The two continued to check back, and finally the screen came to a grand canyon, and a very magnificent stone city could be vaguely seen inside. Monster races of various races gathered together in semi-transfigured forms or prototypes. The monsters coming and going at the exit of the canyon are very lively.
Qianjiziniao has a danger detection function on its body. If it didn't enter the city, it would only send back some irrelevant information around the city.
"There really is a monster city." Qi Jiang didn't expect such an unexpected surprise.
"It seems that we have to take a trip." Su Qing sat upright subconsciously, "This is the first monster city we have encountered, if we can get their transformed things, then the next monster city will be very close." It is easy to agree to build a teleportation array."
The reason why it is said to be the next monster city instead of other human bases is because in their planning, the transmission network of each race is independent of each other, and these cities will not be directly connected to each other until they can't spare time to manage them. At the same time, even if any city wants to provoke a racial war, it will be hindered, and the minds of various races will not be so lively.
"It's a pity that our flying boat is gone." Qi Jiang felt that the matter was a little tricky, "It seems that we can only repair our flying boat first, and we can get a good thing out to suppress the situation."
He felt that the quality of the flying carpet was still several notches lower.
"This is not easy to repair." Su Qing frowned, feeling that this was more difficult, "Oh, that tail of Shasha was aimed at killing us, and the flying boat was torn apart in many places."
"It's just a face project." Qi Jiang realized that Su Qing's thinking was wrong. "You don't need to fly too fast, and you don't need to have too many functions. It just needs to look advanced enough. The main thing is to make others believe that we have the ability to cross the sea."
He can be sure that there are no flying boats in this monster city, not to mention flying boats, not even flying carpets.
"Then I'll add an ice array to it at that time." Su Qing suddenly thought of a good idea, "The extreme day is coming tonight, and there will be no night in the future. The weather is so hot, and an ice array is a very exciting thing." It's something to envy."
Just do what they said, the two found a spacious place to take out their flying boat and started to refine it again. Qi Jiang was mainly doing this, and Su Qing occasionally helped.
On the formation, Su Qing not only added a cold ice formation, but also added a few light wind formations. In addition, the two also added a bunch of messy, not very practical but very pretentious functions.
Soon, their flying boat was repaired, and Qi Jiang and Su Qing moved the things in the tree hole together.
The two tested the flight for a while, and it was fine for the first 10 minutes, about two or three times faster than the white lion. Although it was slow for them, it could still be a bluff.
Not long after, the flying boat made a clicking sound, and Qi Jiang said something bad, and they fell down with a whimper. Fortunately, there was a light wind gust from Su Qing, and they finally stabilized in the air and did not hit the ground. I can't fly anymore.
"Hiss~" Qi Jiang sighed, "I'll take another look."
Three hours later, one-third of the flying boat was dismantled by Qi Jiang, and the whole flying boat became smaller. Fortunately, the speed increased this time, and it was very stable. Driving, all kinds of early warning capabilities are gone
It can be said that the flying boat can only fly now, and it flies very slowly.
"It's enough to bluff people, not to bluff monsters." Qi Jiang coughed softly, "Susu, put our goods in the warehouse."
"It will take about seven days to fly there." Su Qing frowned slightly, "Brother Jiang, our core products, the Heavenly Artifact and the phone, are out of stock."
"It will take a lot of time for the magic tools with too much space. The tools of these monster races are relatively primitive. We can sell a batch of low-level magic tools first. I will make a batch of universe bags, and you will make a batch of nine-level phones. This takes very little time.”
"Just sell a hundred Communication Jade Talismans. I can make them in one day. You can also make a hundred or so for your Qiankun Bag. We can make a hundred flying carpets in the next few days. In seven days we Take turns driving, enough to make a batch..." Su Qing said halfway, his eyes rolled, "We don't need to fly the flying boat by ourselves, don't we still have..."
Qi Jiang understood what he meant, and nodded lightly: "Alright then, we'll drive out the production line in the rest of the time."
Now the parts of the production line are almost ready, and the parts are less than half finished. When they are finished, they can be integrated and refined, and finally the production line can be used.
According to their speed, even if they don't work overtime, it should be done in another eight or nine days.
In addition to the products, they urgently named the chamber of commerce, which was something they had neglected all along. On the human side, they were of the same race after all, so they didn't mention it, so they didn't care about it.
When they came to the territory of the Yaozu, they would not give too much face.
Therefore, Qi Jiang and the others set up a banner on the bow of the flying boat, with black as the background and blue as the side, with the words "Kunlong Chamber of Commerce" written in red characters on it. .
Originally, Su Qing wanted to use the Sujiang Chamber of Commerce, but the name has something to do with them, and it looks like a place name, a place name that some people have never heard of.
The Kunlong Chamber of Commerce is different. Kun and Long are very domineering at first glance. Pretending to be aggressive is definitely enough, and they will not easily get involved with them.
After discussing this matter, they started to catch the strong men, put the idle two trees and one soul in the cab and let them drive.
"You asked me to drive this rag?" Xiang Shengshu shouted incredulously, "You tell me it's a flying boat? Isn't this just a flying carpet with a different look? This kind of rag, I..."
"The children have a lot of things to do, why don't you drive a car?" The Creation Tree didn't have any objections.
"If you want to drive it, you do it." Xiang Shengshu snorted coldly.
Su Qing didn't care which of them would drive the car, he would follow Qi Jiang to work as a production worker as soon as the door was closed. As time went by, brand new products appeared on the shelves in the warehouse.
In order not to appear too purposeful, the flying boat did not fly straight to the monster city, but deviated a little bit, and finally pretended to accidentally find a group of hippopotamus who were going to trade in the city below, and then began to follow the river up Go, fly all the way to the canyon.
After the flying boat appeared, the hippo people below were startled and looked up. The flying boat had already flown far away, and only a large banner could be seen from a distance, on which were written four big characters.
Kunlong Chamber of Commerce.
"What Dragon Chamber of Commerce?" A hippo man in the team read it accordingly, "Isn't this a human character? I've seen the last three characters in the zoo before!"
"Dragon?" There was a lot of discussion in the team, "Could it be the chamber of commerce of the city lord?"
A hippopotamus rolled its eyes: "You are stupid, why does the city lord's chamber of commerce not use our monster clan's script but the human race's script?"
"What? You mean, this is a human chamber of commerce? This is terrible." The leading hippopotamus shouted, and picked out two people from the team, "You, you, go to the hound hill to let the wind hound clan Report to the city."
"Yes, young patriarch!" The two people who were pointed out in the team immediately put down the packages on their backs, turned into their own bodies and left the team.
The hippopotamus itself is not fast, after running for a while they were still nearby, the young patriarch looked very anxious, but there was nothing he could do about it, if his clan ran fast, why would he let the Windhounds send a message to share the credit?
The flying boat of the Kunlong Chamber of Commerce went all the way, and many monster races would subconsciously think of ways to pass the news when they saw the flying boat.
They met many races along the way, and they all wanted to pass the news to the monster city, but their speed was not as fast as the flying boat, so they have not been able to spread the news faster than the flying boat.
The flying boat was unimpeded on the road. After passing through a small jungle, the monster race behind used smoke pillars to convey the message. The smoke pillars of each race were different. The closer the flying boat was to the monster race city, the thicker the smoke pillar would be.
Now it was the ninth smoke column they encountered.
"Brother Jiang, there is another column of smoke over there." Su Qing stood on the railing with a drink in his hand and pointed to the column of smoke in the southeast direction.
"The monster city should be aware of it." Qi Jiang pondered, and looked up at the banner above their heads, "Susu, let's refine a new banner."
"why?"
"Add coercion and defense into it, lest someone come over and destroy our flag with one move." Qi Jiang didn't want them to get into too embarrassing situation.
"Alright, you refine it first, and then leave me a place to arrange the phantom array besides the defensive array."
Phantom array?
Qi Jiang's eyes flashed: "Can you add it to the flying boat? Add it to the defensive formation, and whoever attacks the flying boat will let him enter the illusion."
"This method is good." Su Qing clapped his hands.
While the two of them were busy pretending to be aggressive for the chamber of commerce, more and more pillars of smoke were found on the north side of the Yaozu city.
On the watchtower, two vultures immediately turned into their bodies and flew towards the center of the city when they saw the smoke column: "Report!"