Yefutidaolu

Chapter 100: Strange Opinion
The caravan started to set off.

Because everyone was unfamiliar with each other, only a few small groups were communicating, and everyone else just sat on the mechanical beasts in silence.

The space on the backs of these mechanical beasts is already fully loaded with cargo, so there is no room for people to sit.

So, it seems that the Chamber of Commerce has rented another mechanical beast, a cow-shaped mechanical beast with a hollow belly. Everyone sits in the cow's belly, and there are windows to see outside. These things slowly walked out of the city through the planned roads.

To be honest, it's quite fresh.

Mechanical beasts are the means of transportation for outdoor treks, because the terrain in the wild is too complicated, especially in places like the Divine Dynasty, where the terrain is particularly strange, with ten-thousand-meter-high mountains, super swamps and the like. Cars have poor terrain adaptability, so everyone will choose animal-shaped mechanisms in the wild.

In fact, there are also multi-legged and even irregularly shaped mechanisms, which have equally good off-road capabilities, but they seem to be much more expensive than the beast-shaped ones.

The reason is very simple, because the core of controlling mechanical beasts is actually the "beast soul".

As the name suggests, it is a control core simply made from the soul of a monster.

The mechanism is too complicated, and it is actually quite difficult to control it perfectly, but as long as a beast soul is stuffed in, you can rely on their instincts to fine-tune the movements.

For the ox-shaped mechanism, we use the beast soul of the ox monster; for the tiger-shaped mechanism, we use the beast soul of the tiger monster. The beast souls are accustomed to manipulating the body in this form. In this way, the difficulty of operation will be greatly reduced and the cost will also be lower.

However, insect-shaped mechanisms are rare due to the natural physique of insects.

Very few insects are born with the divine connection. If they are born without the divine connection, they will not have a divine soul, and naturally they will not have an insect soul.

Therefore, insect mechanisms are extremely rare, and only those insects that have successfully transformed themselves through eating humans, practicing, or some accidents and opened the divine gate can be used as raw materials.

As for irregular-shaped mechanisms, animal souls cannot be used and the operator has to rely entirely on his or her own driving skills, which is naturally more expensive.

They all need high-level drivers, so the machines can't be mass-produced, right? So as far as I know, all the machines with irregular shapes have excellent performance and the operators are also very powerful.

After all, the operating details and reaction speeds required for something like a mechanism are outrageous.

I heard that some sects and schools specialize in this, and their path of cultivation is achieved by learning to refine and operate mechanisms. The most famous of them are the Mohist School and Tiangong Mountain.

Through the window of the mechanism, Gao Jian could see that their speed was actually not slow at all. They could walk at least more than a hundred miles in an hour, and they were walking in the mountains.

One can feel that these mechanical beasts are crawling, wading, and jumping in the mountains and rivers. Because they are in the shape of goats, they are also very good at rock climbing. Gao Jian has seen those goat mechanical beasts several times, standing almost vertically on the rock wall and walking easily on the cracks in the rocks.

On the contrary, the bull-shaped mechanical beast he was riding, which was specially designed to carry people, could only follow slowly behind and was far inferior to those goats in the mountains.

But it’s not that they can’t keep up. This bull-shaped mechanical beast can actually fly. When the goats crossed a mountain stream a hundred meters away, they jumped directly over it. With one powerful jump, they could reach a full hundred meters, which made Gao Jian’s eyes widen.

It feels like this mechanical beast is not something that ordinary people can sit on.

If it weren't for the fact that every person in the Qiyun Divine Dynasty is a little superman, a person would be killed just by sitting on a mechanical beast. It would be impossible for a true mortal to survive the downward force of that kind of jump.

A giant beast that was estimated to weigh dozens of tons jumped a hundred meters and then landed steadily.

It’s all thanks to the fact that the people of the Divine Dynasty have superhuman physical fitness.

As for his own bull-shaped machine, it just floated over, but it seemed that it could only float, not fly, and its speed was very slow. It took about a minute to float a hundred meters.

This way of traveling was very novel. Gao Jian watched it with great interest and felt as if he was traveling far away for the first time.

Looking at the mountains in the distance, several mechanical beasts have gradually entered the no-man's land, but there are no monsters to provoke them.

Monsters are also intelligent. They can tell at a glance that this kind of team is not easy to deal with, so the monsters will avoid them.

After all, the human race is the most powerful race in the world, and can even be compared with real dragons.

As the most intelligent creatures born with three gates and nine orifices, humans and true dragons are actually on the same level of existence. Although there is a difference in their innate powers, that is merely a difference in characteristics, not an essential difference.

For example, there is an essential difference between humans and monsters. Most monsters do not have complete three gates and nine orifices, and must rely on transformation to complete the three gates and nine orifices.

Mermaids are born with only two gates and six orifices, monkeys are born with only three gates and eight orifices. Some plants, like weeds, are even born with only one gate, the Qi Gate and the Qi Sea orifice. They are born without the other two gates and eight orifices.

Therefore, their path of cultivation is inherently much more difficult.

Insects should be even more miserable, as they generally do not have the divine gate, and many of the lowest-level insects have no connection and no enlightenment, which means that there is no possibility for them to embark on the journey of cultivation at all, unless they have some fortuitous encounter and suddenly become enlightened, making it possible for them to transform.

The three gates and nine orifices are something that people take for granted, but for many creatures, they are something that cannot be obtained even if they ask for it.

Therefore, humans, this "precious medicine", will become the object of pursuit of monsters.

In fact, this precious medicine is not only for humans. Real dragons, phoenixes, unicorns, etc. are all creatures that are born with three gates and nine orifices. Eating them will have the same effect.

It's just that it's quite difficult, so eating humans is the most convenient and most likely way to help yourself transform.

At this moment, Gao Jian heard another voice in his mind, a very envious voice: "Well... you know a lot, and judging from your previous judgment, are you... a smart person?"

The obvious one is cinnabar.

Gao Jian's psychological activities, including the Five Circular Paths, the Eight Straight Paths, his understanding of various mechanical beasts, and even his judgment of what is true and false, can all be directly felt through her heart lake while she is lodging in the Divine Gate, as if Gao Jian is whispering to her.

Dansha is now shocked.

In fact, these days, she has been hiding in Gao Jian's mind, secretly peeking at Gao Jian's thoughts.

She wanted to know what kind of person Gao Jian was and whether he was trustworthy.

Whatever a person thinks will cause ripples in the lake of his heart. If you hide in the gate of the spirit, you can see these ripples and know what a person is thinking at the moment.

Of course, you can only see 'the thoughts at the moment', but not the memories.

However, entering the Divine Gate is not that easy. Generally speaking, except for a few special skills, there is only one way to hide in the Divine Gate, and that is to burn your other souls and leave only the Fetal Light True Spirit.

Only something as 'appearing to be there and yet not there' as the Taiguang True Spirit can safely enter the Divine Gate.

Otherwise, if you force your way through that person's spiritual barrier, it will explode, and all memories and thoughts will burst out. It all depends on how much you can capture in that instant.

This method is called "soul searching". Depending on the different techniques, the number of fragments that can be found will also be different. This is also a subject that requires in-depth research.

Of course, Dansha couldn't search souls, and she didn't have that ability. It was just because her other souls were burned that she lived here, just like a hermit crab.

During this process, she had been observing Gao Jian. After observing him for a few days...

She found that Gao Jian was... very strange.

Generally speaking, smart people have many thoughts, and their psychological fluctuations are particularly frequent. They are thinking about things almost every moment.

Moreover, smart people usually have some bad thoughts.

Smart people know best how to take advantage and how to harm others. Although they may not necessarily do it, they are very clear about how they can get benefits.

but……

No evil thoughts.

Gao Jian almost never had any evil thoughts, except for the occasional fleeting thoughts like "If the running dogs of the Dragon Palace find me, I will kill them" and "Sooner or later I will bring a cart of bread dragons back to kill the water tribes of Baishan River", Dansha discovered that Gao Jian almost never had the thought of harming anyone.

For a person of the second realm who is hunted down by aristocratic families, it is not surprising that he would be in a panic and be suspicious of everything. That is why Dansha deliberately pretended to be like that in the beginning, just to make himself look more scary.

Although she said that she didn't need a reason to believe, Dansha didn't believe it at all. Last time, she was suppressed in Kunlongyuan for hundreds of years because she trusted the dragons in Baishan River.

Besides, Gao Jian didn't come here specifically to save her, but he had no choice but to use her to find a way to survive. She also happened to need Gao Jian as a carrier to help her complete the last leg of the journey and send her back to the East China Sea safely.

Everyone is just taking advantage of each other.

Is this man a saint?

Moreover, the emotions he experienced most often were actually "happiness", "curiosity" and "doubt". He was clearly being hunted at this moment and might be visited by Bai Shanjiang's gang at any time. He might even become a permanent enemy of a long-standing Divine Dynasty family.

But he never thought about these things at all!
Matters concerning the Dragon Palace and the Zuo Family only appear very rarely, and when they do appear, they are rarely associated with the emotion of 'worry'.

This person seems to have no negative emotions.

Who is this person?

He almost never 'doubted' anyone.

For example, in the current situation, it is actually very normal to be suspicious, like suspecting that the fat guy Song is a spy from the aristocratic family, suspecting that there are pursuers behind you, etc.

She had always been careful to keep a distance from Gao Jian, although she couldn't help but speak out several times.

But it was not until now, when Dansha reviewed the situation, that he suddenly realized that in the past few days, Gao Jian had never been afraid or worried that he would be caught up.

Gao Jian actually thought about the route and how to go, such as going through Yue An, changing his identity from Song Da, etc., but these thoughts were very calm, without any negative emotions mixed in.

Have no ill will, treat strangers with complete kindness, and be willing to trust them.

Just like Gao Jian said.

'Belief does not require a reason.'

He really did trust strangers unconditionally, and was willing to "assume" that they were good people from the beginning, without doubting their intentions or speculating whether they had bad intentions.

He really thought so and did so.

If Dansha hadn't seen him get angry with her own eyes, she might have thought that this person was actually easy to get along with.

When he gets angry, it's really... scary.

The man was enveloped in a murderous intent of annihilation, with no mercy or hesitation at all. He did not care about any of his own injuries, and had no fear or retreat. It was as if the instinct of fear had been removed from his body.

Sentient beings have instincts.

Fear, desire to survive, and the feeling of shrinking in the face of a higher-up.

As a true dragon, Dansha knew very well that when she appeared, almost all aquatic creatures, even those with a higher realm than her, would feel fear from the bottom of their hearts.

The same is true for humans. The human voice at the volume level of a conversation is scarier than the roar of a lion. Other animals are twice as likely to run away when they hear the human voice than when they hear the roar of a lion.

This instinct is both the pressure that comes with being the "most powerful of all creatures" and the "stereotype" formed by their long-standing strength.

Forces like the Human Divine Dynasty and the East China Sea Dragon Palace are naturally superior to others. Even the civilians of the Divine Dynasty live a miserable life, which still exerts oppression on these monsters.

But humans are a little special because they are naturally weaker. As one of the most intelligent creatures on earth, although they grow very fast, they still retain a sense of fear when facing powerful enemies. This is a fear ingrained in their bones for the sake of "safety."

Escape is the most effective way to save your life, and fear is the best way to urge escape.

But Gao Jian seemed to have no such instinct at all.

This really surprised Dansha.

What kind of person is this?
You could say he was bad, but he had no ill intentions. It was as if he had grown up in an environment without any danger. He had almost unconditional trust in the outside world. Could such a person grow up? Shouldn't he have been cheated and eaten up by others long ago? Just like me...

Dansha just neglected it once and ended up like this.

Why is Gao Jian still alive? It doesn't make sense.

But if you say he is good, he has a lot of murderous intent. The kind of aura that can even kill everything is not the first time that Dansha has felt it in him.

Strange, so strange.

This person is full of contradictions.

Dansha couldn't see through the other party at all.

So, after thinking it over again and again, Dansha decided to have a good talk with the other party.

So she took the initiative to speak to Gao Jian.

She felt that... based on Gao Jian's current mental state, perhaps... it could be trusted.

Right?
(End of this chapter)