Yefutidaolu

Chapter 82: Dead Silence

On the calm water, Gao Jian was talking face to face with a mermaid.

"Go to my house?" The mermaid pointed at herself and said, "But... I still have to herd fish."

"It's okay, I'll wait for you." Gao Jian said.

"Well...my home is actually very far away..."

"This lake is only about 800 miles long. It can't be that far, right?"

"Well, actually my house is very poor..."

"Don't worry, I won't stay overnight."

"Well, well... uh, that..." Simeng's mother wagged her tail and thought hard about what else to say.

"Are you using human money? Do you want this?" Gao Jian took out a gold coin and said, "This one, at the current market price... even in a place like this, can buy quite a few cows."

"Welcome, welcome! Welcome!" The mermaid snatched the money, wagged its tail happily, and looked at Gao Jian: "When are we leaving?"

Gao Jian smiled.

How should I put it... The mermaids have so many emotions, their voices vary greatly, and they are easily revealed, so it's quite interesting.

"Let's do it at night. Don't you want to herd fish? I'll wait for you here. You can just come to me in the evening." Gao Jian said.

"Huh? Aren't you afraid that I will take the money and run away?" Simeng's mother was very surprised.

"Can you?" Gao Jian asked back.

"Hmm...will it be possible?" Simengniang seemed to be in some kind of dilemma.

Gao Jian ignored all that and continued to lie on the water to relieve the pain caused by Shen Yun.

With his eyes closed, he began to think about the god of plague and the dragon.

As for Simeng Niang?
Just like how he treated Bai Ping, Lao Niu, and those hard-working people.

Gao Jian always thinks positively about people.

As for whether the other party is really a bad guy?

Haha, Gao Jian’s attitude towards bad guys is very straightforward. He usually only has one method and he doesn’t worry about it.

Gao Jian has had this kind of personality since he was a child, and has been criticized many times.

As for Simeng Niang, she held the coin in both hands, feeling its weight.

She actually didn't know the value of this thing.

But, this is money! This kind of human money is very precious!

For some reason, although she had never come into contact with this kind of currency, she had this awareness in her mind, as if she had come into contact with it before.

She could even recall that the Divine Dynasty's currency was essentially a reflection of the Divine Dynasty's "national destiny". Apart from its function as currency, the coin itself was already a treasure with a fixed value.

If you gather a lot of coins and make yourself very rich, it is equivalent to having the divine dynasty's national destiny protecting you, and you can show invisible "golden light" to the outside world. It is usually invisible, but you can see it with the art of looking at qi.

This is called 'wealth'.

Being wealthy can prolong your life, improve your luck, and even have a certain protective effect. As the saying goes, "Spend money to avoid disaster", which means avoiding misfortune by wasting wealth.

The man casually gave himself one.

He wouldn’t be... very rich, would he?
Then wouldn't I be rich?! If any of the money slipped through his fingers, I would make a fortune!
As expected, that’s what they say, humans are all so powerful!
Magical weapons are powerful, shipbuilding is powerful, and money is powerful.

Simengniang turned around in the water and happily held the gold coins. Because she had no place on her body to put the things, she could only take them in her hands, hold them tightly, and then make an inaudible "call".

The water waves were also shaken by her call, and as she screamed, the fish below quickly swam towards her.

Let’s raise fish first.

Gao Jian closed his eyes to relieve the shock caused by Shen Yun in his heart.

It is called relaxation, but in fact it is just relaxation, taking a nap, thinking about random things, learning Shen Yun, and doing this to give yourself a sense of security.

Under normal circumstances, Gao Jian would never be hit by an ordinary mermaid, and it is even more impossible for him to almost kill the other person with his sword because of the collision.

The reason why he reacted so strongly was because the previous Shen Yun had already left a huge impression in his mind.

The atmosphere of a battlefield, the dragon body that was several miles long, the Nuo mask of the god surrounded by thousands of gods, and the lake water dyed black by the plague.

It wasn't just a little bit, but the entire lake turned into a pitch-black darkness that could block one's perception.

Such darkness still surrounds the Baishanjiang Dragon Palace even now.

If the location of the battlefield could be found, Gao Jian felt that with his knowledge, he might be able to find out many of the true abilities of the Zuo Family and Baishanjiang Dragon Palace.

This is a huge harvest.

But we’ll talk about that later, now just soak in it for a while.

Gao Jian spent the afternoon learning the third level of the charm of the Xuanhua Tongmen Dadao Song in his mind.

When he got tired of studying, he would just lie down on the water and sleep.

When he woke up and opened his eyes, the sky was full of stars.

The stars in the sky are extremely bright, and are reflected on the vast water surface, like a galaxy falling into the sea and merging into one.

Amidst such a beautiful scenery, a beautiful mermaid was floating beside him, staring at him motionlessly, as if waiting, or watching.

"Ah, you're here? Are you done with fish herding?" Gao Jian turned his head and saw another head next to his own. Most of the other person's body was underwater, with only half of the head exposed above the water. His eyes were fixed on Gao Jian, and his lips under the water were gurgling with bubbles.

"It's over a long time ago. You slept for so long. I've been waiting for you for more than two hours. It's almost midnight. Look, the moon has risen so high!" Simeng's mother floated up from the water, gesturing the distance to the sky with her hands.

"Let's go then." Gao Jian said.

"Okay! Then I won't give it back to you!" Simeng's mother immediately grabbed Gao Jian's hand and dragged him to swim on the surface of the water: "By the way, my home is underwater, can you hold your breath? You will swim faster in the water."

"I have this, just go in the water." Gao Jian put on the water-repellent beads, and the water around him automatically slid away from him.

"Wow, water-repellent beads! This stuff is so expensive! I see those pearl oysters, there are millions of ponds, and it takes three or four years to produce one water-repellent bead!" Simeng's eyes widened, and her expression was shocked.

There are several thousand pearl oysters in a pearl pond, which produce pearls once a year. There are millions of ponds around the entire lake. Among almost tens of billions of pearls, one is a water-repellent pearl.

Of course, in addition to water-repellent beads, there are other pearls, such as night-shining pearls, wish-fulfilling pearls, emerald pearls, etc., but the probability of their birth is very small, usually taking two to three years or even four to five years to produce one.

how to say……

It seems like I really met a rich man.

Simengniang excitedly grabbed Gao Jian's hand, dived into the water in a flash, and then pulled Gao Jian through the water quickly.

On Gao Jian's side, he felt an inexplicable sense of pleasure when he saw the mermaid's expression and voice.

The other party's feedback was really sufficient, with full emotional value. He could jump very high when poked, and there was no sense of artificiality. It was a completely natural surprise.

Perhaps humans and mermaids would get along very well.

On the other side, it was very dark underwater, but the mermaid did not seem to rely on her eyes. She chanted softly, and the sound echoed underwater, pointing the way for her.

Soon, she took Gao Jian's hand and came to a cliff in the water.

The mermaids dug holes in the cliffs above the water and lived in them.

This can avoid attacks from other large monsters to a certain extent. After all, there is a food chain in the water. The Dragon Palace will not pay attention to these. After all, they are at the top of the food chain.

In fact, mermaids are also part of the food chain. They also raise and prey on other fish. So it is natural for them to be hunted by other fish monsters.

This is a mermaid settlement, or you could say a city. There are probably several hundred mermaids gathered here, so it's not a small scale.

The number of mermaids is much smaller than that of humans.

This also indirectly proves another point. The Dragon Palace used thousands of mermaids to train singing girls, and then crippled more than 900 of them, leaving only one. What a luxurious act it was, it's no exaggeration to say that it was an eradication.

If this is the case, it is likely that there will not be many mermaids who can practice seriously for several generations.

Their current method of practice is entirely aimed at turning themselves into tools.

"We're here. This is my home." Gao Jian took Simengniang to one of the caves.

There was no one in the cave, no locks or anything like that, not even any furniture.

There was no table, but there was a bed, but this bed was carved directly out of the ground.

Chisel away the rest, leaving a high platform similar to a 'bed', and that's it.

Other than that, there's nothing here.

No family either.

"You're quite simple," Gao Jian commented.

Simeng's mother puffed out her chest proudly: "Fish herder, all you need is a whistle and a group of fish~, nothing else is needed~, by the way, what are you doing in my house?"

"I just came to look around to see if there is any source of the plague. By the way, where are your parents?"

"He died a long time ago. I'm already this old now." Simeng's mother said casually.

Gao Jian didn't reply, but began to look around.

There was little light around, it was very dark, but finding the plague did not rely on these senses.

I have some knowledge of the art of qigong.

Open your eyes and hold the rusty knife.

The blade of the rusty knife began to rust slowly.

At the same time, Gao Jian's heart was completely clear, without the slightest fluctuation.

He was looking for the plague.

Plague is a kind of energy of heaven and earth, just as the God of Plague is a god of heaven.

Darkness cannot block the trace of the "Qi of Heaven and Earth". It is not light, nor is it a smell, but a special "mark" that transcends the five senses.

Similar to Shen Yun.

The so-called 'spirit of heaven and earth' can even be understood as a person's 'charm'.

The moves have charm, the skills have charm, a knife has charm, a painting has charm, a book has charm, and of course a person can have charm as well.

This means that you can know a person by looking at his aura.

The heaven and the earth also have their own aura, and plague is one of them. If we regard the heaven and the earth as a thing and understand it as a person, then these auras are the charm of the heaven and the earth.

If you understand these, you will be able to understand the situation of heaven and earth.

But these are just talk. Gao Jian has never wasted the sharpness of his rusty knife to do such a thing.

Because there is no need, every inch of the blade is very precious. Gao Jian also wants to use it to learn the third level of the Xuanhua Tongmen Da Dao Song after accumulating enough.

The reason why it is unnecessary is because... after the gods left, the energy of heaven and earth had long stopped flowing, so there was no point in looking at it at all.

In this world, there is no wind, no rain, no snow, and no thunder.

If these can be used to, another thing is even more terrifying.

The world today doesn't even have four seasons.

Yes, although it is 'autumn', these four seasons, like wind and rain, are artificially controlled and only exist within the borders of the Divine Dynasty.

Today, this lake is outside the national border, so... there are no four seasons.

The Qiyun Dynasty had a huge altar called the 'Temple of Heaven'. After each season, a human ceremony was required, using methods similar to Nuo masks, to pretend to be gods, and then turn the wheel of the four seasons to make the weather in the Divine Dynasty move towards the next season.

If this were not the case, the season would continue forever.

As for those outside the Divine Dynasty? Well, they have to rely on themselves.

Moreover, the land has stopped "creeping". Under normal circumstances, the land will move, new mountains may rise, earthquakes may occur, and continents may drift. In Gao Jian's words, this is called "plate movement."

And now, the weather, the seasons, and the movement of plates have all stopped.

Therefore, this feeling of extinction becomes clearer and more impossible to ignore.

The world was dead silent.

After the gods left, everything came to a standstill and everything had to rely on human power to operate.

Rain requires prayers, the four seasons require the Temple of Heaven, and the same is true for everything.

Therefore, it is completely unnecessary to purify the mind and then feel the energy of heaven and earth. It is just a waste of the blade of a rusty knife.

Gao Jian used to think so.

The reason for doing this now is because Zuo Lang has fought here.

Zuo Lang transformed himself into the God of Plague among the gods, manipulating the plague to fight. The world today would not automatically digest the plague, so there must be traces left.

Gao Jian, want to see through the true ability of the Zuo family!
But when he actually did that, he felt something that simply grabbed his throat.

Gao Jian couldn't breathe.

Because... this world doesn't breathe either.

After the gods left, did the heaven and earth really die?
All natural processes came to a standstill.

The impact of this feeling of suffocation was even greater than the charm left over from the previous battle. Although it was not as intense or destructive, but... that feeling of suffocation weighed heavily on Gao Jian's heart.

Desolation, deathly silence.

What is dead silence?
Thousands of streams have dried up, withered grass and broken reeds, frost covers the roads, insects chirp in the abandoned fields, rubble piles up, and skin is wrinkled due to old age?
No, these are actually manifestations of vitality.

This shows that something still exists.

The real dead silence is... nothingness.

Although it seemed as if there were still things, the earth was empty, the sky was empty, and the huge lake in front of us was actually empty.

They are all empty shells.

What adjective would you use to describe a person as an 'empty shell'?
Generally speaking, people use the word 'atheism'.

His eyes were dull and there was no highlight.

This world is also 'Godless'.

Everything is an empty shell, having lost its verve and no longer possessing any life.

There is no great destructive power, it's just that the whole world has fallen into a faint sense of death.

Silent, faint, destructive...

Everything is heading towards its inevitable end, because the gods no longer favor this world.

but……

Gao Jian covered his forehead with his hands, and forced himself to break away from this meaningless feeling of desolation.

Regardless of anything else, humans have now driven the four seasons and taken over the weather!
This world can continue to survive, relying on human power!
In that case, don't let this atmosphere strangle you.

He didn't come here to feel the atmosphere, he wanted to see clearly Zuo Lang's evil aura and methods!
(End of this chapter)