Destiny is ashes

Chapter 217: Earth and Wood Puppet (13)

An Jing called You Ruhui, put a straw raincoat and an anti-evil mask on her, and the group prepared to set off.

Aunt Huai stayed in the recycling hut and said she would make something delicious for everyone when they returned.

Of course it is impossible to go to Chonggang Town on foot.

Tie Shou has a small pickup truck that is probably used for transporting goods. It is well maintained and has a bulletproof deck. It looks like a small armored vehicle, simple and safe.

It wasn't just Huo Qing who could drive. When An Jing sat in the passenger seat, he discovered once again that he also seemed to be able to drive - but he was not familiar with the road, so the driving was still left to Huo Qing.

"The cars in the city can drive themselves, but the roads in the safe zone often change for various reasons, so they still have to be driven manually."

This small pickup truck is naturally also a magical weapon. Huo Qing needs to use the spiritual energy pattern to unlock it and connect it with the magical weapon center before he can drive it.

When starting the car, Huo Qing recalled the past: "In the early years of the Day Tiger Gang, I also drove for Uncle Big Spear and his gang, and my driving skills were quite proficient!"

"You also work part-time as a driver?"

An Jing found it difficult to evaluate this kind of worker who held four jobs for only one salary. Perhaps he was born to be exploited. He shook his head and said, "This is not a good habit. The driver heard a lot of things. No wonder they wanted to silence you."

"By the way, how's the big gun now?"

The Blood Evil Sword and Spear that An Jing fused together, part of its basis was the magical spear.

Although this base only provides an image, and its quality can be improved through An Jing's continuous refinement in the future, and has nothing to do with the original object, he still has some impression of the aggressive gang member.

"died."

Reversing out of the garage, turning the steering wheel, and smoothly driving the pickup truck out of the garbage dump, Huo Qing said calmly, as if talking to a stranger: "When he was sent there, he was already unconscious, half dead, and was nailed to the criminal law wall by the boss. It took seven or eight days for him to die."

"It is said that he embezzled 200,000 or 300,000 good deeds, and a lot of spiritual objects."

"Anyway, it sounds fake, but after all, it's a dead person, and everyone keeps using Uncle Big Gun to settle their accounts."

"The eldest brother was very happy to have such a bad example of oppressing his children and nephews, and so were the other uncles. In addition, with the help of Uncle Tieshou, the eldest brother also gave me a new identity."

"My name is still Huo Qing, but from all the certifications, I am no longer the original me... I have become a clean citizen of Xuanye City."

At this point, Huo Qing couldn't help but laugh: "I've always wanted a city hukou since I was a kid... and I got it so easily."

"The boss just gave it to me casually. I guess he didn't even ask for anything. What the gang let slip through their fingers is enough for me to fight for my whole life."

"An Jing, do you think it's funny?"

An Jing didn't laugh. Huo Qing didn't find it funny either.

"It's a good thing Uncle Big Gun doesn't have any children, otherwise, I don't know how to face that little guy."

Holding the steering wheel tightly and looking straight ahead at the seemingly endless wilderness road, Huo Qing spoke lightly, but An Jing could hear the heaviness of his emotion.

Betrayal and death are common in gangs, but the care and kindness they once showed are also real.

Black and white are never clear, so people always feel resentful.

"Now you have a new beginning."

After a moment of silence, An Jing said, "Try hard to get into a first-class academy, or even a Taoist academy... Since you have changed your fate and embarked on a different path from the past, you should try to go as high as possible."

"Yes." Huo Qing smiled and said firmly: "I will."

An Jing rarely saw the Dust Plain without rain during the day. In the past, when he came to Tianyuan Realm, it was either during heavy rain or at night. Even when it was not, he came and went in a hurry and had no time to see much.

But today, he had time to sit in Huo Qing's car and speed through the wilderness.

Even without rain, the Tianyuan Realm was always covered with dark clouds, but the white light flickered and moved behind the clouds, making the earth clear. Looking at the end of this wilderness road, there was a pine wave in the distance where the pickup truck was speeding.

The layers of trees and the undulating mountains connected together like the most majestic city wall. At the end of the sky, the dark cloud wall slowly rotated, covering all the wilderness outside the mountains and forests.

“Demonic energy and black clouds…” Fu Xie said softly, “God knows how many terrifying demons and evil spirits have been bred in the wilderness of Tianyuan Realm.”

Safe place.

Only after seeing this scene could An Jing understand what the so-called safe zone really meant... A world that had experienced the demonic calamity would become like this, even if it was victorious.

Human beings can only live in this narrow safe zone, and outside the safe zone is a world that was once occupied and has not yet been recovered.

However, in the final analysis, the civilization of the Tianyuan Realm is recovering.

On the way, at the edges of towns on both sides of the road, some monks were controlling some puppets and constructing some fortifications or buildings, apparently expanding new residential areas.

The main bodies of those puppets are gray-black black iron, which looks extremely hard at first glance, but the green wooden structure behind them can be faintly seen from the gaps between those square geometric structures.

The Taoist patterns drawn with just a few strokes on the puppet's surface were flickering with a mysterious halo.

These puppets carry all kinds of building materials, are responsible for digging foundations, and can use equipment to pour concrete. They can do most of the work that workers do and are obviously very efficient.

An Jing specially asked Huo Qing to stop the car. He watched for more than ten minutes and found that under the command of the monks, these puppets had actually built a small defensive structure that took shape.

The efficiency is unbelievably high.

"What kind of puppet is this?"

Not only An Jing, but even You Ruhui looked out of the window curiously. Huo Qing also knew that these two "wilderness people" were curious about the safe zone technology. He had already prepared an introduction and said with a smile: "This is the [Tumu Yankui], one of the most proud creations of the Shouyang Mountain Tiangong Bureau."

The so-called puppet is a mechanical creation made of metal and iron that needs to be controlled by people to move.

The Yan Kui is a creature that does not require human control and has its own ability to move and some intelligence.

Whether it is through the "art of endowing spirits" that the puppet can move on its own, or really creating a core to carry its mind, it is all a puppet.

"Are you interested in this?"

As a local, Huo Qing was naturally familiar with these things. Through his introduction, An Jing had a clear understanding of the existence of Tumu Yankui.

Although it is the most proud creation of the Tiangong Bureau, in fact, the Tumu Yankui first appeared in the Dao Zong period. It serves as a tool for Dao Zong monks to transform the heaven and earth and control all things, allowing countless city giants to rise from the ground.

And just as An Jing saw, the core of Tumu Yankui is [Evergreen Wood].

Evergreen wood is the most common spiritual material An Jing encountered in the Tianyuan Realm. It is not only the raw material for talismans, but also the Yan bones on Nianqin's body, which are also made of evergreen wood.

The original use of this extremely multifunctional spiritual material was not to be used as the raw material for talismans and various elixirs, nor was it to be used to make prosthetic limbs and puppets. Instead, it was used to make puppets that had some self-awareness and could function for a long time.

"Evergreen Wood is actually... so omnipotent?"

When An Jing heard this, he felt it was a bit unbelievable, but Huo Qing didn't care: "That is a creation left over from the ancient Daoist era!"

"According to legend, the origin of the Evergreen Wood is most likely the [Sky-Bearing Jianmu]!"

(End of this chapter)