The End of the Extreme Dao: I Planted a Sacred Tree and Gained Immortality

Chapter 15 Rally
Hou Ping shrugged his nose vigorously.

"The smell of corpses has faded."

Hou Ping looked Huo Ying up and down for a while: "The smell of the corpse ghost will not dissipate for no reason, unless the marked person dies in advance, or the corpse ghost is dispersed."

"The Corpse Ghost came looking for you last night, and you still won?"

Hou Ping stood up with a look of surprise on his face.

"Are you infected too?"

"No, I don't smell any infection on you."

Huo Ying did not respond, but took off the poplar wood he had specially carried on his back.

There are three pieces of poplar wood, each one is thick and long, and of top quality.

"You want to ask me something else?"

Hou Ping was a little surprised, but did not refuse. Instead, he looked at Huo Ying with curiosity.

"I want to learn archery."

Huo Ying came straight to the point.

Hou Ping smiled bitterly, "Let's change the requirement. If you want to master archery, even if you have talent, it will take a year. If you don't have a good feel for it, you won't be able to shoot at a moving target in three years."

"Besides, even if you have talent, I don't have the time to teach you for a year."

Huo Ying was not disappointed. He had expected this result a long time ago. The reason he asked was because of what would happen next.

"I don't need to be as strong as you, and my arrows don't need to be as powerful as yours. Neither of those will work. A crossbow will do."

"The crossbow is easy to use but complicated to make." Hou Ping stretched out his hand and motioned Huo Ying to throw him a piece of firewood.

Huo Ying didn't hesitate and immediately took out one.

"I don't know how to make a crossbow." Hou Ping took the firewood and continued, "Crossbows are controlled items. I have never studied crossbows, but if you can accept the low lethality, I can tell you a piece of news."

"I've seen people in town holding fish bows. They're homemade, similar to crossbows, but much less powerful than crossbows. Shooting people is different from shooting fish. For people, or for zombies, the killing power of a fish bow may be less than ten meters."

"If you just want a long-range self-defense weapon, you can ask him to exchange it for a fishing bow."

"How can I find him?"

Hou Ping stretched out his hand again, indicating that another piece of wood was needed.

After taking the wooden board, Hou Ping seemed a little embarrassed: "How come you don't know anything? In our town, every time the courier leaves, we will spontaneously hold a gathering, and everyone will trade the things they don't need or the things the courier doesn't accept."

"The courier just left yesterday. After everyone finishes sorting out the items today, the transaction will take place tomorrow. The location is the school playground. If anyone wants to trade something, just go to the playground and wait at noon tomorrow."

The stutterer squatted aside and listened. When he saw Huo Ying frowning, he suddenly tilted his head and said, "Brother, brother, what's wrong with you? You don't even know where the playground is, do you?"

Hou Ping also stared at Huo Ying in surprise. The little stutterer knew Huo Ying. It was obvious that Huo Ying was from the town, but how could Huo Ying remember nothing about the market and the playground, which were things that everyone knew about.

The little stutterer suddenly laughed: "Big brother, yes, have you become stupid?"

Hou Ping coughed and interrupted the stuttering: "Forget it, I'll give you a message." Hou Ping took out an iron arrow and drew a mark on the ground: "We are now on a low mountain. After going down the mountain, go straight and enter the town, you will see the abandoned factory building of Azure Gene. Don't get close to it, there are too many shadows there. Find the main entrance of the factory, and then walk in the opposite direction of the main entrance. Keep walking until you reach the end of the road, and you will see a low building surrounded by a fence."

"That's the school's teaching building. Don't get close to it. Go around the fence and around the teaching building. You will reach the playground."

"This is the flattest place in town, and there are no buildings blocking the view. As long as the sun is in the sky, there is no shadow on the playground, so everyone always chooses to trade here."

"Do you have anything else you want to ask?" Hou Ping saw that Huo Ying still had a piece of firewood and didn't want it to end like this.

Huo Ying's gaze fell on the little stutterer. Last time, the little stutterer said that Hou Ping would not take advantage of others, and today he saw it.

Obviously, Hou Ping could exchange the address of the playground for a piece of firewood, but this information was too simple for the people in the town. Hou Ping didn't want to take advantage of this, so he told Huo Ying for free.

If you don’t take advantage of small things, what about big things?

Huo Ying carried the firewood back on his back and said, "I want a crossbow. If you give me two pieces of information, you will have made a fortune."

Hou Ping touched his nose awkwardly. The profits from the two problems and two pieces of wood were indeed a bit huge, but this was not a small bargain. He earned it through his own ability.

"I thought you had a lot of firewood." Hou Ping smiled awkwardly and stopped staring at Huo Ying's wood. There were fewer and fewer poplar trees in the town and they were becoming increasingly difficult to find. It was estimated that this was what Huo Ying had stockpiled before. Judging from Huo Ying's angry look, there must be little stock left.

Huo Ying turned around, leaving his back to the two men, his heart pounding, ready to activate his wooden armor at any time. This time on the hill, Huo Ying had already made the worst-case scenario plan, speculating on the possibility that Hou Ping would kill someone and rob him.

Fortunately, the wooden spikes and simple crossbows prepared by Huo Ying were not used. Hou Ping and Xiao Jieba just watched Huo Ying leave without any extra actions.

No Yang stones were collected today. It was noon and there was no shadow at the foot of the hill. Huo Ying used the remaining time to fill the water tank on the roof, and then hid in the house to think about tomorrow's trading items.

First of all, poplar trees are definitely the most valuable in the town.

But if you use poplar wood again and again, you may be targeted.

The second is the water source. If there are no poplar trees, how can the water be filtered?

But Huo Ying was not prepared to exchange it for water.

Thinking that the water Zhang Yuqi gave him was in a plastic bottle, Huo Ying suspected that someone in the town had asked the courier to exchange it. At this time, the courier had just left and everyone might have water in their hands.

"XN City is a city, and there will be even fewer poplar trees. Plus, poplar trees are inconvenient to carry. Really, we're stuck in a dead end." Huo Ying studied it for a long time. He had too few vegetables in his house, and he couldn't afford potatoes. Since there were couriers, everyone would definitely exchange vegetables.

In the end, Huo Ying had no choice but to use Wood Release to make two wooden sticks similar to the ones Zhang Yuqi gave him.

"One piece of good wood and two pieces of ordinary wood. This way, no one will notice it. If Hou Ping sees it, he will also think that he has used up all the good wood."

Tonight, the corpse ghost did not come to disturb him, and Huo Ying slept well.

Carrying the prepared firewood, wearing a wooden weight, and hiding a crossbow in his clothes, Huo Ying ate and drank his fill, and then went to the location told by Hou Ping.

The Blue Gene Factory is easy to find. Just walk along the road on the low hill and you will soon see a huge billboard. This billboard should be the tallest building in the town.

Going further ahead is the factory area. There is a high wall outside the factory, and you can't see what's inside at all. The main door of the factory is a gate, which is tightly locked without even a crack.

Just passing by the factory area, Huo Ying felt that it was dark all around him. He even heard something suddenly sticking to the wall, as if it was sensing whether he was approaching.

"It's really weird." Huo Ying left in a hurry and looked in the opposite direction of the gate.

(End of this chapter)