Chapter Fifty-Three Thirty Thousand Miles Westward
Watching the fairy turn into a stream of light and gradually go away, Zhou Tai lowered his head and looked at the direction compass in his hand: it was simple and compact, with an almost transparent crystal covering it. Under the crystal was a pointer, which was pointing at the fairy as he left.
direction.
That direction seems to be the west, is she on the way?
I held the compass in my hand and smelled it. There was no other smell at all. It seemed that it was not a personal item, but most likely a mass-produced ordinary product.
Then he lowered his head and began to mentally calculate the distance of 30,000 miles. How many miles would it take to reach the destination in two months? Divide 30,000 by sixty, five hundred? Five hundred miles.
Traveling at a speed of 36 kilometers per hour, you have to run for at least seven hours a day!
And it can’t be a straight line. There will always be some detours, so the route will be longer. To be more conservative, I run at least six hundred miles a day. At the same speed of 36 kilometers per hour, I have to run nearly eight and a half miles a day.
Hour!
Now comes the question! Will my legs be disabled if I rush like this?
Thirty thousand miles to the west! It feels the same as if the Bodhisattva asked you to fetch Buddhist scriptures! But there are no nine or eighty-one difficulties. If necessary, just go through the three difficulties in two days, otherwise there will be no time at all.
As a normal adult, it is impossible to believe what others say, otherwise there would be no such words as lies, deception, etc. in the world.
Especially after being deceived by Mr. Sun once, I am even more cautious.
If this fairy was lying to him, then these 30,000 miles were just a fool's errand.
Even if it is true, if something goes wrong on the road, the time is delayed, and the date is missed, the trip will be in vain.
No matter how you look at it, this matter is likely to fail.
But can you give up? No!
People living in a group cannot survive alone. They always have to bet many times. For example, bet that other people's words are not deceiving themselves, but that they are willing to believe them.
This is true in some matters, and also in some emotions. Some people have lost their bets, or even lost their lives, but if there is a chance to do it again, they will still gamble.
It's just that people with good control gamble little, while some people with poor control like to gamble everything, just like they give everything in a relationship.
People who give everything they have are neither stupid nor stupid, some are worthy, some are not worthy, but they still fly into the fire. This is the persistence in life that is both praised and despised.
Some people and some things are inevitable.
Regarding Zhou Tai, cultivating immortality has been his obsession in this life. Not to mention that this matter is very likely to be true, even if there is only a 1% chance, he will make it for the 30,000 miles.
Consider both sides of everything. If this thing is fake and you are really deceived by such a good-looking fairy, then you will have more ambitions and may have a few more small goals for the rest of your life.
I have no ambitions or extravagant hopes, but it would be too much to bully others!
It's okay to be lost among all living beings and do nothing. If you are lucky enough to stand up, kill if you can. If you are defeated, it will be difficult for heroes to be beautiful. You are not a hero, how can you get through it?
If a fairy dares to walk a silly boy, the fairy will stab him. If the sky suppresses a person, the sky can also overturn him.
If you finally find out that you have been cheated, and you are angry, you will feel much better if you think about it in your mind.
Of course, if this last thing is true and you succeed in cultivating immortality in the future, then you owe that fairy a huge debt of gratitude.
That's how clear love and hate are.
Love so much!
Another gust of wind blew by and the hanging basket swayed. Zhou Tai, who was immersed in his own thoughts, suddenly came back to his senses.
Only then did he realize that he was still floating in mid-air.
The encounter with the fairy happened so suddenly that it could be said that he had never expected it. It was not a dimensionality reduction blow, but it also made Zhou Tai feel a little dazed at the moment.
I took a look at the scenery outside the hot air balloon and saw that the flying height was not very high. It must have been that the hot air balloon was descending while I was distracted.
All of this was realized instantly after I regained consciousness. After a while, I confirmed that the hot air balloon was slowly landing, and I breathed a sigh of relief.
It's strange to say that before, my life was floating in the air and it was precarious. I felt that this was a life-threatening matter and it was very urgent. But now I seem much calmer.
It's not because the hot air balloon is slowly descending at this moment, even if it's still floating randomly high in the sky, it's because most of what I'm thinking about has drifted thirty thousand miles away.
Just like someone talking on the phone on a very high glass trestle, as long as the phone call is focused enough, you can walk on any dangerous road. If you go directly to such a very high trestle, then your legs will probably be shaking and you won't be able to walk.
step.
It seems that once something big happens, things that were important before may suddenly become less important.
When I can't reach the sky or reach the ground, although all kinds of thoughts are racing in my heart, all I can do is wait.
I slowly regained my composure, but the decision I made will not change. I must run these 30,000 miles.
There is no way. I want to find a way, which is full of countless dangers and unknowns. At this moment, there is a road in front of me. Although this road is a bit long and may be very physically demanding, the result will be known when I reach the end.
After what seemed like a long time, and what seemed like a short while, the hot air balloon finally landed a few feet above the ground. According to the falling speed at this time, it might land on the ground in a few seconds.
But Zhou Tai couldn't wait any longer and quickly retracted all the strengthening points on the hot air balloon. Then he jumped directly from the hot air balloon. Every second at this moment was precious.
After Zhou Tai landed, he quickly ran towards the valley where he had previously experimented with hot air balloons.
The support material of the hot air balloon behind him lost its reinforcement point. After landing, it collapsed directly, kicking up dust on the ground.
Although I had the intention to run west immediately, I was unprepared and various situations may arise along the way. Some completely avoidable situations may turn into a life-threatening abyss.
On the way back to the valley, I added strengthening points to the sachet on my body. I strengthened it four times and prepared the space equipment first.
It flew a bit far, and it took me a long time to run back to the valley. Then, just like the autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves, all the pots, pans, grains, water tanks and other things were swept away. The whole process took less than three minutes.
Not everything was empty. Zhou Tai didn't take the remaining materials for making hot-air balloons and threw them away.
Now my hot air balloon technology is not yet mature. Even if it can barely fly, it doesn't have much advantage in speed, and I don't have much time to perfect it, so I might as well throw it away.
In fact, there is not enough space to store these materials, but Zhou Tai no longer wants to do it. The fairy said that this is a trail. Although it may not be completely correct, because the other party has never seen science developed to a certain extent.
But Zhou Tai couldn't possibly spend the rest of his life researching any technology. A perfect hot air balloon might be a lot more convenient, but when compared to the fairy flying with a sword before, the gap in his heart instantly became infinite.
In front of a group of mortals, I can fly, no matter how I fly. I fly in the air, and you can only watch from the ground. No matter how many people there are, it is useless. The crowd can only look up.
Sitting in a hot air balloon and flying over countless mountains and rivers, passing countless cities, I am flying, and a group of people below can only watch or chase me. This is a kind of feeling.
But if you are flying in a hot air balloon, and someone is flying with a sword under the same sky, the sense of contrast will change instantly, and it will no longer taste good at all.
If you don’t bring the materials, you have to completely stop thinking about hot air balloon research. After all, a person’s energy is limited.
A change in a person's mind may only require the stimulation of a small thing. When I was a child, I saw a cultivator flying in the sky. The result was a yearning for cultivating immortals. Meeting a fairy wielding a sword face to face in the air resulted in envy for wielding a sword.
flight.
Just like when you see someone using a bow and arrow, you want to have a bow and arrow yourself, and you try to make one yourself, but when you are almost done, you see someone else using a gun.
It’s not that I didn’t think of it before, but sometimes there is a big gap between simple assumptions and what I see with my own eyes.
After bringing his things, Zhou Tai started to rush in the direction indicated by the compass. It was already afternoon today. Zhou Tai's goal was to drive at least 600 miles today. Only by completing the goal every day, or even exceeding the goal, can he be the safest.
goal achieved.
All the way to the west, rain or shine.
After running, I didn’t feel that it was too taxing on my legs, but the shoes were really expensive.
Although he drove for a long time every day and did not feel any discomfort in his legs and feet, Zhou Tai still made himself a pair of leggings. According to the memory of his previous life, he knew that this thing was good for traveling long distances, so he got one.
Whenever I pass by a city, I will go in and simply replenish a wave of supplies to prevent the situation from being uninhabited for thousands of miles and take precautions in the bud.
I also bought a lot of shoes, because there is no such wear-resistant rubber material as soles in this world. As a result, a pair of shoes will wear out in a few days, so I have to buy more shoes, because Zhou Tai does not have the habit of running barefoot, which is too much.
Feet.
I don’t want to spend so much money on shoes. It might be better to walk, but I won’t be able to reach my daily mileage goal by walking, so I can only take long strides.
He doesn’t always run. Even if he feels okay, he is still afraid of the consequences of running away. If there is a horse market in the city he passes by, Zhou Tai will buy a horse and go on the road.
Can you ride? No, but a person who is anxious can't do anything, let alone riding a horse. A few falls will be enough, but as a person with good cultivation, is Zhou Tai afraid of falling?
Nothing happened when I hurried on my feet, but the skin on my inner thighs was scratched while riding a horse.
In fact, it is best to just run the horse to death and put the meat in the space equipment. You can keep it and eat it yourself or sell it. This is the best way to maximize the value of the horse.
But after all, he is a mortal, and he is still not ruthless enough. Whenever he feels that the horse is almost running, Zhou Tai releases the horse, gives it freedom, and then continues running on his own.
We also encountered all kinds of bad weather on the way, but we were able to overcome it. The only time we were delayed for more than a day was when we encountered a big river. There was no bridge or boat, so we had no choice but to walk along the river. Finally, we walked
It took almost a day before we saw the ship.
After learning this lesson, Zhou Tai specially built a small boat and put it in the space equipment to prevent encountering such a situation in the future.
I rushed to the end and felt numb. I was not sure how far I had run, so I ran towards the west where the compass was. I kept running as long as the date had not arrived and I would never give up until the end.