Chapter 005: A mountain without forests is like a beautiful woman going bald
On the way down the mountain, Heizhu kept touching the wooden armor on his body curiously.
This thing seemed a little funny when worn on him. It was shaped like a watermelon with the upper half cut off.
But the defense is not low. Lu Sen tried it just now. He put the wooden armor on the ground and smashed it with stones, and chopped it with a wooden axe for a long time, but the durability was not reduced to half.
The protection is quite good.
And in Lu Sen's eyes, its attributes are like this.
Wooden Armor (LV0): Durability 100.
Effect: Before the durability of the wooden armor is consumed, the wearer will not suffer any direct damage.
So he got two sets, one for Heizhu and one for himself.
Unlike Heizhu, Lu Sen has the function of 'skin'.
After putting on wooden armor in the equipment bar, you can choose to only display the 'clothing', and the wooden armor will not be visible to others. This is actually the so-called 'transformation' system.
So Heizhu was wearing wooden armor and looked a bit weird, while Lu Sen was wearing long flowing clothes and looked quite handsome and elegant. Unfortunately, his short hair slightly affected his temperament.
The two men went down the mountain and headed straight for the north of the city.
There were no large quarries near the city of Bianjing, and most of the stones used to build the city were brought from surrounding cities.
After all, the waterways in Bianjing City were very convenient and the cost of water transportation was low, making it easier to transport stones.
Although there is no large quarry, there is a rocky beach in the north of the city near the Yellow River.
The stones there are loose and broken, with few large pieces, and are not suitable for quarrying operations.
But for Lu Sen, that was enough.
He just collected some stones to build the foundation and didn't plan to do any big project.
It took about an hour to walk around the city wall to the north and finally reach the rocky beach that Heizhu mentioned.
There is no one living here.
To be precise, this should be a yellow mud beach. The Yellow River occasionally floods, submerging this place and carrying away a large amount of sand and gravel on the surface, leaving behind a small amount of yellow mud, and then heavier stones are also left behind, which is how the rocky beach came into being.
This kind of stone that has been soaked in water for a long time has a relatively loose texture and is generally not used as a building material.
But Lu Sen didn’t care... Under the power of the golden finger, any stone could be refined into the best building blocks.
He made a few wooden pickaxes, threw one to Heizhu, and the two of them started digging.
But at this moment, the sound of blacksmithing suddenly came from the distance, and it was quite dense.
Then the sound of iron hammering became closer and closer, and the speed was very fast. Just when Lu Sen was puzzled, he suddenly saw six people jumping out from the blind corner of his vision.
The six people fought in a group, and Tengna jumped several feet high.
At the same time, the sword light and the knife light formed bright afterimages.
The tinkling sound came from the six of them.
When Lu Sen was surprised, six people had already flown above their heads.
Suddenly two black lights attacked.
Ding ding twice.
Lu Sen and Hei Zhu both leaned back slightly, and both of them were hit in the middle of their eyebrows by the black light, which then bounced to the side.
"Stop, don't hurt innocent people."
The man in red among the six shouted, and the sword light in his hand suddenly increased by several inches, forcing back the five people around him, then jumped out of the encirclement and flew away.
The other five quickly caught up.
"My dear, are you okay?"
Hei Zhu stumbled over to Lu Sen and asked in panic.
"It's okay." Lu Sen touched his forehead.
No injuries.
But the feeling of being hit by a sharp object just now was extremely clear and deep.
He walked to the pile of rocks next to him, and the black light that had hit him just now was bounced here.
After searching for a while, he found a black willow-leaf dart half-inserted into the stone, with a green mark on the tip.
Is this poison?
Lu Sen's originally calm expression turned a little cold.
He took the willow leaf dart down, looked at it for a while, and then threw it aside.
"My dear, we have run into a fight between knights. Why don't we leave first?"
"If I leave, wouldn't it be a waste of time? Let's dig some stones first and then go back." Lu Sen looked at his equipment column, which still had 95% durability of wooden armor, and then slowly asked: "Are these so-called chivalrous men in the martial arts world so inconsiderate of others when they fight?"
"I heard that they don't care much, but if someone is really hurt, maybe they will come to compensate you afterwards?"
"Maybe? Pay compensation?" Lu Sen narrowed his eyes slightly.
"The compensation is quite a lot, enough to cover the expenses of ordinary people for several years. So poor families don't care much, after all, they have many children and can afford to die. The most important thing is that they can't ask those knights for justice." Hei Zhu's voice was a little low, and then he touched his forehead: "My dear, I was clearly hit in the middle of my eyebrows by the knight's dart just now, but I'm fine. It must be your fairy armor that worked."
"Just know it, don't tell anyone." Lu Sen suppressed his anger and said kindly, "Go dig some stones."
"okay."
Heizhu was a hard-working man, and he immediately started waving the manuscript quickly.
Lu Sen made two wooden swords on the side, and then after Hei Zhu dug out the stones, he immediately made two stone armors.
Stone Armor (LV0): Durability 500.
Effect: The wearer will not suffer any direct damage until the durability is consumed.
Lu Sen directly put on the stone armor himself, and then handed another set of stone armor to Hei Zhu.
Heizhu happily changed his wooden armor and put on stone armor.
But within a few breaths, he looked miserable: "My dear, this stone armor is so heavy. I feel so uncomfortable."
Lu Sen sighed. He had an equipment slot, but there was no weight limit, so he said, "Then you should put on wooden armor."
After putting on light wooden armor, Heizhu finally felt relaxed and continued to dig stones.
Lu Sen put the second stone armor into the system backpack, and then used stones and sticks to make a more convenient stone pickaxe.
With the stone pickaxe, it used to take five swings to dig out a stone, but now it only takes four swings.
And most importantly, the base durability of a stone pickaxe is 30, which is three times that of a wooden pickaxe.
This saves a lot of time in the operation.
After more than two hours, there were more than 8,000 units of stone in Lu Sen’s system backpack.
"That's probably enough."
You just need to build a foundation, you don't need many stones.
When he was about to go back, he suddenly saw a red shadow flipping down from the air and landing in front of the two of them.
Lu Sen shook his right hand, and a long light golden stone sword appeared in his hand. This was the sword he had taken time to synthesize.
The person coming from the opposite side was a very handsome young man with thick eyebrows, big eyes, and a righteous face, which made people feel good about him at first sight.
He was wearing a bright red straight-sawed official uniform and a black official hat with two red tassels hanging from the sides of his ears and landing on his shoulders.
She has a slender, upright and beautiful figure.
When he saw Lu Sen, he bent down, held his sword and clasped his fists: "Friend, I'm sorry for what happened just now. Fortunately, I didn't hurt you. I'm really sorry for this."
"Are those people in the same group with you?" Lu Sen asked calmly, holding the stone sword.
"No, I even have some grudges against those five people." The handsome man in red official uniform smiled bitterly.
"Then why are you here to apologize?" Lu Sen looked at the other person strangely.
"Because I was surrounded, I thought of escaping from this side, but I didn't expect there were people here." The man in red official uniform smiled helplessly.
Generally, no one comes here.
Lu Sen understood what the other party meant. He put away the stone sword and said with a smile: "You are a good person, how to call me."
"I am Zhan Zhao, the chief constable of Kaifeng Prefecture." The man smiled brightly.
"Are you Uncle Zhan, the Southern Hero?" Heizhu suddenly shouted from the side.
Zhan Zhao clasped his fists towards Hei Zhu and smiled, "Friends in the martial arts world, I just want to give you some respect. I can't call you my master. Just call me Captain Zhan or Zhan Zhao."
When Heizhu saw Zhan Zhao talking to him, he was so excited that he couldn't speak, and his face looked full of pride.
Zhan Zhao, the chief constable of Kaifeng Prefecture, is a famous hero.
He is the dream man of many secluded women in the capital.
"Captain Zhan, I would like to ask, who are the five people just now, and why did they use hidden weapons when they saw the two of us?" Lu Sen asked indifferently.
Zhan Zhao stared at Lu Sen, feeling a little surprised.
As a head of the police, he was very good at observation, which was a professional habit. When he first met Lu Sen, he found that there was something wrong with this man.
Not to mention the golden stone sword that suddenly appeared and disappeared, it might be a decoy... He came here to collect the bodies.
Because when he was besieged, in a flash of light and shadow, he clearly saw that both men were hit by poison darts, but the two men in front of him were not hurt at all.
Moreover, this young man, who is two points more handsome than the Golden-Haired Mouse Bai Yutang, behaves in a calm and dignified manner. Although it can be seen that he is arrogant in his heart, he does not make people feel disgusted.
He had only seen such behavior in a few famous officials in the court.
For example, his immediate superior, Bao Fuyin.
What’s even more weird is the other person’s short hair…what’s going on?
If he was born in a wealthy family, how could he look like a monk but not a Taoist?
Hearing Lu Sen ask him in a very calm tone why he was attacked, Zhan Zhao felt that the other party must be from a prominent family. He put down his hands and replied, "The Five Rats of Xiankong Island do both good and evil things as they please. I brought them here during the fight, and when they saw you two, they probably thought you were my ambushes, so they attacked. This is all my fault. If it weren't for me... My friend, I owe you a favor. If you have any conditions or things you need, just tell me. I will definitely help you as long as I can, otherwise I will feel guilty."
"Then...wait a minute." Lu Sen wanted to say no, but he suddenly remembered something and asked, "Since you are the chief constable of Kaifeng Prefecture, can you help me get a household registration in Tokyo City?"
Zhan Zhao was a little surprised: "Friend, you don't have a household registration yet?"
"He is a man from the mountains, and has just come down from the mountains and entered the world."
Zhan Zhao's eyes flickered, and many thoughts flashed through his mind in an instant. He shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, Bao Fuyin is impartial and law-abiding, and he is also very strict with us subordinates. The household registration in Bianjing City requires at least the recommendation of local celebrities, and then the approval of the county government, and then the verification of Kaifeng Prefecture before naturalization. I am just a small captain, and I can't do anything about it. Friend, do you have any other requests?"
"What is the name of the person who shot me with a hidden weapon?"
"The second hero of Xiankong Island, Han Zhang, the rat of the ground. He is good at using poison darts and ground fire mines."
"That's all." Lu Sen said with a smile, "That's what I want."
Zhan Zhao said anxiously: "Of course not, my friend, you can state other requirements."
"No need." Lu Sen walked past him and said, "Captain Zhan, see you later."
Heizhu hurried to follow.
Zhan Zhao turned around and saluted towards Lu Sen's back.
It is both etiquette and an apology.
Then Zhan Zhao turned around and looked at the surrounding environment. His brows furrowed even more.
The ground here is full of square holes.
He squatted down and touched the holes with his fingers. He couldn't help but mutter to himself, "They are all about ten inches, all square grids of the same size, and they all seem to be chiseled out of stone. How did he do that? And just now I clearly saw that he and the servant were shot by hidden weapons... Ha, Han Lao Er is in trouble now. That young man doesn't seem like someone who would smile and pretend nothing happened when someone stepped on his face. Judging from the way he talks and treats people, he seems to have the demeanor of the Eighth Sage King."
Zhan Zhao checked the nearby square holes again, but still couldn't figure out how Lu Sen and his servants could dig out so many square holes in such a short time, so he got up and went back home, intending to talk about this with Prefect Bao.
On this side, Lu Sen returned to the spring halfway up the mountain, and his face fell.
He walked around the forest with a stone axe, cutting out many units of "grass vines".
Then combine the sticks and vines into a wooden longbow.
Wooden longbow (LV0): Damage 9.
Effect: Primary long-range weapon, with limited damage but built-in hit correction, a good helper for novice hunters.
He then combined stones and sticks into a large number of stone arrows.
More than a thousand.
A moment later, an arrow pierced through the twenty-centimeter-thick tree trunk.
Lu Sen put away his longbow about a hundred meters away from the tree.
"Effective range is 180 meters, and the maximum lethal range is within 90 meters." Lu Sen reported the test data of this longbow, and then showed a slight sneer at the corner of his mouth: "You are a martial artist, right? You can fly, right? You don't take the lives of outsiders seriously, right? You kill anyone who is suspected of being an enemy, right? Don't let me find you, Second Rat Han Zhang."
Lu Sen is still a little scared now. If he hadn't worn the wooden armor on a whim beforehand, he would have definitely died if that poison dart had hit him.
The black pillar must die too.
Martial artists have such no respect for life that Lu Sen now has a very bad impression of them.
After putting away the longbow, Lu Sen took out the cooked food from the system backpack and ate it with Heizhu. Then he made a large number of stone pickaxes. Next, the two of them were going to level the valley.
Time flies.
Soon it was evening.
Yang Jinhua from Tianbo Yang Mansion was looking at the big tree stump in her backyard in confusion.
Showing a puzzled expression.
"I remember there was a big tree here the day before yesterday." The young girl Yang Jinhua jumped onto the stump and stepped on it twice, then squatted down and touched the stump: "Who is so powerful that he cut down such a big tree without leaving any traces or alarming anyone? Besides, the broken hole in the backyard is only wide enough for one person to enter and exit, and can't accommodate a big tree."
Yang Jinhua's girlish heart was filled with deep curiosity.
Although the Yang family didn't mind others cutting down a few trees in the backyard, this matter was quite challenging common sense, and she wanted to find out what was going on.
At this moment, the maid Xiao Tao rushed over from the inner courtyard, found Yang Jinhua, took her hand, and hurried into the courtyard, shouting, "Young lady, something big has happened, something big has happened."
"What's wrong?"
Yang Jinhua followed Xiaotao's lead and came to the third-floor window in the yard.
"There, there." Xiao Tao pointed to the sky: "Everyone in the city has seen it."
Looking from a high place, Yang Jinhua followed Xiaotao's finger and looked towards the west. After being stunned for a while, she slightly opened her cherry lips.
The low mountain to the west is the location of their Tianbo Yang Mansion, and their ancestral hall is on the left side of the mountain.
The Yang family goes there to pay homage twice every year.
This mountain is evergreen all year round...but now, a large yellow spot has appeared on the right side of the mountain.
It's like a pretty girl with baldness on one side, extremely ugly and eye-catching.
Yang Jinhua has been practicing martial arts since childhood. She is an expert in archery and horse riding, and has extremely sharp eyesight.
She could see clearly that the yellow spot was a large area of the mountainside that had been flattened.
A straight yellow vertical surface and a large yellow flat ground form a vast L-shaped giant platform.
"What happened? Everything was fine before I went to bed at noon. Could it be that a dragon turned over and collapsed the place?"
Yang Jinhua rubbed her peach blossom eyes hard.
