In the scavenger camp, the Thunder Team was in front and Xu Qing was behind, and the sun was shining on the earth and falling on them.
From a distance, one tall and one short, one old and one young, there is still some faint harmony.
It seems that in this cruel world, such harmony is rare.
Or maybe the python corpse in the hands of the Thunder team had a deterrent, so that most of the passers-by who had never been to the Colosseum around them did not disturb them after seeing it.
Xu Qing liked this feeling very much, whether it was the next snake eating or the sun blowing on his face at the moment, it made him feel warm.
Very comfortable and looking forward to it.
And every time his eyes fell on the python corpse held by the Thunder Team, he secreted more saliva from his mouth.
He also likes to eat snakes.
The Thunder team's home is in the central part of the camp.
Compared with the brick and tile houses in the inner ring area, the simple tents in the outer ring part, and most of the residences in the central area are stone and wood structures, and three huts are arranged together.
Although each one is not very big, it looks much better than when Xu Qing was in the slums.
Especially the Lei team's residence also has a small courtyard, which is even more rare.
At this moment, he pushed open the door of the bamboo courtyard, and under Xu Qing's observation and observation, Team Lei carried the python corpse to the tail room, and casually pointed to the second hut.
"Child, you can live there in the future, you get familiar with it first, and I'll call you when the meal is ready."
Saying that, Team Lei entered the side room, and soon the sound of chopping meat came out.
Xu Qing swallowed his saliva, first observed carefully in this small courtyard, and then walked into the second hut, which had a bed, a set of bedding, a set of tables and chairs, and nothing else.
The floor is very clean, the tables and chairs are dust-free, obviously often wiped, and the bedding is obviously washed very clean, and there is a smell of sunlight on it.
All this made Xu Qing very satisfied.
He doesn't like big houses, he likes small houses where he can see everything at a glance, as if he can reflect everything in his mind.
This made him feel safer.
So after checking carefully, Xu Qing looked at the clean bed, thought about it for a while, and sat directly on the ground.
Cross your knees and close your eyes, start today's practice.
During this practice, with the influx of spiritual energy, he also heard the sound of crackling boiling oil in the tail room next door.
Soon the fragrance floated in along the stone and wood gaps in the wall, permeating the hut and at the same time evoking the sound of shriveled in Xu Qing's stomach.
Very fragrant.
Xu Qing's throat moved involuntarily, and he opened his eyes to look in the direction of the tail room.
After years of living in the slums, he couldn't remember the last time he smelled such a fragrance.
So he endured the longing from his stomach, closed his eyes, calmed himself down, and continued to practice.
In this way, time passed slowly, and dusk soon came.
When the sound of the Thunder Team calling for a meal came from outside the house, Xu Qing, who had just finished a day of practice, opened his eyes quickly.
He stood up and walked out of the house quickly, and saw Lei Dui standing at the door of the side room, waving at him.
Following the empty space beside Team Lei, Xu Qing had already seen that there were already seven or eight different types of snake banquets placed on the dining table in the house, including fried, braised, steamed, and snake soup.
Obviously, Team Lei has excellent cooking skills, and the color and flavor are complete.
Xu Qing looked at it, his eyes were a little straight, Team Lei smiled, turned around and went in to pick up the bowl and quickly put it away.
Xu Qing also immediately approached, and as he walked into this tail room, the fragrance became stronger, but he did not sit down immediately, but waited for Team Lei to quickly set up the bowl, and his eyes suddenly froze.
The bowl is fast, three pairs.
"Is there anyone else?" Even if the fragrance is tempting, at this moment, with the appearance of the three pairs of bowls, they are all isolated from Xu Qing's body in an instant.
He looked at Team Lei cautiously and asked softly.
"Don't be nervous, this is my habit, that's a ...... Someone who will never come."
Team Lei spoke calmly, and a light of remembrance appeared in the depths of his eyes, and then quickly disappeared, and he sat down on a chair.
Xu Qing nodded, and as he sat down, he couldn't help but grab a piece of fried snake meat and put it in his mouth and bite into it.
It was hot, but he ate it very refreshingly, and his mouth was full of oil.
As soon as he finished eating a piece, he licked the fat on his mouth and was about to grab the braised snake meat, and Team Lei coughed lightly.
"Use the fast."
"Oh." Xu Qing clumsily picked up the fast man, and after getting used to it, he inserted a piece of braised snake meat and swallowed it in a big gulp.
The two of them didn't speak during the whole meal, but their eating appearance was very discordant.
Team Lei chewed slowly, unlike a scavenger, he ate two or three bites of each dish, while Xu Qing devoured it there, eating much more than Team Lei.
Seeing Xu Qing eating like this, Team Lei couldn't help but speak.
"Why didn't you eat it in small bites like when I gave you steamed buns before?"
Xu Qing swallowed the snake meat in his mouth hard, looked up at Team Lei, and replied very seriously.
"The steamed buns are yours, and the snake meat is mine."
One is to invite others to eat their own food, and the other is to invite others to eat their own food.
In the young man's simple thinking, his own items naturally taste more justified.
Team Lei couldn't laugh or cry when he heard this, and watched Xu Qing keep poking the snake meat with a fast son and drinking the snake soup there, but he also noticed that the young man did not touch every snake banquet.
He just ate what belonged to him with confidence.
"Your python has a lot of weight, it should be enough to eat for half a month, and the snake skin and snake bones are also of great value, so ......" Team Lei said casually.
"I will give you the rent, so you don't have to deduct it." Xu Qing suddenly spoke.
Snake meat is to repay the steamed buns and sleeping bags along the way, and the value of snake skin and snake bones is to repay the other party for helping them cover the tent of the crippled cow.
As for the other party taking him out of the ruins and into the camp, this is a favor and a favor.
Xu Qing felt that it was inappropriate to use material materials to offset it, so he kept it in mind.
Team Lei took a deep look at Xu Qing and saw the seriousness in his eyes and the clear thoughts of grievances, so he nodded, and after thinking about it, the words came out again.
"Child, I think you have a lot of speculation about me along the way."
Xu Qing didn't speak, but his stuttering slowed down slightly.
"Everyone else calls me Team Thunder, as for the name, it doesn't matter, no one in the scavenger camp will use their real name."
Team Lei picked up a piece of steamed snake meat and put it in his mouth to chew slowly.
"The reason for this name is because I have a few friends in this scavenger camp who can be entrusted with life and death."
"We formed our own squad, and the name of the squad is more vulgar, called Thunder."
"On weekdays, everyone takes over the work, if they encounter something more difficult, the whole team will gather to complete it, including me, a total of four people, and now all three of them have gone out and have not come back."
"When I come back, I will introduce you one by one, and you will follow us as a new member of the squad to pick up the resources to earn survival and practice."
Team Lei seemed to be a little full, put down the fast man, and looked at Xu Qing.
The last five words of his words, Xu Qing was not surprised.
Xu Qing felt that he could detect that the Thunder Team was a loose cultivator, so after being in contact with him for so long, even if he was refining his body, the other party would naturally be able to detect his details under his observation.
"Okay." Xu Qing nodded without hesitation and said.
Growing up in the slums, he deeply knew that there is no dedication and help in this world for no reason, everything must have a reason.
"You keep eating, I'm old, I can't digest it if I eat too much."
Team Lei coughed a few times, his face flushed a little, but he quickly recovered, stood up and walked out, words coming out of his mouth.
"The spiritual energy of this world is like poison, the kind of hard cultivation you have along the way, it is very likely that you have not gone far, you have already been alienated, and your practice must be steady and steady, not radical."
Xu Qing was silent and did not speak.
The old man who walked to the door turned to look at Xu Qing and shook his head.
"But you are practicing like this, and it is also right."
"The scavengers' camp and the forbidden area next to it are different from the place you were in before, because the products in the forbidden area make this place more of a gathering place for low-level scattered cultivators and outlaws."
"If you live here, you must also go to the forbidden area and practice more."
The Thunder team leaves.
Xu Qing sat there alone until he ate all the snake meat, and he did not leave immediately. Instead, he quickly cleaned up the bowls, cleaned them and put them away, and then returned to his cabin.
Sit cross-legged and continue your practice.
Xu Qing knew very well that if he didn't want to survive, bend over to survive, and put the right of life and death in the hands of others, then his own strength was the foundation of everything.
Especially in this scavenger camp, there are a lot of scattered cultivations, more than he has seen in the past six years, and each one is not a good stubble.
If the slum is a kennel, this is the wolf's den.
If you don't work hard, then before you are alienated, you will die because of a conflict or dispute, and there will be no place to be buried.
As for heterogeneity, Xu Qing knew in Haishan Jue Zhu Jian Mountain that there was an elixir that could be resolved.
Although it treats the symptoms but not the root cause, it can also be dealt with, and the name of this elixir, he has already known from the conversations of those scavengers on the road, called Bai Dan.
The nearby restricted area is rich in important herbs needed to make white elixir, so there must be white elixirs for sale in this camp.
Thinking of this, Xu Qing touched the place where the purple crystal was buried in his chest.
He had clearly felt during this time that in addition to his resilience, both speed and strength had improved a lot.
It is related to reaching the first level of the Haishan Technique, but Xu Qing felt that his first level seemed to be a little different from the power of a tiger described in the Haishan Technique.
"I can kill a lot of tigers."
Xu Qing murmured, feeling the spiritual energy in his body, under his hard practice along the way, it seemed that he was about to reach the second level.
"Tonight, impact the second layer." Xu Qing's eyes showed firmness, closed his eyes, and began to exhale.
Soon, spiritual energy poured in from all directions, and the spiritual energy outside the forbidden area was much less heterogeneous than in the forbidden area, which made the speed of cultivation relatively increase a lot.
Xu Qing had already noticed this in the Colosseum row room yesterday.
At this moment, he let go of his body, and in the hard absorption and exhalation, he was covered by a leather jacket, and the faint purple light on his chest also flashed.
Time passed, and gradually there was a slight thumping sound in Xu Qing's body, and black impurities were once again discharged from the sweat pores.
The flesh and blood of the whole body seemed to become more and more tenacious, and there was a faint stronger power that gradually burst out within it.
At the same time, in the night outside, the little girl who was replaced by Xu Qing with a bamboo stick during the day approached the courtyard of Xu Qing's residence.
She stood there hesitating, as if she wanted to knock on the door, but she was a little apprehensive.
Until a long time, she seemed to have mustered up the courage to gently knock on the bamboo door of the yard, but the sound was too weak to come in at all.
And the moment the little girl knocked on the bamboo door, the thumping sound in Xu Qing's body also reached its strongest point.
With a roar in his mind, Xu Qing's eyes opened, and the purple light shone in his eyes again, his expression showed joy, and he looked down at his arm, where the second point of alienation appeared.
Condensation, second layer.