Chapter 393 Songwen Three

After wandering around the street for a while, Li Chengxi directly headed out of the city.

He was curious about how the supplies for food, clothing, housing, and transportation were obtained in this place.

Outside the city, ferocious Blood-bodied monsters were frequently encountered. Civilians living in such an environment were constantly in fear, facing the threat of danger at any moment.

Under such circumstances, would ordinary people still be in the mood to plant crops?

He quietly exited the city gate and circled the entire Xinmeng Town.

He discovered that there were indeed some scattered farmlands and farms around the town.

They were planted with many crops, and there were also many cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks, and dogs.

The black soil underfoot had astonishing fertility, and the crops grew extremely well. A stream called Xuanxi River, which ran alongside, was the main source of water for these fields.

Patrol teams from the town were seen everywhere nearby, obviously the town was doing its best to maintain these fields.

Leaving the town, Li Chengxi leisurely followed the dirt road, accelerating all the way towards a direction away from the town.

At his speed, ordinary people would only feel a gust of wind passing by, unable to capture his figure at all.

Just a few minutes later.

A dilapidated village appeared ahead of the road.

The village was located to the right of the road, and at the entrance, a stone tablet was erected with the words: Jingwei Village.

Standing at the entrance of the village, Li Chengxi could see that it was full of broken walls and ruins, desolate and uninhabited.

Reaching this point, there were few people on the road, only occasional dark crows flashing overhead, sending messages to the distance.

'This is the place.'

Li Chengxi stepped inside.

During these days, he had not only been practicing his skills. As an adult from a technologically advanced modern society, when encountering an unknown thing, he would instinctively use his own knowledge system to analyze and study it.

He was the same.

Studying Songwen Qi had become his greatest pleasure now.

Secondly, he would look around outside to see if there were any places where he could absorb evil thoughts.

The red-skirted woman infiltrator last time gave him 6% of evil thoughts, which made Li Chengxi understand that these so-called infected monsters could also become fertilizer for his evil thoughts.

Therefore, his outing was not without a bit of luck, hoping to encounter new infected infiltrators, or even a Red-Eye to test his strength.

Unfortunately, he had been out for more than a month and had not met a single one.

This direction was not the route he had taken to reach Xinmeng Town, but a strange road that passed through Xinmeng Town and continued forward.

He had originally intended to expand the map, but unexpectedly, it was completely deserted ahead.

Familiar with the way, he entered the village and arrived at the most central dilapidated mansion.

Li Chengxi walked through the wooden door, of which only half was still hanging, and came to the spacious central arena.

"Hmm?"

Suddenly, his eyes fixed, looking at the earthen house not far away, where a faint smell of strangers emanated.

"Who's there? Get out." He said in a low voice.

The door of the yellow earthen house had long collapsed, revealing only the dark space inside.

"Don't... don't kill me!!" A disheveled little boy, wearing a set of fine materials, but dirty and torn, thin silk clothes, walked out tremblingly.

He was still holding the marinated pig's trotters that Li Chengxi had stored here for eating and drinking.

"Those are my things." Li Chengxi said coldly.

"I... I was really too hungry... I'm sorry!!" The boy quickly bowed.

"Who are you? How did you get here? Why are you alone?" Li Chengxi frowned.

"My name is Liu Mingyang... I was on the way to visit relatives in Hualian City when the team was attacked by bandits. Everyone died, and only I survived by pretending to be dead." The boy was about eleven or twelve years old, spoke clearly and logically, obviously well-educated.

Generally, those with this level of education here would not have a bad background.

But these things were irrelevant to Li Chengxi.

He was interested in the bandits the boy mentioned.

"Bandits? Where did you encounter the bandits? It shouldn't be far from here, right?" A gleam flashed in his eyes as he asked.

These days, he had already spent all the silver taels accumulated by his predecessor on food and drink, and now he even owed his second sister three taels of silver.

Fifteen times the speed of Qi refining and the large amount of food needed to maintain this powerful body all required silver.

The previous amount was simply not enough, far from enough, so Li Chengxi had to find a way to earn some extra money.

"It's just in that direction..." The boy Liu Mingyang pointed to the far left of Li Chengxi.

Whoosh.

In the blink of an eye, the figure disappeared from his sight.

Li Chengxi used Shadow Flash and instantly appeared in the shadow of a withered tree thirty meters away.

Walking out of the shadow, he rushed towards that direction at full speed.

Songwen True Qi naturally flowed to his legs as he stepped and sprinted, increasing his explosive power, reducing fatigue, accelerating recovery, and enhancing the toughness of his skin, muscles, and bones.

This kind of power can be said to be a jack-of-all-trades, which can comprehensively enhance and improve the body.

This made Li Chengxi's already terrifying speed even more terrifying, reaching nearly four times the speed of sound.

Without any flowery language, without wearing Flowery Scale Armor, without using Gentle Qi, this speed was already extremely exaggerated.

If various enhancements were added, he was confident that he could reach six or seven times the speed of sound, but that needed to be specifically tested.

He also increasingly felt that coming here was a great gain.

If the True Qi continued to develop, perhaps he could rely on his own body to catch up with the terrifying speed of the eighth or ninth ranks.

It should be known that speed had always been his absolute weakness, and now, there was actually a chance to catch up, which was a huge surprise to him.

After sprinting wildly for several minutes, soon, another winding dirt road appeared on the endless black soil plain ahead.

A group of strong men wearing black leather armor and holding all sorts of rusty weapons were slowly walking along the road, leading their horses.

Most of these people had blue characters tattooed on their faces, which meant that most of them were exiled criminals who could not enter the city.

Tattoos in this place were only for criminals.

Chi.

Li Chengxi stopped instantly and walked out of a corner of the shadow, approaching the group of bandits.

"Do you... have money?"

The group of bandits were stunned, and it was obvious that their rugged, weather-beaten faces showed a dazed expression.

"Damn, I've seen people asking for directions, people running away, people begging for mercy, but this is the first time I've seen someone asking for money." A bald strong man walking in front, carrying a two-meter-long, thigh-thick, rough wolf's tooth club, said with a sneer.

There were a total of twenty or so bandits in the group, lined up in a row, each leading a horse, with various cargo bags hanging on the horses, and a carriage following behind, from which faint cries could be heard.

"Looks like you guys just robbed someone." Li Chengxi took a few steps forward.

"Interesting, you want to rob us by yourself? Looks like you're an expert?" The bald man put down the wolf's tooth club, and his two-meter-tall body was naked, revealing large areas of blood-like tattoos.

"Brother, in this black soil, let me teach you a lesson. Not everyone can rob us... especially like us bandits who look ordinary." He grinned, his eyes faintly red.

"Why waste so much time talking to him? Just grab him and use him as spare food! The stock has been eaten up these past few days, and the meat isn't firm at all. It's rare to find one that looks good."

"Chop! Chop him to death! Hahaha!"

A group of bandits laughed wildly.

Amidst the laughter, Li Chengxi looked at the last carriage and frowned.

He approached the carriage, and from the gap in the curtain, he could see that it was empty, with no goods at all.

"Where did you put my money?" He frowned, his face turning to look at the bald bandit leader.

"You're fucking crazy!?" The bald man's expression changed drastically, and he swung the wolf's tooth club.

Several bandits around him immediately surrounded Li Chengxi.

"The sky is red."

Li Chengxi suddenly said.

The group of bandits were stunned, and some people unconsciously looked up at the sky. The afternoon sun was indeed like blood, dyeing the sky red.

Boom!!

In an instant, the legs of all the bandits sank deeply into the ground, smashing out two holes on the spot, and were fixed in place.

The Power of Language, Forced Peaceful Coexistence.

"!!????!!"

The faces of the group of bandits were stiff, and even the bald leader had twisted and terrified expressions.

They wanted to speak, but their mouths could not be opened no matter what, and they could only be fixed in place without moving.

This was sorcery!?!?

In the rumors, there were always many phenomena that ordinary people could not understand, and these phenomena were often called witchcraft, sorcery.

And the thought that arose in the bald bandit's heart at this time was sorcery!

"If you don't want me to hurt you, please give me all your money."

Li Chengxi said calmly.

Immediately, twenty-odd bandits pulled out their legs, walked up to him, and placed all their belongings on the ground in front of him.

Some people even brought the bags from the horse's backs together, and some people cut open the skin on the outside of their thighs, pulled out the treasure map hidden inside, and placed it in a pile of valuables.

Without any reservation.

Waiting for everyone to finish handing over, Li Chengxi looked at the valuables in front of him.

"If you don't want me to hurt you, please kill the person closest to you."

Ah!!

The bald leader completely lost control of himself and smashed the head of his closest deputy with a stick.

The others also roared and began to kill each other.

Li Chengxi did not even look at the crowd, picking and choosing the valuables on the ground, taking only gold and silver and the large coins of the Shao Yin Kingdom.

This was a test he conducted with Flowery Language.

Now it seemed that only a few Flowery Languages with positive energy were restricted, and the remaining neutral and negative energy Flowery Languages were not affected.

Soon, bodies fell one after another, and in the end, only the bald bandit leader covered in blood remained.

He held a wolf's tooth club in his hand, covered with minced meat and brain matter, and there were two more bloody holes in his upper body, not knowing which expert had stabbed him.

Standing in front of Li Chengxi, the bald man trembled all over, panting heavily, his eyes full of fear.

'Fear +2.'

'Fear +3.'

'Fear +1.'

A group of bandits gave him 26% of the evil thought progress in such a short period of time.

The bald man contributed nearly half of it, as expected of the strongest one among them.

After testing for so long, Li Chengxi also discovered that fear was the easiest evil thought to obtain.

At this time, the evil thought progress of the Wisteria Flower, plus the previous accumulation, had reached 31%.

Wisteria Flower, Magnolia, Crape Myrtle, these three kinds of purple flowers were all the main flowers he had fully replenished with Flowery Qi before entering.

Originally, he had planned to fully replenish the Chinese Parasol Tree, but there were not many variant flowers around the Chinese Parasol Tree, so he did not search around and only replenished it to 60% before being stuck.

"If you don't want me to hurt you, then kill yourself." Li Chengxi looked at the other party and continued to test the limits of the Flowery Language.

With his current huge consciousness power, controlling these bandits who knew a little bit of martial arts was completely easy, but what he wanted to see was the degree of control he could achieve.

The bald man trembled, his pupils constricted, his face pale, and he raised his hand.

Puff!

Suddenly, he slammed the club heavily on his own head.

At the same time, a large amount of Li Chengxi's consciousness power was suddenly consumed, directly reducing it by nearly one-third.

Originally, controlling these twenty-odd people only cost one-third of his consciousness power, but now, forcing the other party to commit suicide actually consumed one-third of his consciousness power for just one person.

'It seems that the more difficult the command, the stronger the resistance, and the greater the consumption.'

He frowned, turned around, and prepared to leave.

Suddenly, a breeze blew, and a faint aura floated from a distance.

He paused, turned his head, and looked at the bandit corpse field.

"Come out, I see you."

He said in a low voice.

There was no movement.

The cold wind blew, and the black soil was silent.

Two crows flew from a distance, wanting to come forward and peck at the corpses.

Li Chengxi's cold gaze swept over and landed on them.

The crows froze, the sound they were about to make was blocked in their throats, and their two claws remained motionless in place, not daring to move.

Confirming that no one was there, Li Chengxi turned around, a flash of black light, and suddenly disappeared in place, returning the way he came.

Bang bang!!

The two crows suddenly exploded, their bodies as if they were torn and cut from the inside by countless invisible blades, instantly scattering into hundreds of pieces of minced meat, accompanied by feathers scattered all over the ground.