Traveling to ancient times, with space

Chapter 42 The Further You Go, the More Creepy It Becomes

"Old man, tell the truth, are you an old liar who only deceives children?" Su Yue looked at Old Man Luo with a suspicious gaze.

Old Luo was so angry that he cursed Su Yue as a little monkey.

The two clanged and clattered together until it got dark before finally stopping.

Old Luo was instructed by Su Yue to heat up the pancakes, while he himself began practicing the third stage of the Phantom Movement Technique.

Su Yue learned very quickly, probably because she had taken the Marrow Cleansing Pill and drank the spiritual spring water in her space every day. She quickly finished learning the Illusionary Movement Technique given to her by Old Man Luo.

All that's left is to practice. After eating the pancake, Su Yue thought about trying it out later to see if she could fly like Old Man Luo.

Sitting by the stove, Old Luo stared at Su Yue, thinking to himself, "This little girl is incredibly lazy at such a young age. She doesn't want to do anything and just waits to be served. Sigh! I'm practically living under someone else's roof. I used to be served food and drink by others, and now it's my turn to serve others."

The little girl has been studying that book for two nights in a row, and now she's started learning the third stage. Back in the day, she practiced the first stage day and night for eight days before she could feel a reaction in her dantian.

Su Yue firmly memorized the mental cultivation method, and a stream of energy circulated within her dantian. She put down the book, lightly tapped the cart, and flew directly to a nearby tree.

"It's done!" Su Yue happily flew back and forth among the trees.

Su Yue had just learned the skill and wasn't very proficient yet. She was flying from one tree to another when she suddenly felt the energy in her dantian disappear, and she fell directly from mid-space.

Old Luo, who was still by the stove, was dumbfounded. Had he just imagined it? How could he have seen that little girl flying around in the tree? He rubbed his eyes and, finding that she was gone, breathed a sigh of relief. This was too frightening; how could someone learn it in just one day and one night?

I might really be getting old and my eyesight is failing.

Su Yue, who had fallen into the withered grass, spat out the grass twigs in her mouth, patted the grassy ridges on her body, and if she were afraid of frightening the refugees around her, she really wanted to laugh out loud three times.

On her way back, Su Yue was so happy that she started singing: "We ordinary people are so happy today..."

Seeing Su Yue's happiness, Old Luo hadn't even spoken when he heard the girl ask if he had finished his wine, offering to fill his gourd with more. He rubbed his ears—nothing was wrong! How could he have misheard?

"Hey, you old geezer, what's wrong? Don't you want any more wine?" Su Yue asked Luo, the old drunkard, with suspicion.

"Yes, yes, of course I want it! I just thought I misheard you, hehe!" Old Luo quickly took the wine gourd off his waist and handed it to Su Yue.

"Speaking of which, I still have to thank you. I've learned that phantom movement technique, but I can't fly as high or as long as you. I'll get you a pot of wine to thank you. See how good I am to you!" Su Yue filled the wine gourd and took out a bag of roasted soybeans from her small satchel, handing them to Old Man Luo, who was cleaning his ears again.

Su Yue thought this old man was crazy. Why was he constantly picking his ears? Could it be that they were too dirty and he had fleas?

Startled, Su Yue quickly stuffed the wine gourd and soybeans into Old Man Luo's hands and kept her distance from him, fearing she might also catch fleas.

"Little girl, what did you just say? You said you learned it?" Old Luo seemed to just realize what was happening. He had never heard of anyone learning it so quickly. He wasn't seeing things; it really was this little girl flying in the tree.

"You old geezer, you, you, stay away from me! You've got fleas, are you trying to infect me too?" Su Yue moved further away from Old Man Luo.

Old Luo didn't bother asking Su Yue anymore. He hadn't washed or changed his clothes for a few days and they were already filthy and infested with fleas. He smelled his clothes; they did smell a bit, but he didn't feel itchy. How did he get fleas?

"Fine, fine, now you're starting to look down on this old man. Sigh! Why didn't you look down on me when you were driving the carriage? Why didn't you look down on me when you were making me plunder silver from corpses?"

Old Luo took his wine gourd and fried soybeans, pretending to be pitiful as he went to the stove. He took a sip of wine and a bite of fried soybeans, his eyes almost squinting with delight. You couldn't tell that he had just been acting so pitiful.

Su Yue knew the old man was putting on a convincing act to trick her into drinking, and she wasn't going to fall for it.

Su Yue lay on the cart watching Old Luo drink so happily, and she herself felt a little envious.

He took out a jug full of grape juice from the wooden box to drink, and occasionally sneaked a little snack from his spatial storage into his mouth.

The sounds of the refugees outside grew fainter; it seemed they had all gone to rest. Su Yue tossed another small piece of dried meat into her mouth, clapped her hands, and lay down, staring blankly into the night.

As the night deepened, the only sound around us was the occasional snore.

It wasn't until late at night that they reminded Old Luo to go to work.

The next day, Su Yue was awakened by the noise around her, as many refugees got up one after another and began to travel.

After getting off the cart, he relieved himself in a clump of grass, then lay back down on the cart, letting Old Luo drive the mule cart while he ate his flatbread.

The refugees I encountered today looked much worse than those of the previous two days, and I also started seeing motionless corpses lying on the road.

I don't know if it died of thirst or hunger.

The further you walk, the more corpses there are on both sides. In this hot weather, some of the corpses are already rotting and stinking. A foul smell hits you as you walk by, almost making you vomit.

Green bottle flies were flying everywhere, making Su Yue's scalp tingle.

She also saw that some of the corpses had many white maggots on their surface, and just looking at them made her want to vomit up what she had eaten that morning.

He quickly rummaged through the wooden box, actually taking out two pieces of cloth from his spatial storage, and handed them to Old Man Luo in front of him, telling him to sew them up however he wanted and then put them over his head.

"Hurry up and put it on. Look at the corpses on both sides of the road, they're stinking. The flies are huge, they must have been staring at the dead." Su Yue didn't mind the heat and wrapped herself up so that only her eyes were showing.

Old Luo knew that this was to prevent mosquitoes that had bitten the corpses from biting them again, as it would be bad if they came back to bite them.

The road became increasingly barren as we walked further on it, with not even a single tree to rest under, let alone any mountains; it felt like we had reached a plain.

Moreover, the weather was hot and dry, and it seemed that there were more refugees lying down than walking on both sides of the road.

I don't know if it was because it was too dark in the morning and I took the wrong road, but the road became more and more eerie the longer I walked.

"Old man, have you taken the wrong road?" Su Yue couldn't help but ask.

Old Luo was initially convinced that he hadn't gone the wrong way, but after walking for more than an hour, even he himself was no longer sure.

There were many refugees on both sides of the road, some rummaging through the withered grass, trying to find some edible roots.

Some were so hungry they were digging in the dirt to eat; you could tell from their bulging bellies that they had eaten a lot.

On the road, there was a woman holding a dying baby in her arms. Whenever someone passed by, she would grab them, kneel down, and kowtow, begging for a bite to eat.

Those who were pulled back were too weak from hunger to fight back. They pulled their clothes back up, unable to even spit out a single drop of saliva.

"Give us something to eat! Give us something to eat!" The woman saw Su Yue and her mules and tried to hold onto the cart even if it meant taking her last bite.

Su Yue was sitting peacefully on the cart when the woman rushed towards her, startling her so much that she screamed, thinking she was going to die on the cart.