Rise of the blood elves

434【Chopsticks】

Five days later, fifteen kilometers southeast of Setting Sun Pass, a peaceful and quiet Pandaren village surrounded by mountains and rivers

This place is called Linxi Village, where hundreds of families and hundreds of villagers once lived.

As the saying goes, you can eat mountains if you rely on mountains, and you can eat water if you rely on water, but this is only relative to ordinary areas.As an area where Titan conducted ecological experiments during the Sequencing Period, there is a water source full of natural life energy. The land where this water of life flows is extremely fertile, such as the Valley of the Four Winds in the south of the Eternal Blossom Valley.

Any food crops planted on it, even those with extremely harsh environmental requirements, will grow to maturity in a very short time and have an unparalleled size.When outsiders arriving for the first time see carrots as big as houses in the fields, they are often so shocked that they can’t even close their mouths.

Therefore, although the terrain of Linxi Village is not suitable for farming, the output of the limited terraces is enough to meet the food needs of all villagers.The streams surrounding the village on three sides, as well as the mountains and forests to the south, provide the villagers with a rich source of meat. Like most Pandaren villages in the surrounding areas, Linxi Village also has no worries about food and drink.

There is even a huge surplus of food every year. With the transportation capabilities of the land elf caravans traveling throughout the Jinxiu Valley, the food needs of the Canyang Pass defenders are met to a great extent.

But recently, mantid activities have become more frequent, causing people to panic. No one dares to live near Panlong Spine anymore.

Half a month ago, as the last convoy of villagers with their entire families embarked on the escape journey north out of the Gate of the Gods, Linxi Village was completely transformed into a deserted village with empty houses.

Due to no one taking care of it, weeds took over every gravel-paved village path and the courtyard of every house in a very short period of time. This is an unavoidable problem in the Eternal Blossom Valley and its surrounding areas.The water of life nourishes all things, including pesky weeds.If it is not cleaned up for a few days, the already vigorous weeds can even grow as tall as the knees. After the Mogu tyranny was overthrown, the panda people's biggest enemy will be it.

The abandoned village is not only Linxi Village, but also most of the villages located within tens of kilometers east of Panlongji, there are more than a dozen.Throughout the history of the Pandaren, such population migration has rarely happened. No, it should be said that it has never happened.

This has brought certain problems to the Setting Sun Pass. If the Mantid crisis is not resolved, they will have to rely on the Shado-Pan and the official supply fleet of the Empire to replenish supplies. The only good thing is that there are still no less than [-] people in the warehouse. Half a year's worth of food reserves.

Linxi Village was deserted, but for Angmar, a "dangerous element", it was a suitable resettlement location.It's not far from Setting Sun Pass. The distance of fifteen kilometers is only 10 minutes for a Pandaren monk.If Angmar goes out of control again, this journey is enough to provide a buffer.

Therefore, after reporting the matter about Angmar to the Empire and the Shado-Pan, the Black Guards placed Angmar in Linxi Village.Of course, he will not be allowed to stay here forever. After all, this is the defense center of the Pan-Eternal Blossom Valley region. Once he recovers a certain degree of mobility, the Shado-Pan will send someone to send him to the White Tiger Temple to receive updates. Comprehensive practice to get rid of the inner demons in the heart and avoid causing harm to the surroundings.

boom boom boom

The dull sound of footsteps echoed across the earth. A strong Mushan beast was running in the wilderness, carrying a round-faced monk holding a food box.Mushan, a huge four-legged creature, comparable in size to a rhinoceros or a smaller elephant, looks like a kodo with more hard lumps of connective tissue on its skin.Although no one has verified it, people basically believe that Mushan and Kodo are related to a certain extent, and are most likely two subfamilies of the same family.

The Valley of the Four Winds in the south of the Vale of Eternal Blossoms is the main habitat of the Mushan beast, and it is an excellent mount for the pandaren.It's a pity that their temperaments are too violent, and coupled with the difficulty of domesticating them on a large scale and other constraints, only the government, the army, or the newly formed Shado-Pan can keep a certain number of Mushan beasts as mounts.

Mu Shan Beast soon approached Linxi Village.The defense of this abandoned village can be described as an iron barrel. In the wilderness, behind tree trunks, in the grass, and in the surrounding houses, there are no less than fifty monks with advanced cultivation standing or hiding.

After seeing the round-faced warrior monk on the Mushan beast, the guards saluted and said, "Commander Fang."

The round-faced monk nodded to them, rode his mount into the village, and finally stopped in front of a small courtyard overgrown with weeds.He turned over with the food box and landed firmly on the ground.

Angmar in the small courtyard was squatting on the ground very stiffly, reluctantly pulling out weeds with trembling hands.Behind him were several weeds that had just been pulled out of the ground, with soil still attached to their roots. Next to them were a grass rake and a broom and dustpan for picking up fallen leaves.

Several burly pandaren guarded him behind him, their piercing eyes never leaving Angmar, so that they could help him immediately if he fell.

"Your Excellency, your recovery is really fast. It has only been five days since you have been doing this kind of work." Commander Fang opened the gate of the fence and said, looking at the results of Angmar's work.

Angmar let go of the weeds, carefully held the ground, sat down, then looked at the visitor, pointed at the hoe and bucket leaning on the corner of the house and smiled bitterly: "Sweep the dust and dirt, Miss Wan from your sect asked me to clean it. The dirt in my heart has returned to its true nature. You want me to pull out all these weeds first, and then open up farmland and plant a wide variety of vegetables to calm down the turmoil in my heart bit by bit. I see that there are complete kitchen utensils in the house. , maybe in a few months, Commander Fang won’t have to send me food every day.”

These days, this round-faced monk travels between Setting Sun Pass and Linxi Village every day, delivering three meals a day to Angma.He also arranged the Shado-Pan monks around the village, on the one hand to protect Angmar, and on the other hand to supervise him and prevent him from losing control.

The round-faced Pandaren smiled, and then his expression became serious, "I understand your urgency. But there is no shortcut to cultivating the mind, let alone seeking success in a hurry."

"I understand, I understand." Angmar raised his trembling palms and sighed, "It's just that this feeling of needing help from others to solve personal physical problems is really annoying."

Commander Fang walked closer, pulled a low table from the side, put the food box on it and opened it, and said: "Good and bad depend on each other. You have lost your previous strength, but you can also use this time to calm down. , think carefully about your past and future."

The strange phenomenon continues.

During this period of time, the energy in Angmar's body, not only the power of order and the original shadow energy from the heart of Y'shaarj, but also the essence of the Sunwell and the mana that he once relied on, has not responded to his call at all.

If his mobility hadn't been restored day by day, Angmar would have even suspected that he had become a waste due to some unknown accident.The War of the Ancients was imminent, and looking at the long time scale, a few years was just a blink of an eye, so he couldn't help but be anxious.

Angmar sighed and turned his gaze to the Mushan beast mount outside the courtyard.

When he first saw this mount, he had a very stupid idea in his mind: Why didn't he ride a land turtle? Then he realized that people who use land turtles as mounts are limited to those who live on the other side of Shenzhenzi and accompany the Pandaren on their adventures. Jia Liu Lang walked out of the fog to explore, growing bigger and bigger until he became the back of a huge island swimming in the vast ocean, that is, the panda people on the Wandering Island.

Not to mention the wandering and suspected nature-born Shen Zhenzi at this time has not yet been born, the Wandering Island has not yet appeared, and the Pan-Eternal Blossom Valley area at this time is not coastal at all, and there is no way to tame the land turtles that evolved from sea turtles. .The current mounts of the pandaren are tigers, mushan beasts, goats, and a small number of yaks bought from land elves.

"click"

Commander Fang opened the food box across the table, and the aroma of food hit his face.Several exquisite side dishes with full color, flavor and flavor were placed inside, and a dozen steamed buns were stacked on the second floor. During the recovery process, Angmar's appetite was astonishing, so eating this little food was no problem.

"When you smell this fragrance, it was made by Lao Li." Angmar said with a smile.

Commander Fang took out a hardwood wine cup from the food box, took off the wine gourd from his waist and poured a glass for Angmar. He joked: "He is indeed a good chef. Master Wan Song hopes to recruit him into the black army." Guard. His food can greatly improve the morale of the soldiers guarding the gate."

Since the group of mantids have not yet been found, it is conservatively estimated that at least one hundred powerful high-level mantids have sneaked into the Vale of Eternal Blossoms area.On the one hand, the Shado-Pan went all out to search, and on the other hand, they also sent a large number of manpower to guard various villages in the east to prevent the possibility of the mantid attacking civilians.

The return journey was too dangerous, so Lao Li and the three land spirits who came to Setting Sun Pass with Angmar in the past were stranded here.After entrusting the members of the black guards who went to Jinxi Village to perform garrison duties to bring a message to his family, Lao Li had no choice but to live in the garrison camp outside Canyang Pass, where he could use his remaining energy and continue to play his own role.

As a result, as soon as Lao Li took action, he immediately outshone those black-clad guards who had guest roles as chefs and could only cook big pots of rice.All the guards in black who have eaten Lao Li's cooking are full of praise for his cooking skills.

But after all, there is only one Lao Li, and he cannot satisfy everyone's needs.It is sad that those black-clothed guards who had eaten Lao Li's food found it inedible and miserable when they ate their usual food.

Angmar tremblingly picked up the wine glass and brought it to his mouth.More than half of the wine was spilled halfway, and in the end there was only a small sip left, which he drank down in one gulp.The coarsely brewed grain wine has a light yellow color and is spicy from the throat to the stomach.

Commander Fang handed a steamed bun to Angmar's hand, preparing to use chopsticks to pick up the food for him.Angmar has been in this state for the past few days. It can't even eat if no one feeds it.After regaining some mobility in my limbs, I was able to pick up relatively large objects like steamed buns, but it was obviously impossible to use chopsticks.

The other leader of Angmar shook his head and stretched out his hand towards the pair of chopsticks.

"Are you sure, Your Excellency?" The round-faced monk's hand stopped midway, watching his movements, and asked inquiringly.

Angmar said nothing and tried to pick up the chopsticks with his right hand.

"Crack" the chopsticks fell.

Angmar kept trying.

The crisp sound of chopsticks falling on the table was heard endlessly. Angmar looked as usual and tried again and again.Finally, after failing countless times, I took it in my hand tremblingly.

"There's always a first time for everything, isn't there?"

Angmar stretched his chopsticks towards the fried eggplant on the table, picked it up steadily, and brought it to his mouth.

"crack"

The eggplant fell on the table.