Chapter 195 194. Longquan

When Lan En entered the rift between the celestial spheres amid the smile of the lady in the lake, it was already approaching the afternoon and the sun was shining brightly.

But with one step, the world changes. The young man raised his head and discerned the sunlight among the lush leaves. It was seven or eight o'clock in the morning.

The time between worlds changes constantly. This subject seems too far away even for the magicians in Aretusari who refine the concepts of space and time.

The biggest achievement of those guys in the field of time and space so far is the lady's handbag in Margarita's hand.

Maybe you can understand this issue only if you have Gunter O'Deim's level of ability to truly freeze time.

The place where Lan En is located is an empty mountain forest, where the main plant is bamboo.

A few steps to the side, you can see the forest steps paved with bluestones. This shows that there are intelligent creatures in this world, that is, the lady in the lake needs him to 'work'.

Lan En didn't know whether to be happy or depressed. He picked up his belongings and watched with his own eyes the scene like broken glass disappearing in the celestial sphere's intersection, before he walked towards the stone path.

Different from the situation without intelligent creatures, he only needs to survive in the wilderness within a limited area, and the beasts will not run around.

However, the actions of intelligent creatures are unpredictable. Instead of passive contact, it is better to actively explore.

It is said that mountains in different countries have different temperaments, and Lan En feels that he has a say in this.

Not only has he traveled cross-border, he is now traveling across the world.

Based on Lan En's experience, he generally felt that Temeria, or the mountains and forests of Arya's hometown, had a gloomy or grand religious temperament.

Looking from a distance, the towering mountains and the shadow of the clouds in the sky make people feel like they are facing a chapel of nature.

The mountains in my hometown, my hometown, my world, will have a feeling of emptiness and loneliness, high and far away, and I don’t know where I am deep in the clouds.

Lan En slowly went down the stone road. Most of the woods on the left and right were made of bamboo.

The mountains here give Lan En a feeling similar to his hometown, but different.

It's also deep and deep, but most of the mountains in my hometown give people a peaceful and distant feeling. But here, it's weird and desolate.

In the shadowy gaps between the bamboo forests, the shadows seemed particularly gloomy.

Lan En walked down for about ten minutes, stopped, and raised his head slightly.

"Wow, this is really true"

A slightly stunned expression appeared on Lan En's face. The man-made object in front of Lan En was made of wood. It looked like a solid wooden door frame framed on a bluestone path.

In the widely spread Japanese culture, this doorframe-like building is called a 'torii'. It is a religious building in Shintoism that separates the residence of the gods from the human world.

In other words, this is Japan?

"That really matches the temperament of this kind of mountain forest."

As we all know, Japanese traditional aesthetics - things are sad and miserable.

Lan En took a closer look at this small torii gate and found that this small wooden building seemed to be old, but it was only about ten years old.

"A newly built shrine within a dozen years?"

Lan En dusted off his hands and continued walking down.

After visiting the magical world and Aria's world, Lan En even felt a little uncomfortable when he suddenly returned to the East Asian cultural circle.

"Mentos, can you handle Japanese?"

"Relevant memories are being retrieved. Vocabulary exceeds the minimum standard, and the skill construction in skill building is completed - [Japanese], proficiency -60%."

Lan En, who had Mentos, had a photographic memory. All the words and phrases that had been skipped in animations and movies emerged at this time.

60% proficiency level. Although you may not be familiar with those verbose honorific variations in Japanese, normal communication should be no problem.

Covering his forehead slightly, Lan En rubbed his temples with his fingers.

The gene seeds seemed to not only bring about a slow increase in physical fitness, but Lan En's brain endurance was also improved through the [Memory Dive] time after time.

The improvement of Space Marines is all-round.

So after just a few minutes, Lan En's expression calmed down again.

During this period, the young man's footsteps did not stop. He followed the road to the bottom of the mountain.

The surging sound of the river is no longer absorbed by the dense vegetation here, and can be clearly transmitted to the ears of the witcher.

It was a river thirty to forty meters wide, and a water draw station built with stones was set up along the river bank.

There is a thick white rope hanging around the stone of this water-drawing place. Although Lan En doesn't understand much, he thinks it should be some kind of religious tool.

A stone tablet stands next to the place where the water is collected, with the words "Longquan" written in Chinese characters on it.

The words below are difficult to see clearly due to river erosion. However, Lan En still made an inference based on the common characteristics of the East Asian cultural circle.

"'Longquan'? Then this is Longquan River? No, according to the Japanese term. Longquan River? It is a common custom to pay homage to the river."

"But... the smell always feels a bit strange."

There seemed to be a very slight strange smell in the river water, which made the witcher unconsciously pay attention to it.

Lan En stroked the stone tablet engraved with Chinese characters with one hand and murmured in a low voice.

The next moment, his free arm suddenly lifted up to protect the side of his neck!

There was a "ding" sound as steel clashed, and outside the thick arm armor, an arrow had already split into two pieces under the impact and bounced out.

At the same time, a loud shout of death in Japanese came from the forest not far from where the water was drawn.

"Kill! Kill! He is alone!"

"Take courage! Take courage, everyone!"

The roar seemed extremely ferocious and noisy.

But Lan En frowned slightly and didn't seem panicked at all.

"Not scolding, but encouraging? And such messy steps. Farmer?"

Bandits or troops will often use curses to despise and insult their enemies when charging. This is a way to establish a psychological advantage.

It can also be seen from this that they are accustomed to fighting.

But the group of people rushing towards Lan En now only had six or seven footsteps. Their footsteps were messy and they didn't even have a basic formation.

A proper layman.

Finally, the group of people rushed into Lan En's field of vision.

To be honest, the few steps they took had already left them out of breath.

This is an obvious novice symptom. An overly excited mood leads to a loss of physical strength, and one's own legs become weak before even cutting someone.

Lan En was right where he was, standing sideways and looking at them.

He watched expressionlessly as a group of men about 1.5 meters tall and dressed in shabby clothes, holding hatchets, sharp bamboo poles, and even wooden sticks, rushed towards him, roaring and screaming.

Their eyes are usually bloodshot due to excessive excitement, and the leader screams the most ferociously.

Lan En could tell by looking at their expressions that these people were frightened and excited and couldn't listen to anything at all.

With a slight sigh, Lan En grasped the sharp bamboo pole pointed by the leader as if he were receiving the chopsticks handed to him.

Moving to the side, the pointed end brushed against Lan En's waist.

The leader's eyes changed from excitement to horror.

He wanted to stop, put away the gun, and stab again, but this series of actions was simple to put it in, and it would be too difficult for an amateur charging with a gun.

He couldn't stop his legs, and the two-meter-long bamboo pole slipped from Lan En's waist in an instant.

And he also came within reach of Lan En.

As blessed as his soul, the leader raised his head at this moment, and then he realized how tall the man in front of him was.

Then, a big slap fell from the sky, causing his vision to go dark.

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