Doomsday courtyard begins to survive by planting pea shooters

Chapter 237 Falling Legend

"Goodbye my Nie Li, goodbye..."

"Please don't give birth to a child behind my back, please..."

"Wait for me to come back, you must wait for me to come back!"

"Love you."

"..."

Hopper was clingy for a long time, and finally said goodbye to the female gorilla with a nice voice under the gaze of the "Great Eye of Fire".

"Are you done?" Xiao Jian asked.

"Well..."

"Then let's go."

After that, Xiao Jian spread his wings with a bang, grabbed Hopper and flew straight into the sky.

Not long after, Xiao Jian returned to the place where the Black Light War took place.

From here on, it will be Hopper's turn, and Xiao Jian will follow...

After all, in Hopper's memory, the road to the Holy Maiden Peak is connected by various senses of touch, smell, hearing and even taste, and there is no visual signal that can be described.

According to its description, the road is "first cold, then a little salty, and then there will be a breeze..."

Therefore, although Xiao Jian estimated that the absolute path from here to the Holy Maiden Peak would not be very long, he still had to move slowly at the speed of Hopper and the others.

After Hopper was put on the ground, he vomited for a while and then began to lead the way.

It seems that after the last embarrassing incident, Hopper has adapted to flying a little.

After that, there was a long silence.

"You seem a little depressed?" Xiao Jian asked.

"... Indeed." Hopper sighed, "I'm worried about Nie Li."

"She's safe."

"Indeed... But I'm not worried about that, I'm worried that she will give birth to a child without my knowledge." Hopper said worriedly.

"So what? Can't you just wait until you go back and have another child with her?" Xiao Jian was a little confused.

"But that will take a long time... She won't have another child until the child reaches adulthood - at least 2 years." Hopper explained.

"Then isn't it the same if you give birth to someone else?" Xiao Jian was still a little curious about the social ecology of Hopper and the others.

After all, this peculiar ethical view has a little bit of vague morality and rules, but not much - it can be said that it is basically on the line between humans and animals.

"It's different, Nie Li is... different, only she is different." Hopper shook his head.

"Is this love...?" Xiao Jian was quite amused, of course not the kind of laugh, just thought... quite interesting.

"Maybe." Hopper sighed.

The smile on Xiao Jian's face froze. He originally thought Hopper would ask "What is love", but he didn't expect the other party to directly acquiesce?

"Do you know love? Do you know what this word means?"

"Of course." Hopper replied, "Like, need, want to be with her forever... and then have countless children until you can't have them anymore."

"... If she is willing to have children only for you, then would you be willing to have children only with her?" Xiao Jian was very curious about this question.

"Of course!" Hopper seemed a little excited when he said this, "If you can!"

"Oh~"

Xiao Jian understood.

He was willing to give up the entire forest for a tree... This is indeed love.

Or is this the most primitive form of love?

"In our place, this kind of love that is responsible for only one person is called marriage." Xiao Jian asked, "Do you want to marry Nie Li?"

"...Marriage? Marriage?"

Hopper digested these two words for a while, and suddenly became excited: "When we come back safely, I will go to Nie Li to marry!"

"..."

Hopper said happily.

Xiao Jian opened his mouth when he heard it...as if he wanted to say something.

"Go get married when you come back safely" is not a good thing to say, my friend!

At this moment, Xiao Jian always felt that Hopper's back was full of flags...He suddenly regretted teaching him this word.

But what dangers will there be?

Xiao Jian didn't say anything, and then Hopper fell into silence.

Only this time, Hopper's mental state was much better, and even his walking speed became much faster, looking very motivated.

Occasionally, Xiao Jian could see Hopper's lips moving, and the shape of his mouth seemed to be the word he had just learned:

Marriage, get married when you come back, find Nie Li to marry when you come back...

It's over, brother, do you still think you don't have enough flags on your body?

Xiao Jian couldn't help but interrupt, "Why is the Holy Maiden Peak called the Holy Maiden Peak? According to your description, it should be a place with more developed trade...but why is it called such a strange name?"

"Oh, because of the Holy Lady." Hopper said as a matter of course, "Without the protection of the Holy Lady, how could there be trade? Wouldn't it be easier to just rob?"

"Oh?" At this point, Xiao Jian became a little interested, "Then how did she establish her authority?"

"Killing people." Hopper said easily, "I heard that when she fell hundreds of years ago, she killed all the lords around, and then set up rules and sheltered the weak who sought her help...as long as they were willing to pay taxes."

"Of course, I heard that the word tax was also brought by her. Or in other words, many words were brought by the Holy Lady..."

"For example, love?" Xiao Jian interrupted.

"...Maybe." Hopper shrugged.

"Has anyone provoked her? Or have you heard of her deeds?" Xiao Jian asked.

"Yes, but those are all legends. At least since I was born, I have never seen anyone dare to challenge her majesty."

"oh……"

Xiao Jian nodded.

But at this point, Hopper's conversation gradually became more interesting, and he complimented Xiao Jian:

"Your arrival has also brought a new order to this wild land, so you will definitely become a legend..."

"Legend?" Xiao Jian was keenly aware of the particularity of this word, "What is that?"

"Uh..." Hopper was stunned for a moment when he was asked, and finally said after hesitating for a long time, "I don't know how to describe it, but a great person like the Saint is a legend... but a legend is not necessarily a great person. ”

"What about the gods? Are they stronger or weaker than the great ones?" Xiao Jian continued to ask.

"Gods?" When it comes to this word, Hopper is not so awe-inspiring, "As long as they can accommodate faith, they call themselves gods... Gods can be very strong or very weak, but most powerful gods don't like to be called gods. They like to call themselves great."

"..."

Xiao Jian understands this statement very well...

For example, the word "noble" was definitely more popular at first.

And as the killers began to call themselves "nobles", the value of the word began to decline.

As soon as commercial names such as "Blue Diamond Noble" appeared, the word was completely disenchanted and no longer linked to identity or social status.

Apparently, in the Blackstone Mountains, a similar disenchantment process has occurred with the word "gods", so much so that the real "gods" began to hate it and rebranded themselves as great.

After all, the threshold for greatness is still a little high. You must at least be at the level of [Pseudo God] to call yourself a great one.

Just like when a certain kind of luxury goods that only a few people could afford begins to become widespread, new and more expensive luxury goods will emerge as the times require.

After all, this kind of thing originally existed to show off status. When the public can afford it, the people who originally used it will abandon it.

"Are there many gods in the Blackstone Mountains?"

"Yes, there are many, but they all come one after another. New gods will appear every time, and old gods will disappear."

"Even I have witnessed the fall of the old gods and the rise of the new gods with my own eyes..."

At this point, Hopper's voice gradually weakened.

"There is a new god behind the Calamity Stone Tribe...if it continues to expand its influence, it will soon become the ruler of the surrounding area."

Hopper suddenly turned around, looked at Xiao Jian and said enthusiastically: "However, only the gods will eventually fall. Only the great ones exist forever and remain unchanged..."

"..."

It has to be said that such direct admiration is much more sincere than the convoluted flattering prayers of the black-haired brawny man, which made Xiao Jian feel a little embarrassed.

Well, you can upgrade to human Hopper.

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In the following time, Xiao Jian followed Hopper on a several-day "trip."

There was almost no danger encountered during this period.

Xiao Jian originally wanted to kill a few more monsters and get a few more attribute cards.

Speaking of attribute cards, by the way, after Xiao Jian used the previous three attribute cards, his strength, agility, and endurance increased by 1 point each.

Since his agility reached 51 points, Xiao Jian's attack power also increased slightly by 1 point, reaching 63 points.

With the exchanges in the past few days, Xiao Jian also began to establish some preliminary understanding of the Black Rock Mountains.

According to Hopper, the Blackstone Mountains are endless and endless.

There are countless monsters, gods, great people, and even some more powerful, ancient, and terrifying things existing on this continent.

However, in Hopper's more than ten years of career, he has never seen any great person, including the saint, and he has never seen any self-proclaimed god.

As for those ancient legends, they were just legends to him. At least he felt that he would never see the so-called mysterious, terrifying and powerful "ancient one" in his lifetime.

However, Xiao Jian feels that these legends may not be true.

After all, in this dangerous Blackstone Mountains, the iteration speed of each ethnic group is very fast, just like the "Saint Girl" only existed for more than a hundred years. For a civilization like Hopper, whose life span generally does not exceed 25 years old , it is already considered to be of the "eternal" level.

What Xiao Jian is interested in is whether the class above the [True God] are those "ancient ones"?

As for fog, fog walls, world fragments and other things that Xiao Jian is familiar with, he has no concept at all in this black stone mountain range.

However, "fire" and "light" still exist in Hopper's language system, and even words such as "blue sky and white clouds" and "sun, moon and stars" that do not exist in this world also exist.

What does this show?

Recalling that Hopper once mentioned that the "Saint" "fell" into this world, is it possible that all races in the Blackstone Mountains "fell"?

With such questions, after several days of trekking, Xiao Jian finally arrived at Saintess Peak.

This place is completely different from the bustling trading market he imagined. Most of the places here are still dark, except for some cave settlements in the surrounding mountains.

These settlements basically exist in racial units, and they are distinct from each other and live in peace.

"Why don't you move here? Doesn't the saint protect the weaker races?" Xiao Jian asked.

"...The problem is that we are too weak and can't even pay taxes." Hopper said with a wry smile.

"Oh...too."

Xiao Jian nodded.

Because he noticed that the basic attributes of the members of the cave settlement could at least reach the level of 2-star monsters. Compared with Hopper and his 005 naked attributes, they were nowhere near high.

Under the leadership of Hopper, the two bypassed the settlements and finally arrived at the foot of the highest mountain in the entire area.

Here, there is a huge cave with extremely exquisite decoration. The entrance of the cave is blocked by a thick stone door, leaving only a small entrance two people high.

Xiao Jian noticed that the door of this small entrance was made of wood!

Its material looks very much like the kind of plants that popped up all over the mountains and plains after the previous disaster. It is made of pressed plants...

Or in other words - particle board, this is more vivid.

"The entrance tax is 20 pesos."

An "Elephant Man" with a long nose and heavy obsidian armor said in its deep voice.

"What is a peso?" Xiao Jian asked in a low voice.

"This is the currency here...take it, it's 40 pesos in total."

Hopper touched his belly, then took out a stack of shiny metal discs and handed them to the giant-headed elephant man.

"Go in." With that said, the Elephant Man opened the wooden door next to him.

After entering, Xiao Jian vaguely felt that there seemed to be light coming from him... and when he turned a corner, the front suddenly became clear!

There is actually light!

The source of the light is several huge torches.

No wonder Hopper and his colleagues have the concept of "fire" in their language system, and no wonder their eyes have not completely degenerated...

It turns out there really is light here.

It's just that this kind of light is very luxurious.

According to Hopper's introduction, the 20 pesos entry fee is basically equivalent to a week's rations for more than 50 people in their entire village!

One person, just to enter the city for half a day, needs more than 50 people's food rations for a week! !

Yes, that's right……

It’s actually limited time here!

20 pesos only lasts half a day! Even if it is 1 minute overtime, 20 pesos will be added!

This light is so luxurious.

However, apart from the light, this place was completely different from the prosperity Xiao Jian imagined. Not only were there not many intelligent creatures walking around on the streets, but there were even very few shops, and it didn't look like a commercial center at all.

Moreover, the entire cave is a bit small, which is quite large for Hopper and his family's living conditions, but for Xiao Jian, who is used to large supermarkets, this cave is a bit too cramped.

"Where are we going?" Xiao Jian asked.

"That old liar often moves down the street, we have to go down from there..."

Hopper pointed deep into the cave.

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