Ordinary people can also be extraordinary

Zhang Chen ran forward at full speed until it was dark and he could not see the road clearly. Then he found a big tree, climbed up to a high place and found a branch to cross his legs to practice. Then he set off as soon as the sun rose. He ran for five hours in a row, almost 200 kilometers, and was exhausted. He only rested when he ran out of the jungle.

"They shouldn't be able to catch up with me now." Zhang Chen looked at the plain in front of him. There was no road ahead, so he walked towards his hometown.

At this time, Lu Jun and another person were waiting at the entrance of the jungle.

"What is Zhou Yang doing? Why hasn't he come back yet? Is there something wrong?"

"With his level of cultivation, it shouldn't be a problem for him to encounter that guy. Even if something happens, he should be able to escape unscathed." Lu Jun said as he looked at the road ahead.

"Wait another hour. If he doesn't come back we will go find him."

At this moment, Zhou Yang was seen walking towards them from a distance with his head down and eyes full of resentment.

"What's wrong with you? Why did you come back so late? Have you seen that boy?" Lu Jun asked hurriedly when he saw this.

Zhou Yang recounted his experience.

"What? You were robbed by him, you loser. You can't even deal with a newcomer. Now he has been running for so long, you can't catch up with him even if you want to." Lu Jun looked very disappointed. He didn't expect this result.

Zhang Chen walked along the plain for another three days, crossing several rivers and climbing several mountains. He finally saw human habitation. He asked for the location and headed towards the town. He passed several villages and saw the children playing in the villages. Zhang Chen couldn't help but think of the scenes in his hometown.

When it was almost dark in the evening, we finally reached the town. The town was called Shuitian Town. It was quite lively at night, with many people selling animal skins and prey in large and small bags.

Zhang Chen walked around the town and found an inn called Zai Shui Yi Fang to have a good rest. The inn was almost full, and he finally managed to free up a room.

I have been sleeping on trees for the past few days, and my body smells bad. I took a shower, changed clothes, and asked the waiter to buy a map of Daqing. I lay on the bed and read it.

"From the map, it looks like we are still at least 2,000 kilometers away from Youshui County. We definitely can't walk there. Let's see if we can think of a solution tomorrow."

Zhang Chen put the map into his storage bag and sat cross-legged on the bed to practice. He had been practicing magic and body skills recently, and his own cultivation had fallen behind. The fifth level of Qi Condensation required ten more acupoints to be opened than the fourth level. Zhang Chen had been traveling these days and did not dare to calm down to practice.

The next morning came in a flash, Zhang Chen got up from the bed and washed up. He had opened up five acupoints last night, and thinking about the journey tomorrow, he took a good rest for the last few hours.

Walking out of the room, Zhang Chen knew yesterday that a caravan from the county town was buying animal hides and prey in the town. They would leave for the county town in the next few days. Zhang Chen planned to go to the county town with them to avoid getting lost easily by himself. He would buy a house in the county town and bring his parents over. This place is close to the sect and much safer.

In the center of town, in the largest and most luxurious inn, two people were talking.

"Miss, why don't you go back quickly? The master is here to urge you again."

A middle-aged man next to him said, he was wearing a blue robe, and looked to be less than fifty years old. He looked at the woman next to him with helplessness.

"Uncle Mo, I will go back with the caravan tomorrow. I saw a white fox in the south yesterday. I will definitely hunt it today."

The girl said, put on her quiver and walked towards the backyard. The girl was about eighteen years old, with thick eyebrows, a high nose bridge, a well-defined face, and slightly plump lips. She was wearing tight men's clothes, and her movements were neat and heroic.

The middle-aged man shook his head helplessly. The girl's name was Li Yingnan. She was the only daughter of Li Qian, a wealthy businessman in the county. The Li family ran many businesses, basically covering food, clothing, housing and transportation. Li Yingnan was a daughter born in his old age, so she was usually very pampered.

Zhang Chen asked around in the town and learned that the caravan would leave for the county town tomorrow. Many people were going to go with the caravan. The border town was far from the county town, and with few people, it was easy to get into danger. The caravan would be much safer if it had guards escorting it.

Zhang Chen returned to the inn and went into his room to practice. If the caravan had to wait for a few more days, he would not wait. After all, there was only one month, and he was worried that the time would not be enough for the round trip. Since they were leaving tomorrow, they did not care about this day.

The next morning, Zhang Chen watched the caravan's carriages drive out of the town gate one after another, each carriage was fully loaded with goods. There were horse guards in front and behind the carriages. Those guards were dressed in tight clothes, had sharp eyes, rode fast horses, and had steel knives on their waists. They looked very majestic.

There were two luxuriously decorated carriages in the middle of the horse team, followed by guards. Judging from the expressions of the guards, the people sitting in these two carriages should be the leaders of this caravan.

Zhang Chen followed the others and walked behind the caravan. Seeing that Zhang Chen was so young and alone, the people walking next to him invited him to get on the carriage. They started chatting with him out of curiosity. Zhang Chen just said that he was going to the county town to visit relatives.

The people around him started chatting. Those middle-aged men talked about women every three sentences, and they were full of dirty jokes, which made Zhang Chen blush. They also said that they would take Zhang Chen to Piaoxiangyuan in the county city to have fun, but Zhang Chen refused, which made them laugh.

Shuitian Town is 300 miles away from the county town. At the current speed, it will take three days to get there. Zhang Chen sat there carelessly, looking at the surrounding scenery.

After walking for a day, the caravan arrived at a place called Erhu Mountain, named after the two mountains that resembled tigers. The caravan camped there to rest for the night and set off again the next day.

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of horses' hooves in the distance, and it sounded like there were a lot of horses coming. The sound came from far away and many people looked forward, and the sound of horses' hooves was accompanied by shouts.

Many experienced people turned pale when they heard this sound.

"These are horse bandits. The horse bandits are coming."

Everyone panicked when they heard the horse bandits were coming. They looked at each other, not knowing what to do. They could only look towards the caravan ahead, hoping that the guards could fight off the horse bandits.

Zhang Chen jumped off the carriage and walked forward. From time to time, he heard the sound of metal striking and screams in front of him, which made the people behind him tremble.

A few minutes later, a dozen bandits rushed over, naked from the waist up, holding long knives, some of which were stained with blood. They looked at Zhang Chen and his men like a group of pigs and dogs waiting to be slaughtered, with cruel smiles on their faces and cold and ruthless eyes.

"Except for the young women, kill all the others."

One of them raised his long knife, spoke suddenly, and then rode his horse towards them.

The crowd instantly became chaotic and everyone ran away desperately, not daring to resist at all.

Zhang Chen looked at the bandits, his face instantly turned cold. He was too familiar with the looks in their eyes, just like the bugs that attacked the city in Zhang Chen's hometown, bloodthirsty and cruel, treating human life as worthless.