fifth form

Chapter 2025: Filling the Belly
Everyone faces different conditions and has different cognitions. Zhang Xuezhou rarely scolds others out of frustration.

The slaves died in a miserable way, which was also due to being tortured to the point of having no strength left.

No matter how determined or wise you are, they will be useless. Once they are captured and starved for a few days, they will return to their original form and then revert to their human survival instinct.

When extremely hungry, humans can even eat dirt, let alone do something low-level.

Integrity, humiliation, honor and disgrace are all luxuries. Even wanting your body to be preserved intact after death is difficult.

Zhang Xuezhou would certainly not help the dead or those who had no desire to live, and he rarely did things that had no benefit.

If the two can overlap in reverse, everything will fall into place.

Just a moment later, Zhang Xuezhou changed his fur coats with the two skinny men who were dragging the corpse, and prepared to look for the Parashorea chinensis that the two men had mentioned.

"See if you can find some Brahma lilies. Lead the way!"

Zhang Xuezhou pointed to the snowy mountains outside the darkness.

"If you can find the Brahma Lotus, I will show you the direction to Yanmen Pass. As long as you ride your horse for about 600 miles, you will see Yanmen Pass and return to the Han Dynasty!"

Zhang Xuezhou was not lost at the moment. The six hundred miles he pointed to was indeed six hundred miles in a straight line.

In this non-winding area, it is not particularly difficult to run in a straight line.

Now that he had been given a chance to survive, Zhang Xuezhou also hoped that these two men could give him a chance to fill his stomach.

Lacking demonic power and magic power, Zhang Xuezhou's body was very weak at the moment, and he could not come up with any other good means except deterrence and suppression.

This time he went to West Kunlun to cry poor. He had nothing on him except a set of heavenly clothes and a medicine gourd for safekeeping. He was penniless and his means were extremely limited.

Zhang Xuezhou can't help many people, but he is willing to assist each other if there is an exchange of interests between the two sides.

"Could this lord..."

"Let's go!"

One of the thin men still wanted Zhang Xuezhou to show his power, while the other thin man saw something and turned to lead the way.

One of these two men was named Ma Lang and the other Niu Xun. Both were descendants of lowly people who were exiled for committing crimes. Even their names meant cattle and horses. Both of them made a living by farming in the frontier.

Ma Lang and Niu Xun believed that they were not living a human life on the frontier. When they were harassed by a small army group from the evil country, they did not resist strongly and were also captured by the evil countrymen.

You wouldn't know unless you compared. Only after they went abroad did they realize that life abroad was simply not human.

It’s not a question of whether they want to or not, or whether they work hard or not, but the vicious people here don’t see them as human beings at all.

Those who can work will be forced to work. Those who can't work will be pickled and eaten with their skin and flesh. Some human skins with better texture will be made into whips, swords and costumes, and heads with intact parts will be used as containers.

For those who are still influenced by Eastern culture, they will not have peace even after death.

The two had no feelings about living, but were extremely afraid of the torture after death.

Now that there was a chance to escape, the two led the way without any hesitation.

Stumbling and bumping, the two men took Zhang Xuezhou towards the snow-capped mountains.

"The Brahma Lotus only appears during the snowy season. Some people in Xiong country rely on eating this food to survive the winter. Although it has the word 'lotus' in its name, it has nothing to do with lotus. At most, it is a little similar to a lotus pod that has not bloomed..."

Ma Lang had a little more experience, and he kept muttering everything he knew along the way.

Niu Xun walked ahead with his head down, constantly searching in the dark for the direction of picking the Parashorea chinensis as mentioned by the Xiong people.

"The color of the Parashorea chinensis is similar to snow, so it is difficult to find it during the day when it is hidden in the snow. It will emit a faint fragrance at night, and you can follow the scent to find it!" Ma Lang pointed at the cow smoke that was sniffing on the left and right, and also mentioned the method used by the cow smoke to find it.

"By smell?"

When searching for herbs and medicines, flying cannot perform the same search as sweeping the carpet, and too much will be overlooked when flying quickly.

But if you can rely on your sense of smell to find it, the role of flying will undoubtedly be greatly enhanced.

It just so happened that Zhang Xuezhou was good at identifying medicinal materials, and his sensitivity to taste, medicinal properties, smell, etc. was much stronger than that of ordinary people.

He took a deep breath of the air and felt that there was indeed a faint fragrance mixed in it that was easy to ignore.

Perhaps because it is too far away, the fragrance is too faint, even so weak that a normal person cannot perceive it through breathing.

Zhang Xuezhou looked at the wind direction and signaled the two to continue their exploration.

He leaped up and flew against the wind.

The wind in the snow-capped mountains is not the northwest wind that most people imagine, but it changes according to the terrain, and there are even swirling winds.

It was not easy for Zhang Xuezhou to search for medicinal herbs against the wind by relying on his sense of smell.

It took Zhang Xuezhou nearly a quarter of an hour to find the source of the fragrance.

This is indeed the lotus-like plant that Ma Lang described. It is snow-white in color and is extremely difficult to distinguish among the snow.

"This kind of stuff grows in large quantities. As long as you can eat it, it will keep you full for two or three days!"

The reason why rumors become rumors is that they are passed around, and some things deviate from their original truth after continuous fermentation.

Zhang Xuezhou looked at the growing bunch of Brahma lilies and then pulled one out.

He chewed it with a frown, and felt as if he was chewing ice chips, with a slightly bitter taste and a hint of sweetness.

The bitter taste with a hint of sweetness is a rough sign of whether it can be a medicine or a poison. For ordinary people, this kind of Brahmaputra can be eaten but not too much, otherwise it will cause poison.

Zhang Xuezhou didn't care about the toxicity issue. Any weak toxicity would be directly neutralized by the Anti-Poison Technique. Even he would have a hard time figuring out the toxic effects.

He frowned and ate three of them before he felt a little more hot sensation in his stomach.

"The Brahma Lotus has a fire poison, no wonder it can keep out the cold!"

There is no problem in eating Parashorea chinensis in the snow and ice, as the biting cold wind will constantly collide and offset the fire poison. However, eating Parashorea chinensis in a mild climate will cause the fire poison to attack the heart. If you eat more, it is not surprising that you will get poisonous sores all over your body.

With a simple identification, Zhang Xuezhou already understood the nature of the Parashorea chinensis.

In addition to its medicinal effects, the function of this snow herb is to fill your stomach.

What Ma Lang and Niu Xun saw and heard was relatively correct, but they did not hear the shortcomings clearly.

If they relied on constantly eating the Brahma lotus to escape to the Han Dynasty, the heat in their bodies would cause fire poison to attack their hearts and cause physical illness, and it would be normal for them to die on the way.

This herb is suitable for curling up in the cold winter to save your life during the winter, or it needs to be eaten in a certain amount to avoid death.

Zhang Xuezhou picked up this bunch of Brahma truncatum and picked out two more.

The extra one is for him to eat to replenish his body, and the other two are for Ma Lang and Niu Xun. Zhang Xuezhou will also teach them how to take this herb correctly, but whether these two can escape back to the Han Dynasty is their own business.

Thinking about the fact that the Xiong people ate human flesh during the winter due to lack of food, Zhang Xuezhou felt that the number of people eating raw meat and drinking blood in the west was increasing.

He could only hurry up and travel through this territory, lest he fail to hide well and be picked up by others when the time came.