Hanging up and cultivating immortality in the troubled times

Chapter 1 Moderate games benefit the brain, addicting games hurts the body

In the third year of Da Qi, Qian and Ning, there was a severe drought in the world.

There is no rain in the twelve green states in the north for half a year, the rivers dry up, there is famine everywhere, and people eat each other.

The people are in dire straits, and rebels are rising everywhere.

……

The scorching sun is in the sky, and there are no clouds in the sky.

In the east of Heyang County, on the bank of Huaihe River.

Hundreds of shirtless men are digging the river channel. Most of them are stooped and the outline of their ribs is clearly visible, but they still have to do hard work in this hot weather.

Lu Heng was walking unsteadily while pushing a cart of earth and rocks. At 15 years old, he looked very thin and fragile, as fragile as weeds in the wind. It seemed that he might fall to the ground at any time.

It was obvious that he was almost exhausted and had been malnourished for a long time.

Heavy labor such as digging river channels and pushing earth and rocks was very difficult for him, but he could only grit his teeth and persevere.

After all, this corvee was forced by the government, and ordinary people had no room to resist.

"When will this day end? I don't know how my mother and sister are doing..." Lu Heng sighed in his heart. He was accidentally hit by a stone and fell to the ground. The cart of earth and rocks also fell to the ground. Spilled.

He was already weak, but now he was working hard for days, his rations were withheld, and he didn't have enough to eat every day. Now he suddenly fell down, and he felt dizzy and almost fainted.

But at this time...

Snapped!
A sound broke through the air, and a whip struck Lu Heng hard on the back.

"what!"

Lu Heng immediately raised his head and screamed, his body suddenly tensed up, burning pain came from his back, and his whole body trembled involuntarily.

"Little guy, you want to be lazy?" An official in public uniform held a whip in his hand, looked down at Lu Heng on the ground with disdain, and snorted, "Why don't you bulldoze the earth and dig the river with others!"

Digging rivers is much harder and more tiring than bulldozing. With Lu Heng's physique, he will definitely die from exhaustion.

"I..." Lu Heng endured the severe pain and tried to defend himself.

But when he opened his mouth, he found that he couldn't make a sound. He was extremely weak, and his vision became increasingly blurry. He felt a sharp pain in his heart, and then he fell into endless darkness and became unconscious again.

"I can't do it, I can't do it."

At this time, a strong middle-aged man trotted over and supported Lu Heng who was about to fall to the ground. At the same time, he smiled with a smile on his face, nodded and bowed, and saluted the official with great humility.

"Master Cha, my little brother has been weak since he was a child. If you let him dig a river channel, wouldn't it cost him his life? You have a lot of them, hehe..."

As he spoke, he quietly stuffed two steamed cakes into the official's hands and said in a low voice, "Master Cha, these are all the little ones saved with great effort. I'll give them to you as a gift."

"Oh?" The officer narrowed his eyes, pinched the two steamed cakes gently, then accepted them and nodded slightly, "Okay, watch this little thing next and don't let him make any mistakes again."

After that, he took the two steamed cakes and left, walking very quickly, as if he couldn't wait.

Steamed cakes are a ration only available to hard laborers who dig rivers. They are also a rare good thing for low-level subordinates. In normal times, an official on duty may not be able to eat two steamed cakes for more than ten days.

The middle-aged man finally breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to say a few words of comfort to Lu Heng when he found that the boy he was supporting had stiffened, his eyes were closed, and he was not breathing. He was suddenly shocked.

"Brother Lu, Brother Lu, are you okay?" The middle-aged man shook Lu Heng gently, feeling an ominous premonition in his heart and feeling even more desolate.

When doing corvee work, it was very common to be exhausted, not to mention not having enough to eat every day.

This kind of thing happens every three or four days since the canal construction started.

But why is it always the person next to me?

He was the big brother who took care of him for a long time a few days ago. Is he the little brother who has a good relationship with him this time?

At this moment, Lu Heng, who seemed to be dead just now, suddenly moved, his breathing returned to normal, and his eyes slowly opened, but his eyes flickered a little, as if he was panicked.

He swallowed, as if to calm down, then took a deep breath, gritted his teeth, and said reluctantly, "Brother Liu, I'm fine."

"You, you didn't, no, Brother Lu, you just..." Liu Si's eyes widened when he saw this, and then he laughed again, patting Lu Heng's shoulder lightly, "Oh, Brother Lu, you are so scary It’s killing me, haha!”

As he spoke, he quietly took out a piece of steamed cake from his arms, stuffed it directly into Lu Heng's sleeve, and said in a low voice, "Take care of yourself and eat it when no one is around. Don't let anyone see it."

Without waiting for Lu Heng to respond, Liu Si hurried to the edge of the river, grabbed it and continued to work hard.

"..." Lu Heng looked at Liu Si's back in silence, then looked at the busy hard laborers around him, as well as the supervisor's shed on the high platform in the distance, and finally looked down at his hands full of calluses and wounds, feeling in his heart I just feel so unbelievable.

"How the hell did I time travel?!"

……

night.

The hard laborers who had worked all day slept on the edge of the river, with only simple straw sheds as cover.

However, in order to prevent the slave laborers from getting into trouble with each other, the huts were far apart and the slave laborers were not allowed to communicate with each other.Lu Heng secretly ate the steamed cakes given by Liu Si and lay down in a thatched hut. There was already thunderous snoring next to him, but he couldn't fall asleep at all. He looked at the roof of the hut, his eyes empty, and he was lost in thought.

"How did you cross over?"

Half a day ago, he was still living a magical life on earth, eating, sleeping and playing games every day. He planned to go to the sister he met in "The Cold Water" next week to show up. He even booked the air tickets and hotels, and specially prepared them. Small umbrella.

How can this go?
"Fortunately, I am an orphan. Otherwise, how sad would my parents be?" Lu Heng closed his eyes and pressed his temples, and began to think about his current situation. "My name is still Lu Heng now. Hey, I am also an orphan, but I am well-educated." parents.

"My adoptive father was forcibly drafted by the military governor of Zhaoyang six months ago and became a civilian husband to conquer the rebellious Kangzhou governor. His life and death are still uncertain. Now there are only my adoptive mother and adopted sister in the family besides me. Our life is very poor. Recently, the price of food has dropped. It has skyrocketed. If it weren’t for the help of an uncle, I would probably be unable to open the pot.

"Now that I have been drafted into the corvee again, I have to bring my own dry food to repair the canals. The situation at home is even worse. The government nominally says that the corvee will be provided with one meal of rations every day, but in fact, it only takes three or four days to give out a piece of steamed cake, which is not enough at all. My predecessor died suddenly from exhaustion and hunger... What kind of hell is this?
"Why don't you give me a cheat? What about a beep or a ding? If you are still loading, at least remind me...hell, there really isn't one, right? You gave Qidian so many system articles rewards for nothing. The leader!"

Of course, complaints are complaints, and he is still thinking carefully about his next way out.

It's definitely not okay to continue doing hard labor here.

With such a small body, he will probably be exhausted in a few days.

But there is no way to escape by running away.

The only way out of the river canal is guarded by more than 100 county government officers. Anyone who dares to escape will be hacked to death on the spot.

However, even if he did escape, it seemed useless.

Ordinary people could not leave their hometowns without a road guide issued by the government, let alone being conscripted into corvee service.

If caught by the officers and soldiers, he would be thrown into jail, tortured with a cane, and his skin would have to be peeled off even if he did not die.

"These days, those who can freely leave their hometowns and travel around the world are not only famous scholars and masters of aristocratic families, but also disciples of martial arts sects recognized by the imperial court, and those monks who hold ultimatums... With my current situation, In this situation, I can’t get these identity documents no matter what.”

The more Lu Heng thought about it, the more helpless he became, feeling that there were dead ends everywhere.

Without the golden finger, it would have been impossible for him to get out of his current predicament, and he would have had no choice but to continue doing hard labor until he died of exhaustion and starvation.

Outrageous!

At this moment, he suddenly felt a blur in front of his eyes, and a translucent light curtain appeared with two text prompts on it.

【congratulations! The idle game of "Cultivation of Immortality" has been started. 】

【Moderate game benefit the brain, indulge game beverages.Turn on automatic hang-up and enjoy a better life. 】

"Fuck?!"

Lu Hengteng sat up in an instant and almost exclaimed, his heart filled with ecstasy, "Golden Finger, there really is a golden finger!"

Full of excitement, he suppressed his silence and hurriedly lay down again to avoid others discovering his abnormality, and then began to study the function of this golden finger.

At this time, the two text prompts had disappeared, and a blurry picture composed of pixels was displayed on the light screen.

In the center is a large river that runs up and down. The edges on both sides are endless mountain patterns. The area between the river and the mountains is patterned with woods, grasslands, lakes, cities, and the like.

Lu Heng noticed that there was only one character in this picture, which was a small pixel man standing by the river, with a level displayed above his head.

[Level 0 (0/100)]

There is a small sword circling around the villain.

"What does this game mean?" He frowned slightly and found that he could not perform any operations on this villain. He seemed to be able to only watch and hang up like this, feeling very confused.

Whoa!

At this moment, the big river in the game suddenly stirred up a splash of water, and a monster with a human body and a fish head jumped out and rushed towards the villain.

Then, he hit the small sword that was circling around the villain, and was chopped into two pieces on the spot, turning into a white light and disappearing.

Immediately afterwards, a prompt appeared on the light screen.

[Kill the "Fish-Headed Demon".Experience +1, fish +1]

[Includes new monsters +1, bonus spell "Raincalling Spell"]

[Raincalling Curse: A low-level spell that can be cast on the first level of the Qi Refining Stage.It can attract a dark cloud covering a radius of one foot to rain. The more magic power is applied, the wider the coverage area of ​​the dark cloud and the stronger the rain. 】

[Includes new map +1, bonus spell "Wind Calling Curse"]

[Wind Calling Curse: A low-level spell that can be cast on the first level of Qi refining stage.It can summon a storm that covers a one-foot radius. The more magic power is applied, the wider the storm's coverage and the stronger the wind. 】

Spell? !
Qi refining period? !

Calling for rain and wind? !
Lu Heng's eyes suddenly widened and his breathing suddenly became heavy.

He found that he could bring the fish meat and spell secrets he had just obtained into reality with just a thought.

This means that as long as you get the immortal cultivation techniques in the game, you can become an immortal yourself!
　Newbie, new book, please support! !

　　
　
(End of this chapter)