Chapter 163: Hero
After bidding farewell to the carriage and horse shop, Li Xiuzhu took out the map, confirmed the direction and location of Peach Blossom Town, and went out of the city directly.
It is indeed much more convenient to reach Peach Blossom Town by walking than by horse-drawn carriage, but Lu Tao can probably understand Li Xiuzhu's idea of going to Peach Blossom Town by carriage and horse, after all, he has been going out in this way for all those years.
After hearing that Peach Blossom Town had disappeared, Lu Tao was surprised for a long time, but Li Xiuzhu did not react, which made Lu Tao a little confused, thinking that the key to it should be in the plot that he skipped before, but, plus the part of the northern barbarians in what the little guy said before, Lu Tao could also roughly guess what the situation was, but he didn't know what happened to Li Xiuzhu's mother and his grandfather.
In addition to the city gate, the more you walk in the direction of Peach Blossom Town, the more barren the road becomes, and on a road that no one has walked on anymore, all kinds of weeds have also climbed up, almost flooding the road completely.
In a few years, maybe this road will really disappear.
It seemed that Peach Blossom Town, which was not far away on the map, still took Li Xiuzhu nearly half a day, and when he reached the left of Peach Blossom Town, it was already sunny noon.
"I planted this tree, I opened this road! Stop! Rob it!" A big man jumped out from the side of the road, blocking Li Xiuzhu's way.
Lu Tao: "???"
What's the matter with this robber? Isn't it too unlucky? If the robbery is taken from the monk, it can be regarded as eight lifetimes of bad luck.
Li Xiuzhu stopped, stretched out his hand and took the long sword in his hand, but he didn't have any intention of pulling out the long sword, and the robber on the opposite side glanced at the long sword in Li Xiuzhu's hand: "Phew! It's just a tattered long sword that I don't know where to pick it up, let grandpa teach you how to use weapons, okay?"
??? can't this guy see the horns on Li Xiuzhu's head?
A demon with a long sword and horns on his head, even if the other party doesn't know him, he should be vigilant, right?
However, it was too late to say anything, and the big man on the opposite side with a beard that had grown so long that it almost covered half of his face pulled out and waved his long beard and rushed over, with a posture of wanting to cut Li Xiuzhu under the knife.
Facing the big man who was still screaming "ahhhh
The long knife in his hand fell to the ground with a "dang", so he didn't die, and there happened to be a big stone that was not very smooth.
"It's broken! My arm is broken! Ah!!h
The big man seemed to have broken his arm, and he was lying on the ground howling vigorously, Li Xiuzhu took a few steps closer: "You ......"
"Don't kill me! I'll give you all the money! Don't kill me!!"
Lu Tao: "......"
It's so fast!
"I don't need your money. Li Xiuzhu opened his mouth and said, "Why are you here? Who else is here besides you?"
"Also, there are people! I'll take you to hunt them all down!" The big man sold his companion at a speed that was completely inconsistent with his size and face, and said yes, Lu Tao was still a little impressed to be so decisive.
Li Xiuzhu was silent for a while: "...... Lead the way ahead. ”
The big man struggled to stand up, carefully covering his broken arm, not even bothering to pick up the knife on the ground, and ran in the direction of Peach Blossom Town.
These guys usually stay in Wuyang City, idle, and make a living by blackmailing merchants in Wuyang City...... Hero! I'm really not in the same group as them! I'm just coerced by them! I really came from the slope by them! They told me to stay on this road to see if there were any officers and soldiers who came and went...... cough, I was fascinated for a while, and when I saw you, the hero, my brain twitched...... Hero, as long as you can spare my life, I am willing to do anything!"
Lu Tao: "......"
Li Xiuzhu: "......"
Seeing that Li Xiuzhu frowned and didn't say anything, the big man didn't dare to say anything more, and began to lead the way quietly in front.
There was still a long distance between the location of Qiu Zha Dahan and Peach Blossom Town, and when he really arrived at the location of Peach Blossom Town, Lu Tao almost couldn't recognize that this was the town he had "lived" in.
The city walls, which were not very high, were completely in ruins, and only the part of the city gate, and the black masonry city wall towering there, had completely become useless. The city gate on this side is different from the city gate where Lu Tao entered the city for the first time, it belongs to the main gate of Peach Blossom Town, through the main gate, the nearby houses have been completely turned into ashes, and those ruins that have been burned black by the flames have begun to emit some crystal light on the surface under the tempering of time.
The ground was full of potholes that no one had cleaned up for a long time, and there were even bones scattered around that I didn't know if it was a person or something else, and the big man kicked the bones on the ground, which was a thigh bone that I didn't know who it came from, and it rolled out far away.
Li Xiuzhu glared, and the big man muttered unconsciously: "The people in the town are not safe to live when they die, so many bones are tripping...... Without...... Hmph, I've already burned these bones. ”
The fierceness in Li Xiuzhu's eyes was even worse, he took out his long sword with a sheath and swung it forward, and the big man flew out with an "ah" sound, rolling far away like the bone just now before stopping.
"Ah!! hero! I was wrong! Don't kill me!"
The big man sat on the ground, his broken arm was now bent at an exaggerated angle, he was sweating profusely in pain, and his other intact hand was propped up on the ground, looking at Li Xiuzhu who was walking towards him with a look of horror.
Li Xiuzhu stared at the eyes of the big man: "Are you wrong? Then tell me, what is wrong with you?"
"I was wrong...... I was wrong...... That's right! I made a mistake for not handing over the money on my body!"
"Hmph, stand up!" Li Xiuzhu snorted coldly: "Don't do anything superfluous!"
Of course, Lu Tao knew what Li Xiuzhu was angry about, which made him so angry when he didn't talk much before, although most of the people in the town Li Xiuzhu didn't know, especially many of them were disgusted with his demon identity, but no matter what, this is also the place where Li Xiuzhu grew up, and the dead townspeople here are not something that others can desecrate at will.
I just don't know if Li Xiuzhu's mother and grandfather are also among these dead townspeople.
This time, the big man finally became honest, he carefully looked at Li Xiuzhu's face, no longer looked around, and did not kick the bones scattered on the road or anything else.
The further you go inside, the more complete the house becomes, only the buildings on the outside seem to have been burned, and of course, the tallest building in the town, the Golden River Restaurant, is also in ruins, leaving only an unburned wall standing in place, with the sign of the Golden River Restaurant.
Soon, under the leadership of the big man of Qiza, Li Xiuzhu crossed the main road of the town and began to turn on another road.
Looking at the familiar bluestone slabs, as well as the more familiar stone walls on both sides, Lu Tao seemed to know where the destination was.
Sure enough, the big man stopped in front of a courtyard with only half a gate, and this happened to be Li Xiuzhu's home.
"That's it, those guys are here...... Hero, you can do whatever you want with them, so can you spare my life for the sake of me not being in the same boat as them......? Hero, my arm is broken anyway, and I can't do anything bad in the future, I was blind before...... Hero?hero!?"
Li Xiuzhu didn't pay attention to him at all, but crossed him and entered the courtyard, and what caught his eye was those familiar scenery.