628 Books The Plague
Since the big incident in Berry Town, Zhou Shu has had a certain dislike for things like money, it's not that he doesn't like money anymore, money is a necessary thing in life, it's better to have something than nothing, and more is better than less, but he also swore that he wouldn't use this thing to show off again.
For Zhou Shu, money has never been his goal. But obviously, this thing has a very important place in the hearts of many people, and even on the way to escape, they don't forget to do business.
Ludlander, who had fled with a cart of furs, was verbally criticized by his fellow party, saying that he was carrying the furs to trade with the locals when he crossed a cold area later.
Ludlander, who was trying to make money when he was on the run, saw that someone wanted to buy his own things, frowned and asked, "Who are you?!" and he found out that it was an alien.
Zhou Shu, who had become a bird, soon ushered in the first wave of unfriendly eyes, and the rest of the team was also trying to remember when this foreigner appeared in the team.
Zhou Shu said that he fled from Haiyuan City when he heard about the dragon, and when he saw a fleeing team, he was cheeky enough to follow.
As the organizer of the evacuation team, Miss Cai confirmed in an official tone that she had not invited foreigners to flee together.
"It doesn't matter where I'm from, the important thing now is to settle the injured Miss Lan. β
Zhou Shu said this, and the grocery boss in Baituchang Town asked, "Hey, stranger, how many silver coins are in your bag?" After Zhou Shu quoted the price, the man said that he could sell a set of carriages and horses. Tong Su is not bullied.
The demand side meets the supply side, and with one side being insensitive to price, a deal is completed quickly. Zhou Shu bought the man's car.
Before coming here, Master Zhou was going to stay in this Hundred Slaughterhouses Town to see the attitude of the people here towards the prophecy, but now he doesn't need to, he has already seen it. You can continue to follow the team.
The towns, built on the heaps of the dead, seem to have no intention of listening to prophecy at all. When trading carts and horses, only Zhou Shu was taken to the town in the fleeing procession, and the carts and horses were taken out. During this time, the grocery boss asked if the prophecy was true. After Zhou Shu gave a positive answer, the boss laughed hehe, and admitted that he had made a mistake in beating someone.
"That woman didn't follow the example of other women, and honestly found someone to marry, and rode in in the middle of the night to rush in and have many things, and she was not wronged if I broke her legs. β
Zhou Shu didn't speak. No comment was made on this statement. Baiyue Country does not have any idea of male superiority and inferiority, after all, this country is now supported by a bunch of princesses on the surface, and there have been many queens in history, this is the first time he has heard men look down on women in this way.
If it weren't for the fact that he was too busy fiddling with horses and carts to handle at all, he might have been interested in talking to this rare sexist.
It is really not easy for people who have not driven this thing to catch up, and it seems that this thing is a necessary equipment for the citizens of the White Moon Country when they go on a long journey, and they used to travel from the Defeated Army City to the Lantern area. He and the sick princess drove this thing. Fortunately, Zhou Shu tried to learn to drive at that time, otherwise he would really not be able to do it-
Leave the town of Hundred Slaughterhouses. Master Zhou drove the carriage and pulled the girl named Lan with a broken leg to continue on the road. His identity changed from a foreigner who sneaked into the ranks to a 'good guy'.
The people in this world have no culture, and there is a lack of adjectives. For those who are willing to pay to help Blue, they can only use the word 'good' to evaluate. Because Miss Cai instigated a little bit of affection before, many people in the team were embarrassed, and the foreigner who solved this embarrassing problem was embarrassed. They were grateful to Dade and accepted him without any xenophobic moves.
Miss Lan's injuries were severe, and her calf bone was broken from the middle, that is, from the strongest part of the bone, and the fracture surface was quite untidy. Miss Choi has been taking care of Blue on the cart. She was given some anti-inflammatory drugs unique to the Beihai region, and some were applied to her legs, which were too heavy to wear pants, hoping to ease it a little.
For such a kind girl to be beaten like this, no one in the team was indignant, and after leaving the town of Hundred Slaughterhouses for a safe distance, everyone shouted that they should be given a good look and let the dragon burn their town.
Zhou Shu originally thought it was nothing, just a broken leg. His life is www.biquge.info high, he has killed many people, and he really can't afford to look down on such a small injury. After Miss Cai cut the blue trouser legs, revealing the horribly swollen legs, Zhou Shu knew that he was wrong, and he had already begun to think about finding a suitable opportunity to give this woman a candy to heal her, she looked too miserable now.
Lan has been in a coma, with a fever, probably fainting from pain when she broke her leg, and the wound is swollen and inflamed so that she can't wake up.
The party needs to find a place to stay, and they will choose to travel in the evening, that is, they will calculate that they can rest in the town of Hundred Slaughterhouses, and then continue their journey in the afternoon to reach the new town in the evening. The reality was obviously a bit different from what had been planned, and the team had to move on now, without resting, at least for a long time.
Miss Choi has been taking care of Blue in the back of the cart as the second passenger in the car. Zhou Shu, who was leading the horse to wander on the ground, was asked by a few people who were more familiar with him, and he also dealt with it casually.
"Where are you from?"
This is the first problem that Zhou Shu encountered, and it is quite traditional. He didn't intend to tell the truth, whether he came from White Moon City or from the First World, it was not suitable to tell these Beihai people, so he took the name of the city he was most familiar with in this world to block the knife.
"I'm from the City of Defeat. β
"Oh!! border battlefield, are you a warrior?" was a young man chatting with Zhou Shu, who seemed to like the topic and was excited about it.
"Warriors? β
"Have you ever killed anyone? β
Zhou Shu told the truth, "I have killed some." β
As soon as this remark came out, it was inexplicably recognized by the young man, and Zhou Shu was patted on the back twice by him, and it seemed that the relationship became intimate.
Young people will think that killing people is cool, at least in the White Moon Country. Face the people of Mori who have the label of 'enemy'. Killing them does not need to be psychologically burdensome, and will not be condemned but praised. In such an environment, people will be interested in killing, and there is no way to do it. Including Kellnan, the young people of Haiyuan Castle seem to have a certain contempt for life.
Zhou Shu didn't really want to continue this topic, he didn't want to talk to others about killing, so he casually interrupted. Ask what the team's route is.
"The route?" the young man scratched his head, recalling the escape plan that Miss Cai had made for everyone. "We just passed through the town of Hundred Slaughterhouses. Then the following words should be Traveler's Town. β
"Travelertown?"
The young man nodded, "It's about ten hours away, and I've been with my parents once before. As he spoke, he pointed to a middle-aged couple at the front of the line, indicating that they were his parents. "The sugar in Traveler's Town is delicious, there are some of the best confectioners in Beihai, right. It's still Sister Cai's old sister there. My dream as a child was to live there permanently, and I have a sweet tooth. β
Zhou Shu heard him say this, pretended to touch it in his robe for a while, and touched a bag of honey candy from the space belt and gave it to the young man next to him. He took it and ate it with a smile, revealing his missing two teeth, which seemed to have been broken by something, and the gums had obvious signs of wound recovery.
"But we probably won't go directly to Voyager's Town right now, it's too far away. We're supposed to find a place to stop and rest nearby, we've been walking for 10,000 years. β
Eight hours, actually.
Zhou Shu swept the book of summoning nearby. Hundreds of new registrations indicate that there is likely to be a concentration of people nearby or someone else on the way.
The young man said that the town of Travelers was at the foot of Wanghai Mountain, which was a ten-hour walk. Just by going around the mountains, you will be able to reach the sea, the seaside that once was. Now on the edge of the new land, then everyone walks down the beach, and in two days you can leave the North Sea area.
"But we'll probably stop at the Sword Guard Temple in a moment, probably. Then get some rest. β
Zhou Shu had heard about the Sword Protector Temple before, for what kind of sword is not a sword. He wasn't interested in the slightest. Ever since he saw the Lieyang Sword, he couldn't think of any other sword that would be more powerful, the Lieyang had already reached the Cheng dΓΉ of indestructible, and the attack power of the Nameless Golden Sword was slightly worse but almost the same.
In the stories he had heard about the establishment of Hundred Slaughterhouses, Zhou Shu did not find any description of the power of the sword in the Sword Protector Temple, which seemed a bit unusual and abnormal for a folklore.
Master Zhou's professional knowledge told him that this kind of legend-like story is usually very comprehensive, and the storyline is usually detailed and specific, not as most people imagine, because it is a rural dialect so incomplete.
In fact, after this kind of story spreads, soon the content of the story will be very different from reality, and the process is irreversible and will only get bigger. Storytellers who spread stories will add something subjective to their storytelling. Listeners will also have their own thoughts and opinions about stories that may not be complete, and will add some of their own conjectures as they continue to pass them on.
The so-called folk tale is a story created by the people. This constant adaptation will not stop until the story is well-known enough and the most popular version of the story becomes the authority.
Zhou Shu didn't study folklore, British and American literature had made him unable to find a job, so he wouldn't touch something more miserable like folklore. However, he knew very well that in this kind of folk tale, there should not be a divine sword of unknown power, generally speaking, this sword should have been made up by the storyteller's brain for tens of thousands of versions, and there will always be a version that is recognized.
But the story he heard was that a sword started a war, but the sword itself did not become the protagonist of the story, and it did not even have a name. If the selling point of this sword is 'mystery', a treasure that no one has ever seen before, it can be understood, but the length of this sword in the story is too small, and it is almost only mentioned a few times. As a story that has been circulating since 50 years ago, this is very normal.
Zhou Shu is a person who believes in logic, and obviously this story doesn't make sense logically, as the content of his own eavesdropping. There is no element of deliberate concealment and deception by others. So among them, it is estimated that there are mysterious and interesting things hidden.
The Sword Protector Temple was indeed the next target for the team, and it was now inhabited. Since the temple was abandoned, the temple building, which was burned down but still stands, became the home of some people, and it became a village-like place. It's about an hour of walking. However, this requires leaving the main road and walking towards the wasteland, and I don't know if such a thing as a horse-drawn cart can go down the lì tongguò, after all, the horse-drawn carriage does not have a shock absorption system, and it is not uncommon for the wooden axle to break.
After continuing to walk for a while, the team encountered the second trouble on the journey. The previous trouble caused a girl to break her leg and lose a horse, but this second trouble was more immediate.
"It's a bear......"
It was the first time Zhou Shu had seen a wild bear, and at this time, there happened to be two adult bears with a few cubs blocking the road. They were eating the corpse of a human being, presumably killed by themselves.
It's the season for the animals to stick to their autumn fat. The Xiong family probably also had the idea of eating themselves fat and getting a good night's sleep when winter came.
In the face of these bears, Zhou Shu could wave his little finger and use the flames to drive them away, but now if he made a move and let so many people see the fire that appeared out of thin air, it was estimated that the third trouble would come. The traveling party was heavy and heavy, and it was difficult to get around these guys, so a few strong men went out of the group. Prepare to chase the bear away.
It's still dark in the wee hours of the morning, and the torches lit in the middle of the line are a great deterrent to wildlife. The bear family quickly slipped away, leaving behind the half-gnawed corpse.
Just when Master Zhou thought that the team would continue to move forward, the two men who drove away the bear said something to the elderly leaders walking at the front of the team, and then ran directly to the end of the team and came in the direction of Zhou Shu.
Zhou Shu knew that they were not looking for him, but to look for Miss Cai, who was taking care of Lan in the back of the car.
The two of them nervously handed a blood-stained letter to Miss Cai, who was napping on the cart. The letter was probably found from the unfortunate man who became the bear's food.
When a traveler sees another dead traveler on the side of the road, he will basically scavenge his belongings and bury him in a pit in return for taking his belongings.
The two men apparently did the same after chasing the bear away, only to be found in a letter taken out of his chest. This man is a townsfolk of Traveler's Town Ahead.
So the two of them also gave the letter to Miss Cai, whose hometown was in Voyager's Town, to read, perhaps she knew the poor dead man.
Miss Cai is probably the most laid-back one in the team, she sits on the board car more leisurely than anyone else, and she doesn't have the fierce appearance when she came out for Miss Lan just now.
Miss Choi took the letter and looked at the envelope backwards and forwards. "There was only one address written on it, and there was no name of the sender, and the name of the recipient was covered in blood and could not be read clearly. She asked the two men who found the letter, "How did you know for sure that man was from Voyagertown?"
The two men didn't answer, and asked Miss Cai to read the contents of the letter. She did so, and her expression changed as she read a few words.
"How could it be!!"
The content of the letter is simple, it was sent by the father to his son in the castle of Haiyuan. That father is supposed to be dead, not eaten by a bear, who killed just a messenger. This letter is probably the father's suicide note, which said that the town appeared to ask you, asking your son not to come back. If the sender is found to be in poor health, burn the letter immediately after reading it and take a salt water bath.
Miss Cai was shocked, "There is a plague?!In this Beihai region?!"
Beihai hadn't heard of any plague for a long time, and she couldn't believe it, and exclaimed in excitement. This sentence was heard in the ears of a large number of people around her, and it immediately caused panic, including Zhou Shu.
Master Zhou is not afraid of the plague, he has time to retrace the candy, even if he is infected by a disease, as long as it is not the kind of thing that seals his throat with blood, he can eat sugar to dissolve, he has tried it on the illness of the sick princess before.
"What a hassle!" Miss Cai gritted her teeth as she clutched the letter in her hand, "In that case, we won't be able to rest in Traveler's Town." β
She spoke in a very strange tone, and Zhou Shu listened to it with a while of wondering. I heard the young man who ate his honey candy say that the Traveler Town is Miss Cai's hometown. Generally speaking, the first thing that comes to mind for people who have been plagued by the plague in their hometown is that their travel route is blocked?
Miss Choi asked the messenger to help convey a message to the team, saying that they continued to advance towards the Sword Protector Temple, and then buried herself on the nearby map, trying to find a place that could be used as a transit point for everyone to rest.
The ranks of the refugees were not armies and did not have the ability to travel long distances. At this time, the family got up and walked for more than eight hours, and although much of it was resting, it was basically at the limit, and they needed at least a whole night to tidy up. If Travelertown can't be used as a resting spot, the Sword Guardian Temple not far ahead will be the last place they can rest before reaching the beach.
Zhou Shu pulled the horse and looked back at the woman on the cart behind him who was busy reading the map. He really wanted to ask, 'Don't you worry about your hometown?' (To be continued......