Chapter 2: Monsters
The people of the town stood motionless like statues with their heads cut off, and this infiltrating scene made Zhang Tude look a little panicked, and he comforted himself
"Don't be afraid, it's just an illusion, it's not as scary as the nightmares you usually have." He struggled to move the big knife that the executioner had dropped aside, and although his shackles had been removed before the beheading, his hands were still tied.
After moving there, Zhang Tude took a great effort to break the rope, he stood up, and pushed the headless executioner, who was still standing, and the executioner fell down at once.
"Are these people dead? Who did it? ”
Zhang Tude looked at the headless townspeople, and suddenly remembered that he had heard of several mutated creatures that liked to take people's heads when he was a child, but those were just rumors.
"But since it's my illusion world, it's also possible that the monsters in my memory will appear, so it's quite permeable to see when you leave this ghost place first."
Zhang Tude cautiously bypassed the crowd and walked out of town, but before he could go far, he heard a sound.
"Twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine......." This seems to be the sound of a child counting things, but Zhang Tude looked around but didn't see anyone, suddenly he felt something, looked up, and found that the roof of the house on his right was full of human heads, and next to him there was a monster whose body was made of iron and wood, and the monster had many limbs, plus the fat body was very similar to a spider, and when Zhang Tude looked at the monster, the monster also felt him and turned around, The head of the body was actually made up of several children's heads sewn together, and the sound of counting things was obviously coming from here.
"Hee-hee-hee." The heads of the children laughed at the same time, and the monster quickly crawled towards Zhang Tude with its own limbs, and Zhang Tude immediately turned around and ran away when he saw the scene.
"It's just an illusion, don't be afraid, don't be afraid." Although he said this, Zhang Tude was still very scared, as if he had a feeling telling him that if he was caught by that monster, something terrible would happen, even more terrible than if he would actually die.
"Thirty, thirty." The monster was chasing behind, shouting something, seeing that the monster was getting closer and closer to Zhang Tude, and was about to be overtaken, at this time the house not far from Zhang Tude suddenly opened the door, and a woman came out and shouted at him
"Come here." Zhang Tude ran towards the woman without thinking about it, after Zhang Tude ran into the house, the woman immediately closed the door and made a silent gesture to him, Zhang Tude found that the woman's hands were actually made of wood, similar to the monster, but the monster was outside, and now was not the time to ask questions.
Zhang Tude was also worried that the monster would break into the door, but the monster seemed to chase in front of the house and stopped, and after a while, he heard the sound of the monster's limbs hitting the ground from outside the house, which became smaller and smaller, and it seemed that the monster had left.
"Alright, the monster is gone, as long as it doesn't get seen in front of it and make a noise around it, it's fine." The woman said, Zhang Tude only then had time to observe the woman, the woman was wearing a black robe, her appearance was delicate, although she was young, but she had an old temperament, and there was a sword at her waist, this dress and temperament were a bit like Zhang Tude when he was a child, and he listened to the old man describe the heroine in the novel, but the woman's two hands were made of wood, which made him a little surprised.
"Thank you, miss, no, girl's life-saving grace." Zhang Tude took his eyes off the woman's arm and arched his hand in a martial arts novel.
"It's okay, I'm a monk without a missing sect, those monsters are originally controlled by some misguided fellow practitioners, and it is also the duty of the sect to save innocent people from being killed by them."
"So, girl, do you know where those monsters come from?" Zhang Tude asked, there was absolutely no such strange monster in his memory, these were definitely not what he came up with.
"These monsters are called Headhunters, and they are created by those evil cultivators Liang Mo to collect cultivation materials for them." The girl touched her wooden arm and continued
"Although they belonged to the same Mo family as us many years ago, they eventually split up because of different philosophies."
"The Mo family?" Seeing Zhang Tude's puzzled look, the girl remembered something
"I'm sorry, this son, I forgot that you are not a cultivator, you may not understand this, but don't worry, I will escort you and the others out of town, I don't know what you call it, childe."
"Zhang Tude." Zhang Tude truthfully reported his name.
"My name is Xu Ying, come with me, there are other people here, I'll take you out when it gets dark." Xu Ying walked towards the courtyard.
The two came to the courtyard, there were still a few rooms here, Xu Ying opened one of the doors, and the moment she opened the door, Zhang Tude smelled a strong smell of blood.
I saw that there were still a few people in the room, there was a dismembered corpse lying on the ground, there were several blood stains on the floor, and the people in the room were still a little familiar, and then took a closer look, and found that it was the people who threw stones and spat at him before, seeing this situation, Zhang Tude stopped.
"Zhang Gongzi don't have to be afraid, this person's name is Li Shuiyuan, he is a heinous criminal, and he is not a human being, my original purpose here is to kill him."
At this time, the people in the room also saw Zhang Tude's appearance and the prison uniform he was wearing.
"Aren't you the one who got headed, you're not dead?" A woman spoke, she was the first to throw a stone at Zhang Tude, and the others began to talk.
"Zhang Gongzi, do you know each other?" Xu Ying asked suspiciously
Zhang Tude said that he was a scapegoat for Li Shui, and told the people in the room his name, and those people realized that they had hit the wrong person, and as to why he didn't die, Zhang Tude quickly made up a lie and said
"I fainted when I was about to cut off my head, and when I woke up, I found that the rest of the people in the execution ground had been killed by that monster."
At that time, there were too many onlookers at the execution ground, and those few people could not squeeze in, and they regretted that they could not see the beheading of the animal who abducted and sold their children, but they were lucky to pick up a life.
"Zhang Gongzi is also lucky, that Li Shuiyu colluded with local county officials to traffick human beings has been killed by me, and the county order who caught you for the crime is estimated to have died in the hands of headhunters, which can be regarded as a breath for Zhang Gongzi, as the saying goes, if you don't die in a big disaster, there will be a blessing." Xu Ying said that several other people in the room also apologized for throwing stones at Zhang Tude today.
"Miss Xu, can you sell me that Li Shuiwan's corpse, I will give you as much silver as you want." A fat man in silk said, seemingly a rich man.
"I'm going to cut his body into pieces and feed it to the dogs, so that I can relieve the hatred in my heart and let my daughter rest in peace." The fat man said viciously
"I'm sorry, outside of the forester, Li Shuiyu's body is very important, I have to take it away." Xu Ying apologized, but thought about it and said
"But I took the corpse in order to make his body into a magic weapon, and I will not spare every piece of flesh and every drop of blood on his body, so that even if he dies, he will not be happy."
"After all, he's a vegetarian."