Chapter 19: Ghost City
"Boss, how do you sell this mask?"
In front of a small stall selling masks, Zhang Tude looked at it with a white smiling face mask, and felt good, so he asked the boss for the price.
"If the guest officer wants it, just give fifteen cents."
"Okay, I'll take three more than that." Zhang Tude took three more masks from the stall, handed over the forty-five yuan to the boss and left.
"This mask shouldn't hide that kind of person, but it's better than nothing." Zhang Tude put the white mask on his face and tried it, he was going to a place, there should be many cultivators there, the mask was bought by him to hide his identity, although this ordinary mask will definitely not hide the eyes of the cultivators, but wearing the mask will make him feel a little safe, and that place is the ghost market.
On the way to Weishan County, Zhang Tude not only learned some knowledge of cultivation from Gao Wen, but also learned some latest news about cultivators, such as at two or three o'clock in the morning tomorrow, there will be a ghost market in Weishan County, and Zhang Tude is going to take a look.
If it was a few days ago, Zhang Tude would definitely not go to this kind of place that he doesn't understand and involves the extraordinary, but now the transaction between himself and Gao Wen may not be carried out now, and he can only contact things about cultivation from other aspects in the future, and today he can completely master the magic power of blood phase, and he can be regarded as a real cultivator.
"Let's go to that place first and familiarize yourself with the way."
Zhang Tude walked according to the location of the ghost market that Gao Wen said, and after a while, he came to the back of several dilapidated houses, which seemed to have not been inhabited for a long time, and there was a small alley behind them, and at the end of the alley was a wall, which was a dead end.
"It should be here, go back to the inn first, and come back in the early morning."
Zhang Tude saw a small wooden sign hanging on the wall, which was written with a kind of text that he couldn't read, and he knew that he had found the right place.
Zhang Tude returned to the inn the same way, ready to rest and wait until he came here tonight, but when he returned to the door of the inn, he found that it was very noisy not far away, and a group of people gathered there and did not know what to do.
"It's you, I'm sure you kidnapped my son, and you still held on to my son just now."
"I'm also looking for a child, my child is gone, just now I saw that your son's body shape is very similar to my child, and I confessed my mistake in a hurry."
Zhang Tude finally squeezed into the crowd and found that it was two women arguing about something, one of which he had also seen, it was the refugee woman who was looking for a child, and the other woman was dressed ordinary, but her clothes were very neat, and she should be a local citizen.
"I think you sold your child yourself, and now you are abducting other people's children, do you have a little conscience, hurry up and return my child to me."
Zhang Tude learned from their quarrel that the local woman had taken her child out to buy vegetables, but her child disappeared in a blink of an eye, and the refugee woman had touched her child before, so she was naturally regarded as the person who abducted her child.
Most of the onlookers were on the side of the local women, and they began to insult the refugee women and other refugees, when several of the catchers pushed the crowd away and walked over, taking both women away.
"It seems that the disappearance of the two women's children is not accidental, there are really people abducting and selling children, I hope the local government can catch the prisoners." Zhang Tude glanced at the few fast catchers who had gone away, and returned to the inn.
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"It's dry, be careful of the candles, knock.... Knock knock. There was a sound of beating outside the window, the sound was slow and fast, indicating that it was the fourth watch, and it was one o'clock in the morning.
There is still half an hour left, prepare first, it should be almost the same when you walk to that place, Zhang Tude, who heard the sound of the change, got up and changed his clothes, put on the white smiley mask, and the meat Ganoderma lucidum in his left hand was also bulging into the size of a basketball, as if he had an extra head in his hand, this is the effect that Zhang Tude wants, so that people can know at a glance that he is not an ordinary person.
"I hope I don't meet the night watchmen, but they shouldn't be able to catch up with me." There is a curfew in Weishan County, but today Zhang Tude is not prepared to abide by this rule.
Fortunately, Zhang Tude went very smoothly along the way, so he didn't meet the night watchman, and came directly to the alley, he did what Gao Wen said to enter the ghost market, first stepped forward and touched the small wooden sign, and then turned around and walked to the direction of the alley exit, at this time Zhang Tude found that the exit had become a wall, and the wall became an exit.
Seeing that the method worked, he went through the previous steps, and then walked directly to the wall, and when his body touched the wall, the wall seemed to not exist, and Zhang Tude went directly through the wall.
Zhang Tude, who walked through the wall, found himself in a small house, where there were two people in black robes who couldn't see their faces clearly, and there was a door behind the two of them.
"Do guests have tokens?" A black-robed man stepped forward and asked when he saw Zhang Tude
"No, I'm here for the first time." Zhang Tude replied truthfully
"Do you want to do one, just two Yangshou Pills, and you don't need any fees to enter with a token in the future, otherwise you will have to pay twenty taels of silver every time you enter the ghost market."
Yangshou Dan Zhang Tude knew what it was, it was to eat an elixir that could increase one-year lifespan, and it was a hard currency in the cultivation world, but the method of obtaining it was very cruel, and it was necessary to kill the person born in the Yang Year and the Yang Moon to make it into raw materials, and Zhang Tude naturally did not have this thing, so he still paid twenty taels of silver.
The black-robed man who took the silver opened the door and let Zhang Tude in.
"Well, if you can use silver to enter the door here, then ordinary people with money should be able to come in, but I don't know if you need silver for transactions inside?"
After Zhang Tude entered the ghost market, he found that the inside was much wider than he imagined, and the space behind the door of the small house was larger than the streets of Weishan Town combined, but it seemed that there was a huge black cloth covering the sky.
There are still a lot of people in the ghost market, there are people coming and going on the streets, some people don't pretend at all, and directly reveal their true faces, and some are like Zhang Tude, covering themselves with all kinds of strange decorations.
There are all kinds of stalls on both sides of the street, and many stall owners are constantly selling their things, which is no different from ordinary hawkers, although they have all kinds of strange things, but this scene is tantamount to Zhang Tude is much more relaxed.
"Hei Tai Sui, sell Hei Tai Sui, three years of Hei Tai Sui, you can cut it and buy it."
"The genuine Luo Sect secret method, only five Yangshou Pills."
Zhang Tude just walked and watched, there were everything sold in the ghost market, some were strange-shaped items, some were living things, Zhang Tude also saw someone selling a strange-looking Buddha statue, just looking at the Buddha statue made Zhang Tude feel very uncomfortable, and he hurriedly stayed away from the stall.
After looking at so many stall transactions, Zhang Tude found that although most of the transactions in the ghost market were made with Yangshou Dan or a strange-looking copper coin, there were still a small number of people who traded in silver, but Zhang Tude didn't plan to buy anything in the ghost market, he came this time mainly for a long time.
"This fellow Daoist, you seem to have the aura of the Tao of Pain in your body, I don't know if you sell it?" Just as Zhang Tude was about to walk forward, a stall owner next to him stopped him.