Chapter 52: A Dream Travel
At the market, Zhang Tude led the freshly bought carriage and walked out, about to find a place to buy some dry food, but when he passed by a stall, he was attracted by something.
It was a stall selling masks, and the stall owner was an old man, and the mask that Zhang Tude wore to the ghost market was bought here, and in addition to the masks originally sold, there was also an iron mask on the stall.
The iron mask is a little peculiar, much larger than the face of ordinary people, and it is estimated that it is inconvenient for ordinary people to wear it, and the appearance is a demon with a blue face and fangs.
It's a little scary to look at, but its nose is round and protruding, with two holes in it, and it looks like this demon has a pig's nose, which makes it have no effect of scaring people.
"Boss, is this mask for sale?"
When the boss saw that someone came to ask about the mask that had not been sold for a few days, he hurriedly said:
"If you take a fancy to this mask, just give me fifty yuan."
After Zhang Tude finished paying, he took the iron mask and left, he just thought that the iron mask looked a little interesting, so he just bought it and took a look, but after he walked a few steps, he heard the boss muttering something in a low voice:
"Alas, it's finally sold, and I finally grabbed something when I went to Bujia, and I had a fight with someone else....."
"This thing belongs to the Step family?"
Zhang Tude looked at the mask in his hand, recalling that day he broke into the Bu house after it was burned by the fire, in addition to those who escaped with things, there seemed to be a few people with tools around, rummaging for something in the ruins of the Bu family.
"I knew that at that time, I would also see if there were any good things left in the Bu family." Zhang Tude felt a little regretful, at that time he was only thinking about finding Bu Shiren and Lin Xian Ling to take revenge, and he didn't think about looting the loot at all.
When buying dry food and maps, Zhang Tude also made a special inquiry about the situation in the county, and found that ten days had passed since he entered the headless immortal tomb, and the new county official had not yet arrived.
The demise of the Bu family and the death of Lin County Ling became the talk of most people in the county after dinner, and there were many rumors about Zhang Tude himself.
"I heard that the man named Zhang Tude had three heads and six arms, and he killed the evil Buhu with one punch, and then he spat out a big fire from his mouth and burned the Bu family."
"Wrong, I heard my cousin who was on an errand in the county government say that Zhang Tude has three eyes, and the eye on his forehead can make the wicked go crazy, and the Bu family is doing too many evil things, looking at Zhang Tude's eyes, he burned his own house after he went crazy."
Hearing these rumors from the stall owners, Zhang Tude couldn't laugh or cry, he thought that even if he took off the black cloth hat now, those people probably wouldn't recognize who he was, but Zhang Tude still felt that it was safer to leave here.
After buying the things, Zhang Tude drove the carriage out of Weishan County and went to the place where the armor was hidden.
"This thing is really heavy, and the soldiers are really monsters." After arriving at the place, Zhang Tude used all his strength to finally move the entire armor to the carriage, and after moving it, he felt that his arms were sore.
After eating some dry food, Zhang Tude looked at the map for a while and drove away, he was going to Wucheng, a small city closest to Weishan County, where he would repair and make the next step.
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A few days later, Zhang Tude looked at the low city wall not far away, he knew that Wucheng had arrived, and there were many people lining up at the city gate, and Zhang Tude also led the carriage to line up, but fortunately, it was soon to him.
Because Zhang Tude was carrying a carriage, the soldiers guarding the gate needed to search the carriage, and the armor and several strange objects Zhang Tude had already been received into the gourd, and the soldiers did not find anything and let Zhang Tude go.
Wucheng is much more lively than Weishan County, the streets are full of people, and the shops on both sides sell many things that Zhang Tude does not know, so he decided to find a place to have a good meal first.
Zhang Tude picked an inn on the street that seemed to have a lot of people, and after parking the carriage, he brought everything inside, and as soon as he entered the door, Xiao Er greeted him:
"Guest officer, please, do you want to stay in the hotel?"
"Eat."
Zhang Tude found a table, ordered a bowl of noodles and a few meat dishes, and after Xiao Er went to report the name of the dish, Zhang Tude took out a book and read it, this book is called Dream Travel, which is one of the books left by Gao Wen.
In the book, it is written that a man named Zhou Li often has all kinds of strange dreams, and then he records these strange dreams in the form of stories. The description of the things in the dream in the book is very detailed, and there are all kinds of details, and those who have read it will not feel that Zhou Li is dreaming, but will think that he has really experienced these things.
Zhang Tude didn't read this book entirely just to pass the time, because Gao Wen couldn't have left him a storybook, and things related to dreams always reminded him of Wanmengzong.
"Maybe this book was originally me or someone from the Ten Thousand Dreams Sect."
Zhang Tude remembered the sounds he heard after he fell unconscious in the basement, if those were not auditory hallucinations, maybe it was the book that Gao Wen got from the disciples of Wanmeng Sect after killing them, so Zhang Tude wanted to see if there were any clues about Wanmeng Sect on this book.
The first story at the beginning is about Zhou Li's dream that he became a general of the Great Qi State, leading an army to attack a small country called Lianyin.
The Yin Kingdom only organized some troops on the border to resist, and after Zhou Li entered that country, he never saw a single enemy soldier, so Zhou Li's Great Qi army was unimpeded all the way.
Except for a city as the capital, the rest of the country was full of small villages, but the strange thing was that when Zhou Li passed through those villages, he found that there were only young people under the age of twenty in each village.
So Zhou Li asked a villager, and the villager replied that it was the new monarch who succeeded to the throne, and everyone over the age of twenty had to go to the national capital to congratulate the new immortal lord, and then follow the old immortal lord to the immortal realm, and the immortal lord is the title of the ruler of this country.
After leaving the village, Zhou Li led his army directly to the capital of Yin, but when Zhou Li and his soldiers saw the not high city walls of the capital of Yin, they were all frightened.
Because they saw that the city wall was covered with shriveled human skins, but Zhou Li, as the commander, quickly came to his senses, and he ordered several strange people under his command to see what was going on in the city through their supernatural powers.
As a result, the results reported by his subordinates were even more terrifying, not only on the city walls, but also in the entire capital, streets, shops, and houses, and although there were still living creatures in the city, they were all cats, dogs, pigs, and other animals, and there was not a single living person.
This made Zhou Li dare not enter the city, first let the army be stationed outside the city, and then enter the city when he was fully prepared, but the next day, when Zhou Li's subordinates went to the commander's tent to find him, they found that Zhou Li had gone crazy and peeled off his face.
When he got here, the dream that Zhou Li had was over, and when he woke up, he went to consult some books and found that this dream was true, and there was indeed a country of Lianyin, and the general he dreamed of was named Zhao Yue.
Later, Zhao Yue died not long after, and the Great Qi State sent a new general to replace him, and finally captured the capital of the Yin Kingdom, and the Yin Kingdom was completely destroyed, but about the reason why only human skin was left in the national capital, Zhou Li did not write it on it.
"If this is the case, Zhou Li may really be a disciple of the Ten Thousand Dreams Sect or other sects." Zhang Tude thought of this after reading this story, because Zhou Li could check this matter in the book, and those books were definitely not ordinary books.
At this time, a few meat dishes ordered by Zhang Tude came up, he put away the book, and continued to read after eating, and then Xiao Er brought him a bowl of noodles.
Zhang Tude ate a few bites of noodles first, and when he was about to eat vegetables, he suddenly felt a cramping pain in his abdomen.
"Something wrong with this?"
Zhang Tude immediately picked his throat and spit out all the noodles he had just eaten, but when he saw what he spit out, he only felt his scalp tingle.
I saw that it was not noodles that were spitted on the ground, but a human face and a clump of hair.