Chapter 59: The Merchant
"Is there really that thing in the sky, and it came down from above? Or is the curse of the Headless Immortal not over yet, and everything I see is fake? ”
Zhang Tude looked at the sky and secretly said in his heart, if it was the latter, everything around him might be fake, including Master You who had just been summoned.
Anyway, Zhang Tude didn't dare to stay in this place any longer, after he extinguished the fire, he drove the carriage and left here, although the human flesh Lingzhi was not there, but the night vision it brought to Zhang Tude was retained, so he could see the road clearly even if he was in a hurry all night.
In this way, Zhang Tude didn't sleep all night, drove the carriage out of dozens of kilometers, and when the sky was light, he had already come to the boundary of Yuanhe County, but he didn't plan to enter the county, but continued to hurry.
On the small road near Yuanhe County, Zhang Tude, who was driving a carriage, saw a group of people coming towards him, looking at their dress, they should be fleeing refugees, there were ten people, but half of them were children, and the children and adults were yellow and thin, and it seemed that they could even walk.
Zhang Tude hurriedly grabbed the reins of the horse, stopped the carriage, and let the refugees go first, and in front of him was a woman, who was leading the little boy, about three or four years old, who was holding a leaf in his hand and stuffing it into his mouth.
"Wait a minute, I've got something to eat here." Zhang Tude stopped the group, gave some bread and steamed buns to the ten people, and asked them if they had seen the earthquake and the vision in the sky that had occurred last night.
"The earth dragon turned over? No, where did Childe come from? We don't feel it here. ”
A man answered Zhang Tude's question while munching on steamed buns, but as soon as he finished speaking, he choked, his face turned red, and Zhang Tude hurriedly handed him his kettle when he saw this.
After he drank the water, his face was much better after swallowing the thing, he finished the thing in his hand, drank a few more sips of water, and continued:
"As for the heavenly visions you mentioned, I didn't pay attention to them, so I'll help you ask them later." The man looked at his other companions who were eating.
"Thank you very much, what happened to your hand?" Zhang Tude found that the man's left arm was wrapped in a piece of cloth, and there were still some dried blood stains on the cloth.
"Alas, we met a few madmen on the way here from Juxian, and they cut at us with big knives, our gang originally had more than 20 people, but now most of them have been hacked to death, Childe, if you want to go to Juxian, you must be careful."
Zhang Tude had seen the name of Juxian on the map, which was closer to Yuanhe County, and it would take about a day to get there by horse-drawn carriage, and the nearest route to Xijing City would need to pass there.
"Crazy? Can you tell me about it? I'm going to be careful on the road. ”
Under the man's narration, Zhang Tude knew the experience of this group of people, they were originally the people of the Lotus Yu Dao of the Four Qi Kingdoms, because there was a drought and locust plague there, they had nothing to eat, so they had to flee and came here.
Originally, they wanted to settle down in Juxian, but the county magistrate sent someone to drive them out, saying that there were demons among the refugees, endangering the safety of the people in the county, and those who did not want to leave were beaten to death.
They had to try their luck in Yuanhe County, on the way to Yuanhe County, they met a few people dressed in black, they originally encountered the robbery, but those people were armed with big knives, they didn't ask, they cut them when they saw them.
Although the refugees were more numerous, they had weapons in their hands and were extremely powerful, and they were quickly killed by those few people, and only half of them were left, but fortunately the rest of them escaped quickly, otherwise they would have been confessed there.
"By the way, those people have red eyes, I heard the old people in the village say before, people who often eat human flesh will have red eyes, they must be cannibals." The man suddenly remembered something as he spoke, and his face turned ugly.
After a while, the man came back to his senses and said to Zhang Tude:
"Childe, that's it, after that, we went all the way and then met you, Childe, I didn't expect that there are such kind people as you in this world."
"Okay, you can help me ask the others if they saw any visions in the sky last night, and if you encounter any strange things on the way, you can tell me."
Seeing that there was no more information about the red-eyed madmen, Zhang Tude gave the man another steamed bun and asked him to ask the others.
To be honest, since he saw that thing in the sky last night, Zhang Tude was a little skeptical that he was still in the illusion created by the curse of the headless immortal, but he had no way to verify it, so he could only take one step at a time, and go to the Zhengde Temple first.
At this time, Zhang Tude suddenly heard a voice in his ear and said to him:
"Maybe it's really fake here, and everything you went through last night is true, that cannibalistic fragment, and your parents who turned into monsters, it's all true."
Zhang Tude looked around, those refugees were either being asked by the man for something, or eating, definitely not from them, Zhang Tude remembered the voice he heard yesterday when he was experiencing the curse of the headless immortal.
After listening to Master You talk about chelicera, he thought it was the voice of the evil chelica controlling people's minds, but now that Master You doesn't know if it's true or not, that voice still appears in his ears.
"I don't care what you are, I won't believe what you say, don't bother with that." That voice should be part of the curse of the headless immortal, Zhang Tude naturally didn't believe it, and after Zhang Tude finished speaking, the voice disappeared.
After a while, the man who had gone to interrogate walked up to Zhang Tude and said:
"Childe, I asked them for you, and they also said they didn't see it, I'm really sorry."
"It's okay, maybe I read it wrong last night."
After speaking, Zhang Tude told those people the direction of the source and the county, and left them some silver, and then drove away in the carriage, Zhang Tude said to himself secretly in his heart:
"No matter which ones are true and which ones are fake, you must believe that your parents are definitely still alive, and the pieces are fine, they are waiting for you."
After saying goodbye to the refugees, Zhang Tude drove the carriage for a while, and the passers-by and carriages in front of him gradually increased, and he also heard someone shouting something in front.
There was a mule cart on the side of the road, a merchant was selling things to passers-by, and there were several strong men sitting under the tree not far away.
Zhang Tude first wrapped Master You's copper bell in a strip of cloth in his hand, and then poured out a strong pill from the medicine bottle and put it in his hand, and then got out of the carriage.
When the merchant saw Zhang Tude coming, he said enthusiastically:
"Do you want to buy something, this guest officer?"
"How do you buy this sword?"
Most of the swords on the cart were rusty, and Zhang Tude looked at it for a while before he saw one that was barely usable.
"The guest officer has good eyesight, this sword is as sharp as clay, and it has cut off the heads of more than a dozen people, if you want it, just give ten taels of silver."
Zhang Tude ignored the merchant's nonsense, he just wanted a weapon that could cut people to death, he took out ten taels of silver and put it on the cart, but he didn't rush to take the sword and go, but continued to ask:
"Do you have any other good things here that can kill people?"