The sound of clanging came from the side of the road.

Wei Tao carried a bamboo basket on his back and stopped in front of a blacksmith shop.

Inexplicably remembering the night battle before, his heart moved, pressed down on the hat he was wearing, and turned into the shop.

Inside, the heat was rising, mixed with the smell of choking.

Beside the fire in the inner room, a stout middle-aged man, wearing only a pair of blackened animal skin shorts, was pounding an unformed narrow knife with all his might.

Outside, a blackened, equally stocky woman was packing up.

"Shopkeeper, can you give me something?" Wei Tao only showed a pair of eyes, and deliberately asked in a hoarse voice.

"What the guest officer wants to fight, in addition to armor and hard crossbows, we can make swords, farm tools, and kitchen utensils here."

The man was still bowing his head and beating the narrow knife, and when the middle-aged woman heard this, she hurriedly put down the half-packed miscellaneous items and greeted her.

She said loudly, muffling the sound of striking iron.

"What do you want to fight...... Wei Tao took a few steps closer and looked at the finished products hanging in the shop, "Do you want to fight hidden weapons here?" ”

"Hidden weapons, you can do it." The woman wiped her face with a wet towel, "But the guest officer had better bring a sample over so that we can compare it carefully." ”

"There are no samples." Wei Tao shook his head.

"If there is no sample, the guest officer can draw the figure and mark the size, but it is more time-consuming and laborious to meet the requirements of the guest officer, and the price will be higher."

"I don't have anything."

Wei Tao looked at the proprietress with a somewhat stunned expression, and then said, "What secret weapons do you have, you can take them out for me to see, and choose a suitable one." ”

"This ...... We only have leftover shuttle darts for our guests here. ”

"Don't dart, the target is too big and too obvious, let me think about it." Wei Tao walked around the blacksmith shop, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

He picked up a few pieces of iron the size of dates from a pile of scrap in the corner, "You know the thistle, it's almost that big, and it would be nice to add some spikes to it." ”

After seeing it clearly, the proprietress's original expression of expectation suddenly dimmed, but she still nodded, "Although I haven't heard of the tribulus terrestris mentioned by the guest officer, but according to the guest officer, we can do it." ”

"Okay, see me this basket, make me half a basket, how much does it cost?"

"This is not much money, the key depends on how much the guest officer wants, the larger the quantity, the cheaper the unit price."

Wei Tao ignored the proprietress's answer, his attention fell on a pair of iron wire gloves, and said to himself, "It's a pity that the imperial court bans armor, or I have to get a set to defend myself." ”

"Guest, guest?" The proprietress spoke in a very low voice, almost to the point where it was difficult to hear.

"Huh? What did you say? Wei Tao asked.

"No, the slave just wants to ask."

She quietly looked at it a few times and said carefully, "If the guest officer really wants to defend himself, we can also help the guest officer customize a pair of dark armor.

Although the scope of protection and defense capabilities are not as good as the chain mail and bright light armor controlled by the military town,

However, it can also protect the chest, abdomen and back, greatly reducing the possibility of injury. ”

Wei Tao was a little puzzled when he heard this, "Aren't you talking about heart goggles?" ”

"It's better than the heart guard, the slave family means, the heart guard is part of the dark armor,

The other parts will be made of soft wire nested with nail pieces, supplemented by the above good animal skin weaving and sewing.

In addition to the head and limbs, the entire torso can basically be protected, and now that the weather is cold, the guest officer can still keep warm in his clothes. ”

"Can you get me some cone spines on this dark armor you are talking about?" When Wei Tao heard this, he was immediately moved.

The woman was stunned again, "What do you mean?" ”

"What I mean is very simple, you give me a small piece of armor and replace it with a larger, thicker iron plate, and put raised spikes on your shoulders and chest, in a word, can you do it?"

Wei Tao said, casually drawing a scribbled diagram on the ground.

The proprietress thought for a moment.

Then nodded slowly, "I can do it, but ......"

Wei Tao didn't give her a chance to go down.

"Half a basket of thistles, twenty darts, two mountain knives, a narrow knife, a dagger, plus a dark armor, two pairs of gloves, a pair of arm guards, and the surface of the arm guards are also spiked, how much does it cost?"

The proprietress thought for a while, and slowly stretched out two fingers, "Twenty taels of silver." ”

Although, Wei Tao still directly started to bargain.

"It's too expensive."

The woman babbled, "It does sound expensive, but the main thing is that the dark armor is expensive."

Guest officer, you think, we make this set of dark armor, first according to the volume of the guest officer, we must first lay a good mold,

Then each process is time-consuming, laborious and material-intensive, in order to finally get the finished product.

What's more, it's not really armor, but it's also taking some risks......"

Wei Tao just shook his head, "It's still too expensive." ”

"If the guest officer really wants to do it, the leftovers can at least make a small half basket of what kind of thistle terrestris, and we will give it away."

It was only at this point that he showed a slight expression, "How many days can you do it?" ”

"It will take 10 days at the earliest."

"It's been too long."

"Guest officer, we have other work on our hands."

"Why don't you stop all the other work?"

"If we don't deliver on time, we need to lose money to other customers."

"What if I want you to do it for me first?"

"It will take about seven or eight days...... No, it only takes six or seven...... Guest officer, we don't sleep, it only takes five or six days to do it! ”

The woman stared at the silver in Wei Tao's hand, and changed her words one after another.

"Within five days, everything will be done, as long as I am satisfied, I will add another five taels of silver to you."

Smack!

A silver ingot landed in the palm of the proprietress hand.

"This is the deposit, when you finish it, you seal the things, and I will find someone to pay the bill and pick up the goods." After Wei Tao finished speaking, he turned around and left, without stopping for a moment.

The woman looked down at a finger mark that had just been pinched out on the silver ingot, and couldn't help but feel excited, and the polite words that had already reached her lips were suddenly blocked, and she hurriedly lowered her head and returned to the shop.

Wei Tao stayed in the newly bought house for four days, in addition to cleaning up the house, it was to carry qi and blood and boil the body.

It wasn't until the fifth day that he dressed up and quietly went out of the house.

During this time, all the people of the Silver Wolf Gang who were watching on Yufang Street retreated, and it seemed that they would not appear again for a while.

There will be some damage to the CYAD, and it is still expected.

The city defense army was quite powerful, and Captain Bian personally led people to take action, and beat up several gangsters who were responsible for keeping an eye on the Silver Wolf Gang, and threw them all into the prison.

However, the effect that can be achieved with the help of power is at most that.

The Youth Alliance does not have the strength to start a full-scale war with the Silver Wolves.

In terms of the city defense army, because of their duties, it is naturally possible to clean up a few ordinary members of the Silver Wolf Gang who are making trouble on the edge of the inner city.

But they are not stupid, and without a clear order from the Garrison Division, it is impossible for them to really be ruthless and confront the core backbone members of the Silver Wolf Gang.

After all, there won't be many people in the mountain wolf who want to mess with,

But people who are willing to fight water dogs abound.

Therefore, the most critical step must be done by himself.

It can only be done by himself.

Half an hour later, Wei Tao came out of the blacksmith shop with a huge backpack on his body.

After turning left and right in the streets and alleys, and making sure that no one was following, Wei Tao accelerated abruptly and went directly out of the city gate.

After leaving the city, he went all the way to the west, and gradually entered the deep forest of the Cangmang Mountains.

At this moment, Wei Tao's old profession of medicine picker has come to play a role again.

The poisonous weeds in his memory were picked by him, and the poisons were also captured and put into the medicine jar he carried.

As the weather approaches the end of autumn, the deeper you go into the mountains and forests, the more cold it feels.

A gust of mountain wind blew, and countless leaves fell from the trees, like countless colorful butterflies flying in the forest.

Eventually, they'll all cover the ground.

Yellow, red, and gray, like a colorful carpet.

Before you know it, it's getting dark.

The afterglow of the setting sun is giving its last rays, and it will soon disappear completely, leaving darkness over the whole world.

Wei Tao glanced at the poisonous weeds and poisons in the medicine jar, and then carefully observed the surrounding environment with the help of the last light, and began to move forward after thinking for a while.

He picked up speed along the rugged path trodden by his predecessors, and finally came to a hidden cave he had found before nightfall.

This is a safe base he has created for himself when he has to spend the night in the wilderness.

Wei Tao walked through the bushes that covered the entrance to the cave, and soon lit a fire, roasted the dry food, and ate it with water.

This place has long been beyond the scope of his medicine collection activities, and if he goes further, he will enter the real inaccessible deep mountains and old forests.

Except for those who go into the mountains in groups, the danger zone is almost never entered.

Wei Tao's real destination is Hanshuitan, which is about a day and a half away from the cave.

There are many places on the edge of the pond where the seven-step broken intestine grass grows, and there are all kinds of poisons, which are the focus of his trip.

After experiencing the night battle in the narrow alley, Wei Tao felt that his eyes were suddenly opened.

If you want to protect yourself in this kind of world, it is useless to just endure and dodge, and many times it will be regarded as a weak and bullying meat bun, whether it is a person or a dog, you want to pounce and bite it.

Therefore, when it is time to make a move, do not hesitate to make a move.

Only the enemy who dies is the best enemy.

Resolutely can't stick to any rules and regulations, no matter whether the cat is black or white, catching a mouse is a good cat.

Whatever the means, as long as it can kill the enemy, it is the most appropriate means.

It was precisely because of the opening of his eyes and thoughts that he made a set of dark armor for himself, and was ready to boil enough poison to soak the hidden weapon, adding enough life-saving killing methods for himself in addition to the practice of Red Line Fist.