Alienated Martial Arts

It's bright.

A man wearing a shabby bamboo hat and coarse clothes, carrying a bamboo basket on his back, was waiting in line for inspection by the defense forces guarding the city.

After paying a large fee to enter the city, the gatekeeper glanced at this young man full of poverty and suddenly lost interest.

They just pulled it casually into the bamboo basket, then immediately covered their noses with disgust and waved him away impatiently.

Wei Tao put the bamboo basket on his back again, secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and followed the others quickly into the city gate.

After killing the crazy woman, he didn't even dare to rest for a while, and finally arrived at the village at the foot of the mountain in the dark before dawn.

Wei Tao first threw his armor and weapons into the swollen river and washed them away. Then he sneaked into a house and found a set of rags for himself to change into.

Carrying a bamboo basket from the firewood shed, he instantly transformed into a woodcutter struggling to make a living.

Thanks to the heavy rain last night, it not only greatly increased the difficulty of searching the mountain, but also washed away the traces that he had not dealt with, once again reducing the risk of being discovered.

Just after walking a short distance, there was suddenly the sound of something falling from behind.

Wei Tao's heart tightened and he immediately looked back.

I saw a man and a woman saluting all over the ground at the city gate. Several soldiers gathered around and poked at a pile of books with their spears, showing no intention of letting them go.

After just one glance, he turned and left without expression.

This kind of thing happens more than once every day, and people who often come in and out of Cangyuan City are already familiar with it.

It is actually very simple to solve the problem. Even if the two people stopped have no relationship in the city, they only need to show some intention.

The soldiers who kept them were released without saying a word, and no one cared whether there were any prohibited items in these salutes.

This is how the world is, regardless of whether it is just or not, right or wrong.

They had no strength, no connections, and did not want to waste money. They only mentioned the laws of the Zhou Dynasty, which had no effect at all except increasing the number of soldiers guarding the city and making the crowd laugh.

Not long after, Wei Tao walked into a fly restaurant on the street, ordered a large bowl of noodle soup and a basket of steamed buns, and found a seat by the window to eat slowly.

Although the rain has stopped outside, the temperature has dropped significantly after an autumn rain. Many pedestrians outside have already put on thicker jackets, instead of the short jackets that filled the streets a few days ago.

Wei Tao took a bite of the bun, drank another mouthful of hot noodle soup, and sighed comfortably.

According to the memory of the main body, in this past season, the price of firewood would start to rise continuously.

Family members will also gradually spend less time looking for and picking herbs, and more time will be spent gathering firewood and selling it to make money, and then purchase food, salt and other supplies in advance.

Otherwise, it will be difficult to meet the daily necessities of life when the mountains are closed by heavy snow in the cold winter.

This year should not be as hard as before.

Not to mention that his family has a relatively stable livelihood, but just counting the money he earned with his own hands during this period, it has far exceeded the total expenses of a family of four in several years.

There was even money left over to buy a house.

The door curtain was opened, and a man and a woman walked in from the outside and sat on the table opposite him.

People were coming in and out of the snack bar. Wei Tao didn't notice them at first, concentrating on eating the food in front of him, but the words of the woman behind him made him look up.

She said, "I asked you to prepare some extra money to feed the watchdogs early in the morning, but you insisted on fighting hard. Now it's okay. You got a beating in vain and broke a few gifts."

The man's left cheek was swollen, and he said with anger, "They are just city guards, but they dare to openly ask for money from a civil servant. They are simply lawless and ignore the laws of the Zhou Dynasty!"

"What you said may have made some sense a few decades ago, but now you are still holding your neck and refusing to acknowledge the reality. It really makes people laugh."

"Me, as long as I can win the Jinshi again, or donate my official title..."

"What will happen if you win the Jinshi? Who do you think you are? After reading a few shabby books, you spend all your time arguing about cultivating yourself, managing your family, governing the country, and bringing peace to the world. As a result, you don't even have a home now, and you only have a hard mouth. Right!"

Wei Tao couldn't help but smile after hearing this. After drinking the last mouthful of noodle soup, he dropped a few large coins on the table. Regardless of the two young men who were getting more and more noisy and happy, he walked out of the shop slowly.

He turned left and right in the alleys of the outer city, and bought some big cakes and braised pork for today's meal. After making sure that no one was following him, he suddenly accelerated and returned to his newly bought house.

After closing the doors and windows, Wei Tao could finally take a breath and relax his heartstrings that had been tense for a long time.

As soon as the breath he had held for a long time was released, he suddenly felt that his head was bloated and his whole body was sore and weak.

There were tearing pains in several places on my shoulders, chest, and back. I had to endure it again and again before I screamed out.

That woman was simply terrifying.

Before she met him, she had already killed countless sergeants Feng Lin and a group of Yueyingguan Taoist priests.

Even though she was seriously injured and had only one breath left, she was still able to hold him down and beat him, and even almost killed him.

Fortunately, he was wearing an anti-wound stab armor and was an archer with dual crossbows, so he had the last laugh by relying on his weaponry.

After slumping down on the armchair and resting for a moment, Wei Tao struggled to get up, took out all the firewood in the bamboo basket, and then peeled off a pile of cow dung underneath, finally revealing the true reward of this trip to the mountains.

First, he pulled it out from the arms of a well-dressed Taoist priest, a portrait that was about a foot in size when unfolded.

He held his breath and stared at the human body drawing marked with dense lines and small characters for a long time.

Then I have to admit that I know every word above, but when combined together, it becomes a difficult and obscure bible, making it impossible for people to understand its true meaning.

After putting the human body portrait away, he carefully took out another scroll.

It seemed to be made of some unknown animal hide, soft and pliable to the touch.

Wei Tao has considerable expectations for it.

Because it was found from that terrifying woman, it might record her arrogant and domineering lifelong learning.

With a trace of inexplicable nervousness, he slowly opened the animal skin.

Time passed little by little.

He stared at the patterns on the animal skin for a long time and studied them, but he couldn't figure it out at all. From the beginning to the end, he had a confused and helpless expression on his face.

Who am I and where am I?

What on earth is this painting?

Although he couldn't understand the first picture, he at least knew that it was a portrait of a human body in proportional proportions. He also recognized the words on it, but he didn't know why they were connected.

And this animal skin is basically a mind-numbing abstract graffiti, just like the patterns drawn by patients with depression following their inner thoughts.

The dense and chaotic lines are repeatedly intertwined and intertwined. Apart from dizziness, nausea and vomiting, there is no other feedback or feeling after watching it.

After carefully putting away the two pictures, Wei Tao gathered his mood, fetched a basin of water and began to wash the collected gold and silver.

He quickly washed the scattered silver coins and put them aside, leaving only four strange coins in the basin.

Wei Tao brought them to his eyes and observed them carefully.

These four coins are very strange.

First of all, it feels soft to the touch.

In terms of shape and size, they are not round on the outside and square on the inside, but more similar to fish scales.

In terms of color, there is a hint of fantasy purple in the golden yellow.

On the front of each fish-scale coin, there is the word Luo Cha engraved on it.

On the back is a strange pattern, which looks like a vertical pupil emitting many rays of light.

After staring for a long time, it even made people feel a little chilled inexplicably.

"That crazy woman said it looked good, and I think she was lying."

Wei Tao's mind turned and he put a fish scale coin into his mouth and bit it lightly.

Now he was sure that this thing was definitely not gold.

The next moment, Wei Tao took it out of his mouth.

He smacked his lips with a slightly strange expression.

The taste of this stuff...

It actually tastes like the sea.

He suddenly remembered that the woman seemed to have said that they were not only beautiful, but also easy to use.

"What do you mean it's easy to use..." Wei Tao muttered to himself, his face gloomy.

The decision was made in an instant to dig a deep pit in the yard and bury them so that they would never see the light of day again.

"hiss!"

At this moment, his palms suddenly became hot, as if he were holding a red-hot iron.

Uh-huh!

Wei Tao had no time to be surprised, and his full attention was attracted by the status bar that appeared in front of him.

There, a brand new interface appears.

recharge centre……

"recharge centre!?"

He took a deep breath and exhaled slowly, trying to calm down his somewhat chaotic and complicated mood.

Could it be that these fish scale-shaped things that resemble coins can be converted into gold coins that increase the progress bar of the Red Line Fist?

He had tried before, and no matter whether it was gold or silver, or copper coins in the Dazhou style, there was no reaction in the status bar.

As a result, this little thing with the word "Luo Cha" written on it can actually open the recharge center in the status bar?

"Whether to recharge."

Without any hesitation, Wei Tao pointed directly at "Yes".

Uh-huh!

The palm of his hand suddenly emptied out, and the few strange coins that he had not studied clearly disappeared without any warning.

Then there were a few ding ding ding ding sounds, and the available gold coins in the status bar interface jumped directly from 0 to 4.

Wei Tao's eyes widened suddenly, not hiding the surprise in his eyes.

Surprisingly, the recharge was really successful! ?

With this effect, the taste of the sea is nothing.

Even if it's the Aral Sea, he'll be happy with it.