Alienated Martial Arts.

Chapter 27 Taste
The sky is bright.

A man wearing a dilapidated bamboo hat, a coarse cloth shirt, and a bamboo basket on his back was waiting in line for inspection by the City Defense Force.

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

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

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

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

First throwing the armor and weapons into the swollen river and washing them away, Wei Tao sneaked into a random house, found a set of tattered clothes and put them on for himself.

Then he carried a bamboo basket from the firewood house on his back, and in an instant he turned back into a woodcutter who struggled to make a living.

It was also thanks to the heavy rain last night, which not only greatly increased the difficulty of searching the mountain, but also washed away the traces that he did not clean up, reducing the hidden danger of being discovered again.

Not far away, suddenly there was the sound of something falling behind him.

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

I saw a pair of men and women saluting at the city gate scattered all over the floor, and several soldiers surrounded them and poked a pile of books with their spears, showing no intention of letting them go.

After only one glance, he turned and left expressionlessly.

This kind of thing happens more than once every day, people who often go in and out of Cangyuan City are no strangers to it.

It is actually very simple to solve it. Even if the two people who were stopped have nothing to do with each other in the city, they only need to think about it a little bit.
The soldiers in custody let them go without saying a word, and no one cared whether there were any prohibited items in these salutes.

This is the way of the world itself, and it has nothing to do with justice or not, right or wrong.

They have no strength, no relationship, and don't want to spend money. They only mention the laws of the Great Zhou, which has no effect at all except for increasing the number of guards and the laughter of the onlookers.

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

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

Wei Tao took a bite of the steamed stuffed bun, took another sip of the hot noodle soup, and sighed comfortably.

According to Ontology's memory, in this past season, the price of firewood would start to rise continuously.

The family members will also gradually reduce the time spent looking for and picking herbs, and more will turn to collecting firewood to sell money, and then purchase food, salt and other materials in advance.

Otherwise, it will be difficult to cope with the needs of life when the mountains are closed by heavy snow in winter.

This year shouldn't be as hard as before.

Not to mention that the family has a relatively stable livelihood, but the money he has earned with his own hands during this period has far exceeded the entire expenditure of a family of four for several years.

There was even money left over to buy a house.

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

People from the snack bar came in and out, Wei Tao didn't notice them at first, he concentrated on eating the food in front of him, but what the woman behind him said made him look up.

She said, "I asked you to prepare more money to feed those watchdogs in the morning, but you insisted on hitting hard. Now it's all right, you got beaten for nothing and broke a few salutes."

The man's left cheek was swollen high, and he said angrily, "They are mere city guards, and they dare to openly ask for money from a Juren. They are simply lawless and disregard the laws of the Great Zhou!"

"Your words may have had some truth decades ago, but now you still hold your neck and refuse to admit the reality, which really makes people laugh out loud."

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

"So what if you got a Jinshi? What do you think you are? After reading a few bad books, you spend all day arguing about self-cultivation, governing the family, governing the country, and the world. As a result, you don't even have a home now, and you only have a hard mouth." Is it right?"

Wei Tao couldn't help smiling when he heard this, he drank his last sip of noodle soup, dropped some big money on the table, and walked out of the shop slowly, regardless of the two young people who were getting louder and happier.

He turned left and right in the alleys of the outer city, and bought some pancakes and stewed pork for today's meal. After making sure that no one was following him, he suddenly accelerated his speed 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 tensed for a long time.

As soon as he let out the breath he had held for a long time, he suddenly felt his head swell and his whole body limp and weak.

There were tearing pains in several places on the shoulders, chest, and back, and I endured and endured so that I didn't cry out directly.

That woman is simply terrifying.

Before meeting him, she had already killed countless Feng Lin sergeants, as well as a group of Moon Shadow Taoist priests.

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

Fortunately, he was wearing a anti-injury stabbing armor, and he was a shooter with two crossbows, so he had the last laugh by virtue of the strength of the weapon.

Sitting slumped on the armchair and resting for a while, Wei Tao struggled to get up, took out all the firewood in the bamboo basket, and then peeled off the pile of cow dung underneath, finally revealing the real harvest of this trip into the mountain.

First of all, he dug it out from the arms of a well-dressed Taoist, a portrait 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 connected together, it becomes a difficult and obscure scripture, making it impossible for people to understand its true meaning.

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

It seems to be made of some unknown animal hide, soft and resilient to the touch.

Wei Tao had great expectations for it.

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

With a trace of inexplicable tension, he slowly opened the animal hide.

Time passed little by little.

He stared at the patterns on the animal skins for a long time to observe and study, but he couldn't figure it out at all. He had a blank and helpless expression from the beginning to the end.

Who am I and where am I?

What the hell is this drawing?
Although he couldn't understand the first picture, at least he knew that it was a portrait of a human body in equal proportions, and he knew all the characters on it, but he didn't know why they connected them.

And this animal skin is simply a scalp-numbing abstract graffiti, like a pattern drawn by a depressed patient following his inner thoughts.

The dense and chaotic lines are repeatedly intertwined and entangled. After watching it, there is no other feedback and feeling except dizziness and nausea.

Carefully putting away the two pictures again, Wei Tao calmed down, fetched a basin of water and began to wash off the gold and silver he had looted.

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

Wei Tao held them in front of 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 the outer circle and inner square of copper coins, but more similar to fish scales.

On the color, there is a little fantasy purple in the golden yellow.

On the front of each scale-shaped coin, the word radish tea is engraved.

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

Staring at it for a long time, even made people feel a little chill inexplicably.

"The crazy woman said it was beautiful, and I think she's lying."

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

Now he can be sure that this thing is definitely not gold.

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

Smacking his lips, his expression was a little weird.

The smell of this thing...

It tasted like the sea.

He suddenly remembered that the woman seemed to have said that they are not only beautiful, but also useful.

"What does it mean to be easy to use..." Wei Tao muttered to himself, his face gloomy.

A decision has been made in an instant, and they will dig a deep pit in the yard to bury them later, so that they will never see the light of day again.

"hiss!"

At this moment, his palm suddenly became hot, as if holding a red-hot soldering iron.

Swish!
Before Wei Tao was surprised, the status bar that appeared in front of him attracted all his attention.

There, a brand new interface appears.

recharge centre……

"recharge centre!?"

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

Could it be that these fish scales, which are similar to coins, can be converted into gold coins that increase the progress bar of the Red Line Fist?
He had tried it before, no matter if it was gold or silver, or even the big week-style copper coins, they couldn't make the status bar show any response.

As a result, this little thing with the words "Luo Cha" can actually open the recharge center on the status bar?
"Whether to recharge."

Without any hesitation, Wei Tao pointed at "Yes" and clicked.

Swish!
The palm suddenly emptied, and the strange coins that hadn't been researched clearly disappeared without warning.

Immediately after several ding ding ding ding sounds, the available gold coins in the status bar interface jumped directly from 0 to 4.

Wei Tao's eyes widened suddenly, and he did not hide the surprise in his eyes.

Unexpectedly, the top-up was really successful! ?
With this effect, the taste of the sea is nothing.

Even if it is the salty sea, he will enjoy it.

(End of this chapter)