Alienated Martial Arts.

Chapter 37 Black Knight
a few days later.

The sky is bright, and the mountain city is filled with thick fog.

Wei Tao was still the same as usual, he got up before dawn, went to a small shop on the street to buy a stack of meat pies, and filled his stomach with a big bowl of mutton soup.

In late autumn, after several mountain rains, the temperature dropped one after another, and a thick layer of hoarfrost was clearly visible on the ground.

A few ragged men curled up in a corner to keep warm, reaching out to beg for food and copper coins from time to time.

Pedestrians passing by covered their mouths and noses one after another, stepped up and left quickly, and no one took a look at that corner.

After eating a stack of meat pies and two consecutive bowls of broth, Wei Tao sighed contentedly, got up and threw a small piece of silver to the shopkeeper, and asked casually while waiting for the change, "Those people came from the desert refugees from the state?"

The shopkeeper raised his head and took a look, "The guest officer is right, they have been wandering around a lot these days."

Wei Tao nodded, and said casually, "You don't need to change the rest of the money, just give each of them a piece of meat pie to warm up."

"Guest officer, you can't do it, you can't do it." The shopkeeper was stunned, but his expression was embarrassing.

"Oh? Why can't you do it? It's not that you are asked to pay."

"It's not that villains are unwilling to do good deeds, but that as long as villains give them soup cakes today, there will be a large crowd of people begging for food and money tomorrow. It can be lifted."

"Old man, worry too much."

"Don't worry about it at all. The guest officials don't know. Some of these people from Mozhou continue to flock to the inland, some sell themselves to rich families as slaves, and some rely on their own strength to make ends meet. The rest But..."

The shopkeeper let out a long sigh when he said this.

"The rest is the factors that affect the safety and stability of the city. Is this what the old man wants to say?" Wei Tao took the copper coins recovered by the old man from the shopkeeper and said calmly.

"Yes, yes, just as the guest officer said." The shopkeeper lowered his voice, "The villain also heard that they even set up a gang to fight for a small piece of land in the outer city, even near the inner city. They have robbed more than one of their shops."

"As for the city defense army, they dare to cause trouble on the edge of the inner city, the city defense army should directly attack and wipe them out."

"Ah... not just talking nonsense, the city defense army was suddenly mobilized by the court officials who came down from above, and most of them haven't come back yet."

"Perhaps the guest officer hasn't been walking on the street much recently, and I'm afraid he doesn't know what kind of chaos this outer city has become."

The city defense army was mobilized and has not returned until now?
Wei Tao frowned slightly, and just about to say something, he heard the sound of horseshoes.

He immediately turned his head to look.

The dense sound of horseshoes approached quickly, galloping across the stone road, heading straight for the inner city.

A total of twenty riders passed by in front of the restaurant, and one of them was the first to carry a huge banner with a huge Chinese character "Zhou" embroidered on it.

"It turned out to be the black cavalry team, the most elite force of the Zhou family in the inner city!"

Huang, Zhou, and Xu, the three masters in the inner city, put the entire Cangyuan City under control.

Most of the so-called various gangs in the outer city are just small characters that can be wiped out easily in their eyes.

Wei Tao watched the Zhou family's black knight go away, but his eyes were full of thoughts and doubts.

These knights seemed to have just gone through a tough battle, and their bodies were still full of bloody aura that hadn't dissipated.

And several people were seriously injured.

With his eyesight at the blood coagulation level of the red line fist, it can be seen at a glance that the complexions of the few knights behind are bleak, and there is a strong smell of blood in every breath.

"The city defense army was mobilized to go out, and the martial masters of the Zhou family came back in a bloody battle. Could it be that something special happened outside Cangyuan City?"

Wei Tao thought about it, watching them disappear at the end of the long street leading to the inner city, but inexplicably recalled that horrible rainy night.

Scary and crazy women, as well as Taoist priests and armored soldiers lying dead on the ground.

The dense fog began to dissipate, and the crowd huddled in the corner also got up at this time, diverted into the street in all directions.

Coming out of the shop, Wei Tao walked through the hurried pedestrians and walked towards the Red Line Martial Arts Hall.

Suddenly, he stopped and glanced at the narrow alley from the corner of his eyes.

In the morning when the sun was about to rise, a group of six or seven people carrying red lanterns lined up in the alley slowly and slowly.

With a thought in his heart, he immediately pretended to be interested in the stalls at the entrance of the alley, approached and picked up a pair of silver hairpins.

But just by turning around, the team of lantern-carrying men had disappeared in the narrow alley.

The whole alley was deserted and empty, only a black cat was seen speeding across the stone wall.

There are also several pools of sewage flowing wantonly underground, exuding a turbid stench.

"How much is this pair of hairpins?" Wei Tao looked back at the owner of the stall.

"The weight of the two hairpins is six renminbi. If you sincerely want it, my lord, we will only charge you ten renminbi for handwork."

Wei Tao took out a piece of broken silver and handed it to the stall owner to weigh. After taking the pair of hairpins, he was still thinking about the row of passers-by carrying the lantern.

Looking up at the dim sky, for some reason, he felt an indescribable depression.

The whole Cangyuan City seems to be like a rotting mud pond, and like a dense spider web, enveloping all life, no matter how hard you struggle, it is difficult to escape.

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A quarter of an hour later, Wei Tao came to the martial arts hall.

As soon as he entered the door, he found that today seemed different from usual.

All the registered disciples were practicing in silence, no one spoke, and the entire training ground was shrouded in a deadly and dull atmosphere.

"Senior Brother Seven, all the senior brothers have arrived and are waiting for you in the inner courtyard." A petite girl ran over.

Wei Tao recognized her as Qi Wuya, the granddaughter of the old leader of Blacksmith Lane, but the clothes on her body marked her from a registered disciple to a formal disciple.

"Are you an official disciple?" he asked.

Qi Wuya nodded with a smile, "Brother Seven, I just reached the entrance standard yesterday, and I was accepted into the inner court early this morning, and became a direct disciple."

Hearing this, Wei Tao couldn't help but pause, and asked seemingly unintentionally, "Teacher is back?"

"The teacher hasn't come back yet. I was recruited by the senior brother on behalf of the teacher. This time is also a party called by the senior brother." Qi Wuya smiled again, her eyes were bent into crescents, looking pretty and cute.

Wei Tao nodded, and asked again, "Did senior brother say what the hell is going on?"

She restrained her smile, and her voice was no longer as cheerful as before, "I don't know, it must be related to the second senior sister and the eighth junior brother. Didn't the seventh senior brother hear that something happened to the Silver Wolf Gang?"

"I did hear the rumor, so how are the second senior sister and the eighth junior brother doing now?"

"The second senior sister was beaten to death, and the eighth junior brother disappeared for no reason... The Silver Wolf Gang has also become a thing of the past. The members of the gang scattered like birds and beasts, hiding in fear all day long."

"I see." Wei Tao didn't ask any more questions, and walked towards the inner courtyard with big strides.

Qi Wuya followed behind, her eyes fell on the seventh senior brother, and she suddenly found that he brought an inexplicable feeling of oppression to herself.

In the past, only teachers and elder brothers could bring her similar feelings.

(End of this chapter)