Chapter 2: The remains of the unknown deathbed (this chapter is free)
Sun Wu was only slightly skeptical at first, but those conjectures were confirmed one by one in later observations. He and Xiaoshang encountered cavalry roaring past several times. Every time, people rushed to avoid it. The cavalry groups ran rampant on the road. Not only did they encounter
Kicking over stalls on the roadside, and sometimes encountering people who were too late to dodge, he would drive the cattle at a gallop without hesitation, knocking people down, and then run away with the sound of broken bones, just like the trampled to death.
A few bugs are not living beings of the same species as ourselves.26nbsp;
Not every building in the city is so poor and dilapidated. When Sun Wu and Xiao Shang entered the center of Mingde Dam, they saw several buildings that should be public institutions, with more than ten floors of high-rise buildings. They were not only majestic, but also
And all use advanced technology. People rise and fall in the transparent lifting equipment, overlooking the entire Mingde Dam, and stepping on this small world under their feet.
The tallest one even has a current barrier at the door to prevent unknown persons from passing through. If you want to force your way in, a swarm of buzzing iron-shelled ladybugs will fly out from all directions to stop the intruders.
The way out and the way out, the magic weapon guards rushed over to arrest the people.
(The common people who work in agriculture do not enjoy these advanced technologies. Only civil servants who serve in the army and work for the court can enjoy civilization. This is a complete control of the people! Two worlds are divided. If you are not loyal to the court, you will always be able to stay in a low-level society.
The one you're waiting for, this... is too much!)
Thinking of these things, even Sun Wu himself was a little surprised. For a fourteen-year-old boy, it seemed too early to understand these things. However, he really understood, especially when he noticed that Mingdeba's
How people looked up at those buildings, and how people in the transparent elevator looked down at their feet, I understood those things instantly.
"The world outside...is really different from what we imagined."
"How's it going? Do you want to go into the building and give it a try?"
Seeing Xiao Shang's eagerness to give it a try, he was planning to break into the tiger's den. Sun Wu hurriedly stopped him. Not wanting to cause more trouble at this juncture, he forced Xiao Shang to go out and unexpectedly arrived at a shopping street in the city.
The shopping streets in this area should not be sold to ordinary people. Because of the various luxurious decorations, even if you don't look at the products inside, you know that they are not affordable for ordinary people. In addition to the signboard, there is also a piece of metal placed at the door of each shop.
From time to time, the pedestal projected some images or sounds to attract customers. Along the way, Sun Wu's eyes were dazzled by the various sound and light scenes.
Some of the three-dimensional images projected were talking animals, which were very popular with children. When Sun Wu saw a little tiger with colorful stripes doing cute rolling movements, his whole face was filled with tears.
He burst into laughter, ran over in three steps and squatted in front of the three-dimensional image, almost reluctant to leave.
"Oh, what a brat, I'm obsessed with this kind of thing." Xiao Shang spread his hands and said as if he was helpless.
"Xiao Shang, don't you think this little tiger is cute?"
"When you say that, it's really tempting... Hehe, it seems very delicious."
"Why does your mind always go to some inexplicable places?"
The boy who ran away from home for the first time encountered the most embarrassing problem at noon the day after leaving home. Originally, Sun Wu's plan to escape home was to use some of the copper coins he had saved over the years as funds, but Fengjie gave it away.
When he left Liangshanbo, he was in a hurry and did not go home to get the money. He also thought that Xiao Shang must be prepared. However, when he asked about the funds, Xiao Shang said that he did not have a single copper coin on him and was completely penniless.
As a result, just a few hours after leaving home, Sun Wu and Xiao Shang were wandering on the streets, watching people coming and going on the road, not knowing what to do.
"Xiao Shang, didn't you take anything before you left home? You should prepare a little something, right? Even if you are empty-handed, didn't your sister and dad give you anything?"
"Sister Feng only gave you some changes of clothes, not money. Dad gave you some tokens."
"Token?"
Xiao Shang took out a dozen envelopes from the sachet bag at his waist. The seals were not glued on, but the envelopes were all yellowed. They were obviously old items that had been around for quite some time.
"Dad said that this is the marriage he made for you when he traveled around the world in his early years. As long as you come to your door with these tokens, you will have a wife."
Sun Wu still remembered that when he was a child, his father often showed off to him, saying that he helped him get married and made several marriages. When he grew up, a beautiful wife and a generous dowry would come to his door. At first, he didn't even do it.
I didn't know what it meant, and I was happily together with my dad. But as I got older and understood the meaning of "engagement" and "marriage on the fingertips," I felt very awkward and even started to get angry.
Marriage is a very sacred matter and should not be played lightly. The person who can become a lifelong partner must be the person you truly love.
Isn’t it ridiculous that a woman whom I have never seen before, and who doesn’t even know her height, fatness or weight, wants to marry me? Moreover, for a woman who is destined to marry a certain man from birth, it should be
It is also a very sad thing, right? Because of this, when my father later brought up these marriage affairs to show off, he clearly showed his displeasure and opposition.
"Xiao Shang, does dad have a lot of reputation outside? Do he have many friends? Friends who are good enough to marry him?"
"I'm not sure. I think I have quite a few friends. It depends on your definition of friends. As long as we all have interests, you and Nalan Yuandie can also be friends."
It seemed that Xiao Shang didn't know. Although his father always promised that his future wife would be a first-class beauty, Sun Wu didn't believe in his father's aesthetic vision because he often drank wine with his sister.
, when you are drunk, you say that your sister is the most beautiful woman in the village. This kind of view is really disturbing when you think about it. This kind of blind marriage is definitely not feasible.
But now that I have stepped out, I have the obligation to clean up these things. My father is not snatching the bride, but betrothaling for me, so I have a responsibility no matter what.
Shaking his head, Sun Wu thought for a while and spoke word by word in a very cautious tone, "Xiao Shang, I don't want these tokens, and I can't want them, because I think it is wrong to marry with the fingertips, no matter what they are.
No one has the right to decide a child’s life before she is born, so..."
Sun Wu spoke very slowly, because there was one thing that prevented him from making an easy decision. Although he did not like things like fingertip marriage, among the various marriages that his father boasted about for himself, there was one time when he
Dad brought a portrait of a little girl, which made me, who had always been opposed to my fiancée, stunned and speechless.
The girl in the painting has emerald-green hair and is pretty and charming. Standing under the starry sky, her clothes are fluttering, she looks like a fairy.
When I was young, I looked at that painting and was in a state of intoxication and dreaminess, which affected me for several days. Although I had never met him,... maybe it could be regarded as some form of first love.
Thinking of this matter, Sun Wu spoke a little slower, but he felt that he should not slap himself for selfish reasons on this matter. Unfortunately, while he was talking and sorting out his thoughts, there was a super action man next to him.
, after hearing him say that he didn’t want these tokens, he immediately took action.
"Oh, Xiao Wu, if you don't want it, it's just garbage."
Xiao Shang wiped the envelope with his left hand on his right hand, and a dazzling flame flashed out, and more than a dozen envelopes burst into flames. Sun Wu was shocked and turned pale, and quickly reached out to grab it.
"Xiao Shang, what are you doing?"
Sun Wu moved very quickly and grabbed the envelope in the fire, but the fire burned faster and was out of control. In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen envelopes were burned cleanly and turned into ashes. What did he want to save?
It's already too late.
The sudden destruction operation, in the end, when Sun Wu opened his palm, apart from a pile of charred ashes, there were only two things left, a gold lock piece and a jade pendant, glowing faintly in the ashes.
It was obvious at first glance that it was something extraordinary, but even Sun Wu couldn't recognize what it was.
"Xiao Shang, why are you moving so fast?"
"Didn't you say you don't want it anymore? Just burn the garbage. It's bad behavior to throw garbage everywhere. Xiaoshang is an environmentally friendly little angel."
Rolling his eyes was a normal reaction, and Sun Wu almost wanted to faint on the spot.
"No one will regard you as an angel. I said I don't want it anymore, but this matter can't be ended like this. Even if I don't want it, people will still be on tenterhooks. I want to send these tokens back, no matter what the intimidation was.
'It's still an inducement. I want to solemnly apologize to them and tell them that it's okay."
"Oh, now there are only two pieces left, so you can save a lot of traveling."
The girl took it for granted. Sun Wu, who had long given up the chance to be angry, had no choice but to accept it all.
"Which family do these two tokens belong to? Dad should have told them their names and addresses, right? Even if there are only two families, I still have to send the things back."
"My name and origin were all written in the envelope. It had been burned just now. I could have used a magic weapon to try to save it, but you took action so quickly and the ashes were all shattered by you. Now unless I go back and ask my dad,
, otherwise no one will know what is written on the paper.”
"...Anyway, you just want to pull me down and tell me that I am also wrong."
"Yeah~~~!"
The discussion with Xiao Shang will never have normal results. Sun Wu put away the gold lock piece and the jade pendant, and secretly promised in his heart that one day he would definitely return these two tokens and apologize to others properly, but at that time...
...I hope the golden bell can withstand the sixth level, right?
In fact, the problem at hand is not just this one. The thing that worries me most is that Liangshan Bo, which has lost the Buddha's blood relic, can only float in the sky for another half a year. If the lost object cannot be recovered within half a year, Liang Shan Bo will regain his power source.
It is bound to fall to the ground.
The person who stole the Buddha's blood relic was naturally Nalan Yuandie. She abandoned the damaged Feiyun ship and regarded seizing the Buddha's blood relic as the last resort to save the battle. She finally escaped without a trace, but she was already injured at the time.
How did she, who was not young, escape from the two masters Hu Yantu and Li Mubai? How did she leave Liangshanbo? These are all mysteries that are difficult to solve.
Assuming that Nalan Yuandie successfully escaped from Liangshanbo and returned to the earth, where will she go now? Where is she hiding? How to find her? The more I think about it, the more clueless I feel. Xiaoshang is completely unreliable in these matters.
, it is indeed very difficult to act alone.
Even take a step back and think about it, what exactly is the Buddha's blood relic? In addition to supplying energy, does it have any characteristics? Where does it come from? If there is such information, maybe we can learn from the special characteristics of the magic weapon.
I followed the clues and found the Buddha's blood relic.
The more he thought about it, the more headache he got. Sun Wu unconsciously held his head and shook it gently. A small hand next to him stretched out and pulled his sleeve. When he turned around, he saw Xiao Shang's frowning expression.
"……hungry."
"I'm hungry too, but we don't have any money. I think it's better to wait for you to ride the magnetic hoverboard to the nearby mountains. I'll see if I can hunt some hares and birds, and then we can have a meal first.
Anyway, don’t worry, I won’t let you go hungry.”
In front of his companions, Sun Wu once again showed his sense of responsibility. From the perspective of a fourteen-year-old boy, this spirit is worthy of praise, but the focus of what his companions heard seemed not to be this.
"Oh, you can find food on your own... wouldn't it be easier if you said that earlier?"
Xiao Shang suddenly stood up and walked towards the center of the street. There were a dozen children of seven or eight years old in the middle of the street. They were dressed quite decently. They obviously came from a wealthy family. They were playing and playing. They seemed to be having a lot of fun. When they saw a little
When my sister came over, she was startled.
(Ah, Xiao Shang must be pretending to be cute. Adults who don’t know the truth can easily be fooled by this trick, but these are children, why is she pretending to be cute?)
Sun Wu wondered about Xiao Shang's actions, but found that she did not change her expression. She still had the same cold face that made people shiver. She stood with her arms akimbo in front of the children and spoke coldly.
"Hey kid, take out all the money you have."
Without any specific threats, the children who were treated as prey felt frightened simply by the hunter's eyes and aura, and immediately burst into tears, alerting the adults chatting not far away, and nine adults rushed over.
The blackmailer was surrounded. The twelve-year-old female blackmailer seemed to be unable to see anything and continued to repeat what she had just said.
"Hey, old ghosts, take out all the money you have."
"Hahaha, little sister, do you know that robbing on the street is illegal?"
"...The same goes for killing people."
People who heard these words laughed loudly. No one took the little girl's threats seriously. Only Sun Wu on the side broke out in cold sweat. Having been together since childhood, he knew very well how much Xiao Shang always meant what he said when he spoke harshly.
, these people laugh so loudly, it’s like they have put one foot in the door of hell.
Xiao Shang moved his palm slightly, as if he was about to do something, but the wind flashed around him, and Sun Wu broke into the crowd, held Xiao Shang's hand, and apologized hastily to the people in front of him while sweating profusely.
"Hahahaha... My sister likes to talk nonsense. A few adults have a lot of nonsense. Please don't mind it. Children's words are unbridled. Children's words are unbridled. Hahahahahahahahaha..."
There was no joy in the laughter, but instead it showed the nervousness in the young man's heart. However, the little hand holding it was still struggling vigorously as if he was very unhappy. As long as she was allowed to break free, she would be here soon.
After saying this, Sun Wu didn't give Xiao Shang a chance to regret. He suddenly picked him up, put him on his shoulders, and rushed out of the crowd like flying.
"Those two kids... are really weird."
Taking this sentence as an annotation, people judged Sun Wu and Xiao Shang's first "sexual" action in the world. Among the more than 20 men, women, and children standing on the street, no one felt the danger at that moment, and no one felt the danger at that moment.
I know the young man's efforts to prevent tragedy from happening.
Sun Wu took Xiao Shang away from the scene, avoiding the crowds who were paying attention to them along the way, and specifically walked in some secluded alleys, hoping to find a truly quiet location to discuss her behavior with Xiao Shang.
After going through a lot of twists and turns, Sun Wu found a dead end alley. There were Shenmen compound nearby. The walls on both sides were high and thick. No human sounds could be heard at all. The long alley was filled with a lot of debris.
The thing seems to be extremely quiet.
"Okay, this is the quietest place nearby, Xiaoshang, I am telling you seriously, there are some things you need to learn, and you can no longer act like you did when you were in Liangshanbo. We are now in the outside world.
Yes, we must..."
Sun Wu, who was nagging, felt like a nagging old woman, but if he didn't say anything, then who would regulate Xiaoshang's behavior? Now that he has left Liangshanbo, he should have a new life, and he must not be affected by Xiaoshang again.
He walked away with his nose in his mouth.
Xiao Shang didn't say much about his companion's persistence. He just gave him a funny look, nodded, and said: "You're right, you are really good at choosing places. It's hard to find any place like this nearby.
It’s more ideal.”
"Uh? What do you mean?"
What do you mean? No need for Xiao Shang to answer. The answer has already appeared behind Sun Wu. On the high and thick stone wall, black and red blood stains suddenly appeared on the gray and dark wall, flowing out quickly and in large quantities, and finally sprayed like a fountain.
.
"ah!"
Sun Wu noticed something was wrong and hurriedly dodged. At this time, not only the blood, but also the entire wall collapsed, but there was another wall behind the collapsed wall. If you look more closely, the thing that fell down was not a wall, but a wall.
He is a person who uses strange blinding methods to disguise himself as a wall.
This person can use a special piece of paper-thin silk to disguise himself on the wall without revealing any flaws. It can be said that this person is quite skillful. But now this person is covered in blood and his breath is dying. What do you think?
They all looked like they were about to expire.
"You...you...can I help you with anything?"
Sun Wu could tell at a glance that this man could not be saved. He had many serious injuries on his body, and the one on his lower abdomen was particularly severe. Even his intestines were leaking out. It was a shame that he could hide here and pretend to be a wall.
However, despite being seriously injured like this, he still had to work hard to hide here by pretending to be a wall. He was obviously hiding from someone, and the enemy should still be searching nearby, so he endured the pain of serious injuries and struggled to hold on.
, as for whether the enemy is strong or not, this is not clear.
"Xiao Shang, do you have any magic weapon that can help this uncle?"
Not knowing any medical skills, Sun Wu could only put his hope in Xiao Shang, maybe her various unpredictable magic weapons could help him recover.
Living up to his friends' expectations, Xiao Shang immediately stepped forward with a duty-bound attitude. A ring on his hand glowed red and pointed at the seriously injured person on the ground.
"No problem. Let him be freed once and for all. We will ensure that he dies without further delay. We will destroy the body and eliminate all traces. We will definitely leave you no trouble."
"Wow! Don't do it!"
Sun Wu hurriedly stopped Xiao Shang from firing the red light. At this time, the seriously injured man on the ground seemed to know that he was about to die. He tried his best to keep his eyes open and spoke to the only young man and woman in front of him.
"Please... please... give this thing... to Wan Zilou... Miss Bao... it's very important... be careful... iron... iron..."
Unable to catch a breath, the unfortunately seriously injured man died. Sun Wu raised the hand he had desperately raised before he died, opened his clenched fingers, and found a gray round lens. He didn't know what it was.
, I don’t know where Wanzi Tower is, but since this man died on the way to deliver things, Wanzi Tower should be not far from here, maybe in this city.
"Xiao Shang, let me ask you, what should I do..."
"No problem, let him clean it up once and for all, destroy the body and eliminate all traces. There will be no trace left for you."
"Wow, I just want to ask you if you know what Wanzilou is, I don't want you to dispose of the body!"
Xiao Shang shot too fast this time, and Sun Wu had no time to stop him. He could only push hard from the side. The red light on the ring shot out diagonally, and he missed his aim. The condensed red ring did not hit the body, but it missed the body.
The wall on the left swept up diagonally, swallowing up everything it passed, and also swallowed up half of a large banyan tree.
Cutting down a tree silently is not a big problem, but after the upper half of the tree was missing, the trunk suddenly peeled off, revealing a mutilated body missing the head and left shoulder. This problem is really not a small problem.
"What...how did this happen?"
Before Sun Wu could recover from his shock, Xiao Shang next to him patted him on the shoulder.
"Xiao Wu, you killed someone."
"Yes, I..."
Immediately he realized something was wrong when he spoke next. Sun Wu was about to roar in protest when he suddenly noticed that the corpse in the tree not only had a strange color, but also had a kind of white soft armor that he had never seen before, and it also held a statue in his right hand.
It was a ballista-like weapon, aimed at his direction. In other words, if he hadn't been killed by chance, Sun Wu and Xiao Shang would have been accidentally plotted.
"There are people in the walls and there are people in the trees. The security in this city is really a mess!"
This was Sun Wu's only thought now, and no matter how slow he reacted, he knew something was wrong at this time and had to leave the danger zone as soon as possible to protect himself, so he pulled Xiao Shang out of the dark alley.
After the initial shock, his mind gradually clarified the context of the whole incident. Sun Wu thought that the fatal injuries of the first deceased might have been caused by the second deceased, and that person was lurking in the tree with the purpose of killing people.
It should also be to seize something. As for the thing he wants to seize, it is the lens that has fallen into his hands now.
This lens seems ordinary, but the middle-aged uncle said before his death that this thing is of great importance, and it seems that there may be some secret hidden behind it. If possible, Sun Wu does not want to get involved, but the dead cannot refuse.
I had no choice but to make this journey for him.
"We must deliver such an important thing to its destination as soon as possible, but how to get there?"
Xiao Shang solved the problem that Sun Wu was worried about without even thinking about it. She walked to the street, grabbed a random passerby, pointed at Sun Wu, and asked: "My brother is looking for Miss Bao, where is Wanzi Tower?"
This was really a meaningless sentence, but when the passerby heard it, he laughed out loud.
"I don't know what kind of girl Bao is, but you are right to go to Wanzilou to find a girl. You follow the group of people in front of you. They are going to Wanzilou. But little brother, at your age... ugh
…”
Sun Wu didn't notice his strange expression, and just sighed because Wanzilou was nearby. The man could almost deliver the things in person, but he still ended up dying of serious injuries. It must be a pity.
Xiao Shang pointed to the large crowd in front and asked, "Do you want to follow?"
"Well, they are all going to Wanzi Building. Let's follow them there and hand the things to Miss Bao in the building. That will take care of our worries."
"But... your sister used to say, don't go to crowded places. If so many people gather together, there will definitely be a lot of bad things happening."
"Things that are theoretical are just theories! I found that the things my sister teaches should be used according to the situation. It is easy to encounter dead bodies when going to places with few people. This time we should follow the crowd."
Afraid that something might happen if he was late, Sun Wu pulled Xiao Shang to follow him. Soon he got mixed in with the crowd and followed the crowd towards the destination.
"You are afraid of encountering dead bodies, but Wanzilou is a completely unfamiliar place. Aren't you afraid that you will turn into a dead body when you go there? The middle-aged man was injured like this just now. He was beaten by the enemy. Aren't you afraid that you will also encounter this?
Enemy?"
It's not that Sun Wu didn't think about what Xiao Shang warned, but he looked at the people running around. Everyone had an expression of joy and expectation, as if they were going to welcome something good. If he followed these people, there should be no danger.
right.
(If Wanzilou was really dangerous, they wouldn’t laugh so happily, right? Since they laugh like this, they must be going there for some good reason.)
This speculation strengthened Sun Wu's idea, but he still wanted to ask the crowd around him to see what was going on in front of him. If it was a gangster birthday party or a happy event such as the gangster handing out money, he would not be sensitive to it, otherwise
The people living in Liangshan are all robbers and thieves. I am one of them. If I get deeper and deeper into the underworld, it will not be a good thing.
"Idiot! How could such a thing happen? If you can give money to the people, you won't be a gangster. All gangsters in the world are gangsters. They can't even take advantage of the people. Can there be such kind-hearted gangsters?"
Sun Wu did not feel sad about being ridiculed by the villagers around him. Instead, he nodded frequently, thinking that they were right. However, the villagers laughed but still showed their humanity and found that the clothes of the little brother and sister were inappropriate.
, shouted and helped them arrange a set of clothes.
"How are you going to be able to get on the stage when the time comes when you are dressed like this? You are not very decent. Come on, come on, put on your clothes, and have a good meal later."
Hearing that he could eat enough, Sun Wu's first thought was that he was going to a certain banquet. The host had strict dress requirements for guests, and they would not be able to enter unless they were dressed decently. However, when he put on the cotton-padded jacket,
But I felt something was wrong in my heart, because this cotton-padded jacket was dirty and torn, with patches everywhere, stains on the outside, and fleas on the inside. It made me itchy when I put it on. How can such clothes be decent? In comparison
Underneath, although my original clothes can't be said to be top-notch, they are at least clean and tidy. They are better than this set of tattered cotton-padded jackets, right?
"Uncles, these clothes seem a bit..."
The voice stopped midway through the question. Sun Wu was shocked to discover a fact that had been ignored. He ran with these people and saw the smiles and joy on their faces, but did not notice their clothes. Now take a closer look, All of these people had disheveled looks, ragged clothes, and staggering steps. They looked like they had been hungry for a long time. Even if they were not refugees, they were definitely hungry people.
(Aren’t we going to Wanzi Tower? Why are we running together with hungry people? That’s not good. Could it be where they are going...)