Buddhist monks in the late Qing Dynasty

Chapter 1150 The troops are approaching the city
What interested him most was the birdman's pocket technology.

"how much is it?"

The merchant bared his yellow teeth and said, "One hundred and fifty thousand gold coins."

Zhao Chuanxin reached in and felt around. There was only half a meter of space. "Why are prices rising so much?"

"Sergeant, you don't know that the birdman's pocket technology has never been passed on to others. This is the spoils of the war between the nine tribes in the Shadow Forest. Other tribes searched and plundered it and sold it. The quantity is rare and very precious. I sell it at a relatively low price. Some people sell it for more."

Zhao Chuanxin, a contestant who couldn't even get a hundred gold coins in his pocket, was eager to bargain with the merchant: "Lower price."

The merchant saw that he was wearing a blue robe and asked back, "Are all the pilgrims so rich?"

You are just a blue robe sergeant, and you actually want to covet pocket technology?
Zhao Chuanxin took out a rolled tobacco leaf, licked it with his tongue and lit it: "In this world, there are still many things that money can't solve. I wonder if you have it? Maybe I can help."

The businessman sneered and said nothing.

Obviously, Zhao Chuanxin's identity as a blue-robed soldier made him sneer.

Zhao Chuanxin said cheerfully, holding a cigarette in his mouth: "Just tell me, you have nothing to do anyway."

The businessman was provoked by him and said with his neck stiff, "Well, in Ghost City, there is a necromancer named Bone-piercing. He always carries a bone staff with him. If you can bring it to me, I will give you the pocket technology."

Zhao Chuanxin's eyes turned and he said, "It sounds impressive, but I'm afraid pocket technology alone is not enough?"

"Then what else do you want?"

Zhao Chuanxin pointed at the cargo on the truck and said, "I want all the steel, round bullets, seasonings, and tobacco leaves."

"Hey, okay! But can you get the bone staff?"

"Tell me the address and I'll come and exchange with you tomorrow."

The army will stay for a day to rest and shop.

The pilgrims had been wandering in the wilderness for so long that when they saw the caravan they were so excited that they could not move their legs.

Seeing that Zhao Chuanxin was serious, the merchant warned him, "Ci Gu is a dangerous wizard who kills people without blinking an eye. He always carries various poisons with him and masters the most vicious and mysterious undead spells. You can go, but I hope you don't cause trouble for me..."

"Dangerous? Killing without blinking an eye? What a coincidence, me too." Zhao Chuanxin took out a military map and asked the businessman to mark the address.

He said hello to Tiedan, left the team alone, went up the mountain, took a detour, and jumped over the ridge. It would take a whole day to march, but he arrived in two hours.

Ghost Canyon is foggy all year round, regardless of the weather.

It is adjacent to the border between Shadow Forest and Tundra and is a major transportation route.

Zhao Chuanxin waited until it got dark on the top of the mountain, roasted a rabbit and ate it, then covered the campfire with mud and set off for the Ghost Town.

The ghost town is built beside a canyon, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack.

The city surrounded the entire canyon.

Zhao Chuanxin simply jumped into the city from the steep mountain wall and avoided the guards.

Xingyue told him: "Be careful, someone is coming from the eleven o'clock direction."

Zhao Chuanxin dodged in advance.

"Someone is coming from the two o'clock direction."

"Someone is passing by at seven o'clock."

It didn't take long for Zhao Chuanxin to arrive at the address the businessman mentioned.

It was a stately villa with pointed arches and large windows with stained glass depicting disturbing stories of demons.

The building has pointed rib vaults, light and slender columns, and buttresses to share the pressure of the main wall. There are a large number of reliefs on the exterior walls, all of which are images of hideous ghosts and monsters.

Zhao Chuanxin was well-versed in architecture, but he felt that the building was peculiar in form, and had an eerie and gloomy atmosphere, and that ordinary people might not be able to appreciate it.

Because there was a guard in a black cloak at the door of the first floor, he went straight to the second floor, pushed the windows one by one, and finally found an unlocked window.

After entering the villa, Xingyue told him: "What you are looking for is in the room at the end of the corridor on the second floor, but the bone staff is carried by its owner, so it is difficult to take it away without anyone noticing. Why don't we go to the study room next door, where there are many books, and look for clues while waiting for its owner to fall asleep."

Zhao Chuanxin has two goals: to adjust the flow of time and to leave the world of "Code of the Old Gods".

The clues to leaving are very important, and a lot of information needs to be consulted.

He pushed the door, and the hinges creaked slightly.

Zhao Chuanxin waited carefully, and when there was no movement, he pushed inside gently and slowly.

The door opened and he went in. Sure enough, there were several rows of bookshelves with heavy tomes neatly arranged, and the shelves were spotless.

Zhao Chuanxin took out a book and flipped through it quickly.

After flipping through dozens of books, Xingyue said, "Here are records about the Order Clock. The Order Pointer can establish a directional pathway. The Order Pendulum can adjust the flow of time. The Order Dial represents space. The Order String is an energy amplifier. The Order Heart shields the energy field. The key to your return lies in the Order Pointer. The key to adjusting the flow of time lies in the Order Pendulum."

"Zhao!" Zhao Chuanxin cursed, "So, the String of Order alone can't do anything?"

If the String of Order really exists in Ghost City, it cannot help him achieve any of his goals.

"No." Xingyue said, "The book records that no matter which one it is, the chord of order, the pointer of order, and the pendulum of order are the three major parts of the order clock, and none of them can be missing. The remaining two are actually irrelevant."

"Then let's just take both the Bone Staff and the String of Order tonight."

Xingyue objected: "The String of Order is hidden in the Demon Temple in the city. There is a strange force field there that I cannot detect. I am worried that something strange will appear. Let the Pilgrims risk their lives to pave the way, and we will fish in troubled waters."

Xingyue and Zhao Chuanxin are just as indifferent to life.

Zhao Chuanxin continued to flip through the book.

"An unexpected gain." Xingyue said in amazement: "I said that there is no such thing as the undead."

Zhao Chuanxin knew that Xingyue could be distracted and do many things, so he continued to flip through the book and said, "Tell me more."

"The Undead Cult is a branch of the Demon Cult. They have two major elements in their cultivation. The first is the secret medicine, and the second is the undead force field. The secret medicine strengthens the body, and the undead force field can build an absolute domain..."

The secret medicine is all-encompassing, including bacteria and viruses, as well as various medicines and so on.

The book records that all creatures in the world bully the weak, and whenever there is killing, there must be a force field attached to the killer.

The higher the wisdom, the harder it is for the force field attached to the killer to dissipate.

Among them, killing intelligent life is the worst.

Excessive killing and too many force fields will disrupt the minds of intelligent life.

Lower-level creatures, on the other hand, are not bothered by it.

The Cult of the Undead didn't know how this force field was created, so they thought it was the work of the undead.

Their sect adopted the attitude of solving problems as they occurred, and created a method of refining the undead force field.

That is the absolute realm of cultivation!
The more lives you kill, the denser the undead force field will be, and the faster you will cultivate.

People firmly believe that doing good will be rewarded, and doing bad will bring retribution sooner or later.

But the attitude of all the demon god sects is completely opposite to this: if I kill you, not only will there be no retribution, but your soul after death must become fertilizer for my cultivation...

Therefore, the Demon God Sect was despised and hated by the world.

If you believe in the Demon God Sect's theory, the weak will feel desperate: I am so weak, I can only hope to become a ghost after death so that you can suffer retribution. But according to you, after I die, I still have to let you use my resources?
Is there any justice in this world? Is there any law in this world?

Zhao Chuanxin heard this and said: "Huh? Isn't this the way of man to take from the poor and give to the rich..."

In ancient China, all the kings who had made some achievements used Huang-Lao philosophy internally and Confucianism externally.

They are probably all disciples of the Undead Cult...

The Cult of the Dead also has a part that "externally displays Confucianism".

They love killing, but they also need the inherent order of mankind to make money to buy materials for secret medicines, so they will never kill wantonly in the cities they build.

Zhao Chuanxin was very interested: "What is the absolute domain?"

The reason he was interested was that he had countless deaths on his hands.

Before coming to the world of "Code of the Old Gods", people around him privately said that he was crazy.

He was indeed a little crazy and couldn't control his inner violence.

Xingyue was uncertain: "Absolute territory is probably a defensive measure. I can only tell you the details after I know their secret cultivation method."

When Zhao Chuanxin heard this, he couldn't help but speed up the pages of the book.

After flipping through half of the book, I still couldn't find the secret method to refine the undead force field.

But the necromancer Chi Gu left the room.

Xingyue said: "He went back to the bedroom to sleep. This guy even sleeps with a bone stick."

Zhao Chuanxin simply continued to flip through the book and wait.

An hour later, Xingyue said, "He fell asleep."

"Insomnia, it's so strenuous."

Zhao Chuanxin put the book back into the bookshelf.

Professionals must do their work well.

After leaving the study, Zhao Chuanxin bent over in the corridor, stretched his legs backward, and floated in the air in a prone position.

Only in this way can we move forward quietly.

Arriving at the door of the other's bedroom, Zhao Chuanxin first reached out to the hinge. Xingyue refurbished the hinge with a solid rune, then changed the lock structure, and gently pushed the door without making any sound.

Xingyue said, "There is a bug the size of a wash basin in the corner. It has eight legs and two pairs of suckers. It has sharp teeth and is poisonous. It is called the Gu Queen. It is a surprise that Ci Gu prepared for thieves and assassins."

Again, Zhao Chuanxin is professional.

He moved forward in the air and after entering the house, he was ready to attack at any time, but the insects in the corner seemed to have fallen asleep and did not wake up by sensing Zhao Chuanxin's vibration through the ground.

Zhao Chuanxin slowly approached, and Xingyue's voice was full of surprise: "There's another thief outside, but his skills are a bit shabby. If you move faster, we can put the blame on him."

Ci Gu was an old man with white hair, a wrinkled face, and blue skin, looking like a patient suffering from severe poisoning.

Next to his pillow was a short cane with a curved handle and a fist-sized skull embedded in the top.

Even a baby's head can't be so small.

Zhao Chuanxin reached out and picked up the bone staff. It was heavy and cold to the touch.

Apart from this, there is no special feature.

As soon as he went out, Xingyue pushed him to the ceiling of the corridor.

At this time, Zhao Chuanxin was floating on the ceiling in a standing posture, which would look very strange from the perspective of an observer.

The corridor was dark, with only a wall lamp at each end. The light could only illuminate a very limited area, so the new thief instinctively did not look up.

Who would have thought that there was a person "lying" on the roof?
Zhao Chuanxin was not in a hurry to leave. Because of the mentality of criminals lingering at the crime scene, he was curious about what would happen to the thief next.

The thief was dressed in a black night suit, with his head wrapped and face covered, looking quite stylish. Judging from his attire, he was more professional than Zhao Chuanxin.

The thief pushed open every door and came out quickly after entering.

Apparently he didn't find anything he liked.

Soon, the thief arrived at the necromancer's freezing bedroom.

He pushed it gently and found that the door was not locked, so he walked in immediately.

Zhao Chuanxin put his legs on the ceiling and hung upside down, looking into the bedroom.

The Gu Queen in the corner felt the vibration and jumped up suddenly.

Zhao Chuanxin originally thought that the thief was in great danger.

Unexpectedly, they came prepared, as if they had expected that the necromancers would raise poisonous insects to serve as guards.

He took out a dagger, and the faint light from the dagger cut through the darkness.

zizi...

The basin-sized body of the Gu Queen made a corrosive sound.

"Squeak..."

The Gu Queen screamed.

The man lying on the bed opened his cloudy old eyes.

After the thief cut the Gu with a knife, he stabbed the bone on the bed with another knife.

There seemed to be an invisible and intangible protective shield in front of Ci Gu's body, which actually blocked the blade.

I think this is the absolute realm.

The thief's tracks were exposed, and he no longer tried to hide his tracks. He took out a revolver from his waist and fired a shot at Ci Gu.

Zhao Chuanxin was surprised to find that the bullet was easily blocked by the "human-shaped" protective layer around the thorns.

This is different from the Golden Bell Cover. The piercing absolute field is rigid, while the Golden Bell Cover is elastic.

The thief's skills in using the single-action revolver were limited. He fired with one hand, using his thumb to pull the hammer and his index finger to pull the trigger, and the shooting rate was extremely slow.

bang bang bang...

He emptied his gun in one go, and all the bullets were blocked.

Although Ci Gu looked old, he was extremely agile. He stepped forward and grabbed the thief by the neck.

The wheel in the thief's hand fell.

The injured Gu Queen in the corner jumped up again, and her two pairs of suction cups firmly sucked on Thief's body, and Thief's body began to tremble.

Seeing this, Zhao Chuanxin floated towards the end of the corridor.

Because Xingyue told him that the guards downstairs were alarmed and were rushing to the second floor.

Zhao Chuanxin was on the roof and the guards were below, and the two sides "passed each other by".

After leaving the villa, Zhao Chuanxin ran as fast as he could, taking twenty meters at a time.

"Do you think that the protective shield outside of Chi Gu's body is an absolute domain?"

"Yes!" Xingyue answered straightforwardly. "The force field outside the Demon God Temple should also be an absolute domain."

Zhao Chuanxin asked again: "How does it compare to my Golden Bell Cover?"

"Combining the knowledge in the book with what I just saw, I speculate that the absolute domain can isolate air and heat exchange, and can isolate everything. When he strangled the thief's neck, his fingers did not touch the thief's skin."

Zhao Chuanxin asked as he ran: "Transparent exoskeleton?"

"Different."

Zhao Chuanxin became even more interested.

Tonight was full of twists and turns.

It seemed like someone had made a scapegoat for him.

Regardless of whether the thief was organized or not, Ci Gu would probably blame someone else for the theft of the bone staff.

Of course, even if he knew it was Zhao Chuanxin who did it, Zhao Chuanxin wouldn't care.

After leaving the ghost town, he ran all the way and returned to the camp in the dark to find a place to take a nap.

At dawn, he opened his eyes, his face clear of tiredness.

Back at the camp, Zhao Chuanxin found the merchant, opened his leather backpack, and revealed a bone staff: "Come, let's do a deal."

The merchant was dumbfounded. "You, you actually succeeded? You killed Ci Gu?"

He seemed not to believe that Zhao Chuanxin could kill Ci Gu.

This made Zhao Chuanxin even more curious about the absolute realm.

"No, I hired a thief to steal it for me." Zhao Chuanxin lied without blinking.

"I do not believe."

"Do you want to trade or not?"

The merchant narrowed his eyes and said, "Do you know what this bone staff is used for?"

"For casting spells?"

"how do you know?"

"Damn the cane making!"

The merchant took the bone staff with a wry smile and gave Zhao Chuanxin everything he wanted.

It seems that only ruthless people can steal things from Ci Gu.

Businessmen dare not play tricks at all.

Zhao Chuanxin put all the round-head bullets into his pocket. The two steel bars could not be put in, so he had to stuff seasonings and tobacco leaves into it.

He saw a pipe, a horsehair brush, and a pen and paper on the merchant's carriage. He took one of each: "These are gifts, is that okay?"

The businessman opened his mouth, but finally nodded in agreement.

Since the pocket tech couldn’t fit in it, Zhao Chuanxin stuffed it into his briefcase and turned away.

The merchant shouted from behind: "Will I be able to find you in the Holy City of Order in the future?"

"Okay." Zhao Chuanxin said without turning his head.

When they returned to the barracks, Tiedan asked him, "Where did you go last night?"

"Go explore."

"what?"

Isn’t this too positive?
How much salary do you get a month? What's the point of playing with it?
The caravan left.

The army sets off.

The atmosphere was somewhat solemn.

This time it was not a field battle, but a siege.

Everyone knows that this battle will inevitably result in heavy casualties.

Besides, their opponent is a sect of the undead that none of them understands.

The mission of this reconnaissance did not fall to Tiedan’s legion.

It was the last night of rest and Zhao Chuanxin had some time to do his own things.

He took out a pen and paper by the campfire and drew a blueprint of the Ares M1907, making certain adaptation improvements based on the round bullet of the Roll King M1908.

After drawing the blueprint, Zhao Chuanxin told Tiedan: "I'm going out to pee."

He walked out with a few pieces of coke in his pocket.

After going out, he and Xingyue made steel and added carbon.

After several processing steps, Xingyue uses solid runes to increase or decrease the carbon content to manufacture parts.

It is no longer difficult for Zhao Chuanxin to rub the gun with his hands.

Xingyue produced the spare parts and Zhao Chuanxin installed them skillfully.

He took out the bullets from the lever-action rifle and pressed them into the magazine.

The revolver uses rimmed bullets and cannot be used.

But the lever-action rifle bullets specifically for the world of Codex of the Old Gods can.

After filling five magazines, Zhao Chuanxin did not test the gun as the sound of gunfire could be heard too far away at night.

He also used the remaining steel to make a cavalry sword.

The greatsword was too heavy and unnecessary for him.

He stuffed the gun into his pocket tech and headed back to camp.

The next day, the army cut down trees to build siege equipment.

The Ghost City had apparently discovered the invading enemy and was ready to fight.

On the fourth day, both sides took their positions and the war was about to break out.

To cheer up before the battle, Tiedan wandered in front of the 80-man team and said, "Everyone, the war is about to begin. As you know, in order to restore the order that this world should have, and for the sake of all mankind, this war is inevitable."

Zhao Chuanxin secretly laughed: You are quite good at making a scene.

Tiedan changed his tone and said, "Of course, with Zhao Chuanxin here, our lives are still guaranteed compared to other legions. Don't you agree, Zhao Chuanxin?"

Zhao Chuanxin thought of the bone-piercing blow, the merchant's reaction, and the absolute domain. He grinned, "Well, don't brag for me. I can't guarantee anything. This battle will be brutal!"

"You..." Tiedan was very angry.

He was cheering them on, while Zhao Chuanxin was trying to sabotage them.

Zhao Chuanxin stopped smiling, pushed Tiedan away, and walked up to the crowd and said, "I'm not exaggerating. Now we can only hope that the shepherd can block the necromancer's spells, otherwise I can only say that I'm in danger of death. All right, get ready, the fight is about to begin."

He made a knife flower and put the knife back into the sheath.

(End of this chapter)