Samsara Paradise: Dream Weaver of Connections

China is in turmoil, wars are raging, the earth is sinking, and everything within a thousand miles is devastated.

During these troubled times, the population of young and middle-aged people decreased significantly. Most of them were recruited into the army by the great princes such as Liu Bei and Cao Cao who were vying for hegemony in the world. They stayed away from their homeland and threw themselves into the ruthless flames of war.

In towns and villages, there are many old, weak, women and children, who depend on each other and struggle to support themselves.

Zhao Yun looked at a village with smoke rising in front of him, turned around and said to Lin Yi beside him: "Brother Lin, we might as well find a place to stay in this village tonight and take a rest."

Zhao Yun patted the Red Rabbit Horse on his crotch. You must know that the two of them had been running for a day. After a long journey, the Red Rabbit Horse was already showing signs of fatigue.

Although the Red Rabbit Horse is known as a divine horse, with extremely fast speed and extraordinary endurance, it is only a flesh and blood body after all and cannot be compared with the black shadow army summoned by Lin Yi.

Those shadow soldiers seemed to be tireless and could maintain the best fighting condition no matter day or night.

"How far are we from Cao Cao's territory now?" Lin Yi asked.

Zhao Yun pondered for a moment, and after some internal calculations, he replied: "I'm afraid it will take another day or two to arrive."

"Let's go into the village."

Zhao Yun held the reins of the red rabbit horse and walked slowly into the small village in front of him.

The village looked sparsely populated, with only a few children playing in the dirt on the streets.

Apart from these children, the remaining people in the village are mainly old people and women.

The old people sat around the threshold of their homes one by one, their eyes a little dull, and they didn't know what they were staring at. Maybe it was the war in the distance, or maybe it was the memories of the past.

"After years of war, these innocent people have suffered the most." Looking at the zombie-like villagers in front of him, Zhao Yun couldn't help but feel compassion in his heart, and he couldn't help but sigh.

He looked around the village, and finally his eyes fell on a woman who was hurrying away with her child in her arms.

Zhao Yun walked forward quickly, politely blocked the woman's way, bowed to her, and asked gently: "Auntie, I would like to ask where the village chief is? I am passing by here, hoping to Find an expensive place to rest for the night." As he said this, he took out a few pennies from his pocket and handed them to the woman as a fee for asking for directions.

"Oh, you are so polite. The village chief is not here. He went out some time ago. He probably won't be back for a while. You can stay at Zhou Yuan's wife's house at the entrance of the village. His house is big and can definitely be accommodated. You." The woman responded enthusiastically to Zhao Yun, and at the same time took a few copper coins from Zhao Yun's hand.

She looked at the copper coins in her hand, a trace of joy flashed in her eyes, and then she thought of something: "By the way, my family is eating meat today, do you two want to come over and have a bite?"

"No, we'll come find you after we've settled in."

The woman nodded, pointed in the direction of the village entrance and said, "Okay, okay, my house is on the fifth house on the right side of the village entrance. If you want to eat meat, you can come here anytime." After saying that, she walked quickly with the child in her arms. Go forward.

Lin Yi noticed that when the woman mentioned eating meat, a little drool could not help but flow from the corner of her mouth, and she could even vaguely see the drool dripping onto the baby's swaddling clothes.

However, during this period, the people lived in poverty, and there were not many days where they could eat meat.

This reaction of the woman did not arouse the suspicion of the two men.

Following the direction guided by the woman, Zhao Yun and Lin Yi arrived in front of Zhou Yuanwai's mansion.

The red door of the mansion is closed, but through the crack in the door you can see the magnificent courtyard and exquisite pavilions inside.

Zhao Yun stepped forward and knocked on the door knocker gently.

Soon, footsteps were heard from behind the door. The guard opened the door a crack and looked at the two people outside the door warily.

Zhao Yun politely raised his hand and said: "Hello, I am Zhao Yun, General Yamen under Liu Bei. I passed by this village today. Since it is getting late, I hope it will be convenient for me to stay here for one night."

Originally, the guard outside the committee didn't want to talk to Lin Yi and Zhao Yun, but after hearing Zhao Yun's origin, his expression changed.

You must know that these days, having money is not important, but having people in your hands is the most important.

"Sorry, I need to inform the owner of the house. Please wait here for a moment." After the guard said this, he hurriedly entered the house, apparently to report the arrival of Lin Yi and Zhao Yun to the owner.

Ten minutes later, a man who looked like a butler walked out of the house. He looked Zhao Yun up and down, and then asked respectfully: "May I ask, sir, are you General Zhao Zilong under Liu Bei?"

Zhao Yun was a little surprised when he heard that the housekeeper could call his name.

He nodded and said, "It's me. May I ask your Excellency who it is?"

The housekeeper smiled slightly and explained: "My husband is a relative of General Zhou Cangzhou. He has mentioned General Zhao's reputation many times in his letters in the past. Therefore, after my master learned of the arrival of the two of you, he specially ordered me to come out to greet you."

Upon hearing the word Zhou Cang, a look of understanding appeared on Zhao Yun's face.

Zhou Cang can also be regarded as a powerful general under Liu Bei. Zhou Cang was encountered by Guan Yu when he was riding alone for thousands of miles.

After hearing about Guan Yu's reputation, he went down the mountain alone, followed Guan Yu, and became Guan Yu's man.

Although he currently does not have any position in Liu Bei's military camp, not many people dare to underestimate Zhou Cang.

In terms of force value, Zhou Cang's force value should be in the top ten among Liu Bei's army at this moment.

"It turns out he is a relative of General Zhou. How disrespectful." Zhao Yun said with cupped hands, the doubts in his heart dissipated because of this relationship, but a trace of sadness could not help but arise.

Zhou Cang and Zhao Yun also met in the military camp. It was Zhou Cang who had hit Lin Yi with an axe when they were chasing each other.

"Okay, please come in, the owner has been waiting inside for a long time." The housekeeper smiled and led the two people in.

He turned and signaled the two guards behind him to come forward and lead Zhao Yun's Red Hare to the stable for settlement.

Walking through the gate of the house, a small lotus pond came into view. The lotus leaves on the water were dotted with lotus flowers, which looked particularly elegant.

In the middle of the lotus pond, a small pavilion stood quietly, and several tall and thin willows swayed gently above the pavilion, adding a bit of dynamism to the quiet scenery.

Following a winding path in the lotus pond, passing through several flower beds, you will reach the door of the hall.

On both sides of the hall are the living room and dining room. A landscape painting hung in the center of the hall, but a closer look shows that it depicts the Yellow Turban Army's rebellion.

In the distance is an inner courtyard, with a central courtyard and two east and west corridors. The east corridor is hung with several large locks and guarded by servants because some precious toys are stored there.

The most eye-catching thing in the courtyard is the large lotus pond.

There are more than a dozen rockery arranged in a staggered manner in the pond, which contrasts with the peonies, peonies, crabapples, peach blossoms and morning glories blooming around.

These flowers bloom with the change of seasons, bringing endless vitality and color to the inner courtyard.

The tall plum trees beside the pond are full of fruits, each of which is big and sweet, and the tempting fruit fragrance permeates the air.

The surroundings are hung with colorful paper barriers, which flutter gently in the wind, like a series of gorgeous ribbons.

A narrow path is left between the paper barriers, leading to the back door of the house.

For safety reasons, more than ten guards are arranged there to guard closely.

In this quiet atmosphere, Lin Yi faintly smelled a hint of blood.

His heart was suddenly filled with alarm bells, and his vigilance reached the extreme.

"Housekeeper, is there any happy event in the family recently?"

"No happy event, but there is one good thing. The master of the family recently painted a new painting, which pleased the master very much, so the master was very happy and killed a few livestock and distributed some of the uneaten meat to the villagers below, which was considered as a meat for everyone."

After hearing what Lin Yi said, the housekeeper smiled and explained to Lin Yi.

At this time, Lin Yi understood where the meat of the woman just now came from.

In ancient times, it was not easy to enjoy meat.

Even rich families could not eat meat every day.

Except for a few specific days of each month, livestock were rarely slaughtered unless there was a happy event. After all, these were exchanged for real money.

Under the leadership of the housekeeper, the two came to a reception room, in which a man dressed like a scholar was painting in the living room.

Seeing this, the housekeeper did not come forward to disturb them. Zhao Yun and Lin Yi did not start to talk, but stood aside and waited quietly.

After about a quarter of an hour, the scholar finally finished his work, gently put down the brush in his hand, and stretched his body which was slightly tired from painting for a long time.

The scholar looked up and saw the two people, and asked the housekeeper Sun: "Housekeeper Sun, who are these two?"

Housekeeper Sun replied respectfully: "Master, these two are the comrades of General Zhou Cang. They passed by our village and wanted to find a place to rest for a while."

The scholar smiled warmly after hearing this, "Please invite the two guests to take a seat, housekeeper Sun, go and pour tea."

"Yes, master." Housekeeper Sun responded and retreated, and quickly went to prepare tea. "Since you two are comrades of my cousin, I wonder how my cousin is doing in the barracks now?"

"General Zhou is fine. He is moving with the army. There is nothing unusual at the moment." Zhao Yun did not tell the truth and told a white lie.

After hearing this, Mr. Zhou seemed relieved. He said enthusiastically: "No news is the best news. If you two are not in a hurry to travel, you might as well stay at my house for a few more days, so that I can have the opportunity to entertain you on behalf of my brother."

"No, no, Zilong still has military affairs to attend to. After resting tonight, he will immediately travel."

Zhao Yun declined Mr. Zhou's invitation. Now the safety of the whole world depends on Lin Yi and Zhao Yun. How could Zhao Yun have the mind to eat, drink and have fun here.

"Since you two have important matters to attend to, I will not stay any longer. Please rest well tonight. I will let Butler Sun take you to the guest room later." After Mr. Zhou finished speaking, he returned to the desk, picked up a brush, and wrote on the paper attentively.

Lin Yi noticed that Mr. Zhou's paper was not ordinary rice paper.

Soon, Butler Sun led Lin Yi and Zhao Yun to a guest room that had been prepared in advance.

The layout of the guest room is simple but elegant. The two beds are clean and comfortable. Several oil lamps emit soft light, adding a bit of warmth to the room.

Wardrobes, tables, chairs, benches and other furniture are all available. Although there is no luxury decoration, it is enough to meet the basic needs of people traveling far away.

"Brother Lin, let's rest early tonight. We have to get up early tomorrow to travel." Zhao Yun said, and began to prepare to take off his armor.

This armor has been carefully washed by him when passing by the stream, but a faint smell of blood can still be smelled.

"Don't rush to travel, there may be something wrong with this village."

Zhao Yun's hand stopped in mid-air, looking at Lin Yi in confusion, "What's wrong, Brother Lin?"

"Don't you think this village is too abnormal? Since we left the military camp, the villages we passed by were all desolate and dilapidated, with corpses everywhere. Even if there were survivors, they would flee in fear when they saw us. But the people in this village are not only not afraid of us, but also seem to be extremely enthusiastic. Isn't all this strange?"

After the two left the military camp, it was called entering hell.

In the first village they passed by, there was a strong man who used the heads of more than 300 villagers in the village to build a Jingguan for passers-by to watch.

Now in the Central Plains, not only Liu Bei's army is possessed by demons, but also ordinary civilians in the village.

Originally, Zhao Yun thought that this village was just lucky, but now it seems that there may be a bigger problem.

"Let's go to the house of the woman we met today."

"Yeah."

After hearing Lin Yi's words, Zhao Yun didn't say much, tidied up his armor, and followed Lin Yi out of the guest room.

"Where are you two going?"

"We're going around the village. We've been on horseback all day today, so we want to take a walk and relax before going to bed." Zhao Yun made up an excuse.

As soon as the two of them went out, they happened to run into Steward Sun holding a roll of skin.

The roll of skin looked particularly shocking under the dim candlelight.

"Steward Sun, what is this?" Lin Yi couldn't help but ask.

"Oh, this is our master's habit." Steward Sun explained, "The master loves painting, but ordinary paper can't meet his needs. In order to keep the paintings longer, he began to use animal skins to paint."

"Well, then go quickly."

After Steward Sun left, Lin Yi and Zhao Yun fell silent.

"You saw it."

"Well, if I'm not mistaken, that should be the skin of a young woman, and it was just skinned alive not long ago." Lin Yi's eyesight is now extraordinary. Since he chose the skill of Anatomy Master, he can accurately judge the age, characteristics and many other information of the owner of the skin with just one glance.

Zhao Yun heard this and tightly grasped the Dragon Gallbladder Spear in his hand. His voice was trembling: "Sure enough, Brother Lin is right. This village was not spared."

"Let's go and see what happens."

After leaving Mr. Zhou's house, the two saw the children playing together again in the sunset.

The children gathered together and seemed to be fiddling with something on the ground.

Lin Yi and Zhao Yun approached, and a very terrifying picture came into their eyes.

The children actually held...

"Brother? Do you two want to play?"

After a child raised his head, the black veins on his forehead were exposed, and his eyes turned red.

Lin Yi and Zhao Yun instantly understood that these children had been possessed.

"Brother doesn't want to play, you guys can play."

Lin Yi was silent for a while and said with a smile.

"Brother Lin, I..."

"I know, leave this to me."

Looking at Zhao Yun's hesitant expression, Lin Yi knew that the other party would definitely not be able to do it.

Lin Yi took out the black and white rose, and several tiny sword qi flew out from the blade quietly, silently injecting into the bodies of those children.

The children were unaware and continued to play with the eyeballs in their hands happily.

"Let's go."

Lin Yi sighed and continued to move forward.

Zhao Yun shook his head slightly and followed behind Lin Yi.

Just a few seconds after the two left, the bodies of several children playing on the ground suddenly trembled violently.

Then, countless sword qi penetrated their bodies.

The bodies of several children became tattered in an instant under the invasion of sword qi.

One of the boys tried to struggle to stand up and continue playing games, but the damage of the sword qi had cut off his heart veins.

He felt his life slipping away until his consciousness sank into darkness.

"Are they in pain?" Zhao Yun's voice was trembling.

"No." Lin Yi replied softly, "My sword energy directly cut off their heart veins. They will only feel a blackness in front of their eyes, and will not suffer too much pain."

"This damn world!" Zhao Yun angrily punched a willow tree on the right, and the leaves fell.

Doesn't this damn God even let the children go?

The two continued to walk forward, and after a few steps, they found that the old man who was sitting at the door of the room had disappeared.

They walked along the road, and Lin Yi noticed that a large number of villagers gathered at the entrance of the village, and the crowd was bustling, as if they were fighting for something.

Lin Yi sniffed the smell in the air, and a smell of meat came to his nose.

The next second, Lin Yi's eyes turned cold.

If he smelled it correctly,

"Zilong, get ready to fight with me later."

"I understand."

Zhao Yun seemed to understand something after hearing Lin Yi's cold tone. He took out the dragon gall bladder gun from his back and squeezed into the crowd behind Lin Yi.

Lin Yi and Zhao Yun saw the villagers' hands. Then these villagers sat by the house, eating and chatting, and they seemed to be living a happy life.

The woman seen during the day was setting up a big pot,

"Hey, two brothers are here to eat too? Come on, one bowl each, don't be polite. These livestock are not wanted by Mr. Zhou, just a good treat for us." The woman saw Lin Yi and Zhao Yun coming, greeted them warmly, and served them each a bowl of hot soup and placed it in front of them.

Zhao Yun looked down and couldn't help but retching.