Chapter 198 Military Town [Please give me a monthly ticket! ]

"It's become thin because of hunger." Liang Yue said with a smile.

"This silver-guarding monster doesn't like meat. It only loves to devour gold and silver. It cultivates with wealth. We can't afford to feed it." The leader of the animal farm in front also said helplessly, "We have been thinking about reporting to the commander and presenting it to the palace or to a prince or minister. Don't let it die here for nothing."

"So it hasn't eaten anything since it came here?" Shang Yunhai asked.

As a descendant of the dragon family, he has some empathy for monsters. If they are not evil monsters, he will have a little concern for them.

"Not really. This thing is very sensitive to wealth." The guide mentioned this with a sad face. "We didn't know when we first came here. As long as we had a little money in our arms, it would pounce on us and eat it, and snatch it away. Later, we stored our gold and silver, but it learned to steal. It stole our hidden money several times. And it refused to open its mouth. Once it got in its mouth, it was gone. We all suspected that it was guarding silver or a Pixiu."

He sounded aggrieved, but Shouyin also looked aggrieved.

What kind of life did it originally live?
Although it was locked in an underground money house, it was naturally not active. Every day when it opened its mouth, large sums of silver ingots were delivered to it. It had plenty of wealth, and in just a dozen years it could catch up with others who had been guarding the silver for hundreds of years.

What kind of hard life are we living now?

Every day, one has to rely on stealing, robbing, and sometimes even picking up things to get a tiny bit of wealth.

In the eyes of the silver-guarding monster, it is no longer a problem of difficulty in making money. It is as if the environment has suddenly regressed to the barbaric era.

Looking at the "little" guy's sad and mournful eyes, Liang Yue, as the culprit who destroyed its beautiful life, did not feel guilty at all. His eyes just flickered secretly, as if he thought of something.

However, the more urgent task at the moment is naturally the mission of the Beizhou Military Town.

Everyone soon saw Fushanpeng. This thing lived up to its name. It had gray and white feathers. When it lay there with its wings folded, it looked like a small mountain. When it was summoned, it spread its wings and flapped them, and a strong wind rose from the ground.

"It's so big." Everyone exclaimed.

"Isn't it a bit exaggerated?" Li Mo asked.

If this roc spreads its wings, it can probably carry hundreds of people, and they can even sit on its claws.

"The journey is long, and if the space is small it will be very uncomfortable up there." Mo Qiuren said with considerable experience.

A moment later, accompanied by a loud bang, everyone sat on the back of the Fushanpeng, whose feathers were somewhat stiff, and flew into the sky.

The journey to Beizhou was quite long, not as quick as going to Liangjiang Prefecture. Even with a mount, one would have to rest halfway and set off again the next day, and would arrive the next day.

It was indeed uncomfortable to sit for a long time, so I walked back and forth on Fu Shanpeng's back for a few times and chatted with everyone, and then I felt better.

Li Mo said casually, "When I have money in the future, I will hire a few mountain-carrying eagles to carry people to all corners of the country. A journey that would take several months can be completed in one or two days. I have calculated that if I can carry a hundred people at a time and pay a few taels of silver per person for travel expenses, I can make back my investment in more than ten years, and the rest is pure profit."

Liang Yue found this funny and agreed, "Then you should arrange a few young waiters on Fushanpeng to deliver food and drinks to the long-distance passengers."

"But the sky is not always stable. If there is a slight bump, Fushanpeng will flip and turn. Not to mention ordinary people, those with lower cultivation will fall to the ground and be smashed to pieces on the spot." Shang Yunhai asked: "What should we do in this situation?"

Just like the peng they were riding, it was probably a young peng, although it was already very large, it was erratic during flight and was not that stable. Compared to the big peng, the little peng was not that safe to fly in the sky.

Fortunately, everyone is a Qi Refiner, and Liang Yue’s martial arts skills are already considered to be at the master level, so he can still sit on it steadily.

Li Mo thought for a moment and said, "If the person who paid the money dies, the return on investment will indeed be slow. In this way, those who fall off the road can only receive the toll for the distance they landed. I will not collect any extra money. Is that fair enough?"

Good guy.

After hearing this, Liang Yue gave a thumbs up, saying, "Brother, you are so righteous."

When it was time to rest at night, everyone realized the second benefit of Fu Shan Peng.

Its wings are wide, and when they are lowered at night, they create a very private space, like a very large tent. One on the left and one on the right, just for men and women.

Liang Yue looked at the situation and volunteered, "Then I will be in charge of keeping watch at night."

“No need.” Shang Yunhai raised his hand and pointed to the sky, “Lin Fenghe is there.”

"He's here too?" Liang Yue hadn't been surprised by Lin Fenghe's presence for a long time, and this time he felt familiar again.

"Of course. Except for Senior Sister Wen, everyone is here, right?" Da Qiao also said with a smile.

"But..." Liang Yue looked at Fu Shanpeng, "I didn't see him just now." "Where do you think he stays in high places all the time? He has a roof in the city, but there won't be houses and trees outside the city for him to live in every time." Li Mo said, "As the young master of Bagua City, he has his own spiritual pet and mount, so there is no need to worry about him."

After listening to everyone's stories, Liang Yue realized that Lin Fenghe was the one with the strongest background among them.

Among the eight sects of Xuanmen, apart from the Yin-Yang sect of Sanqing Mountain where Master Xuan Tianshi is, the Five Elements sect of Bagua City of the Lin family is the most powerful. That's why Lin Fenghe has been arrogant since he was a child and feels that he is different from ordinary people.

The people in the Zhuxie Division didn't always know where he was, but they only knew that his arrows would arrive when needed.

"It sounds quite mysterious." Liang Yue said with a smile.

"If you think so, then his goal has been achieved." Li Mo said, "He might be too scared to go to the toilet every day, just staring at it, afraid of missing a chance to shoot in time, and then his mysterious image in our minds will be shattered."

whoosh-

Before he finished his words, a long arrow suddenly broke through the air and hit Li Mo in front of him.

Li Mo raised his eyebrows and stopped talking immediately.

Liang Yue waved his hand towards the sky and said with a smile: "Thank you for your hard work, Senior Brother Lin."

……

The next morning, everyone packed up simply, ate some food, and took off again.

The cold air in the sky was now much heavier. If one was not a cultivator, one would not be able to withstand this cold air. This was another reason why Fu Shan Peng could not be popularized.

After flying for another morning, we finally saw the white shadow of a military town in front of the mountains on the ground ahead, as if it was shrouded in clouds.

This is the result of the formations surrounding the military town. It is impossible to detect the truth from a high altitude.

The Yin Dynasty established nine large military camps at the hub of Zhongzhou and on the borders of the other eight states.

Each camp has more than 100,000 soldiers stationed there. Around these people, a living area will develop on the periphery, where various vendors, shop owners, soldiers' relatives, etc. gather. It is no less than a small city, but it does not have its own city walls.

This area is a military town in the popular sense.

If the Nine Yang spies were in the military town, it would not matter. But if they sneaked into the military camp, it would be a cause for concern.

Fu Shanpeng landed several dozen miles away from the Beizhou military town to avoid being too conspicuous.

There were spies from the Zhuxie Division waiting here. As soon as they landed, Liang Yue saw a familiar figure, "Wu Xiaoqi?"

The person who met the suspect was dressed as a peddler and looked quite young with a smile on his face. He was none other than Wu Xiaoqi, with whom he had worked on a case together in Liangjiang Prefecture before.

"Master Liang, nice to meet you again." Wu Xiaoqi smiled and said, "Master Zhuxie Sidao, I am Wu Xiaoqi, nice to meet you all."

"You got promoted?" Liang Yue asked with a smile, "Didn't you say before that you wanted to be transferred back to Longyuan City?"

"Last time, I made a small contribution thanks to you two, and the higher-ups gave me two choices." Wu Xiaoqi said, "Either I can be transferred back to the Divine Capital and continue to be a clerk; or I can stay in the Northern Province for a few years and be promoted to a small commander. I think since I am still young, I should come and see the beautiful scenery of our Nine Provinces."

"Congratulations." Liang Yue felt quite cordial when he saw an acquaintance.

After greeting everyone, Wu Xiaoqi took everyone to a large carriage, sat them in a circle, and told them about the situation in the Beizhou military town.

"This military town is quite complicated." He said straight to the point, "I haven't been here for long, but I have come into contact with at least several groups of external forces. It is inevitable that the northern countries will send people to infiltrate, and the Yang people also keep sending spies. Those gangsters or demon cultivators who have committed crimes, as well as hunters who want to enter the Xuanming Sea to hunt monsters, all use this place as a transit point. Many of them sell stolen goods here, so there are a lot of cultivators, and it is difficult to judge their composition."

"Do you know the situation in the military camp?" Liang Yue asked.

"That's not clear." Wu Xiaoqi replied, "The military camp is strictly guarded. Soldiers can only go out for two days every ten days. They are only allowed to move around within the military town. They need to report any long journey. Only the Fire Battalion and the Baggage Battalion, which are responsible for daily purchases, have people going in and out every day. When I received the news from above that there was a spy in the military camp, I was really surprised. Even our Zhuxie Division finds it difficult to place people there. We have to contact the Ministry of War. I really don't know how Jiuyang's people got in."

"Jiuyang's people are much more patient than us. They may have spent more than ten or twenty years infiltrating and building their own spy network. In this regard, they are indeed more experienced than us." Mo Qiuren said, "So once we enter the military town, we must act cautiously and never alert the enemy."

"I will take care of the affairs in the military town, but I really can't help in the military camp." Wu Xiaoqi said: "The Ministry of War has assigned us three quotas to enter the military camp as required. How should we arrange it?"

"Li Mo, Junior Brother Liang and I, the three of us will use fake identities to go into the military camp to investigate." On Fushanpeng, the group had already discussed the assignment of tasks, and Shang Yunhai said, "Da Qiao, Wei Jiu, and Lu Zhi will use fake identities to get information from the military camp, while Senior Brother Mo will stay in the dark and coordinate."

(End of this chapter)