"Shall we go in and have a look?"
Xia Ruize is eager to try it out. [Phantom Follow Your Heart] is indeed a mid-level yellow skill. It is very practical and completely suitable for the current situation. It is a little exciting to think about following those men in black into the city lord's mansion.
"Okay, you can try it." Cheng Huaiqian thought for a while and still supported it, but only mentioned what he had observed: "The moment those three people entered the City Lord's Mansion just now, I felt an unknown energy fluctuation around the City Lord's Mansion. It is a special protection method, and I don’t know the solution for the time being, try it, maybe you can go in.”
Xia Ruize opened the space to go back and feel carefully, but he couldn't notice anything, but he trusted Cheng Huaiqian, so he was a little more cautious.
Illusions can deceive the senses of intelligent creatures to a certain extent, but if the City Lord's Mansion is protected by any protective shield, they still need to break through the protective shield first if they want to enter.
The two walked around to the side of the City Lord's Mansion. Cheng Huaiqian held down Xia Ruize and tried to jump onto the courtyard wall first. But at this moment, Xia Ruize, who had activated the spatial retrospective skill, noticed a sudden energy fluctuation above the courtyard wall. The transparent barrier blocked Cheng Huaiqian who was trying to enter the courtyard, and even pushed him out.
Cheng Huaiqian kicked hard on the courtyard wall next to him, borrowed his strength, and jumped towards the courtyard wall again. The big knife in his hand slashed hard at the transparent barrier. This time, it stimulated a greater energy fluctuation, and the impact of the rebound was even stronger. Big, and pushed Cheng Huaiqian out.
Xia Ruize used telekinetic force to catch the person, and the two changed directions to continue testing, only to find that the entire City Lord's Mansion was protected by this energy shield. Xia Ruize even released Da Hei and Xiao Hei to try to enter the City Lord's Mansion from the air, but neither of them succeeded. can succeed.
At the same time, the City Lord's Mansion was alarmed, a large number of torches were lit, and many soldiers poured out from the City Lord's Mansion, wantonly hunting down Xiaoxiao who tried to invade the City Lord's Mansion.
Xia Ruize jumped onto the wall of the nearby courtyard, looked at the bustling city lord's mansion, and tried to find the reason why those soldiers could freely enter and leave the city lord's mansion.
The common ground was quickly found. Those sergeants all wore a special waist badge, which was probably a token for identifying the enemy and the enemy.
Cheng Huaiqian released the high-ranking evil spirit who had just joined the team, and saw a group of small black balls rushing towards a sergeant Wu. Soon, the five sergeants turned into a dark alley with stiff expressions, away from the large army, left and right. Turn right, and finally passed out in a hidden corner.
Big Hei and Little Hei Yiba took a few waist cards and sent them to Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian. The two got the key tokens and walked in through the gate of the City Lord's Mansion against the illusion.
Sure enough, there was no inexplicable energy fluctuation to stop them this time.
After entering the gate of the City Lord's Mansion and bypassing the screen wall, the two saw a spacious martial arts arena. There were stairs behind the martial arts arena to go up to the high platform, and there was a meeting hall on the plane where the high platform was located.
At this time, the meeting hall was brightly lit, and the crowd surrounded a tall and strong middle-aged man who was listening to the sergeant's report.
"Report! Lord City Master, no abnormalities have been found on the north side!"
"Report! Lord City Master, no abnormality was found on the east side!"
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The city lord's eyes were sharp and energetic, and just standing there exuded a powerful coercion. Xia Ruize could feel that this city lord was extraordinary without needing to get close.
"The spirit shield has been attacked many times in a short period of time. The opponent may have come prepared. My lord, do you want to expand the search area?"
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian suggested that the captain of the guard team who had seen several times from a distance was following the city lord.
"Forget it, close the team, let them hide if they want to hide, anyway, there is a spirit shield, no one can break in."
The city lord of Ping An City had a strong voice, and he was not too surprised when he heard the report from the sergeant that he could not find the culprits, so he decisively ordered to withdraw the troops.
This retreat turned out to be wrong, and without knowing it, one of Wu's soldiers was missing!
The captain of the moat team frowned and said urgently:
"My lord, this is troublesome. The entry and exit cards on them may fall into the hands of villains."
The city lord was also a little displeased, and ordered: "Go find someone first, and replace the spirit shield if you can't find it before dawn."
As long as the spirit shield is replaced, the original entry and exit cards will no longer work. The only trouble is that it takes a little time to replace the spirit shield and everyone's entry and exit cards.
After finishing speaking, the city lord turned around and returned to the meeting hall with his entourage.
"My lord, recently a large number of foreigners have poured into Ping'an City, and the pressure on public security in the city has increased greatly. Do you want to prevent more people from entering?"
The captain of the moat team quickly caught up and asked.
The guard team is not only responsible for protecting Ping An City from evil spirits, but also maintaining order in Ping An City. The latest addition is the task of training temporary team members. The task is really heavy, and it is a bit overwhelming.
Now some villains even dared to attack the city lord's mansion, and managed to escape. He, the captain of the guard team, was under a lot of pressure.
"No, this year's full moon catastrophe is a big threat, and we need more power to help us survive in Ping An City. Not only do we not need to stop it, we will continue to send news to other cities to attract more spirit hunters."
The city lord rejected the proposal of the captain of the moat team, and noticed that the captain of the moat team was a little embarrassed, so he comforted him:
"Didn't you have a lot of temporary team members recently? You can let them participate in daily patrols and on-duty tasks, and reduce your own pressure."
The captain of the guard team seemed to be persuaded, and nodded to express that he would follow the request of the city lord.
"Okay, it's too late, go to rest, and report to me tomorrow the number of people who left the city tonight and the number of people who came back."
After waving his hand to indicate that the captain of the moat team could go to rest, the city lord walked around the meeting hall and walked to the courtyard behind.
Of course, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian chose to follow the city lord inward, but they stopped before passing through a small gate, because the city lord who stepped over first triggered another wave of energy.
"It seems that there is also a spirit shield here, but there may not be many people who have access cards."
Xia Ruize didn't rush to attack the spirit shield, which would reveal that they have a way to enter the city lord's mansion. He said in a regretful tone, if only the closest people of the city lord have the access card of this layer of spirit shield, don't they even think about it? Sneaked in
"It's fine if we can't get in, we should go back and rest."
Cheng Huaiqian persuaded him pretending not to care, but in fact he was full of anticipation. With his lover by his side, he looked forward to the sleep time that he hated so much before.
Xia Ruize saw that he could not get any more information tonight, so he and Cheng Huaiqian climbed over the courtyard wall and left the City Lord's Mansion. As for the entry and exit cards on their bodies, Da Hei and Xiao Hei returned them.
If the spirit shields are not changed, they can use the same method to enter the City Lord's Mansion in the future.
The training on the third day suddenly became easier. Although the running speed was further improved in the morning running training, it only needed to run three laps. Most of the soldiers successfully completed the training tasks and had breakfast.
The shooting spirit crossbow training in the morning is no longer for the soldiers to practice shooting targets continuously, but to practice their cooperation with each other.
A team of small soldiers lined up in a row, and four teams lined up in four rows. The first row shot five arrows in a row and then quickly moved out of the way to reload the arrows at the end. The second row continued like this. In this way, as long as you cooperate With a tacit understanding, the attack of the Spirit Crossbow can be achieved without interruption.
The assessment at the end of the training in the morning is also easier than before. It only needs four rows of soldiers to complete three rounds of alternation within five minutes. With the completion of the assessment, most of the soldiers had lunch smoothly.
During the lunch process, many soldiers happily sighed:
"It should be like today. The training missions of the first two days were completely deceiving people. They didn't want us to get the spirit stone at all. It should be like today in the future!"
According to the current rhythm, wouldn't everyone be able to get a spirit stone today
Thinking of this, the little soldiers could not help but smile, and insisted that the training arrangement of the previous two days was a test for them, those who were afraid of hardship and tiredness were eliminated, and those who persisted were rewarded.
The difficulty of training in the afternoon was also reduced. After a little physical training, the barracks issued a standard broadsword engraved with special patterns. Each soldier had a knife to learn the standard knife skills of the city guard team, and then practiced fighting in units of troops. Cooperate.
Compared with the previous two days, this kind of training task is too easy, and there is a joyful atmosphere among the soldiers.
So, when the little soldiers learned before dinner that they would join the official moat team members to participate in the on-duty mission tonight, the little soldiers didn't find it too difficult to accept because of the reward spirit stones they got in advance.
Cheng Huaiqian used the two spirit stones distributed in the past two days to bribe the captains of the two corps, allowing them to agree to swap positions with one of Xia Ruize's corps.
The two corps leaders who had been "corrupted" by the spirit stones agreed after a moment of hesitation. Anyway, the upper echelon of the moat team didn't care which team these temporary members should be in.
Before the night darkened, the task list for night duty was released. A team composed of temporary players would follow a team of regular players and conduct two hours of duty in different areas.
Before and after duty, it is time to rest. In order to allow the soldiers to get a better rest, the training in the morning of the fourth day did not start until 6 am.
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian were assigned to the second batch, on duty from 10:00 to 12:00 in the evening. It was too late for the two of them to leave the city before this time, so they turned their attention to other testers after a long absence.
They slipped out of the barracks during the break time two days ago, and among the eight people they marked as suspected trialists, seven of them had already come together closely.
After announcing the duty arrangement, the soldiers were freed, and the six testers took advantage of the night to go to a remote part of the barracks to discuss it, completely unaware that there were two other people listening not far from them.
Xia Ruize has a deep understanding of why people with invisibility abilities in movies always do bad things. The feeling of doing bad things without others knowing is really addictive. Coupled with Shangxinwang, he can do bad things without affecting his communication with his teammates, which is a perfect match.
"What exactly does this mission require us to do? So far, we have only been locked up in the barracks for training. The 'huge shadow' mentioned in the main mission has no effect at all. The difficulty of the survival mission can't just be reflected in the difficulty of training, right?"
The middle-aged lady who was doing the mission in the ascending zone anxiously asked her experienced teammates for help. She had experienced seven or eight mission worlds in the white paper district. Task.
"Don't worry, you have to change your thinking. Unlike the task time in the white paper area, which is usually very short, the task time in the bamboo silk area will become longer. It is said that some people have spent several months in the task world.
Moreover, the background of the task world in the Zhubo area is more complicated, and the danger will not be presented to you as soon as you come up like the task world in the white paper area. In this case, you need to explore it patiently first. If you don’t figure it out and act rashly, you may die. Do not know how to die.
Besides, yesterday we arranged for Xiaodong to be eliminated on purpose, and he will pass on the information he collected outside. "
The square-faced captain who claimed to have gone through several missions in the Zhubo District comforted him, but the expression on his face was not relaxed.
He was comforting the middle-aged lady, and he was actually comforting himself and the other team members. The situation encountered in each mission world is different, but this kind of survival mission is not dangerous except for the exhausting training. They are also the first encounter.
Not only will they not be overjoyed by the danger that has not come for a long time, but it will also give them an ominous premonition that a huge conspiracy is brewing in the dark, which makes people panic.
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian looked at each other. The eliminated trainee yesterday really left the barracks on purpose. I don't know if the other party found the Homeway Tavern, and did he get any important information
"We will be participating in the on-duty mission starting tonight, and we should get more information by then."
The female team member who is good at magic is a young girl. After hearing the words, she picked up the words and gave the others more confidence.
The six people exchanged the income of the day, because they were trapped in the training all day. Compared with the previous two days, they had no more gains. In the end, they could only leave separately, suppressing their anxiety, and looking forward to receiving the rewards when they left the barracks tomorrow. The information passed back by teammates.
There was no more fun to watch, and this time was not in line with their biological clocks, so Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian simply slipped out of the barracks, planning to go to the Homeway Tavern to see the situation before the start of the duty mission.
Surprisingly, the tavern street, which was very lively two nights ago, was unusually bleak tonight. All the street vendors disappeared, many taverns were closed, and sporadic open pubs, There are not many people drinking and boisterous.
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian opened the door of Homeway Tavern, and found that there were only a few dozen spirit hunters in the spacious tavern, chatting in low voices in twos and threes.
The two walked to the bar, ordered two special snacks, and asked the bartender what happened.
"You guys didn't come yesterday, right? It's a good thing you didn't come. Few teams went out of the city yesterday. As a result, all those who came back had conflicts. They fought all the way from the tavern to the street, and finally they were all beaten. The moat team brought it back."
The bartender sighed unceasingly. It is not that he has never seen a fight between spirit hunting warriors, but he has never seen so many people fight together. In the middle of the night, dozens of people were taken away by the moat.
Cheng Huaiqian and Xia Ruize's hearts were moved. They knew what conflicts were happening in their teams. They knew that it was really deceitful for Daniel to forcefully drag a group of people to accompany him to the evil sea without prior notice, but other teams also had conflicts? How is it such a coincidence
"What kind of conflict are they arguing about?"
Xia Ruize asked.
The bartender's expression was also puzzled, and his voice was puzzled, "Yeah, we're also surprised, it's not the first time we've worked together on the common problem of spirit stone allocation, and few people make trouble about it again. It’s contradictory, and I don’t know what kind of madness was going on last night?”
"No one seems to be out of town tonight."
Cheng Huaiqian looked around. Since they came in, no one stood on the small stage in the center of the tavern to recruit players, and the spirit hunters scattered in the tavern didn't seem to form a team with each other.
"Who said it wasn't? The people who came back last night said that the number of evil spirits outside the city had begun to increase. Even fewer dared to leave the city tonight. They thought they would go out as soon as it got dark. They wanted to go out early. Come back early, if you want to find teammates right now, it will be difficult to find them."
There are few customers in the tavern tonight, and the bartender can't find anyone to chat with, so I don't mind chatting with these two for a while.
After sitting for a while, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian left the Homeway Tavern after finding that there was no news to collect in the tavern, and went straight to the City Lord's Mansion.
Cheng Huaiqian released a high-level evil spirit, and saw the little black ball beating a few times in Cheng Huaiqian's hands. Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian waited patiently for ten minutes according to the information fed back by the little black ball. He switched shifts with the sergeant who was on duty at the side of the city lord's mansion, and started patrolling around the city lord's mansion.
The strange thing is that the badges on their waists suddenly disappeared at a certain moment, but they didn't respond to this, and continued to patrol around the city lord's mansion as if they had never heard of it.
As for their badges, they were naturally given to Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian by Da Hei Xiao Hei, and they were able to easily enter the City Lord's Mansion.
In the meeting hall, the city lord is discussing with a group of senior managers of Ping'an City, and the content of their discussions is all related to the people's livelihood of Ping'an City.
"My lord, the weather has turned cold recently, the number of sick city residents has increased, and the reserves of doctors and medicines are somewhat insufficient. What should I do?"
"My lord, the number of fruits and vegetables supplied by the surrounding villages has decreased recently, but the increase in the number of out-of-towners has actually increased the price of food in the grain store in the city. The residents of the city are complaining. Do you think we have taken any measures?"
"My lord, the foreign spirit hunters are not restrained in their actions, and even beat people in the street. I have received more than ten complaints from the city residents in one day today. Do you want to restrain the foreign spirit hunters? ?”
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One pile after another was all bad news, but the city lord was not irritable. He sat there calmly and ordered to continue to observe without any unnecessary instructions.
The senior managers of Ping'an City reported all the recent news but did not receive specific instructions. They looked at each other but were sent away by the city lord. Only the captain of the guard team was left behind.
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian became more interested, and sure enough, they heard the captain of the moat team begin to report:
"My lord, a total of 46 squads with 389 spirit hunters left the city last night, and finally 42 squads with 367 ghost hunters returned safely.
In addition, last night there were 96 people making trouble at the Homeway Tavern, 65 of them returned from outside the city, and the rest joined the melee after being affected. "
Reporting, the captain of the moat team had doubts on his expression, "After interrogation, they couldn't tell the specific reason for the disturbance, and the final conclusion may be that they drank too much alcohol?"
This conclusion is not even believed by the captain of the city guard team. After returning to the city safely, going to the Homeway Tavern for a few drinks is what every spirit hunting warrior would do. How come there has never been such a large-scale riot after drinking before
As expected of the official statistics, it is much more accurate than the numbers casually said by the bartender. It seems that there are a large number of spirit hunting warriors who have a fixed team, and they leave the city on their own without temporarily recruiting team members at the home tavern, so the bartender The number of teams seen going out of the city together is far less than the actual number.
As for making troubles in the Homeway Tavern after Ping An returned to the city, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian knew why the bustling street was withered when they thought of nearly a hundred spirit hunting warriors huddling together near the Tavern.
"Since it's a mistake to drink, let them drink less in the future, and they will be locked up for a day, so they can be released."
Unexpectedly, the city lord accepted the conclusion that even the captain of the moat team didn't quite believe, and gave orders lightly.
Noticing that the captain of the moat team seemed to have some disagreements, the city lord suppressed his objections and continued to order:
"Okay, during this special period, the most important thing is to encourage the spirit hunters to go out of the city to clean up the evil spirits. The more we clean up now, the less pressure I will face in Ping An City when the moon is full. If they are worried about danger, let them not cross the city. Pass the green warning line, and only clean up areas where low-level evil spirits are active."
The captain of the city guard team received the order to leave the city lord's mansion to execute it, and the city lord returned to the inner courtyard protected by another layer of spirit shield.
Seeing that there was no excitement to watch, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian also left the City Lord's Mansion. After returning the entrance and exit cards, they returned to the barracks.
This time they set up their tents in the barracks, and if someone came to call them, it would not be strange for them to walk out of the barracks.
The two didn't chat a few words in the tent. At 9:40, someone came to the barracks and knocked on the door to wake up a few people.
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian naturally blended into their team, and followed the corps leader to the edge of the martial arts field to put on the anti-soul armor, then shot the spirit crossbow on their backs, hung the real spirit-breaking arrows, and walked out in a single file with a big knife in their hands barracks.
Outside the barracks, there were already five members of the official city guard waiting for them. A total of ten people climbed onto the city wall and walked along the city wall to the pre-arranged rotation point.
The corps leader warned: "Tonight is the first time you are on duty. It's actually very simple, as long as you don't fall asleep. Next, each of you will follow a regular team member to the specific location."
Now, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian had to separate, but fortunately, the distance between them was less than 100 meters, which did not affect the two people's heart-to-heart communication.
After standing at the specific duty position, the official team member who taught Xia Ruize signaled that Xia Ruize could sit down.
"Your most important job is to keep an eye on both sides. If someone jumps over the city wall and jumps out, just count how many people there are. There may be fewer people returning to the city now. If you see it, remember the number."
The official team members told Xia Ruize.
"Don't you need to stop them?"
Xia Ruize asked on purpose, and sure enough, he got a surprised look from the other party, "Why do you want to stop? The more people go out, the better."
The official team members who lead the teaching are very talkative, and it may be that the on-duty task is too boring, so he simply chatted with Xia Ruize:
"In normal times, these spirit hunting warriors kill too many evil spirits, and the income of our city guard team will be much less, but it is different now. The full moon calamity is coming soon. I heard from the seniors that the evil spirits will be killed by then. The number of them will be so large that it makes one's scalp tingle, so it is a good thing that they kill more in advance.
It's just that those guys are softies, and they shrink back when they are made to be more active. The number of spirit hunters who have been out of the city in the past two days has not increased but decreased, which is really annoying. Our own team is still reliable, and it has been able to bring back a lot of gains every day recently. "
Xia Ruize's heart moved, and he quickly asked: "Will the members of the city guard team go out of the city to kill evil spirits every night?"