Chapter 430: People Seeking Help

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The famine in Shenzhou did not cause any ripples in Jinxia City.

What gave the people confidence was not some propaganda slogan, but the real fresh fish in boat after boat. Whenever you go to the dock, you can see flat ice boats loading and unloading goods - the fish in a cold storage can feed everyone in Jinxia City for several days, and there are more than ten such warehouses beside the yard, and new ones are still being built.

With the proficiency and improvement of fishing technology, the two tree boats can salvage five or six times a day, even at night, and the output of marine fish can be said to be rising steadily. Now every time the tree boat returns to the east coast to unload, it has become a unique attraction in Jinxia City. Foreign merchants or migrants who come here for the reputation will come to the East City Gate to enjoy the grand view of these two island-like tree boats swallowing and spitting out fish mountains.

The anti-espionage work of the General Affairs Bureau also went very smoothly. Unlike Anshen, Baihe and other towns, the reputation of the Bureau was infinitely high in the hearts of the people of Jinxia. In addition, the word that the power of one city saved the people of the whole state spread, and the people were extremely disgusted with the Privy Council's actions. Seizing power and usurping the throne may be too far away from everyone, but burning grain and bombing mines to cause damage are all ordinary people, which is very easy to resonate with everyone, so they spared no effort to follow the spies.

As long as any spy showed a little flaw or showed the intention of winning over others, he would be reported to the Bureau in nine out of ten cases. It's not that no one tried to replicate the conspiracy of the Baisha Mine and take action against the New Machinery Bureau, the Salt Field and the Granary, but basically they failed in the planning and bribery stage, adding a lot of coolies to the mine for nothing.

In addition, the connection with Liuzhou was cut off, and the infiltrated spies could not work together, so most people chose to lurk and live on street news and Shenjin Weekly.

This is reflected in the report of the General Affairs Bureau as fewer and fewer cases involving spies, and in the past week it has even dropped to zero.

Without the interrogator who needs to be investigated with illusion, Li's life has become much more relaxed. Her injury had recovered half a month ago. Whenever she is not studying, she will ask Shanhui and Naiqing to wander around the city, both to find suspicious faces and to continue to practice her fishing law enforcement.

However, Li soon discovered that the harvest of this action is now almost zero. If there were still a few people who were full of prejudice against monsters before, Chi's appearance almost broke this last barrier with a crushing force.

Miss Long happens to have the dual attributes of monsters and holy beasts, and she is naturally restrained against prejudices - if it is a prejudice that monsters are evil, then isn't it also that dragons symbolize auspicious signs?

These two opposite prejudices leveled the gap, and the concert at the New Year's Day ceremony made Chi famous. Now whenever she appears on the street, she will attract everyone's attention and greetings, and she has become the new darling of the people of Jinxia. This influence not only made her popular, but also benefited other monsters.

Just because Chi was the real dragon in the legend.

Even Li felt a little sincere envy of this.

When she wandered around for several days without any results, the fox demon suddenly realized that the seemingly impossible promise made by Xia Fan in Qingshan Town had become a reality without anyone noticing.

She could walk around with her ears and tail exposed for a whole day without being pointed at or badmouthed. Not only her, but also Shanhui and Nai Qing were the same - even if people had never seen the horns of the green ghost, at most they would just look at it curiously, and no one would scream and run away, let alone throw stones at her.

Nai Qing even felt that her life in Jinxia City was easier than some towns on the Yama Island. After all, Dongsheng's hostile attitude towards monsters in places that the great witch could not reach had gradually affected the people's views.

Just when Li thought that Jinxia City no longer needed her to stand up as a target and justify the name of monsters, an accident broke the past peace. As usual, the three of them passed through the demolished southern city wall and approached the newly built residential area. A little girl caught up with them panting and handed a roll of paper to Li.

The fox demon took it curiously and said, "Is it for me?"

The latter nodded vigorously.

Li opened the paper roll and his expression froze.

There was a short sentence written on it: "Please save me!"

"What happened?" Nai Qing asked sharply.

Li handed the paper to the green-faced ghost and asked the little girl, "Who gave you this?"

"An uncle, he said he would give it to the long-eared sister." She answered in detail, "He also said that the person who asked for help is in the warehouse in the southwest corner."

"Then what are we waiting for, let's go and save people!" Shanhui said as he took big steps - these few days of wandering were far less fulfilling than before winter, and now that he finally waited for something, he suddenly felt full of energy.

However, before he took two steps, Tengu retreated back the same way because he saw that the other two did not move at all.

"What do you think?" Li looked at Nai Qing.

The latter pondered for a moment, "Is it a trap? If the person who asked for help is familiar with you, then it can be explained. Otherwise, how could this person know that you are nearby and specifically give you the letter of help when he is locked in the warehouse? In addition, asking for help is not something that should be concealed in public. I can't think of the need for the other party to specifically find a little girl to pass it on."

"It is indeed full of loopholes." Li agreed, "The question is, is the person who lured us there maliciously against the monsters, or is he a spy from the Privy Council?"

"What are you going to do?" Nai Qing asked.

"Of course, we will face it head-on." She said without hesitation, "I want to see what tricks these people can play."

Li preferred the former answer, because no matter how stupid the Privy Council was, it would not set up such a clumsy trap.

"As expected of Lord Li!" Shanhui clenched his fist, "Let me go to the warehouse to check it out first!"

"No, you stay outside." Li refused decisively, "In case of any accidents, you can still inform everyone - after all, no one can run faster than you."

When approaching the southwest corner of the construction site, there were obviously fewer people around. Although this place is part of the planning of the new district of Jinxia City, it is not the focus of construction now. At the same time, it is far away from the old city wall and is already considered a suburban area. If you want to choose a remote place to start, this place is indeed a good choice.

But this is also the same for Li.

Even if she transforms into a giant fox, not many people will notice it.

After confirming that there is no abnormality around the warehouse, Li pushed open the half-closed wooden door and walked into the warehouse where building materials are stacked.

There was only one man standing inside, and he seemed to be waiting for her arrival.

Judging from his posture, he was neither tied up nor beaten. In other words, there was no way to save his life.

So this man was the instigator?

Li was about to ask, but unexpectedly, the other party took off his hat first and bowed deeply to her, "Finally, I see you, Master Linghu."