Chapter 1770 Encourage
"What's the result?" I asked in a low voice.
The representative was obviously startled after hearing my words, and then said with a slight disappointment: "No victory, no defeat."
His answer immediately aroused my interest: "Invincible and undefeated? What is the result?"
Without the opportunity to show off the heroic appearance of our ancestors, the representative seemed a little uninterested and just replied to me hastily: "The flute player escaped and is missing. The ancestors and others also escaped intact, so we are neither victor nor defeated."
Glancing at the representatives who had returned to the team, I chuckled and continued to rush in the direction I came from.
Once raw, twice cooked.
With the experience of the previous trip, I felt much more familiar when walking through the sewer.
Exiting the sewer entrance is the garbage collection point outside the city. There is not much garbage accumulated, but the smell is far more overbearing than the garbage mountain in the city.
None of us spoke and continued to walk. After walking for three to five hundred meters, there was finally not much smell left, so we took a few deep breaths to expel all the turbid air in our lungs.
Boss Renne walked over quickly and asked, "What should we do next?"
"Let's go to Lincheng to rest for the night. We will leave on the magic airship early tomorrow morning."
Boss Renn nodded and hurried towards Lincheng.
Lijie City is the adjacent city of Ai Rui City.
Unlike the prosperity of Airui City, Lijie City appears to be extremely deserted in terms of economy, education, agriculture, industry, and the adventurer industry.
Its only well-known point is that it is Lincheng, the capital of the country.
In such a neglected town, the income of all walks of life is very meager, including the adventurers guarding the city gate.
In Lijie City, the adventurers who guard the city gate are not well received by others, not because of their profession, but because of themselves.
The meager salary earned by guarding the city gates can barely make ends meet. This is really the cruelest reality for these adventurers who have lofty ambitions and dreams of getting rich.
In order to get closer to their dreams, they even did not hesitate to make things difficult for businessmen entering the city, civilians visiting relatives, or some low-level adventurers.
Just to get more money for the drink.
I have no objection to people who value money so much, because I have enough money to buy them off.
Boss Renn, who was the first to enter the city, was my pawn. His purpose was to bargain and set the head fee for entering the city within an acceptable range.
After driving for several miles, in the distance, I saw the magic stone lamp lighting up at the gate of Lijie City, and Boss Ren, who was chatting and laughing with the gate guard.
Leading the crowd to the front, the two guards guarding the city glanced at the long queue, and immediately smiled, their eyes and eyebrows squeezed together.
"There are quite a few people there," one of the guards said to Boss Ren with a cheerful smile.
"Thank you, you two," said Boss Ren.
"It's easy to say," another guard said with a smile: "It's human nature to visit relatives and friends. We brothers are not mean people. We can't block this kind of love in the world."
Although he said this, he still refused to open the door.
Boss Rennes pondered for a moment, then took out a palm-sized bag from his arms, stuffed it into the guard's pocket without anyone noticing, and said flatteringly: "That's right, that's right, this little money, It’s just my intention to treat you two to a drink to warm yourself up, I hope you don’t mind it.”
Seeing this, the two guards exchanged glances, and then they opened the city gate with satisfaction and let us in.
After entering the city, I said to Boss Rennes: "When you get back, report the total cost of this trip to me, and I will make up for it for you."
"It's not necessary," Boss Ren said, "It's just a small amount of money."
"Big money and small money are all money. You are mine now and you are doing my business. How can I let you pay for it?"
Seeing that I couldn't resist my stubbornness, Boss Renne had no choice but to nod.
After that, I kept some people who were related to the descendants of the legendary heroes of Ridge City, and gave the others to Boss Ren, who assigned them a place to stay.
I counted more than 30 people who stayed. Under their guidance, I visited more than a dozen descendants of legendary heroes and asked them to find ways to contact other descendants of legendary heroes in Lijie City. On the grounds of an emergency, they were summoned to a small square in Lijie City that had been abandoned for a long time.
Because it was a matter closely related to the vital interests of the descendants of the legendary heroes, all the descendants of the legendary heroes in Lijie City gathered in the small square in a very short time.
I really didn't expect that the number of descendants of legendary heroes in Lijie City was more than ten times greater than that in Airui City. These are just representatives of each family. If other members of the family are included, there are at least two thousand.
Facing hundreds of family representatives who are descendants of legendary heroes, I was a little worried, fearing that the sudden gathering of hundreds of people would arouse the vigilance of the city lord's palace.
A representative closest to me comforted me: "You don't need to worry about this at all. There is no nightlife in Lijie City. At this time, almost all the residents have gone home to rest, and no one will come out to hang out. And you don’t need to worry about the city guards. Those guys are very idle on weekdays and don’t get much salary. It’s strange that they are willing to work. I guess except for the ones guarding the city gate, the other city guards have gone home to sleep.”
I frowned when I heard this: "Such a blatant neglect of duty? Aren't you afraid that the city lord will blame them?"
The man chuckled: "The city lord is lazier than them."
Oh, it turns out that the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked.
The representative's words were like reassurance, calming my anxious mind.
After showing the imperial edict written by the Beastman King to everyone, and after it was confirmed to be authentic, one of the older representatives suddenly burst into tears. He wiped his tears and said: "God has mercy on me. I finally have the chance to do it for you in my lifetime." We have been rehabilitated by the Mingjun!"
As he said that, he strode over, grabbed my sleeve, and asked urgently: "When should we set off?"
I was afraid that his nose would rub on my clothes, so I pulled away, but to my surprise, I didn't pull away.
Immediately, I looked serious, and I no longer dared to underestimate the old man, so I comforted him: "Old man, don't worry, it's too late today, we are scheduled to leave tomorrow."
"Leave tomorrow?" The old man touched his eyes that were blurred by tears and said, "Okay, I'll leave tomorrow. I've been waiting for this day for more than seventy years, and I can't miss this night."
The emotion is that of a seventy-year-old grandfather.
After persuading the old man, I said to everyone present: "The purpose of coming here is not only to take over the fallen legendary hero families in the two towns of Airui City and Lijie City, but also to expand the scope to the entire Airui City. I hope that all the neglected and oppressed heroic families can be honored again and carry them forward so that they can be admired by thousands of people and be sung by generations to come."