Chapter 209 Return to Wangbei, Give Young People some Training
Compared to two months ago, Wangbei City is less heavy and depressing, and full of vitality and hope.
Seeing this, a smile appeared on the pretty face of the young lady under the gauze hat.
The Lieyang Sect is a thing of the past, but she has been deeply influenced by her father, fellow apprentices, and sisters who said that they would kill monsters and protect the people of Dawu since she was a child.
It would be a lie to say that she is not happy to be able to "help" the people of Beimo.
When she was standing not far from the city gate and watching, a voice sounded not far away: "Good day, sir. I haven't seen you for many days. Are you also going north to hunt monsters?"
The young lady turned her head in surprise and saw a young man wearing armor and covered in dust coming from the north. He stood two feet away, bowed respectfully, and saluted with his fists.
This situation seems a little familiar?
She recalled for a while, and finally remembered: This is the young man she met outside Laizhou City when she went north that day.
After not seeing each other for a few months, this young man who used to be a bit spoiled now has a sharp and capable aura, obviously he has fought many battles with monsters.
For this kind of person who dares to go into battle to kill monsters, the eldest lady's attitude is not bad. She nodded and hummed softly in her nose as a response.
The young man hesitated for a moment, and still said softly: "Sir, this is Wangbei City."
Are you polite! Do you really think I can't see the words on the city gate? The young lady was immediately displeased and cast her eyes on the young man: "What's your name? What's your position in Wangbei City?"
The young man felt a sense of pressure coming, as if he was facing his uncle, and he couldn't help but stand at attention and straighten his chest: "I am Lei Yao, currently the captain of the 17th Brigade of the Patrol City Guard."
When the young lady heard this name, she looked at his face again: "Do you know the Lei Kun in Zhenbei City?"
Lei Yao's breathing stagnated: "That's my uncle."
The young lady flicked her sleeves and turned away: "Then concentrate on killing ghosts in the future, don't embarrass your uncle."
Lei Yao: "Yes... huh?"
As soon as the words came out, the young lady's figure disappeared, as if she had never appeared.
Lei Yao and the team of patrol soldiers behind him widened their eyes.
After a while, a soldier spoke up: "Captain, who is this gentleman?"
Lei Yao turned his head and glared at him: "Don't ask about things you shouldn't ask about. If you get beaten with a stick, don't blame me for not reminding you."
The soldiers all had an "I understand" expression: the person who knew General Lei Kun might be a martial master, and it was indeed not something they could ask casually.
They didn't know that Lei Yao, who turned back, also muttered: Not good! I thought this gentleman had gone to the wrong city again, so I went up to say hello. Could he really know my uncle?
Thinking that this person might mention him in front of Lei Kun, he became even more uneasy.
It sounds good to be remembered by Lei Kun, the martial master's uncle, but it's not that good in reality.
Before this uncle was promoted to martial master, he had already been five generations away from the direct line of the Lei family and had almost no contact with them.
After being promoted to martial master, it was natural that "the rich in the mountains have distant relatives", and the Lei family's own family tried every means to get close to him.
As a result, Lei Kun was not "strange" at all, and he simply recognized this relative, and at the same time immediately "requested" his clan to give him a group of people to help with the defense.
This matter was mixed for the Lei family, and it was actually not worthwhile for the family that was used to taking advantage of everything.
But who let them deliver it to the door! Dare to regret it would be a humiliation to Master Wuzong, so they could only pinch their noses and accept it.
Lei Yao was an unappreciated branch child in his clan, so he was pulled in to "entrusted with important tasks" and make up the head.
Who knew that just a few days after arriving in Wangbei City, Su Yulou's plan of "exchanging medicine for people" would come.
As a second-round expert who had just joined the Beimo Army, Lei Yao did not catch up with the first batch of meritorious service and awards, but fortunately became the second batch of "Thousand Gold Horse Bones".
Su Yulou was very tough when dealing with strange things, but he still had to be a little human when dealing with internal problems.
He took care of a group of loyal and capable subordinates, including Lei Kun.
Anyway, there are a lot of medicines in hand, and if they take out half of them, they can not only benefit their subordinates, but also cultivate and attract a group of potential foreign aid.
After entering Beimo, these people will not be able to get precious medicines for free unless they show real military exploits.
Lei Yao's luck has just begun.
Because he "joined the front line" before the precious medicine reward began, he successfully got a good position and was also assigned to go out of the city to clean up the remaining strange creatures around.
He fought bravely for two months and accumulated a lot of military exploits.
A few days later, after the precious medicine reward plan was made public, a large number of first- and second-round warriors came to Beimo to seek opportunities for further advancement, and positions of all sizes immediately became tight.
Many second-round masters with similar strength to Lei Yao can only be team leaders now.
Otherwise, they will pay out of their own pockets to form or join a militia, register and go out to hunt strange creatures, and come back to hand in strange crystals in exchange for military exploits.
The source of all these things is the eldest lady.
But she didn't care much about these, and went straight to the general's mansion to find Su Yuqing, who was patrolling outside.
The female guards in the mansion immediately went out and quickly found Su Yuqing.
The eldest lady didn't pay much attention to Su Yuqing's surprised expression, and asked directly: "Have the remaining ghost crystals arrived?"
Su Yuqing's smiling face froze, and she confirmed again that this "half-master" was still so unskilled (steel) and straightforward (iron) (straightforward) (woman).
He took the eldest lady to the secret vault of the general's mansion, which was full of small bamboo tubes made of exotic purple bamboo.
The preservation of ghost crystals and monster blood cores has always been a headache for Da Wu.
If left alone, the ghost crystal and blood core will absorb the free soul source by themselves, and a new ghost will appear in a few years or more.
Although it is no longer the same as before, and its strength may also be greatly reduced, even a weak ghost is extremely dangerous to ordinary people.
If they are broken into pieces or powder, it will cause some kind of pollution, inducing other creatures to become ghosts.
The safest way to destroy them is for the second-round masters to release blood and energy, and wipe out the remaining contamination in the ghost crystal blood core bit by bit.
The cost is that it will consume the blood and energy of the second-round masters, reduce their cultivation efficiency, and reduce their chances of promotion.
Even now, more than ten years later, the second-round masters are the backbone of the power class in Dawu.
It is not difficult to be a city lord in an ordinary small city, or to become a big boss in a medium-sized city.
All their enjoyment and status are related to personal strength, and few people are willing to damage their own strength to destroy ghost crystals and blood cores.
In the end, only the government can bear this responsibility.
They will recycle them regularly, and then organize a large number of second-round masters to destroy the ghost crystals and blood cores in a centralized manner.
In return, these second-round masters can get precious medicine or other compensation.
This operation worked well for hundreds of years, but it has not worked in recent years.
As the number of monsters has increased dramatically, the high-end combat power of Dawu is in short supply.
The more they kill, the more monster crystals and blood cores they collect. They dare not spend their strength to destroy them. They can only take the method of isolating and storing them and checking and cleaning them regularly.
The effect of this method is limited to maintaining the inability of the monster crystal blood core to "revive", which is a temporary solution.
Until Gu Ke provided a different kind of purple bamboo, it was tried to be used to load the monster crystal, which can effectively prevent the monster crystal blood core from "reviving" - in fact, it is to block them from the same soul source in the outside world.
When the news came out, the officials of Dawu countries were overjoyed and vigorously planted purple bamboo.
Especially the Beimo country was more satisfied - the same level of monster crystals are much smaller than blood cores.
Small size means that smaller and less purple bamboo can be used to deal with more monster crystals.
There is only one hidden danger in this operation, that is, after the monster crystals and blood cores fall into the hands of monsters again, they can soon give birth to new monsters.
This creates an awkward situation of "killing but not completely killing".
Therefore, after the ghost crystals are collected, they will be sent to the rear and sealed in the more tightly guarded big city at intervals.
Beimo's own territory is almost gone, and the ghost crystals obtained here can only be transported to the atrium for sealing.
As the frontier fortress, the three cities of Beimo have fierce battles and have already hunted more than 10,000 ghosts, but the ghost crystals obtained in the early stage are all sealed in the atrium.
It was not until the fierce battles in the past few months that the city was surrounded and attacked by the group of ghosts, and the transportation with the rear was interrupted, that a few thousand ghost crystals were left.
The warehouse in front of us is still the "new goods" of the recent cleaning of the remnants of ghosts in various cities of Beimo.
The large number of ghost crystals placed in the atrium are being argued and have not been delivered in time.
This matter is not complicated.
Ghost crystals are dangerous in themselves. Beimo is located on the front line and suddenly needs a large number of ghost crystals to go back.
What if Beimo can't hold on, won't thousands of ghosts be born soon? Zhongting is really stupid for not worrying.
Secondly, Zhongting wanted to take the opportunity to get a share from Su Yulou, and asked for 10% of the precious medicine in his hand.
This was because Zhongting misjudged the number of precious medicines, thinking that the number reported was 40% to 50% of what Su Yulou had.
And such a request was also a test to see if Beimo had found a way to use the strange crystals.
If so, Zhongting, who had gritted his teeth and sealed a large number of strange crystals in the past, would undoubtedly become the "biggest winner".
Su Yulou did not dare to give Zhongting such an opportunity, otherwise there would be a lot of people in Zhongting who would "raise the price" after noticing the abnormality, and "reluctant to sell" would be the big problem.
However, the eldest lady went on a trip to the Far North Outer Region and personally won a lot of strange crystals.
Hearing Su Yuqing explain that a batch of strange crystals were not brought back in Dawu, she didn't care too much.
Go back and let Meishu and others find the storage place of Zhongting's strange crystals and blood cores, and she will go to the door to empty them one by one, and Zhongting and Beimo will not have to argue in the future.
On the other hand, the gap in the black hole in the North Desert is temporarily inaccessible. The group of strange creatures will lose their backup in a short period of time, and the number of strange creatures on the North Desert defense line will become fewer and fewer.
She has planned to let Mei and Zhu bring pills to the North Desert for trading once a quarter in the future.
Collecting three to five thousand strange crystals at a time, including the sealed bamboo tubes, can be transported by an ordinary carriage.
Mei and Zhu are martial masters, and it is easier for them to travel with these things than to be pulled by large animals.
Thinking in her mind, the eldest lady took away about a thousand strange crystals in the warehouse and released a thousand bottles of medium-grade blood-replenishing pills from the Qiankun bag, and the crystals and goods were exchanged.
One hundred bottles of high-grade blood-replenishing pills were given to Su Yuqing as a personal gift, which had nothing to do with the transaction.
Finally, she informed Su Yuqing of the situation of the black hole in the gap of the Eternal Ice Peak. The young lady stood up to leave, and suddenly remembered something: "Just now, when I was at the city gate, I met a captain named Lei Yao, who was eager to show me the way. If you train him more, maybe you can achieve some success."
Su Yuqing nodded in astonishment, but she was suspicious in her heart: A captain has the strength of the second round, could he be a martial master?
The young lady said this and floated away.
Lei Yao has some relationship with Lei Kun. If this young man has perseverance and determination, he may have the opportunity to become a martial master if he is trained a little.
So this is really her "selfless" help to the younger generation. Other second-round masters don't have the blessing to be remembered by Su Yuqing.
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Further south from the three cities of Beimo, the road was even calmer, with at most dozens of strange creatures gathered together.
These small fish did not even have the chance to see the young lady clearly, and they would be cut open by the passing sunflower roots, and the strange crystals would be taken away, becoming a tiny harvest in the Qiankun bag.
Unlike when she was rushing to the Eternal Ice Peak when she came, she returned with a great victory and had nothing to worry about. At this moment, she was no longer in a hurry to travel, and even the Purple Bamboo Shuttle was only taken out when eating and sleeping in the wild.
At other times, the young lady was like an ordinary warrior, leisurely walking in the villages and towns.
The "Northern Desert Migration" organized by Su Yulou has added many small towns and large towns in the northern part of Dawu, and one or even several can be seen every dozens or hundreds of miles.
The situation of no people for hundreds of miles in the past is rarely seen here.
The strange creature group on the northern desert defense line suffered a heavy blow, and strange creatures will not appear in the gap of the Eternal Ice Peak in a short time. These two extremely important news have spread among the top leaders of the one court and four countries.
Da Wu finally recovered from the pressure that almost made him suffocate.
Internal fighting is impossible. After all, the eldest lady specifically emphasized to Su Yuqing that the black hole of the gap cannot be destroyed, and the group of strange creatures will appear again sooner or later.
While the four countries of Yiting sent people to investigate, they also had to take advantage of the window period when the strange creatures were injured to prepare for war.
Grain planting, tool manufacturing, personnel cultivation, and communication must keep up.
Unless there is no other way, the real superiors never pin their hopes of survival on others, let alone expect strange creatures not to appear again.
This time, the eldest lady took action and let them breathe a sigh of relief. What about the next time and the next time?
After a few times, the high-level officials of Yiting and the four countries don’t have to struggle, they just kneel down obediently and recognize Xianshan as their master.
After all, the chaos of monsters that they couldn’t solve was solved by the eldest lady alone, which can only prove that Xianshan’s fist is far stronger than Da Wu’s high-level officials.
Will they still be important to Da Wu at that time? Without them, it seems to be better for Da Wu.
As long as some people are cleared out and a group of new people are replaced to enjoy the resources they occupy, the power transition in Dawu will be completed.
Gu Ke has no interest in such things, but the people of Yiting and Siguo don't know this.
They dare not gamble, because if they lose the bet, their whole family may be buried, so they can only work hard to strengthen their strength.
At the same time, they must continue to send core members of the power to vigorously participate in the war between the three countries of the southeast and the north and the monsters.
Betting on multiple parties and hedging risks are the simplest and most efficient means of continuation for the big forces.
The eldest lady's destiny lies here. A simple journey north has brought profound changes to the entire Dawu.
She herself is completely unaware and has no interest in asking.