After a while, it was Yang Zhen who took the lead in breaking the silence,

"City Lord, how many people do you need me to take this time. ”

"About a hundred people. ”

"So little?" asked Yang Zhen curiously.

"Your batch is not the last batch after all. The old man sighed, "Besides, the big war is approaching, and taking too many people at once will also cause riots." ”

"I know, but there's something else I want to ask for. Yang Zhen's face was complicated.

"Oh, you just say, I'll do everything I can for you. ”

"I.... I want this group of children to participate in the defense of the next demon attack. ”

"Huh?" the old man looked surprised.

"Since... The situation is precarious, so there is no time for these children to grow up, rather than this, it is better to let them see the cruelty of the shemale war, so that they can wake up as soon as possible. ”

"It's not bad to think so," the old man glanced at Yang Zhen with relief, "But you must know that now that the attack of the demon clan is becoming more and more fierce, it is more appropriate for the few little dolls you brought not to participate in the war, and a few of you will be together in the city with the old man." Otherwise, there will be some damage here, and I will have no way to explain to your Yang family. ”

Yang Zhen hesitated for a moment, "That's fine, then it's going to trouble the city lord." ”

"These are all trivial matters, counting that there are still three days before the demon clan attacks the city, Yangzhen, you go and meet those children, right?"

"Okay, let me get acquainted with them. Yang Zhen couldn't help but want to see how the seedlings of this group of guarded cities were.

"Liang Xiao, you go and call Pingping and them over. ”

"Yes, City Lord. ”

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Yang Zhen looked at the hundred little monks in front of him, except for a few who were still building the foundation, the rest were all in the Jindan realm, and a few were still breaking through the bottleneck of the Jindan.

"In the end, it is a child born in the guarding city, and such a small Jindan realm can be regarded as a little genius outside. Yang Zhen opened her mouth and praised.

The old man looked at them distressed and relieved, "In the city of defense, I have seen so many wars, this is inevitable. Some of these children have even fought with demons. ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, I am Yang Zhen of the Yang family, and I am here to bring you to Yangzhou on the orders of the city lord. Yang Zhen said.

"But we don't want to go. A little girl with a dark face whispered.

"yes, we don't want to go. We want to stay in the Guarded City. The little boy behind her couldn't help but speak.

"Good children," the old man reassured, "you go to Yangzhou first for grandpa and I will see what interesting places there are, grandpa will go to Yangzhou in a short time." ”

"Grandpa Chen, is this true?" the little girl asked timidly.

"Of course, Grandpa promised to go to you. The old man looked at the children in front of him with a smile, and his eyes motioned for Yang Zhen to continue to speak.

"Ladies and gentlemen, according to reason, when you go back to Yangzhou, you should go to Yangzhan Academy in Yangzhou to practice and study, but this time the situation is special, I can give you a few more options, you can come to my Yang family as a core disciple, with the treatment of a core disciple, or go to apprenticeship on your own, you can choose by yourself. And I suggest that you should go to Yang's house, after all, I can provide some help to everyone more conveniently there. ”

The old man suddenly spoke, "Don't you Yang family also have a school, just let them go there." ”

"This ....." Yang Zhen hesitated for a moment, "If the children are willing, then naturally there is no problem." ”

"The city lord's grandfather has the final say. ”

"Grandpa the City Lord decided that we would go wherever we wanted. ”

"Then let's go and rest, and we'll go in three days' time." ”

The old man looked at Yang Zhen, "You go and inform your Yang family disciples to prepare for watching the battle in three days, and then come to my City Lord's Mansion again in the evening? ”

"Good. Yang Zhen nodded in agreement.

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"Okay, okay!" The disciples of the Yang family almost cheered when they heard the news brought by Yang Zhen.

"I've been listening to Uncle Yangzhen talk about how fierce the demon clan is, and this time I can finally see it with my own eyes. ”

"Why don't we go on the field and kill a few of them and go back to our elders to see!"

"I'd like to see how hard these residents of the Defending City are fighting, and they all have a stinky face when they meet them during the day!"

"That's it, when the time comes, we will kill more than them, look how arrogant they are!"

"Don't make trouble!" Yang Zhen shouted, "The demon clan's siege of the city is child's play! Everyone will follow me after three days! Everyone must not go down to the city without permission!"

The noise of the crowd gradually subsided, but the cheers on their faces could not be stopped.

Yang Zhen looked at them and shook her head helplessly, don't look at the group of people who are so excited now, it is already very good to have a few people barely calm after three days.

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At six o'clock in the afternoon, Yang Zhen entered the City Lord's Mansion again.

"City Lord, I'm here. ”

"Come, come, sit down and drink. The city lord pulled Yang Zhen over with a smile.

The two of them seemed to have their own thoughts, and they just drank silently. In the end, it was Yang Zhen who broke the silence,

"City Lord, if you don't worry about me, in fact, I can take more children away, if the war is really so tense, then they really have nothing to do to stay here. ”

"Bring more?" the old man smiled helplessly, how many more children do you think I can have in Demon City?

"There are not just a hundred of them. ”

The old man shook his head.

"gave birth to a child, as soon as the child arrived at Jindan Yuanying, there were many shouts to participate in the siege of the city, and even some ignorant people did not care about the consent of their families, and they rashly went down to the city to fight with the demon clan. And after the big war, everyone has to go to war, and how many people can take care of the children? There are too many things for white-haired people to send black-haired people here. In addition, the war broke out every other day, who didn't participate in the defense of the city with the determination to die? How many people can have the leisure to care for their children and wait for their children to grow up? Over time, the old things in the Split Demon City are accumulating more and more, a new generation, hey. ”

The old man sighed and took a hard sip.

"There are also children like your apprentice Liang Xiao, whose parents were killed by the demon clan when he was not sensible and grew up, and when he was older and asked about his parents, we can only say that his parents died to defend the human race. But what is the Guardian Terran, why do we want to guard the Terran, why did we have to protect the Terran, and why did our parents die in battle? How can we make a child of a few years old understand these things? Even if we elders care for him, the lack of parental roles is not something that any one person can make up for. ”

Yang Zhen listened silently, only feeling that something was blocked in his throat, the memory of his five years in the Demon City was still clearly engraved in his mind and could not be forgotten, and those monks who fought here all their lives, those monks who watched generations die and had to continue to fight, who could understand the sorrow in their hearts.

"So," the old man muttered, "a lot of people are begging for death." ”