1478 Compassion
Therefore, in the city of Shifangdu, it has always been difficult to see those tall buildings. The buildings in the city are almost all connected by movable steel shelves. Because only in this way, even if it is attacked by Dongming Xuanfeng, it will only blow these steel shelves apart. When the time comes, as long as you find it back, and then re-splic, you can continue to use it.
The only thing that can be regarded as a building in Shifangdu is the five-story fortress villa of the city lord's mansion. If you want to survive under the Dongming Xuanfeng, you must have the protection of a very powerful formation force. Obviously, even if the city lord of Shifangdu was an innate eighth-order peak powerhouse with the strength level of the Great Qin general, he would not be able to establish a formation for the entire Shifangdu to defend against Dongming Xuanfeng.
If you want to maintain such a large area of powerful formation, not to mention how much energy is consumed, just presiding over and controlling such a large array of powerhouses cannot be weaker than his cultivation strength of the Ten Directions City Lord, and at least seven such powerhouses are needed to stay in the city at all times and deal with the threat of the coming Dongming Xuanfeng at any time.
Such harsh conditions may not be a problem at all for a first-class power like Great Qin. But for the sake of a small Shifangdu, sending seven generals and generals to garrison for a long time is simply a luxury, and without enough big benefits, Great Qin will never do this.
Therefore, Shifangdu was able to stand on its own on the edge of Great Qin's territory. Because Daqin didn't bother to want this dangerous city at all. Moreover, in order to protect themselves when they are attacked by powerful sea monsters, the people of Shifangdu have also signed a contract with Daqin, and they need to pay tribute to Daqin every year for Shifangdu's special resources and food. And in return, Daqin can ask for help from Daqin's strongest man when Shifangdu encounters a threat from a sea monster that cannot be dealt with.
The city guards of Shifangdu are very scattered, and they don't care about the people who come and go. Therefore, when Lin Fang and Fang Fengting entered the city, they did not encounter any interrogation and obstruction at all.
It's no wonder that Shifangdu is almost a dangerous city, if it weren't for the strong people like the Shifangdu City Lord here, if it weren't for the fact that many people here were born and raised here and have a strong affection for this place, this Shifangdu would have long since ceased to exist.
As for outsiders, for the people of Shifangdu, not only will they not be rejected, but they are unusually welcome. Most of the outsiders are businessmen, and these businessmen can bring economic benefits to Shifangdu.
Lin Fang didn't know what Fang Fengting came to Shifangdu for, so he didn't speak along the way, just looked at this vulnerable city curiously. There are a lot of people coming and going in the city, but really powerful warriors are very rare. The number of warriors in a city, the definition of the strong, can almost judge the degree of development of the city.
For example, in Jizhao City, a city under a third-class country, the strongest people are only innate first-order martial artists, most of them are ordinary martial artists, and even more people are not even martial artists. Such a city, in the entire Shenzhou Star, undoubtedly belongs to the weakest type of city.
For another example, in a big city like Anguofu, there are many strong people, and there are martial artists above the fourth order everywhere on the street.
On the other hand, in these ten directions, although there are innate eighth-order peak martial artists in charge, judging from the crowds coming and going on the street, the largest number of martial artists here should be the innate third-order level martial artists. In other words, if you can have the cultivation realm of an innate fourth-order martial artist, you can be called a master in Shifangdu. If it is a martial artist of the innate fifth order, then it can be regarded as a strong person in front of him.
Therefore, for innate seventh-order martial artists like Lin Fang and Fang Fengting, these Ten Fang Crossing are definitely the real powerhouses second only to the city lord. When the two of them are walking on the road, pedestrians will subconsciously get out of the way, which is an affirmation and respect for the strength of the two.
"Where are we going?"
After the two of them walked a long distance into the city, Lin Fang finally couldn't help but ask.
"Find someone!" Fang Fengting said neatly.
Lin Fang looked at Fang Fengting in surprise, this Shifangdu is a remote and backward dangerous city, how could a brocade-clothed messenger like Fang Fengting know people here?
"You've been here before?" Lin Fang asked curiously.
"I haven't been here, but that doesn't stop me from looking for someone." Fang Fengting said with a look of course.
Only then did Lin Fang remember that if the news and intelligence network of the Jinyi envoy was ranked second, then no one in Daqin would dare to say that it was the first. Therefore, even if this Shifangdu is a remote backward and dangerous city, as long as it is a person or thing that the Jinyi envoy wants to know, there will always be a way to do it as quickly as possible.
The two of them walked through the streets and alleys and came to an area that looked like a simple tin hut. There are frolicking children everywhere here, as well as old people sitting outside basking in the sun, and as for the young and strong warriors, there is hardly a figure to be seen here.
Lin Fang understood that this should be the slum of Shifangdu City. The children and the old people here all looked at the two young people dressed in luxury with great curiosity, and even some bold children, and took the initiative to come over, curiously following behind the two.
"Brother, sister, are you here to find someone?" One of them, who looked to be less than ten years old, had a dirty face, and only one pair of eyes were bright on his dirty face.
"How do you know?" Fang Fengting looked at the child curiously.
"When I look at my sister, my brother and I are not from our side, they should be from the noble district of Dongcheng! We are in the slums, and we can't afford to wear beautiful clothes like our older brothers and sisters. The child muttered.
"You're smart, little one. Even if you can't practice martial arts, you still have the opportunity to become a mechanical master, or a potion master. Fang Fengting felt a little pity, and saw that she immediately searched her body, as if she wanted to give some money to this clever child.
However, just as Fang Fengting was about to take out the money, Lin Fang grabbed Fang Fengting and shook his head at Fang Fengting.
Fang Fengting looked at Lin Fang with some puzzlement, and muttered, "It's just a poor child, don't be so vigilant!" β
Lin Fang looked at the child in front of him, who was less than ten years old, and his face seemed to be full of longing. Lin Fang shook his head helplessly, but still let go of his hand.
After Lin relaxed his hand, Fang Fengting grinned, and then took out a medicinal herb worth tens of thousands of spirit stones, handed it to the child in front of him, and said, "Take this, go buy some delicious food, buy a few new clothes." β
"Thank you, sister, thank you, sister!" The child took the herb with joy and thanked him one after another.
"Sister, you can also give me some, let me eat and clothes!"
"Sister, I want it too!"
"Sister......
For a while, more than a dozen other children gathered around one by one, calling affectionately at Fang Fengting, begging for money.
Fang Fengting was not angry about this, but showed a pure smile, and took out the herbs or precious ores from her body one by one and distributed them to the group of children in front of her.
After the children got the money, they were all happy, said thank you, and ran away. Some of the children didn't even say thank you, and happily ran out of some alleys.
"Poor kids!" Fang Fengting sighed for a while, and said with a sad face.
Lin Fang looked at Fang Fengting on the side and sighed, smiled, and said, "I'm afraid that you will regret what you did just now." β
"What do you mean?" Fang Fengting looked at Lin Fang with some puzzlement, and said with a somewhat unhappy face: "It's all some naΓ―ve children, you can't bear to have a little money, why stop me?" Don't you sympathize with those children at all? β
Listening to Fang Fengting's words, Lin Fang frowned slightly, and suddenly had a new evaluation of the Jinyi messenger, or a new evaluation of Fang Fengting. It stands to reason that the envoy of the brocade clothes, in the native territory of Great Qin, and even in the vassal country, is a terrifying existence. And the reason for this fear is not only the lord behind the brocade messenger, but the terrifying means of the brocade messenger.
"I don't have sympathy or not, I'm sure soon you'll understand why I stopped you just now." Lin Fang didn't explain either, he was afraid that the more he explained, the more Fang Fengting felt that he was looking for an excuse to shirk, that is, he had no sympathy.
The two continued to walk, and the old men who were basking in the sun outside looked at the two of them with strange eyes. The two of them went around in circles, and when they walked into another alley, they suddenly noticed that someone was following them.
The man thought he was hiding well, but he had no idea who he was following. Lin Fang and Fang Fengting discovered the man's tracking early.
Fang Fengting didn't say anything at Lin Fang's suggestion, pretending not to know, and continued to walk forward. But when they walked into the middle of this secluded alley, the person who was finally following Lin Fang and Fang Fengting no longer dodged, because there were six more young men beside him.
At the same time, at the other exit of the alley, I saw six young and strong warriors coming in front of me, all of them were armed with internal force guns, obviously these people were only the weakest martial artists, not even a congenital first-order martial artist.
Lin Fang and Fang Fengting couldn't help but stop, looking at these dozen or so people who were weak in the eyes of the two of them and were no different from ants. These people, all with murderous intent on their faces, obviously have bad intentions.
"You two listen to us, and hand over all the valuable things on you, or this is your burial place." After these people intercepted Lin Fang and Fang Fengting back and forth, one of the men in his early thirties pointed a gun at Lin Fang and Fang Fengting and threatened.
"What a big breath!" Fang Fengting was suddenly angry, she really didn't expect that those innate fourth-order martial artists would get out of the way in awe when they saw them, but these ordinary martial artists who were not even in the innate realm actually dared to come to block the road and rob them. This is really a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers, pouting hooves in front of tigers, isn't it self-defeating?