Chapter 412: Identity verification in front of the city
Wild Jade Pass, the only place to pass through to Xuanwu Kingdom. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoThis place is a wilderness for 300 miles, and there is not a single wisp of smoke, which can be described as an extremely desolate place.
Arayu Pass is a fortress and a big city. The city wall is more than 60 meters high, and the city gate is also 33 meters high.
However, the Arayu Pass is a little different from other cities, because there are no shops in the city, only military tents and soldiers patrolling and training day and night.
Outside the south gate of the barren jade pass, you can see a bottomless abyss, and the abyss bends through the east and west. There is a suspension bridge over the abyss directly in front of the city gate, and this suspension bridge is the only way to cross the abyss and the only way to get to Xuanwu Kingdom.
The suspension bridge is extremely long, about a kilometer long, and the width is also 100 zhang. Since the emperor Song De ordered the closure of the country, this suspension bridge has been pulled up and has not been lowered for a month.
As for those who wanted to go to Xuanwu Kingdom, they were stopped and rushed back as soon as they arrived at the north gate of Huangyu Pass. The reason is also very simple, the emperor ordered this city not to be released, and if he wanted to go to Xuanwu Kingdom, he would pass through the surrounding countries, and then go to Xuanwu Kingdom.
I have to say that the emperor Song De is still a shrewd lord. This order helped Ye Feng buy quite a lot of time. You must know that if you pass directly through the Wild Jade Pass, it will only take a month to reach Xuanwu Kingdom. But because of the tossing and turning, it took half a year to reach the territory of Xuanwu State.
The benefits are not a little bit, like a certain sect in the Xuanwu Kingdom planted spies in the Qingshui Kingdom, and it is even more difficult to deliver the letter. Even if you succeed in crossing the Arakuma Pass, it is difficult to cross the thousand-meter-wide abyss without a suspension bridge.
If it is penetrated by other countries, the letters can be delayed for half a year, and no important information will be useless.
On this day, the yellow sand swept into the sky, and the light of the sun was dim like candlelight. Directly north of the Wild Jade Pass, a man rode a horse straight to the Wild Jade Pass.
Go and see the man on the horse, the black robe covers his hat and the brim is low. He grasped the reins of the horse in his left hand and a sword in his right hand.
This person is Ye Feng.
"Woo ......!"
A hundred meters away from the north gate of the Wild Jade Pass, Ye Feng restrained the galloping horse. After the horse stopped, Ye Feng first glanced at the huge city, and then looked at the soldiers guarding the city wall.
At this moment, Ye Feng looked at more than a thousand soldiers, and the soldiers on the city wall also stared at Ye Feng with cold faces.
"The barren jade pass has been sealed, and those who come will return and leave quickly." On the gatehouse, a man in armor and a silver helmet frowned and said loudly.
Ye Feng's gaze shifted to the man, and he could see at a glance that this person was a general, and at the worst was a small head guarding the town gate.
Jumping off the horse's back with his legs crossed, Ye Feng dusted off the sand on his black robe, raised his hand and hugged his fist at the man who was speaking loudly above, and shouted: "In Xia Ye Feng, I will clear the customs and rush to Xuanwu Kingdom on the order of the emperor." ”
At these words, the thousands of soldiers on the city wall couldn't help but glance at Ye Feng a few more times, and the middle-aged man who spoke loudly frowned tightly, and the look of doubt flashed in his eyes when he looked at Ye Feng.
"Are you Ye Feng? Can there be a tiger talisman of the emperor? ”
Ye Feng smiled faintly, took out the tiger talisman from his arms and held it high in the air, and said to the man on the gatehouse: "The tiger talisman is here." ”
The Tiger Talisman is very small, and it is a little far away with a hundred meters. The man on the gatehouse only saw Ye Feng holding up an object, and as for whether it was a tiger talisman or not, the man was really not sure.
Although he was not sure of the authenticity of the Tiger Talisman, when Ye Feng took out the Tiger Talisman, this person's demeanor still changed, and he was no longer serious and cold, obviously he was also worried that if the person who came was really Ye Feng, he was guilty of negligence.
"You lead the horse to the city gate and wait, and I will go down to verify the authenticity of the tiger talisman."
The man said, turned and pointed to ten soldiers and disappeared into the gatehouse.
Ye Feng's face was not happy or angry, and he led the horse slowly. When he reached the city gate, the gate, which happened to be thirty-three meters high, creaked open from the inside.
The man who was standing on the gatehouse just strode in front of Ye Feng, and his eyes first looked at Ye Feng a few times, perhaps because Ye Feng's black robe covered his body and appearance, which made this person obviously a little unhappy.
However, the man didn't say much, stretched out his hand and said to Ye Fengyan, "Bring the tiger talisman to me to see." ”
Ye Feng didn't bother to say anything, let alone waste time here, after raising his hand and handing the tiger talisman to the man, he quietly waited for the man to verify the authenticity of the tiger talisman with his hands behind his back.
The man took the tiger talisman and looked at it for a while, but in the end he didn't say whether it was true or not, so he said to Ye Feng: "You...... Wait here for a moment, and I'll be back in a quarter of an hour. ”
From the man's demeanor, Ye Feng guessed that this middle-aged soldier probably couldn't determine the authenticity of the tiger talisman, saying that he was leaving for a while was just trying to pass it on to someone who had seen the tiger talisman for verification.
"That's no problem, but Ye has been on the road for more than seven days, can you let me go into the city to drink saliva first?" Ye Feng clenched his fists and said.
"No! You are not allowed to go anywhere until you are sure that the tiger charm is authentic. The middle-aged soldier bluntly vetoed, and without waiting for Ye Feng's words, he turned around and gave the ten soldiers a look, and then hurriedly entered the city.
Looking at the middle-aged soldiers who had gone away, Ye Feng looked at the ten people who were staring at him again, shrugged his shoulders and smiled helplessly.
From the demeanor of the ten people, Ye Feng saw the nervousness. Especially after the leader left, these ten people were even more nervous and didn't dare to take a breath.
In fact, in the hearts of the ten people, no matter whether the black-robed man in front of them was Ye Feng or not, the coercion emanating from his body made them frightened. I was also worried about what the ten of them should do if the black-robed man in front of him had a bad plot.
"Don't be nervous, I won't break into the city."
Ye Feng felt that it was better not to be around the ten people, so he turned around and led the horse to the gatehouse, sat cross-legged under the city wall and closed his eyes, recuperating while waiting for the generals in the city to come out to greet him.
Ye Feng's retreat made the ten people feel a little less nervous, and their suspicion of Ye Feng also changed, feeling that this black-robed person should be Ye Feng, the sect leader of the Ancient Ye Sect, and only the master of the sect could have such a mind.
"Hey! You...... Aren't you thirsty? I have water here, you ...... Do you drink or not? Among the ten people, a sturdy soldier took off the kettle from his waist and asked Ye Feng tremblingly.
Slowly opening his eyes, Ye Feng looked at the kettle and hurriedly stood up, thanked the sturdy soldier with a fist, took the kettle and drank most of the water in the kettle.
Ye Feng was really thirsty, and he didn't lack dry food but water along the way. Fortunately, he traveled day and night to the Barren Jade Pass, if he was thirsty for a few days, Ye Feng estimated that he would collapse due to thirst before he left Qingshui Country.