The northern frontier is the last city.

The last city is the closest city to the northern Xinjiang Tianjiao, and it is also the fortress that manages the war between the Tianjiao and the northern Xinjiang.

The door is opened once every ten days, and each time is only a few minutes, in order to allow the soldiers guarding the border inside and outside the sky to hand over and transport the "soldiers". But these "soldiers" are actually death row prisoners brought from various countries, and a batch is transported to Biansai every month, and they can be sent directly to the battlefield after special "training" to fight against the burning army, but very few of them can come back alive......

"Come on, everyone, bet, will that mad woman come back alive this time?" a second-class officer blushed and asked the officers at the table with the strength of his wine.

"I—bet she can't!" shouted another officer, who was already slurring his speech, and then took a handful of silver coins from his pocket and slapped them on the table.

"Haha! You bet that she can't every time, but that crazy woman's life is hard!"

"Don't underestimate her, she's quite capable of fighting!"

"Yes, they are the 'Young Master of Ziyun Mountain'!"

"Hahaha!" The crowd laughed when they heard this, and even the wine that had not been swallowed in their mouths was splashed out with saliva.

Hong Bin listened to their rude words on the sidelines, and he couldn't understand where the joke was. He laboriously poured the hot water from the pot into the drain, then put the pot on the stove with a "bang" and let out a long sigh of relief.

Today's work is finally done, since he came here, he can only sleep for four or five hours a day, and he is so tired from the endless work that he doesn't even have enough time to eat, and sometimes he returns to the kitchen with no leftovers. But even so, his boss didn't notice this at all, and seemed to regard him as a god who didn't eat fireworks in the world, coming and going as soon as he was called.

Carrying a mop and a bucket, he walked out of the kitchen to the training ground, where the "soldiers" were held and trained, and the air was filled with a disgusting smell of rancidity and the incessant cursing of the soldiers as they patrolled, and he came to a corner full of debris, full of cleaning tools.

This is his territory, and he comes here every day when he gets up to get these things in order, but every time he comes back from work, it is unrecognizable. He turned his head to look at the soldiers who were wandering around, stinking of wine, and sighed helplessly, took off his oil-stained gloves, and stacked them in an orderly manner.

He turned out the tin bucket with a lid that he usually used to draw water, and the moment he opened the lid of the bucket, a terrible sour smell hit him, and he threw the bucket aside, lying on the wall and covering his mouth with his hand, thinking that it was good that he didn't eat at noon, otherwise he would really vomit. Hong Bin turned around and searched with some annoyance, and saw several soldiers sitting on the pyre drinking not far away.

"Hey, big black bear, what are you looking at?" the soldier asked, looking at him with bad intentions.

"Hahaha, look at his stupidity!"

"His two big hands are black like bear paws, yes!"

"! Bear's paws are worth a lot more than that!"

He pursed his lips and looked down at his big and thick hands, although they were covered with dirt, he didn't bother to wash them, and then, he just had to report to his boss about his work for the day and go back to sleep. He hesitated for a moment, but finally picked up the tin bucket, thinking that maybe he could go back and wipe it and use it.

As he was leaving, he looked up again at the top of the wall of the end city—a huge hourglass with five beacons on each side of the hourglass. There is no sun on the side of the city, day and night, whenever the sand in the hourglass is finished, it means that another day has passed, the soldiers defending the city will turn the hourglass upside down, and every time it turns, there will be a beacon tower lit up, and when the ten beacon towers are lit, the soldiers will open the sky barrier, so that the border guards inside and outside the sky will exchange.

Hong Bin was almost trotting all the way, for fear of wasting precious sleep time by walking slowly, after all, he was too tired......

The cold wind was whistling outside the window, the room was lit by dim candlelight, and the sound of rats foraging for food could be faintly heard in the corner.

"Do you know the consequences of that?"

"I really don't understand what you're nervous about, I've already bought off the soldiers who guard the time track, and besides, the sky is now open," she said nonchalantly, "as long as you don't say it, this matter won't be exposed!"

"But Mu Zixin and Ling Xiang will be suspicious, they only brought ten days of food, and now it is thirteen days!"

"It's normal that there isn't enough food, because after all, it's a war, and it's normal to lose it, although the two of them are above us, but the right to manage the affairs of the border plug is still in our hands, even if they find out, I will have a way to prevaricate," Wen Li suddenly sat up, leaned over from the table and leaned over the table to lie on Mito's ear vigilantly, "But you have to remember for me that Young Master Zhao Ying's unauthorized departure from his post is absolutely not allowed to leak the news!"

"Hmph! A coward like him should be killed to make an example, what I care about is how much benefit you have received from the Zhao Mansion? You must know that it is the duty of the princely mansions under the Seven Kingdoms to send people with good strength to guard the border! What we should do is to report this matter to the Elder Pavilion of Ziyun Mountain, instead of you being the master alone!"

"Don't pretend to be a decent gentleman, Mito! I can't get the benefits without you!" Wen Li threw the cigarette in his hand to the ground, followed by a fierce kick, "Those princes and nobles are not easy to mess with, this young master Zhao Ying is the son-in-law of General Zhao of Yue Kingdom, we can't afford to mess with it!"

"Then Mu Zixin and Ling Xiang can you afford to provoke it, although Mu Zixin is as dull as a piece of wood on weekdays, but that Ling Xiang is not a vegetarian, if he knows about this, I'm afraid you will lose your life!"

"Mito, I'm so good that I'm also an officer, he doesn't have the courage to kill me, and you don't know that the people who are sent here to guard the border every month in the inland are all young masters and young ladies from famous families, and it's not easy to deal with them!"

"Hmph, good cultivation resources are in their hands, if they don't come to guard the border, who will ......?"

Before he finished speaking, he heard a loud "bang" sound coming from outside the door, and the two of them were so frightened that they suddenly trembled.

"Who!"

"I'm sorry, my lord, oh no, my lords. Hong Bin staggered in with the tin bucket with the broken handle, and the tin pail shook in his hand, making a creaking and screeching sound.

"Are you eavesdropping on our conversation?" Mito turned to look at him incredulously.

"Absolutely not, my lord, I was just passing by here, I was looking for Lord Lu. ”

"Which Lord Lu? Why haven't I heard of such a person? What the hell are you doing?"

"The little one is in charge of cleaning up the environment of the end of the city, and Lord Lu is a second-class officer here......" Before he finished speaking, he suddenly saw four golden slashes under the collars of the two people in front of him. It turned out that they were all fourth-class officers.

"I'm sorry, adults, I'm leaving ...... right away"

"You really should leave right away...... Oh my God, he smells so good!" Mito covered his nose with one hand and waved at him in disgust, as if he were a fly and could be chased away with a wave of his hand.

"Wait a minute, what's your name?" Wen Li squinted at him.

"My name is Hong Bin, my lord. ”

"Hong Bin, did you know that eavesdropping on the officers' conversations is a capital offense?"

"I didn't mean to, my lord, I didn't hear anything......" he was so nervous that his hands shook uneasily.

"I can't say for sure," Wen Li's eyes had a sharp cold light, she held her cheek with one hand, and lightly tapped the tip of the other finger on the table, "But if you do something for me, maybe I will consider sparing you." ”