Chapter 225: The First Commandment
There are more than a hundred large and small Izumo Oases, that is, at least a hundred teams going up the mountain. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info good thing is that there is a road between the oasis and the mountain top, and although the road is arduous, it is not dangerous. As they marched, the teams began to meet and converge, and the scattered squads began to converge into a mighty brigade.
The Qin soldiers who followed behind secretly counted that this team had snowballed to break through 10,000 people.
What is the concept of 10,000 people?
The Shannan Oasis, where the Qin soldiers were located when they first arrived at Shazhou, had only 5,000 people. After all, the scale of the oasis is limited, and the food and water that can be provided limit the permanent population, even so, the Shannan oasis has to buy food from outside often, otherwise it will not be frightened by a sanction order from the Black Tiger Tribe.
Izumo Castle is no more than an oasis, it is a city on the top of a mountain, and this city is in the middle of the ice and snow, there is no grass, and the materials needed for life need the support of many oases under the mountain. But there is a question, how much manpower and material resources will be required to transport these food and supplies from the bottom of the mountain to the mountain?
For example, the price of grain on a sandbar is high, and a bag of rice can be sold for a gold coin at the foot of a mountain, but at the top of a mountain, a bag of rice may be increased tenfold or even twenty times, and the price is not marketable. Therefore, the cost of living is destined to make it impossible for the population of Izumo City to expand rapidly, because they cannot afford to support it.
This gave the people of Izumo Castle an innate sense of superiority, and the inhabitants of the oasis at the foot of the mountain were proud to be able to enter Izumo Castle.
Tens of thousands of people poured in at once, can the small Izumo City accept it and put it aside first, and those residents of Izumo City can't stand the fact that more than 10,000 untouchables are suddenly on an equal footing with themselves.
At this moment, there was a sudden commotion in the front team:
"This is not the road to Izumo Castle, I've been to Izumo Castle, so I should go that way."
"That's it, my father and I used to deliver food to the mountains, so we should go over there."
"That's right, that's right."
Seeing the commotion of the crowd, the leaders who came down from Izumo City were annoyed, but this situation was all expected by them, and they had already thought of a way to deal with it.
"What's the noise? This is the road to the bridge of trials, do you think the assessment under the mountain is also called the assessment? The threshold for Izumo Castle is so low? Absurd! ”
Hearing this, the people who went up the mountain immediately stopped shouting, thinking about it carefully, it was really the truth, the assessment under the mountain was too simple, and it was reasonable to add another assessment before entering Izumo City.
Seeing that his words were valid, the leader snorted smugly, then tapped his finger in the crowd and said, "You guys be honest with me, no matter how noisy it is, you don't need to go down the mountain, go home now." ”
The men immediately bowed their heads and cowered back into the crowd, and when some of the people who were skeptical heard this, their doubts disappeared and became firm.
However, the people began to wonder in their hearts - what is the bridge of trials? I've never heard of this place before.
Although Izumo Castle is high in the clouds, the people at the bottom of the mountain know everything about it, at least they have a general impression, but no one has ever heard of what the Bridge of Trials is.
Could it be something that the big names of Izumo City just came up with, specifically testing people's qualifications and potential, otherwise why did they suddenly recruit so many people up the mountain unusually this year.
Well, that's definitely the case, that's right!
The people who went up the mountain were getting more and more excited, more and more excited. The storm could not extinguish their fighting spirit, the frost and snow could not stop their steps, and they longed to fly to the Bridge of Trials with their wings on, and then successfully pass the test and become a member of Izumo Castle. But the mountain road is long, and you have to take one step at a time.
Although, the footprints they left behind were covered in snow in the blink of an eye.
It's here!
I don't know who shouted, and there were cheers from the crowd one after another. The sky is high and the clouds are wide, and the sound is very empty and distant, as if it can reach the mysterious unknown world above.
It's just that the leader of the team was shocked, and hundreds of leaders moved rapidly, slapping the cheering people to the ground, and hundreds of people died in a blink of an eye, and the cheers stopped abruptly.
"Bastards, shut up Lao Tzu!"
The face of the leader of the road was distorted, and there seemed to be a substantial flame in his eyes, and he felt the undisguised murderous aura of the leader, and the team fell silent instantly.
"The First Commandment - In Izumo Castle, no time and place, no noise, violator, death!"
Seeing the corpse lying on the ground, everyone was silent, although they didn't understand the meaning of the guide, but they all kept this sentence in their hearts and remembered it tightly.
The Qin soldiers who followed behind also took this scene into their eyes clearly.
"Goddess, what do those who lead the way mean? Killing hundreds of people in a blink of an eye, this is too careless of human life, right? ”
Cangyue Hitomi was silent for a few seconds, and then said, "If killing these hundreds of people can save tens of thousands of people, do you think this is still a matter of careless human life?" ”
Qin Bing was stunned for a moment, but still replied frankly: "No! ”
"Making noise on a snowy mountain is likely to cause an avalanche. You may not understand the power of avalanches, but you just need to remember that if you encounter an avalanche, there is only one in a hundred that can survive the tens of thousands of people in front of you, and even if you encounter an avalanche, the only thing you can do is to use the ghost to walk, run as far as you can, and don't be reckless. ”
All right!
Qin Bing nodded, indicating that he remembered.
Perhaps, the noise was not loud enough, perhaps, the leader made a timely intervention and shocked everyone, in short, the avalanche did not appear, only the blizzard passed over everyone.
The leader took a deep breath to calm the emotions in his heart, and then continued to suppress his voice, and said in a deep voice: "Look at the sea of clouds in front of you......"
Looking in the direction of the guide's finger, one noticed that a stone bridge loomed in front of the sea of clouds that rolled like a wave. The stone bridge is made of stone throughout, although it is not very real, but you can vaguely see the mottled scratches and sores on the bridge, which is in tatters, like a dangerous bridge in disrepair.
However, it still stood there strongly, let the blizzard blow, let the sea of clouds and mist lap it. It doesn't move, it's as steady as Mount Tai.
Seeing this bridge, everyone's expressions were different, but all the surprise and doubts were swallowed in their stomachs and hidden in their hearts, because the hundreds of corpses around them were the best lessons from the past.
The leader nodded, "Being able to get here shows that you are all people with great perseverance, but this is not enough, only by passing through this bridge and reaching the opposite side, you are truly qualified to step into Izumo City and become a member of Izumo City." ”
Whoosh...... Whoosh......
The people who heard this instantly turned red-eyed, and they all looked eagerly at the Bridge of Trials.
(To be continued.) )