"Not overbearing at all." Zhao Laodao said, "The reason why Zuoqiu City has been able to exist to this day is the most critical and indispensable city rule!" ”

"Why?" I asked, puzzled.

"All the people in Zuoqiu City are soldiers, whether they are people or ghosts, in case of emergency, they are all soldiers under the command of the Zuoqiu City Lord. If there is no such one, I am afraid that the entire Zuoqiu City will become a plate of scattered sand! ”

"When does that count as an emergency?"

"An emergency generally means that the city of Zuoqiu has been invaded by a foreign enemy. At this time, the city lord of Zuoqiu will issue a battle preparation order, announcing that all the people of the city will enter a state of combat readiness, and all the city residents, regardless of people and ghosts, will be organized into an army to fight side by side! Live and die together, advance and retreat together! ”

I saw that Zhao Laodao was very serious, and it didn't seem like a joke. But war was too far away for me to imagine what it would be like. If I do get a spot, I'll have to ask about this kind of thing first!

"How often does it happen that the city lord issues a battle preparation order?" I asked Zhao Laodao.

"Hehe, you can rest assured of this!" Zhao Laodao saw my thoughts and said with a smile: "I have been here for twenty years, and I have met twice. One time there was an earthquake, so the whole city was on alert. But fortunately, it only destroyed a few houses that time, and there was no serious damage. ”

"Another time it was the monsters in the dead Ze who attacked, and that time it killed some ghost slaves and a few city guards. However, a 'reserve army' like me, who was temporarily conscripted, didn't even have a chance to go into battle, and I did a lot of work to deliver food and water. ”

"Whew! That's good! "I'm finally relieved. It only happens once in ten years on average, and the situation in Zuoqiu City is not as grim as imagined.

While chatting about the rules in Zuoqiu City, Zhao Laodao took me around Zuo City to find shops selling specialty ingredients. He was very familiar with the area, and he was quite sensitive. As soon as he saw that the situation in front of him was not right, he immediately pulled me into a nearby shop or turned into another alley, avoiding a lot of trouble and disputes.

However, after only a short period of shopping, I ran into a few riots. There are people who steal things, there are people who rob things, and there are two groups of ghosts who are fighting, it seems that the security of Zuoqiu City is really not very good.

There are really everything sold in the left market, which is strange and dazzling. Since the law and order are not very good, there must be a weapon shop. The various weapons sold in it, such as swords, guns, spears, etc., are all specially made, which can be used as ordinary weapons or directly used to fight ghosts, which belong to the Yin weapon.

In addition to weapons, the store also sells all kinds of armor, armor, and even some everyday tools. Zhao Laodao said that those tools are also specially made, such as the kitchen knife and rolling pin in the hand of the owner of the bun shop just now, which should be this kind of yin weapon, which is a tool when working and a weapon when fighting ghosts.

Of course, the most common and cheapest weapon to fight ghosts is the kind of wooden ruler used by leather shop owners. It is specially selected from the crooked neck locust tree that grows in front of the grave to make a ruler-shaped, which is cheap, simple and easy to use. When the locust ruler hits the ghost, the ghost will feel very painful, but it will not kill the ghost at once. Therefore, almost all the shopkeepers and guys have one in their hands and waists. Exactly: a must-have for home travel!

In addition to the rarity of goods in the Yin City, the livestock that transported the goods were also different from those in the Yang world. I saw a caravan unloading, and it wasn't an ordinary cow, but a giant snail!

The snail was about two people tall and massive, but slow. The snail shells on their backs are installed on the shelves, and all the goods are fixed to them, and a giant snail can carry about 200 kilograms of cargo. Although this kind of cargo capacity is not large, it is definitely much better than cows, horses and vehicles in the yang world in the complex terrain and steep and difficult to navigate in the underground world.

Snails are used for transport, and all kinds of insects and reptiles are used for cycling. I don't know if it's because of mutation, or if there is some special breeding secret, these originally common underground creatures are dozens of times larger than those on the ground, or even hundreds of times.

I casually asked for the price in front of a livestock stall, and a giant tick that could ride one person sold for 350 yin, a monitor lizard that could ride two people for 500 yin, and the tallest giant snail was worth 1,000 yin! This kind of price is basically the same as buying a car in the sun!

The novelties in the Yincheng Bazaar dazzled me, but Zhao Laodao had already turned a blind eye. He focused all his energy on choosing the ingredients. We walked around Zuoshi for an hour, and Zhao Laodao finally bought a dead lobster in a fish shop.

The size of this dead lobster is not so exaggerated, it is larger than the average lobster, it is blue, and the two large claws are tied with thick ropes. I weighed the weight on the scale, three catties and six taels. After some bargaining with the shopkeeper, Zhao Laodao bought it for two hundred and thirty Yin Yuan.

In another aquatic product store, Zhao Laodao bought another Yin Spring Fish and two catties of glacial snails, and spent another hundred Yin Yuan. The prices in Yin City are really high, so I only bought three kinds of ingredients, and I spent more than 300 Yin Yuan. Coupled with the road guide that he got for one hundred yin yuan when he came in, the five hundred yin yuan advanced by Zhao Laodao was already not much.

Zhao Laodao also counted the remaining Yin Yuan, and said to me: "The money is almost enough, and there are some side dishes to buy." But there is nothing to sell on the left market, and we have to go to the right market. ”

"Don't use RMB here, do you settle all in Yin Yuan?" I asked him.

"Well, the yuan won't be used here at all." Zhao Laodao replied, "Here, only the Yin Yuan is a hard currency, and the Yin Yuan coins printed by Zuoqiu City itself are also linked to the Yin Yuan, and the one-yuan Yin Yuan is a Yin Yuan, but it can only be used in Zuoqiu City." The salary I received when I worked for the Teng family here was also Yin Yuan, and I would exchange it with Lao Xin when I went back. ”

In this way, it is not easy to resell and do business back and forth between the Yin City and the Yang City! I think that at the beginning, I asked the ghost to come to Yin City to buy nameless exercises, and he asked me for 4,000 yuan. I thought I had been slaughtered by him, but now it seems that I wronged him!

Subsequently, Zhao Laodao and I went to Youshi again. The biggest difference between the right market and the left market is that all the operators have become ghosts. Because of this, the order in the right market is even more chaotic, and almost every store has a group of tall evil ghosts and yin cultivators standing at the door as bodyguards and guardians, all grinning with teeth and fierce faces, and they are not afraid of scaring away serious customers.

Sure enough: in the land of the law, the fist speaks!

The biggest business in the right city is the ghost slave trade. Usually a ghost boss leads a group of ghost minions to enclose a place, leads the captured ghost slaves one by one to the front, shouts the reserve price, and then the buyers present bid for it. There are some people in the buyer who have ghosts, and they are basically priced according to the strength of the ghost slave's resentment.

Zhao Laodao didn't seem to like this kind of business very much, didn't give me a chance to stop and watch, and kept pulling me forward. I asked him what he was doing when the living came to buy ghosts.

He said with a calm face: "What else can I do?" Either take it back and be a ghost slave to raise, or refine it into an evil ghost to harm people, it's not a good thing anyway! ”

"Does the Teng family raise ghost slaves?"

"The Teng family has done a good job in this, and they have never raised ghost slaves!"

I nodded approvingly, even ghosts don't deserve this kind of inhumane treatment. However, fortunately, we didn't stay in the right market for long, and Zhao Laodao quickly bought the last few side dishes we needed, and then the two of us left the right market in a hurry.

Zhao Laodao had no intention of continuing to stay in Zuoqiu City for a long time, and after selling his things, he took me to the upper city. When I went through the door, I had to pay some tax because I brought the goods, which exceeded the budget. However, Zhao Laodao just waved his hand, indicating that it took a few more Yin Yuan, so it didn't matter.

We finally returned to the same passage in the sun where we came. The city guard on duty checked our belongings again, and then stamped Zhao Laodao's road guide. There is a return, it is estimated that this seal is not stamped, and the security guards above will not give it out.

However, it is easy to go down and difficult to go up. The second time I stood on that cushion and looked at the entrance of the Yin veins that went up vertically, this time I was a little curious about how I could go up.

Seeing that I was puzzled, Zhao Laodao smiled and said, "The yin qi in the yin veins is strong, and it is an updraft. I have a mantra here that can teach you how to swim and float in the yin veins, but you won't be able to learn it for a while. Come on, I'll take you up! ”

I stood next to Zhao Laodao as he said, he handed me all the ingredients he bought, and grabbed the back of my belt with his free hands. When he was ready, he shouted, "Get up!" ”

I suddenly felt fluttering, my feet off the ground, and I rose into the air, as if I had been sucked into the yin veins!

Zhao Laodao dragged me into the Yin Vein Channel. I felt the oppressive feeling of the dense liquid yin qi around me again. But because it's going up this time, there's no sense of weightlessness.

The speed of going up was obviously much slower than when we came down, and after about half an hour of ascending, we finally jumped out of the Yin Vein Passage and stood behind the large iron gate below Youlan Xuan again.

The heavily armed security guard checked our wayfinding and confirmed that it was correct before notifying the people outside to open the door through the built-in phone next to the iron gate. The door opened, and it was still Zhao Laodao's acquaintance who greeted us back: Lao Xin.

"Got what you want?" He saw that we were both carrying things in our hands, so he asked Zhao Laodao.

"I bought it, it's still fresh!" Zhao Laodao smiled and showed him the dead lobster and Yinquan fish.

"It seems that your Yuanbaomen is bound to win this election, so willing to spend your blood!" Lao Xin is obviously also a person who understands, and he guessed the intention when he looked at what we bought.

"Alas, if you don't choose another one, my senior brother in charge will die in a hurry!" Zhao Laodao shook his head with a wry smile and complained.

"You're going to be this kid?"

"That's right, it's him!"

Lao Xin looked at me seriously at this time, and said with a smile: "So young, the Teng family will like it!" ”

"I hope so!" Zhao Laodao replied helplessly.