Dingzhuang City, more than 30 miles away from the Black Desert, is the most dilapidated and poorest of more than 20 cities.

The city wall, loess pile, is more than ten meters high.

In the city, brick and wood houses account for 30%, and the rest are yellow mud walls and grass roofs.

More than 100,000 residents, struggling with hunger and satiety, live on Haven stem as their staple food.

The stem of the black text is an endemic plant in a large mountain in the east of the city.

On a spring day, after a rain, black branches like spring shoots emerge from the soil, no more than half a meter high.

Day by day, the branches grew thicker and thicker, but they never grew taller again.

After the summer, there can be the thickness of the water tank.

After cutting it back, the thick black skin is peeled off, and inside is the edible white stem flesh.

Chop into pieces and dry them, and when you eat them, they are steamed and slightly salty.

In addition to the Haven stem, other foods, such as rice and meat, were only available to members of the royal family.

Fortunately, the Haven stem naturally carries salt, and the salt consumption in Dingzhi City is very small.

Digging up the gravel for bugs underneath is a great piece of meat.

Perhaps it was too close to the Black Desert for any beast to ever come near Dingzhan City.

Fat pig meat, cunning mutton, for the vast majority of people, it is a lifelong dream.

Wu Fanyang led an army of 10,000 and was stationed in Dingzhi City for half a month.

These days, I have been busy recruiting troops.

As a Chinese sergeant, there is rice, steamed buns, meat to eat, and silver.

As soon as the news spread, countless young people flocked to the recruiting office.

Only three thousand were recruited, and eight thousand came at once.

Almost all the young men of Dingzhi City came.

"What to do? Top dog. ”

Looking at the black crowd, Chen Junwen panicked.

"Choose three thousand strong ones, and the rest will be reserves." Wu Fanyang is not afraid of too many people.

In each city, there are reservist soldiers, who enjoy one-third of the regular army according to the income level of the city.

It's just that other cities generally only have about a thousand reserves.

Dingzhu City, recruited 5,000 at once.

As soon as the news was announced, the whole city immediately fell into a carnival.

The regular army has three meals a day for free, and 30 catties of flour for a month.

Reserves, training ten days a month.

On the training day, three meals are free, and 20 catties of silver hanging wood powder are paid every month.

The food was all transported from Youtian City, and it was continuously supplied to the army for several months.

The dead city has become an extremely important transit point.

Dingzhi City is the farthest away from Youtian City, 5,000 miles away, and 2,000 miles away from the Dead City.

Between the twenty-seven cities, postal routes have been opened.

Hundreds of large and small vehicles, transporting all kinds of supplies day and night. Among them, there are 20 small cars, which are dedicated to delivering news of the army to each city and delivering important news of each city.

In Jinshan City, a news organization is in charge, and the "Huaxia Weekly" has a weekly circulation of more than 1,000 copies, three copies each.

In every city, there are a number of newspaper kiosks, where people can view newspapers sandwiched in glass windows for free.

The image of Wu Fanyang and the image of the Chinese army have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Joining the army has become the first choice for young people in various cities.

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The temperature is getting lower and lower day by day, and winter is here again before you know it.

In the inner city of the king of Dingzhi City, in a large house, the charcoal fire burned red.

Wu Fanyang, Professor Han, Lu Tao, Chen Junwen, and Xu Fei were drinking.

The liquor is the liquor brewed by Jinshancheng Distillery, more than 50 degrees.

"Fuck, that's wine." Wu Fanyang took a sip, put down the wine glass, grabbed a piece of fat pig hooves and nibbled on it.

In other cities, the strongest wine is only more than 20 degrees.

"Boss, are you going to stay in the nest?" Lu Tao picked up a piece of mutton and chewed it vigorously.

A maid walked in with a tray of hot towels, and several people took it and wiped their faces.

"If I don't take Sun Moon City, my heart will always be uncertain." Wu Fanyang wiped his greasy hands and put the towel aside.

Seeing that several people had finished wiping, the maid put away the towel and walked out of the door silently.

"Xiaoyun, close the door." Wu Fanyang turned around and said.

"Yes, General." The maid who called Xiaoyun hurriedly answered.

Xiaoyun gently closed the door, and there were only five people left in the room.

Lu Tao put down his chopsticks and looked at Wu Fanyang, knowing that he had something to say.

"You've seen it too, and there's more than one dead city." Wu Fanyang took the cigarette on the table and threw one away, "Lu Tao, did you find seven dead cities?" ”

"Yes, Boss." Lu Tao responded.

"What about the people of these cities?" Wu Fanyang asked.

This issue has been discussed more than once, and today Wu Fanyang mentioned it again, and an uneasy mood enveloped everyone at once.

There are two dead cities, apparently looted by the war.

Traces of burning are obvious, both inside and outside the house of bones.

Several historians and sinologists looked through the historical materials preserved in several large cities. Although no historical information has been found such as the origin of the city itself, there are descriptions of several dead cities.

"There are guests coming from the east, and the city of Yan is destroyed by a foreign race, and everyone is dead."

"The fire will not recede for several days, and it will re-enter the city, and there will be no survivor."

"The sky is changing, and now there are different races."

All the information points to the battle of destroying the city, pointing to the alien race.

Deep in the Black Desert, Sun Moon City, a different world, and extremely mysterious.

"Interracial, definitely. Who are they? How technologically advanced are they? Do we still have a chance to fight? Wu Fanyang's eyes were full of worry.

"Boss, there is a group of brothers guarding that blue light wall, and if something happens, we will know soon." Professor Han comforted.

The blue wall near the dead city was guarded by five hundred soldiers.

Fortunately, after a few months, most of the beasts that came out were wild sheep.

The cunning mutton on the table was hunted by the defenders.

"Have you noticed it, the spirit owl, the Gu carving, and the river beast have never appeared from within that blue light wall." Lu Tao suddenly remembered these beasts of prey and birds of prey.

"You mean there's this kind of blue light wall in other places?"

When Wu Fanyang heard this, it was true, that blue light wall had never drilled out of these beasts of prey and birds of prey.

"Is there such a thing anywhere else?" Xu Fei asked in surprise.

"It's hard to say, this place is so big that we can only march according to the map, and most of the places we have never visited. Hmph, maybe there are still undiscovered cities. Wu Fanyang snuffed out the cigarette in his hand and picked up the cup.

"Professor Han, brothers, the siege of the city is considered to be smooth, and the price is not big. At the moment, the key thing to guard against is this Sun Moon City, and scouts will be sent to look around to see if there is still a blue light wall. ”

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Speed is the only way to defeat quicksand.

Once you are speeding through the desert, you can quickly skim through the quicksand even if you encounter quicksand.

Lu Dan led people to do tests for several months, and has built 20 high-speed sand motorcycles.

No wheels, no tracks.

The bottom, boat-shaped structure, can greatly increase the contact area with the sand.

The front end, with two wings on the left and right sides, has a floating force to reduce the gravity of the body pressing down on the sand.

The tail, one left and one right, two high-speed jets, can blow up the sand and produce huge thrust.

Name, Sand Effect Motorcycle Flying Car.

Diesel-powered, it can reach speeds of up to 180 yards when starting to accelerate.

The fuel tank, designed in two wings and under the seats, can travel 2,000 miles with full fuel.

Eighteen people, including Wu Fanyang and Lu Tao, had been driving a sand effect motorcycle flying car and had been practicing on the edge of the black desert for half a month.

Today, eighteen people will drive one car into the desert to find Sun Moon City.

Dozens of people, seeing off on the edge of the sand.

"Remember, don't take any chances, you must turn back when you reach eight hundred miles." Lu Dan said to the two again.

It is feasible to fill up 2,000 miles with a sand motorcycle, and although 800 miles is not the limit, it is easy to deviate in the desert, and there is a need to leave room for it.

"Chief Engineer Lu, don't worry, we will spare our lives." Wu Fanyang laughed.

Ji Yue, wearing a red winter dress, pulled Lu Tao's hand reluctantly.

"Lu Tao, give our son a name." She whispered.

Ji Yue, already pregnant.

"Lu Tao, why didn't you say it earlier?" Wu Fanyang couldn't help but be stunned when he heard Ji Yue's words.

Going deep into the desert is extremely dangerous, and there is a good chance that you will never return.

He, the commander of the army, had every reason not to go, but he didn't want to let his brothers take the risk.

Life and death together, he said to the seventeen brothers who came from the Golden Mountain.

In this life, it was already worth it, he never thought that he could have today's achievements and command tens of thousands of troops.

"Gone!" Lu Tao didn't want to say more about this topic, "Ji Yue, son's name, when the boss comes back, please ask him to come up." ”

Anyway, he didn't look back and stepped on the motorcycle.

Wu Fanyang looked back, and several women flashed in his mind, none of them were around.

Eighteen cars, started, let out a roar.

"All come back alive."

Ji Yue caught up and shouted loudly.

Tears flowed down her cheeks.