Chapter 975: Strength

Among the ten border cities, in addition to the one where Wang Leng served as the city lord, in fact, there are a total of three in the north, and the first plague occurred in the easternmost Yahu Pass, which is the one where General Chen was framed to death. There are countless strange rocks and strange mountains, and most of the beasts are strong, and they can easily tear apart ordinary hunters, so in addition to this Huya Pass, there are actually no other towns and villages located, so that as the only place to stay within a radius of thousands of miles, this Huya Pass has become a real natural danger station, among which the largest scale, at least tens of thousands of elite soldiers are stationed, but it is precisely because of this insurmountable dense forest danger that is endless, at least thousands of miles deep, so later felt that there is no need to station heavy troops again The imperial court is constantly reducing the garrison here, and later there are only a few thousand people。

However, although the garrison is much smaller, it is the safest foothold within a radius of thousands of miles, and the Huya Pass, which was built by countless slaves, is majestic and mighty, and it is basically impossible to be captured without heavy siege equipment. Therefore, there are at least 30,000 civilians left here, most of them are hunters who earn commissions by hunting wild beasts, most of these hunters are at the level of junior martial artists, and those beasts that can easily destroy dozens of people in the hunter squad will also die in their planned, skilled and efficient hunting.

Although these terrible beasts are powerful, many parts of their bodies have different values, and in this way, countless bounty hunters from all over the world will flock to them, on the one hand, for their livelihood, and on the other hand, in search of the legendary treasures of the dense forest.

There are at least two or three thousand such bounty hunters, and the rest are traders who are engaged in business, chambers of commerce who buy animal products, and men from the market. The owner of the restaurant, or all kinds of handicraftsmen, among which the blacksmith is the most popular, after all, the repair and production of various weapons and armor of these thousands of people, and the wear and tear of ordinary tools, are indispensable to the existence of the blacksmith shop.

Then there are the tailors who sew all kinds of items and clothes, the doctors who make all kinds of medicines for internal and external use, and the medicine boys who are responsible for collecting and picking herbs. There are all kinds of other occupations, such as a snack vendor, an inn to entertain passing guests, a dyeing shop for dyeing cloth, and so on.

In particular, the most central part of the Huya Pass covers an area of at least 1,000 acres of the Son of Heaven Palace, but the city lord here in order to welcome the arrival of the emperor, spent half a year to build a magical building, including the tower Xie Yu, the corridor bridge, these buildings that have only appeared in the south, suddenly appeared in this wild north, it looks like a charm, not to mention a stargazing platform in the middle of this palace, the production is even more magnificent, the three thousand steps on the platform, all of them are made of a kind of white warm jade, behind a magnificent open hall of more than 20 zhang, and the golden pillar of the dragon is not much worse than the real emperor's houseQixia is a huge martial arts arena covering an area of 100 acres, all paved with hard bluestone, just looking down from above, you can feel the grand atmosphere that comes to your face. And all this is only because this is only a palace where the emperor may come and stay.

It's such a majestic and huge border city, but I didn't expect it to become the source of all evil. After the Iron Armored Corpse King slaughtered almost all the people in the palace, he completely disappeared into the sky, and I still remember that the people of the Tooth Tiger Pass ran towards the outside of the city like crazy, among which there were not only bounty hunters, but also more ordinary people, and it was not that no one wanted to come forward to stop the riot, but before those people even touched a single hair on the Iron Armored Corpse King's body, they had been rushed into the body by the yin and evil qi that seemed to be like a substance, and after destroying the vitality of the whole body, what was left was a dry corpse with a withered and fragile body。

Even if the leader of the only few mid-level martial artist-level bounty hunter groups came forward, the Iron Armored Corpse King could only open his hand at most, allowing the sudden suction force to turn into two dragon scrolls, rolling those enemies hostile to him closer, his fingers moving slightly, and the sound of bones shattering echoed. Finally, he became one of the thousands of dried corpses on the ground. Die with a grievance or everlasting regret.

In this way, finally, this once prosperous border gate Xiongzhen finally completely turned into a monk and ghost with only the existence of evil and evil qi, and even because of the existence of the corpse king, this place actually began to make the evil qi of the eight directions suddenly condense, and the yin and evil qi turned into thick cumulus clouds in the air, suddenly rotating, as if changing the rules of the world.

At the same time, more than 30,000 refugees who had escaped from Huya Pass were rushing around. Most of them were just ordinary people, because they didn't have special skills, and they didn't bring anything with them when they escaped, especially since this place was located on the edge of the dense forest, and some of the already fierce beasts were attracted by the blood of these people, and finally jumped out to attack those who fled.

In short, after experiencing an unspeakable pathetic journey, only forty percent of the people finally escaped to other places alive, and more than half of the people died on the way to escape.

Later, at least more than 5,000 people flocked to the Fengya Pass where Wang Leng was. Located in a canyon between two mountain ranges, and the terrain happens to be located on the only high ground in the center, even if it floods, it will eventually bypass it, making it a stand-alone place. Moreover, if anyone wants to pass through the only entrance between these two mountain ranges, they will definitely pass through the periphery of the Wind Cliff Pass, as long as the guards of the Wind Cliff Pass close the city gate, shoot it with bows and arrows, and block it with huge stones, even a hundred thousand troops will not be able to rush through this naturally formed moat.

And when most of the refugees poured into the periphery of the Wind Cliff Pass, Wang Leng, who had always been strict with the army, ordered his subordinates to open the city gates to accept these fleeing people.

He gave the refugees hot food and sweet water, and built them many houses to live in, and these refugees also brought vitality and manpower to the Wind Cliff Pass. The original population of six or seven thousand people in Wind Cliff Pass suddenly nearly doubled, and most of them were craftsmen, and there were many bounty hunters, which invisibly added a huge strength to this border city.