The back door of the castle was closed, and there were a few heavily armed soldiers holding spears on the three-meter-high city tower to guard, because there were no demon beasts behind, so there were not a few soldiers left, and there was time for something, a total of more than two hundred meters away.

"Whoa, stop!" shouted the soldier.

The outpost has been peaceful for a long, long time, and there are not many defensive materials in reserve, and the terrain is too small, even if the underground is hollowed out to make two floors, half of the people and half of the military resources are full.

In addition to cooperating with the Liangcheng garrison last time to kill two demon beasts, some materials were added, or there are so many things that can be smashed this time.

"Hello, Brother Bing, we are asking to borrow from here to enter the Ghost Forest to collect medicine. Scoch replied.

"I didn't see that there was a war going on now, and you rushed to die?" replied a tall soldier.

"Compared with the word death, I prefer to rush to reincarnation, because the former is to die immediately, and the latter is to live again. Shi Keqi said.

Zi Dinglin sneered, Shi Keqi saw her smile for the first time, maybe her face was not the most beautiful woman in the world, slightly worse than the princess. But her smile is definitely the most beautiful, and it can make spring lose its color, comparable to the boundless moonlight.

"Poor mouth, if it weren't for the tight war now, I would have to whip you. The soldier said.

"Then you come down, forget it, wait until you are done. ”

"Idle people are not allowed to stay at military sites, if they want to wait, please stay 500 meters away. ”

Shi Keqi was about to say something, but he heard Zi Dinglin shouting: "Bold, I am a five-grade guard of the imperial court, if it weren't for the extraordinary period, I would definitely ask your captain to come out and open the door." Now, you go and report it and ask him to send someone open the door. ”

"The waist card is here, ready to be connected. She took a well-made brand from her body, which looked like iron and not iron, and put it in her hand to play with.

The soldier hesitated, after all, Zi Dinglin was a girl, and it was too scary to be a fifth-rank guard at this age, and the boss of his top boss was the sixth-rank Huyong captain, and he was also the biggest official here. If it weren't for the importance of the outpost's location, the soldiers in charge of five hundred people would generally be Captain Seven-Rank Linwei.

The royal family protected by the seven-rank guards and above, could it be that the young man next to her was a royal family? Impossible, no matter how bad the royal family was to visit, at least a few guards would be used, not just one in front of her.

"What, do you want me to go in and find it myself?" Zi Dinglin accentuated.

The soldier hurriedly put down the weapon in his hand, slipped down the smoke, opened a crack in the door, and took the waist card with both hands to report. He didn't dare to catch the cards on the city wall, if he didn't catch them, it would be a big trouble if he broke it.

There was an unwritten rule in the officialdom of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, with the same official position, the civil official was one level older than the military attaché, and the royal guards were one level older than the official. Although the guards have no real power, when they go out to the place, even the senior officials will be polite to them. Who knows if this person is a celebrity of the royal family, it is not easy to offend.

Soon an officer wearing a half-body armor came out to salute, and the military salute included a half-kneeling salute, a chest-beating salute, and so on.

What he did was not a military salute, but a salute for his subordinates to see his superiors.

After he finished his salute, he respectfully handed the waist card to Zi Dinglin and said, "My lord, may I ask if this is a business or a private matter." This sentence is equivalent to nonsense, a palace guard comes to this remote place to do some business, the duty of the guard is to protect the royal family, and the local and military affairs have no right to meddle. If there was really a special case to do something, I would have opened the official document long ago, and I was still grinding my teeth here.

"I don't have business, just pass by here, didn't there be hunters who could pass by before?" Zi Dinglin took the waist card and put it away.

"Not now, my lord, there are demon beasts in the basin below, and we can't explain to the top if we hurt you, and who is this young man next to you?"

"It's urgent, you still grind your teeth, you don't need to be responsible for what happens, I have my own way to deal with the demon beast, that person ......" Zi Dinglin muttered for a while: "It's my friend." ”

After she finished speaking, she rode into the castle on horseback.

......

Shi Keqi felt that he was embarrassed to be thrown into his grandmother's house, he didn't care about her identity, and he went to call the door recklessly, knowing that she could enter as soon as her identity was revealed, so he didn't bother to talk nonsense.

He followed Zi Dinglin into the castle, where there was a passage to walk into, and soon came to the place where the battle was in front, where a stone door could be pushed open and he could go down.

The wall was crowded with soldiers, and there were several corpses piled up in the corner, not only a few people were killed, but also a few people were pulled out of the wall by demon beasts, eaten or fell to death, compared to the comrades who were eaten, falling off the cliff is a better way to die.

A breath of death came to his face, mixed with the smell of blood and gunsmoke, which was particularly pungent, and Zi Dinglin wrinkled his nose imperceptibly.

Some soldiers panicked, some turned pale, some trembled slightly, and some looked resolute. It is estimated that there was no law enforcement team of more than 20 people in the back row, and a wave of soldiers ran away just now.

The outpost Captain Tiger Yong Xu Chong frowned at Lao Gao, hesitated for a moment, looked at the shadow of the demon beast below for the time being, and came over to greet Zi Ding Lin and said, "Your Excellency Hu Yong Captain Xu Chong will see the guard." ”

He is not a subordinate of Zi Dinglin, he can't be said to be a subordinate, he can say that he is subscripted or has some miscellaneous titles.

"I don't dare to call you an adult in front of you, I need to go down from here, can you help open the door?" Zi Dinglin dismounted and clasped his fists with both hands.

Zi Dinglin barely reached the level of an adult, but after all, the guard was not a dignified prefect, and his importance was far inferior, and he was really embarrassed to accept this title.

To put it bluntly, a fifth-grade guard commands a maximum of twenty sixth- and seventh-grade guards, and the prefect manages millions of people.

When the Northern Zhou Dynasty was founded, it was stipulated that the official position was three levels higher than that of the other party, and at least the fifth-grade prefect or above. After more than a thousand years of evolution, the title has become more and more blurred, and when civilians see officials, even Qipinzhi County is called an adult.

The officialdom is even more of a mess, the eight-grade is called the seven-grade adult, and the seven-grade is called the sixth-grade adult, and the big one is addicted. There are even all kinds of people who are screaming nonsense, and no one cares about this anyway.

"There is a legendary demon beast mandrill below, the soldiers who have never seen this kind of monster are scared and their legs are weak, if it weren't for the fact that Liangcheng sent someone to kill two of them a few days ago, this place would have been lost. ”

"Today there are more than a dozen menacing mandrills, and I killed a few soldiers who tried to escape to stabilize their position. Your Excellency, you are a daughter, but you must not take risks. Permission rushed.

Zi Dinglin had never seen this kind of demon beast before, she poked her head out to look at the one killed on the slope under the city wall, and saw that the dead mandrill was covered with thick black hair all over its body, a thick crossbow arrow pierced its body, red blood smeared the ground, and ten sharp claws half a foot long were shining with cold light even if they were more than twenty meters apart.

Being caught by its claws is tantamount to being slashed by a knife and axe.

Her right leg shrank and straightened slightly, swallowed her saliva unconsciously, and then straightened her waist and said: "The mandrill is just like that, the ferocious can't go there, observe it again, there is no situation to open the floodgates." ”

On the left, the city wall has a thick iron gate that is tightly closed.

Shi Keqi once again sighed at the creator's miraculous workmanship, this slope dozens of meters wide is full of straight cliffs on both sides, which are unfathomable under the mist, and the bottom of the cliff is estimated to be level with the basin, with a drop of several kilometers.

Unless you have wings on your back, you still have to walk this path obediently.

Even if this line of defense is broken, there is still a tall Liangcheng to block the way, no wonder the demon beast did not rush into Gaozhou back then, this is the only entrance and exit from the Ghost Forest to Gaozhou.

The demon beast that has disappeared for so many years, how can there be a monster that scares the third uncle in Shijia Village, the Luoxiao Mountain Range in his hometown spans the two states of Gaozhou and Xiangzhou in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, but to climb over the Luoxiao Mountain, which is nearly 10,000 meters high, that mandrill's physical strength is too good.

Does this mean that the demon beast can climb over the highest peak of Luoxiao Mountain, which is difficult for a dodo to fly, and enter the Northern Zhou Dynasty from Shijia Village, and there is no strong city in Linxian County, which governs Shijia Village, and there are even no more than two hundred troops stationed.

It's useless to worry or not to worry about the situation in Shijia Village, you can still go back if you have time in the future, after all, you haven't been back from home for more than a year, and sometimes you miss your hometown, and time dilutes a little sadness, he thought.

Shi Keqi shook his head, don't continue to think about this problem, it's too far away, let's deal with the matter in front of me first, anyway, the closest people in Shijia Village are no longer there.

Hey, I don't know if grandpa is there, how is he doing, he sighed.

Compared to Shi Keqi's thoughts scattered, the soldiers at the outpost were much more nervous, who knew that the next wave of attacks would be lifeless.

The area about five hundred meters from the city wall to the slope was shrouded in fog, and a dozen mandrills had just retreated into the fog.

Seeing that the Liangcheng barracks of the outpost beacon tower were nervously counting troops, they first sent 2,000 troops to support, and it was expected that it would take more than an hour to arrive. It's useless if there are too many people, and it can't be spread due to the terrain restrictions.

A strange cry sounded, it was the mandrill with the strongest jumping ability, a few moments ago successfully climbed the outpost wall, turned over and broke into Orion Village, wanted to kill but was scared away by Shi Keqi's fireball, and now it exploded in the anger groove, and wanted to find Qi Beast Companion for help.

Facing the three-meter-high city wall, it jumped two meters, and its knife-like claws grabbed at the wall, leaving ten shallow marks.

It didn't dare to enter the city walls, and with its intuition, there were so many people inside, and several rows of knives and guns stabbed at the same time, it couldn't parry, not to mention its fearful aura.

The oil on the slope has been completely burned and gradually extinguished. The mandrill stood on top of the lid and shouted, as if calling for a companion.

Sure enough, a dozen mandrills soon rushed out of the slope, screaming in response to their companions.

"Put the stones, the spearmen prepare, the archers and other monsters enter fifty steps and only shoot, Captain Meng takes ten archers and spearmen to form a hedgehog formation in the middle to prevent the monster on the top from jumping down and hurting people. Xu Chong calmly gave the order.

Shi Keqi couldn't help but glance at Xu Chong a few more times, he didn't expect that this person was quite a general, and the arrangements were well organized, yes, if it weren't for someone's calm and calm command, the outpost would have fallen long ago.