On the morning of February 4, 997, Rand arrived at the ruins of Night Kir City with Ben and 10 cavalry, and joined Neil's reconnaissance force.

A few months ago, Rand was also stationed under the western wall of the city, and at that time Rand had no idea of the cities of this world, only that the walls were very high, and there was a mountain in the city. Now that he has returned to the Night Qi City, he has a new understanding of this former pearl of the Galloping Horse Plain.

Night Qi City has a kind of squareness in the northern plains of Rand's hometown, and even in terms of scale, it is not inferior to Dragon Tooth City.

The huge city wall presents a rectangle that is slightly longer from east to west, slightly shorter from north to south, the height of the city wall is about 40-50 meters, the snow on the city wall today is brown rattan and huge cracks, from the outside of the city wall you can see the towering mountain range located in the east of the city, the mountain range is more than ten kilometers long from north to south, there is a huge flat roof on the mountain, and a palace-like building is on the period.

There are traces of artificiality around the mountains, and from a distance they look particularly like the acropolis of some cities in Rand's hometown of Europa.

At lunchtime, Neil began to report to Rand about his experiences over the past few days, such as the arrival of 2-3 small tribes, such as 3 or 4 tribes sending emissaries, asking if he could really get them to join.

For example, when Neil sent people into the city to investigate, he encountered a small gang of thieves in the square of the city, and these people heard about the treasure of Night Kira, and entered through the Lokirav Pass in the eastern part of the Galloping Horse Plain.

"These bandits are so cunning that we don't show up when we come in, and only attack alone when the cavalry split up," Neil said more and more angrily, "and they tried to scare us away." If Blue Frog and I hadn't noticed it and surrounded them, they would have run away. ”

"Scare away?"

"Yes, there is a legend in other tribes that there is a ghost queen in the city, and she doesn't like barbarians to enter" Neil said seriously, "The whole tribe of the plains knows that if I am not from the galloping horse tribe, I dare not come in!"

"Well, this is the city of our galloping horse family, even if there are ghosts, they are all my ancestors, and they will not attack us" Rand is very calm on the surface, but he is extremely weak in his heart.

The gang of thieves consisted of a junior knight, 2 knight apprentices, and 2 demon lovers, carrying some dry food and a vague map of Night Kir City, and stole some decorations from the palace.

"What do you think these guys do?" Neil knew that it would not be possible to sell the gang to other tribes as slaves as usual, but there really was no other way to deal with it on the steppe.

"Lock it up first, and then figure it out." Rand didn't think about what to do for a moment.

"My lord? Can you give it to me? Pete Maned Wolf on the side became interested, "When I was in Maned Wolf City before, I was also in charge of a few interrogations, can I talk to them?" ”

Seeing that Pete was so interested, Rand was naturally happy to let go.

In the afternoon, Rand took Ben Kaul around the outside of the city, according to his estimates, the city is about 17 kilometers long from north to south, and 20 kilometers from east to west.

The cold wind on the horse's back blew Rand like a knife, if it weren't for the fire's cheerful pace with a certain fire element, which made Rand feel that there was a saddle under him to heat, he would have froze a long time ago, and at this moment Rand did regret leaving the carriage to Wendy and them.

After a circle, the super scale of Night Qicheng City surprised Rand even more, Rand couldn't imagine why humans could build a huge city almost 1,000 years ago, comparable to the super city of his previous life.

After 1,000 years, it is still in a feudal society, and it is a pure feudal society, and it doesn't even feel like a central empire.

I recall that when I was in school in my own imperial capital, I went to the first highest mountain in the imperial capital, which is said to be only more than 40 meters high, and the city wall here is more than 40 meters. It had to be piled up into a wall.

When I was studying, my hometown imperial capital, the fourth ring is only less than 20 kilometers from east to west, and the middle ring of the magic capital of my hometown is about this distance from east to west.

Of course, the huge city walls are not in ruins, except for the top of the acropolis-like royal palace, if you are far away from the city wall, you can also see the roofs of many high-rise buildings in the city, some are the remains of magic towers, and some are like arenas, temples, or palace-like huge roofs looming.

Why did a city of this scale be built, but it still ended up destroying the country, and the orcs really drove mecha to attack the city?

And what Lante didn't understand the most was that it was not too difficult for him to sweep the entire southern part of the Galloping Horse Plain, why after so many years, the human race had never recovered the entire Galloping Horse Plain?

With questions in mind, during dinner in the evening, Rand asked Ben Kaul.

"You really have a lot of questions, the first thing I can answer you is that there were more than a hundred magic towers in the peak Night Qi City, and these magic towers were all built in the city, the highest one was the legendary magic tower, and then the Great Magus."

The bonfire on the ground, the red flame can jump 2-3 meters, and with the mage's silent meditation, several sparks burst out, forming a boxy flame pattern, and Rand can see that this square is a miniature map of Night Qicheng.

"In addition to these magic towers, the royal family, nobles and wizard families below the royal family all have a lot of courtyards in the city, in addition, this was once the front line of the battle between the human race and the orc race, and after peace, it was also an important hub for trade between the two races, so a large area in the city is a commercial street, a magic tower, a magic school, a knight school and other buildings." Ben was on one side, and the stars in the square were also flickering, as if reflecting his words.

"The remaining area has to be reserved for the many direct lords of the galloping horse family, court nobles, family knights, knights, knights, etc., so the city is more crowded than you think. For this purpose, a number of towns have been built in the northern part of the city to accommodate the daily inhabitants who come into the city. ”

"That town is called Tiantongyuan?"

"Where did you find this word," Ben was suddenly thrown out of the stalk and asked inexplicably, "It is generally called a subsidiary county, and the largest affiliated county in the northwest of Yeqi City back then had a population of 200,000. ”

"So many people, what do they eat? Do what? It's not easy for them to go to the toilet every day, right? "It is hard for Rand to imagine that under the feudal system, there could be a huge city of a million people.

"Back then, Night Qicheng could make a lot of alchemy equipment, which was purchased from the orc royal court to the imperial capital, and then to the elf tribes in the south, and a large number of demon supporters and non-demon people entered the city every day to engage in the production of alchemy equipment in the alchemy workshop or magic tower."

"In addition, as you know by now, there are iron ore and salt mines on the Galloping Horse Plain, and in addition to salt and iron, there are also some small-scale demonic metal mines, which are continuously sent to the annex counties east of Night Qi City for rough processing, and then transported to the city's market to be sold.

According to the records, there are traces of magic in the sky, and there is a magic circle for city defense on the outside of the tall city wall, but there is a magic circle to improve the magic environment inside the city wall, and every night, the lights in the workshop, the market, and the street will illuminate the night sky. "Speaking of the prosperity of Qicheng on Chinese New Year's Eve, I couldn't help but look at the sky, as if recalling the grand scene of that year.

"So, Night Qicheng was originally an industrial city, and there were hundreds of mages? Just because of a magic tide, it collapsed overnight? Rand wondered if the orcs had summoned Godzilla or had made a hairy mech.

(End of chapter)