On 5 February, the day after Rand arrived, Rand and Ben Kaul, led by Neil, arrived at the palace area of Nightqi, which was the camp that Neil had chosen for Rand.

From the outside of the city, the Padmila Hill, where the palace is located, is only about 300 meters high, and the main building raises the mountain by less than 100 meters, but when it comes to the palace square, Rand realizes that the whole palace and the mountain are one.

After entering the palace wall from the bottom of the mountain, after passing through some dilapidated palace rooms, you can see the mountain of Padmila, the foot of the mountain is covered with all kinds of tall buildings, the largest is already hundreds of meters including the foundation and roof, the roof is directly connected to the halfway up the mountain, and you can see the palace on the top of the mountain further up.

Neil led Rand into a building, and walked down a gentle slope a few meters to the camp, looking at the many tents in front of him, Rand also knew that this was the most suitable place to camp.

"We asked Master Ben, and I guess these spaces used to be wine cellars or storage rooms, and they were very dry," Neil pointed to the huge space.

"The outside door is connected to such a big cave, and it will be no problem to move our entire camp in!"

"Of course, your tent is in another room, which is slightly smaller than this one, with a separate exit" Neil had already arranged the tent area in the core of the Rand, and Nila had already brought someone over to set up the tent.

"How do you make a fire for cooking and how do you place your livestock?" Rand followed Neil around the camp, asking questions from time to time.

"There is a special fire room next to it, Mage Wendy has repaired some of the magic circles, and before that, we also lived outside to cook, and came back to sleep at night." Neil hastened to reply, and Rand more than once emphasized fire safety,

"In addition, there is a special animal pen area around the palace, and we have arranged manpower"

"Yes, have you been in the other rooms?"

"No, according to the request of the consul Lenia, everyone repaired the outer houses of the palace, and no one was allowed to enter the palace, so I found someone to seal the two staircase halls in the north and south." The space where the lords are currently stationed is only the treasury of the royal palace, and the real palace rooms can only be accessed through several staircases on the mountain.

"Ben?" Rand watched Ben Kaul hurry by, and before he could say hello, he knew that this guy must have seen an amazing magic circle.

Rand didn't want to disturb Ben's Yaxing, and he didn't want to continue his patrol, so he simply took Neil to the nearby south staircase hall of the royal palace, ready to explore the palace.

The south staircase is a large cylindrical room surrounded by a circular staircase with a large black statue in the center, topped by a series of openings that allow natural light to shine in.

Going up the circular staircase, the half-open doors of each floor were like black holes, so that Rand did not dare to enter rashly, so he could only take Neil all the way up to the top floor connected by the staircase.

After much searching, Rand finally found a terrace overlooking the entire Night Kirk City. More than a month ago, Rand also went up to Longtai Mountain, but the alpine vegetation in the royal capital was dense, and when you looked out, you could only see the surrounding mountains, and you couldn't see the city at all.

Now the scenery at the top of the royal palace in Night Qi City is very different, the two suns are gradually rising, and the ruins of the city and the vanguard of the rand that is entering the city are unobstructed by the rand.

It was an indescribable feeling, looking at the vast ruins, Rand constantly trying to restore the prosperity of the city, the bustling appearance, imagining the original shipload of salt from the east, and the truckload of iron ore from the west.

"This is my city!" Rand, who seemed to be calm, was stirred in his heart,

"Neil, let's go to the rooms of each palace in a while to see which ones are better preserved, and have a preparation in the future."

"Ah?。。 Okay adults! Neil didn't understand what Rand meant for a moment, but he still subconsciously accepted the order.

Throughout the day, Rand took Neil and explored the various rooms of the palace with a lighting stick made by Wendy.

What Rand didn't expect was that the interior of the palace was surprisingly well preserved, most of the decorations, ornaments, sculptures, and books in the room were still in place, and the furniture in the bedroom was basically there, but the bedding was dusty; The huge ballroom doesn't even have a full view of the space with a light stick.

The palace went around, but the treasure trove and vault that Rand was looking for the most were nowhere to be found, nor did he see any room related to the Magister.

In any way, Rand returned to the palace of Night Qi City, not to occupy Night Qi City, this castle is his home, so Lan Te can't be like in the salt mine before

"Let go of your hands and feet" and take it when you see it, and you can only ask your subordinates to start cleaning part of the room and hall at night.

。。 The next day, Rand persuaded Ben to go around the city first, there would be a lot of time and opportunities to copy the circle in the future, and now he should have a general impression of the city.

So Rand took Ben, Pete, and a few knights around the city.

"I'm going to build some new workshops in that area" Rand and his party first arrived at the east gate of the city, which is the closest to the palace area, and Rand pointed to the open space outside the east gate,

"This area is close to the tributaries of the Benma River to the north, and it is very convenient for transportation in the future" There are two tributaries of the Benma River near Yeqi City, one from west to east, flowing from the north of Yeqi City, and a fork in the northeast is separated to the southeast, and the main river flows eastward.

The other has a west-to-south bend in the northwest of the Nightqi, parallel to the west wall of the Nightqicheng and south to the Colnico Pass, which is the main waterway from the Nightqicheng to the Dragon Kingdom since ancient times.

Ben told Rand yesterday that about 20 kilometers east of the city, there used to be the industrial county of Night Qi City, where there used to be dozens of workshops, and the salt mines on the plains could be disembarked directly from the docks of the industrial county by boat, refined in the workshop, and then sent back to the alchemy workshop in Night Qi City by water.

Rand didn't quite understand why the industrial zone was built 20 kilometers east of the city, but Ben couldn't tell.

During today's field trip, Rand found that although there is no natural channel of the Benma River in the east of the city, there is an artificially dug canal, which extends from the tributary of the north of the Benma River, and passes into a pond outside the east of the Benma City, which is the fork of the tributary of the Benma River mentioned above.

As Rand continues to explore the city, he is also planning for the future of Night Qi City, outside the north wall of the city, a large tent will be set up to carry the barbarians and their cattle who come here every winter.

Since the barbarians are located outside the north wall, there are also a large number of forage warehouses, slaughterhouses, meat processing workshops, meat warehouses and so on.

The northwest is to be the gathering place of the future magic academy of Night Qi City, and Rand has made up his mind to set up a magic tower here in the future, so that every gifted magic apprentice can enter and learn.

Then there is the south side, which has a large number of farms outside the south gate, as well as mills and grain warehouses.