Xinping Inn is the largest inn in Luobu City, but now it has been requisitioned by the local government, in fact, all the inns and restaurants in the city have been requisitioned by the government, used to house all kinds of warriors who were forced to stay in the city to prepare to resist the tide of beasts, and these people in the Five Dragons Hall were arranged in the Xinping Inn.

In the past two months, no one has entered Luobu City at all, so when Fang Lin's group of three or four thousand people arrived, it really made Luobu City Lord Anur happy, and he also personally led people to welcome Fang Lin and his party into the city, after learning Fang Lin's identity and intentions, the city lord immediately said that the Xinping Inn would be completely vacated for Fang Lin and the more than 4,000 people to use, and also warmly invited Fang Lin and others to the City Lord's Mansion as guests.

In the Xinping Inn, when the group settled down, Fang Lin immediately found the current two principals and said, "Linghua sent Fang Lin to meet the two seniors. ”

A bearded man laughed and said: "I have long heard that Linghua sent a demonic genius to lead the entire Linghua Sect on the road to strength. ”

Another old woman in the sixtieth year also smiled and said: "The name of Fang Lin's nephew is already like thunder, seven or eight years ago, my disciples who participated in the battle of the Shark Imperial City in the Five Dragons Hall all appreciated the performance of the nephew at that time after they came back. ”

After the three of them were polite again, Fang Lin asked, "I heard that Xu Xing's predecessor was hit hard, I don't know what the situation is now?" ”

"Hey~~ Master, his old man was extremely injured this time, and he couldn't act without a year and a half of cultivation, if he wanted to recover to a state of total victory, he wouldn't be able to do it for hundreds of years." Ma Yunzhi said with a dejected face.

Fang Lin comforted Ma Yunzhi for a few words, then turned his head to look at Du Rulong and said, "Uncle Du, how much power do you still have to use now?" ”

Du Rulong said gloomily: "At present, there are still two hundred and thirteen disciples with the power we can use, among them, there are only five people in the Nahe Realm plus me and Senior Sister Ma, and there are less than twenty people in the Yin and Yang Realm, and there are one hundred and eight people below the Nine Secluded Realm, and there are forty-five people who are missing arms and legs, and they have no combat power, but we can't leave them alone." ”

Fang Lin nodded and said: "Of course, they have given everything for the sect, and the sect naturally can't leave them alone, and when they return to the sect, there will naturally be a place for them to settle down." ”

Ma Yunzhi and Du Rulong both nodded in agreement when they heard this, and Ma Yunzhi spoke: "The senior nephew has brought such a powerful force, and we people are a lot more relieved, I don't know what the senior nephew plans to do next?" ”

Fang Lin shook his head and said: "I don't have any plans for the time being, I have to take some time to understand the current situation of Luobu City, and then I have to go to the City Lord's Mansion to understand the current strength of Luobu City, oh, by the way, do the two senior uncles have a detailed map of the surrounding areas of Luobu City, this is also what we must know." ”

The two of them shook their heads when they heard this, and Du Rulong said: "Hehe, nephew, do you want to know about those things, as long as we can defend Luobu City." ”

Fang Lin shook his head and said: "This is far from enough, I still need to know more, whether it is useful or not, it is always good to know more, and I always have a feeling that it is of great benefit to us to understand the surrounding situation, so I also ask the two senior uncles to ask a disciple to go and buy the most detailed map around Luobu City." ”

Hearing this, the two of them nodded, turned around and arranged things, Fang Lin ordered some disciples to go out to find out all aspects of information, and then said to Concubine Shu: "Senior sister, what is the success rate of refining a first-level spirit pill now?" ”

Concubine Shu said softly: "It's only fifty percent, what kind of elixir does the junior brother need?" You shouldn't be able to use the elixir at the moment. ”

"It's not that I want to use it, but Xu Xing's senior, he is currently seriously injured in bed, and he can't even act without a year and a half of cultivation, but if there is a spirit-level Life Creation Pill, it is estimated that his external injuries can recover in about a month, although he can't do it with people, but he can move freely, so that it won't drag us back, I don't know what's going on, since I came to this Luobu City, I always have a feeling of palpitations, it seems that there is some great danger coming, and I don't know if I think too much." Fang Lin closed his eyes after speaking, as if he was trying to suppress the restlessness in his heart.

Concubine Shu saw that her heart ached, she came to Fang Lin's side, hugged his head into her arms, rubbed his little hand gently, and said softly: "Senior brother, you are just too nervous, don't think too much, relax, no matter what happens, we will face it together and bear it together!" ”

Wen Yue'er and Princess Xiangxiang also came to Fang Lin's side and held one of his hands respectively, although the two didn't say anything, the firmness in their hearts was something anyone could see.

After a while, Fang Lin's mood seemed to have calmed down, he opened his eyes and smiled at the third girl, and said softly, "It's good to have you here." A simple sentence contained all of Fang Lin's thoughts, the three girls all smiled sweetly, Fang Lin lifted his spirits and said, "Haoran, let's go and see how the city's city defense layout and the situation of the city protection array are." ”

"Haha, that's exactly what I mean." Li Haoran laughed and went out with Fang Lin.

With Li Haoran coming out, Fang Lin had time to take a closer look at this Luobu City, which was completely different from the previous cities, although the area of Luobu City was much larger than all the cities they had seen before, but perhaps because of the imminent Snow Beast Tide, the flow of people here was much less, but the shops were extremely busy.

When passing by a large-scale blacksmith shop, he heard the dense forging sound coming from inside, Li Haoran smiled and said, "If we open a refining shop here, we will definitely be able to make a lot of money." ”

"Hehe, that's also because of the fact that the snow beast tide is coming, and the warriors always have to be more prepared." Fang Lin said with a smile.

The two didn't get to know too much, and it seemed that all the inns and restaurants were almost overcrowded, but there were not many people walking on the street, and occasionally some warriors were in a hurry, and the ordinary people were also staying in their own homes, and it was estimated that the cellar at home had stored enough food for the winter, so they rarely went out.

Coming to the edge of the city wall, Li Haoran smiled and said: "Have you noticed that the city wall here seems to be much stronger and thicker than that of several other cities, um, and the Xuan pattern formation engraved on it is also more complicated and mysterious, hey, I said, what level of spirit array are these?" ”

Fang Lin replied while observing the Xuan Patterns on the city wall, "There are a seventh-level Blue Wave Unloading Array, a seventh-level Thousand Locks Serial Array, an eighth-level Fierce Light Xuanlei Array, an eighth-level Eight Desolate Fire Array, and an eighth-level Gathering Spirit Solid Stone Formation••••••."

Fang Lin reported the names of the ten Xuanwen formations in one breath, all of them were seven or eighth-level spirit arrays, and their functions were also to stabilize the city wall and restrain the snow beasts, and then the two of them came to the city wall along the stairs, row upon row on the city wall, the columns of ballistae guarding the city were completely ready, Fang Lin roughly counted, just the ballista on the south city wall there were as many as one hundred and eighty, and there were also ninety catapults mixed in, Fang Lin believed that if this was a salvo down, I am afraid that it might bring huge damage to the other party.

At this moment, a team of patrolling sergeants came over, led by a middle-aged man with a beard, but the cultivation of the entry to the realm, this person is not particularly burly, but he has a majestic momentum, and his voice is like Hong Zhong said: "Two, it's okay to visit, but please don't move these things at will." ”

Fang Lin nodded to the leading general and said, "I understand, the general doesn't need to worry. ”

Under normal circumstances, it is impossible for outsiders to watch such a military important place, but now is an extraordinary period, all the warriors in the city have to go to the city to fight when the snow beast tide comes, and these officials and soldiers are very polite to the warriors, and it is also necessary for people to familiarize themselves with the environment in advance, and the city lord also advocates that all warriors have time to go to the city to see more.

The general nodded when he heard the words and wanted to take people away, but at this time, Fang Lin stopped him and asked, "Dare to ask the general, what level of the big array is here to protect the city?" ”

The general glanced at Fang Lin in surprise when he heard this, and then laughed again, and said: "Haha, little brother, I recognize you, you are one of those people who only came yesterday, right, I saw you at the city gate, hehe, it's really good, you dare to come to Luobu City at this time, you are the only group of people for many years!" ”

Fang Lin also chuckled and said, "Yes, we only came here yesterday, and we are very unfamiliar with this place, and we want to know more about it, so we also ask the general to give me advice." ”

"Hey, you southerners are too much red tape, troublesome, my old bag can afford you to be a man, so I am willing to make friends with you, if you don't dislike it, call me Brother Bao, or just call me Lao Bao Yicheng, haha, just don't call the general anymore, I sound awkward." Lao Bao waved his hand and said boldly.

Fang Lin also laughed, and said boldly: "Okay, thanks to Brother Bao, I will call you big brother in the future, big brother, this is my fellow senior brother, Li Haoran." ”

"Hehe, they're all heroes, I like it, I'll change the big brother and invite you to drink, but don't refuse." Lao Bao laughed.

"Boss, you've met a new brother, do you have our share?" One of the soldiers laughed, and the other soldiers kept echoing.

"Hmph, you little rabbits, you know that you are here to drink wine, but well, I met two new brothers today, Lao Tzu is happy, and I will go to my house after changing shifts, I will ask your sister-in-law to make food for you, hehe, a few days ago, Lao Tzu got a sixth-level snow bear." Lao Bao laughed and said: "Brother, let's just say it, I'll call someone to go to Xinping Inn to find you in two hours, if there is anything you want to know, let's talk later." ”

In the laughter, Lao Bao had already led a team of people to continue patrolling, looking at their distant backs, Li Haoran smiled and said: "This Lao Bao is a straightforward man, such a person is the easiest to get along with." ”

"Yes, most of the men in the north are hearty and straightforward, as long as they can see it, they will often make friends sincerely, without the slightest superfluous thought, if they can't look at it, they may not even bother to say a word." Fang Lin said.

"By the way, you can see the level of the Xuan Pattern on this city wall, why can't you see the level of the Great Array of City Protection." While the two were walking, Li Haoran asked as he spoke.

"Stupid, the Xuan pattern on the city wall is clearly placed in front of my eyes, of course I can see it, but the big array of the city protection is a pillar buried in the ground, as long as it is not activated, how can I see it, do you go and dig out the pillar of the other people's array for me to see." Fang Lin scolded with a smile.

The two talked and laughed, but Li Haoran suddenly opened the topic and said: "How did I find that the towers of this city are inlaid with fist-sized moonstones, so many moonstones, even at night, they will be illuminated as if they were day." ”

"Well, I also found this problem, they will definitely not do it without purpose, although moonstone is very common, but if it is such a big one, it will still cost some financial resources, hehe, I will ask Brother Bao later, why should we guess here." Fang Lin Road.

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Lao Bao is indeed a very trustworthy person, and after two hours, he sent a guy from his team to invite Fang Lin, and by the way, even Li Haoran, Qu Shan'er and others were also invited.

Lao Bao's house is a courtyard that is not too big but not too small, it is more than enough to accommodate more than 30 of them, when Fang Lin and his party arrived, a big fire rack has been erected in the small courtyard, a large fire pile below, the firewood inside is burning crackling, the blazing fire is scorching a complete bear paw above, Lao Bao and a middle-aged woman and Fang Lin The twenty sergeants they had seen before were sitting around the fire, and there were more than a dozen small stools empty, Obviously, it was a place reserved for Fang Lin and the others.

Fang Lin laughed and walked into the hospital, arching his hand as he walked: "Haha, thank you Brother Bao for your kind invitation, I also brought a few friends over, they are all brothers and sisters who have lived and died with me for many years, and I will also introduce them to Brother Bao today." ”

Just as Fang Lin finished speaking, he heard a sharp sound of the door closing from behind, Fang Lin couldn't help but be startled, and looked back, it turned out that it was the soldier who had brought them in earlier and hurriedly closed them after everyone had entered the door.

Fang Lin was vigilant in his heart, and his thoughts turned for a while, and he asked in a cold voice, "Brother Bao, what does this mean?" ”

"Haha•••" The people in Lao Bao's squad all laughed, but it was not the kind of ridicule that the conspiracy succeeded, Lao Bao held a few big bowls in his hand and said: "Brother, don't misunderstand, come and sit down, my brother will tell you slowly, hehe, this is also to blame Hou San, he is always so frizzy, so that the Fang Lin brothers have misunderstood." ”

Hou San was also embarrassed, smiled and walked to a stool and sat down: "Brother, I'm sorry, I didn't make it clear just now, let's sit down and say, brother will punish himself later, hehe." ”

When Lao Bao heard this, he immediately picked up a piece of carbon on the ground and smashed it at Hou San, and scolded with a smile: "You dead monkey, you want to drink more bowls, haha." ”

As soon as Fang Lin saw this situation, he immediately knew that he had misunderstood, so all ten of them sat down and said, "Just now, the little brother was too careful, don't blame the brothers, but why are you in such a hurry to close the door?" ”

Hou San immediately said: "Brother, you may not know, our boss is bold, and he can often get some good snow beasts to sacrifice his brothers' teeth, so as long as the boss calls someone home, there is a group of people behind the butt who are staring, and the dead skin is going to come to drink wine, and now if you don't close the door well, you will let those bastards know in a while, and we won't be able to drink this wine." ”

"Hehe, I see, it seems that Brother Bao has a wide range of friends." Li Haoran said with a smile.

After a while, the bear's paws on the shelf have been roasted to golden brown, and a drop of oil drops fell into the fire below to make a swishing sound, and a burst of meat fragrance came into everyone's noses, making a few guys' saliva about to drip out, at this time the middle-aged woman who had not spoken before laughed and said: "Come on, come, don't be stunned, it's baked, everyone eats together, hey, look at you, old bag, invite people to be guests, you only know how to talk, and don't even pour wine for others." ”

This woman was not a beauty, judging from her performance, she was just an ordinary northern woman, and she had no cultivation herself, but Fang Lin could see from the eyes of these soldiers that they had great respect for this woman.

Hou San immediately pulled out the short knife on his waist, carefully cut off the best piece of meat, handed it to the woman, and chuckled: "Of course, this best piece of meat is for my sister-in-law to eat, and my sister-in-law eats it first, so that our brothers can move, everyone said yes." ”

"That's right, sister-in-law, this is a rule we have set a long time ago, if you don't eat first, none of the brothers dare to eat first." The others also started talking.

"Okay, okay, sister-in-law will eat first, hehe." The woman looked at the soldiers with a very soft look, smiled and took the short knife handed by Hou San, and ate it in such a big gulp.

As soon as the woman moved, she attracted a cheer, and then all the soldiers took out short knives and began to grab the meat on the bear's paws, Lao Bao looked at these people and shook his head helplessly, and said to Fang Lin and others: "Brother, don't be surprised, these monkey cubs are like this, don't be polite, haha." ”

After a while, Dongfang Lei and Li Haoran also seemed to be infected by them, and they went up and grabbed them with a shout, but Fang Lin and a few women shook their heads with a wry smile, and Wen Yue'er said: "They are really a group of straightforward men." ”

"Well, it's not pretentious at all, it's so good to make friends with such people, it reminds me of the people in our village, they are like this, they do whatever they want, everyone is happy together, it's good!" Ayinata's eyes seemed to turn a little red as she spoke.

"Ah Yin, I'm homesick." Qu Shan'er asked with a wicked smile.

"What's more, I'm a traitor now, so what qualifications do I have to be homesick." Ayinata said dejectedly.

As she spoke, suddenly a large piece of roasted golden meat appeared in front of Ayinata's eyes, startling her, and Dongfang Lei's laughter came: "Come and taste it, is there a taste of hometown!" ”

The middle-aged woman turned the shelf from time to time, adding various spices to the bear leg, and from time to time she talked to everyone, Lala was homely, and asked the soldiers about the recent situation.

Fang Lin picked up a bowl of wine and sat down beside Lao Bao and said, "Come, Brother Bao, let's have a bowl, by the way, Brother I also want to ask you about something." ”

"Haha•••, come brother, do it, hehe, you can ask any questions, my old bag is not blowing, I have been working in Luobu City for almost twenty years, and it is the sixth time to participate in the Snow Beast Fight, and I am very experienced, haha." Lao Bao said proudly.

Fang Lin first slapped a sycophant before asking, "In other words, the snow beast tide doesn't happen every year?" ”

Lao Bao laughed and said: "Of course not, the time of the snow beast tide is uncertain, it may be once every three or five years, it may be once in one or two years, or it may be once in more than ten years." ”

"So how do you know if there's a snow beast tide?" Fang Lin was puzzled.

"The imperial court has specially trained a group of people who can detect the signs of snow beast activity, they can accurately detect whether there will be snow beasts attacking, and sometimes they can even judge the scale of the snow beast tide, and notify us in advance that these cities should take corresponding precautions." Old Bao Dao.

Fang Lin nodded and continued: "Then this year, it has been confirmed that there is a snow beast tide coming, so do you know the scale of the snow beast tide?" ”

"Haha, brother, you look too highly at me for this, the scale of the Snow Beast Tide is confidential, and officers of my level are not qualified to know, but judging from the quantity and quality of the troops mobilized, I am afraid that the scale of this year's Beast Tide is not small." Lao Bao said solemnly.

"So does Big Brother know how many troops have been mobilized and what is their quality?" Fang Lin asked again.

Lao Bao took a sip of the bowl, and then pondered for a while before saying: "There are a lot, just what I know there are already more than a hundred battalions, among these people, there is not even a single Taiji realm below the Taiji realm, and the military supplies transported are even more numerous, definitely more than three hundred battalions of troops." ”

Fang Lin immediately frowned when he heard this, in the snow beast tide they encountered in Suli City before, martial artists above the Four Elephant Realm could participate in a frontal battle, that was a scale of hundreds of thousands, and there were even second-level spirit beasts in charge, but now looking at the posture of Luobu City, I am afraid that this outbreak should be a snow beast tide that has not been encountered in a thousand years.

After pondering for a moment, Fang Lin asked again, "Does Big Brother know what level the Great Protective Array of Luobu City is?" ”

"Hehe, brother, you don't have to worry about this, our city protection array is an eighth-level compound spirit array, it took several years for a spirit array master invited from the Yeyue Empire to set it up, even a second-level peak snow beast can't even think of breaking it!" Lao Bao smiled.

"Eighth-level compound spirit array." Fang Lin muttered to himself, I don't know what's going on, Fang Lin's palpitations and uneasiness not only did not subside, but became more and more serious.

But no matter how hard Fang Lin tried, he was always unable to grasp the source of the uneasiness, shook his head, cleared away the distracting thoughts, and looked at Lao Bao and said with a smile: "Big brother, I am still a little curious, we saw a large number of moonstones inlaid on the city tower before, why is this?" ”

"Hehe, you don't know about this." Before Lao Bao could speak, Hou San hurriedly said: "Among the snow beasts here in our Luobu City, there is a demon beast called the leopard cat, they are petite like ordinary cats, but their movements are extremely agile, and their claws and teeth are particularly sharp, even the true element protection of the martial artists of the reincarnation realm can be easily torn apart, and their hair is black instead of white, and they can't even hear a sound when they walk on the snow, they always go out at night, There are many warriors who are quietly killed by them when they are meditating or resting at night, so in order to prevent these leopard cats from sneaking up, there are a large number of moonstones on the castle tower. ”

"And something like that? When I was in Suri City, I also participated in a defense battle against the Snow Beast Tide, why haven't I seen this kind of ocelot there? Li Haoran wondered.

"Hey, it's all said that it's unique to our Rob City, how can there be other places." Hou San sneered.

Fang Lin suddenly shook his whole body and shouted, "Could it be that this kind of leopard cat has the ability to cross the enchantment, otherwise how could they sneak attack the martial artists inside through the protection of the large array?" ”

Hou Sanyi slapped his thigh, gave Fang Lin a thumbs up and said: "Brother is really powerful, I can see the crux of the problem at once, so far, we haven't figured out what kind of ability this leopard cat has, anyway, it can silently pass through the protective barrier of the big array to kill the people inside, and then slip away silently, and these leopard cats are still quite arrogant, they will never want to be captured, as long as it feels that there is no hope to escape, it will decisively blow up the demon crystal, and then even leave us a corpse." ”

"Can't we just kill it first?" Qu Shan'er said suddenly.

"This method has been tried a long time ago, as long as we can get their corpses, we can study some of their characteristics, but it is very depressing, leopard cats are two acting together, as long as one is killed, then the other no matter what the situation, will explode at the first time, blow up all their corpses, and this kind of leopard cat's self-explosion seems to be unstoppable, the speed of self-explosion is fast, and the power is great, so we have never gotten the carcass of an ocelot." Hou San also looked depressed when he talked about this.

"So, what level of demon beast is this ocelot?" Wen Yue'er asked coquettishly.

Another soldier named Li Ping saw the beauty asking and immediately said: "We don't know what level of demon beasts they are, because they are like the most professional killers, hiding in the darkest corners, as long as the time comes, they will give the most fatal blow, if they miss a blow, they will immediately flee thousands of miles, and they will not fight people head-on at all, even if they make a move, they assassinate people at all levels, even the strong people who have returned to the reincarnation realm have not been spared, and the lowest ones even kill ordinary people." ”

"If you say so, if you come to it with 100,000 ocelots in one night, won't your Luobu City be killed in two or three days?" Ayinata shuddered.

"Hehe, this unswerving worry, the number of such an anti-heaven population must be very rare, and things like sneak attacks must not be done often." Fang Lin said with a smile.

Hou San gave a thumbs up again, and sincerely admired: "Amazing, amazing, in one word!" ”

Fang Lin didn't think much about this issue, but looked at Hou San and asked, "Third brother, I don't think you have ordinary respect for your sister-in-law, is there any story, let's hear it." ”

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