Chapter 358: Zhenbei Pass
Chapter 358: Zhenbei Pass
While killing and repelling the fierce pursuit of the demon clan, he hurried up his time. Finally, in the afterglow of the setting sun, everyone saw a majestic pass standing on the earth from a distance.
This Xiongguan wall is ten zhang high, several miles long, and each wall brick is made of square stones with a length and width of one zhang. The top of the stone is covered with moss and dust, and there are faint signs of peeling off the surface layer in many places. These traces show the ancient history of the Xiongguan city wall.
These strips of stone are cut from light steel stone, and they are extremely solemn. This light steel stone is one of the hardest rocks on the Barren Continent, and it is used to build the city wall, which is extremely strong.
There is a huge banner on the Xiongguan, and there are three mighty and majestic characters on the banner: "Zhenbei Pass".
When everyone saw this Xiongguan, they were all in high spirits.
"Zhenbei Pass...... Zhenbei Pass has arrived!hahaha...... Let's work hard, Zhenbei Pass is ahead!"
Beside Lei Lin, the bald man was stunned for a moment, and then shouted in ecstasy. His shout was like lighting a fuse, and the whole team erupted in cheers of joy.
At this time, Lei Lin looked at the cheering crowd and also let out a long sigh of relief.
Under the excitement, everyone was full of motivation and accelerated forward.
After spending some more time, the team finally arrived under the wall of Beiguan in that town.
Zhenbei Pass seems to have known that there are refugees coming, and the city gate has already been opened, and under the city gate, there are many martial artists with swords and swords to maintain order.
Martial cultivators such as Lei Lin and the bald man did not enter the city first, but let the ordinary people in the team enter the city. They were the last to enter.
Lei Lin and the others passed by the city gate. Just as I was about to enter the city. A guard suddenly stepped forward and bowed his hand to the bald man and the others: "Several, after receiving the notice of the town guard, all martial cultivators who come to this level must go to the town guard mansion to report." ”
Everyone was stunned and didn't understand. At this moment, Leylin stepped forward and looked at the guard. "Why is that?" he asked.
The guard didn't pay much attention to Lei Lin, because the qi and blood aura on Lei Lin's body was not very strong, and he was at most a two-elephant martial artist. And the martial artist of Erxiang, in this town of Beiguan, belongs to the bottom of the small role. Therefore, when he spoke just now, the guards were all bald men with the strength of the four elephants.
At this time, seeing that others did not stand up, and it was a "small character" like Lei Lin who stood up, the guard looked unhappy for a while. said coldly: "Why do you ask so much, and you will understand when you go." ”
Hearing this guard speak so unkindly. The bald head and the others were all furious at Wu Xiu, who had already respected Lei Lin from the bottom of his heart. But when they were about to attack, they were blocked by Leylin.
Lei Lin said to the bald man: "Brother Ma, everyone, since the Zhenbei Pass guard has issued this order, let's go and take a look." ”
The bald man was called Ma Fu, and like other martial cultivators, he had already been deeply impressed by Lei Lin's strength in the bloody battle. At this time, hearing Lei Lin say this, he and the other martial cultivators immediately suppressed their anger, stood behind Lei Lin, and did not say a word, only glared at the pair of Lei Lin's disrespectful guards with their eyes.
The guard was stunned by the angry gaze of the crowd, and involuntarily took a few steps back. He really couldn't figure out, wasn't it just a two-elephant martial artist? Why did these martial cultivators actually defend this two-elephant martial artist so much? Look at it, this two-elephant martial artist was faintly the head of everyone?
The guard glanced at Lei Lin a few more times, and then realized that he was indeed looking away, although Lei Lin was so young, his words and deeds and mannerisms were full of a kind of calmness that was as light as a weight, obviously not an ordinary person!
In the face of such a small episode, Lei Lin didn't care much, didn't bother to pay attention to the guard, and walked into the city gate with Rui'er in his arms. The bald-headed Ma Buddha and the others glared at the guard fiercely again before following in Leylin's footsteps.
After Lei Lin left, the guard wiped the cold sweat from his forehead for a long time. After this lesson, he secretly vowed that he must control his mouth in the future and never underestimate anyone easily.
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Lei Lin and the others followed the instructions and soon came to the town guard mansion.
Lei Lin saw that there were martial cultivators coming in and out of the town guard mansion from time to time, but they all came to report.
The way to report is very simple, in the town guard mansion, a bookcase is specially placed, and pen, ink, paper, inkstone and other things are placed on the bookcase, and a man who looks like a Confucian is writing on the desk.
After each registered Wu Xiu reported his name to the Confucian man, the Confucian student registered it in the book and then issued Wu Xiu a token.
Lei Lin took the Ma Buddha and others to register, because there were many people, and they could only queue up for the time being.
However, the Confucian student's movements were extremely fast, and the pen walked the dragon and snake, and he swam quickly, and the lines of vigorous and powerful handwriting were printed on the book. Lei Lin glanced at it closely, nodded quietly, and felt that this Confucian scholar had extremely high attainments in calligraphy, and he looked like a learned scholar.
Such a scholar was brought to register for the martial arts at this time, although it seems to be overkill, but it can also be seen from here that the form of the entire Zhenbei Pass is not good.
It was not surprising that Leylin would make such a guess.
Because Zhenbei Pass is the gateway level of the north gate of Khotan Heavenly City, facing the passage of the endless wasteland demon clan, the demon clan in all directions in the north will cause offensive pressure on Zhenbei Pass.
Before Lei Lin and the others entered Zhenbei Pass, many traces of war could be clearly seen on the land in front of Zhenbei Pass, and the remaining black blood stains were still relatively fresh. Obviously, before Lei Lin and the others reached Zhenbei Pass, Zhenbei Pass was afraid that they had already experienced several fierce battles.
Finally, it was Leylin's turn to register.
Lei Lin stepped forward, and the Confucian student briefly asked Lei Lin's name, etc., and quickly registered Lei Lin's name in the book, and then handed a token to Lei Lin, not forgetting to say:
"The hundred-year war between the human race and the demon race has begun, and the form of Zhenbei Pass is not optimistic, so everyone needs to work together. All martial cultivators in the Zhenbei Pass must obey the order and assist in guarding the pass. Whenever you see a token shining in your hand, you must come to your aid immediately. ”
"In addition, all warriors will be treated preferentially, eating one tael of meat and one pot of wine a day, and they can also live in a house.
After the Confucian scholar explained this, he handed the token to Lei Lin.
Lei Lin took the token, stepped aside, and looked at the token in his hand, and found that the material was not gold or wood, and the workmanship was more elegant, and it was estimated that it should be a spiritual weapon from the hand of a refiner.
After Lei Lin and the others reported to work, they left the town guard mansion.
In the north of this town, there are naturally more than a group of refugees such as Lei Lin who fled for their lives. In order to settle these refugees, some temporary sheds were densely picked up on the huge military academy playground in Guanzhong, Zhenbei.
The refugees were temporarily housed in low-slung shacks.
As warriors, Lei Lin and the others naturally didn't need to live in such a shed, and they came to an area of an old house under the leadership of a guard.
Nearly forty warriors such as Lei Lin and Ma Fu were divided into a large courtyard.
There are a lot of rooms in this large courtyard, but compared to the number of more than forty people such as Lei Lin, it is still not enough. However, Lei Lin naturally didn't need to squeeze with anyone, and Ma Fu and the others, who had already been convinced by Lei Lin, took the initiative to vacate the best room for Lei Lin.
In this regard, in order to make Rui'er live more comfortably, Lei Lin did not refuse everyone's kindness, and took Rui'er into that room.
Although the room was simply furnished, it was still clean and there was no smell, and Lei Lin and Rui'er were satisfied with this room.
After a tiring day and dinner brought in again, Lei Lin and Rui'er washed up and prepared to rest.
Lei Lin had never been in the same room with Rui'er before, but Rui'er was still young, and in everyone's opinion, Rui'er was Lei Lin's sister, and some people even thought that Rui'er was Lei Lin's daughter.
Lei Lin also regarded Rui'er as a sister, the conditions were limited at this time, but he didn't care so much, after spreading the quilt, he arranged for Rui'er to go to bed, and he, as always, planned to sit on the bed and practice overnight, and quickly recover his Yuan Li and physical strength.
After Rui'er slept on the bed, she didn't fall asleep as quickly as Lei Lin thought, she couldn't fall asleep after tossing and turning.
Although Lei Lin was busy fighting with the demon clan all day, he still noticed Rui'er's abnormality, Rui'er, who has always been lively and active, has surprisingly few words this day.
Think about it, a young girl can experience such a cruel competition, even if she is unscathed, she will definitely be affected.
Lei Lin didn't cultivate, reached out and stroked Rui'er's little head, and asked softly, "Rui'er, can't you sleep?"
Rui'er was silent for a while, and suddenly said faintly: "Uncle Lei, is my grandfather already dead......
Lei Lin was taken aback, and after a pause, he frowned and said, "Why do you ask that?"
Rui'er bit her lip: "Uncle Lei, in fact, I have always been suspicious, grandpa he can't live without me, he will never leave me without telling me in person...... Uncle Lei, don't lie to me anymore, tell me, did grandpa have an accident?"
Looking at Rui'er's strong expression, Lei Lin sighed softly. Although Rui'er is still young, her mind is very delicate, and her mental maturity is far better than that of her peers.
"Rui'er...... Your grandfather did have an accident, and on his deathbed, please ask me to take care of you. ”
Eventually, sighing, Leylin told the truth.
Rui'er listened, and quietly turned her face to the other side, although she didn't cry sound, the tears fell one by one.
Lei Lin gently stroked Rui'er's little head and said, "Rui'er, although your grandfather is gone, there is still me." Don't worry, I'll take care of you later. ”
Rui'er still didn't speak, but her small body trembled slightly, crying a little hard. Lei Lin didn't say anything more, he knew that Rui'er needed to cry bitterly at this time in order to accept this reality. (To be continued......)