Chapter 149: The Strange City

No matter how much suffering there is, there is a time to finish eating, and no matter how long the road is, there is a time to finish. Where is the fastest novel update?Please look for Aishang Novel Network biquge.info At noon that day, when Hu Wei was twisting his clothes, he finally found a small city, which appeared at the end of the yellow sand.

"That's Dongwang City?"

This is Hu Wei's first sentence, and the second sentence, Hu Wei said in his heart. That's where the dream begins.

With excitement and a little apprehension, Hu Wei approached this place that he had imagined countless times in his mind as if he was going to the woman's house to meet his parents for the first time.

The small city in the yellow sand is much more dilapidated than Hu Wei imagined. The walls of the city that had been stamped with mud and grass roots had turned dark gray by the rain, and in a few places where they had been lost to management, small saplings had grown.

There are fields outside the city, but there are no farmers to work. If Hu Wei hadn't seen a hoe and a few handfuls of seedlings in the field, he really wouldn't have seen that this was farmland.

"My lord, it doesn't seem right here, why can't you see anyone?" said Zhu Daneng with a frown.

"Hmm, is it taking a nap?" Hu Wei touched his nose and said, "Order the vanguard to be on guard on the spot and send scouts to take a look." ”

Hu Wei was afraid that other troops would come with affection and do something unfavorable to the local people, which would have a bad impact. A few days ago, he mainly asked to be the vanguard, and now his independent regiment is the first to reach the destination, and the rest of the troops are still behind.

After the scouts were sent out, after a while, they sent a message back to Hu Weilai. This is indeed Dongwang City, but there is no one in the city.

"There's no one in the city, why?" Hu Wei looked at the scout in a daze. What is this, playing with an empty city plan?

The scout replied: "If you go back to the adult, the specific situation is not clear. According to the small one, there should have been people in this city before, but I don't know why, they all left the city, and now the whole city has become an empty city. ”

Hu Wei looked at Hong, and then at Zhu Daneng, and saw that they were all at a loss, it seems that they didn't expect that things would be like this.

"Lead the way, let's take a look. Hu Wei ordered. I can't hear a reason for this, and if you want to know first-hand information, you have to go there yourself.

The whole city left the city, should they play Yama civilization for Lao Tzu. Hu Wei muttered as he walked.

The scene in this city is the same as reported by the scouts, there is not a single person in the city. The doors of every house are locked and some are wide open. Looking in from the doorway, you can see a lot of shoes, hats, clothes and other things, thrown in a mess, some people's backyards, still drying clothes, but they have been beaten by the wind and sand as if they have not been washed.

"Hu Wei, will there be that one here?" asked in a small whisper in Hong's heart. Our female military division is not afraid of fighting, and she dares to use a knife, but she still has some hairiness in her heart for those gods and ghosts. The scene in this cave city is really too weird.

"Nonsense, there are so many ghosts in this world. Hu Wei grabbed Hong's somewhat cold hand and said, "Even if there is a ghost, I can protect it." ”

Hu Wei used to pretend to be a ghost and scary, how could he be afraid of that thing. He knew very well in his heart that all the seemingly strange things in the world were made by humans.

Walking into a roadside restaurant at random, Hu Wei's fingers swiped over the wine table, looked at the marks and said, "It seems that people have not been away for a long time, no more than five days at most." ”

As Hu Wei was talking, he suddenly felt that in the afterglow, a figure flashed.

"What people. Stop" Hu Wei drank loudly, turned over, and jumped out of the restaurant. This is a clue, and he can't let him run away.

"My lord, let's do it. The scouts reacted quickly, and they spotted the figure as well, and chased after Hu Wei before he did.

What are you kidding, Hu Wei is a general. Let him personally arrest people, what do you want these soldiers to do, do you want to raise good-looking ones?

The scout troops of the Independent Regiment were selected by Hu Wei one by one among the five thousand people, although they were still a lot worse than Hou San's ability, but it was not difficult for them to catch the people they found in front of them. It didn't take long for the figure from before to be caught by the scouts.

"Let go of me, you robbers, let go of me" The one who was caught was a teenager and a half-year-old, who obviously didn't like to be caught like this, struggling as he walked.

Hu Wei looked at the half-grown child, with a yellow face and thin muscles, and his clothes were ragged, so he didn't rush to ask, so he asked Hong to take out a cake and hand it to the child. In the face of different people, there can be different methods, and they don't necessarily have to be ruthless.

"Thank you, sister. When the half-sized child took the cake, he unexpectedly stopped scolding and thanked Hong.

Hu Wei withdrew the words he was about to speak, gave Hong a look, and asked Hong to find a way to trap the child's words. When dealing with children, sometimes women have more ways than men.

Red has been with Hu Wei for so long, and with just eye contact, you can understand the meaning of Hu Wei. She is a very Lianming woman herself, so she naturally knows what to do.

"No thanks, eat slowly, be careful not to be. Because he didn't know the origin of the child, Red didn't let the scout let him go, but just made a look, let them relax a little, and protect the movement that could strike at any time.

Born in troubled times, don't underestimate anyone. The kid was the only one in the city, and no one knew what he would do.

"Hmm" The half-grown boy nodded heavily, split the cake in two, and carefully put the slightly larger half into his arms, and then ate the other half.

Hong saw all this qiē in her eyes, took out the water and handed it to the boy and said, "The biscuits are relatively dry, come, sister has water here, it will be better to eat them." ”

"Thank you, sister. The boy was still polite, and after thanking him, he took a big sip on the bottle.

After putting down the bottle, the boy hesitated for a moment and asked, "Sister, can you give me this bottle of water?"

Red is thinking about how to break through the boy's defense and get the information she needs. Seeing the boy's movement, he smiled and said, "Yes, but you have to tell me what your name is." ”

"My name is Huzi. The boy replied.

Hongdao: "Huzi, a very good name, did your father give it to you?"

Huzi shook his head a little gloomily and said, "My father and mother have died a long time ago, and this is what my sister named me." ”

Hong glanced at Hu Wei and asked Huzi, "Your sister must be very beautiful." ”

Hu Wei listened and stared at him, and said in his heart, you can also ask something useful. You're not a man, and it's none of your business if your sister is beautiful or not. ”

Speaking of his sister, Huzi's eyes lit up, and he said with a little interest: "Of course my sister is beautiful." He is not only beautiful, but also proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting."

"Really?" "Red saw that Huzi didn't look like some dangerous person, and punched his eyes to make the scout let go of Huzi completely.

Huzi didn't believe it, he was a little anxious, and said with a huff: "Really, I don't lie to you, I lie to you as a puppy." ”

Hong said with a smile: "I know that Huzi is well-behaved, and he will definitely not deceive people." You also think your sister must be beautiful, can you take me to meet her?"

Hu Wei saw that Hong was getting closer and closer to Huzi, and was afraid that she would lose, so he secretly leaned up, and his movements were not big, which did not arouse Huzi's vigilance.

Huzi shook his head and said, "My sister is not here now, she has gone far away, and I don't know when she will come back." ”

"Then who do you want to leave that half of the cake just now?" Hu Wei took the opportunity to interject.

Huzi suddenly heard Hu Wei's voice, took a step back, and looked at Hu Wei with wary eyes.

Hong comforted: "Huzi don't be afraid, this is Brother Hu Wei, he won't hurt you." ”

Huzi became a little excited and said: "He's not a good person, he just let people arrest me, he's a robber." ”

"I'm a robber? I think you're a robber, you're looking at me secretly, aren't you trying to arrest me? Hu Wei said deliberately. He has his own way of dealing with this kind of half-sized child.

Huzi's face turned red all of a sudden, and he seemed to hate people for using the word robber on him: "I'm not a robber, I'm not"

Hu Wei smiled and said, "Then do you have any proof that you are not a robber?"

"I" Huzi was a little dumbfounded, he really didn't expect Hu Wei to ask such a question, I said several times, but I couldn't speak, a little face was there, and it turned red.

"Hehe" Hong laughed coquettishly, she knew that it was time for her to appear again: "Neither of you is a robber, I am a robber." ”

"No, my sister is so beautiful, she can't be a robber. Huzi became even more excited.

Hu worriedly said that this kid is still an amorous species. Whoever stipulates that a beautiful woman cannot be a robber. Red face and white bones, they want to eat people, but they are ruthless.

"Okay, I'm not a robber. Red giggled and said, "Come, because none of us are robbers, let's shake hands." ”

Hongdang took Hu Wei's hand first and stretched out to Huzi together. Huzi hesitated and looked at Hu Wei a little, and then put his hand on it. The three of them shook hands.

After such a cooperation, Huzi's heart defense was opened, and Hu Wei and they also got the news they wanted to ask for.

It turns out that the reason why this Dongwang City has become a desert is because five days ago, a bandit called Redbeard made a post to Dongwang City, demanding that Dongwang City hand over 10,000 bags of grain as the city's protection money within today, otherwise, they would enter the city to rob it.

The people of Dongwang City couldn't even eat themselves, so they could hand over 10,000 bags of grain. So under the leadership of the strict defense of the city, they all rushed out of the city.

"Isn't there a local garrison in Dongwang City?" said Hu Wei with a frown. The bandits made a post, a regular imperial town, from the city guards to the common people, all hid out, what is this called.

Huzi looked at Hu Wei with some puzzlement and said, "What is the local garrison?"

Yes, I haven't heard of it, so it seems that this is a vain question. Hu Wei explained a few sentences briefly, and then asked, "Is there no problem for you to hide out like this?"

Huzi said: "I used to do this, as long as I hid for a while." ”

Hu Weixin said that this is really a magical land, and the city guard takes the people and bandits and robbers to hide from cats and cats, and if you hide from him for a while, there will be no problem. Could it be that after more than ten days, the robbers forgot about it?

There are a lot of places that Hu Wei has visited, and the strange things he has heard can be packed in two baskets. But he couldn't figure it out.

Seeing that Huzi couldn't ask anything here, Hu Wei proposed to let Huzi take him to see the current city guard of this cave Wang City, and he wanted to see what kind of magical city guard it took to make such a magical thing.

After Huzi confirmed once again that Hu Wei was not a robber, he agreed to take Hu Wei with him. However, he could only take Hu Wei and Hong alone.

Hu Wei nodded in agreement. Huzi only took him and Hong, he and Hong, you can take others to go. In such a magical land, just such a person will take it, and the red will not be opened, and the water will do it.

"You just can't be strict?" Hu Wei looked at the old man in front of him, and his eyes almost fell off. The old man looked to be in his fifties, and he looked like a big horse monkey. Dressed in patches and patches, the old city lord's uniform was worn on his body, and he didn't look like a city lord at all, but more like a beggar. When he came to this Tianfeng Continent, Hu Wei had seen a lot of officials, and the one in front of him was more than a hundred more than the most humble one.

Yan Bukai watched Huzi bring a man wearing the uniform of the Imperial Blizzard Legion, his face changed slightly at first, and then immediately changed to a smiling face, trotted forward, rubbed his hands and said, "Yes, yes, I just don't open it." I have long heard that the blizzard army with the top name is coming, and the people of Dongwang City are looking forward to it. Finally, I have come to look forward to you. ”

Yan Bukai said with a change of style: "Is it going to be handed over now, I am ready, the materials are ready-made, you can sign it, adult." ”

Due to the stationing of the Blizzard Legion, Dongwang City was no longer a local area, but was placed under the jurisdiction of the Legion. Yan Bukai, as the current city guard of Dongwang City, naturally has to hand over to the Blizzard Legion. This is a normal procedure, but this is not too impatient.

"Yan Chengshou seems to be in a hurry?" asked Hu Wei. Because Yan Bukai's management level is higher than him, he keeps reminding himself that he must regard the other party as his boss. But the tattered official uniform on Yan Bukai's body and the flattering expression on his face made it difficult for Hu Wei to do this.

"Oh, no hurry, no hurry. Yan Bukai said with a dry smile.

If you are not in a hurry, how can you not be in a hurry. Yan Bukai had long wanted to leave this ghost place. There's nothing to ask for here, and money can't buy good things. He didn't want to stay here.

Hu Wei said: "It's good if you're not in a hurry, I'm not responsible for the handover work, and Yan Chengshou seems to have to work hard for a few more days." ‘

Hu Wei is not the supreme commander of the Blizzard Legion now, and there are two city guards and three town guards on his head. His rank can only rank sixth in the army, and these things are not under his control. If Hu Wei wants to really grasp these 50,000 soldiers in his hands, these five people are all his opponents.

The old opponent Qin Ming was not in the team that came to Dongwang City. As one of the two new stars of the Blizzard Legion who is as shining as Hu You, in this mouth, he once again chose a different path from Hu Wei.

Yan Bukai nodded again and again: "It's easy to say, it's easy to say, I've been doing it for more than ten years, it's not bad for a few days." ”

Yan Bukai's every move was very polite, but Hu Wei felt uncomfortable no matter how he looked at it. Maybe it's because of the relationship that has been in the army for a long time, Hu Wei can't see that he is wearing a military uniform, but he makes such a submissive appearance and embarrasses the soldiers.

Hu Wei said lightly: "Then it will be troublesome to the Yan City Lord." ”

"No trouble, no trouble. ”

"Yan does not open the city lord, is there a local guard force in this cave city?"

Hearing Hu Wei's question, Yan Bukai's smiling face suddenly turned into a bitter face.

"General Hu Wei, you don't know. In our Dongwang City, there were nine droughts in ten years, and the people couldn't even eat, so they had the money to support the garrison. I'm not afraid of your jokes when I say it, this cave Wang Cheng is from top to bottom, and I am an official. ”

Yan Bukai said, pulling his clothes, and continued: "Look at it, just raise me as a person." It's all like this. It's really powerless. It's already hard for the common people, how can I bear to increase their burden. ”

Yan Bukai said that he burst into tears, and he almost didn't hold his worried feet and cried bitterly.

Hu Wei looked at Yan Bukai, he didn't know how, he always felt that things were not like this. But the situation in Dongwang City, Hu Wei himself also saw it. In his eyes, for a while, he couldn't see that there was anything to get money in this ghost place.

The loess is extremely barren, far away from other cities, the road is not easy to walk, and the weather is so bad, the poverty of this cave Wang City is really poor, it is so poor that it is reasonable, and the robbers are so poor that they have not robbed it here.

What is the use of a garrison in such a city, and what is it necessary to defend it? It is possible to set up a garrison, and the common people will starve to death before the robbers can fight. In that case, it's better not to be established. The lesser of two evils, when the robbers come, the whole city will come out to hide from him for ten days and half a month.

Hu Wei was really not excited to talk to this Yan Bukai again, and decided to send Zhu Daneng over to collect the information about the robbers with Yan Bukai later, confessed to Yan Bukai, and left with Hong.

Hu Wei didn't have long eyes on his back, he didn't see it, and after he left, Yan Bukai's face showed a very weird smile.

That fleeting sly smile seems to contain a lot of things that outsiders can't understand. How many unknown secrets are hidden in this small cave city, can Hu Wei discover and unravel these secrets?