Chapter Seventy-Seven: Step Forward
There was no direct junction between the Li Empire and the Dreadnought Empire, but the battlefield between the two forces was set in a place called Deserted City on the border between the Dreadnought Empire and the Song Kingdom. In fact, the deserted city was not originally called this name, but under the years of war, almost all the aborigines have been displaced and fled to other places, and this ghostly place is called the deserted city!
However, the deserted city was not very desolate, a large number of troops were gathered nearby, and some speculative merchants who made money and did not want to die had the courage to open various shops in the deserted city. It turned out that it was extremely easy to make money in this deserted city! Almost all the soldiers would spend all their money in this deserted city before going to war, and the government institutions had long since collapsed, and no one came to collect any taxes, plus the army generals also needed such a place to reduce the pressure, this deserted city prospered in such a deformed way!
On this day, except for the army convoy, there was no outsider coming and going in the west gate of the deserted city, but a team of people came, and at a rough glance, I am afraid that there were not as many as a few thousand! It was the King of Physicians who had come to this battlefield to refine their minds and their guards!
Of course, Zhao Xiaobao and Ling Xiao also came to this deserted city with this horse team! Looking at this huge border fortress, almost all the contestants were a little dumbfounded, and the people of the Doctor's Association just left a sentence to settle down on their own and didn't care anymore, they didn't know what to do, after all, they were basically children who hadn't been out much!
Fortunately, their guards often travel from south to north, and they are relatively proficient in dealing with these things!
To be honest, Zhao Xiaobao, Ling Xiao and the others didn't have much experience, but fortunately, the guards led by Wu Xiaofei seemed to be more shrewd and sophisticated, and beckoned a group of people to go straight to the interior of the deserted city! Yes, there are more inns at the gate of the city, but there are also many people who can't stand it, and it is easier to grab those two or three inns here than to find a secluded inn inside!
After a while, this group of people really found a good place, the slightly old façade, the bluestone structure rooms that look unusually sturdy, are all satisfying, the key is that there are no messy wild shops around this inn, and they will not be disturbed too much!
After everyone got off the horse, Peaches immediately came to Ling Xiao's side, she had run a lot of places, but she was still relatively unfamiliar with the boundary full of rough style, and she couldn't help but be a little timid, so she naturally began to follow Ling Xiao closely, and it seemed that staying by Ling Xiao's side, her heart was a lot more stable!
Sensing Peach's attachment, Ling Xiao was a little happy in his heart, but looking at Peach's tanned face and thirsty lips, he couldn't help but feel some pity in his heart!
Inadvertently picking up the grass and wood debris on Peach's head, and helping to tidy up the messy hair, Ling Xiao took Peach's hand and walked to the inn together.
Speaking of this inn is also interesting, in front of the door a couplet "non-heroes do not enter, real heroes please enter", and the horizontal batch is also the name of the store is the vigorous and powerful four big characters "Fengyun Inn"!
Seeing this interesting couplet, Ling Xiao was a little funny, although it was written very atmosphericly, but when he opened the door to do business, how could he not let the guests enter. When the store writes this, while raising its own value, it also describes the guests who come in as heroes and heroes, which will naturally make the guests a lot happier, and the money earned will be more!
Just thinking about this, a nasty voice sounded behind Leng Hao, "If you are not a hero, please come in! Yes, this inn is good, good intentions!
Looking back, it turned out to be Liu Ruoxing's group, who had a grudge against Zhao Xiaobao, and it was really not a bad match! At this time, Liu Ruoxing also discovered Ling Xiao's group, "Hey, isn't this the son of the Zhao family? What's the matter, you also want to enter this Fengyun Inn? Shop, shop, these people are not worthy of your couplet, don't blame me for not reminding you, let this group of people live in, but there is some meaning of smashing signboards!"
The implication is, of course, that Zhao Xiaobao Lingxiao's group of people are not heroes. However, the shopkeeper can open an inn of such a scale in this deserted city, and everyone has really seen it!
Just the two sentences of the shopkeeper have pointed out a lot of things, which is nothing more than that our couplet is just like that, it is not worth taking seriously, and behind the inn is the leader of the deserted city as a backer, and this kind of thing will never appear when smashing the signboard!
Liu Ruoxing is used to being arrogant, but his entourage is a veteran of many years, so he hurriedly stepped forward and began to analyze his master, needless to say that no matter how arrogant Liu Ruoxing is, it is also within the Liang Kingdom, and now this deserted city is within the scope of the Song Kingdom, so that others can look up to him It is already very good, there is really no arrogant capital!
Although this Liu Ruoxing is simple-minded, he is also a person who knows how to advance and retreat, so he didn't say much at the moment, with a cold face, he "hummed" and walked into the inn!
Zhao Xiaobao and Wu Xiaofei naturally did not offend the head snake, so it was important to settle down as soon as possible, so they didn't say anything more, entered the inn and began to distribute the house and place the luggage!
Fortunately, the scale of this inn is large enough, there are enough houses, and there are even some small courtyards with independent courtyards! Ling Xiao's own money is already a lot, not to mention that there are Zhao Xiaobao and Wu Xiaofei in this group of people, and each of the parents stuffed a lot of silver taels into them when they were leaving. At this time, he was naturally generous, so he simply rented a small courtyard for a long time and lived in!
Zhao Xiaobao and Wu Xiaofei live in the same room, Ling Xiao lives in one by himself, Taozi lives in one, and the other two guards also live in one each, and in the end, there are still two rooms left that no one lives in, which also serves as Zhao Xiaobao's real room, which is used to place his tools, fortunately, Zhao Xiaobao also has storage equipment on his body, otherwise it would have to take four or five carriages just to carry his messy tools!
After settling down and having dinner, it was already moonlight, and a few people who had nothing to do began to tour this deserted city together, but everyone else intentionally or unintentionally left Ling Xiao and Peaches a few steps away, leaving room for the two of them to be alone!
At first, Ling Xiao and Peach didn't realize it, they just chatted closely and gossip, until they walked far away, and the two of them found that the other four people were gone, and the only people in front of them were familiar with the bustling flow of people!
Fortunately, they are more accustomed to this kind of relationship between men and women, but they are no longer as embarrassed as when they first met, since they have this opportunity, the two no longer care about anything, and happily focus on visiting this deserted city!
The most frequent are the five big and three rough military men, but occasionally there are some ordinary people who do business walk by, the most important thing is that some very distinctive small works of art that are rare in other places are enough to make Ling Xiao and Peach nostalgic, so the two wandered until the middle of the night before returning to the inn!
The first night in the deserted city was spent so wonderfully, Ling Xiao suddenly felt that the bad weather and difficult environment were nothing remarkable, at least now his mood was good, and he also dreamed of more beautiful things in his dreams, so that before dawn, Ling Xiao had already gotten up early and washed his **!
The morning sun broke through the clouds, and everyone also gathered in the dining hall to start breakfast, but Zhao Xiaobao and Wu Xiaofei's constant snickering made Ling Xiao and Peach more or less embarrassed! When Ling Xiao really couldn't stand the laughter of these two boys and wanted to teach them a lesson, there was a sound of bells ringing over the entire deserted city!
Hearing the bell, everyone's color changed, but the Physician Guild explained it on the way here, and when the bell rang, it meant that it entered a wartime state, and the battle of the King of Physicians officially began. Although everyone had been prepared, they never expected that the war would come so quickly, and it would happen so unexpectedly the day after entering the city!
On the contrary, the store was unhurried and hung up a sign that read, "The guest room will be kept for five days, and if the guest does not return after five days, the heavy rent will be withdrawn, and the guest's belongings will be handed over to the army!"
Just seeing such a sign, a hint of coolness has crept into my heart, needless to say, if you can't come back after five days, you must have died in this war!
It was easy to come to their senses, and everyone hurriedly packed up their things, and even didn't bother to eat breakfast, and hurried out to the designated meeting point. Only the innkeeper was left alone and sighed, "Alas!
When they arrived at the pharmacist assembly point, Ling Xiao and the others realized that their group of people had arrived late, and there were already many people concentrated in the assembly point! The organizers of the pharmacist associations were hoarsely tidying up the teams, but the results were not great!
After the gathering time of the hundred breaths passed, a loud voice began to echo in the ears, although it was impossible to see who was speaking, but just by sending the voice to everyone's ears in the noise, there was no doubt that this person would be a master!
"Don't make a noise! The doctor's camp is here, and after a while, all the physician contestants will enter the designated room with the previous number plate and start preparing for treatment, and only one person is allowed to stay with the accompanying guards, and the other guards will transport the wounded, and they will transport as many as they can heal, and the wounded have two identification tags on their bodies, and one of them can be removed for each one that is cured, and the results will be determined by the identification plate and the wounded's comments in the future!"
Fortunately, Zhao Xiaobao and Wu Xiaofei's rooms were adjacent to each other, but it brought convenience to them, leaving only Peach to escort Zhao Xiaobao and Wu Xiaofei, and Ling Xiao took Wu Xiaofei's guards to prepare to transport the wounded! In order to ensure the safety of Peaches, Ling Xiao also deliberately handed over the southern red bean jade pendant to Peaches again!
But when Ling Xiao and the three of them came to the place where the wounded were transported, they found that things were not so simple, and they still faced too many difficulties in winning this competition!