On the Yangtze River, which flows from the snowfields in the north to the south, there are three estuaries similar to Fenglingdu. These three ferries are the key defense areas of mankind, so all the materials of the three thousand miles of abandoned land are gathered at the three ferries.

There is no teleportation array here, in order to prevent the monster beast from attacking, you must cross the river by boat from the ferry, so the Fengling ferry port is busy, and the boat flow here is continuous day and night. The flow of people here is constant during the day, so there is a lamppost every few steps on the two gently sloping embankments in and out, presumably until the night is lit up, and this is the brightest pearl on the mainland.

It's noon. The clouds followed Bixi onto the gentle slope embankment that winds upward, on this slope, there are three checkpoints along the road, each level has a small bunker half-buried in the ground, the mouth of the bunker is always guarded by guards wearing helmets and not seeing clearly, and the clouds probed a little when they passed by them, and found that they were at least Qi refining period monks, and the team leader was in the foundation building period.

All the way to the highest part of the city wall, the light door on the opposite side that resembles an elevator door flashes with a shining, not dazzling light, on both sides of the light gate are two teams of guards, each team of three people, the leader is the foundation building period, and the two team members are about the fifth layer of qi refining.

These guards stared at everyone who came in and out, and under their gaze, the clouds followed Bixi safely into the light gate, only to feel that his vision turned around, and he had been teleported to the open space in the middle of the city.

Looking up, there were many grid-like gratings in the open space in the center of the city, and these gratings flickered, each flickering to highlight some of the flow of people - it seemed that those who entered the light gate were teleported to this square.

There are also some people who plan to come to Kaifeng Lingdu, and under the gaze of the clouds, their feet step on the shiny checkered grating, and their bodies will disappear from the grid immediately—it is estimated that next time they will appear on the gently sloping embankment.

Bixi hurriedly beckoned the clouds to leave the square on the ground. Waiting for everyone to walk out of the square, Bixi pointed to the city wall in the distance and introduced in a low voice: "We are now in the inner city square, and everyone who enters and exits Fenglingdu must pass through a short teleportation array, teleport to the square, and then go out through the inner gate." All arrivals and exits must be accommodated in the outer city. Or rest, like ......"

Bixi didn't say anything, the clouds understood, he glanced at the circular inner city wall that surrounded the square, and understood in seconds.

The outer city wall of Fenglingdu must have been reinforced by magic, and then a special formation was arranged, and only through the guò light gate could you enter the center of the square, while the inner city wall wrapped around the square. In fact, it is equivalent to an urn city, if there is an enemy invasion, the light gate that closes the outer city wall can make it impossible for the enemy to enter.

At the same time, even if the enemy breaches the light gate of the outer wall, it can only appear in the inner square, and the guards can organize a second line of defense from the wall that surrounds the square. Then besiege and kill the enemies that appear in the square.

The reason why it is called the shape of Fenglingdu is like an eye is because the inner city wall is round. Like a human pupil. The outer walls are like eye sockets......

There is a fee for entering and exiting Fenglingdu, and I don't know how much to charge for the common people, Yun Duo and the other three people paid three lower grade spirit stones at the entrance and exit of the inner city wall. Only then was he allowed to enter the outer city - of course, in fact, there was a procedure in the inner city wall, which was to check whether the person entering was a demon beast. But because it is still far away according to the beast tide now. Therefore, the people who inspected were extremely lazy, and they collected the inspection fee, but they did not carefully check the people who came in and out.

Of course, Yun Duo and the others have the Xuantianmen identity token, which is absolutely real. Therefore, even if the guardians want to check the beast form, they will not check the clouds and horses.

......

It was only here that the clouds felt the noise of the city for the first time.

Yes, this is a real city.

Although Jieyin City has a large population, the people there are basically like living in a factory, everyone has to find a job every day, everyone has to run for the daily rations, everyone is in a hurry, and the obvious life pressure can be seen on their faces.

Only in the Fengling Crossing did the clouds see the pure and casual crowd for the first time - in broad daylight, there are many monks wandering here, and many ordinary people also copied their hands, enjoying the street scene idly. At the same time, they are always followed by a cloud of servants, waiting for their master to give him what he needs.

Life in this casual city is slow-paced.

The footsteps of the people wandering along the street are very leisurely, and the clouds see people with dogs and birds, as well as local tyrants who walk and stop in front of various shops and sweep the streets as they like.

Here, the whole outer city is a huge commercial street, and almost all the storefronts are shops. There are a lot of floating people here, when passing the wharf just now, the clouds saw more than once that there was a big ship leaving, and the new ship immediately docked, on the up and down ramps, carrying goods, loading and unloading the flow of people, and the flow of people on Chunxi Road.

The strange thing is that among these pedestrians coming and going, there is also a group of people dressed as scholars, these people are wearing ancient Xiucai costumes that are very similar to those in the memory of the clouds, and they also pretend to hold a folding fan in their hands, and some even insert the folding fan into the collar behind their necks, making a beautiful young man. They shook their heads all the way, doing poems and songs that they didn't know what to do, praising the ...... Full of prosperity and luxury.

Su Zhi, who was behind her, found that Yun Duo was observing these people, and hurriedly stepped forward to remind: "Childe, you are a student who will try to elect officials." ”

The selection of officials here is a bit close to the imperial examination system in Yunduo's memory, but it is also a bit like the later civil service examination. Because the examination here is not like the imperial examination system, which has to go through multiple selections. Rather, it is like the civil service examination, which is completed only after an introductory examination, and those who pass the examination are granted the position of local officials at one time, as in the case of the imperial examination, and the officials under them are those who have not passed the examination and are only literate.

I remember that Bi Xun had told the clouds before, although the city here was under the jurisdiction of the immortals, but the daily administrative affairs, the immortals were impatient. The immortals are only responsible for maintaining the law and order of the city, as well as the taxes paid by the city. As for the day-to-day administration, it was managed by the secular officials appointed by them, who were selected from the examinations.

The savings of these students are a bit like those of medieval tax collectors, or those who contracted to run cities...... Merchant. Although the content they learned was equivalent to the Four Books and Five Classics in Yunduo's memory.

Of course, civilization has developed for so long, at the same time that the immortals have developed their own culture. Mortals in the world have also developed a set of their own cultural concepts, but this set of culture, the immortals seem to disdain to care about and disdain to understand.

The scholar that Yun Duo saw just now was shaking his fan and reciting a poem at this moment, and he looked sad, looking like he was pretending to be sad like "saying sorrow for new words". The content of the poem is: "The autumn wind is bleak and the night is bleak, the acacia is fried with the sea, sitting quietly in the deep mountains is light and lonely, sweet and sour, bitter and salty, and the five flavors of life are ......."

When Yun Duo heard this poem, he rolled his eyes directly, and gave an evaluation in his heart: "Idiot." ”

In fact, there are only four tastes in life, and spicy is not taste, but feeling, and stimulation.

Both numb and spicy are a stimulus. Just like cigarettes and alcohol, it is not the taste that the taste buds feel, so it is particularly addictive...... But these and these are why they should be explained to mortals.

So Yun Duo turned around and walked into a shop on the side of the road.

The shop sells authentic materials, with a three-storey façade and a basement. The clouds lingered slightly on the first floor, and Su Zhi followed. Quietly explained: "Fenglingdu is the largest commodity distribution center nearby, on this Yangtze River. There are about three large ferries like Fenglingdu, each of which brings together rare materials from a radius of hundreds of thousands of miles in the vicinity.

Merchants procured goods from here, and then loaded them onto ships to transport them to the mouth of the river, and then transshipped them from the mouth to the port of Qi by the sea, where things could be sold at a high price. ”

The clouds get it, that's what it means. The three major ferries on the riverside intercepted a large number of immortal cultivation materials obtained from the Demon Beast Forest. And the Xiuzhen City in the south of the Yangtze River, because these materials were intercepted halfway, could only obtain a small part of the immortal cultivation materials. Most of the immortal cultivation materials were actually circulated to the Qi country.

Of course. Merchants are in pursuit of profit, and these things are helpless.

Su Zhi added quietly: "The cargo ships walking on the river all have the background of Qi people, and they ......can't be provoked lightly."

Yun Duo immediately asked: "This means that the materials of the three major ferries are cheaper, and when they return to the sect, the materials sold in Pingxi City will definitely be more expensive than here?"

Bixi also immediately added: "It's definitely more expensive than here, but the price of goods in Pingxi City is even more expensive than what Qi sells in Qi Kingdom, which makes people very uncomfortable." ”

Yun Duo asked again: "So, in that abandoned land, there is no city under the direct jurisdiction of the Qi State?"

The Qi country that Yun Duo said in his mouth is actually the Taiyue Gate behind the Qi country, this, everyone understands.

Su Zhi and Bixi on the opposite side nodded unobtrusively, and then pretended to search for the supplies on the shelves.

The three of them have come to the second floor of the shop with the flow of people at this moment, and from the display of goods, the first and second floors of this shop are mainly for Qi practitioners and foundation building monks, the second floor and above are mainly for wealthy foundation building period monks and Jindan period monks, and above the third floor is the store owner's own home.

As for what to buy in the basement, this cloud knows, but he can't let people see that he is familiar with this shop.

Su Zhi explained softly: "Childe, if you have anything to sell, directly notify the owner of the shop here, if you want to buy something, take a look at the list of goods first, this store pù is a joint number, the goods are relatively complete, even if there is not on the list of goods, you can also let them order." Oh, the price of goods is cheap, if you have spare money, you might as well buy a handful. ”

What do clouds need?

The clouds need a lot, but I'm afraid that the money won't be enough.

As he was talking, Bixi beckoned the clerk to come over, handed the other party a jade slip, and asked, "Do you have these goods?"

Bixi mainly wanted to purchase colorful stones and nirvana stones this time, but he didn't expect the clerk to read the list and immediately nodded at Bixi, Bixi looked left and right, and replied calmly: "This is my companion." ”

So, the shopkeeper turned over and took out a jade slip, typed a paragraph on the jade slip and handed it to Bixi. After Bixi read this jade slip, he groaned and said, "This price is a bit high?"

Yun Duo understood: the shop is full of people, and if the guests want to purchase any precious goods, once they say it and be heard by others, they are afraid of being remembered by others, and they must know that the monks' hearing is very perverted.

As a result, the current method of conversation was born: the two sides input what they want to say into the jade slip, and the jade slip has a powerful blocking technique, only the divine sense of the two sides of the conversation can penetrate and read the information entered by the other party - this is equivalent to encrypting the conversation, and the whole conversation is carried out in a silent state, which is safer.

Yun Duo hurriedly took out a piece of jade slip, thought about it, and first typed it in the jade slip: a piece of Yin Soul Wood.

Think again. Yun Duo added: about the art of stacking storage spaces on top of each other.

Looking back, Su Zhi was also in a hurry there, entering her information into the jade slip, and at this time, Bixi had been invited by the clerk to a private room for a private transaction.

Su Zhi explained quietly beside her: "Childe." There is a wheel sign outside the door of this shop, and such a shop pù belongs to a large trading company called Rotary Club. So don't look at the small appearance of the shop, but they can transfer goods to each other in the chamber of commerce......"

In fact, these clouds are understood, and Jin Xiang Zhenjun has relevant records in his memory, but now he is playing a child, so he has to listen to the explanations of others frequently like a child.

Su Zhi was also invited to a separate trading room, and Yun Duo immediately handed over his jade slip. The shopkeeper took the jade slip and read it, and immediately smiled like a flower, beckoning to invite the clouds into the secret room.

In a separate house, a qiē is similar to Jin Xiang Zhenjun's memory. The empty room was unattended, except for a table against the wall, above which was a floating, screen-like water mirror, and a dozen camera-like things next to the screen. According to Jin Xiang Zhenjun's memory, in fact, the walls in the room were transformed by the phantom array. There was actually a senior treasure connoisseur on the other side, but Yun Duo was just a Qi refining level kid now. He can't pretend he understands everything.

The clouds struck a piece of divine consciousness on the screen, and a conversation immediately appeared on the screen of the water mirror: "I want to purchase Yin Soul Wood." ”

After this passage appeared on the screen, the following immediately replied: "Yin Soul Wood is very rare, it can only be collected on the shores of the Nether Lake in the north, this thing is very expensive, are you sure you can afford it?"

Yun Duo immediately responded: "You don't need to care about my wallet. You just need to consider whether you have it in stock. ”

"The Netherworld Lake is only accessible to Jindan monks, and the Yin Soul Wood cut from the Netherworld Lake is also very narrow, and it can only accommodate Yin Souls and nourish ghost cultivators. As a result, few people risk cutting down the Shadow Wood......

Our quotation is 200,000 medium-grade spirit stones. You can pay half of the deposit upfront and then agree on the city where you will pick up the order, and we will give you a voucher for pickup. When you get to that city, you can use the pick-up voucher to pick up the joint number of the Chamber of Commerce, or if you are willing to add a little fee, we can deliver directly to the mountain gate......"

According to Jin Xiang Zhenjun's memory, this chamber of commerce has been operating for tens of thousands of years and has always had an outstanding reputation. So Yun Duo didn't hesitate, he directly took out enough spirit stones from Duobao Zhenjun's storage belt, piled them on the table, and then typed another line of words on the screen.

"They say that space storage devices can't be stacked, but I know they can actually stack, and I need to know about it. ”

The screen was silent for a long time, and a few words appeared on the screen, but they were immediately altered again...... Eventually, the line that appeared on the screen read: "Only one person thinks that the space storage device is stackable, and as far as I know, he is dead." ”

Yun Duo typed without hesitation: "How long has he been dead?"

At this time, Yun Duo had already vaguely guessed that the person the other party was talking about might be Duobao Zhenjun, he originally thought that there were still people in this world who knew the technique of spatial superposition, since only one person knew this technique...... In order to show his ignorance, he asked a question with a curious face, pretending to want to know about the other party's life.

I don't know if Yun Duo's move can dispel the other party's suspicions, but after a while, an offer appeared on the screen: "300,000 medium-grade spirit stones." ”

Yun Duo immediately caught up with a sentence: "This price is high, which knowledge is only a skill, and you can sell this skill many times, so 300,000 medium-grade spirit stones, this price is too high." ”

The screen immediately followed: "300,000 Zhongpin spirit stones, this price is to say the name of that person, and then, you can find this person to learn relevant knowledge - you pay now, we will sue you for his name." ”

Yun Duo opened his mouth and was stunned for a long time. After a while, he hesitantly added, "As you just said, this man is dead...... Hey, hey, what do I want a dead man's name, no, it's too expensive, I'll give up. ”

Next, Yun Duo did not allow others to regret it, and immediately added a few more procurement materials, the first few materials were daily necessities - Yun Duo designed, using space spells on the field marching tent, which can make the tent space infinite "cloud tent".

Next is a pile of portable lamps, cooking stoves, and travel-sized alchemy furnace refining items that can be set up at any time in the wild.

Then, Yun Duo's input request was a little strange: "Is there a large flying machine, such as a large flying machine that can hold many people at a time, has strong defense capabilities, and is aggressive." ”

The Rotary Club readily agreed to the earliest requests of the clouds, and the clouds had the desired effect - the other party was willing to buy the blueprints of the clouds, and was willing to offset the purchase price with the purchase money.

Speaking of large flying machines, the other party's response did not shy away: "You should be talking about 'war boats', or also called 'gunboats'." This is a sectarian force that usually requires a lot of manual operation...... Are you sure you need a warship?"

Yun Duo laughed dryly twice, and immediately asked: "It takes a lot of manual operation, is there a small one?" For example, it can be operated by one or two people, and it flies very fast, has a lot of offensive firepower, but has a strong defense. ”

"There are such things, there are thunder boats that can be operated by five people, lightning boats, flying cloud boats, ......"

The manpower problem Yun Duo is not afraid, there are a large number of puppets in the Ying Zhao Ring, as long as Yun Duo learns the way to manipulate the puppets, he has enough manpower to drive. But his purpose was not here, so Yun Duo immediately changed the topic: "This, five people operation, is still a little more, can it be a little less?" (to be continued......) R1292