polar demon

Chapter 328 Tracking ([-])

At this time, another fat and white official stood up, bowed and said:
"Master Ghost King, most of the things in the Phantom Swamp are illusory and untraceable ancient legends. If anyone can really know what's going on inside, then apart from the Secret Sect of the Imperial Law, I am afraid that only the Phantom Swamp The wild people living near the swamp, and the lord of Kunyou City in the north."

After a pause, the official bowed again and said:

"If Lord Ghost King wants to eat us up, then this is our destiny, and we can't stop it. If Lord Ghost King is willing to let us go, then all the people in our city are willing to worship Lord Ghost King all year round, and present satisfactory food to Lord Ghost King at any time. !"

"Ghost King?" Jiang Yuan smiled, and he asked, "Who are you?"

The fat and white official hurriedly replied:
"I am the deputy of the city lord, the civil affairs officer of Jianglue City——Yang Mu, and I am always at the disposal of Lord Ghost King. I don't know how Lord Ghost King plans to deal with us?"

Jiang Yuan grinned:
"I will be your new city lord!"

Now that Jiang Yuan had the idea of ​​attacking the Phantom Swamp, he didn't plan to rush into it until he had collected enough information.

Therefore, this Jianglue City will be the place where Jiang Yuan stays temporarily and learns about the Phantom Swamp and this country.

The chubby official who called himself Yang Mu couldn't help but smile when he heard this.

He understood that what the ghost king in front of him wanted was notification, not massacre.In this way, I and everyone can have a chance to save their lives.

At that moment, Yang Mu hastily remonstrated:
"Ghost king... no, it's the city lord! Please allow me to arrange for someone to put out the fire in the granary, otherwise if all the granaries are burned down, the civilians in the city will face famine!"

Jiang Yuan waved his hand:

"Go."

As if Yang Mu had received an amnesty, he immediately issued orders to other officials around him.

Jiang Yuan turned around and told a group of ghosts:

"Lockdown the entire city, no one is allowed to enter or leave! Even a pigeon is not allowed to fly out of the city!"

The five ghosts immediately led a group of zombies to leave quickly, and began to blockade Jianglue City according to Jiang Yuan's instructions.

The other living people in the city were organized by the officials to go to various places in the city to fight the fire, leaving only a group of high-level civil and military officials.

A group of officials and Jiang Yuan gathered in a slightly larger room near the street. Through constant conversations and inquiries, Jiang Yuan gradually began to understand where he was.

This is a piece of land far away from the Central Plains and close to the Far West.

As for the Far West, Jiang Yuan knew a little about it when he was in Xue Country.

The only place in the world suitable for human survival is the middle ground.

In the extreme north, it is severely cold all year round, and the sky is covered with ice and snow.

In the land of the extreme east, the vast ocean is boundless.

In the extreme south, there are endless mountains, full of miasma and poisonous insects.

In the far west, the desert is everywhere, and the heat is unbearable.

The place where human beings live in the middle of this world is in the period of holy pilgrimage.

It has been thousands of years since the first sage emperor enfeoffed various countries and delineated a rough territory.

And in this piece of land that is close to the extension of the power of the human race, on the edge of the extreme west, there are several small countries, and the ones closest to the west are Yang Guo and Jiang Guo.

"It's so far away from Xue Guo... It's very difficult to go back..."

After learning about geography, Jiang Yuan couldn't help but sigh.

Xue Country is located between the Extreme South Land and the Central Plains, and there are two southern countries to the south. After passing through, it really enters the Extreme South Land.

But this place is already located on the edge of the Far West, more than ten thousand miles away from Xue Country.

Even if Jiang Yuan flies, he has to cross thousands of mountains and rivers, and pass through the land of several countries as big as Xue before he can return.

The land areas of Jiang Guo and Yang Guo are both very small, and they are slightly larger than Wushe County where Xue Guo Jiang Yuan was at the beginning.

Among them, Yang Guo is powerful and has been trying to annex Jiang Guo, which led to successive years of war between the two countries.

If Jiang Country is close to the Far West, then the Second Border Town, Jianglue City and Kunyou City have become the boundary markers separating the Far West and the living area of ​​the human race.

Continuing to the west, you will enter the extreme western land where it is difficult for human beings to survive.

And all the way to the east, you will enter the hinterland of Jiang Country.

According to legend, Jianglue City and Kunyou City were built to defend against the outposts and first barriers of unknown enemies in the Phantom Swamp.

The two cities face the Phantom Swamp, and the northeast and south sides are surrounded by the second barrier, the Yong'an Mountains. There is only one mountain road leading to the third barrier, Fawei City.

But this is just a legend, after all, no one has ever seen anything come out of the Phantom Swamp.

For hundreds of years, the people in these two cities have never encountered even ghosts.

Only with the rumors of ghosts brought by businessmen from the hinterland of Jiang country, did people learn about the terrifying natural enemy of the living.

As for the ghosts, the people in the two cities only regarded them as casual chats after dinner.

Only tonight did Jiang Yuan bring them the real fear of ghosts.

But what surprised Jiang Yuan was another point.

Whether it is Jiang Guo or Yang Guo, it seems that there is no royal family.

The civilians and slaves here are ordinary people, the officials are also ordinary people, and even the royal family and nobles are ordinary people.

Only the secret sect of imperial law, who has always seen the head and tail of the dragon, has become the guardian god who protects mortals from the invasion of demons and ghosts.

This is quite different from Jiang Yuan's previous experience.

Whether it is the country of Xue where Jiang Yuan was originally located, or the neighboring countries of Chu and Chen, the noble families constitute the real upper class of a country, directly ruling all citizens.

If the imperial sect here is also the aristocratic family of the public family, they have a neutral and lofty attitude, appearing to be detached from the mundane world, and rarely have contact with the mundane world.

Jiang Yuan thought for a while and said:

"I need to contact the wild people and the city lord of Kunyou City, you can arrange it immediately. By the way, tell me how long it will take."

According to what everyone said, apart from the Secret Sect of the Imperial Law, these two are the only ones around here who know about the Phantom Swamp.

Yang Mu replied:
"City lord, if the savages speak, I will send someone to look for them at dawn. There are some savages selling goods in the city, but it is not difficult to find them. It is estimated that there will be results at noon tomorrow. As for Kunyou City, although it is a little away from our border The city is only one day away, but the owner of Kunyou City, I am afraid..."

"What?" Jiang Yuan asked.

When mentioning Kunyou City, all the officials in Jianglue City were angry.

Just listen to Yang Mu's explanation:
"Three days ago, when our Jianglue City was surrounded by Yang Guo's army, we lit the beacon fire, and at the same time sent people to Kunyou City to ask for help. But Nie Chuan, the lord of Kunyou City, was greedy for life and afraid of death, and he could only hear him My wife’s words. Naie Chuan blocked Kunyou City, and refused to send reinforcements under the pretext of being afraid of being surrounded by the enemy, which led to the destruction of the frontier city. He ignored the request of the original city lord. I’m afraid your request, the city lord, He also..."

Jiang Yuan calculated the time and said with a smile:

"I don't believe that Nie Chuan is so courageous. First send someone to persuade him to surrender, and order him to prepare all the information about the Phantom Swamp. After meeting the wild people tomorrow, I will go there in person. If he is really disobedient, I'm afraid I don't want to die!"

Yang Mu rolled his eyes when he heard this, and said hastily:

"This subordinate is willing to serve the city lord, and personally went to Kunyou City to persuade him to surrender!"

Now Jianglue City is occupied by a kind of ghosts, and no one knows how these ghosts will treat the living.

Being able to escape from this place with the excuse of persuading surrender can avoid uncertain dangers.

So this is why Yang Mu was so eager to recommend himself.

Among the officials, some of them didn't understand what Yang Mu meant, and they all expressed their willingness to go.

Jiang Yuan stared at Yang Mu haha ​​and said:

"Then you go! I will take care of your family for you. If the persuasion fails, I will kill your whole family!"

"This..." Yang Mu was taken aback for a moment, and then his face was full of bitterness, "I understand the attribute..."

A group of officials who were vying to go to persuade them to surrender were completely silent at this time, and their eyes were full of gloating when they looked at Yang Mu.

As for other things in the city, Jiang Yuan is not interested either.

He ordered people to arrange a mansion to live in, and other matters were still discussed by powerful figures such as civil affairs officers, justices of the peace, and tax officials in the city.

Jugou Mantou found Jiang Yuan by himself, followed Jiang Yuan into the mansion, and stayed beside the sleeping Lin Yulin every step of the way.

This dog bun is extremely wary of outsiders. Its strength is basically comparable to that of the lowest-level ghosts in the haunted world, and ordinary people have nothing to do with it.

In this city where there are only mortals, with it guarding Lin Yulin, there is no need to worry about any accidents.

Due to the time difference, Jiang Yuan couldn't fall asleep for a while, so he called Aunt Hong and the ghosts over and made a lot of arrangements.

After a night of predation, the strength of these ghosts skyrocketed.

Aunt Hong has faintly shown signs of entering a dangerous state, while the other four ghosts have already reached a chaotic state.

Even the hundreds of zombies have been rewarded, and they have basically stabilized in the haunted environment.

These ghosts can't see the sun, in order to continue to work for Jiang Yuan during the day, Jiang Yuan imitated Princess You Yue's way of avoiding the sun, and found a lot of large black robes for them to cover their whole body, so that they can Can be active during the day.

For these goblins, relying solely on their robes to hide from the sun is actually very dangerous.

It only needs to be cut through their clothes with sword energy by warriors from a long distance, or ordinary people will burn their clothes with fire, and then their souls will be scattered in the sun.

However, Jiang Yuan still insisted on doing this. Firstly, he didn't care about the life and death of these ghosts. Second, after the war and the zombie army in this city, the living people had already been scared out of their wits, and few people dared to attack the ghosts.

Regarding the demands of these demons, Jiang Yuan still ordered them to continue to block the city.

Since there is a secret sect of imperial law in this place, Jiang Yuan doesn't want them to understand his own reality.

At present, Jiang Yuan only has the Phantom Swamp in his eyes, and he doesn't want to devote too much energy to facing too many enemies.

After the group of ghosts left as ordered, the sky gradually brightened.

Jiang Yuan walked out of the room and began to walk around this strange city.

It was dark and chaotic last night, and he didn't pay much attention to this place.

At this time, with the arrival of morning, Jiang Yuan saw the different scenery and folk customs of this city and Xue Guo's city.

(End of this chapter)