polar demon

Chapter 329 Tracking ([-])

The climate here is much drier and hotter than in Xue Country, with strong sunshine.

This also led to a very monotonous color of the whole city, basically a piece of khaki, with few green trees to be seen.

Most ordinary houses have flat roofs and are square in shape, and the walls are rammed with mud.Skylights are opened for lighting, while no windows are opened on the four walls, only doors are left.

There is also a grape trellis on the top of the small courtyard, and the branches and leaves of the grapes block the sun for people to enjoy the shade.

The temperature here changes drastically and the temperature difference is large.

It was still a little cold last night, and people were all wearing fur coats.

But with the sudden heat after dawn, people put on light gauze and thin clothes one after another, just like being in a stove.

This style is very similar to the Western Regions that Jiang Yuan had visited in the original world.

As the sun gradually rises, it can be seen that many residents start to fetch water.

The Yong'an Mountains to the east of the city are covered with snow all the year round due to its high altitude.

The small river leading down from the Yong'an Mountains merged into the moat, and also flowed into a large pool in the city. Through the underground channel extending from this pool, it flowed into various small pools in the city.

In addition, many wells can be seen in the city.Obviously, water sources are extremely important to this city.

Under Jiang Yuan's strong intervention, the war last night ended in a strange state.

However, the damage caused by the war cannot be eliminated in a short period of time.

In the city, you can still see the green smoke rising from the burned buildings, and there are also people on the streets who are constantly cleaning up the blood and collecting the leftover weapons and armor.

As for the dead body, it was already devoured by a group of ghosts and zombies last night, saving people the time of transporting the body and burying it.

On the street, the passers-by they met were terrified of Jiang Yuan.

Before meeting Jiang Yuan, the civilians had already avoided it.

Occasionally, some pedestrians couldn't avoid it, so they raised their right hand back, pressed it on their chest, and bowed towards Jiang Yuan in a unique salute.

Jiang Yuan ignored the living people and wandered on the street by himself:
"If the tree demon hadn't fallen asleep, he would definitely think it's fun here..."

Dryad Lin Yulin has a strong curiosity about everything and can always find fun.

Although she was very annoying chattering all day long, but now she fell into a quiet and deep sleep, which made Jiang Yuan a little unaccustomed.

On the edge of a small pool in the distance, a family of four is fetching clean water with a bucket.

The middle-aged man was wearing clothes that are common in the city, a soft linen undergarment inside, and a white robe outside, exposing his right shoulder.

And next to him are a beautiful woman who is nearly 30 years old, a [-]-year-old and a [-]-year-old cute girl.

Their clothes are also normal, wearing simple sleeveless long skirts with belts around their waists, showing off their graceful curves.

The women's hair is not tied into a bun, but hangs down naturally.Sleeveless robes reveal their slender arms, which are decorated with armbands.

Although the husband and the beautiful wife looked sad at times, they couldn't do without laughter when talking with their two daughters.

Although the war last night made them full of doubts and fears about the future, they also had their own optimism.

At this time, the security officer hurried to Jiang Yuan's side with a few soldiers.

Sensing Jiang Yuan's gaze towards the family of four, the magistrate with a curly beard was thoughtful.

"What's the matter?" Jiang Yuan asked.

The magistrate hastily replied:
"City Lord, the wild people in the city have been found, and now they are waiting for the City Lord at the place I discussed last night."

Jiang Yuan nodded, and then walked towards the place the magistrate said.

When Jiang Yuan walked away, the magistrate began to order a few words to the soldiers around him.

Then the group of soldiers came to the family of four by the pool fiercely. Under their astonished gazes, the soldiers raised their wooden spears violently, knocked the husband to the ground, and beat him continuously.

The wife and two daughters cried out in horror and begged for mercy, but they were quickly tied up with ropes by the rest of the soldiers and taken away.

……

When Jiang Yuan came to the house where the business was discussed last night, he heard roars inside.

As he walked into the room, he saw only two men in animal fur robes with disheveled long hair and beards being firmly held down by several soldiers.

Jiang Yuan came to the two men:
"Is this the savage?"

A soldier hastily replied:
"Ghost King... City Lord, these are the two savages in the city. They belong to the Black Leopard tribe."

Wild people are a special kind of living beings in this land.

They disobeyed Jiang's rule, wandered outside the king's law, lived in dangerous places, and kept company with wild beasts all day long. They had their own ethnic groups and chiefs.

And on the land west of Jianglue City, there are many wild people living.

They would occasionally send people to the city to sell some animal skins and bones in exchange for some goods.Other than that, they had no contact with the inhabitants of King Ginger.

Then, I saw the soldier beat the two wild men with a whip:

"The city lord has something to ask you, be honest with me!"

The soldier fought for a long time and began to be out of breath.

But those two wild men still kept roaring in another unique language, and their eyes were full of rebelliousness. If there were not many soldiers holding them down, they might have already exploded.

Jiang Yuan waved his hand to signal the soldiers to leave.

The soldiers hesitated for a moment, but followed Jiang Yuan's instructions to let go of the two wild men, and then left the room.

Although the two wild men were furious before, they did not attack Jiang Yuan after they were freed. Instead, they quickly calmed down and saluted Jiang Yuan with the unique etiquette in Jianglue City.

Then, one of the wild folk said:
"Excellent new city lord, we have seen your strength last night. We have always followed the rules of Jianglue City. I don't know what you ordered us to come here?"

Jiang Yuan asked directly:

"I want to know all about the Shadow Swamp."

When they heard about the Phantom Swamp, the two wild folk showed panic on their faces.

The wild man struggled a bit, and said:
"The Shadow Swamp, that is a place where only the dead dare to set foot. Anyone who enters that swamp will lose their way home forever. All the tribes west of the high wall have not dared to step into it for hundreds of years. Among them, perhaps, only Queen Nanchen and her group of women dare to pry into the darkness of the Shadow Swamp."

"Queen Nanchen?" Jiang Yuan asked, "Where can I find her?"

The wild man replied:
"It's on the edge of the Phantom Swamp, near the mountains north of Kunyou City. The civil affairs officials in Kunyou City can find them."

Jiang Yuan frowned slightly. It seemed that Jianglue City was doomed to find nothing. Only by going to Kunyou City could he get useful information.

Ye Min hesitated for a moment, then continued:

"My honorable city lord, the Shadow Swamp is an unknown place, full of death and decay. Even if the city lord has an army of demons and ghosts, it may be difficult to get out of it. According to the words of the oldest elder in our black leopard tribe, That is the territory of gods and demons, and the power of the world will never be allowed to peep."

Jiang Yuan waved his hand, and after saluting again, the two wild men hurriedly retreated.

As for the gods and demons in the wild people's mouth, whether they are gods and demons in the true sense, Jiang Yuan is not sure.

For this mortal world where mortals are at the same time, far away from the powerful power of the noble family, I am afraid that slightly stronger people or ghosts will be regarded as gods and demons by them.

"I still have to go to Kunyou City. I don't know if Yang Mu's persuasion to surrender was successful..."

After the discussion last night, Jiang Yuan let Yang Mu out of the city on horseback, and went to Kunyou City to persuade him to surrender.

As for whether Yang Mu really tried to persuade him to surrender, or whether he ran away privately, it doesn't matter.

As long as Jiang Yuan went to Kunyou City in person, and the city lord named Nie Chuan didn't surrender, there would be only one dead end.

Jiang Yuan was about to leave, but saw the magistrate entering the room excitedly.

The magistrate was holding a rope in his hand, and three women with tears on their faces were tied to the rope.Jiang Yuan recognized that it was the beautiful woman and her two daughters in a family of four whom he had seen by the pool.

"City Lord, these three women hope to serve the City Lord!"

The magistrate had a flattering smile on his face:
"You three, tell me, isn't that the case?"

The three women showed strong smiles on their faces, and the beautiful woman gritted her teeth and replied:
"I implore the city lord to take pity on Xinglin..."

Jiang Yuan said helplessly to the magistrate:
"Is there something wrong with you? They are a good family, and you insist on breaking them up. Don't think I don't know what method you used, so let them go!"

After finishing speaking, Jiang Yuan didn't bother to pay attention to it at all, and he left the room with a step.

The magistrate didn't expect the flattery to be slapped on the horse's leg, and his heart was full of fear and fear.

He thought that by pleasing Jiang Yuan, he would be able to protect himself from being eaten by ghosts, but unexpectedly it led to such a result.

But the magistrate could only vent his uneasiness on the three women, thinking that it was the reason they failed to please Jiang Yuan.

After he raised his palm and slapped the three women's faces fiercely for a while, he angrily untied the ropes on them, and promised to release the man from the prison as well.

……

Zombies covered in black robes stood guard at the four gates of Jianglue City.

The sights they projected from the veil greedily gathered on the living people in the distance.

If it weren't for the powerful ghosts such as Aunt Hong, Fatty, Big Head Ghost, Hanged Ghost, and One Eye sitting at the four city gates, these zombies would have been unable to restrain themselves and ate them.

The living people did not dare to get close to these zombies and ghosts, and avoided them as far as they could.

Jiang Yuan found Aunt Hong, took her back into the beast spear as a weapon spirit, and stared at the rest of the ghosts before flying up into the sky.

From a high altitude, Jiang Yuan can have a panoramic view of the surrounding landforms.

Tens of miles to the east of Jianglue City, there is a long and dilapidated city wall, extending from the south to the far north.

It is said that it was also used to resist the enemies in the Phantom Swamp, but it can be seen that it has been abandoned for a long time, and many city walls have collapsed and fell into disrepair.

In addition to Jianglue City, you can see the continuous Daxue Mountains, which are the Yong'an Mountains.

If you keep walking towards the north of Jianglue City, you can see a road leading to Yong'an Mountain halfway, which is the only way out of this flat land surrounded by mountains.Yang Guo's army came from there last night.

As the war was interrupted by Jiang Yuan forcefully, Jiang Yuan could still see the broken army fleeing in twos and threes on the vast plain during the flight.

And continue to the north, you can reach Kunyou City, another city in this flat land surrounded by mountains.

Jiang Yuan flew all the way. Although the speed of the human form could not be compared with other forms, it was only a day's journey to Kunyou City, and the flight time was even shorter.

So Jiang Yuan didn't need to enter other forms to cause too much commotion.

After flying for about an hour, at noon, a city in the distance finally appeared in Jiang Yuan's sight.

Kunyou City has finally arrived.

　Thanks to "ANKE Demon King" for the reward!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)