The weak scholar in the end of ancient times

Chapter 51: Rich

Entering the inner city area requires paying more fees and undergoing stricter checks to prevent people who are possessed by evil spirits from entering.

Wen Gu and his companions paid the entrance fee to the city - a small bag of inferior fine salt.

Walk through a passage surrounded by tents with incense burning inside.

When I finally walked out, I felt the scene in front of me suddenly become hazy.

Teahouses, restaurants, brothels, and theaters were filled with well-dressed merchants coming and going.

It looks a bit like when the world is at peace.

The biggest difference is that we can now carry weapons with us.

Even if you carry weapons that are not appropriate for your status or wear clothes that are not appropriate for your status, generally no one will pursue it.

There was a sound of flapping wings, and a pigeon flew across the sky.

"Is Ma Tuaner hiding well?" Wen Gu said to Xiao Liu.

"It's hidden well! It wasn't allowed into the city!" Xiao Liu said hurriedly.

At this critical moment, the surveillance here must be strict. What if his Ma Tuaner goes to catch pigeons and gets shot to death!
Since leaving the village, Xiao Liu has been gaining more knowledge. When he saw Bailu County before, he thought it was a very sophisticated city with a good geographical location, much better than their remote and poor area.

It wasn’t until I saw Jinwu City today that I truly felt what a big city is!

Even though a crisis is coming outside and evil creatures are about to attack the city, the shops in the inner city are still open.

They didn't wander around, but just took a quick look, paid with salt, and climbed up the inner city wall.

Compared to the outer city walls, the inner city walls were not as tall and thick, nor did they bear as many mottled remnants of battle. They were clearly a few years old, but they were still in good repair.

"This place is lower than the outer city wall, and I can't see anything." Xiao Liu looked forward.

It was a bit novel at first, but now it was a crisis and he wanted to see the situation outside the city.

"Go over there." Wen Gu raised his hand and pointed to a place.

Some high platforms were built on the inner city walls for watching the battle.

Some of the platforms have been reserved, and it is obvious that they belong to wealthy families. There are guards and followers guarding the bottom of the platforms, not allowing others to pass.

Most of these are wealthy people from the south who came here not long ago, with their elders bringing their young people here.

Whether Ren Valve is reliable or not cannot be determined by just hearing it from other people, they need to see it with their own eyes!
Wen Gu chose a high platform that was close and not crowded.

There was already a young man of about sixteen or seventeen years old here, with three guards.

Seeing the other party looking at him, Wen Gu performed a scholar's salute.

The young man was absent-minded and just raised his hand as a greeting.

The two sides kept their distance.

After standing still, the young man turned his head and looked around again, his gaze swept over Wen Gu and the others, and then fell on Xiao Liu.

He looks reckless, but he's also a warrior with a bow.

So I came over to chat with Xiao Liu.

He introduced himself and said that his family was a merchant in the south.

Xiao Liu looked at the other person's low-key luxury. The clothes looked ordinary but the fabric was of excellent quality and embroidered with dark patterns.

On his way north, Xiao Liu had also discovered a lot of fine fabrics. Seeing how the other party was dressed, and how he could come here with guards to watch the battle at this time, he knew he was no ordinary "merchant."

Xiao Liu looked at Wen Gu and, seeing that Wen Gu had no objection, he started chatting with the young man and introduced himself: "I am just a small hunter from a remote mountain village."

The young man kept smiling, but clearly didn't believe it.

Then he talked about what he had seen and heard along the way.

Xiao Liu said that he came here with the escort agency.

The young man was confused: "What is an escort agency?"

Xiao Liu: "You don't know the escort agency?"

So I gave the other party some "popular science".

The young man's face was a little stiff. He thought to himself: How could a hunter from such a small place know so much?
As we were chatting, a horn suddenly sounded.

Xiao Liu immediately became nervous: "Is it coming?"

The young man said, "No, this sound means the city gate is closing."

Xiao Liu thought of the long queue outside the city gate when they came here before, so he asked, "What about those who haven't come in yet?"

The young man said with an expression that said, "How can you be so naive?", "Of course, everyone should accept their fate and wish for the best."

Xiao Liu couldn't help but take a deep breath.

If only their team had walked a little slower...

In fact, someone twisted his ankle while they were on the road and suggested taking a break, but Wengu didn't agree.

Not only did he not ask everyone to stop, but after seeing the team in front speed up, he asked everyone to speed up.

For those who are injured and sick, those who can ride in a car can do so. If there is not enough space, they can ask relatives and friends for help. In any case, the overall speed will increase instead of decrease.

They had only been in the city for a short while when the outer city gate was closed!

"Hasn't the evil creature arrived yet? If there are still many people outside the city gate..."

"So what? Jinwu City needs to be defended, close the gates and be prepared. Those who didn't get in can only blame them for not being quicker!" The young man said in a cold voice, "Only by being thoroughly prepared can we save more people."

Xiao Liu stopped talking.

From their own perspective, of course, the safety of the city comes first.

Xiao Liu couldn't help but look at Wen Gu, and then looked towards the location of the outer city gate.

He remembered what He Da said when they were chatting privately with each other: "Being with the right people can help you live longer."

Isn't it? If someone is in charge of the team, no matter if it's Taoist Master Qingyi, County Lieutenant Zhou, or Head of the Lin Biao, they may not be able to send them into the Jinwu City safely!

Another series of drum beats.

A team of guards came to the inner city tower and raised the flag of the Ren clan.

Wen Gu noticed that after hearing the drumbeats, some people in the outer city looked towards the city wall and saw the Ren clan’s flags raised. They seemed to be relieved and were no longer so panicked and nervous.

Wen Gu gave Xiao Liu a look.

Xiao Liu turned around and asked the young man, "Who's that over there?"

"The Seventh Young Master of the Ren family is supervising the battle from the city wall."

With the leader and the commander-in-chief present, both the soldiers fighting on the front lines and the residents and merchants in the city will feel more at ease.

Judging from the relatively calm reactions of those in the inner city, it was obvious that this was not the first time they had dealt with such an attack.

A small raised platform had been built at the gate of the inner city, cleaned and tended, incense burning, and mats laid out. A group of monks came and sat on the platform, chanting sutras.

Wen Gu said to Taoist Qing Yi: "Let the people believe in Buddhism."

The Taoist priest looked grim and remained silent with a stern face.

Coming to the Ren clan's territory, where there are more wealthy families, of course he had considered it. But now, at this crucial moment, seeing so many monks but not a single Taoist priest, he knew what was going on.

Reviewing the past no longer irritated the Taoist priest.

He looked at the outer city wall in front of him. There were many soldiers moving around there, but there were also many objects blocking his view, so he couldn't tell what the arrangement was.

In general battlefields, if you can aim at the enemy general, even if you cannot kill him, you can still pose a threat. If you are lucky enough to shoot a leader, it may help to turn the situation around.

For example, using a crossbow.

But heavy weapons like the crossbow are not suitable for such a battlefield.

In such a battlefield today, the enemy has no generals!

They are all a group of "beasts" with out-of-control brains and alienated bodies!
Thinking about what I have seen along the way, I review and ponder it.

Use fire?

At this time, both city walls were closed, some intersections between the inner city and the outer city were closed, and were heavily guarded.

In the tower of the inner city.

The thick curtain obscured the view, and smoke rose from the exquisite incense burner.

After smoking for a while, when the smoke has dissipated a little, a more elegant incense is lit.

The pen, ink, paper and inkstone had already been placed on the desk.

A young man dressed in gorgeous clothes stood on the city wall and watched for a while, then came to sit down at the desk.

Taking off the silk gloves that were exquisitely crafted and fitted to the fingers, he copied Buddhist scriptures in a casual manner.

After copying it, he asked his followers to take it and burn it in public.

It is also to let the people in the city know that he, Master Ren Qi, is praying for everyone.

After copying the Buddhist scriptures, the young man looked at the several newly received reports beside him, his expression much more serious than before. It said that someone in the city was secretly burning fires for sacrifice and forming small groups to promote the cult.

Gods, Buddhas and evil spirits?

The young man sneered.

"Ignorant pariah!"

He glanced at the burning incense beside him and continued to read his subordinates' reports.

same moment.

At the front line, the swarm of evil creatures has encountered the watchtower.

A soldier stood on top of the watchtower, his eyes fixed on the watchtower in front.

When the fire in the watchtower ahead grew brighter, he opened the secret compartment on the top of the tower, put down a lantern, and then picked up the torch next to it and lit it.

Each sentry tower has a secret compartment with a special lantern inside. They only activate these lanterns when they encounter a group attack like this.

The lantern was lit, but he didn't even look at it for a moment before running down the ladder quickly.

The people guarding the watchtower may encounter various unexpected accidents, or their judgment and behavior may be affected by fear.

But here, you don’t need strong battlefield judgment ability or high combat quality, and even unliterate people can perform the task.

If this tower defense team loses their leader, any soldier can do it. They just need to light the fire and then retreat!

As he descended, the flame in the lantern burned until the entire thing was ablaze, triggering the mechanism in the secret compartment again.

A bell fell, making a crisp sound.

It also sounds like an urging.

The soldier who ran to the bottom of the watchtower took three or two steps over the last staircase and rushed into the underground dark room. The others who had been waiting inside closed the stone door together.

If he didn't come down within the scheduled time, the people in the dark room would not wait for him and would still close the stone door.

In the watchtower above, as the bell rang, liquid flowed down the tower, and flames spread along them, quickly enveloping the tower.

The entire wooden watchtower was on fire.

At this time, the group of evil creatures was already before their eyes.

Evil things are afraid of fire.

But the swarm of evil creatures couldn't even control the beasts' sense of danger, and many of them crashed directly into the burning watchtower.

If you look down from a high altitude, you will see towers standing in the relatively open and easily accessible area in the direction of Jinwu City.

The towers lit up with flames and were then drowned by the dense, dark tide.

When the towers at almost the same level fell down, similar towers behind them lit up one after another.

Like the smoke signals from a beacon tower, they used the fire in the watchtower to send messages and at the same time to eliminate the clusters of monsters.

There were too many monsters in the cluster, and these sentry towers certainly couldn't wipe them all out, but even if they could only kill a small portion, it would be a considerable help.

The most agile ones at the front of the group are all deeply alienated evil creatures. They have been parasitized for a long time, their bodies have changed greatly, and they run at a faster speed, which has exceeded the limits of ordinary people.

They will be the first to be cut.

In Jinwu City, most of the people in the outer city area hid themselves, and even those who were wandering outside did not shout loudly.

An eerie quiet atmosphere spread.

The fire in the watchtower ahead lit up.

Wen Gu stood on the high platform of the city wall and saw it more clearly.

Following these flames, one could see in the distance a large, dark, dense group of figures rushing towards this side, pushing down the flames of the watchtower, like an undulating swarm of ants, gradually engulfing the flames.

Another trumpet sounded.

Seeing the situation in the distance, Xiao Liu's knees weakened. County Lieutenant Zhou looked pale, as if his soul had left his body. He even forgot how to breathe and held his breath.

Even though I've heard some rumors, the impact of actually seeing it with my own eyes is beyond words!
When fear reaches its extreme, it becomes a complex state of confusion.

Can we really fight against it?
The thunderous sound of drums spread throughout the city, as if it was a countdown.

The densely packed figures at the end of the field of vision rushed forward like a group of demented beasts.

One of the cluster behaviors is syntropy.

Almost all the evil creatures were rushing towards Jinwu City at this time.

He rushed directly into the hedgehog-like chevaux deer barricades and was instantly impaled on the sharp long poles.

The evil creature behind continued to rush forward, stepping on the corpses of its own kind.

The second group behavior is that no matter they are the same or different, all obstacles and all inconsistent behaviors will be regarded as obstacles and stepped over!
Those deeply alienated evil creatures running in the front, in this huge cluster, will still be trampled by their own kind as long as they are blocked and stopped by obstacles, and will not be able to escape.

So, overall, it looked like the cluster in front was in chaos, with large areas of internal trampling.

There is no escape, no change of purpose.

The will of collective behavior.

Uncontrollable gathering, qualitative change caused by quantitative change, no way out, being swept to death.

Evil poisons that can turn normal people into monsters, evil creatures that can erase humanity and turn them into beasts. In many cases, they can control their hosts, but when they gather in groups, this will be the moment when they lose control fatally.

Wen Gu thought, if the evil poison that was parasitic in their bodies could make sounds, they would be screaming like crazy right now, right?
The uncontrollable host is rapidly rushing towards death!
The alarm horn sounded.

In the tower of the inner city, the seventh son of the Ren family stood up and walked out, his hands in silk gloves resting on the railing, looking ahead.

The fire pots thrown from the outer city wall were thrown out like flowers.

The arrows launched also carried burning materials.

Fireballs of all sizes flew out from above the city wall, drew an arc in the air, and landed on the dark figures that were gathering together.

The flames splashed and burned, causing the evil creatures to let out shrill beast roars, and were quickly trampled to the ground by their own kind rushing from behind.

Looking around, the attacks of those evil creatures had no strategy, they were all trampling.

But there were too many of them, wave after wave, flooding over the barricades and continuing to approach.

When the dark wave passed a certain line, all long-range attacks on the outer city wall stopped.

The drumstick hit the drum, making a thunderous sound that spread from the front to the inner city.

All the people watching the battle on the high platform were staring at that place.

The young man standing on the same platform with Wen Gu stretched his neck to look at it, his whole body trembling.

"What's wrong? Why aren't they attacking? Those monsters are coming!!"

People who have just arrived in the city or have arrived not long ago cannot help but feel nervous, anxious, and trembling with fear.

People in the inner city felt it more deeply. The vibrations caused by the group running close together passed along the ground, from the soles of their feet to their hearts, sprouting and growing into greater fear.

Ripples appeared on the surface of the water bowl.

Some people prayed to gods and Buddhas, while others curled up in the corner, silent and with a dazed look on their faces.

The drums beat continuously, as if it was the final countdown.

On the outer city walls, huge shields stood up.

The drums suddenly stopped, and the high-pitched sound of horns, accompanied by the vibrations of the "dark tide" hitting the city walls, spread from the front line.

The evil creatures that were trampled finally hit the city wall and quickly piled up and became higher.

One after another, those ferocious figures stepped on the steps piled with their own kind and pounced on the top of the city wall.

Huhum——

The scorching flames drew a line of fire along the undulating city walls.

Like a divine bird spreading its wings!
Open a protective belt of flames!
Wen Gu Wu Sheng: Holy crap!!

Real firepower coverage!
"That is……"

"What kind of divine object is that!"

Xiao Liu and the young man next to them were clinging to the edge of the platform, their eyes almost popping out of their sockets, wishing they could fly over to see it clearly.

The moment the flames spread along the city wall, the excitement and trembling in their hearts suppressed their original fear, as if countless voices were clamoring and shouting.

miracle!!!

Desperate for an answer, but the person next to him didn't know, Xiao Liu turned around.

When you encounter a problem, review your knowledge and gain rich experience through study abroad.

"Second Brother Wen, what is that?"

"Fierce oil tank!" Wen Gu's eyes were burning.

The Ren family is really rich!
(End of this chapter)