Chapter 207: Arriving Home, Apprehensive, Flying Bird

The first year of Great Xia, December 30th, just entering the night.

"Set off!"

At Xu Ning's order, the people of Wuyuan Mountain, who had been packing for a whole night, formed a mighty team and set off from Zhongyuan Peak.

Lin Kai's Green Flood Dragon team led three low-level teams to open the way; then three low-level teams each escorted a trailer; then there were the five thousand or so people from the four camps of Flying Tiger; finally, Lu Yang's Dongyang team led three teams to bring up the rear;

Xu Ning led his own Black Arrow team, responsible for patrolling and protecting on the flanks.

The team had to walk west along the north bank of the Yinghe River for about fifteen kilometers, and once they could see the mountain wall on the west side of Shuanglong Mountain, they would walk north along the mountain wall for thirteen kilometers to reach the Shuanglong Valley station.

The distance of twenty-seven kilometers, if it were Xu Ning alone, it would probably take less than half an hour. With over six thousand people, it would be much slower.

"It took half an hour to walk only four kilometers. Without accident, it will take more than three hours to walk the whole journey. This speed is too slow. Go and urge them!"

Xu Ning wandered on the flank, looking at the slow marching speed of the crowd, his eyebrows frowned slightly, and he gave instructions to several team members beside him.

"Yes, my lord!"

More than ten people immediately walked quickly and dispersed to all parts of the team, shouting and urging.

"All hurry up, don't drag your feet, hurry up and walk."

"Hold the young ones, speed up again, hurry, hurry, hurry..."

"It's just entering the night, the temperature is not low yet, all hurry up, speed up."

The Frozen Abyss is very taboo about large-scale crowd movement. The migration of five or six thousand people is a moving feast for cold beasts and strange monsters in their eyes.

Not walking fast, that won't do!

Lin Kai in the front row received the news and immediately accelerated his pace, bringing the overall marching speed of the team to become much faster.

"Why walk so fast? Do you want to freeze us to death?"

"Slow down, my child can't take it anymore, it's too cold outside."

"Where is the Great Xia station? Why haven't we arrived after so long?"

In the middle part, the five or six thousand people from the four camps including Flying Tiger, men, women, old, and young, all had a cross drawn on their foreheads with coal pens, which was clearly a mark of their captive status.

This group of people was urged constantly, and naturally made quite a few complaints.

But complaints were complaints. Seeing the Great Xia people patrolling and urging constantly around them, no matter how dissatisfied they were in their hearts, they could only mutter in a low voice, and their feet honestly accelerated their pace, following the team to continue moving forward.

Xiang Liang was also in the middle part, but his forehead was not marked with a cross.

Looking at his father and the others on the side, who had been bowing their heads and walking silently, thinking they were afraid, Xiang Liang spoke in a low voice to persuade: "Father, don't worry, once we arrive at Great Xia, I will plead with that Secretary lord. If it still doesn't work, I will go find their leader. I don't believe that the people of Great Xia are all as unreasonable as that Xu Ning."

Xiang Ping raised his head to look at his son, shook his head and smiled: "I'm not afraid, I'm just thinking, to what extent will that Great Xia station be good?"

To what extent will the Great Xia station be good?

Xiang Liang was stunned when he heard this. Looking around at others, he found that their expressions were similar to his father's. Looking at the supplies fully loaded on the three trailers in the front row, he suddenly reacted.

Just a Wuyuan station had such abundant supplies.

Then to what extent would the Great Xia station be good?

Even his father, who was a leader, couldn't imagine it.

Others, let alone.

"You can worry about others. I, your Uncle Dong, and the others, even He Feng, Liu Qing, and including Wang Lie, and all the remaining Earth-Digging Realms, once we arrive at Great Xia, certainly won't have any problems. You can rest assured!"

Xiang Ping showed a hint of confidence on his face, said a lot of names, and finally even added Wang Lie in.

"I don't know what Great Xia wants us to migrate there for, but judging from the fact that they didn't kill us last night, this Great Xia is not a murderous camp. Keeping us must be useful..."

Speaking of this, Xiang Ping paused and continued: "Nothing more than mining or hunting, needing us to work hard for them. Since that's the case, they certainly won't kill us."

Hearing this, Xiang Liang reacted immediately, and his eyes lit up suddenly.

Right!

His father was right. With the strength of Xu Ning and these people, it certainly wouldn't be difficult to kill them. Since they kept them, it must be for a purpose.

He didn't know about Great Xia's captive rules, so he didn't understand the corvée labor, and was still worried that his father and others would be executed after returning to Great Xia to be judged.

Hearing his father's words just now, he reacted.

The mining and hunting capabilities possessed by the Earth-Digging Realms had already determined that no matter which camp they were in, they were wealth themselves. Great Xia certainly wouldn't kill indiscriminately.

"During the day in the wooden cabin, I had already observed that there were over eight hundred people in Great Xia in Wuyuan. Although more than half were Earth-Digging Realms, there were actually only four hundred or so. Based on this, the total number of Earth-Digging Realms at their station shouldn't be too many. These hundred or so people of ours are not few to them."

Xiang Liang nodded, and the brilliance in his eyes became increasingly bright.

Four hundred or so Earth-Digging Realms in a Wuyuan station, actually to Xiang Liang, was already extremely exaggerated, let alone the teams led by Xu Ning, Lin Kai, and Lu Yang, whose strength was so terrifying.

In his view, this must already be the vast majority of Great Xia's power.

Even guessing more boldly, the power stationed in Wuyuan only accounted for half of Great Xia's total strength, which was already quite remarkable.

At most, there were only a thousand Earth-Digging Realms. The hundred or so Earth-Digging Realms of his father and Wang Lie were not a small force to Great Xia.

They certainly wouldn't mess around.

"Why did the front stop?"

Unknowingly, the conversation between father and son had passed for several hours. Noticing that the team had stopped, Xiang Ping immediately stretched his neck to look forward.

Unfortunately, they were in the middle area of the team and couldn't see the very front clearly.

"I'll go take a look."

Anyone marked with a coal pen on their head could not move at will, but Xiang Liang was not among them. After speaking, he walked toward the front.

Xiang Liang passed through the crowd, crossed the three trailers fully loaded with supplies, raised his head to look forward, and his expression stalled.

The one leading the whole team was Lin Kai's Green Flood Dragon team and three other low-level teams. At this moment, all four teams had stopped, just because Lin Kai was talking to a stranger who appeared in front.

Ordinary conversation, of course, was not enough to make Xiang Liang shocked.

The key was that Lin Kai's posture when talking to that person was extremely humble!

Humble?

According to Xiang Liang's observations in Wuyuan for two days, the status of Lin Kai and Lu Yang should be about the same as that Garrison Commander. In most cases, the three of them were basically talking naturally, without a clear superior-subordinate relationship.

Could it be that Secretary lord?

Xiang Liang looked carefully for a while, confirmed that he hadn't seen wrong, a guess rose in his heart, his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly moved closer.

The two didn't deliberately lower their voices when talking, so he could hear clearly if he got closer.

"Over five thousand people, good fellow, Wuyuan has made a great contribution this time!"

"Hahaha, thank you for your auspicious words, my lord. The Garrison Commander is in the middle urging others to hurry, he shouldn't be able to catch up for a while. Should I go notify him?"

"No need, no need. The whole station is brightly lit tonight, the city gate is wide open, just waiting for your batch of people from Wuyuan to return. It's still a few hours before midnight, the city gate is about to close, and the New Year's ceremony is about to start. It's only five kilometers away from the city gate. Hurry and bring people into the city, I'll let the Tiger Leopard team escort you for a ride."

"Thank you, Deputy Secretary, brothers, continue on the road!"

Lin Kai gave the final order, and the team continued to advance.

And Xiang Liang in the crowd was already stunned.

Deputy Secretary?

This person was actually not that Secretary.

Deputy, that is to say, there was still a main one.

Garrison Commander, Deputy Secretary, Secretary, Leader...

This Lin Kai, in Great Xia, actually couldn't even be considered high-level?

Gulp...

Xiang Liang swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

The next second, his pupils widened instantly.

Not only him, but many people on the side also widened their eyes, looking ahead, their expressions as if they had seen a strange monster.

Clang, clang, clang...

In front of the team, a small team composed of fifty people wearing pale golden armor suddenly ran out, quickly dispersed into two groups, bypassed the left and right sides of the team, and began to escort them forward.

What others felt might just be visual impact.

But Xiang Liang was different!

Black Arrow, Green Flood Dragon, Dongyang, the three teams were also configured with fifty people.

But each team had at most a dozen people wearing gold armor.

And this small team before his eyes, all fifty people were in gold armor.

"I'll let the Tiger Leopard team escort you for a ride..."

Recalling the last sentence that person said just now, Xiang Liang's eyes condensed.

The strength of this Tiger Leopard team was absolutely above those three teams of Black Arrow.

Gulp...

This Great Xia, how many strong people were there?

"All hurry up, we'll be there soon, hurry."

Several more urging sounds came, Xiang Liang didn't have time to think, and was wrapped by the crowd and moved north quickly.

Just like this, after more than an hour, the team finally saw the end of the mountain wall.

It couldn't be said to be the end, it should be said to be a gap in the mountain wall.

Great Xia Valley, finally arrived!

"Arrived home!"

"Hahaha, arrived home."

"Finally arrived home."

The Great Xia crowd, the moment they saw the valley, all showed happy and excited smiles, some even couldn't help but shout loudly. The sound spread from the front row to the back, and everyone heard it.

The five or six thousand people from the four camps including Flying Tiger, although they didn't understand why the Great Xia people were so excited and happy, but the moment they raised their heads and saw the valley, their moods also relaxed.

"Finally don't have to walk."

"Arrived, is that the valley entrance?"

"Doesn't look like a valley entrance, it's square."

"Is... is... city gate?"

"What a joke, where is there such a big city gate?"

"It really is, look, everyone, it's a city gate, such a big city gate..."

"Hiss..."

The crowd sounded with questioning voices one after another.

Not a single error in the content at a glance!

But accompanied by the open field of vision, they saw the valley entrance clearly.

Everyone couldn't help but gasp.

At the Great Xia valley entrance, two giant double-opening iron gates, twenty-seven meters high and twelve meters wide, were wide open facing the crowd.

The gate opened outward, so they could see clearly at a glance.

That iron gate even had a thickness of over a meter.

Gulp...

"This is a gate?"

"This is pure iron?"

"How much iron ore must be used to forge this?"

"Millions, no, this must be over ten million, right?"

"If this iron gate is closed, nothing can break in, right?"

Thousands of people were shocked, and Xiang Liang was one of them.

As the son of a leader, he knew more about iron ore than others.

Iron ore the size of a fist was forty or fifty jin. Like the two giant iron gates before his eyes, let alone the forging method, just the volume alone, the weight was definitely over ten million jin.

Ten million jin of iron ore, used to make a gate?

This Great Xia, to what extent was it wealthy?

"Walk, hurry into the city, do you all still want to freeze outside?"

"Hurry home, froze me to death, in a hurry to go home, hurry, hurry."

"Hurry, hurry."

Several urging sounds came, Xiang Liang followed the crowd and walked forward.

When they were one kilometer away from the gate, a burst of warmth rushed toward them.

Xiang Liang and everyone else were stunned.

That gate was actually spraying heat outward?

No, no, the gate was indeed spraying heat, but it hadn't reached that extent. Why did it inexplicably become warm?

Everyone had curiosity on their faces, but now no one answered them, so they could only continue to walk forward.

When they walked under the iron gate, Xiang Liang and the people in the front row couldn't help but raise their eyes and look into the gate.

At this look, everyone's expression froze instantly.

Connected to the giant iron gate was a spacious avenue.

In the avenue, pedestrians were coming and going, very lively.

On both sides of the avenue, one building after another stood in great numbers. The key was that every house was lit with lamps, and furnace fires were hung on both sides of the street. The entire valley was brightly lit, full of magnificent scenery.

The clothes of the pedestrians on the avenue—white, yellow, red, cyan, black... all kinds of colors, beast skin cloaks, coarse cloth soft clothes, silk brocade clothes, pale golden armor, pure iron black armor... even the styles were many.

Most of the fabrics and colors of the clothes, Xiang Liang didn't recognize at all.

Even he didn't recognize them, let alone others.

While Xiang Liang and the group were sizing up the pedestrians on the street, these pedestrians naturally also began to size them up.

"These must be the people who came back from Wuyuan, why are there so many fresh faces?"

"I heard it's the four camps before. Didn't Wuyuan send people back to pass the news in advance last night? Those four families took the initiative to take action against us and were solved by the team led by Lord Xu. This should be bringing everyone back!"

"Four camps, tsk tsk tsk, Lord Xu has made another great contribution!"

"Contribution is nothing. I just heard from the Tiger Leopard team that they brought back over a hundred Earth-Digging Realm captives, all of which will be counted on the Black Arrow team. The people of Xu Ning's team probably won't need to mine for several years."

"So profitable, I also want to go out to the station."

"Then you have to work harder. Many teams are watching now, just waiting for when there is new territory."

Entering the valley, while Xiang Liang looked around at the wooden cabins, he listened to the discussions of passersby on the street. Although he didn't see or hear very clearly, he could infer some information from it.

"I previously inferred that the group of people at the Wuyuan station could account for half of Great Xia's strength. Now it seems that I was wrong to the point of absurdity. Just finding one person on this street, I feel they are all stronger than me, and there are not a few who are stronger than my father and the others."

"Xu Ning's status in Great Xia is indeed not very high. Many people can call him by his name directly, and there are probably quite a few who are stronger than him."

"Iron, coal, beast meat, beast bones, fruits, clothes... the supplies in Wuyuan simply can't be counted as anything at the Great Xia station."

"Black Arrow, Green Flood Dragon, Dongyang, these three intermediate teams are very strong in our eyes, but they are still just the tip of the iceberg of Great Xia. For example, that Tiger Leopard team just now, there are probably not a few who are stronger than these three teams."

As more and more information inferred in Xiang Liang's mind, his expression became increasingly horrified, and his mood became increasingly apprehensive.

Horrified at the strength of Great Xia.

Apprehensive because Great Xia was so strong, the significance of his father and Wang Lie's hundred or so Earth-Digging Realms was not that great.

"These people talking about Earth-Digging Realm captives, should be referring to my father and the others. Does it mean they will be sent to mine? Is it mining forever, or is it enough to mine for a period of time..."

While Xiang Liang was apprehensive, he also walked for a long time with the crowd.

In front of the avenue, a giant wooden building came into view.

Xiang Liang was instantly infatuated.

Not only him, but the people around him, or rather, the five or six thousand people who came to Great Xia for the first time like him, looking at the wooden building, their expressions were all infatuated.

That wooden building had three floors, about fifteen meters high and two hundred meters long, like a giant abyss beast lying in the valley.

From the outside, it could be seen that most of the wooden building was built of wood, and only some key parts were mixed with iron materials. The overall color presented was a mix of pale gold and black, giving people an inexplicable sense of solemnity.

At the top of the wooden building, a banner was fluttering in the cold wind. The flag was golden yellow, with a large black-bodied "Xia" character in the middle.

Under the eaves of each floor of the wooden building, forty or fifty coal stoves were hung, and the dragon and phoenix patterns carved at the corners of the eaves were illuminated vividly by the furnace fire.

All three floors of the wooden building were brightly lit. Personnel could be seen walking around on the first floor; many people were also lying on the porch of the second floor looking down, very lively; only the third floor was too high to see anything, but the brightness was the strongest.

"Heh... ha..."

In front of the wooden building, a group of children in their teens, about a thousand, were punching with their upper bodies bare. Each time they threw a punch, they shouted loudly. Although from the strength of the punches, it could be seen that their strength was not very strong, the momentum was extremely majestic, especially when combined with the wooden building like a giant beast behind them, the momentum appeared even more magnificent.

"This should be the main building of Great Xia, the leader is in..."

Xiang Liang raised his head to look at the third floor, especially the brightest spot in the middle, with both awe and thick curiosity in his eyes.

"Xu Ning, Lin Kai, Lu Yang, all come up!"

A clear voice came from the third floor of the wooden building, and everyone below, including Xiang Liang, was stunned for a moment, and all raised their heads to look over.

It was a pity that they couldn't see anything.

"This voice, could it be that leader?"

Xiang Liang turned his head, looking at Xu Ning and the three walking toward the wooden building with excitement, and became even more curious about that voice.

"Screech………………"

It was a pity that the three hadn't rushed into the wooden building yet, and an accident happened.

A high-pitched and sharp terrifying cry suddenly came from high in the sky.

This sound seemed to carry a shock that hit the soul directly, making Xiang Liang and the crowd below all show inexplicable fear on their faces.

Everyone raised their heads to look at the sky, their faces full of horror and fear.

A four or five-zhang dark shadow suddenly dived from the night sky toward the top of the wooden building.

"Flying in the sky, there is still this kind of cold beast?"

"So fast, what does it want to do? What is there on the wooden building?"

"Run, if you don't run, you'll lose your life!"

Seeing a flying cold beast for the first time, not only Xiang Liang and the five or six thousand people, but even many Great Xia people were panicked all of a sudden.

Many people even started to run toward the periphery.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 208 =====