Chapter 222: Xia City, Brotherly Tacit Understanding

The big tree was only ten miles away from Jinggu. The group of people traveling light soon arrived at the north entrance of Jinggu.

A square stone tablet stood at the north entrance.

The four big characters "Does Does Da Xia Jinggu" were carved on the stone tablet.

"Arrived!"

Seeing the stone tablet, Watching Yue Feng immediately turned his head and ordered: "Yuankun, you and the others take these three back first, treat them first and then throw them into the mining area. I want to take this kid back to the city to see the Secretary first."

Li Yuankun glanced at Luo Cheng, nodded, pulled the others, and left.

Although Watching Yue Feng was the captain of the Mountain River squad, ever since he was appointed as the Jinggu Defense Envoy by Xia Chuan, he didn't have much energy to manage the squad, so he promoted Li Yuankun to be the deputy captain. Usually, many things in the squad were handled by him.

"Follow me, we won't enter Jinggu, go back to the city directly!"

Back to the city?

Just now when Watching Yue Feng spoke to Li Yuankun, Luo Cheng had already noticed these two words he said last. Hearing it again, he was even more confused in his heart.

Does Does Da Xia's settlement, isn't it that mountain valley?

Luo Cheng was eight years old when he left the valley two years ago, and he had a deep impression of his own settlement's environment. So hearing Watching Yue Feng say "back to the city," he was truly a bit confused in his heart.

But being a newcomer, he didn't ask much, just followed Watching Yue Feng, bypassed Jinggu from one side, and walked toward the direction of the arrow bamboo forest on the south side.

Following Watching Yue Feng to bypass Jinggu, as a three-meter-high, five-meter-wide tunnel built of green bamboo came into view, Luo Cheng was stunned instantly.

The tunnel was covered by accumulated snow, flush with the snowfield on the side. It was clearly someone who first cleared a snow path, then drove piles on both sides of the ground, inserted green bamboo, then sealed the top, and then the accumulated snow covered it again, forming a fully enclosed green bamboo tunnel.

"Don't be in a daze, follow me."

Luo Cheng heard the sound and hurriedly followed Watching Yue Feng into the tunnel.

Seeing the situation inside the tunnel, the shock on Luo Cheng's face became even stronger.

Inside the green bamboo tunnel, a torch was lit every ten meters, and a coal stove was placed every hundred meters. So not only was the visibility high, but it wasn't cold at all.

On both sides of the tunnel floor, there were two deep grooves, which could be seen at a glance to be special wooden wheel lanes; the green bamboo walls on both sides also added quite a bit of iron material, clearly to increase the load-bearing capacity, fearing the tunnel would be crushed by the accumulated snow.

The tunnel was bottomless. Luo Cheng looked forward and only saw torches and coal stoves one after another, and immediately realized that the length of this passage was afraid to far exceed his imagination.

"Kid, haven't seen such a road, right?"

Luo Cheng shook his head directly upon hearing this, praising: "Such a tunnel, whether it is construction or maintenance, the manpower and material resources consumed are extremely terrifying. But it must be said that the role played in the large-scale flow of personnel and materials is immeasurable. When I was in the Hive, I saw them transporting materials, the efficiency was simply low to the point of being outrageous. But if there is such a passage, the speed is increased by ten times or even a hundred times, I'm afraid it's more than............"

Hearing this, Watching Yue Feng revealed a smile instantly.

"My lord, dare to ask how long this passage is in total?"

"A total of sixteen kilometers, crossing the arrow bamboo forest from the south entrance of Jinggu, all the way to one kilometer outside Xia City."

A total length of sixteen kilometers. Not to mention the sixteen kilometers of ground piles needed to build this tunnel, just the wood and coal stone burned every day for a torch every ten meters and a coal stove every hundred meters was extremely astonishing.

And this tunnel also crossed the arrow bamboo forest. Would there be few cold beasts in the middle?

Once any accident occurred, it had to be repaired, and even regularly cleaned the cold beasts around the tunnel............

To what extent had Does Does Da Xia's strength grown?

Luo Cheng peeped at the leopard, associated Does Does Da Xia's strength from the tunnel, and had already changed from the past. His curiosity in his heart became increasingly intense.

But Watching Yue Feng didn't know. Looking at Luo Cheng's face full of shock and emotion, he thought he was shocked by this tunnel, and the smile on his face became increasingly proud instantly.

The reason was simple.

This tunnel was built after he gave advice to Xia Chuan!

Jinggu had two iron mines, and there was also a coal mine in the arrow bamboo forest, plus bamboo silk, cold beast prey, and other materials, which had to be transported to Xia City every period of time. Every time, it consumed quite a bit of manpower and material resources, and the process was not so smooth.

Transporting materials was only one aspect. The last beast tide, and the subsequent invasion of the Hive camp, these two things also reminded Watching Yue Feng of the importance of rapid passage between the two places. It was impossible to always hope for the leader to save them every time an accident occurred. This was not realistic.

Watching Yue Feng thought about it and proposed the idea of building a tunnel under the snow to Xia Chuan.

Unexpectedly, once proposed, it was quickly adopted by Xia Chuan.

Of course, piling, material acquisition, ventilation, torches, coal stoves............ the troubles encountered during the construction were not few. Fortunately, Does Does Da Xia was now rich in materials and strong in people. After spending more than a month, they really built this tunnel.

Just as Luo Cheng said just now, because it crossed the arrow bamboo forest, the maintenance cost of this tunnel was not low. On weekdays, not only were there special hunting squads responsible for driving away and killing cold beasts around the tunnel, but the craftsman workshop would also regularly send people to clean the accumulated snow above the tunnel and check the joints of the tunnel. Once there was a risk of collapse, it would be immediately reinforced and repaired.

"The only trouble with this tunnel might be the beast tide once every four months. At that time, the tunnel area in this part of the arrow bamboo forest will definitely be trampled and damaged. But it's only three times a year. At worst, spend some effort to repair and build it again. Compared to the benefits brought by this tunnel, it's completely acceptable!"

Watching Yue Feng looked at the tunnel and began to ponder what could be improved.

"Building directly underground, we have no experience, and the manpower and material resources to be consumed will be several times that of the ground, which is definitely not realistic at present............

Can cut down all the trees around the tunnel, so as to avoid cold beasts occupying, and the daily maintenance cost can also be reduced............"

This tunnel was adopted by Xia Chuan and already had a name, called "Xia Straight Road".

Nowadays, this Xia Straight Road was not only built in Jinggu, but Wuyuan had also started construction, and several coal mines in Red Wood Ridge had also started.

It is worth mentioning that proposing the suggestion of "Xia Straight Road" earned Watching Yue Feng 5000 contribution points. If he could propose better improvement suggestions, he thought the follow-up rewards wouldn't be few.

Watching Yue Feng's thoughts, Luo Cheng naturally didn't know.

He observed the tunnel all the way, walked south for more than ten kilometers, and found that the green bamboo walls on both sides had become Zhu Frost wood walls, and immediately realized that he should have left the arrow bamboo forest.

Clearly, when Does Does Da Xia built the tunnel, it was taking materials nearby. From Jinggu to the arrow bamboo forest, it used green bamboo; after leaving the arrow bamboo forest to Does Does Da Xia's mountain valley here, it all used Zhu Frost trees.

"Arrived!"

Walking south for another five or six kilometers, following Watching Yue Feng's prompt, Luo Cheng looked up at the end of the tunnel, and the light source really ended.

The end of the tunnel was actually a wooden house. Luo Cheng followed Watching Yue Feng into the wooden house. The moment he walked out of the wooden house, the expression on his face froze instantly.

In front of the wooden house, about one kilometer away, a black giant city wall leaning against Double Dragon Mountain in the east and reaching Red Wood Ridge in the west came into view. Although there was some distance, Luo Cheng could judge from visual estimation that the height of the city wall was at least over ten meters.

"My lord, this............ this............ is this the city wall built by Does Does Da Xia?"

"Follow me first, only when you get closer can you see it clearly!"

Luo Cheng's reaction was naturally within Watching Yue Feng's expectations.

Not just Luo Cheng, even him, having seen this city wall countless times, but whenever he returned from Jinggu and saw it again, a thick pride and reverence would still appear on his face.

Fifteen meters high, a giant city wall spanning three kilometers, just visual impact could cause huge shock to people, not to mention this was only the north side.

As a member of the Does Does Da Xia camp behind that city wall, and having personally participated in the manufacture of this city wall, Watching Yue Feng naturally had feelings of reverence and pride in his heart.

And following behind Watching Yue Feng, walking west along the north city wall to the end, then turning south, seeing the west city wall that was fully four kilometers long, the horror on Luo Cheng's face became increasingly thick, and his curiosity about Does Does Da Xia climbed to the extreme.

The three times of "back to the city" Watching Yue Feng said, it turned out to be this meaning!

It was only two years since his father gave up the valley. Does Does Da Xia actually developed this place into a giant city. How many cold beasts and strange monsters could such a magnificent city wall block, how many people could the internal space of the city wall accommodate, to what extent had Does Does Da Xia developed now............

The confusion in Luo Cheng's mind was one after another. Until he followed Watching Yue Feng to the middle of the west city wall and saw that magnificent big iron gate, his breathing stopped suddenly, and all the confusion in his mind vanished instantly.

That city gate was fifteen meters high, parallel to the city wall, eight meters wide, hanging in mid-air with sixteen chains as thick as a person, and he didn't know what method was used to fix it. At this moment, it was half-hanging, and only half was opened.

Directly above the city wall hung a giant wooden plaque, with the two golden characters "Does Does Da Xia" written on it, shining brightly under the illumination of the furnace fire hanging on both sides.

People were coming in and out under the city wall. There were those wearing black iron armor, those wearing light golden armor like Watching Yue Feng's subordinates, those wearing casual clothes like Watching Yue Feng, and even women holding children laughing and talking............

They were all equipped with long bows and sharp blades. Many had just returned from hunting outside and were carrying giant prey. Luo Cheng even saw two or three pieces of prey with a body size of nearly ten meters, which could be seen at a glance to be intermediate cold beasts.

"Watching Yue Feng is back."

"The lord is back!"

"Defense lord is back."

"Haven't seen you for many days, eh, why bring a kid?"

"Yue Yuan was only one-something, blinked and he's grown so big?"

………………

Walking to the city gate, many people greeted Watching Yue Feng. Those who had a close relationship with him, seeing Luo Cheng, also joked with him.

"Go go go, I have important business, no time to chat with you."

Watching Yue Feng retorted with a smile, recalled his son he hadn't seen for many days, a smile also appeared on his face, pulled Luo Cheng, and walked into the city gate.

Of course, the necessary links were still there. A team of people guarded the city gate, bowed to Watching Yue Feng first, then took out a piece of fire-condensing oil to test the two, confirmed there was no problem, and then smiled and let them pass.

"My lord, how many people in Does Does Da Xia wear this light golden armor?"

After entering the city gate, Luo Cheng finally couldn't help but ask this question.

Watching Yue Feng's ten subordinates were also wearing light golden armor, and when they killed the five people including Lu Sheng just now, they all made a move. Just from the strength of their arrows, Luo Cheng could infer that the base strength of these people was definitely above twenty thousand jin, or even higher.

He originally thought that these people who could wear light golden armor must be Does Does Da Xia's elite. Comparing with the Hive's situation, Does Does Da Xia definitely wouldn't have too many.

But just in this moment under the city gate, he saw at least sixty or seventy, even the team guarding the city gate was like this, which made his heart even more curious.

"You mean Lei Kui Gold Armor, there should be more than a thousand people now!"

Gulp............

Watching Yue Feng's answer made Luo Cheng couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva, the horror in his heart rose to the peak. He even felt that Watching Yue Feng was bragging to scare him.

It was just that, no matter how he thought about it, Watching Yue Feng didn't have this motive!

Read it all in one go!

More than a thousand people, what concept was this?

The Hive's Earth-Digging Realm experts totaled only seven hundred!

Does Does Da Xia had more than a thousand with base strength above twenty thousand jin, so what was their number of Earth-Digging Realm experts?

Walking through the five-meter-wide city wall area and entering the interior, the shock in Luo Cheng's eyes never stopped from beginning to end.

The land inside the city wall was completely different from the outside. The ground should have been treated in some special way. Not only was the accumulated snow very shallow, but stepping on it even felt warm;

The avenue from the city gate directly to the mountain valley was ten meters wide. Both sides of the road were planted with blue, red, cyan, white............ all kinds of trees whose varieties Luo Cheng didn't know. The only one he recognized was Ice Shuo, with an average of one every thirty meters, planted all the way to the valley mouth.

On the side near the city gate, there were no buildings on the land, but as they approached the side of the mountain valley, they could already see quite a few buildings under construction, as well as many well-planned lands, with various building materials placed on them, clearly intended to be done.

Walking three kilometers, Luo Cheng, who felt his soul was deeply shocked, looked up and finally saw the mountain valley he was familiar with.

But when he lowered his head and saw the valley mouth passage piled up with broken wood and rotten stones before, it had been replaced by a giant iron gate twenty-seven meters high and twelve meters wide, even more magnificent and vast than the city gate outside. His gaze froze again, and his expression became dull instantly.

"How about it, still recognize this place?"

Luo Ming's youngest son, Watching Yue Feng also had an impression of him at the beginning.

Seeing Luo Cheng's gaze being deterred by the mountain valley iron gate, he chuckled, pulled Luo Cheng, who was still confused, and walked in directly.

The city wall had been built for more than two months, the outer city area was still in planning, and the space in the mountain valley was enough, so many people hadn't moved outside, so lack of popularity was inevitable.

Conversely, the Does Does Da Xia inner city, which was the mountain valley, was much more lively.

The buildings full of the mountain valley, the lamp fire lit in the buildings, the four wide main roads, the coal stoves on both sides of the main roads, the costumes of various colors worn by pedestrians coming and going on the street, the teenagers of the same age as him playing together, groups of children playing............

Everything in the mountain valley was completely different from two years ago, not only making Luo Cheng dazzled instantly, but also making him realize more intuitively what a correct choice it was to return to Does Does Da Xia.

In the first two months, when he saw those things from Uncle Yu, he could already feel Does Does Da Xia's prosperity, but that was just a feeling. Everything he saw tonight following Watching Yue Feng all the way here was a truly intuitive experience.

Just everything he saw with his own eyes, ten Hives couldn't compare.

"Father, Uncle He, Uncle Ping, Uncle Kang............ I must practice harder, let everyone come back quickly, all come to Does Does Da Xia!"

Luo Cheng clenched his fists, his expression full of determination.

Everything in the mountain valley had changed its appearance. Luo Cheng could only follow Watching Yue Feng and move forward along the main road. When he saw a quiet three-story building, Watching Yue Feng stopped, and he also stopped his footsteps.

"Follow me up!"

Following Watching Yue Feng to the third floor, stepping into the magnificent hall, looking at the white cold beast sculptures on both sides of the hall, the golden beast chair on the high platform of the hall, a majestic and powerful oppressive feeling came rushing toward him. Luo Cheng's gaze didn't dare to flow wantonly anymore, and he couldn't help but lower his head directly.

That chair should be for the leader Xia Hong to sit on!

In just two years, how did that young leader develop Does Does Da Xia to the current extent!

Luo Cheng's mind emerged with the memory of Xia Hong two years ago, and his curiosity and expectation in his heart became increasingly intense.

"What's the matter, so urgent to see me?"

Suddenly, a soft voice sounded from above the hall. Luo Cheng couldn't help but raise his head and peeked. Seeing that the person in black on the high platform was not Xia Hong, his expression was startled instantly.

If he remembered correctly, that person seemed to be called Xia Chuan, the one who was kicked and injured by that Li Hu two years ago, and was the younger brother of the leader Xia Hong.

Luo Cheng also had some impression of Xia Chuan.

Seeing Xia Chuan appear, Watching Yue Feng bowed immediately, then took out the letter he was carrying in his bosom, as well as the beast skin roll Luo Ming gave him.

"Pay respects to the Secretary, this is a letter sent back by Hong Yu from the Hive side."

Hearing the two words "Hong Yu", Xia Chuan's expression on the high platform changed instantly. Luo Cheng didn't even see clearly, he had already stood in front of Watching Yue Feng, took the letter in his hand, and read it directly.

Uncle Yu's status in Does Does Da Xia should not be low.

Xia Chuan's reaction, falling into Luo Cheng's eyes, naturally made him draw a conclusion.

And Xia Chuan on this side, looking at Xia Hong's letter, his expression went from excitement at the beginning to gradually calming down. Then a bright light appeared in his eyes, and the expression on his face began to be moved.

After a long time, Xia Chuan finished reading the letter, the bright light in his eyes was still there. He lowered his head to look at Luo Cheng, clapped his hands and said to the outside:

"Someone, take this kid to the Camp Needs Department to register first!"

A person walked into the hall immediately, led Luo Cheng and left.

"Watching Yue Feng, go notify the Six Departments Secretaries, as well as all the intermediate hunting squad captains in the mountain valley, come over tomorrow at dawn, prepare to discuss matters!"

Luo Cheng, who hadn't walked out of the hall yet, heard Xia Chuan's words behind, his heart stirred slightly, and his curiosity about Uncle Yu's identity became even more intense.

The beast skin roll his father gave Watching Yue Feng contained the specific location of the Hive underground space, as well as the defense map of the thirty-two channels.

Being young didn't mean knowing little.

Luo Cheng knew very well what his father was doing. What he was curious about was why Uncle Yu's letter had such strong power, not only allowing Xia Chuan to come forward to arrange him personally, but also allowing him to immediately summon everyone in Does Does Da Xia to discuss matters.

Everything that happened in the hall, Luo Cheng, who was led away, naturally didn't know.

At dawn, the main building hall was brightly lit. People notified by Watching Yue Feng all came over one by one.

In the hall, the seats were divided on both sides, and the order was distinct.

Yu Wentao, Luo Yuan, Yuan Cheng, Shi Ping, Qiu Peng, Mu Dong, Cheng Feng, Bai Yingdong, Zhu Yuan, nine Six Departments Secretaries and Deputy Secretaries sat in the front row;

Hong Guang, Zhu Ling, Zhao Long, Meng Yi, Zhao Hu, Zhao Bao, Huang Yong............ a total of seventeen intermediate hunting squad captains were positioned in the back;

Watching Yue Feng walked into the hall last, bowed and said: "Secretary, there are still five hunting squads stationed in Jinggu and Wuyuan, the captains can't arrive, these are the people who can come!"

Xia Chuan stood under the high platform, nodded to signal Watching Yue Feng to sit first, then handed the letter and the beast skin roll in his hand to Yu Wentao, signaling him to pass it down after reading.

Yu Wentao took the letter, his expression shocked instantly upon seeing the handwriting. After reading the content, and then seeing the beast skin roll, his expression became increasingly excited, and he handed the things to Luo Yuan on the side.

Luo Yuan took the letter, his reaction was exactly the same as his. After reading, he gave it to the next one, and soon everyone in the whole hall had excited expressions.

"Hive defense map, with this, what are we waiting for?"

"Three Frost-Resisting Realm experts, the highest strength is only eight manes, more than thirty thousand people, Earth-Digging Realm experts are no more than seven hundred. My lord, what are we waiting for?"

"Long ago I didn't like that group of people, Secretary, just hit them directly!"

"The leader has been mixed in for more than two months, with him there, what are we afraid of?"

………………

Hearing the noisy discussion in the hall, basically all suggesting that he lead people to hit directly and destroy the Hive, Xia Chuan shook his head and laughed.

It was no wonder that everyone's reaction was like this!

It had to be said that with Does Does Da Xia's current strength, regarding the Hive situation described in Xia Hong's letter, destroying them was really easy.

"The content in the leader's letter, it seems you haven't read it clearly!"

Xia Chuan interrupted everyone's discussion, a look of pride rose on his face, and then he slowly said: "A mere Hive counts as what? The twelve families of Longyou and even the entire Pingxi Plain are our goals!"

Everyone in the hall had their expressions shocked suddenly.

"If Longyou was an iron plate, it wouldn't be that simple for us to reach into the Pingxi Plain. But if they have problems themselves, then don't blame us!"

Xia Hong's letter, others might need some effort to understand.

But Xia Chuan was different.

Even if it wasn't explicitly stated in the letter, Xia Chuan could read Xia Hong's bigger plan and intention from it. This was the tacit understanding exclusive to the two brothers.

"Lu Sheng and the five people weren't killed by Watching Yue Feng? Just right............"

Xia Chuan's expression flashed slightly, asked Watching Yue Feng a sentence, and after getting the answer, began a meticulous deployment.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 223 =====