Chapter 1189

Su Yang only paid attention to the level-three, level-four, and even level-five danger zones.

Level-three and level-four danger zones were occupied by King-tier and Emperor-tier ferocious beasts.

As for level-five danger zones, they largely came from speculation—speculation with a certain basis.

For example, the great tsunami that once struck Mount Dajiao City.

If the aftershock of such an ability occurred on land, the military's intelligence unit could investigate and deduce which region was likely to harbor an Emperor-tier ferocious beast.

On the map, besides marking the danger zones, the representative ferocious beasts of each region would also be written down.

For example, far to the north of the north, that level-three, level-four, and level-five danger zone was marked with the King-tier Ice Snow Banshee, Emperor-tier Frost Snow Woman, Emperor-tier Ice Moon Elf, and the legendary Emperor-tier ferocious beast—the Frost Queen!

With this map in hand, Su Yang could purposefully pick his prey in the north.

Of course, all actions could not rely entirely on the map.

The military's intelligence could also be wrong.

Ferocious beasts could also move.

In a level-one danger zone where only Platinum-tier ferocious beasts existed, one could still possibly run into an Emperor-tier ferocious beast.

This was a matter of probability.

After all, Emperor-tier ferocious beasts could basically go wherever they pleased.

It was the same logic as thinking Su Yang was squatting in Bingcheng, only to bump into him in other cities within the Northern Military's jurisdiction, or even in other regions of the Federation!

A matter of probability!

One northern city after another swept past beneath Su Yang's feet.

Every time the Storm Eagle alerted him, Su Yang would always have the Void Sprite note down the location, so as to facilitate teleportation support next time.

Traveling incognito to observe the people's conditions—Su Yang hadn't considered that for now.

The various military branches had relatively lenient assessments of city lords.

As long as one did a good job with defense, could guarantee the safety of the city's citizens, and could protect civilian lives as much as possible when danger came, one would count as a qualified city lord.

Beyond that, there were some education and economic indicators, none of which were too strict.

The military's management was just this rough and casual!

Under such circumstances, it was very difficult to develop the economy.

On the education front, being able to finish elementary and middle school and have a certain knowledge foundation was already considered not bad!

Those who wanted to continue their studies had to rely on personal learning ability and their family's financial conditions.

Those with truly outstanding grades could obtain tuition waiver slots.

As for public security indicators, in cities guarded by the military, public security was generally still passable.

In any case, when the time came, Si Derong would report the gang forces of each city to him.

When the time came, whichever city's gang forces were the most vicious would indicate that city had the biggest problems, and it was very likely that military personnel were colluding with gang forces!

The reason was simple: to develop and grow under the noses of the city garrison army that had Beast Tamer squads, ordinary gang forces could not do it.

Ordinary gang forces were looked down upon by almost every youth who awakened Beast Tamer talent.

If they wanted to develop and grow, they either had covert support from other non-military forces.

For example, Black Feather, the Shoushen Sect, Qizhen Lou, or other families and various forces.

Or they had help from military members.

In any case, the city lord and other high-ranking officials of that city definitely bore responsibility for dereliction of duty.

No escaping that!

Investigating the gang organizations in each northern city could not only cleanse the grassroots and protect civilian interests, but might also, through this lead, uncover clues about the Black Feather organization, determine whether any legitimate organizations were secretly running illicit schemes through gang networks, and examine the authority and military discipline of each major city to restore order…

It was simply killing multiple birds with one stone!

Su Yang felt that this entry point was quite a good one.

This wasn't Su Yang's own idea—it was one of the private goods smuggled in by that Old Zhou during his lectures at the Federation General Military Branch in Jingcheng.

With the Shoushen Sect having fled, Su Yang was idle anyway, so he found something for the intelligence department to do, lest they take their salaries without doing any work, and he recalled that old scholar's "teachings"!

One day later, Su Yang began to traverse the level-four danger zone, and soon the Storm Eagle spotted two Snow Domain Demonic Vultures.

In the Federation's north, the four seasons were not as distinct as in the south.

Winter was extraordinarily long.

After the Great Catastrophe, the vast and sparsely populated north, for the sake of convenient management and effectively guaranteeing civilian safety, and because the heating supply had been lost, the military was forced to temporarily abandon much of the Jibei land, trying to migrate civilians as far Chaonan as possible.

In the northern jurisdiction where Su Yang was, although winter didn't last half a year or most of the year, it was still long enough.

This led to ferocious beasts from the Xiong Shou Society that lived in snow regions appearing in this area.

Snow Domain Demonic Vulture, King-tier potential, its strength even surpassing that of the Ice Snow Banshee.

But Snow Domain Demonic Vultures were far less dangerous than Ice Snow Banshees; they generally did not hunt humans.

Ice Snow Banshees, on the other hand, were truly detestable.

They were as detestable as the fanatics of the Shenjiaona Gang!

The fanatics of the Shoushen Sect were keen on missionary work.

Ice Snow Banshees were keen on turning the world into a World of Ice and Snow…