Chapter 673: The Cautious Deputy Mayor of Mount Dajiao!

Around Mount Dajiao, there were no villages or towns, not a single cultivated field.

Su Yang had known this before arriving.

The situation in Mount Dajiao was completely different from other ordinary cities.

Cities built inland could detect and drive off ferocious beasts from afar, ensuring the safety of towns and settlements.

But Mount Dajiao, built near the coastline, was entirely different.

The sea was boundless and unfathomably deep.

Beastmasters found it hard to see sea beasts beneath the waves through the water.

Unless they patrolled directly on the seabed.

But human Beastmasters were naturally unsuited for underwater combat.

Patrolling underwater was extremely dangerous for Beastmasters.

This meant many sea beasts could launch surprise attacks on Mount Dajiao.

Added to this, Mount Dajiao's own defensive and surveillance military functions made it unsuitable for housing large numbers of civilians or cultivating crops!

Strictly speaking, Mount Dajiao was a military fortress.

The permanent population of Mount Dajiao was roughly forty thousand.

Of these, ten thousand were soldiers, twenty thousand were permanent residents, many of whom were military families.

The remaining ten thousand were various mercenary teams and traveling merchants.

Population mobility was extremely high, and law and order had never been very good.

Mount Dajiao had only two city gates.

One was the Xicheng Gate, through which worm trains arriving from inland entered the city.

The other was the Dongcheng Gate, directly facing the sea.

With few civilians entering or leaving, two gates were sufficient.

Many mercenary teams and adventurers heading into the sea would depart from the Dongcheng Gate.

Arriving near the Xicheng Gate, Su Yang, Liu Liu Mengyun, and Liu Yun dismounted from their beast companions, stored them away, showed their identification documents, and boarded three military motorcycles to enter Mount Dajiao.

The city of Mount Dajiao was very unique.

Its gates were not opened by swinging outward, but were like sluice gates, directly embedded into the mountain rock.

When the gates needed to open, heavy iron doors cast in steel were hoisted upward.

After passing through the gate, instead of wide streets, there was a gentle slope over five meters wide.

The slope rose entirely upward, leading directly to Mount Dajiao's main street.

On both sides of the street were many shops, mostly selling seafood.