Chapter 689

Human beast tamers could never possibly sign contracts with all the aquatic pets living in the ocean.

In the afternoon, Su Yang found Tong Junhao, one of the five Star Glory-level captain, and asked Tong Junhao to take him on a stroll around Mount Dajiao City.

Tong Junhao gladly agreed.

The entire Reef City's high-ranking officials were all very clear on Su Yang's talent and strength.

They were all eager to befriend this superior officer with boundless prospects.

Even if they didn't want to befriend him, they absolutely didn't want to offend him either.

Mount Dajiao City faced the sea to the east, with land on the other three sides.

On the land, many fierce beasts and beast hordes still lived.

However, because Mount Dajiao City's garrison was powerful, and they hadn't expanded land outside the city to establish safe zones, ordinary land-based beast tides were well within their ability to resist.

Of course, they also needed to regularly clear the fierce beasts around Mount Dajiao City!

Still, the pressure wasn't that great!

"Our greatest danger still comes from the sea!"

Tong Junhao said, pointing at that stretch of blue ocean.

Su Yang stood on a small hillside, glanced at the distant sea, then looked at the ground.

Weeds grew thick on the ground, and one could faintly make out some regular angular shapes.

He squatted down, pulled away the weeds, and saw a cement-like wall surface covered in moss.

Su Yang moved to another spot, kicked aside the weeds, shook off the dirt, and could still see some reinforced concrete building ruins.

Mount Dajiao City was still several kilometers from here.

"Captain Tong, was this a city before?"

"Yes!" Tong Junhao nodded. "This used to be Jianhai City, the most important port city of the former Huaxia Federation, with a two-thousand-year history, and an internationally famous seaside vacation destination. After the Great Calamity, Jianhai City established a base city in its inner district to defend against fierce beast attacks. Later, during the first large-scale sea beast landing, Jianhai City was leveled!"

"It happened so suddenly that of the more than one hundred thousand people in Jianhai City, only a dozen or so beast tamers escaped by luck!"

"Captain He Yao should know this history fairly well—the He family's ancestors escaped from Jianhai City!"

Su Yang sighed and said, "So that's what happened!"

"This bit of history, few people know about anymore!" Tong Junhao laughed. "I only heard about it when I was drinking with He Yao. He even bragged to me that the He family genealogy can be traced back to the Han Dynasty, and that several very impressive figures had come from their line… When their ancestors fled Jianhai City, they didn't bring anything—just the genealogy!"

"Oh! A genealogy? That's truly rare!"

Even before the Great Calamity, genealogies were already quite rare.

"Right!" Tong Junhao continued, "I was very surprised at the time too—what era is this, and they still have a genealogy!"

After that, Tong Junhao took Su Yang along the coastline.

Mount Dajiao City's patrol squads not only had to patrol the area around the city, but also the long coastline.

After all, their mission was still to monitor sea beast movements.

Although the coastline near Mount Dajiao City was the most suitable landing spot for sea beasts, they had to watch other places too.

Around six in the afternoon, Su Yang finally returned to the City Lord's residence.

He had just walked up to Liu Mengyun's office when Liu Mengyun called out to him.

"City Lord, I've transferred Fang Jing to the City Lord's residence, but he has something to report to you!"

Hearing Liu Mengyun's form of address, Su Yang was briefly startled, then caught on.

"What is it?"

"It seems to be about Liu Zhang!" Liu Mengyun paused. "Let me have him come tell you!"

"Alright, have him come to my office."

In his previous life, when he worked at a company, Su Yang looked forward to getting off work every day.

Now that he was a leader, he could give himself a holiday whenever he wanted.

So he didn't really care about getting-off-work time anymore.