Chapter 124: Citywide Mobilization Order

After finishing his late-night snack, Su Hanlin set to work with Su Jian.

At first light, the entire Inner City had been thoroughly checked. Patrol teams and various heroes summoned by the Inspection Bureau received orders to begin clearing the Outer City districts in sections.

Xiancheng has always been divided into the Inner City District, the Outer City District, and the Outskirts District.

Once the Inner City District was cleared, the various families and heroes turned their attention to the Outer City District.

They first recruited a large number of temporary workers.

Then, veterans who had already learned how to organize the cleansing of Parasites led the rookies in the work. This way, even if small-scale riots occurred, the veterans could promptly summon the City Guard to exterminate all the Parasites.

Originally one cleansing squad was split into five or six smaller squads.

Su Jian was thus separated from Su Hanlin.

Sigh, there was no choice. Everyone followed the orders from above; no one could say, "I can't be separated from my acquaintances to work." If you dared say that, you were asking for a beating!!

Those seniors, already irritable and eager to fight, would certainly not miss this opportunity to give you a lesson you would never forget in your life.

So he resigned himself to becoming the leader of the new squad and led a group of rookies to start working.

Fortunately, having worked all night, he had already memorized the workflow.

However, the Outer City District was not as easy to clear as the Inner City District.

Various conflicts and riots occurred frequently.

The cleansing operation began to face restrictions and became slower and slower.

Moreover, the various squads responsible for the checks gradually began to suffer casualties.

The reasons for the casualties were bizarre and varied!

Just at this moment, messengers from patrol teams in the four city gate areas—East, West, South, and North—ran in to report that the Outskirts District had completely descended into chaos.

Large-scale riots had broken out over there.

Gangs were fighting each other into a stew, and some people took the opportunity to rush into merchant shops and loot goods.

Looting the shops was not enough; some people even went directly to other people's homes to smash, loot, and rob.

The patrol teams over there could not stop the spread of the unrest; they sent people in one after another to report the situation and request the City Guard to go out and quell the rebellion.

Nonsense; at this time, anyone knew the City Guard absolutely could not be moved.

Only when the entire Outer City District was cleansed would the four great gates of Xiancheng be directly closed. Only then would the City Guard be dispatched to go outside the city.

But the Outskirts could not be completely ignored. Although the Inspection Bureau and the City Lord's Mansion could not manage everything for the moment, they could first organize self-defense and self-rescue.

Bao Junyi directly ordered the patrol teams to hand over crates upon crates of artifacts for detecting Parasites to trustworthy factions in the Outskirts District.

Let them check themselves based on their territory, gather manpower, and form groups for self-protection.

In short, you guys play for now; we are busy and have no time to attend to you.

What could the heroes and champions of the Outskirts District do? They could only obey and save themselves.

The system implemented by City Lord Xu Chengzhu and Bao Junyi right now was not wrong.

Because even if others from the Sect came down, they would do the same.

After all, the Outer City District had more protective value than the Outskirts District.

The Outer City District not only had various Spirit Fields but also a large number of direct mortal descendants of the Great Cultivators.

If you don't save them, do you think the Ancestors won't privately remember you guys? Won't they criticize you in their hearts: "Conscienceless! My family has only a few bloodlines left, and you still won't save them!!"

So, as the sky gradually brightened, the great cleansing operation of Xiancheng gradually entered a stalemate in the Outer City District.

Almost every neighborhood cleared yielded dozens of Parasites.

Obstacles of all kinds increased, and some people resisted the checks.

Some organizations also grouped together to resist the checks.

The clearing speed in the Outer City District became slower and slower, more and more difficult.

Various messages converged before City Lord Xu Yi and Director Bao Junyi of the Inspection Bureau.

Both had faces as still as water.

"At today's speed, it will be a struggle to finish checking the Outer City District even in ten days," City Lord Xu Chengzhu said gloomily.

The key is that the Outer City District is five times larger than the Inner City District.

If they encounter more resistance, it will be hard to complete the checks quickly.

Could Bao Junyi not see this?

He could see it. But there was no way.

The more such a large-scale operation occurred, the more his deficiency in insufficient control over the Inspection Bureau was exposed.

Some people were slacking off, some were busy for no reason, some were looking for fights, and others were striking back at their enemies.

In short, one word: chaos.

"Just grind it out slowly. After this operation, those who are incompetent, disobedient, or love to cause trouble will all be cleared out," Bao Junyi said calmly.

"So what do we do now?" Xu Yi frowned.

"Conscript more manpower," Bao Junyi said decisively.

Xu Yi looked at his face: "You want me to activate that, right?"

"Besides activating it, what do you think we can do? The earlier we finish cleansing the Outer City District, the earlier we can go to the Outskirts District to save people. Don't hesitate; if you should activate it, just activate it."

Bao Junyi kept trying to persuade City Lord Xu Chengzhu.

City Lord Xu Chengzhu: So I am just your big tool for working, am I?

Whatever you want me to do, I just do it?

"Once that is activated, the entire Sect will be shaken. If no large-scale riot occurs in the Outskirts District, both of us will be held accountable by the Sect," City Lord Xu Chengzhu said, his face dark as water.

"Do you think a large riot will occur in the Outskirts District?" Bao Junyi asked in return.

City Lord Xu Chengzhu frowned and thought for a long while before saying, "I think a large riot will occur. I analyzed it; due to the delay in the cleansing operation in the Outer City District, the probability of a riot occurring in the Outskirts District is over eighty percent."

"I also think there will definitely be major riots and uprisings outside the city.

The number of dead this time is bound to be unusually high. You need to be mentally prepared. Once the death toll exceeds a million, the thing sealed beneath our Xiancheng is going to act up." Bao Junyi warned. "Don't end up blind when it breaks out."

Xu Chengzhu's face first chilled, then warmed again.

"No worries, that thing is a worm." Every Xiancheng has a high-energy item sealed beneath its base. That item might be a living creature.

Under the seal and extraction of Xiancheng's grand formation, it is used as a daily energy pool.

That worm has been drained for over three hundred years, and it's still remarkably lively.

Every night it hisses in his ear.

"Huh?" Bao Junyi was startled.

"We have the Blood Xue Chiluo." Xu Chengzhu hinted to Bao Junyi.

"Ahem, ahem." Bao Junyi suddenly understood: "But our Blood Xue Chiluo seems a bit too small. I'm afraid it can't handle that big worm."

"The big worm beneath our Xiancheng is in a state of suppression.

It can't move. Even if it wants to break free of the seal in the future, it would still need to spend a certain amount of time before it can break the sealing chains on its body.

As long as the Blood Xue Chiluo picks a spot it can't reach and has a hearty meal, won't that big worm be scared?

Once it shrinks back into the underground seal, we win." Xu Chengzhu said with certainty.

"Then Xu Chengzhu, hurry and issue the city-wide assembly order." Bao Junyi urged again.