Chapter 238: Move!

While ripples were gradually rising in Shenyi Gu, on the other side, Patrol Lieutenant Yang took the letter and Token given by Wen Gu to find Commandant Gu, who was stationed at Shenyi Gu, to borrow troops.

Taking advantage of the fact that the various factions had not yet noticed, he led a team of elite cavalry out of the valley and arrived at the County Town nearest to Shenyi Gu.

Shenyi Gu was previously just a Town and had never established an independent town government; instead, it was managed by the county.

In the past, those medicinal herb merchants who wanted to go to Shenyi Gu to purchase herbs would stop in the County Town midway, and other transactions would also be completed in the County Town.

Driven by the medicinal herb business, the County Town, even if it could not be called prosperous, was certainly not impoverished.

Before the chaotic times, the County Town still had many large courtyards with blue bricks and tiled roofs.

However, when the Evil Plague broke out during the chaotic times, the County Town fell into ruin; the surviving townspeople went to Shenyi Gu to take refuge, leaving only corpses and Plague Ghosts in the city.

Until the armies of the Six Great Clans of Beidi moved in.

They exterminated the Plague Ghosts and rebuilt the County Town.

It was still the same place, but the current County Town was completely different from what it once was.

The armies of the Six Great Clans set up camps here, divided the territory, built city walls, and each opened their own city gate; their own personnel only entered and exited through the gate they guarded.

There was no need to stay in the valley of Shenyi Gu during the winter, and there was no need to worry about a Ghost Tide at this time of year, so a large portion of the garrison troops rotating in this year would be settled in the County Town.

The camp in the County Town served as a transit point and even had a courier station.

The Six Great Clans each had their own camp sections with a strong sense of boundaries; crossing the line would trigger a conflict. Now that a major war could not be fought and logistics could not be guaranteed, they were generally at peace with each other in normal times.

Patrol Lieutenant Yang arrived in a hurry with a team of men, holding Commandant Gu's letter, and asked the commander guarding the place to dispatch personnel to assist in the operation.

There was usually no major movement in the camps of the various families in the County Town, so the unusual situation of people and horses rushing about on the Zhao Clan's side was quickly noticed by others.

At the County Government Office.

The County Government Office of the County Town was still preserved and was guarded by people left behind by the Medicine Gang of Shenyi Gu.

As the local power, the Medicine Gang of Shenyi Gu naturally had to have its own territory.

The area was a bit small.

But it looked better on the surface.

The people guarding the County Government Office usually had no tasks; they spent their days in this small area eating, drinking, and sleeping, just waiting for their turn to rotate back to the valley next month.

Who would have expected that there would be a sudden movement on the Zhao Clan's side!

"What's going on?" someone asked.

The person who ran in from outside replied: "The people from the Zhao Clan have run over, right there in the area in front. They say they brought people out for drills, but—I noticed there are people from the Zhao Fa Xunweis among them, and that leader surnamed Yang is also there!"

"The one surnamed Yang? That Patrol Lieutenant?!"

Upon hearing this, everyone in the County Government Office could no longer sit still.

If it were only the people from the Zhao Clan's Bei Shou Army, and you ran around saying it was a drill?

I would believe it.

But you are with the people from the Xunweis, and you still call it a drill?

The hell I'd believe that?!

Still "drilling"?

Who doesn't know that the most skilled specialty of the Zhao Fa Xunweis is raiding homes!!

The problem is—

"What can be raided in this place?"

They walked out of the County Government Office, stood on the high steps, and looked at the ruins in front of them.

That area belonged to the buffer zone between the various forces, where anyone could walk around at any time.

The buffer zone had also been the most thoroughly dismantled; the bricks, tiles, beams, usable timber, and even the earth and stones used for walls of those houses had all been dismantled and moved away to build city walls and camps.

All kinds of objects inside the houses that could be used had long been divided up; what remained were fragments and waste, which, along with the remains of the houses, endured the wind and rain to become ruins.

To prevent Plague Ghosts and wild beasts from hiding in blind spots, even the slightly higher earthen walls had all been razed, so now, looking out, one could only see patches of "stains" formed by the foundations of the original houses.

With no cover, it also meant that there was nothing left there worth searching for.

They could not understand it.

If it were the hot season, they would suspect whether Plague Ghosts were launching a surprise attack. But now, in the cold weather, it was impossible for Plague Ghosts to gather to attack the city.

"Could it be that something happened over at Shenyi Gu?"

"That shouldn't be; if something happened there, there would definitely be a message sent by a flying slave, but we haven't received any urgent letters!"

"Let's go over and take a look!"

—They wanted to look, but they couldn't see!

When the people from the Medicine Gang went over, they only saw teams of fully armed Armored Soldiers and a group of tall Soldiers holding weapons, blocking a large part of their view.

They could only vaguely peek through the gaps.

People from the other clans arrived one after another to investigate the news.

The others couldn't understand it either.

It could be said that this area had already been searched several times; every year, the rotating armies entering the city would search it again.

Especially the residences of wealthy families, which had many cellars, secret rooms, and hidden compartments; if one were lucky, one could still find some things.

But the buffer zone was not the place of wealthy families in the past, let alone the fact that only a stretch of broken walls remained now.

Not long ago, someone from the Medicine Gang even said that they could carve out a part of the buffer zone for their own territory, level it, and make it a martial arts practice field so that everyone could practice more often.

But the internal opinions of the Medicine Gang were not unified; one said to level it for a practice field, another said that now that they had money, they should build a few more houses.

In any case, no decision had been made on what to do with the area in front, so until now, that area remained a ruin.

The various parties cast suspicious and curious gazes.

Even the Soldiers on the Zhao Clan's side who were transferred to cooperate with the operation were just following orders and did not understand the deep meaning behind it.

Patrol Lieutenant Yang had no intention of explaining to everyone; he held the map of the County Town and searched all the way there.

Large swathes of broken walls and ruins made it difficult to identify which household had once stood where; after confirming back and forth several times, he finally found a broken large earthenware jar amidst some ruins.

Pushing aside the surrounding clods of earth and debris, Patrol Lieutenant Yang lifted his foot and stomped on the ground around the jar, feeling an unusual vibration from beneath his feet; a look of joy appeared on his face: "Right here! Pry it open!"

After clearing the debris and waste soil from the ground, they pried open a hidden board covered by dirt, revealing a narrow entrance to a Cellar.

Yet the further in one went, the larger the space became.

Only upon truly entering would one discover that although the Cellar entrance was within the perimeter of this house, the main body of the Cellar was actually beneath the house next door!

In other words, although these two houses belonged to different people on the surface, they were actually both owned by the Su Family!

The final batch of medicinal materials smuggled by the Shenyi Gu medicine merchants of the Su Family was mostly hidden here!

Patrol Lieutenant Yang did not look closely; he only needed to confirm that those were indeed the medicinal materials.

"Move them!"

"Move everything back first, then we'll talk!"

Once something is found, it must be firmly grasped in one's hands first!

Those waiting outside only saw Patrol Lieutenant Yang and his men carrying wooden chests, Iron chests, earthenware jars, porcelain bottles, and other storage containers out of the Cellar; they did not know what was inside, but seeing this situation, they knew this matter was definitely unusual!

Whose ordinary items would be hidden so secretively?

The scene before the eyes of the people from the Medicine Gang of Shenyi Gu touched their sensitive nerves!

Their eyelids twitched, and they felt a great sense of foreboding!

They screamed silently in their hearts, 【Wait!】

【Stop!】

【These should all be ours!】

But no matter how many thoughts they had, they could only watch helplessly.

That group of Armored Soldiers from the Zhao Clan stood in front with blades drawn, each one like a wolf guarding its food, clutching a piece of meat!