Daily life of slaying demons in the government

Chapter 351: Prefecture City? Soldier City!
"Sir, this is the fork in the road. To the west is the border fortress Huimu Pass, and to the north is the city of Shuangqing Prefecture."

This is also the first road barrier Yang Qian encountered after entering Shuangqing Prefecture.

Only at this time can you feel the heavy military atmosphere of the military city right before your eyes.

The Sanchakou Pass was not very big. Yang Qian estimated that it was only about one mile in radius. There were three gates in total, facing three official roads in different directions. Outside the official roads, the earth slopes were undulating. If you wanted to march and drive a sports car, you could only do so on these barely flat official roads.

This is considered to be a control of the transportation hub, and it is also an important transit point for troops and supplies.

But there are not many carriages and horses traveling here, mainly carrying supplies to Huimu Pass and people going to the provincial capital.

The streets were almost entirely filled with guardsmen wearing standard leather armor and uniforms, and ordinary people could hardly see them.

"Let's not go to Huimu Pass. It's not appropriate for us to go there with our current status. We might be pushed back, which would be embarrassing. We'll talk about it when we have a chance. Let's go to the pass first, and then go to the capital."

"Okay sir."

After entering the pass, Yang Qian did not use money to clear the way this time, but directly showed his badge. As a result, a guard came over immediately, led several guards and escorted Yang Qian out in an orderly manner, followed him throughout the whole process, and did not give Yang Qian any chance to "walk around".

If Yang Qian had not refused, the generals here would have wanted to send a team of cavalry to "escort" Yang Qian and his party all the way to the provincial capital.

Looking back at the pass and the cavalry team that was gradually moving away from behind, Juan couldn't help but smile. He turned to Yang Qian and said, "Sir, the people at the fork in the road are afraid that we will run around. It seems that the people in the capital are getting anxious."

"Tsk, it doesn't matter whether the people in the capital are in a hurry or not, but have those guards at the pass found anything unusual?"

"To reply to your Excellency, I didn't find anything, but I felt that the aura of these guards was unusual. They seemed to be warriors, and many of them were monks. Ninety percent of the cavalry that escorted us out of the pass were monks, but their cultivation was very low. It seemed that they had just developed the sense of Qi and could draw Qi into their bodies."

Although Juan's cultivation was not high, he still had some experience. He felt that these guards were very strong. Although they were not as strong as the inner guards of the imperial city, they were better in numbers! If they really fought, even if ten of them were exchanged for one, Juan's inner guards would not be enough to fill the gaps between the other side's teeth.

"Yes, the soldiers in the pass already have such combat power. The front-line soldiers in Huimu Pass must be strong. Just looking at the military strength and combat power of Shuangqing Mansion, it is indeed not simple."

This should be a good thing, but now it is not so good.

After all, according to what Yang Qian had seen and heard along the way, the army in Shuangqing Prefecture should be controlled by the government office, and it is possible that they really obey Xiao Cangyu. And if Xiao Cangyu is really an evil cultivator of the Huashen Sect as Hu Ming said, then these guards and generals will become a big problem, and it will be very troublesome to deal with them.

Even when it was confirmed that Zhou Zhong had arrived in Shuangqing Prefecture and had been embedded in the existing situation in Shuangqing Prefecture in a way that Yang Qian had never thought of before, Yang Qian had already begun to feel that the things on his hands were becoming increasingly difficult.

Too messy, too complicated, too many variables.

The most crucial thing is that Yang Qian is not sure whether the power in his hands is sufficient to deal with the chaos in Shuangqing Prefecture, and whether he can suppress and clean it up.

So after Linshui City, Yang Qian gave up going to Hengcheng and turned to head straight to Fucheng. His idea was that since there were too many loose ends to untangle, he would find a relatively clearest one to pull and then take the rest one step at a time.

Yang Qian believes that the current complexity is mainly due to the lack of a suitable entry point. Once an entry point is found, based on his experience, many problems will be easily solved.

After passing the fork in the road and riding for three days, we finally saw the towering city walls and the flags waving on them. The mottled and repaired walls, the huge arrowheads slightly showing the battlements, the heavy city gates, the wooden chevaux de frise guarding the city gates outside the city that stretched nearly a hundred feet, and the wide moat.
All of this shows that this city is unusual and is at the forefront of the war.

After entering the first city gate and seeing the second and third city walls, even the knowledgeable Juan couldn't help but take a breath. This was no longer the architectural specifications of a city. It was built entirely as a military city or a fortress.

Most of the people traveling on the road were soldiers lined up in formation, and there were very few civilians on the road.

The overwhelming murderous atmosphere made Yang Qian and his group all tense.

Juan and the others were fine, but Yang Qian's spiritual sense felt it the most profoundly. From the moment he stepped into the city, he had a feeling that his spiritual sense was constrained, as if he had fallen into a mud pit. Both his perception and the range of his spiritual sense were obviously restricted.

There are two possibilities for this situation.

First, there are a large number of magic arrays in the city, so the indiscriminate spying of the divine thoughts is restricted. It is even possible that once these magic arrays are fully activated, they may directly block the divine thoughts.

Secondly, there are strong people in the city, whose cultivation is more powerful than Yang Qian's, and they have integrated their power into the city. As an outsider, Yang Qian's mind will naturally be affected by them after entering.

"Master Yang!"

Just after passing the third city gate, a guard in white was already waiting at the gate. Upon seeing Yang Qian coming, he bowed and saluted.

"Well, who are you?"

"I am Zhang Wan, the personal attendant of the Lord of Shuangqing Prefecture. I am here to greet you, sir!"

A personal attendant is not an official position, but his status is not ordinary. Generally speaking, he is the confidant of the mansion lord, and some are personal guards.

Xiao Cangyu asked his personal attendants to greet Yang Qian, which was a great honor. After all, in terms of rank, there was still a gap of one and a half levels between Yang Qian and Xiao Cangyu, and the difference in actual power was even greater. Xiao Cangyu couldn't come to greet Yang Qian in person, could he?
"It's Brother Zhang. Thank you for your help." Yang Qian then bowed with a smile.

"Master Yang, this way please!"

Only after passing the third city gate can we officially enter the city.

It was just as Yang Qian had thought before he came in. The city looked more like a fortress than a normal city. Although there were many common people, they were far less than the number of guards in the city. Moreover, when the common people saw Yang Qian and his party, they would consciously stand by the roadside and let Yang Qian and his party go first.

Yang Qian didn't even see a single street stall along the way. No shop dared to hang a flag outside the door, and even the signboards on the shops were very small.

"Master Yang, please. The Lord of the Mansion knows that you are coming today and has been waiting for you in the main hall for a long time."

"Oh? Then let's go faster. How dare I trouble Lord Xiao to wait for me?" Yang Qian smiled and quickened his pace, following Zhang Wan into a very special government office built entirely of stone.

(End of this chapter)