Pushing the Three Thousand Worlds

Chapter 191 Mandatory Recruitment (4000 characters)
During this period, Zhu You came to Qingmu Martial Arts Hall several times to visit the injured Chen Mao, and he was quite resentful when talking about it.

The warriors in the viscera-raising period are powerful, and their speed is far faster than that of galloping horses. Therefore, the sky scouts rush to rescue everywhere, and they all run with two legs. Riding ordinary horses will actually slow down the speed of the rescue.

Shangjiang City is not too far away from Fuzhou, and with the leg strength of a martial artist in the visceral stage, he should have arrived long ago.

Even if ordinary people ride horses day and night, they should arrive.

And the sky surveyor sent by the sky survey department has not arrived yet!
Even though the Yin ghost has been beheaded by Li Qiu, Shangjiang City will be fine whether the sky scouts arrive or not.

But if this sky surveyor hadn't been delayed on the road, he obviously didn't take the lives of the 10,000+ people in Shangjiang City seriously!

A few more days passed.

The Sky Surveyor sent by the Sky Survey Division to rescue Shangjiang City finally arrived.

A middle-aged man with a rough appearance came towards Shangjiang City on horseback.

Wang Chengjie, Sky Surveyor.

Before joining the Tian Xun Division, he was the leader of a group of bandits in Yizhou, the twelve prefectures of Dagan. Later, the imperial court sent a large army to suppress the bandits. He disbanded the cottage and joined the Xun Tian Division incognito.

The sky surveyors of the Sky Survey Department need to rush to rescue the various places in Daqian where powerful ghosts haunt. They are either fighting ghosts or on their way to fight ghosts all day long.

The ghosts who fight with them are at the same level as the sky patrollers at worst. Every time they rush to help the sky patrollers, they are in danger of dying in the hands of ghosts.

On the other hand, ordinary warriors seldom fight against warriors from the same realm, and most of them are fighting each other.

Even warriors from other institutions of the imperial court are not as tired and dangerous as the sky surveyors.

And the imperial court did not treat the sky surveyors very favorably, so at the beginning of the establishment of the sky survey department, there were very few warriors who joined the sky survey department, and the manpower was far from enough to deal with the disasters of ghosts and ghosts everywhere.

Later, the imperial court released the assessment, as long as they have the strength to raise viscera, they can join the Xuntian Division, even warriors with unknown origins and questionable identities.

After joining the Sky Survey Division, as long as the warriors are not guilty of serious crimes such as treason and rebellion, the imperial court will not pursue them. Until when the warriors quit the Sky Survey Division, the court will continue to pursue them.

Since then, the number of warriors joining the Sky Survey Division has gradually increased.

Most of the people who joined the Sky Survey Division later were warriors like Wang Chengjie who had questionable identities and committed serious crimes.

Naturally, these people will not work as hard as other warriors who voluntarily join the Sky Survey Division and want to kill ghosts and maintain peace in the world.

However, although there are many Sky Surveyors doing things passively, the situation is much better than when the Sky Survey Division was first established with insufficient manpower.

It's just that the imperial court first established the Sky Survey Division to gather people with lofty ideals to kill ghosts and maintain world peace.

Wang Chengjie looked arrogant, rode his horse to the gate of Shangjiang City, held the hand of the whip, pointed at the soldiers at the gate tower, and shouted.

"Listen, defenders of the city. I am a sky surveyor sent by the Sky Survey Division. I am here to save you Shangjiang City. I ask you Shangjiang City Lord to come out and meet me quickly!"

After hearing this, the soldiers guarding the city hurriedly rode towards the city lord's mansion.

City Lord's Mansion.

After hearing the pawn's report, Zhu You stood up from his seat with a huff, full of indignation.

"What a sky surveyor who came to save Shangjiang City, it took nine days to get here from Fuzhou Sky Survey Division!"

"At this speed, if something didn't happen halfway, it must have arrived on a normal horseback."

"Saving people is like putting out a fire. This is the life of 10,000+ people. He didn't take it seriously at all!"

"You actually asked me to go out of the city to meet him, it's really deceiving!"

……

After a while, Zhu You suppressed the anger in his heart, and brought the officials of Shangjiang City to meet Wang Chengjie outside Shangjiang City.

Sky Surveyor Sky Surveyors are divided into three classes, namely, the third-rank bronze medal sky surveyors with strength in the nourishing viscera stage, the second-rank silver medal sky surveyors with strength in the blood coagulation stage, and the first-rank gold medal sky surveyors in the marrow-changing stage.

The Sky Surveyor is under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, but it is almost an institution independent of the imperial court. Therefore, under normal circumstances, the Sky Surveyor has no real power in his hands, and is just a vain job.

However, the third-rank Bronze Medal Patrolman is a third-rank official after all, while Zhu You is just the lord of a small town, and his official rank is no more than fourth-rank.

It was only natural for the lower officials to go out of the city to meet the upper officials, and Zhu You had no choice.

"I've met Lord Sky Surveyor." Zhu You said gloomyly, leading the officials, cupping his hands.

"I'm waiting for something to be lost, and I hope that the Lord will forgive me."

"En." Wang Chengjie looked arrogant, hummed casually, then got off his horse and handed the horse to the soldiers beside him.

"I am a three-rank bronze medal sky patroller, and this is my official seal."

With a haughty look on his face, he took out a copper medal from his pocket and showed it to Zhu You and others.

The bronze medal is engraved with the words three-rank sky patroller and Wang Heng.

Wang Heng is the pseudonym Wang Chengjie used to enter the Sky Survey Department.

"I have seen Mr. Wang."

After seeing Wang Chengjie's surname on the bronze medal, Zhu You and others had to meet again.

Wang Chengjie used to be a bandit who was hunted down by the imperial army, but now he was bowed and saluted by a group of officials, and he felt extremely happy.

"Go into the city." He waved his hand.

"Wait a minute." Zhu You straightened up.

"May I ask Lord Wang, why did it take nine days to rush from Fuzhou to Shangjiang City? Could it be that the request for help from the subordinate officials arrived at the Xuntian Division a few days ago?"

Zhu You's face was gloomy, and he asked in a deep voice.

When Wang Chengjie was questioned so rudely by Zhu You in public, his face became a little ugly, and a fierce light flashed in his eyes.

In the next breath, there was a look of apology on his face, and he pretended to be ashamed.

"This is indeed my fault. I thought that the people of Shangjiang City might be attacked by ghosts at any time. I wanted to rush to Shangjiang City, but I got lost halfway, which led to arriving so late."

"Wang is really sorry for you adults and the people of Shangjiang City, ashamed and ashamed."

Although he joined the Sky Survey Department, the crimes he committed when he was a robber in the past were temporarily canceled.

But if he goes too far, the Sky Survey Department may also expel him from the Sky Survey Department. At that time, he will be wanted and hunted down by the court again, and continue to hide in XZ like a lost dog.

If he kills Zhu You or injures Zhu You because of this, his days of being a sky scout will be gone.

Even if he wanted to do this in his heart, he had to restrain himself.

"You!..." Zhu You was furious, and Wang Chengjie was obviously trying to put him off.

"Master Wang, please enter the city. Our city lord has already prepared a banquet in the city lord's mansion."

The officials of Shangjiang City on the side hurried forward to smooth things over.

Wang Chengjie looked contemptuously at Zhu You, and with a smile on the faces of the officials who came up to smooth things over, he walked towards Shangjiang City.

In the evening, at the banquet, Wang Chengjie exchanged cups with all the officials, drank and had fun, and did not mention anything about ghosts at all, as if he came to Shangjiang City not to kill ghosts but to have a banquet.

Zhu You found a reason and avoided the banquet, but other officials did not dare to mention it, and it was like this until the next day.

The next day, in the city lord's mansion
Wang Chengjie, who was sent by the Xuntian Division to kill Yin Gui, asked about Yin Gui.

"That ghost in Shangjiang City, after slaughtering a few villages last time, has it reappeared?"

"My lord, on the day we found that Yin ghost, it attacked Shangjiang City." Seeing Zhu You sitting by the side with a gloomy expression, an official replied without saying a word.

Wang Chengjie's face changed slightly, and he hurriedly asked: "How many people were killed or injured when the ghosts attacked the city?"

Zhu You snorted coldly and said mockingly.

"I am on behalf of the people of Shangjiang City, thank you, Mr. Wang, for remembering me!"

"On that day in Shangjiang City, the masters of the Qingmu and Manxiang martial arts gyms and Guan Duwei, the three of them joined forces and paid a heavy price for two deaths and one injury to injure the Yin ghost, causing the Yin ghost to escape seriously injured. In Jiangcheng, not a single civilian was killed or injured, but hundreds of soldiers were lost."

Zhu You could tell that Wang Chengjie was not worried about the casualties of the people at all, but was afraid that the ghosts would absorb the Yin Qi and increase their strength, which had reached the point where he could not deal with it.

When Wang Chengjie heard that Yin Gui was seriously injured, joy appeared in his eyes.

He joined the Sky Survey Division and became a Sky Surveyor. Although he no longer needs to be hunted down by the court, he must be sent by the Sky Survey Division to go to various places to eliminate ghosts.

Every time he fights with ghosts, there is a danger of death. With the mentality of living one day longer, he avoids such things as he can or procrastinates.

This time, the ghost in Shangjiang City was seriously injured. As long as he finds it before its strength recovers, it shouldn't be difficult to kill it.

The sky surveyor will give a period of rest as appropriate after each time the sky surveyor kills a ghost.

If he could kill this ghost, he would not have to worry about the possibility of dying in a fight with ghosts for a period of time.

"Since then, hasn't that Yin ghost reappeared and killed people?"

Hearing Wang Chengjie's question, Zhu You's eyes moved slightly, and he replied coldly.

"No."

"Since this is the case, I also ask City Lord Zhu to allocate half of my soldiers in the city so that I can go outside the city to search for the whereabouts of the ghost and kill that ghost as soon as possible."

……

Wang Chengjie led nearly a thousand soldiers to search outside the city for the whereabouts of Yin Gui for two days, but found nothing.

At dusk the next day, in the city lord's mansion.

Wang Chengjie found Zhu You.

"Master Zhu, in the past two days, I have searched the villages near Shangjiang City with my soldiers, but I haven't found any trace of Yin Gui."

"I want to mobilize more people to search the mountains and forests near Shangjiang City carefully. In addition, I don't think it is possible to rule out the possibility that the ghost is hiding in Shangjiang City, so Shangjiang City also needs to search."

Zhu You frowned.

The ghost had been beheaded by Li Qiu, no matter how hard Wang Chengjie searched, it was impossible to find the ghost, he was doing useless work.

But Wang Chengjie wanted to kill ghosts, so Zhu You couldn't refuse.

"Okay, I will leave three hundred soldiers to guard Shangjiang City, and you can call the rest of the soldiers."

"I want to search the area of ​​Shangjiang City carefully in a short time. There are not enough people."

Wang Chengjie shook his head and said in a deep voice.

"Not enough? But there are only these soldiers in the city, what about the arrests from the yamen?" Zhu You asked.

Wang Chengjie looked cold and serious, still shaking his head.

"There are only more than a hundred arrests in the Yamen, which is still not enough."

"It's not enough, what exactly do you want, Mr. Wang?" Zhu You asked back with an ugly face.

"This is already everyone that Shangjiang City can afford. Are you deliberately embarrassing the official?"

"I heard that there are many martial arts gyms in the city. The disciples of those martial arts gyms have practiced martial arts, and their physical strength is far beyond that of ordinary soldiers..."

Wang Chengjie narrowed his eyes slightly, and said slowly.

"No, those are the people of Shangjiang City!" Before Wang Chengjie could finish speaking, Zhu You refused.

In fact, if the ghost is still there, Shangjiang City is still threatened by the ghost. As long as Wang Chengjie can kill the ghost, Zhu You will cooperate no matter what. After all, nothing is as important as the lives of the 10,000+ people in Shangjiang City.

But the ghost is dead, and in Zhu You's view, Wang Chengjie's behavior is a little bit like mobilizing people and going to war.

Moreover, Wang Chengjie was really unpleasant. Zhu You suspected that his activeness was not for the people of Shangjiang City at all.

Wang Chengjie's expression turned cold, and he sneered.

"What about the common people? I risked my life all the way to kill ghosts just to save them."

"I took my soldiers and searched outside for two days, but they are enjoying their lives in the city. How can there be such a reason in the world."

"It's for them, they should do their part to go out of the city to search for the whereabouts of the ghosts."

"Besides, I didn't ask them to kill the ghosts, I just asked them to help me find the ghosts."

Wang Chengjie paused when he said this, and said in a strange way.

"City Lord Zhu, I'm also doing this to kill the ghost as soon as possible, so that Shangjiang City will be free from the threat of the ghost!"

"Don't you want that?"

Zhu You's face was ugly. He admitted that what Wang Chengjie said was reasonable, but the premise was that he really wanted to kill ghosts and save Shangjiang City.

But it was obvious that Wang Chengjie did it for his own selfishness.

It's just that Zhu You wants to refute, but he doesn't know how to refute, and it's not good to be too uncooperative.

Just like Wang Chengjie asked back, if he, the city lord, wants to kill the ghosts as soon as possible and free Shangjiang City from the threat of ghosts, he should cooperate with him.

Zhu You didn't want to show his flaws, so he could only agree to Wang Chengjie.

What's more, if he rejects Wang Chengjie today, if this matter gets to the ears of the people in the city, it may cause riots and protests.

After all, Wang Chengjie only proposed to let the martial arts disciples go out of the city to search for the whereabouts of ghosts, not to let all the people.

There must be some people who hear that this matter can benefit in the end without their own efforts, clamoring to make it happen.

"Okay! I will order the recruitment of martial arts gyms in the city."

"But apart from the two martial arts gyms, one is the Manxiang martial arts gym, and the other is the Aoki martial arts gym."

"Song Guanzhu and Chen Guanzhu of the two martial arts clubs, two of them resisted the ghosts for the people of Shangjiang City. One lost his life and the other lost his arm."

"They are kind to the 10,000+ people in Shangjiang City, and their disciples should be exempted from being recruited!"

Zhu You looked serious and said in a deep voice.

A sharp light flashed in Wang Chengjie's eyes.

"Absolutely not! I have already found out that there are three major martial arts gyms in Shangjiang City, namely Spirit Snake, Qingmu and Man Xiang. If you don't recruit those two martial arts gyms, the manpower will be reduced by almost half!"

"Since the two major pavilion masters have done so much for the people of Shangjiang City, don't tell me their disciples can't even look for ghosts!"

Zhu You's heart was burning with anger.

"If Lord Wang insists on doing this, then I will not order it!"

If the Qingmu Martial Arts Hall is recruited, Li Qiu will also be counted.

Li Qiu killed the ghosts and saved 10,000+ people in Shangjiang City. Zhu You didn't want to bother Li Qiu anymore because of the great kindness of Shangjiang City.

Wang Chengjie's expression was gloomy and gloomy.

"City Lord Zhu, have you forgotten that I am the third-rank Sky Patrol Scholar!"

"If necessary, I can temporarily take over the power of your city lord!
"It's just that I have to explain the reason to the Sky Surveyor afterwards..."

"You..." Zhu You was trembling with anger, unable to speak for a while, and finally said angrily.

"Then you can take over the power of my city lord!"

He didn't want to offend Li Qiu by issuing this compulsory recruitment order.

In the evening, Aoki Martial Arts.

Zhu You, who has been temporarily taken over as the city lord, came to the Qingmu Martial Arts Hall and told the three of them about it.

"...That's how things are. Tomorrow, that Wang Heng will order the compulsory recruitment of martial arts gyms in the city."

Li Qiu frowned slightly when he heard this, his expression was not very good-looking.

Of course, no one will be happy if a few days of practice time are inexplicably delayed.

Especially not long after he broke through the Viscera Cultivation Period, the progress of Qingmu Jue and Spirit Snake Art is just at the time when it is advancing by leaps and bounds.

But Zhu You can't blame this matter, he has tried his best.

Seeing that Zhu You was looking at him, his expression was slightly nervous.

Li Qiu smiled lightly.

"It's okay, it's just a few days."

"I would like to thank City Lord Zhu for this matter. If I hadn't told City Lord Zhu to hide the fact that Yin Gui was dead, you wouldn't have to be angry with that sky patrol..."

(End of this chapter)