the only savior

Chapter 813 The Movement of the Imperial City

"City Lord!"

A sergeant suddenly ran over from Bai Han downstairs, looking anxious, and knocked over many people along the way.

"what happened?"

Ye Lin turned around, looked at the subordinate in front of him in puzzlement, but felt a "thud" in his heart for no reason.

Could it be that a new monster has appeared in Hanyue City?
After the last incident, he is now a little nervous about these things.

"City Lord! The official we sent to report the situation to the imperial capital was killed!"

"Killed!? Impossible! Who would kill a messenger official when he has nothing to do? Mountain bandits? And he is escorted by our elite city guards. Even if he encounters robbers, he will definitely not let them It worked!"

"No, no! I, our people... were killed by... His Majesty the Emperor!"

"what!?"

Ye Lin was taken aback when he heard the words, and then suddenly reacted.

The current emperor, His Majesty, has said that "there is no way in the world"!
This time I asked someone to report everything that happened in Hanyue City. The original intention was correct, but what would I think if I heard it in other people's ears?
That's right, it's saying, "There are demons, ghosts, and Taoists in this world. What you said before, the emperor, is actually wrong!"

What is the difference between saying that the emperor is wrong and hitting him in the face?
Therefore, it is not so surprising that these messengers were killed.

"only……"

Ye Lin thought for a moment, then shook his head again, the matter should not be so simple.

If the emperor wants to block the news because of this, it is obviously impossible.

After all, there are millions of people in Hanyue City, and it is impossible for you to just say "nonsense".

With so many people and such a big change in the city, the news will soon spread to the surrounding cities, and then spread to the entire Dafu Dynasty.

At that time, everyone will know what happened here, even if your emperor doesn't want to believe it, what's the use?

Moreover, Ye Lin is sure that with His Majesty's means, it is absolutely impossible for him not to know what happened in Hanyue City recently.

Ten days have passed since the blood silkworm incident.

The emperor must have already learned about what happened in the city through his own news channels, and there should be no reason not to believe it.

"Then... why on earth did he do such a deceitful thing...?"

Ye Lin showed doubts on his face, unable to understand it.

At this moment, another sergeant ran up in a panic.

The anxious look was seven points more than the previous one, rolling and crawling, his face was full of fear.

"City Lord! City Lord!"

The man was travel-stained and rushed all the way to the front, and then accidentally lost his foothold, knelt down with a "plop", and cried:
"City Lord! We... We are attacked! There is a large army... advancing towards us!!"

Hearing this, Ye Lin froze when he wanted to help him, with an unbelievable expression on his face, and asked:
"What did you say? The army? Where did the army come from? Tell me quickly! Make it clear!!"

Someone from the side hurriedly brought over a water bowl.

The man took it with trembling fingers, and drank the water in the bowl with a "gudong gudong".

After a long while, he took a deep breath, calmed down a little, and said:

"My lord, I am the Chief of Investigation of the Fifth Legion of the City Guards. I am in charge of investigating the bandits' hideouts outside the city... Today, today... We have received an investigation mission and we are moving a hundred miles to the west. Thinking of being attacked suddenly..."

"The ones who attacked us were not some bandits, but a regular investigation team! I can recognize them, their uniforms are from the Jinlin Army! There is absolutely no mistake!!"

"When we first met, I planned to go up and say hello to them, but what I didn't expect was that they took the initiative to launch an attack and caught us off guard. Many brothers just disappeared..."

"Later, the few remaining people and I fought desperately, and this turned defeat into victory..."

"But what I didn't expect was that a large army appeared in the distance. Those people... are all the Jinlin Army... They came prepared, and the target is our direction!!"

"Our horse is gone... Finally, we managed to snatch one in the fight, but I was the only one who ran back, and the other brothers..."

The detective chief told the whole story in one breath.

Ye Lin frowned when he heard it, and even couldn't believe his ears.

Jinlin Army, that is His Majesty's pro-army!

Back then, during His Majesty's conquests, he had already established a great reputation.

The whole capital is controlled by them, how could they suddenly come to their side?
"Are you sure, are you reading correctly? That's really Jin Linjun?"

Ye Lin checked again in disbelief, but what he got was the soldier's confident answer.

After asking the other party about the details, he waved away most of the people, leaving only a few confidantes by his side.

"What exactly is going on……?"

In the main hall of Baihan Tower, Ye Lin frowned and paced back and forth.

"City lord, those Jinlin soldiers, could they have received news that Hanyue City was in danger and came to help deal with the monster? It's just that the capital is far away from here, so they didn't know it when they were hundreds of miles away. The monster has been subdued by the fairy..."

One of his subordinates analyzed and asked.

Ye Lin thought for a while, but shook his head and said:
"No, if they really came to help, then why did they attack us as soon as they saw us? We are also Dafu military guards, what reason do they have to attack us?"

Someone else answered:

"Could it be possible? Is there some misunderstanding? Some robbers wore the uniform of our army and beat the autumn wind, which caused the other party to attack as soon as they met..."

"Impossible! Let's not say that we haven't heard any relevant news in recent days. Even if someone really robbed our military uniform and spread it out to rob, it will not be the Jinlin Army's turn to crusade in person! If they want to come, the surrounding local troops will be dispatched! The capital city is far away from us, but it’s nearly a thousand miles away!!”

"..."

A group of people were discussing in a hurry, causing chaos in the main hall of the City Lord's Mansion.

After a long while, no one came to any useful conclusions, but one person suddenly and cautiously said:

"Could it be...they are actually coming after us...?"

Everyone turned their heads to look at him one after another, making the latter wave his hands quickly, expressing that he was just talking casually and could not take it seriously.

But Ye Lin walked up to him with a serious face, and asked:
"Zou Zi, you just said...they are coming after us?"

"Ah, Ye... City Lord, I didn't mean that, I just said it casually based on my feeling, don't take it seriously..."

Ye Lin ignored his words, but asked again on his own:

"What is your basis? Why do you have this idea?"

The general surnamed Zou scratched his head and said helplessly:

"City Lord, don't embarrass me. I'm just talking casually... It's not that the Jinlin Army's way of marching is too familiar. When I followed the Nanchuan Army to fight the Nanman in Nanchuan City, I didn't always use it like this. How about the method... What kind of bandit suppression is this? It's obvious that it looks like it's going to fight..."

"..."

Ye Lin got the answer from the other party's mouth, but he was unwilling to believe it for a long time.

He looked at Zou Zi in a daze, the expression on his face changed one after another, and finally turned into bitterness.

"Could it be...that person really wants to do this...impossible...the price is too great..."

The few people around were a little unclear at first, so they didn't know what the new city owner was talking about.

But none of the people present were stupid. Following the suggestions of several colleagues around them, everyone present immediately understood the meaning of what the other party said.

"How come!! Could it be that the emperor is crazy? He wants to use troops against us!!?"

Someone couldn't help but exclaimed.

"Why!? It doesn't make sense! Is it because we sent a messenger and told him about the encounter with monsters in the city? Does he want to kill us?"

"Then... what should we do? Are we going to sit and wait? But what if the Jinlin Army is just... just passing by...?"

"Fart! Forbidden Army of the Imperial City, how could a good-looking man pass by us!?"

"..."

"Stop making noise!!!"

Ye Lin suddenly shouted violently, interrupting the quarrel of the crowd.

He took a deep breath, calmed down, and then continued:
"City Lord Bai told me that Emperor Xuanyang was an extremely iron-blooded king. In order to eliminate Taoism, he did not hesitate to burn all the books and kill all Taoist priests! What can such a person do? Don't you think so?" Don't you have a count?"

"The Jinlin Army came here this time, not passing by, nor suppressing bandits! They are coming for us! More precisely, they are coming for Hanyue City!!"

As soon as this remark came out, it was like a thunderbolt falling into deep water, causing several people to show shocked expressions.

"City, City Lord... Do you want to say that he is not trying to arrest us...but...but...but..."

The man repeated several times in a row, but he was still unable to say the following words.

The same goes for the other people present, they all felt their mouths were dry and wanted to speak, but they couldn't say those two words.

"He wants to massacre the city..."

Ye Lin spoke.

"If I'm not mistaken, the Jin Lin Army came here this time to massacre the city..."

Silence, deathly silence.

Needle dropping could be heard in the main hall of the City Lord's Mansion, and the generals were all stunned.

"why……?"

After a long time, someone finally spoke.

"Why did he do this? These are millions of people? Is it possible that they will all be killed just because they have experienced this incident...?"

Ye Lin took a deep look at him and closed his eyes in pain.

"Because...they know too much..."

……

Five days later, in the city of Hanyue.

At this time, more than half a month has passed since the original blood silkworm incident, and the people in the city have gradually come out of the fear of being dominated by monsters.

In the beginning, although Jiujiu had already killed the culprit of all this—the Skyblood Silkworm, the people didn't know what was going on there.

Even at a later stage, the City Lord's Mansion sent people to post notices throughout the city that the monster had been killed, but everyone was still reluctant to go out.

This situation only eased after a few days.

After all, there has never been any monsters hurting people in the city, and the city guards are patrolling the streets.

Everyone's courage gradually grew, and they all began to believe that the monster was really killed.

For this reason, the people of the City Lord's Mansion also specially publicized the Tianyuanzong matter.

It also indicated that the Fairy Fate Conference will be held in the city.

Master Immortal Cultivator will select those with the best spiritual roots from the crowd and bestow them with great opportunities.

In this way, Hanyue City has gradually resumed production, but it seems that there is still a long way to go from the prosperity of the past.

And these days, the most discussed topic in the city has changed from monsters eating people to the matter of the Fairy Fate Conference.

Everyone is extremely enthusiastic about the ethereal fairyland.

If it was placed before the appearance of the blood silkworm demon, then no one would be willing to believe in any immortal cultivator.

Even everyone can't avoid the so-called immortal journey.

After all, His Majesty the Emperor has already said that if anyone dares to talk about cultivating Taoism, he will only end up dead.

But after personally experiencing the killing of monsters, witnessing the sky-covering thunder clouds above the city lord's mansion, and the terrifying sea of ​​blood, no one would question them again.

Even a group of the most stubborn old masters in the city had to nod their heads at this moment to admit the fact that those monsters and monks existed.

Your Majesty the Emperor, you are indeed wrong.

On this point, all the people in Hanyue City took the same stand.

Since the legendary immortals really exist, those rumors of immortality must not be false.

And in this world, no one is indifferent to longevity.

When the news of the Fairy Fate Conference came out, and when everyone knew that there was such a chance to live forever, the people in the entire Hanyue City were almost boiling.

Now, whether it is a street or an alley, or a restaurant or a teahouse, as long as you enter a place with people, you will almost always hear the topic of the Xianyuan Conference.

According to the latest news released by the City Lord's Mansion, the Fairy Fate Conference will be held on the first day of December, which is tomorrow.

Now, at the venue of the Fairy Fate Conference in the south of the city, it is already overcrowded.

It used to be a large market, named Jinli Square, which was mainly used by foreign merchants to do business here.

It's just that because of the blood silkworm incident, Hanyue City was closed, and most of the merchants were lost.

Even if it recovers now, there may not be any improvement, but a large area has been vacant.

This area happened to be planned to be used as the venue for the Fairy Fate Conference.

And Ye Lin has also planned.

Later, this area was renamed "Xianyuanfang", and the Xianyuan Conference was specially held, or a special Xiuxianfang city was established.

(End of this chapter)