Chapter 163 Guarding the Gate
“Excuse me, which gate are you asking me to help look at?”
Fang Mao is also quite curious, just to look at the gate, he actually wants the Earth Spirit Immortal to come in person. Choose yourself?
“Is it the gate of the county government, or the gate of some mansion or temple.”
Xu Ke smiled and let the old man transformed from the clay face point to the city gate.
The south gate of the city.
“Um...is it the city gate?”
Fang Maang’s expression changed when he heard this.
He had heard for a long time that as the gray fog descended, the number of demons and evil things outside trying to sneak into Tianhu County increased exponentially.
He is a helpless person. If he really runs to see the city gate, he will probably be torn apart by the demon's hands in less than half a day.
At this time, Li Sian, who had been waiting for a long time, took the initiative to explain the latest changes in the formation to Fang Mao.
“Actually, your job is very safe. This city gate has been divided into two levels, one is the outer gate and the other is the inner gate.”
“Usually the outer gate is completely closed. ", while the inner door is open."
"Once an outsider is ready to enter the city, you can close the inner door and go to the middle passage to confirm whether this person is an evil spirit. ”
“As long as it is confirmed, we can let him into the city.”
Li Si'an explained it this way, and it was difficult to understand the appearance for a while.
Li Sian had no choice but to take him to the scene and help Fang Mao explain the uses of various mechanisms and spells bit by bit.
Because Fang Mang’s work is extremely important, once a demon is really mixed into the city, it may cause more than ten times the damage.
Therefore, the mechanisms and talismans placed at the city gate are almost extravagant regardless of cost, and there are transmission talismans that can communicate with the city in real time.
The temporary hiding cabin inside the passage is made of special materials.
There are also a large number of protective spells and mechanisms attached to it.
It can even be called the safest place in Tianhu County.
Even a demon with six levels of strength cannot open this heavily protected cabin for a while.
During this time, the patrol team in the city who got the news will rush over as soon as possible to directly deal with the evil spirits who dare to break through and cause trouble.
Fang Mao was very confused at first, but Xu Ke said that he could try to work for two days first.
In fact, the process is very simple. As long as you are familiar with it, you can easily handle this job.
So Fang Mao officially took up his post the next day.
Actually, this work is indeed not as arduous as Fang Maang imagined.
When no pedestrians arrive outside, you can sit inside the city gate and chat with a few gate guards.
You can even take a walk or jog for a while within a few dozen feet.
When you have nothing to do, you can even move a chair to bask in the sun and sleep in.
But because of the gray fog, even though Tianhu County has not recovered, the sky is still shrouded in a light layer of gray fog.
Therefore the weather has been gloomy and gloomy, making it difficult for people to feel happy.
You only need to work four hours a day, and you can get off work on time in the evening. The work is extremely comfortable.
Fang Maang was tired after walking around. He lost the freshness and excitement at the beginning, so he lay lazily on a wicker chair drinking tea and reading a book.
Just when he was about to fall asleep, he suddenly heard a bell ringing next to him.
“Someone is coming!”
This is the first person entering the city whose appearance needs to be verified, so naturally he jumped up in excitement.
He hurriedly ran back to his work station, in the hut within the passage.
After closing the door, he came to the window covered with several protective charms and pressed a mechanism to signal the guards in the city to close the inner door.
After the inner door slowly closed, Fang Maung pulled the other wrench on the right and slowly pulled up the outer city gate.
I saw a man leading a bullock cart slowly entering the passage and found that the inner door had not been opened.
I was about to ask why I couldn’t pass.
Fang Maung approached the window and shouted at the man:
“Come here to check your identity documents before you can pass!”
After saying that, Fang Maang closed the wrench on the outer door again and closed the outer city gate again.
This can prevent external evil objects from hurting two people.
And if this person is possessed by an evil spirit, you can just close the door and beat the dog to prevent him from escaping.
The man didn't explain much. He took out a document from his arms and placed it by Fang Maang's window.
Fang Maang carefully stretched out a bamboo clip and took the document into the house.
He looked at it carefully...
"Chen Maogong, male, born in the second year of Zhizheng, his native place is Shimen County..."
Fang Maang looked at the information above and was suddenly stunned. Then he stared at the man in his early thirties in front of him.
Then he asked again: "I don't know, Your Excellency, Geng?"
The man was stunned, suddenly stopped talking, and stammered for a long time before saying:
"Xiao Sheng is twenty-six years old this year."
Fang Mao showed no emotion on his face, smiled, took two steps back, and quietly pressed a button in the room.
Suddenly all formations outside the room were activated, and a group of soldiers patrolling the city were notified immediately.
He rushed towards the city gate like flying.
At the same time, the evil corpses who received the notice from the place of great danger also brought more than ten soldier corpses.
The man in the passage didn't know why, but he saw the inner door finally slowly opening.
Waiting for him to feel happy, he was ready to rush into the city and quickly find a place to hide.
When he saw thousands of arrows firing in front of him, he was shot into a sieve without any explanation.
But even so, the man did not die, but quickly turned into a black shadow and rushed towards the group of soldiers.
Halfway through the charge, they were trapped by a group of people who had already ambushed them.
Just hearing the wailing sound coming continuously, it was regarded as refining in a moment and completely turned into a pile of ashes.
[Refining a demon from the four realms and obtaining 800 strands of Yin Qi. 】
[The evolution value of the fierce land is +0.5%, the current level is level four (death restricted zone), and the current evolution degree is 18.5%. 】
After confirming the death of the evil spirit, everyone took out the magic weapon and screened it again in the passage.
Similar to disinfection, it prevents any toxins, curses or eggs from being left behind by the evil spirits.
After cleaning up, the city patrol team headed by them also said hello to the appearance in the room.
Then they left and continued to maintain law and order in the city.
Only Fang Maang wiped the sweat from his forehead with lingering fear, and laughed endlessly while holding the identity document handed to him by the demon.
This evil spirit picked up the document from somewhere.
In the second year of Zhizheng, it has been at least fifty years since now.
The man claimed to be in his twenties and was totally out of touch.
Only the evil spirits who live in seclusion in the mountains will not know the calendar year number in the human world. There are no years in the mountains.
Such a big flaw, if you can't find it from the outside, you might as well find a piece of tofu and kill it.
After the first try, Fang Maang finally felt confident.
Even though these evil spirits are cunning and powerful, their understanding of human beings is still superficial and full of flaws.
As long as Fang Mang treats these people seriously and carefully, he will never let any evil spirits enter the city, nor will he misjudge ordinary people as being disguised as evil spirits. In the next few days, the identification of the appearance was very stable.
As expected, except for the evil spirit on the first day, the people who came later were basically normal people.
There are no flaws in the identity documents, body appearance, and various words.
After being placed in the city, nothing evil happened.
However, on the fifth day, Fang Maang discovered that there were particularly many people entering the city today.
According to people in the city, it seems that because the situation in other counties has become increasingly serious, these people have to flee to live in Tianhu County even in spite of the gray fog.
Fang Maang had no choice but to stop fishing and return to his post conscientiously, and began to screen the next people entering the city.
First there is a couple.
When they came in, the couple seemed very close, and the husband held his arms around his wife’s shoulders the whole time.
The two have always been close to each other and have a deep affection for each other.
However, the husband’s mouth actually grew to his forehead, and his eyes moved to his chin.
The wife seemed much more pleasing to the eye, but... as soon as she opened her mouth, the woman's tone became extremely sharp and strange.
The voice was louder and softer, the speech speed was fast and slow, and it seemed like there was something in his mouth, and his words were extremely vague.
"Arumo City Esi, top ban, let me."
The smile on Fang Maang's face remained unchanged. While praising the good relationship between the two of them, he quietly pressed the protection and help-calling mechanisms with his hand.
About a quarter of an hour later, when Fang Maang saw the inner city gate opening, he hurriedly crawled to the ground with a plop and covered his ears.
A fierce fight ensued, with bows and crossbows firing, the sky filled with flames, and shouts of killing.
Although the ability of the pair of monsters to change is worrying, their fighting power is truly astonishing.
With the strength of the two of them, they managed to hold on for a long time before they were blocked in the passage and hunted directly.
Without the assistance of many mechanisms and formations in this passage, they would never have been able to kill these two evil creatures so easily.
Once they are allowed into the city, at least hundreds of people will be killed or injured before they can be subdued.
[Refined two demons from the four realms and obtained 1500 strands of Yin Qi. 】
[The evolution value of the fierce land is +1.4%, the current level is level four (death restricted area), and the current evolution degree is 19.9%. 】
“Thank you for your hard work. If you have any questions, you can contact us at any time.”
When dragging the remnants of the evil thing away, the city patrol team said goodbye to Fang Mang sincerely.
Fang Maang also waved to bid farewell to these good brothers.
But before he could sit down and drink tea to calm down, there were people waiting outside, wanting to apply for admission to the city.
That was a young man with a very ordinary appearance. He claimed that he could not survive elsewhere and wanted to come to Tianhu County to see if he could find some way to make a living.
Fang Maang checked his identity document and asked a few more details about ordinary people's lives.
For example, whether you are married or not, do you have parents, wife, children, and brothers at home?
Including what you like to eat and which one you think tastes better, lychee or abalone.
"Master, are you kidding me? A poor person like me has never tasted lychee and abalone..."
Fang Maang nodded after hearing this and paid attention to his name.
"Okay, you passed the test and can enter the city."
"Thank you, sir."
The man just turned his head, and Fang Mang suddenly shouted from behind him:
"Wang Jincai!"
The man turned around subconsciously, as if Very surprised and asked:
"Master, is there anything else?"
After the final confirmation, Fang Maang carefully stared at him to see if there was anything dirty wrapped around him.
In addition, all the magic instruments used to test evil objects in the room did not respond.
Finally I can be convinced that this should be a genuine living person.
From the identity information and various normal reactions, they are no different from those of living people.
Press the button and let the people in the city open the door and let him in.
After working hard for a long time, Fang Maang finally had time to take a sip of tea and relax his shoulders.
About half an hour later, a man came outside the city again and applied to enter the city.
As soon as he arrived in the passage, Fang Ming just took a sip of tea and spit it out.
It turns out that this man who came into the city, no matter his clothes, body appearance, or even his speech and behavior, was exactly the same as Wang Jincai who had just entered the city, without any difference.
Fang Mang, dumbfounded, had no choice but to press the call button.
Seeing that the inner door was opened, the demon's first reaction was not to resist or struggle, but to ask with great confusion:
"Why! How did you see through me?"
Fang Ming I had no choice but to explain to him:
"Ordinary human beings do not look exactly the same."
Fang Maang had also asked Wang Jincai before if he had any brothers in his family, but he was denied. answer.
Therefore, this person who looks exactly like him cannot be his twin brother.
It will only be an evil creature squatting outside Tianhu County, using various methods to imitate those who successfully enter the city.
But it is obvious that evil things do not understand humans well enough.
It’s like plagiarizing someone else’s article, even including the signature. You deserve to be caught.
This time the battle was much easier. The well-prepared city patrol team combined with Xu Ke's evil creature easily killed this confused evil creature.
[Refining a demon from the three realms and obtaining 400 strands of Yin Qi. 】
[The evolution value of the fierce land is +0.2%, the current level is level four (death restricted zone), and the current evolution degree is 20.1%. 】
“Sure enough, we picked the right person.”
Xu Ke summed up the results of the past few days with satisfaction.
Not only did he not let any evil thing into the city, he also hunted down several monsters and evil things that were trying to sneak into the city.
It has added a lot of extra income to the dangerous place.
…………
Li Siping had a dream.
I dreamed that I was lost in the gray fog. The more I wanted to leave this gray fog and return home, the more I felt like a headless fly.
The more anxious he is, the less his body is under his control, wandering around aimlessly.
In a moment of panic, Li Siping couldn't help but make a big mistake, lost his calm, and started wandering around aimlessly.
The next moment, he found that the fog on the left front seemed to be lighter.
Li Siping, who thought he had finally found a way out, rushed over.
Unexpectedly, the place where there was no gray fog was replaced by a terrifying blood coffin that was as tall as two people.
There was a large amount of black blood flowing in the blood coffin, which looked extremely horrifying.
Such a terrifying scene immediately shocked Li Siping.
With a scream, he woke up from his dream.
Sweating profusely, he wanted to wipe the sweat off his forehead, but found that his head became increasingly wet as he wiped it.
Looking at his palm subconsciously, it was already soaked in blood.
The top of the head is the terrifying blood coffin encountered in the dream.
I don’t know when I actually appeared in the wilderness outside the city...
(End of this chapter)