Chapter 1358: The Wisdom of Scavengers
On the city wall, there were many people who had the same idea as Ou Yezi. After discovering that the scavengers outside the city posed no threat, many people chose to return to the city to go about their own business.
Obviously, everyone has experienced this kind of thing many times before and is quite experienced.
Soon, there were only about a hundred people left on the city wall.
Duan Qing did not leave with Ou Yezi, but stayed on the city wall.
It’s the first time I experience something like this, and I’m always a little curious.
Looking at the mixed scavengers outside the city, Duan Qing thought of the two Sui clan he met after entering the black prison.
It seems... those two people are scavengers.
Duan Qing stayed on the city wall for almost half an hour, and found that the situation was exactly as Ou Yezi had judged. The fairy city's defense formation had remained stable under the attack of thousands of scavengers, without any signs of collapse.
"These guys are just like locusts, they are very annoying and they will come every once in a while."
At this time, a familiar voice sounded beside Duan Qing.
Hearing the sound, Duan Qing looked to the right and found that it was the young guard who took him into the city that day.
"By the way, you haven't asked for your fellow Taoist's name yet?"
"Haha, my name is Hua Lingfeng." The young guard smiled heartily, revealing two pointed little tiger teeth.
"Fellow Daoist Duan has been living in the city for the past few days. Are you still used to it?"
Duan Qing nodded: "Not bad."
Except for the occasional despair of not being able to leave the Black Prison, life in Fairy City is no different from the outside world.
While Duan Qing and Hua Lingfeng were talking on the city wall, among the crowd of scavengers outside the city, two Sui people stared at Duan Qing on the city wall from a distance and talked secretly.
"Brother Six, do you think this person is that little beast?"
"It's hard to say, it looks like it, but that little beast is a patrol monk from the Fairy Spirit Alliance. He is far away on the Wuxu Star. How could he appear here?"
"It's impossible! Maybe they just look alike!"
"Well, I guess it's because there are too many human races, and there are many that look alike."
"Eh, that's not right! Brother Six, look at the bamboo hat on that boy's head and the gourd around his waist!"
"Hey, mother, you really are that little beast!"
"Let's go back and inform eldest brother and the others. If Third Sister knows that this little beast has come to the Black Prison, she will tear him alive!"
With that said, the two Sui people quietly evacuated from the crowd.
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The offensive of the scavengers outside the city lasted for almost half an hour. After finding that they could not break through the shield of Fairy City, they decisively began to evacuate. In less than a few dozen breaths, the scavengers outside the city disappeared without a trace. There was no trace, as if he had never appeared before.
Seeing this scene, Duan Qing couldn't help but feel puzzled.
"Fellow Daoist Hua, this kind of thing has happened many times in the past. These scavengers should know that thousands of people can't break through the shield of Fairy City, so why do they still come to do this meaningless thing?"
Hua Lingfeng slowly shook his head when he heard this: "Fellow Daoist Duan, then you underestimate these scavengers!"
"Oh? Could it be that these scavengers have another purpose?" Duan Qing guessed.
Hua Lingfeng looked at the empty plain outside the city and nodded heavily: "Exactly!"
"Although scavengers are like a mess, they are not fools."
"Basically every time there is rain from the sky, scavengers will take the opportunity to harass the base camps of the five major forces. Just like this time, not only my Fairy City, Evil Emperor City and other four cities, most of them were also harassed by scavengers."
"The main purpose of doing this is to create an advantage in the competition for Ganlin."
"Not only the five major forces will rob the rain in the black prison, but also the scavengers. It's just that at the beginning, compared to the five major forces with strong cohesion, the scavengers basically can't get much advantage."
"I don't know when later, the scavengers became good at it. When the main forces of the five major forces went out to collect nectar, they would always send people to harass the base camp of the five major forces. After receiving the news, the five major forces of the five major forces who were out collecting nectar would send people back. In this way, the scavengers will gain a slight advantage in the competition for Ganlin."
"It's just that if this kind of harassment happens too often, it will inevitably be discovered, so the five major forces simply ignore the base camp. As a result, the scavengers changed their ways and summoned the main force to storm the five major forces' base camp and plunder the city."
"In the history of our Fairy City, we have been attacked twice by scavengers and looted. Many of the people who stayed in the city were sold by the scavengers to the other four major forces and became slaves!"
Speaking of this, Hua Lingfeng's expression became obviously angry.
After a short pause, Hua Lingfeng continued to explain.
"The other four major forces have also suffered similar losses from the real and fake harassment of scavengers!"
"Later, in order to avoid this situation, a tacit understanding was basically formed between the five major forces and the scavengers. When the large forces are out collecting rain, they will definitely return to defense once they receive a request for help from the base camp."
"Since then, although every time the rain falls from the sky, part of the rain will be given to the scavengers, but there has been no situation where the city has been destroyed. The scavengers who come to harass are basically just pretending."
Hearing this, Duan Qing suddenly realized.
So that's it.
The scavengers seem to be scattered, but for the benefit of Gan Lin, they can still form a certain cohesion.
After chatting with Hua Lingfeng for a while, Duan Qing also left the city wall and returned to the weapon refining workshop to find Ou Yezi, wanting to continue the previous topic with Ou Yezi.
He vaguely felt that Ou Yezi seemed to have some good ideas regarding Mo Xujian.
But when Duan Qing returned to the weapon refining workshop, he found that Ou Yezi was already in seclusion refining weapons, so he had to give up this idea temporarily.
Unknowingly, three days passed.
A day ago, thousands of cultivators from both the human and demon races returned to defend Xianling City, making the deserted Xianling City a lot more lively.
What disappointed Duan Qing was that Hu Youwei and his companions were not among the cultivators who returned to defend.
On this day, Duan Qing was refining weapons in the weapon refining workshop, but heard the melodious bell sound again in the city.
Hearing the bell, Duan Qing quickly put down what he was doing, left the weapon refining workshop, and rushed towards the city gate.
Seeing the shield rising again over the city, Duan Qing was very puzzled.
What's going on?
According to Hua Lingfeng, the harassment of scavengers usually only comes once during the rain, and rarely comes back.
Could it be... that the scavengers think that there are too few people returning to defend Xianling City, and want to harass again, so that the large army of Xianling City will send more people back to defend?
When Duan Qing arrived at the city wall with full of doubts, he was stunned by the scene in front of him.
The plain outside the city was densely packed with scavengers, and there was no end in sight. The number of people was at least tens of thousands!