Chapter 104 Deception
The sky was getting darker, and before I knew it, the group came from the bustling street to a secluded area. It should be in the city, but it was extremely quiet. Another feature is that it is very large.
The business of the Northern Region Blue Port is so prosperous, with many residents. Apart from the manor outside the city, you can’t see a building that covers too wide after entering the city. But this part is an exception. Strictly speaking, it looks like a city. There is no city wall fortress outside the Northern Region Blue Port. Instead, there is such a place in the city. A wall several meters high, you can also see the squadrons of bed crossbows on it. There is a team of fully armed soldiers on guard in front of the door. The armor on the soldiers’ armor was the same as that worn by Wang Zhenghu, but only one of them had a fish fin pattern on his chest.
When walking past the gate, Wang Zhenghu, the deputy of the horse riding team, raised his hand and said hello, stopped the horse and turned around and said, "This is the camp of the scale armored shark guards. The scales and team A who have no missions are stationed in to train!"
Zhou Jin looked at the city wall, and he vaguely remembered Yun Tianzong sneaking in from that hole, but his martial arts skills were not enough and he didn't follow him.
When they heard that this was the camp of the scaled shark guards, the conversations among the five cities alliances became much smaller. They thought they should lead everyone into the camp next, but they didn't expect that after Wang Zhenghu said this, they continued to ride a horse forward. Everyone was confused all of a sudden and didn't know where to go.
Walking out of the secluded military camp, I entered the noisy street. The streets were still prosperous, and it could even be said to have entered a more prosperous area. However, the young people from the Five Cities Alliance had no time to see it, and they were all wondering where they were going.
After walking for half an hour, the wind became stronger and the smell of fishy smell was heavier. A huge yard appeared in front of me. This yard looked no smaller than the camp that looked like a city just now, but it was surrounded by fences and you could see rows of houses inside outside. However, it was not as quiet as the scaled shark guard camp, and it was as lively as those commercial streets.
There are also warriors on duty in front of the gate here, but compared to the solemn and seriousness in front of the scaled shark guard camp, the warriors here seem lazy, with only two people in total
Team deputy Wang Zhenghu stopped in front of this gate. Everyone thought he was going to introduce him again, but Wang Zhenghu turned around and said, "This is the reserve camp. From now on, you will be a member of the reserve team."
Reserve Team? Zhou Jin knew what this meant, and he was stunned. Others didn't understand it. Chi Dameng asked directly: "People Wang, is the reserve team the scale crowd among the scale armored shark guards?"
Everyone also had similar questions. When the team deputy Wang Zhenghu heard this question, he sneered and said, "What do you think the scaled shark guard is? You can join at will? Tell you that the reserve team does not mean that you can enter just by entering. They must be reviewed in advance. They must be healthy and not be incomplete. They must have a normal mental state and have a guarantor, otherwise they will not be confused. Because you are children of the Blue Port League, you directly enter the reserve team. If you want to enter the scaled shark guard, you must follow the rules step by step."
"What? Can't you go directly to the scaled shark guard? You have to start with the reserve team?" Some young people from the Five City Alliance exclaimed directly.
Before we came, everyone was ready to endure hardships, but they thought about training in the scaled shark guards, but they didn't expect that even the scaled shark guards could not get in.
"Do you know who we are?" someone shouted loudly. When he heard him say this, the team's deputy Wang Zhenghu had not answered yet. Zhou Jin and Qiu Wenwei smiled bitterly, and Zheng Douluo turned to look at Zhou Jin.
These people were really spoiled and had a strange character. The children of the leader of the Five Cities Alliance didn't say anything. What qualifications do you have to call me? And they flattered Liu Guangyuan halfway through the way, but now they are arrogant when facing the officers in the scaled shark guard. They are really hard to tell the importance of it.
Wang Zhenghu's expression of contempt was even heavier, but before he could speak, the warrior in front of the reserve camp opened his mouth.
The talking warrior was in his forties, with a messy face and a badly dressed in his clothes. He smiled and shouted, "Five City Alliance, this is fresh. Someone finally came to participate. Do you think you are? Do you know Tiantai City? Do you know Qiufeng Sunset City? Do you know Xiafeng Valley? Do you know Black Blood Yellow Sand Rider?"
Tiantai City is connected to the northeast of the Five City Alliance and is connected to the Northern Region Blue Port. The city is quite large, almost one-quarter of the Northern Region Blue Port, far larger than the Five City Alliance. Qiufeng Sunset City is a city adjacent to the Linhai Mountains to the north of the Five City Alliance. This city was built by mountain people and has strong force, and is about the same level as Tiantai City.
Xiafeng Valley is a ranch in the west. It is just across the endless sea of sand between him and the Five Cities Alliance. The forces that can compete with the Black Blood Yellow Sand Cavalry will naturally not be small.
The warrior cited these four forces, and no matter which one, it would be more than the Five Cities Alliance. After he said these, everyone stopped talking and waited for the warrior's explanation.
"Their young people are coming, and they still have to wait in this reserve camp. I have been here so much in the past two months. I haven't heard anyone directly joining the scaled shark guards. Don't talk about them, even the people from the Southern Empire must advance to the reserve team here. Who are you? Why can you join directly?" The warrior smiled, but his meaning was sarcastic and ruthless.
The Southern Empire is the largest force in the world. Not to mention this, the other parties will have many more than the Five Cities Alliance. Even they cannot join directly. What qualifications are there for the Five Cities Alliance?
"Don't think that you have privileges when forming an alliance. Tiantai City and Blue Port have been in alliance for a hundred years, and you still can't break the rules! The covenant is an agreement between Blue Port and Five Cities Alliance. It's your own business for you to join the scaled shark guard. This is the rule!" The deputy Wang Zhenghu of the team turned his head and said in a stern voice.
"Why can the black blood and yellow sand horse thief join?" someone shouted. Wang Zhenghu shook his head and continued to explain without any impatiently: "Why can't the horse thief work? Someone guarantees that if the rules are in line with the rules, the scale armored shark guards will not refuse."
With such great strength as the Black Blood Yellow Sand Horse Thief, it is naturally easy to find a guaranteed person. If you analyze it carefully, there is indeed no direct conflict with Beiyu Blue Port.
Zhou Jin pondered for a while and asked: "Mr. Wang, someone from your side suggested that the Five Cities Alliance send their children to join the Scale Armor Shark Guard, which will help the two sides have a close relationship. Will joining the reserve team affect each other's relationship?"
"If you meet the conditions and pass the test, you will of course enter the scaled shark guard. If you can't enter, there are many places in Northern Blue Port that need warriors, which will not affect the alliance between the two sides!" When asked by Zhou Jin, the deputy of the Wang Team was much more polite, because from beginning to end, only Zhou Jin performed the most calm and mature.
Zhou Jin nodded. This would not affect the alliance between the two sides. As for the others, follow the rules. He spoke: "Everyone, since this is the rule of Blue Port, we must abide by it. Just follow the arrangements and don't let others laugh!"
In the past, some people may have expressed their objections, but after seeing Zhou Jin's battle with Liu Guangyuan this morning, no one dared not to listen to Zhou Jin's words, and everyone immediately fell silent.
The warrior guarding in front of the camp gate looked at Zhou Jin very differently, but he didn't expect that this young man who had been silent was so prestigious.
Another gray-armored knight took out a document from his saddle bag and handed it to the warrior guarding. The warrior scandaled the young man from the Five City Alliance, wrote a few strokes on the document, and said, "Fifteen people in the reserve team will join the camp, I will arrange it according to the rules!"
Just like the procedures when entering the city, after finishing, Wang Zhenghu and his companions rode away. When they passed by Zhou Jin, Wang Zhenghu stopped deliberately and said to Zhou Jin: "I hope to see you among the people of Lin!"
These words expressed their expectations for Zhou Jin and also expressed Wang Zhenghu's kindness. Zhou Jin nodded with a smile.
As soon as the two gray-armored knights left, the warrior guarding the door shouted at the top of his voice: "Drop off the horse and get the sign. What number is on the sign? You can go to that number to live in. There are all stables behind the house. Put your mount in. Someone takes care of feeding them. There are places to eat. There are places to eat. Ring the bell and sleep, get up, and follow people after three meals. There are also shops in the camp where you want to buy food. There are only three rules in this camp. You can't fight in groups, kill people, and you can't leave the camp without permission. Do you understand?"
This rule is similar to that of the settlements of military camps and schools. Everyone nodded and agreed, and they all turned over and got off the gatekeeper to get the sign.
The warrior was careless and casual, and said while distributing the sign: "It's a coincidence that you came here. These two months are just the time when the scaled shark guards recruit people, and young people everywhere have come."
Zhou Jin shook his head, thinking in his mind that what's the use of such a coincidence? There are more people coming, and there are more competitors. Just as he thought of this, the warrior said, "If you come late and early, you can only wait until next month, and then you will officially start to receive people."
So that's it, and the time is just right. Zhou Jin received the sign, which was a three-inch round iron plate with "Twenty-four" engraved on it. After taking the sign, he just entered the door. He heard the guard warrior shouting again: "The empty bed is yours."
It seems that someone has moved in the room, and when the sign was allocated just now, Zhou Jin noticed that everyone got different numbers. In other words, there will be no young people from the Five Cities Alliance in the same room. This is to prevent gang formations. This consideration is really interesting.
Zhou Jin suddenly felt a little excited. With his experience and nature, his mood would not fluctuate easily, but at this time he seemed like a real boy, because he had never had such an experience.
Walking in from the gate, there is a straight avenue. The houses are on both sides of the road. There are lanterns hanging on the side of the house. You can clearly see the numbers on the lanterns. After entering the reserve camp, these people from the Five City Alliance began to disperse. Each of them found their own residence according to the numbers on the sign.
After almost halfway through, Zhou Jin also found his house. He probably took a look. There were forty large houses for people to live in the reserve camp, and the rest were warehouses and other places.
Each room is large, with all the facilities in front and back. In addition to the lack of a courtyard wall, it is just a large mansion. Zhou Jin led the horses to the stable and found an empty space to tie up his mount.
There are already nine horses in the stable, and only one empty space is left. Zhou Jin guessed in his heart that there should be ten people living in this room, and now nine people have moved in.
When Zhou Jin walked to the door with his bag on his back, he heard a loud noise coming from the room, and two or three people were chatting and laughing loudly there.
The atmosphere here was really relaxed. Zhou Jin sighed in his heart and stepped into the door. As soon as he entered the door, the noise and chatting and laughing in the room suddenly became quiet. Nine people had moved into the room as he guessed, and these nine young people were staring at him.
I had to live with these people for a few days next. Zhou Jin greeted him with a smile, but no one responded to him. Zhou Jin didn't care and walked to the empty bed in the corner.
Just after taking a glance, Zhou Jin had noticed many details. There were ten beds, a table and ten chairs in the room. However, only three people were chatting and laughing loudly around the table, and the other six people were timidly hiding in the distance.
The three people sat by the table looked fierce and looked at it. When Zhou Jin smiled and greeted him, the three people responded to a threatening expression.
The man among the three was not tall, half shorter than Zhou Jin, and was younger than Zhou Jin, but there were two scars on his face, one on his forehead and the other on his right cheek, making his whole face look very fierce. The young man sitting on his right side had a round face, his eyes were very small, as if he was always squinting. He was a big fat man, and he looked smiling, but Zhou Jin noticed that there was no smile in the fat man's eyes, and the third person was extremely strong, his naked upper body was full of muscles, and the muscles seemed to explode. The man had a beard, but he was not old.
As for the other six people, they sat quietly on the bed and hid in the dark, they couldn't see clearly.
The luggage on the bed was quite neat and clean. There was a wooden box under the bed, which was supposed to be for the accommodation to store things. Zhou Jin quietly put down his bags and began to organize them. He noticed that the laughter in the house had stopped. Zhou Jin noticed more keenly that someone was staring at his bags.
When he left Black Stone City, Zhou Yang gave him 100 taels of gold as a expense in Blue Port. The amount of money was very large. Although Zhou Jin didn't want so much, Zhou Yang insisted on him holding it, and said that he would not suffer outside. He told his family that he was short of money. At that time, Zhou Jin felt very warm, and that's how his family's concern should be.
One hundred taels of gold are inconspicuous when putting in the bag, but it will make the bag appear heavy, and the movements made on the bed are different.
Just as I was about to open the box, I heard someone shouting behind me, "New boy, where did you come from?"
There were ten young people in the room, Zhou Jin was in the middle, but the voice of calling him "boy" sounded younger than Zhou Jin. Zhou Jin turned his back to these people, with a helpless smile on his face, shook his head and replied, "I'm coming from Black Stone City."
After a quiet moment, someone asked in wonder: "Where is Black Rock City?"
"Oh, it's a small place, two days away from here, in the mountains, what's the name of the Five Cities Alliance?" someone replied in a soft voice.
"Damn it, that place, even the broken place is still called the city, Heishi Village, or Heishi Village!" One man said in a rough voice, and then burst into laughter. Not only three people laughed, but also some people laughed dryly.
"On Hengshan Island, go and tell the rules for the newcomer!" The man who spoke first said again, only when someone timidly agreed and walked towards Zhou Jin.
Zhou Jin put the bag into the wooden box, smoothed the sheets with his hands, turned around and sat on the bed, watching a young man walking towards him. The young man was one of the other six people, of medium figure and strong appearance, but his face was a little bruised, as if he had just been beaten.
"This... this brother, I am Zhang Tiekai from Hengshan Island. I will tell you the rules at the order of Brother Han!" Although Zhang Tiekai was very timid, his aura increased when he came to Zhou Jin. It seemed that he would decide the ranking when he came first and then in this room. However, when Zhou Jin looked at it with calm eyes, he immediately stuttered.
When other young people came here, they were either afraid or angry when they encountered such treatment, but the person in front of them seemed to have heard nothing, which made Zhang Tiekai feel very strange and subconsciously became cautious.
"Our room is protected by Brother Han, Brother Huang and Brother Cheng, and Brother Cheng, three. If anyone is bullied outside, the three brothers will stand up for us. But we can't let the three brothers be in vain. We can try any specialties and other things for the brothers to try. The brothers also said that if there are any gold, silver and treasures in their hands, they are willing to help keep them!" Zhang Tiekai said while observing Zhou Jin's expression. Seeing Zhou Jin's reaction, he saw that Zhou Jin had no reaction. He became smoother and smoother. He thought that this boy from a small place was not weird, but was scared silly.
Zhang Tiekai was talking there, and the young man who was sitting in the middle said impatiently: "So much nonsense, take that bag, brother, I will keep it well!"
The fat man and the bearded man next to him laughed. Zhang Tiekai quickly turned around and agreed, turned around and touched the wooden box under Zhou Jin's bed. Regardless of whether Zhou Jin agreed or not, he reached out to flip.
Zhou Jin reached out and pressed Zhang Tiekai's shoulder. Zhang Tiekai's body seemed to have lost balance, and he took three steps in a row, looking at Zhou Jin in astonishment.
Zhou Jin from Hengshan Island knew that it was an island, about forty miles south of Blue Port in the northern region. There were thousands of people on the island, and they made a living by fishing. Unexpectedly, this place also sent people to participate in the scaled shark guard.
But Zhou Jin felt that this was not the interesting thing. He didn't expect that in the reserve team of the scaled shark guards, he actually bullied each other and extorted each other, but it did not violate the rules. After all, these were not prohibited in the bans in front of the door.
"Where are you from?" Zhou Jin asked back, raised his chin as he spoke, and pointed at the scarred young man.
The scarred young man's eyes glared straight at him. He didn't expect that Zhou Jin from a small place would not only not buy it, but instead treated him with an indifferent attitude. Before the young man could speak, the fat man next to him said gloomyly: "Boy, our brother Han is a master from the Haihu Gang, don't be ignorant of politeness..."
"Where are you from again?" Zhou Jin was very interested in the people in the room coming from there. He directly interrupted the fat man's words and asked. The fat man was stunned and replied subconsciously: "I am the Salt Gang..."
Before he finished speaking, the strong bearded man roared and stood up, cursing, "You don't know what kind of profound things are there to pretend to be. If you don't teach you a lesson, you won't be honest!"
Amid the roar, a stool in front of the bearded man flew straight towards Zhou Jin. The wind roared. Zhang Tiekai, who was standing in front of Zhou Jin, hurriedly hugged his head and lay down. The stool flew quickly. As soon as he arrived in front of Zhou Jin, Zhou Jin sat there without moving. He reached out and took the stool and placed it on the ground casually.
But the strong bearded man's killer move was still behind. He had already kicked him with his stool. The room of ten people was not big. He could jump and kick in this space, and at such a speed, he was not weak. But he met Zhou Jin.
Seeing that Zhou Jin could not dodge and was about to be kicked in the face, the scared short man and the fat man smiled on his face, while the other people were very reluctant on their faces and turned their heads and didn't want to look again.
Zhou Jin was unhappy, so he put down the stool first, straightened up, then turned sideways, and then raised his arm. But after these movements, he had already flashed through the bearded man's flying kick. Zhou Jin only saw him knocking the bearded man's vital parts with one finger.
The bearded man screamed in the air, curled up in the air, and lost his balance directly. He hit one wall and lay directly on the ground. The man was squirming on the ground, his face was already blue.
Zhou Jin pointed to the bearded man on the ground and said, "Where is he from?"
No one paid attention to his words. The scared dwarf and fat man stood up from the seat and stared at him viciously, while the others were a little excited and stared at Zhou Jin with all their attention.
"Boy, don't think you can come here to show off after learning a few tricks in a small place, you..." The fat man didn't finish his words, and suddenly raised his hand, and more than a dozen white projectiles flew towards Zhou Jin. The projectiles looked like crystals gathering, flashing light in the air.
There was no poison on the projectile and it was not fast. Zhou Jin was about to grab it and see what it was. As soon as he reached out, he saw a smug smile on the fat man's face.
"Papapapapapapa" sounded, and more than a dozen projectiles shattered in the air. Zhou Jin's eyes were already covered by white smoke, and his vision was blocked.
"This is salt!" Zhou Jin quickly realized that the Salt Gang really used local materials.
Chapter completed!