Chapter 423: Yunmeng Swamp (2)
Although Yunmeng Swamp is one of the five most dangerous places on the continent, danger means opportunity and wealth, so Yunmeng Swamp is also one of the most numerous adventurers paradises on the continent.
The town where Xiao Han settled in is called Bonian Town. The reason why it is called Bonian Town is because of the bustling and lively town. If it is a city, it should be called Bonian Town!
The Never-Sleep Town belongs to a kingdom called Odin, which is also considered one of the most famous names in the central part of the continent. The kingdom has three great magicians and two sword saints, which are considered to be a powerful country in the kingdom.
There is no city wall in the town that never sleeps. In the entire Odin Kingdom, except for the royal city of Odin, no other cities have built decent walls. The Odin Kingdom is flat and there is no danger to guard. Not only is it wasteful money to build a city wall, it is also like locking up yourself. It is better to train an elite army than to encircle yourself with money.
It is precisely this policy of strengthening the army, and because it is close to Yunmeng Swamp, the Odin Kingdom has a very good army: the Odin Legion!
Because of the importance of the never-sleep town, the taxes and economic benefits collected here every year exceed one tenth of the kingdom. Logically speaking, it should have been upgraded to a city long ago, but the Kingdom of Odin has been suppressed. Such a town with a fixed population of more than 200,000 and a migrant population of more than 800,000 is still the identity of a small town now!
Compared with the desolation of the west, the countries and cities in the central region are much bustling and prosperous, and even the clothes worn by ordinary people are at least half a level higher!
The town of Bonian is not called out, but is real. All year round, the town of Bonian has never been turned off at night.
The public security is also excellent, because the Odin Legion is stationed here. Even if the super-large mercenary group is taken from the mainland and comes here, it will give the Odin Legion a face and will not cause trouble casually.
The public security in the Bonian Town is good, but besides Bonian Town, it is the world of thieves. Hundreds of thieves have gathered along the surrounding areas of Yunmeng Swamp. However, these thieves are not very large. Thieves with a large number of hundreds and over a thousand people are basically not allowed to exist. All countries do not allow anyone to suffer huge losses in their own interests. Therefore, as long as there are more than a thousand thieves, they will be surrounded and suppressed by more than a dozen national armies bordering the Yunmeng Swamp, including the Odin Legion. As for those thieves with dozens of people, they usually turn a blind eye, and there will be no fish when the water is clear. If all these thieves are wiped out, what else do they want their garrisons to do?
Moreover, the filial piety of these thieves is also a comparison of wealth every year. As long as you keep the red line of one thousand people, isn’t it great for everyone to make a fortune together?
But now this red line seems to be about to be broken. A group of people of unknown origins subjugated a group of thieves with tough means. After swallowing several groups of thieves in just one month, the number of people approached the 1,000 mark. However, the thieves stopped expanding. I thought they knew the hidden rules here, but since they stopped expanding, the generals garrisoned in various countries also breathed a sigh of relief. After all, it may cost a lot of money and manpower to wipe out a group of thieves without sending troops. It would be better.
However, the thieves group named "Wushuang" actually made a surprising decision, dividing its nearly 1,000 thieves into ten. After the ten thieves teams were divided, the ten teams each formed a team of nearly 1,000 people in a very short time. Although they all had their own names, they were nominally ten thieves. But in fact, they followed the orders of the leader of the "Wushuang" thieves group. A thieves group with a thousand people was enough to change the power structure of the Yunmeng swamp area. A thieves group of tens of thousands, no matter which country's regular garrison may not be its opponent!
Take the Odin Empire for example. Their troops in the city that never sleeps only have 5,000 troops, and 5,000 people are stationed in a town with a population of 800,000. However, in the group, the power is strictly controlled below a thousand people, and 5,000 people are enough. Moreover, this is the most powerful Odin legion in the Odin Kingdom!
Fortunately, after the "unparalleled" thieves expanded to 10,000 people, they stopped expanding. After a brief run-in, all ten teams entered Yunmeng Swamp!
The commanders of the garrisons of various countries who received this news all breathed a sigh of relief. As long as they did not want to be enemies with each other, so many of their mobs that they had put together would enter the Yunmeng swamp with traps and murderous intent everywhere, there would be only a dead end!
Thieves rob others. Now they are bounty hunters. This is a crazy act. Just when the commanders of the garrisons of various countries thought that ten crazy thieves could not come out of the Yunmeng swamp, a shocking news came out. Not only did the ten thieves come out, but the gains were simply unbelievable. Their losses caused the fragile and sensitive nerves of the commanders of the garrisons of various countries to feel a huge threat.
Xiao Han and his group were very low-key. They would leave tomorrow, so there was no need to cause any trouble in such a small place.
"How many people, are you going to be a good place to stay?" He picked a hotel that looked clean and refreshing and walked in. The enthusiastic hotel owner came up from behind the counter.
This is how the businessmen saw that although Xiao Han and his party were dressed in ordinary clothes, their temperament was obviously not ordinary people. The businessman was poisonous in his eyes. He could tell at a glance that Xiao Han and others were not ordinary people, otherwise he would be willing to come forward to receive them in person!
"Boss, do you have a top-notch guest room here? I want eight?" asked.
"Yes, yes, eight top-class guest rooms, right?" The boss nodded quickly and agreed. Even if there was no one, he would say that he had it now, so he would leave the person behind first.
"Then I'll bother the boss." Xiao Han called the girls behind him into the hotel, all of whom were masked. This made the boss a little confused. He doubted whether Xiao Han, the only young man who showed up, was a legendary human trafficker. The women behind him were all charming in shape, with fragrant wind blowing on his face. Although he had never seen his true face, as a person who had been in the city of never sleep for twenty years, the hotel owner made a decision almost instantly. No matter what these people wanted, he would try his best to satisfy them.
After going to the house sign, Xiao Han explained: "I have a companion later. Just tell him my house sign!"
"Yes, yes, don't worry, I will tell you!" The store owner nodded quickly and agreed!
"Master, why do you want eight rooms? It's so wasteful. Our six rooms are enough!" Ning Xiner knew that Xiao Han didn't care about this little money, but it obviously didn't cost money, so why not save some money?
"Baby Xin'er said, I will pay attention next time for my husband." Xiao Han nodded in a hurry.
Ning Xiner glanced at Xiao Han, but no one could see it. Xiao Han rolled his eyes at Ning Xiner's charming, as comfortable as eating an ice cream on the sixth day of the day!
What Xiao Han and others didn't know was that they were actually regarded as another group of people. In this way, a storm was inevitable!
The General's Mansion never sleeps.
"General, the unparalleled thieves have entered the town!"
Xu Qifeng, the general who was practicing sword skills in the yard, couldn't help but shake his hand holding the sword, his face changed slightly, and he quickly returned to peace!
"How many people?" Xu Qifeng was very majestic, especially the thick beard about one foot long under his jaw, which added a bit of majesty.
"Eight people, two men, six women, the man looks very ordinary, and all the women are covered with faces!" the subordinate reported.
"Are you sure they are from the Wushuang Thieves Group?" Xu Qifeng asked. Although the Wushuang Thieves Group has gained a huge reputation in just a few months, the senior executives of the Wushuang Thieves Group are very mysterious. Even the members of the Thieves Group do not know their true faces. They just know that their origin is very mysterious and their cultivation is so strong that they cannot compete with them. Also, most of them are women, like to be masked and act very low-key. They usually come forward to do things, but they seem to be inferior to those of masked women!
"It's not clear, general, but their decorations are very similar to the legendary leader of the Unparalleled Thieves. Even if they are not leaders, their subordinates guess they are still related to the Unparalleled Thieves!" said the subordinate.
"There are only a dozen people in the true core of the Unparalleled Thieves. As long as these dozen people are eliminated, the rest will be fine. Eight people came at once, and the goal must be quite large. If they are left behind, how many people will be needed?" Xu Qifeng said to himself.
"General, this is an opportunity. If you miss it, it will be even more difficult for us to find them with the strange whereabouts of the Unparalleled Thieves!" said the subordinate.
"I heard that these people have a high level of cultivation, and it is not a problem to fight a hundred. Although I, Odin's army, are very good at competing, but not many people are hard to match. If you want to leave these eight people behind, you can only be smart and not attack!" Xu Qifeng thought in his mind.
"General, we have the Demon-Destroying Arrow. At that time, tens of thousands of arrows will be fired at once. Even if their cultivation level is high, they will not be able to stop it."
"What you said makes sense. Even if they are not from the Unparalleled Thieves Group, this general has the responsibility to investigate the strangers suddenly under his control, right?" Xu Qifeng felt calm after hearing his subordinates' advice!
"What the general said!"
"I'm going to pass on my general order, mobilize two thousand soldiers, all carrying the Demon-Breaking Crossbow, and accompany me to capture the heads of the unparalleled thieves who are guilty of the extremely evil!" Xu Qifeng immediately ordered with great enthusiasm.
Xiao Han had just arranged the rooms for the girls, and Kara came back. He had big bags of things hanging on him, all of which he had just bought from the market store. Xiao Han didn't even look at it, so he threw it into the space ring.
"Boss, I was on the street just now, and all I heard about a thief group." Seibird Kara said excitedly.
"Robbers?" Xiao Han asked strangely.
"Yes, this thieves group has been extremely powerful recently. Many people want to join this thieves group. However, the dragon has no end to see the head and the tail, and even if they want to join, they can't find anyone!" Kara said.
"I have heard that I have changed my mind and turned to the right. This is the first time I have heard of this, who is desperately trying to be a thief." Xiao Han smiled. Anyway, he had nothing to do, so he should just talk to relieve his boredom. "What's going on with this thieves group?"
"I only heard about it. This thieves group appeared half a year ago. At first there were only a dozen people, but later somehow they annexed a thieves group called Xiaoniao. Then within a month, the thieves group expanded rapidly, with more than a dozen small thieves group at hand, and became a large thieves group of only a thousand people in one fell swoop!"
"A group of thieves is less than a thousand people, and it is called a large group of thieves?" Xiao Han couldn't help laughing after hearing this.
"The rules here are that as long as the number of thieves exceeds a thousand people, they will be surrounded and suppressed by the government troops of various countries. Not to mention dominating one side, even their lives will be difficult to protect!" Kara explained.
"In this way, the thieves here must be selected from the best. I guess even a small thieves group is not weak!" Xiao Han said with his eyes lit up.
Of course, the government army that is opposed to the thieves must have a good strength, otherwise it would not have been able to set such a strange rule. The coexistence of officials and bandits is simply an interdependent relationship. The government army does not allow the number of people in the thief group to exceed thousands, which is to maintain its strong control. If the thief wants to survive, it must follow this rule, otherwise it will not be able to suppress the officials and he will have to die!
"Once the thief group here exceeds a thousand people, they either leave the place where they say goodbye to make a living, or they will be wiped out," said Kara.
"I'm afraid there is some knowledge about this annihilation?" Xiao Han smiled.
"Haha, a thief group with more than a thousand people must mean that the leader is ambitious, so in general, kill the leader and his subordinates go their separate ways. In this way, if a thief group turns into several thief groups, it will be fine." Kara said.
"What if the leader of the thieves deliberately split up, what should we do?" Xiao Han said strangely. Our ancestors would have used the method of breaking the whole into pieces.
"What kind of people are thieves? They lick blood on the edge of the knife. I don't know how many enemies are. Once you split up, haha, it depends on whether you can withstand the opponent's revenge. If it is a fake split, then wait for the government army to encircle and suppress it!" Kara said.
"There are also such strange rules?" This was the first time Xiao Han heard that the government army must have been full of spies in the thieves group, otherwise how could they know the truth or falsehood?
"There is no thieves group who dares to divide their troops easily. Although the official army has a gentleman agreement with the thieves, they can sweep the thieves in spring, summer, autumn and winter every year. The unruly thieves group will suffer. They will be suppressed and destroyed. They will not have strong strength here. They will have the same head to sleep the night before, and they will have no head to eat the next morning!" Kara said.
This is a bit exaggerated, but it truly reflects the degree of chaos around the area, but it can still ensure a relative balance. This is a bit strange. Xiao Han has never seen such a strange phenomenon.
Of course, he was not interested in studying this, and he couldn't take care of his own affairs, so he couldn't care about other people's affairs.
"Then what happened to the thieves group you mentioned?" Xiao Han returned to the question.
"This unparalleled thieves group..."
"Wait a minute, what are you talking about, the Unparalleled Thieves Group?" Xiao Han's eyes narrowed, and he remembered someone.
"Yes, this Wushuang thieves group has raised thousands of people in just one month. Everyone thought that this Wushuang thieves group might have a big fight and become a big thieves group from now on. Who knew that they had divided their troops and divided ten of them at once. The Wushuang thieves group rose too quickly and they were always killing their opponents without leaving any troubles. Therefore, the ten thieves group separated each annexed other thieves group, and had nearly 10,000 people at once. Just when the troops stationed in various countries felt dangerous and were about to jointly clear the attack, the Wushuang thieves group all entered the Yunmeng swamp. The thieves survived by stealing or robbing other people's things.
The thieves actually carried out the work of the bounty hunters and mercenaries. Everyone thought that the Wushuang thieves were crazy this time, and there must be few who could come out alive. But when everyone was surprised, the Wushuang thieves not only came out, but also lost less than 30% of the people. And the thieves were quickly replenished as soon as they came out. The various monster furs, magic crystals and various precious herbal ores brought out after the Wushuang thieves came out were worth tens of millions of gold coins. Now the garrisons of various countries are jealous of this and are preparing for the second encirclement and suppression!" The secluded bird Kara said endlessly.
Kara said it, Xiao Han was also listening, but his mind was not on Kara's words, but on the origin of this unparalleled thieves!
If it was called another name, Xiao Han might not have thought of it for a while, but he had heard of the word "Wu Shuang": Yu Wushuang, if this Wushuang thieves group is really the ever-changing princess Yu Wushuang trained by this wise demon emperor, then her intention to form such a huge thieves group is very obvious, and she is to use the advantage of the large thieves group to help her enter the Yunmeng swamp to find the magic pattern!
Also, build a force of your own in the family of human beings!
Zi Jing and Liu Xiang both shoulder almost the same task!
Yu Wushuang ranks second among the four princesses in the Demon World and is also a personal disciple of the Wisdom Demon Emperor. As expected, he is extraordinary when he takes action!
There is also the national teacher of the Orc Empire, Yinyou. These two not-so-simple women established their own power in just half a year. They are worthy of being the flower of the Demon World!
In contrast, if Zi Jing and Liuxiang had not met themselves, what they did might not have been much worse than these two!
Liuxiang is known as the No. 1 princess, and she may lose to the following two. Should she add some strength to Liuxiang?
Since Yu Wushuang chose to make a living in the thief world, let Liuxiang go to the mercenary world!
"Hey, why can't you hear any sound outside?" Xiao Han had been staring at Liuxiang Mercenary Group just now, but he didn't notice that there was no noise outside. This is a hotel, with people coming and going, and it was impossible that there was no noise at all!
The spiritual sense was released, and the news of the recovery reached Xiao Han's mind, and he came to a conclusion that the hotel was surrounded by a large army!
The only one who can surround the hotel in Never Sleeping Town is the garrison in the town!
The cold light outside the window, which was shiny and terrifying, was the army's standard weapon, the Demon-Breaking Arrow Crossbow!
What a big deal, it surrounded a small hotel, and actually used two thousand soldiers, three floors inside and three floors outside!
Who are the garrisons coming? Is there any dangerous person hidden in this hotel?
Chapter completed!