If it is not found, it is abnormal.

Don't forget that according to what the city residents said, a plague broke out in Hengshan City during the early stages of the foggy lockdown, killing many people.

Bai Yuqi didn't think that given the circumstances at the time, the survivors still had the energy and mood to collect the bodies.

Even if no negative energy creatures were found, it can be considered that they were attracted by the previous battle and were eliminated together, but where were all the corpses in the city?

"Well..."

Bai Yuqi's eyes swept across a group of ragged Goguryeo people, and finally paused briefly on a few Hengshan City officials.

He raised his eyebrows slightly in surprise, and asked Qin Qiong beside him with interest: "Are these Goguryeo officials responsible for managing Hengshan City?"

"I report to Xingjun, that is the 'Chujian branch' of Goguryeo who is responsible for the management of Hengshan City, also known as the 'Daoshi', which is roughly the same as the 'Provincial Governor' of the Tang Dynasty. The rest are in charge of Cao affairs under the Daoshi.

My assistants and assistants are all just petty officials."

Qin Qiong glanced at the Goguryeo officials who were kneeling on the ground like quails with flattering smiles on their faces, snorted disdainfully, and then replied: "The Goguryeo general next to the Taoist envoy is guarding Hengshan City."

Mo Ke' should be a military general of the 'eldest brother' level, roughly equivalent to the Zhonglang General of the Tang Dynasty..."

Bai Yuqi was stunned for a while. What kind of official names are these?

Qin Qiong explained to Bai Yuqi for a while before he figured out that the so-called "Taoist envoy" is almost equivalent to the county magistrate who manages Hengshan City, while "Mo Ke" is almost equivalent to the county public security director and is a permanent garrison.

The official titles of these Goguryeo officials are all strange, such as the higher-level "Yisa, Damoda" and so on, and they are all held by officials of the "little brother, eldest brother, tou eldest brother, eldest brother" and so on.

This made Bai Yuqi feel dizzy. He didn't even understand the official positions in the Tang Dynasty, let alone the official positions in a small place like Goguryeo. He simply pretended that he understood and waited for Qin Qiong.

Go ahead and save him from having to explain for a long time.

"...This Hengshan City is a border city adjacent to our Tang Dynasty. It can be regarded as one of the large cities. Although there are only a few thousand households in the city, there are always tens of thousands of people in the area under its jurisdiction.

some."

Qin Qiong did not hide his disdain for these Goguryeo brothers with big heads and small heads: "But the officials did not know how to protect the people when they encountered danger. Instead, they gathered the people in the city and detained them in the official offices to die. Their intentions are to be punished!"

Bai Yuqi originally wondered why such an important border town had such a small population.

In peacetime, when there is no war, the people are scattered in the villages under the jurisdiction of Hengshan City to farm and live. When the war comes, they will be gathered into the city to serve as civilian husbands.

At the same time, Goguryeo was a small country with few people, so it was impossible to have the human and financial resources to station a large number of troops on the border for a long time. The number of soldiers stationed in the city usually did not exceed a thousand. Only in the event of war would troops be recruited from all over Goguryeo to garrison.

This time, the Tang Dynasty's expedition against Goguryeo was launched very suddenly. Without warning, the army had already entered the hinterland of Goguryeo, and the Goguryeo scouts on the border had no time to pass the information back.

Besides, we don’t know when the negative energy fog on the Goguryeo Peninsula erupted.

Faced with such a disaster, the Goguryeo cities simply had no time to take care of themselves and could not organize effective mobilization of troops. Naturally, there was no situation where every city on the border was stationed full of Goguryeo soldiers.

But as Qin Qiong said, if according to normal conditions, as the lord of a city, the Taoist envoy should gather the people when encountering such a natural disaster, how could tens of thousands of people be gathered within the jurisdiction of Hengshan City to work together to defend the city?

Fight disaster together.

But it obviously doesn't look like tens of thousands of people are stationed in the city... In such a cold weather, if you can't go out of the city to collect firewood, what can be burned will probably be burned out long ago.

Nowadays, although the buildings in the city are old and damaged, most of them remain intact. It is just that the houses are empty. It does not look like a large number of people have been stationed there for a long time.

In order to survive, people have done more damage to the environment than locusts. This can be seen by comparing it with Xuantu City.

Xuantu City was invaded by the negative energy fog much later than Hengshan City. However, in order to survive the extremely cold temperatures caused by the negative energy fog, most of the buildings in the city were demolished and used for fires for heating, leaving only the larger ones.

Houses for people to hide.

This shows that the officials of Hengshan City never accepted the people who came to seek refuge from the beginning.

At the same time, a large number of people in the city died, and the survivors were gathered and detained in the government office.

Its purpose is of course self-evident, which is to use it as a human shield to prevent those human-eating ghosts.

In other words, these common people are the "food" prepared by Taoist envoys and other officials for the man-eating ghosts in order to survive.

As long as the ghosts are full, they will naturally not eat officials like them, right?

Glancing at the angry Qin Qiong, Bai Yuqi smiled. Is this really what happened?

But he didn't say anything, and just ordered his disciples to prepare to camp in Hengshan City.

They didn't even build strong walls and buildings like Xuantu City did, but let the disciples find complete houses in the city to settle down on their own.

Although it's a bit strange why Lord Xingzi doesn't build a fortress once and for all like he did before.

But Qin Qiong and the disciples didn't think much about it, just assuming that Xingjun had his own considerations, or that he planned to leave these chores to the engineering team behind him.

Lord Xing always personally builds camps for these disciples, so how can they behave accordingly? So they just do what Lord Xing orders.

Strictly speaking, this is what they usually do when they are away from home. It is good to have a place to shelter from the wind and rain. There is no such luxury as building a house there when they go there.

Even if Bai Yuqi didn't intervene, the [Wuji Sect] disciples quickly set up a marching tent with the equipment they carried in an open space in the city, and knocked down several crumbling dwellings to obtain wood and light a bonfire.

This has to be said that [Wuji Sect] disciples are equipped with complete equipment and enjoy excellent benefits.

But for all the products produced by [Tiangongmen], they use the best.

Anyway, the tactical backpack has a lot of space and is not heavy to carry, so of course you can carry everything you can.

In addition to thick leather camping tents, they can also assemble folding beds one by one using the metal brackets they carry.

If the water source is convenient and conditions permit, they can even use a folding pot to boil some hot water and pour it into a simple bathtub supported by leather windproof cloth to take a bath. The comfort is definitely no worse than at home.

Not to mention food and drink, have you ever seen self-heating dry food, tin cans and large pieces of beef with soy sauce sealed in paper?
Chapter completed!