Entry ceremony at the gate of the city of Skabro

The lord "Loren" stood stiffly on the front of a 09-style escort battle. His thin figure wore a local gorgeous robe and clothing, as weird as a big horse monkey wrapped in expensive silk. He had a stiff smile that seemed to be stuck in glue on his face, and his arms were like robots, waving up and down mechanically, like a machine lucky cat.

However, the two tall PLA soldiers behind him, holding rifles as guards, stood upright, with meticulous expressions, obviously overwhelming the "lord" in front of him from their temperament, let alone the soldiers marching in an orderly manner on both sides of the infantry battle. The uniformity and majestic momentum opened the eyes of the people who saw a modern army for the first time - a discerning person can tell who is the real "lord" of this city at a glance.

However, the people below didn't care about this. They stood on both sides of the road, watching the strange army enter the city with joy and curiosity, surrounded by the lord family that had not been seen for 50 years. Of course, they were happy from the bottom of their hearts. After all, the return of the lord with the help of the Chinese army directly prevented them from a war. Otherwise, whether it was Duran's victory in the city wall or Geral's defending the city to wait for assistance, the people who died and injured the most were still the people. As for who is this ruler? Is it true? It is really not important to most people. In this era when they can't even have enough food, survival is the first priority.

Hundreds of soldiers wearing Imperial Army armor and dozens of officials were waiting respectfully in front of the city hall to welcome the arrival of the new masters - these people were all natives of Skabrou, the former Imperial Army and local officials. They did not retreat with General Geral, but chose to stay and make a living with this new lord, so that they could not leave their hometown and have a better future. After all, after seeing the power of the legendary Chinese army, they still decided to have a better future with the strong. Of course, they also saved a lot of trouble for the "Loren Lord" who could do nothing.

So the new lord walked into the city hall with fear and fear, surrounded by a group of old imperial officials. After entering the city hall, the lord was even more unaware of where to put it. He stood there at a loss. Finally, he was pressed directly on the lobby chair in the city hall by several anxious officials, accepting the oath of allegiance from these people.

The lord was still very scared, but looking at the half-kneeling group of subordinates who swore allegiance, they gradually felt relieved, and a smile gradually appeared on their faces from panic.

However, when he saw Colonel Wang Zhongguo and several officers walking in with a Skabro man without even having to report, and those who were still sworn in the swearing allegiance to him immediately welcomed these Chinese people with a more respectful attitude, his body had already reacted instinctively to escape.

"Lord, let me introduce it." Wang Zhongguo bluntly pushed the middle-aged man who looked a little fluttering to "Loren": "This is the new chief civil affairs officer of Sikabro City under your rule. Lord Canning, I hope you can entrust with important tasks. Lord Canning has served as the quadron chief of the Imperial Army and has rich experience in handling materials and finances. I think he will be your capable assistant."

"Of course, of course, Lord Canning, I'll point all at you." Looking at the congratulations of the officials around, Luo Lun almost instinctively saluted this subordinate, but he still reacted amid Wang Zhongguo's cough and continued to sit in his seat at a loss.

But the official named Canning hadn't reacted yet, and all this changed too quickly.

The former quarconian of the Dragon Cavalry Regiment did not follow Zach to the expedition, but was staying behind to negotiate the next purchase of supplies for the Dragon Cavalry - the Dragon Cavalry's Dragon Cavalry will suffer some non-combat losses every year due to various reasons, and new Dragons must be continuously supplemented, which is also one of the reasons for the high cost of the Dragon Cavalry.

When the procurement had been negotiated and the goods had been inspected, and when they were about to wait for the procurement funds to be transported from the imperial capital, news of Zach's army being wiped out came, the Dragoon regiment was disbanded directly, and the remaining left-behind personnel were assigned to other troops. Canning, who was in Scabrou, had to give up the procurement and returned to the new troops in the imperial capital in shame. Unexpectedly, before he could come back, his second unit had been wiped out on the Alnus Mountain Road. Due to various records, he was mistakenly regarded as the dead.

So after he returned to the imperial capital, he realized that he had been removed from the army as a dead man.

The subsequent complaint also became a nightmare. Since almost all of his former colleagues were killed, the military needed him to provide an outrageous proof that he was Canning and was indeed alive. However, before he could figure out how to prove it, he encountered the riot of God Capital and the subsequent chaos. He was robbed in the riot. Although he saved his life, he also suffered heavy losses. He could no longer afford to spend the imperial bureaucracy. He wanted to go home but did not have enough money and even had no identity. He had to stay in the imperial capital and prepare to do odd jobs to earn money home.

So when the Chinese Embassy began to look for this person, the first thing he got was the news that he had died and almost gave up. Fortunately, Lawrence, the president of the Imperial City Chamber of Commerce, who was both black and white, sent someone to check it carefully after getting the news. He found that the military did have a record of complaints, so he found him from a group of ragged handymen. After confirming that he was the quartermaster of the former Dragoon regiment, he brought him back to the embassy. When he had his first hot meal at the embassy, ​​Canning cried himself. Later, he was transported to Nanniwan via regular airships, and was re-entrusted by Zach and handed over to the Chinese military as the guide for Skabro this time.

Now the poor handyman has become a senior official who supports the Chinese government. This change is too sudden and makes him feel like he is dreaming.

"Okay, Mr. Canning." Wang Zhongguo interrupted Canning's dream of daylight: "I wonder if you are satisfied with this arrangement?"

"Satisfied, satisfied." Before Cunning's mouth could close, she hurriedly pushed away the crowd around her congratulations and bowed to Wang Zhongguo and said, "I sincerely thank you for your help, otherwise, I might starve to death in the imperial capital."

Wang Zhongguo nodded: "So, as agreed, you should help us find your partners first, those dragon hunters families."

"It must be?" Cunning said with a grin, "I'll settle down first, let's set off tomorrow morning."

"Let's go now." Wang Zhongguo ordered in an unquestionable tone.

...

Two hours later, the southwest suburbs of Scablo

Although this is a mountainous area, the mountains here are generally desolate. Due to the difficulty of living in the mountains, there are not many mountain villages here. However, there is a family-based mountain village that lives in groups, which is definitely a legend because they rely on catching flying dragons to make a living. For several generations, they call themselves the dragon hunter family.

Flying dragons were once the most important information transmission tool on the entire road. When the mainland was still in power, almost every country had several flying dragons as emergency information transmission tools. However, these outliers usually die in a few years, so they need to be supplemented frequently. It was not until the empire unified the entire continent, built a post station, and then concentrated all the flying dragons across the country to establish a dragon cavalry regiment. The history of expensive animals such as flying dragons used to convey messages was ended, and turned them into purely terrifying attack weapons.

The Dragon Hunter family lives in a village like a mountain village. From a distance it is a small village, and it cannot be even smaller. If you look at it from a satellite, this place with mostly mountains and almost no fertile fields to plant is not suitable for building a village, unless it is the legendary "ninja village".

When I got closer, I realized that this was almost an abandoned mountain village. Even the beautiful scenery covered with snow could not conceal its extremely dilapidated, and it was hard to see who lived here.

Three jeeps and a truck drove Canning to the entrance of the village.

"It's here. This is the only dragon hunter family on the entire continent and the only supplier of the Dragon Cavalry Corps. Their dragon hunting and training skills are inherited from the ancestors. There is no second in the entire empire." Canning looked at the lifeless village and began to worry that they would have perished.

The jeep stopped at the entrance of the village, and Canning hurriedly jumped out of the car and shouted loudly at the village:

"Old man Gith! Some customers are here, why don't you come out to pick up the customers quickly!"

The village was quiet, as if no one was present. This made Canning sweat in a cold sweat - if the Chinese felt that they were being fooled, then their high-ranking officials and generous salaries would disappear like a mirror and a moon.

Colonel Wang Zhongguo looked at this seemingly uninhabited village with sharp eyes until a sound in the village made a sound and several figures appeared in the village.

"They are here!" Canning's eyes immediately shone. He would not be thrown back to the imperial capital for odd jobs because of his loss of use. However, his tone suddenly became low and he leaned into Wang Zhongguo's ear and whispered: "However, sir, they may not be very friendly to me. After all, two years ago, the price of our last negotiation was negotiated, but the news came that the Dragon Cavalry Regiment was wiped out. Moreover, the Empire refused to continue to buy the flying dragons they had prepared, which was equivalent to letting their pigeons go. After that, since there was no need for a second in the Empire, I wonder if they could still operate it now?"

An arrow shot out of the village with a "whizz" and then hit the bulletproof glass of the jeep and fell to the ground, the glass was intact.

The soldiers immediately jumped out of the car, set out in combat formation, picked up the 95 rifle and pointed it at the village. Canning ran to the back of the jeep, bent down and lowered his head and said to Wang Zhongguo, "I just said they are still holding a grudge against me, but I didn't expect they all planned to kill me. You have to be careful."

There was a hustle and bustle in the village. Then, more than a dozen men, women, young and old, walked out angrily with various primitive weapons in their hands. Suddenly, they saw the group of People's Liberation Army soldiers loading bullets at the door, and were stunned at first, and then stood there a little at a loss.

The woman in the lead looked about 20 or 30 years old, with short and delicate hair, dark skin but well-proportioned facial features, cursed loudly at the crowd here:

"Canning, get out of here, and let us cut more than 100 knives, and let us relieve our hatred first."

Canning poked his head out from behind the jeep and took a look, then shrank his head back and shouted loudly: "Sister Luna, please calm down first. I had no choice but to do that last time. After all, the money was not in my hands at that time, and you can see what the empire has been like since then? I have no choice, so you should calm down first. Also, haven't I brought my business with me this time? By the way, Mr. Gith?"

"You dare to continue to slander us? Grandpa Gis is because of you, you have no way to petition, nagging with others every day, nagging when you sleep, and eating, and choking to death by a mouthful of food. You caused our Dragon Hunter clan to fall apart. We are our unimaginable enemies, and you dare to come back? If you don't let you down today, it will be difficult to relieve the hatred in our hearts!"

Luna became more and more excited as she spoke. Finally, she simply raised the machete in her hand high. The others were also excited, following the side and talking nonsense.

With a "touch", the knife in Luna's hand took off her hand under the high-speed impact of the bullet, flew out several meters away, and fell to the ground.

The dragon hunter suddenly became quiet here, and looked at Colonel Wang Zhongguo opposite him with some fear and silently retracted his pistol back into the holster.

"I'm very sorry, Miss Luna, we are from the Southwest Task Force of the People's Liberation Army of China. I am the captain of the colonel Wang Zhongguo. I have a task here this time. I hope to get your help. Of course, we will also pay the corresponding rewards. As for the conflict between you and Lord Canning, you can resolve it yourself in the future. However, I suggest that you don't kill the new Chief Civil Affairs Officer here first, so we have to find another new one. It's very troublesome."

...

After 20 minutes

Three jeeps were parked in front of one of the largest wooden buildings in the village.

Wang Zhongguo was looking at the village all the way, dilapidated and desolate. It seemed that many buildings had been abandoned, and everyone's face was filled with confusion and loss.

The large building is quite empty, and it seems to be prepared for negotiation. The walls are covered with all kinds of strange-shaped dusty weapons, and a shaky dragon's skull placed on the head of a chair on the front of the lobby. Luna took everyone in and sat openly on the wooden chair that looked a little old, waved her hand:

"I am the 13th generation leader of the Dragon Hunter, Luna Austin, you can call me the leader of the Austin. I have heard of you, the guys who beat the Imperial Army to the point of losing our business. First of all, I welcome you to come from afar. Although we are not interested in the person introduced by Canning, you are also a guest. Tell us what you ask. If you ask us to help, or if you plan to buy some souvenirs or something, we are still willing to help, but-"

Luna leaned her chair against the back wall and hit the wall, immediately causing a lot of dust:

"You must first compensate you for the losses you caused to us after you crippled the empire. We must collect the money first. This time we must collect the full amount directly. You must agree to this request."

Then, she was surprised to find that Wang Zhongguo and his group all raised their heads and looked at the top of her head.

"What are you looking at?"

"That dragon skull..." Wang Zhongguo's head began to nod slightly in the same direction as the skull: "It's going to fall...ah! It's falling."

"Boom"

...

Five minutes later, with a sudden storm, Luna sat on the chair again, with gauze wrapped around her head. She reacted very quickly and jumped away in time. Except for the mistake of direction, she knelt to the corner of the table next to her and suffered a minor injury. However, the big chair was smashed by the falling dragon skull. She had to sit on a chair similar to a small stool, and faced the group of tall and powerful People's Liberation Army soldiers standing opposite, as if a child who had done something wrong was being held by a group of parents:

"This chair is a valuable property of our clan, and the dragon skull is a souvenir from our ancestors. If you don't come, there will be no damage, so this loss will also be counted on you."

"You are robbing money!" Canning couldn't help but shout.

"It's all you!" Luna was so angry when she saw Canning: "Two years ago, we had a good talk. There were 500 gold coins from a flying dragon. Our whole clan grabbed 10 flying dragons for you. At that time, you saw that you were a regular visitor and represented the Dragoon regiment, so you confiscated your advance payment. What happened? You bastard put our pigeons and left a sentence. What did the Dragoon regiment be wiped out and ran away. What are we playing with this? We took these 10 flying dragons that had been caught. The cost of feeding these flying dragons was huge. If you let them go, they would inevitably harm the nearby people and animals, and drag them back to the Feilong Valley.

Suicide is no different, and killing these sacred animals is absolutely not allowed for us dragon hunters. So we didn't get these 5,000 gold coins, but we had no choice but to take these dragons. In the end, these flying dragons broke through the cage in the village, and after making a lot of trouble nearby, they all flew back to the Feilong Valley, causing great losses. The whole clan had to spend all his money to compensate them for their losses, exhausted all his savings and no new orders, which caused many clan members to change careers and do odd jobs to make ends meet. Now the last dragon hunter is left here..."

Luna accused her in tears, and Canning, who was beside her, had to lower her head and hide behind the PLA soldiers without saying a word.

"They are really. If they kill and eat meat, they will be finished selling meat. They have to do this trouble. I heard that in Beijing, there were only a few top-end hotels selling some dragon meat last year, at 5,000 yuan per catty. This price is something that ordinary people can't afford. There is nothing left this year. They are wasted." Wu Xuanren whispered in Chinese.

"They couldn't eat the dragon meat even after they got it. It is said that the meat must be strictly cooked and used various seasonings, so it fell into the hands of our Chinese chefs and developed a way to eat it. If they eat it raw or roast it with fire, it is said that it is only a little better than pork." Wang Zhongguo also answered in Chinese.

"Captain Wang, look there." A warrior pointed to a decoration on the wall and said - it was a feather. It was not the size of an ordinary bird, but the large white feather unique to the bird human race of Tianna.

"It seems we are in the right place." Wang Zhongguo smiled proudly.

"Do you... have any dissatisfaction with the unfortunate experience of our clan?" Luna said with a resentful look at the group of PLA officers and soldiers opposite him with a speechless expression.

"Sorry, not all my subordinates can understand your language." Wang Zhongguo hurriedly said: "Before you continue to be Xianglin Sao, can you listen to our request first? Of course, money is not a problem."

"Okay, tell me, but you have also seen that most of the remaining people here, old, young and strong, are working outside. As the wars outside are now, they will not come back for a while. If you need Feilong, we will be helpless."

"We don't need a flying dragon for the time being." Wang Zhongguo walked to the wall in front of everyone and took off the feathers: "Where did you find this thing?"

"This." Luna looked proud: "This is our tradition of dragon hunters - when a dragon hunter wants to prove that he is a qualified dragon hunter, he must go to Feilong Valley to pick up something casually. This feather is what I found in Feilong Valley. If you want it, a gold coin."

Wang Zhongguo took out a gold coin from his pocket without looking back and threw it over. Luna caught it, and then began to look at it carefully. Her expression became shocked instantly: "This, this workmanship, this craftsmanship, and this mysterious text... Could this be the legendary 'new gold coins' that cannot be forged at all, and only these gold coins can be used to buy those strange things from other worlds? I remember that this kind of gold coins has been fed out to 3 old gold coins before it can be exchanged for two 'new gold coins'."

"That's right, we have many of these gold coins, it's just that you are willing to earn it." Wang Zhongguo turned around and said, "We need you as guides now to take us into Feilong Valley and go to investigate and investigate."

Luna's expression became extremely surprised again: "Entering Feilong Valley, uncle, are you not crazy? Even dragon hunters, it is difficult to ensure that they can come out alive after entering, let alone you are well-dressed people."

"Is there any problem?" Wu Xuanren also asked.

"What's the problem?" Luna laughed exaggeratedly: "Don't you know how terrible the Dragon Valley is? OK, then I'll tell you that there are about 10,000 fierce dragons there. For some reason, those dragons will hardly fly out of the Dragon Valley and will only hover in the valley unless you get close to lure them out. Those monsters will eat everything alive and leave the corpses they eat. They are rough and thick skin and flesh, and ordinary weapons are useless in front of them."

"It's snowy now, isn't the flying dragon hibernating?"

"Yes, when you encounter this kind of snow dragon, you're hibernating, but who knows how many days will it take for this snow? If the snow stops when you're still inside, then tens of thousands of hungry dragons will come out to hunt. Even if you're lucky and the snow keeps falling, the Dragon Valley is a very evil place. So far, no one has a detailed map there, and no one knows how to walk inside. The whole valley is gloomy, with various strange sounds from time to time. And when people enter, they will feel a little dizzy and unwell. No dragon hunter will be willing to enter that ghost place for the second time." Luna said with lingering fear.

"Flying Dragon Valley is 40 kilometers away. It may take you two days to go back and forth, and we need two hours. Therefore, we don't have much time now, so we must enter Feilong Valley to investigate immediately. Please lead the way." Wang Zhongguo said in an unquestionable tone.

"We have the map here." Wu Zuren also took out the satellite image from his backpack and placed it on the table: "There will be more detailed drone image sent here later."

"Cunning, why do you always bring these mentally abnormal people here?" Luna said: "I'll say it again. Even if I smashed me to death with gold coins, I won't go to such a ghost place again."

"It's very simple." Wang Zhongguo turned around and ordered: "Come on, smash her to death with gold coins."

"Yes." Several soldiers immediately began to move boxes of things from the truck.

...

Luna was confused, and she was sitting in the co-pilot of the jeep with saliva flowing from the corner of her mouth, staring at the gold coins piled up in the hall - the scene where she lost control of the pile of gold coins just now, she could not forget the scene where 50,000 "new gold coins" were piled in front of her. Moreover, now the remaining men, women, and young people in the village are singing and dancing.
To be continued...