Mianzhou Lumen City is located in the northwest of Sanluo, more than 10,000 miles away from the imperial capital of Sanluo. Further west from Mianzhou, next door is a state capital called Qingyang, which is already the westernmost territory of Sanluo.

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If you go further west from Qingyang Prefecture, you will reach the boundless yellow sand desert. There are countless crises in the desert, such as sandstorms, alien beasts and poisonous insects, and water shortage. If most people rush into it and lose their way, they will end up with a narrow escape. However, there are also occasional dangers in the desert.

There are oases, inhabited by bandits, and some small tribes live there.

These situations are clearly recorded in the book.

It is rumored that if you cross the vast desert, you will go to a country called Gray Flame. However, that country is too far away and has almost no contact with the San Luo country across the sand. Therefore, there is very little recorded information. Even San Luo Shang is not there.

Not many people know about the Gray Flame Kingdom, and even less people know about Dali, which is further south. Yunjing has read a lot of books and only saw a few records.

The world is huge, beyond imagination. There are countless regional civilizations, and one person cannot even try to understand them all in his lifetime.

Sanluo Lumen City is named after the local specialty Lumen Stone.

Lumenite is a kind of jade-like crystal located deep underground. It comes in different colors. The output is very small. It is extremely difficult to mine. Dozens of miners may not be able to mine just a few pieces in a month. The bigger the stone, the more valuable it is, and it often has a big fist.

One piece is worth a thousand taels of gold. It can be said that it has a price but no market.

The reason why this kind of ore is valuable is that it can retain light when placed in the sun, and it will release the stored sunlight for illumination at night. It emits light at night and causes the stored light to pass away, so it is called lumen stone, or it can also be called lumen stone.

Leave a bright stone.

Among them, the white lumen stone is the most valuable. A fist-sized piece left in the sun for a day can make a room over a hundred square meters seem like daylight for dozens of hours at night. The light is not dazzling and harmless to people. It is loved by the rich.

, it can be said that it is hard to find one stone.

It is not unreasonable for white lumen stones to be precious. After all, not many people like to be under the colorful light at night. Of course, places with that special atmosphere are another matter.

Yunjing was playing with a piece of lumen stone in his hand, but it was only the size of a fingernail and not pure white. This piece alone was enough to illuminate a room of dozens of square meters.

This stone was sent specially by Yun Jing and Chai Shilin after they chatted and learned about Lumen City. Just such a stone is worth nearly a hundred taels of gold. It is really extremely precious. It is normal for things to be rare and valuable.

There are lumen stone veins around Lumen City. It is controlled by the imperial court and gives mining rights to some people. The imperial court charges 80% of the craftsmanship. Even so, people are flocking to it. After all, getting the mining rights means wealth. It doesn’t take much, just mine a fist a month.

The large white lumen stone is enough to make people smile from ear to ear.

Yunjing glanced sideways at an abandoned lumen stone mine more than thirty miles away. Yunjing found a table-sized piece of white lumen stone more than ten miles underground. How much was it worth?

Well, it’s not rare for martial arts masters to work as miners, but how many ordinary people can dig ten miles underground? Even if they dig that deep, how can they happen to meet...

"Master Yun, Lumen City is more than thirty miles ahead, but we won't go there for the time being. After traveling so long, we will go down to the camp to repair it first." Chai Shilin on the side pointed to the road ahead.

At this time, the airship under their feet had begun to lower its height.

Looking towards the direction of Lumen City from a distance, Yunjing nodded lightly and did not reject his proposal.

Lumen City is just a county town in Mianzhou. According to what I learned a few days ago, this city originally had a permanent population of nearly 200,000. Because of the local specialty Lumen Stone, tens of thousands of miners and traders, plus the floating population, gathered here.

, there were more than 300,000 people at one time. In addition, after nearly a year of drought, the victims gathered, and the population here had already exceeded 400,000.

However, when Yun Jing looked in the direction of Lumen City from a distance, it was completely dead and lifeless. Above the city, there were countless crows and vultures circling.

A few days ago, the evil organization in Sanluo attacked this place, killing both humans and animals!

Those are hundreds of thousands of lives. Once they die, you can imagine what a huge shock it will cause. Sang Luo asked Yun Jing to come and deal with the evil organization, so he came here as the first stop.

Similar situations have occurred too many times in San Luo in the past two years. Hatred and anger are in vain because the evil organization cannot be caught at all and can only be dealt with afterwards.

However, Lumen City is no longer the latest massacre in Sanluo. On the first day after arriving here, the latest news came that three more villages and towns scattered across Sanluo were murdered!

Let’s not mention anything else for the moment. Now that Yunjing and the others are here, they naturally want to investigate, even if almost ten days have passed.

Lumen City, which has been reduced to a dead place, has long been sealed off by the Sanluo army, firstly to prevent the spread of the plague, and secondly, to block the news to prevent it from spreading and causing panic.

It's sad to say that there were hundreds of massacres in Sanluo, but the news was suppressed again and again by the court, and it still didn't reach the point where everyone knew about it. After all, the map was too big, and the news spread very slowly under the blockade, and the people at the bottom

I don't know the details, but as time goes by, such things have gradually become unstoppable. Under the drought, refugees gradually dare not gather in towns, for fear that the massacre will suddenly fall on them.

The people at the bottom are suffering too much. They can't eat or drink enough during the drought. They don't even have a direction to escape. The people are almost desperate. No one can concretely count how many people die in Sanluo every day, because the whole country is almost in a state of distress. Here and there haven't been solved yet.

Something went wrong again.

It is inevitable that there will be various opinions during disasters. The most talked about thing in Sanluo today is that the empress Wu Qingmei was unworthy of the throne and sat on the throne as a woman. God was angry, so the disaster came...

Such remarks could only be made quietly in a small area at first, but now they have become more and more intense. Some people even openly clamored for Wu Qingmei to abdicate and let Xian calm down the wrath of heaven. Of course, such people will not end well. After all, Wu Qingmei has already

She has secured the throne, and the disaster was not really caused by her.

All directions within ten miles of Lumen City are blocked by the army, and irrelevant personnel are prohibited from approaching.

However, the city that once housed hundreds of thousands of people was reduced to a place of death. Even the troops who blocked the place were frightened. No one dared to approach unless necessary. Many people who originally entered the city to investigate went crazy after they came out. You can imagine what will happen there.

What a picture of purgatory.

Ten miles east of Lumen City, there is the base camp of the military camp that blocks the county seat. Yunjing and the others landed in the school grounds here. Because they had communicated in advance, the garrison generals and the arresting department officials who had already arrived immediately came to greet them.

There were no local officials, and everyone was dead. However, the superior county of Lumen City sent a head catcher and some police officers.

Before coming here, Yunjing had probably learned about the situation here. There were 30,000 garrison troops in the blockade, led by a fourth-grade general. In addition, more than 300 people from the arrest department came, many of them experts, and then the county and city came.

There are more than a hundred police officers, and there are dozens of other members such as doctors and police officers.

"My lords, you are finally here, now we have a backbone," the garrison general said with relief immediately after seeing Yun Jing and others.

It's not surprising that he was like this. He was just a pure soldier. It was okay to go into battle and kill the enemy. It was really difficult for him to deal with such a clueless massacre. Not every officer was resourceful and capable of both civil and military skills.

The garrison general didn't know that Yunjing was from Dali who was invited to help, but he still had some sharp eyesight. He could see Yunjing's C position and the official uniforms they were wearing at a glance, so this sentence

I said it to Yun Jing, and I didn't dare to show any airs or neglect, but I couldn't help but curse in my heart that the superiors actually sent such a young man. Is there really no one there?

Although Yunjing only had the right to command and not control, Chai Shilin and the others were very measured and showed that Yunjing was the biggest here. They didn't say anything if Yunjing didn't speak.

There are so many people around me looking at me with caution. I have to say that this feeling is quite refreshing. No wonder everyone wants to be in power. The taste of power is really addictive.

Yun Jing did not feel complacent because of this. He cupped his hands with a calm expression and said to the garrison general: "General, you're welcome. Everyone has worked hard during this time."

It’s not that Yunjing wants to speak in an official tone, it’s just the way things are spoken. These are the things that scholars in this world need to learn when they reach a certain level.

Unlike Yunjing’s previous life, although education has been popularized, all you learn is how to be mediocre. It is impossible to teach you how to be an official and how to make money in school. With only what you learn in school, except for a few outstanding ones, you can hardly make it.

There are people working behind the school gate...

"It's not hard work, it's just your duty. Sir, hurry up and invite me. We're ready for a banquet." The garrison general immediately smiled and made a gesture of invitation. He secretly thought to himself that he didn't know where the gold-plated young master came from.

He's not overbearing and seems to be easy to get along with, but his accent sounds a bit strange.

Are you having a banquet with the wind? Tsk~

Yunjing muttered to himself, thinking that he was definitely not suitable to be an official. He obviously wanted to be well-fed and entertained wherever he went, but at times like this, he always thought of the people being in dire straits. How could he be an official with such a mentality?

I don’t know if he saw what Yun Jing was thinking, but Chai Shilin looked at the garrison general and said sternly: "Haha, please come together, the general will lead the way." After saying that, he whispered next to Yun Jing: "Yun Jing.

Adults are a little uncomfortable with observing for the first time, but you will get used to it in the future.”

Nodding and smiling, Yun Jing said nothing, and the group walked towards the Chinese army's tent.

As Yunjing's deputy, Leng Wushuang was naturally with him, and there were several guards who stayed with him. However, Qingmei Qingyue did not go with him, but went to arrange a place for Yunjing to stay, even if he did not have to stay in this place.

How long will it take for these things to be arranged?

After a while, about ten main members, including Yun Jing, gathered in the big tent and took their seats one after another. On a large round table, there were ten or twenty dishes, including wine and meat. I am afraid that a lot of painstaking efforts were taken to prepare these.

That's how it is in the body. The first level of officialdom is overwhelming. It doesn't matter if you are a little bit tired and tired. If you don't take care of your superiors, your career will be difficult. God knows what kind of shoes an unhappy person will put on you.

Yunjing doesn't have to worry about this anymore. It's the same all over the world, so it's nothing strange.

"My lords, you are welcome. After a long journey, come and try the dishes to see if they are to your liking. If not, just say so and let others prepare them," the garrison general greeted, and he was very good at livening up the atmosphere.

Looking at the wine jar on the table, Yun Jing thought to himself, "It's not appropriate to drink in the army, right?" But he didn't say anything. It wasn't war time now, or maybe the system in Sanluo was different from what he knew, so he picked up his chopsticks and smiled.

: "The general is interested, come on, come on, everyone will eat, you're welcome."

Seeing him moving his chopsticks, the others started eating and drinking.

This made Yun Jing think of another sentence, why do people have to work hard? Even if you don’t move your chopsticks while eating, others don’t dare to move. What kind of food you want to pick up, others don’t dare to turn the table...

While eating and drinking, Yunjing did not forget about the business and said: "...I have just arrived and am responsible for investigating the incident in Lumen City. Who can tell me what is going on now?"

Calling myself an official, I have to say that this feeling is quite novel.

The garrison general laughed and said: "The general is only responsible for sealing off the surrounding area and cooperating with my colleagues. Besides, I am the stupidest, so I can trouble you to tell Master Yun."

While speaking, he looked at the person in charge of the arrest department who had arrived here in advance. At the same time, Chai Shilin, the deputy director who had arrived at the arrest department headquarters, also looked over, signaling with his eyes to answer Yun Jing's question.

To be honest, an outsider from Yunjing actually climbed up, which made San Luo, the official who knew Yunjing's identity, feel a little uncomfortable, but at this point, he had to pinch his nose to recognize it.

The man said in a very polite manner: "Lord Huiyun, we have had a preliminary understanding of the situation some time ago. There is no one alive in the entire Lumen City, and the death situation is very miserable and even a bit horrifying. Now Lumen City has completely become a dead city.

, we ventured in to check the situation..." He paused here and continued: "The deceased had lost all his blood and turned into a mummy. Most doctors couldn't determine the cause. We also asked the painter to draw some pictures and compile them into

I have obtained the information, do you need to take a look at it?"

When he said these words, the expressions of everyone present became serious.

Yun Jing nodded and said: "Okay, bring it up."

All the blood was lost and turned into mummies. Yun Jing's heart sank when he heard these words. The situation was more serious than imagined. It should be noted that when foreigners appeared in Dali, they only arrested and bled them. Now Lu Ming

Even the doctor can't tell how the dead people in the city lost their blood. Could it be that they have new and strange abilities?

The information was prepared long ago and someone presented it to Yun Jing as soon as possible.
To be continued...