Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

Chapter 1356: Chapter 439: Hu Brothers Enter the City and Cai Yunzhou (3)

This is from Cai Qiu’s perspective, conversely speaking, if other forces can pass through the Bone-Eroding Path and take Qinghua City...

"Those with registration use the main gate, those without use the small gate, everyone line up!"

While pondering, the convoy had already reached below the city gate.

It was nighttime, and there were quite a few people entering the city. As the soldiers at the gate shouted instructions, the arriving people gradually lined up into two lines—one undergoing checks via the main gate, the other using the small gate at the side.

The disparity between those with and without household registration began to show from here.

The main gate of Qinghua City was about thirty meters high and twelve meters wide; not to mention people, even cargo iron wheel cars could enter two side by side.

While the small gate was quite interesting; it was located on the side of the main gate, less than two meters high, just half a meter wide, just enough for one person to enter, considering the thickness of the city wall being over thirty meters, unless it’s a child, an adult would need to bend over and stoop throughout the passage.

It’s not particularly humiliating; it’s likely that Cai Qiu deliberately instituted this differentiation to emphasize the importance of household registration, possibly with an intention to suppress the people of Evergreen Valley.

Nonetheless, the entrants seemed accustomed to it.

Seeing this, the convoy naturally began to queue up as well.

Hu Tiejiang and the others with registration headed straight for the main gate;

As for Xia Hong’s side, Su Jing and his three siblings saw the five porters directly pull the carriage to line up at the main gate, their expressions instantly turned somewhat troubled.

Being a porter is the kind of job that only those with lowly status can do, these five porters were hired by them in Yakou Village.

These porters had seen Xia Hong’s attire the night before, clearly assuming all five of them had registration, so they didn’t even ask and directly pulled them to the main gate line.

But the problem was that all four of them, including Xia Hong, were indeed unregistered!

"Brother, this..."

Su Xu and the three siblings had faces full of difficulty, seeing only about fifty people ahead, they would soon be next, they promptly asked Su Jing for advice.

Su Jing turned his head to look at the carriage, just about to inquire when Xia Hong’s voice already rang out from inside.

"No need to queue, go straight ahead and enter the city!"

Su Jing and his siblings were instantly shocked.

The five porters were even more interesting, they hesitated for a moment, then actually pulled the carriage out of line, directly charging towards the city gate from the side.

Su Jing and his siblings saw many County Guard Army members ahead, visibly intending to stop the carriage, initially showing fear but gritting their teeth, they quickly followed.

"Are you deaf? Dog, get in line!"

A middle-aged man dressed as a general stood in front of the carriage, scrutinized Su Jing and his siblings briefly, his expression immediately turned irritable, then he pointed at the carriage and roared in anger.

The five porters were startled in unison, quickly gesturing to speak.

Pu chi......

However, before they could utter a sound, a cold flash suddenly flew out from the carriage, piercing straight through the general’s brow.

The middle-aged general’s body was suddenly stiff, without any reaction on his face; he still didn’t know what had happened, his slightly puzzled pupils quickly dilated, within three breaths, his life was cut off and he fell heavily to the ground.

Bang...

Around the city gate, whether the people queueing to enter or the County Guard Army soldiers responsible for checking registration, they all were stunned.

"The captain was killed?"

"He killed someone?"

......

"Enemy attack, City Guard Army stand by!"

With someone’s shout, the County Guard Army soldiers finally reacted.

Bang!

Hundreds of County Guard Army heard the order, a burly general clad in green armor, wielding a giant axe, directly leaped down from above the city gate, with a wicked grin looking towards the carriage where Xia Hong was.

"Daring to kill in Qinghua City, such a..."

"Scram!"

A loud roar erupted from the carriage, around the city gate, a shockwave was instantly triggered.

The shockwave was clearly intentional; others merely stepped back covering their ears, while the green-armored general was directly blasted away, violently crashing into the city wall behind, sinking in two to three meters.

Pu!

"Senior, spare my life, senior, spare my life......"

The green-armored general, Fang Tianhua, inside the wall, after coming out sprayed a mouthful of fresh blood, realizing something, his eyes full of fear and shock, immediately knelt down, pleading aloud towards the carriage.

"Your eminence, under Xianyang’s status, to strike against a Cold Resistance Level junior, such bullying is disgraceful!"

With a voice coming from overhead, Fang Tianhua instantly shut up, his face full of joy, quickly got up, along with surrounding hundreds of County Guard Army soldiers, knelt down and bowed to the sky;

"Welcome, City Lord!"

City Lord?

Those originally in line to enter the city instantly followed suit, kneeling together with the County Guard Army soldiers, collectively saluting: "Welcome, City Lord!"

Su Jing and his siblings were evidently somewhat frightened, instinctively wanting to kneel and worship, but realizing something, they gritted their teeth and instead looked up to the sky.

Above fifty meters from the city gate, hovered a white figure.

He was a tall, slightly gaunt middle-aged man in white clothing.

His white clothing at first glance, felt not monotonous, it wasn’t that piercing pure white, but like fresh snow reflecting the early morning glow, radiating a gentle, soft light, inherently elegant and noble;

All his long black hair was tied up by a silver crown with Naga patterns; the edges of his collar and sleeves were rolled with a silver thread drawing lotus vine patterns, adding a touch of elegance to the overall simplicity; around his neck hung a warm lamb-white jade ring; his waist was girded with a moon-white silk belt, from the belt hung two circular jades, one pale and one green, the jade’s color warm and harmonized with the white clothing, making it more imperial;

At his waist hung a moon-white longsword, the person standing silently in the air, his robe like a cascading waterfall, his posture upright, like a solitary pine in the snow, transcendent and sublime, it’s hard to imagine noble and ethereal qualities can perfectly blend within one person.

This was Bai Shui County’s Prefectural Governor Cai Qiuhong’s second son, third generation descendant directly under Landgrave Cai Qiu, and possessing the famed title Cai Qiu Sword Saint, Qinghua City’s City Lord, Cai Yunzhou.

"Hmph!"

Just as Su Jing and his siblings felt inexplicably inferior, Cai Yunzhou in the sky suddenly snorted coldly.

Perhaps because of Xia Hong’s silence inside the carriage, or Su Jing and his siblings’ gaze offended him, Cai Yunzhou’s cold snort unexpectedly stirred the surrounding air, turning into two invisible blade-like streaks, abruptly slicing down towards the carriage below.

Whoosh......

A stream of air surged out from the carriage, dissolving the invisible blades from Cai Yunzhou, protecting Su Jing and his siblings, while also blowing the entire carriage into pieces.

The carriage shattered, revealing Xia Hong to everyone.

"I have traveled from afar as the princely heir, is this the hospitality from Cai Qiu?"

Xia Hong was dressed in black summer clothes with silver thread inlays, and coupled with Naga pattern designs on the collar and cuffs, the visual effect was equally rich in quality, although he wore no accessories nor adorned his crown like Cai Yunzhou, his long black hair was simply fixed neatly with a silver hairpin, but that youthful and handsome face, paired with the casual smile at the corner of his mouth, conveyed an overall temperament that surprisingly was not inferior to Cai Yunzhou.

No, the confidence expressed between Xia Hong’s brows even vaguely surpassed Cai Yunzhou’s.

"Princely heir?"

"Could this be another descendant of the Landgrave?"

"Certainly, you can tell by the age, even younger than Lord Cai!"

......

And Cai Yunzhou, from the moment Xia Hong appeared, his expression had changed.