Chapter 272
During this period, everything was just as the government said. The attackers were not to be feared, and there was basically no need to temporarily recruit soldiers to defend the city. The city walls were defended by the usual shift personnel.
As for why it is basically unnecessary, it is because the common people who want to help are too enthusiastic, and the government has to send people to block them to prevent these bold guys from climbing up the city walls and blending in with the soldiers.
"Did you find any spies today?"
"No, they're still those idiots from other places who, after reading a few storybooks, think they can fight on the battlefield and become generals." Local idiots? It's not that there aren't any, but they're all beaten up at home by the local elders. Everyone has their moments of youthful recklessness, but if you can't even empathize with your own youth, how can you empathize with other young people?
The dynasty's borders remained secure, and aid from other cities arrived just in time. The chaos outside Xiaoyue City ended shortly after it began, but the situation within the city was more troublesome. The government was busy for a long time trying to distinguish true spies from those pretending to help. During this time, Xiaoyue City remained closed, which only exacerbated the tempers of the locals, causing the thieves who had originally planned to take advantage of the situation to temporarily disappear.
Thief Tou: It’s nothing, it’s just that the lesson we learned before was so tragic, so tragic that even our conscienceless hearts are trembling!
In order to restore order as soon as possible, the government worked overtime to conduct interrogations, and barely selected a few guys from a group of suspicious people who had no major problems except for their brain problems. Among them was the man who had knocked on the door of Beiqiao Inn and tried to force his way in.
This man originally planned to find the miracle doctor with his companions and then take the doctor away directly. During the martial law in Xiaoyue City, he was still asking around on the streets for the whereabouts of the miracle doctor. Even though many people repeatedly told him that the miracle doctor had left, he didn't believe it. Instead, he firmly believed that these people had hidden the miracle doctor. So he continued to look for him with his neck stiffened, and he waited until Xiaoyue City was actually closed. Then he was dumbfounded: It's over, if I find the miracle doctor, how can I take him out?
Although dumbfounded, he didn't lose heart. After careful consideration, he felt that Bei Qiao was definitely to blame for his situation. Moreover, Bei Qiao had been staying at home for the past few days, which made him look very suspicious. So...
"I'll try to talk to them. You should also stop yelling and at least apologize." The indigenous man's companion was thankful that he had a clear mind and didn't follow this guy's nonsense, so he didn't end up in jail with him. "And the compensation he owes..."
"What compensation do you want? They beat me up like this, they should compensate me!" The aboriginal man, whose face was bruised and swollen, hung his head. Although he was still not convinced, he finally listened to his companion's words.
"Don't be so stubborn in front of others. You too, not only did you run into the wrong room, but you also knocked a hole in the ceiling they just repaired." His companions thought he should go to the temple to burn some incense to get rid of his bad luck. Maybe he had done too many bad things, because he was really unlucky that day. First, he mistakenly entered the Rabbit God's room and was mistaken for a flower thief. When he ran away in panic, he accidentally bumped into the ceiling, and his head just happened to see the woman who was getting ready for bed upstairs. Then he was kicked back... "That's not right. If you don't know Qinggong, how did you climb up the ceiling?"
"Don't ask..."
"……OK."
What her companion didn't know was that the truth behind this incident wasn't limited to the individuals involved, including Bei Qiao, who lived across the street. While logging in that day, she felt an unfriendly gaze fixed on her. Upon returning from her room, she stumbled upon a mark someone had made on her door. It wasn't a particularly noticeable mark, but anyone with a clear mind and a clear eye would have seen it. This left Bei Qiao speechless.
For safety reasons, she said hello to the inn and then planned to erase the markings on the door. However, the clerk who met Bei Qiao, eager to join in the fun, asked the players on the same floor and then immediately marked every door on the entire floor, perfectly recreating the story of Alibaba and the Forty Thieves. The players watching the markings were also excited. If they hadn't had the tools, they would have even rushed to do the marking themselves.
That night, Bei Qiao gave up logging off and decided to wait and see if anyone would come knocking. The players on his floor had been feeling rather suffocated in the city for the past few days, and excited to see something new, they joined in the night, determined to see who would be the lucky winner.
As night fell, everyone braced themselves and waited. Bei Qiao moved a stool to the door, holding another one in his hand, ready to put the person down as soon as he entered before considering other matters.
Time ticked by, some players couldn't stand it anymore and logged off, but most of the remaining players still held their breath and waited. Just when Bei Qiao thought the night would be fruitless, at one in the morning, a furtive figure appeared in the corridor, taking two steps forward and one step back, so cautious that the waiting players wanted to push him out and help him finish the journey.
After finally patiently waiting for this guy to approach, he groped his way stealthily towards the middle of the corridor. The players whose room doors were at the beginning and end of the corridor held back their regretful hearts and resisted the urge to pound the wall. They watched the sneaky figure dawdle and finally grope his way to the door of the room opposite Bei Qiao...
Bei Qiao, who had already raised his stool and was waiting for something to happen, said: "..." If you say that his memory is bad, he didn't go to the wrong place; if you say that his memory is good, he went in the wrong direction, so... I'm speechless.
The player living across from Beiqiao was ecstatic upon seeing this, as if he'd won the lottery. However, to prolong the fun, he didn't knock the man down at the door. Instead, he feigned obliviousness, allowing him to pry open the door and enter. Then, he launched into a riotous performance. What was his act? He pretended to be a thief, then feigned ecstasy.
The player's performance was undoubtedly very successful. The uninvited guest who broke in originally wanted to leave, but when he saw the other party's dead look, he was scared and almost ran away. The reason why he didn't run away was because the door was blocked.
The uninvited guest, who was in a panic, was chased by the players who came in from outside to join the blockade. He jumped up and down, and finally, in a panic, he bumped into the ceiling, making a big hole in the ceiling that had just been repaired a few days ago.
The players watching downstairs had no idea what was happening upstairs. They only heard a series of screams from the uninvited guest, followed by a loud thud as the tenants upstairs kicked him down. In just a few minutes, the guy was beaten black and blue, forcing the players to attack him below the stomach: Damn it, someone stole my monster!
After kicking the man down, the tenant upstairs immediately went out to find the clerk on duty and brought him to the door to question the man's reason for coming out from under the floor. When they pushed open the door, they saw the man lying on the ground, being beaten by several people and screaming for help. Even more bizarre, there was a large group of people surrounding these people who were eager to fight but did not.
"What are you doing?"
"Catching a thief!"
"Oh..." I don't quite understand. Why don't these people take action? Is it because their moral standards are too high and they are too embarrassed to take action?
Other players who didn't take action: It's not that we don't want to, it's that the conditions for self-defense are not met, so we can't take action. If we force ourselves to take action, we'll get into trouble. Damn, why is this guy so cowardly? After being beaten by the natives, he starts begging for mercy, making it so that those of us who arrived late can't even do the heroic work. Damn!
Players don't want to be unlucky during this special period. Karma affects people differently under different circumstances. In normal times, bad luck can be as simple as choking on water, tripping, or having a flowerpot fall from the sky. But during this extraordinary period, bad luck can be much more complicated, sometimes even snowballing.
According to the earliest and boldest of the Fourth Disasters, if someone becomes unlucky during the closed city period, at the very least, they will be detained as a suspicious person, or suddenly be caught and held hostage by spies who appear out of nowhere. At the worst, they will inexplicably appear in the place where the spies pass on information, be caught as an accomplice, and be unable to defend themselves.
Player: Is this the difference between my own child and the one next door? System, this is too hypocritical!
System: Please be aware that you are a visitor from another world.
Because his room was not chosen by the uninvited guest and he was a step slow when leaving the house, Bei Qiao, like most players, did not have the opportunity to defend himself and could only stand outside and watch.
This uninvited guest had been beaten so badly that his appearance could not be seen clearly. He was wearing a pitch-black nightgown. Bei Qiao could not tell who this person was, but judging from his height and the resentful look he gave him, Bei Qiao guessed that this guy was most likely the one he had thrown out before.
Seeing that the players had already taken action, the clerk asked the opinions of the natives upstairs, tied up the man, took him downstairs, and handed him over to the constable who was patrolling nearby.
"Although this is allowed, you guys are too ruthless..." The captain of the police who led the patrol team has become very accustomed to the locals of the city coming to him with the captured criminals. For this reason, he also brought his young medical student with him, intending to let him be responsible for saving people and practice his skills at the same time.
"The tenant has a bad temper. I'm really sorry, Uncle Tao, we can't stop him." The clerk gave the constable a look: You know this and that.
"Oh! Okay, be careful next time!" The captain suddenly realized, waved his hand, and signaled the other men to take the man away and carry him away like a pig.
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