The Titan Mountains stretch for thousands of miles and are endless. They are another natural barrier in the Assyrian territory besides the Assyrian Gorge. Behind the mountains is the hinterland of the Assyrian territory.

It took Woolley and Janus almost five days to cross the Titan Mountains. Fortunately, they did not encounter thieves, or rather, the thieves were lucky.

After leaving the Titan Mountains, there are only more than 200 miles left to Assyria City. If it were not for saving horsepower, Wu Lai would have wanted to drive fast on the moonlit night. In fact, there is no need to rush. The enrollment time for the Citizens Academy is in five days, so there is still plenty of time.

In the evening, the master and servant came to a small town called Ptah. Although the town was small, it happened to be the meeting point of the main roads of Ashur, Yellowstone and Perseus. Therefore, the biggest feature of this town was that there were taverns everywhere and laughter all night long.

Wherever there is a tavern, there will always be laughter and fighting sounds.

Woolley asked Janus to stop the carriage in front of a tavern called "The Golden Pottery Pot" because it was not as crowded as other taverns and not as noisy as other places.

After spending one night together, the master and servant set out again. The town of Ptah was only about 110 miles away from the city of Assyria. There were two towns and several scattered villages along the way. However, starting from the town of Ptah, the terrain gradually became flatter, and the endless fields of crops on the roadside could illustrate this point.

"It is indeed the grain center of Assyria." Wu Lai said to himself. The emergence of Assyria and the expansion of the Assyrian nobles relied on grain production. Assyria and its surrounding areas are basically plains with many rivers and fertile land. It has unmatched advantages in grain production over other city-states in the territory. Back then, the Assyrians, after gradually gathering the tribal population, relied on a steady supply of food to withstand the invasion of the Hurrians, and eventually possessed a strength comparable to that of the Hurrial territory.

When they were at a bend in the woods about 20 miles away from Puta Town, Janus suddenly pulled the reins and said, "Master, there seems to be something wrong ahead."

Wu Lai, who had been resting with his eyes closed, slowly opened his eyes. Sure enough, there were several pieces of dead wood lying across the road about a hundred steps ahead, completely blocking the way of the carriage.

Frowning and glancing at the surrounding woods, Wu Lai reached out and pressed a dent in the side wall of the carriage. With a light "click", a piece of wood that seemed to be an integral part of the carriage popped open, revealing a long sword that looked chilling.

"Janus, draw your dagger and prepare to fight." Wu Lei's hand touched the hilt of the sword.

"Yes, master." Janus moved the whip in his right hand to his left hand, touched the boot, and pulled out a bronze dagger that was one and a half elbows long.

The moment his fingers touched the hilt of the sword, there was the sound of hurried horse hooves from behind the carriage. Wu Lai immediately turned around and saw several tall horses galloping towards him.

"Janus, put away the dagger." Wu Lai whispered the order, jumped off the carriage and waved his hand.

The speed of the approaching horses slowed down a bit, and in just a moment, the six riders arrived beside the carriage. The one leading them was actually a girl with a white veil covering her face.

"What's wrong with this citizen from Seneca?" The leading girl pulled the reins beside Woolley and asked with a quick glance at the citizen ID card hanging on Woolley's belt.

Wu Lai took a quick look and made a rough judgment about the six people. Among the five men and one woman, the girl should be the youngest. The others were not much older than her, and the oldest was no more than 20 years old. Judging from their clothes, they were all nobles, but they did not hang their identity cards, so it was impossible to tell which city they were from. The reason why the girl told Wu Lai's origins was nothing more than seeing the fish-shaped pattern on the edge of Wu Lai's identity card - this pattern was a unique representative of the Seneca city-state, just like the surrounding wheat ears were a must-have decoration on the citizen identity card of the Assyrian city-state.

"Citizen, someone is blocking the road ahead." Wu Lai pointed to the dead tree ahead and replied.

"It's just right. I haven't killed anyone for a while." A dark-faced young man laughed and interrupted.

"Quink, don't scare this citizen." A chestnut-haired man riding at the end said with a smile.

The girl glanced at the dead tree blocking the road ahead and frowned: "Citizen, they are just a few small robbers at most. Are they worth being so scared?"

Wu Lai's heart moved, and he immediately pretended to be nervous: "Those people might kill me."

"Coward." The girl rolled her eyes at Wu Lai and shook the reins, "Go!"

"Hahaha, if you are timid, don't go out!" The dark-faced young man made a mocking expression towards Wu Lai.

The six riders rushed straight towards the "roadblock", their horses' hooves tumbling rapidly, stirring up a cloud of dust.

Wu Lai covered his mouth and nose and waved his sleeves fiercely. He got into the car while muttering to himself: "Wearing a veil? You really think you are a heroine. Maybe you are too ugly and embarrassed to let people see your true face. But your voice is pretty nice, but you are not well-developed..."

"Master." Janus turned his head from the driver's seat.

"It's okay. Put away the dagger. Wait for those men to move the wood away, then just rush over. Even if there are thieves or robbers rushing over, don't worry about them. They will take care of them." Wu Lai said as he pressed the wooden board on the side wall of the carriage back to its original position.

"Master, will they be in danger?" Janus waved the whip and the carriage started moving again. In front, four of the six riders had dismounted and were working together to move the dead trees. There seemed to be no movement in the woods on both sides.

"It shouldn't be the case. They are all carrying weapons, and two of them are wearing light armor. They might be military personnel. It is no problem for them to deal with a few robbers. After all, robbers should have some eyesight, right?" Wu Lai said with a smile.

Janus nodded and saw that the four men who had dismounted had moved most of the dead wood to the side of the road and were working together to push the largest dead wood. The road was now wide enough for the carriage to pass, so he whipped again.

The speed of the carriage increased immediately.

Wu Lai turned around and glanced behind the car, frowning: "Janus, let the horses run."

Janus whipped the horse's buttocks hard, and the carriage sped up again. The second rider in the middle of the road accelerated the carriage and quickly turned his horse's head and retreated to the side of the road.

Just as the carriage was about to approach the six people, a row of feather arrows flew out silently from the woods.

In an instant, one arrow hit a man carrying wood, two arrows hit the body of the carriage, and two of the six horses neighed sadly after being hit by arrows...

"Master, what should I do?" Janus carefully controlled the reins, his eyes fixed on the road ahead, not even daring to turn his head.

"Charge!" Wu Lai said in a deep voice, and with a glance, he saw that the girl and another person who were riding horses just now had already dismounted, and were hiding on the side of the horses, pulling the reins. The four people who were moving the wood had also fallen on the spot, and the few pieces of dead wood that blocked the way now became their barriers.

The carriage rushed past.

The girl saw that Wu Lai's carriage had no intention of stopping, and immediately frowned and cursed contemptuously: "Coward."

After she finished scolding, she suddenly raised her voice: "Get ready for battle!"

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As soon as the words fell, the six people drew their weapons one after another...

Janus drove the carriage several miles before slowing down a little.

"Master, are we safe?" Janus' voice trembled a little. When the row of arrows flew out of the forest just now, one of them happened to pass by him.

"It's safe for now." Wu Lai replied lazily, glanced at the feather arrow he had just pulled out of the car, and threw it out of the car. Although the arrow's tip was sharp, it was made of bone, and the shaft was very new, looking like it had just been made.

"Great." Janus breathed a sigh of relief, but he did not dare to slow down. After a slight hesitation, he could not help but turn around and ask, "Master, are those citizens on horseback okay?"

"No, just drive carefully." After Wu Lai answered, he curled up in the seat in a very comfortable posture. He was naturally sure that the girl and her group of six would be fine, at least nothing serious would happen, because before his carriage rushed through that area, the hurried sound of horse hooves and smoke from the back of the carriage indicated that a large group of cavalry had followed. Judging from the girl's arrogance and the attire of the people accompanying her, these cavalry might be their guards. Even if not, these cavalry could still rush before the six people who were ambushing the robbers in the woods.

In this case, Wu Lai doesn't need to worry about taking risks.

There was no more danger along the way, and those men did not catch up. Shortly after noon, the continuous and tall walls of the Assyrian city appeared on the horizon ahead.

Soon, Woolley was shocked by the beauty and grandeur of the Assyrian city.

He had read descriptions of Assyria in the books of the Seneca Temple and heard a lot about it from Sibanok, but when he saw it with his own eyes, he still couldn't help but be shocked and amazed.

According to the classics, when Assyria was first built, it was just a vast wilderness with only two villages and one town. Now, Assyria has been the political, economic and cultural center of Assyria for nearly a thousand years. The city covers an area of ​​nearly 790,000 mu. According to the length unit that Wu Lai is used to describing, the city is 15 kilometers wide from east to west and 30 kilometers long from north to south. In this world, such a city can undoubtedly be called a "giant".

The first thing that caught Wulai's attention was the city wall. The walls of Assyria were tall and thick. The walls were hundreds of cubits high and were decorated with reliefs of lions, bulls, wild boars, etc. These statues were fierce and lifelike. What was even more different from other city-states was that the walls of Assyria were double. The outer wall was continuous and the inner wall followed closely. There was a deep trench under the outer wall, and there was a spacious military road between the inner and outer walls. To the east of the wall, there was also a protective earth wall, forming a triple wall.

Of course, these walls were not completely connected, because Assyria not only had five rivers running through the city from north to south, but also many mountains, dangerous peaks, streams, and narrow passes. These areas that were not suitable for building walls were filled with barracks, small fortresses, checkpoints, fences, and detachable suspension bridges, which not only firmly protected the city, but also added many unique and interesting landscapes to Assyria. The five winding rivers of varying sizes set off the lush mountains in the city, and the palaces and temples were even more majestic.

The city was even more prosperous, with brick-paved streets that were not only very wide, but also connected in all directions. For example, the ceremonial street that Wulai was going to now led directly to the Isht Gate, one of the eight major gates of Assyria. To the west of the street was the South Palace, where the Senate was located, to the east was the Temple of Amun, and to the north was the main palace of the Assyrian Supreme Noble Council.

Soon, Wu Lei was dazzled. Because Assyria was not only filled with palaces, temples, villas, houses, public baths, arenas, shops, taverns and freshwater ports, it was also a city of fountains. Whether in the main streets and squares of the city or in the courtyards of thousands of buildings, the sound of fountains could be heard almost everywhere.

Sibanok said that there are more than two thousand fountains in the city of Assyria, and there are about a hundred main ones. The Turtle Fountain, the Four Rivers Fountain, the Conch Fountain, the Wild Boar Fountain, the Broken Ship Fountain, the Lion Fountain, the Beauty Fountain, etc. are all very famous, but the largest and most famous one is the Ves Fountain.

At the end of the Yizhang Street is the Assyrian Central Square, which is wide and flat. The core area of ​​the Assyrian Central Square is the Weiss Fountain, which is 80 cubits wide and 100 cubits high. There are four stone statues representing the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, as well as other sculptures in the fountain, which together form a huge fountain sculpture group. These sculptures are not only exquisite, but also the fountain has abundant water. In addition to supplying water to the fountain of the Assyrian Central Square day and night, there is also enough water for nearby residents. It is also recognized by the residents of Assyria as the fountain with the best and sweetest water.

Standing in front of this famous fountain, Wu Lai smiled, leaned over, stretched out his hand, and scooped up a handful of clear spring water.

"Assyrian city, here I come, are you ready?" Wu Lai said to himself, the sunlight shining through the fountain's water on his face, making it sparkle.

Immediately, an abrupt voice reached his ears: "Citizens, please do not wash your hands in the sink!"