These past few days, keep an eye on what's happening in the streets? Recalling Soren's final words, Richard felt both puzzled and curious. After thinking for a while, he simply stepped out of the courtyard and onto the street.
The streets of Kasha City were as they had always been, not much different from usual.
Quite a few laborers moved back and forth, heading to various places within the city to work—the repairs to Kasha City had been completed more than half a month ago, and what continued now was renovation work. Step by step, according to plan, Kasha City was being transformed into a Military City. Even if it could not be made as impregnable as Reef Rock Fortress, it could at least no longer be taken so easily as before.
Besides that, squads of soldiers patrolled the streets, maintaining public order.
Since Kasha City had been occupied, its order had changed greatly, shifting from stability toward chaos. The Xika people in the city feared military force and did not dare openly resist Alliance rule, but they carried out endless acts of sabotage in secret—some spontaneous, while others were instigated and directed by Xika spies.
If it was the former, it was not much of a problem, at most causing small disturbances—a single squad was enough to suppress them. The latter was far more troublesome. After all, spies were usually well-trained and knew how to strike at weaknesses. A moment of carelessness could result in the water supply being poisoned, or the army's food being poisoned. Therefore, the Alliance had deployed many troops to maintain order in the city and its surrounding areas and search for suspicious individuals.
At first, the main force maintaining order had been frontline combat troops, which had affected combat effectiveness to a certain extent.