Before long, a sword cultivator flew near Feng Jun's camp, shouting, "Wild Beast invasion! Wild Beast invasion! Rotating duty Zhan Xiu of the market, hurry to the training grounds to register... You have two hours. Those who fail to arrive in time will be sent to the vanguard to break through enemy lines."
The rotating duty Zhan Xiu were selected in turns from the local residents. Qiuchen Market had around two hundred thousand local residents and twenty thousand Zhan Xiu, meaning one out of every ten people was a Zhan Xiu. Those twenty thousand were divided into four rotating groups of five thousand.
In other words, when demons and monsters invaded, five thousand people had to rush out and hold the line immediately.
Not all five thousand might currently be in the market. Some might have traveled far away and be unable to return in time, while others might be in the market but chose not to show themselves—simply pretending not to be home.
However, if someone on duty failed to appear, they had to have arranged for someone else to take their place. Since it was their turn on duty, they should not have gone too far away and should have been prepared for battle at all times. If they truly had no choice but to travel far away, they had to find someone to cover their shift.
In any case, they had two hours—four hours—to gather at the training grounds. If they could not make it there, then sorry, they would be assigned to the vanguard camp.
If they dared not show up at all, the consequences... went without saying.
But in the face of such a major event, it was obviously impossible to draft only the local residents. Qiuchen Market had no fewer than one and a