"Commander-in-Chief, the people from the Clear Sky Sect are here!"
Sun Moon City,
the City Lord's Mansion had been converted into a command room by Ju Zi, and right now an entire wall of the command room was covered in screens, displaying surveillance footage from various locations across the city.
A female vice-regimental commander of the Fire Phoenix Soul Engineer Corps pointed at one of the small screens and spoke.
True enough, on the surveillance footage of the city gates,
a trade caravan consisting of a dozen people dressed in grey short-sleeved shirts and cloth shoes, looking like traveling merchants on the surface, shouldered and carried goods as they walked into Sun Moon City.
At the head of the caravan, two young men had dark skin, but possessed tall, sturdy, and vigorous physiques as they questioned the soldiers stationed at the city gate.
"Officer, might I ask if this is Gengxin City?"
The team of stationed soldiers cast suspicious gazes toward them:
"Gengxin City was the old name, it's called Sun Moon City now! Where are you lot from? Our city changed its name three months ago, how could you possibly not know?!"
Tang Long froze, feigning a foolish smile as he scratched his head: "Officer, calm your anger! We are traveling merchants from the mountains, we only come down once a year and really didn't know, please forgive us, Officer!"
With that,
Tang Hu off to the side hurriedly produced a pouch of loose tobacco and shoved it into the soldier's hand.
"These are tobacco leaves we grew ourselves back in our hometown, they're not worth much, please accept them, Officer."
The soldier narrowed his eyes, pulling out the loose tobacco from the paper wrap to reveal a few gold soul coins.
Tang Long cupped his fists and said: