I was almost eaten at the beginning, luckily I was able to transfer the negative status

"what!!"

In an instant, the refugees screamed in terror.

The hope and greed in the eyes of all the refugees quickly faded, and they all scrambled to retreat and hide, wanting to stay away from the city gate where the terrifying demon and killer god stood.

Seeing this, the refugees retreated in fear.

Jiang Yan sheathed his sword, a faint smile returned to his face, he turned to look at Zhou Heng and the others, and then said softly in a calm tone as if nothing had happened just now:

"Let's go."

After saying that, without waiting for anyone to respond, he took the lead and walked towards the open city gate.

See this.

After being stunned for a moment, Zhou Heng and the others also set out to follow.

……

Not long after.

Led by the soldier leader, they arrived at the backyard of the government office.

At this moment, a banquet table filled with various delicacies from land and sea had already been prepared in the reception room in the backyard of the government office.

Sitting at the head of the table was a middle-aged man who appeared calm and easy-going at first glance, but upon closer inspection, he was intimidating without being angry, his aura as deep as a lake.

When he saw Zhou Heng and the other six people coming in, the middle-aged man immediately put on a friendly but somewhat fake smile on his face. He stood up and pointed to the seats around the table.

"Hahahaha... You all have come from far away, and I'm sorry for not welcoming you. Please take a seat, please take a seat."

"Your Excellency, the Prefect is too polite. We are only seventh-rank soldiers in the Qingliang Army. How dare we allow you to come and greet us in person?"

Jiang Yan responded with a smile and a bow.

"Greetings, Mr. Prefect."

Zhou Heng and others standing by also spoke in unison and bowed to the middle-aged man.

After all, the prefect of a prefecture is an official of the fifth rank in the imperial court. Although these people have extraordinary martial arts skills, they still have to do some superficial work.

"Oh... no need to be so polite."

Prefect Luo chuckled and shook his head.

"Our Daqing defenders hold a supreme position, and your strength is so formidable, there is absolutely no need to be so modest.

Everyone, please take a seat. As natural disasters continue to plague Kaiyang Prefecture, I can only prepare a modest banquet. I hope you will not despise me."

"Haha, how could it be?"

Jiang Yan also chuckled and shook his head, then looked at Zhou Heng and the others beside him and said:

"Since the prefect can take time out of his busy schedule to entertain us, we will respectfully obey your command."

"As it should be. We in Pingyang City will be relying on you to take charge for the next few days. No need to be polite. Just treat this place as your home."

Magistrate Luo continued to agree with his smile.

Afterwards, everyone took their seats as instructed, started eating and drinking, and talked about some interesting things they had seen and heard.

During the banquet, neither Magistrate Luo, Jiang Yan, Liu Shiqing, nor Zhou Heng, who had personally experienced the disaster, mentioned the group of refugees outside the city.

……

It was almost dusk.

The lights in the government office were already on.

Led by the master of the mansion, Zhou Heng and the other six came to the wing room where they were temporarily accommodated.

However, they did not move directly into their respective rooms, but gathered in Jiang Yan's room.

Looking at everyone.

Jiang Yan, who had been smiling the whole time, finally frowned and said helplessly:

"Everyone, get ready. Judging from what Prefect Luo has been doing, I'm afraid this refugee uprising is inevitable. My previous threats of brandishing a sword won't be enough to keep those refugees in check for many days."

"Alas... It's really a natural disaster and a man-made disaster. I hope it won't cause us to fail." Liu Shiqing said helplessly.

Hear the words.

Among the crowd, Wang Dajun, who had the least enlightenment besides Zhou Heng, could not help but sigh and shrug.

"There's nothing we can do. All the officials are like this, and even we're not much better. I just hope those refugees will give up and not make too much trouble. Otherwise, we'll have to suffer."

"Speaking of which, why is the disaster so serious this time? Don't the bigwigs in the court care about it?" Sun Yaozu asked in confusion.

"It's just a few civilians dying. What's that to the big guys? Also, I heard..."

"Okay, our mission is to guard the city. We have no control over other matters.

While the situation is still relatively stable, everyone should hurry back to their rooms to practice."

Jiang Yan waved his hand to interrupt Luo Jiu and decided not to keep them overnight.

See this.

There was nothing more to say, so everyone stood up, said goodbye, and went to their respective rooms.

……

Go back to the room.

Zhou Heng sat on the bed with his eyes closed, recalling and reviewing everything that had happened that day.

After several minutes, he slowly opened his eyes and looked at the food box on the tea table in the side room.

“I always feel like there’s something wrong with this operation.

Unfortunately, I had just joined the military camp and the amount of information I had was too little to draw any useful conclusions.

Forget it, the most urgent thing is for me to seize the time to open my mind and practice martial arts.

As long as we have enough strength, all problems can be solved."

Mind this.

Zhou Heng immediately stood up and walked towards the food box.

This food box was placed in the room by Magistrate Luo a long time ago, and it contained meat essence and cooling grass.

Open the food box.

Looking at the three scorched yellow cooling grasses inside, he touched the three unused cooling grasses left in his trouser pocket yesterday.

Zhou Heng couldn't help but fall into deep thought again.

This cooling grass has little effect on him. Since he can directly remove the curse, he does not need the cooling grass to assist in practicing the standing meditation.

Nowadays, the most important resource for him to improve his strength is actually meat essence.

The speed at which he gained enlightenment could almost be said to be linked to the amount of meat essence.

Without wasting negative transfer times.

The more meat essence he has, the more Qi and blood he can accumulate through practicing breathing techniques. The more Qi and blood he has, the more Yuan Acupoints he can find and open.

"Now that I'm out of the military camp, I can use food to replace the effects of meat essence.

However, using food to replenish the lost blood and flesh is too time-consuming. Even if there is enough food, I can only practice two or three more rounds of breathing techniques a day.

Cooling grass is different from meat essence. It seems that there is no substitute resource for this thing. At least new recruits have no chance to obtain substitute resources.

If I take Qingliangcao to Jiang Yan and the others to exchange for meat essence, will they be willing?"

Think of this.

Zhou Heng's heart couldn't help but be moved.

Exchanging the irreplaceable cooling grass for the substitute meat essence is bound to arouse suspicion from others.

However, as long as the other party is willing to exchange, his strength will surely improve by leaps and bounds.

By then, no matter how much those people doubted him, what could they do? He was fully capable of protecting himself.

Besides, he did have reasonable excuses to cover up such an exchange.

As long as he is strong enough and has a reasonable excuse, others should not dare to cause trouble for him easily. In this way, he still has time to continue to develop.