When Zhang Tie determined to head for the west border of Taixia Country, he had already called back the thunder hawk. These days, the thunder hawk had been following Black Dragon Airboat far away and arrived at Huanzhou Province together with Zhang Tie.
In Iron-Dragon Sect, as Zhang Tie's mount and pet, the thunder hawk was not a secret. Zhang Tie had a purpose to expose this trump card to Ye Qingcheng. With the help of the thunder hawk, Zhang Tie could escape from death or travel tens of thousands of miles a day in the future. Of course, nobody would associate it with Zhang Tie's Castle of Black Iron; neither could they imagine that Zhang Tie could fly faster than the thunder hawk as a divine dominator.
This was the benefit of having many trump cards. If you casually exposed a trump card, the others would be enlightened and think that this was all you had. However, what you exposed was just what you wanted others to see.
'Sometimes, exposing is for better hiding.'
Zhang Tie thought pleasantly as he sat on the thunder hawk.
At tens of thousands of meters in the air, Zhang Tie was moving towards Helan Mountain Range which bordered Huanzhou Province and Wuzhou Province as fast as a lightning bolt.
In the high sky, Zhang Tie's eyes were giving out lotus-flower light as he could see through everything in the surroundings …
The dark night didn't stop the torrents in the sky and on the ground for a short while. In the sky, many airships turned on their lights. The airship army which was retreating towards the east was like a floating milky way in the air. So was the ground. On the interstate highway from Huanzhou Province to Force Province, many people were driving cars with high luggage on the roofs, illuminating the entire highway as bright as daytime.
It was very noisy on the highway with kids' cries and adults' quarrels everywhere.
The local garrisons in Huanzhou Province were maintaining the order on the highway. There would be a rest area in every few miles which provided food, drinking water and coal.
On the side of the road, all the places that could be temporarily parked for vehicles to set up camp were almost all occupied. In the wilderness, there were piles of burning bonfires everywhere, illuminating the bewildered and confused faces of the adults.
The villages and towns on both sides of the highway were also being evacuated. Many smaller villages had been empty. At this moment, people could take a rest from the west. Zhang Tie saw many airships of Black Armor Army stopping in the open wild or outside cities on the way back after transporting a large batch of fighters and materials. After that, people in the nearby villages, towns and cities would board the airships in batches under the organization of local officials and fly towards the east.
As demons had not reached here yet, the civilians in Huanzhou Province were still evacuating orderly.
Women, children, old and young evacuated first, followed by young adults, adults, local officers and local garrisons.
However, not everybody evacuated.
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Outside a remote mountain village, Zhang Tie saw a group of young adults with red cloth strips on their heads gathering on the grain-sunning ground in the village with firm and resolute looks. They were holding sabers and bows on their backs and standing solemnly and quietly. A bearded tough man was standing on a millstone and saying something. After that, all the young adults raised their sabers and swords and roared loudly. Closely after that, they were divided into two batches. One batch carried bags of grains and materials on their backs and carried them towards the mountain; the other batch buried some items in a place nearby the village …
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A white-haired old man was sitting in a courtyard of a commoner in the city. In unlined clothes, he was sharpening a podao that was used by common soldiers in Taixia Country. In the room, a white-haired old woman took out a set of armor from a box and was sewing the lining of the armor for the old man. Before the old man finished sharpening his podao, 5-6 white-haired old men in the armors of soldiers in Huanzhou Province had arrived at the same time like when they were young. The courtyard became boisterous at once. Some old men couldn't stand the loneliness as they directly started to practice their saber skills in the courtyard …
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Outside the city, in the town pavilion, the whole town was already sparsely populated, but the pavilion was brightly lit. The Huanzhou Pavilion Manager was dressed neatly, sitting alone in the bright hall, guarding the public house, drinking alone …
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On the railways and highways, in the torrent of people heading east, young people and teenagers would leave the train when the train stopped or the bus slowed down from time to time. Some of them were alone, some were in groups of two or three, and they would all go west together …
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In an academy full of osmanthus trees, a teacher in a green robe was standing at the door of a room. Outside the room, a group of young students of the academy were kneeling. Both parties were talking about something. The teacher in a green robe shook his head and waved his hand. He walked into the room and asked his old servant to close the door. He did not meet or talk with the people outside anymore. Only a thin figure holding a book was projected onto the window by the candlelight in the room. The people kneeling outside the room kowtowed one by one with tears in their eyes and left …
The airship was parked outside the academy. Just when these people were about to board the airship, the old servant beside the teacher in a green robe ran out and gave a few books and a page of a letter to those young people who were about to board the airship. After saying a few words, the old servant returned to the academy.
The students of the academy opened the letter. The ink on the letter was fresh and there was only a poem written in strong and vigorous handwriting on the entire letter.
Thousands of scrolls of the Holy Book are unparalleled,
The common sense of the source of the heart is extremely spiritual.
Laughing wildly, scaring away the guests from all directions,
Angered by the tiger mountain.
Not afraid of the bloody wind blowing and the bloody rain,
Singing a song of clear skies across ten thousand miles,
Why should I bow my head when traveling alone?
Lifting the sky and the earth to comfort people!
The last sentence of the poem was — — As long as the poem of Taixia Country exists, as long as Taixia Country exists, Taixia Country exists!
Those young students burst into tears as they knelt down and kowtowed away …
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With the help of lotus-flower eyes, Zhang Tie could see such scenes everywhere in Huanzhou Province; especially in the academy. With the help of lotus-flower eyes, Zhang Tie could clearly see the poem that the teacher in a green robe wrote to his disciple even though he was hundreds of miles away.
Huanzhou Province and Taixia Country deeply moved Zhang Tie. Closely after that, he sent a message to the Iron Heart Palace of Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory.
— — I've arrived at Huanzhou Province. Everything's fine. Don't worry about me, madams. However, as the war between demons and Peacewest Military Region is breaking out, the entire region might be covered with smoke and smoke in the future. As a result, commoners in the theater of operations might not be able to make a living. All the commoners in the theater of operations are evacuating; however, they don't move fast enough as they lack air transportation; especially airboat. I have an idea. When Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory selects major clans across the theater of operations to cooperate with us to produce Fiery Oil, could we consider the achievements of major clans in evacuating commoners in the theater of operations?
The major clans in Taixia Country had numerous airboats and airships. If they could participate in this project more actively, they might be able to evacuate over 10,000 people from the theater of operations rapidly by one airboat to Huanzhou Province and survive in the future.
I'm not fishing for fame; instead, as I grew up among commoners and witnessed the misery of commoners across the country when Waii Sub-continent was exterminated by demons, I don't want the same scene to happen in Taixia Country and cause more tragedies. Both Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory and I have limited abilities; however, Fiery Oil is a lever that could move major clans in Taixia Country. Madams, please consider about how to save more people by using this lever at this critical moment. It's okay for Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory to give us some of the profits of Fiery Oil!
After sending this message to Iron Heart Palace, Zhang Tie told his elder brother and his family members that he was safe.
After doing all this, Zhang Tie felt a bit reassured.
'I just need to try my best.'
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At the speed of 2 times that of the speed of sound, Zhang Tie passed by cities one after another and approached the border of Huanzhou Province.
After Zhang Tie left Blackwater Base for 3 hours, a shadow suddenly appeared in Zhang Tie's lotus-flower eyes. Closely after that, Zhang Tie fixed his lotus-flower eyes on it.
It was a wing demon. In the dark, it flew out of a forest silently towards a city in the south at an extremely high speed.
Zhang Tie had fought so many wing demons. Given that wing demon's flying speed and figure, Zhang Tie had known that it was a wing demon knight; instead of a common wing demon.
The wing demon knight was very careful. It didn't fly too high; instead, it just flew at the height of the treetops. Under the cover of the terrain and the dark, if not being very close to it, it could barely be discovered within dozens of miles.
That wing demon could never imagine that someone could see it from over 600 miles away in the dark and lock onto it.
It seemed that the wing demon knight was also investigating the situation and deployment of Taixia Country in Huanzhou Province in the east of Helan Mountain Range. After flying over a small city in the distance and observing it for quite a while, it saw an airboat escorting a series of airships in the sky. At the same time, the wing demon knight stealthily entered a small lake from the height of the treetops and started to lurk there. In the lake, it stealthily watched the scene in the sky as if it was eager to have a try …
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