Chapter 181: The Earthfiend Sect Enters the City
With over three hundred people from the Huishui County hall and another two hundred or so from the Rongcheng County hall, they quickly brought order to everything inside and outside the city.
The weather was still miserable, but as the porridge kitchens placed bowl after bowl of hot congee into the refugees’ hands, the makeshift rain shelters built along the walls gained a faint warmth, driving off some of the chill in the night rain.
One clay brazier after another was carried in, charcoal glowing red.
The rich medicinal fragrance drifting out from within the city also soothed many hearts, leaving them strangely calm.
They worked without pause until dawn. By daybreak, the rain finally began to ease.
At daybreak, even more people were mobilized.
More craftsmen hammered and nailed, setting up additional rain shelters.
By this point, the entire group from the county yamen had been worked to the bone. The County Magistrate’s eyes were webbed with bloodshot veins as he quietly glanced toward the city gate and the area beyond the walls.
When he saw Yulong Gang disciples—both inner and outer—standing at the gate and at every street corner inside the city like upright spears, he nodded again and again, deeply reassured.