Chapter 654 - 201: The Right Remedy for the Problem
Chapter 201 [Tailored Remedy] (6200)
The matter of Luo Shang seemed like just a small anecdote Chen Yan heard at Snow Cliff Pass.
After settling in at the Brotherhood, Chen Yan rested for a night. That night, Big White stayed in Chen Yan’s room, lying beside his bed.
The next day, Chen Yan took Big White to the bathroom and gave this big guy a thorough bath.
Looking at the more than ten buckets of water used, Chen Yan couldn’t help but fall into contemplation.
This big guy... just how dirty is he!
Thinking about it, it’s not too surprising. Big White has spent years living in the wild, not at Evil Land Mountain then in the sea of trees of the Evil Spirit Tree, or in the snowfield.
Where do wild animals have places to bathe?
Fortunately, Chen Yan’s storage jade pendant was stocked with plenty of supplies—everything from food, clothing, to daily necessities, thanks to Ye Wei’s "Doomsday Reserve".
After using up a whole bottle of bath gel on Big White, Chen Yan finally brought him out of the bath.
Today he still had to go to the public affairs bureau of Snow Cliff Pass to trade heads for merits and rewards, so it wasn’t good to bring Big White around showily.
Returning to Snow Cliff Pass, Chen Yan realized the considerable value of Big White, and in Snow Cliff Pass, there might be many who coveted him in secret, so he simply spoke with Ruyi and left Big White at the Brotherhood.
Baldie 39 personally took Chen Yan to the public affairs bureau of Snow Cliff Pass.
In the words of Baldie 39: "Taking you to get acquainted with the place. You’ll have to deal with these people yourself in the future."
Inside Snow Cliff Pass, the tunnels crisscross within the mountain’s belly; the Commander’s Mansion is on the upper level of the mountain’s belly, and the public affairs bureau, subordinate to the Commander’s Mansion, oversees everything in Snow Cliff Pass besides the military, so naturally, its authority is significant, and its location is also on the upper level of the mountain’s belly.
Leaving the Brotherhood’s stronghold, after walking for a while, Chen Yan followed the baldy brother up the incline, where a guarded elevator was.
This thing is clearly controlled by some kind of array.
According to the baldy brother, the areas within the mountain’s belly are partitioned and strictly levelled.
Residential settings are at the bottom, while official and military ones are at the top.
Each area requires the use of elevators to traverse.
These elevators are somewhat similar to the elevators in Chen Yan’s real world, but evidently much larger in scale.
Each elevator can accommodate at least a hundred people at a time. And there are at least a dozen elevators between each area.
"After all, this is a military town. If chaos breaks out in any area, like an external invasion or internal riot, the garrison needs enough transportation capacity to suppress it."
The baldy brother explained and introduced things to Chen Yan along the way—this guy is an elder of Snow Cliff Pass, and knows this place inside out.
Snow Cliff Pass is divided into four districts, ordered as Zone A, B, C, and D.
The topmost level is Zone A, not in the mountain’s belly but on the mountain’s platform, the stationing ground of Snow Cliff Pass’s troops.
Zone B is where the Commander’s Mansion and various military and administrative offices of Snow Cliff Pass are located.
Zone C is for reserves and logistics—the public affairs bureau, as it handles the task of exchanging trophies for rewards and merits, and needs to store and consolidate many resources, is also placed in Zone C.
Zone D is the lowest level zone of Snow Cliff Pass, known as the "civilian zone."
Whether organizations like the Brotherhood or various shopfronts, alchemy rooms, or training rooms, they are all set in Zone D.
The whole of Snow Cliff Pass is like an underground beehive buried within the mountain’s belly.
Chen Yan naturally couldn’t help but have a thought.
If a massive place like Snow Cliff Pass, with most of its departments and facilities in the mountain’s belly or underground, encountered an earthquake, wouldn’t it all be wiped out?
However, Baldie 39 laughed and told Chen Yan: "There is an unsurpassed array set by a great cultivator here to suppress the earth dragon. An earthquake would never occur in Snow Cliff Pass!"
After riding the elevator to Zone C, the tunnels here were obviously more than twice as wide compared to those in Zone D where the Brotherhood was.
The number of patrolling garrison soldiers walking in the tunnels also increased significantly.
But amongst the people coming and going, civilians were a rare sight, and the sides of the tunnels lacked those cave shopfronts, instead being lined with massive brick wall constructs.
According to Baldie 39, the first layer of the mountain’s belly here was all hollowed out for military supplies storage.
The public affairs bureau was smaller than Chen Yan expected.
No spacious, bright facade or signboard, it looked just like an entranceway to a cave not much bigger than the Brotherhood.
But after presenting the Brotherhood’s money token to the gatekeeping soldiers, the two were quickly allowed to enter.
Entering the cave entrance, to Chen Yan’s surprise, inside was a hall—it gave him the feeling as if suddenly being in the official affairs hall of the real world.
One high counter after another set up, with small doors to the side for entry and exit.
Inside, people were talking in low voices.
Of those coming and going, quite a few were dressed neatly, and there were also more civilians like Chen Yan and the baldy brother scattered in twos and threes in the hall, seemingly waiting for something.
The baldy brother scanned around and quickly called over someone passing by—this person was cleanly dressed, in a gray robe, with a peculiar medal pinned to his chest.
After exchanging a few words with the baldy brother, pointing in Chen Yan’s direction, the person smiled and walked up to Chen Yan: "You’re the new brother joining the Brotherhood?"