Alien paradise

"Report, report! The enemy has retreated!" A messenger ran into Jinsui Palace and shouted excitedly to Uncle Qi and others, "Beicheng District has not been lost!"

After hearing the news, the people gathered in the palace showed no joy of victory, not even a hint of relief.

Everyone was at a loss in their minds.

Occasional explosions from the north indicate that a fierce battle is going on there, and some people are struggling to fight the enemy. However, everyone knows that the Longjiu family's army has never left the inner city, let alone repelled the enemy and won victory.

"Brother, what is going on?" Chigwei looked at Qi Bo in disbelief, "Who is the new king!?"

Seeing that Uncle Qi was silent, he turned around and picked up the messenger soldier, and asked sternly, "You should have seen which troops are fighting the enemy! Tell me, who are those people? Hill Lord Ai Ge Han? Or the Vulture Count Mundo? There are only a few powerful lords in the west who support the Longjiu family!"

"Did my father ask them to become kings? How is this possible?" The third brother, who always had a gloomy face, couldn't help it. "The only people who can inherit my father's wishes are descendants of the Long Jiu family!"

"I, I don't know..." the messenger stammered, "They look like the Long Jiu Army. The other troops should not be equipped with steam knights yet..."

"Let him go." Qi Bo suddenly said coldly.

"ah?"

"I said let go of this soldier! Can't you hear me?" The eldest son stared at Siegwe and said every word.

The two looked at each other for a moment, and finally Siegwei chose to give in. After tutting his tongue, he pushed the messenger away.

"Go out and have a look."

"What did you say?"

"I'll let you go out and have a look... let the others come too." Qi Bo took a deep breath and stood up from the throne, "Now that the battle is over, other nobles will not dare to make trouble for the time being. Let's go to the edge of the inner city wall. , you should be able to see where the troops fighting for the Longjiu family come from.”

After that, he took the lead and walked towards the outside of Jinsui Palace.

Everyone looked at each other, and in the end they could only choose to follow.

After passing through the mid-mountain garden and an elevated corridor, Qi Bo and others came to an observation deck - it was more than ten meters higher than the inner city wall, and they could have a panoramic view of more than half of the royal city. At this moment, the sun has basically disappeared below the horizon, leaving only patches of dark purple clouds in the sky. The torches and oil lamps inside and outside the city walls were all lit, and with the street lights on both sides of the street, it was not impossible to see the situation on the ground completely.

However, what was slightly different from the night view on weekdays was that the streets in the inner city were shimmering, like a river illuminated by the setting sun.

"hiss……"

When Siegwei really saw what it was, he couldn't help but take a breath——

One after another, the knights in steam armor were lined up tightly, almost extending from the entrance of the palace to the gate of the inner city. The number was not in the thousands but in the hundreds!

He often leads his troops into battles, how could he not know how many such elite warriors he has in his family!

First of all, those who can drive steam wonders must be talented people. Secondly, the cost of each pair of armors is extremely high. Even with the financial resources of Gaofeng Company, they can only save less than two hundred pairs in so many years! A qualified armor needs to be cast from fine steel, with a total of more than 13,000 parts such as gears, transmissions, and pipelines, and requires the cooperation of a dozen factories to complete it. The only company in the Old Continent that can organize related production lines is Gaofeng Industrial Company!

No...it's more than that.

There is also a strange spider-shaped machine squatting above the heads of all the steam knights. Their structures look equally complex, and they are definitely not the crude animal toys. When the armor steps forward, they will lower their center of gravity and actively adjust their position to avoid slipping, just like they are alive!

If these armors can still be regarded as peak industrial products, Iron Spider is a new product that Siegwei has never seen before.

What made him even more incredible was that this powerful army actually came out of the palace!

What a joke! ?

After taking the royal capital, Long Jiujun launched a thorough search of the palace, firstly to find the whereabouts of the eldest prince and second prince, and secondly, to eliminate the stubborn enemies hiding deep in the palace. There are private cells, torture chambers, wine pools, and boudoirs in this palace, but there are absolutely no factories!

The army could not be allowed to enter the palace.

In other words, no matter where this steam heavy equipment team comes from, it is much more reasonable than coming from the inner courtyard of the palace!

"Father does not have a secret army, and what you see does not belong to the Longjiu family." Qi Bo suddenly said sadly, "Actually, I am just like you, I didn't know what I would see before I walked out of the Golden Harvest Palace, or that I Although I accepted my father's arrangement, I didn't really believe that the entire kingdom could escape reincarnation and enter a new era... But now it seems that my father may be right."

"Let's go over there and talk..." Siegwei pointed to the open space aside.

"It's not necessary, let's just say it here. Anyway, you are all the pillars that Duke Long Jiu values ​​​​... Without everyone's support, the family would not be where it is today." Unexpectedly, Uncle Qi shook his head and rejected the second brother's proposal. , "It is indeed an extremely important secret, but that was before I went to the underground chamber of the palace. Now it is also a secret, but it is not so important."

Having said this, he looked at Siegwei, "You should know that my father has frequently visited a secret room under the palace in the past few months, right?"

"Yes." The latter nodded solemnly, "I once asked him what was inside, but he never answered me. And the guards at the door were all my father's personal guards, and even I was not allowed to approach."

To be more precise, it was since the Longjiu family conquered Xingwei City and seized Wanliji.

At that time, all the ministers believed that the army was in high spirits and could take advantage of the situation to attack the northern mountains and the central and eastern parts of the kingdom, gain control of the entire old continent within a year, and completely bury the Laurel Dynasty in history.

However, the Duke rejected this proposal and asked to rest on the spot, absorb the resources of the royal city, and share the fruits of victory. It's not that this is a wrong decision. At least the other lords who followed the Duke supported the decision very much, and the rich income of Saint Westia also made the core position of the Longjiu family more solid. It's just that it also objectively provided a recovery window for the fleeing kingdom army, and at the same time watched the growth of the Paradise Church.

"What is in that room?" Zigwei has realized that the blue key is the pass to open the door of the secret room.

Qi Bo had a complicated expression, and was hesitant to speak... He seemed to be hesitating, but finally spoke out.

"It is a special cage, a prison of gods built to imprison the goddess of abundance."

In an instant, he seemed to return to the moment when he opened the door of the secret room.

A large number of painful images flooded into his mind, almost causing him to have a mental breakdown.

In these chaotic and chaotic images, he saw a wide wheat field and the gods nailed to death in the middle of the wheat field by countless iron chains. The ends of the chains pierced the goddess's hands, feet, and torso, causing her to bleed continuously, and the blood soaked into the earth, giving birth to tombstone-like crosses.

That's right, wheat was not growing in the wheat field. At the same time, these crosses with metal shells were no strangers to Qi Bo, because the weapons carried by the priests of the Church of Abundance who had fought with them many times were these second-class wonders like crosses.