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Tianqin Fort, the eastern great plain of the Ambergris River.

"The second concealment point, all the reformers are assembled!"

"Fifth concealment point, all reformers have assembled!"

"The first hidden point, all the reformers have assembled!"

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"Report to the Prime Minister, all the intruders are ready to attack at any time!"

On the afternoon of the third day when Chen Xing entered Tianqin Fort, all preparations were completed. Eight thousand elites lurked everywhere, gearing up, ready to go, only waiting for him to give an order, they will launch a thunderous offensive towards the palace.

"Closely observe the movements of the palace personnel, and wait for the attack in the early morning!"

"Yes!"

In the square in front of the palace, swarms of pigeons swayed, bowing their heads from time to time to peck at the rice and breadcrumbs thrown by tourists.

With the roar of the engine, an extended sedan drove into the square, stopped by the large fountain, and flew a group of pigeons.

"Sir, this is the King's Square in Tianqin Fort, also called Music Red Square."

The driver with white gloves opened the back door, and a man dressed as a squire walked down.

Wearing the usual aristocratic dress, black jacket and white shirt, red copper buttons sewn on the chest and cuffs, the style does not lose its identity but is not luxurious, it looks like a country aristocrat with inadequate economy.

He is carrying a cane in his hand, a pair of round-rimmed glasses is on the bridge of his nose, under his nose is a neatly constructed beard with eight-pinned beard, and he wears a top hat on his head, which is very typical of the old-school noble dress.

"Sir, when you look at this floor, it's all laid with retro red bricks, which absorbs sound well."

The driver introduced it enthusiastically, and the squire took out a gold coin and bounced it over. The driver quickly caught it with both hands, and then left with a smile on his face.

The car left, and the squire walked onto the red brick ground. Looking up, there are people gathering together in twos and threes everywhere. There are males and females, old and young, and one person is holding a musical instrument and playing with eloquence. There are one or two spectators standing next to them, some listening with their eyes closed, and some applauding.

At the end of the square, stood a magnificent castle.

The wall made of large blocks of granite is solid and heavy. It is seven or eight meters wide by visual observation. The wall is full of guards with three steps and one post. Their military looks are neat, upright and serious, and there is an aura of iron-blooded soldiers all over their bodies.

Palace guards have always been the elite of the elite.

Behind the city wall is a towering castle tower, and at the highest point in the middle is a row of "hill"-shaped pipe columns.

The pipe column is straight and slender, soaring to the sky, with a majestic momentum. Under the sunlight, the brilliance of the surface of the cylinder flows and shines brightly.

It is a super-large pipe organ named "Voice of the Sky", ranking second in the world, only a few meters smaller than the "Echo of Heaven" of the Holy Light of the Western Continent.

The pipe organ is a large keyboard musical instrument. It controls the natural wind through the pedal device, blows the reeds to vibrate and pronounces. The volume is loud, the momentum is strong, the tone is beautiful and solemn, and it is the best instrument for playing sacred music.

With the main castle as the organ, you can imagine how magnificent and vast the movement will be, surging the sky.

In the square in front of the palace, the ground is covered with hollow red bricks with good sound-absorbing effect, in order to reduce the reflection of sound in this area and improve the listening effect.

Looking at it from a different perspective, the square is engraved with movements, and there are staves everywhere on the ground, on the stone benches, and on the flowerbeds.

The Principality of Tianqin is worthy of being the capital of music, and every inch of the land is soaked with the elements of music.

The squire walked on the red square without stopping because of any beautiful music.

He is not here to listen to music today, but to conquer the city, capture the flag and behead!

Passing through the people playing music, he came to the front of the castle.

In front of me was a wide metal suspension bridge, the steel plate was half a meter thick and covered with thick rivets.

Below the suspension bridge is a moat more than twenty meters wide. The river was dark green, with tiny bubbles, and animal bones floating on the surface of the river, terrifying death, as if torn by a huge force.

The lords of the Red Kingdom have a tradition of raising piranhas or crocodiles in the moat. They are usually used to execute prisoners and can kill and wound the enemy during war.

Although the role of the moat is not as great as in the Cold Weapon era, and it cannot be used to execute prisoners, and the laws formulated by the Human Survival Committee must be respected, this tradition has been maintained.

Now the lords like to raise huge mutant crocodiles in the moat to show the majesty of the ruler, and occasionally they can kill one or two to make a crocodile meat feast, which can kill two birds with one stone, which is very affordable.

"Speaking of which I haven't eaten crocodile meat, I can try it tonight."

The squire said to himself. In the last war, the enemy surrendered by himself and did not attack the palace, so there was no link to kill the crocodile.

The man dressed as a squire is Chen Xing, and he stepped on it for tonight's action.

Past the moat, there is a granite city wall more than 30 meters high on which stands full of elite soldiers with guns and live ammunition.

Secretly scanned it with a black table, at least all of them were elite.

Through the tactical satellite, Chen Xing could see the situation on the city wall.

Every fifteen meters, there is a cannon. The barrel is not an ordinary cannon barrel, but an electromagnetic barrel composed of three metal cylinders.

The psychic electromagnetic gun, launching a steel cone, is the sniper in the gun, capable of penetrating heavy mechas, with great power.

There is a rectangular metal plate between the two electromagnetic guns. Chen Xing estimates that the honeycomb rocket launcher is underneath. For the sake of beauty, it is usually closed. During battle, the steel plates are opened to both sides, and the rocket launch pad rises.

The moving camera of the tactical satellite in the deep sky, the picture crosses the seven-eight-meter-wide city wall and falls on the reinforced concrete structure of the castle.

Through the structure of the external ventilation ducts, it can be roughly judged that the outer wall of the main body of the castle is made of reinforced concrete over eight meters. With this thickness, even ground-penetrating missiles with nuclear warheads before the cataclysm are difficult to penetrate.

Satellites cannot penetrate the city walls and cannot see the structures inside. But before coming, the officers of the two guards had collected a lot of intelligence.

The palace can be roughly divided into two parts: the outer hall and the inner hall. The outer hall is open to the nobles of the country, and many people have gone in. The map is easy to get, but the inner hall is rarely entered, and there is no map.

To capture the palace, there are three obstacles: the city wall, the outer hall, and the inner hall.

Because it was a sneak attack, the city wall was easily attacked, but the inside of the palace was very troublesome. There were many valuable and valuable artifacts inside the palace to fight indoor battles. You had to collect them while you were damaging them.

The personnel are already in place, lying in ambush around the palace, but now in broad daylight, the effect of the sneak attack is definitely not as good as night.

So Chen Xing first went to the site to investigate and decide the timing of the attack. As long as he gives an order, the troops will rush to the moat within five minutes, and the speed of transforming people is faster, and they can fly directly in with a disposable rocket backpack.

Chen Xing pretended to be a squire who traveled here, walked around the moat, and found that he had not sneaked into the palace secretly, so he retreated to the Music Square.

Although his short-distance teleportation was able to pass through a seven or eight-meter-thick city wall, in broad daylight, he was spotted by the soldiers standing guard before he even reached the foot of the city wall.

Of course, he has another option, which is to get in with this half-slapped disguise, but the risk is too high and he is likely to be forced to attack early, so he gave up.

When you wait until night to mix in, there is darkness as a cover, and the chance of being discovered is much smaller.

"Sir, do you want a beer, here is the best frozen beer!"

A peddler came over with a cart full of beer barrels to sell to Chen Xing.

The King’s Square in every country is a tourist attraction. Unless there are special festivals or court events, it will basically be open to the common people. Tourists are naturally indispensable for mobile vendors selling snacks and drinks.

"Sir, do you like music boxes? Our music boxes are all made by experienced craftsmen. Give them to your girlfriend. She will be ecstatic!"

In addition to food and drink, there are many souvenirs, and the most famous souvenirs from the Principality of Lyra are all kinds of music boxes.

In fact, on the street these days, he saw a lot of boutiques specializing in music boxes. They were so dazzling that they had everything from a button to a truck.

Originally, Chen Xing wanted to buy a batch of them back. He had many women, so he could send this or that, but after thinking about it, what else would he spend to buy? In a few days, the entire Tianqin Fort will be his. What is the money for?

Waiting for him to sit on the throne of Tianqin, just say a word, the top music boxes in the city will be sent to him for him to choose.

Chen Xing bought a bottle of frozen beer, and sat down on an empty bench, listening to the saxophone performance next to him, drinking beer, very comfortable.

It is 3:30 in the afternoon, and there are still more than three hours before dark, and he has some time to kill.

"Sir, is it convenient for me to sit here?"

An old gentleman with a chubby body in a white aristocratic dress took off his round hat, showing his gray hair, and politely asked Chen Xing if he could sit on the vacant seat on the bench.

The bench is very wide, so three or four people can sit on it. Chen Xing glanced around and found people sitting on the benches around him, so he nodded, "Please sit down."

"Thank you!"

The old gentleman nodded in greeting, then sat down with his crutches. Then he took out a bag of bread, tore it to the ground, and soon a pigeon flew over and fell on the bench to peck at it.

"It's really a good weather today!"

The old gentleman threw the bread crumbs to feed the pigeons, and talked to Chen Xing without words.

Looks like a lonely old man.

"Yes, the weather is really good, cloudless." Chen Xing leaned back in a chair lazily, looking at the sky. Anyway, being idle is also being idle, someone chatting can kill time.

"Looking at what you are wearing, it must be from which old family." The old gentleman said.

Chen Xing realized that his sitting posture was too ungentleman, completely unlike an old-school nobleman.

Because the old-school aristocrat pays the most attention to aristocratic traditions, and has strict requirements for words and deeds, and must always maintain aristocratic etiquette. Now he is playing an old-school squire who travels here from remote areas, so he straightened up and answered seriously. "Old sir, you're overwhelmed. I'm just a poor country squire." There was melancholy in his eyes, "In my generation, even the title of nobility is almost impossible to keep."

This is his impromptu performance, because his sitting posture just now was too casual, and he drank the beer most disdainful of the old-school nobles. You must know that the old-school nobles only drank red wine and brandy, and other wines were vulgar and indecent to them. So he added a setting of "fallen squire", which would make it more reasonable.

The squire is the lowest noble. There used to be knights and barons, but they are rarely used now.

Under the initiative of the Human Survival Committee, all countries have cancelled the original diversified aristocracy system, unified the use of the fifth-class title of duke, uncle, male, and the highest rank of "Grand Duke", as well as the landless noble title that begins with "Glory".

Because the nobility belongs to the privileged class, the best way to reduce the number of this class is to reduce its hierarchy.

So the former squires, knights, slave barons, etc. have been deprived of their noble status, but this system is limited to the mass network. Many countries still default to the original noble titles, but no more new ones.

Baron is currently recognized by the system, the lowest rank of noble title, enjoys noble allowances and some privileges.

For example, the maid of the palace cannot be obtained without the title of nobility, even if it is rich.

In other words, the squire is an empty title without any actual benefits.

"Oh, poor child..." the old gentleman said sympathetically, and then asked again, "Can you please tell me your family name."

"Winifred, sir, the Winifred family of the Melod Kingdom in the Western Continent." Chen Xing said with humility. This was the identity he had planned beforehand. Who would know whether the surname of a small squire in a remote area of ​​the Western Continent was true or not.

"Melord? That's a beautiful place, with many beautiful islands." The old gentleman said, his eyes flashing, as if he was reminiscing back then.

The Melod Kingdom is located at the southernmost tip of the Western Continent, across the sea from the South China Continent. There are many small islands between the two continents.

"Have you been to my hometown?" Chen Xing asked. Secretly touched the black watch, ready to let Sora analyze at any time, so as not to reveal the flaws by saying the wrong thing.

"I fell in love with a girl from Melod when I was young, and she invited to go to her hometown, a beautiful island, that is really a place to be missed..."

While speaking, the old gentleman seemed to be lost in memory, forgetting to speak, and staring at the open space in front of him dreamily.

A few pigeons fell down, no bread crumbs were found on the ground, and they called to the old gentleman, and the old gentleman came back to his senses.

After spreading a handful of bread crumbs, the old gentleman looked at Chen Xing with a smile, "I'm sorry, I just remembered the past, it's rude."

"It doesn't matter, everyone has a good memory." Chen Xing said.

"Thank you!" The old gentleman nodded, and then asked again, "Mr. Winifred, can you take the liberty to ask, what is your purpose here, is it just for sightseeing?"

Chen Xing's heart chuckles, could it be that he was exposed?

Judging from the other's words and deeds, I am afraid it is not an ordinary nobleman, but a certain status.

His head swiftly replayed the details just now, and found no problems, then he showed a cramped smile and said, "Sightseeing is the next thing..."

"It's mainly because I want to take chances."

In the civil war in Ambergris, facing a reshuffle, young people with aspirations but no resources all over the world want to make a fortune.

"Haha..." The old gentleman laughed, and then asked, "What will you do?"

"March and fight, you know a little bit of everything, you can't say you are proficient, you don't have any special skills," Chen Xing said.

If the opponent uses psychic energy to detect, he will sense the psychic energy fluctuations of his guardian level. And he really doesn't have a particular area of ​​expertise, the only thing is to lead soldiers to fight. If you take Triliss as an example, picking up girls should be counted as a specialty, but this kind of specialty can't be mentioned.

"What a humble child." The old gentleman sighed, with a kind smile on his face, as if he had a good impression of Chen Xing.

"If I guessed correctly, you should have the strength to guard, right?" the old gentleman asked.

Psionic fluctuations can only feel a general idea. The quasi-guard level does not have a noble title, and the guardian level only has the title of baron, so the old gentleman guessed that he was a quasi-guard.

Chen Xing nodded.

Immediately afterwards, the old gentleman condensed his gaze, his expression became serious, and said, "My child, I am Sami Monroe from the Principality of Lyra. Are you interested in contributing to your country?"

Chen Xing suddenly realized that his chance to enter the palace had arrived, and he was surprised, "You, you are, you are Tianqin's national teacher!"

Probably because of his lover's hometown, Sammy Monroe seemed to have a special affection for him, and even solicited. At the same time, Chen Xing also secretly reviewed, why didn't even Tianqin's national teacher be recognized for the first time.

"Are you surprised?" The old gentleman smiled and pointed to the gate of the palace. "This is the entrance of the palace. Every day, many high-level nationals pass by."

"Ah!" Chen Xing looked panicked, stood up hurriedly, bowed to the Tianqin Master, "I didn't expect to meet you here, really, really..." He looked incoherent with excitement. People feel it, feel extremely honored!"

"Haha, sit down, boy, there is only one old man who cherishes the memory of the past," said Sami Monroe.

Chen Xing sat down, but made a nervous look of restlessness and helplessness.

Perhaps in order to ease the tension of the country aristocrats meeting big people, Sami Monroe opened the topic, "This is your first time to Lyra, right?"

"Well, it's the first time." Chen Xing nodded, looking nervous and serious, "I've never traveled far. This is the first time I have seen such a magnificent palace with a pipe organ on it. It's shocking!"

Chen Xing's performance is exactly like a hillbilly entering the city.

Sammy Monroe seemed very satisfied with his performance, he smiled and asked, "How about it, are you interested in visiting the palace?"

"Yes, is that okay!" Chen Xing was flattered on the surface, but joy blossomed in his heart.

"If you are lucky, you can catch up with the princess playing the voice of the sky."

"Really, really!" Chen Xing stood up excitedly, but thought about seeing the captives in advance. If they look good, you can consider enjoying them for yourself. If they look normal, they will sell them to Shin Edo.