Out of the cage

Chapter 259 Chapter 7.41 Who is testing?

Fengfu calendar June 3599

In the Northern Territory of Eiger, the United Industries has undergone a restructuring in the administrative system.

The highest administrative center, from the Lord's Mansion, was officially transferred to the buildings in the fourteen northern cities,

In fact, these buildings originally belonged to Carrett, and now they are transferred to the members of the highest industrial planning team. They also worked in this building for the first two five-year plans.

During the restructuring process, only a large number of offices were re-listed, which has no impact on their current work. The work that should be done still has to be done.

But from this moment on, United Industries quietly determined the "industry" governance model.

Previously, the power structure of the lord circle in which Carret belonged was short-term and unstable.

If Caret suddenly disappeared, the entire joint industry would be in chaos like a headless chicken. However, once there is chaos, "certain forces with ulterior motives" will intervene.

What is determined now is a long-term stable power structure, and the governance of the entire industrial area is gradually gathered in the industrial planning team selected by Wei Keng.

Everyone in this group has worked from the grassroots to the top, and the route they have traveled shows that they are all orderly. (Chaos cannot act in order for a long time.)

All the members of the industrial planning team have a working life of forty years, and the personnel keep flowing. Even if there is a situation where the high-level people are infiltrated by evil gods, they will be eliminated as the personnel metabolize.

Wei Keng: "Flowing water does not rot, and household hubs do not rot. Since no one can resist chaos forever, then select people with sufficient order and come up one by one."

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Now the more than 300 members of the United Industrial Center are still accustomed to having Carret as the leader, but they who have assumed the actual functions of the center do not know that they have been overtaken by Wei Keng.

As long as emergencies happen, such as the disappearance of Carret, the killing of more than half of the upper group and so on. They will continue to operate according to the inertia they are in, and will fill in the vacancies according to the talent selection model, and then start to create heroes according to the situation.

Of course, even if there is no unexpected situation, as the team changes, new generations come up, and they realize that they are the key to this system, and they will still have autonomy.

Wei Keng: "Civilization is not a swarm of insects. You must have the ability to carry out your will after being beheaded." - Oh, when Master Wei said this, accidents had gradually occurred to the leaders of the southern rebel army, and some Those who made a pact with evil took their place.

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On Fengfu Continent, in the northeast direction, there is the famous Forgotten Waterfall, where the water elements that originally entrenched here have signed contracts one after another.

Now it is assigned as a pipeline detector on the dam site.

As for human beings, water energy machines are built here to prepare and use the huge water rushing down 600 meters.

One of Wei Keng's individuals is sitting on a crane, operating the sling to lift the steel tendons. At this height of 70 meters, when pulling the joystick, he can also think about life.

Wei Keng's other individuals are all in the industrial territory, busy with various affairs in a hurry. Wei Keng's individual on this steel frame is specially arranged by Wei Keng to "trance".

Wei Keng always looks up at the world from the perspective of a mortal

For example, in the south: the fight against the rebellion has been a big deal lately.

In Wei Keng's vision, the current weapon system of the rebel army appeared - this is a 1.5-meter-long musket with a steel pipe glowing blue. and wooden gun stocks.

Only a very small amount of its bullets are copper shells engraved with runes, and most of them are paper shells. The effective killing range of paper shell bullets is only 50 to 70 meters. It is ineffective against the current elite heavy-helmed knights.

However, the copper case engraved with runes has an energy level of two rings. It can penetrate the armor of knight servants at a distance of 200 meters.

Although the intelligence system of the joint industry does not know the specific damage of the troops responsible for the extermination in the south, judging from the situation of a large number of small and medium-sized nobles cursing in the kingdom of Eiger, this uprising definitely hurt the knights.

In the main world, European medieval knights were quite taboo about bows and crossbows, and the samurai class during the Meiji Restoration was also taboo about firearms. This is exactly what happened to the old nobles on the Fengfu Continent.

High-energy projectiles, swords and arrows all need to be enchanted to achieve the armor-piercing effect.

In the past, the number of arcanists was as small as that of knights, and they were an extremely small layer at the upper end of the ruling class.

But now, with the development of productivity, basic natural science knowledge and mathematics are highly popularized in the Northern Territory. Leading to the popularity of basic runes.

Although the knight class is supported by refined grains and medicines, and has also seen a two-to-three-fold increase, its conservative aristocratic order has hindered Iger's rise in class.

In order to satisfy the stability of the old order in the old kingdom, the number of elite knights produced under the current assessment order is completely different from that of the arcanists in the north.

This unequal productivity situation will intensify the conflict. Master Wei, who guarded against the "destiny targeting" of the gods, managed the conflicts under his own governance well, which caused the conflicts to erupt outside.

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Master Wei knew where the muskets and enchanted bullets of the Southern Rebel Army came from.

The Northern Territory has strict controls on muskets, but no controls on steel pipes, and no controls on sulfuric acid.

After the opening of the Prime Meridian, the small businessmen in the north were very business-minded, and they specially transported these "civilian materials" to the south, and then equipped with "warning" instructions that they were never allowed to be used in "some kind of illegal assembly. "

The core structure of these enchanted bullets are the runes that the arcane apprentices in the north practiced themselves.

In recent years, the number of arcane apprentices on the mainland has increased dramatically, and they have sent their works to the south through specialized merchants-this has formed a very broad chain of interests.

Under the Northern Industrial Party, the population has exceeded 23 million, and there are a total of 3.2 million Austrian apprentices.

These arcane apprentices are all grassroots workers under the contemporary productivity, and they have further plans.

Although the industry provides these arcane apprentices with benefits such as "energy", "materials" and "knowledge base" every month. But there is still a shortage of Austrian apprentices, and their situation is the same as that of college students who have not yet been employed.

Although the arcane apprentices in the old days had a hard life, as long as they learned pharmacy, runes, and mysticism, they could exchange their crafts for money from the upper-income group.

At present, all kinds of low-end pharmaceuticals and workshop-style pharmaceuticals have been mass-produced by industrialization, and the advantages of industrialization, such as cost and safety, have been directly crushed.

As for occultism - there is a special "Suppression Bureau" in the industrial area, which specializes in dealing with spiritual pollution. Therefore, when people in northern industrial cities discover "spiritual problems" that are difficult to deal with, they always find formal channels to deal with them to prevent being slaughtered by scammers.

As for the most basic physical runes,

After a regular arcanist reaches the third ring, he can apply to set up his own factory, which is the mage tower in the old days. In the past, the mage tower was an estate that only high-level mages could own. Now that the productivity is developed, "there are tens of thousands of mansions in Guangsha, which can shelter the underprivileged people in the world"

The arcane mages with local household registration in the northern industrial area, after connecting to the energy network, directly use the spiritual topology tool to produce spiritual runes in batches. Standard, stable and safe.

Therefore, the runes used by apprentices to practice their hands could not be sold at all.

The apprentices are very poor, especially those from other places, um, including the apprentices from the Xuan Olympic League. They are very short of money and want to change.

What is good for these apprentices now is that after 1996, large and small resistance activities broke out in the south, and arcane supplies are urgently needed.

As a result, the basic rune production capacity of the apprentices was bought by small businessmen with flexible thinking and sent to the southern rebel area.

These apprentice runes sealed on the cards were rubbed on copper sheets to make rune bullets, which became sharp weapons for seriously injured knights.

That is to say:

Under the governance of the north, the small production capacity that was about to be eliminated by the formal productive forces was a blow to the knight class in the south of Aiger who restrained productivity.

Recently, the Eiger Empire has repeatedly reprimanded, and the north does not control the export of "arcane items".

This is really wronged Carret.

Runes related to arms are strictly controlled in all factories, but the behavior of the grassroots below.

Carret drew up his diplomatic rhetoric seriously: "Instead of blaming us, it's better to say that you have serious problems in governance. You forced out so many rebels. Even if we control trade imports, the rebels are still Fundamental runes can be obtained from other places. - Meridian Railway is not likely to be closed because of your problems."

As for the interior of Northern United Industries, what is in the hearts of some people? Somewhat fearful of chaos, I think:

The rebels in the South also lacked optical sighting equipment, and high-pressure steam barrels, um, steam chimney pipes.

Master Wei added: And the idea of ​​"protracted war".

Of course, these "more and faster ideas" can only be thought of in the mind. If you really want to intervene, you must be fully responsible to the end.

Wei Keng still lacks understanding of the progress of the uprising in the south of the Aiger Empire, and maintains a cautious attitude to observe

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July 15

Egger's south on the banks of the Birmingham.

The collision of 'justice' and 'evil' has reached an incandescent stage.

The cause of the demonization of the rebel army can be traced back to three months ago.

In April, the kingdom's Knight Legion besieged the city of the "rebel army" for two months, using the Forbidden Law system to lock the possibility of using food production techniques in the city, and the entire city fell into a famine.

But the kingdom's troops still hadn't wiped out the rebels, and the rebels broke through.

It's just that 70% of the troops after the breakout are not human anymore.

The rebels who broke out from the rebellious city all had gray faces, shriveled lips that couldn't cover their teeth, and empty skeletons under their clothes.

Because surrounded by the Royal Army, the rebels had nowhere to go and no food to eat. And it happens that within the rebel army there are "devil contractors"

In order to continue fighting the kingdom's oppressors to the death, - from the perspective of history, this is undoubtedly tragic.

But digging into the details, these rebels began to vent their grievances on the weaker people after signing the contract with the devil.

After they left the city, they began to expand along the way, turning many irrelevant farmers, fishermen, coachmen, and urban citizens into their own soldiers.

These skeleton-fused-barrel death troopers. Turned into a dead musketeer, its resentment has the ability to block the elemental tunneling of the barrel, even if it does not use rune bullets, the speed of its bullets is already comparable to the power of the second-order rune barrel.

The phosphorous fire is ignited from the skeletal finger of the dead musketeer, enters the barrel from the trigger, and then the gunpowder in the barrel, no, it may not be gunpowder, just the powder of coke mixed with the air in the barrel, and ignites what may be bones , or rusty iron nails, fired out.

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When Danny, the leader of the Kingdom Army, was chasing and suppressing these undead rebels, a large number of knights around him fell down, entangled by plague and death.

Every heavy knight can disperse these undead troops, and the heavy magnetic hammer head of the Griffin Knight can smash into the undead group, and it can also set off a large amount of skeleton and gun barrel garbage.

However, shortly after the army of the dead disintegrated, if they could not be completely purified and allowed to disperse in the kingdom, they would be able to gather a large number of troops.

Within a few months, in various southern territories of the kingdom, the undead legion marched through the muffled bone flutes, formed a battle formation and opened fire on the knights of the empire.

And the power of the curse in their bullets grew stronger and stronger from battle to battle.

The priests of the temple bathed each knight with holy water, which gradually became ineffective.

Danny had to pray to God again and again. God did not abandon, but he did not give an answer either.

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Wei Keng, who has been paying attention to this war all the time, deduced the reason

In the case that quantum information is extremely easy to persist and is difficult to eliminate, unless the cause of the information is eliminated. Otherwise it is extremely difficult to handle.

Now, the cause of this undead army is that in the new era, after the lords monopolize all resources, they oppress the middle and lower classes.

Therefore, trying to suppress the rebel army by suppressing it will not only make the "fruit" of the rebellion disappear, but will increase the "cause" of the rebellion.

"Industry", "science" and "machinery" are extremely rational concepts. These concepts need "civilization background" to lubricate.

In order to curb extremes, when Wei Keng created the concept of industry, he would rather give up on becoming a powerful god, and also leave a line of area within the range of his control, just to prevent himself from being powerful while creating a god who is the opposite of himself. .

Now, Wei Keng's new doubts appeared: "If I can see things, then the gods of order can't see them, so this is it?"

Therefore, Master Wei paused, and asked himself: "Maybe? The camp of the gods of order may not be the one who plots against me."

Master Wei couldn't help but think of the words of his own supervisor: "As a mortal, the more you talk about dealing with gods, the more you will lose." ——Master Wei has a faint feeling that the God of Order doesn't seem to be testing his eldest nephew. Refined.

[Master Wei's question also opened up a new perspective for the supervisors. After re-calculation, these supervisors could not help but feel "reliable\

,"Because during the calculation, they found that the growth of Wei Keng's "industry" was beneficial to most of the gods of order. So it's also possible that a lot of the extremes of evil, along with some of the extremes of the mortal temples within these gods, will be purged in this historical change.

Yan Beixiang: So~~~ what happened next, on the surface, it was a small setback for Carret, but in fact, it was to make "Industry" a high god?

Liao Yangxiu: God never loses money.

Due to the backward observation ability of the main world, even if the vision can surpass the mortals in this world, there is always a lag in predicting the purpose of the gods. 】

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Back to the relatively simple mortal world. Wei Keng has a deeper understanding of the spread of world beliefs in "Australia".

Mortal dissatisfaction with power, hatred of injustice. Most of them will not target the powerful in the first place, but spread the injustice to the weak, and let themselves become "injustice inflictors" to gain a balance in their hearts.

Of course, such violence against the weak will not be recognized by the oppressors above.

Those oppressors who claim to rule by high-end means look down on hooligan-style bullying. (Just like in the Zhujiazhuang section of The Water Margin, Chao Gai, the leader of the bandits, looks down on the thief Shiqian)

These high-end rulers will have more reasons to suppress "bad species" like you.

That's right, just like the Knights of the Temple of Order and the Kingdom, they have always been oppressors, but as long as the bumpkins they oppress will become more evil, they belong to "justice".

In this dualistic world of "order or chaos, good or evil", the shortcut to justice is not to correct oneself, but to drive one's opponent into evil.

In modern times, the media such as those in the free world were keen to find external black material, which is the reason.

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Now, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, on the banks of the Birmingham River, although it is not yet winter, the daylight is dim like dusk.

The two armies faced each other, and the kingdom's troops gathered 70,000. Prince Danny called on the southern lords in the name of the sole heir of the Xingche family.

Such a huge army was recruited, and the unified front row was dominated by heavy shield soldiers. The muskets and attacking troops are output in the back row. The Knights were on the left.

The young prince hovered in the air on the Griffin King, and the Griffin Corps in the air also lined up.

what about this?

Dozens of heavy-duty unmanned airships floated in the air, and the beams of light solidified by evocation spells between the airships provided the griffins to step on in a line, just like sparrows on a telegraph pole. These airships provide a fulcrum for the griffins to stay in formation in the air, which also allows the griffins to charge in formation.

The meaning of this seemingly simple air "pillar" Austrian method is equivalent to that of a stirrup to a cavalry.

In stark contrast to the Knights of the Kingdom, the side of the Rebel Army—the eerie atmosphere has corroded the large tracts of vegetation in the area. The occasional jumping and flickering phosphorus fire made up for the undead army's lack of battle cry.

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At the moment, there are 40,000 rebels, but this is definitely the Wude Highland of the undead natural disaster in the history of the mainland.

Most undead natural disasters have no quality after tens of thousands.

Most of them are skeletons with bone knives but actually bone sticks, and they throw bone spurs when they are in the sky, or there are more bone mages who throw acid.

But now in this Resistance Army—a monster that is all protected by steel plates, and even the skeleton is wrapped with wire and barbed wire. Holding a standard musket.

These muskets are not only exclusive to each undead, but also universal.

Cannons with iron pipes attached to the coffin could shoot out "pillars of caustic burning fire."

In addition to the basic units, their giant units are eight-meter-high steam locomotives covered with massive mechanical arms tangled in flesh and blood.

These are "deceitful machines" in the northern definition, and they are the most dangerous magic class.

These southern farmers plow the land and the iron oxen who grind the flour are originally neutral and non-attributed, but due to the constant spiritual pollution all year round, they merge with the dead. It became such a weird mechanical unit. The bearings used to drive the turning tool, now drive the creaking and rotating electric saw, which makes people feel palpitating.

And in the sky, there are ghost balloons floating one after another, each tens of meters in diameter, like empty decayed canvas.

But this tattered-looking balloon is the top air unit among the undead, and its gloomy momentum is no less than that of the Griffin Corps.

The tear in the cloth is a weird big mouth. In the gaps opened by the shaking of the fabric, you can see the twisting tongue like a snake letter appearing and disappearing.

Whenever they swooped down to the ground and swallowed a person, they pulled up suddenly, and the swallowed person struggled under the rags for a while before disappearing. Then these stuffed balloons will burp in the air, and black smoke with cursed power will be ejected from the crack.

Some of these black smokes are poisonous, some are spiritual hallucinations, and some are burning flames that cover the target within a few seconds.

Such a commander of the undead army is not a necromancer creature, but still a very small number of flesh and blood human creatures. Now he bears the curse of darkness, drives a burning machine, and observes the battlefield.

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Looking at such an army of undead, Prince Danny took a deep breath and entered a state of concentration.

This state of the prince then affected the formation of soldiers within a hundred meters around. Focusing his attention, the armor on his body condenses strength and increases his defense.

The prince who unfolded the halo said to the Duke of Golden Blade, saying, "Today, we must make a settlement."

The old duke with white beard and hair, looked at the army of undead in front of him, and said to Danny seriously: "Your Highness, you are the one watched by God, let me charge first for you."

A god is different from a temple.

God is great, and the temple only borrows the greatness of God.