High Above

  Chapter 893 I believe in my charm (6200)

   "It really is them."

  When Ian saw Yingguang, Huijian and Ranguang coming to his lord's mansion, what he thought in his heart was "Sure enough". Sure enough, it was their three old acquaintances.

To be honest, Ian thought that these three would stay in Xiahui from the very beginning. As Huaiguang observed his own eyes, he was already prepared, and even gave them the position of observer in Chongling Sect. They stayed, but in the end, the three of them went to the Holy Mountain headquarters for further studies, and they didn't come back until two years later.

  Actually, this is a relatively normal rhythm. Generally speaking, if ordinary people take over the territory, it will definitely take a year or two to establish authority before the next management, stability maintenance and related expansion and development can be carried out... In other words, during this period of time, there is no clergy If it is useful, it will also cause dissatisfaction with each other because of the struggle between the religious authority and the feudal authority.

  Two years later, when Ian secured his position as the lord, and then accepted Huaiguang's help and cooperation, he seemed much more amiable.

   But who can guess the speed of Ian's progress? In two years, the entire territory has changed drastically, it is as incredible as changing a city.

   Judging from the surprise remaining on the faces of the three of them, they definitely saw many things beyond imagination in Xiahui City.

   "From now on, I will serve the people in your territory, Lord Earl."

   "Let's take care of each other."

  Sister Yingguang saluted Ian sternly, and the two paladins also bowed slightly. Ian accepted it calmly, and then smiled and led everyone to their seats.

The banquet for the Huaiguang envoy was very sumptuous, with meat cooked in various ways, vegetables and fruits piled up high and buttered bread, salad sprinkled with mustard and sweet sauce, and a basket beside it contained roast chicken wrapped in long leaves , the juice overflowed from the cracks in the golden skin, exuding a strong fragrance.

  Although it is rich, it is not extravagant. Ian doesn't like to eat luxury food that tastes better, but the price is more than ten times more expensive. He likes the word 'cost-effective' very much.

   At the dinner table, he told Huaiguang one by one what he had sorted out and the natural disasters he might have encountered.

  For example, the 'Grand Duke Sorin' located underground and the possible 'Void Spawn'.

  For example, the disaster of light far away from the sky has a vague relationship with the 'demon'.

   "My elder brother Mahdi once communicated with Dragon Island."

Ian lied without the slightest bit of guilt. He spoke very smoothly and naturally, without even the slightest thought fluctuation: "Other dragon kings gave the answer of 'possible', but there is no evidence at present. It's just my prophetic hunch Tell me, the Disaster of Light is by no means a natural disaster, it is a disaster that occurs only when someone destroys it."

   “…we’ll be looking into that.”

  Sworn Archbishop attaches great importance to this. She is not too tall, so she is sitting on a booster chair, but this does not detract from her majesty: "The Holy Mountain has a plan to communicate with Grand Duke Sorin, but the devil is related to the disaster of light... This possibility is indeed out of the question our expectations."

"Thank you for your suggestion."

   "As a Terran who also lives on this land, this is my duty."

  Ian said modestly.

  At the next banquet, the guests and the host had a great time. Ian accurately grasped everyone's personality, kept bringing up interesting topics, and kept the atmosphere at a level that everyone was comfortable with.

  In such a pleasant exchange, Ian "inadvertently" proposed that he had predicted the "disaster" related to the Xiahui collar.

   "I don't think this is a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster. I have many enemies, and each of them has the ability to destroy half of the city."

He said bluntly: "I'm not saying that I hope that Huaiguang can break his own principles and help me—I mainly want to know whether the three clergy who will stay in my territory can protect the people at that time. Affected by the aftermath of the battle?"

   "It would be even better if we could cooperate with our medical staff to treat the wounded."

   On the surface, it seems that Ian just wanted Ying Guang and others to express their views, but in fact, what he asked was much more than what appeared on the surface.

  Ming Oath and Tianyan looked at each other, Archbishop Tianyan turned his head, and he said seriously: "Man-made disasters or natural disasters need to be verified. No matter what the result is, we will tell you that this is an agreement between the prophets."

"As for the protection of civilians who have nothing to do with fighting, this is something that any person with a conscience will do. But even so, our priests will not act as the 'Huaiguang Church', but as local residents Action, please understand this."

"that's enough."

  Ian is very happy with this.

  In the final analysis, he is actually not sure whether it is the attack of Flameland or the pillar party of the elves, or simply some super natural disaster... It is not surprising that anything comes here in Terra, and the problem cannot always be thought of on people.

   Huaiguang, who is a professional reviewer of natural disasters, is willing to try and judge for him, which can save him a lot of calculations...and the priests are willing to protect the "healing team", which is the greatest news.

  If everything really comes to the worst end and the enemy causes great damage to Xiahui City, then the priests who protect the healing team will find that the healing ability of this team is far beyond everyone's imagination.

  After that, Ian's opponents will understand what it means to kill the healer first.

After the banquet, Ian arranged a special residence for the envoys—it was a 40-storey residential building, located around the commercial street on the east side of the city, overlooking the Xiahui Lake in the distance, and opposite the Silver Peak. See.

  This is Ian's idea of ​​a "residential building", and it is also a test of whether the Xiahuiling construction team has the ability to build high-rise buildings.

The test results are very good. With the help of the earth system sublimator and the iron man exoskeleton, the construction team was built quickly and well, and the quality is excellent. Even the interior decoration can be called a high-quality product, which proves that Xiahui collar is now in civil engineering. It is not inferior to the international standard.

  But it has been proved that even the property management of residential buildings is more convenient, the arrangement of water, electricity, energy and various materials is simpler, and even the decoration is arranged.

  But for Xiahui leaders, as long as they can live in a detached house, even a dilapidated small detached house, it is definitely better than living in a building.

after all…

   "Your Excellency must be right, I think such a building must be very comfortable to live in."

  According to the city hall’s survey of passers-by, almost 99% of people think that the residential building designed by Ian is very comfortable. They even tried to move in, but they all gave up later.

the reason is simple.

   "This building is too tall—didn't it be knocked down all at once in a war?"

  Pedestrian said bluntly: "Our territory is so good, I don't want to die so early."

That's it.

Since then, Ian has given up replicating any high-rise buildings on Earth or pre-epoch civilizations on Terra... Yes, it’s too stupid, but if the enemy’s sublimation has no holes in his head, he will definitely aim at this extreme Buildings with high crowd density are bombarded indiscriminately.

You know, Terra is no better than Earth. When the war machines here are launched, it doesn’t matter what civilian buildings you have or not. It’s better to say that they are fighting civilian buildings. As long as the enemy army hides in the urban area, even the city will be razed. Flat land.

  Condemned? It's a joke, it's a World War on Terra aimed at the subjugation of the country, a **** battlefield where forces without the fifth energy level are unworthy of existence, who cares about condemnation—even ordinary people themselves don't think there is anything wrong with it, they want to What I do is to suppress my sense of existence as much as possible, and then live.

  So, since then, Ian has devoted himself to researching underground living areas and shelter structures.

  Until this moment, he didn’t understand why there were so many ‘mazes’ in the pre-epoch civilization… It wasn’t that there were so many dungeon mazes, but that only the ruins of the dungeon escaped the disaster of falling from the sky and could become mazes!

  Following the staff of the City Hall, the Huaiguang Mission entered the welcome wine named "Chongling Building", a high-rise building with "security concerns".

  Warm room, perfect decoration, simple but comfortable bed and bedding... These ordinary details moved the hearts of this group of Huaiguang people.

   "The territory they built doesn't seem to show signs of anyone oppressing anyone."

The other four priests who acted separately from Yingguang's three-person team are elite priests from the Imperial Capital Cathedral under the command of Archbishop Swearing. The construction site, the interaction between commercial street managers and vendors, patrolling guards, and the operation of alchemy workshops and other areas.

A clergyman dressed as a knight wearing flying wing armor said: "The workers on the construction site don't have a 'slave foreman' to whip and scold. Even for the simplest carrying work, the workers also have 'iron man exoskeletons' as The tools were carried out and the safety regulations (by Terra's standards) were followed very well on the site, which clearly put workers' lives at the forefront."

The second person who reported was an old nun, she was about sixty years old, she had a kind face, but her tone was serious: "The vendors also obey the rules very well, there is no one littering in the whole commercial street, everyone will behave themselves Go to the special trash can and put the trash in different categories..."

   "This is very unbelievable. I even suspect that it is some kind of psychic brainwashing, but after observation, I found that leader Xiahui has used the 'artificial soul' technology as in the intelligence, and there is no trace of brainwashing."

The old nun is a psyker, and the light green halo in her eyes can see through many realities: "And the managers of the city hall never 'rebuke'. They are just suggestions, and most vendors will follow Suggestion. This is not right, because their hearts are obviously full of fear of some kind of 'punishment'..."

   "We don't know the content of the punishment, but even by the harshest standard, Xiahui Ling's law is not evil, and it is even the best good law among the hundreds of cities I have traveled through."

   "Even the people can be regarded as good citizens, and there is not even a single unruly person... In the past, in such a city without unruly people, the lords used violent means to forcibly clear them, but Xiahui City did not."

   "It's more than that."

A young samurai of sea origin said: "Because the leader of the guards led by Xiahui, that Qingchao is also of sea origin, and the guards on the road are also willing to chat with me. I learned from them that although they are two Fourteen-hour patrols, but divided into three shifts, each person only needs to work eight hours a day, only at critical moments do they need to work overtime, and there must be overtime pay for overtime work.”

   "There must be overtime pay!"

  The sea warrior emphasized, his tone was extremely emotional: "Even we don't necessarily have overtime pay!"

   "Becoming a paladin means that you voluntarily contribute to the church." Archbishop Tianyan opened his eyes at this moment and reminded: "I work overtime for four hours in the middle of the night every day. It has been more than 30 years, and there is no overtime pay."

   "But you have free coffee every night!" "It's not overtime pay, it's bishop benefits."

  The position class within Huaiguang obviously did not exist at all.

  But there is also a sequence of seniority and years of merit.

"alright."

  Sworn archbishop raised his hand, motioning everyone to stop.

  Since just now, a light blue halo has shrouded the room, preventing all information from spreading.

She looked around at everyone present, and said lightly: "So, our prophet lord does, as the rumors say, use technology to recuperate manpower, and when he gets resources, he uses part of them on ordinary people... and Inaiga II similar but different people?"

"indeed so."

Archbishop Tianyan had been contemplating just now, and now he nodded as if he had fully understood: "The most critical part of Xiahui City is the Alchemy Park—they sent almost all the extra wealth they got there, and there Continuously spitting out all kinds of brand-new technologies and wealth.”

"Technology is easy to say. Ian Yinfeng definitely mastered quite a lot of pre-epoch civilization technology. Even if some parts are not easy to use in today's high-source quality and high-spiritual environment, but with his talent comparable to a master craftsman, he definitely Many new technologies can be improved.

"The fact is indeed the case. In my opinion, the technology of the current Xiahui collar is only inferior to the relics of the pre-epoch civilization like the imperial capital. In five or six years, there will be another newborn on this land." The Heavenly City' or the 'Moving Royal Court'."

  The sky is the main city of the capital of learning, which is also the origin of its name. The Mobile King's Court is the mobile capital of the Heavenly King's Court, a steel fortress stretching across the great plain of Terra, a legacy of the pre-era civilization.

   Speaking of this, Archbishop Tianyan paused, and after confirming that everyone was listening, he emphasized: "But the most important thing is this wealth, and Ian also distributed it to all the citizens."

"If it is said that a lord does not oppress his subjects and does not obtain wealth from them, then the problem is serious. Don't forget how the previous lord of Xiahui, Baron Laian, treated his subjects Yes... he does not oppress on the surface, and he also distributes money to everyone."

"Tianyan means..." The knight in the flying wing helmet pondered: "Earl Yinfeng is also using the people to experiment? Indeed, he popularized artificial souls, if he didn't use this to conduct spiritual experiments weird..."

   "That's what I suspected at first, too."

Sister Yingguang coughed, and as the person involved, she naturally has the right to speak: "But it turns out that Ian Yinfeng did not conduct any involuntary experiments—there is a notice at the door of the laboratory recruiting experimenters, and the remuneration is quite impressive." heartbeat."

   "If someone sells himself for this money, then we can't say anything. What's more, the contract of Xiahui's laboratory has 'guarantee the life of the experimenter'."

The dragon nun said solemnly: "I don't think Ian Yinfeng is a villain with ulterior motives like Baron Ryan. On the contrary, we believe that Earl Yinfeng is indeed 'giving' at present, but this contribution is not in vain. A gift, but an 'investment'."

"He regards his territory as a piece of farmland. Naturally, it takes time and money to open up wasteland and cultivate it. Planting and fertilizers also cost a lot of money, not to mention the time needed to wait for the crops to grow... If one step goes wrong, this gamble will lose. "

   "But Earl Silver Peak dared to bet—he is a prophet, of course he dared to bet. This is what makes him different from Inaiga II."

  This conclusion is the result of the exchange between Yingguang and Huijian, and Ranguang.

They believe that what Ian is doing in the Xiahui Territory is essentially a gamble-he is using enough resources to grow himself quickly to cultivate the territory, so that the territory can better feed back to himself in the future .

  The period may be more than ten years, but as long as he succeeds, after ten years, his power may replace the "Grand Duke of the West" in the southwestern region of the empire and become the "Grand Duke of the South" entrenched in Nanling.

  This may be Ian's real purpose.

  To be honest, from this point of view, it is enough to prove that the quality of the priests of Huaiguang Church has reached a terrifying level—they are keenly aware of everything that is wrong in Xiahui City, and the final conclusion is almost correct.

   But it's a pity that the only thing they can't think of is that Ian's purpose is not the Duke of Nan at all.

  His purpose is to conquer all of Terra.

  Because there were hundreds of millions of mistakes in this point, the following inferences are far from the truth.

   "Then write the report like this."

It is impossible for the archbishop to think of this, she nodded slightly, and announced the end of the meeting: "I have to say, this city did give us a different feeling... The words that Earl Silver Peak bid us farewell, I I remember it very clearly."

   "Welcome to Xiahuiling, the birthplace of the new order. You will be pleasantly surprised."

   Slowly repeating Ian's words, the archbishop showed a vague smile: "Indeed. He is smarter than all the people who tried to take this road in the past."

   "Can he change the world?" Archbishop Tianyan asked, while all the other priests turned their heads and looked at Archbishop Swearing.

   "We don't care."

  The archbishop gave the same answer as before: "Humanity has chosen Ian Yinfeng...Since this is the case, we will not care about it."

"No."

   After thinking for a while, Archbishop Sworn felt that his words might be wrong: "Ian Yinfeng chose human beings."

   "This is the most important thing that the First Knight and the White People of Port Harrison did... They tied down our Earl of Silver Peak... and made 'him' willing to become a human being."

   "This is Terra's luck."

at the same time.

  Xiahui is at the top of the lord's mansion.

Huaiguang has long recognized that he is the "Earl of Silver Peak" who has "chosen human beings" overlooking his territory condescendingly. The silver-blue halo circulates in his eyes, like stars in the sky, staring at him indifferently. .

   Ian needs time. His influence will spread with the expansion of Chongling Sect and the gradual improvement of the Heart of Terra. A preliminary system of alchemy industrial parks will be established in Xiakou, where information terminals and various Various standard parts.

  The artificial intelligence located in the Void Realm will gradually take over all the mining areas in the mountain people's territory through this mechanical hand, and spread from Xiahui Territory to the entire 'Silver Peak Territory'.

At the same time, the "first generation of Xiahui leaders" who have experienced wars, sufferings, and despair on this land are being flooded by Ian's continuous information frenzy through games, radio, newspapers, communications, and television. And various means of 'brainwashing'.

  Yes, the human brain does not need to use psionic power to brainwash at all. It only needs to infuse enough information, and people will become what they want to be.

  A person who is loyal to 'happiness and peace', and a person who firmly believes that 'Yinfeng leader is the only light in this world' and 'Ian Yinfeng is the only torch and direction in this world'.

  Ian wasn't lying. He was, and he believed it himself, far more than anyone else.

   "Catastrophe... attack. I'm starting to understand the Keepers a little bit."

Standing alone on the armored shoulder of the Cyclops, with long white hair swaying back in the wind, he whispered to himself with a cold smile: "A disaster originating from the enemy, a defeat with room for counterattack, It can unite the hearts of all people like never before, so that everyone can share the same hatred, and can't wait to eat the flesh of the enemy raw and drink the blood of the enemy."

   "At that time, after the trials of blood and fire, there will no longer be people from the Mountain People Empire, only people from Yinfeng in the leadership of Yinfeng."

   "Are you going to let it happen?"

   Ask yourself this way, but Ian already has the answer.

  The answer is of course 'no'.

  Axel the Keeper is just a mortal with insufficient ability, a weak person who has no choice but to choose this path. He is powerful, but his heart is always full of doubts, he can't believe his charm, and he can't believe his prestige.

  He didn't believe that he, like Inaiga II in his heyday, raised his arms and the entire empire would obey his orders, so he could only use this kind of ingenious, almost sacrificial method.

  Use the blood and tears of the people and soldiers under your command to forge the direction of the hearts of the empire.

   Ian is different.

   "I don't need to do this to win."

Closing his eyes, Ian suppressed his instinctive 'reasonable' choice, and he began to feel a little glad that he chose Fairy Heart... If it wasn't for Fairy Heart, he might really be more and more inclined to choose the 'theoretically optimal' future, rather than believing in a less probable but 'better future'.

  Because a rational person would not make the judgment of 'believing in one's own charm and prestige'.

  The arrival of the Huaiguang Church mission is just a prelude.

  As time went by, one family after another, the envoys of one force after another came either alone or with a team.

  They either inspected or watched the city curiously, and then they were surprised by the new look that was completely different from any area of ​​Terra, and then began to observe.

  Whether it's people or cities, architecture or planning, everything is so new and interesting to other lords on this land...or uncomfortable.

  Xiahui collar gradually became lively.

  The enemy also took action at this moment.

  (end of this chapter)