Urban Sims

Time flies, five years later.

Starting from the border town of Limburg, a two-way road about six meters wide, capable of allowing two rhino-horned bulls to travel side by side, almost in a straight shape, and extending thousands of miles away, was announced to be completed.

The end of the road is a small town more than 100 miles away from Jinyan City, called Duolu Town.

After building a commercial station in Duolu Town, the "Linjin Highway" with a total length of about 1,100 miles was announced to be completed.

Five years and 1,100 miles, with an average progress of less than one mile per day. The pair owned more than a hundred rhinoceros horns (the towing capacity is equivalent to a medium-sized truck), hundreds of unicorn horses (which can travel thousands of miles a day), and monks to help clean up With the support of wild beasts on the roadside, assistance in cutting down giant trees, and hundreds of powerful workers... it can be said that the work efficiency of this road construction team will not be worse than a modern fully mechanized road construction team. .

But this road still took five years to build.

The daily progress is less than 500 meters.

The efficiency is quite low.

There are many reasons.

On the one hand, it was necessary to build a bridge when the road met the river in the forest, which abolished some Zhou Zhang; on the other hand, conflicts and entanglements with the villages and towns along the road also took a lot of time, and even caused the road construction team to suspend work for a long time.

Because this highway has been opposed, rejected, attacked and resisted by almost all forces along the road, except for the town of Limburg, there have been several major conflicts and countless small conflicts.

Hundreds of casualties.

In the later stages, when some villages and towns heard that the road was about to be built, they immediately changed their minds and immediately began to deploy resistance.

Why is this "bright road" that can obviously bring wealth and opportunities to people along the way so unpopular?

In other words, he is so unpopular with the leaders of various forces.

Because this is a path of devouring.

A road that devours the population!

Once this road is built, the population within a hundred miles on both sides of the road will be completely devoured in a short period of time.

It is like a gluttonous mouth extending from the town of Limburg, with a magnetic attraction. As long as someone approaches this mouth, comes into contact with the propaganda personnel of the "Immigration Team", and accepts their gifts, they must Within a few days, no one could resist those brainwashing words, and no one could reject the beckoning of a better life.

For the controllers of the villages and towns along the way, this is digging up their roots and killing them!

Must be stopped!

Must resist!

As a result... most of the resistance turned into small-scale massacres under the attack of the divine arm crossbows in the hands of the Home Guard Army.

Under the attack of the Keqing monk team, he turned into powder under the sword energy.

Several groups of monks with mysterious origins and unknown purposes were also jointly killed by the Home Guard Army and the Guest Team. More than a hundred masters were killed.

Nine of them were still masters at the late stage of Qi refining, but they were all easily killed because the Home Guard Army at this time was equipped with a sniper crossbow equipped with a high-precision scope. It required five people to control it, and its range exceeded Three thousand meters, extremely fast shooting speed and high shooting accuracy.

Many hostile monks died under sniper crossbows before they could see their opponents clearly.

After crushing all the way, the Linjin Highway was finally completed successfully.

At this time, the town of Limburg, after swallowing up countless villages and towns, had developed into a giant town with a population of more than 70,000, extremely prosperous and prosperous.

Upgrading to become a city only requires one or two small steps.

So, as the destination of Linjin Highway, Jinyan City, how do the various forces in the city view this uninvited road that gradually extends to their doorstep?

complex.

The mentality is quite complicated.

Some families think this is a threat, because this new type of force has risen rapidly, is extremely powerful, and has shocking ambitions!

Some people concluded that the ultimate purpose of Limburg Town in building that road was to swallow up the big one with a small one, and to swallow up Jinyan City and strengthen itself.

This sounds a bit fanciful and alarmist, but many forces in Jinyan City who have had more dealings with Limburg Town have come to this conclusion after a long period of observation.

Several large families came to this conclusion only after paying an extremely heavy price - Limburg Town is not easy to mess with and has great ambitions!

good!

During the five years, at least three families in Jinyan City took action and sent out experts, preparing to swallow up this fat sheep in Limbao Town!

As a result, the fat sheep didn't swallow it, but instead had a mouthful of bloody teeth!

Almost all the masters sent remained silent for the rest of their lives. The other party's warnings and counterattacks made them even more miserable and did not dare to act rashly again.

At this time, the major forces in Jinyan City realized that although Limbao Town was small, it was a complete and independent force. Compared with Jinyan City, which was divided and governed by more than a dozen families, the strength of Limbao Town was no matter how small it was. Whether it is financial resources or military force, it is no smaller than any family in Jinyan City.

Any family that underestimates this power will suffer a big loss and hit an iron wall!

Those who took action paid a heavy price and learned a bloody lesson.

Therefore, quite a few families in Jinyan City are hostile and opposed to Linjin Highway, and are extremely vigilant and fearful.

But there are also many families who welcome and expect this road to be built at their doorstep.

Most of these welcoming families are families that have only emerged in Jinyan City in recent years. These families have established very close business cooperation with Limburg Town. In many years of business cooperation, they have made huge profits, so they are very interested in The town of Limburg has a good impression, it can also be said that it has a good impression of the spirit coins...

Therefore, they are very much looking forward to Linjin Highway, which can bring them more wealth.

Among them, there are bakers, canned meat merchants, fur clothing merchants, glass mirror merchants, ceramic merchants... thousands of them.

These businessmen or the families behind them are basically supporters of Linjin Highway.

Some of them, after seeing the strength and potential of Limburg Town, decided to join in, and even developed into Limburg Town's secret leading party...

It can be said that in the past five years, Limburg Town, with its extremely rapid development and astonishing growth in strength, has suppressed the giant city of Jinyan City, causing some big forces that have suffered a loss. Dare to act rashly, which makes some people with keen insight feel frightened by the ambition of Limburg Town.

At this time, Limburg Town was not a fat sheep at all, but a ferocious and strange beast!

Of course, considering that several forces in Jinyan City have influence in some sects, Zhou Ming does not want to expand too quickly or press too hard. If he really attacks Jinyan City, it will be a disaster. Even if he is looking for death, the time has not come yet.

His current demand is not large, so in the name of recruiting workers, he will attract tens of thousands of people from Jinyan City to Limbao Town to participate in the reconstruction and expansion project of "Zhenlin City".

It is planned to use 30,000 workers to build a city wall with a circumference of 30 miles and a height of 30 meters. After the construction of the city wall and city defense facilities is completed, Limburg Town will officially be renamed "Zhenlin City".

The city wall construction project was started three years ago. Now with sufficient manpower, it will be completely completed in another year.

Standing on the completed main city gate, in the strong wind, Zhou Ming, dressed in white robe, looked at the hardwood tracks under the city leading to the brick kiln factory in the west of the city. Under the pull of the rhinoceros-horned bull, a large cart A large cart of prefabricated stone bricks was transported to the city wall for use by construction workers.

Then he saw a straight white road with an endless stream of caravans coming and going. The carts dragged by rhino-horned bulls and unicorn horses were filled with all kinds of goods produced in this town. A flash of thought flashed across his face. A hint of regret.

Zhou Ming shook his head and said secretly:

"If I had known this, I should have considered building a hardwood track extending to Jinyan City instead of an inefficient road. I underestimated the development speed of Limburg Town and overestimated the strength of Jinyan City."

"Actually, based on a one-thousandth ratio, there are no more than a thousand monks in Jinyan City, and more than 99% of them are weak chickens in the Qi refining stage."

"But now, there are 3,000 people in the Home Guard Army, each armed with a divine arm crossbow and a number of sniper crossbows, which is equivalent to the 3,000 late-stage Qi Refining legions in my hands."

"There is also the guest team, and a mysterious killer team... There are really not many people or forces that can threaten Limburg Town."

Of course, Zhou Ming did not dare to be blindly optimistic. At least for now, he did not have absolute confidence to deal with those powerful monks who were like human-shaped nuclear bombs.

Unless you give him a certain amount of time.

"Hey, are you here looking at the scenery again?"

A voice came from behind, and before the guards could react, a figure suddenly appeared.

Jiang Ruonan.

"Miss Jiang, how are you doing lately?"

Zhou Ming didn't look back and asked calmly. He had become accustomed to this woman who always appeared behind him unnoticed and didn't realize it was strange.

After several years of contact and understanding, Zhou Ming discovered that this woman has a simple mind and a cheerful personality, and is not an evil person.

It's just her special physique that equates her with the "disaster star".

So even though her experience was pitiable, Zhou Ming still hoped that she could leave as soon as possible to avoid causing trouble.

"It's good. This place feels like home. I like it here very much." Jiang Ruonan smiled and stared at the various busy scenes downstairs, deeply intoxicated.

"Miss Jiang, your cultivation level has already reached the liquid condensation stage two years ago. Do you think you have enough power to protect yourself?" Zhou Ming asked, and the meaning was self-evident.

"Hmph! I won't cause any trouble to you. When I reach the solid core stage, I will leave on my own without you having to tell me." Jiang Ruonan pouted, feeling that this man was grand in his actions but not grand in person at all.

"Miss Jiang, how can you be so unfaithful..." Zhou Ming looked at her, so depressed that he almost vomited blood.

"Because I am a woman. How can a woman's words be counted?"

Jiang Ruonan stuck out his tongue, made a face, and argued: "Besides, if you open your door to welcome guests here, do you have the right to refuse guests who are thousands of miles away?"

Zhou Ming shook his head, defeated by her logic.

Her intention was also very clear, she just wanted to stay here and not leave.

…

At this time, it was a hundred miles east of Limburg town.

In the sky, a dark cloud as dark as ink was coming at high speed in the direction of Limburg Town.

From the dark clouds that looked like boiling oil, a hoarse and weird sound came out, like the ghost crying in the Nine Netherworld or the cold wind in the Ice Valley.

"Smell it."

"Smell her breath!"

"The spiritual body that is rare in ten thousand years belongs to me, ancestor!"

"You can't run away, you can't run away!"

"Quack, quack, quack~"

This teeth-grinding laughter was chilling to the bone.