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"Brother, I will...you are not my younger brother?" The brother who was kowtowing suddenly stiffened his body and slowly raised his head.
How come it was exposed again?
Huh? Why did I say again?
Recalling the day when he pretended to be the city lord and was directly exposed by Sauron, Zhang Mu was silent for a moment, his expression suddenly became ferocious, and he angrily scolded the kneeling man: "Why are you talking so much?"
"Uh...you are indeed not my younger brother..." He knelt down with grievance and said pitifully.
This guy doesn't look very smart.
Glancing up and down a few times, Zhang Mu felt that he didn't seem to have any aggressive potential, so he simply stopped pretending, turned back into the city lord's appearance, and sat down on the sofa.
"We meet again. Well, it hasn't been long since we last met."
"City, City Lord?!"
He moved his kneeling legs in fear towards Zhang Mu, and bent down to kowtow.
Not wanting to waste time, especially since Joey could return at any time, Zhang Mu’s face was gloomy: “Stop.
I asked, you answered, and you know exactly what the consequences are. "
"Yes, yes, Lord City Lord, I understand..."
"what's your name?"
"Joy."
"The same name as your brother?"
"My brother said that I have my own name and I would say it subconsciously, so Joey called me Joey, so that when I call myself, I won't call the wrong name."
"So..., what's your level?"
"Um, what level?"
"Magician."
"Lord City Lord, I am not a professional."
"Ah?" Zhang Mu was stunned for a moment, "I can't sense the fluctuations of your magic power. You said you don't..."
It seems like, um... no problem?
It's normal for ordinary people to not have magic fluctuations!
Zhang Mu's mouth twitched. He never expected that there would come a day when he would become the imagination monster of Dihua.
It's not his fault. Who would have thought that the guy who had the courage to test the "magician" was actually an ordinary person...
After calming down, I continued the trial.
"What did Joey tell you?"
"Call me an idiot. He spent twenty years to capture the city lord, transferred the soldiers stationed at the construction site back to Gol City, and forbade me to leave my room for fresh air."
Transfer the soldiers stationed at the construction site back to Ghor City?
There are a lot of wild beasts roaming in the wild, and every few days there are monsters coming down the mountain to feast on them. Without military patrols, how can the refugees survive?
You dare to touch my construction site?!
Regardless of why the weird and silly "Joey" summarized the key points of the conversation so succinctly and insightfully.
Upon learning that the other party's real purpose was to sabotage the project, Zhang Mu became furious.
But when he thought about the details of the other party's plan to transfer troops, he quickly calmed down.
Why are we in a hurry to pull the troops back to Ghor?
What harm does it do to him if the army stays there?
There was too little information at hand, and Zhang Mu couldn't figure out the reason, so he kept it in mind and started investigating as soon as he left the secret room.
Then, his gaze returned to his brother who was kneeling motionless.
"anything else?"
After keeping a straight face for a while, he shook his head: "No more, that's all my brother said."
"Close your eyes."
"Oh."
"puff--"
The ice cone pierced a transparent hole in his throat. His body fell powerlessly to its side, and blood gushed out of the hole, gathering into a pool on the ground.
Zhang Mu didn't hate him.
I didn't intend to kill him at first.
Now, frightened Joey won't leave town.
I was the only one who could take action inside the city, but I couldn't kill him.
Mi He, who was stronger than him, could not use force in the city.
Zhang Mu had no choice but to hide in the dark, find out what Joey was planning, and make preventive preparations to avoid the project being interrupted.
Therefore, make sure that the brother who has met the "city lord" never reveals the secret that he has been here.
Although his relationship with Joey doesn't seem to be very good, or even very bad, perhaps he is happy to see his brother suffer.
But what Zhang Mu was most unwilling to do was gambling.
Rather than betting on the possibility that his bullied brother would keep the secret for the enemy of his enemy, it would be better to eliminate the possibility of his whereabouts being exposed at the root.
Instead of a hypocritical moment of silence, Zhang Mu walked to the wall, activated the shadow technique, and waited for Joey.
The stone house had no windows, and only a chandelier with a magic crystal as its light source, hanging from the ceiling with an iron chain.
In the dim light, Zhang Mu could only rely on his mobile phone to determine how much time had passed.
three days later.
A light door appeared on the wall, and Joey walked out carrying a wooden lunch box.
Before I could call my brother to eat, the stench that filled the air in the house penetrated my nose.
After being stunned for a few seconds, he saw a corpse lying on the floor, which had been rotten beyond recognition.
"elder brother!"
He screamed in shock, but did not notice that an invisible figure entered and left the door just before it dimmed and disappeared.
Chapter 189 War?
When Zhang Mu, who had disappeared inexplicably for three days, returned to the City Lord's Mansion using shadow magic, Sauron and Domit were anxiously pacing around the hall.
Seeing Zhang Mu walking into the living room with his hands behind his back, they rushed over and stretched out their hands to check if the city lord was injured.
Seeing that the two people were about to touch him, Zhang Mu's face turned black: "Stop, stop, stop, what are you doing?"
“Lord City Lord.” Seeing that he was fine, Soran put down his hand. “You went to spy on Joey and then disappeared for three days. We thought…”
"I ran into a little trouble."
Zhang Mu waved his hand nonchalantly, led the two of them all the way to the study, and sat down on the wooden chair behind the desk: "Sauron.
What do you know about Joey?"
"One of the two deputy city lords of Gul City. He rarely shows up except for going to the Council Hall to handle official business."
"So..." After thinking for a while, he asked again, "What is his relationship with the city lord?"
"Well..." Soran frowned slightly, "We sometimes have meals together in private, but otherwise... the city lord usually doesn't let me follow him when he goes out."
Hearing that he didn't know much, Zhang Mu, who had been mentally prepared, was not too disappointed.
The city lord is a magician after all.
Soran was a non-professional assistant, who could only review official documents at home. If he needed to leave the city by force, there was naturally no reason to take him with him.
However, this personal secretary didn’t know what the city lord and Joey were planning in secret, and Zhang Mu had no clues to investigate further.
He lowered his head and thought for a moment. He remembered that Joey tried to call back the troops stationed at the construction site: "The construction site is located in the grassland fifteen kilometers north of Gul City.
Where are the soldiers stationed and who will they hinder?"
"Did you find anything unusual?" Soran's face was a little solemn.
Hearing the seriousness in his tone, Zhang Mu became interested: "Tell me what you know."
"My Lord, Gul City is located on the northern border of Lake Kingdom. It is the first and most important line of defense against invasion from the north."
"I know that Ghor City is responsible for protecting the border, but what about the most important line of defense?"
Domit, who had been silent for a long time, took over the conversation: "Gol City is surrounded by mountains and forests. It is the only main road from the north to the central area of the kingdom.
Once occupied, the enemy cavalry corps would enter the plains which were convenient for marching and disperse into small groups, posing a huge threat to the lives of the people leaving the city.
Once the enemy has gained a foothold in Ghor and has a stable rear, the infantry corps can march steadily and surround the city from front to back.
Until the daily necessities in the city were exhausted, they had no choice but to surrender.
It would obviously be extremely difficult for the kingdom to annihilate the cavalry on the plains and stop the enemy's harassment.
If nothing unexpected happens, we can only allow them to massacre villages without churches and reduce the kingdom's food production."
Zhang Mu nodded in agreement. This situation was indeed fatal.
Although we can send high-level professionals with strong mobility to hunt and kill the enemy, it is impossible that the enemy cavalry is composed entirely of ordinary people.
The enemy may even hide top professionals in the army to specifically snipe at the professionals sent by the kingdom to encircle and suppress the army.
In the eyes of Zhang Mu, a Blue Star native, this kind of war is very strange.
Encircling the city without attacking it would only increase the consumption of supplies, and the guerrilla cavalry would only attack villages, leaving small towns and cities untouched.
But there is nothing countries can do.
Because of the church's rule that "the use of force is strictly prohibited in places where humans gather", if anyone dares to attack a place where there is a church, the attacked country will be laughed to death.
As a result, countries are desperately studying how to wage war without violating these rules.