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Seeing that it was him who came in, Palina stood up anxiously after being stunned for a moment: "Lord City Lord, Leah is missing..."
"I already know about this. You don't need to worry about it." Zhang Mu had no intention of sitting down. He stood in front of the carriage door and said, "You can go back to Gul City directly.
Sauron, you will temporarily take over the city lord's duties to handle daily government affairs and supervise the progress of the project.
Once this phase is completed, we will immediately set off for the capital."
"As you command." He nodded in response, and then asked, "Lord City Lord, I also heard the oracle, Lake... aren't you going to run away?"
"I can't escape, and there's no need to."
"I understand."
"Ok.
Oh, and don't use the carriage. I called two griffins to take you back to Ghor. It's faster this way."
"where?"
Sol turned around and opened the car window, but Zhang Mu interrupted him: "I came here first, they are behind, just follow them when we get there."
"Yes."
The two of them also made arrangements. Zhang Mu had no urgent matters for the time being, so he returned to the capital by the same route.
But when I came back, I found that I couldn't be idle either.
The capital was affected by the war, and eight out of ten citizens were killed or injured. Those who managed to escape believed, based on oracles, that Lake was a country abandoned by the gods, so they simply did not turn back and headed straight for the neighboring country.
At this time, the royal capital was almost like a deserted city.
How can this be done without anyone? Who would the coronation ceremony be held for?
After learning about the situation, he picked out two familiar ones from the more than 20 city lords who were imprisoned - Danielson and his companion.
The two actually had no intention of being enemies with the royal family, and they were the only two city lords who were willing to offend Andre in order to support Zhang Mu.
In the land of Sol, the two are truly outliers.
What a coincidence, Zhang Mu likes this kind of eccentric people.
After leading the men out of the prison, he assigned them a task - to go to the nearest city in the surrounding area to pick up the people and bring them back to the capital, which is commonly known as relocation.
They were very surprised and asked why he trusted them.
"Am I afraid that you will run away?
Go quickly. "
After sending people to do the work, Zhang Mu went on to find the second prince.
He was in the palace where the king usually met with his ministers, sitting on the wooden steps before the throne, one hand on his knee and the other massaging his temple.
"What's troubling you?"
"what?"
As if he had just noticed the person coming, the Second Prince quickly raised his head and straightened his sitting posture. When he saw that it was Zhang Mu, his shoulders slumped again and he began to mutter and complain.
“Although the palace was not seriously damaged, the servants, guards, and maids were all sucked dry by the blood sacrifice array.
I can’t even find a chef to cook for the coronation ceremony, let alone prepare it.”
"I'll send a message to Danielson to transfer some servants from the surrounding cities. The coronation ceremony doesn't need to be too grand. Something like this will suffice.
Anyway, we don’t expect our neighbors to participate, so what’s the point of putting on a show?”
Seeing that Zhang Mu had considered everything carefully, the second prince breathed a sigh of relief: "Then... who should I send the message to? Danielson? I remember he is not..."
"In extraordinary times, we must treat them in extraordinary ways." Zhang Mu waved his hand. "They are trustworthy. At least they can get it done by someone else. I guarantee it."
His tone was affirmative, and the Second Prince was no longer excited. Instead, he pulled him to sit next to him:
"Ahem...what's going on between you and Wang Mei?"
"What's going on?"
"That's... what?"
"What?" Zhang Mu was confused by the question, and even spoke in Blue Star dialect, "What do you want to say?"
"Um, are you guys planning a wedding?"
"wedding?"
After a short pause, he realized what the second prince was talking about and said with a smile, "A wedding is a solemn ceremony, and we can't be in a hurry."
"Tell me more about it?"
"Look, this is the first time for me and my senior to get married, so there must be no omissions in the process, right?
Things like proposal and custom-made rings are all necessary.
And the atmosphere has to be right. The capital is in ruins right now, so it would be a shame to talk about a wedding."
The second prince frowned and thought for a while: "But...why is it okay for my coronation ceremony to be like that?"
Zhang Mu patted his shoulder and said earnestly: "People are different."
"I can't hear..."
"You'll understand later." Standing up, Zhang Mu walked towards the palace gate, "Don't run around in the next few days. You're almost the king's man, so be more cautious."
The second prince scratched his head and watched his back disappear out the door.
A month later, Zhang Muben planned to go back to Blue Star to see how the mining plans of China and Ying Country were progressing, but he was so busy that he couldn't spare even a minute.
Danielson and his companions worked very diligently, and in just three days they led a team to transport a group of civilians back to the royal capital.
As soon as the people arrived, Zhang Mu started to have a headache.
Even though there aren't many people, we still need a place to live. We can't all camp outside the city, right?
Otherwise, any monster could just come and take them away, so we have to speed up the clearing of the ruins in the city.
However, manpower becomes a problem, after all, the royal capital is already short of people at the moment.
Finally, Zhang Mu decided to postpone the reorganization of the legion and brought all the soldiers, including professionals, into the royal capital to carry rubble.
The effect is quite outstanding.
Soldiers are ordinary people too, but at least they exercise all year round, so they always have some strength.
In addition, there were professionals who broke up the collapsed large blocks of wall, making it easier for them to move them.
Then there were the civilian exoduses reported from various locations.
The church leaves it to nature to choose whether humans believe in God, but there are so many miracles that even if the locals do not go to church to worship, they firmly believe in the existence of God.
The oracle to destroy Lake was heard clearly by everyone. They did not dare and had no ability to interfere, so they all migrated to neighboring countries.
Normally it wasn’t noticeable because there were so many people, but now that everyone ran away, I realized that the situation was serious.
There is a shortage of civilians and farmers, and the most obvious thing is that there is no one to clean the city.
It didn't take long, just three days, and the streets were filled with household garbage.
Then came the plague.
The rapid spread of virulent diseases has led to increasingly serious population shortages. With fewer people, sanitation is worse, and the plague spreads faster, forming a vicious cycle.
Zhang Mu was troubled by this.
Fortunately, the injury healed on its own in the end.
This is the effect of the combination of the oracle and Leah's mantra.
The church's ban was lifted, and all the countries on the Sol continent suddenly fell into chaos.
There are big countries that have been coveting small countries rich in resources for a long time, but due to the regulations prohibiting the use of force, they can only drool on the sidelines but cannot send troops to invade.
Now that the obstacles are gone, what are you waiting for? Grab it!
In the continent of Sol, don't have unnecessary expectations of the soldiers' military discipline.
The legions set out on a march, burning, killing and looting along the way. They smashed what they could not rob, and burned what they could not smash, with the aim of leaving no one alive.
It was not that the soldiers lost their minds when they saw blood, but that the entire kingdom was united.
The king of a certain kingdom even incited the people in his speech before going to war - anything looted would be divided into 30% and 70%.
Seventy percent belong to the royal family.
How could the soldiers not go crazy when they were promised huge profits?
As a result, war spread across the continent and countless lives were lost.
Amidst this chaos, there is only one country where life is peaceful and tranquil - Lake.
Leah's true words are - I said, Lake is strictly prohibited from using force.
You know, she didn’t say “inside the city”, but the entire Lake.
Unlike the oracle, Inlia's true words were not heard by everyone on the continent. The neighboring countries only heard God say "annihilate Lake in one year."
So at first, before they got the news, they thought to themselves, why should we wait for a year for such a small Lake? They hastily launched an attack.
The result was that after the professionals in Lake released the first magic towards the city gate, they were all wiped out.
No one knew how they died, only that the camp was empty in an instant.
Once the news spread, not only did the country's civilians return, but people from the surrounding capitals also came to Lake to escape the disaster.
As the population recovered and even exceeded that of the past, Zhang Mu was no longer in a hurry and planned to return to Blue Star.
Unexpectedly, just as they set out, Soren in faraway Gur sent a message - the third phase of the project was completed.
The so-called Phase III project is actually the "mortal village" of the mountain gate and the "off-campus town" of Hogwarts.
Logically speaking, the countries on Blue Star no longer have any doubts about the authenticity of the Supernatural, so the third phase of the project is indeed somewhat redundant.
But such a huge mountain gate and Hogwarts have such a small space that it is inevitable that people will have doubts over time.
After receiving the message, Zhang Mu immediately set off to Gul to collect the buildings and landscapes into the "world", and returned to the royal capital to summon a group of management from the Adventure Guild to help him design the mission.
The Adventure Guild, which issues various quests on a long-term basis, is the most suitable for this kind of work.