Urban Sims

Chapter 786 Arrangement
Three days passed quickly.

Zhou Ming came to this other courtyard again.

The scene was silent for a while, looking at Xiu Te and the others in front of him, Zhou Ming asked, "How is it, have you made a decision?"

"Your Majesty, we choose to submit to you."

Xiu Te took a step forward, knelt down on one knee, and said while touching his chest.

"Oh, a wise choice, what about you?" Zhou Ming looked at Atram and the others next to Xiute and asked.

"Your Majesty, we also surrender to you."

Atram, Pickle, and Ilyas also took a step forward, knelt down on one knee, and expressed their submission to Zhou Ming.

"Hahaha! Okay, okay, your choices are very wise, hahahaha!"

Zhou Ming laughed heartily, in a very happy mood, but also quite surprised.

He thought that the probability of subduing these people was only 50%, and the probability of killing them was at least 60%, but he did not expect that all four of them compromised and surrendered.

This made him a little overjoyed and slightly relieved.

After making the "surrender" option, what did Xiute and the others think in the past three days?
What kind of process did they go through in their hearts, what kind of struggle happened?
In the beginning, no matter who it was, Xiu Te and the others didn't want to surrender. The fate of betraying the union was very miserable, with a probability of death of more than 99%.

But if they don't submit to Noctis, they will die in three days.

What about running away?
Can they find a way to escape from this palace?
During these three days, of course they thought about escaping.

Even turning his thoughts into actions, he made at least 5 escape attempts in three days.

But after several attempts, all ended in failure. The 20 magic net walkers who monitored them seemed to be able to predict their escape actions in advance, as if they knew things like gods.

The probability of successful escape is 0.

Feeling desperate, the four began to persuade each other or themselves. It is better to surrender to Noctis temporarily, save their lives first, and gain Noctis' trust before speaking their bitter advice to prevent Noctis from going against the union. .

"Noctis is a smart man, probably much smarter than me. He should know how to judge the situation and not do stupid things that are beyond his control. If he knows that he can't fight against the blue hand, he may Stop, don't go down that road of self-destruction."

"We still have a chance of persuading him!"

Xiute said that Noctis has not openly challenged the blue hand yet, which shows that Noctis is not the kind of impulsive and reckless person.

"I think so too. Even if we surrender to Noctis, he won't be able to fight against the trade union right away. He can't be the trade union's opponent."

Atlam said that he really only wanted to live in his heart, and since he had a good excuse in front of him, he went down the slope.

Not to mention Elias, she has a child in her belly, and she wants to give birth to the child.

The only thing that is more difficult is Pikel, who is originally a citizen of the Aurunian Empire but also a member of the Blue Hand Guild...he doesn't know what choice to make.

However, although Pickle was born in this empire, he knew in his heart that none of the hundred empires could be the opponent of the trade union. To submit to His Majesty the Emperor is to choose to perish... If possible, he still prefers to side with the trade union.

But the reality is that if he sticks to this position, after three days, his life will be marked with GG.

Xiute apologized to him for this, he was the one who dragged Picker into the water, if it wasn't for Picker to help them complete the mission, it would be impossible to fall into this unlucky situation.

After apologizing, Xiu Te said to him: "Pickel, you are a good man, you are our most trusted friend, we don't want to kill you because of our affairs! In this way, you are the same as us , First pretend to submit to Noctis, save your life, and then work hard to get close to him, and persuade him not to fight against the union."

"If persuasion is ineffective, Pickle, we will rescue you, at all costs, and we will rescue you... even if it costs our lives."

"Pickel, we really don't want to lose you as a friend."

Xiu Te patted Picker on the shoulder, his eyes were deep, and his tone was solemn and sincere.

Feeling this friendship and sincerity, Pickle was quite moved, nodded and said: "I know how to do it, my friend."

In this way, the four reached an agreement and decided to surrender to Noctis for the time being.

……

Looking at the four people kneeling in a row in front of him, doesn't Zhou Ming understand what they really think?

Of course he understood that expressing surrender was just an expedient measure for the four of them, and it was impossible to truly surrender.

He has to take some measures in the future to increase the loyalty of the four of them... These Zhou Mings have arrangements and plans in mind.

So what's next?

Now that Xiu Te and the others surrendered, what should Zhou Ming do next?
First of all, Zhou Ming ordered the lifting of the four people's imprisonment, and removed the 20 magic net walkers who were in charge of monitoring them.

In addition, their treatment has been improved, the number of servants serving them in the other courtyard has doubled, and they are allowed to move freely in some areas of the palace...but they cannot leave the palace yet.

"That is to say, we have to continue to live in this other courtyard? Can't go out?" Atlam asked.

"It's not that you can't go out, it's that you can't leave the palace for the time being."

"Then how long are we going to live here? The environment here is too depressing, I want to go out to catch my breath."

"What's the rush? Let's wait another month. After a month, when your injuries are healed, I will reconnect you to the magic net." Zhou Ming said.

"Reconnect to the magic net? Our souls have been severely injured, can we connect to the magic net again?" Xiu Te felt a little unbelievable. The magic net was broken, and it would not be so easy to connect again. Most people should at least rest and recuperate It takes five to ten years to reconnect.

"The soul strings you left on the magic net, I put them away for you, and you don't need to draw extra souls to connect again."

"The broken soul string can be reconnected? I've never heard of such a thing." Atlam yelled, feeling unbelievable.

"Okay, shut up all of you. After a month, your strength will be returned to you. I don't know how to raise waste. I need capable people to do things for me."

In this way, in the other courtyard, the four of them nursed back to health for another month.

Then Zhou Ming had someone call them over. After some operations, he repaired the broken soul string for Xiu Te and others, and put the magic net on his face again.

However, after reconnecting to the magic net, Xiu Te and the others suddenly discovered that the position of the magic net connected to the end of the soul string had moved and ran to the end of a certain magic string.

In addition, all the magic power units stored in the magic net were cleared, and a translucent template that had never appeared before appeared in his mind.

A lot of information is displayed on the template, and the data of many items has become 0.

Especially behind the "Character Level" item, Xiu Te found that his level was displayed as "Level 1 Magic Web Walker".

"I used to be a level 5 magic net walker, how can I become a level 1 now?" Xiu Te asked in surprise.

"Yeah, I've also become level 1." Atlam also shouted.

"Your Majesty, why are our levels the lowest level 1? What's going on?" Pikel asked Zhou Ming.

"If you keep your original level and restore your full strength, wouldn't you run away immediately? I cleared all your levels. Of course, you can quickly increase your level by completing a series of tasks, and then use your The basics, the upgrade will definitely be faster than the average person."

"In addition, don't think about taking some small actions, reporting to the senior management of the Blue Hand, or taking other actions that will harm my interests. It is impossible. Your every move is under my control, and even you I know exactly what is going on in my mind. If anyone dares to make small moves, I will let him know the serious consequences immediately."

Zhou Ming glanced over with warning eyes, Xiu Te and others lowered their heads guiltyly, and then made promises one by one: they will never betray His Majesty the Emperor!

Only then did Zhou Ming nod his head, and then arranged two tasks for the four of them.

The tasks are as follows:

Xiu Te, Atram, and Pickle joined the "Central Floating Air Port" project in the northwest of the imperial capital, joined the brick-making team, and first followed everyone to make bricks.

"What? Our noble magic net walker, want to engage in low-level brick-making work?" Atlam couldn't help but screamed.

"What's wrong with brick making? The magic net walkers under me, didn't they start with brick making? Atlam, your brick making task is even heavier. If you can't finish 500 million stone bricks, don't even think about choosing other tasks."

Following Zhou Ming's serious words, a mandatory completion task popped up in the task panel in Atram's mind: 500 million stone bricks had not been produced, and all other tasks were in gray status, and he couldn't take any of them.

"God, please forgive me!"

Atram screamed in pain.

Xiu Te and Pickle immediately shut up, not daring to complain.

As for another important task, Zhou Ming handed it over to Ilyas to complete alone... Ilyas is pregnant, out of humanitarianism, it is impossible for Zhou Ming to get her to the construction site.

After learning the specific content of this task, Ilyas was quite surprised and stared at Zhou Ming for a while.

(End of this chapter)