Conquering alien worlds starts from the game

It is difficult for anyone to make a decision that completely upends their life plan.

But if the identifiable benefits of this decision outweigh the harms, and if the decision is not chosen, the problem will be more serious, then most people tend not to resist too much.

Phoenix made up his mind and displayed astonishing power of action. Immediately, he rushed back to the city, convened his brain trust overnight, and secretly discussed the matter of formally declaring war on the Kingdom of Rose.

Most of them were handed down to his daughter by the old earl, and a few were think tanks recruited by Phoenix himself when he was in power. When they were dug out of the quilt in the middle of the night, they were all stunned when they heard the news.

After the shock, this group of aboriginal elites, who almost gathered the essence of the folk talents of the entire Odis land, fell into ecstasy, excitedly analyzing and discussing the pros and cons of transferring to the Rose Kingdom——Miss Phoenix is ​​expected to become Queen Rose, and for those who follow For her non-aristocratic elites, this is obviously great news!

Listening to the discussions of his subordinates, Phoenix gradually calmed down.

This group of civilian elites attached to the Otis family does not want to be neighbors with the undead regime. Miss Phoenix, who is the master of the think tank, knows this well.

She is very clear that half of the think tank is worried that after the Odis land is swallowed up by the undead regime, they will lose the privileges of being attached to the great nobles, and they will be reduced to have to follow more elites selected from the common people (after all, Innadrillian The predicament of competing for employment; the other half is due to the consideration of the interests of the Otis family.

In this regard, Phoenix does not care about it. Loyalty mixed with selfishness is also loyalty. People who really pursue absolute selfless dedication will not come to circle around the big nobles.

Whether the self-interest of the subordinates will conflict with the interests of the master, and whether the balance between the two can be reliably controlled are the things that traditional aristocratic elites like Phoenix need to care about.

From the standpoint of the Otis family, Phoenix is ​​no less afraid of the neighbor of the undead regime than the Rhine royal family...

For more than a year, the exchanges between Otis and Innadori have become increasingly close. Cargo ships go back and forth between the two places on the Barcelo River almost every day, and the frequency of passenger ships has also increased from once or twice a week to three or four times a week. There was a phenomenon of Otis leading people to Innadris in search of job opportunities - which would have been unimaginable before.

As the frequency of travel between the two places increased, the Odis family's understanding of the undead regime led by Innadris also increased day by day.

The gradually exposed edge of the undead regime is even more glaring to Phoenix, an elite member of the traditional aristocracy, and even... heart palpitations.

In the first half of last year, the undead regime only sent a small number of undead scholars (in fact, retired experts in agriculture, water conservancy, geology, electric power, etc. recruited by the national team) and a large number of employees (contract workers & grassroots students brought out by the national team) to the countryside , Organized and led Innadali farmers to build water conservancy and reclaim wasteland.

By the second half of last year, after the undead regime had thoroughly penetrated into the villages of Innatrix and established a cobweb-like rural organization (in fact, it was readjusting the organizational structure of rural cadres to prepare for the merger of villages and the transformation of villages into groups), they became unscrupulous The ground bared its fangs, and with a thunderous blow, Innadali completely liquidated all the fiefdom nobles.

As far as Phoenix knows, except for the Darcy family and a few two or three families who have completely surrendered to the undead regime, the rest of the families who had a fluke mentality and were reluctant to flee their real estate in advance were almost all wiped out.

Phoenix, who is the consul of Otis, will admire the iron-fisted methods of the undead consul of Innadel, but he will also be afraid of it.

Indeed, the relationship between the big nobles in the territory and the local fief nobles is not always so close and harmonious.

When Phoenix, who was in power on behalf of his father, did not think of letting the feudal nobles of Odisland see her methods when he first took office, it is just that it is not easy to implement this kind of thing...

When she first became the Supreme Consul of the Odis Territory, she had the idea of ​​investigating two fiefdoms that owed and concealed a large amount of taxes every year-the population increased by more than 30 in [-] years, and it was obviously a tributary of the Barcelo River. Fertile land, but a large piece of land is reported as famine every year and removed from the autumn tax collection. Any fool knows that there is a problem.

The result is... Before Phoenix organized a land and population inventory, many senior civil officials in the Bugatti City Hall either jumped out to oppose it, or proposed repairing river lanes and renovating urban roads, etc., trying to divert the direction of the city hall.

Not to mention the rumors of distorted government orders spread throughout the collar and the nonsensical criticisms in the newspapers.

But although Phoenix was annoyed at the fact that the selfish desires of the feudal nobles were inflated against her, he did not think about completely eradicating these people who governed the place for the Otis family-after all, the power of the great nobles also came from the substitute The king governs a fief that is equal to the title; acting rashly and breaking the rules of the power game will not only take the initiative to give the royal family the handle of the Otis family, but also cause the Odis family to become the public enemy of the kingdom's nobles.

Obviously, the undead consul has no such scruples.

Phoenix picked up the sugar-free black tea brought by the secretary, and took a sip slowly.

Yang and his undead regime are ignoring the rules of the power game.

When the Odis family was in a dilemma, Yang and his undead regime didn't bother to take the opportunity to tear a piece of fat from the Odis family. Instead, they readily gave assistance to the Odis family—from the perspective of an ally , which is indeed quite reliable.

But from the neighbor's point of view...it's too scary.

Phoenix put down his teacup and tapped his fingers on the table unconsciously.

Giving up the foundation that has been in business for hundreds of years and entering the Rose Kingdom is undoubtedly too crazy an adventure for the Odis family... But it is still worth betting for the family's long-term consideration.

Early the next morning, Yang Qiu received a telegram from Phoenix.

The next head of the Otis family promised that out of the standpoint of an ally, he would cooperate with Tarantan Lord Yang's request to create some kind of disturbance in the near future to divert the attention of the Rhine royal family, and even asked if he needed to The Otis family sent troops to cooperate with the undead army.

Although there is no need for the Otis family to send troops, Yang Qiu is really satisfied with this attitude of being able to make a decisive decision after judging the situation without any coyness, and immediately went to the city hall happily, and asked the city hall to arrange for Phoenix The younger brother, Master Parker, sent it back with a semi-permanent undead summoning array X1 and a temporary summoning array X10.

After finishing the affairs on Inadler's side, Yang Qiu turned his head and went straight to Adler's collar.

The more than 20 prolific players who ran out for a whole day and night (outside time) have already reached the border of Adler's territory and are about to enter Taqia. The team that cleans up the mess is pulled out first!

In Duttata City Hall, Miss Phoebe, who was rarely able to enjoy a cup of black tea peacefully in the morning after recruiting new colleagues, suddenly shuddered.

Inexplicably, Phoebe got goosebumps all over her body: "...??"

At the same time, a small border mountainous town about 200 kilometers away in the northwest of Dutata City.

The northern part of Adler's territory is mountainous. During the Ezekiel family's rule, the northern part was sparsely populated before the National Defense War. After the National Defense War, the population of the Ezekiel family's generals moved to the central and eastern regions, and the northern part became more and more desolate.

Kata Town, located in the mountains, is the only small town within a hundred miles of the northwestern border of Adler Territory.

In this small town less than [-] kilometers away from Tachia, most of the townspeople rely on the business opportunities brought by the passing caravans to make a living.

As soon as the sun rose in the morning, Huggins Burnie, a townsman in Kata town, called his son, took a sickle, a shovel and an axe, pulled a cart, left the town, and went to the mountains outside the town to cut a A shrub called "katha" by Rhine natives.

This kind of shrub is a kind of feed that only grows in the hot and dry eastern countries. It can be fed with six-legged lizards, ground lizards, wildebeests, ordinary horses without monsters, pigs, cattle and sheep and other large livestock. Also edible.

In the Kingdom of Rhine, only the northern part of Adler Territory and the northern part of Otis can see khata grass. The mountainous area in the northern part of Adler Territory is particularly lush, and the town of Kata is also named because of this natural feed.

Huggins Burney is engaged in the occupation of "feeder" that can only be seen in Kata Town. He pays relatively low money to the town hall to rent the mountains near the town to sow and cut down the khat grass that grows naturally in the mountains and sell them. Sustaining passing caravans.

When khat grows mature, it is as tall as a person, with dense branches and leaves, and thick stems. Cutting and processing this kind of shrub is hard work. Huggins, who is in his early fifties, and his son work together to cut down two clumps of khat. Unable to straighten his waist, he had to tell his son to continue, and found a rock to sit down and rest.

"By next year, I may not be able to enter the mountain."

Looking at the figure of his son sweating like rain, Huggins, who couldn't stop breathing, gradually became worried.

The harvesting period of khat grass is the same as that of caravans. Only from March to November every year can khat grass be harvested and sold to caravans to earn living expenses for a whole year.

There are hundreds of households engaged in "feed households" in Kata Town, and the price of khat grass is not much higher. It is not bad that a hundred catties of processed feed can be sold for more than ten or twenty copper coins.

Adults and hard workers, working from morning to night a day, can cut and process at most two hundred catties of khat grass; the father and son are busy all year round, and it is considered a good year to ensure that the whole family does not go hungry all year round.

If he can't do the work by himself and only depends on his son... Huggins dare not think about what will happen at home.

Turning his gaze to the south, Huggins, a native of Kata Town who has been a feed householder all his life, couldn't help but have an idea in his mind:

It's better to save some money and take the whole family to the south while I can still do it this year.

After Adler replaced the lord, the new lord sent people to Kata Town and installed horns on several streets in the town. Although the people of Kata Town are far away from the central part, they can still rely on these horns that sound every day Learn about what's out there.

Huggins has heard the advertisements for hired workers on the loudspeaker a few times-just sweeping the streets can have an annual income of more than ten gold coins, and two meals are included!

It's just that for the vast majority of ordinary people, it is not easy to make up their minds to leave their hometown and live in a strange place.

When the people sent by the new lord were recruiting people in the town last year, Huggins hesitated again and again, but in the end he still didn't dare to sign up.

He has lived in Kata all his life, and Hudgens has an unreasonable fear of the outside world.

Had it not been for the pressure of life, Huggins would never have thought about it.

Now, although Huggins had this idea, he was still hesitant.

"Forget it, let's talk about it at the end of the year."

Sighing, the old feed farmer patted his butt and stood up, ready to continue working.

When turning around, Huggins seemed to see something white passing by out of the corner of his eye.

Huggins, who took two steps towards the bush, was taken aback for a moment, and turned his head in doubt.

On the hillside about tens of meters away, a few naked skulls emerged from the dense khat grass bushes.

Huggins opened his mouth wide, staggered back two steps, pointed in the direction where the undead appeared, and wanted to yell to remind his son, but he was too frightened to make a sound at all.

"There are NPCs! Civilian NPCs!"

Pushing away the overly dense shrubs (after all, they are artificially sown, much denser than the wild ones), the players who were struggling forward pointed to the old Huggins and his son in surprise.

"I finally saw the NPC today! I'm back on the right track!"

"Which sand sculpture said to take a shortcut? The places on the map where the route is not marked are all mountains. It's a fool!"

"Okay, okay, if there are civilian NPCs, it must be not far from the right road, so check if there is a road around!"

The players who had been drilling in the deep mountains and old forests for several hours did not respond (harass) the father and son Huggins, who were civilian NPCs at first glance. The path that Huggins and his son have stepped on for many years goes down the mountain...

The son who realized that the undead haunted him after a while, and the old Huggins, who was so frightened and fell to the ground, watched the undead go down the mountain in a daze, and ran towards the direction of the town along the dirt road stepped by the feed farmers at the foot of the mountain. ...