Chapter 167 Winter Solstice

It was late at night, and the emperor was sitting at his desk, looking at the map of the land in front of him.

On this broad map, dozens of states are outlined in red ink and extend, as if the extreme north and extreme west form the outermost barrier, guarding the central and southern states.

The states outlined in bright red marks on the paper were the states that were given priority.

Those border lands in the north obviously cannot compare with the prosperous and prosperous Zhongnan Prefecture, no matter in terms of population, products, or resource reserves.

Therefore, these areas were abandoned and their earth vein supplies were drained to replenish the earth veins of Central and Southern Continent.

Of course he knew that it would take hundreds of years to recover after the earth veins were exhausted. Every time a bit of earth veins were restored, this earth vein would be used to supply the remaining states.

He asked the star meridian magicians who served the royal family, and they all swore that as long as they gave up nearly half of the country, the remaining half of the country would be able to extract leylines from other abandoned states. The supply of leylines would be enough to support noble families. The door will continue to sing and dance for another thousand years.

This means giving up nearly half of the country and 30% of the population.

This dynasty has passed a thousand years, and there can be another thousand years.

The bright red traces expanded. The emperor watched as the red ink in the red ink bottle he accidentally knocked over continued to expand on the paper. The smudged red ink stained all the forty states in the world.

I felt agitated for no reason.

He hurriedly wanted to get up and find a piece of cloth or a piece of clothing to absorb the red ink and protect the map, otherwise the eunuch would have to waste a lot of effort tomorrow. All his efforts these days were in vain. Work in vain.

But he found that the bright red ink had already penetrated downwards through the map, and the thick map could not contain the spread of blood.

The man in the luxurious dragon robe was so embarrassed that he threw away the broad map, cleared the desk surface, and let it curl up and fold in the corner of the classical study room as if blown by the wind.

The emperor looked at the red color still remaining on the table and threw a piece of cloth on it.

Today's night is extremely cold, perhaps because it has started to snow inside and outside the capital at this time.

The stumbling herald took the machine bird and knocked open his door. He wanted to get angry and blame them for the destruction of the map, but he was stunned by what the herald said and stood there.

"The city defense army announced that a large number of machine beasts are approaching, please give instructions.

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There was no confrontation, and they could drive straight to the imperial city.

The city defense army has not experienced war for thousands of years. Perhaps the most intense battle it has experienced is to suppress civilians. If they can let structures driven by mechanism to fight for them, then there is no need to go forward and die themselves.

And Ji Lin was still beating the drums in his heart until the moment before he launched the attack. Not all of the mechanical magicians he could mobilize were skilled in combat. The combat experience of most of them was limited to exercises and theories.

But fortunately, although the city defense forces in the capital also have weapons, they do not have any training on weekdays. They are also completely grass-roots teams. They have not been in war for a long time, which almost makes them ignore the dangers that may face their capital, the dangers from within.

Whichever side has a stronger will and a clearer goal will win the final victory.

"It's amazing."

So tall, so big.

Ji Lin looked at the splendid towers standing in the imperial city. It was a real spectacle. Even under the darkness of the night, this city with no edges was shining with brilliance comparable to that of modern cities.

The rapid increase in productivity brought by the earth's veins has turned this place into a city that never sleeps. The automatic structures shaped by the earth's veins can provide productivity that humans are far from capable of, creating several prosperous and huge capital cities, absorbing energy and energy from the surrounding earth's veins. The material supplies itself.

The young masters and ladies in extremely luxurious clothes were laughing in the long street. They were eating specialties transported by the machine bird from all over the world. Even in the capital, the emperor could eat big fish from the coast at any time if he wanted. If any of the royal relatives wants to eat lamb grown on the grassland, the machine bird will also set off.

Not to mention the energy consumed by all types of outings and tourism.

The driving energy of the machine birds does not come from the void. In order to provide this huge and amazing resource transportation system, they consume countless leyline energy every day.

All this will end today.

"A lot of people will die."

Ji Lin looked up and saw that the red kite flapped its long wings and hovered in the sky with the heavy neutralizing device hanging under it, disappearing into the night sky.

A streak of bright red flowed from the tip of his nose. This was punishment for controlling the giant structure as a beginner. He was the leader. He was the only one who was familiar with all the terrain. He taught during the day and stayed up late at night to read and memorize the terrain. Only he could stand on it. The front of the team arrived with them at an astonishing speed.

This is just a minor injury. They will not usher in real death. He himself will exit this world. Ji Lin's life will only burn in these one hundred and twenty days.

He reached the end point marked by the system for him, the limit of their intervention.

Then the world does the rest.

It’s not that no one reacted and used the machine beast to fight back. The first thing they thought of was the giant structure created by these machine arts and earth veins. It was mighty and majestic. However, the energy brought by the overload later stagnated, paralyzed, and burned everything. critical operational components.

Those mechanism beasts that are already running will be instantly overloaded and enter a state of paralysis for several days.

"Everyone, activate the driving device, target, inner city."

Ji Lin issued his orders through the internal network established by the mechanical magician.

The harsh sound waves drove away all the pedestrians on the long street. This device was originally used to drive away civilians, using strong directional sound to stop hungry people, but now it was used on these nobles.

Like the sea being split apart, a road leading directly to the palace opened up in front of them.

There were quite a few scattered mechanical magicians in the imperial city. If there were any young talents who were brave and wanted to show off in front of them to prove themselves, Ji Lin would just fulfill their wishes and send them on their way first.

Activating the driving device was his last mercy.