Lords Trying to Survive: Strategizing from a Rundown Yard

The three middle-aged male gamblers all had big bellies and looked full of fat.

They look almost identical, right down to their hair color and facial details.

They turned out to be three rare twin brothers.

The guys were meticulous and half-reclined in silk-upholstered armchairs.

A handful of chips were casually rolled out, and a beautiful dealer placed bets for them.

There is also a hot maid with her breasts close to their mouths, and the bright red wine flows down.

This is the luxury of serving wine, and ordinary people cannot enjoy such treatment.

As for the only female gambler, she looked to be in her thirties and was extremely well-maintained. She had no wrinkles on her face and her skin was as delicate as a girl's.

In the Endless Continent, it is easier to maintain good looks than to extend life.

Many aristocratic young ladies are actually much older than they look.

This lady gambler even behaved more boldly than the three twin brothers.

Anyone who can bet at the same table as Baron Edie must be a person of high net worth.

Of course, here they are all shills for the gold coin symphony arrangement.

Everyone wants to see the Baron as humble as an ant.

They will personally mark the city of Seakabang with the symbol of destruction.

Baron Edie Nickles, who was sitting in the first seat, was holding a large glass of psychedelic poisonous wine brewed from betel nuts.

This fruit is one of the main ingredients for making paralyzing poison.

Its leaves are slightly toxic and will cause paralysis and mild hallucinations after chewing.

This poisonous drink was keeping Baron Edie Nicholls in a state of high.

His rationality has been completely suppressed, and his thoughts are completely filled with the pleasure brought by drinking, sex and gambling.

After some betting, the chips in front of his table quickly dwindled.

"How about it, Lord Baron, do you want to continue?"

"Today is already the forty-ninth day, and we are about to break your record of continuous betting in Fantasy Dice."

One of the three twin brothers said with a smile.

This was a premeditated act of provocation.

They have already figured out the character of Baron Edie.

The more you lose, the easier it is to get irritated.

"Bang!"

Sure enough, the confused Baron Edie suddenly hammered the table.

Colorful chips bounced up under the vibration.

"Continue, of course continue!"

"Dear Nasha, I love your two big boys so much."

"Quickly, give me some more chips for Sir..."

He hugged one of the tall and sexy croupiers beside him, and swept the uneven scenery with an infatuated expression.

At this time, the lady sitting at the opposite table gently closed her legs and clamped a certain ignorant head.

Then he asked in a slightly frivolous tone.

"Lord Baron, just now, you have lost your last manor outside the city."

"Hehehe..."

Faced with these mocking words, Baron Edie Nicholls regained some consciousness.

"shut your mouth…"

"I'm talking about the one above!"

Baron Edie retorted.

Suddenly there was a burst of laughter in the box.

During this time, they, the gamblers, had become familiar with each other and didn't care much about the vulgar words they said to each other.

After scolding, Baron Edie frowned and looked at the two beautiful dealers beside him.

"Ellenwe, Nasha..."

"Let's see how much of the title deed I brought is left?"

The croupier smiled slightly and opened the magic storage box next to him.

The only five remaining land deeds were taken out.

Four of them are of his properties in different neighborhoods of the city.

There is also a title deed to the baronial castle and gardens.

Although Idi Nickles is the consul of the state appointed by the kingdom.

It has great autonomy rights, but the land inside and outside the city is not completely privately owned.

Many handicraft owners and retired landowners and businessmen own a lot of real estate and fields.

In fact, the industries of a state city are able to expand steadily year by year precisely based on the foundation of private ownership.

Unless they have no choice, no one is willing to sell their land and leave their hometown.

The city of Seakabang has reached this stage due to both man-made disasters and natural disasters.

"Brewery, spice shop, slaughterhouse..."

“All three of these will be exchanged for chips!”

He finally selected three more land deeds from the remaining five.

The Baronial Castle and Gardens are his home.

It is also the final bottom line in my heart.

Although this bottom line may be broken at any time, at least for now it still exists.

It is not uncommon for a state to change its rulers, but the baron who lost his castle at the gambling table is a big joke.

The slim croupier Nasha held the three land deeds with magic imprints in her arms, twisted her round hips and left the gaming table.

A few minutes later, she came back with more chips.

Immediately, the gambling continued.

Looking at Baron Edie Nicholls walking towards the abyss step by step.

The three twin brothers and the lady gambler secretly smiled at each other.

…

Seakabang City, inside the Baron's Castle.

Mrs. Navi changed into a neat and clean shirt and trousers.

The whalebone lining tightened her waist and lifted her breasts, making her taller and taller.

The dejected expression gradually disappeared, replaced by the shrewdness of the noble lady.

Navi Yas, who had been dead for nineteen years, was resurrected today!

Safuri's mind control magic is extremely powerful.

The three Domhnalls and the two sturdy maids who were staying at the door of the room still had not recovered.

They followed Safuri's instructions and went downstairs to get busy as usual.

There are no other outsiders on the fourth floor of the castle.

"You two, please come with me."

"If my hazy memory serves me right, Kamo lives on the other side of the fourth floor."

After regaining her senses, Mrs. Navi took the initiative to guide Zong Shen and Safuli.

She has reached a consensus with the two.

Zong Shen will bring down Earl Akle for her and support Camo Niklos to ascend to power.

The city of Seakabang was handed over to Zong Shen, but she asked Zong Shen to spare Idi's life and let the couple live like ordinary people in the territory.

In this way, the pretender sent by Zong Shen does not need to worry about those family relationships.

As for the Niklos family, their core heritage is still in the trading city of Dasirho.

Then it was time to talk to Kamo himself.

The strategy module leaves some suspense in the character information of Camo Nicholls.

Just mentioning him would surprise Zong Shen.

Now is the time to unravel the mystery.

Followed Mrs. Navigation along the corridor to the other end.

The further you go, the more debris there is in the passage.

Discarded parchment scrolls, broken crystal cups, scattered book pages, alchemy test tubes filled with unknown liquids...

This situation was not normal in the castle, especially when the maids were still employed.

This is a testament to the eccentricity of Camo Nicholls.

Speaking of which, Mrs. Neville and her son were both on the fourth floor of the castle, but at opposite ends of the corridor.

The mad lady and paranoia turn the whole floor into a forbidden area in the castle.

At the end, they finally saw the door to the room.

The solid wood door reinforced with riveted steel plates was skewed, and a large amount of rotten and white residue of food and dried feces were accumulated at the door.

The air was filled with a complex and pungent stench.

Mrs. Neville paused at the door, about to reach out and knock on the crooked door.

Zong Shen had already pushed it away with brute force.

"Crunch..."

The obscure sound of opening the door sounded, and the crooked door edge left eye-catching marks on the ground.

Looking at this posture, let alone leaving the castle, I am afraid that Camo Nicholls has not even stepped out of this door for a long time.

It took Zong Shen a lot of effort to push open the almost stuck door.

This kind of resistance can no longer be explained simply by the jamming of the door panel.

Sure enough, after the door is fully opened, you can see a casing with a similar hydraulic structure behind it.

There are also mutually coupled afterburner gears.

The house was also in a mess, and the surrounding rooms had all been opened.

Only one window was left to let in the sunlight from the outside, giving the house a little light.

The rest of the window sashes are all sealed tightly with nailboards.

The walls are covered with sticky paper, filled with design drawings and fancy formulas.

There is a huge mechanical workbench at the entrance, and close to the other side, there is also an alchemy workbench with a crystal test tube rack.

Kamo is sitting on the mechanical workbench, polishing the steel parts in his hand with a badly worn plate file.

His hair was as messy as a giant fluffy bird's nest, and the length almost reached his waist.

The first time he saw this guy, Zong Shen couldn't help but think of the Super 3 form in the classic comic "Dragon Ball" from the days of Earth.

"You broke my door opener."

"It took me a full 729 hourglass hours to make it."

"Now it seems that my invention failed. It should have been able to withstand the impact of thirty prairie bulls, but you pushed it away easily."

"I'm not wrong, I saw you push it away with one hand..."

"Either I'm crazy, or you're crazy, or disgusting Damn gave me inferior steel, but the polished feel doesn't lie."

"Are you here to deliver food?"

"1927 hourglasses ago, the two lamb stick bones I requested have not been delivered yet."

"do you know?"

"I need to make an interesting potion using sheep bone meal."

"oh!"

"My beloved alchemy, it is as mysterious as mechanical engineering!"

Carmo Nicholls kept moving his hands and talking to himself.

There is an hourglass timer on the table, which is the only way to keep time when he is in self-isolation.

For this guy who lives in his own world, time, laws, traditions, and even everything in the world no longer matter, he can make his own rules.

The stimulation this guy received was also related to Mrs. Neville.

In fact, he became completely autistic not long after his mother was humiliated and went crazy.

First, he stayed in the castle's library all day long.

Later, he started tinkering with the workbench, and from time to time he produced some violent explosives, weird mechanical devices, and even released poisonous smoke 19 times in the castle and caused explosions of varying sizes 27 times.

There was also an unlucky servant whose curiosity killed him, and he mistakenly drank a bottle of pink potion he had concocted.

Then it turned into a vampire bat, howling and biting, and was hacked to death by the garrison.

As a teenager, Kamo rarely went out. The rare times he went out, he went to a bookstore or a workshop run by goblins in the city. He often returned to the castle holding a thick tome or strange tools.

Because he was still young when the incident occurred, his personality has already changed after so many years of paranoia, and his external expression of personality is also very different from ordinary people.

Kamo obviously no longer recognizes his mother.

His eyes were still alive, but not among the people who suddenly arrived.

Instead, focus on the tools and parts you have on hand.

"Kamo..."

"Don't you recognize me?"

Tears filled the eyes of Mrs. Navi, who was originally calm.

She quickly approached, not caring about the garbage and filth scattered on the ground.

As she walked, many scattered metal parts collided together, making crisp sounds.

I saw Mrs. Navi hugging Kamo, his dirty long hair hanging down, and there were still lice beating.

"Madam, you are interrupting my work."

Kamo pushed Mrs. Navi away in disgust and focused on the polishing work at hand.

"Child, I am your mother..."

Mrs. Neville couldn't help but emphasize.

But seeing that Kamo's expression remained unchanged, he twisted his neck and said coldly.

"I don't have a mother..."

This sentence once again broke Mrs. Navi's defense.

Seemingly regaining her strength, she burst into tears again.

Zong Shen did not disturb them.

He and Safuri were using frost magic to freeze the filth at the door.

The environment here is really terrible.

It doesn't matter in a short period of time. If you leave it for a long time, it may become pickled and taste.

After waiting for more than ten minutes, Zong Shen walked into the house again.

Mrs. Navi was kneeling next to Kamo's workbench, her expression very stiff.

"Madam, come out and let me talk to Kamo."

Zong Shen said loudly, but his tone did not allow for explanation.

In response, Mrs. Navigation could only stand up and left the workbench.

Safuli held her hand and handed the room to Kamo and Zong Shen.

Zong Shen stepped over the debris on the ground very skillfully, pushed away the hourglass timer, sat down on the workbench, and looked at Kamo with interest.

"You like mechanical engineering and magic alchemy very much?"

He placed his hands casually on the workbench covered with iron filings and dust, and asked in a relaxed tone.

This question made Kamo nodded, but he still did not stop the polishing work at hand.

"The conditions here are too crude. "

"You lack materials and tools, and you don't have serious engineering masters to guide you."

Zong Shen looked around the room and commented seriously.

Kamo, who was sitting in his original position, finally raised his head and answered calmly.

"I do not care."

"As long as they make me happy."

"Here, I am the Creator."

"But you don't understand how it feels."

Facing Kamo's calm gaze, Zong Shen shook his head.

"No, no, no, you don't understand what the true Creator is."

"You've never seen the pinnacle of true mechanical engineering."