Lord of Rot

Chapter 591 Someone wants to eat the mushroom cloud

Li Qi successfully captured Donggang City with only three rounds of artillery.

"Are they really going to surrender?"

Miss Red Rose asked with curiosity in her eyes. She had never participated in a war, but she also knew that a battle could last for months or even years.

Just three rounds of artillery fire from a distance, will Donggang City open its doors?
"Times have changed, Evan."

Before Li Qi finished speaking, the heavy door of Donggang City was slowly opened, and a team rushed out, but they did not set up a defensive formation, but took the initiative to line up, waiting for the welcome.

"Look" Li Qi stretched out his hand to Red Rose and signaled: "Please, Duke Evangelion, we still have a lot to do."

"I suppose so, Sir Reacher."

After the team entered the city, they immediately took over the defense of the city wall. All the Dongxia soldiers had their weapons confiscated and gathered together at the first time. Most of them were very cooperative. Although everyone knew that Li Qi conquered the city, but Red Rose is nominally the Duke.

These are all matters within the Golden Thorn Sword family. They are not considered surrenders or rebellions.

The more important reason why there is no obstacle is that Pine's behavior is not recognized.

Power does not represent everything. Everyone has their own ideas in their hearts. They do not want to participate in a war of injustice and interests.

Are there any benefits to conquering the North? Can you go ice skating or build a snowman?

"I can't believe it, we're like heroes."

Among the extraordinary soldiers, one of them said in surprise.

"Yes, it seems that we are heroes. We didn't invade and conquer the city, but we were cheered and welcomed in by them."

"Look, what's that?"

"What's wrong with a group of beautiful noble ladies?"

"I bet the most beautiful one likes the lord!"

"How can you be sure?"

"Ake looks at the Lord like that."

"Do you know Akeke?" The companion was surprised.

"Hey, I like a girl named Lika. She lives in the castle. I occasionally see Akeke when we are together. Every time Lika and Akeke talk about adults, Akeke will be like that A look."

"What look?" The companion was still puzzled.

"Look carefully."

"Well... there was some surprise in her eyes, and the corners of her mouth seemed to be raised, but she quickly concealed it, but there was light in her eyes!"

The companion became more excited as he talked and asked, "Am I right?"

"Ah yes yes yes."

The companion felt that something was wrong with his reaction, but he didn't care. As long as he was right, there was no problem: "But why doesn't she want to talk to the lord, but keeps talking to Duke Evangeline?"

"Didn't you see that every time the lord spoke, she would shut up and then prick up her ears to eavesdrop?"

"So that's how it is, you're the one who's the best!"

……

Li Qi: "..."

Lola Hann was chatting with Li Qi when she saw that Li Qi suddenly seemed to smell body odor and had a constipated expression on his face. No, she was using Porcupine Noble Soap, and she also sprayed Porcupine perfume today.

She carefully sniffed and thought to herself: "I heard that people with body odor can't smell their own body odor. This is too rude."

Lola Hann, who didn't want the topic to get awkward, took the initiative to ask: "Lord Li Qi, are you okay?"

"Of course, I'm fine, Lola." Li Qi nodded and hummed slightly: "It's just that some people may be unlucky."

He really didn't understand why his soldiers were so gossipy when he was such an aboveboard lord.

I really love eating melons, who did I learn this from?

My first guess is that it's Grenn, maybe Kuaislade, no, it's definitely Crow Camel!
Lola: "..."

She wisely shut her mouth and did not ask with a smile who was going to be unlucky. If she really asked, the unlucky person would definitely be herself.

Li Qi asked: "How long has it been since Jochen left?"

"Ever since the Dongxia conscription expedition to the north began." Lola frowned and her forced smile broke. When she mentioned her husband, she couldn't control her inner worry: "There has been no reply."

"Where's Philip? There's no reply?"

"No!" The person who spoke was not Lola, but Miss Tia Cavendish, who was happily chatting with her good sisters after they reunited.

As soon as she finished speaking, her expression immediately became embarrassed.

When he suddenly talked to Li Qi while chatting with Hong Qiangwei, doesn't it mean that he has been paying attention to that side?No, I just care about Phillip very much. When someone mentions him, I can't help but care.

Li Qi didn't pay attention to the tangled expressions and changes in light and shade on Tiya's face, and comforted: "Don't worry, Philip and the others are very strong, and based on their distance, they have just entered the northern border at most, and they won't be able to reach it if they walk for another half a year. There is no chance of a major conflict in Stormwind City.”

Lola is not ignorant of this truth, but war has been declared. What if the Duke of the North also decides to go south and fight head-on? What if!
Some of the ladies and ladies around were also devastated. The only ones left in the family were the second sons and women and children, and all the men had to go to the battlefield.

Li Qi did not comfort them. It was not within his scope to provide central air conditioning to bring warmth to every lady.

And today's good opportunity is best left to Red Rose.

With Hong Qiangwei's current status and her past friendship with these ladies, it is not difficult to gain their full support.

In the city, all nobles who had entered and exited Roaring Castle were controlled and investigated by the spellcaster apprentices who accompanied the army.

The scale of the insect egg invasion was not large. In the end, among the valets and maids who were roaring, a few servants who were still in the egg stage were found. The eggs were ingested uniformly, and no one was injured.

Howling Castle.

night.

Li Qi came to the Duke's study, which once belonged to Duke Yaori and later to Pine. Its current owner is Red Rose.

The red-haired lady gave up her elaborate braiding and let her long red hair hang on her shoulders.

When Li Qi got close, he could smell a faint floral fragrance.

"How's it going?" Li Qi sat opposite her.

"Pine voluntarily abandoned Donggang City."

"The worm in his brain gave up," Li Qi said. "The worm in his brain is very emotional and loves war. Life and death are not important to it, nor are territory and wealth. How to cause greater chaos is the most important thing."

"He is very good to me and has always been very good. Although he is unreliable as a Duke, he is a pretty good brother."

Brain worms will devour brains, and the information they replace does not need to be kept strictly confidential, and Li Qi also intentionally releases such information, so it is best to make people wary.

Pine's brain was parasitized, thus announcing his certain death.

"You will make Dongxia better and better!"

At this moment when Hong Qiangwei was feeling sad, Li Qi did not hesitate to put more pressure on her.

He knew very well that Red Rose was not as weak as she looked. She had a strong ability to withstand pressure, and the greater the pressure, the more stable she could handle it.

But if there is someone to help her carry it, she will become a gentle lady and actively rely on it.

Red Rose didn't want to dwell too long on something that was already confirmed. She looked up at Li Qi and said, "I remember that you wanted to see that sword. Do you want to go to the Leopold family's treasure house to see it?"

"Oh, I wish I could have it!" The Golden Thorn Sword family's treasure house is huge, and it contains mountains of gold and silver that make Li Qi's eyes shine.

The expeditionary force needs to spend money, but Pine obviously has no intention of letting people come back, and he doesn't have any intention of doing the hassle of paying. Anyway, it's all about killing people, and we've all died, so it's worth it.

Because of this, the wealth accumulated by countless generations in this castle appeared unprepared in front of Li Qi at this moment.

The last time he saw so much money was when he ransacked his house in Gaoxue City.

Those slave traders made a lot of money.

Only I spend money like water. Fortunately, the development of the territory has not fallen behind. Now, several territories have maintained a balance of income and expenditure. For example, the Porcupine Territory has long been profitable, and the money earned every year is enough to make other backward and poor areas comfortable. Serve for more than ten years.

After a while, when all the territories enter industrialization... After the era of magic industrialization, it will not be difficult for all to make a profit.

Looking away from the Jinshan Yinshan, Li Qi's eyes barely searched for the figure of Hong Qiangwei, and he quickly followed her.

"what!"

She suddenly screamed: "I found it, right here!"

"here?"

A pile of scrap metal.

"They are all father's treasures! They are not scrap metal!" Miss Red Rose, who was just holding a torch with extremely low visibility in the darkness, seemed to have the ability to see at night. She could see through Li Qi with the back of her head. My inner thoughts at this time.

Li Qi asked: "What kind of collection are they? Are they valuable based on their age? Are they all antiques that are hundreds of years old?"

"Years? What's the use of that?" Red Rose asked doubtfully.

"Uh, okay."

Li Qi originally wanted to say that things that are getting older and older must be very expensive, but Red Rose said casually: "If you mean the age of this pile of things, it probably started from my father's father's father's father... "Red Rose said for a long time: "They will collect things with weird legends and put them in the treasure house for show."

"Strange legend?"

"The legendary dragon fairy's gold coin" Hong Qiangwei threw a gold coin with green hair to Li Qi.

He raised his hand to catch it and said: "Although I don't want to spoil the fun, this should be made of iron, and it is already rusty."

He casually threw the so-called 'dragon fairy's gold coin' into the small gold mountain behind him, then rubbed his fingers on the body of an unrecognizable plaster statue, then rubbed his index finger and thumb against each other, and asked: "What else?" Have it?"

"Silver dragon's scales."

"Silver Dragon?"

"Yes, I have been fond of silver dragons since I was a child. My father said that he once met a beautiful silver dragon, and the other party gave him a lot of scales. Later, I picked the most beautiful one to make my favorite hair. Decorations, after such a long time, they can no longer maintain their luster."

Li Qi curiously took the so-called silver dragon's scales from her hand.

Half the size of a palm.

And the overall texture is extremely soft. This should not be regarded as dragon scales, but rather like reptile scales.

"A monitor lizard about the size of a horse, and it has albinism, with white scales... As for the shiny thing, it must be a child's imagination when he was a child."

Children's imagination is unreasonable and they always make many things appear reasonable.

Li Qi thought about it for a while, but still didn't tell Red Rose the cruel news. Perhaps her father must have felt very regretful when he knew that she was crying about using the scales of an albino lizard as a hair accessory. There are more exciting things.

"Ah, found it!"

Red Rose held the torch in her left hand and raised the sword in her right hand: "The Sword of Clemens!"

According to legend, the sword used by the hero Rousseau.

Judging from the words written by the fire dragon Carlo Deri for nearly a thousand years, if Rousseau will inevitably be resurrected, then the Sword of Clemens must also belong to him. He will be born in the Land of Storms, and then Bara Bara Bara, conquer this place. Conquer that and finally save the world.

Reacher had little interest in the reborn hero Rousseau.

He is now concerned about this sword that may have come from thousands of years ago.

The weight and feel are average, and it doesn't look like it is for human use. The blade is not very sharp and is seriously worn. If it were not for the title of "Sword of Clemens", this sword would not even be comparable to Li Qi's eyes. The standard weapons of ordinary soldiers, even if they are sharp, are still not that good.

He tried to pour extraordinary power into the sword, and the sword began to shake violently.

Kacha-!
The legendary Sword of Clemens did not wait for its reborn owner, but was directly exploded by Li Qi.

"I guess this one is a fake!"

With that said, Li Qi put the sword into his pocket.

It’s hard to say whether this sword is the real Sword of Clemens, but one thing is certain, this sword can actually instill extraordinary power!
In other words, the craftsmanship inside it or the materials used to make the sword are extraordinary. You can take it back and give it to Zhui Na and the others to study. It is not a rare object, but it is better than a rare object. This is something that is truly valuable to study, compared to Simply stacking materials is much better.

The act of picking up rubbish in the treasure house finally came to an end when Li Qi destroyed the sword.

The two returned to the hall of Roaring Castle together and parted at the stairs.

"Good night."

"you too, good night."

……

Taking the opportunity to go all the way north and completely close the East Gorge was a plan that had been made long ago.

Early the next morning, Li Qi ate breakfast and chatted with Red Rose to discuss the next action.

When it comes to fighting, Red Rose has complete trust in Li Qi. In her opinion, there is probably no one in the world who is better at fighting than Li Qi, and she has never heard of Li Qi losing once.

"There will definitely be nobles coming to you in the next few days and offering their allegiance to you."

"Yeah" Red Rose nodded.

The two of them didn't look like a duchess and her knight at all, but more like a couple chatting about everyday things and talking about where to buy groceries at a cheaper price later.

After breakfast it was time for the ladies to have a tea party, but that life no longer belonged to her.

Li Qilai is not needed to discuss the details of the battle. His task is to cultivate talents and then put the right talents in the right positions.

There are also some local small nobles in Donggang City. The eldest son went north for an expedition. The second sons of the family who stayed behind seized this opportunity. They followed Red Rose and could claim to the outside world that they were the orthodox ones. As long as Red Rose nodded and acknowledged it. , the title can be snatched away.

As for his brother?
Sorry, you are traitors, I am the loyal knight. Now the loyal knight has to kill his relatives for the sake of his lord. Ah ha, look at the sword!

Everyone is in high spirits, it's like a windfall from heaven. No matter how much people have said before that "I treat money like dirt", they will never refuse the benefits that come to their doorstep.

No one would have any objection to the final victory over Pine and the determination of Red Rose's identity as the sole duke.

Red Rose is not good at fighting either, but she is trying hard to listen to every piece of knowledge and raise her doubts.

Li Qi went short the whole time.

Suddenly he raised his head, and his movement attracted the attention of others.

"What's wrong?" Red Rose asked.

She could already distinguish the general meaning of Li Qi's various states, and now it seemed that he was in trouble.

"Someone wants to eat the mushroom cloud!"

"What?" Most of the people present were confused. Only a few people, including Red Rose, understood what the so-called mushroom cloud was.

Its power can be seen only from its cost of hundreds of thousands of gold days.

Li Qi said: "Three Forks Fort was defeated, and it was George Kane Jr. who did it!"

(End of this chapter)