Alien Paradise.

Chapter 426 Where the Key Leads

"Report, report! The enemy has retreated!" A messenger ran into the Golden Spike Palace and excitedly shouted to Qi Bo and others, "The North City District has not been lost!"

Upon hearing the news, the people gathered in the palace did not show any joy of victory, nor did they even feel a trace of relief.

Everyone's mind was completely confused.

The occasional explosions from the north indicated that a fierce battle was going on there and some people were fighting hard against the enemy. However, everyone knew that the Longjiu family's army had never left the inner city, let alone repelled the enemy and won the victory.

"Brother, what on earth is going on?" Zigwei looked at Qi Bo in disbelief, "Who is the new king!?"

Seeing Qi Bo remained silent, he turned around, picked up the messenger, and asked sternly, "You should have seen which unit is fighting the enemy! Tell me, who are those people? Lord Egehan of the Hill? Or Count Mondo of the Vulture? There are only a few powerful lords in the west who support the Longjiu family!"

"Did father let them become king? How is that possible?" The third brother, who had always had a gloomy face, couldn't help but say, "The only people who can inherit father's last wish are the descendants of Long Jiu's family!"

"I, I don't know..." the messenger stammered, "They look like Long Jiu's army. Other troops should not be equipped with Steam Knights yet..."

"Let him go." Qi Bo suddenly said in a cold voice.

"what?"

"I said let go of this soldier! Can't you hear me?" The eldest son stared at Zigwei and said word by word.

The two looked at each other for a moment, and finally Zigwe chose to give in. He sighed and pushed the messenger away.

"Go out and see."

"What did you say?"

"I asked you to go out and take a look... Let the others come too." Qi Bo took a deep breath and stood up from the throne. "Now that the battle is over, the other nobles should not dare to act rashly for the time being. Let's go to the edge of the inner city wall, and we should be able to see where the troops fighting for the Longjiu family came from."

After saying that, he took the lead and walked out of the Golden Spike Palace.

Everyone looked at each other, and finally had no choice but to follow.

Passing through the gardens halfway up the mountain and an overhead corridor, Qi Bo and his companions arrived at an observation deck. This deck was about ten meters higher than the inner city wall, and they could see more than half of the city. At this moment, the sun had basically sunk below the horizon, leaving only patches of dark purple clouds in the sky. Torches and oil lamps were all lit inside and outside the city wall, and with the street lights on both sides of the street, it was not impossible to see the ground completely.

However, what is slightly different from the usual night view is that the streets in the inner city are sparkling, like a river illuminated by the setting sun.

"hiss……"

When Zigwe really saw what it was, he couldn't help but take a breath -

One after another, steam armored knights were lined up tightly together, almost extending all the way from the entrance of the palace to the gate of the inner city. There were at least hundreds of them, if not thousands!
He often leads troops in battle, how could he not know how many elite warriors like this he has!
First of all, the person who can drive the steam-powered wonder must be a gifted person. Secondly, each set of armor is very expensive. Even with the financial resources of Gaofeng Company, they have only saved less than 200 sets in all these years! A qualified armor needs to be cast with fine steel, with more than 13,000 parts such as gears, transmission devices and pipelines, which requires more than ten factories to work together to complete. Gaofeng Industrial Company is the only one in the Old Continent that can organize the relevant production line! No... it's more than that.

Above the heads of all the steam knights, there is a strange spider-like machine squatting. Their structures look equally complex and they are definitely not those simple animal toys. When the armor steps forward, they will lower their center of gravity and actively adjust their position to avoid sliding down, just like they are alive!
If these armors can be considered high-end industrial products, then the Iron Spider is a new product that Zigway has never seen before.

What was even more incredible to him was that this powerful army actually came out of the palace!

What a joke! ?

After taking over the capital, Long Jiu's army launched a thorough search of the palace, one to find the whereabouts of the eldest and second princes, and the other to eliminate the stubborn enemies hiding deep in the palace. This palace has private prisons, torture chambers, wine pools, and boudoirs, but there is absolutely no factory!
It is also impossible for the army to be allowed into the palace grounds.

In other words, it would be much more reasonable for this steam-armored team to come from anywhere other than the inner courtyard of the royal palace!
"Father didn't hide any troops, and everything you saw didn't belong to the Longjiu family." Qi Bo suddenly said with a look of disappointment, "In fact, I was just like you. I didn't know what I would see before I walked out of the Golden Spike Palace. In other words, although I accepted my father's arrangement, I didn't really believe that the entire kingdom could get rid of the cycle of reincarnation and enter a new era... But now it seems that my father might be right."

"Let's go over there and talk..." Zigwei pointed to an empty space nearby.

"No need, let's talk about it here. Anyway, you are all pillars that Duke Longjiu values... Without your support, the family would not have come this far." Unexpectedly, Qi Bo shook his head and rejected his second brother's proposal. "It is indeed an extremely important secret, but that was before I went to the secret room under the palace. Now it is still a secret, but it is not so important."

At this point he looked at Zigwe and said, "You should know that father has been frequently going in and out of a secret room under the palace in the past few months, right?"

"Yes." The latter nodded solemnly, "I once asked him what was inside, but he never answered me. And the people guarding the door were all my father's personal guards, and even I was not allowed to get close."

To be more precise, it has been since the Longjiu family conquered Xingwei City and seized the Wanli Machine.

At that time, all the ministers believed that the army was in high spirits and could take advantage of the situation to attack the northern mountains and the central and eastern parts of the kingdom, gain control of the entire Old World within a year, and completely bury the Laurel Dynasty in history.

However, the Duke rejected this proposal and asked to rest on the spot, absorb the resources of the royal city, and share the fruits of victory. It was not that this was a wrong decision. At least the other princes and lords who followed the Duke were very supportive of this decision. The rich income of Saint West also made the core position of the Longjiu family more solid. It was just that it also objectively provided a recovery window for the fleeing Kingdom Army, and at the same time watched the Paradise Church grow stronger.

"What's in that room?" Zigwei has realized that the blue key is the pass to open the door to the secret room.

Qi Bo had a complicated expression, and seemed to be hesitant to speak... He seemed to be hesitating, but finally said it.

"It is a special cage, a prison built to hold the goddess of fertility."

In an instant, he seemed to have returned to the moment when he opened the door of the secret room.

A large number of painful images flooded into his mind and almost caused him to have a mental breakdown.

In these chaotic and confusing images, he saw a vast wheat field and a god nailed to death in the middle of the wheat field by countless iron chains. The ends of the chains pierced the goddess's hands, feet, and torso, causing her to bleed continuously, and the blood soaked into the earth, giving rise to tombstone-like crosses.

That's right, what grows in the wheat field is not wheat. At the same time, these crosses with metal shells are not unfamiliar to Zeber, because the weapons carried by the priests of the Church of Plenty who have fought with them many times are these second-class wonders like crosses.

(End of this chapter)