Outworld: Rise of an Industrial Empire

In the middle of the night, there was no one on the streets of the City Lord's Mansion in Lingfeng City

, and only a few rich and noble houses in the entire city were still lit up, as well as the City Lord's Mansion in the middle.

At the gate of the city lord's mansion, two guards walked around with torches, yawning from time to time.

Both guards were listless, it was early in the morning, and their biological clocks were tired.

Just as one of them yawned, there was a sudden sound of dense footsteps.

"Who is it?" The

two guards immediately drew the knives from their waists, but several fires rang out, accompanied by a loud sound, and the two guards only felt a pain in their chests, and then fell to the ground.

The loud explosion made the soldiers in the City Lord's Mansion wonder, but they were not vigilant, but just stopped in confusion.

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"You guard the walls behind you and on both sides, you can't let one person escape over the wall, and the others and I will rush into the City Lord's

Mansion!" "Yes!"

Li Zhen commanded hundreds of grenadiers to rush towards the City Lord's Mansion, all of them holding long muskets and two pistols pinned to their waists.

More than a dozen people went around to the sides of the City Lord's Mansion to be on guard, and the remaining dozens of people rushed into the City Lord's Mansion in a mighty manner.

A few guards were about to come out to see what the situation was, when they suddenly saw a bunch of people rushing outside the city lord's mansion, and they were so frightened that they froze in place for a while.

"Enemy..."

Before

they could shout, gunshots rang out, accompanied by the sound of projectiles piercing the iron armor, and several people fell to the ground one after another.

The guards of the City Lord's Mansion also wore armor when they slept, so as soon as they heard a movement, they immediately prepared for battle.

However, with the sound of gunshots, the guards who had just rushed out of the house immediately fell to the ground.

The guards who had not yet left the house were frightened and stopped one after another, not daring to go out of the door.

Two grenadiers with muskets rushed in and immediately opened fire on two of them.

Accompanied by the flash of fire and a loud noise, the two heavily armored guards were directly shot in the head.

"No one is allowed to move! Immediately squat down and surrender!" Seeing

this, the others in the room were all stunned, their eyes widening and they were at a loss.

"Magicians, they are magicians!" exclaimed

one of them, and when they heard this, everyone immediately threw away their weapons in horror and raised their hands in surrender.

"We surrender! We surrender!"

The loud noises and shouts of killing woke up the servants in the city lord's mansion, and they all fled in all directions in terror.

Li Zhen held a pistol and led a group of people straight to the building in the middle of the City Lord's Mansion.

Soon Li Zhen led people to rush into the main building of the City Lord's Mansion, and the grenadiers immediately controlled the panicked servants.

Li Zhen grabbed a trembling servant and asked,

"Which room is your city lord in?"

Over there..."

The servant trembled and pointed to the side of the third floor, and Li Zhen immediately dragged him up.

Under the guidance of the servant, Li Zhen led people to the door of the largest room on the third floor and kicked open the door.

Inside the room was a beautiful girl in thin clothes, holding a long sword at Li Zhen, who rushed into the door, she was trembling all over, looking at Li Zhen in horror.

"You... What do you want to do?" The

girl saw someone rushing in, and sat directly on the ground, constantly retreating, looking at Li Zhen in fear.

Through the night outside the window, Li Zhen saw the delicate and beautiful face of the girl in the house, and couldn't help but be stunned, and the hand of the servant who was twisting it also let go, after reacting, Li Zhen tidied up his clothes and said to the girl in the house:

"Don't be nervous, Your Highness Li Xin, we... It's here to help you and your city-state..."

In the early morning of the next day, there were more people passing by in the square in front of the City Lord's Mansion than before, and people near the City Lord's Mansion gathered in the square to talk about the loud noise of the middle of the night last year.

However, none of them came to the conclusion that the City Lord's Mansion was still the same as usual.

However, the guards of the City Lord's Mansion seemed to stand straighter and stronger than before.

A cavalry team galloped to the gate of the City Lord's Mansion, and a middle-aged man got off his horse and looked at the guards of the City Lord's Mansion.

One of the knights who followed him also got off his horse and said to him

, "My lord, these guards seem to have changed!"

The middle-aged man squinted, put one hand behind his back, and touched his upturned beard with the other, and then walked into the City Lord's Mansion.

"Stop!" The

guard stopped the middle-aged man, the middle-aged man glared at him, and asked angrily

, "Well, presumptuous, I don't even know me anymore?"

The guard directly drew his long sword and pointed it at the middle-aged man

and shouted: "His Royal Highness the City Lord has an order, no one is allowed to enter the City Lord's Mansion today!"

The middle-aged man was stunned when he heard this, and then pointed at the guards and shouted:

"How can this be reasonable! Who are you?" You're not the city lord's guard!, come on, take their weapons!"

The middle-aged man then shouted to the cavalry behind him.

There were a lot of civilians around, and everyone was talking about it, and they all knew that the actual ruler of this city-state was the middle-aged man in front of him, and the city lord was just a puppet.

"Presumptuous! Who dares to make a loud noise in front of the City Lord's Mansion!" A

delicate reprimand came from the City Lord's Mansion, and a girl dressed in gorgeous clothes walked out of the City Lord's Mansion surrounded by a group of people.

"Xiaoxin, what's going on, who are they?" asked

the middle-aged man with a calm face towards the girl. Before the girl could speak, Li Zhen stood up, put his hands behind his back and said

, "Presumptuous! Dare to be so disrespectful to His Royal Highness the City Lord, come and cut off his tongue."

"Presumptuous! What are you!" Before

the middle-aged man could speak, the knight behind him angrily pulled out the saber at his waist and pointed it at Li Zhen.

Seeing this, Li Zhen stepped forward again, twisted his neck, pulled out a pistol from his waist and aimed it at the knight, and before everyone could see what Li Zhen was holding clearly, there was a loud "bang", the knight's head splashed blood, and the sword in his hand fell to the ground and fell heavily.

Hearing the loud noise, the girl trembled all over, and the middle-aged man and his cavalry, as well as the surrounding civilians, all looked at Li Zhen in shock.

"Demon... Magician..."

The middle-aged man who reacted sat directly on the ground in horror, and yellow liquid flowed out of his pants.

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Su Xincheng, the city lord's mansion

Chris came to the door of Su Zheng's study, and the guards with muskets saw Chris and immediately stood upright, raised his right hand to his temple, and gave a military salute.

Chris nodded, knocked on the door, and got a response before pushing the door in.

Su Zheng was leaning back in his chair, holding a piece of paper and humming a song.

Seeing Chris come in, Su Zheng put down the paper and looked at Chris.

Chris handed the paper in his hand to Su Zheng's table, and said at the same time:

"Your Highness, Li Zhen has sent news that the operation has been successfully completed, and Li Xin and Li Hu have been controlled, which is the rough statistics of the assets of Ling Fengcheng and the Li family. "

Very good, let the intelligence personnel must do a good job in the study of this operation, before next month, I want to see a detailed summary report, analyze the feasibility and existing problems....""

Yes!" The

first step of the expansion plan has begun, and Su Zheng has selected a city to conduct special operations experiments.

After analyzing the intelligence detected by the intelligence officers, Su Zheng finally chose Lingfeng City for the test.

There are two main reasons, one is the internal struggle in Lingfeng City, and the other is the problem of resources.

The first lord of Lingfeng City was a female magician, or female magic warrior, who ruled for 98 years and died only 6 years ago, passing the title of earl to his great-granddaughter, Li Xin.

But Li Xin was only 11 years old at the time, so Li Xin's father Li Long ruled on his behalf.

But after the death of the old city lord, the original fear of the old city lord Ted City also began to provoke Lingfeng City, so the two sides broke out a war, in a battle with Ted City, Li Long was wounded, a few days later suddenly high fever, has not retreated, not long after the death of the dead.

However, it is rumored that Li Xin's father Li Long was killed by his younger brother Li Hu, and there are several versions, but none of them can be studied.

But Li Xin's own uncle Li Hu took this opportunity to empty Li Xin's rights, became the actual ruler of the Li family and Lingfeng City, and wantonly sought personal interests for himself, which made Li Xin confirm this rumor in his heart.

With such a situation, it is more conducive to controlling their city lord, Li Xin, and at the same time, it is more advantageous to control the entire city-state behind the scenes.

The two

things that the industrial revolution needed most were minerals and coal, and with these two resources, it was possible to carry out continuous expansion and reproduction, and production could be re-expanded.

Therefore, combining these two situations, Su Zheng finally chose Xianling Fengcheng as the target of the first puppet regime's support.