A four-storey villa is surrounded by high walls on all sides, and a long sword on the left and broken on the right flutters on the simple and solemn building, which is the logo of the porcelain sword.

Lian Xin looked up at the building for a moment, "Is this the rumored porcelain sword building...... It's really pragmatism. ”

"Rather than making the building look magnificent," Shao Nian waved his hand and explained with a slight smugness, "the porcelain sword man is more concerned about how to make his home resist high-intensity attacks. ”

"Are you telling me that you're also a porcelain sword man?" Lian Xin narrowed, "Your smug tone is too obvious. ”

"Since we have been together for a long time, we naturally have to be open and honest. Shao Nian shrugged, "I am not only a porcelain sword man, I am also a leader of the porcelain sword." ”

"Huh?" Lian Xin showed an exaggerated expression, and then showed "courtesy": "Then I really didn't expect it! This is clearly unbelief.

"No, I almost got married. ”

A stream of qi and blood suddenly surged into his heart, Shao Nian wanted to tease Lian Xin, but the sudden loss still made him a little uncomfortable. A year has passed, and there is not enough time to smooth the scars.

"Let's go in first, I have a problem looking for someone inside. ”

Struggling to suppress his emotions, he pushed open the door and entered the courtyard. A resolute-looking and kind-looking young man was standing at the entrance of the villa.

"Welcome, please come in. ”

The young man was riding the flood, he opened the door and let Shao Nian and the others walk in. By the way, on the way here, Shao Nian called three times, after all, there was no need to follow Gero anymore.

The interior of the villa is not the glittering or understated luxury of the imagination. The hall is bright and spacious, and most of the decorations are simple paintings or sculptures, trying to convey an intuitive aesthetic.

Professional connoisseurs may think that this lacks substance, but for those who do not know much about art, this porcelain sword-style decoration can easily evoke the pursuit of beauty. To put it bluntly, it's down-to-earth.

"Guest, please help me entertain. ”

Around the big table in the hall sat many workers who were writing and drawing, and one of them immediately walked to the kitchen, but after a while, he brought a plate of fruit and led Lian Xin, Mi Li, and Sanqi to a quiet small room. Later, the guy also found a few beautiful gadgets for Mi Li to play with.

And Chengxun looked at Shao Nian, "I will fully cooperate with you." Let's go upstairs and talk. ”

Shao Nian gave a thumbs up, "You are really straightforward." ”

Coming to the study, Shao Nian said, "All the people in the hall are the people you brought?"

Cheng Xun shook his head, "Yes, there is also a part of it that we secretly assembled in Heping, and the materials here are not easy to find." For the sake of manpower and to foster relationships, we have also taken in the children of some powerful people. ”

After saying that, he lifted his bangs, flicked his forehead, his skin rolled up like folded rubber, and the luster of metal shone in his forehead, "My loyalty circuit is working normally, and the regular inspection three days ago did not find anything abnormal, and everyone is loyal to the porcelain sword." ”

Same as you guessed. That's right, the people in this villa are either prosthetic people embedded with mechanical limbs, or they are a mechanical race native to the porcelain sword, and they are skilled and intelligent.

As we mentioned earlier, there are many races in this world, such as orcs, elves, stone people, and the like. There are also some naturally generated mechanical races in the world, and their existence depends on modules, and they cannot do the same as modern technology, which can operate automatically only by electricity or technology.

And these machines can dominate the capabilities of the module. "You can use mods to transform yourself as a person. So they also belong to the category of "people" in the strict sense.

The so-called "loyalty circuit" is a kind of module chip that they voluntarily equipped, combining modules and science and technology, in order to prevent the enemy from using mind control on them, so as to strengthen the ideal and belief of fighting for the porcelain sword.

And this circuit is now showing its usefulness -

"During this time, we perceived the erosion of the loyalty loop. ”

Cheng Xun whispered, "According to the investigation, it is almost certain that someone has used a psychic interference type module on the entire city. As soon as we noticed the damage, we spread it evenly throughout the city, and everyone felt the damage. ”

Shao Nian lowered his head and thought for a moment when he heard this, then found a chair in the room and sat down slowly. His knuckles tapped lightly on his desk, as if a thousand thoughts were pouring out of it.

“...... Alien beasts are manipulated by humans. And the children of the nobility have disappeared again......"

Shao Nian thought to himself, while Chengxun stood aside and waited quietly.

"If it's just kidnapping the children of the powerful, then there is no need to hypnotize the whole city at all, just hypnotize the children to run......" Shao Nian looked up at Chengxun, "This means that this person is still in the city, and he or she doesn't want to be discovered by anyone he or she knows." ”

Hearing this, Cheng Xun asked, "Then why did this person stay in the city?"

Shao Nian thought for a moment, his eyebrows suddenly relaxed, and he asked, "What are the residents of the city talking about recently?"

"Fear of missing people, and fear of alien beasts. You also know that both of these things actually happened and were witnessed. And then there's ......"

"The perpetrators must be brought to justice, either put to death or beheaded...... Right?"

Chengxun nodded, and Shao Nian continued: "I also heard relevant rumors on the way here, which is really more outrageous than the other, what kidnappers have four heads and eight arms...... There is always a real panic, because at the same time that the children of the powerful have been kidnapped and brainwashed, many children of civilians have also disappeared. ”

He remembered the room he had raided a few days ago, and there were a few people in it who were dressed very plainly, and they should be civilian children.

"What do you think of this kind of behavior?" asked Shao Nian with a smile.

“...... Terrorist attacks. Chengxun said softly, "But why ......?"

Shao Nian stood up and patted Chengxun's shoulder, "Is there a trend of thought in the north?"

Chengxun was shocked when he heard this, "Could it be that it is ......?"

"Shaken, the ...... of the Institution of Thought "Shao Nian said in a deep voice, "It is said that two currents of thought appeared in the north at the same time...... It is likely that Yukawa or militarism sent spies to shake He's faith in pacifism...... Looks like these guys have a pretty good brain. ”

"So what are we going to do?" asked Chengxun.

"Do you think that when the war burns here, our goods can still be sold?"

Chengxun nodded, "I know, I will assist Helang to resist Youchuan and the Trend of Thought." What do I need to do now?"

Shao Nian looked at his hand, and then looked at the room where Mi Li was, "Do you know who that is?"

When Cheng Xun heard this, he was silent for a long time.

Then he took a deep breath—

"You...... Is that for sure?"

"I'm not sure. Shao Nian shook his head.

"But I believe. ”

The black-haired young man grinned, his mechanical prosthetic eyes revealing a conspicuous red glow, "I believe he is the king that the Porcelain Sword Throne is waiting for!"

"Then we will give it our full support. ”

Hearing this, he walked to the desk and pressed his hand on the corner of the desk, and with a flash of light, the surrounding bookshelves began to be retracted, and various elements emerged from the wall and suspended in the room.

"Take your choice. This is the moment we are waiting for. ”

Shao Nian looked around, these components are all modular tools, most of them are technology fusion modules, if they are properly matched, they can almost make an ordinary person single-handedly train orderly special forces. Of course, the cost is very high, but -

"It's worth it—if Your Majesty can reach the north safely—"

Shao Nian picked up some components and began to assemble. As he assembled, his eyes gradually sharpened.

"There's these things...... It's time to take risks that you didn't dare to take before. ”

He looked at Chengxun, "Please tell me everything you know about that 'Bounty Hunter' Geralt." ”

Cheng Xun nodded when he heard this:

"Do what you can. ”

"According to our investigation, his trajectory in the past few days is ......"

......

"He's going to be somewhere in the city tonight, making a big noise. Since his intentions have not yet been revealed, we will use the porcelain sword technology to track it down, hoping that there are no people from Hokuriku here, otherwise they may be able to see through this technology. ”

"In addition, we believe that he has little to do with technology and mods, which means that he relies solely on technology most of the time and does not contain any mods. ”

"That's why you need to keep him away from His Highness. Pure mods can only deal with mods, and some science and technology are not something that mods can resist. What we lack is a defense against science. ”

The two chatted for a long time, and as the information was exchanged, they added many markers to a map of the city's planning. At the end of the conversation, Shao Nian patted his head and drew another stroke on the map with a pen, "So...... That's all I need to pay attention to?"

"One more thing. Chengxun hesitated, "I hope I adjusted the sensitive range of information too narrowly." But...... We seem to have found traces of the Cult of the Sun God in the city. ”

"Huh?"

The man named Shao Nian slowly raised his head, "I also hope that you are too sensitive." At the same time, I hope that these people are actually in the city. ”

"Is it convenient for you to kill them directly?" Cheng Xun shook his head, "We just found that a religion related to light spread in the city, and its teachings preached love and peace, claiming that the great god of light would come down to earth and turn swords into dirt, so that the abundant fruits would bear from the melting swords, which was very suitable for the people of Ping. ”

"It's really a lot different from the teachings of the Sun. Shao Nian took out a golden book from his trench coat, about the size of a dictionary. The font is soft and flexible, but the copper-plated pages make it look tough and immortal.

There are a few lines written on the cover, which are the theoretical basis of this book "Zhiyang Canon" -

"Pray for a miracle

There is no presence of God

Together

Become a god"

"Although I don't think that Zhiyang's hive thinking will write a doctrine similar to Christianity," Shao Nian took out a cigarette from his bosom and lit it, "but...... Forget it, you guys don't care about Geralt. ”

He took a big drag on his cigarette. Shao Nian contracted this bad habit on the battlefield. After that, whenever he felt extremely nervous, he would light a cigarette to relieve that stress.

As the smoke dragon erupted from his nose, he said to Cheng Xun: "Go all out to find Zhiyang." No matter how much Geralt tosses, we can find people, but the Cult of the Sun God ...... It is very likely that none of us found it, and they killed the rice grains. ”

"I see. Chengxun nodded. The two fell silent like this, only Shao Nian smoked a cigarette in front of the city lights outside the window.

Suddenly, there was a noise downstairs. When Shao Nian heard this, he immediately pulled out his pistol and shrank to the side ......of the window, "Take the flood!"

Downstairs came the little girl's laughter, and the three voices that were neutral and confused.

Chengxun walked to the window and looked at the rice grains in the courtyard that Lian Xin whispered, "Is that our king?" I really didn't expect that I would be able to see the queen's cute appearance before the plane went down." ”

Shao Nian touched his forehead, put away his gun, and pressed the cigarette butt into the ashtray. "I ...... It's a little sensitive. ”

"Looks like you really want me to be sensitive. Chengxun shrugged, "This will make you appear less neurotic." is worthy of being a marshal, and he has such a scheming!"

Shao Nian let out a long sigh, walked to the window, looked at the rice grains that were playing hide and seek, and said, "You have also learned to tease, cub...... But I'm getting better. Thank you. ”

The two of them stood in silence for a moment.

"Is that all you want to say?" asked Shao Nian.

"Almost. Cheng Xun looked at his watch, "If you're going to make a move, now is the time to start." ”

Shao Nian straightened his clothes and turned around and went downstairs. He turned around and said, "By the way, there is a guy named Xue Yu in the city, and he is estimated to be in the entertainment venue now." Remember to bring him over, that guy is a reliable healer. ”

Chengxun nodded, and watched Shao Nian walk out of the side door and climb over the wall in a place where Mi Li and others couldn't see.

He went to the dining room on the second floor and sat down at the large round table. An electromagnetic wave centered on him and spread throughout the city.

"Arm yourself and protect the Queen. ”

Then there was a dense sound of machinery in the villa, and the round table in front of him opened on its own, revealing the large-caliber spear under the tabletop and the porcelain sword in its scabbard.