Time flies, five years later.

Starting from the border town of Limburg, a two-way highway about six meters wide, which can accommodate two rhino-horned cattle to travel side by side, is almost in a straight shape and is thousands of miles away, and the construction is completed.

The end of the highway is a small town more than 100 miles away from Jinyan City, called Duolu Town.

After the construction of a trading station in Duolu Town, the "Limjin Highway", which is about 1,100 miles long, was announced to be completed.

Five years, 1,100 miles, an average of less than one mile per day, with more than 100 rhinoceros bulls (towing the weight of a medium-sized truck), hundreds of unicorn horses (traveling thousands of miles a day), and the support of monks to help clear roadside beasts and cut down giant trees, plus hundreds of powerful workers...... It can be said that the work efficiency of this road construction team will not be worse than that of a modern fully mechanized road construction team.

But the road still took five years.

The daily progress is less than 500 meters.

The efficiency is quite inefficient.

The reasons are manifold.

On the one hand, it was necessary to build bridges over the road and the river in the forest, and some Zhou Zhang was abolished; on the other hand, the conflicts and entanglements with the villages and towns along the road also took a lot of time, and even led to the long-term suspension of the road construction team.

Because of this road, it was opposed and ostracized, attacked and revolted by almost all forces along the way, except for the town of Limburg, and there were several major clashes and countless small clashes.

Hundreds of dead and wounded.

In the later period, some villages and towns, as soon as they heard that the highway was about to be repaired, immediately began to deploy resistance.

Why is this "bright road", which obviously brings wealth and opportunity to people along the way, so unpopular?

Or rather, so unpopular with the leaders of all parties.

Because it's a devouring path.

A path to devour the population!

When this road is built there, the population within a hundred miles on both sides of this road will be swallowed up in a short time.

It is like a gluttonous mouth extending from the town of Limburg, with a magnet-like attraction, as long as someone approaches this huge mouth, and then comes into contact with the propagandists of the "immigration team" and accepts the gifts they give, or in a few days, no one will resist those brainwashing words, no one will refuse, and a better life beckons.

For the people in charge of the villages and towns along the way, this is digging up their roots, this is asking for their lives!

It must be stopped!

Must be revolted!

Outcome...... Most of the revolts turned into small-scale massacres under the blows of the Divine Arm Crossbow in the hands of the Protectors.

Under the blow of the Keqing Monks, he turned into powder under the sword aura.

There are also several groups of monks with mysterious origins, who don't know what the purpose is, but they were also jointly killed by the Township Protector Army and the Keqing team, and the masters killed were more than 100 people.

Among them, 9 of them are still masters at the late stage of qi refining, but they are all easily killed - because at this time, the Township Protector Army is equipped with a sniper crossbow equipped with a high-precision sight, which needs to be controlled by five people, with a range of more than 3,000 meters, extremely fast rate of fire, and high shooting accuracy.

Many rival monks died under the sniper crossbow before they could see their opponents' faces.

Under the pressure all the way, the Linkin Highway was finally successfully completed.

At this time, the town of Limburg, after swallowing countless villages and towns, has developed into a giant town with a population of more than 70,000, which is extremely prosperous and extremely prosperous.

Upgrading to a city is only a small two or three steps.

So, as the target destination of the Linkin Highway, Jinyan City, how do the various forces in the city view this uninvited road that gradually extends to their doorstep?

Complex.

The mentality is quite complicated.

Some families see this as a threat, because this new type of force is rising very fast, extremely powerful, and its ambitions are terrifying!

Some people conclude that the ultimate purpose of building that highway in Limburg Town is to swallow the big with the small, and it is intended to swallow the Golden Rock City into its stomach and strengthen itself.

This sounds a bit fanciful and alarmist, but in Jinyan City, many forces that have dealt with Limburg Town a lot, after a long period of observation, have come to this conclusion.

There are several large families, and it is only after paying an extremely heavy price that they come to this conclusion - Limburg Town, not easy to mess with, ambitious!

Not bad!

During the five years, at least three families in Jinyan City made a move and sent out masters to prepare to swallow the fat sheep of Limburg Town!

As a result, the fat sheep did not swallow it, but jumped with a mouthful of bloody teeth!

The masters sent out almost did not say anything for a lifetime, and the other party's warnings and counterattacks made them even more miserable, and they did not dare to act rashly.

At this time, the major forces of Golden Rock City realized that although Limburg Town was small, it was a complete and independent force, and compared to Golden Rock City, which was divided and governed by more than a dozen families, the strength of Limburg Town, whether it was financial or military strength, was no smaller than any family in Golden Rock City.

Any family that underestimates this force will suffer a big loss and hit the iron wall!

Those who did it paid a heavy price and learned a bloody lesson.

Therefore, in Jinyan City, a considerable number of families have a hostile and opposing attitude towards the Lin Jin Highway, and are extremely vigilant and jealous.

But there are also many families who welcome and look forward to this road to their doorstep.

These welcoming families are mostly families in Jinyan City that have only emerged in recent years, and these families, because they have established quite close commercial cooperation with Limburg Town, and have made huge profits in these years of commercial cooperation, so they have a good impression of Limburg Town, and it can also be said that they have a good impression of Spirit Coins...... Affection.

Therefore, they are very much looking forward to the Limin Highway that can bring them more wealth.

Among them were bread merchants, canned meat merchants, fur and clothing merchants, glass mirror merchants, and ceramic merchants...... Thousands.

These merchants, or the families behind the merchants, are basically supporters of the Limking Highway.

Some of them, after seeing the strength and potential of Limburg Town, deliberately joined the team, and even developed into the secret leading party of Limburg Town......

It can be said that in the past five years, with its incomparably rapid development and astonishing growth strength, Limburg Town has stubbornly pressed the giant city of Jinyan City under its body, so that some big forces that have suffered losses dare not act rashly, and some people with keen insight feel frightened by the ambitions of Limburg Town.

At this time, the town of Limburg was not a fat sheep at all, but a fierce beast and a strange beast!

Of course, considering that the forces in Jinyan City have influence in some sects, Zhou Ming didn't want to expand too quickly and persecute too tightly, so he really came to Jinyan City to swallow an elephant, that was to seek trouble and death, and that time had not yet come.

In the name of recruitment, he will attract tens of thousands of people from Jinyan City to Limburg Town and participate in the renovation and expansion project of "Town Forest City".

It is planned to use 30,000 workers to build a city wall with a circumference of 30 miles and a height of 30 meters, and after the city wall and city defense facilities are completed, Limburg Town will be officially renamed "Zhenlin City".

The construction of the city wall, which started three years ago, is now fully manned and will be fully completed in another year.

Standing on the main city gate tower that has been completed, in the strong wind, Zhou Ming, dressed in a white robe, looked at the hardwood tracks leading to the brick kiln factory in the west of the city, and under the pull of the rhino horn bull, a large cart of prefabricated stone bricks was transported to the city wall for the use of construction workers.

When he saw a straight white road, caravans coming and going, and carts dragged by rhinoceros and unicorn horses filled with all kinds of goods produced in this town, a trace of regret flashed on his face.

Zhou Ming shook his head and said secretly:

"I should have considered building a hardwood track that would extend to Golden Rock instead of an inefficient road, I myself have underestimated the speed of development in Limburg Town and overestimated the strength of Golden Rock City. ”

"In fact, at the ratio of one thousandth, when it is full, there are only a thousand monks in Jinyan City at most, and more than 99% of them are weak chickens in the Qi refining period. ”

"But now, there are as many as 3,000 people in the Township Protector Army, each with a divine arm crossbow, and a number of sniper crossbows, which is equivalent to three thousand legions in the late stage of qi refining in my hands. ”

"There's also the guest team, and a mysterious killer force...... There are really not many people or forces that can threaten Limburg Town. ”

Of course, Zhou Ming didn't dare to be blindly optimistic, at least for now, he didn't have absolute confidence to deal with those high-level cultivators like humanoid nuclear bombs.

Unless he is given a certain amount of time.

"Hey, you're here again?"

A voice came from behind, and before the guards could react, a figure suddenly appeared.

Jiang Ruonan.

"Miss Jiang, how are you doing lately?"

Zhou Ming didn't look back, and asked lightly, he was accustomed to this woman who could always appear behind him unconsciously.

Through contact and understanding in the past few years, Zhou Ming found that this woman is simple-minded and has a hearty personality, and she is not a treacherous person.

It's just that her special physique makes her equal to the "disaster star".

So even if her experience is sympathetic, Zhou Ming hopes that she can leave as soon as possible so as not to cause trouble.

"Nice, this place, has a homely feel to it, I liked it very much. Jiang Ruonan smiled, looking at the various busy scenes downstairs in a daze, deeply intoxicated.

"Miss Jiang, your cultivation has already broken through the condensation stage two years ago, you should have enough power to protect yourself, right?" Zhou Ming asked, the meaning was self-evident.

"Hmph, it won't bother you, but when I cultivate to the Gudan stage, I don't need you to say it, I'll leave myself. Jiang Ruonan pouted, feeling that this man was magnificent, but he was not at all atmospheric.

"Miss Jiang, how can you be so untrustworthy......" Zhou Ming looked at her, depressed and about to vomit blood.

"Because I'm a woman, how can a woman's words be counted?"

Jiang Ruonan stuck out his tongue, made a grimace, and defended: "Besides, your place is open to welcome guests, so there is a reason to refuse guests thousands of miles away?"

Zhou Ming shook his head, already defeated by her logic.

Her meaning is also very clear, that is, she wants to stay here and not leave.

……

At this time, a hundred miles east of the town of Limburg.

In the sky, a dark cloud as black as ink was coming at high speed in the direction of Limburg Town.

Like in the dark clouds of boiling oil, a hoarse and strange voice came out, like the Devil Cry of the Nine Shadows and the Wind of the Ice Valley.

"Smelled. ”

"I smell her!"

"The spirit body that is rare in 10,000 years is my ancestor!"

"You can't run away, you can't run away!"

"Quack Quack Quack~"

This grinding tooth-like laughter is chilling to the bone.