At noon on January 18, 140 New Calendar, the side hall of the Bluestone Palace, Leah's room. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Leah hates Mel and doesn't even want to look at him more. But she really couldn't stand Yun Xin's "trouble" for her, and in order to deal with Yun Xin, she could only endure her disgust and let the maid who served her invite Maier to lunch.

Maier knew how Yunxin had placed Leah, and she knew that Leah would probably talk to him about these things at noon today. He didn't have a good impression of Leah, he didn't want to go, but Maier and Leah only got engaged yesterday, and Leah invited him to lunch today. This time, he didn't bring the other princesses to dinner, because he had to work in the afternoon, and the lunch break was very short. He had just come to have a light meal with Leah, and after that he was going back to work.

After a brief pleasantry, Maier began to eat quietly. Leah didn't have much appetite, and when she saw that Mel was eating with relish, her heart became more and more panicked. She thought about it carefully and found that she and Maier had only communicated seriously once since they first met, and at that time the two were still arguing with each other, and the conversation was insincere.

Do you want to get straight to the point?

Leah frowned slightly, not daring to make a decision. The man who disgusted her was now in control of her destiny, and a word from Mel would have extinguished the flame of hope in her heart and kept it from being rekindled.

Admittedly, Maier did not dare to abuse her, but he could ignore her. At times like these, ignorance is more terrible than abuse. Even if Leah doesn't have a spending limit, and the people around her are all replaced by cronies, her situation is still very passive. For Leah, there is only one way to escape the life of the walking dead, and that is to have a son.

Do you want to seduce this color embryo?

Leah clenched the corners of her skirt, not daring to show a trace of displeasure on her face. She really didn't want Mel to touch her body, not even the ends of her hair. But if you want to get pregnant, you have to have sex with Myer, and when the time comes, let alone touch, her body will be possessed by Mel from the inside out.

It's disgusting...... It's better to die than to die......

But when you die, there's nothing—it's too simple, and Leah knew it when she was six years old. At that time, there were Assassins in the palace, and one of Leah's guards was killed by the Assassins to protect her father. After that, the mild-mannered guard never appeared again.

He's gone, gone forever. For the living, death means vanishing. In addition to the things left behind in life, there are also memories in other people's brains, and only cold corpses remain. When the corpse decays, and becomes dry bones, not even dry bones are gone, the things that were before his life are gone, and those who knew him are dead, and his traces in the world will disappear completely, as if they never appeared.

By the time Leah figured these things out, she was 14 years old. From then on, she began to fear death.

Leah fears death differently than most people. Her fear of death is not simply a fear of death, but a fear that she will be forgotten after death. If she can die vigorously and be remembered by the world forever, then she will not hesitate to die. In her view, the line between life and death is blurred, life is preparing for death, death is the end of life, and it is also the sublimation of the soul.

The most beautiful time in her country was the time when she was least afraid of death. She felt that even if she died at that time, she would be remembered, and even become a legend that would be passed on forever. When she lost ground, she became more and more timid.

At the end of last year, she was always holding her head high and proud of everything in the Bluestone Palace. Only a month or so had passed, and she became cringe, not even daring to express her thoughts. When the family sending team was attacked at night, she dared to go into battle to kill the enemy. In a few months, she wouldn't have had the courage.

No, I can't die...... Absolutely not...... At least not yet......

Even if I die, I'll have to kill the guy on the other side first!

The moment Leah moved this thought, Mel suddenly raised her head and looked at Leah in surprise. He felt the killing intent emanating from Leah's body, and he almost didn't build a magic shield.

She wants to kill me?

Maier looked at Leah with a cold gaze, not hiding the wariness in his gaze. Leah avoided her gaze, she wanted to change the subject, but she didn't know what to say.

Mel stared at Leah for about fifteen seconds, then finished the food on his plate and put down his knife and fork.

"The lunch was delicious, thank you for the hospitality."

He left these words that were bland than white water, and left Leah's room without looking back.

The maids in the room were all from the Bluestone Palace, and Leah, who accidentally showed murderous intent, didn't even dare to say a word of frustration. She symbolically ate a little, asked the maids to clean up the table, and then sat down on the bed to rest.

Leah is a danger to the Byron family, and in order to protect the other princesses and children, Yunxin asks Leah to have the maid inform her before leaving the room, and only after getting permission to go out. Leah's place was made off-limits, guarded by a special maid at the intersection, and the princes and princesses were not allowed to approach it while playing in the side hall.

House arrest - when the word popped into Leah's mind, she wasn't surprised.

Mel already has many children and many wives. Leah is sure that Mel will never ask her to sleep in the future, and she doesn't even think that Mel will touch her on the night of the wedding. Although the fertility rate of Wizard Leiding and Wizard Ayrt is very low, and the probability of winning the lottery the first time is very low, as long as there is a probability of pregnancy, Mel does not need to take this risk.

Leah doesn't yet know about Myer's near-miraculous "starter win" ability, and if she had known about it, she would definitely do whatever it takes to get her into bed. Now that Yun Xin has blocked this news from Leah, the maids who are responsible for serving Leah are all carefully selected by her, and they will definitely not talk nonsense.

After the engagement ceremony, the expansion of the Bluestone Palace proceeded as planned. Prior to this, the Bluestone Palace had been expanded twice. The first time was after a large number of Taerong goblins followed Maier, and several maid dormitories were added to the Bluestone Palace. The second was an overall expansion, with a large number of sanitary and defensive facilities added to the interior of the Bluestone Palace, and several separate warehouses were built.

With each expansion, the exterior walls of the Bluestone Palace had to be torn down one or several sections and then repaired again. Fortunately, the walls of the Bluestone Palace are very thin, and it is not difficult to tear them down. The only problem is that Pershing feels sorry for the stone bricks that demolished the wall, and hopes that the workers who demolish the wall can ensure that the stone bricks are as intact as possible, because the damaged stone bricks will affect the appearance of the bluestone palace and cannot be used to build the exterior wall.

Today's Bluestone Palace has a bit of a palace appearance, and no one will mistake it for a king-size country house. Not only the Bluestone Palace, but the city of Byron has also changed. The city is already thriving, with forests around the city being cut down every six months on average, either to build annex villages or to expand the city. Since last year, the city of Byron has been exploring the mineral resources around the city, and so far no veins have been found.

In fact, the plot where the city of Byron is located is basically water underneath, or a flowing water source underground. In the plot that is currently in use, dig anywhere and dig at most 10 meters to see the water. This means that the area that has been developed and used in Byron City cannot build too tall buildings, and the six-story building of the Bluestone Palace is already the limit height.

This situation has made Mel worry about the safety of Byron City more than once. According to the information available so far, the ten meters below the surface of the earth are all water, and if you only look at the plot used by the city of Byrons, this is a city floating on the water, and there is no safety at all.

As the exploration progressed, Mel's hanging heart was gradually relaxed. After two months of investigation, the exploration team found that only the city of Byrons, and the surrounding area of about three kilometers, had a shallow surface layer, and the surface thickness became normal farther away, digging a few meters down to find that it had hit a rock formation.

At the beginning, Ercao chose to build a stronghold here because it was convenient to get water. She's just the leader of an outlawful force, and she doesn't need to think too much about the long term, as long as the stronghold is safe and convenient. Mary has to think about the long term, normally the land does not float on the water, and now the land where the city of Byron is located can be above the groundwater, not that the surface of the city of Byron is really floating on the water, but it has not collapsed.

Why didn't it collapse? Mel doesn't know, either. Maybe the ground was strong enough, or maybe the thick roots of the trees entangled the ground, but it just didn't collapse.

Although the city of Byron is safe now, the people of the city of Byron do not dare to be too presumptuous. The forces of nature are beyond human control, and if the people of Byron City overbuild and deforest, the whole city may collapse one day, and all of them will fall into the underground water veins of unknown depth.

So for the development of Byron City, Meyer and the cabinet ministers have always been very cautious. They reclaimed the land as far as possible in a safe direction and cut down as few trees as possible. Recently, Yu Changnian proposed a new plan, he decided not to directly expand the main urban area, but to find a suitable land across the forest area, first build a road between this and the main urban area, and then reclaim the land to build a new urban area here.

This expansion method is more troublesome, but it is better than safety. The current size of the main city has made Maier and his cabinet ministers a little uneasy, and it is necessary to disperse the population into safe areas in order to reduce the load on the main city block. The presence of forests would give people a sense of security, and Yu Changnian also decided to plant trees in the city to reduce the area of arable land and further ensure the safety of Byrons City.

Human worries may be superfluous, and their actions may be meaningless, but worry is necessary, and action is necessary. As long as the possibility of the collapse of the city of Byron remains, the royal family and cabinet will not stop moving.

That afternoon, Maier approved Yu Changnian's new proposal. At this time, Maier and the cabinet ministers could not have imagined that Yu Changnian's new proposal would bring the indecent nickname "Ant's Nest in the Open Air" to the city of Byron a few hundred years later.

This form of expansion opens up one finite space after another in the wooded area, which is connected by a series of thin pathways that look like an ant's nest when viewed from above. The development of the aircraft and the camera, after aerial photographs of the city of Byrons, gave the capital of the empire such a new nickname.

Before that, the city of Byron already had a number of nicknames, such as "Heart of Empire", "Capital of Freedom", "Capital of Inclusion", "Kaleidoscope of Races", "Kaleidoscope of Cultures" and the like. However, the most famous nickname is the "Water Danger City", and later geologists have calculated that the shallow surface of the city of Byron could collapse at any time. You must know that the bluestone palace is built in a very shallow place on the ground, and the royal family members are in danger of dying at any time.

At that time, there was a wave of civil admonition within the empire, and the people in the core area were writing joint letters, hoping that the Byrons family could move out of the bluestone palace and rebuild a palace in a safe place. The House of Byron refused to do so, and in order to appease the people, the Emperor of the day published the famous speech "God is with the House of Byrens."

"If God allows the house of Byron to die, the house of Byron will not live. How could God do wrong and break the covenant with the house of Byron to destroy us? If God destroys us, we must have broken the covenant first. A merciful and loving God will not only destroy us for breach of contract, but God will leave us with the door of repentance and not destroy us because of the slightest repentance. Therefore, if we die, we must deserve it. This is God's punishment, and it should be celebrated! ”

This passage from the speech was later engraved in the confinement chamber of the Chosen Cabinet, and the erring royals had to copy it at least a thousand times before writing a profound repentance before leaving the confinement chamber.