Ahh ”

Asker sneezed.

"Got a cold?" Nora asked from the side.

"Probably a pollen allergy." Asker said.

"My flowers haven't grown yet, where do they come from?" Nora was a little speechless.

She continued to water the soil in the flower bed, moving gracefully as if she were making tea. Asker sat next to her and watched her.

Nora silently looked at the flower bed, golden patterns flashed in her pupils, and then young shoots broke through the soil at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Two leaves sprout at the tip of the shoot, then a third, then a fourth, and gradually evolve into a slender stem, from which a small flower bone bulges.

Then it bloomed beautifully.

Asker was amazed at the back, only to see that under the continued stimulation of Nola's ability, the flowers soon withered again, and finally only a dozen seeds remained.

"What is this?" The head of the regiment asked.

"In botany, it's called 'self-breeding.'" Nora picks up the seeds one by one, "a method used to make homozygous genomes." ”

"At present, I have not mastered 'acquired inheritance', so I can only let these plants repeatedly self-breed for multiple generations, and then see if I can breed purified genetic crops with specific traits."

"Oh." Asker didn't say anything. Even if he didn't understand, he wouldn't put on a "uh-huh, I get it all" face like Sidlifa did.

By the way, what's going on over there with Sidlifa?

"Medea and Mi'er's second part of the plan is scheduled to be launched today, right?" Nora picked a seed, buried it back in the soil, and said, "Asker, I'm glad you're here on Hearthfire Island, but is it really okay if you don't go to them?" ”

"It's okay, you have to give young people a chance." Aske replied, "I'm sure they can handle this on their own." ”

In the past, when he was in the team, he would always comfort the players with this reason when they were graduating from the academy and playing in the regular professional league for the first time.

Now it's the turn of the girls of the Azure Sword.

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The second largest city in Sicily, Catania.

Taking advantage of the fact that the Normans were pinned down to the open sea, the native guerrillas here staged a premeditated rebellion, crushing the Norman dominance in Catania within a few hours, and quickly sending a message to the remaining Sicilian towns, calling on the Sicilians to unite and overthrow the rule of the Outvilles.

Stand up, enslaved Sicilians! Break the chains that the Normans have imposed on you!

These incendiary leaflets and notices were soon sent to the Norman court in Palermo.

"Troops must be sent to the east of the island as soon as possible to quell the riots, there is no time to wait for William to return!" At the family meeting, Robert said coldly, "Otherwise, once this kind of riot continues, it will greatly shake the order and stability of other towns!" ”

When he said this, many Normans echoed him. Obviously, everyone is quite self-aware of the "outsider" status of the Outville family itself.

As outsiders, the former family rule in Sicily was based on a great deal of power, violence, and killing, forcing the natives to submit to harsh oppression and exploitation.

But as soon as a riotous spark jumps to give hope to these long-oppressed people, they will not hesitate to jump up and try to fight back – as evidenced by the bandits and bandits on the edge of Sicily's villages and towns.

In such a harsh and unstable internal environment, the Outville family could not show weakness, not even the slightest bit.

Whether the rebellion in the east can be put down in a short period of time will undoubtedly affect the outside world's assessment of the strength of the Outville family, and determine whether the subsequent situation will deteriorate, or even spread to the whole island.

This, of course, was the appeal of the Norman lords. Anyone who owned a fief or estate in Sicily, out of instinct to protect his own property, strongly agreed with Robert's proposal to suppress banditry.

The other group of people, that is, the generals of the Transcendent Army directly under William, were relatively simple.

We are only at the disposal of the demigod Lord William. As for you, Robert, you have no right to order us to send troops, this is a matter of authority.

Naturally, the people at the family meeting split into two factions. The lords insisted on sending troops at once, while the officers demanded that they remain unmoved and report to His Excellency William on the open sea.

The question is that the Normans don't have GPS on their ships, so how long will the precious time of the courier be delayed when the messenger's boat finds a fleet in the vast open sea and returns to port with William's orders?

For a while, everyone was arguing. Robert, who was sitting on the throne, looked coldly at the family members in front of him who were frantically scolding and attacking each other, and even rolled up their sleeves to prepare for a big fight, as if he was watching a funny clown show.

“…… At the end of the day, the lords' interests lay in commerce, land, and estates, so there was a need to quickly suppress domestic rebellions; But what the officers were eager to go further on the transcendent path was to surely choose William's orders. When encountered, their contradictions are naturally irreconcilable. ”

"Of course, if this quarrel continues to drag on, it will inevitably be the officer faction that has the upper hand, after all, their appeal is to 'not move', and it is in their interest to delay it."

The succubus's words flashed from his memories again:

"Therefore, if there is no decisive force to intervene in this fierce dispute, then after a period of tug-of-war, there will inevitably be Norman lords who are tired of quarrels and choose to leave, return to their territories and begin to recruit troops and rearm, or even unite to clear the rebellion."

"And this is contrary to our goals, because the basis of our cooperation is to reduce the strength of the 'officer corps' loyal to William."

"So someone has to come out and bring the chaos back into order."

Thinking of this, the cold gaze of the demigod Robert fell on the young man in second place on the right hand.

Roger.

William and Robert's nephew, the youngest Norman, was the most brilliant and quick-witted of the younger. There are even rumors that William has appointed Roger as the heir to the head of the Outwell family.

As the demigods rise to the next level, the loss of reason caused by the erosion of the law will become more and more obvious, and the constant visual and auditory hallucinations will gradually become more threatening, so the demigods will eventually choose a point in time to withdraw from worldly affairs and begin to concentrate on confronting their own out-of-control tendencies.

Considering that William himself has just been promoted to a demigod, there are about 5-10 years left at this point in time, so his training of Roger has already begun. Many extraordinary officers had taken the initiative to show favor to Roger in private, while the lord's side was more cautious, hoping to find out as much as possible about the young man's temperament and skill.

On the other hand, of course, Roger is also eager to have enough prestige in the family as soon as possible, so as to establish his identity as the "heir" - you must know that the Normans do not have a ceremony such as "establishing a prince", and who will inherit the family in the end is just a matter of William's words.

Who can guarantee that the demigods will not suddenly regret it when the time comes?

Feeling Robert's gaze, Roger just smiled and bowed, but did not rush to express his opinion.

Little fox! Robert scolded secretly and asked:

"Roger, what do you think?"

The argument in the hall immediately fell silent, and all eyes turned to Roger.

"Of course, I support putting down the riots as soon as possible." With the help of Robert's inquiry, after successfully attracting everyone's attention, Roger smiled and said, "If His Excellency William is here, he will definitely not allow the rebellion in Catania to continue to spread." ”