Blue Mercury, the underground cage.

"Hum~" A white-gold pillar of light appeared out of thin air on the second-floor balcony of a stone villa, and the pillar of light lasted for 2 seconds before gradually dimming, and Zhang Yuan, who was dressed in a dark blue gorgeous coat, walked out of the pillar of light.

On the balcony stood several clones in leather skirts, all of whom were women, standing sturdily at the door as guards, and two small and delicate ones were Ye Liuyan's stand-in maids.

When these people saw Zhang Yuan, they immediately lay on the ground in the form of throwing their bodies to the ground, shouting: "The gods are above!" ”

Zhang Yuan glanced at it, took out a handful of white star shields and sprinkled it out: "Stand down, I have something to say to your goddess." ”

The clones knew that the Star Shield was a good thing, and snatched the white Star Shield on the ground a few times, and then bowed down and exited the balcony.

After the others were gone, Zhang Yuan smiled at Ye Liuyan, who was lazily leaning on the recliner: "These clones are very well-behaved by you. ”

Ye Liuyan's eyes narrowed, as if she was sleeping, and after hearing Zhang Yuan's voice, she didn't open her eyes, and replied lazily: "This is the only thing I can do, so that I don't get so boring." ”

Zhang Yuan looked left and right and found that there were a lot of changes around him.

There are many exquisite handicraft ornaments in the villa, many straw paintings hanging on the walls, some wooden statues on many wooden shelves, and many strange wooden products on the ground.

The environment outside the villa has also changed greatly, the trees have been cut down, and a large number of wooden houses have been built, and the wooden houses are very neatly arranged, and the streets between the wooden houses are full of clones dressed in different clothes, some are selling goods, some are shopping, and some are transporting all kinds of goods in wooden carts.

It's like an ancient bazaar.

The expansion of underground space has greatly increased the living space, and correspondingly has added a lot of resources. As the number of clones increased, a more complex social structure was born.

All this was expected by Zhang Yuan, the only thing that surprised him a little was the speed of change, it seems that Ye Liuyan has put a lot of thought into clones recently.

He walked to the wooden chair on the side and sat down, picked up a palm-sized animal statue and played with it: "Your face is a lot rounder, your complexion and spirit are much better than before, it seems that you have been doing well during this time." ”

Ye Liuyan used to have a standard melon seed face, and her figure was also thin, although she was very beautiful, but her body always exuded an awe-inspiring aura of a superior person, but now, her face lines are a lot softer, her face is round, her cheeks are naturally ruddy, her skin is also crystal clear, her exposed hands have become white and tender, and the knuckles on the back of her hands are slightly concave, which makes her look a little baby fat.

If Ye Liuyan was a golden rose with thorns in full bloom in the past, at this time, she is like a gentle, elegant, plump and charming lady.

It is said that Ye Liuyan's temperament has changed like this, which shows that her mentality must have changed a lot during this time, and it is not as sharp as before.

Ye Liuyan opened his eyes, sat up straight, stretched out his hand to support his chin and looked at Zhang Yuan, as if he was smiling: "My life is indeed very good, or will you also experience it?" ”

'Click~' Zhang Yuan put the wood carving in his hand on the wooden table next to him, and smiled faintly: "I have my responsibilities, and I don't dare to slack off." ”

"We've known each other for more than a year, and you're getting more and more hypocritical." Ye Liuyan scolded with a smile.

Zhang Yuan smiled, disappreciating in his heart, and was silent for a few seconds, he spoke: "This time, I want to talk to you about something." ”

Ye Liuyan raised his eyebrows: "Say it." ”

Zhang Yuan saw that there was an iron carving knife on the wooden table next to him, and there were a few logs on the side, so he picked up the knife and sharpened the wooden block, and said while sharpening: "Chu Taixin and I are going to war on the frontal battlefield." ”

His voice was very ordinary, but when he heard it in Ye Liuyan's ears, it was like thunder, and she sat up straight: "What did you say?!" ”

"Half a year for the long, three months for the shortest, Heyue and the royal Chu family are going to fight head-on." Zhang Yuan said again, his speed of cutting wood slowed down a lot, and he began to carve out the details, and the log in his hand also appeared in some shapes, looking like a mecha.

Ye Liuyan couldn't believe her ears: "You're crazy!" ”

Her previous plan was to gather a powerful force and use surprise attacks to deal with the royal family, although it may not be successful, but as long as it is done, the Crimson Empire will change its surname to Ye.

This method is very risky, and it is a success, but there is a possibility of success. And the head-on confrontation, she didn't say that she implemented it, she didn't even think about it.

As the Governor of Kawagoehara, she was deeply aware of the power of the imperial family. Compared with Kawagoe, the former is an ant, and the latter is not an elephant, at least an adult. In a head-on confrontation, an adult can easily crush an ant, and the ant has no chance of victory.

Now that more than a year has passed, Zhang Yuan actually said that he was ready to fight head-on with the imperial capital, which was completely beyond the limit of Ye Liuyan's cognition of Heyue's power.

After subconsciously shouting, Ye Liuyan quickly calmed down.

She knew very well that Zhang Yuan was not an impulsive person, so he did this definitely not in a desperate way, but definitely in preparation. In other words, today's Heyue, even if its strength is not as good as that of the royal Chu family, is at least on an order of magnitude and will not be crushed.

But it's only been more than a year, how could Heyue's power develop so fast?

Even if Zhang Yuan is the god of war, why does he think that the Heyue people will follow him desperately? How did he control the nearly 10 billion residents of Ha Yue and ensure that after the outbreak of the war, there would be no civil strife within Ha Yue?

Ye Liuyan couldn't figure it out at all.

After thinking for a long time, she asked, "What hole cards do you have?" ”

At this time, Zhang Yuan had already cut the logs in his hands into shape, and he was a mecha warrior, the details were very fine, and he looked like the real thing.

He placed the mechwarrior on the table, picked up another log and sharpened it, "This is the standard mecha of the blue warrior." It is the Heyue Super Clan, benchmarking against the Red-Coated Dragon Guard, selecting combat geniuses from more than 130 billion inhabitants, and finally picking out 1,347. On average, only one per 100 million people can be produced, and then strengthened and trained at any cost to become a qualified Blue warrior. On average, each warrior spends 50 billion star shields, and the average strength reaches the middle and upper stages of the apocalypse. ”

Ye Liuyan was confused when he heard it: "Two questions." First, the population of Heyue is just over 10 billion, where do you find 130 billion people? Second, a warrior has 50 billion star shields, which adds up to 67 trillion star shields, where did you get such a large amount of money? Did you find a spirit rough bonanza in the Blue Castle Planetary Belt? ”

Zhang Yuan smiled and didn't explain, after a while, he had already cut the second log, but it was a desolate dragon, he continued: "Some time ago, a large number of desolate dragons invaded the Oasis galaxy and were completely wiped out by me. I have obtained a large number of high-quality materials from these desolate dragons, including many spirit magnetic conductive materials in good condition. This inspired me so much that I built a new fleet dedicated to the Dark Nebula to hunt dragons. This strategy can bring us a steady stream of wealth, and they are also the war potential of Ha Vietnam. ”

"Hunting dragons? This....... Has this worked? Ye Liuyan was thrilled to hear it.

As the governor of a province, of course, she knew the value of the desolate dragon, and she also knew that there were a large number of desolate dragons in the Arcturus Nebula, but she never thought of entering the dark nebula to hunt the desolate dragon, because Kawagoechi did not have the technical strength, and the second did not have enough wealth to support this operation.

Of course, occasionally the Aratsuya will rush out of the nebula, and although it is a big trouble, if the Aratsuya can be successfully killed, then Kawagoe will get a windfall. All the times when he was short of money, Ye Liuyan had some hope that the desolate dragon would appear.

It's good now, Zhang Yuan actually rushed directly into the nebula to hunt the desolate dragon, this is really strong, and she was shocked.

Zhang Yuan put the desolate dragon on the table, picked up the third log and sharpened it: "My dragon hunting fleet has set off, and the technical reserves in the early stage have been completed. Even if it fails this time, it will fail next time, and it will fail next time, and Heyue's finances will be able to support the dragon hunting plan, and it will succeed one day. ”

As soon as his voice fell, the communication on his body suddenly sounded, Zhang Yuan connected, listened for a few minutes, the smile on his face became very rich, said a lot of words of praise and encouragement, and promised a reward, he hung up the communication, and said to Ye Liuyan, who listened to the content of his communication: "What a coincidence, just now, the dragon hunting fleet successfully returned and successfully brought back two adult desolate dragons, dragon eggs and dragon crystals, and the profit was more than 100 billion star shields." So, it should have been a success. ”

Hearing this, Ye Liuyan's face showed an extremely complicated expression, the Desolate Dragon is the Arcturus Nebula, and it can even be said that it is the top starry sky beast in the entire interstellar dark nebula, and now even the Desolate Dragon has become a hunting target, so the other starry sky beasts are naturally not a problem.

In this way, the entire Arcturus Nebula, and even all the Dark Nebulae, became the resource bank of Heyue, and the war potential of Heyue skyrocketed to a jaw-dropping extent.

If she has such a hole card, she also has the confidence to go to war with the royal family head-on.

Zhang Yuan's third log had been carved, but this was a person, he put the person on the table, and said with a smile: "Actually, the soldiers I have available for deployment are probably more than 50 million, all of whom are veterans with rich combat experience. There are 32 fleets, all of which are newly built, most of which are hidden in the nebula, and the daily battle drills are carried out. In terms of fleets, there will be an average of one more every half a month. ”

Fifty million veterans, 32 main fleets, and the efficiency of forming a fleet in half a month is really an astonishing number.

Hearing this, Ye Liuyan let out a long breath and looked lonely: "Okay, you don't have to say it." No matter how you get there, but only with these things does you have the capital to fight the royal family...... You...... You're better than me...... Too much. ”

She used to think that after getting out of this damn underground space, she would find a way to turn the tables and find a way to get revenge, preferably to lock Zhang Yuan up and let him play games with a group of clones with papaya.

But now, in the face of absolute strength, these thoughts in her heart have been directly crushed into powder.

For the arrogant Ye Liuyan, admitting that he is not as good as his opponent is really a difficult thing.

After a pause, Ye Liuyan smiled in disbelief: "I used to be expecting you to fail, but now it seems that I am blinded." ”

Zhang Yuan smiled and asked, "Do you remember what I said at the beginning?" ”

"What?" Ye Liuyan was a little dazed.

"I used to say that I won't keep you for long. It's only been a year and a half, but it's pretty much the same. If you want to get out of here, I can send you out and help you get a Space City in Sky City, Orm, or anywhere else far from the Crimson Empire. ”

These words were like thunder, shaking Ye Liuyan from the recliner at once, she took a few steps closer and looked at Zhang Yuan carefully to confirm whether he was lying to entertain her.

Zhang Yuan was indifferent, still holding a knife in his hand to cut wood, as if what he just said was just a trivial matter.

After watching it for a while, Ye Liuyan was sure that Zhang Yuan was telling the truth, but this did not make her happy, but she felt an indescribable frustration in her heart: "Zhang Yuan, are you sure that I am no threat to you?" ”

"Maybe a little, but that's okay. Once you have Space City, you can try to seek revenge on me, but by then, we will be enemies. I'm not going to show any mercy. ”

As he spoke, Zhang Yuan's movements in carving wood became faster and more skillful, and a woman wearing a long skirt with a graceful appearance quickly appeared, but in just three minutes, Ye Liuyan's appearance was revealed.

This statue is very realistic, almost like a hologram of Ye Liuyan, and even the hair can be seen clearly, which completely shows Ye Liuyan's lazy and charming lady's temperament before, which makes people can't help but feel love in their hearts when they look at it.

handed the wood carving to Ye Liuyan, and Ye Liuyan involuntarily took it.

Zhang Yuan took advantage of the situation to hold Ye Liuyan's palm, his hand was smooth and soft, not at all like a mid-doomsday powerhouse, and his other hand was lightly covered on the back of Ye Liuyan's hand.

Ye Liuyan's body shook violently and wanted to withdraw her hand, but she was inexplicably worried that Zhang Yuan was so unhappy that he retracted his promise, and as a result, she could only freeze in place, motionless.

Zhang Yuan said in a low voice: "Governor Ye, I owe you a big favor, and I'm afraid I won't be able to pay it back in a short time." But when I've done my duty and I'm free, I'll do my best to make amends. ”

"You ......"

At this moment, Ye Liuyan's mood was extremely complicated. For Zhang Yuan, she couldn't tell whether it was hatred or something else, and she was silent for a long time before she spoke: "You don't owe me anything, it's because I was delusional from the beginning, and I actually wanted to control the God of War." In the end, I deserved it. ”

Zhang Yuan listened silently.

Ye Liuyan continued: "The outside world is deceitful to me, the strong are rampant, I am nothing, and when I go out, I worry a lot every day. If you feel that you owe me, this underground space, make it bigger for me, make it better, just treat it as a paradise, and then give me a key to get out, return the Yejia Hot Spring Villa to me, and I will occasionally go outside to breathe. ”

This is not too much to ask, the cost will not exceed 100 billion star shields, as for leaving the underground space and going to Bi Mercury's hot spring villa, with Bi Mercury's current airtight monitoring system, Ye Liuyan is unlikely to pose any threat to Zhang Yuan.

After a little consideration, Zhang Yuan nodded in agreement: "As you wish." ”

Letting go of Ye Liuyan's palm, Zhang Yuan stood up and walked to the previous teleportation: "Your permission has been opened, stand in my position, shout the main control brain Luohua, and she will move you to the Hot Spring Villa." ”

After speaking, Zhang Yuan's body turned into countless particles of brilliance, and then this light quickly flew into the sky, turning into a pillar of particle light, which lasted for a few seconds, and then the pillar of light disappeared.

Only Ye Liuyan was left on the balcony.

She stood motionless, holding a wood carving in her right hand, her left hand was still stretched out in front of her, and there seemed to be residual warmth of Zhang Yuan's palm on the back of her palm, Zhang Yuan's palm was very rough, and there were calluses everywhere, which should have been left over from the usual sword practice. Although he only held it gently, he could still vaguely feel the terrifying power contained in his palm.

At this time, after savoring it, Ye Liuyan actually felt that it felt quite good to be holding his hand.

She remembered Zhang Yuan's words again, and couldn't help laughing: "Heyue actually has the strength to fight the royal family head-on? Chu Taixin, you must have expected this, right? I'd love to see your shocked look with my own eyes, haha. ”