After a moment of silence, Joyna quickly broke the silence.

"That's fine, don't worry. I'll arrange a place for your Bloodline, not as good as your palaces, but we have so many houses in the city that finding a place to house them is a trivial matter for me. ”

Joyna smiled faintly at Long Yantian, and had already made up her mind in her heart: the huge mansion that the master left behind the Xiao family was very suitable for housing those blood clans.

"That's great, I'm going to retreat here for a while, and your men don't have to worry about me, just go about your business."

Joyna pondered a little and said, "That's fine, but I want to explain first, we haven't been quiet here lately, and we've encountered some troubles, but you don't have to worry too much, there will always be a way to solve it." ”

"Oh? What kind of trouble? ”

"Anyway, in other parts of the surrounding area, some forces have been eyeing the Mine City recently, not only cutting off the main arteries for trade and commerce, but also taking our people. Also, there is a serious epidemic in the city, and the number of patients is gradually increasing, which is also a bit strange. ”

Joyna gave a general account of the situation here, and did not deliberately hide it from the dragon.

Unexpectedly, when Long Yantian heard her say that there was an epidemic, his face seemed to be a little moved.

On his way to Mine City, he had seen the same plague in other parts of the North, in the human settlements of villages and towns—their bodies were suffering from varying degrees of fever and coma, and some of them had even developed mutated tissues on their skin.

Although it has not caused a large number of deaths, it is clearly not normal.

He is afraid to determine whether the source of these diseases is a viral infection, or whether it is caused by changes in the environment in certain areas, such as water pollution or whatever.

This world was a radical change from the world he had seen before, and it was not the human world he had known hundreds of years ago.

At that time, the human world was technologically advanced and orderly, and countless cities made of steel and earth were built on the ground, and even in outer space.

But now, all you can see along the way are ruins and ruins, and the steely buildings are buried and devastated underground.

The land is littered with rifts, and heavily armed and berserk groups are ravaging human settlements, killing people and goods as if it were commonplace, and all the order that had been established before has been wiped out.

Moreover, there are some unknowns that are very unsettling.

On the way, he happened to see several strange black towers in the distance, some of them were nearly a thousand meters high, huge in size, reaching into the sky, like the arms of terrifying giants standing on the earth, towering on the top of the mountains and the uninhabited wilderness for no reason.

Even in those places hundreds of kilometers away, he could faintly feel the energy radiation, which made him mutter.

Since he was so preoccupied with going to the place that the young man had said, he did not have the time to go to the place where the black tower was, so these things were not over.

After listening to Joyna's story at this moment, he thought of the epidemic, and then he remembered something.

He remembered that a similar situation seemed to have happened in the ancient records of the Jidu people, but he didn't know whether this black tower was a human remnant of a previous civilization or something built in this era.

"So, I've seen this somewhere, what do you know about those black towers?" Long Waitian pondered for a moment, then looked up and asked Joyna.

"The Black Tower? I've never seen ...... What is that? There shouldn't be any of those towers around Mine City, right? Joyna tried to remember, but couldn't remember where she had seen the black towers.

"Wait, I think I've seen those black towers you talked about." It was Su Zhe who spoke.

When he came all the way from the north, he had seen it once on the distant horizon, and at that time, he thought it was a building built by people of this era, and he didn't pay much attention to it.

Long Yantian turned his head, looked at him with blazing eyes, and said, "Let me ask you, are those towers remnants of human beings from previous civilizations?" ”

Su Zhe shook his head, in the era of memory, he had never heard of human beings building such a thing.

"Well, that's weird! If people at that time had never built something like that, could it be that it was built in this era? ”

"That's even more impossible, it's hard to even live in this era, how can anyone spend time and effort building that kind of thing. And even if we had the ability to build it, why didn't we find it before? It can't happen overnight, right? ”

Joyna had a point, and everyone nodded yes.

"Well, that's what I'm saying, don't worry about these things for now, what's the problem in front of you?"

Patton scratched his stubble-covered face with his hand and anxiously asked about the recent blockade of Mine City, where a batch of raw materials should have arrived a few weeks ago, but there was no news until now.

"We already have a preliminary judgment on this matter, in the past few days, Mr. Ghost has led people to investigate and found some clues, we suspect that it is likely to be the forces of the ancient iron city." Joyina calmly spoke up about what she had gotten.

"Ancient Iron City? Was it done by the emperor of the ancient iron city? Why didn't he come all the way here to do such a thing? Barton was surprised.

"According to the news from the Domino family, several gangs that have befriended each other have secretly withdrawn from the Ten Thousand Heavens Federation, not only that, they cut off several supply lines for the nobles outside the city a few months ago, refused to pay taxes, and also sent people to occupy several towns, and blocked all news from the ancient iron city."

"Oh my God! How do they ...... It's unbelievable how dare you do this! Barton stammered.

"Based on this, I have consulted with my father and the patriarchs of several noble families for several days, and deduced that the ancient iron city is the initiator of this incident, and they have obviously been planning for a long time, and there will be more crazy actions in the near future."

Joyna's words were categorical, and she would not have come to such a conclusion without a certain certainty.

"So what are we going to do? I've heard that the emperor's strength is terrifying, and his army is invincible, and he will definitely use all his strength to achieve his goal! Barton asked in a panicked tone.

Joyna continued, "Yes, you're right, so our people, Lin Wenlai and Dongfang Lu, quietly followed in two directions a few weeks ago, probing the movements of those caravans. But strangely, they quickly lost contact, until recently, according to the information obtained by the ghost, the whereabouts of the Eastern Road have been found. ”

"How is the East now? Still alive? With his ability, he shouldn't miss, right? ”

"The ghost says his body ...... It has been demolished, and only the brain is still intact, and it won't be long before it will be sent here. ”

"Oh God! W-How is this possible? What kind of opponent can make him like this! ”

Barton's voice trembled, of course he knew that Dongfang Lu's body was extremely powerful, and those alloy skeletons were made by him.

Powered by his state-of-the-art alloy skeleton and his master's biological battery, the Ghost not only has far more physical strength and stamina than ordinary people, but also has several weapons controlled by small brains installed inside his body, and is also protected by a powerful protective shield, even a few explosive bullets cannot completely destroy him.

In fact, not only Barton couldn't believe it, but even Joyna thought she had heard the news a few hours ago.

"I believe that the truth will come soon, and I have to go and discuss the next step with several noble patriarchs."

Joyina's gaze was resolute and cold, and after saying these words, she turned to look at Sister Monica.

"Listen, you two will go and pick up the ghost immediately, I'm afraid he won't be able to deal with it alone, I'll give you his coordinates later."

"Wait a minute." Long Yantian said suddenly.

"Huh? How? ”

"I hope you'll investigate those Black Towers too, I have a bad feeling that it's weird too."

"But ......"

Joyna hesitated for a moment and said, "At present, all the men and horses on my hands have been dispatched, and the others are still stationed here, so they can't act rashly. ”

"Are you worried about this? It's not a big deal, you can send my blood clan at will. By the way, I forgot to tell you one thing, these two men are actually your master's subordinates, and I just took them here before he returned. ”

The dragon complained about the two girls beside him, and said, "They are Avenna and No. 17, and the investigation of the Black Tower can be handed over to them, and I will leave the rest of the matter to me." ”

Joyna's eyes widened: "The two of them are also the master's subordinates?" ”

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It is about 1,600 kilometers from the southwestern area of the core area of the mining city.

The sky was clear and blue, with a few traces of cirrus clouds floating, and countless striped black air masses were suspended in the air, slowly steaming upwards and never dispersing for a long time.

Above the wilderness, the burned village still stood on the ground, smoking black smoke that had been burning for some time, and the black misshapen walls were like tombstones, pulling out slender shadows in the sun.

An off-road vehicle covered in dirt was parked on a high hill, apparently coming from afar, with two stout men on board.

"What's going on? When I passed by yesterday, the village was still busy, how did it become like this in the blink of an eye? A man with a worn-out telescope said.

"This is too strange, isn't it, could it be that those poor bastards are afraid of us and have fled?" A man in the driver's seat craned his neck and looked out at the black triangular cliff.

"Idiot! Do you think that these homeless people set fire to their own houses? ”

"I don't know, I just said they all ran away."

"It's been a wasted trip, bastard! Nothing left for us but mud and bricks! The man with the binoculars kicked the wheels hard and said indignantly.

"Then let's go back, the boss is still waiting for a reply."

"That's all there is to it, let's go, drive!" As soon as his words fell, he suddenly raised the telescope again: "Huh? Wait, what's that? ”

He watched through the binoculars, and after a few seconds his mouth opened nervously, and the left half of his body began to tremble.

"Hey! What's wrong with you, hell? Show me. The man in the driver's seat stood up and patted the guy on the shoulder.

"Oh my god! So, is that a legion? So many people! ”

A cold sense of dread came over him, and the guy with the binoculars sat down on his ass.

He saw the sand rising from the sky, and the dust was blowing up from the plains at the foot of the mountain to this side.

As far as the eye can see, a torrent of steel emerges from one end of the horizon, and the silver-white armor on the side of the chariot reflects the dazzling sunlight. Countless mechs and vehicles marched neatly across the ground, like sleeping giants slowly spreading their limbs.

When the rumble began to rumble overhead, even the windows of the car several kilometers away trembled.

The man in the driver's seat jerked his head to see the shadows slowly casting through the thick gaps in the leaves, and even fear could not describe his expression at the moment.

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