End of meeting.

It's business as usual.

The whole world passed in this way two weeks under gunfire and artillery fire.

It's the end of August.

The heat is still on.

The branches of the trees on the side of the road were soft and listless.

Roads are potholed, collapsed buildings are riddled with craters, and metal shells mixed with scarlet dust can be seen everywhere.

In the middle of this anxiously hot summer, old Russell wiped the sweat from his forehead, his worried face was full of wrinkles, the dry, hot air scorched his lungs, and every breath was unbearable.

"It's damn weather."

The lord was no longer so well-dressed.

The war had caused him to lose his glamorous appearance, his homeland had been invaded, and now he was no more noble than the ordinary people, just an irritable ordinary old man.

"Da! Da! ”

Old Russell stiffly grasped his cane with his dry hands and banged on the tattered palace gates.

He straightened his back and wiped the sweat from his forehead again, and his rough face had a little more stubbornness of the old man.

The tattered door opened.

The young royals walked out with barely bright smiles on their faces, even if there was an indelible anxiety buried in that smile, and they were worried about how long the ruined city would last.

"Lord Duke, how can you go out alone, God forbid, those damned dwarven invaders are still watching in the corners of the city, and I want to cut off their rotten and disgusting eyes and expose their ugliness to the world."

As he spoke, a cannonball whizzed down on the street not far away.

Metal shards exploded, dirt flew up, and dust instantly filled half of the street.

The palace here also shook, and a lot of dust fell on it.

The royal family member wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and only felt his heart pounding.

But the old man with a straight back in front of him didn't seem to be afraid, he was still on crutches, and his thin body had a different stubbornness.

"Lord Duke, come in and talk, it's dangerous outside."

As he spoke, the palace guards patrolled by.

This was the last guarantee that all the royals would be able to stay in West, and they would sleep in a state of anxiety every night, with only the sound of the guards' neat and powerful footsteps giving them some peace of mind.

"Here it is."

Old Russell fully showed the attitude of an irritable old man, he grabbed his cane, knocked on the hard floor in front of the palace gate, and then pointed with it into the distance.

It was outside the palace, the whole dilapidated city.

Visible corpses, stumps.

The stench was pervasive, and the bad August weather had made the corpses a natural nourishment for viruses and maggots, and rancid black-brown blood flowed down the broken streets, buzzing flies flying around.

The city is in ruins.

The broken steel bars were rusted and stuck in large cement slabs.

Gray crumbling mud mixed with red broken bricks, wrapped in dry weeds.

The ruins of the city hide the struggling civilians and the dwarves who have infiltrated and waited for an opportunity.

Russell put back his cane, his old face was full of anxiety and irritability, and he asked in a dry and hoarse voice peculiar to old men: "See, this is no longer the prosperous and prosperous West, this is just a ruin, a meaningless ruin!" And you have to hold on, why? Because you can't pull off your face, do you want to beg those androids? ”

It's been two weeks since that meeting.

The war intensified.

The city of Westster is full of smoke, the survivors are hiding, everyone who is still alive describes it as withered, and hope and despair are constantly wavering.

The royal swallowed, and he pursed his chapped lips, not knowing how to explain to the irascible old duke.

"Lord Duke......"

"Forget it, I'll go see the queen, since you can't pull your face, then let me go, an old man with a hereditary duke should be enough."

Old Russell's voice was rough and hoarse, and he stepped forward stiffly, his back straight, and he clutched the cracked cane as if he were holding an old double-barreled shotgun.

The old duke entered the palace like a soldier about to return to battle, even if he was not fully armoured.

The interior of the once prosperous palace is also in ruins, like a dying old man, crumbling.

……

Outside the city of Mou.

The second city of androids.

The wind and sand here are much smaller, and they are almost invisible.

The outermost part of the city is a dense grass grid, which stretches for dozens of kilometers, and at a glance, all the dry soil of the sand dunes is covered with grass squares and stops flowing.

Tens of millions of androids are in action, and the city is changing every day.

The inner layer of the city is lined with rows of freshly planted trees, all of which are drought-resistant and weather-resistant.

This long-dead and silent no-man's land has been embellished with green at this moment, like a green jade embedded in the desert, crystal clear.

The interior of the city is also home to large and small freshwater lakes, and road planning is beginning to take shape.

Lu Wen used a lot of manpower and material resources to airlift water resources from Mowu City.

It's a luxury, but it's not much to transform the city in the shortest possible time.

Now it can only be shipped by air.

It's definitely too late to build a pipeline.

By land, passing through the suburbs, there is a high risk of being attacked by small teams in mixed areas.

Ma Bo stood on top of the newly built high-rise building, overlooking this ever-changing city, his eyes were full of emotion, and he sighed: "Nine, the connections you have in Mowu City are too terrifying, it has only been less than a month, and the whole city has come to life in your hands." ”

The 100-meter-tall building at his feet took only two weeks to build.

The speed of terror is staggering.

In Ma Bo's previous concept, the time to build such a high-rise building was measured in months and years.

There are many similar buildings around this high-rise building, which are built very quickly.

All the androids saw that Lu Wen asked someone to transport the modular components of the building from Mowu City, as if they were building blocks, and it took a few days to complete the assembly of a building.

At such a fast speed, even Ma Bo and the others, who were not afraid of death, were a little worried about the quality of the building.

But Lu Wen told everyone to rest assured that the quality would definitely pass.

As long as the foundation is firm.

In Mowu, this method has been used for decades, making a lot of preparations in the factory in the early stage, and then quickly splicing, trying to complete the construction of the building in the shortest possible time, without interfering with the lives of the people around the construction site.

Those buildings, before the war, were still in good condition, carried for decades, and there were no quality problems.

"You laid a solid foundation in the early stage, so I can splice with peace of mind in the past two weeks." Lu Wen explained: "The city of Mowu has been busy rebuilding after the riots, and all kinds of building materials are ready-made, but now that the war has begun, the reconstruction work has been suspended, and all the prefabricated components of the prefabricated floors have been piled up in the warehouse, and I just bought them back." ”

In other words.

Lu Wen bought the materials to rebuild Mowu City to build the second city of androids.

After the start of the war, all construction sites were shut down, and a large number of semi-finished components were piled up in warehouses, and the sky-high warehouse costs were enough to cause headaches for those in charge of the projects.

It is not yet known when this war will end.

So the wealthy 'Nine' in the no-man's land became their savior.

"And these skilled human workers, I brought their families here, so that they don't have to worry about the trouble of war, and they can build with peace of mind."

Now many residents of Mowu City know that this second city of androids not far from the suburbs is the safest place in the world, and tens of millions of androids with combat power have surrounded the entire city.

There are many wealthy businessmen who have paid a large sum of money and dragged their families to come here.

Lu Wen also took over some of his well-connected human friends in the city, such as Yin June's family, and there are currently more than 200,000 humans living in the entire city.

With a large number of human workers and androids working around the clock, the city is changing every second.

Airports, railway stations, subways, roads, bus stops, government buildings, residential buildings, ......

It's all starting to take shape.

To facilitate prayer, churches are also set up in each area.

At present, there are still some problems with power facilities, relying on solar power generation can not meet the living needs of a large number of people, and relying on love to generate electricity is not enough, so the construction project includes thermal power generation, which Lu Wen likes the most.

One by one, large chimneys were erected.

The city is still planned as before, with four subdivisions, each of which is divided into large and small blocks.

"At present, the construction of two airports has been completed, and the third airport is being built, and the speed is very fast, tens of thousands of android compatriots have started work in an orderly manner at the same time, and those human workers are shocked, saying that they have never seen such a spectacular scene, if it is tens of thousands of human beings, there is no way to adjust the order......"

"According to the plan, the west and south sides of the city are expanding to the periphery to ensure that there are enough residents to accommodate ......"

"Thirteen new super-large warehouses have been built in the east, and they are currently receiving ...... of daily necessities purchased from the city of Mou"

"The creatures of the underworld came to test us again this morning, trying to infiltrate our city, but we were beaten back again......"

Build a city from scratch.

It's a great sense of accomplishment.

Although the preliminary groundwork was all done by the Bionic Alliance, the city really shined in Lu Wen's hands.

All androids recognized the abilities of the 'Nine'.

But Lu Wen didn't feel much sense of accomplishment, and even a little anxious, because ...... He's running out of money.

The upfront funds of the Androids Alliance, as well as his own funds, have been almost spent in the past two weeks.

After all, in the beginning, everyone planned to take their time and spend a few years perfecting the city, so they didn't worry about money.

"Out of money?" Xia Chuluo sat on the edge of a hundred-meter-tall building, her two long legs hanging in the air, swaying gently, and she saw Lu Wen's current situation at a glance.

"Sort of."

"Waiting for those guys in the West to come and beg you, and then send money?"

"Hmm."

To be honest, West City was able to hold on until now, which Lu Wen did not expect.

The persistence and stubbornness of human beings are admirable.

He can also figure out why.

The royal families in the West are unwilling to pull down their faces, and they are unwilling to come to him as a android to consult.

After all, once the action is made, whether it is West City or Versailles, it will become the first human city in history to turn to androids for help, which will be written into the history books.

"I still have a little money here, you can use it, I can't use it anyway."

Xia Chuluo threw out a black metal card.

It was left to her by her parents.

【A little money】

The legend is called "the treasure of summer".

The man used his unparalleled wisdom to find many treasures buried in no man's land, which accumulated over time, piled up into mountains, from stone slabs of prehistoric civilizations to sea ships from the Age of Discovery, and each one sold for sky-high prices.

Lu Wen connected to the banking system and checked the specific amount of the card.

In fact, he had always known that Xia Chuluo was very rich, and he had also accidentally glimpsed many zeros on Xia Chuluo's account.

But when you really get it in your hands this time, you can realize what it means to be truly rich......

Miss Xia suddenly added the label of "Little Rich Woman" to his system.

If anyone can marry her, they won't have to worry about it for the rest of their lives.

"I'm bored, I'll follow the plane to deliver supplies back to Mowu later."

Xia Chuluo stretched out his hand to support his chin, there was no expression on his little face, he had only been here for a long time, and he couldn't stay.

The place of battle and chaos in Mou City suits her character.

Now the infrastructure of Mowu City is quite complete, but the road monitoring has been destroyed a lot, which makes it impossible for Lu Wen to monitor the entire city completely, so he is not too relieved that Xia Chuluo will stay there.

"Don't worry, I won't go to the front again." Xia Chuluo said.

"Now the whole city is on the front line."

"It's okay, it's just that the edge of the city is more dangerous, and the interior is still safe."

The city of Mou faces the most powerful enemy.

It is still the best for the current situation.

For two weeks, there was no communication between the two sides, just kept fighting.

Lu Wen also reconnected with his body.

That body was able to give him a real-time reflection of Yin Long's old guy's movements.

"On the ninth, there was a message from the airport, saying that a route had been temporarily opened up from West City, and it would arrive in half an hour, telling our air force not to expel it." Message from the Ark.

"Sure enough, it came."

There was only half an hour left, and there was no contact in advance, presumably because there was a disagreement among the high-level officials on the West side of the city.

Are the royal family and the current government at odds?

Through some news obtained from the West, Lu Wen thought about it seriously and felt that in this situation, the Western royal family is not only a mascot, but also has power in some things.

I didn't think about it for long, time waits for no one.

Lu Wen glanced at the sky, then changed into a decent suit and rushed to the airport.

Half an hour later.

The plane from Wester City landed.

Lu Wen led a group of leaders from the android side to greet him at the airport.

He looked at the logo on the fuselage and confirmed that the plane belonged to the royal family, a private flight, which could explain why there was no advance notice.

The hatch opens.

An old man on crutches, dressed in a modern duke's attire, with his back straight, walked down step by step.

"Nine, I'm here to negotiate terms with you."