Under the raid of the Light and Darkness Alliance, the robot base under construction was bombarded with overclocking deathlight cannons, and there were metal fragments everywhere, as well as the remains of puppet robots.

Now a small nuclear power plant has also been built next to the robot base, and there is no shortage of energy for the time being, mainly due to the lack of metals and some rare materials, which also limits the development of the base.

After cleaning up the battlefield, Hua Yan and Ellie walked side by side to the outside of the base.

"Ellie, is there anything else you need me to help with?"

Hua Yan asked with a heavy face.

"No, brother, the problem of metal materials is not so easy to solve, unless the mine is opened, but now we can control too few areas, there are no mineral resources, and we can't mine at all."

Ellie said a little depressed.

Hua Yan nodded, he also knew the actual situation, the current situation was in the wild, and it couldn't be defended at all, and this kind of thing really couldn't be solved at the moment.

"yes!"

Hua Yan also said helplessly.

"Let's talk about it later, the Light and Dark Alliance is likely to come back after a while, so you should also hurry up and build defenses."

"Well, don't worry, brother, it won't be so cheap when they come again next time, and our follow-up support fleet should be almost there."

Elle bit her lip and said.

"Then I'll go back first, there are still a lot of things in Hope City, you can call me at any time if you have something here!"

Hua Yan helped Ellie on the shoulder and said softly.

"Hmm!"

Ellie nodded heavily.

Then Hua Yan packed up the mechanical armor, drove the Tiger Jiao chariot, made a puff of smoke and dust, and left the robot base.

Elle stood and waited for Hua Yan's chariot to disappear for a long time before slowly turning around and returning to the dungeon of the base.

After returning to Hope City, Hua Yan led Cai Changhe and them to drill into the refining department, and now the most important thing is to create more rune weapons, so that more soul people can build runes.

Liu Haitao and Xiao Li also entered a state of retreat at this time, Xiao Li was busy building runes, and Liu Haitao was practicing the Flood Wilderness Hegemony Technique.

The daily affairs of Hope City are mainly handled by Hua Sihai, Han Meng, and Cai Bin.

Military training Xiao Li was also handed over to his deputy, a middle-aged man named Pang Jianguo.

Half a month later, Hua Yan and Cai Changhe finally created five or six rune bronze swords, and the refining department of Hope City also began to enter the formal.

At this time, the oil drilling team also came back with good news, the oil was also successfully extracted, and a large number of defense facilities began to be built around the oil drilling platform, and a lot of large laser cannon turrets were constructed.

Hope City also sent nearly a thousand soul powerhouses wearing mechanical armor to take over the defense, and after the defense was handed over, Hong Zhan and Shi Feng also returned to Hope City with ten rune powerhouses.

Behind the Lord's Mansion of Hope City, there is a small villa, which is Hua Yan's private official residence.

After the things of the refining department were busy, Hua Yan rarely had time to live here, and Hua Yan was lying comfortably on a large beige sofa in the living room.

The living room was large, forty or fifty square meters, covered with a thick crimson wool carpet, and the ceiling was covered with silver-white European-style openwork glass chandeliers.

Next to the sofa is a rectangular wooden table, oak-colored, coarse-grained, which looks heavy and sturdy.

Behind the wooden table is a fireplace, pine firewood is burning in it, and the smell of rosin wafts from time to time, the temperature in the living room is very comfortable, and Hua Yan, who is lying on the sofa, is napping at this time.

"Knock~Knock~"

Two knocks on the door.

"Third brother!"

Without waiting for Hua Yan to get up, Xiao Li pushed the door in excitedly and came in, followed by Hong Zhan and Shi Feng.

Hua Yan also hurriedly cheered up and stood up, smiled and looked at a few people, stretched out his hand to signal, and said:

"Sit, sit, what do you want to drink?"

"Third brother, let's sit down, I'm more familiar with you than you in this house."

Xiao Li looked like a scoundrel, walked straight to a cabinet in the corner, took out a bottle of red wine from it, and grabbed four goblets in one hand.

"You two have also worked hard during this time, where is the oil drilling going well!"

After Hua Yan sat down on the sofa again, he looked at Hong Zhan and Shi Feng and said.

"It's okay, some demon beasts have harassed a few times, but they were all killed by us, and they didn't appear again."

Hong Zhan said with some restraint.

"Brother Huayan, your mansion is not bad, why don't I live here with you."

Shi Feng said with a smile.

"Then there must be no problem, you and Hong Zhan both live here with me, it just so happens that I don't feel comfortable living by myself."

Hua Yan said.

"Ninety-three years of Mouton is here!"

Xiao Limei shouted with a fluttering eyebrow.

By this moment he had set the oak cork for the red wine, placed several goblets on the wooden table, and poured a small half glass of red wine into each goblet.

Shi Feng took a cup first, shook it a few times, put it on the tip of his nose and sniffed it, and then took a sip gently.

"Good wine!"

After tasting it, Shi Feng couldn't help but admire.

The smell of mellow red wine began to permeate the living room, and Hua Yan also gently picked up a glass, this kind of thing, he had never tasted it before, and when he saw Shi Feng enjoying it, he shook it a few times and took a sip, but he didn't feel that it was any better.

"Third brother, you are old-fashioned, you are not a high-grade person at first glance."

Xiao Li said jokingly on the side.

Hua Yan was a little embarrassed, smiled and said:

"This kind of thing, I'm really a bit wasteful when I drink it, fourth, how have you built your runes these days?"

"It's done!"

When it came to the construction of runes, Xiao Li immediately became excited, and said with foam:

"This rune is really too good, I guess I can't deal with an ordinary demon beast now!"

"Oh? That's good! ”

Hua Yan also nodded heavily, he didn't expect Xiao Li to be able to build runes so quickly, he himself was because he had a divine palace, his soul energy was sufficient, and it was easier to build, he was worried that Xiao Li would take a long time, but he didn't expect it to be successfully constructed in ten days.

"Director Hua, the chief asked me yesterday when we will go back."

After taking a sip of red wine, Hong Zhan said with a worried face.

Hearing what Hong Zhan said, Hua Yan's face also became heavy, and he got up and walked slowly to the window, which was still gray and gloomy.

"Ten more days!"

After a long time, Hua Yan sighed helplessly and said.

There is not much food left in the Iron City now, and several large grain depots outside the city are already within the scope of the Demon Beast Forest, and it is not known if they have been damaged.

Even if it is not destroyed, it is a very dangerous thing to transport food in the Demon Beast Forest with the current strength.

On the way from the Steel City to the Hope City, there are so many demon beasts, if there is no strong armed force, rashly go to seize the grain depot, the consequences are unimaginable.

At this time, Shi Feng also got up and walked to Hua Yan's side, and asked softly:

"Brother Hua Yan, where is the stone statue we got from the kobold tribe?"

"Right here I am, in the storeroom."

Speaking of the Nightmare Stone Statue, Hua Yan also fell into deep thought, and he had studied it many times in the past two days, but after all, he didn't come up with any eyebrows.

"Can you let me take a second look, I think there's something weird about that thing."

Shi Feng said with a solemn face.

"Of course you can."

Hua Yan responded.

After speaking, he took Shi Feng into a storage room, and Xiao Li and Hong Zhan also followed in at this time.

The four of them looked around the stone statue for a long time, where Shi Feng buckled for a while, touched it for a while, and knocked it with his hands, but he didn't find anything special.

"I always feel that there is a strange aura in this stone statue."

Shi Feng said to himself.

"That's the breath of the Nightmare!"

Hua Yan said in a deep voice, with a hint of hatred in his words.

"Will this stone statue have some deterrent effect on those demon beasts?"

Shi Feng looked up at Hua Yan at this time and asked.

"You said you put this stone statue outside the convoy?"

Hua Yan seemed to have captured something in his mind.

"Hmmm! We can try it first! ”

Shi Feng said a little excitedly at this time.

"Well, I'll go now!"

Hua Yan's spirits perked up, and he took the Tiger Demon Armor and the Wind Spirit Blood Sword and was about to go out.

"Third brother, you're too anxious, let's finish the wine, what a waste of throwing away such a good wine!"

Xiao Li said on the side.

"Good!"

Hua Yan also looked arrogant at this time.

"Let's get the wine dry!"

Then he picked up the goblet and drank it all.

Shi Feng was next to him and said:

"It's a waste to let you drink this kind of Mouton in ninety-three years!"

After saying that, all four of them burst out laughing.

Then Hua Yan moved the stone statue to the Tiger Jiao chariot, and fixed it to a conspicuous place on the roof, the Tiger Jiao chariot is nearly ten meters long, with the saber-toothed demon tiger's bones as a frame, which is two or three meters high for the stone statue, and it can withstand it on it.

After getting ready, Hua Yan drove the Tiger Jiao chariot towards the direction of the Demon Beast Forest.

After entering the Demon Beast Forest, Hua Yan slowed down and opened up his perception.

At this time, it was already evening, and those misshapen trees began to glow blue, and the strange cries of various monsters were heard in the forest from time to time.

Through perception, Hua Yan found that when those demon beasts saw the Tiger Jiao chariot, they instinctively rushed over to attack, but after seeing the demon statue on the roof of the car, they stopped, and did not run away to dodge, but it seemed that there was no hostility towards his chariot.

"This stone statue is really useful."

Hua Yan said to himself.

In this way, it will be easy to go back later, and maybe you can use it to go to the grain depot to carry food, it seems that it is really an endless road.

In the next few days, after the oil, the new second-generation mechanical armor also began to enter mass production, and Hua Yan used demon beast materials to create a set of customized mechanical armor for Hong Zhan and Shi Feng, and also created a set for the ten rune powerhouses.

It's just that there are no runes in these mechanical armors, but the performance is still much stronger than ordinary mechanical armor.

When he set off from the City of Steel, there were more than 500 soul powers, and now there were more than 300 people left, and after some preparations, Hua Yan was ready to lead the convoy back to the City of Steel.

The convoy back to the Steel City brought a large number of brain tissues that were moved out of the strange lake, and after going back, the brain network could be fully rolled out in the Steel City, in addition to these, they also brought some fresh vegetables, and the latest second-generation mechanical armor also took away nearly a hundred.