Power is like an apple growing on a tree, the higher it is, the better it tastes.

A man's quest for power is like picking an apple, someone stretches out his arms or jumps high, picking only the bottom apple that he can reach, and the top one gives up. Some people choose to climb the tree to pick the highest apple they can climb, and the one at the top of the tree gives up. Some people choose to build a ladder and make sure to pick the apples at the top of the tree. But the higher the target, the harder you fall, jumping high may sprain your foot, climbing a tree may fall down and break your bones, the ladder that makes a ladder may fall and collapse, or someone may withdraw the ladder when you climb up, and you will be crushed if you fall.

As a man, I don't deny my quest for power. But I chose to be a Newton, picking only the apples that were smashed on my head, which were just as delicious and effortless - Chi Hua.

When the first autumn breeze blows in the northwest, it is harvest season in Phoenix.

Outside Phoenix is an endless stretch of golden wheat, and the streets of Phoenix are full of stalls selling all kinds of melons and fruits, and even the air is filled with the fragrance of melons and fruits.

Everyone has a smile on their face, and there is no trace of the end times here.

The mercenaries walked through the streets carrying the corpses of huge mutated beasts, attracting countless children to chase and watch.

Caravans lined up at the gates of the city to enter the city, and merchants brought all kinds of rare goods from all over the world, and transported huge quantities of grain and meat from here.

Huaxia Dragon City, Eastern Dawn City, and even the Bloody Tsar, half of the food supply depends on the output of Phoenix, and the food harvested by Phoenix City every year in the apocalyptic world feeds nearly 100 million human survivors.

Relying solely on the grain trade, Phoenix has made a lot of money, and Phoenix Coins have become the most valuable circulating currency in the entire apocalyptic world.

Through currency and trade, various basic resources within the sphere of influence of Huaxia Dragon City, mutated beast materials produced by Dawning City, and the most advanced weapons and equipment of the Bloody Tsar have continuously flowed into Phoenix City.

Since the war in the spring, Doomsday Phoenix has become the undisputed most powerful overlord in the Chinese Territory.

Whether it is the merchants waiting in line to enter the city, or the mercenaries and pedestrians on the streets, they all look up at the head of Phoenix from time to time.

At the head of Phoenix, there is a huge sun umbrella. Although there is no figure under the umbrella, people know that as long as the man under the umbrella is there, this is the safest place in the world.

"Who knows the big dream first, I know ...... in my life" Under the umbrella, Chi Hua stretched his waist and opened his eyes.

Before Chi Hua could read the poem later, a grape was stuffed into his mouth. The post-apocalyptic grape varieties improved by Lin Jiamu are even more sweet and sour, with a sweet stream flowing from the tip of the tongue to the stomach.

"Is it sweet?" An An held her chin and looked at Chi Hua with a pair of bright big eyes.

"I'm going to eat something sweeter."

"Huh?" An An was stunned.

Before An An could react, Chi Hua had already put his arms around An An's neck, kissed An An's lips, and then stuck a tongue in.

An An suddenly bit Chi Hua's tongue and pushed him away when he was in pain.

"I hate it, so many people are watching."

An An's face was flushed with shame, but Chi Hua was laughing.

After the last war, the Phoenix army did not go all the way to the Bright Army and the Is. The lair of the Lan Holy War Army, but when it reached the border before the end of the world, it collected its troops and returned to the city.

Since then, Phoenix has entered a rare period of quiet development.

In peacetime, Chi Hua again became idle. There is Song Yu in internal affairs, urban reconstruction, economic development, and social recovery, and all matters are in order in Song Yu's hands. There is Yi Fengleng in the military, and the reorganization, training, and deployment of all the armies in Phoenix City are all handled by Yi Fengleng, and Chi Hua didn't bother to ask.

Taking a nap in the sunshine of the city, looking at the distant wheat fields drinking tea in a daze, and laughing with An An's boudoir, Chi Hua loved the recent days of idleness.

Compared with a lazy and comfortable life, Chi Hua has never had much interest in power. Some time ago, he even wanted to give up the position of city lord directly to Song Yu, and he hung up an idle position as a commander or marshal in the army, but Song Yu directly threatened to resign.

While Phoenix is enjoying a period of peaceful development, the situation in the entire apocalyptic world is undergoing earth-shaking changes.

The source of change naturally began with the Illuminati.

The defeat on the battlefield in China not only caused the Illuminati to lose the strongest force, the King of Light, but also the Rothschild, Onassis, and Li families.

Of the 60,000 Guangming troops who entered China, less than 10,000 fled back. The losses on the part of the second-order powerhouses are even more shocking, under the focus of Ouyang Haotian, the Blood Empress, Xiao Yu, An An and other super powerhouses, Heinrich, Aiden. Onassis, William. Li and other famous powerhouses were all killed in battle. Nearly twenty second-order powerhouses eventually fled back to Simon and Benson of the Delenn and Rothschild families.

Although the council was suspicious of the three Delun, the soldiers of the Bright Army who escaped said that it was because of the desperate decision of the three Delun that they were brought out alive. In the absence of conclusive evidence, the parliament had no choice but to settle the matter after a hasty investigation.

After all, compared to investigating one's own people, how to deal with the aftermath and ensure that the situation of defeat does not deteriorate further is the top priority of the parliament at present.

The defeat on the Chinese battlefield forced the Illuminati to brake on its global expansion strategy, and even had to give up a lot of vested interests in order to shrink its forces.

At the request of the Parliament, the Renault family directly gave up all spheres of influence in South and Southeast Asia, withdrew the family's military forces to Central Asia, and worked together with the military forces urgently replenished by the Rothschild, Onassis, and Lee families to jointly guard against the counterattack of Doomsday Phoenix.

Even so, the council was not at ease, and sent the Templar King, who had been in charge of the Temple of Light for many years, to Central Asia to lead the military forces of several families.

At this point, two-thirds of the Illuminati military forces were dragged to the front line of the confrontation with Doomsday Phoenix and the Bloody Tsar.

The Illuminati forces withdrew from East and Southeast Asia, leaving behind a vacuum of power that immediately became the City of Dawn and the Illuminati. The goal of the Lan Jihadist Army.

With the power of defeating the Collins family, Dawning City marched directly into Vietnam, bringing Vietnam and several surrounding countries into its sphere of influence.

For the resistance of the local armed forces, Murong Chaoyang is also a ruthless corner, and he would rather kill the rebel forces by mistake than let go, and conquer them by direct violent means.

After two rounds of violent conquest by the Illuminati and Dawning City, several Southeast Asian countries with few survivors have become even more inhumane.

Is. Although the Lan Holy War Army was heavily damaged by the Phoenix City army under Yi Fengleng's jurisdiction, even the commander Aziz was captured alive. But scattered in the countries of South Asia, Is. The backbone of the main force of the Lan Jihadist Army, the "Sword of Allah", is still alive, and most of the survivors of these countries are Moos. Lin, for Is. The Lan Jihadist Army has a high degree of recognition, so these countries are still in control of ISIS. In the hands of the Lan Jihadist Army.

There is also a small episode in the middle, after Aziz was captured, Yi Fengleng handed it over to the Americans as promised, and handed it over to Captain America to take back to the Avengers headquarters.

However, Captain America was ambushed by a mysterious force in the process of transiting in West Asia, and not only Thor and Wonder Woman were killed on the spot, but even Aziz was assassinated by the ambush force.

The Avengers ended up in nothing.

Naturally, the Avengers took all their anger out on Iss in West Asia. The Lan Jihad Army further increased its military assistance to its allies in West Asia, and directly transferred a large number of troops and evolutionaries from within the country to strengthen the military assistance to the Islamic Army. Ground offensive of the Lan Jihadist Army.

The desperate Avengers army fought for a time to defeat Iss. Ahmed, the commander of the Western Front of the Lan Jihadist Army, was defeated and lost several countries one after another.

Fortunately, the fierce offensive of the Avengers army did not last long, and the Heaven's Gate army in its country jumped out at this time. Taking advantage of the lack of domestic troops of the Avengers, they seized seven states in a row, so that the Avengers had to urgently withdraw their troops from overseas.

The war between the Avengers and Heaven's Gate still has no end in sight in the short term.

There is also no end in sight to the war between the Dragon City of China and the bloody Tsar. No one is willing to back down on the territory, and both sides continue to throw troops into the front line, and the war has even tended to intensify.

The infinite expansion of the war between the two sides even implicated Phoenix City, resulting in small frictions between the troops on the border of Huaxia Dragon City and Phoenix City.

The root cause is that Ouyang Haotian discovered that Phoenix City and the bloody tsar were allies on the battlefield in Western Xinjiang. After the war, Yang Zhaohui sent a special letter to Chi Hua to ask for details, and there were many reproaches between the lines.

Chi Hua didn't care too much about it at that time, and replied to Yang Zhaohui perfunctorily on the pretext that the two sides were just using each other.

But soon after, General Bi Xin, the envoy of Huaxia Dragon City, officially came to the door, asking Phoenix to send troops to assist Huaxia Dragon City in the war against the bloody tsar.

Regarding Huaxia Dragon City's request to send troops, Chi Hua naturally politely refused.

On the night he left Phoenix, Bi Xin happened to bump into Sophia, the bloody queen who had been in the city for many days.

After the end of the war in Western Xinjiang that day, Ma Qingqiu did not return directly to the ancient battle castle, but made a detour to Phoenix, wanting to go home first to see his father and many old friends in the army.

Sophia naturally followed her all the way. Sophia, who stayed under the ancient battle castle all day, was happy after seeing the prosperity of Phoenix.

Her Majesty the Empress is also a child, and she threw all the military and political affairs of the bloody tsar behind her, and spent her days in the city having fun, never mentioning the matter of returning to the ancient castle.

Ma Qingqiu was even more happy not to go back, and threw the matter of entertaining Sophia to An An, Duan Jiangning and Bai Hui, and drank and played with Chi Hua, Qiu Ying, and Jin Yu all day long. even secretly went to the "Phoenix Family" a few times to meet the old lady Xiaohong.

On the night Bi Xin met Sophia, An An and Duan Jiangning were by their side, and the girls talked and laughed as if they were sisters.

This situation fell in Bi Xin's eyes, and then Chi Hua's shirk of Huaxia Dragon City's request to send troops, coupled with Bi Xin's description of adding oil and vinegar, made Yang Zhaohui believe that Phoenix City had completely fallen to the side of the bloody tsar.

On the surface, the trade between the two sides is still the same, but Huaxia Dragon City has secretly increased troops to the border to prevent Phoenix City from joining forces with the bloody tsar to raid Huaxia Dragon City.

Chi Hua ignored Yang Zhaohui's mediocrity and self-disturbance, and kept everything as usual for Ma Qingqiu and Sophia's arrangements.

After Yuri, the right prime minister, sent three telegrams in succession that were heavier than the other, Ma Qingqiu and Sophia reluctantly left Phoenix.

After Ma Qingqiu left, Chi Hua's life was even more boring and idle.

The sun was slanting in the west, and the leisurely day was about to pass, Chi Hua took An An's hand, "Let's go, let's go home and play games in bed." ”

"Brother Chi, Brother Chi!" Suddenly there was a shout outside the city.

Chi Hua turned his head and saw a cyan horse galloping towards the Phoenix City Gate, and immediately waved and shouted to the city head while running.

Chi Hua sighed, "Hey, I'm afraid the good days are coming to an end......."

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