At 9 a.m. at Dr3713-01-18 Silver City time and 90 p.m. Sett time, Edward Thorthy and two minor nobles arrived at Tyre Fortress. Arnold then took Bai Xiaoyun, Qin Ke'er and three logistics officers out to greet them.

When receiving Edward, Bai Xiaoyun deliberately straightened his face, his expression and tone were very indifferent, but when he received the other two little nobles, he had a humble attitude and greeted him with a smile. However, in the face of his differential treatment, Edward only responded with an indifferent expression, and did not seem to be affected in any way.

During this period, Arnold sensed Bai Xiaoyun's deliberate targeting, and was about to remind the other party, but found that Qin Ke'er also had a cold expression and a blunt attitude. So, the words that were about to be said were swallowed back into my stomach. After all, for so many years, he has seen too much open and secret battles between people, and he doesn't want to be involved. However, at this juncture of the alternation of the old and the new, and the transfer of power, any contradiction will not be conducive to the defense of the fortress. It seems that he must find a suitable time to make a proposal to the prefect either to reconcile or to dismiss, there are only two options.

Subsequently, under the arrangement of Arnold, Bai Xiaoyun and others, the three academy teams successfully settled in the Tyre Fortress.

Eight hours later......

At 5 p.m. Yincheng time and 98 p.m. S. Iron Slag checked the information of the three newly arrived teams, and sent Bai Xiaoyun to invite one of the team leaders, Nick Wagner, over. According to the information, Nick Wagner is from a small silver city in the north of the western continent, he is twenty-five years old this year, his father is a baron, and he is the first in line to the throne.

A moment later, Bai Xiaoyun walked into the office with a puzzled look on his face. Iron Slag got up to greet the regimental leader, then opened a bottle of "St. Augustine Roya" brandy, and asked Bai Xiaoyun to pour a glass alone.

In the face of Captain Sachio's warm hospitality, Captain Nick seemed a little flattered. Especially when he saw that the former actually opened a bottle of famous wine for him, which was worth a lot of money. The "Saint-Augustine Roa" brandy, also known as the "Pope Cognac", is named after the seventh Pope of the Temple, and its quality and value are evident. Even as a Silver City nobleman, he had only drunk it a few times. The market price of a bottle of Pope's cognac is nearly 800 gold, which is not much different from a fully equipped wolf-type mecha.

"Friend, I wish us a happy cooperation." Captain Sa raised his glass and said.

"It's a pleasure to work with." Captain Nick raised his glass in response. Then, the two clinked glasses and took a sip each.

"Maybe we had a little misunderstanding before, but it's all in the past now, isn't it?" Captain Sa asked.

"Yes, sir." Head Nick replied.

"From now on, we will all work together under Assistant Grimm and fight for honor in the castle of the Princess Templars......" Captain Sa paused for a moment and said in a strengthened tone, "Please remember that our real enemy is the bee ant swarm!" After speaking, the head of the regiment raised his glass again, then smiled slightly, and said meaningfully, "I hope we can help each other and support each other in the future......"

"As you wish." Captain Nick put down his wine glass, bowed, and said solemnly.

Then, shortly after Captain Nick left, Iron Slag invited another minor noble leader to his office and enveloped him in the same way and with similar words. Now, with the aura given by Eva Green, he is condescending and invincible in front of the little nobles.

Eva Green is different from Mu Yuqinxin, although they are both assistants, the former is a powerful faction, while the latter is still a potential faction. The gap between the two seems to be only one step away, but it is the same world.

A few hours later......

Edward Thorthy was given a cold shoulder by his two companions, and he clearly felt that he had been abandoned by them. Just now, he saw them eating in the rest center on the third floor, and seemed to have forgotten to call him. This meant that he would have to fight alone for the rest of the day. However, confronting the person in charge personally promoted by Assistant Green in the fortress of the princess of the Templar is an act of seeking death no matter how you look at it.

In desperation, he had no choice but to be cheeky and knocked on the door of the office of the person in charge of the fortress.

"You may be seated." After meeting, the head of the regiment said to him with a blank face.

"I'm sorry, I've been feeling a little unwell lately, and I may no longer be fit to fight, and I want to apply for a release from my contract." Edward didn't sit down, stood a few meters away from Sako, and said stiffly.

Iron Slag's eyes narrowed, stared at the other party for a while, and replied lightly: "I can't answer you, but I can ask my superiors." ”

"Awaiting a reply." With that, Edward bowed slightly, then turned to leave. After the former left, Iron Slag pondered for a moment, and then looked at the table below, it was 11 o'clock in the evening Silver City time, and Eva Green should not have slept yet. So he picked up the communicator and dialed her voice communication.

"Good evening, Commander." "Good evening, boss." After a one-man unnutritious dialogue, Iron Slag informed Eva Green of Edward Thorthy's situation.

After listening to his narration, Eva Green was silent for a while, and then said in a somewhat playful tone: "I want to hear your opinion first. ”

"Let him fuck off." Iron Slag replied without thinking about it.

"Under the terms of the employment contract, he had to pay three times the commission, which if I remember correctly, it should be 36,000 gold." Eva Green reminded.

"Just get back the advance, I just want him to leave quickly, his stay here will only affect our defense." Iron Slag said with a frown.

"No......," Eva Green said in a firm tone. I insist. ”

"Why?" Iron Slag asked.

"I hate him, and I would like to see his body if I can." Eva Green said.

"Give me a reason." Iron Slag said.

"Edward Thorthy is the scum of the nobles of Silver City." She replied.

"That's it?" Iron Slag couldn't help but ask.

"Isn't that enough?" Eva Green asked rhetorically. She and Makichizuru are good friends and know a lot about each other's past, and she is very disgusted with Edward, an aristocratic scum who plays with women just to show his means. But before that, she couldn't find the right opportunity to vent her bad anger on behalf of her friend. But now it was different, she had a powerful ally who also hated Edward's - Iron Slag. And the reason why she didn't say it too clearly was because she didn't know the relationship between Mu Qianhe and Iron Slag, so as not to cause Iron Slag to be a problem when she said it.

"Then, when he falls asleep, I'll ...... him directly," Iron Slag hinted.

"Commander, most of the time, hypocritical justice is necessary." Eva Green said meaningfully, "You need to wait patiently, observe carefully, think carefully, and then find a suitable reason, or a suitable time......"

"Hmm." Iron Slag replied, Eva Green's meaning was clear, that is, let him find a reasonable excuse, or a chance to have no one around. This is not the first time he has come into contact with this kind of thing, he has been influenced by Lena Eucoris when he was in Iron Mountain Town before, and he is no stranger to this set of "hypocritical justice".

"That's smart~" Eva Green praised.

"Uh......" Iron Slag could hear it, and there was far more ridicule than appreciation in her praise. Others don't say it, Lena often plays this hand, opening and closing her mouth is a sentence: "It's amazing~", "Awesome~", "It's so clever~", and he often hears his muscles bursting out, and he just wants to turn around and leave......

"If nothing else......"

However, before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by her: "Yes~"

"Please." "I was about to fall asleep, and then you woke me up." "Uh...... Sorry......" "If not, tell me a story." "Won't ......"

"Or ......," she proposed, after a moment's hesitation, "I'll ask you questions, and you answer." ”

"Is it necessary?" "Yes~ You are my fortress commander~ I need to understand you more comprehensively, and in the next time, we can work better together."

"Excuse me......" Iron Slag said helplessly, her reasons too strong for him to refuse.

"Who was your first time with?" Eva Green asked unceremoniously.

"What?" Such a sharp question really made it impossible for him to answer, so he could only play dumb.

"Who did you have sex with for the first time with someone of the opposite sex? What does it look like? What is your name? Eva Green asked precisely.

"Forget ......," Iron Slag said sincerely. I have to say that he did forget, because his object was one of the many warblers in the street, and many years had passed; So, who remembers?

"What an irresponsible man." Eva Green commented. And in the face of her accusations, he was speechless. Then, she continued, "Do you mind if your girlfriend isn't a virgin?" ”

"Don't mind." Iron Slag replied earnestly. Under normal circumstances, this answer would be shared by most women. However, he was wrong, Eva Green was not your average woman......

"Really?" "Really." He confirmed again.

"How can you not mind? Unless you don't love this woman, and you just want to get her body and momentary pleasure, that's probably what it is, don't think I don't understand, or it's hypocrisy, I don't mind it in my mouth, but I mind it very much in my heart, and then I ......will abandon it when I get tired of playing" After saying a long paragraph, she concluded, "What an irresponsible man." ”

"Actually...... I don't mind. In the face of a series of bombardments, in order to win the favor of his boss, Tie Slag had to change his words.

"Mind that? You don't mind! Eva Green said excitedly, "Don't you think it's cruel that a thin film determines a girl's life?" Don't you think it's unfair that boys can be merry everywhere, but girls have to work hard to protect their chastity? You're sexist, I'm going to protest, I'm going to despise you......"

After saying a long paragraph, she once again concluded: "What an irresponsible man! ”

And this time, she actually "snapped" and hung up the voice directly......

After being stunned for a long time, Tie Slag called Bai Xiaoyun, stared at his eyes, and asked seriously, "Do you mind if your girlfriend is not a virgin?" ”

"This ......" Bai Xiaoyun thought for a while and said, "Actually, it has nothing to do with whether a virgin is a virgin or not, the key is whether I love her or not, and whether she loves me or not, if she loves, it will work." ”

Listening to Bai Xiaoyun's words, Tie Slag was dumbfounded, but he didn't expect that there was a third answer to this question......

PS：

The 1.2 version of the Silver City World Map is newly released, detailing the location and scale of each Silver City, in addition to the Eternal City, the fifty-one Silver Cities are divided into three types: large, medium and small. And the real use of Silver City is to "move the fortress", as the ultimate weapon of humanity.

Then, Doomsday Black Clan, UFO classmates, come on!

In addition, I attach an essential book review of Jianghan Luochengdong (people grow and hate water Changdong), that is, the "Secretary General of Tieshan Town".

I didn't mean to brag about myself, I just felt that he wrote a book review too seriously and didn't let more friends see it, and I was a little sorry for him.

The following is the text of the review:

I rarely write long reviews.,If you want me to say.,It's very tiring to write a long review.,You make it o(╯□╰)o.

Let's explain the background of the story first, so that book friends can understand......

As can be seen from the first chapter of the story, this is the "wasteland". The novels of Wasteland Flow seem to be forever full of machinery, deserts, survival struggles, and the ugliness of human nature...... And so on, but this book is about a different wasteland.

Under severe environmental pollution, the earth, which experienced the fourth world war, destroyed civilization in a nuclear strike between countries and replaced it with a new one. The highest ruling class of this civilization is called the Silver City, and in this floating city, high above the surface of the earth, lives a ruling class dominated by psionic enhancers, who distinguish themselves from other human beings, and claim to be noble in blood, and their total number is five percent of all human beings. Here, the Western magical style and part of the modern social system are fused together, and the similarities are different.

There are three major forces here, covering the most extensive area, the temple with the largest number of believers, and believing in the one true God; Second only to the temple is the neutral Notre-Dame, who worship multiple gods; The temple with the least number of believers, the ancestral belief in many nature gods, and the temple power in the corner of the mainland...... The three major forces are entangled and intertwined, and disputes are continuous, and various games have been carried out again and again since their existence.

Below the floating cities, there are the old humans who live on the desolate surface of the earth, where 93% of the people are ordinary people who are powerless, ignorant and low-quality are their common image, and the remaining 7% of the human beings, except for the psionic enhancers who live in the [Silver City], the rest are traditional enhancers, mechanical transformers and insectified mutants who are universally resisted and disgusted by all humans, they are evil, bloodthirsty, lawless, and both good and evil......

The protagonist Iron Slag is a fierce, indifferent teenager, decisive and calm, he is still illiterate, and the days of living in Iron Sand Town are dull and bloody, he is the enforcer of Iron Sand Town, and his hands are stained with the smell of killing, which makes him full of a breath that no one can approach......

But he is a kind person in his heart, it is Iron Daddy who taught him the ability to survive in this bloodthirsty world, and also brings him warmth, care and love, he is the pride of Iron Slag, a great man who will always exist in the depths of his heart, and similarly, Iron Slag must be his proud pride in Iron Daddy's heart.

Lena is the eldest sister in everyone's eyes, no matter how brutal and ruthless she is in front of outsiders, she has faded away from her wildness next to Iron Slag, she seems gentle and kind, and she also has the attachment and emotion of a little woman - of course, how our Iron Slag views this cheetah-like woman may be another matter, haha.

You Ge's character is a bit like in "Dry Sister Buried", the lively and joyful, a little lazy, a little stubborn, I like her way of speaking, provocative jokes, I seem to be able to see the slight arc of the corners of her mouth, her cunning, her eccentric, are so attractive.

Hey, I don't want to say it, I'm so tired, and it's a bit wrong to say it again, because I was going to describe a few more women, but wouldn't that make me look too dirty? Hmph╭(╯^╰)╮, how could it be!

At first glance, it seems to be a traditional wasteland civilization, but as long as you gently lift the veil draped over the story, you will find the charm of this story, the tragedy of war, the weight of faith, the emotional exchange of human nature and the struggle for survival...... will appear in front of your eyes one by one, and believe me, this story will definitely satisfy you!

Second Edition

Before I make my point, I would like to answer the question, what exactly is the wasteland?

When the environment in which human beings live is severely damaged, such as global nuclear bombs, biochemical crises, celestial collisions and other disasters, the survivors who do not know whether they are lucky or doomed struggle to survive in a cruel but real harsh environment...... Novels such as these are often referred to as wasteland themes.

The "wasteland" is a metaphor for when regimes have collapsed, armies have been scattered, laws have been scrapped, and beliefs have been subverted...... We can say that the world is a "wasteland". The wasteland world is a hell that destroys all old standards, no one cares about the difference between good and evil, no one cares about the meaning of wrong, no one ...... In the world of the wasteland, only survival is the truth. Everything seems to have returned to the age of the wilderness, in order to survive!

In my opinion, the average wasteland novel has one big drawback: all the main characters lack a background that makes people look very engaging. In addition to its own tough power, other soft power is quite lacking - the team formed is generally small, the goal is generally relatively simple, and the relationship with the outside world is relatively shallow...... In this way, all the plots are rough, and it is easy to feel that all problems can be solved through violence.

Many people are well aware that building a dystopian world of desolation and decay, social collapse, and violence is undoubtedly extremely attractive for the vast majority of people who are always bound by social norms and laws. Think about it, is there anything more painful than stabbing the enemy? The film is not so much about inspiring the chivalrous psychology or cowboy belief in punishing evil and culprit, but rather giving us a virtual experience of surviving in a wild and dangerous but free world.

But movies can say that, novels cannot.

The plot of the novel is very complex, and the movie is only a simple outline, but the novel can unfold a grand world and tell us about the magnificent civilization. Man is a social animal, and without wonderful interaction and contest of wisdom means, without the connotation of civilization and the constraints of rules, the whole article will become more and more dry and far-fetched to read.

But, I would say, when I read this novel, I had the feeling that "wow, wasteland can still be written like this!" ”。

That's right, the story you see is really extraordinary, all the author's settings are profound, in his pen, everyone is not a simple set of templates, they have their own thoughts, their own lives, their own beliefs, and their own pursuits...... No matter how insignificant, they are all living "people".

So far, I can comment on several of the female characters who appear in the story (you have to understand, I'm not dirty, I'm really not dirtyT^T).

First of all, let's talk about the character of Lena, Lena is a very independent girl, she has a bumpy figure, charming and moving, exuding a wildness all over her body, she has a pair of slender black eyes, mixed with cunning and contempt; She has short and medium-black hair that is combed into a mid-parted hairstyle and hangs neatly down the side of her face. Both ears are half-exposed in the flowing black hair, and they look energetic. She will always be full of warmth and love for iron slag...... Don't believe it, her bear hug image is obvious to all, and that's how she treats Iron Slag, although Iron Slag himself doesn't necessarily like this way......

Secondly, it is Ye Xinling, although in terms of appearance, there is indeed a gap between her and Lina and You Ge. However, if you look at it as a whole, or in terms of the aesthetics and values of iron slag, Ye Xinling is not much worse than them. In the eyes of Iron Slag, Lena is like a delicate and elegant famous sword, and You Ge is like a dazzling gem. However, these are far from his living environment.

For iron slag, Ye Xinling has a unique temperament. She is like a weed that grows in the wasteland, tenacious, tenacious, and will do anything to survive, and can thrive no matter what kind of land it is in. Although it is in turmoil, the kindness and innocence in the heart have never changed.

Let's talk about Mu Yu Lily of the Valley, the childhood sweetheart and childhood friend of the iron slag, she is like a clear spring, cold, and refreshing, but her atrium is tightly closed, leaving only a gap, which can accommodate the iron slag. Her identity and status are destined to be a gap with the iron slag, she has no support, no family, the only background is just the shelter of the Prayer Rain Temple, she must be obsessed with cultivation, no distractions, she thinks that her love can only belong to the iron slag, she can't bear to share a love with other girls...... This is predictable, after all, the scenes of falling in love and killing each other are really good, and it's nice to see, isn't it? Ha ha.

Finally, it's our heroine You Ge. Lombard, as a rich second generation of the rich second generation, her life, her background, and even her character are destined to be arrogant and proactive. Her cunning, her vitality, the slight curvature of the corners of her mouth, playful and untamable are deeply attractive to everyone, she is difficult to obey a person's words, although after meeting Iron Slag in Iron Mountain Town, she can't stop ridiculing and provoking him, but in this process, because of the personality charm of Iron Slag, she is gradually immersed, and when she returns to the world that belongs to her, she will definitely bury this experience deep in her memory, who is she? She is the pearl of the Lombal family, she has the peak power of Silver City as a background, and she thinks that she has lacked nothing since she was a child...... But is that really the case? When she leaves the iron slag, she will definitely realize that she lacks such a person, the fierce, cold, but gentle wilderness boy, the iron slag.

Finally, let's talk about our protagonist! As we all know, the protagonist Iron Slag is a fierce and indifferent teenager who kills decisively and calmly...... By the way, he is still illiterate, does not understand history, does not know how to communicate, and cannot even keep up with trends. The days of living in Iron Mountain Town were boring and boring, he was the enforcer of Iron Mountain Town, and his hands were stained with the smell of killing, which filled his body with an aura of unapproachable...... But he is a kind person in his heart, he is raised by Daddy Tie, taught him the ability to survive in this bloodthirsty world, and also brings him warmth, care and love, he is the pride of Iron Slag, a great man who will always exist in the depths of his heart, and similarly, Iron Slag must be his proud pride in the heart of Iron Daddy!

Many people have such a question, the so-called totem of the end times, what is its significance in this story, I think, the ancient ballad of the ancient temple in the text can probably be explained......

[Winter is coming, and the eternal night is coming.

On the eve of darkness, I will put on the armor of my father, and from now on I will watch the glorious flame until I die.

I will listen to the teachings of my ancestors, observe the ancient precepts, and remember the glory of the past.

I will not fight for honor or disgrace, nor will I seek power.

My sword is not unsheathed for fame and fortune, my shield is not lifted up to the good, my eyes are not resting on money and beauty, my blood is not boiling for worldly love and hatred.

I am the silent pillar, the guardian in front of the altar.

I am the bell that rings the dawn, swooping down on the feathers of the flames, tearing through the claws of darkness, the last line of defense of the temple.

I vow to stick to this place, day and night, year and month, all in this life]

This is the greatest inheritance in the world, and it is also the most important entrustment in the world.

This is the glorious faith, with sacrifice to achieve the future, with faith to carry the past, with life for hope!

This is, the totem of the end times!!