In the palace, Xiaocao is from one head to two big, people often say that if it is dead, it will be a hundred, without any concern, if this is true, he must be the most restless ghost in the world.

Today, the representatives of the institute, led by the Grand Elder Bai Dezhao, after reading the protest letter, not only hoped to pay compensation as soon as possible, but also asked His Royal Highness the Prince to personally apologize to the delegates and express remorse for his sabotage. "That's all we want, can't we even do that?"

There are only two requests, but both of them are difficult for Xiaocao to agree to hastily. As for the apology, with her husband's stubborn temper, it would be good not to beat the appeal representative on the spot, and it was really difficult to ask him to bow his head and apologize, not to mention that Nier must be on the same side as her brother, and her momentum is even higher, and she doesn't dare to mention this matter to her husband at all.

Fortunately, Nier went out to participate in the activities of the school palace, otherwise she might have quarreled with these representatives immediately.

The other party did not answer for a while, and Bai Dezhao and the others also waited calmly, waiting for the confidential secretary representing His Royal Highness the Prince to give a definite answer.

It's strange to say, before coming here, everyone swore to express the anger and dissatisfaction of the research institute with a tough iron fist, but when they saw this woman named Cangyuecao, everyone invariably felt a sense of awe.

The hair that was hung down covered the left half of her face, and she wore glasses, and her face was difficult to distinguish, but when the wonderful eyes under the lenses stared over, everyone seemed to be intimidated by her and did not dare to make a mistake.

"On the issue of compensation, we have tried to give you a satisfactory answer before the agreed period, but as for the second question of the apology......

Xiaocao said slowly, and before he could reach a conclusion, he heard someone striding and rushing closer. As soon as she heard the sound of heroic footsteps, she recognized her husband's voice, and she was also stunned in her heart, for the river to finish a picnic......

This concern is correct, but the direction in which things are developing is beyond Xiaocao's grasp.

As soon as the door opened, Lancelot strode in, originally as if he was going to talk to his wife, but seeing a group of outsiders present, he turned around and came to Bai Dezhao.

"Your Royal Highness, we ask you to ...... for your sabotage at the Institute last time"

Before he finished speaking, Lancelot patted his hands on the old man's shoulders and said, "Great Elder, I want to apologize to you for my previous ignorance. ”

"That's good...... Huh?"

"I've misunderstood you in the past, and only now do I understand how great you are. Lancelot said, shaking hands with the protesters one by one in the stunned eyes of the protesters, and said: "For the future of Reins and the whole continent, you have worked hard in research, day and night, you can't eat or sleep well, and even put your relatives at home aside, no one understands this hard ......work."

These words were extremely sincere, and everyone was still suspicious, wondering if he wanted to use Huairou means to mix up, but listening to this paragraph, the bitterness of the usual research institute all floated up, remembering the work pressure that was not known to outsiders, and couldn't help nodding frequently.

"And I am now fully aware of the hardships. I sincerely apologize for my previous mistakes, and look, I bow to you now and apologize...... I hope you will give me a chance to make amends. ”

Compared with the protest representatives, Xiaocao, who is familiar with her husband's personality, is only more surprised. Pretentiousness is not in line with Lancelot's personality, such a low-profile speech, let alone his style, not to mention that he speaks sincerely at this time, obviously every sentence is from the heart, what is the reason for him to have such a big change?

Looking at the representatives of the research institute, they nodded in agreement one by one, and their attitudes were much softened compared to before, and they even seemed to have a good impression of Lancelot who said these considerate words. Whatever the motive for saying this, it seems that considerable benefits have been won.

"Such great people deserve to be treated better!" I, Lancelot, promise that as soon as I ascend to the throne, I will thoroughly improve the welfare of the researchers...... No, it's too slow...... Well, how much are you asking for compensation? 30,000 is it? I'm going to double it now and pay you 60,000 gold coins, that's a good number!"

When Lancelot said the last few words, Xiaocao already realized that something was wrong and wanted to stop it, but he was a step too late, and he said the impossible promise, and then he shook Bai Dezhao's hand violently.

"Great Elder, let's work together to create the future of the Ancient Demon Dao!"

The indiscriminate dialogue sprinkled with dog blood had an extraordinary effect at this time, and the representatives of the research institute who had originally come for the protest applauded wildly, and began to dream of a salary increase in their minds.

The atmosphere at the scene was lively, and there was only a little grass left, sincerely hoping that the Magic Guild would develop a spell that could make gold coins rain in the sky as soon as possible.

The impact of this meeting was mixed, at least the Bai Family Research Institute reversed its previous hateful attitude, and felt that this barbaric monkey was not hopeless, and was an object that could be communicated. If you can really pay 60,000 gold coins to raise all the researchers and improve their welfare, then even if you swear allegiance to him, there is nothing wrong with it!

But the real tricky part is still how to conjure up money? Even if Xiaocao is smart and wise, she can't conjure up a large amount of money out of thin air, so she has to try to raise money at the same time, she also orders the Demon Guild to send more people to conduct alchemy research.

Keeping his promise with Eling, when his wife asked why he had changed so much, Lancelot just smiled and said that he was inspired by something.

When this change reached the ears of the people under the grass, everyone was amazed, wondering why the dead robber had suddenly changed his sex, and the vast majority of people thought that Lancelot was pretending.

Regardless of the situation inside, he was greatly anxious during the daytime march of the siege a few miles outside the city. Although the grass has been surrounded, it has not had much effect, because there are many concerns about the daytime trip. For fear that the artillery fire would damage the buildings and historic sites under Jixia and arouse public criticism, they did not dare to let go of the attack; for fear of cutting off the supply of water and food in the city, causing resentment among the people, and provoking the crime of "unkindness," they did not dare to completely seal the encirclement network so that Jixia could still maintain a certain amount of external transportation; and even more feared that they would press too hard and let the enemy break their promise to attack with the strength of heaven and fight a tough battle in which the outcome was unpredictable......

Many worries made the army of Daytime Xing surround the outside of Jixia City, but it was difficult to make any practical moves.

In Xiaocao's eyes, he really couldn't help but sigh for this clansman of the same clan as himself. The best way to besiege the city is to force the city to be in chaos through external pressure, and the city will be defeated. In order to increase the pressure, it is necessary to attack day and night with fatigue attacks that are not very destructive, but frequent, so that the city is enveloped in a tense atmosphere.

Even though the land itself is almost self-sufficient, the common people have not experienced war, and under this great threat, the accumulated resentment and fear will inevitably explode against Lancelot, drive him out of the army, and eliminate the war.

If this situation really arises, Xiaocao and Gengoro must be extremely tricky, and the only strategy that can be adopted is to immediately use the power of the guild to assassinate Bai Xing, so that the army outside the city can be dispersed first, so as to relieve the danger inside the city.

It's just that in the long run, this method is not a good solution, and I really don't want to take this step unless I have no choice.

But even during the day, it was a step too late to adopt such an attack strategy. During this time, Gengoro and Niel have successfully encircled many nobles, mainly scholars, and when they are attacked at this time, it is easy to turn the people's anger to the daytime outside the city through information operations.

In addition, the army has been arrayed outside the city for many days, and the spirit has been lost, and the people in the city have also been psychologically prepared, even if they launch an attack, they will not receive the expected results......

Xiaocao saw the situation very accurately, and this cognition, Bai Xing finally understood. Realizing that the siege had been going on for many days and accomplishing nothing, and instead had put himself in a dilemma where he could not advance or retreat, Bai Xing finally made up his mind, put aside many scruples, and took a formal attack.

First of all, it is necessary to completely block the external traffic under the grass, and not allow any foreign aid materials to enter. Relying on the large number of soldiers,

This step of blockade is not difficult, but when Bai Xing wants to go further and even cut off external communications under the plan, he immediately encounters technical difficulties.

Reyns is a magical kingdom, and after Queen Leah's death, the Wizard Guild changed hands, and some Magus broke away from the guild organization, but they did not join the daytime side. Therefore, knowing that the city is using the secret channel of the Demon Guild to maintain the unimpeded flow of information outside the city, it is impossible to block it during the day.

In addition, the intelligence channels of the Qinglou Alliance are pervasive, and even though the army has sealed off the outside of the city, the messenger in charge of communicating to Niel still appears regularly every two days to inform the outside world of the latest news, and at the same time transmit the situation in the city back to Shangri-La headquarters.

In addition to the blockade, Bai Xing also launched a frontal hard attack, targeting the city walls first, hoping to cause some amount of damage.

The attacker was the same electron cannon that had caused Lancelot's cavalry to fail that day, and from a distance of several miles, the blue and white pillars of light shot in a row, and the sight alone made the eyes burn, and the power was extraordinary.

It's just that, knowing that the enemy has such a weapon in his hands, how can Xiaocao not be prepared?

Sensing that the day was planning to attack, Xiaocao immediately ordered the magic guide troops involved in the city defense to activate Jixia's own defensive barrier, and at the same time asked the Bai Family Research Institute to cooperate and provide countermeasure equipment.

As a result, the blue and white light pillars shot were first weakened by three points by the defensive enchantment, and then shot at the specially treated city wall, refracting fifty percent, and the last few percent of the power was absorbed and diffused by the city wall itself. Although the part of the city wall that was hit by the pillar of light turned a dazzling red color when it was hit, it immediately spread out on the city wall, and was evenly absorbed by the entire city wall, and even if there were a few powerful shots, it only left a faint circle of black shadows on the city wall.

Seeing this scene in his eyes, Xiaocao sighed in his heart. In the past two thousand years, Reyns's hard work and research have not been in vain, even if the war between humans and demons breaks out again, with the power of the Yang electronic cannon, combined with the mass production of the chaotic fire crossbow, it will definitely be able to pose a threat to the demon army;

The attacking side was stunned, and the defenders were thunderous and rejoiced in the weapons that could restrain the enemy.

Seizing this gap, the defenders launched a counterattack, using trebuchets to throw several large stones, targeting the positive electron cannon that had to stop for energy after rapid fire.

Seeing it as a major bargaining chip in his hand, he wanted to give the order to defend himself, but then he found that he was overthinking, and the range projected by the trebuchet was simply impossible to cross a distance of several miles and then hit the fort. Looking at the heavy stone that fell from a long distance, a series of laughter erupted from the side of the day.

"Alas, one side is using the Ancient Demon Dao weapon, and the other side is still using a trebuchet, have you ever seen such a ridiculous battle?"

Also watching the battle at the head of the city, Lancelot sighed to his wife beside him for his own predicament.

It's just that the world is unpredictable, and sometimes the bottom game technology weapons will still be defeated by primitive brute force......

During the day, the pedestrian side was laughing loudly, and suddenly a strong wind sounded, and two catapults fell from the sky, pressing the top of the huge mountain, with stones and cars, and the battery was in the middle of the fort. With a loud bang, the electron cannon had become a useless pile of smoking scrap metal, and when it was broken, it exploded, causing dozens of casualties around it.

At the head of the city, everyone was still stunned by what they had just seen. Finding that the catapult could not be effective, Niel did not say a word, walked to the two loaded catapults, held them with both arms, and with a strong shot, actually lifted the catapult straight over the top, lifted it high, and then threw the behemoth out in the midst of the exclamations of the crowd, drawing an arc in the air and hitting the target accurately.

"Really...... What a humanoid tyrannosaurus!"

"Wouldn't it be more appropriate to call it a humanoid catapult?"

The shock was extraordinary, and the defenders talked a lot, but almost all of them were cries of joy. To create this feat, Nier stepped on the head of the city, put one hand on her waist, tied her long hair in a ponytail, floated vigorously in the wind, and turned around and said loudly: "As long as I am here, no one will want to touch my brother's city!"

The proud and handsome appearance was exchanged for a strong applause from the rear. Nier's martial courage and beauty were once again deeply imprinted into the hearts of the citizens of Jixia City, and the morale was raised crazily.

That's exactly what Xiaocao wants. It doesn't matter if it's irrational, when building the army, you need a mental indicator like Hülegü, as long as this indicator character is long, the soldiers will have undefeated fighting spirit and confidence, so exaggerated performances are sometimes necessary.

The victory of the defending side was relatively a major blow to the side of the day. Powerful weapons can be recreated, but seeing the enemy's unreasonable power, the shock to the soldiers is not easy to erase, and some people can't help but tremble at the thought of being hostile to such a monster in the future.

Bai Xing was also worried, according to the information of the spies, the robber's sister, even if she did not use the power of the heavenly position, also had a terrifying power, so even if she made such a ridiculous attack, it was not considered to have violated the three constraints of Lancelot as king.

The only way to restore the confidence of the soldiers is to prove to them that they have the same power. With this in mind, Bai Baixing shifted his gaze to the back, glancing at the man sitting on the chaise longue, playing with the gold coins in his hand. The original agreement with him was to hire him as a guard, responsible for killing all the intruding Heavenly Assassins, but the assassins have always been in the future, and they will never let him work all day long to receive a high salary?

Feeling this gaze, Hante smiled dumbly. He can understand the embarrassment of the day, but it is his general principle not to do anything other than his salary, since the task is only to guard, and the horizontal and vertical assassins did not come, he is happy to be idle.

However, there is another reason why he came to Reyns......

"Hey, Employer. Han Te got up, patted him on the shoulder during the day, and said with a smile: "Even if it's a big auction of jumping off the building! I'll help you do an extra service at no extra charge......

Although the first battle of defending the city was won, it was an indisputable fact that the siege was unassumable, and in the case of the temporary inability to counterattack in the city, such a blockade could only be lifted when the river was not known?

It's okay in terms of materials, because during the Kyushu War, the demons besieged the city for hundreds of years, so the buildings and facilities in the city have been prepared for this, and they can independently produce most of the resources, and there is no shortage for a while. The more troublesome thing is the human heart. To prove that she could bring in a lot of supplies even under siege, Niel volunteered to do it again.

This time, I was prepared, and all the purchases were entrusted to the Qinglou Alliance, and the Qinglou Alliance had great powers, although it was inconvenient to deliver the goods to home, but it would also load the goods by ship and transport them to the offshore port of Reyns, at the speed of Nier, it would only take two days to go back and forth, which was much faster.

Since the beginning of the siege war, Lancelot felt that he was useless, and he studied and practiced martial arts all day long, and then he met Xiao Ailing.

Due to the intensity of the war, it was no longer convenient to meet outside the city, so the two changed the location of the meeting to a teahouse in the city.

Lancelot took the prepared lunch dishes and listened to the girl talk about some things in the research institute, and at the same time asked her some military weapons of the Great Ancient Demon Dao, so that Ailing could draw a diagram to explain and understand the principle of hurting the enemy and the method of defense of these things. Lacking basic knowledge, most of Lancelot didn't know very well, but listening and learning like this, he really planned to surprise everyone in the future.

Talking to Eling, Lancelot felt that she had a heavy job in the research institute, and she was not very happy about it, and in addition to that, she often had to send money to her little brother who didn't know which hospital he lived in. Stimulated by these conversations, Lancelot returned to discuss with Xiaocao how to improve the current medical system in Reines and reduce the cost and burden on patients. Although Xiaocao was surprised, she also drafted some drafts for him to see according to her husband's wishes, and at the same time made a statement in front of people.

For these actions, Yuxue shouted "The boss is fascinated by ghosts". Lancelot himself smiled, he had an idea, that is, to meet Xiao Ailing like this all the time, without telling her his identity, if one day her impression of Prince Lancelot changed and had a good evaluation, at that time, the people of Lancelot might be able to change their views like her...... And you can count yourself as a real success.

However, this idea is undoubtedly too naïve, because there is no basis for words, and in the absence of enough money and ability to put the plan into practice, no matter how perfect the plan is, it will not be able to win the trust of people, and Lancelot who made this speech immediately attracted the applause of the masses, and many people questioned in public, if he wanted to show his ability, it was better to drive back the rebels outside the city than to use it.

Of course, the various media in the city will not miss this opportunity, and one of them, a tabloid, despite racial discrimination, interviewed Yuyuki, who was drunk after a sumptuous banquet, and asked him for his opinion on the matter.

"What's there to say, my boss will never do charity that is not beneficial......"

This sentence immediately appeared on the front page of the next day's paper," and the newspaper even questioned whether the bandit head, whose only strength was brutal force, had lost his brutal ambition and had been reduced to winning sympathy in such a way?

"Why...... Why doesn't anyone want to believe me?"

Naturally, others can't answer this question.

Two days passed in a flash, and the time of Niel's return was predicted, and a large number of supporters waited for the city, ready to cheer for the return of the goddess of victory, and in Lancelot's eyes, this worship was really a bit morbid, but it was his sister who was popular, and it was not easy to say anything, at most out of sight was pure.

After a while, the expected earth shook and came out on time, and a small black dot quickly approached from the southeast, kicking up the sky full of smoke and dust, and the momentum was as terrifying as the previous time, and the besieging army in the southeast dared to stop it, and they all gave way to a gap for the intruders to pass.

When Niel's figure became clear, the city even applauded loudly. Everything seemed to be going so smoothly, no one expected that just as Niel broke through the range of the besieging army and was far away from the city wall, suddenly there was a sword light like cold lightning, which rose from the camp of the daytime and shot straight at Niel in the gallop.

"It's you!"

"It's me, stinky girl, who finally has a chance to avenge the last kill......"

It happened too quickly, and the stunned crowd at the head of the city only saw a bright electric light, like a yellow dragon breaking through the sky, falling straight down, followed by a series of thunderbolts, Niel carried heavy supplies all the way, and was twisted into pieces by the sword force, flying wildly like snowflakes, obscuring everyone's sight.

Unable to react for a while, Nier was completely at a disadvantage, and only retreated. At the beginning, I also thought that if this guy recovered from his injuries and regained his heavenly strength, would he come to him for revenge?

"Don't want to run, if we don't cut seventeen or eighteen swords on you today, our account can't be settled......"

Han Te shouted and swung his sword, recalling that day when he fled with Nier, this heartless woman actually threw herself as a hidden weapon to Amakusa, facing the unprecedented danger in her life, she really exploded her lungs when she thought about it, and the new hatred and old grudge ended together.

"You threw me away as a secret weapon, didn't you lose it? Now you want you to know the victim's anger......

"Choosing to do it at such a time is just to avenge an arrow, and you man is too unmeasured!"

"Oh, I'm really sorry, I took the money from the boss of Tianxing, and now I am his gold medal fighter, and in addition to guarding against assassins, I am also responsible for eliminating you rebels by the way. ”

"It's just money, we can afford it, and if we can pay you twice as much, can you turn it around and help us kill Bai Xing?"

"Rich? and slow down. ”

Han Te put away his sword and asked in a condensed voice: "Can you really give two hundred gold coins a day, pay in cash on the same day, and collect cash without cashier?"

"If you can't pay it, it's fraud, do you know what happened to the last person who owed me money?