At ten o'clock in the evening, the evening breeze was gentle.

Zhuang Ren finally came.

As soon as he came, he pushed the wheelchair man aside and became the main force in the negotiation with Su Xia.

"Fuck, you two have been talking for so long and you haven't even opened a bottle of wine?"

Zhuang Ren slapped the table, looking unkind.

The man in the wheelchair let out another wry smile and immediately ordered someone to go to the underground cellar to get wine.

It didn't take long for barrel after barrel of mellow wine to be brought up.

"That's right! How can you talk about things without drinking? Zhuang Ren raised his eyebrows, picked up a small wine barrel and poured himself several large mouthfuls.

Then, he wiped his mouth, looked at Su Xia, and said happily: "Lao Tzu rushed here from Coral City overnight, for fear of missing the negotiation with you bastard, I didn't even drink a sip of water on the way, and my throat was about to smoke!" ”

"Let's get down to business." Su Xia smiled indifferently.

"Business? What is there to say? Do you bastard agree to a truce? ”

"Agreed."

"Isn't that what it takes? What else is there to talk about? ”

Zhuang Ren looked indifferent, as if he came over overnight just to drink, and he didn't care about the negotiation at all.

The man in the wheelchair couldn't help but remind: "Elder Zhuang, the details have not been agreed upon, and the contract can only be determined after the details are agreed, and the two parties must sign the contract, this kind of verbal commitment ......"

"Sign a fart contract!"

Zhuang Ren interrupted him rudely, then pointed at Su Xia and said, "This bastard is a sixth-level creature, what kind of contract do you think can bind a sixth-level creature?" ”

The wheelchair man looked embarrassed and replied, "You can't sign nothing, right?" ”

"Why not?"

“……”

The man in the wheelchair was silent for a long time, and finally sighed and shook the wheelchair to the side.

As clever as he is, he can naturally guess the purpose of the tavern.

There are so many members of the Senate Council, but only Zhuang Ren, a senator who has a good relationship with Su Xia, came to negotiate, which is enough to explain a lot of things.

"Since we're not talking about business, let's talk about something else." Su Xia looked calm, took himself a glass of wine, and chatted with Zhuang Ren while drinking.

He talked about the previous question, the relationship between the Zero Tavern and the Automaton.

To his surprise, even Zhuang Ren, the fourth elder, didn't know a lot of things.

Even, Zhuang Ren didn't know the first and second elders at all.

"Didn't you rebuild the Zero Tavern together?" Su Xia asked in surprise.

"yes, but those two bastards have been wearing masks all the time, and like you, they don't know what's under the masks."

Zhuang Ren said that among the 12 first elders of the Senate, the first and second elders are the most mysterious.

After the rebuilding of the Zero Point Tavern, the two men rarely showed up.

At each meeting of the senators, the first and second chairs were vacant.

Even if they are both veterans, Zhuang Ren and the others don't know the details of these two people.

As for the third elder, the mysterious figure codenamed "Qingyu", in fact, Su Xia had known him for a long time.

"Master Wu Hongyu?" Su Xia was surprised.

"That's her."

Through communication, Su Xia learned that the identity of the pharmacist was just a cover for Aunt Wu Hongyu.

This old aunt used to be a ruthless person who killed people without blinking.

This is a bit similar to Su Xia.

He also has a pharmacist as a cover.

As for the fourth elder, it is Zhuang Ren himself, there is nothing to say.

And the fifth elder's identity is a little unusual.

"His code name is 'Polar White Bear', and you only have to think about it to guess his identity." Zhuang Ren said lightly, "Remind you, you saved his son." ”

"That one?"

Su Xia was surprised again.

The fifth patriarch of the Zero Point Tavern, the legendary Lord of Bear City?

He suddenly remembered that when the three-way meeting was held in Dragon City before, Mikhail, the representative of Bear City, had said that Bear City had prepared a big gift for the Mask Monster.

Is that gift the resurrection coin in front of you?

The lord of a human gathering place is actually a patriarch of a neutral organization...... No matter how you look at it, it's weird.

As for the other seven primordial elders, five of them Su Xia had already seen them.

It was the three who died at Su Xia's hands, and the two who escaped with serious injuries.

The three who died happened to be the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth elders from the bottom, and the two who were seriously injured were the eighth and ninth.

The remaining Sixth and Seventh Patriarchs, one a paleontologist and the other a occult scholar, were not very involved in the daily affairs of the tavern.

For the past few months, the two have been doing research in their own laboratories, and they have no idea what is going on in the outside world.

Previously, Zhuang Ren had not been able to contact them until two days ago.

That is to say, in the past few months when Su Xia and the Zero Point Tavern had been fighting all over the city, the first, second, sixth, and seventh elders had not taken care of the tavern at all.

On the side of the Senate, it was basically controlled by the five senators who were extremely hostile to Su Xia.

"The death and wounds of those five guys make me quite comfortable, I have long seen that they are not pleasing to the eye, but I can't do anything to them because of my identity...... You bastard has done you a favor. ”

It can be seen that Zhuang Ren is in a very good mood.

The battle within the Senate is not small, and in the past, Zhuang Ren couldn't compete with those guys, so he showed a leisurely and lazy appearance.

He had originally planned to convene a meeting of the elders in the next few days, and invited the sixth and seventh elders over to join forces to put pressure on the seriously injured eighth and ninth elders to lift the arrest warrant for Su Xia.

It's just that he didn't expect that the first patriarch would show up.

"Didn't you find the first elder?" Su Xia asked in surprise.

"I don't even know his phone number, where am I going to ask for him?" Zhuang Ren shrugged his shoulders and said that the first and second elders, the two elders, were so mysterious that they did not leave any contact information.

In other words, these two showed up on their own initiative.

They sent out two resurrection coins one after another, saying that they wanted to save Su Xia's life.

On the other hand, Aunt Wu Hongyu also gave away the third resurrection coin as if she had a tacit understanding.

Zhuang Ren also pushed the boat down the river and gave out the one in his hand.

Finally, the one in the hands of the Lord of Bear City.

"I thought you guys were negotiating." Su Xia was surprised and said, "So, you haven't discussed it at all?" ”

"Well, I haven't talked about it, maybe it's a tacit understanding." Zhuang Ren shook his head, this time it was indeed a coincidence.

The five of them gave out resurrection coins one after another, and no matter how you look at it, it seems that they have been discussed.

Not only Su Xia, but many people in the outside world thought that these five elders had been discussed.

But in reality, the five of them never met at all.

Next, Su Xia and Zhuang Ren talked a lot about the Zero Point Tavern, and they talked until dawn the next day.

In the end, the two talked back to the original topic, that is, the relationship between the Zero Tavern and the Cyborgs.

"I don't know much about this." Zhuang Ren pondered for a moment before he said, "I only know that after the tavern was rebuilt, the first one personally went to the Silver and White City, and when he came back, he had a contract in his hand, which was a contract of equality. ”

That contract represented the recognition of the status of the Zero Tavern by the Cybren.

This is also the biggest difference between the Zero Point Tavern and the rest of the big forces.

Other large forces, let alone taking contracts, can't even enter the gates of the Silver and White City.

In general, the reputation of the Zero Point Tavern is inseparable from the first veteran "breaking the cocoon".

After chatting all night, there were a few more empty barrels beside the two of them.

"Okay, everything that needs to be said is said, is there anything else to know?" Zhuang Ren asked Su Xia.

"Yes." Su Xia nodded.

"How can there be?"

"One last question."

"You say."

"About the wreckage of an alien spaceship controlled by the Zero Point Tavern."

"Oh, that thing, it's in the far north, you can go and see it yourself......"

Zhuang Ren acted indifferent, and casually threw a map to Su Xia, which indicated the location of the wreckage of the alien spaceship.

He slowly stood up, and was about to leave, when he suddenly thought of something, looked at Su Xia again, and also asked: "The intelligent butler of the alien spaceship said that he already has a master, and the new master should not be you, right?" ”

Su Xia smiled and didn't answer.

Seeing him like this, Zhuang Ren also had an answer in his heart, and did not ask again.

The two parted.

This bloody killing, which lasted for several months, came to an end.

After the news spread, there was a heated discussion in the outside world, with different views on all sides, some believing that it was a real peace, while others thought it was a brief truce.

But in any case, the next period of time should be spent in peace.

Of course, there are also quite a few people who have seen the storm hidden under the calm.

"Troubled times are coming."

The captain of the Flame Death Squad sighed.

Su Xia's months-long battle with the Zero Point Tavern only kicked off the prelude to this troubled world.

The real cruelty is still to come.

Although it is still quiet on the surface, prices in various cities have begun to rise, especially food.

If you don't talk about other cities, let's talk about the coral city where Suxia is located.

In just a few months, the price of food in Coral City has doubled.

Of course, there are many reasons for the malicious price increase of grain merchants, but it is enough to see the problem.

After returning to Coral City, Suxia sat in the school, continued to recruit students, and constantly improved the school's various rules and regulations.

At the same time, he also sent a lot of people to buy supplies.

"Don't be too expensive, when the war really comes, all the paper money in your hands will turn into waste paper, and it is the best choice to exchange them for food now!"

Su Xia had already stockpiled a lot of food, and the rest of the supplies were also a lot, all of which were placed in the underground space of the pharmacy and the school.

The pharmacy is not far from the school, only one or two kilometers, and the underground has long been opened by Su Xia.

In the past few months, Su Jianshe and his construction department have not been idle, and have connected the other two areas with the school, so that the scale of the school has been greatly expanded.

The scale of the whole school is no less than that of a small village and town, and it is like a city within a city.

At the edge of the school, a solid façade is built, tall and heavy, and the material is quite sufficient, and when you knock the cement layer on the surface, you can see the dense steel bars inside.

Inside the outer wall, there is also a higher and thicker inner wall.

Inside the inner walls, there are reinforced concrete buildings built according to military fortification standards.

The ground of the school has also been reinforced, and the reinforced concrete layer alone is 35 meters thick, even if it encounters the most advanced ground-penetrating bombs.

At the beginning, when Su Jianshe saw the sketch Su Xia gave him, he sighed: "This is really crazy." ”

For the sake of the school project, the progress of the rest of the construction throughout Coral City has slowed down a lot.

During this time, Su Jianshe lost more than ten pounds, and his skin became a lot darker.

After the project was completed, his first request to Su Xia was not to settle the final payment of the project, but to let his family move to the school.

"Master Su, my family is only five people, and I won't cause you too much trouble, and I am willing to pay all the expenses during their time here." Su Jianshe apparently also smelled the breath of war.

The school was built by his own hands, and he knew the horror of the school's defensive capabilities.

There were more than fifty escape routes that Su Xia had asked him to build underground, and Su Xia would definitely prepare some follow-ups.

On the day of the war, the probability of surviving in school is much higher than the probability of being outside.

Faced with Su Jianjian's request, Su Xia agreed without much thought.

"Yes, Minister Su, you can bring all your family members here, and bring all the living materials that you can bring with your family." Su Xia nodded and said.

"Thank you!"

Su Jianshe solemnly thanks.

In the days that followed, the number of people living in the school gradually increased.

Many pharmacists have made a trip home and brought their family members and relatives with them.

Two months later, the number of people in the school had exceeded 10,000.

The clouds of war are getting thicker.

Prices in Coral City have skyrocketed, food has risen sevenfold, and it continues to rise at an extremely terrifying rate.

On this day, Su Xia stood on the roof of the teaching building, with deep eyes, looking down on the entire campus.

"Whirring ......"

The wind was blowing in the heavens and the earth, and the thunder was rumbling overhead, and the clouds were thick, which was a sign of an impending storm.

Beside him was Yu Tuo, who stood with his hands in his hands.

Yu Tuo has become much stronger, and he is almost close to a sixth-level creature.

During this time, the mechanical race did not skimp on psionic resources, and spared no effort to improve the strength of the entire race, even if a cyborg like Yu Tuo got a lot of benefits.

"The storm is coming." Yu Tuo glanced at space and said indifferently.

"yes, the storm is coming."

Susha got the news from several roommates.

Today is the day of the attack that players from all countries have discussed.

Taking into account the time difference in the countries, they set the time for the attack at ten o'clock in the evening.

Naturally, this news cannot be concealed from the mechanical clans.

"Do what you have to do, and after this battle, you will be the new lord of Coral City." Yu Tuo left a faint word, and then left.

Su Xia stood alone on the roof of the building, his face was very calm, and there was no change in the slightest.

The new city lord, this identity, may be very attractive to people like Shijidao.

But Su Xia was not interested at all.

He slowly returned to the principal's office, called everyone in the school management, and had a short meeting.

"Teaching is suspended, schools are closed, war is coming."