Chapter 419: Thousand Miles Cannon
Chen Hao had already used up 27,000 of them after harvesting enough demon essences last time, and exchanged them for twenty Nine Turns Nine Returning Pills. However, this elixir is condensed for every drop of spiritual liquid, and it is good to take one pill.
In addition, he also changed some Qi Guiyuan Dan. If this elixir were converted into a demon spirit, it would be one hundred and seventy primary demon spirits.
Later, when he used mana to stimulate the "Endless Arrow" formation of Eagle Strike, Chen Hao cooperated and took a lot of Qi Guiyuan Dan, so that he could barely keep up with the consumption of mana.
Chen Hao now finally has a relatively abundant demon spirit, and the demon spirit can replace the demon spirit, so in addition to buying the elixir, he also replaced the middle volume of "Five Elements Returning to Tibet".
It is not yet in the late stage of foundation building, so it is good to change it out first and realize it in advance.
After returning to CitΓ© Soleil, the situation in the city deteriorated day by day.
Many grain stores have closed and there is no food to sell. The rest of the shops are only open for two hours a day, and they are sold according to the quota per capitation, and the whole city is panicked.
In particular, those who fled from other cities and nearby villages have long been unable to buy food because they do not have the status of the imperial capital. In the streets and alleys, hunger also began to appear.
The students of the Royal Academy took to the streets again with large banners, calling on people to leave the imperial capital.
"Save every bite of food for the Empire!"
"Don't be afraid of the dark, everyone go to the countryside and be self-reliant. β
Young people persuaded people sleeping on the streets, and took the lead in demonstrating how to feed their hunger with the bark of grass roots, hoping that people would return to the dark wilderness and scavenge for edible residues.
But there are some people who have begun to question the empire. They asked the Yuwen family, why didn't they take out the grain in the "Chang Ping Warehouse"?
"Changping" is a national grain reserve warehouse set up by the empire, which is distributed throughout the country, especially the imperial capital.
In the past, it was known as the grain in the "Changping Warehouse", which was enough for the whole country to eat for two years. It has only been a few months now, and there has been this great famine.
People who were puzzled by this also formed gangs, and students from the royal academy marched through the streets, calling on the empire to open warehouses and release grain to save the hungry people who were waiting for food.
"Now I have eaten the grain in the Changping warehouse, so what will I use to counterattack the Dark Alliance in the future?"
Soon, the young students, led by the supporters of the Empire's refusal to release grain, began to argue with the side that demanded the release of grain.
"I can't live now, where will I come from?"
The party who asks for the grain scoffs at the other party's point of view.
The two sides began to argue fiercely in every street, in every place where people gathered, and even in the same family.
"Grain-releasing faction" and "anti-grain-releasing faction" have gradually become the new labels to measure people's identities in the imperial capital.
Because of different points of view, friends break up, husbands and wives turn against each other, and fathers and sons enmity emerge one after another!
In the end, the argument could no longer comfort people's anxiety and irritability, and they began to attack each other. Things intensified, from street fights to murder and arson, and the smoke of gunpowder could be seen everywhere in the entire imperial capital.
Yu Wenhan has always remained silent, and only when the battle is hot, he sends troops to suppress both sides, without discrimination, and there is no forgiveness.
Even with this method, the imperial capital was divided into two camps.
The "grain release faction" and the "anti-grain release faction" began to divide the streets and markets, and according to the number of people, the dominant side was allowed to exist only one point of view in the area they occupied.
Some people, just to avoid trouble, expressed their support for opening warehouses and releasing grain when the "grain release faction" occupied their own nearby areas; once the "grain release faction" was defeated, they declared that they were opposed to grain release.
In the midst of a miasma of black smoke, the development of the sun-shooting cannon was finally completed!
Then work began on on-the-ground construction, which could not be carried out in the imperial capital.
So the imperial army immediately took action and arrested all the stalwarts of the "grain release faction" and the "anti-grain release faction".
They were taken to the thousand-mile plain between the imperial capital Sun City and Longqian Pass, and began to contribute their excess energy to the Empire's sun-shooting artillery.
The construction of the sun-shooting cannon, on the other hand, alleviated the famine in the imperial capital. Yuwen Han opened the regular liquidation along the road for the project, and the people who participated in the labor finally had something to eat.
The efficiency of the entire empire, when it starts to revolve around one thing, is amazing!
The firing cannon will be 1,300 miles long, and the entire project is expected to be completed within a month.
During this time, Chen Hao added another drop of spiritual liquid. In addition to practicing and deducing the Great Yan Formation Technique, he had nothing else to do.
On this day, Jin Dani gathered the group of people who entered the Artifact Mansion.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the sun-shooting cannon is nearing completion. Before that, we have one last thing to do. Kim Dani looked around at the crowd.
Jin Xunkang said dissatisfiedly: "I came in and didn't leave anything, so there's only one last thing left?"
"Don't talk nonsense, get down to business now. After the early observation of the Rising Sun Empire, he could only determine the approximate range of the Sky Stealing Demon Array. So we need to make the final positioning for the launch of the sun-shooting cannon. Jin Dani said again.
"What are you going to do?" asked Zhou Zicheng.
"We need to infiltrate the Dark Alliance and find the exact location of the Sky Stealing Demon Array. This is a guidance device developed by Shang Yi for the shells of Japanese artillery. Come, everyone brings one. Kim Dani took out a handful of projectile-shaped objects and distributed them to everyone one by one.
Chen Hao took the projectile and found that it was a component made of unknown metal. As before, the Qiankun Catalogue can do nothing about it, and can only show "unknown".
"The time is eleven days later, when the cannonballs that shoot the Sun Cannon will be fired near the Sky Stealing Demon Array. At that time, no matter who it is, as long as it is in the position of the Sky Stealing Demon Array, it needs to break this projectile, and it can send a signal to guide the landing point of the cannonball. Jin Dani held the projectile and explained to everyone.
Isn't this the rhythm of "shoot at me"?
Chen Hao felt a pain in his eyes, he raised his hand and asked, "That, I want to ask, what will happen to us after the shell falls?"
"That's a good question. In the time between breaking the projectile and the shell falling, we need to flee the scene as soon as possible. Because, the power of the cannonball will be very great! How big is it, according to Shang Yi, once the cannonball explodes, even he is afraid!"
"Why did we do this?" Zhou Zicheng asked lightly.
"It's not just us. The Rising Sun Empire has also sent more than a dozen foundation building masters, who will be divided into three paths, plus we have a total of five paths, to complete this matter together to ensure that nothing goes wrong.
"You must know that there are very few foundation building masters in the Rising Sun Empire. Sending out these dozen or so is already the maximum they can draw, and if these dozen foundation building masters die, they will only have less than ten left. β