Chapter 529 The war begins!
It's ten o'clock in the evening and the breeze is blowing gently.
Zhuang Ren finally arrived.
With his arrival, he pushed the man in the wheelchair aside and became the main force in the negotiations with Su Xia.
"Fuck, you two have been talking for so long and you haven't even opened a bottle of wine?"
Zhuang Ren slammed the table with a bad look on his face.
The man in the wheelchair laughed bitterly again and immediately ordered someone to get some wine from the underground wine cellar .
Soon, barrel after barrel of mellow wine was brought up.
"That's right! How can we talk about business without drinking?" Zhuang Ren raised his eyebrows, picked up a small wine barrel and took several big gulps.
Then, he wiped his mouth, looked at Su Xia, and said cheerfully: "I rushed here from Coral City overnight, fearing that I would miss the negotiation with you, a bastard. I didn't even drink a sip of water along the way, and my throat is about to smoke!"
"Let's talk business." Su Xia smiled indifferently.
"Business? What's there to talk about? Do you agree to a truce, you bastard?"
"agree."
"That's it? What else is there to talk about?"
Zhuang Ren looked indifferent, as if he had rushed over overnight just to drink and didn't care about the negotiations at all.
The wheelchair man couldn't help but remind him: "Elder Zhuang, the details have not been agreed upon yet. Only after the details are agreed upon can the contract be finalized. Both parties must sign the contract. This verbal promise..."
"Sign a bullshit contract!"
Zhuang Ren interrupted him rudely, then pointed at Su Xia and said, "This bastard is a level six creature. What kind of contract do you think can restrain a level six creature?"
The wheelchair man looked embarrassed and replied, "You can't just sign nothing, right?"
"Why not?"
“…”
The man in the wheelchair was silent for a long time. Finally, he sighed and pushed his wheelchair aside.
Being as smart as he was, he could naturally guess the purpose of the tavern.
There are so many members in the Elders' Council, but only Zhuang Ren, an elder who has a good relationship with Su Xia, came to negotiate. This 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. He poured himself a glass of wine and chatted with Zhuang Ren while drinking.
He talked about the previous question, which was the relationship between the Zero Point Tavern and the mechanical race.
To his surprise, even Zhuang Ren, the fourth elder, had many things he didn't know.
In fact, Zhuang Ren didn't even know the first and second elders.
"Didn't you rebuild the Zero Point Tavern together?" Su Xia asked in surprise.
"Yeah, but those two bastards were wearing masks the whole time. Just like you, you have no idea what's underneath the masks."
Zhuang Ren said that among the twelve original elders of the Council of Elders, the first and second elders were the most mysterious.
After the reconstruction of the Zero Point Tavern, these two people rarely appeared in public.
At every Senate meeting, the first and second chairs are always vacant.
Even though they were both veterans, Zhuang Ren and others were not clear about the background of these two people.
As for the third elder, the mysterious figure codenamed "Green Fish", Su Xia actually knew him a long time ago.
"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 lady used to be a ruthless person who killed people without blinking an eye.
In this respect, she is somewhat similar to Su Xia.
He also had a cover identity as a pharmacist.
As for the fourth elder, that is Zhuang Ren himself, there is nothing much to say about him.
The identity of the fifth elder is somewhat unusual.
"His code name is 'Polar White Bear'. If you think about it, you can guess his identity." Zhuang Ren said calmly, "Just to remind you, you saved his son."
"It's that person?"
Su Xia was surprised again.
The fifth elder of the Zero Point Tavern is the legendary Lord of Bear City?
He suddenly remembered that during the tripartite meeting held in Longcheng, Mikhail, the representative of Bear City, had said that Bear City had prepared a big gift for the masked man.
Could that great gift be the resurrection coin in front of us?
The mayor of a human settlement is actually a elder of a neutral organization... This is weird no matter how you look at it.
As for the other seven first-generation elders, Su Xia had already met five of them.
They are the three who died at Su Xia's hands, and the two who escaped with serious injuries.
The three who died were the tenth, eleventh and twelfth veterans who were ranked from the bottom, and the two who were seriously injured were the eighth and ninth.
The remaining sixth and seventh elders, one is a paleontologist and the other is a scholar of mysticism, neither of them is involved in the daily affairs of the tavern.
In the past few months, the two have been doing research in their own laboratories and have no idea what is happening in the outside world.
Before this, Zhuang Ren had been unable to contact them until two days ago.
In other words, during the months when Su Xia and the Zero Point Tavern were fighting all over the city, the first, second, sixth, and seventh elders had never taken care of the tavern's affairs.
The Council of Elders was basically controlled by the five elders who were extremely hostile to Su Xia.
"I feel relieved to see those five guys dead or injured. I have disliked them for a long time, but I couldn't do anything to them due to my status... You, asshole, have helped me."
It can be seen that Zhuang Ren is in a good mood.
There were also a lot of fights within the Elders Council. In the past, Zhuang Ren couldn't win against those guys, so he acted leisurely and lazy.
He had originally planned to convene a meeting of elders in the next few days, invite the sixth and seventh elders to come, and jointly put pressure on the seriously injured eighth and ninth elders to ask them to lift the arrest warrant for Su Xia.
But he didn't expect that the first elder would actually show up.
"Didn't you find the first elder?" Su Xia asked in surprise.
"I don't even know his phone number, how can I invite him?" Zhuang Ren shrugged, saying that the first and second elders so mysterious that they didn't even leave any contact information.
In other words, these two people showed up on their own initiative.
They sent out two resurrection coins in succession, indicating that they would save Su Xia's life.
On the other side, Aunt Wu Hongyu also gave out the third resurrection coin as if they had a tacit understanding.
Zhuang Ren just went with the flow and gave away the one in his hand.
The last one is the one in the hands of the Lord of Bear City.
"I thought you guys had discussed this beforehand." Su Xia said in surprise, "So you didn't discuss it at all?"
"Well, we haven't even talked about it, maybe it's a tacit understanding." Zhuang Ren shook his head. This matter was indeed a coincidence.
The five people gave out resurrection coins one after another, and it seemed like they had discussed it beforehand.
Not only Su Xia, many people outside believed that these five elders had discussed it beforehand.
But in fact, the five of them had never met each other.
Next, Su Xia and Zhuang Ren talked a lot about the Midnight Tavern until dawn the next day.
Finally, the two returned to the original topic, which was the relationship between the Zero Point Tavern and the mechanical race.
"I don't know much about this." Zhuang Ren pondered for a moment, and then said: "I only know that after the tavern was rebuilt, the first person went to the Silver City in person. When he came back, he held a contract in his hand. It was an equal contract."
That contract represented that the Mechanical Clan recognized the status of the Zero Point Tavern.
This is also the biggest difference between Zero Point Tavern and other large forces.
Other large forces, let alone getting a contract, can't even enter the gate of the Silver City.
In general, the current reputation of Zero Point Tavern is inseparable from the "breaking out of the cocoon" of the first veteran.
After chatting all night, there were several empty wine barrels beside both of them.
"Okay, we've said everything that needs to be said. Is there anything else you want to know?" Zhuang Ren asked Su Xia.
"Yes." Su Xia nodded.
"Why is there more?"
"One last question."
"you say."
"About the wreckage of the alien spaceship controlled by the Zero Point Tavern."
"Oh, that thing is in the Far North. If you want to see it, go there yourself..."
Zhuang Ren acted indifferent and casually threw a map to Su Xia. The map marked the location of the alien spacecraft wreckage.
He stood up slowly and was about to leave when he suddenly thought of something. He looked at Su Xia again and asked, "The intelligent butler of the alien spaceship said that he already has a master. Could the new master be you?"
Su Xia smiled and didn't answer.
Seeing him like this, Zhuang Ren already had the answer in his mind and didn't ask any more questions.
The two parted ways.
The bloody massacre that lasted for several months came to an end.
After the news came out, there was a heated discussion in the outside world, with different opinions. Some believed it was true peace, while others believed it was a short truce.
But no matter what, the next period of time should be spent in peace.
Of course, many people also saw the storm hidden beneath the calm.
"The troubled times are coming."
The captain of the Fire Suicide Squad sighed.
The months-long battle between Su Xia and the Zero Point Tavern was just the beginning of this chaotic world.
The real cruelty is yet to come.
Although things seem calm on the surface, prices in various cities have begun to rise, especially food.
Let’s not talk about other cities, let’s just talk about Coral City where Su Xia is.
In just a few months, the price of food in Coral City doubled.
This is certainly due to the malicious price-raising by many grain traders, but it is enough to reveal the problem.
After returning to Coral City, Su Xia took charge of 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 purchase supplies.
"Don't think it's too expensive. When the war really comes, all the banknotes in your hands will become waste paper. It's best to exchange them for food now!"
Su Xia has already stockpiled a lot of food, as well as a lot of other supplies, all of which are stored in the pharmacy and the basement space of the school.
The pharmacy is not far from the school, only one or two kilometers away, and Su Xia had already opened up the underground passage.
In the past few months, Su Jianshe and his construction department have not been idle. They have connected two other areas to the school, greatly expanding the scale of the school.
The scale of the entire school is no less than that of a small village or town; it is like a city within a city.
A very solid outer wall was built at the edge of the school. It is tall and thick, and made of a considerable amount of materials. If you knock off the cement layer on the surface, you can see the densely packed steel bars inside.
Inside the outer wall, there is a taller and thicker inner wall.
Inside the inner walls are reinforced concrete buildings built according to military fortification standards.
The school ground has also been reinforced. The reinforced concrete layer alone is thirty-five meters thick, so it is not afraid of even the most advanced bunker-buster bombs.
When Su Jianshe saw the sketch Su Xia gave him, he exclaimed: "This is really crazy."
Because of the school project, the progress of other projects in the entire Coral City has slowed down a lot.
During this period, Su Jianshe lost more than ten kilograms and his skin became much darker.
After the project was completed, the first request he made to Su Xia was not to pay off the balance of the project, but to let his family move into the school.
"Master Su, there are only five people in my family, and it won't cause you too much trouble. I am willing to pay all the expenses while they live here." Su Jianshe obviously also smelled the scent of war.
He had built the school himself, and he was well aware of the terrifying defensive capabilities of this school.
Su Xia alone asked him to build more than fifty escape routes underground, and Su Xia must have prepared some backup plans.
When the day of war comes, the probability of surviving in school is much greater than the probability of surviving outside.
Faced with Su Jianshe's request, Su Xia agreed without much thought.
"Okay, Minister Su, please bring your family here, and also bring all the daily necessities from home." Su Xia nodded and said.
"Thank you very much!"
Su Jianshe expresses his sincere gratitude.
After that, more and more people started living in the school.
Many pharmacists returned home and brought their families and relatives with them.
Two months later, the number of students in the school had exceeded 10,000.
The clouds of war are growing thicker.
Prices in Coral City continue to skyrocket. Food prices have increased sevenfold and are still rising at an extremely terrifying rate.
On this day, Su Xia stood on the roof of the teaching building, looking down at the entire campus with a deep gaze.
“Huff…”
There were strong winds between heaven and earth, thunder rumbling overhead, and dark clouds gathering, all of which were signs of an impending storm.
Next to him was Yu Tuo standing with his hands behind his back.
Yu Tuo has become much stronger and is almost close to being a level six creature.
During this period, the mechanical race did not hesitate to use their psychic resources and spared no effort to enhance the strength of the entire race. Even half-mechanical people like Yu Tuo benefited a lot.
"The storm is coming." Yu Tuo looked into the sky and said indifferently.
"Yes, the storm is coming."
Su Xia got the news from several roommates.
Today is the day of attack discussed by players from various countries.
Taking into account the time differences between countries, they set the attack time at 10 o'clock in the evening.
Naturally, this news could not be hidden from the mechanical clan.
"Do what you should do. After this battle, you will be the new lord of Coral City." Yu Tuo said lightly and then left.
Su Xia stood alone on the roof, her face calm, without the slightest change.
The identity of the new city lord might be very attractive to someone like Sijidao.
But Su Xia had no interest at all.
He slowly returned to the principal's office, called all the school administrators over, and held a short meeting.
"Teaching work is suspended, school is closed, war is coming."
