Earl Watson did not forget what he wanted to say. Instead, it suddenly remembered that any threatening and ruthless words would not work for the corpse. They could not understand what you wanted to express. As long as there was meat to eat, they could drive them to do anything.

"I hate brainless creatures."

Looking at the city where shouting and roaring kept coming from the distance, Earl Watson took a glass of red wine mixed with human blood from the maid next to him, and said to himself unhappily: "The God of Darkness is above, I actually have the same race as a stupid guy like a corpse man. This kind of thing is disgusting just by thinking about it."

It feels bad to be awakened from sleep, but the lord of Oviado Count Thomas can no longer care about so much.

The person who escaped from the bedroom in underwear was not very good at all. Thomas knew that he was very embarrassed now, but even if he lived like this, he would always be better than dead. The alarm sounded over the city never stopped, but this warning no longer had any effect.

The city wall to the west was broken.

This was the news from that direction more than ten minutes ago. As for now... Count Thomas forced himself to stop thinking about any questions about the city walls. The situation was very bad, and everything exceeded the initial estimate of the word "danger".

The City Lord's Mansion is a courtyard covering an area of ​​more than thousands of square meters. The architectural style here is different from other places, and it is full of magnificent elements everywhere. Of course, this contrast is only produced with the surrounding civilian buildings. If it were in the empire, such buildings would be just ordinary. But no matter what, the difference is very obvious and you can see through it at a glance.

A huge ant demon rushed over from the west of the city. On the horny hard shell about three square meters above the ant demon's head, a burly dark jazz wearing black armor stood. Its hands were holding something similar to a reins and firmly controlled the direction of the ant demon's movement. Dozens of dark knights wearing the same style of armor followed near the ant demon and moved forward with the direction of the dark jazz. This was a powerful attack spearhead, all of them were cold in their faces and holding different styles of weapons in their hands.

Killed all the way from the direction of the city wall breaking, and corpses were everywhere along the way. The ant demon was very interested in this fresh food and was always chewing on large pieces of torn human corpses. The dark jazz was obviously dissatisfied with his control objects. While scolding, he pulled the reins. The ant demon could only slowly move his attention away from the corpse and whistle towards the city lord's mansion in the distance.

The outer wall collapsed under the impact of the ant demon. The dark jazz looked around coldly, and finally locked in the tall main building. It gestured to other dark knights following nearby, and then jumped down from the ant demon's head in a diving position. When it was about to reach the ground, it turned over, hugged its legs in the air, and stood firmly on the ground.

There were two mercenaries on the tower in the courtyard. They accurately captured the best time for the Dark Jazz to fly in the air and raised their guns to aim. Just when the Crosshair just included the jazz figure, several giants with a size of the same size as the ant demon, and a height of about ten meters suddenly rushed over.

This is a war weapon cultivated by the dark world using special technology. Like the spider demon and the ant demon, the giant's intelligence is extremely low, and it is even far less than that of the other two mutant similarities. They are equipped with heavy armor and can use weapons such as flails or heavy hammers. The giant in the head is controlled by the Dark Jazz, waving the flail with a head hammer and roaring towards the warning tower. The steel hammer weighing several tons fell from the air, transmitting all the huge impact force attached to the ground, and smashing the warning tower.

The base of the bottom. The gravel flew, and dust was raised all over the ground. A circle of extremely dense earth waves extended toward the surroundings. The two mercenaries were thrown away from the tower on the spot. In the air, their bodies began to rotate and twist, as if two toys thrown out by naughty children. This force was so powerful that they could not resist at all. When the two fell to the ground, there was also a crisp breaking sound inside the body, folding back from their waists, splashing a large ball of shocking blood.

Count Thomas had escaped from the yard under the protection of more than ten guards. When the city of Oviado was first built, Thomas had foreseen that it might be attacked by the dark world. Therefore, the protection measures were very complete, and the height and thickness of the city wall exceeded ordinary standards. However, Count Thomas was not a mercenary after all, and had never seen a war collision between the dark world and the human empire. For him, the so-called engineering was the data that remained on paper. For example, a house was resistant to earthquakes.

What should be the series? How strong is it? Everything is only reflected in data form. Of course, Earl Thomas did spend a lot of effort on the construction of the city of Oviado. He has increased the solidity of the city wall from the original "100" to "150" based on the opinions of professional engineers, and the number of warning towers has also increased. According to the words of those design drawing engineers, "This kind of building is equivalent to a military fortress."

Humans start lying when they develop a sense of thinking. The benefits of lies are obvious. You can use one yuan to buy something equivalent to ten yuan from others, you can put the woman you like to bed, you can also get rid of the poor hat on your head, and turn it into a big man that everyone admires... This is a scam. The question is whether you can see through it and not be deceived?

The engineers did not completely lie. The solidity of the Oviado walls was indeed very high. But no matter what, it could not be compared with the real military fortress. It was indeed a large amount of steel bars and high-grade concrete, and the hardness was astonishing. In this sense, the engineers selected by Count Thomas were already very responsible. Although the statement of "fortress" was a bit exaggerated, they had never seen the real fortress with their own eyes, nor did they know the cruelty and madness of dark creatures. They just added more engineering consumables according to the standards of ordinary buildings in the empire. That's all.

One million imperial gold coins are a lot of money. You can either become a wealthy person or a family can enter the upper class of the empire. However, for a city, especially when the number of residents is increasing and the number of residents is constantly pouring in, the funds originally used for urban construction have to be more favorable to residents' welfare due to changes in the actual situation.

Thomas is a standard businessman, not a politician.

In urban construction, politicians can use the most fierce attitude to force a building to be directly converted into a military fortress due to actual needs. They will not worry about how many people die because of this, nor will they think about how much money the project itself needs to consume. As long as what they do can become political achievements and stepping stones to climb up, it is worth it even if it is done too much.

Thomas could not do this. The meaning of Oviado City was to exterminate Konoha Town. Under this premise, the necessary funding projects for urban construction were naturally compressed and transferred step by step to residents' welfare. Although Duke Marvin and two other Marquis collaborators continued to send development funds, the construction defense effects that these gold coins should have been soon offset by more residents of Konoha Town that poured into Oviado. This was not Thomas' fault. According to the original design, Oviado should be able to meet the living requirements of 100,000 people. Of course, this goal cannot be completed at one time. From the construction of the core of the city to the continuous improvement of various outer areas, this is a long-term process. Even now, Oviado has only entered the second phase of construction, but the urban residents have exceeded 40,000, and the population is still increasing.

Earl Thomas had reported the situation here to Duke Marvin. He had already expected the two Marquis and Marvin. They kept drawing funds to transport more construction materials. However, the long transportation lines from the empire to the border areas made consumption particularly expensive. Although the Duke was rich, it was impossible to put all the consumables and funds in place at once. In addition to the subconscious contempt for the dark world, Oviado's protective power was far from meeting the expected standards, at most forty percent of the design data.

If the data on the first phase of urban construction is based on the relevant data, this defensive force is enough. Now, the overall area of ​​Oviado City has increased by nearly twice as much as the drawings, which means that the length of the city wall must be extended, and sufficient thickness and height cannot be guaranteed.

Thoma is a city lord who is dedicated and responsible. He knows how to win people's hearts. Thoma himself is a wealthy businessman who has come step by step from the civilian class. He knows very well what new immigrants who have left Konoha Town need. Food only meets the most basic conditions for survival. Being able to take a hot bath in the border area is already a very luxurious enjoyment. In addition to salt and bacon, daily diet also requires milk and vegetables, fresh fruits and chocolate milk candies. After a day's work, men like to drink a cool and refreshing beer. Women want beautiful stockings, clothes and skirts, lollipops in children's mouths, and old men and women hope to be soft enough and not scattered.

Simmons, who is hard-bodied... all of this needs to be transported step by step from the Imperial Domain. This damn hell is so remote, without roads, railways, and airships. Don't think about it. Duke Marvin cannot pass the surveillance of the main legion and use that kind of thing for transportation. The number of trucks forming the convoy is limited, and every time they travel between the Imperial Domain and Oviato, the transportation space is fixed. Although the Duke and Marquis fully support it in terms of material and money, the thing is this: transporting more daily necessities means that the same amount of building materials must be transported less.

This is how Oviado City becomes weaker step by step.

Of course, the so-called strength comparison here is only about urban construction and protective power. If the comparison data is only about population and prosperity, Oviado can certainly be among the medium-sized settlements, and even surpass some economically underdeveloped empire domestic cities. However, at the border of the empire, these paper data are useless, and dark creatures do not care about GDP and urban population GDP, nor how much wealth you have created. They kill people, eat people, the height and thickness of the city wall, the number of guards, and the specific situation of equipped weapons are closely related to them.

There are further weakening from other aspects.

Marquis Wang Hejun was the only soldier among the planners. He was very clear about the specific needs of a city for the number of guards. He referenced different locations and buildings per square kilometer to calculate the minimum level of armed personnel actually needed. Wang Hejun thus came up with a relatively stable data. It was clearly stated on the reference table: Oviado needs at least 8,000 armed personnel to ensure that the entire city can withstand the attacks of foreign forces.

Of course, Earl Thomas remembers today, that is, now, the number of mercenaries in the city of Oviado.

There were 1,306 people. This was the number reported to him by the commander of the city guard last week. That guy was a confidant arranged by Wang Hejun and a major retired from the Imperial Defense Forces.

According to him, among the residents from Konoha Town, many of them have good physical fitness, and there are even a considerable number of women who can become armed personnel no less than professional mercenaries with a little training.

Earl Thomas was not surprised by this. Konoha Town was originally a settlement on the border. Of course, Thomas had heard of the last battle. Those who survived that fierce battle were equivalent to veterans of mercenaries. In view of cost savings and resources, Earl Thomas decided to follow the advice of the commander of the city guard: before the second phase of urban construction was completed, let three thousand mercenaries sent out leave Ovi with the previous group of transport convoys.

Yado. This emerging city is currently unable to produce food, and all necessities of daily necessities must be obtained through transportation. The supply of three thousand people is a very troublesome problem. Instead of wasting food to feed these guys who are not doing production, it is better to directly recruit armed personnel from the existing residents of Oviado. They can have both professions in one person and should be willing to earn an extra salary. Moreover, maintaining the consumption of armed militia is far less than paying the wages of mercenaries.

Thomas was not worried about Oviado's safety. Next to it was the garrison of the 44l infantry division of the Imperial Wehrmacht. Marquis Wang Hejun had already greeted Brigadier General Badamm through internal relations. Once Oviado had problems, 44 Pei would provide support as soon as possible. Of course, the premise is that Oviado could persist until the time when the National Wehrmacht arrived.

There should be no danger. Count Thomas does not think it is a mistake to cancel the mercenaries of the City Guard. At present, all threats come from Konoha Town. God knows what is the relationship between that guy Su Hao and the "Iron Warriors" legion? He actually received an astonishing amount of supplies and tried his best to expand his territory, so that some townspeople who were originally in a wait-and-see state were attracted by this change and gave up the idea of ​​settling in Oviado. Count Thomas felt very dissatisfied and angry about this.

People's welfare is the best way to attract outsiders. Only by continuously investing more in this area can Oviado have greater appeal.

With all kinds of problems and factors mixed together, Oviado's urban defense is getting weaker and weaker. For example, now, it only took less than half an hour for the army of dark creatures to break through the city wall to the city lord's mansion. The number of warning towers on the periphery is too small, and there is not enough manpower to resist. Just like a piece of paper with metal paint on the surface, it seems very hard, but with a light poke, it will be broken immediately.

The earth was trembling violently, and biochemical giants rushed into the yard of the city lord's mansion. They brought strong shock waves from the ground, making the guards standing in the towers and windows unable to maintain stability, and they all fell around. The leading giant was stimulated by the previous battle and directly grabbed a mercenary who had no time to hide and threw it on the ground. Before the poor man screamed in pain, the giant had already smiled grimly, raised his huge and heavy soles, and stepped on the seriously injured mercenary. Earl Thomas saw this extremely cruel scene in the distance, and saw a large trunk of blood gushing out from the giant's feet, splashing red all the surrounding scenery.

Thomas was safe. He was surrounded by a group of nervous-looking mercenaries and ran quickly into the nearest underground warehouse. There was an escape passage he had previously spent a lot of effort to build, which contained a magnetic levitation vehicle that was enough for one hundred and fifty people to ride. Even with an ordinary speed, this thing can reach hundreds of kilometers per hour, and it was completely possible to escape from Oviado while it was in chaos.

Earl Thomas, who had already stepped onto the seat of the car, suddenly stopped moving.

He was really unwilling to leave like this.

The city has infused almost all his efforts and carried all his hopes and dreams. Just like a child raised by himself, he is now destroyed by violent forces from the dark world. Although Count Thomas is cunning, he is also a human with normal thinking logic. He really cannot bear this deprivation, and he cannot imagine what the future will be like if he leaves like this?

"Have you contacted the 44l Infantry Division?"

Earl Thomas glanced at the mercenary captain waiting beside him and asked in a cold tone: "How did General Badamum respond? Have you left the recording at that time?

In order to prevent the situation where the other party agreed but could not send troops, the communication between them and 44 Pei must be recorded. The mercenary captain nodded: "When the city was attacked by dark creatures, we sent a distress signal. They promised to come, and now they may have sent a vanguard."
Chapter completed!