National Juggernaut

Chapter 677 Expensive Friendship

Chapter 677 Expensive Friendship

Times have changed, and the peaceful years of Shiqian City seem to have gone forever.

Along with the not-so-harmonious theme of the new era, high hopes are placed on the new generation of young people. On another level, those who are willing to take the lead get better treatment.

A huge sum of money was suddenly transferred to Zheng Li's personal account, and the low-interest long-term loan, which nominally needed to be reviewed and followed the procedures for a year or two, was suddenly remitted to the reserve fund of the Peace Corps.

"So refreshing?!"

"It's so refreshing. After a set of procedures, after two or three years, the start-up funds will become fuel for the fire. Of course, it is more likely to become a pension. In short, the above is very satisfied with your decision. , both local and central factions have expectations of you, come on.”

The sudden friendliness made Zheng Li a little surprised, but there were still some things that had to be asked.

"Then, this account and funds are above"

"The mayor is very optimistic about you, but from their perspective, no matter how optimistic you are, you must go through procedures. Even if the three-year review period is shortened to half a year, you can't wait. This is the 'Remote Town Development Fund', which belongs to the 'Remote Town Development Fund'. It is a sub-project of the Urban Talents Introduction Fund Association, need I say more?"

"I understand, help me thank the mother gorilla, District Chief Sun, and all the bosses."

"It's good that you understand, we expect you to grow up as soon as possible and become one of us."

There are rivers and lakes for some people, and factions are indispensable for any organization and force, especially organizations with conflicts of interest.

Many people think that our family is not close or distant, just because he has not reached the level where he must stand in a team, or his eyes are too blind.

Just like belonging to the Revival Alliance and the six central cities, Shiqian City and the Twin Cities are probably the best relationship among the six cities. They are fully cooperating in all aspects, and have also opened up various resource exchanges from grassroots human resources to high-tech transfer. The contract, in the eyes of the other four cities, this is simply a family, but when you really come here, you know how delicate the relationship between the two parties is, and how fierce and complicated the various internal competitions and conflicts will be.

Just like Zheng Li chose Shiqian City without hesitation between the Twin Cities and Shiqian City, between the local faction and the central faction, Zheng Li had no choice from the very beginning.

This is not a contradiction between the enemy and the enemy. After all, everyone in the administrative system must obey the command of the central government. You must stand where you are.

But this time, he took the initiative to choose "External Release". The evaluation given by the senior management of Shiqian City was positive, and the local group was a surprise.

There is no doubt that he who chose to "garrison the outer zone" has completely become a local faction.

This is determined by the position of the individual. People who betray their "class" and "position" will live a very hard life even if they don't die.

After all, in many cases, the so-called faction is a group of individuals with something in common, coming together for a certain goal or interest. To be frank, the local faction does not trust the central faction.

In this era, sparsely populated land is the norm, and untimely support is inevitable. In many cases, the reinforcements from the headquarters can't even collect the corpses. Often, a suburban city or city-state is destroyed for several months or even years before the center of the big city gets the news. .

However, the towns and the world outside are quite unsafe. Accidents are normal, and peace is always short-lived.

If something really happens, what can help you is not the headquarters and the central government thousands of miles away, but the nearby world. The other side of the vast land and sparsely populated is the sky high and the emperor far away. Everyone is a "warlord" and "lord". Self-responsible for profit and loss, why risk a lot of battle damage or even destruction to help you.

But no one can be sure whether the next unlucky person to be destroyed is himself. We all understand that helping others is helping ourselves, but how can you be sure that if you help others this time, they will help you next time.

As a result, there are various local covenants of mutual assistance, as well as unspoken rules that all "lords" abide by.

This is the root of the birth of the local faction, and at the same time, it is also the reason for the abnormal unity of the local faction. If you refuse to save others when you are capable, then the entire faction will reject you, and you will not be able to get along in the end.

Political factions are indeed not a good thing, internal friction is always around, but sometimes, factions are the rules, the product of many people standing in line according to the actual situation and their own position, and it is the inevitable result of the development of the world to a certain level.

Going a little further, with the development of various technologies and the continuous improvement of the overall combat power of human beings, the radiation area of ​​the central power is getting farther and farther, and it is easier and safer to travel around the periphery of the big city. The central government is trying to control more In the outer world, the internal contradictions between the local faction and the central faction also feel a bit revived.

This thing is actually incomprehensible. Even if the central government wants to be directly under the central government at such a distance, it can only remotely control itself to fight on the front line, while the officials behind are dictating, which undoubtedly naturally creates internal conflicts and dissatisfaction.

Before another large-scale breakthrough in technology, the current internal and external division will exist for a long time. Of course, it does not exist when facing other big cities and foreign races.

At this time, when Zheng Li was determined to be an "expatriate", it was tantamount to confirming his status as a local faction, and immediately a big boss handed him an olive branch.

"...If I'm not mistaken, this 'loan' that doesn't even have a treasury entry and exit certificate is probably not repaid."

Zheng Li nodded silently, there was actually no reason to hesitate.

If you want to follow the central route, you can only enter the twelve ministries and commissions, or go to the city government to do odd jobs. This slow-moving development method was not in Zheng Li's plan from the very beginning, and he never thought about it from the beginning go that way.

The favor of the local faction is a good thing. It is very difficult for other "new lords" to get admission tickets. They need to repeatedly examine the personal strength and the potential of the battle group, and finally give a relatively reliable assessment.

I have received financial support from the very beginning, so I will naturally have follow-up network resources. Zheng Li also knows that after becoming a garrison regiment, the only ones who can save you are the neighbors next door to you.

It is a good thing to be able to get the friendliness and even support from the local faction, and the safety needs to be improved several points.

"The next step is to wait for the letter of appointment to complete the escort task first. It's only been peaceful for a few days, and I'm going out again."

The days of staying in the Twin Cities are relaxed and comfortable. Although there are battlefields one after another outside, in the face of the combat power of the big city, those slightly weaker sons of God are just high-value prey that are slightly difficult to deal with.

But Zheng Li and his party also know that this is only temporary, and the troubles that should come will never be avoided.

"Leave in a week or five days, write a notice and let others hurry up."

The advantage of the Twin Cities on the front line is not just a strategic weapon. It itself carries countless commercial companies and trading networks, and there are massive resources and technologies circulating on it every day. In theory, precious materials limited to the headquarters of the big city are all can be purchased above.

On the trip back with Pandora, most of the team members were full and had spiritual blades in their hands to break through. Now they are busy buying materials to complete the breakthrough.

The same is true for Zheng Li himself. After Yu Ying's breakthrough, he is also preparing for the evolution of the next spiritual blade. Taking into account the balanced development of the psionic network, breaking through multiple spiritual blades is not respected at the same time.

Now that Yuying has stabilized a bit, Zheng Li is also busy with the next Spirit Blade.

This time, not to mention that Yuying was too full, he also had the strange illusion of being full. Inexplicably, he felt that he was not far from the next step.

".It should be almost eight blades. I really didn't expect it to be so fast."

The evolutionary power of a top-level spiritual blade breaking through once is probably comparable to the last round of four or five spiritual blades with five or six breakthroughs. The expensive resource investment finally paid off.

In the eyes of most people, the eight blades are the beginning of the quasi-myth. In fact, it is too difficult to go further, and the threshold for the nine blades is a bit too high.

At this time, many of the spiritual blades in Zheng Li's hands were on the verge of breaking through.

Not much to mention about Mengling's double swords, this time they ate the most, Mengzhiblade even absorbed the most valuable legacy of which god - the top sun god's personality and divine power.

It is foreseeable that once a breakthrough is made, the rate of improvement may directly exceed that of Yuying. Considering their foundation is already excellent, they may even have a chance to impact the status of the number one spirit blade.

Although it was only the fifth breakthrough, after this promotion, judging from the faint spiritual energy feedback, it seemed to be different from Yuying. Not every low-level spiritual blade can bear the last legacy of the sun god.

But she is not the spirit blade of this breakthrough, or because her own positioning is too special.

".Didn't you receive the appropriate 'Moon Blossom'?"

Mengling's double swords are "dual swords" with yin and yang, sun and moon as the core concepts. The essence of double swords is balance and opposition. Once the imbalance becomes one long and one short, I am afraid that even if it can still be a complete set, it has already become something else. arms.

Mengling's twin swords are not ordinary spiritual blades, they have already carried the opposing concepts of "time" and "space", and then added yin and yang, sun and moon.

At the moment when the balance is lost, it is possible to break through, but if the broken balance is to be restored, it becomes unrealistic. To be straightforward, the original space and time spirit blade may also evolve into a sun god sword (with moon scabbard).

Perhaps it will be a top-notch divine sword, and it is even possible to surpass Yu Ying in all aspects, reach or even surpass the current damaged twelve constellations. But this is not what Zheng Li wants, what he needs is A main weapon that controls time and space.

Considering the guarding value of Mengling's twin swords to the "third pole" of Shiqian City, it is absolutely unacceptable for them to jump from the time attribute to other attributes, even if it means a great leap forward in individual strength.

Too much material may distort the evolution direction of the spirit blade. If it weren't for the fact that Mengling's twin swords were originally made of the bone material of the top gods, it would be impossible for them to absorb so many god-level materials.

Consciousness and matter are compatible, and the soul must be borne by the god body. Even if an ancient god has abandoned the sun godhead, it is impossible for ordinary spiritual blades to absorb it.

At that time, if there was no great investment in Dream Sword, the core material of "Flashpoint Phantom Snake" with a threat value of 200+ was used to complete the "myth endowment" of Mengling's twin swords, allowing it to have a higher level in the high-dimensional plane. In the name of the myth of "Yin and Yang Double Whip", this is how the "sun" bears.

Even if he didn't use his abilities, Zheng Li knew that the balance of Mengling's twin swords was completely messed up, and the scale of Mengling's spiritual energy was at least three times that of Ling's.

This undoubtedly brought too many unstable factors to the future of Mengling Double Blades. If given another chance, let Zheng Li choose

".I will try my best to last long enough to let Xiaomeng eat more!"

The momentary imbalance can be reversed, and even if you go the wrong way, you can get back in the future breakthrough.

But the last top-level material of the gods is still the freshest and most high-grade. It is hard to say whether it can be encountered once in a lifetime. The improvement brought to the spirit blade can reshape the level. Once it is missed, there is really no way.

"...It seems that there must be a lot of bleeding. Let's hang up the 'divine blood', and only accept top-level lunar materials that are bartered."

On that day, it wasn't just the sword masters at the scene who gained a lot of money. Many people snatched away some treasures. Although most of the wealth dissipated on the spot, some residues found a carrier and were brought out to a limited extent. This point, Zheng Li saw it and didn't want to care about it.

After all, he himself was the one who ate the most, and it was too much to prevent the members of the group from drinking some soup.

Yu Ying showed the essence of the blood-draining magic blade at that time, frantically absorbing the divine blood from the remnant body, and naturally supported herself.

Even after completing, uh, his own breakthrough, there was still a part of the divine blood that could not be digested, and was finally left in Zheng Li's hands as "trophies of war".

With the passage of time, the psychic fluctuations of this batch of divine blood have stabilized, but they are still the top-notch material, which is absolutely priceless.

While still in the Twin Cities, it was a helpless choice to exchange the material of "Ling Zhiblade".

Generally speaking, this kind of "God's Essence" is the most precious material, the kind that can enhance the essence of the Spirit Blade, but now most members of the Peace Corps have "bathed in the blood of God", and the same material is second The performance will be greatly degraded in the first use.

Zheng Li's own spiritual blade has absorbed the blood of the gods, and it would be a waste to use it again.

It is also thanks to the blood-storing instinct of the Vampire Demon Sword, otherwise, with the dissipated state of the remnant soul and blood at that time, even if there are leftovers, they are just some unusable residues.

While hesitating, Zheng Li still gritted his teeth, and threw out this expensive and unusual harvest in the trading market.

Soon, someone came to the door and offered to buy with a huge amount of spiritual crystals. It was just "payment with spiritual crystals" instead of "bartering". Zheng Li hung up contact with the other party without hesitation.

It seems that some people think they are young and try to deceive themselves.

Zheng Li was not in a hurry, he knew that what he brought out was a good product, which would naturally make many people tempted and even acted directly.

Lunar materials were not very popular in the first place, and many people accidentally obtained them and let them be left behind in the warehouse. Now as long as the news spreads, people will naturally come with good goods in stock.

No matter how advanced the god-level material is, as long as it lives long enough, it will be more or less rewarding, but the last mythical legacy of a top-level god can also improve the background of the sword master and the spirit blade from the root, which is inevitable. Yes, naturally it also makes people chase after it crazily.

Soon, the email address left by Zheng Li was blown up, worries about happiness flooded into his heart, and Zheng Li himself was also dazzled all of a sudden.

(End of this chapter)