Torea has been feeling a bit off recently.
It's not because I scanned the palace for nearly a week, nor is it because my career level has stagnated recently. To her, these are just trivial things on her way to experience herself, and they are not enough to be explained to outsiders.
Torea has always had a premonition recently. She has obviously left Zhou Li's side and has come to a familiar environment, but she always feels a strange aura for no reason. Just like Zhou Li is not here, but his voice is everywhere.
Weird, very weird.
At first, Torea thought that she had been beheaded by Zhou Li, or that he had cast a spell to control people's hearts. But she had a checkup, and the god-given healer said that she had never seen such a healthy body, and then left it alone.
Later, Torea began to discover the root of the matter.
Magnum III seems to have been assimilated.
Just like a person who has been fighting an enemy who hides day and night, over time, this person will start to get closer to the habits of his enemy and become accustomed to a life of hiding day and night. Torea, who was used to learning how to govern a country in the main hall, found that recently Magnum III began to look a little like Zhou Li and moved closer.
Of course, the most intuitive result of such a change is that the congressmen began to dislike dealing with Magnum III. They also discovered that Magnum III’s recent behavior has begun to be a bit strange. These congressmen could not say what it was specifically, but they felt uncomfortable when they came into contact with Magnum III. Over time, these people also began to stay away from Magnum III. .
"What a bunch of bugs! How did I and this group of people maintain this country for so many years? These people didn't consider going to a healer to repair their brains. At least adding some water would be better than nothing now!"
With an unskilled swearing tone, Magnum III was filled with anger when facing the "Request for Strengthening Monitoring of Heroes" in his hand. He did not hide his disdain for these carnivores at all, "Start wars, start wars every day, After finally living a stable life for a few months in the country, there is a conflict with the brave again. Are they worthy? Can they fight? Do they have the ability to go against Zhou Li? "
A series of rhetorical questions proved how intense the anger in Magnum III's heart was at this time. He felt that these domestic opposition parties were just a bunch of pickled bastards, a bunch of useless old immortals, who only served to fuel the fire all day long. No.
After marking the request as "nonsense", Magnum III threw the request aside. It may be that Zhou Li's recent harassing phone calls have made him angry, or it may be that he is really angry with these incompetent nobles. The number of Magnum III's recent outbursts has begun to gradually increase, which is more stable than the frequency of stock market declines.
"Why do these people challenge Zhou Li again and again?"
Torea on the side finally couldn't help the doubts in her heart and asked Magnan III: "They have obviously been defeated by Zhou Li countless times and their strength has been greatly reduced. Why are they still provoking Zhou Li?"
Facing Tolea's inquiry, Magnum III, who suppressed his anger, stroked his chest, glanced at the scroll on the ground, and replied angrily: "In the past few months, these old antiques were greatly weakened by Zhou Li because of their strength. , the reformists took the opportunity to come to power and overhaul the parliament, and these old-timers were assigned to sinecures without real power."
"After leaving the parliament, these old immortals did not follow my instructions to accumulate strength and live a stable life. On the contrary, these people started to stir up trouble in the country crazily in order to find a way to return to the parliament and the power level. If these people hadn't had noble inheritance, I You can’t move, I’ve sent them all away a long time ago, there’s so much nonsense.”
Magnum III rubbed his brows. He looked very decadent at this time, and his aging appearance was fully reflected on him. "These people have become my obstacles. Now in this situation, I have no choice."
Torea, who was on the side, understood Magnum's situation. She knew that Magnum III was a thoroughgoing reformist. Perhaps for his own desires, or perhaps for the sake of the entire country, Magnum III has been secretly carrying out reforms. But because of Magnum's institutional problems, there are too many legacy aristocrats in this country. These people are pure conservatives. For their own interests, they chose to let Magnum stagnate. This also gave Magnum III a headache. for a long time.
"I am the most miserable person now. I am caught in the middle by three parties. I am not a human being inside or outside."
Rarely, Magnum III began to talk to Torea about his difficulties, "The conservative faction wants me to restore the feudal system, and the reformist faction is taking too big a step to withstand it. The most important thing is that now I Afraid that Zhou Li's time bomb will be detonated, who knows what crazy things those impatient conservatives will do. Once Zhou Li is detonated, the consequences will be disastrous."
Maybe Magnum III is born with aging, or maybe he is really stupid. After he finished saying this, a guard stumbled into the hall. Facing the gaze of the king and his confidants, the young man trembled all over and reported in horror:
"Your Majesty! General Karen failed to assassinate the brave man, and now 0 is being hung from the city gate and beaten!"
"What?!"
This time, even Magnum III couldn't help but stand up suddenly and asked in shock: "Are you sure it's Karen? Think again?!"
"Yes, that's General Cullen."
The attendant was about to cry. He did not expect what happened today to be so exciting. Under his stuttering retelling, Magnum III and Torea understood the origin and development of the story.
An hour ago, Zhou Li and Eluma arrived at Silver City and wanted to go to the foreign trade market to buy some items. On the way to the foreign trade market, they met General Cullen, who was galloping on horseback. Karen is arrogant and does not take Zhou Li and Eluma, who are wearing ordinary clothes, seriously at all. Faced with the two people who do not dodge, Karen, who is drunk and bet with others, throws the reins and rushes directly towards Zhou Li. Two people away.
Then, he was embedded into the ground by Eluma's black mist, including people and horses. Karen was still shouting about his identity and asking Eluma to kowtow to him.
Then he was pulled up by Zhou Li, hung on the gate of Silver City and beaten.
This story can be said to have no twists or foreshadowings. It is a simple story of a wicked young man who offended a brave man and was pretended to be a pig to eat the tiger. But the problem here is that the pig here - Karen is a special pig. The tiger is a destruction-level tiger equipped with an exoskeleton mecha.
After hearing the cause and effect, Magnum III's old face suddenly wrinkled like a chrysanthemum, and the aura of pain lingered around him. After a while, he slammed the throne, stood up, and said to Torea:
"Come with me, Karen can't die."
In fact, this man named John Cullen was indeed a very famous general, but all he had was notoriety. As the son of General John Kers, Karen, who inherited the title of his father who died of a heart attack, is a complete second-generation ancestor. He likes Puma, hunting, and walking birds, and is extremely good at bullying men and dominating women.
Because of his father's reputation and connections, Karen, the thorn in the side of the old guard, has never faced any trial. According to common sense, in the eyes of Magnum III, such a person is just a piece of excrement, the kind that can be discarded at any time. But the problem is that Karen is a treasure to those old-schoolers, and is also the lubricant between themselves and the old-schoolers. In many cases, the half-old and half-new Karen has prevented many conflicts between the old and the new.
Therefore, even if there is a puma in Karen City, drinking causes trouble, bullying men and women, he still lives a carefree life in Silver City, the center of power, because his backer is Magnum III and a group of nobles, without any Magnum People can touch him.
Of course, Zhou Li is neither a Magnum nor a human being. He is a hero from another world and a monster.
"Do you know how long I've been waiting for you?"
Next to the gate of Silver City, Zhou Li raised his head, looked at Karen who was hanging in the air with a frightened expression, and said sadly: "Do you know, in order to wait for a low-energy second generation ancestor like you, I walked around this Silver City? How many times?”
Facing this second-generation ancestor who was imbecile to a certain level, Zhou Li didn't feel much anger. On the contrary, he only felt the joy of a good harvest.
Eluma on the side was holding a large bag of pastry cream, and she was eating the dessert from the East in small bites and quickly. Black mist on the side was carrying large and small bags, and seemed to be protecting Eluma, who was clicking like a hamster.
"Put me down! Put me down! Even if you are a brave man, you cannot violate the laws of the empire. You will go to jail! You will go to jail!"
Even so, Karen, who has always been arrogant and arrogant, had no intention of giving in. On the contrary, he resisted even more fiercely, "What is the use of being brave? I tell you this is Magnum, Magnum! I am General Ka Lun, please put me down quickly."
Looking at the arrogant and unrepentant Karen in front of him, Zhou Li's eyes became softer. He was as happy as if he had seen a rare treasure.
"Brother, I just like your temper. If you kneel down and kowtow to beg for mercy right now, I'd be bored. Because of your good character, I'll give you a special skill of pouring gold juice on you later."
Karen struggled even more after hearing Zhou Li's rude and rude remarks. He kept shaking his body and blurting out obscene words, not taking Zhou Li seriously at all.
However, the more this happened, the more gentle and refined Zhou Li became. He didn't say anything back, and even kept smiling without any fluctuation in his expression. Slowly, Karen began to become afraid, his voice became smaller and smaller, and his eyes began to retract.
"What are you doing?!"
At this time, there was a sudden noise on the street not far away. The crowd who originally gathered to watch the show were immediately shocked when they saw the logo of the Baiyin City Defense Force, and then retreated to the side to continue watching the show.
Levis, the leader of the Silver City Defense Force, yes, the Levis whose mentality was shattered by Zhou Li's trick of "real and fake brave", stepped forward, and then saw a scene that he would never forget.
How on earth can a human being, a carbon-based creature, make a 1080-degree swing-arm spiral loop?
Levi couldn't understand it, and neither could Karen, who was thrown back.
"Master Brave, can you put this one down first? Our Silver City Defense Force will coordinate with you."
Faced with Levi's attempt to make peace with the mud, Zhou Li stopped pouring the fire ants in his hand into the pipe of Xunyou Grass, turned around and said in a bad tone:?
"I'm telling you, you can play around with me, but you can't stop me from playing around, do you understand?"
After taking a look at the fire ants crawling around in the pipe, he remembered the habit of Seeking Grass that likes to get into small spaces, and looked at Karen who had half of his pants taken off. Levi felt that he was interested in "fighting" "The perception was severely refreshed.
"You are involved in a personal attack. I suggest you communicate well and not break the law."
Levis said this with difficulty, and of course, he took a step back. Who knows if Zhou Li, who has fallen into entertainment mode, will change the target of entertainment to himself. Therefore, Levi's did not directly stop Zhou Li.
"Levis! You reformist lackey! You have long been unhappy with me. You are not worthy of being the Lord of Silver City! You are not worthy! You will never be able to eat ninety-nine dishes in your life, and you will never become a great noble!"
After seeing the familiar person, Karen immediately returned to his arrogant form and shouted loudly: "If you don't save me, you can't explain to the conservative faction! You can't explain to the king! Save me, save me, let me leave This lunatic."
Pointing at Karen who was shouting loudly, and shrugging helplessly, Zhou Li wrote everything on his face for Levi's to read.
At this time, Levis had scolded Karen thousands of times in his heart. He had made all the arrangements and would not have anything to do with Zhou Li anyway. This Karen insisted on riding a horse in the city, and he didn't have the foresight to hit Zhou Li. Doesn't he know who Zhou Li is? Doesn't he know that Zhou Li is a demon king that kings have to avoid? Why do you, a little Xie Xie, fight with others and involve me?
Levis, who knew the importance of Karen, was in a dilemma. If he helped Karen, he would probably be in bad luck. If he didn't help Karen, he would probably be in bad luck.
At this time, a group of well-dressed people appeared on the other side of the street. They all wore Magnum noble medals and looked very proud. Of course, they also had uncontrollable sullenness and fear engraved in their bones.
As a representative of the old nobles, Karen's uncle Metz stood up. He raised his head without fear and shouted to Levis: "Levis, as the Lord of Silver City, you should understand the importance of the law. Now someone has violated the law, what you should do is to stop this behavior and behave properly. Good citizens come down, understand?”
Father of all of you, you are capable of fighting Zhou Liheng!
Levi's face was expressionless, and his heart was full of grief and anger.
