All-Heavens Game, the Strongest Player

Chapter 44: Heavenly Craft City Completed, Skeleton King Finally Reigns Emperor
Two flowers bloom, each telling its own story!
While Chu Xiu was manipulating the Southern Heavenly Sect to seize Xuzhou, Shen Tianci was also working overtime to build what he believed to be an indestructible city that would make Yuan Shu invincible!

The initial workforce was 50,000, which later increased to 100,000.

Feeling that the process was inefficient, they eventually even brought in soldiers and women, leaving Yuan Shu powerless to stop the Southern Heavenly Cult from encroaching on Xuzhou, even though he knew it was doing so.

The only option is to mobilize more resources to build Tiangong City for Shen Tianci.

At its peak, as many as 500,000 people were working on the project at the same time—Qin Shi Huang only had a million people working on the Great Wall, so you can imagine how huge the Tiangong City project was.

The results were, of course, remarkable.

First, the city walls were built to the highest standards for cold weapon warfare: the city gates were ten zhang high and thirty zhang wide, capable of accommodating hundreds of people passing side by side, and the gates were made of steel, making them virtually impossible to be damaged by cold weapons!
The city wall was five zhang high, which is about the height of a modern six-story building.

There was also barbed wire strung up above it.

The interior is a reinforced concrete structure. Let alone ladders and catapults from the battlefield of cold weapons, even if you brought Li Yunlong over and let him bombard it with Italian cannons, he might not be able to break through!

It can be said that the defensive capabilities are at their maximum.

"But if I only have defensive capabilities, wouldn't I be like a coward hiding in the mud? To be honest, I'm not actually worried about others attacking me!"

During the inspection, Yuan Shu spoke to Shen Tianci.

He now commands an army of 300,000, which, although not as many as Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, and Liu Bei at their peak, makes him the most powerful warlord in the land.

He's the one who hits others; no one dares to hit him first.

Therefore, he didn't have a deep feeling about the city walls and thought they were useless for defense.

Shen Tianci smiled and shook his head, saying, "That's just a defensive line to protect Tiangong City. The real core is here!"

With that, he led Yuan Shu into the city.

There, rows of ox-headed tricycles and horse-headed two-wheeled carts were neatly arranged.

"test!"

At Shen Tianci's command, soldiers immediately loaded the ox-headed tricycle with tens of thousands of kilograms of goods. Then, a soldier rode on the ox's neck and started driving the tricycle.

Yuan Shu looked on with astonishment.

"This is?"

“Wooden ox and flowing horse, but this is an upgraded version!” Shen Tianci said. “The wooden ox is slow and mainly used for transporting supplies. It can pull tens of thousands of catties of goods, but it does not require livestock and can be driven by just one soldier! The flowing horse, on the other hand, is fast and can travel a thousand miles a day without rest. Even if our army travels thousands of miles to fight, we can still set out on the same day and arrive the next day!”

At this point, Yuan Shu was completely astonished.

"In that case, wouldn't I be able to take Luoyang in a single day?"

Shen Tianci nodded upon hearing this.

"Not just Luoyang! Within three days, we can march from the vast grasslands of Youzhou to the southernmost tip of Western Shu! Speed ​​is of the essence in war; with this speed, who can stop us?"

At this point, he paused.

He added, "The production capacity of the wooden oxen and flowing horses is hundreds per day, and it will only take three months to produce over ten thousand. In less than three years, they will be able to equip the entire army!"

This surprised Yuan Shu once again.

He was immediately overjoyed and exclaimed, "With such a divine artifact, what is there to worry about in not conquering the world?"

"Finally, there's the ultimate weapon of Tiangong City—the Heavenly Gifted Divine Eagle!" Shen Tianci led Yuan Shu to the very center of the city, to that enormous "eagle's nest."

Inside lay wooden eagles that looked remarkably like airplanes, yet were quite small. They possessed large wings.

There was no engine room inside; instead, it was filled with a large amount of kerosene.

"What's the use of this?"

"Did you know that Lu Ban once created a wooden bird that circled in the sky for three days before landing?" Shen Tianci said, "My 'Heaven-Sent Divine Eagle' can not only soar in the air, but also lock onto the landing position before it is released. Imagine how magnificent it would be if thousands of divine eagles, carrying oil, flew in flocks towards the enemy camp?"

Having said that, before Yuan Shu could speak, he continued, "My divine eagle can fly a thousand miles!"

At this point, Yuan Shu was completely astonished.

"If we could release divine eagles carrying oil to the enemy from thousands of miles away, wouldn't that mean we could destroy any city at any time if we wanted to?"

Shen Tianci nodded upon hearing this and said, "You should refer to yourself as '朕' (Zhen)!"

"Wouldn't that be inappropriate?" Yuan Shu asked tentatively. "How many of these divine eagles can be made in a day?"

"It depends on the needs, at least two hundred per day!" Shen Tianci said. "In our Celestial Realm, there is only one fear, and that is the fear of insufficient firepower. Therefore, our weapons are all designed based on 'mass production.' If it's not necessary, setting up more factories and producing tens of thousands a day is not a problem!"

Having said that, there's no need to say anything more.

"Guards! Quickly prepare! I am about to ascend the throne today and establish my capital in Tiangong City!"

……

Yuan Shu has declared himself emperor!
Without the Imperial Seal of the State, he unexpectedly declared himself emperor! He even threatened that Liu Xie had one month to abdicate in Tiangong City, or else his army would break down the imperial city and exterminate the "false emperor and traitor" and his entire family!

When the news broke, many people were stunned.

My first thought was that Yuan Shu was an idiot; why was he in such a hurry?

Before Liu Bei, Liu Biao, and others could react, Yuan Shu issued another edict, ordering Cao Cao to bind the false god Chu Xiu and take him to Tiangong City within three days, to be handed over to the true god Shen Tianci for disposal.

Otherwise, he would lead a large army to attack and exterminate Cao Cao's entire clan.

"He's gone mad! Yuan Shu has truly gone mad!"

Upon receiving the news, Cao Cao's first reaction wasn't that Yuan Shu had gained some new advantage, but rather that he had gone mad. Because Yuan Shu's actions would inevitably invite a united attack; what gave him the audacity to think he could single-handedly take on the entire world?
"I don't know if he's gone mad now, but if he knew the truth, he would be furious!"

Two months have passed since the Battle of Xuzhou. During these two months, Shen Tianci conscripted a large number of laborers, but as a result, he also recruited a large number of Chu Xiu's spies.

Or rather, they can no longer be considered covert spies, but rather overt spies.

In this world, you can get a full meal by praying to the gods, receive dried meat in return, get answers to your prayers, be resurrected after death by performing a sacrifice, have many people around you who believe in the gods, and be pulled into the formation upon first contact, where you will witness the earth-shattering power of the level 10 ultimate move.

I ask you, who else can resist the urge to not believe in Chu Xiu?
Therefore, more than 90,000 of Shen Tianci's 100,000 laborers have joined the "Southern Heaven Divine Sect"! Most of the women conscripted have also joined the sect, and those who have not joined are mostly concubines and maids of noble families.

Although they were conscripted to rush the work, they were essentially noblewomen who depended on the gentry.

All they could think about was how to climb the ranks, which didn't meet the standards for developing believers, so they weren't developed.

Even so, Tiangong City nominally belonged to Yuan Shu, but in reality, it was already Chu Xiu's Tiangong City—Jesus said at the banquet that among the people present, one had betrayed him.

If Yuan Shu were to host a banquet that did not discriminate between the poor and the rich, he would only invite a dozen or so people.

I would say: Of all the people present, only one did not betray me!
This is Tiangong City today, and Yuzhou today!
"The next round of eliminations will begin in three days! Shen Tianci is waiting for the marker to appear so he can use overwhelming firepower to eliminate me, but I'm also waiting for the next round of eliminations, waiting for his teammates to be exposed so I can take them all out in one go!"

(End of this chapter)