It doesn't matter what the lord is.

I rubbed Fileta's head and said:

"Got it. The enemy in the north is indeed more difficult. Their territory is ten times larger than ours, and they naturally have more resources than us. It is not difficult to raise an army like this. It is already very good that you can defend the city by yourself."

Fileta whispered:

"It's also thanks to Alaya. If she hadn't tried to assassinate the enemy commander again and again, forcing the enemy's army to return to support..."

I groped carefully, picked up Fileta horizontally, gently placed her on the bed, and then sat beside her in the dark.

Fileta held my sleeve tightly and asked softly:

"Hey... Master... Am I a human... or a demon?"

She opened her mouth and said in a trembling voice:

“No… I’ve killed them all. Humans and demons… I…”

Fileta started crying again.

I clenched my fists, not knowing how to comfort her, so I held her hand and said:

"It doesn't matter to me whether you are a demon or a human."

I paused and said:

"You are the magician of our Yuxi City, and you belong to my Lide. That's enough. You don't have to suppress your inner thoughts.

You don't have to be a human. No matter what you become, I will never abandon you. You are indispensable to me. Not your magic, but who you are."

Fileta trembled and remained silent.

I knew she was still a little scared, so I took the initiative to move over and gently kissed her on the forehead.

It feels like coaxing a child to sleep.

Before I could react, Fileta grabbed my collar and pressed her hot lips against mine. At that moment, my head exploded, and blood rushed to my face. The soft touch and fragrant aroma made me not know what to do for a moment, and I could only passively accept her lips and tongue. Her warm breath conveyed her worry to me at the closest distance. Fileta stretched out her hands to hug my neck, pulled me to the bed, and then rolled over and pressed me directly under her.

I didn't do anything.

Are you kidding? If I push her away now, are I still a man?

Fileta hugged my waist, buried her cheek deep in my chest, and kept rubbing. My body, which was a little cold just now, was now terribly hot. She held my cheek and paused for a moment, as if she was hesitating, but probably the desire overwhelmed the last bit of rationality. She unbuttoned my shirt and kissed my cheek.

This time I hugged her slender waist with my backhand and held her plump body in my arms.

Fileta still looked infatuated.

But as she became more and more out of breath, her mouth became more and more dry, her movements became slower and slower, she finally fell asleep in my arms. Even in her dreams, she held me tightly, as if she was afraid that I would leave.

……

What is going on? !

I thought I could step into a new world today, but I was pulled back when I was halfway in. This roller coaster feeling is not acceptable to everyone. At this moment, I was holding Fileta and could still clearly feel some embarrassing places.

But, she must be tired.

I sighed and slept with her for a while. After Fileta fell asleep, I gently moved away, covered her with the quilt, and left quietly.

When I went out, I found that Alayya had gone somewhere, but He Yue was waiting for me.

He looked at me, laughed, and said:

“It’s a bit fast.”

Today's pigeon sound

There have been some work arrangements these two days, so no updates for the time being.

I will give you an update tomorrow, and there will be an additional update on the weekend as compensation.

"There was a fish in front of me. No one can refuse it, not even me. So, I touched it."

——Pregnant pigeon

3. Don’t set flags for no reason

Facing He Yue's ridicule, I answered without hesitation:

"What, you want to try?"

He Yue shook his head:

"Forget it. I'm afraid your body can't handle it."

"Hey there! Young man, you've been a bit jumpy lately."

As I said this, I took He Yue's shoulder and said:

"If you have anything to say, tell me now. I'm not in a good mood today. I have so much anger in my heart that I have nowhere to vent it. Who knows, I might end up venting it on you."

He Yue took a half step to the side and said:

"Indulging in the life of wine and women in the harem is the first step towards the destruction of Yuxi City. As your internal affairs advisor, I have to stop you from doing this."

He paused and continued:

"Cut it off to make it permanent."

Damn, are you a devil!

This is too cruel.

I said helplessly:

"Let's get down to business. Didn't I tell you to go handle some government affairs and get familiar with the environment?"

He Yue crossed his hands in front of his chest and replied:

"finished."

I was taken aback.

He Yue was like a child waiting for praise from the teacher. If she had a tail, it would have been swinging back and forth constantly. I deliberately didn't praise her at this time. I played hard to get and asked in a thoughtful tone:

"Is this true? I haven't been back for a month, and there must be a lot of backlogged political affairs."

He Yue replied:

"Yes. But I brought my own team with me. If it's not a particularly important matter, just leave it to them. I explained when it's particularly important, but you can't expect to finish talking to the people below today. Take the demon breeding farm you did before, for example. This month, there was actually a serious overflow problem and it needed to be expanded, but your stingy guard didn't take the initiative to allocate money to do this, and the people below didn't have this idea. I asked the people below to pull together a temporary engineering team, and they will do this in the near future, but not today. Not everything has been completed, but everything is running in an orderly manner."

I nodded.

He Yue continued:

"Compared to this, the threat from the north is more serious. I have more information than you do, and I have some understanding of the young female general of Zhaochen. Now that you are back, Zhaochen will probably make trouble for you even more. What's more, according to your personality, even if they don't make trouble for you, you will make trouble for them."

He Yue paused and said:

"To avenge your people."

I laughed and said:

"Indeed. Why, is it a little difficult to do?"

He Yue said dissatisfiedly:

"Of course. The plan for Yuxi City was already in my mind, so I have to speed it up. Do you have any other ways to make money? Give them to me. By the way, I have already simply turned those ideas you wrote about agricultural merit and military merit into specific policies, and they should be implemented soon. I am so tired."

I touched his head, but He Yue was obviously not Fileta, and would not be bribed by this level of "bribe". He said seriously:

"Lied. Give me a year. At least a year, then I can make Yuxi City truly powerful. This is already the limit. Ordinary reforms will only show initial results in ten years. Yuxi City is special, and you also have many new methods. But the problem is that there are too few talents in Yuxi City. Bringing a group here can only alleviate the urgent need. There are only methods but no one to implement them... City defense, army, education, economy, people's livelihood, infrastructure construction, and the 'industrialization' you proposed, everything must be done and developed. Yuxi City has too few talent reserves, so I can only do my best."

I asked:

"Can you make it?"

He Yue looked away, frowned and thought, and said:

"The plan has changed. We will not move the ten cities of Zhaochen for now. We will move eastwards this year to seize the territory of Lineng..."

He spoke slowly, and when he finished, I nodded.

Although I think there are still too many variables, it is unrealistic for the shabby Yuxi City to expect to rise to the top overnight. I have known this for a long time, but looking at the scene where He Yue frowned and thought about the problem, I couldn't help but reach out and smooth his brows and said:

"Go ahead and do it. I'll leave my little treasury in your care."

He Yue sighed:

"Leave the internal affairs to me. You should think about how to deal with Zhaochen's people during this period. Even if it takes a long time, you have to give me a year."

I waved my hand confidently:

"Don't worry. You can't be sure that the people from Zhaochen's side will be so frightened by my domineering aura when they see me coming back that they will run away..."

Before I finished speaking, a man ran in from outside. He looked familiar to me, and seemed to be the soldier I had recruited before. His clothes were stained with blood from head to toe. When he saw me, he didn't bother to wipe the blood off his face, and said loudly:

"Lord City Lord! Zhaochen's gang of bastards are here to bully us again! A crack has been smashed in the northern city wall. Now that Lady Fileta is not here, the situation is almost out of control..."

As he was talking, he noticed that something was wrong in the atmosphere, and he blinked at He Yue and me.

He Yue smiled, bowed to me, and waved his hand toward the door, as if to say: Please come in, please come in, bye.

What the hell...

I glanced into Fileta's room and said helplessly to the soldier in front of me:

"Lead the way."

Anyway, you bastards don't want me to rest for a moment, right?

Let's go! Send me on my way!

4.Who is coming?

Led by the soldiers, I rushed to the city wall which was the front line of the battlefield.

As soon as I arrived, I saw Luger, who I appointed as the captain. He looked very tired, sitting on the city wall, wiping the blood off his armor. The silver armor was stained with a lot of blood at this moment. After seeing me, Luger jumped up from the ground and asked:

"Lord City Lord, has Lady Fileta's condition improved?"

He asked hurriedly, then realized that he had neglected the etiquette and knelt on one knee in a hurry. I raised my hand and held his arm, preventing him from kneeling down, and said:

"Don't be so polite for now. Tell me the situation."

Luger wiped the sweat from his forehead, folded his hands and said:

"Yes, Lord City Lord. Our first batch of soldiers totaled 81 people, and now there are 63 left. The rest of the brothers basically died in the defensive battle. Lord Alayya organized us to launch several charges. Some brothers died, and their bodies were brought back and buried in the city. Some brothers could only die outside, and their bodies were exposed in the wilderness..."

Luger's lip trembled and he slammed his fist on the ground.

The 1.85-meter-tall man's eyes turned red.

He spoke word by word:

“That woman, that vicious woman! She sent soldiers to block the exit of Yuxi City and prevented us from bringing back our dead brothers. She made us watch the corpses rot… let us watch their internal organs being pecked by crows. The crows holding the dead people’s eyeballs were still flapping their wings at us…!!”

He finished speaking in one breath, and his whole momentum suddenly dropped.

I looked around at the soldiers behind me, and everyone had a look of anger on their faces, as if their loved ones had died in the war.

As a city lord, seeing his soldiers like this should make him happy. I should be happy that they can become one in such a short time and form a deep bond.

But as a sentimental person, I just can't be happy.

I patted Luger on the shoulder and said:

"We will get our revenge sooner or later."

Luger let out a long breath and nodded.

He quickly adjusted his mood, propped up his knees, and stood up from the ground. At this moment, there were bursts of rumbling sounds from under the city. I walked to the edge of the city and looked down.

The army was about 600 to 700 strong. The formation of the army was indeed quite tricky. At the beginning, there were only eight square formations charging, but then it changed like flowing water. Just one look showed that it was difficult for magic to effectively attack such a flexible target. When the army arrived at the city, the army returned to a very solid state, with clear front and back rows. The shieldmen stood up in the front row, the archers drew their bows and arrows, and the crossbows and catapults were steadily deployed in the back row. In an instant, they formed a very complete siege formation.

It's really strong in terms of momentum.

Although it was an army of only six or seven hundred people, what came across was a sense of the grandeur of a mighty army.

Dust rose from the dirt road, the wind blew quietly, but the entire army seemed to be shrouded in a layer of fog.

Against this backdrop, the army made way for a path, and a dark shadow slowly emerged.