Traveling through the second dimension, the joy system encourages me to laugh heartily!

The maidservant helped her up weakly, and it was the beginning of her receiving the new emperor's grace. - "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" by Bai Juyi.

When Alpha finished cleaning the master bedroom and went downstairs with the sheets to wash them, he saw that in the living room, the newcomer, Meimi, had fallen asleep after being defeated, and only Meijia was still trying hard to hold on and make her last struggle.

She smiled slightly, carried the sheets into the laundry room, and didn't disturb them while they were charging.

After a while, she finished washing the sheets and hanging them up to dry, and there was no movement in the living room.

The careful Alpha went upstairs, picked up three thin blankets, and tiptoed downstairs.

The three people in the living room were all asleep, and the greedy Mejia didn't come down...

Chen Ming lay on the large sofa, using the person as a blanket, so he didn't need a blanket.

But Alpha was still worried about Mejia and Meimi, so he covered each of them with a thin blanket...

After a short nap, Chen Ming opened his eyes and opened the system interface to check the results of the battle.

满好感度的梅米卡上了十倍首充奖励，让他获得了20+10000+280=10300点欢愉神力，后续梅嘉也给他提供了300点欢愉神力。

Adding the original 128750 points, Chen Ming's total joy power has now reached 139350 points.

……

In this way, Meimi became Chen Ming's woman and lived in the villa.

This situation filled the other maids with hope, and they worked and studied harder.

Time flies, and looking back, it’s been 2 years...

Taldo and Maho are now 11 years old, and Tia is 14 years old.

That day, Tia suddenly received a letter from her father, and then she anxiously found Chen Ming.

"Uncle, I want to ask you a favor."

"What's the matter?"

"Please save my father—Count Veconi of the neighboring Kingdom of Siouikalu!"

As she said that, Tia wanted to kneel down, but Chen Ming quickly supported her.

He recalled the original storyline and quickly guessed the truth: "...I guess it has something to do with the civil unrest in Si'aoyi Kailu?"

The Kingdom of Siouyikelu also has the same concerns as the Kingdom of Alban, and the major nobles have always possessed ambition and power.

Moreover, the Kingdom of Siouyikalu does not have an assassination family like Tuhad, so the situation of the royal family is even more difficult.

As a result, the power of the nobles continued to grow, and several major nobles joined forces in rebellion, claiming that the royal family was both incompetent and negligent, and that they were the only ones qualified to rule Si'oikailu... and thus won.

When the civil strife broke out, Count Viconi's family stood on the royal side. Now that they have been defeated, they will naturally be liquidated!

Chapter 154: Lao Deng, is it safe in the sky when my ghost fire stops?

"Yes, although my father gave up most of his property and territory...

However, the matter did not end there. The new royal family wanted to exterminate us all. To avoid unnecessary bloodshed, my father had originally planned to go to the capital to confess his crime and accept the punishment...

But the retainers refused to accept this and killed the envoy who came to persuade them to surrender. At the same time, all the retainers submitted their resignations, stating that they would act on their own will. They also recruited volunteers from among the people of the territory, besieged the city, and placed my father under house arrest.

Because of this, the new royal family regarded the Count Viconi family as a rebel that had stirred up civil unrest, and began to suppress them..."

Listening to Tia's words, Chen Ming expressed his understanding.

As the saying goes, the victor makes the king, the loser makes the bandit. In the ancient times of Blue Star, if you stood on the wrong side when fighting for the throne, the end result would be the execution of your entire family!

The compensation that Tia's father paid was obviously not enough to gain security.

This all makes sense.

On the contrary, the subsequent developments were somewhat surprising - Count Vicone seemed to be quite popular among the people, and he was almost crowned the emperor.

As far as Chen Ming knew, most of the nobles in this world were exploiters. In order to get rich, they were cruel and ruthless, without any mercy in their hearts.

Therefore, the people of a normal territory would not mind who ruled them. They believed that no matter who was the ruler, their lives would be just as bad.

In fact, in the original plot, after the male protagonist Lu Ge carried out the task of assassinating the nobles, other nobles who were willing to be puppets of the royal family would be sent to take over the territories of the murdered nobles. Even if the ruler was changed, the people under him had no objections or resistance.

However, the people of Viconi took the initiative to start a war in order to protect their lord.

From this we can see that Count Viconi must be a rare good lord and is indeed worth rescuing.

What's more, he is Chen Ming's brother-in-law and future father-in-law, so he has to be saved.

"I understand, leave it to me!"

Time was running out—the retainer who delivered the letter said that the war had already begun when he set out, and Count Viconi's territory was approximately 360 kilometers away from Banshan Manor. It would have taken the retainer three days to get here...

So after Chen Ming finished speaking, he didn't have time to inform Alisi. He directly picked up Tia and used [Teleportation] to arrive at Count Viconi's territory.

In order to practice his magic power, Chen Ming has been to most places in World No. 1.

Viconi, the city where Tia's hometown is located, has now become a battlefield.

Chen Ming, holding Tia, suddenly appeared in the woods about three kilometers away from the battlefield. He had never been to Tia's house before. After all, he had seduced her sister and daughter, so how could he have the nerve to meet her father-in-law...

From a distance, Vicone is worthy of his title of count, and his residence should be described as a castle.

And they also took into account the needs of war and built a tall city wall!

Count Viconi's retainers made good use of that wall and barely resisted the enemy's attack.

However, the number of enemies was greater than Chen Ming had imagined, and the situation was quite unfavorable.

Even with the city walls as a geographical advantage, the Earl's side had less than two thousand people compared to the 15000 troops sent by the new royal family.

The gap is so huge that they can't resist for long and it looks like they will be breached at any time.

Fortunately, Chen Ming is here!

He held Dia in his arms, hiding in the woods, holding his breath. Although with his current strength, he could defeat this army head-on, but with his cautious... no, cautious style, why would he stand out and fight head-on when he could just launch a surprise attack?

Chen Ming planned to repel the enemy first, and then enter the castle to meet Lao Deng.

After all, he had taken possession of the other person's sister and daughter. It was his first visit, so he had to give some gifts first!

With this thought, Chen Ming unleashed [Real Manifestation]. Countless rays of faint blue light suddenly erupted from his palms. These rays weren't flames, but the manifestation of pure magic power tearing through the air as it was consumed. A vast amount of magic power surged from his body, so immense that it caused visible ripples in the surrounding space.

As his arm swung through the air, the heart-pounding blue light suddenly burst out - in an instant, the originally empty sky seemed to be torn open by an invisible giant hand, and a full thousand A-102 precision attack drones, with the unique cold luster of metal and the precise texture of their structures, instantly filled every inch of space above their heads, like a sudden steel cloud.

Almost in the same millisecond that their cold bodies took shape, an invisible torrent of data was already surging along invisible tracks.

The space-based communication network instantly recognized and took over this huge fleet of aircraft.

The next moment, all the A-102's dark sensor arrays lit up with a captivating red light at the same time, as if hell had opened a thousand cold eyes.

The will of [Crimson] is like an invisible thread, firmly controlling these thousand cold killing machines.

Without a trace of unnecessary noise, the huge fleet of aircraft started their thrusters at the same time, drawing a breathtakingly neat trajectory, and rushed towards the distant battlefield filled with blood. They turned into a silent and deadly metal storm and rushed forward at a rapid speed.

The royal army on the battlefield is still besieging the castle, and the howling of death has torn apart the tranquility of the sky.

"Shuashuashua——"

That was the sharp hissing sound of the air bursting after being extremely compressed, caused by electromagnetic orbital acceleration that exceeded the limits of hearing.

The small electromagnetic gun muzzles beneath a thousand A-102s simultaneously flashed with dazzling blue arc light.

The next second, the tungsten alloy warhead with a diameter of more than 30mm was given the speed of hell - Mach 10!

They tore through the air, leaving behind scorching plasma trails, like orange-red beams of judgment, carrying the absolute power of pure physical laws, mercilessly piercing down from the sky!

The destruction is as precise as divine punishment.

Those elite soldiers, clad in heavy armor and even whose flesh and blood had been repeatedly tempered with magic power, were as fragile as paper in the face of this kinetic energy impact that was beyond ordinary comprehension.

Wherever the orange-red beam passed, the human body seemed to be pierced and torn apart by an invisible force. A hideous bloody hole instantly exploded on the chest, and fragments of flesh, bones, and internal organs mixed with armor fragments violently splashed in the huge shock wave.

The huge army of 15,000 people was like a wheat field swept by an invisible sickle, and it fell down in an instant.

The strong smell of blood instantly rose up and filled the entire battlefield, interweaving with the soldiers' incredible horror frozen on their faces, forming a dead silence.

The first devastating volley had barely subsided, and the cold order continued. Without a moment's delay, the drone swarm in the sky emitted a gentle yet efficient "click," and the new tungsten alloy warhead was precisely propelled into the electromagnetic rail in a millisecond.

They followed the optimal path calculated by [Crimson], ruthlessly adjusting their positions in the air, like deadly chess pieces moving on a chessboard, just to ensure that the next round of attacks would cover a more deadly angle.

A second round of orange-red beams of light followed, lashing the earth again and wiping out more lives.

At this moment, the terror on the battlefield was finally ignited by the instinct for survival and violent rage.

The commander's hoarse roar pierced the bloody air: "Magic Archers! Rain down arrows! Cover that iron bird!"

The magicians woke up from their initial shock, their deep fear instantly transformed into a rage of destruction. They waved their staffs and poured out the surging magic power in their bodies without hesitation: "Continuous fireballs!", "Wind blade slash!", "Ice cone volley!"

In an instant, the sky was lit up by magical light.

Dense armor-piercing arrows flew towards the steel machine group like a black rainstorm, accompanied by a sharp scream.

The huge, scorching fireball, dragging a trail of thick smoke, rolled over and crashed into the drone swarm. Each explosion set off a scorching air wave and splashed molten metal fragments.

The huge wind blade, as sharp as a knife, rotated at high speed, making a sharp sound like tearing cloth, and ruthlessly cut through the tough alloy shell of the drone.

The ice cones, carrying a biting cold, exploded when they hit the fuselage, instantly freezing the delicate components and causing an uncontrolled crash.

Fragments of metal and the residual light of magic intertwined and collided in the smoke-filled sky, making a shrill whine.

One after another, the A-102s, trailing thick smoke and flames, fell from the sky they once dominated, spinning and tumbling, like giant metal birds strangled by invisible hands, smashing deep pits in the charred earth and sending up billowing clouds of dust.

Cold calculations and violent primitive magic were fiercely strangled in the air, cold metal fragments and burning magic embers fluttered in the air, together composing the final song of destruction - technology and magic, on the altar of blood and fire, bit and annihilated each other in the most cruel way.

However, Chen Ming did not feel sorry at all, because the drone swarm was materialized by him, and he could have as many as he wanted. It only took a little magic power to make it.

So, he once again used [Real Materialization], materializing a thousand A-102s and a thousand A-103s (wide-area bombing type).

Actually, the A-103 wasn't used much on Panda Star. It was developed during a special period when the planet enjoyed absolute air superiority—and then it was shelved. After all, wide-area bombing was still a thing in this day and age. Only fools would use firepower to cover targets when precision strikes could be achieved. And ammunition wasn't free? Even weaklings wouldn't do that. Afraid of their carriers getting shot down? Did they really think large drones could be cheap?

But the cost calculation has nothing to do with Chen Ming. His drone is really free and he is not afraid of losses - he can simply materialize a moon and smash it into the enemy's face, but that would easily hurt his own people.

After taking off, one thousand A-102s and one thousand A-103s dispersed under the control of [Crimson] and flew towards the battlefield.

"Boom boom boom..."

This time, in addition to the orange beam, light emerged from the location of the royal army, setting off exploding fireballs.

Obviously, wide-area bombing drones have also begun to make their mark.

The flames produced by the explosion carried countless shrapnel and scattered them in all directions.

Each exploding fireball had an effective killing range exceeding a hundred meters, and the secondary damage caused by the shattered iron fragments through the explosive pressure extended beyond that range to even further...

Hundreds of people were blown away, burned by flames, and pierced by iron pieces.

At the same time, Count Viconi's army, which had been unilaterally on the defensive, actually began to attack the enemy when it was down.

Seeing this, Chen Ming sighed inwardly: "Count Viconi's soldiers are well trained. It seems that they recognize this as a good opportunity to counterattack."

Even if the drone swarm kills a considerable number of enemy soldiers, the current situation is that there is still a gap in numbers between the two sides.

However, even if there was a disparity in numbers, the royal army was in a state of extreme panic at this time and could easily switch from defense to offense.

Chen Ming saw that the drone army controlled by [Crimson] was enough to suppress the royal army, and Count Viconi's army also began to counterattack, so there was no need to worry about the castle being captured.

So he stopped watching the battle and instantly moved towards the castle within his sight.

It is very difficult to find Count Viconi in such a large castle.

However, Count Viconi's little cotton-padded jacket was leaking.

With Tia, the current eldest daughter of the Vicone family, here, walking into the castle feels like coming home! (In fact, even without Tia, Chen Ming could have brought back the previous eldest daughter, Elise, to lead the way, and the effect would have been the same.)

In short, Chen Ming carried Tia and arrived at the room where Count Viconi was without any obstacles.

"Wait a minute, uncle, put me down first. My dad will be angry if he sees me!"

Tia suddenly spoke up.

She had been anxious to rescue her father just now, and after four years of getting along, her favorability towards Chen Ming had risen to 80 points, so she didn't feel there was anything wrong.

After all, in the Half Mountain Manor, there are often some physical contacts such as hugging and cuddling.

But when she was about to meet her father, she realized something was wrong - Chen Ming was not her man, but her uncle!

"Oh, it's okay. I kidnapped your aunt, and my brother-in-law must be angry. It will be the same if I kidnap you. After all, too much debt is better than nothing."

As he spoke, Chen Ming reached out and pushed the door, only to find that it was locked.

But this certainly couldn't stop Chen Ming who was in a state of enhanced magic.

He kicked the door open and shouted, "Lao Deng, is it safe in the sky when my will-o'-the-wisp stops?"