【42 Years of Disaster】

After the human hero Asa Akto returns, Doomsday City prepares a grand dinner for him.

The camp territories, neutral gathering places, and small free cities affiliated with Doomsday City all sent people to attend the dinner to express their attitude.

The dinner was held in the city hall outside the Doomsday City. The hall was filled with soft voices and the aroma of pre-dinner desserts.

People in formal attire were holding wine glasses and chatting. The long white tablecloth was half-way down like butter. From time to time, messengers carrying trays would pass by.

The scene can only be described as "upper class".

People were chatting in low voices, and the topics were simple and restrained. No one wanted anything to go wrong on such an important day. They all wanted to see Acto, who had been almost worshiped as a god for the past ten years.

The information Akto left behind made Doomsday City's technology advance by leaps and bounds visibly to the naked eye. Such an existence that leads them from both the technological resources and ideological level has almost become a brand new artificial god.

Anjie was the host of the banquet. She stood waiting at the door of the banquet hall, greeting guests one after another.

Andwis, the leader of the Free Alliance, Baird from the Trial House, Anita from the Yaoguang Mercenary Legion, Yalin, the city lord of Hope City, Borg, the deputy city lord of Antofa City, Doris and the war group.

Lei Xiao...

The War of Dawn has been launched for 10 years. The war situation is extremely chaotic, and various small forces have sprung up like mushrooms after rain. There are even divisions and alliances within the camp. People in the same camp are not venting their anger from the same nostril. Naturally, these guests also have people with ulterior motives.

"Su Ming'an's posture... is so majestic that all the overlords attend his dinner as if they are on a pilgrimage."

In the corner, Windsor, a remote-control legion player in a white dress, raised her head. She was an angel player, and her skin was so clean and fair that it was almost transparent.

"He is indeed worthy of these honors." Higurashi said.

He leaned the scabbard against the wall and straightened out the suit he was not used to.

Their remote control legion team had infiltrated the battle group early in the morning, and now they are also acting together in Kaiusta. At this banquet, 20% of the participants were players, and they mingled in the dessert area and ate desserts.

"Speaking of it, there has been a lot of chaos in Doomsday City in the past ten years." Player Ruiying said: "Actor has not appeared in ten years. Many people have not obeyed the leadership of Tredia and others over the years."

"But now Akto is back." Higurashi looked at the banquet hall where all the heroes gathered: "Then even if the previous leader made mistakes, Akto is absolutely 'right', and he is enough to eliminate the hidden dangers of the city-state in an instant

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Higurashi noticed that there was an inconspicuous figure standing behind the white curtains not far away.

That's Sen Kelstia.

Sen Kelstia is the deputy city lord of Doom City and the original leader who started the business together with Akto. Even Tredia's reputation is not as good as his.

But Sen's extremely high reputation and status were limited to 10 years ago.

It is impossible for human beings to be without desires and selfish interests. If a person sits in a high position for a long time and does not have enough supervision, he will make mistakes sooner or later. Sen is an example of this.

He made a fatal mistake in the 6th year of the War of Dawn. In order to save his dying son, he secretly used the medical resources that should have been allocated to the reconnaissance team. As a result, a reconnaissance team failed to treat him and the entire army was annihilated.

This incident shocked Doomsday City. Although it is common for team members to die outside, they should not die at the hands of their own family members.

People have doubts about the impartiality of the leadership of Doomsday City. Akto has not appeared for several years. Is it because the leadership represented by Tredia and others imprisoned him and used his name to make trouble?

Sen is the hero of the founding of the city, with great achievements in hard work. He has been working conscientiously for the past six years. Almost all the minor commanders of Doomsday City's legion are from Fenghuo. The interests of Doomsday City are united with the top and bottom, and the top management is unwilling to punish Sen to calm the anger of the people.

As a result, a storm of public opinion arose, and the families of the reconnaissance team were even more upset about it.

Sen regretted and suffered. He had protected these residents for so many years and was willing to sacrifice for the city-state. He knew that he had killed the reconnaissance team. In order to prevent Tretia and others from being embarrassed, he took the initiative to dismiss all military positions and honors, and killed him.

His bloody cloak was locked in the cabinet.

The dignified former lord of Fenghuo turned into a street rat who was despised by others.

Sen was standing next to the curtain at this time, his body almost hidden in the shadows. His face no longer had the high spirits of 10 years ago. He was obviously only forty years old, but he looked like an old man in his twilight years.

"……he came."

Suddenly, at this moment, someone spoke softly, and the whole hall fell silent.

I saw a young man with extraordinary momentum and handsome face walking through the door, making him instantly recognizable. Over the years, his face has often lit up on LED screens in various cities.

In the center of Doomsday City, there is a bronze statue of him. Fountains and gardens were built around the statue for people to rest and admire.

The hall fell silent instantly, and people almost didn't dare to recognize him. Akto didn't look like the powerful warrior who could stop the disaster of alien beasts with one person, as the intelligence said, but like a man without any power at all.

Scholars don't have any blood or violence in their bodies.

More like a noble man... very suitable for a banquet hall.

Su Ming'an didn't speak at this time, and neither his preaching aura nor his passive faith came into play. In people's eyes, he wasn't even as majestic as when he told the story of the lighthouse in the screen recording.

Su Ming'an looked around and saw many unfamiliar faces. At this moment, he vaguely felt what 10 years of humankind represented.

Infants and toddlers can grow into children, children can become teenagers, middle-aged people can turn gray, and some decrepit old people can disappear completely.

Cheng Luohe, a child holding a vermilion sniper rifle, grew up and became a young man in his early twenties. Yaowen also became the captain of an elite reconnaissance team, stinking in the corner.

Xia Sheng didn't change much, he still looked so cold and solemn. Stasi, Qiaocelin and others had matured a lot, and even wore wedding rings on their hands.

Su Mingan recalled the news collected by AI Yaya in the past 10 years.

……People are going to change.

If these people have always been small leaders in the shelter and only have a few hundred people on hand, they will not be greedy for profit and just want to survive together. But if they broaden their horizons, there will be more and more people on hand, even hundreds.

To the point where tens of thousands of people are dependent on Doomsday City...people have completely changed.

They can't help but think...since they are already the heroes who built the city, have such great power and such high reputation, why can't they go a little further?

They also have relatives, and some also have children. In such a precarious world... they really want to consider the next generation and do not want to give up the resources and status they hold tightly in their hands to others.

In the past 10 years, there have been a lot of intrigues among the top leaders of Doomsday City. Rongyuan even got married and established a family. He hooked up with his friends from the disaster period of the century and gave birth to a lot of illegitimate children. He was busy fighting for power and wanted to have a family.

The Second Army became his family's private army.

In order to check and balance him, Tredia formed an alliance with the surrounding cities of Hope, Antofa, and Beatrice, and brought out a bunch of puppets from the Alliance to fight with his relatives and officers. Even Xia, who had no regard for power,

Shengdu was implicated and forced to help her alliance increase its voice.

Marcia, the former main member of the Beacon Fire, was not willing to be left alone, and took the initiative to join the Trial House. Using the blessing of Sen, she drove out dissidents on the grounds of judging the gods for heresy, and pulled out a bunch of wings of the great commanders such as Jocelyn.

As soon as Akto disappeared, these people seemed to have lost their backbone, and no one could suppress anyone. The Doomsday City successively established organizations such as the Federal Council, the Core Committee, the Alliance, and the Tribunal, and there were a total of thirteen generals.

Forty-seven minor commanders, three marshals, and three legions divided the power in a mess.

These people have never made any major principled mistakes, but all kinds of small power disasters have emerged one after another, and they have even cultivated their own direct descendants.

Looking at the seemingly peaceful banquet hall, but privately turbulent, Su Mingan sighed.

"Welcome back, Lord Akto."

"City Lord, where have you been in the past 10 years? We have always missed you..."

"The total war has begun. City Lord, are you interested in visiting the Third Legion? Legion Commander Callement has always regarded you as a teacher in the field of mechanics. He has a gift for you."

The people around him greeted him with shy smiles, almost flattering. Even Anjie, an acquaintance who took the initiative to greet him, had awe and alienation on his face. She no longer dared to pat his shoulders and talk and laugh with him like she did 10 years ago.

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In his eyes, such an elegant, extravagant, and soft-spoken banquet was not even as good as the members of the Beacon Fire who gathered around the fire and drank sweet potato porridge to keep warm in the cold winter 10 years ago, shivering in the cold night.

For the first time, he felt that time was such a magical thing.

【It can make one person become like another person, and make a city become a mess. 】

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In a remote tea hall, Rongyuan helped a white-haired young man straighten the last wrinkles of his Hanfu.

"Peg, remember, you must try your best to please the city lord later." Rongyuan said.

"I understand." the young man said.

"Actor and Lin Guang were so close in the past. Who knows if Akto will maintain his original intention after 10 years... But it doesn't matter. Regardless of whether he maintains his original intention or not, he is the city lord. As soon as he opened his mouth

, we can have any amount of glory. Only by holding his thigh can we continue to be rich." Rongyuan patted the young man on the shoulder:

"I asked a lot of people, and they said that Akto likes white-haired young people very much. If you go and please him, you might be able to get him to give you some official position."

This white-haired young man is called Peg. He is his nephew and can be his help in winning over the city lord.

Peg walked out of the tea room. His slightly long broken hair hung down by his ears, and his eyes were as light as snow. The black and white Hanfu he wore was particularly conspicuous in the banquet hall.

The deputy city lord of Antofa City, who was talking to Su Ming'an about sending troops, saw the change in Su Ming'an's eyes.

The deputy city lord of Antofa City turned his head and looked at the white-haired young man walking over, as if he was aware of an additional way to get closer to the city lord.

...By the way, why didn't he think of giving white hair to the city lord?

"Huh?" In the corner, the blue-haired player Yuna saw the white-haired young man walking over and asked in shock, "Is that Lu Shu?"

Next to her, her teammate Jin Chendong narrowed his eyes:

"No, it's just an NPC who pretends to be a lookalike, most likely introduced by some commander to please Su Ming'an."

Jin Chendong shook his head: "If this continues, there will probably be people playing the role of Cheng Yueyue, or Cheng Nuo'er, or even Cheng Qianqian Nailuo... These people will really do anything to fight for power."

"Why do I feel like Su Ming'an is like an emperor who just came to power? These treacherous ministers are crazily stuffing his harem with concubines..." Player Mirala said sharply.

Player Gu Kaisun said: "White and delicate, how old is he now?"

Everyone glanced at Gu Kai, who shut up.
To be continued...