Chapter 006: Conquering Cities and Seizing Territory

"I knew it, I knew it. The city lord moves with the stride of a dragon and the step of a tiger, with an extraordinary bearing—truly a figure like an immortal. I never imagined the city lord would actually be an immortal."

"Conjuring food out of thin air—this way, we won't have to worry about food anymore."

"Wonderful. I was originally worried that if this city had no food, it might not return to its former state."

"Everyone, since our city lord is an immortal, we must not bring shame to his excellency."

"Brother Zhao speaks the truth. Since we no longer need to worry about food and water, shouldn't we open the city gates wide, recruit refugees, expand this city, and build it into a paradise on earth?"

"I think it's unwise. Our strength is weak; we don't even have many soldiers to fight. What if we attract a pack of hungry wolves? How would we handle that?"

"What's there to fear? Our city lord is an immortal. How could a mere pack of hungry wolves defeat an immortal?"

"I think we should consult his excellency on this matter."

"Yes, yes, consult his excellency and ask him what we should do."

The group was deadlocked, so they sent Zhao Weimin to consult Wang Bo.

Zhao Weimin had no choice but to make another trip to the city lord's mansion.

After understanding Zhao Weimin's purpose, Wang Bo smiled slightly and said, "Go ahead and do as you wish. Don't worry about anything else. Though we have no soldiers, we have heavenly troops."

Hearing this, Zhao Weimin suddenly understood. In his view, since the city lord was an immortal, he could naturally summon heavenly troops. With that, what was there to fear? So he returned confidently to report the good news.

After sending Zhao Weimin off, Wang Bo did not perform the spell of scattering beans to form soldiers.

Although this spell could summon heavenly troops, with Wang Bo's current magical power, he was not yet capable of summoning an army of ten thousand.

But that didn't matter.

Wang Bo didn't have real heavenly troops, but he had fake ones.

And these fake heavenly troops were the mechanical soldiers!

After receiving Wang Bo's orders, the Decepticon Conqueror established a hundred military factories inside the Time Villa, frantically churning out troops. In one week, it produced an army of ten thousand mechanical soldiers.

And one week in the Time Villa was only a few hours in the real world.

That night, when these ten thousand mechanical soldiers, disguised as humans, patrolled the city, the entire city erupted in excitement.

What was this? It was a sense of security.

With this sense of security, everyone's hearts turned even more toward Wang Bo. If this were a game, Wang Bo would have definitely unlocked the achievement 'Hearts of the People.'

With this group of mechanical soldiers disguised as humans, a group of officials led by Zhao Weimin worked with great enthusiasm, wanting to turn this city into a paradise on earth.

But Wang Bo knew very well that the city he had taken was too small, with limited capacity. A few thousand people would be fine, but if it reached tens of thousands, it would definitely become extremely crowded.

Moreover, even if they sent people to advertise this place as a paradise on earth, not many would believe it.

Even if some believed it, whether they could survive the journey to this place was another question.

To save this world, staying confined to one city wouldn't work. They had to take the initiative, conquer more cities—in short, unify the realm—before they could restore the glory of the Great Tang.

Therefore, Wang Bo had only one course of action.

Churn out troops!

Only by continuously churning out troops could he sweep across the world.

Fortunately, time inside the Time Villa differed from outside. One day outside was nearly fifty days inside—more than a month and a half. Over a hundred military factories worked simultaneously on assembly lines to produce mechanical soldiers.

If materials were insufficient, he used the Replication Mirror to duplicate them.

Thus, no matter how scarce the materials, the Replication Mirror could provide them in unlimited quantities.

Only two days had passed outside, but over two months had gone by in the Time Villa. During these two months, the hundred-plus military factories frantically churned out five hundred thousand troops.

This was absolutely an unimaginable number.

Especially since mechanical soldiers required no food, no logistics, felt no fear, and never retreated, and their combat effectiveness far exceeded that of ordinary humans.

Wang Bo felt that, at least in this world, there should be nothing that could stop his forces.

So on the third day, Wang Bo left behind ten thousand mechanical soldiers and enough food, handed everything over to Zhao Weimin, instructed him to manage the city well, and then, under the stunned gaze of everyone, set out with an army of five hundred thousand.

From now on, Wang Bo began his journey to sweep across the world and save the people.

The mobility of mechanical soldiers far exceeded that of humans; they moved like the wind when traveling, and if they charged at full speed, even horses couldn't keep up.

Thus, on the first day, Wang Bo successfully captured three cities.

Most of the time was spent on managing the cities.

The first city Wang Bo captured was still a small town. There was simply no force in the city that could resist Wang Bo's army, so when the city lord saw Wang Bo's hundreds of thousands of troops, he nearly wet himself.

The other side surrendered the city almost the moment they saw Wang Bo's army.

Wang Bo smoothly took over the first city, then hypnotized the city lord and learned some things from him.

For example, how many people were in the city, what kind of person he was, whether he had harmed innocent civilians, and whether there were any bullies in the city.

The back-and-forth of questions and answers wasted some of Wang Bo's time.

After Wang Bo had clarified everything, he arrested all those who oppressed the people. Those with minor offenses were sent to hard labor; those whose crimes were unforgivable were beheaded by mechanical soldiers in front of the people.

Then, Wang Bo distributed enough food and clothing.

With such simple and crude methods, the city belonged to Wang Bo.

After executing a batch of irredeemable officials, Wang Bo promoted another batch of officials to manage the city, and left behind ten thousand soldiers to guard it.

Then, Wang Bo continued his march with the main army.

After all, in this chaotic world, there were still more people waiting for Wang Bo to save.

Moreover, this feeling of wielding a three-foot sword to sweep across the world was not bad. Of course, what Wang Bo wielded was not a three-foot sword but an army of five hundred thousand.

Yes, although Wang Bo left behind ten thousand mechanical soldiers, the military factories in his Time Villa did not stop; they kept churning out troops.

By now, the factories had produced several tens of thousands more mechanical soldiers.

So leaving behind ten thousand troops was no big deal.

Wang Bo still had plenty of troops.

When attacking the second city, Wang Bo encountered slight resistance.

Of course, perhaps in his enemies' eyes, their resistance was fierce enough, but for Wang Bo, such resistance was no different from a gentle breeze brushing his face.