Worried

In the tavern, many guests who were laughing could not help but look at Mark in disbelief.

"Could that be him?"

"That day, my brother went out of the city to run business in Zhongzhou. He was suddenly attacked by a wave of green spider beasts. The tens of thousands of martial arts cultivators were like countless headless ants and could only flee for their lives in panic. The casualties were extremely heavy. Fortunately, there was a Martial King at that time. He commanded tens of thousands of martial cultivators to form a defensive formation under the city, and these people persisted. He has great admiration for this person. Thank you very much, brother, for saving my brother's life!"

"Yes, I was outside the city that day. At that time, the crowd was in panic and faced the beast tide. It was all thanks to the excellent command of a King Wu that tens of thousands of people suffered almost no casualties! I remembered that it was him who was commanding! The benefactor is above and the shou is below. Pay homage! May I ask your benefactor's name? I'll be able to repay you the next day!"

"He saved tens of thousands of lives!"

The crowd in the tavern suddenly became excited, full of gratitude.

Almost everyone in Imperial Valley City knows that the Green Spider Beast Tide broke out. That day, tens of thousands of people fled to the foot of the Imperial Valley City Wall, unable to enter the city. It was an extremely skilled corps-level commander who maintained the situation and allowed everyone to hold on. Come down.

Finally, they persisted until Imperial Valley City sent a brigade of fire-ox mechanism beasts out of the city to cover tens of thousands of shocked merchants and martial arts cultivators back to Imperial Valley City safely.

Many people later thought that in addition to the Fire Bull Corps who saved them, there was another person who played a major role in this catastrophe.

But before everyone had time to thank him, Ye Fan had disappeared from the crowd, leaving no name or any clues, and never showed up again.

This incident has become a regret for many people.

In this large tavern, there were several martial arts cultivators who had escaped.

They had seen Ye Fan's appearance with their own eyes and had some impressions.

"You're welcome, I have practiced the City Lord system for a few days, and this is what I should do if I shoulder the responsibility of command!"

Ye Fan bowed his hands to everyone in the tavern in return, without leaving his last name, turned around and left the tavern, heading to the headquarters of the Fire Bull Corps.

He went out of the city with the caravan that day, and happened to encounter an outbreak of green spider beasts. He directed everyone to resist the beast tide to save himself, and he was not seeking fame in the first place.

Outside the tavern, Gu Shan couldn't help but be shocked when he saw this scene.

He suddenly admired Elder Gu Chunbo's foresight. It was definitely not a good idea to attack Ye Fan and Gu Xinyue in Imperial Valley City.

Not to mention whether the ten major corps will send the Emperor Wu to intervene, there are tens of thousands of businessmen and martial arts cultivators who have been favored by Ye Fan. Their relatives, brothers, and friends in Imperial Valley City number in the hundreds of thousands. Even when many people heard about this, they felt great admiration for Mark and admired him immensely.

Ye Fan's reputation in Imperial Valley City at this moment is probably no less than that of any famous general at the corps level.

Anyone who dares to touch Ye Fan will provoke a strong counterattack from this crowd.

If the Purple Phoenix Sect pursued and besieged Ye Fan in Imperial Valley City, they would probably be drowned to death by the countless martial arts cultivators in Imperial Valley City.

…

The headquarters of the Fire Bull Corps is in the west of the city.

There is a huge martial arts training ground in the magnificent building complex of the Corps headquarters.

At this moment, a 200-foot-large Fire Ox Mechanism Beast King was lying on all fours on the martial arts training ground, like a lifeless puppet, without any movement.

Its outer armor is still red and bright, but many of its internal mechanisms are old and damaged, with a lot of fire and black smoke.

And around this Fire Ox Machine Beast King, there were a lot of busy machine masters.

The leaders were General Zhou Jin and Chief Mechanic Gan Feng.

The rest are hundreds of machine masters and dozens of machine kings. Everyone is busy and focused, looking through a large number of design drawings and trying every means to repair the Fire Ox Machine Beast King.

On a row of stone tables, there are dozens of thick stacks of design drawings of the Fire Ox Mechanism Beast King.

This entire set of design drawings alone contains tens of thousands of kraft paper rolls, which can fill a large carriage.

The number of mysterious weapon parts of this machine beast king is as high as millions, and the number is jaw-dropping.

Not to mention maintenance, just looking at the thick design drawings and the dazzling array of mysterious parts will make even the mechanism master feel dizzy and helpless, not knowing where to start.

If it were another professional martial arts cultivator, there would be no need to look at it at all. Once you look at it, you will be confused and have no idea what these mechanism parts are used for.

This is not a single fifth-level imperial-level mysterious weapon, but a complex combination of nearly one million fourth-level and thousands of fifth-level mysterious weapon parts.

Its combat power is far better than any single fifth-level imperial weapon, even surpassing the Martial Emperor. Only one Martial King is needed to control this mechanical beast king across the battlefield, fighting in and out of the beast tide.

As the eldest disciple of Hong Ran, leader of the Fire Bull Corps, Zhou Jin was quite successful in the city master department, one of the nine professional departments. However, he knew nothing about machine relations and was extremely anxious.

Hong Ran had an order. Before the Fire Ox Mechanism Beast King was repaired, he and Gan Feng could not do other things and had to guard the Mechanism Beast King day and night.

Zhou Jin guarded the beast king every day, doing nothing all day long, but he couldn't do anything to help him. It was simply worse than torture.

Zhou Jin, standing beside Gan Feng, the chief mechanical engineer of the Corps, saw that Gan Feng was studying a design drawing intently, and couldn't help but said anxiously: "Sir Gan, it's been almost a month, how is the progress of the maintenance now? And How long will it take to fix it?"

Gan Feng raised his head, also exhausted, and sighed helplessly: "This Fire Ox Mechanism Beast King has been used for too long, including being burned by fire, old and damaged, and the damage rate is about 5%, which means it has to be compared with Only by replacing 50,000 mysterious weapon parts can it be restored to its original state! We have dozens of machine kings and nearly a hundred machine masters here. Each of us can restore at most one or two fourth-level mysterious weapon parts according to the design drawings every day. . A rough estimate is that it will take more than a year to repair all the damaged parts of the mysterious weapon."

These are only the fourth-order mysterious weapon parts.

A small number of other fifth-level mysterious weapon parts were also destroyed, making repairs even more troublesome. He didn't dare to tell Zhou Jin this, otherwise Zhou Jin might collapse even more.

"What, another year? With Master's fiery temper, how could he wait so long? He has pressed me several times in the past month. If he knew it would take more than a year to repair, I'm afraid he would be desperate Kill me on the spot!"

Zhou Jin felt like his scalp was going to explode.

This Fire Ox Mechanism Beast King is the most important war weapon of the Fire Ox Corps and is the core combat force. Without it, the Fire Bull Corps would not easily venture into Zhongzhou to avoid losing their troops.

Gan Feng smiled bitterly and shook his head: "General Zhou is the disciple of Commander Hong Bing after all. He won't do anything to you. I, the chief mechanic, may be the one who has really come to an end."