Throne of Vientiane Civilization

After a simple hot pot lunch, Zhou Xu left the restaurant and went to Xie's house.

Needless to say, since then, Xie Liancheng has returned to his home to recover from his injuries.

"How is your injury?"

"It's okay, I feel about 70% better."

His injury was serious, and it would have been fine if he had used the "Lightning Dance" to squeeze the body's functions and force the body to overload.

Now it's good, the injury is directly added to the injury, and the recovery is even slower.

However, given the situation at the time, it is difficult to say that Xie Liancheng was wrong to do so.

To a large extent, they had no choice at the time.

Xie Liancheng, who has also been listening to books recently, naturally knows that the front line has won a victory, so he has nothing to worry about at the moment, and he did not hide his injury from Zhou Xu.

After a simple sentence, Xie Liancheng's face straightened.

"When do you plan to mobilize the troops?"

Zhou Xu rolled his eyes on the spot when he heard this.

"You haven't recovered from your injury yet, why are you still worrying about this?"

While speaking, Zhou Xu sighed at Jie Liancheng's serious look.

"You have become smarter."

Jie Liancheng rolled his eyes immediately.

"I'm not stupid. What's the saying? How can I allow others to snore beside my bed?"

"If nothing unexpected happens, we will mobilize troops after the spring. At that time, the lizardmen troops from Bo Lewen can come to help, and our chances of winning will be greater."

Jie Liancheng, who had experienced the previous battle, naturally saw how powerful Bo Lewen was. He had no objection to this.

"I will go there too."

"Let's talk about it later. You should take good care of your injury first!"

Zhou Xu did not agree to him directly.

You know, he almost died before!

The situation was urgent at the time, and Zhou Xu had no time to think about it. Thinking about it afterwards, he felt a little scared.

He undoubtedly valued his childhood friend very much, and he really didn't want Jie Liancheng to take this risk.

But Xie Liancheng obviously didn't buy it.

Just as Zhou Xu understood him, he also understood Zhou Xu and knew what Zhou Xu was thinking now.

"Don't wait until then! Promise me first!"

"Although I did learn a lesson in the previous battle and was embarrassed, even so, in terms of strength, I am the strongest among all the generals in the Great Zhou. If I don't go to such a tough battle, who will?"

"..."

Don't say it, Zhou Xu really couldn't refute Xie Liancheng's words.

There is currently no warrior in the Vajra Realm in their Great Zhou, and among the generals in the Hundred Refining Realm, Xie Liancheng's strength is undoubtedly the strongest.

Under this premise, Zhou Xu naturally has high hopes for Xie Liancheng, hoping that he can also break through the bottleneck of the peak of the Hundred Refining Realm and leap into the Vajra Realm.

However, he is just thinking about this matter casually now.

Xie Liancheng hasn't even recovered from his injuries yet. It's good enough that his skills haven't regressed. Do you still expect him to practice martial arts?

In comparison, Zhou Chongshan's injury was not as serious as Jie Liancheng's, and he has basically recovered.

Here, Qiansui is also worth mentioning.

Like Zhou Chongshan, Qiansui stayed in the military camp outside the Prairie City to recover from his injuries.

When passing by Prairie City, Zhou Xu also went to visit him.

In terms of the severity of the injury, Qiansui's severity is only higher than Jie Liancheng's, but fortunately, his own recovery ability is also very strong, and he has almost recovered now.

However, Zhou Xu did not rush Qiansui to the northeastern border to help.

The situation on the northeastern border is quite special now.

If the greenskin troops on the opposite side do not send out warriors at the level of Vajra Realm, then according to the current configuration of the northeastern border, there is basically no need to be afraid, and they can all be stabilized.

But if the opponent sends out warriors at the level of Vajra Realm, it will be useless for Qiansui to go, and it is better to stay here to recover.

Back to the point, Zhou Xu still failed to defeat Jie Liancheng in the end.

At the same time, what Jie Liancheng said was indeed reasonable. For such a tough battle, if you don’t send the strongest general under your command, who else can you send?

After leaving Jie’s mansion, Zhou Xu returned to the palace. After a comfortable night’s sleep, he went straight to work.

This time he was away for a short time, so the pile of documents on his desk was not too many, and it didn’t bring much pressure to Zhou Xu to deal with it. He could even arrange a lunch break for himself.

However, during his lunch break, a person who made him a little unexpected came to the palace to ask for an audience.

“Your humble servant Qin Fen, I pay my respects to Your Majesty!”

“No need to be polite.”

After hearing the announcement, Zhou Xu thought in his heart that Qin Fen’s visit to him at this time must not be because of the steam engine, because there was no time.

And the fact is indeed so.

"Your Majesty, I came to the palace this time to talk to you about the fire crystal!"

When Zhou Xu heard that it was related to the fire crystal, he immediately had some guesses in his mind.

But he didn't intend to interrupt, but raised his hand and motioned Qin Fen to continue.

"Your Majesty, we may be able to use the fire crystal as the core energy to directly build an internal combustion engine!"

Hearing this, Zhou Xu's eyes quickly flashed with a hint of understanding.

He probably knew what Qin Fen was going to say.

Qin Fen didn't know there was such a thing as fire crystal before. Although Zhou Xu mentioned volcanoes and geothermal energy to him, he didn't mention this.

But the fire crystal itself is not something that needs to be kept secret, so after living for a period of time, Qin Fen naturally learned about this special ore that contains elemental energy.

You know, as a "power genius", Qin Fen has always been sensitive to things related to energy.

The moment he learned about the fire crystal, he suddenly realized that this special crystal might allow them to skip the steam engine and start making internal combustion engines directly.

"Your Majesty, the working principle of the internal combustion engine is simply to let the fuel burn inside the machine and convert the heat energy released into power. It's just a thermal engine."

"A lot of structures and sophisticated designs here are all to provide services for energy conversion, but I found that the fire crystal can directly release heat energy without burning at all, which is enough to greatly reduce the difficulty of the entire manufacturing."

"And I found that we can even use the metal smelted by the fire crystal to make the core structure of the internal combustion engine. It is like the battery of a new energy vehicle. As long as the research and development is successful, we can directly charge this core structure to meet the entire power demand."

At this point, Qin Fen's face has revealed obvious enthusiasm.

As a person who studies energy and power, what could be more exciting than discovering a new energy source and using it to develop a new power machine?

However, after the excitement, Qin Fen quickly calmed down.

"But I know that Your Majesty will most likely not agree, I just want to mention it."

Hearing this, Zhou Xu smiled, and at the same time admitted Qin Fen's guess. Indeed, he would not agree.