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Xu Taiping led Metal Mountain and the men of the Iron Blood Army out of the palace.

He did not leave the capital immediately. Instead, he found a place to stay.

In the early morning, the fire in the capital began to slowly dissipate. Because all the commanders had been killed, the rebel army was headless and quickly fell under the assault of the government.

At eight o'clock that morning, the government troops recaptured the capital, and after many days, King Müller of the Energy Country once again appeared before the public. Müller gave a national speech, hoping that the rebel army would surrender.

The rebel army, which had lost its leader, surrendered. That afternoon, the government received a portrait of the final group of rebel soldiers. From then on, the rebellion of the energy nation came to an end.

That night, the moon was dark and the winds strong.

Within the imperial palace.

The King of Energy, Mu Lejiang, was sitting in his office.

There were two guards standing at the entrance of the office, and there were also two guards inside the office. Around the office, there were at least a hundred guards surrounding it.

Towards this lost king, the royal family of the Energy Country was still very nervous, afraid that he would make another mistake.

At this moment, a gust of wind suddenly blew past the office.

This wind was rather strange, because all the doors and windows in the office were closed. This meant that there could not be wind blowing in from the outside. Since it couldn't be the wind blowing in from the outside, the wind blowing in from within the office meant that someone was walking around.

Bang bang!

The two guards collapsed to the ground, fainting.

A figure appeared in front of Mu Lejiang.

"You … "The one who gave the mercenaries orders to attack the palace while pretending to be the soldiers of the government?" Mu Lejiang looked at the man in front of him and asked calmly. From his tone and words, he didn't seem surprised at all by the appearance of this man.

"You're calmer than I thought." The person in front of Mu Lejiang said.

"I heard from the report this afternoon that someone had issued an order pretending to be a government army, and there was also a group of fake government army special forces. I thought that since these people had helped me kill the rebel army, there was no way they would not have any complaints. So, I thought that someone must have found me recently, and it was most likely tonight." Muller said.

"Why tonight?" the man in front of Muller asked.

"Because … All of you are the greatest meritorious officials, and at the same time, you all do not wish for others to know of your existence. Therefore, you all must appear, at least communicate with me, and how to hide all of you, am I right? " Muller asked.

"I always thought that those who are kings don't have any brains. I never thought that you would be so much smarter than what I imagined!" As he spoke, the man in front of Mu Lejiang raised his hand and took off his mask.

"Xu Taiping?" When Mu Lejiang saw the person in front of him, he was stunned for a moment before he said, "I guess it should be you, but why don't you continue hiding your identity?"

"Didn't you already say it? If you guessed it was me, then I don't need to hide it anymore. You are a smart person, but it's better to be honest with smart people!" Xu Taiping said with a smile.

If the country ends up being taken over by the rebel army, then your 500 billion will be wasted. So I'm guessing that you will find someone or come to our country personally to help me eliminate the rebel army. In fact, from the moment the rebel army appeared, I wasn't worried at all that our country would fall into the hands of the rebel army. Mu Lejiang said with a smile.

"You sure are ambitious!" Xu Taiping smiled.

"Sit down." Muller said.

Xu Taiping pulled over a chair and sat down.

"First of all, allow me to thank you!" After Xu Taiping sat down, Mu Lejiang stood up and bowed to him, "Thank you for saving our country's people. Without you, we don't know how long this war would have lasted. And war, the hardest thing is still the people!"

"I thought you would thank me for saving your throne!" Xu Taiping laughed.

"The throne belongs to the people. Although I am not a person who loves many people, at least I know what is more important." Muller said.

"Even if these people rebel because they don't have enough benefits, do you think they are more important?" Xu Taiping asked.

"Of course, cutting benefits is a mistake in itself. They rebelled because of the wrong things, and I can forgive them. That is why I have pardoned all the rebel relations." Muller said.

"You are a good king, but you have to understand one thing. People can't feed themselves well, and now you've won, but that doesn't mean you can win in the future. As long as they feel hungry and you can't feed them, they will rebel sooner or later." Xu Taiping said.

"So, I should think of a way to keep them from starving, and that's why I've been doing new energy research and development for so many years. Over 200 years ago, our country discovered the world's richest oil, and because of that oil, we have lived a life of prosperity for more than 200 years. Now, oil is about to dry up, and if we want to continue to live a good life like this, we have to move ahead of others and develop a more efficient and abundant new energy source. Once we have developed this new energy, our people's lives will only be better than before." Mu Lejiang said seriously.

"How's the progress of the new energy development?" Xu Taiping asked.

"Progress... Do you want to see it for yourself? " Muller asked.

"Can I?" Xu Taiping asked.

"Of course, aren't you also a partner in this project?" Muller said.

"Sure!" Xu Taiping nodded, "Take me to see it."

"As you wish." He suddenly raised his hand and slapped a spot on the seat.

A ray of red light scanned Mu Lejiang's palm, and then two circular holes appeared underneath Xu Taiping and Mu Lejiang at the same time.

Xu Taiping and Mu Lejiang, along with the chairs under their butts, went down.

After the two of them fell into the ground, the cave entrance automatically closed up. From the outside, no one could see any traces of them.

Xu Taiping's body was falling rapidly, the surroundings were pitch black, but Xu Taiping wasn't nervous at all.

After falling down more than 20 meters, the space around Xu Taiping suddenly became narrower. A soft cloth tightly wrapped around Xu Taiping, causing his falling speed to become slower and slower.

Bang!

With a dull thud, Xu Taiping and the chair he was sitting on fell to the ground, and at the same time, Mu Lejiang also fell to the ground.

Xu Taiping looked up, the distance he landed at was about 30 meters. This should be where Russell detected the radio waves earlier.

"Welcome to our true R & D center!" Mu Lejiang said to Xu Taiping with a smile.

"The real R & D center?" Xu Taiping looked ahead in surprise.

In front of him was a passageway that was about ten meters long. At the end of the passage, there was a door.

"Yes!" Müller nodded as he walked to the door and opened it.

Behind the door, people wearing white protective gear were busy.

Xu Taiping walked in with Mu Lejiang.

"The research and development center on the surface is only a part of the energy R & D program. The true energy R & D core of our country is here." As Mu Lejiang spoke, he took a set of chemical protective clothing from someone beside him and passed it to Xu Taiping.

"Put him on." Muller said.

Xu Taiping nodded, putting on his protective suit. After that, Mu Lejiang also put on his protective suit.

"The development of new energy sources is of utmost importance to our energy nation, and it directly relates to our future. I have put everything on the line, but I did not make any progress, so I went back to ask for your investment." Muller said.

"Then, was the one Liu Hao was looking at before, the one outside, or the one inside?" Xu Taiping asked.

"The one on the outside, to be honest, if the rebellion didn't occur, your Taiya Group's investment would have been completely depleted." Muller said.

"Why?" Xu Taiping asked.

"Because we can't really give the new energy source to someone else, not even sharing it, we're just using the energy R & D center outside and some research results to get the investment going. Ultimately, we can't let the R & D center outside have any substantial research results, until we've spent all of your money, then we can tell you that the project has failed, and that you've lost all your investments, but, because you've helped us calm down our rebellion this time, I've decided to open up the real energy R & D center to you and let you really participate in this project. This is some of my gifts to you." Muller said.

Hearing Mu Lejiang's words, Xu Taiping smiled and said, "There is no one in this world who can get away unscathed after harming my money. You should be glad that you did not hide this energy center from me, otherwise, the master of this palace will change hands."

"Perhaps, I have also heard of your destructive capabilities. Alright, let's continue moving forward!" Muller said, moving forward.

Xu Taiping followed Mu Lejiang as they passed through an isolation zone and entered the real core of the R & D center.

"Next, allow me to show you our research results!" Mu Lejiang looked at one of his followers and said, "Show this to our Mr Xu."

"Yes sir!" Mu Lejiang's follower nodded and walked to the side.

A few seconds later, with a "pa" sound, the lights around them suddenly dimmed.

After that, in front of Xu Taiping, a few mechanical arms began to piece together a fingernail-sized piece of black metal.

Within seconds, a metal object the size of a ping pong ball was pieced together. Then, a needle-like thing pierced the metal object.

With a muffled sound, rays of blue light shot out from the metal object.

In the blink of an eye, this black metal object had turned transparent. Within this metal object, a blue, viscous liquid was flowing.