Hearing this, Huggins's face didn't feel any relief, but rather awkward.

Todd nodded and motioned for him to sit down and talk.

Huggins took a stiff step and sat cautiously on the edge of the sofa, waiting for the king's inquiry.

"I heard that after you left Muxi City, you took your family and opened a hotel in Silver Circle City. It seems that business is not bad."

Huggins said with a dry smile: "Your Majesty, I just want to find a way to keep myself from being idle..."

"Today is your first return to Twilight City since the day you left?"

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"About everything in the city, I want to hear your thoughts."

Huggins’ words were a bit of excitement: "I had imagined that Twilight West would become more prosperous, but I never thought that it would progress so fast! Parks, theaters, commerce, schools... …"

Todd interrupted Huggins: "I don't want to hear that."

Harkinston stayed in shape and seemed to hesitate: "Your Majesty, I don't know what you mean...?"

Todd sighed slightly: "Let's put this topic aside, let's talk about the coup d'etat a few years ago."

Huggins' body trembled slightly, and he sank his head and said, "Your Majesty, that was the biggest mistake in my life. In order to protect my friends and colleagues, I disregarded the safety of the entire kingdom. I am a sinner..."

"I called you today, not to blame you."

Todd looked at the slightly blessed middle-aged man, and suddenly remembered the old days of the monastery.

"You are a nostalgic person. This is a good thing and a bad thing."

"His Majesty……"

Todd tapped the tabletop with his knuckles, frowning his brows lightly: "Under the premise of foreseeing that coup, I also placed you in the post of the Security Bureau. This is also a fault I cannot shirk."

Huggins shook his head vigorously: "At that time, you were giving me a chance, giving me a chance to be on my own, but I failed..."

Todd was silent for a moment and said, "Huggins, what if I say I want to give you another chance?"

Huggins raised his head abruptly, the expression on his face worried about gains and losses: "Your Majesty, I don't know if I can do it well."

"Still back to the original topic, what do you think of the current Twilight City? Hmm... from the perspective of internal security."

Huggins pondered for a while and gave his answer.

"Your Majesty, have you seen the steam room in the North Island tribe?"

"Steam room?"

"Yes, there is such a building in the North Island tribe. It is a large domed building with a huge boiler in the center. The boiler is divided into two floors. The upper part is filled with water and the lower part is red stone. "

"There is a controllable iron gate between the water and the stone, which allows the water above it to drip slowly or all of it into the hot stone."

"When the water hits the hot stone, it will volatilize into high-temperature steam, which fills the entire room and becomes a huge steam bath."

Todd wondered: Isn't this just a sauna?

Huggins continued: "The current Twilight City is very similar to this boiler, except that the water above represents humans, and the hot stone below represents the alien species of the Crusades. And the iron gate in the middle..."

Todd nodded: "It's me, right?"

"Yes, according to my understanding, most humans in Twilight City admire the status and glory of the Holy Cadet Army. Some of them want to participate in the transformation ceremony. But the Holy Cadet Army calls humans the old species. Uncivilized creatures. And you are the only barrier separating them."

Huggins moved his hips and adjusted his sitting posture: "Think about it. Without your authority and suppression, what a huge contradiction between humans and the Crusades will be, I'm sure the latter will not hesitate. Drove the former out of the city."

Todd pondered: "The transformation ritual is dangerous and unpredictable. Are there really many humans who want to join it?"

"Your Majesty, you are in a high position, and you may not know the situation of the people. Take the Silver Ring City where I live now. After several wars, the city has long lost its former prosperity. Although most of the ruins have been built Buildings, but almost every citizen there thinks he is a countryman who is inferior..."

"Redneck?"

Todd was a little confused, he had never noticed this difference before.

"Looking at the whole country of Dragon, Muxicheng, as the capital, not only has a population of millions, but is also the most prosperous city in the entire continent. It is naturally the best city in everyone's mind."

"And the second-tier city in the Dragon Kingdom, the Holy Acropolis is the first. In addition to it, it also includes a number of northern cities represented by Frost Stone City. The Holy Acropolis is known for military equipment and weapons manufacturing, while Frost Stone City is the north and south. The center of trade is also the religious center of the Northern Territory. As for other cities, such as Gupi Port..."

Todd asked, "So, Silver Circle is a third-tier city?"

"No, before it, there were the capital of Ulster and the capital of Connaught. Although these two cities have fallen, their overall structure was relatively well-preserved during the war, so they can be regarded as third-tier cities."

"And such things as Silver Ring City and Guyan City can only be counted as four lines..."

Harkingston paused, and continued: "Those who live in the fourth-tier cities do not stay there voluntarily. If possible, they are willing to abandon their families and affection, just to find them in Muxi Town. The so-called hope and faith."

Todd thoughtfully: "It's like those humans yearn for the Crusades."

"Yes." Huggins shook his head and said: "The reverse is also true. The residents of Twilight City, they look down on or even hostile to those from the backward areas, thinking that they are ignorant and backward. They used to be enemies of the kingdom. It's just a bunch of villains who are in the heat."

Todd sighed: "It's like the Crusades call humans an old species, thinking that they are a race that has not yet evolved."

Huggins looked at Todd and said, "There are two ways to break this gap~lightnovelpub.net~ to break this prejudice."

"Tell me."

"First, give everyone a common ownership."

"Attribution?"

"The people of Muxi City, the people of Silver Ring City, although they have different status and wealth, they are all citizens of the Dragon Kingdom. Once they accept the sense of belonging to the same kingdom, they will slowly let go of each other. Stereotypes."

Todd chewed these words carefully, then asked after a moment, "What about the second way?"

Huggins said in a deep voice: "Set up a common enemy for everyone, and let the pressure from the outside force everyone to unite."

Todd squinted his eyes and stared at Huggins's eyes: "What do you want to say...?"

"The black plague."

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