I hadn't expected the hundred mechanical people in the manor to be divided into groups like this.
No wonder Numbers One through Three were all super intelligent humans.
Number One, Jiang Ziyan, was the leader of those hundred mechanical people and held absolute command over them.
Yet she did not have to obey Zhuangzi. In other words, those hundred people were completely separate from the manor's forces.
When the manor's owner was absent, Zhuangzi had no authority to activate those hundred people. Whether to activate them was up to the manor's owner, and once activated, they would obey only their owner. Zhuangzi merely served as an executor.
It had to be said that the manor's former owner had been extremely thorough in setting up checks and balances for the manor's forces. The Ten Heavenly Stems could not enter the manor, the Twelve Earthly Branches could not leave it, and the hundred mechanical people could not be activated without the owner's orders. This placed the greatest possible limits even on Zhuangzi, the manor's steward, and on the authority of the manor guard captain.
Perhaps it was not that the former owner doubted his loyalty, but that he still harbored some wariness toward intelligent humans.
Where there was intelligence, ambition could naturally arise.
And with ambition, people could do anything.
After handling matters at the Island Lord's Mansion, Liu Lan was the first to arrive at the manor.
She had brought only a few ordinary island guards from the Island Lord's Mansion. They had all been carefully selected from the Four Great Families and were considered relatively capable among them.
As for Fan Yi and the others, they were temporarily assisting the Four Great Families with the tasks assigned during the meeting.
"Another group of returnees has appeared," Liu Lan said with