At midnight, the noble district of the Seireitei was devoid of activity save for a few noble guards assigned to night patrol. Nearly everyone had fallen into dreamland.
Aoko Aozaki appeared soundlessly from a corner at the edge of the noble district. Behind her followed Tōko, Alice Kuonji, Aura, and the Xcution members, who had already changed into shihakusho.
Looking at the outfit he was wearing, Kūgo Ginjō—because he needed to drill threaded holes, Gao Chong first assembled that most primitive of manual lathes. This was the first mother machine of modern mechanical industry. Though it was mostly made of wood, manually operated, and terribly inaccurate, it was the foundation of all precision machining.
With more than a dozen brides, how they would serve tea to the elders became a problem as well. They could hardly take turns serving tea to the same elder one by one, could they?
Without thinking twice, I prepared to yank this ring off Medusa with all my strength. I used every ounce of strength I had and pulled fiercely. At last, the ring came off Medusa's hand.
The personal guards had all followed the commander for a long time and were naturally loyal to Wang Jizhao. If Wang Jizhao wanted to fight to the death, then even if they were outmatched, they would certainly fight to the bitter end. Now that their commander had admitted defeat and ordered their surrender, the guards secretly breathed a sigh of relief, quickly threw down their weapons, and dropped to their knees.
Besides seasoning food, salt was most important because if people lacked salt in their daily lives and went without it for a long time, they would become weak and prone to illness. This was mainly because the sodium ions in salt were essential to the body's