After Luo Lan and the others left, the off-road vehicle convoy drove all the way to the Central Plains in the yellow sand rolling behind them, and their destination this time was actually the Central Plains.

On the way, Luo Lan didn't even dare to roll open the car window, he was worried that if a gust of wind blew in, he would eat a mouthful of sand: "This ghost place, only the group of people in the 178 fortress take it as a treasure to guard, and they are about to go to the flower world in the Central Plains, thinking about it, there is still a little excitement." ”

Zhou Qi sat next to him, but he had been silent for a long time, as if he was thinking about something, he suddenly said: "You want to open up the railway line, I can understand, but now that the southwest has sat back and relaxed, why do you always look like you are full of a sense of crisis?"

Zhou Qi used to be the secretary of the Qing Presidium, so don't look at the way he looks now, but he is not stupid.

So judging from Qing Jin's behavior of sending that girl to the northwest, Qing was already determined to form an alliance with Fortress 178: "And how did you persuade Fortress 178 to agree to our construction of the railway? You know, after the railway is really built, it will only take a day for Barrier 111 to go to Fortress 178, and it won't even take a day." ”

In this way, if the Qing clan takes the lead in the future, as long as a solid forward base is established in front, then this railway will be like a lifeline, continuously transporting soldiers and military supplies.

At that time, the speed of this troop transport may be faster than that of mechanized troops!

"Wait," Zhou Qi said to himself, "do you have a common enemy? But where is this enemy, it can make you feel like you are facing a great enemy." ”

"It's a bit exaggerated to be on the verge of a great enemy," Luo Lanle said with a smile: "This can only be regarded as a precaution! The price we paid is not small, first of all, if the 178 fortress encounters a foreign enemy again one day, the Qing troops will rush to the battlefield." ”

"What?" Zhou Qi was stunned for a moment: "Can Zhang Jinglin agree that you will drive the army next to him?"

"Of course not," Luo Lan shook his head: "Starting today, the Qing clan will open a corridor from the westerly mountain range in our southwest and insert it diagonally into the hinterland of the plateau, if someone besieges Fortress 178, we will support and outflank it from behind." ”

"It's not easy to get through the corridor in this mountain range," Zhou Qi sighed.

"It's not easy to get Fortress 178 to agree to our merging railway, I can only say that we have made concessions and efforts," Luo Lan said calmly.

"Okay, even if Zhang Jinglin believes that you will go to support when the time comes, then who is the enemy of the Qing Clan?" Zhou Qi asked.

"Central Plains Wang Clan," Luo Lan smiled: "I can't think of it, right? Actually, I didn't expect it at first, why Qing Zhen would care so much about this Wang Clan." ”

"This is interesting," Zhou Qi came to be interested: "That Wang Shengzhi heard that he is still in a wheelchair, and he has always liked to be kind to others, are you afraid of this kind of person?"

"We are not afraid of anyone," Luo Lan stared at the loess outside the window: "But the Qing clan is not as stable as imagined, and now the Qing clan has more than 40 barriers in his hands, and it has become the most powerful organizational force in the entire barrier alliance on the surface. ”

"What does this have to do with the Wang family?" Zhou Qi knew very little about the Wang consortium, so he asked this question.

"This Wang Shengzhi spent ten years to twist the Wang consortium into a rope, and then opened the most important northwest resource channel, and implemented the compulsory military service policy for ten years, at first it may not be obvious that there are not many active troops of the Wang family, but after a long time, it will be different, once the war starts, almost all adult males under the age of 35 on the Wang side can immediately become soldiers," Luo Lan said calmly.

"It's just military service," Zhou Qi said suspiciously, "If you want to say that this is the only way to judge that he is ready to wage war against others, this can be regarded as a crime of desire." ”

"Not only that, Qing Zhen said that the Wang family began to buy silk at a high price a few years ago, and the location of the Zhou consortium is one of the most suitable places to breed silkworms, many Zhou refugees fled into the mountains to breed silkworms, and the Wang family silently bought at a high price and gave material subsidies, and guess what, the Zhou family found that there were fewer and fewer people in the year before last, many factories were understaffed, and the food was almost not enough to eat!" Luo Lan said with a smile: "Of course, there are still many things that the Wang consortium has done." ”

"I want to know what Qing Zhen thinks of the Wang family?" Zhou Qi frowned.

Luo Lan said calmly: "He said that the Wang clan has the ambition of unifying the Barrier Alliance. ”

"So Zhang Jinglin and Qing Zhen thought of going together, so they agreed to your proposal, and then the two sides secretly united to resist future risks," Zhou Qi sighed and said: "Isn't it okay for everyone to live a good life? Why do people always want to pocket everything in the world?"

Luo Lan smiled: "You and I have seen a lot of human greed, but this Wang Shengzhi is not because of greed...... That's the scariest thing. Moreover, the Qing clan still has some old opponents for many years, such as the leader of the thug who has never let go of his prejudice against us, for example, the Tinder Company has also looked at us unpleasantly for a long time......"

"If you say that, there is still a feeling that the world is the enemy......" Zhou Qi said speechlessly: "What I'm curious about is, does the Qing clan really have a nuclear base?"

Luo Lanle laughed and said, "You guess?"

Zhou Qi pursed his lips: "So it's mysterious." ”

Luo Lan suddenly sighed with emotion: "If only Ren Xiaosu could be pulled to our side before, if he was in charge of the 111 barrier, my brother wouldn't have to stay in the barracks every day." ”

"Who is this looking down on?" Zhou Qi was unhappy: "Didn't I stay by his side before? Why, don't you believe that I can protect him? What am I not as good as Ren Xiaosu?"

"Do you dare to break the 146 barrier alone?" Luo Lan said curiously.

Zhou Qi paused: "When I didn't say it, but I'm going to the Central Plains, who will protect Qingzhen?"

"There's a guy named Zheng Yuandong who has returned," Luo Lan said with a smile, "He's a little more powerful than I thought." ”

"Zheng Yuandong? ”

"You should be more familiar with his code name, Eternal Night, he's the Transcendent now. ”

The speed of the convoy to the Central Plains is not slow, this time Luo Lan and Zhou Qi's mission to the Central Plains seems to have suddenly become important, they want to use gold to obtain cheap friendship in this chaos in the Central Plains, and then try to delay it for as long as possible, so that the day they are most worried about will come later.

In this way, it will give Qing Zhen more time to integrate the resources of the entire southwest.

Of course, it would be better if the danger could be nipped in the bud.

"By the way, what's going on with that Qinghe Group?" Zhou Qi asked, "Don't you need to worry about that?"

"No, you don't. ”

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