"Major, are we just going to give up?"

After leaving the Foreign Affairs Bureau, the four of Greer walked outside for a few minutes, and a young man in the team finally couldn't help but speak.

"Otherwise, do you have any good advice?" asked Greer, glancing at him.

"How about sneaking in quietly as before, forcibly finding a target and kidnapping it or dealing with it on the spot?" the young man thought about it and came up with a plan.

Then he noticed that all three of his companions were looking at him speechlessly.

"Do you think this method is feasible?" Greer shook his head, "The target is protected by the Dream Realm, and we can't even determine his location now, and we can't even get close, so how can we carry out the mission?"

"Major, on the side of the previous intelligence witnesses, don't you have any more information to provide?"

"Don't count on those intelligence witnesses, the Dream Nation was aware of their identities long before we came, and it is impossible to give them another chance to find out important information. Greer frowned and explained, with a little helplessness in his eyes: "The security supervision in this country is too strict, and if you want to do something without official consent, our current strength is far from enough." You haven't forgotten the warning you received when you tried to infiltrate, have you?"

Hearing Greer's words, his three subordinates couldn't help but be silent, and their faces became a little annoyed and unwilling.

As the elite team of the Empire's Special Foreign Affairs Force, Greer's team didn't actually think of directly asking for a target from the Foreign Affairs Bureau of the Dream Realm, but planned to complete the task directly by themselves.

Unfortunately, even though they imagined many action strategies in advance, they found that the success rate of unauthorized actions was pitifully low.

Just two days ago, after a group of people arrived in Chixuan City, they also tried to follow the sighting clues given by the intelligence officers, and sneaked into the inner city of Chixuan City, where the mission target had appeared, when it was inconspicuous in the middle of the night.

For this reason, they also deliberately used some means to temporarily deceive the monitoring of themselves by the watch communicator that outsiders must wear when entering the city.

However, before they really infiltrated the inner city, the group had just touched the boundary between the inner city and the outer city, and they were immediately blocked by a steel puppet machine floating in the air that did not know where it was originally hidden, claiming to be a member of the dream lord, and then received a stern warning from the other party.

Before the operation, the four Greer naturally considered whether they would ignore the warning and force a breakthrough if they accidentally ran into a sentry.

And according to the information they perceived at the time, the strength of the energy aura emitted by the puppet guard who claimed to be a member of the Dream Lord seemed to be at least a step weaker than any of them, and if they really wanted to break through, the four of Greer still had a chance to break through its defenses.

But in fact, after just a little consideration, Greer chose to give up the breakthrough and retreated directly.

Because according to the information, it seems that these dream lords in the dream country have a special ability to maintain a spiritual connection for a long time regardless of the distance between each other, so as to achieve a large range of long-distance communication without delay.

This means that as long as the enemy makes a move on one of the Dream Lord's dependents, it will be immediately discovered by the other Dream Lord's dependents, even if it is just an instant kill, and the sudden abnormal disconnection of the spiritual link will also cause the other party to be alert at the first time.

Generally speaking, there is a most correct way to deal with this kind of guardian who has a group spirit link and can quickly alarm each other. That is, to subdue the other party before they raise the alarm, and can also completely control the other party in the first place through methods such as 'brainwashing, hypnosis, and hallucination' without letting the other party disconnect from their companions.

Naturally, the Greer and the others also knew that there was such a breakthrough method, but the problem was that that method did not apply to the Dream Realm here!

Before them, someone had tried these things on the Dream Lord's dependents in the Dream Realm, but the result was that those Dream Lord's dependents completely ignored the enemy's psychic illusion attacks, and those who should fight back and call the police would still fight back and call the police.

This kind of thing happened a lot, and the intelligence agencies of various countries realized that the resistance of these dependents under the command of the Dream Lord to foreign spiritual interference methods was probably beyond the conventional level, and if they wanted to target them from this aspect, it was only possible if the difference in strength between the two sides was too huge.

And even if it can be done, it doesn't necessarily make the whole operation successful.

After some lessons from the past, the intelligence agencies of various forces have discovered that there seems to be a strict mechanism among the sentry guards of this fantasy country that will comprehensively check the status of each member every random but definitely not too long.

Even if they succeed in confusing some of the weaker Dream Lord's dependents for a short period of time, it is likely that they will be detected by the superior and stronger Dream Lord's dependents within a few seconds, and then the enemy's actions will be exposed.

Based on this information, Team Greer felt that if it was discovered, it would probably be impossible to act covertly.

Therefore, the four Greers, who knew that it was impossible to confront the official forces of the Dream Realm head-on with this little strength in the team, had no choice but to give up the infiltration plan under the forced gaze of the Dream Lord's family.

It was precisely because there was no way to come to the hard one that the four of Greer chose to go directly to the Foreign Affairs Bureau of the official department, intending to try to negotiate head-on.

"The inner city is not open to non-citizen outsiders, and according to the clues I got earlier, that guy from Ferrug should be inside. Since you can't enter without permission, the only thing left is to wait outside for the rabbit. But I guess that after knowing his whereabouts are exposed, the guy probably won't leave the heavily guarded inner city easily. ”

"We don't have that much time to spend with him, and it's not surprising that his kind of person who does research work even if he stays in the lab for months without going out. ...... Moreover, don't forget that this realm has a strange spatial teleportation technique that does not cause traces of spiritual power and is difficult for outsiders to detect. Even if the other party wants to leave the hiding place, if we use that teleportation technique, we probably won't be able to find out at all, right?"

"Tsk, so this mission can only fail......?"

After discussing it, the faces of the three young men became more and more gloomy.

"Not necessarily. Greer thought for a moment, interrupting the pessimistic thoughts of the three subordinates.

"What do you mean, Major?" the three of them looked puzzled.

"I'll talk about it later. ”

......

Because there are very developed transportation facilities in the Dream Country, it provides great convenience for the trip of the four people of Greer.

The four of them directly chose to use the cross-city level spatial portal that had just been built, and at the same time, they could also collect data on this teleportation device.

In just a few minutes, they had traveled directly from the teleportation point of Chixuan City to the northernmost border city of the Nederlais. Counting the waiting time in line, the actual teleportation is probably less than three seconds.

After that, he transferred to a flying spirit beast at the border, and it only took half a day to return to the imperial capital of the Duragon Empire.

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Inside the Imperial Palace.

“...... That's all for this mission report. Greer, who was half-kneeling in the center of the main hall, bowed his head and reported to Emperor Will on the throne that they had completed their team's trip to the dream kingdom, and the three subordinates quietly knelt behind him, like three statues. Their statements are not required on such occasions to meet His Majesty. The reason why they came together was only because of the possibility that His Majesty would ask all the staff to check the information.

"Did you fail...... So, Greer, do you have anything to defend yourself?" Emperor Will looked at Greer, his eyes groaning, and he couldn't see any joy or anger.

"For example...... Reasons for failure or something?"

“...... There is nothing to justify. The reason for failure was simply my own lack of ability. Greer was silent for a few seconds, then shook his head calmly.

After a moment of silence in the hall, Emperor Will suddenly smiled.

"Very well, the Empire doesn't need weaklings who will make excuses for their failures, and Yu likes your answer. As a reward for satisfying Yu, you don't have to be punished for your failure this time, and take this failure as a lesson to spur yourself. ”

Greer was slightly surprised, but his movements were not slow, and he immediately responded: "Thank you for Your Majesty's kindness, we will take it to heart." ”

"Let's go down. ”

After greeting and leaving the main hall, Emperor Will knocked on the handrail, picked up his special corpse crystal from the hand of the attendant next to him, clicked on the projection window, and looked at the document presented on it, his eyes became thoughtful.

"Transaction...... Indeed, it's really hard to refuse. However, the specific quality of the trading chips still has to be verified. ”

The Emperor looked at the attendants, "Call Dr. Lux." ”

The attendant turned to leave, and after waiting for more than ten minutes, he led Lux into the main hall.

Lux raised his hand and saluted, and then sat directly on the chair prepared for him: "Your Majesty, I heard that you are looking for me?"

Emperor Will pointed to the information projected on the crystal of the corpse and asked, "How have you studied the information that was handed over to you before?"

"It's almost as we know it, but the construction and operation principle of this large floating vehicle called 'airship' is actually not too complicated. As long as there is a design drawing for reference, even if it is given to a technician-level researcher, it can be thoroughly understood in three days. Hearing this, Lux smiled slightly, and his tone was a little emotional: "Actually, with the spirit guidance technology that the empire has mastered now, it has the ability to create it, but we haven't studied it in this direction before." ”

"In other words, there is no problem with the blueprint?"

"Yes. Although some parts cannot be mass-produced with the current processing equipment of the empire because of their high precision, this problem can be solved as long as the refining technology of a professional senior alchemist is used, that is, it is made by hand, and the disadvantage is that it consumes more human resources and takes a long time. ”

"Is that so......" Emperor Will touched his chin and pondered for a while, then suddenly asked:

"Doctor, based on your experience, how long is it expected to take to complete one of these airships without affecting the Empire's ordnance production capacity?"

"What type of airship is Your Majesty referring to?" Lukes asked rhetorically.

"Oh?" Emperor Will paused slightly, "You mean that this thing can also be divided into different models?"

"That's right, after studying the design drawings thoroughly, I found that the size and specifications of this airship are not fixed, as long as the necessary functional components are complete, then you can choose the size of the capsule within a certain range. Lux explained: "Of course, if you adjust the cabin specifications, the overall function of the airship will inevitably be affected, mainly in terms of flight speed, flexibility, cabin capacity, carrying capacity, additional assembly parts, etc. ”

"Everything else is understandable, but ...... Additional assembly parts?" Emperor Will noticed a key point and urged, "Let's talk about it. ”

"Okay. Although it is not specifically stated in this blueprint, I can see that this airship can be additionally modified in some aspects, including 'armor enhancement', 'power thruster enhancement', 'weapon mounting', and even the ability to build a 'barrier shield' that can be moved around by embedding a surgical array on the cabin!"

"In other words, it can not only be used for commercial transportation......" At the end, Lukes's tone couldn't help but become a little excited: "It can also be used for military purposes, by modifying the original frame provided by the blueprints, and equipped with other weapons and devices, it can be made into a large war weapon that can fly like a floating fortress!"

When Emperor Will heard this, his pupils constricted slightly. Through Lukes's explanation, he could imagine some blueprints for the kind of fortress weapons that could fly after they were actually built.

"That's a good bargaining chip. Emperor Wei couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth: "It's impossible for the Dream Nation not to perceive the military value of this kind of airship, and it's actually willing to send it directly...... Doctor, what do you think would be the downside of this thing if it were to be militarized as you said?"

When Lux heard this, there was no surprise, as if he had already had a draft, and said directly: "If you want to talk about shortcomings, there is probably one main one." That is, in terms of cost, if you want to make this kind of militarized airship, if the specifications are small, it will be of little use because there are too few weapons that can be mounted, so you must only choose a large model, and if you are large, it is easy to become the target of the enemy's long-range weapons in war, so you have to invest heavily in the defense of armor or energy shields. ”

"In addition, there is another shortcoming that is not a shortcoming: this kind of large floating fortress-type airship is far less flexible than that of cultivators who have great power to their own bodies, especially for those Legendary Realm masters who can easily fly thousands of meters and destroy cities with their hands, it is likely to be just a big toy with a relatively strong shell. Therefore, in the war, we must also send a master who is enough to contain the enemy's high-end combat power, so as to prevent the opponent from directly attacking the airship. ”

"Understandable. "Emperor Will nodded, this is indeed not a shortcoming, the influence of high-end combat power at the level of the third-level legendary realm on the war has been obvious to all since ancient times, otherwise there would be no image metaphor of the 'pillar of protecting the country'.

"Let's not mention the military modification first, let's talk about the commercial civilian version first. Emperor Will pulled back the topic: "According to the information that the standard model that can carry fifty tons, with the current manufacturing capacity of the empire, how long will it take to complete one?"

"If you take the manpower and equipment of a standard-level military factory, plus at least ten skilled alchemists, it is estimated that it will take more than thirty days to build one. Lukes thought for a moment and reported a statistic: "If you wait another three or five years, when the empire is more technologically perfect in mass production and alchemy, it should be able to reduce the time required by at least one-third." ”

Emperor Wei's eyes flashed, and he gave an order: "Very good, then make a sample first." You can arrange the personnel and materials you need at your own discretion, and you can see the finished product within half a month, that is, before the auction in the dream country. Questions?"

When Lux heard this, he probably guessed the idea that His Majesty the Emperor wanted him to hurry up and build the sample.

The auction of the Dream Nation announced that this airship would also be included in the auction list. If the Empire has the ability to make this thing quickly and independently and ensure that the finished product is qualified, there is no need to spend too much money to compete in the auction.

Lukes, who secretly guessed the emperor's intentions, smiled and responded directly: "No problem. ”

After talking about the airship, the two chatted about some other new technological achievements released by Dream Nation on the "Dream Times" program, and Angus took his leave to leave.

Not long after Lux walked out of the main hall, he couldn't help but pause in his footsteps.

"That guy is gone, and in exchange for his life, he sent back some information about the design of the 'airship', which seems to be the result of his research in the Dream Realm. There was no joy in Emperor Will's voice, but it echoed very clearly in Lukes's ears through the door of the first floor: "As his colleague, Dr. Lukes...... Will you leave?"

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_(:з」∠)_ We have added 800 words for free in this chapter.,Apologize a little for our recent delays.