After coming to Lorraine, Professor Yang stayed with Xiao Candy for more than a month, studying with her, playing with her, eating with her, and sleeping with her. Listen to Professor Xiao Yang, since the birth of Little Candy. This grandfather had never spent so much time alone with her.

People's habits are formed over many years, and they cannot be changed if they want to. According to Professor Yang's habits, staying in one place for a long time without a job will probably make every cell from head to toe feel uncomfortable. During this time, Weiss asked him for help and guidance, covering both geology and geography and education, and Professor Yang also gave suggestions one by one. Later, at the suggestion of Professor Yang, Weiss took time to accompany him on a winter outdoor hike. For almost a week, the old man and the young man set out from Somsonas and headed northwest, over the mountains and through the snow. Sometimes they spent the night in abandoned mines, sometimes in the open air, and on this particular trip, the two talked about everything. Speaking of the distribution of various mineral deposits in Lorraine, as well as its historical origins, Weiss faintly felt that the reason why Professor Yang invited him to participate in such a hike with only two people was to say something to him, and most of this kind of heart-to-heart words revolved around Professor Xiao Yang and Little Candy.

Of course, with the character of Professor Yang, he would never snot and tears, or explain to Weiss that he should take good care of his daughter and granddaughter. In terms of feelings, his expression is extremely subtle and tactful, he wants Weiss to know that what he cares about is not whether he can spend more time and energy with his family, but hopes that he can have a life attitude that suits his family - as long as he does not devote all his energy to work, let alone rashly risk his life, within the scope of his ability, take more time to spend with his family, these are enough.

Unfortunately, Weiss couldn't guarantee anything. In this magnificent era, even if people have the heart to take good care of their families, changes in the general environment often make it difficult for them to do so.

When they returned from this short trip, they learned the news from the outside world that was both surprising and not surprising: in view of the fact that the discoveries in the North were enough to affect the course of human history, the heads of state sat down at the conference table in a very serious posture and tried to solve this acute problem by means of negotiations. The focus of the situation is also very simple - if the spaceship relics on the bottom of the sea are transformed by smelting, according to the current theoretical calculations, it can provide the star source stones for the manufacture of tens of millions of flying ships, and if these resources are attributed to one country, it will undoubtedly form a crushing advantage for other countries. Out of concern for their own security, other countries will inevitably wage preventive wars before that country takes possession of and digests this more valuable wealth. Neither Wessex, nor the Norman Empire, nor the Confederation could monopolize these resources, and a proper handling of them had to be negotiated if such a disorderly and terrible war was to be avoided.

In fact, since the spring of the previous year, the international conference talks have been continuously upgraded, from the initial contact meeting of diplomatic officials to the ministerial meeting, and now it has finally brewed and fermented into the first summit of heads of state in nearly 30 years. The Prime Minister or Prime Minister of a monarchy, the president or consul of a democratic State gathered, and apart from the Wissex people with some reluctance, it was easy for other countries to agree on the principle of jointly developing and sharing this resource. As for the distribution ratio, although there are some differences, it is also easy to reconcile: the Normans suggested that the newly mined star source stone resources be distributed according to the existing tonnage of flying ships to maintain the existing equilibrium, while the Wessex people said that the resources were found in their traditional territory, and that mining and smelting were dominated by them, regardless of the final distribution ratio, and that each country had to pay for commercial mining and smelting, and then obtain the refined star source stone resources from them. In addition, after each country obtains the Star Source Stone, it should take into account national defense and economic development, so it is necessary to establish an international monitoring body to supervise it to avoid a vicious arms race between countries. This proposal was widely endorsed, and the leaders believed that the newly mined star source stone resources should be used in a planned and orderly manner, and a considerable part of it should be used for socio-economic development, and then converted to military use if necessary - only when the overall economic, social, and technological level of Orensian Planet has developed significantly, the planet will have more resources and production capacity to deal with possible dangers in the future. Therefore, countries should put aside preconceptions, integrate science and technology and industry into a realistic system of mutual communication, strengthen cooperation, reduce competition, and form synergies.

As for the military field, although all countries agree to cooperate in the general direction, in the form of cooperation, the differences are not less than the distribution of star source stone resources. No one was willing to give up the dominance, so after the first round of talks, the countries came to the conclusion that the Joint Chiefs of Staff should be formed first, and through this high-level military meeting, cooperation in the military field would be gradually promoted, and the establishment of a joint defense system on the planet Orense was only the ultimate goal, and there was no specific timetable for its realization.

The earliest rumors turned out to be true, and everything moved forward as events unfolded, and it seemed logical to do so. Seeing the news from the newspaper, Weiss was not sure that all his inferences were true to the facts in front of him, he still inquired about the news from all sides, wanted to know more about the situation, and on the other hand, he also had an in-depth discussion with Professor Yang from a philosophical point of view. The reason why the foothold is philosophy rather than fact is that Professor Yang is a typical professional scholar who is well-informed, but he is not good at spying on intelligence, and he can only communicate what he has seen, touched, and what he thinks. The more logical something seems to be, the more likely it is to fall into a well-constructed trap. On the contrary, many things that have happened in real life, especially those allusions in history, will have some seemingly illogical contradictions in the process of development and change—this thing will be called the paradox of reality. Inspired and guided by Weiss. Professor Yang did perceive something too logical, and combined with his years of research, he put forward a hypothesis of "true lie": in the depths of the cold sea of ice in the north, is there really such a huge extraterrestrial visitor? The reality was that the Wessex had set up as many as twenty-four wells, all of which had been dug up were nothing more than fragments, mixed with the mud and sand, in the form of metal debris. In terms of material analysis, it is indeed highly similar to the material refined from the Xingyuan stone deposit, but after such a large-scale drilling and excavation, very few things have been mined. The inference of physicists is that the behemoth is unusually strong because it maintains a relatively intact original form, and it is difficult to cut and excavate it from him with the existing drilling technology, which is like poking an iron pot with a wooden stick.

Professor Lao Yang also said that in the past experience of excavating various geographical materials, people have found fossils of bones, and the hard bones have turned into hard stones under the pressure of geology, and correspondingly, there are many originally solid materials that have been deformed under the pressure of geology, such as oil ore. At this stage, geological change is indeed a morphological change that the academic community regards as a melting pot, but it is not a real melting pot, not to mention that ordinary furnaces are simply unable to melt metal hulls with highly solid forms that can fly in space, and it is said that they will only break and collapse under the pressure of geology and will not break into the most primitive material state. Moreover, the diving expeditions carried out in the summer only glimpsed some specious outlines.

The world is drunk, and I am sober. Before the dust settles, it is difficult for Weiss to illustrate some of the possible plots, but it is necessary to be vigilant at all times.

As the events in the north continued to ferment, a series of effects began to emerge. Although no final cooperation agreement was reached at the summit, the initial establishment of the military joint conference mechanism has undoubtedly sent a signal to the outside world that international military relations will shift from competition to cooperation, and the focus of the development of the national defense and military industrial systems of various countries will inevitably be affected. Under these circumstances, the federal military has issued a number of notices to cancel military purchase orders and arms purchase bids, including the recently released bidding for the design of self-propelled anti-aircraft guns. When Weiss received the bidding announcement, Weiss was still full of confidence, and he discussed several feasible technical solutions with the engineers, and the Lorraine Agriculture and Forestry Machinery Factory was enriched to the greatest extent after the competition the year before. In terms of scientific research and production capabilities, it has comprehensively surpassed the new and old Lawrence vehicle manufacturing, and in some respects has the strength to compete with the industries of the Star Group, although the comprehensive strength is still weaker than the northern Dosen Machinery Group, but it is entirely possible to win the design bid with novel ideas. Now that the design bidding has been cancelled, if you want to continue in-depth research and development in this area, you must either pay for it out of your own pocket, or carry out small-scale cooperation with the garrison troops and local reserve forces through the national defense mobilization system.

According to normal logic, aerodynamic aircraft are unable to compete with aircraft from space, and after the discovery of a huge amount of transferable star source stone resources in the north, the status of aerodynamic aircraft in the national defense military system has "plummeted". On this premise, the federal military's demand for ground-based mobile anti-aircraft weapons has plummeted, and interest in aerodynamic vehicles and their combination with Starstone power has also greatly weakened. These obvious changes allowed Weiss to find a way in the fog of imitation - if the Federation and other countries adjusted the center of national defense and military and shifted the focus of development back to flying ships, or even large-scale reduction of conventional flying machines, in the end they did not obtain the expected number of star stone resources. Who is in the best interest of one trade-off?

The Norman Empire, of course!