.“ Last night's party was so boring! ”

Lisa walked barefoot to the window and gently lifted the corner of the curtain, and the world outside the window was already bright. As the sun rose, the light shone through the windows on the brightly colored carpets, and the whole room suddenly woke up from its slumber.

Leaning on the pillow, Chen Tian stretched his waist, and agreed with Lisa's words: "Yes, it's a bunch of sycophants, and my ears are tired when I hear it!" ”

"I'm going to visit New York today, right?" Lisa looked expectant, then reluctantly lowered the curtains, turned around, and walked unhurriedly towards the dresser. The moment the curtains were lowered, the whole room suddenly lost its light, and the soft light of a few table lamps re-dominated the space.

For safety reasons, guests staying at the hotel were told not to open the curtains and stand in front of the window as much as possible to avoid being sniped by vandals. So even during the day, thick curtains are drawn on every window facing the street.

"Well, it's the busiest city in the United States and the world! If the wind doesn't blow up, we'll take an airship to New York as planned! How's that, happy? Chen Tian was not in a hurry to get up, closed his eyes lightly and waited for himself to wake up completely while talking.

Lisa sat down at the dresser and picked up a comb to slowly comb through her somewhat messy hair.

"Well, I've always wanted to visit that place that's known for its bustling city! As for the airship, it's not particularly comfortable, but I think it's better than taking a car or a train. ”

"That's all!" "I had been looking forward to this image for a long, long time: the sky was overcast, the clouds were low and low, and a black, huge airship painted with a striking iron cross slowly floated over the city, and finally docked at the top of the Empire State Building in the eyes of the people in reverence and fear!" ”

Lisa smiled and said, "Hehe, that's a great idea!" It's just that which country is the Empire State Building that His Majesty is talking about? I don't think I've ever heard of it! ”

"Uh......" Chen Tian was stunned, he opened his eyes suddenly, this is still the top suite of the Capital Hotel in Washington, D.C. It was December 6, 1915, and now it is 15 years before the completion of the Empire State Building in New York, USA.

It's not a dream!

Chen Tian exhaled softly, "Empire State Building...... That's a very, very tall building of my dreams! ”

"Oh! How tall is that? 30 floors? Or 50 floors? Lisa asked reluctantly, the Capital Hotel they are currently in is the tallest building in the world, but it is still less than 30 floors, and the tallest building in New York is the Woolworth Building, completed in 1913 with a total of 55 floors and 320 meters high.

"102nd floor!" Chen Tian accurately said this number, it is one of the miracles in the history of architecture in another world.

Lisa almost blurted out, "Oh, that's going to be the greatest building in the world!" ”

"Fifteen years later...... The Americans probably don't have this opportunity! Great architecture...... Why did it have to be built in the United States? Chen Tian said a lot to himself in his heart.

"Your Majesty?" Kan Chentian suddenly stopped talking. Lisa turned her head and whispered.

"Huh?" Chen Tian looked at his wife as if he had just woken up from a dream.

"What are you thinking?"

"Nothing! I guess we'd better get off as soon as possible! Chen Tian jumped up, then grabbed the bell on the bedside table and shook it.

The attendant who was waiting outside the door pushed the door open, and it was not von Jonalette who was on duty, but another older, gray-haired attendant.

"Change! Tell us to go down, and we'll leave at 9 o'clock! ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!" The attendant waved his hand to signal the four maids outside the door to come in, and then took out his pocket watch and looked at it, it was 7:3 in the morning.

Half an hour later, breakfast was delivered directly to Chentian's room.

After another quarter of an hour, Chentian and Lisa's meal ended.

9 a.m. sharp. Chentian's motorcade left the Capital Hotel on time. The entourage included 21 attendants and attendants, 45 members of the Royal Guard, 11 members of the immediate staff group, 12 members of the naval delegation, and the rest remained in the hotel.

After the convoy left the hotel, it drove north along First Street, and along the way the U.S. authorities imposed temporary traffic restrictions. The avenue is flanked by police officers in black uniforms and gendarmes in khaki uniforms. Even though cars have become quite common in the United States, pedestrians look at this particular motorcade from afar with curiosity.

Except for the police car at the front and the truck with American soldiers at the back, the 20 cars in the middle of the convoy were all Daimler cars painted in black and were specially transported from the German mainland, thousands of miles away! Each of these cars has two black, white and red flags in front of it, and on the pedals on either side stand German Royal Guard soldiers wearing golden peaked helmets, standard gray uniforms, black holsters around their waists, and shiny leather boots.

In terms of appearance, the box shape of Daimler's car is not much better than that of American cars, and compared to American cars that still use narrow tires at this time, German cars generally have wider tires and less ground noise when driving. In the eyes of connoisseurs, the engine technology of these German cars is indeed one level higher than that of American cars. After all, German and civil engines currently have the title of the world's first.

The pedestrians who had been stopped by the police could only watch the almost identical Daimler cars pass by from a distance, and the mechanical rigidity of the Germans was well deserved in the eyes of the American citizens, but it was very difficult for some who looked at the convoy with a different eye to distinguish which one was the throne from the cars.

"Damn it! How could that German emperor not sit in a convertible like the Austrians? A tall, thin young man in a gray trench coat muttered to his companion. The Austrian he called was the former Crown Prince Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary, a man who was supposed to show off his might but was assassinated and caused a world war.

The tall and thin companion, a stockier-looking fellow, also wearing a gray trench coat, looked viciously at the departing German convoy and whispered in English with a northern Scottish accent: "The Germans are not stupid. Otherwise, we wouldn't be in such a bad position as we are now! ”

"Looks like there's no chance this time!" The tall and thin man sighed helplessly.

"Don't be discouraged, let's just find another chance!" The down-to-earth fellows walked down a side street, and the tall, thin men looked warily from side to side and followed, their wide, swaying trench coats that didn't seem to be out of proportion to their figures. It's enough to hide something deadly.

As they spoke, three men in black trench coats and black hats looked at each other, and then two of them walked briskly in the direction they had left, and the other walked to a gendarmerie officer not far away.

There was still some distance from the temporary airport where the airship docked, and Chen Tian and his party could already see those gray-black as huge cigar-like guys.

"Don't worry, the airship we took this time is particularly safe!" Chen Tian comforted Lisa, who looked slightly worried, since she saw an airship detonate in the air due to a hydrogen leak at the exercise ground two years ago, she looked uneasy as soon as she approached the airship.

Lisa smiled reluctantly. "It's nothing, I'm just a little ...... Habitual bad feelings! ”

"It's really safe because it's filled with tens of millions of inert gases!" When he said this, Chen Tian couldn't help but look at the helium airship that seemed to be one size smaller among the other airships. The cost of tens of millions of marks is indeed staggering, you must know that at the end of the war, the cost of the German Navy's large zeppelin had dropped to about 400,000 marks, and the cost of the army's zeppelin was even less than 250,000 marks. In other words, the funds for the construction of this ammonia airship can be used to build 25 aluminum keel airships or 40 wooden keel airships, or 1/5 of the latest capital battleships.

Hearing this, Lisa was a little surprised, "Noble gas? I know, it seems like a gas that doesn't burn anyway, right? ”

Chen Tian nodded. "Almost! If the cost of extracting this gas can be further reduced. This airship would become a very common and safe means of transportation! Although hydrogen airships can also sail long distances, there are always safety risks! ”

As the two were talking, the car became bumpy. By this time, the convoy had left the road and turned into this open area of several square kilometers. Since it was a temporary place to park the airship, there were no decent buildings here, except for a steel watchtower more than three meters high at each of the four corners, and a number of large iron piles scattered across the open field to mooring the airship. After entering this open area, Chen Tian finally saw some beautiful ** people with rifles on their backs, but except for these infantry on guard duty, there was no decent air defense weapon in the entire airport, and this peaceful atmosphere was completely different from the European continent that had just experienced the war.

Five gray German airships and two white American airships floated silently in the air less than three meters above the ground, and the scene was like several giants lying on the ground, giving people a sense of oppression before they even approached.

Compared to these huge flying machines. The people and cars on the ground are nothing short of a swarm of inconspicuous ants.

When he landed here two days ago, Chen Tian did not see the American airships, and it seems that the two white airships were docked here later. Although it was not the first time he had seen American airships, Chen Tian still looked at them with interest.

They are no smaller than German airships in terms of size, and are generally cigar-shaped, but their white appearance seems to be the original color of the airship's skin. Beneath the huge hull are still small pods, which are not rudimentary, but they are somewhat simple compared to the German airship pods, which are basically the same as those of the war, with sturdy pods and machine guns, telegraphs, bomb bays, etc. And the civilian-based American airship uses a passenger-type pod.

After a while, Chentian's car, the sixth-ranked car in the convoy, stopped next to the "Vostok" helium airship, and the staff waiting there quickly rolled out the red carpet under the door, and the other end of the carpet went straight to the boarding gangway.

After getting out of the car, Tatsu Tian looked up at the blue sky, which was an absolutely sunny day, not the background of black clouds that he had imagined.

"Let's go!" Gentleman Chentian took Lisa's hand, and the two walked on the red carpet unhurriedly. Soon, the entourage also boarded other airships one after another according to the prior arrangement, and hundreds of people, including the members of the airship, were divided into 5 airships, so the space on the airship was quite spacious. It was not until the airships were lifted off one after another that they learned that the two US airships had been sent by the authorities to guide them and that they were carrying some US officials and security personnel who were accompanying the German dignitaries on their visit to New York.

"Let's hope they don't hold us back!"

When the American airship sailed slowly at a speed of less than 30 knots (about 55 kilometers per hour), the German airship that followed behind had to run half of its engines, and as a result, the scheduled three-and-a-half-hour voyage flew for six hours, and did not fly to New York until 4 p.m.

Since it was winter, the sun was already about to set, and the western sky took on a pale orange hue, with the few clouds dyed the same color. Against this backdrop, seven airships lined up appeared in the skyline southwest of New York.

"Your Majesty, the signal from the American airship, the ground is in good condition and the wind speed is light, we will pass over the city as planned and land on the Hasbrook Heights on the banks of the Hackensack River!"

After the captain of the boat, Second Lieutenant Svenhifert, reported the situation, and took out two pairs of binoculars from behind him like a trick.

"Your Majesty, from now on, you can enjoy the view of New York, and the Statue of Liberty is not far ahead!"

"Thank you!" Chen Tian said and took the binoculars, and then handed Lisa a pair.

"Look, that's the Statue of Liberty!"

Following the direction of Lisa's finger, Chen Tian saw the famous building on Liberty Island in New York Harbor through the porthole, but unfortunately he couldn't feel its grandeur and beauty when viewed from the air.

"That's one of the masterpieces of the Frenchman Eiffel! Unfortunately, the Eiffel Tower in Paris was destroyed in the war! Chen Tian said with regret, but don't forget that the damage to the tower has a lot to do with him, although there is no way to verify whether it was his artillery that blew the tower down, but the battle was designed and launched by him.

After the collapse of the Eiffel Tower, the Parisians originally planned to restore it, but some of the materials of the Eiffel Tower were used by the German army to cross the river and build bridges. So even though most of the buildings in Paris have been restored, there is always a feeling that something is missing.

Lisa looked at the Statue of Liberty with her binoculars for a moment, then turned her gaze to the city ahead, and soon found the Woolworth Building, a 55-story Gothic building with a pyramidal spire on the top floor, buttresses, arches, and four small towers.

"It's beautiful!" Lisa exclaimed softly, and after a while she lowered her binoculars and looked at Chentian, "If only we could dock directly at that building!" ”

"God thinks so too!" Chen Tian said with a smile.