Barkley didn't know if William was alive or dead, but he saw the Mona funeral for William the next day. As a friend of William, he attended the funeral.

The funeral was not simple or complicated, it was presided over by an old man of the Mona clan. The customs of the funeral are different from those of any other country, and they may seem a little cumbersome, but in general they do not delay for long. Barkley could see clearly that William, lying on the raft, was the color of a dead man, his eyes closed peacefully.

He's dead? Is this dead?

Barkley was extremely helpless, and he could already tell that this strong man was dead by the color of William's skin. Seriously, William is dead, and he is the most heartbroken. This is his loss, an unseen loss.

At the end of the funeral, eight strong Mona people carried the raft on which William lay and walked out to sea for a sea burial. It is a custom of the Mona people to hold a burial at sea whenever someone dies.

Watching the raft drift farther and farther, Barkley could only sigh deeply and return in a somewhat depressed mood. He didn't expect William to die so simply, but what could he do?

Back on the submarine, Barkley walked into Xiao Yuanchao's cabin and stared at each other for a long time without speaking. He really wanted to scold the other party, but unfortunately in the face of Xiao Yuanchao, who still had great value, he couldn't scold at all. Besides, if scolding works, then there is nothing in this world that cannot be solved.

"Looking for me to ask the teacher for sin?" Xiao Yuanchao lay lazily on the bed, smoking a cigar while saying to Barkley: "William must die, this is my business with him." ”

Barkley didn't speak, because he didn't know what to say. The death of a right-hand man is equivalent to weakening his power, as well as the capital of the fight.

"Prepare, you're going to have a negotiation." Barkley said.

"The script is ready, and I don't know how to act without the script." Xiao Yuanchao spat out a puff of smoke and said, "Call me when you need to negotiate, otherwise don't bother me, thank you." ”

Seeing Xiao Yuanchao's attitude at this time, Barkley didn't say anything and slowly withdrew. He knew that William was dead, and there would be many changes in the future, but the most important thing was to deal with the things in front of him.

The next day, intense negotiations began.

What was specifically discussed, Xiao Yuanchao forgot everything. He just mechanically followed the script that Barkley had drawn up, and as for other things, he didn't even ask. The whole thing is under Buckley's control, and he's just a scapegoat for the blame. As for the agreement with William...... He knew that William was not dead, because the last punch could not kill William at all, it just created an illusion.

Xiao Yuanchao was waiting, waiting quietly.

During this time, he had been thinking about a question, but he had never found the answer.

Under normal circumstances, when Barkley coerced him into kidnapping a nuclear submarine, the first choice would be to refuse, or commit suicide. Because his own presence will make the country fall into passivity, which is not what he thinks. But if he doesn't agree, then his father ......

It would be nice if I were a soldier, but unfortunately I am not.

This is the sentence that Xiao Yuanchao thinks about the most, and he admits that he is biased towards human nature and selfishness. He asked himself if he would make that choice if he did it all over again.

Does this conflict with loyalty? No, it has nothing to do with loyalty! If he gave up the opportunity to save his father, let alone loyalty, he would lose even the most basic moral personality!

People are people, not machines, Xiao Yuanchao admires those who can send their relatives to the guillotine, but he just admires.

The island eventually split in half, and the Mona patriarch agreed to Buckley's request. All the Mona people live on the east side of the island, and the people of Buckley live on the west side of the island. However, Barkley's blockade of the island did not end, and it became his word for words.

"Rare earths, rare earths!" Standing on the land to the west of the island, Barkley picked up a handful of soil and said with emotion: "There is no war for no reason, who let there be so many rare earths here?" ”

Oil wars and gas wars have long been commonplace, and now rare earth wars are slowly beginning to surface. This resource can provoke war, since this mineral is definitely one of the most important strategic reserves.

The Mona island is full of rare earth resources, and if all of them are developed, they will be enough for a country like the United States for five hundred years.

Five hundred years! There are so many rare earth reserves that there are enough to swing the butcher's knife at either side.

Now it's a matter of how to mine secretly, and when all the countries don't know about the amount of rare earth reserves here, everything has to be done in secret. After waiting for the island to be controlled in the palm of your hand, it doesn't matter if the news gets out.

"For humanitarian reasons, we will send a negotiating team to the area where the incident occurred to negotiate with the Red Killers and release the inhabitants of the island." The responsible person of the US side stood at the peak of morality and made suggestions.

In fact, it is of little significance to mention it or not, this is a matter for the US side, and although the United Nations has set up a special group to deal with this matter, the right to speak is still in the hands of the US side. Other countries are just verbally condemning and asking them to help the United States deal with this matter, without even thinking about it.

They saw very clearly that this was the revenge of the red murderers against the United States, which was enough to make the United States anxious. In such an environment, no matter which country it is, it is more willing to see the jokes of the US side.

Proposals are easy to follow, and in every sense of the word, they need to be negotiated. And the entry point of this negotiation is very good, just to let the other side release the hostages. Based on this negotiation, the relevant departments of the US side have done a lot of work and have done a lot of meticulous work.

A week later, the negotiating team arrived on the island where the Mona are located. When they arrived, a series of industrial and mining equipment was also secretly transported here.

It's not a negotiation at all, because there's not even a negotiating table!

The Seventh Fleet imposed a blockade on the high seas on the outskirts of the island, trapping the island in its own nets. They have been sending the United Nations a series of carefully forged conditions for negotiations and have begun to actively implement their own steps.

Half a month later, the vigorous mining operation began, and a steady stream of rare earth resources continued to be transported to the United States through the Seventh Fleet. At the same time, the voice of the red murderer who carried out the "kidnapping" disappeared, and it seemed that a confrontation was brewing.

The outer Seventh Fleet has always blocked this area, and ships of any country have been circling around.

Their nuclear submarine has been hijacked, they will deal with it, and no country will want to help them deal with it.

This is an ingenious layout, using the hijacking of submarines as a cover to hide from the sky and the sea, and exploit rare earth resources on a large scale.

As for the negotiations...... Some of them are excellent scripts!