Chapter 981: The fleet goes north
A month later, the floating fleet sailed across the land of Europa. After resting for three days in Uldem, the fleet returned to Hebrew, picked up the merchants of the mobile trading center, and embarked on a journey north with a large number of foreign trade weapons and equipment teleported from the mage tower.
Xiang Ningxuan has stayed in many countries and regions and met all kinds of people. There are those who warmly welcome, there are those who watch coldly, and there are those who plan to collect tolls (the end is naturally to be beaten and thrown out).
This land is impressive, and it is a completely different ecology from the Republic. In the more than three years since the end of the world, people's sense of belonging to the central government has been minimized as long as it is not the capital region.
The settlements are basically separate, and the differences between them are very huge, or ****, or free and loose, or family rule, etc., as if returning to the feudal era of princes thousands of years ago.
Naturally, the development of various regions is also extremely uneven, some areas have resumed industrial production, while some areas are still being ravaged by otherworldly monsters, and the people are struggling to make a living.
There are many ethnic groups in Europa, and myths and legends, culture and entertainment, movies and games are all developed, which also leads to a wide variety of myths, beasts, demons, and alien forces that appear here, and the relationship with the human sphere of influence is also good and bad. Not to mention outsiders like Xiang Ningxuan, even if they are locals, it is difficult to tell what the situation is around them.
The only common denominator is the extreme demand for arms. Even in relatively developed areas, because there is no complete military industrial chain, military equipment can often only specialize in one or two, and a complete equipment system cannot be formed.
The goods carried by the mobile trading center were sold out halfway through, and the rest of the trip had to hand out flyers and accept prepaid subscriptions.
In a small settlement, the floating fleet is non-stop, and at most a few leaflets praising the Earth Security Alliance and the Republic are dropped. Only the big cities, which were famous before the end of the world, would moor.
Taichu Group will recruit Chinese expatriates to establish a trading station in the local area. Their task is to establish good relations with the local sects and nine streams, collect regular economic, military, and political information (no secrets are required, just summarize general information), record customer needs, register personnel information, etc. If you do a good job, you will naturally be promoted in the future, and if not, you can be re-recruited next time.
These trading stations will be able to operate until at least the goods are replenished.
As for diplomacy, due to the long distance, everyone just said hello, greeted each other, and gave some small gifts, but there was nothing substantive at all. Hearing that Da Mao is a member of the Alliance for Earth Security, most of the Europa countries expressed a lack of interest.
Xiang Ningxuan will not be as active as he is with Hebrew, they love it.
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Giman is one of the most powerful countries in Europa, and unlike other lazy countries, the Giman people have a stronger sense of identity with the country. In the face of the apocalypse, the people unite as one to resist the powerful enemy. Today, the domestic situation has been basically stabilized, and its military, political, economic, scientific, and technological development is good, and its comprehensive strength is 10 times that of Hebrew.
At present, Jiman is gradually penetrating into neighboring countries and regions to enhance its influence. They need the technology of the republic in communications, transportation, energy, etc. And the republic also needs the technical support of Jiman in precision machinery and intelligent industry. The two sides signed the largest technology exchange agreement since the end of the world, and more than one billion trade orders were signed.
Before leaving Jiman, Chen Qing suddenly offered to stay. Both Lai Ye and Li Willy have received the help of artifacts, and have already clarified the path of legends, consolidating their realms in the Spider Queen's Tomb and the Sky Hall respectively. However, after Chen Qing's origin energy subsided, his realm still fell to an epic level.
Jiman is the birthplace of the sledgehammer hero, and Chen Qing wants to get the opportunity to advance here. Moreover, whether it is the Earth Security Alliance or the Taichu Group, there needs to be a coordinator in Europa.
Xiang Ningxuan approved Chen Qing's application, and transferred more than ten people from the floating fleet to form the Europa Branch of the Taichu Group, which was responsible for managing various trading stations, collecting intelligence, and conducting diplomatic activities.
After leaving Giman, the floating fleet entered the Nordic region.
It's a vast and sparsely populated place, and there are far more monsters than people. At the same time, the Odin god system originated from this land. It's just that like Grace and Coptic, without the source of faith, the strength of Odin's god system is also very limited.
The vast expanse of the land is home to a number of alien forces with a population of more than 300,000, dividing the human survivors into several urban circles.
Most of the major human cities in the area are located on the seafront. In the past two years, Viku pirates, ghost pirates and other pirate forces have also become more and more rampant, and they still dare not directly attack the city. However, the outlying villages and towns that supply the city with food supplies are attacked from time to time. How could these people, who once enjoyed high welfare, risk their lives to go out of the city to farm? All are crammed into the safe zone, waiting for government relief.
The government will not conjure up supplies empty-handed, and in the face of all kinds of demonstrations, it can only resign and go home. At such times, no politician wanted to come to power, and as a result, many cities became completely anarchic. Without organization, humans are no match for alien monsters at all, almost all the outer lands have fallen, and there is an extreme shortage of food and supplies. People do not dare to go out of the city to fight monsters, but they are ruthless to their kind, and robberies and killings occur from time to time.
The first stop of the floating fleet in Northern Europe was not found, but it was robbed. A group of thieves took the float ship as an ordinary airship, and shouted with a gun to order the fleet to stop, or open fire. The floating ship rewarded them with a few shots, and then swaggered and drove away. As for the heroes who dared to do it, they were directly torn to pieces by the electromagnetic cannon.
The fleet flew all the way northeast along the coastline, crossed the strait and headed east after a day of anchoring in the capital of Sweeten. After passing through the snow country, you will arrive at the territory of Damao.
Although I have received the condition of the Snow Country from the Svidens, I look at the bare coast with no grass and no trees. The land is covered with slimy purple mushroom blankets that stretch as far as the eye can see, contrasting with the blue ocean. The fungus blanket can devour all organic matter, which is converted into nutrients needed by the insects, and can also absorb the energy from the sun's rays.
No matter how ferocious the insects, they are cultivated by the nutrients and energy absorbed by the fungus. The energy consumption and body damage of the insect unit in battle also need to be replenished through the fungus blanket. Like the crystals of the stars and the steel of the Terrans, the fungus blanket is the most indispensable for the insects.
According to the intelligence, Snow Country relied on an extremely powerful insect hero to resist the infinite monsters from the north. This kind of strong man who is a one-man army is the target of the floating fleet to deliberately detour through northern Europe.
Nanbang also has a large group of alien heroes, and because of its narrow domestic territory, there is no fungus blanket to support it, and its strength is only mediocre. It wasn't until they were hired by the Primal Group and thrown into the vicissitudes of the world that had been polluted by the Qila Worms, and there was enough space to spread the fungus blanket, that they shone brightly.
Without psionic crystals and high-energy gas ores, all the energy needed by the insects had to be obtained from the fungus blanket.
The insects are fierce, and the scientific and technological troops are also quite powerful, but the disadvantage is that the consumption is large, and it must be fed by war and constantly expanded. According to the calculations of the Chaos Laboratory, in order to maintain a Alien Insect Army, which is equivalent to a main division of the Republic, it is necessary to devour more than 20,000 square kilometers of primeval forest.
Snow Country is just a small country with an area of hundreds of thousands of square kilometers, and to support the continuous fighting since the end of the world, I am afraid that it will need to turn one-third of the country's land into a fungus blanket.