"Thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to show my strengths, Your Royal Highness the Prince, mechanical armor is the field I am most interested in and best at!" Leonid stood up excitedly and couldn't wait to ask: "When are we going to the North Bay?" So I'm going to run on both sides of the North Bay and Krasbourg in the future? I'm sorry, please forgive me for being anxious, I just want to get to work as soon as possible, sort out all the business, and get on the right track as soon as possible, after all, the Imperial Expeditionary Force may arrive at any time, and our time is tight, right? ”

It takes a little more patience to get along with people who are impatient, but Roland is not lacking in patience, and he admires Leonid's resolute style and is satisfied with his great enthusiasm for work.

"Karon Industrial Zone has not yet established an upstream industrial cluster to provide parts for the magic guide locomotive, for the sake of convenient transportation and procurement, we have to set up the magic guide locomotive factory and research institute in the North Bay first, and you and Natalia will be stationed in the North Bay in the future, while there is still time to accompany your father more, the airship is almost nightfall in Krasburg, tomorrow you will have a day off, take Natalia around the city, and I will send you to the North Bay the day after tomorrow." Roland patted the Mithril Warlock on the shoulder and said earnestly, "Work is important, but getting enough rest is just as important, and if you have no relatives in a foreign land, remember to take care of yourself." ”

Leonid nodded gratefully, and then reverted to his old ways: "Your Highness, please rest assured, the biggest gain after I became an organ person is that I will never feel tired, no longer have to waste time for eating, sleeping and resting, others can work for more than ten hours a day, and I can stay focused from morning to night." He couldn't wait to apply the techniques used to make the Clockwork Giant to improve the mechanical armor, and the rest of the time could be put to good use, except for the time it took to maintain the body.

Roland sighed softly, inwardly disapproving of his smugness. It is true that the machine man does not need to eat and sleep, and he does not get tired of working around the clock, but for this he sacrifices his rich sensibilities, loses the pleasure of enjoying good food and wine, and more importantly, loses the function of having children forever...... He doesn't think it's a good deal to pay that heavy price and turn it into a bureaucracy. Of course, Leonid apparently had a different opinion on this, which can only be attributed to the fact that people have their own ambitions and are reluctant.

At 7 o'clock in the morning of 16 April, the "Independence" airship slowly rose into the clear sky of the late spring morning, turned around and headed north, and was expected to arrive at the end of the trip, Baiou Harbor, at 6 or 7 o'clock in the evening.

The airship was piloted by the newly promoted Air Force Captain Yelena Kuntiliang, and the assistant pilot was Lieutenant Aldrich, a taciturn but very attentive boy who had joined her in the air force three years earlier. In addition to the Airship's mission to transport Matvey's improved Magic Locomotive and other equipment to the North Bay in preparation for the upcoming establishment of the Magic Locomotive Factory, Roland, Wittgenstein and Natalia also traveled to the North Bay aboard the Independence.

On the second day of his appointment as Minister of Transport, Matvey went on a business trip, nominally to the North Bay to see for himself the site of the locomotive factory, and by the way, to visit his old classmate Sukhoi at the Port White Gull Airship Company. In fact, in addition to these obvious reasons, the old man is still a little relieved that his son, who is starting a business alone in the North Bay, wants to ask Sukhoi to take care of Leonid in the name of visiting his old classmates, especially considering that after Leonid took the position of deputy director of the Mecha Research Institute in the North Bay, he often dealt with Morozov, the director, and Matvey knew that his son had a strange personality and a hot temper, and he didn't understand the rules of officialdom at all, lest he offend his boss. The old man learned from Roland that Director Morozov was Sukhoi's nephew, and he could be regarded as Leonid's elder brother if he had a deadlift relationship, so he became more and more determined to send his son to the post, and planned to invite Sukhoi and Morozov's uncle and nephew to dinner.

In the past, Leonid would definitely refuse his father's companionship, and even complain that his father looked down on him and suspected that he was incapable of handling colleague relationships. But after experiencing the lesson of being bewitched by the devil, this "older middle two" is obviously much more mature, and does not show an attitude of rejecting his father's send-off.

"Independence" is the sister ship of the "Dawn", and the carrying capacity is slightly larger than that of the sister, but I don't know what the old man Sukhoi thinks, Roland repeatedly emphasized not to waste airship space, but he took it as a deaf ear, and still copied the "tea room" of the "Dawn" to the "Independence", and what is even more puzzling to Roland is that the same model of "Victory" does not have a tea room. After getting on the plane, I inquired about Yelena and learned the truth, and it turned out that the "tea room" was the eldest lady of the aviation unit who personally wrote to Sukhoi asking to keep it. As for the "Victory", it was the flagship of Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Zehir, according to the slightly mocking words of Yelena herself: "A stinky man's ship, it is enough to get a gym, and it is not appropriate to put such an elegant room as a tea room on it." ”

"Yelena, with Zehir's position in the Air Force, it is not surprising that she knew that she would take over the 'Victory', but it seems that you have only recently been appointed as the commander of the 'Independence', how could you write a letter to Sukhoi half a year in advance to request the decoration of the airship?" Roland looked at the pretty girl in the Air Force uniform in surprise.

"Because I've been determined to be the commander of the Independence since it was still in dock!" Miss Captain held her head high and looked proud, "For this reason, I must get full marks in all the assessments, so that Your Royal Highness the Prince cannot ignore my excellence, I have absolute confidence in my own ability, and of course I should give my opinion on the future car in advance, so that the 'Independence' fits my style perfectly." ”

Roland was amused by the little girl's wild words. Yelena was born in a wealthy family in the North Bay, and is the only daughter of Foreign Minister Kun Tiliang, she has developed a competitive personality since she was a child, whether she is in school or after joining the army, her competitive spirit and outstanding talent can always make her stand out from the crowd, which is commendable, but Roland is also worried that she has been too smooth since she was a child, and has not tasted the bitterness of failure, and if she encounters setbacks in the future, I am afraid it will be more difficult than ordinary people to get rid of the knot and regain her strength.

Competitive people tend to look down on people with the same personality the most, which may reflect the natural law of "same-sex repulsion". Leonid heard Yelena boast about how good she was, and she couldn't get used to the little girl's smug appearance, so he sneered and said a cool word.

"Listening to the tone of your voice, I thought you were a general, but it turned out to be just a little captain."