Section 491: It's no wonder that trading is always pleasant (1)
"I thought you ran away." Looking at Marin who came by motorcycle, the elven ambassador standing outside the gate of the institute glanced at a certain orangutan with a blue nose and swollen face, and smiled insincerely, as if he had understood why Marin disappeared.
Oh, what does he understand, this orangutan behind me can not only speak people, but also drive a locomotive.
Marin complained frantically in his heart, and at the same time pushed the car door open, and came down to shake hands with the elf ambassador: "Long time no see." β
"yes, it's been a long time since we were separated in that damn sewer last time, and then again, don't ask me to go there next time, you humans build the sewers that look the same, and I got lost in it for two days with my people."
I'm afraid that this is the pain of Mr. Elf Ambassador's life, when Marin led people in to find them, this elf did not have the demeanor he has now.
"Don't worry, next time I'll let the dwarves and halflings go down." Marin smiled and comforted the elven ambassador.
ββ¦β¦ Forget it, I'd better go down. "At the mention of dwarves and halflings, the elven ambassador felt as if he had a spirit.
Okay, really energetic.
Marin tossed the car keys to the Orangutan Director, and followed the Elven Master into the Institute.
"Last time, Your Excellency Marin laid out the blueprints for the dwarves' rockets, the dwarves already have a prototype, and today we will have the first test launch, you might as early as you come." The Elven Ambassador explained the progress of the work to Marin in front.
"What about the 120mm gun." Marin took a look at the test site and saw what tests were going on there.
"The giants are testing, they say the recoil is too much, and that's it." After speaking, the elven ambassador pointed in the direction of the human pile.
What the? What did you say? Giants in the test?
No, I was going to put that thing on top of the chariot, and you let the giants hold it as a hand-held cannon?!
Marin stopped the elven ambassador and led him to the test site, where he saw a giant firing from a distance with a 120mm cannon with a long barrel...... No, the kind of thing that fires a shot and the whole person flies backwards for a distance can be called a test.
"Didn't I say that this thing was put on a chariot, and that the rockets were used by the giants?" Marin called the test to a halt, telling the giant to lower the barrel and back away.
"But halflings and dwarves say so, and we elves think it's quite reliable for giants to take this thing." The elven ambassador looked at the departing giant with some regret.
β¦β¦ The giant has really fallen into eight lifetimes of mold, and he has come across this solid two hundred and five of you.
"Are you stupid to engage in science, this thing can't guarantee the hit rate for giants, you guys are wasting this thing that weighs as much as gold." Marin glanced at the dwarven master craftsman and the chief craftsman of the halflings who came over: "What about the rockets, give the giants a try." β
So after a while, the dwarves brought four launchers.
Marin picked up a rocket launcher by himself, looked at the familiar launcher, looked at the streamlined warhead, looked at the familiar mechanical sight, Marin pointed the warhead at the sky, and his free hand clenched into a fist.
"It's ...... Some kind of ritual action? The elven ambassador spotted Marin, with his elven sixth sense, as if he was thinking something in his mind.
"So to speak, I'm praising the machine." Marin finished his nonsense with his eyes open, and then pointed the launcher at the target.
Straighten the sight, aim at the target, pull the trigger, the 90 mm caliber heavy rocket was ignited, the next second, it flew towards the target deflected, and finally the flight of 100 meters ended at 79 meters, and the rocket that stuck to the ground raised a large amount of dust.
"The tail of the missile body was not trimmed, and the output of the nozzle was unbalanced." With that, Marlin put the launcher down and motioned for the giant shooters to continue.
Of the remaining three shots, one hit the target, and after penetrating a layer of iron plates, the metal jet killed all the large and small domestic animals behind, and the lethality was completely up to standard.
One shot hit the target, and then the firing pin failed, and the impact of the iron bump with the iron plate was silent.
The last one flew just like the one Marlin fired, only this time it flew into the sky, and eventually the fuel from the vent burned out, and the falling warhead went off - and then the thing turned the elven ambassador's flowerbed into a complete past tense.
Poor Mr. Ambassador, the best thing in his life, ended in tragedy.
Writing down the test results, Marin signed them, and then glanced at the elven ambassador who was standing in front of the flower bed with his head in front of the flower bed and sighed at his own youthful spirit: "The improvement of the projectile body below is handled by the halfling, Your Excellency the master craftsman, I have already drawn the chariot drawings, and now I will leave it to you." β
With that, Marin pulled out a stack of drawings from his private space.
"Leave it to us." Taking the drawing, the dwarf master looked very happy.
Then Marin met with the representatives of the theoretical research, had cordial conversations with them, and answered some scientific questions, and by the time it was all over, Marin found that it was almost nightfall.
Turning down the invitation to invite him to dinner, Marin pulled the teleportation channel and returned to Rongma.
The coordinates were the garden of the palace, and when he walked out of the garden, Marin noticed the extra female guards in the palace and many women he didn't know at all.
In their greetings, Marin met with Faye and Nova, and they introduced Marin to the origin of these guardsβthey were hired by the God of Love, who had been specially hired by the noble families who had come to see them in the past two days.
The Church of Love also gave a fracture price, and the two sides traded happily.
As for the women that Marin didn't know at all, they were the noble families who stayed in the palace, and they were responsible for taking care of everyone's daily life.
This made Marin sigh in his heart, the nobles in these years are really doing a lot: "Which female cat people are guarding?" β
"I came from the temple of the Great Woodland, and I said that I came to take care of Maya's daily life, and the Great God Lord was very generous." To Marin's doubts, Faye answered.
"The big-eared fox there can't be a just church." Marin asked, looking at his big-eared fox.
"No, it's from the Big-eared Fox Clan, saying that it's helping Matilda." Nova said as she brushed Matilda, the big-eared fox looked very comfortable.
"What nonsense, do you need so many people to take care of you?" Marin asked, with his hands on his hips.
"We don't need so many people, but I think Marin does." The smile on Faye's face showed a dangerous arc: "Look, there's a beautiful girl from the Giant Clan over there, who came from the Frost Giant Clan." β
Marin turned his head when he heard this, and saw the so-called beautiful girl with her forearms thicker than his waist, ahh Don't use words to defile the word beautiful girl, okay!
The latter noticed Marin's gaze and smiled...... No, it's a very scary smile.
And a frost giant who looked like he was supposed to be an envoy nodded at Marin, "Hats off, Lord Marin. β
Marin took out his wallet and gave the six frost giant girls a sum of money and told them to go live outside immediately.
"Don't you like them?" After seeing them leave, the envoy asked curiously.
"My aesthetic tells me it shouldn't be." Marin looked at the envoy honestly: "You are waiting for me here, you should want to see me, right?" β
"Yes, this time I am here on behalf of the Frost Giant's royal court, they have heard of your existence, those six are the Frost Giant Maidens they have carefully selected, in their opinion, they are much better than your current lovers."
Okay, I always thought that the dwarf was a solid two hundred and five, but I didn't expect the giant to be.
Marin sighed and shook his head: "If you continue to say this, there will be nothing more to say between us." β
"Of course, Your Excellency, I said all this in their opinion, and for me, I understand your feelings for your lovers, so I came here this time, in addition to meeting with you, but also on behalf of the royal court to confirm the preparations for war of the human kingdoms in the south."
Hearing this envoy say this, Marin shook his head with a smile: "I'm sorry to let you see the bad side, but we are trying to speed up the progress." β
"No, in fact, the preparation of the human kingdom has far exceeded our expectations, in our imagination, the southernmost human beings may not have any sense of urgency at all, but in fact, the Sidney Union and the Duchy of Farol are the two human kingdoms with the best preparation for war."
"Well, in that case, I'd like to know if there's anything I can do to help you." Marin asked, in his opinion, this envoy should have done a comprehensive understanding of what he could say, and since this was the case, Marin also asked.
"We need a lot of new muskets, and in the northern theater of Sidney, I have seen them so powerful that they are much more reliable than the flintlock pistols we have."
"It's hard to do, your muskets need more metal, more wood, and we don't have craftsmen."
"The Frost Giants are craftsmen, Lord Marin, I am actually a craftsman myself, if you need our craftsmen to wield the blacksmith's hammer for you, then you have found the right one."
The envoy's words were very attractive, Marin had indeed heard the story of the Frost Giant's craftsmen, and in the story, most of the divine weapons in the north were made by the Frost Giants: "Then how many craftsmen can you come up with in a month." β
"Twenty thousand." Your Excellency the Envoy said.
Marin was silent for a while, and he felt as if there was something wrong with his hearing system: "You said twenty thousand? β
"Yes, our men are able to go ashore from Fort Carter, united by Sidney, bypassing the Black Sea, bypassing the Black Sea, and our merchant fleet will take this route."
"I want to ask, if 20,000 people are spoken, won't it have an impact on your economy and society?"
"No, that's about the number of all the adults in a Frost Giant clan, their families will follow south, you just need to give them a piece of land, they will eat from the ground themselves, in the southern land, we Frost Giants can find more and better food than in the tundra."
ββ¦β¦ No problem, let them come, I'll buy the woodlands north of Fort Carter from my friends as your new home for that clan, and they'll be at the service of all the frost giants, but can you fix the musket materials? β
"There is no problem with this, we have found a few open-pit iron mines in the north, they are in good condition, we can mine them, and as for the wood used to make the butts, believe me, Lord Marin, in the world of frost giants, there is no shortage of wood."
In this case, Marin also made up the deal, and he asked the envoy to leave for the north with the news immediately.
Of course, he also needs to take the six beautiful girls with him, otherwise Marin will always have some distrust of his personal safety.