After a night, the fleet of the USN envoys discovered a number of large and small islands.

But no matter how big or small, no matter the environment, the location, all of them are uninhabited.

The large area of desert islands on the mainland of the Mufeng Command made Saratoga and his party suspicious.

Was Otilia Essex misled when she signed the exploration agreement with Mufeng?

The next morning, when the sky was slightly light, the fleet found another large island in the northwest, with some artificial facilities at the southernmost point of the island.

At the same time, Qingyu's AWACS aircraft arrived again, alerting Saratoga to turn.

Sail 500 kilometers along the eastern coastline of the island to reach Newport.

Finally about to arrive at their destination, Saratoga and his party once again cheered up and continued to observe the construction island, the island where the other party's capital is located, which is the real core area of the other party.

The first is the direction of the ocean current, and Saratoga and his party quickly determined that there are two ocean currents on both sides of this construction island, and they flow in different directions, without interfering with each other, and suddenly there is a wave of envy, jealousy and hatred.

Helena looked at the winding coastline:

"There are some facilities along the coastline, most of which are resource collection stations, and the density is quite high, which shows that the resource output here should also be very high......

Hancock's eyebrows twitched slightly:

"That's pretty high, I can't get an idea of how much these stations are producing......"

Missouri blinked:

"It feels like there's no one here, are those facilities really working?"

Colorado thought for a moment:

"Do you remember the silver-white machines in that overseas base before, the stable and repetitive work of resource gathering, it is estimated that they will be enough."

Missouri pinched a strand of hair and wound it vigorously around her fingers:

"You don't need people to work, the density is extremely high, the output is extremely high, but the consumption is very low, so envious...... It's really envious......"

Saratoga sighed:

"Did you notice, the facilities look fairly new, they seem to have just been built.

"There are no settlements around this capital, and this is probably a newly developed territory.

"Most of the population on the other side is probably in those two islands with mountains on the coastline."

Hancock said with a blank face:

"In other words, they originally developed from those two islands, and like the central island of our headquarters, at the beginning, they could only shrink on the central island.

"Their technology exploded, and after defeating the deep sea, they just came out of the original place of origin......"

Colorado followed up with a sentence:

"Then as soon as I go out, I pick up the mine, and then I don't care about anything else, just concentrate on mining......"

Helena frowned slightly:

"So, it's Otilia and Fawkes, are they really deceived?

"There is a lot of resource-rich land in the country that has not been developed, and there is definitely no rush to explore the ocean.

"The so-called exploration of the northern hemisphere is a misjudgment that misleads Otilia.

"The buffer period is just to stall for time, to explore the waters around their homeland."

Hancock shook his head and said:

"If they have not explored the open ocean at all, then it is in their best interest to directly accept the suggestion to divide the world equally with us from the north and the south.

"If it's just to stall for time to explore the surrounding seas, the longer the buffer period, the better, and the larger the range they can explore, the better.

"But they didn't do that either, they wanted both of us to stop exploring, and in the end we both compromised to explore one-sixth of the world around us."

Helena was stunned:

"This ...... Their reaction was so strange......"

Colorado sneered and said:

"All in all, they just don't want to go out and explore, but they still want to occupy more territory, and their initial condition is to only give us a quarter of the planet's sea near our homeland, and the rest is theirs."

Missouri spread his hands:

"Of course, we can't accept this condition."

Saratoga once again brought out the original analysis of Fox and Otilia Essex:

"Ottilia's original question, now we can almost answer it.

"It's because there's a lot of undeveloped land near their homeland, and it's abundant, so they're not interested in exploring the ocean.

"They don't want to explore the oceans, they don't want us to explore, they don't want all the unknown islands in the ocean to become our territory.

"In such a situation, they had to get involved and go on a larger ocean expedition.

"In order to go on an ocean expedition, they need some time to prepare some necessary facilities, or if there are important things that must be taken care of in advance.

"It doesn't take long to know, one month is enough, so this agreement was finally formed."

Hancock thought for a moment:

"If Sarah's guesses are correct, then this grace period agreement is actually in our favor, after all, they are just preparing in the buffer period, and we have already started to explore it."

Saratoga smiled and said:

"So their initial suggestion was that the grace period was completely forbidden to explore, and we didn't agree, and they advocated that the buffer period be as short as possible.

"Their confidence is very high, and they think that they will definitely not lose to us after they really start exploring, otherwise they would not have put forward such conditions"

Helena thought for a moment:

"In other words, this agreement is actually fair, or even more beneficial to us?"

Several ship girls around hesitated for a moment, and then they all nodded slowly.

Colorado opened his mouth, then shook his head violently, and said with great pain:

"Wait, no, no, we're all wrong, the real problem isn't here at all, we're at a loss, we're at a loss!

"There are so many desert islands here that are undeveloped, and no one actually controls them, so we can come and develop them, and come here to actually control them.

"The most fundamental, first-come, first-served condition is already in their favor, and we can ask for actual occupation to have it."

The scene was suddenly quiet for a while, and I felt that what Colorado said made sense, but there were also problems.

Saratoga sighed and asked:

"Then you want to go to war with them? Whoever actually occupies it has this rule, and to put it bluntly, isn't it up to force and war to decide the ownership of these islands?

"This is the land at the other side's doorstep, and if we must occupy it, the other party will definitely not allow it. What are our chances of winning a war on the other side's doorstep?

"I think it's better to continue to explore the uncharted seas than to grab land from other people's doorsteps, and war is definitely not the most cost-effective way to do it."