XXVIII. King Arthur's Choice
While King Plath's plot has been thwarted, another, more troublesome problem looms.
ββ¦β¦ It seems that my kingdom is full of spies, and my allies are full of traitors and careerists......"
Facing the rising blood-colored sun, King Arthur, who was wearing a blue robe and a jeweled gold crown on his head, said with a gloomy face, "...... It seems that after going back this time, I really need to clean up those pests hidden in the country! β
ββ¦β¦ Well, if you really want to do that, you'll have to hurry. Wang Qiu suddenly touched his nose and said with some stumbling.
ββ¦β¦ Hurry? weishenmeοΌ Arthur blinked in confusion, and at the same time had a vague premonition in his mind.
ββ¦β¦ Hey, this ...... So far, I have to tell the truth. Now there's a not-so-good thing for you, Arthur. β
Looking at the cruel battlefield full of corpses in the morning light, after being silent for a while, Wang Qiu rubbed his temples, then changed to a serious expression, and said to Arthur, "...... Judging by the situation when I teleported the soldiers and ordnance just now, I am afraid that this wormhole caused by you is almost out of time. In another day or so over there, and in two months at most with you, the two shijies will lose contact again......"
ββ¦β¦ Only two months? Like five thunderbolts, Arthur was dumbfounded, "...... So fast? β
- The so-called accident is when you are most caught off guard. Suddenly jump out and kill you by surprise. So that you can only be passively pushed by fate...... Although from the beginning, Arthur knew very well that this wormhole that connects modern shijie will not exist forever. There will always be a day when he disappears without a trace, but as time went by, he has long forgotten about this life-threatening matter.
Therefore, when Wang Qiu suddenly informed him that the wormhole was about to disappear, Arthur, who was completely unprepared, still felt extremely surprised.
What's even worse is that this accident happened at the end of the battle of the sword bar in the same room. When he was getting ready to make a big move.
So, a huge horror captured his heart for a moment, making Arthur, who was already a little immature. It's even more completely overwhelming.
ββ¦β¦ Yes, you'll only have two months at most, and there's a good chance it's less than two months! β
For Arthur's surprise, Wang Qiu just sighed helplessly. Just spread everything out at once. ββ¦β¦ So, I'm going to close the investment here within a month, take all the employees, and withdraw everything that can be reused. Okay, now that you've been notified, what are you going to do next? Is it the choice to stay here and continue to reign in Britain during the Dark Ages of the Middle Ages? Or take advantage of the opportunity of zuihou that the wormhole has not yet dissipated, and go back with me to be an ordinary person? This choice is only up to you! β
- Speaking of which. Wang Qiu and the others have always been very hard, although the cross-time trade has been tossing and turning for several days. After several battles through time and space, he killed more people directly and indirectly than Hitler, but after deducting the profits and taxes paid to the state, he has only earned hundreds of millions of yuan - not dollars - and what is even worse is that this money has to be divided with a large group of people, and most of the money has to be used as working capital, and he does not enjoy much luxury life, unless he is on a mission, he can take advantage of the opportunity to take advantage of the public and private interests.
What's even more unfortunate is that those tasks performed in modern shijie are not left out, and almost every time they travel to the time and space of ancient shijie, they have to make a large-scale upfront investment - in the form of war or construction - in order to obtain stable returns. Even robbery comes at a cost. In general, there is never a real businessless business in this world, even if it is a liar who fools people, he needs a more decent outfit!
But the problem is that, in Wang Qiu's experience, with the exception of that only exception (the ancient Egyptian time and space of Cleopatra VII), almost every wormhole has a time limit, and what is worse is that this time limit is not stable. If Wang Qiu invests too little manpower and material resources in different shijie, then the benefits they can get from it will naturally be very small; If too much manpower and material resources are invested in Yishijie, then the wormhole will disappear before it can be repaid-Wang Qiu and the others can only carry a deficit and face the reprimands of the relevant leaders in frustration.
For example, this time I traveled to the island of Great Britain in the early dark medieval, although the legend of King Arthur was recreated in some strange form, but from an economic point of view, it could only be regarded as a transaction that was just enough to return on the cost for Wang Qiu: after wasting so much time, he finally recovered his investment and began to make pure profits, but the wormhole had reached its lifespan, and in the end it was estimated that he would not even be able to earn a million yuan - if it weren't for the fact that the battle of Sword Fence was fought very frugally, and no missiles were used, I didn't let the two thousand mercenaries go into battle together, otherwise I am afraid that I will lose money again.
On the other hand, King Arthur was stunned for a while at this terrible news that seemed to be the heavens falling apart, and then he fell into an endless battle between heaven and man in his heart, "...... This one...... Isn't there still some time? Let me think about it first......"
ββ¦β¦ I can give you time, but wormholes can't wait for you. Wang Qiu told the truth very frankly, "...... It's only a month's time, so think about it yourself! Arthur. But until then, please continue to help me collect wood, hides, gold and silver as quickly as possible, and at least earn back the military expenses of this battle of the sword fence......"
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The next day, with the surrender of Queen Granny of Ulster, the Battle of the Sword Fence ended in the victory of King Arthur and Camelot.
In the failed night raid last night, the Irish invaders who crossed the sea lost more than half of their soldiers, and were blocked off from the fleet by King Arthur's troops. The morale has fallen to the ground, there is really nowhere to retreat, and there is no strength to fight again.
Therefore. After some negotiation and negotiation between envoys, by noon the next day, the remaining more than 2,000 Irishmen, who had been frightened, finally laid down their weapons and banners under the leadership of the dejected Queen Grannie, and surrendered to King Arthur en masse.
Then, Wang Qiu saw an embarrassing ancient Irish-style surrender ceremony - Queen Ulster led her two younger sisters. More than a dozen court ladies who accompanied the army to the war, dozens of female guards and maids, all stripped naked and lifted their skirts together. In order to show that he is not wearing underwear or shaving...... According to ancient Irish custom, this move was made as a sign of great respect for King Arthur Bixia.
- No way, the Europeans of this era have lost the civilization brought by the Roman Empire and restored many barbaric living customs. Many people completely ignore the marital relationship. They don't want legal wives. Live a life of debauchery and fornication like a horse or a donkey......
Moreover, the ancient East and the West were in the "Dew. The attitude on the issue of "yin" seems to be completely different. I remember that when Jing Ke failed to assassinate King Qin and fell to the ground injured, he deliberately opened the hem of his clothes to reveal the chick. chicken, in order to express the humiliation of King Yingzheng of Qin...... But on the side of the ancient Irish, the same practice was a great courtesy - roughly similar to the Chinese's three kneeling and nine knocking!
Ahem, let's get down to business. Regardless of the embarrassment of the process, the Irish army landed from the west and invaded Britain. Finally disarmed and surrendered. Then, in accordance with the practice of dealing with surrendered armies in medieval Europe, Arthur released some of the captured enemy soldiers as serfs and some of them were seriously wounded or crippled on the spot, and gave the captured nobles a ransom price for each, and asked their families to raise the ransom as soon as possible.
As a sign of forgiveness, King Arthur publicly released Granny Bixia, Queen of Ulster, and her two sisters, and told them to return to their home country with ransom letters, so that they could raise money to pay the ransom as soon as possible. In addition, in order to reward the kings, nobles, and knights who remained loyal to him, King Arthur distributed the captives directly to them, and the ransom paid by the Kingdom of Ulster was their reward for victory.
After accepting the surrender of this group of Irishmen, King Arthur's next scheduled work was naturally the disposal of the rebels of the Kingdom of Demete.
According to his original plan, he should have wanted to take this wonderful opportunity to put his own shili in order vigorously, and to beat the Celtic kings who had different hearts; By the way, the tens of thousands of people of the Demeite Kingdom will be included in the pocket, and it will somewhat make up for the labor shortage that the Camelot Kingdom is currently facing...... But now that he already knew that the wormhole was about to disappear and the passage connecting the modern Shijie was about to be cut off, King Arthur's whole person was disheartened, in a trance, his face was sad, and there was neither the joy of winning a great victory nor the anger of betrayal in his facial expression, and there was almost no sadness Fengyue cried to the flower and sighed to the moon and then spit out a few mouthfuls of blood in a vase.
Therefore, the current King Arthur was completely unmotivated, and after barely presiding over the surrender ceremony, he casually instructed the Celtic kings, princes, and generals who came to help the war with their troops, and let them discuss the division of the land of the Demetei Kingdom - this is a severe punishment for the rebels - as for how the inheritance of these Demetei kingdoms should be divided, who can get which piece of land, whether to leave a few small inheritances to the original royal family and nobles of Demete, or simply kill people and cut down the grass and eradicate the roots...... Just like the "kind, tolerant, and generous" King Arthur Bixia did nothing at all.
Then, three days after the end of the Battle of the Sword Rail, as Queen Granny boarded the ship and sailed away, King Arthur, who was not happy, did not even hold a banquet to congratulate the victory, announced the dissolution of the coalition on the spot, and then took his direct troops, carrying large bags of booty, and embarked on the road back to Carmellot...... As for the team of modern traverser mercenaries that Wang Qiu pulled over to save the scene, they had already gone back through the wormhole as soon as the fight was over.
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On the way back to Camelot, Arthur remained silent, almost never talking to anyone except when he gave orders as necessary. Even when he was camping and resting, he just took some modern shijie newspapers, magazines and books and read them silently, as if he was thoughtful.
For the infinite entanglement that this time-traveling version of King Arthur haunted in his heart at this time, Wang Qiu expressed the greatest understanding: he had met the American Emperor Wendesi and the Eastern Roman Werewolf Emperor Constantine XI before. In the face of such a fateful choice, they have experienced a similar mental journey, and none of them have had time to really figure it out - the former is seriously injured and in danger. had to abandon his wife and children in a coma, and was forcibly taken back to modern Shijie for rescue; The latter was because the time-traveler engaged in infinite germ warfare, and caused a Resident Evil in that time and space, and as a result, he had to hurriedly close the wormhole, so as not to spread a super plague through the wormhole to modern Shijie, so he had to leave the time-traveler emperor there to fend for himself......
zuihou, on the eve of arriving in Camelot. Arthur finally made a decision β he was holding an old newspaper with an old newspaper that had "a large number of Pakistani migrants besieged by a large number of Pakistani immigrants because of the conflict with religious rules for the Chinese rescue team distributing canned pork near Heathrow Airport in the western suburbs of London." With a look of resentment, he said to Wang Qiu: "...... Look, Mr. King, this is my current homeland! Is this still God's kingdom? Look at what the newspapers say: '...... At the end of the day, it is the people responsible who do not know enough about the current situation in the UK. I didn't expect to do things according to the customs of Arab countries in London...... 'Hehehe. This is no longer the London I know, let alone the United Kingdom I know! β
Speaking of this, Arthur stroked the gilded cross on the crown above his head, with a face of vicissitudes and emotion, "...... The present Britain, though desolate, though barbaric, though ignorant. Although poor, although there are countless shortcomings. But the possibilities are endless! Like the rising sun that has just jumped out of the horizon, it is full of vigorous hope; Unlike the United Kingdom on the other side of the wormhole, which has gone through all its glory and splendor, just like the sunset falling in the twilight, no one can reverse its fate and change the declining trend of that country......
According to my speculation, the brief war that broke out in England was probably only a signal of the beginning of an even greater catastrophe for the European continent, which was mired in national, class and religious contradictions. After that, I don't know what kind of turmoil and pain will be, waiting for the Europeans of that era! And I'm just a powerless ordinary person over there, who can only drift with the tide in the whirlpool of the times, and I have no ability to protect myself at all...... So, I decided to stay and build a happy kingdom in Britain with my own hands for Christians! β
For King Arthur's brave choice to create a new era alone, Wang Qiu expressed cautious praise and moral support.
Sadly, King Arthur's determination seems to have lasted only about an hourβless than twenty minutes from Camelot Castle, he was met by the medic Bedewell and the archwizard Merlin, who were waiting on the side of the road, and a message that stunned him.
ββ¦β¦ What the? My sister Morgan has gone through the wormhole? So what should her husband Lancelot do? King Arthur asked in surprise.
ββ¦β¦ Arthur, you'll understand everything if you've seen this......" Archwizard Merlin sighed heavily, handed a large envelope left by Morgan into King Arthur's hand, and patted King Arthur's shoulder sympathetically, "...... Be strong, don't be too sad, Arthur, there is always a way to find a good woman, don't give up the whole forest for a tree......"
Ms. Morgan left a long letterhead with a bulging envelope and several color photographs printed on paper. As a result, Arthur blinked in disbelief just by looking at the white flesh in the photo, and when he finished reading the letter, his whole person became even more gray.
ββ¦β¦ It turns out that this is why my sister is going to the priest for confession...... Hehehehe...... It's a shame that I, as a husband, have been kept in the dark all the time......" After half a sound, he actually laughed weirdly, "...... I'm so stupid, really...... Hehehehehe......"
ββ¦β¦ What does the letter say? Wang Qiu came over curiously, wanting to see the contents of the letterhead, but Arthur quickly hid it...... After repeated questioning, Arthur reluctantly opened his mouth, his eyes full of lingering faint sadness:
ββ¦β¦ We all know, there are things we know, there are things we know we already know, we know some things that we know at the same time, and we don't know, that is, we know, there are things in the world that we don't know, but at the same time we don't know: there are things we don't know, things we don't know, we really don't know......"
ββ¦β¦ Stop, stop! DON'T GIVE ME ANY MORE COSPLAY CITI MILITARY DEPARTMENT BOOK RUMSFELD'S IRAQ WAR QUOTES! For this confusing clichΓ©, Wang Qiu really listened to it, "...... What the hell are you trying to say, Arthur? He asked bluntly.
ββ¦β¦ What do you want to say? I don't even know what to say myself?! King Arthur tore the letterhead to pieces with a stiff face, then jumped on his horse again and galloped towards the distant "Castle of Carmellot," ...... If you want to know the truth, come with me! β
- About a quarter of an hour later, with King Arthur's roar and roar like lightning and thunder, everyone succeeded in catching the flushed and naked Ensign Lancelot, and Queen Gnavel, who was also naked and covered with a lot of white and viscous liquid of unknown origin on her skin and lips, on the Simmons bed in the King's bedroom at "Castle Carmellot...... (To be continued......)