ACT010: Wilhelm II's "Gift Box"
Germans have always been very strict in their work, and they are also quite urine!
In another time and space, the German High Seas Fleet was seized by the Allies at the end of World War I. Although this fleet was complained by the army after the Battle of Jutland because of its inaction in the harbor, they were still a huge fleet with powerful strike capabilities.
A total of 74 German warships were escorted by the Allied fleet into Scapa Bay, England, and waited for the end of the peace talks to be taken by the Allies to share the spoils. However, in order not to let these elite warships fall into the hands of the enemy without the breakdown of negotiations, the fleet commander actually took advantage of the opportunity of the British to be careless and came up with a "rainbow operation" that shocked the world.
Of the 74 warships that sank en masse in Scapa Bay, 52 of them were completely sunk, accounting for 95% of the total tonnage of the seized fleet. This directly made the members of the Entente who were ready to share the cake and take the "good ship" collectively dumbfounded, and Britain, which was supposed to take the lion's share, not only did not get the benefits, but even set up a military port of its own for this purpose, and was so angry that it almost wanted to vomit blood!
In this time and space where Zhao Jian lived, the first Shijie War was mediated by Datang as a third party, so the High Seas Fleet was retained by Germany, but the sanctions in other aspects were still the same, or even more severe.
The Convention of Versailles not only allowed Germany to return all the space colonies it had stolen during the war, but also stripped many of its former colonies as reparations, leaving only a small piece of lunar territory as a "symbolic face". In addition, Germany had to pay an astronomical sum of money to the members of the Entente, which greatly damaged the national strength.
"This god core...... Should it be this grayish color? β
"Young master, this lieutenant general went to the god core and sprinkled the destruction liquid on the god core when he was dying, and this piece is estimated to have been scrapped."
"Huh!?"
Di Rui checked the Divine Core and regretfully told Zhao Jian a disappointing result.
The Core is strong, but it's not indestructible!
There are two conventional ways to "kill" the Celestial Maiden, one is to directly physically destroy the Divine Core, and modern high-power explosives can already achieve this effect. The other is called "exhaustion", that is, after the god core runs out of energy, it enters a dormant state, and the way to consume energy includes high-intensity continuous combat and damage to the hull.
Under normal circumstances, when the hull of the battleship is broken, in order to protect the precious god core, the crew will choose to abandon the ship with the god core. In this way, after a period of recovery and recuperation, the Divine Core can be used again. But once the energy is completely exhausted, the god core will enter a deep hibernation like suspended animation, and the natural recovery time will even last for more than a hundred years.
It's okay to say that the crew can still escape, but not in space warfare. Therefore, there are many celestial maidens who will resolutely choose to sacrifice themselves in order to protect the crew who have a deep relationship with them.
It is estimated that the situation of the LΓΌzov is similar, and the hull can be so complete to a large extent thanks to the persistence of the Heavenly Maiden. And this divine core not only ran out of energy, but was also splashed with destruction liquid, which can be said to be even worse.
This corrosive destruction liquid is a scientific research achievement that only exists in modern times, and it is specially used to destroy the god core, and many countries have such a bottle of "emergency potion" on the main warships. If the crew is unable to take the Divine Core away in a bad situation, it must be destroyed on the spot to avoid being obtained by the enemy.
"Damn! This is a gem that can turn into a girl.,How can you say it's destroyed? These loveless Germans! β
Looking at the decaying corpse, Zhao Jian, who was beating his chest, seemed to have a mocking smile in front of his eyes, although his teeth were itching with hatred in his heart, but in the end, in the spirit of "the dead are great", he did not destroy the corpse to vent his anger.
Although the divine core was destroyed, Zhao Jian still buckled it off the metal platform and put it in his bag, preparing to take it back as a souvenir, so as to ensure that his grandson's grandson would see this divine core shine again one day. After that, he rummaged through the room with Diri and Wangcai, hoping to find something else of value, so as not to run in vain.
During this period, Zhao Jian has been thinking about it all the time, and he is haunted by the destruction of the divine core.
Everyone was rummaging, and Wangcai, who had solid eyes, saw that the wall-mounted lampstand was golden, and thought that this thing would be very valuable, so he reached out and broke it without thinking about it, but the angle of force was wrong, and he twisted the lampstand xiangyou half a circle. Zhao Jian, who was looking down at the box and cabinet on the opposite side, heard a "click" under his feet, and then the soles of his feet were empty, and the whole person fell. By the time Di Rui and Wang Caixun came over, Zhao Jian and the secret door on the ground had already disappeared.
"Hey! What about the young master? β
"I, I don't know."
The big living man disappeared in the blink of an eye, and the two looked at each other for a moment, Di Rui suddenly slapped his head, and hurriedly rushed to the place where Zhao Jian disappeared, groping on the ground in a panic, but there was no gap in the metal ground at all. Fortunately, Dirui's IQ is higher than that of a tendon, and he quickly thought of a way.
"Water, water! Splash water on the ground! β
Sprinkled all the water in the kettle on the ground, and a 1-meter-square box quickly appeared in front of the two of them. But when they found the secret door, they couldn't do anything about it. The gap in the frame of the secret door is so small that it can't even fit a single hair into it, and no matter how much you knock it, it won't move. In desperation, Diri could only knock on the secret door and shout.
"Young Master! Can you hear me? β
At the same time, under the secret door, Zhao Jian hit a hard object on the back of his head because of the fall, and he was in a coma at this time, unable to respond to Di Rui's call at all. In this pitch darkness, Zhao Jian didn't know how long he had been asleep, the whole person was in a kind of half-dreaming and half-awake trance, his mind was buzzing, until a light and two shaking figures appeared in front of him, and his consciousness gradually recovered.
"Young master, young master, wake up, young master!"
"I ...... How long have I passed out? β
"Ten minutes."
"I feel like I've been centuries......"
After Zhao Jian fell, the two people who stayed on it were very flustered for a while. Fortunately, Diri finally remembered what Wangcai had done before, so he also pulled the lampstand to open the secret door. As soon as the two of them came, they saw Zhao Jian lying on his back on the floor, with a lot of blood flowing from the back of his head, and they were immediately startled.
After Zhao Jian woke up, Di Rui first took gauze to wrap his head in a three-like shape, but the wound soon felt extremely painful because of the sweat that came out, and he had no choice but to remove a few more layers. Di Rui hoped that Zhao Jian could return to the rear, but Zhao Jian said that he was only slightly injured and did not affect his "combat effectiveness" at all.
The dark room discovered by chance not only caused Zhao Jian to be accidentally injured, but also rekindled their new hope.
The German Navy would have wasted precious space on the ship to build such a secret room, which must have been used to hide some valuables. However, at this time, this secret room was no longer a "secret room", most of the floor on the left side of the room had disappeared, and through the huge hole, Zhao Jian could clearly see the magma flowing below.
"Fortunately, young master, my life is big, if this falls, I can't even have a little scum left."
The three of them lay on the edge of the floor and watched for a while, then carefully shrank to the right side of the room, Zhao Jian wiped the "hot and cold mixed sweat" on his head, and touched his heart with palpitations. When he fell down before, although the back of his head was knocked out of the ladder with blood, it was precisely because of this blow that he rolled to the right side of the secret room, instead of falling directly down the large hole on the left side into the magma.
"Young master, you can rest here for a while, and leave the work of finding things to me and Wangcai."
"I'm sorry for you, Uncle Di. In addition, Wangcai, don't be too concerned about what happened just now, if it weren't for you, we wouldn't have been able to find this secret room. β
The chamber wasn't very large, the same size as the room with the Divine Core on it, but on the wall directly opposite the staircase, there was a circular vault door that was only used in a bank. God knows what kind of considerations were used to make such a safe inside the ship when it was built, and there is a German royal symbol above the gate.
As the last emperor of the Second German Empire, Wilhelm II was the main initiator of the First Shijie War, and Zhao Jian's knowledge of this person in his previous life was limited to this. So he didn't know how big the gap between the Kaiser in these two time and space was, but he knew that Wilhelm II here was an out-and-out middle two disease patient, and he was also the kind of "late medicine without medicine".
I won't list all kinds of messy problems, this man who is born with short hands, the personality problems are far greater than the physical imperfections. The mere fact that he "feels good about himself" and "is open-mouthed" has made the cabinet officials around him very troubled.
The most famous passage is when William II was interviewed by the British newspaper Daily Telegraph in 1908. At that time, he wanted to take this opportunity to promote the friendly relations between Germany and Britain, but because he couldn't control his mouth, he actually offended five countries in a row, including Britain, France, Russia, Japan, and Datang.
Wilhelm II pointed out that the Germans did not like the British, that France and Russia had instigated Germany to intervene in the Second Boer War, and that Germany's naval expansion was directed against Japan, not Britain, and that Tang Lingzong was a hairy boy who lacked imperial majesty. Because of his radical remarks, even the reporters who interviewed him were scared enough.
And in addition to all kinds of brain-dead rhetoric, Wilhelm II was also a fanatical antiquity enthusiast.
He had appropriated royal funds to fund a group of unscrupulous archaeologists in the hope that they could prove through scholarship that the Germanic people were descendants of ancient people, and that the Hohenzollerns were the most bloodlined. But this rather "Smecta characteristic" move, except for wasting money in vain, Wilhelm II got nothing.
It is worth mentioning that although the second emperor of the middle and second emperor launched the first shijie war, he was only ousted from power and was not punished in other ways. He was protected by the "close-knit" Queen of the Netherlands after the war, and he is still alive and well, and from time to time he will come out to brush his presence.
It is rumored that in order to collect antiquities related to ancient people from all over Shijie, Wilhelm II even did not hesitate to use warships for transportation, even after the outbreak of war. The British "armored mechanics" were put into actual combat for the first time on the Somme River, which made him believe that the miraculous jishu of the ancients would bring a new turn to the war. If these rumors are true, then the safe in front of Zhao Jian and them is worth looking forward to!