Chapter 80: Find out
Ambassador Hakanin's sense of superiority reached its peak when they followed Kennard to Crescent Town.
When they saw several buildings tens of meters high in Crescent Town from a distance, Russell's two entourages were very surprised.
After entering Crescent Town, they were still very surprised to see the neat houses and the clean, wide and flat roads in the town.
After walking a little further, when they saw the red, yellow and green traffic lights at the intersection, the two expressed surprise again.
Then they were surprised to see all kinds of magic locomotives coming and going on the road.
In short, from the moment they approached Crescent Town, the two of them would look surprised at anything they saw, which made Ambassador Hakanin constantly disdain in his heart that they were simply two hillbillies who had never seen the market, so his heart was full of superiority.
It's just that he forgot that in fact, he was also from the Candela Empire, and when he first came here, he didn't look much better than these two retinues.
Russell has always been very calm, although when he observed the surrounding situation, his eyes showed surprise, but on the whole he was quite indifferent.
But when everyone arrived at the tallest and most conspicuous building in the center of the entire Crescent Town under Kennard's leadership, and watched a steel monster in the shape of a small boat above slowly fall and stop in front of several people, even Russell couldn't help but show a shocked expression.
"This ...... What is it?" Russell asked Kennard, pointing to the strange-looking thing in front of him, made up of unknown metal that shimmered with silver light all over his body.
"Lord Russell. This is the latest small magic airship developed by our Chamber of Commerce. The elder has sent you to welcome you to dinner. Please. Kennard walked over to the small magic airship and reached out to make an inviting gesture.
Russell hesitated, nodded, and walked over.
Ambassador Hakanin and two of his entourage were stunned and hurriedly followed.
From the outside, this small magic airship looked about three times the size of the magic car they were riding in this time, but the space inside was huge, and it was still very spacious after all five people entered.
Before Russell and the others could take a look at the environment inside, they felt a slight shock under their feet. Immediately, he felt that he was being carried by this small magic airship and slowly flew into the sky.
A look of surprise crossed Russell's face again.
Although he guessed the function of this thing when he heard the name "small magic airship", he still couldn't help but be shaken by it when he actually sat in it and flew into the air.
Before that, only the elves and the legendary gnomes had the tools that could carry people into the sky, and after the dwarfs disappeared and the elves declined, this tool became the only thing that remained in the legends.
Unexpectedly, this new flying chamber of commerce has actually created such a magic machine, and from personal experience, the flight of this small magic airship is very stable. It can be seen that the technology of the new flying chamber of commerce in this area is very mature.
Thinking of the purpose of his trip, Russell began to think about it.
"Maybe when I see Xu Yi in a while. Should we talk about more things?"
The small magic airship didn't leave Russell much time to think, just half a minute later, Russell and the others felt a slight shock under their feet, the small magic airship stopped in mid-air, and then drifted a little in the direction of the tall building, and finally sank slightly and stopped.
The hatch slowly opened, and Kennard made another gesture of please.
Russell settled down and walked out first.
"Welcome, Lord Russell. ”
A hearty laugh rang out in front of him, and Russell instantly heard that this voice was the voice he had just heard through the Guò magic phone box.
When I looked up, I saw a young man with a young face that was a little too young, no matter how you looked at it, he was at most thirty years old and greeted him with a gentle smile.
Russell stretched out his hand and shook him, nodded and said, "President Xu, I am honored to meet for the first time. ”
Xu Yi laughed: "Lord Russell, you have won the award." It was an honor to meet the generals of the Candela Empire and to have lunch with you. ”
Ambassador Hakanin and two members of his entourage then walked down with Kennard.
Ambassador Hakanin originally planned to give Xu Yi a warm hug, but gave up after glancing at Russell.
After Xu Yi and a few people met separately, he invited them to sit together and prepare for lunch.
The place Xu Yi chose is very special, it is a specially built open-air transparent restaurant outside the top floor of the tallest Amrley Hotel in Crescent Town, through the glass, you can clearly see that you are in the sky, and even the people on the ground below have become black dots, and you can't see clearly at all.
Whether it was Ambassador Hakane, the two entourage, and even Russell had eaten at such a high place for the first time, and they couldn't help but look outside and on the ground with a few more surprises in their hearts.
"President Xu, how did you build such a tall building?" Russell couldn't help but ask.
"No, this building wasn't built by our Chamber of Commerce. Xu Yi smiled and shook his head.
Russell was stunned: "Didn't you build the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce?
Listening to Russell's description of "strength", Xu Yi couldn't help laughing.
"The name of this building is Amrité Hotel, and of course it was built by the Amrité Chamber of Commerce. And it's not just the hotel, all the high-rise buildings you see in Crescent Town were built by the Amritri Chamber of Commerce. It can even be said that this entire Crescent Town is actually from the hands of the Amrley Chamber of Commerce, and our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is just responsible for paying for it. ”
"Amrley Chamber of Commerce?" Russell narrowed his eyes, paused, and muttered, "If I'm not mistaken, it seems to be this Amrley Chamber of Commerce that came to our Candela Empire last year to claim to pave roads?"
"That's right, that's it. Xu Yi nodded.
"That's right......" Russell nodded, silent.
Seeing that the atmosphere at the table was a little dull, Ambassador Hakanin coughed lightly. Said to Russell: "Lord Russell." This time you're with me. Coming from the kingdom of Ruersun, all the way is a road, do you feel ...... This road is much better than any dirt and gravel road in our empire?"
Russell glanced at him and said lightly: "Of course I can see and feel this." After saying that, he pondered for a moment, then turned to Xu Yi and said, "President Xu, if you look at it this way, the strength of this Amrley Chamber of Commerce should be very strong, why haven't I heard of it before?"
Xu Yi smiled slightly: "Because it was a few years ago." The Amrley Chamber of Commerce is just a small chamber of commerce in the city of Nabita in the Lampari Kingdom, and you won't have heard of it. ”
"Is it the same as your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce?" Russell asked, looking directly at Xu Yi.
Xu Yi smiled and nodded: "Yes." ”
Russell's right hand on the table unconsciously slapped twice, and suddenly said to Xu Yi: "President Xu, I think you should understand my intention to come to see you. ”
Xu Yi put down the knife and fork in his hand, crossed his hands, and looked at Russell squarely, but his expression still maintained a relaxed appearance, and he nodded lightly and said, "If I guessed correctly, Lord Russell, you should have come here for the misunderstanding between our Chamber of Commerce Escort Fleet and your Third Fleet last time." ”
"You can say that, but it's not entirely true. Russell glanced at Xu Yi. Suddenly, his face sank. "President Xu, your New Flying Chamber of Commerce escort fleet has actually ignored the warnings of our Imperial Navy. He even tried to attack while fleeing, which was clearly a provocation to our Imperial Navy and also to our Candela Empire. Do you have any explanation for this?"
Xu Yi shrugged his shoulders and said with a relaxed face: "Lord Russell, I just said that this is a misunderstanding. Our Chamber of Commerce does not have any intention of provoking the Imperial Navy, nor does it have any intention of offending the Candela Empire. ”
"Then why did you just run away, and even attack the Imperial Navy on the way out?" asked Russell with a calm face.
Xu Yi shook his head: "So it's a misunderstanding." He chose to flee in order not to clash head-on with the Imperial Navy. And launch an attack...... It was just hoping that the Imperial Navy would not pursue, and did not really intend to attack. After all...... None of the attacks really hit any of the ships of the Imperial Navy, did they?"
Russell frowned, thinking of the situation described in the report submitted by the Third Fleet before, and couldn't help but snort coldly.
Xu Yi said it nicely, but in fact, the situation at that time was that the Third Fleet of the Empire not only couldn't catch up with the New Flying Chamber of Commerce escort fleet at all, but even if it could, it didn't dare to catch up.
According to the statement of the deputy commander of the Third Fleet at the time, Kandore, if he pursued it rashly, it would have led the entire fleet to be wiped out.
This conclusion caused an uproar within the Candela Imperial military.
No one believed Candore's words, and everyone believed that it was all Candore's attempt to cover up his dereliction of duty and deliberately exaggerate the capabilities of the New Flyer Chamber of Commerce to escort the fleet.
Because no one believed that the Third Fleet of the Imperial Navy would be wiped out in the face of a few small ships used as escorts by a mere chamber of commerce.
Because of this incident and the ridiculous report submitted at the time, Candore was directly revoked from his military position by the Imperial Military Department, and this matter was also sealed in the archives of the Military Department because it would affect the image of the Imperial Navy if it was published.
If it weren't for Russell's private party with Candore during the New Year, I heard him mention this matter in person, I'm afraid this matter would have been suppressed like this.
After that, Russell heard that Ambassador Hakanin had contact with this unknown Xinfei Chamber of Commerce far west of the mainland, so he asked him to bring him with him, in order to find out what the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce was.
Candoré was so drunk when he told Russell about it that there was no possibility of lying.
And at that time, he still firmly believed that the attack power of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce's escort fleet was extremely powerful and could not compete with it at all, so Russell didn't believe it, but he also wanted to find out.
Originally, Russell was mostly suspicious of this matter, but after coming to the Duchy of Stantin, seeing these magical scenes with his own eyes on the way reduced the doubts in his heart a little bit.
By the time he got on board the small magic airship, the doubts in his mind almost turned into certainty.
This new flying chamber of commerce is very likely to have unimaginable peculiarities.
What Candore said about "it's like a fleet from another world" is probably true. (To be continued......)