It's the early summer of another year.

As in previous years, a wave of hot air swept across the entire Duchy of Stantin.

Although Xu Yi's private territory is located in the north of the Duchy of Stantin, it still did not escape the invasion of the heat wave, and bathed in the supreme power of summer.

The locals of the Principality of Stantin are naturally very accustomed to this climate, and the employees of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce have long since they have been here for several years, so they have long adapted to this special climate.

However, people who came here from other parts of the continent were extremely unaccustomed to the heat of late summer, which had just entered early summer, and everyone was more or less slumped because of the heat wave, so that even the movements that were usually extremely smooth were a little out of shape.

"Bang-"

The round steel pipe, weighing thirty kilograms, fell to the ground with a muffled thud and at the same time smashed up a cloud of dust.

Hart shook his head and waved his hand: "Next!"

The man standing in the center of the field suddenly looked depressed, moved his lips, and his face was full of unwillingness, but in the end he didn't say anything, and walked out of the field dejectedly.

Seeing another strong man behind him walk into the room, Heinze, who was sitting next to Hart, frowned: "If you take this test, I'm afraid not many people can pass it, right?"

Hart glanced down at the form in his hand and mumbled.

"So far today, only eighty-three people have qualified. ”

"That's too little, isn't it? Heinze couldn't help but say. "At this pace, if you want to recruit 1,000 people, I don't know when you have to wait. ”

Hart shrugged his shoulders: "Anyway, the elder said that it would be better to have less than to have more." This test must be performed in strict accordance with the standards specified by him. Those who fail to meet the standards will be eliminated. There is no emotion to tell. ”

Heinze shook his head slowly: "He's just recruiting a thousand personal guards, although it's not wrong to ask for a little strictness, but it's too outrageous to be strict like this." You say that he asks these people to have a strong enough physique, so why do you have to ask these people to be flexible enough? He is not recruiting staff. ”

"The Lord is simply asking his personal guards to be able to easily master and operate military magic machines, a requirement that has long been common in our Chamber of Commerce escorts. Hart said. "After all, as the personal guard of the elder, how can he not use military magic machinery. ”

Heinze thought for a moment and wondered, "I don't understand. If he really wants to make such a request, why doesn't he simply transfer some guards from the chamber of commerce's escort team to serve as his personal guards? Anyway, the entire Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is his, he can do whatever he wants, and who else dares to disagree?"

Hart laughed: "Vice President, aren't you just giving your opinion." Of course, the elder said, this is to make a clear division of duties between the chamber of commerce escort and his personal bodyguard, so as not to cause trouble in the future. ”

"What's the trouble?" Heinze was even more puzzled, turning his head to look at a candidate who had just finished the test, thinking that Xu Yi was completely thinking too much.

Although the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has now developed into an extremely large scale. It can be regarded as a super-first-class chamber of commerce in the kingdom of Lampari, but if the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is Xu Yi's chamber of commerce. Then surely no one will object to this.

In that case, why did he bother to recruit additional human guards?

These newly recruited guards are obviously not as reassuring as the guards who have served in the Chamber of Commerce for several years, and their abilities are bound to be inferior, if he wants a personal guard, of course, the guards of the Chamber of Commerce are more suitable.

And Xu Yi didn't just do this in the face of human guards, this time he released a rumor, claiming to recruit a large number of personal guards for his territory, including not only a thousand human guards, but also a thousand elven guards, and a thousand dwarf guards.

And according to the information he revealed privately, it is very likely that he will also recruit a thousand orc guards from the Black Rice Wasteland.

If such a private guard were to be formed, it would become a multi-racial coalition.

The relationship between these alien races and humans is not very harmonious, and they do not like each other, and if they are put together, this personal guard may not be able to live in peace.

After watching the recruitment of Xu Yi's personal guard for a while, Heinze finally couldn't sit still and found Xu Yi with a worried face.

Xu Yi was in the magic machine tool R&D center of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce at the moment, and he was having a heated discussion with Camby and other engineers around a strange device, until Heinze patted him on the shoulder vigorously and didn't notice Heinze's arrival.

And when Heinze asked him about recruiting personal guards, he was stunned for a moment before he reacted.

Judging from his appearance, he didn't seem to care much about this matter at all.

"Well...... Heinze, I don't think there's anything to worry about. It's so good to be my personal bodyguard, no matter how much they don't like each other, there's no way they'll make a fuss."

"But ......"

Heinze wanted to say more, but Xu Yiyi stopped his shoulder, and enthusiastically pointed to the strange-looking device surrounded by everyone and said: "Okay, don't worry about these little things, come and see this, this is what I really care about, and it is also what you, the vice president, really need to pay attention to." ”

Heinze couldn't help but roll his eyes, knowing that Xu Yi had this attitude, no matter how he asked, I was afraid that Xu Yi would not answer.

However, he and Xu Yi have known each other for so many years, and they know that Xu Yi will never do anything meaningless.

He suddenly wanted to recruit so many personal guards, and he must have had his long-term considerations.

Heinze was already in a semi-retired state, and this time he suddenly came all the way from Bonta City to the Duchy of Stantin, because he suddenly heard the news that Xu Yi needed to recruit a personal guard, and he couldn't hold back the concern about Xu Yi and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in his heart, and wanted to ask Xu Yi what was going on.

Although he didn't ask Xu Yi's actual plan now, judging from Xu Yi's demeanor, he definitely had a plan. Naturally, there was no need for him to worry too much.

Come to think of it. Heinze shook his head. He let go of the worries in his heart and focused his attention on the strange device in front of him.

After looking at it for a while, Heinze seemed to see some eyebrows.

"This ...... It's very similar to the Wind Magic Engine. ”

Xu Yi laughed, patted Heinze on the shoulder, and said loudly: "It is worthy of my old buddy, and he can recognize it at a glance." That's right, this is the latest fire-based magic engine!"

Heinze's eyes widened suddenly: "It's actually a fire-based magic engine......?" It's finally been developed?"

"Yes!" Xu Yi laughed and said, "How is it?"

Heinze nodded repeatedly.

This fire-based magic engine has been put into research and development more than three years ago, during which the new flying chamber has invested a lot of manpower and material resources in this regard. But little progress has been made.

As Xu Yi's oldest partner, Heinze knows that Xu Yi attaches great importance to this fire-based magic engine, and he also knows how much effort Xu Yi has put into it.

This has been bothering Xu Yi for so long, and it can be said that it is the most difficult R&D project since the establishment of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has finally been successfully developed, although Heinze still doesn't quite understand the specific meaning of this fire-based magic engine, he is still very excited.

"Great! It's finally successful!" Heinze nodded with a smile: "It's okay now, Xu Yi, you said before that with this fire-based magic engine, what will happen?"

Xu Yi couldn't help but smile and shook his head.

Heinze clearly didn't know anything about this thing, but he still looked so excited, obviously because of him.

Xu Yi's heart was touched. Stopping Heinze's shoulder, he pointed to the fire-based magic engine and explained, "Heinze. You should know that the maximum speed of the magic locomotive currently developed by our chamber of commerce has not been able to exceed 60 kilometers per hour. ”

"Hmm...... As you said, this is because the wind magic engine has inherent limitations, and it is difficult to rely solely on the wind magic engine itself to break through this limitation before the mechanical performance is broken through. Heinze said. "According to you, with this fire-based magic engine, the speed of the magic locomotive can exceed sixty kilometers per hour?"

Xu Yi laughed: "Not only is it breaking through sixty kilometers per hour, tell you, with this fire-based magic engine, the speed of the magic locomotive can even exceed two hundred kilometers per hour!"

Heinze was stunned: "Two hundred kilometers?

"No, no, no, it's not an exaggeration at all. 200 kilometers is already very slow, but the goal in my heart is to break through at least 400 kilometers! And as long as the fire magic engine continues to be developed and applied to the magic airship, it is not impossible for the magic airship to exceed 1,000 kilometers per hour!"

Heinze shook his head: "You're talking nonsense. You can run a thousand kilometers in an hour, and it's impossible to think about it. ”

Xu Yi smiled and glanced at Camby.

Camby coughed lightly and said, "Vice President Heinze, what the elder said is true. According to our current calculations of the number of fire-based magic engines, it is theoretically possible for a magic machine equipped with a fire-based magic engine to exceed 1,000 kilometers per hour. Of course, this point is currently only theoretical, and a lot of research and practice is needed to achieve this goal. ”

The dwarves have always been disinclined to tell nonsense, and if Heinze still has doubts about what Xu Yi said, then even Camby said the same, so he can't help but believe it.

1,000 kilometers per hour? Just thinking about it, Heinze felt dizzy.

Even if it's just a theoretical possibility, it's incredible!

After thinking for a while, Heinze couldn't help but say to Xu Yi: "Not to mention the speed of 1,000 kilometers per hour, even if it is only 400 kilometers as you said, it is too fast, right? Running from one end of the Lampari Kingdom to the other is only a thousand kilometers, according to what you say, wouldn't it only take two hours to run from one end to the other? Is it necessary to be so fast?"

Xu Yi smiled slightly: "I said Heinze, your heart is too small, right? The Lampari Kingdom is only a thousand kilometers from this end to the other, but the territory of the Candela Empire and the Maro Empire is far more than that. ”

Heinze glanced at Xu Yi, thinking that it's not that my heart is too small, but that your heart is too big.

The Lampari Kingdom is just a small country on the continent of Sainz, how can it be compared to the two great empires of the Candela Empire and the Maro Empire?

The situation when Xu Yi's personal guard was recruited just now suddenly flashed in his mind, and a terrible thought suddenly flashed through Heinze's heart, which suddenly made him gasp.

If Xu Yi really thinks so, then his heart is not only too big...... It's just ...... It's just whimsical!(To be continued......)