Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Great Powers Who Divided the World
The world is changing so fast that Hadu can't react.
When the first steam train passed near the "Falie" mountain range, Hadu watched in a daze as the big guy with black smoke leaped into his eyes and roared away, with only a lonely feeling in his heart that was behind the times.
For Hado, the biggest headache is the lifespan of every 80 years: due to war, famine, plague, geological disasters and other factors, Ethiopia's population has barely increased in 200 years, making the authorities reluctant to perform this bizarre "traditional ritual" for Hado. Because of this, there have been rumors of "vampire monsters" near Ethiopia for a long time, and the dead are all missing muscles and skin tightly wrapped in bones.
Especially during the Italian invasion, this "vampire monster" was dispatched more frequently, and during the six years of the invasion, Hadu took advantage of the fact that the authorities had no time to take care of the security situation on the border, and ran around non-stop. At first, he plundered the life and immediately left, but then he sensed that other predators were following him, and after the life of the plunder, he would take the dry bones and throw them into the waterhole of the "Fa Lie" cave, so that the last trace was wiped out.
However, the good news did not last long, in 1896, Menlinique II led his troops to defeat the Italian army at Adua, about 4.3 million feet in southern Eritrea, and Italy was forced to recognize the independence of Ethiopia, but was still unwilling to let go of the Italian colony. And Menlinik II, who was free from the war, put the power in his hands on solving the problem of law and order in the countryside, so the first thing to bear the brunt of was the matter of Hado, the "vampire monster".
Just a few years ago, when Menlinik II moved his capital to Addis Ababa as he unified the country, the city that means "fresh flowers" shook the Ethiopian nation – and had a major impact on Hado.
After the Battle of Adwa, Addis Ababa began to expand on an astonishing scale. The city was originally a barracks-style town in the wilderness, and the emperor gave the princes and dukes the land in the city. By 1900, however, it had grown into a sizable city with a permanent population of 70,000, in addition to 50,000 migrants who did not need to apply for temporary residence permits. A labyrinth of intricate palaces was built on hills southeast of the city, Russian engineers built bridges, the French built railway stations and railways to the port of Djibouti, German engineers erected wires and street lamps in aristocratic quarters, and the Danes brought telephone and telegraph services.
What makes Hadu curious and suspicious of the use of electricity is that people in this era are very clever in the use of electricity and know how to use electric energy for long-distance information transmission;
I have to say that the development of science and technology really opened Hado's eyes, and it also made the faint uneasiness in his heart more and more heavy. He always thought that someone would discover his past, so he once again increased the development and excavation of the reserve base, and continued to widen and deepen into the mountain, expanding the "Falie" cave into a large space with a volume of 400,000 cubic steps.
Hado had wondered if he should look for some of the weapons that would make a popping sound at the touch of the trigger, but then he felt that there was no need for it: his own strength was much stronger than these war machines, and there was no need to hoard these flammable and explosive things - he had seen firsthand a horrific explosion accident in Addis Ababa after the first bullet factory was built and put into trial operation.
Of course, longevity is not the most troublesome thing for Hado, and it is the increasingly frequent wars that have made him uncomfortable: even if Ethiopia is poor, it is after all the mouth of the sea of blood, and it has been a natural strategic distribution center since the Persian Empire, and it is obviously impossible not to be affected by war.
Hadu actually had a lot of dissatisfaction with Menlinik II's move to open up the modernization of the country, and the other party's move made more foreigners run to Ethiopia, and many expeditions have already explored the side of "Falie", which is mixed with some of the old Byzantine Empire and the Arab Empire's predatory ability, which is really a headache for Hado. Most of these expeditions were approved by the Ethiopian authorities, and legend has it that the "Fareh" mountain range is an undeveloped treasure of feng shui, so the expeditions came here in droves.
In addition, the gradual chaos of the situation is also a source of trouble for Hadu: for him, the contradictions in this world are none other than those between the Germans and Gauls (the French Empire and the German State), the Slavs and the Austrians (the Russian Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire), and the Anglo-Saxons and Germanic peoples (the British Empire and the German State). Even if all the people left him, the power of the Christian Church and the Devil's Church still existed, so Hadu was still able to get first-hand information from the European side: in 1892, the Gauls and the Slavs reached a military agreement that the Slavs would attack the Germans with all their military forces in the event that Gaul was attacked by the Germans or Italians, and that the Gauls would attack the Germans with all their military forces in the event that the Slavs were attacked by the Slavs or the Austrians.
Hadu easily ignored the clear names of the country, because he knew very well that the name of the country was useless, and the key was the nationality and race in it, which was the key to the conflict.
According to the information he received, the expeditions approaching the "Fare" mountain range were mainly composed of Germanic people who had a lot of entanglements with him at the beginning, and half of them were Norwegian pirates. These people were born strong and strong, and they were not bothered by the intricate terrain and vegetation near the "Falie", and soon came to the foot of the "Falie" mountain.
It was clear that the expedition was carrying out a planned and premeditated search, and it was clear that someone had told them about the relationship between Hado's whereabouts and the "vampire monster". It seems that a fierce battle is inevitable, and for Hado, he has indeed not fought against the predators for a long time, and he really wants to try the depth of the current group of abilities.