On the street not far from the square, mosquitoes selling fireworks in trucks were caught by players patrolling with armbands of the [Celebration Autonomous Management Committee].

Passers-by blocked the surroundings and watched the bustle curiously.

"Gan! What's wrong with Lao Tzu selling a little fireworks! Why can others sell, I can't! The caught mosquito tried to excuse itself, shouting and shouting.

The two players who grabbed his arm didn't give any face at all, and squirted mercilessly.

"You're so embarrassed!"

"Are you selling fireworks?"

Irena rummaged through the stalls, picked up a calf-sized rocket, and smashed her tongue.

"Hail 1.0 rockets...... Isn't this thing obsolete yet? ”

Katyusha rocket artillery with Union characteristics.

He remembered that he used this thing when he was chewing the bone tribe, but he didn't expect that it could still be seen in 213 years after the Wasteland Era.

The mosquito smiled, but instead of being embarrassed, his expression was quite proud.

"That's a must, simple and crude weapons are the best to use, I modified the reload, and it can be used for the next century."

Building a pigeon-like missile requires hundreds of supporting industries, but building a character-guided rocket requires only a small workshop.

But that's obviously not the problem.

Irena rolled her eyes and threw the rocket launcher back into her stall, startling the crowd.

And that's not all.

The construction boy rummaged through the truck box with the bricks for a while, and suddenly his eyes widened in surprise, and he walked out with a launch canister on his shoulder.

"Damn, even a recoilless gun?!"

A group of players wearing the armbands of the [Celebration Autonomous Management Committee] looked at the mosquito brother with unkind eyes.

Irena was stunned and looked at the mosquito.

"Good fellow, you put the arms here and go to stockpile!"

The cold sweat broke out from the eyes of a pair of eyes, and the mosquito quickly coughed dryly and explained.

"Ahem...... That's just a cannon shell, you can try it and you'll know, it's actually a fireworks...... How the hell could I put real weapons here and sell them! ”

Of course.

He also had the idea of using the celebration as an opportunity to sell goblin technology weapons.

What if?

What if someone becomes interested in Goblin Tech munitions after seeing the Alliance's firepower?

There will definitely be!

However, Brother Mosquito's argument didn't convince everyone, at least not the two players who wore the armbands of the Celebration Autonomous Management Committee.

The two of them grabbed the guy's arm left and right, and led him in the direction of the police station, ignoring the mechanical arm waving with teeth and claws.

"Explain to the guards!"

"Take it away!"

"Let go of me! I've done a lot for the Union! I've shed blood for the Union! I want to see the manager~~"

"Be honest!"

Looking at some guy screaming and being lifted away, Dolly in the crowd whispered in surprise.

"He's ...... What did you do? ”

The gossip antenna moves!

She smelled the news!

Looking at Dolly with curiosity in his eyes, Fang Chang coughed lightly and tightened the small hand that was clasped on his arm.

"Who knows...... Okay, okay, let's leave that guy alone, the fireworks show is about to start, and you don't want to miss it, right? ”

He was not surprised at all by the performance of the mosquito brother, if this guy settled down one day, it would be news.

"It's going to start?! Where, where? ”

Hearing the fireworks display, Dolly immediately lost interest in the commotion of the crowd and looked at the night sky with a red cloud of excitement on her face.

For her, the fireworks in Dawning City have a special meaning.

It was the happiest moment of her life.

Looking at the red glow that flew up his cheeks, Fang Chang smiled knowingly and gently shook her little hand.

"I'll take you to a place with a better view...... Follow me. ”

……

At eight o'clock, the barrel of the Iron Heart was facing the night sky, and a flare was used to announce the start of the fireworks display.

This is Xiaoqi's program.

Clusters of flickering flames spread out colorful lights in the night sky, weaving together into a brilliant sea of flowers under its command.

Although hundreds of thousands of silver coins had to be burned this night, Chu Guang was not distressed at all, and the smiles on people's faces were much more valuable than this.

The number of survivors who have been lured to settle here by the prosperity of Dawn City is unknown, and it is a fortune that cannot be measured in monetary terms.

And seeing Xiao Qi having so much fun, he himself was quite happy.

Money is only meaningful when it is spent, and Chu Guang is happy to spend some money to make his little players and NPCs happy.

Looking up at the night sky with fireworks flickering, the lamb standing in the crowd with a marshmallow in his hand was full of surprise written on his face.

"What's that?"

"It's fireworks."

Standing next to her was her father, Yang He, looking at the sky with a smile.

The lamb looked at him puzzled and blinked.

"Why fireworks?"

Yang He thought for a while and said in a gentle tone.

"There is a legend that the Alliance was born in the fire, like the phoenix of Nirvana...... So whenever the people here get through a difficult time, they celebrate the victory with flames. ”

The lamb nodded incomprehensibly.

"That's ...... so"

"It's just a rumor," Yang He smiled at his lovely daughter, "Of course, there is another theory, this is the custom that the blue coats brought with them from the era of prosperity, they are commemorating that era that was as short and beautiful as fireworks. ”

The lamb took a bite of the marshmallow, curiosity and confusion still written on her face, apparently her age did not understand the words.

She grew up on a pinecone farm and had never seen anything new.

Although she had only lived in the Alliance for less than two months, she could feel that the people here were talking and thinking very differently from her hometown.

And so much more.

No wonder her father was reluctant to go back and always wanted to pick her up from the manor.

The little lamb couldn't help but think of Yin Yin, I don't know how she is doing now, and then I can't help but think that it would be good if I could share this white and soft sweet with her.

Looking at the ignorant child, Yang He's face showed a relieved smile and gently rubbed his daughter's hair.

"Don't think about it so much, it's nice to just stand in that light and admire."

Children shouldn't know so much in the first place, and there are some things that should be learned slowly as they grow older.

He was not proud or proud of her maturity, but only guilty that he owed her so much......

Not far from the two, Shuanghe was holding his sister Shuangye's hand, excitedly counting the falling sparks in the sky.

Frost Snow looked up at the Iron Heart, her face flushed with a little red cloud, but she didn't know what was on her mind.

On the other side, upstairs in the embassy building of the Honey Badger Kingdom, Avne, who was sitting in front of the window, also looked at the starry night sky.

There was not only envy and appreciation for the beauty and prosperity in those eyes reflecting the fireworks, but also a hint of resentment.

It would be nice to be able to stand next to him and enjoy the view......

On the side of the road in the eastern suburbs of Dawning City, a Titan crawling with pale red slime molds and mottled rust was standing up, lifting passengers and children high with broad palms, and occasionally making metallic babbles, playing happily, without the slightest hideousness before.

It was Xiao Yu who controlled it, and Luo Yu was not far from it, throwing a few candies to feed it from time to time, and showing a knowing smile.

Dolly, who had just come down from its palm, looked incredulously surprised, hugged Fang Chang, who helped her down, and kissed her fiercely.

"Hmmm! (I want it too)"

Looking at Xiao Yu, who was about to move and wanted to get over, Luo Yu, who was standing aside, hurriedly said comfortingly.

"No, Xiao Yu, this fruiting body is too big, it will hurt people."

"Babble...... Xiao Yu cried out aggrievedly, but continued to act as the children's elevator obediently.

Seeing this scene, the envoys from the other settlements were taken aback.

Especially the mission from the free state of Bugra.

They came here with congratulatory gifts, intending to send congratulations and at the same time probe the tone of the alliance by the way, to see if they could complete the task assigned to them by the Great Rift Valley, but they didn't expect to see such an amazing scene!

The Alliance was able to manipulate the war machines of the Age of Prosperity through mutant slime molds!

Although it is not known how effective this Titan is, this alone is enough to attract their attention......

And not far from the Titans, there is also a group of nibbles in fancy costumes, performing stacking arhats, stepping on stilts, and throwing and catching balls under the command of the debt-ridden big eye.

Looking at the silver coins piled up on the ground, the big eyes couldn't close their mouths with joy, and gradually lost themselves in the cheers and coaxes of the people.

Relying on people's rewards, he has earned thousands of silver coins this time, and no matter how hard he tries, he can earn back the money he spent on buying these wastes!

He's a genius!

……

In the lobby of the Highway Town Hotel, people toasted to celebrate the momentous occasion.

"Cheers to the Alliance!"

"Cheers to the managers!"

"I hope the next time it's so lively is when the adult child is full moon!"

"Hahaha! Even if it's still early! ”

"I wish him a long and healthy life!"

Not everyone is interested in the fireworks outside, such as Lao Bai and Edge Paddle, these single dogs prefer to sit in the tavern and drink and brag.

Looking at the crowded room, Sun Shiqi, who was sitting at a table in the corner of the lobby, was slightly drunk, and sighed with his drinking friends sitting at the same table.

"It's changing here day by day, you know? My proudest deal was not the purchase of the Infinity Steel Works from Fred, but the purchase of a plot of land next to the central square of Dawning City with the first pot of gold I made as a businessman, and the construction of a building and a warehouse...... Unfortunately, the warehouse is a bit far from the trading post, and I'm going to turn it into a shop. ”

Zhou Nan, who was sitting opposite, rolled his eyes.

"Don't show off there! If you're not satisfied, you can sell it to me! ”

Sun Shiqi: "Haha! Don't even think about it! ”

The drinking buddies sitting around knew he was showing off, but there was nothing to say but envy.

This guy's vision and guts are really speechless.

Two years ago, if a merchant made a little money from trading, he would immediately change into chips and buy some property in Boulder City, and no one would think about building a house in the northern suburbs where he had nothing, even if those blue coats did look different from other blue coats.

The nobles of the inner city are not martial arts, but at least their fists are hard enough, and they are much more disciplined than the slave traders and marauders of the wasteland.

However, no one thought that in just two years, this settlement would develop into what it is today, and even the residents of Ideal City couldn't help but look sideways!

At this moment, in the inconspicuous corner of the lobby, Sun Yuechi was flipping through the headlines of today's latest issue of the newspaper, with a thoughtful expression on his face.

He had expected the Alliance to follow the path of Boulder, but now it seemed that they were not what he had imagined.

They did not hesitate to choose the latter between the authority of man and the authority of law.

And what surprised him even more was that what he saw behind this incident was not only a huge cohesion, but also an incredible ability to repair itself.

After learning about what happened to Vault 117, he delved into the society of Boulder City.

That settlement was also led by a group of heroes, relying on a huge cohesion to attract countless people of insight to join, and created a miraculous past, but unfortunately in the end, those survivors still lost to time.

"They are like slime molds, quickly repairing wounds after being pierced by bullets, and have evolved armor to resist puncture damage...... What is even more incredible than pure cohesion is their ability to correct errors, and they are constantly evolving. ”

Sun Yuechi showed a smile on his face, closed the newspaper in his hand, left the money for the checkout, got up and walked out of the hotel.

It wasn't as chaotic as he had imagined, and the manager wasn't just a monkey-clad warlord as he had originally imagined.

There are obviously a lot of shortcomings here compared to the Boom Era, but they are willing to change and let people see it.

Perhaps—

Vault 70 can help him.

He couldn't have found a better candidate anyway.

……

After watching Xiao Qi's fireworks display, Chu Guang came to the Alliance Banquet Hall and accepted compliments from other survivor settlements in the wasteland on behalf of the Alliance.

In fact, he himself had little interest in pretending to be coerced, and it was entirely possible for the foreign minister to do the work for the missions in other settlements, but considering that this was a good opportunity to gain diplomatic support for the alliance, he still came over with a face.

If he hadn't spent so much money on construction and the southern and northern wars, who would have paid for it?

Soon, the alliance will continue to move south to clean up the cancer entrenched in Jinchuan and Haiya provinces, which is another big expense.

You can't pay for this kind of good thing for the benefit of all mankind, right?

Rather than spending his own money to do good deeds and leave no name, Chu Guang is still more inclined to spend the money in other people's pockets for charity with great fanfare.

The first thing he did after the establishment of the Interregional Cooperation Organization was to establish the division of labor among the member states and the relative dominance of the alliance in "slime-related matters".

After doing this, he will immediately start to do the second thing - declare the Torch Church that uses slime bacteria DNA to create hell on earth as a cancer of human civilization and a natural disaster in this game!

This excuse for war is not very good for uniting the settlements established by the Wastelanders of the Red River Alliance, Junk City, and the Falling Xia Province, but it is naturally correct for the ancient survivor forces.

Even a mere excuse for war from the moral high ground would not allow the academies and corporations to go all out on the issue of the Torch Church, but at least mobilize a part of their society and use that part of it to unite the small and medium-sized settlements around the province of the Valley.

At that time, the diplomats of the alliance will be able to go to other settlements to brag - you see that the fallen empires are all on board, you can't go and get an assist, right?

At that time, the war between the Alliance and the Torch will no longer be just a one-sided war of the Alliance, but a confrontation between the entire civilizational camp and the anti-civilizational camp.

When the time comes, those who have money will pay, and those who don't have money will contribute, so that not only will the huge war expenses be settled, but the alliance will also have an ally with technology on the chariot.

In order to make the most of the "United Machining Center" on the B7 floor, the technology of the academy is indispensable.

As Chu Guang expected, when he stepped into the banquet hall wearing power armor, he immediately became the focus of attention of the audience.

In addition to the representatives of colleges and enterprises, there are many settlements that even Chu Guang has heard of for the first time.

Of course, what surprised him even more was that just now Xiao Qi whispered to him that the envoy of the Bougerra Free State had also arrived here.

If the news is true, this will be the first time that an emissary from the Free State has arrived in the Union.

Since the two sides had not previously established embassies for each other, the emissary representing the Free State was treated the same as other emissaries from small and medium-sized survivor settlements who came to the Coalition for the first time, entering the banquet hall with a "temporary identity tag".

The Alliance is very lenient in vetting the identities of those who attend the Banquet, allowing players who have earned meritorious service in the expansion, old friends who have made friends with the Alliance, and Emissaries of settlements who are visiting the Alliance for the first time.

As long as the name of the settlement can be found in the import and export records of the Alliance trading post, the emissary can circle the map where the settlement he represents, say how many survivors there are, and bring a gift from the companion, and then come in to eat and drink.

Although there have been cases of impersonating emissaries before, or communities of dozens posing as settlements of tens of thousands of people, no one cares.

There are so many emissaries in Dawning City, if you like to pretend, you can pretend to go!

In Chu Guang's words, everyone who comes is a guest, anyway, he is not bad for this meal, and it is not a loss to exchange a meal for a gift in the museum.

Besides, it's a wasteland.

While the Coalition has established order to a limited extent, most of the places are in a state of savagery. It's hard to say whether the settlement that was there yesterday will be tomorrow, and the settlement that doesn't exist today may be tomorrow.

Therefore, Chu Guang specially instructed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the alliance that if someone claims to be from a certain settlement, whether they have heard of it or not, they will count it as having it.

However, admitting it, the Coalition is at least a survivor force that has sufficient trade with the Alliance's settlements, and it is impossible to let the wastelanders who come from nowhere fool fool around.

Against this backdrop, the envoy of the Free State of Bugra, who entered with a temporary identification card, was undoubtedly an outlier in the banquet hall.

Their monthly trade volume with the alliance is at least at the level of tens of millions in Cr, but because they have not formally established diplomatic relations with the alliance, no one can confirm whether their identities are true or false, so they can only issue him a temporary identity card, which is not lazy.

In fact, it wasn't just the celebrant in charge of the banquet and the Alliance's foreign minister who were suspicious of the guy's identity, but even the small settlements didn't believe that the guy was really from the Free State.

Looking at the guy standing alone in the banquet hall, a well-dressed, half-drunk man leaned over and said with a smile and teasing.

"Dude, it's okay, everyone else is making up a name to come in and eat and drink, you directly use the name of the Free State, wouldn't it be embarrassing if you wear a goof?"

Looking at this rude guy, Norreg looked annoyed, but thinking of Mayor Odo's instructions, he still suppressed his temper and calmly stretched out his right hand.

"I'm Foreign Minister Noreg of the Free State, who are you?"

Seeing that this guy didn't look like a serious person when he was drunk, Norrieg's eyes couldn't help but be a little contemptuous.

When it comes to eating and drinking, can anyone be more like this guy eating and drinking?

"Fortunately, I am glad to be from Ideal City, and I am Luo Hua, the chairman of the company." The man grinned and shook his hand.

Looking at the guy with his eyes open and talking nonsense, Norreg rolled his eyes, as if he had touched something dirty, and pulled his hand back like lightning.

He is the foreign minister appointed by Odo, belongs to the pro-corporate faction in the Free State, and has been to the ideal city many times, and even knows the ideal city better than the people in the ideal city.

He had only heard that there was a board of directors there, and he had never heard of the position of president.

What about liars!

Luo Hua didn't care, he laughed, after all, he was really joking, and he just came in to eat and drink.

It just so happened that at this time, Noregg saw Chu Guang walking to the door of the banquet hall, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he immediately greeted him with a smirk.

"Hello Mr. Dear Administrator, I am the Foreign Minister of the Free State, Norege, and I have admired your name for a long time!"

Chu Guang wasn't sure if this guy was real or fake, but he still stretched out his hand covered with steel and shook it with him.

"Welcome to the Alliance, Mr. Norege, I have heard of the prosperity of the Liberty State and the commercial wonders of the Northern Corridor, and we welcome all law-abiding merchants and travelers to our place."

Although Chu Guang just said something casually, this sentence took on another meaning in Norege's ears.

Reflexively reminded of the Cindison case that caused a stir in the Free State, and his expression couldn't help but stiffen slightly.

However, thinking of the instructions of the Great Rift Valley and the orders of Mayor Odo, Noreg still suppressed his emotions and squeezed out an embarrassed but polite smile on his face.

"Of course...... Our merchants are absolutely law-abiding. ”

Chu Guang glanced at this guy strangely, not understanding why he deliberately emphasized it inexplicably. However, before Chu Guang could think deeply, he immediately noticed an old acquaintance standing aside.

"Luo Hua?!"

"Chu Guang! Haha, my old friend, I knew you were going to be here, it's been a long time! By the way, I have good news for you, you have to have a drink with me this time! ”

Luo Hua, who was holding a wine glass, greeted him with a warm face, but Norleg, who was standing next to him, was dumbfounded.

Is this guy really called Luo Hua?

And so on –

Could it be that the chairman is also real?

Looking at the alliance manager who took the wine glass with a smile on his face and drank with that guy, Norreg was dumbfounded......