Chapter 662: It's not just the messenger who comes, but also trouble
On the elevator leading to the airship.
The elf king Fugui, who was carrying his bags, was waving goodbye to his good brothers standing on the platform.
"Goodbye, brothers! When the master becomes the overlord of the southern seas, please eat and drink spicy food!"
Hearing that there is a wreckage of a space station in the southern seas, he specially bought a set of diving equipment and planned to try his luck there.
That's not a direct god pretending to graduate!
Even if it's broken, it doesn't matter, as long as the parts are still good, it is more than enough to sell tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of silver coins. The canyon on the platform was on the run, and the mole smiled and waved.
"It's okay, I have a hunch that I'll see you in a few days."
It is not uncommon for him to participate in this kind of small activity, as long as the money is in place. What's more, in a few days, he will fly to the Ideal City to see how his game company is doing.
Skull Studios' chicken game has received rave reviews on Endpoint Cloud, and he's been planning to bring a few more skins into the game to give a wave of Ideal City leeks to the game.
Elven King Fugui: "Gan! Do you curse your brother like that?" Irena, who was standing next to her, said with a funny expression.
"That's not good, and I saved a ticket to come back."
"Old Na?" The young calf with the fishing gear on his back glanced at him and greeted him in surprise, "? Why are you here too?" Irena smiled.
"Let's have a good time, don't care. And I've heard that there are a lot of xenos there that we haven't seen before, so we mainly want to go over and see what they look like."
The mole said with a hippie smile.
"Don't give the xenos out there." Irena rolled her eyes.
"Fuck off! Am I that kind of person?"
While chatting, the elevator slowly ascended, bringing the last players into the cabin.
After loading, the altitude of the airship began to rise, and then the slurry suspended from the belly and tail began to kick in, pushing the airship carrying dreams and hopes to the distant side.
"Hey, I'm envious, Gan!"
Looking at the airship that was gradually sailing into the distance, standing on the platform and watching the lively debt-eyed big eyes, his face was full of envy, jealousy and hatred.
He also wanted to go there and have a look, but unfortunately now he had a large number of fruiting bodies to raise.
Although he felt that Baiyue Province should have the opportunity for those sub-entities to show their strength, but the cost of freight transportation was too high now.
I can only wait for the brothers of the Niuma Group to make a few more flights and lower the price of the air ticket before going there to have a look... After watching the good brothers leave, the mole put away his waving hand and prepared to leave from the platform. At this moment, another inflatable airship docked above the inflatable station and slowly threw down the fixed rope and elevator. The man standing on the elevator was dressed in a luxurious costume and looked arrogant, and his mustache was upturned like a king on a playing card.
Including the mole, big eyes and other old players, the players on the platform all smelled the flavor of the plot, and stopped their scattered steps one after another, casting curious glances at the elevator.
The elevator stops.
A group of personnel stepped down from the airship.
When they saw the familiar face mixed in, Mole, Big Eyes and a group of other people suddenly widened their eyes, and couldn't help blurting out a sentence of "it".
Bathing in those looking up eyes, Bennott's face was full of pride and pride, and he was very satisfied with the "envy" of these barbarians.
He now understood a little bit why the unsociable eastward expansionists were so fanatical when it came to the expedition.
Although it doesn't have the prosperity of Triumph City, it feels pretty good to be surrounded by envious eyes.
However, his understanding is only a little bit, and it can't be more.
In order to satisfy that little bit of vanity, he spent a huge amount of manpower and material resources to launch a great expedition against an inexplicable opponent who could not see any benefit.
This kind of behavior
It's so selfish.
There are many doubts about Griffin's death, but the death was not unjust.
Immersed in his own world, Bennott suddenly heard the sudden sound of "Groove", so he casually tilted his ear to the pangolin following behind him and whispered.
What does "" mean?"
The battlefield guy, who was frantically eyeing at his friends, almost didn't choke on his spit, and hurriedly replied. "Expressing incredulity and admiration.... You can interpret it as a polite greeting."
"I see."
Squinting his eyes slightly, Benott curled the corners of his mouth, and the expression seemed to be very useful.
The battlefield guy was numb in his scalp, and he prayed silently in his heart, hoping that this guy wouldn't follow the local customs when he met with Mr. Manager.
It's a trivial matter for him to be embarrassed. It's a terrible thing to be a goof!
"Dear Mr. Bennott, welcome to Dawning City, I am Cheng Yan, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Alliance. The administrator has instructed me to treat you well, and although we have had some festive events before, the war is over, and those who come are guests."
"I'm just as glad to meet you, Mr. Cheng," a formulaic polite remark, and Bennott glanced around and asked bluntly, "What about your managers?" I want to talk to him directly."
"The Administrator has instructed me about the Coalition's diplomacy, and it is the same if there is anything to consult with me."
Facing Benott's perfunctory expression, the expression on Cheng Yan's face did not change, and he continued with that polite expression.
"As for our manager, he is discussing with representatives of the academy and enterprises the relevant constitution and cooperation details of the slime mold research community, if you want to meet him, you must make an appointment in advance according to the regulations..... The same is true for colleges and businesses."
Bennott's brow twitched slightly.
The emissary of the Legion had never been so despised, and this made him feel a little unhappy in his heart.
However, hearing that the same is true for companies and colleges, he was able to endure it and just continued with a displeased expression. "Our mission has more than 100 people, and we need a piece of land to garrison."
Cheng Yan continued gently.
"We've got a hotel for you."
"No," Bennott lifted his chin slightly, "I should have mentioned in my diplomatic correspondence that we Willantes only live in our own houses."
Cheng Yan made a helpless expression.
"Don't get me wrong, we're just suggesting it with good intentions..... If you insist, then please do it yourself." Seeing that the other party gave way to Bennott's eyebrows slightly relaxed, he nodded, and took more than ten people behind him off the platform. The elevator rises slowly.
There were more than 90 people on the airship, and it took several batches to come down. Some of them were Willantes, and some were their servants.
The staff who followed Cheng Yan couldn't help but whisper.
"These wild people are outrageous..... I have prepared a house for them, and they have to build their own tents." The other staff nodded in agreement.
Glancing sideways at his subordinates, Cheng Yan said softly.
"There are many settlements in the wasteland that are different from our culture, and you have to learn to understand them in order to get along with them..... It's enough for us to do what we have to do."
In fact, it's not just the Willantes who are wonderful.
It seemed to him that the researchers of the academy were just as strange, they had to sleep on transportation if they didn't live in a good house. And the vehicle will definitely stop in a hidden place and land next to their airport only if necessary. In contrast, the personnel of the business may be slightly more normal.
The only slot is their dedication to high-rise buildings.
I heard that the 100-storey ideal hotel is empty below the 50th floor, and few travelers from the ideal city will choose a room below the 50th floor.
Just when the legion's envoy arrived in Dawning City, Chu Guang, who was in a meeting, had already learned through Xiao Qi
This thing. In between meeting breaks, inside the spacious lounge.
Chu Guang, who was sitting on the sofa, took out a holographic computer pen from his pocket and put it on the table, gently touched the button to expand the screen, and listened to the report of Cheng Yan, the foreign minister of the alliance.
"The Welantes have requested that they be stationed near Dawn, and as you have told, I have acceded to their request and given them the vacant lot near the First Corps station."
Looking at Cheng Yan in the light blue floating window, Chu Guang nodded. "Did they react?"
"No, they don't care where they are stationed, the captain named Bennot is camping with the Mission." When he said this, Cheng Yan paused for a moment and continued.
"In addition, I have noticed that some of the attendants accompanying them are suspected to be slaves, which is contrary to our law..... I'm worried that there might be a hidden danger in that."
A long time ago, when the alliance was not strong enough, some compromises were made on the issue of slaves.
For example, traders with slaves were allowed to pass through Dawn, restricting only the mistreatment of captives and slaves, and forcing slave owners to place their slaves in designated quarters in trading posts, segregating the two.
Later, as the alliance's military and economic power grew, the Exile Houses, as parastatals, would buy the survivors of their freedom from the slave owners at market prices and guide them to a normal life.
Now, the Alliance has enough strength to say no to the slavers, and even equate them with the marauders, and take the initiative to intercept them.
Whether they were shocked by the Alliance's military might or coveted the Alliance's market, those merchants who passed by would consciously empty their wagons for the sake of the silver coins, and dissociate themselves from the unclean trade.
After all, most traders are chasing profits, and it is impossible to give up an entire forest for a single sale. Order, like chaos, radiates outward.
However, the legations from the Legion were not merchants after all, and it was obviously inappropriate to deal with them in the same way as they were to manage them. After listening to Cheng Yan's report, Chu Guang frowned slightly, and said after thinking for a moment.
"You send them a copy of the Alliance's laws and supplies, and a tactful reminder that they'd better respect our rules. The hostels we offer to them are not the same as diplomatic territories, and we do not recognize person-to-person ownership, let alone protect illegal interests. Their diplomatic immunity only guarantees their lives, not that they will not be kicked out."
"Okay, I'll pass it on to them." After listening to Chu Guang's words, Cheng Yan nodded in agreement, but couldn't help but have a little headache. There was nothing wrong with this approach, but he couldn't figure out how to euphemize it.
Chu Guang glanced at the time, and when he saw that the intermission of the meeting was almost over, he asked. "Anything else?"
Cheng Yan said immediately.
"One more thing..... About the Xilan Empire."
Chu Guang was slightly stunned, and it took a while to remember the information of this survivor force, and then asked with a slightly strange expression.
"They..... What's the matter?"
Cheng Yan nodded with a subtle expression and continued.
"I only recently learned that they sent a messenger to us some time ago. At present, their mission has departed from the Lion Kingdom, and it is expected to arrive near Fallen Leaf City within three days.... They wanted us to meet them at the border, claiming that this was done so that they could draw our location on the map."
Chu Guang couldn't help but laugh when he heard this, but he still restrained his smile and asked seriously. "They're here for the mutant slime research community, too?"
Cheng Yan shook his head and said.
"Then they didn't mention it, and I have a feeling they probably don't know what's going on on our side. According to the royal family of the Lion Kingdom, it seems that the original itinerary of the Xilan Empire mission was only intended to visit the Falcon Kingdom and the Hump Kingdom, and did not plan to go to such a place to the east...... So much so that they made a lot of unbelievable jokes when they arrived in the lion kingdom."
Chu Guang asked curiously. "What's the joke?" Cheng Yan was slightly stunned and said.
"This.... The lion royal family didn't take the initiative to mention it, do you need me to ask?"
"That's not necessary, forget it if you don't mention it," Chu Guang thought for a moment and gave a serious instruction, "The visitors are guests, you can arrange a few cars to pick them up."
Cheng Yan nodded and said. "Yes."
At the end of the communication, the pale blue holographic screen scattered into dots of starlight.
Chu Guang picked up the holographic computer pen on the table and stuffed it back into his pocket, got up and walked out of the lounge, and returned to the conference room next door with a smile on his face.
Now the representatives of the corps, the academy and the enterprise have gathered again. The moment has come to decide the fate of this wasteland! --
News of the arrival of the legion's emissaries in the Alliance soon spread throughout the city.
Although there had been news of the Legion's dispatch for a long time, Pioneer City was too far away from the Alliance's core territory to be noticed.
It wasn't until people saw the group of Willantes appear in Dawning City that the news spread at an incredible speed.
In the evening. The lobby of the Highway Town Lodge.
The drunkards sitting at the tables were chattering noisily, talking about the news they had seen in the newspapers and the hearsay rumors.
"Really?! The messengers of Triumph have arrived in Dawn?"
"Of course it's true! Their airship under that inflatable airport was seen by many people!" "I can recognize that big nose at a glance!"
"Haha! Those big noses are too embarrassed to come back! Didn't you lose enough?"
"It seems that these guys have indeed been subdued, otherwise they would not have sent an emissary to talk to us."
"Unbelievable..... In other words, the emissaries of the Academy, the Enterprise, and the Legion are gathered in Dawning City at the same time?!" "Awesome!"
Listening to the excited discussions, Lisa's eyes were full of surprise as she held the tray in both hands. A mission from the city of Triumph?
Thinking that the pangolin had gone to Triumph City, those eyes full of surprise gradually imprinted a look of expectation. Those people may have news of him....
Seeing the expression on the little girl's face, Lao Bai, who was sitting at the bar, took a sip of beer and said with a joke. "The Legion is located next to the barracks of the First Corps, so let's go there and ask..... While it's still dark."
Of course he knew that the Battlefield guy was there.
But he felt it would be more surprising for her to discover it herself.
Lisa gave him a grateful look, bowed deeply, and hurried to the back kitchen behind the bar to ask Old Hook for leave.
Looking at the swaying curtain in front of the kitchen door, Lao Bai grinned. The mole, who was sitting next to him, burped and said in a joking tone.
"I bet the Battlefield guy is going to be in for a surprise...... Somewhere he didn't know, someone had been waiting for him for a whole year."
"You're too stubborn, you haven't told anyone for so long." Fujito, who was sitting on the side drinking sparkling water, teased.
"Haha, that's more interesting!"
The mole smiled maliciously, then turned to the spring commander at the next table and asked. "Do you think that guy will accept it?"
Izumi made a helpless expression.
"Hell knows, I've known that dog thing for so long, and I can't figure out which one of them is good." Fujito, who was sitting on the edge of the bar drinking sparkling water, suddenly interjected with great interest.
"Is there a possibility..... What he has in his heart is actually Colway? After all, they were born and died together for so long, it is inevitable that there will be some friendship, right? Yes, right?"
The male compatriots sitting next to the bar all involuntarily sneered, and the edge paddling that was drinking was even more choked and coughed.
Izumi coughed too.
"I don't think it's very likely.... Otherwise, I would have been in the darkest and would have been unable to keep my temperance."
"???」 I was struggling with the disconnection, and I raised my head in confusion, and I was just about to open my mouth to refute and fell down again. "What if?"
Looking at the vine vine whose cheeks were slightly red because of excitement, Crow Crow made a helpless expression. "I'm sorry, but we drank too much."
Fujito quickly turned his head to look at her.
"Yikes! I'm drinking sparkling water!"
"Ahem! Since everyone is so interested, why don't we gamble on something?" The big eyes of debt smiled and took out a notebook, "Little gambling pleasure, I'll sit in the bank_.I'll give 100 silver coins, bet on the battlefield guy, this dog thing will definitely not be picky!"
"I'm going to bet that guy on it.... Otherwise, he would have done it at that moment, and there would be no need to wait until now," Quan Shui just raised his hand to bet 100 silver coins, but after thinking for a while, he hesitated, so he changed his words, "Just bet 50 silver coins."
Fujito raised his hand excitedly. "I'm going to take it--"
"Rejected! There are only two options, the next one!" "Shhhhhh
"I'm sure I'm scared of the warlords! After all, he's so fast, he definitely doesn't want others to know." "Hahaha! Then I'll be on the other hand with you!"
Everyone joked one by one, and in just a few minutes, there were already twenty or thirty people who ate melons to bet. Debt big eyes muttered, and then looked up at Lao Bai, who only cared about drinking and didn't speak, and asked with a smile.
"What about you, old white?"
"Me?" Lao Bai was stunned for a moment, then said with a smile, "I don't care, it's his own business how to choose." Debt said with a big-eyed hippie smile.
"Surely, brother can still press that guy's head for these 100 silver coins? Isn't it fun to gamble?" Lao Bai made a helpless expression and took out a 100 silver bill.
"I'll press 50 silver coins each."
Debt-indebted: "Gan! That's fine!"
The mole in the canyon is on the run: "It's too hard to bet on both sides!"
Outside, it was dark, and the street lights were on.
It's been almost an hour since Lisa's departure, and everyone's conversation has gradually changed from the battlefield to the port of the Baiyue Strait.
At this time, my blackest hand, who had finally made it online, propped up the table with his hands and staggered to his feet with the topic of an hour ago.
"Hiccup—after talking about it for a long time, why don't you go over and take a look! Brother Meng, is there anyone who is going to take a look with me?"
"Let's go," the spring water commander at the same table took out his VM and settled the bill, and helped me who was not standing firmly, "I'm afraid I won't be able to wait when that grandson comes over, I'll take a look."
Raven, who was sitting at the bar with Fujito, also raised his hand curiously. "Me, me, me! Take me one when it's funny!"
Just when everyone was making a commotion, the innkeeper Old Hook suddenly came out of the back kitchen and said to Lao Bai sitting in front of the bar with a worried face.
"Lisa told me to be back in an hour, but now it's dark outside..... I'm not stingy with that little bit of time, it's just that the kid was always punctual, and something like this has never happened before."
Seeing the old man's uneasy look, Lao Bai put down the wine glass in his hand and gave him a reassuring look. "Don't worry, I'll take a look."
"Thank you, I invited this drink!" Old Hook looked at Lao Bai with a grateful face, and suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly took out the terminal to prepare for the editing task.
Almost every tavern and inn in the alliance has installed this "mercenary system", whether it is cleaning a xenomorph nest or finding a lost cat, you can place an order through it.
As long as they don't violate the laws of the Alliance, someone will come and help them solve the problem.
Seeing the old man's movements, Lao Bai grinned and reached out to hold his crumpled hand. "You're welcome, it's enough to reward this meal."
With that, he got up from the bar and walked out of the hotel with Commander Izumi and my blackest players, heading out into the brightly lit street.....
On the other side, Norege, the foreign minister of the Bougra Free State, who was visiting Dawn City, also received the news of the arrival of the legion's envoy in Dawning City.
Although there was no surprise that the Legion was interested in the "Slime Research Community", he was really surprised by the speed of the Willant's reaction.
Triumph City is 10,000 kilometers away! There is also a vast desert in between!
If the general caravan wants to go from Luoxia Province to the west coast of the mainland, it will take half a year at least, and it is possible to delay it for a year on the road without stopping!
Arriving in such a short period of time, it is enough to see that the other party attaches great importance to this meeting, and I heard that the identity of the visiting envoy is still the commander of ten thousand years!
After listening to his subordinates' reports, Norreg's expression was extremely solemn.
Although Mayor Otto is a pro-corporate politician, this does not mean that the Free State has to abandon the old friend of the Legion completely.
But now Triumph has sent an emissary to Dawn!
And this was not the dictatorship of one faction within the Legion, but the instructions of the supreme marshal. Norrege's eyebrows couldn't help but look sad.
Don't....
Has the Eastward Expansion faction completely lost ground within the Legion?
Just as he was hesitating how to report the news to Mayor Odo, there was a sudden rush of footsteps outside the door.
In a moment, his secretary appeared at the door. "What's new!"
With a look of joy on his face, the secretary didn't even take a breath, looked at Noreg in the room and said hurriedly.
"Legion's Legacy! Those Willantes! It's a conflict with the Alliance!"
"What?"
Norreg was slightly stunned, and then ecstasy appeared on his face. "Take me there!"
The secretary nodded excitedly. "Yes!"