"Winter, Winter, Winter".

A crisp knock rang out, echoing through the empty hallway.

The overall environment of the business VIP area of CoCo Bar is much quieter than that of the entertainment area on the lower dance floor.

Here, you can't hear the noisy and chaotic heavy metal music, and the sound insulation effect of each private room is very good, even if your ears are pressed against the wall, it is difficult to hear the noise in the house.

Shortly after Meng Lei's knocking stopped, the closed door of the private room opened.

Ranny, the fat-headed, big-eared fat boss, poked his round head out of the room, and with a hint of vigilance on his face, he looked around.

When he saw Meng Lei, who was dressed in formal clothes, he was standing at the door and looked at him with a smile.

Lenny's expression was stunned, and then he put on a happy face, opened the door reluctantly, and said with a smile:

"Captain Meng, you are really punctual! Come on, come on, please come in! ”

As he spoke, Lenny affectionately grabbed Meng Lei's arm and pulled him into the room without saying anything.

Meng Lei laughed as he walked and said:

"Lenny, why haven't you seen you for a day, you look like an underground spy? It's not like your style, huh? ”

After the door was closed, and he made sure that there was no one outside the door and that he would not be overheard, Lanny smiled and said:

"Captain Meng, if I meet you alone, there is definitely no need to be so careful, the key is that the person who came today has a special identity, so you must be cautious!"

After a pause, Lenny solemnly added:

"This is the only agent of our company in Sil City, and it is very weighty in the entire waterway! Although I am not in the same department, I am half of my top boss, responsible for the external sales business of the entire 66671 channel, and has a lot of power! ”

Hearing this, Meng Lei nodded in surprise.

Unexpectedly, this so-called agent of an arms company sounds like a salesman, but he actually has such a big real power!

If this relationship can be firmly grasped, it will certainly be of great help to the future development of the fleet!

As they spoke, the two walked down a dark corridor.

Another corner was turned into another suite in the box.

The décor of this suite is very simple, with no exaggerated flamboyance or other delicate furnishings designed to deliberately set off the noble temperament.

In the room, there are only four fabric sofas, in the shape of the word "Hui", around a tea table.

A tall and delicate wine rack in the corner, surrounded by two lush unknown potted plants, is the only decoration in the room.

After Meng Lei entered the house, he just glanced casually and took in the overall environment of the house.

Soon, his eyes fell on a middle-aged man leaning on the sofa with his legs crossed.

At this time, Lanny, who was leading the way in front of him, smiled and said:

"I would like to introduce you, this is our Utu-Sirku Industrial Company, the agent of the 66671 channel, Mr. Yarman!"

As he spoke, Lanny stepped forward, stood in the middle of the two, and pointed at Meng Lei and said:

"Mr. Yarman, this is what I mentioned to you, Meng Lei, Captain Meng!"

Hearing this, Huo Ran, the man leaning on the sofa, got up, with a smile on his face, stepped forward, shook hands with Meng Lei and said:

"Hello Captain Meng, look up for a long time!"

Meng Lei shook hands with the other party with a smile and responded, "Mr. Yarman, fortunately, fortunately!" ”

It was only at this time that Meng Lei finally took a serious look at the other party.

The agent of the private arms company was about thirty years old, with a straight nose and slender eyebrows.

On top of the high raised cheekbones, there are a pair of indescribable gray eyes, as if they have a beautiful child, very evil, but full of a deep sense of depth.

It's like an ancient well in a barren place, mysterious and deep.

Meng Lei took a light breath, organized his language a little, and said:

"I wonder if Mr. Yarman wants to talk to me about something this invitation?"

Yarman did not directly answer Meng Lei's question, smiled slightly, raised his hand and said:

"Captain Meng, please sit down, there is plenty of time, we can talk slowly, don't be so anxious."

With that, Yarman sat down to herself.

Meng Lei was no longer polite, and sat down on the sofa directly opposite the other party.

At the same time, Lenny and Yarman also took their seats.

At this time, Yarman continued: "First of all, on behalf of our Utu-Sirku Industrial Company, I would like to express my sincere gratitude for your rescue behavior! ”

Yarman bowed slightly, gestured to Meng Lei, and then said:

"Although the company also suffered heavy losses in the Molten Outpost incident, destroying millions worth of goods, fortunately, there were no casualties among our employees, which is undoubtedly the best outcome for the company!

You must know that every salesman like Lanny who can take charge on his own is the mainstay of the company's development, and it needs to be screened and cultivated for a long time.

Its value is much higher than that of millions of materials.

Therefore, this time you can help Lenny escape, and on behalf of the company, I would like to express my sincere gratitude! ”

Yarman came up and opened up the topic with some polite words.

Meng Lei also coped with it and said:

"Mr. Yarman, you're gracious, Lenny and we can help each other, and without his help, it would be difficult for us to escape.

In the final analysis, everyone has to support each other to get to this point. ”

Something similar, Meng Lei also said to Lenny.

In some things, he doesn't like to be arrogant, and he has a more realistic personality.

Hearing this, Yarman smiled slightly, and seemed to have a slight improvement in his favorability.

Then, after the polite words, Yarman went straight to the point and asked:

"Captain Meng, I don't know if you have a certain understanding of our Utu-Sierku Industrial Company?"

Meng Lei groaned, shook his head very honestly, and said:

"I'm sorry, we're new to Alien, so we don't know much about the situation here, and most of the time we can come into contact with the internal institutions of the Alliance."

Meng Lei was telling the truth.

In fact, if it weren't for Lenny taking the initiative to break the news, saying that the company behind it did not belong to the alliance organization.

At the beginning, Meng Lei thought that Lanny's war supplies store was the official industry of the alliance.

I believe that for now, for most Blue Star players, private arms dealers who are out of the control of the alliance have always heard of it.

There are very few people who really know the inside story.

Even Ning Wen was busy for a week, but he couldn't get much information about the private arms company.

Yarman nodded slightly, and pulled out an expensive cigar from the delicate metal box placed on the tea table in the middle.

Then, he skillfully used a cigar cutter to cut off about one-eighth of an inch in length of the eggplant cap, pointed the cigarette foot in his direction, and handed it to Meng Lei in the air.

"Please!"

Meng Lei took it unceremoniously, and immediately, Lanny, who was sitting on the side, immediately took out a lighter and respectfully burned Meng Lei's tobacco feet.

After a while, the tobacco legs wrapped in expensive tobacco leaves were charred and shiny, and the air flow driven by the breath blew through, and a little red light could be clearly seen flickering in the pitch black.

At this time, Meng Lei took a light puff and suddenly felt a thick puff of smoke wrapped in his mouth.

The slightly spicy fullness is simply unforgettable.

"Tell me a little about ......"

After Jarman lit the cigar at Monray, and under the service of Lenny, he ordered one for himself, and then introduced:

"We, Utu-Sirk Industries, like the Luke Arsenal, are the largest manufacturers of the military industry in the entire Eastern Hemisphere outside the Union, with a long history, dating back more than a hundred years!"

Meng Lei was not affected by the stimulation of tobacco, and pricked up his ears to listen carefully to what Yarman had to say.

It was also at this time that he first knew that the sea area where Sil City was located, including the entire 66671 channel, turned out to be an alien eastern hemisphere.

"In the early years when the alliance was established, our company also participated, and the person in power at that time was also one of the members of the presidium of the First Sea Alliance, but later due to disagreement in philosophy, we finally parted ways with the alliance and became completely independent."

What Yarman said lightly seemed to be telling only about a trivial matter.

But in Meng Lei's ears, it caused a certain degree of shock to him.

Although Meng Lei had heard about the general history of several private arms dealers, he did not know the details of them.

However, since the Utu-Sirku Industrial Company was in power, he was able to become a member of the Presidium of the First Sea Alliance back then!

It is enough to see that this company has developed quite strong more than 100 years ago.

Otherwise, it will not be their turn to participate in the creation of a new system with global coverage.

The words fell, and seeing that Meng Lei did not react on the surface, Yarman continued:

"Over the years, we have maintained a good relationship with the Alliance, although we are independent of the control of the Alliance.

In terms of commercial and trade cooperation, technology exchange, etc., there is a certain amount of contact, and it is not like those independent colonies, which are completely excluded from the supply system of the alliance.

Even in many Alliance-controlled outposts, such as the Molten Outpost, we have legitimate shops where we can sell our products.

But ......"

After a pause, Yarman took a deep breath of the cigar in his hand, his gray eyes paused on Meng Lei for a second, and then said:

"However, on the territory of the Alliance, we are also limited to the sale of non-high-risk weapons and ammunition as defined by the Alliance.

Really excellent products, products that can really bring large profits to the company, cannot be sold in regular channels.

Therefore, in order to survive and thrive, we occasionally provide facilities for military products to other forces outside the Alliance, such as pirate groups, separatist groups, and independent colonies.

"Walking on the Stars"

You can understand the positioning of our company, right? ”

Meng Lei nodded slightly, with a noncommittal smile on his face.

Yarman had made it so obvious that if he couldn't understand it anymore, he might as well go back to elementary school and repeat it.

To put it bluntly, private companies such as Utu-Sirku Industries, ostensibly cooperating with the Alliance, are actually only using this relationship to meet their own survival needs.

After all, the alliance's supply system is all over the world, and only the alliance can have a strong and complete supply chain.

In addition to the alliance, where else can you find such a high-quality material supplier?

But then again, cooperation with the Alliance alone can only barely meet the needs of survival.

If the company wants to develop, it must explore other channels to accumulate wealth and have enough funds to maintain it.

Otherwise, if this continues, sooner or later it will be swallowed up by the Alliance.

For the company's background and positioning, through Yarman's narration, Meng Lei already has a clearer understanding.

In other aspects, Meng Lei didn't plan to know too much.

The question he was most concerned about was what kind of help the Utu-Sirku company could provide to him, and what benefits it would have for the development of the fleet.

"Mr. Yarman."

Meng Lei took a deep breath of his cigar, leaned forward, narrowed the distance between him and Yarman, and said:

"Everyone understands people, and there is no need to emphasize too much about superfluous polite words and trusting relationships.

We both know your company's intentions to cooperate with our Chongming fleet.

Although the size of our fleet may not be on the table for now, it is undeniable that we have great potential that other local forces of the alien planet do not have!

I believe that in the near future, it will surely create great benefits for your company!

But before I do that, the first thing I want to know is, what is the scope of your business and how can it help us in the development of our fleet? ”

Hearing this, Yarman glanced at Meng Lei in a little surprise.

The gray eyes flashed with an imperceptible light, and they met Meng Lei's dark brown eyes for a moment.

Immediately, Yarman laughed and said:

"Captain Meng is really fast-talking, and his personality is quite straightforward! Great, I love working with people who are as honest and straightforward as you are! Don't go around so many bends, have fun! ”

As he spoke, Yarman took out a hand-held tablet from the side.

Although the appearance of his tablet is not much different from the ordinary tablet that Meng Lei bought from the market, it is obviously more refined and has a higher technology content.

Facing Meng Lei's puzzled gaze, Yarman said:

"Our company has a wide range of operations, except for not producing food products, but all products related to industry are within the scope of our business.

In this regard, we have an advantage over the Luke Arsenal and can help you in all aspects of the development of your fleet! ”

As he spoke, Yarman casually clicked on the hand-held tablet and entered the internal page of Utu-Sirku Industries.

The blue and white data stream flashed in an instant, and a huge holographic projection interface suddenly appeared in front of Meng Lei's eyes.

Looking at the holographic projection that suddenly appeared, Meng Lei's breathing suffocated slightly.

He didn't expect that before the official introduction began, Yarman carried an electronic product with him, which directly made his eyes light up.

Sure enough, the arms company that can compete with the alliance still has two brushes.

"Captain Meng, please look!"

Yarman skillfully pointed to the holographic projection interface and introduced to Meng Lei:

"From submarines of various classes and types, as well as reactors suitable for various environments, to submarine engines and even spare parts, including shipboard weapons, various types of ammunition, and individual equipment and even protective equipment, underwater tools, etc......

It can be said that it has everything!

Since the establishment of our company, the purpose of our company is that the needs of customers are above all else!

If you ask us, we'll make it! ”

Meng Lei nodded noncommittally, not paying much attention to Yarman's slightly exaggerated commercial boasting.

His gaze was quickly drawn to the classification content presented on the holographic projection page.

Indeed, as Yarman said, the business scope of the company's products is simply outrageous!

I saw that on the company's internal product page that Yarman called up, in the category menu bar at the top of the list, several major items were clearly displayed.

They are:

【Submarines】

【Industrial Manufacturing】

【Individual Equipment】

【Underwater work equipment】

【Parts】

【Fort Weapons】

There are six options in total, and they are listed side by side at the top of the product page, so you can see them at a glance.

Meng Lei didn't deliberately choose a certain column, he had too much curiosity to satisfy, so he casually touched the tablet and took the lead in clicking on the industrial manufacturing option.

He wondered what the difference between this arms dealer, which was privately engaged in arms transactions in the name of an industrial company, was different from other private arms dealers in terms of industrial manufacturing, and what core competitiveness it had.

As the theme page changes, the virtual projection in front of you changes.

The options in the other sections disappeared and were replaced by product introductions to precision instruments.

These instruments were presented in the form of three-dimensional data, slowly rotating, floating in front of Meng Lei's eyes.

It can be seen that under each device, there is a detailed product introduction.

[T3 large-scale deconstructor: based on the original performance of the previous generation of products, it has made more practical improvements, greatly optimized energy consumption, and accurate positioning of the level and type of item decomposition, and can easily realize nano-level decomposition technology to extract all kinds of required substances in a targeted manner!]

This product is a large-scale industrial equipment, which cannot be carried on ships, and is suitable for outpost factories that need to be disassembled in batches.

Price: 550,000 marks! 】

……

[X2 large-scale industrial manufacturing table: Based on the original performance of the previous generation of products, an appropriate amount of new blueprint has been added, and more stable 3D printing technology can achieve more comprehensive mass manufacturing of life products!

This product is a large-scale industrial equipment, which cannot be carried on ships, and is suitable for outpost production bases of all sizes!

Price: 500,000 marks! 】

……

[Hercules 3rd generation hoisting arm: Compared with the previous generation of products, the single-arm support strength has been more significantly improved, and the load-bearing capacity is as high as 200 tons in the sea area at a depth of more than 3,000 meters! Accurate processing up to 5 mm!

Suitable for shipyards and transport handling centers!

Price: 200,000 marks! 】

……

One device after another swayed in front of him, Meng Lei's eyes lit up, and his heart was excited.

These industrial manufacturing products provided by Utu-Sirku Industrial Company may not be of much use to many individual forces, and they will not be used at all under normal circumstances.

However, for such a group power as an independent colony or a separatist organization, with a fixed territory and industry, it is like a gospel from heaven!

With these devices, the major forces can build their own industrial systems!

Although the entire industrial chain is not particularly complete due to the technical blockade of the blueprint, it can at least barely achieve a certain degree of self-sufficiency, and the supply of many essential life products will no longer be stifled by the alliance.

Perhaps, this is also the key factor why the independent colonies have been able to continue to develop even after being excluded from the supply system of the Alliance.

Utu-Sirku Industries must have played a major role in this.

For Blue Star players who are interested in developing their own power, the importance of these precious industrial manufacturing equipment is not to mention.

Even if you occupy an outpost that has long been abandoned, as long as you have production equipment in your hand, you can quickly regenerate the entire outpost!

It's just that the price of these devices is really a bit outrageous, and it is enough to prohibitively look at it.

The price of 500,000 marks at every turn can definitely scare off a large number of people.

Not to mention, the price of a single X2 large industrial manufacturing station can be worth a small F-class submarine fleet.

This is not an exaggeration to call it an astronomical amount for the Blue Star player group at this stage!

Meng Lei took a deep breath and waved his hand to close the page of industrial manufacturing products, calming down his emotions.

These things are useless to look at now, and they can't afford them at all, no matter how greedy they are.

Besides, he hasn't even been able to take down a base of his own, and even if he buys it, he has no place to use it.

For these manufacturing products, a simple look and understanding can be done.

Then, he clicked on the category page of the fort weapons.

Seeing this scene, Yarman's eyes lit up slightly, and he seemed to have a strange fanaticism for the turret weapons he produced.

After the screen flickered, the scene changed again.

The original large-scale precision instruments have become all kinds of turrets with shocking appearances, hideous muzzles, and futuristic science fiction colors.

Meng Lei fixed his eyes on the past for the first time, and was immediately attracted again.

At this time, Yarman timely reminded:

"You can click on the image of each turret and use gestures to zoom in or out to get a full view of the turrets."

Hearing this, Meng Lei nodded, and his fingers touched the projection of the fort in front of him.

Between the opening and closing of the five fingers, one of the huge batteries that looked like a ship-borne laser battery, but was several times larger than an ordinary ship-based laser battery, was suddenly rotated and enlarged at will under the control of Meng Lei.

"This thing...... Is it a laser battery? How is it so much bigger than the turrets I've seen? ”

Meng Lei asked with curiosity in confusion.

"Yes, Captain Meng!"

Yarman nodded, with a faint hint of excitement on his face, and said:

"This A3 fixed defense battery, which is a strengthened version of the ordinary shipborne laser battery, is generally suitable for security defense near gathering places and in narrow channels, and is the proud work of our Utu-Sirku Industrial Company!"

Meng Lei nodded suspiciously, then remembered something, and suddenly asked:

"Isn't the role of laser lasers in the deep sea greatly weakened? The firing range of an ordinary shipborne battery is not even thirty meters, and it is the limit to be able to hit twenty meters! What's so special about your fixed defense battery? Could it be that you can go further? ”

Regarding the utility and theory of laser weapons underwater, Meng Lei had a brief understanding from Chen Yu and Ning Wen before.

He is well aware that although the laser turret has great power, it also has many limitations, and it does not have the ability to attack from a distance at all.

When used for defense, the effect is extremely limited.

Therefore, he was very skeptical that this so-called reinforced laser battery would be just a paper tiger with nothing on the surface.

Yarman smiled and said:

"The question raised by Captain Meng is really to the point, and this is also the core of our technology, which is one of the biggest selling points!"

After a pause, Yarman took a puff of his cigar, met Meng Lei's puzzled gaze, and explained in detail:

"To put it bluntly, laser lasers are electromagnetic waves, which induce an electric current in water, and as you said, the energy is quickly absorbed by water.

Even if it is originally in the air, it can cross a distance of thousands of meters in a few seconds and still maintain the effect of effective lethality, but it will be greatly weakened in the water.

Under normal circumstances, the effective range of sufficient power is only about 20 meters at most.

In order to save energy and improve efficiency, the general combat manual recommends the use of shipborne laser weapons to combat within 10 meters......"

"But!"

Speaking of this, Yarman showed a mysterious smile, and then changed the conversation, and said loudly:

"But...... Even in the deep sea, as long as the laser still travels through the air, all the problems will be solved! ”

"In the deep-sea environment, let the laser propagate ...... in the air"

Meng Lei was slightly stunned when he heard this, and felt very incredible.

"That's right!"

The corners of Yarman's mouth curled up and he smiled:

"Although we have lost contact with our home planet, hundreds of years have passed, and our exploration of alien planets has never stopped, and our technology is not without breakthroughs!

In order to deal with strange and massive alien monsters, our art of war is constantly evolving!

Whether it's the Black Emperor Moloch entrenched in the depths of the fairway, or the Banshee of the Deep Sea associated with the Calamity,

In the end, they will all bow down to our scientific research results! ”

After a pause, seeing a strange expression gradually appear on Meng Lei's face, Yarman retracted his passionate remarks.

coughed lightly, and said:

"Ahem, I'm sorry, when it comes to our core products, it's inevitable that there will be some gaffes.

In fact, there is nothing to keep secret about the technical principle of underwater lasers, which is the use of phased array sound wave technology, which uses multiple ultrasonic beams to irradiate the same area.

The ultrasonic waves are staggered between them, and the individual ultrasonic waves do not react much with the water due to their low frequency.

And when these ultrasonic beams are superimposed, the frequency can reach 1-2MHz, which is enough to break the hydrogen bonds and turn the water into a gaseous state!

As long as there is sufficient power and precise and reasonable means of control, these gases can form a fine column of air, which can greatly reduce the energy loss of our laser weapons.

Because the speed of sound propagation in water is nearly 5 times faster than that in air, it can reach 1500 m/s.

Therefore, by taking advantage of the energy storage time of a few seconds before the laser is launched, we can achieve a range gain in the order of kilometers! ”

After a pause, Yarman once again said excitedly in an irrepressible voice:

"So, theoretically speaking, our A3 fixed defense battery can achieve an effective kill of nearly a kilometer!"

Hearing this, Meng Lei's eyes widened in disbelief, and he was immediately stunned.

He never imagined that the scientific and technological level of this private arms company had actually reached such a point!

It's incredible!