There are still ten days left before the New Year, and Lin Ran, with Shengzhu, boarded the helicopter again.

The helicopter roared over the clouds and flew southwest of Binh Long Island.

A few hours later, an eggplant-shaped island called Sunny Reef appeared in Lin Chao's sight.

Sunshine Reef is a medium-sized atoll in the Sinis Sea, which is originally a group of stones that occasionally emerge from the surface of the sea, and is unknown under the jurisdiction of the country of Miró.

However, it was later discovered that the seabed of the surrounding sea contained a large amount of valuable mineral deposits.

Including dozens of metal elements such as iron, manganese, copper, nickel, cobalt, lead, zinc and non-metallic minerals such as zeolite, coral shell limestone, as well as hydrothermal deposits.

Once the economic value emerged, the reef became a disputed area, with claims from neighboring countries.

The national strength of the Miro country is worse than that of the Philippines and Malay, and almost half of the territory is occupied by various armed groups.

In this case, most people can't keep the fat in their mouths, so they come up with a solution.

Miro took out a loan from its ally, the Northern Yuan Empire, and commissioned a Song construction company to blow sand on a pile of outcropping reefs to reclaim the sea.

A few years later, Sunshine Reef became an island with an area of more than 3 square kilometers and a 3,000-meter-long runway.

Then Miluo Kingdom announced that Xiangyang Reef would be leased to Luobu City of the Great Zhou Alliance, causing an uproar.

Everyone knows that Rob City is the stronghold and birthplace of mutants all over the world.

Now that the people of Rob City are on Xiangyang Reef, the surrounding countries can only protest to Miro Country, but they dare not do anything to Xiangyang Reef.

Although Miro is burdened with huge debts as a result, it can be slowly repaid with the rent of Xiangyang Reef and nearby resources, and it can also ensure the sovereignty of Xiangyang Reef, which can be described as a clever move.

Of course, if it weren't for the easing of relations between the Great Zhou Alliance and the Northern Yuan Empire, this move would not have been able to go on.

After getting off the plane, Lin Lan looked at the group of buildings not far away, waiting for Shengzhu, who was still tidying up his clothes, and inadvertently touched his belt.

Such a large island is called Xiangyang Reef, which is really shameless.

Ren Zhen in the belt is still dormant, with no signs of waking up.

When Lin Ran brought her out, she was still immersed in thinking, which made him a little worried, wouldn't a great philosopher thinker be born like this.

That's just too bad, I'm probably the best scholar to fight.

He doesn't need philosopher partners, he needs comrades-in-arms.

With sunglasses and a sunhat, the lifelong bamboo came out, and the footsteps were relaxed and happy.

"It has been determined that Wei Nanda and Meng Weitang have given up using equipment to pursue the truth, and they want to compete with you in the ring. ”

Lin Chao didn't care, what was he afraid of in the open duel, but smiled.

"That's right, mutants are not defenders, they can't be eaten with their mouths, they have to rely on their fists. ”

Shengzhu knew his true strength, so he didn't take it seriously.

"Listen, the rules of the Quadripartite have changed dramatically since last year. ”

She explained the new rules, and that there were very few real restrictions on such private competitions, not even the strength of the two sides, and no restrictions on weapons and equipment.

Lin Chao was curious when he heard this, it was really too child's play, and it sounded like someone would not care if someone held an explosive to go over to the Quartet.

Ichitake giggled.

"It doesn't matter what you're doing, you can't blow up anyone else except the people who are competing. ”

What Lin Chao didn't expect was that the ring where the Quartet would fight privately was a fully enclosed space, with a length and width of 200 meters and a height of 30 meters.

The walls on all sides are made of special materials, which can completely seal the destructive power of the mutants in the space during the battle, and will not spill out in the slightest.

The principle is to have an umbrella system similar to Kotojima outside the enclosed space, which can suppress the mutation factors, and can also suppress the combat energy between mutants.

Lin Lan understood, but asked a low-level question.

"What kind of material is it made of? If I had it, it wouldn't be used against mutants, and if I made a piece of equipment, I would make the opponent's attack dissipate invisible. ”

Yisheng Zhu said lightly: "The umbrella system can completely suppress the mutation factors, and I haven't seen any mutants use a similar system, it is a large-scale device, and a large number of researchers have perfected it after countless experiments, and the cost is huge." If it were reduced to a single person who could take it against mutants, the mutants would definitely destroy them. ”

Lin Yan nodded.

If that were the case, the mutants' overwhelming superiority over ordinary people might not be there, and the mutants would not allow such a threat to exist.

Just as a country with nuclear weapons does not allow other countries to develop nuclear weapons, it is completely understandable that an empire can only have one emperor.

Lin ran thought of the data in the ring and felt that it was too small.

It is only a few tens of meters high, which is not enough for him to display his flying ability.

Sheng Shengzhu reminded: "Private fighting, the other party is nothing more than to test your true strength, and then win the chips, you know it." ”

Lin Ran became interested and asked what chips he had.

The lifelong bamboo raised two fingers.

"The ring starts once it costs 200,000 oil coins, both sides pay half, and the loser has to pay another 100,000 oil coins, which is the most basic, and the other chips are negotiated by both sides. ”

Lin Lan couldn't help but speak for others, spending tens of millions of yuan to fight, all of them were burned by money.

Although he is not short of this money, he doesn't have to waste it like this, there are many free venues in the blue sky and the sea, where to play is not to fight.

He asked if he could refuse.

Sheng Sheng Zhu smiled: "Of course, the ring can only start if both parties agree, and there are few private fights every time the Quartet meets, the main reason is that it is expensive." ”

Then look at him, "Do you really want to give up?"

Lin Yan shrugged his shoulders and said casually: "The quasi-third-level ones didn't get a bargain in my hands, and the third-level ones may appear, and I'll see it when the time comes, what do you say?"

Sheng Shengzhu said: "When you get to the Quartet, there is basically no one who should not fight. There will be no one person here to solve the problem, it is all between organizations, there is no such thing as three levels and two levels, and there is no point in winning. The organization wants to save face, and the people who go to the ring are all heads and faces, and they don't dare to fight in the competition, and they have never had to. ”

Lin Lan heard the smell and seemed to see a place full of irritable emotions, and all the people in it were angry.

He asked, "Are there any examples of people dying in private fights?"

Shengzhu explained that although there are few, there are still mutants, all of them are mutated factors in the human body that are out of control and die, not killed.

Public isn't a life-or-death place, and organizations avoid it.

For example, what Lin Chao injected into his body is a mutation factor with a high lethality rate.

If you were an ordinary person, I am afraid that if you didn't wait for today, you would have lost control and died in a high-intensity battle.

"Private fighting is a place to show the financial resources, bearing, and strength of organizations and individuals, and it will not make any party completely lose face. Wei Nanda and Meng Weitang may also be forced by the pressure from above, so they can only adopt this public way, of course, they think they will win. The Quartet will have a layout in the ring that can forcibly stop individual movements, so don't worry about killing people. ”

Listening to Shengzhu's words, Lin Lan understood the nature of the private fight even more.

Although it's called a private fight, it's actually an open and transparent competition, and it's more like a competition between organizations.

I don't understand what Wei Nanda and Meng Weitang are trying to do, do you really think they will win?

In this case, he reluctantly fought for it.