Chapter 90 Diplomacy

"It's decided, let's go to Ukraine!" I decided looking at the crystal coins.

"No!" Two voices sounded from behind me at the same time.

I turned around and looked at them, and to my surprise, it was Su Mei and Xiao Chun!

“Why can’t we go to Ukraine?”

Somi walked over and pointed to the map on the wall. "The land route is indeed not hostile to any country, but you will encounter a large number of people!"

"What's wrong with someone?"

Xiaochun took the topic and said: "Humans are very complex creatures. You can't understand their thinking! Moreover, traveling by land will inevitably come into contact with a large number of people. The probability of friction with these people is much higher than that with the British." Probability!”

Su Mei nodded in agreement with Xiao Chun's statement and added: "According to my estimation, it will take about five to seven days to enter Germany by land. And after entering Germany, we are just a few ordinary foreign players!"

Xiaochun snatched the words away again. "Weak countries have no diplomacy, and we in the Temple of Light will never give any good looks to those low-level forces. Therefore, if we secretly take the land route, we will only become fat in the eyes of others. Once we are discovered, we When they come from foreign countries, they will look for opportunities to attack us and try to gain some benefits!"

Su Mei spoke again: "So not only do we have to take the sea route, but we also have to make a big fanfare. We will send notices to the countries along the way on the forum, saying it is a friendly visit, and kill everyone who dares to come out to cause trouble! Also, the surprise attack on Indonesia, Don't hide it, just admit it openly. There is nothing to hide! Chinese modesty does not work well in Europe. What is needed here is to say that there are ten if you have one. If you show your authority, others will treat you with respect. Yes! When our country successfully launched two bombs and one satellite, the international political situation immediately changed as soon as we publicized it. Now that we have admitted the attack on Indonesia, it will do more good than harm to our trip to Europe!"

I gave each of the two little girls a treasure chest. He said to Xiaochun: "You are no longer from the Temple of Light. Don't use words like our Temple of Light anymore!" Turning to Su Mei: "Your point of view is correct, but don't treat Indonesians as fools. In addition, although the UK has declined to become a second-tier power in the world, its foundation is there, so don’t think of them as sick cats!”

"What do you mean?" Xiaochun looked at me expectantly.

"Why do you care so much about me? Didn't you just confront me?"

"How can I care about you? I'm afraid that if you choose the wrong path, I will be the one to pay for it!"

"Tch! I thought you had changed your gender!"

Su Mei couldn't help but ask, "Which way are you going to go?"

"I really want to go to Ukraine, but after listening to your analysis, I think it's safer to go to Gibraltar. It's better to fight a war with Britain than to get stuck in the quagmire of war in Ukraine! Besides, it's easy to go there, but it won't be easy when you come back. So you can take millions of troops over the mountains to play, right?"

"I knew you would listen!" Su Mei extended her thumb.

I interrupted her: "What about the forum? Do you go or do I go?"

"Of course you go! I came up just because I remembered that I forgot to tell you about the route when I went offline. Now I have to continue to catch up on sleep! Lack of sleep is bad for the skin! Besides, you are the president, so the issue of negotiation is still It’s better if you send it!”

"Okay! I'll just go for it!"

Su Mei went offline to rest again, and I directly entered the world regional forum and started posting. In order to increase the sensational effect, I will first publicly claim responsibility for the attack in Indonesia last night! In order to increase my persuasiveness, I posted the live broadcast of the battle that I recorded last night. My video was taken on the ship. Others will know it as soon as they see it. Unless they are people in the fleet, it is impossible to get the video from this angle! After the video was released, I later disclosed that we are a private armed force from China and will be making a friendly visit to Germany in Europe, and we hope that the countries along the way will provide convenience!

This post went viral just thirty minutes after it was posted, and what makes me most happy is that I actually received responses from German players! Large guilds usually have people who are responsible for watching forums, and guilds in Germany certainly do. The first thing I received was a response from a large leading guild in Germany. The name of the guild translated into Chinese should be - Iron Cross Army. The president of this guild hopes to have a meeting with me! But I am at sea now, and it is impossible to use the chat tool! There is a chat room in the forum, but the player needs to be on shore to use it! Finally, we discussed and decided to meet at noon. We should arrive in Sri Lanka by then and just dock there for a meeting!

After the Germans left, the British and French came. The French people's opinion is that as long as we don't cause trouble, France will not take the initiative to provoke us! The British were unexpectedly very polite and said they hoped we would visit the UK too! It's obvious that the enthusiasm is excessive. It can't be a scam, right?

After leaving the forum, the fleet accelerated its sailing, and the island of Sri Lanka was sighted before noon. I did not let the fleet dock, but flew ashore alone. The fleet continued to move forward, and I would catch up with it myself. After landing, find a hotel first. The hotels opened by the system are relatively easy to find. Amid the surprised eyes of the people around him, he rushed straight into the hotel, booked a private room and quickly went upstairs. Once you close the private room door, you can log into the forum.

There is a fee for setting up a cross-border chat room, but if the Iron Crusaders say they build rooms, I won’t argue with them! Enter the forum and search for the chat room name that was agreed upon in advance. Sure enough, it has been created. This room is set up so that only people with a specific nickname can enter, and that specific person is me.

After finding it and choosing to connect it, the text-only forum suddenly changed and turned into the same three-dimensional space as in the game. This room is quite large and the layout inside is super simple. There is a circle of chairs around a long table, a typical conference room setting!

There were already three people in the room when I came in, and they all sat on one side of the table, leaving the other side to me.

"Hello! My name is Ashford, President of the Iron Cross Army!" A young man about the same age as me walked over. He reached out to me as a gesture of friendship. After I shook hands with him, he started to introduce the two people next to him. "This is my vice-president MacFarlane, and this is my director of religious affairs Messet (a person in the guild who is responsible for communicating with the temple to which he belongs, and usually works part-time as a staff officer)!"

"Hello, my name is Ziri, president of China Frost Rose Alliance!"

The three people in front of me are all young and all have extraordinary looks. Ashford and I are of the same type. He is rather delicate. Not to mention that he is small. This guy is over 1.8 meters tall. I say he is delicate because his face is thin and quite beautiful, and his The race seems to be white elf (the forum chat room is logged in using the character in the game). The white elf's unique white skin color and his long golden hair give people a sense of beauty. Paired with his blue eyes, he really doesn't look like a man!

McFarlane is more exaggerated. This guy is close to two meters tall. He is as strong as a rhinoceros. His arms are almost as thick as my legs. He has brown eyes and short yellow hair, which gives people the impression that Two words - barbaric! Although the characters who enter the forum chat room only wear a loose uniform robe, I am sure that McFarlane's race is a barbarian, his profession must be a berserker, and his weapons are probably in the category of heavy weapons!

Messet is the shortest among the three, about 1.7 meters, and he is also delicate. With short blue hair and blue eyes, she looks energetic. He is the most handsome among the three. As long as he is not too shy, he will probably have many girls around him!

"Didn't anyone tell you that it's rude to stare at a girl's face?" Messet suddenly spoke, which startled me. Although the translation system doesn’t sound quite right anymore, men and women can still be distinguished clearly! I didn’t expect Messet to be a tomboy, I thought all three of them were men!

"I'm sorry! Beautiful things always make people unconsciously fascinated!" I will not stupidly tell her that I regard her as a man! There is not much difference between talking like this in front of a girl and 'suicide'!

"Then let's sit down and talk?" Ashford pulled us all to the table. After everyone sat down, Ashford said first: "I won't beat around the bush with you. It's not the German habit to beat around the bush! I want to know why you came to Germany this time? It seems that the national war is still early, and you also It doesn’t look like they’re here to fight!”

"That was at that time! Although the relationship between China and Germany is not close, hostility is definitely out of the question! I came here to actually complete a mission. I said that the friendly visit was just to say hello first to avoid unexpected battles! "

Messet nodded and said: "That means you are not actually here to have anything to do with our German players, but to come here to find the NPC?"

"That's almost it! Of course, if we have something we can collaborate on, I wouldn't mind communicating more!"

Mark Fallon stood up and said: "Since you don't want to fight with us, then I'll leave first. I'm not good at talking about business!" After saying that, he disappeared on the spot without waiting for us to express our stance!

Messet said: "Don't be surprised, Burk Fallon is like this. He is relatively straight and can't turn! You know, most people in our country have this character!"

"Yes! I understand, I understand!"

Ashford knocked on the table lightly and said, "Speaking of business, I really have some business that I can talk to you about!"

"Oh? What kind of business is this?"

"Do you have Chinese gunpowder manufacturing skills?"

"Yes! Yes, there is, but I won't sell it! You are also a smart person, you should know the reason!"

"I understand, but what if I exchange it for something of the same level?" Seeing my confused expression, Ashford continued to explain: "Our guild has a new technology that we got from doing tasks. Its specific use It can make big things float!"

"You mean you can build very large floating objects on the water?"

"It's a floating object, but it's not floating on the water." Ashford smiled strangely.

"It's not something floating on the water? Could it be that..." I covered my mouth in surprise. "You mean aerial technology? Can you build an airship?"

Ashford didn't answer, I just continued to smile, which was equivalent to confirming my guess!

"Can you really build an airship? Isn't it a bit of a loss to only exchange such good technology for China's secret recipe of gunpowder?" It's not that foreign countries don't have gunpowder, but it's just not as powerful as China's. Ashford used it Exchanging my absolute superior technology for my gunpowder skills seems to be a loss-making deal!

"I will not get the price wrong! In fact, there is a flaw in our technology, that is, the airship we built cannot move! Although we have tried many times, we have no way. The airship can lift off but can only move vertically. In order to move it, we even tried using people to pull it on the ground, but the result was that the airship seemed to be locked by something and did not move in the horizontal direction at all! The only way to move it is to turn off the buoyancy device, as long as the buoyancy generator is started , the airship was immediately fixed and unable to move at all!"

Messet added: "Now we just put the airships in the city, and when we defend the city, we put archers on them to deal with the enemy's air force. The rest is of no use at all!"

"An airship that can't move? That's worthless!"

"Although it cannot be moved, it is still very useful!" Ashford said: "Our thing is powered by magic crystal, so the cost is a little expensive. But in theory, as long as there are enough magic crystal, , can lift the entire city into the sky!"

"What? Can you raise the city?" I started to get tempted. If Essinger could float in the air, even if he couldn't move, it would be enough to have a city in the sky!

"I agree to the exchange. Can we discuss the details after we meet in Germany?"

"Of course there's no problem!"

"By the way, one more question! Can you represent the opinions of players in Germany as a whole?"

Ashford said confidently: "Although the Iron Crusaders are not yet dominating Germany, there are only one or two guilds that can compete with us!"

"That's good! I don't want to have contact with several forces separately! That's it, I'll leave now!"

After leaving the forum chat room, I went directly back to the private room of the hotel. Without leaving the door, I opened the window and jumped out. The meeting didn't last long and the fleet hadn't gone far yet, so I quickly caught up with it. King Chuang is actually online now, he is such an energetic guy!

After explaining the route and other matters to King Chuang, I logged off first. There is no point in staying at sea all the time!

After I got offline, I walked around the base and moved my body. I went online once at night and nothing happened. There are all small countries along the way, and there are many ships arriving, but not many are big enough! All we encountered were small sampans. The boat with a length of more than ten meters looked like a model next to the Biling! The bold ones will immediately stop the ship and drop anchor when they see us, fearing that they will be capsized by our waves. The timid ones will run away in fear when they see a super fleet like ours from afar, so they dare not get close!

After going offline again, I went to the laboratory to ask some questions about b13. It would be good for me to know more about b13! I was shocked when it came online again in the early morning! I originally thought that the fleet had entered the Mediterranean Sea, but what I saw was completely different from what I thought!

It's already dawn in China, but due to the time difference, it's still early morning here, and the sky is just a little white, but with this weak light, I can barely see the surrounding situation clearly! The Bi Ling was parked in a place similar to the entrance of a river. The hull was still a little tilted. The bow of the ship was so high that the entire deck was tilted! The river under the hull is only more than a hundred meters wide, and the Bi Ling is crooked here, almost blocking the entire river! There are already more than thirty warships in the river in front of us, but most of the warships are still in the Red Sea behind the Biling. The river banks on both sides were full of people, some of them were my crew members, and the other seemed to be local players!

After searching around, I didn't see King Chuang or any other players, so I had to ask the crew member next to me. "Where is the first mate? Call him here!"

"The first mate is in the bottom cabin. He may not be able to come over now. How about I call the second mate for you?" the crew member asked.

"also!"

The second mate was on the bank below, and he soon climbed up. "Captain! You are looking for me!"

"What's going on? Why are you stopping here? Could it be that the Biling is stranded?" The battleship is crooked like this. The only thing I can think of is that the battleship is stranded, but I still hope that I am wrong!

"Yes!" The second officer's words made me completely despair! "The fleet arrived here three hours ago!" the second officer pointed to me on the chart he carried with him. "Senger River! This is the one in front of us!" (The place names mentioned yesterday are based on real place names for everyone's convenience. The place names in the game are different. This Senger River is the Suez Canal)

I looked at the chart. This is the location of the Suez Canal in reality. In the game, it was changed to a natural river, and even the name was changed! "Are we right here?"

"Yes!" the second officer replied!

It seems that we are stranded at the mouth of the Red Sea in the Senger River!

"Why did it run aground? Didn't Rona say that the Suez Canal is deep enough?"

"Suez Canal?"

"Oh! It's the Sengel River!" He shouted out the name of the real place in a hurry!

"According to our observations, it seems that it is not because of the problem of the river itself!" said the second officer: "Commander Chuang Wang went down below to ask the locals this morning. It seems that a battle just occurred here, and a relatively large warship sank in the river. It’s gone! So the depth that was originally passable is now impassable because of the shipwreck!”

"Then what are you doing now?"

"The first mate said to pull the Biling back to the deep waters of the Red Sea first, and then find a way to remove the sunken ship!" The second mate suddenly raised his head and said: "The first mate is here!"

I looked and saw that it was indeed my first mate who had returned. "Captain, you are here!"

"Well! The second officer told me everything. How is your plan going?"

"There's some trouble! The Bi Ling crashed through the bottom of the ship in the collision just now. It didn't sink because we were already stranded! But it would be hard to say if it was towed back to deep water! I am organizing people to repair the damage! Wait for the hole Just plug it and drain the water and you can mow it!”

"Can't the Luna Emblem on the ship automatically repair the ship's hull?"

"But there was no moon last night!"

faint! Forget about this, it rained here last night, the sky was full of dark clouds, where was the moon? Finally, the rain stopped and the sky was bright!

"How long will it take to repair the ship?"

"About 3 hours! Including the dewatering and tugboats, it is estimated that the debris removal will not start until ten o'clock!"

"This won't work, it's too slow! Go ask the fleet to start tugging the ship now, and pull out the Biling first."

"But there's a hole in the hull!"

"Where is the entrance of the cave?"

"There is such a big hole in the speedboat cabin on the bottom floor!"

"Really! The speedboat cabin has a waterproof door! Close the water door and pull it out directly. The speedboat cabin cannot sink if water enters it! As soon as the Bi Ling is towed out, the sailors will be rotated to carry out underwater operations to repair the cabin. If there is water accumulation, wait until they are free. Arrange it slowly, it won’t affect navigation anyway! Quick, start tugging the boat now, I will solve the obstacles!"

The first mate immediately executed the order and took the sailors to hang the ropes. Fortunately, we have more warships. Although the Biling is big, it can still be towed! More than thirty ropes were tied to the stern of the ship, and the Biling was slowly pulled from the canal into the Red Sea. Several bubbles appeared on the water, and some fragments of wood floated up. It seemed that they belonged to the sunken ship below!

The Biling was towed away, and the next step was to clear the underwater obstacles! I still want to go down and see for myself, but I don’t know how big the wreckage is down there!