Civilization: Beyond Two Worlds Chapter 419

Published at 14th of March 2023 08:07:04 AM

419 Claim

Red Maple City had no secrets, especially after what had happened last night. The atmosphere in the city immediately became strange. The various factions were paying attention to all the commotion.

After the truce, Kang De had always been the core and focus of eternity. This morning, Hong San had led a team into the city and his whereabouts could not be hidden at all. There were people in Red Maple City who knew that the Easterner's trusted aide had entered the city.

As long as his status reached a certain height, all his actions would attract attention.

After the attack last night, the deployment of his trusted aides had also arrived in Red Maple City. This might be the beginning. The Guardian, His Highness Kang De, would have to seek substantial power and influence… All the related people were holding their breaths and waiting, sniffing for an opportunity to calculate if their interests were facing a potential threat.

“Hong San.”

Santos was also muttering this name.

They were very suspicious of the attack last night and were half monitored and protected by Goethe, but they did not restrict the transmission of information and people, so this important figure of the Dragon Defense Company received the news.

The retainer Kang De had taken in in Valentine had already arrived at Red Maple City.

With Hong San in the lead, there was a small team of green-skinned orcs and some followers from Valentine. The Crimson Queen's mercenary group also sent people.

Although it was very small and there were no outstanding figures, this small team could be seen as the budding and beginning of Kang De's establishment of his faction. It could be seen as a milestone political signal.

The message sent said that after Kang De and Hong San had a secret meeting, he met the followers from Valentine with Princess Tina, who had rushed over, and had lunch at the Maple Leaf Palace.

On the way, Grand Duke Goethe also came.

Of course, compared to this, Santos still valued Hong San more.

He was not unfamiliar with Hong San.

Since the company had investigated Kang De to the core, they naturally did not let go of the information of the people close to him. The person who was valued the most by the Dragon Clan's think tank was the Crimson Queen. Her background was a mystery like Kang De's and she had unpredictable powerful strength. Everyone had enough reason to believe that the two of them came from the same place. Apart from that, the person who was seriously evaluated by the think tank was Hong San.

His personality was twisted and his style was strange. His fate intertwined with Kang De's in Glory Sand Town. At that time, he was a servant of the Goode family and enjoyed himself. He was willing to endure it. The information about this part was very detailed. Hong San was a pile of mud that could not be helped.

After Glory Sand Town was flattened, Hong San had a short interaction with Princess Tina and Sword Saint Snowfall. Then, he rushed to Goethe. On the way, he accidentally saved a group of evicted refugees and displayed his commendable organizational and military ability. In the end, he brought the growing team to Valentine.

Then, it was the entire process of the battle of Valentine that had been ruined by the monarch leaders.

After the war, Hong San was like a completely different person. He had been reborn. Not only had his appearance and expression changed drastically, but he had also dealt with various administrative matters for Kang De. He had befriended the nobles of the province, comforted the people, and dealt with the post-war matters in an orderly manner. He had displayed extraordinary military and political talent. It was worth noting that the evaluation of the think tank was not unbelievable, but that “this Cathayan has finally displayed the talent he has”.

Yes, because it was that person's student.

“Dong Tianming.”

Santos whispered the name.

The Dragon Girl, who was sitting at the distant desk writing and drawing, looked up when she heard this name.

Santos pulled out Hong San's information from the folder. It was actually much more than Kang De's. He looked at the records and smiled mockingly. “You've finally revealed your true colors.”

As he spoke, he shook his head and said, “The proudest disciple who poured the most effort into pretending to be crazy and depraved himself to be someone else's servant and dog. He has no ambition or drive. It's as if he has to survive like this for the rest of his life. After encountering Kang De, he immediately displayed his talent as a Prime Minister and allowed himself to be controlled…”

At this point, the Chief Marketing Officer could not help but laugh, “Does Dong Tianming dare to be more obvious? He's simply shouting at the entire world. Look, I, a dangerous figure, ran from Cathay to the continent and was unknown for 20 years. All the preparations and plans I made, all the talents and deployments I nurtured, and all the industries and factions I operated were prepared for this person.”

Kang De.

This person's appearance flashed through the Dragon Girl's mind.

How should she put it? The feeling was quite complicated.

After a series of contact yesterday, the feeling was even more complicated.

She said indifferently, “Perhaps not?”

“You mean this is only a coincidence?”

Santos laughed, “Dong Tianming's proudest and most talented disciple coincidentally lost his mind and ran to be a dog of another continent. There are more nobles than stars on the entire continent. He was coincidentally chosen by the Goode family and went to Glory Sand Town.”

“Then, on a diplomatic mission to the Empire, Princess Tina, who was intercepted by the elves, was coincidentally saved by a Cathayan with a mysterious background. They happened to go to Glory Sand Town and coincidentally met Hong San…”

At this point, his eyes rolled to the sky.

If this was not a f*cking conspiracy, what was?

“Then, this Cathayan, Kang De, who was coincidentally picked up by Princess Tina, coincidentally had the strength to destroy an army, a city, and even severely injure a country. He appeared out of thin air and suddenly fell into this world. It has nothing to do with all the schemes, arrangements, and plans. Everything is only a coincidence?”

He snorted. Was this a f*cking coincidence? It was simply an insult to everyone's intelligence.

“Akatum will laugh when he hears this.”

Santos, who was good at hiring fake reviewers to hype and market, shook his head repeatedly.

This job was too rough. If it was handed to him, it could completely be packaged better.

This did not seem to be Dong Tianming's doing unless he did it on purpose and deliberately let everyone know that he had chosen Kang De. Everyone, take it easy. Eh, wait…

“Wait, if it's Dong Tianming…”

He muttered, “If he's the person chosen by Dong Tianming, then there should be those… hiss…”

He gasped and suddenly stood up, “No, I have to tell His Majesty the Dragon Emperor about this guess.”

Then, he heard the Dragon Girl sigh.

“…Why are you sighing?” Santos said. “This is very serious!”

Lily said indifferently, “I think you're punching the air.”

“Why do you say that?”

“Intuition.”

“…It's better to believe in your fists than your intuition.”

As a socialist and a capitalist, Santos believed in financial reports, research, data, and logic. He believed that all strange phenomena originated from conspiracy and that all living actions were related to benefits. In any case, he did not f*cking believe in intuition.

What a joke. If he believed him, he might as well let the fairy dragon on the island read his fortune with a crystal ball.

He ran to the secret room and began to contact the Dragon Emperor.

The residue extracted from the remains of the attacker last night had already been urgently sent back to Dragon Island.

With the seriousness of this matter and the importance of the Dragon Emperor, in a day, the after-sales service department and the market supervision department could extract the active ingredients and determine the product number. Then, they could find the specific production line and sales chain and jointly check the account comparison. They implemented it layer by layer and locked onto the source of the problem.

Then, the evil eradication team could be on their way.

However, now, there was another possibility for the enemy's identity. He might have to treat this matter seriously.

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

Consecutive gunshots exploded like fried beans. The smell of gunpowder spread in the indoor training ground.

Kang De was teaching Hong San how to shoot.

He also fired rifles, pistols, and shotguns.

“How do you feel?”

He took the Famous rifle that had emptied its magazine from Hong San's hand. Smoke was rising from the muzzle. These were French goods that he had borrowed from Comoros. There were many of them.

In fact, if he had a choice, he did not want to choose military firearms, because cost and durability would always be the first indicator when the military bought firearms. The power and failure rate had to be pushed back.

To put it simply, it was fun.

Moreover, as the modern war system continuously completed, the combat value of individual firearms continuously decreased. There were corresponding light and heavy weapons to deal with under various combat distances. Individual firearms were even about to degenerate into pure self-defense equipment. Under this guidance concept, the various countries were even less interested in the development of individual light weapons. They repaired them and made do. In such an environment, the military light weapons of the various countries were basically fun. There were a lot of problems inside and out, the kind that would not change for 800 years and would be defamed by their own army.

However, there was nothing he could do. He had a large number of weapons and sufficient ammunition.

Hong San felt the majestic recoil and the jump of flames, explosions, steel, and burning. Even if he had already received similar training previously and had seen Kang De shoot more than once, he was still shocked after really using it… He confirmed again that this was a pure killing weapon.

Steel, flames, and the wisdom forged in them were diffused with the smell of blood. They were only born for war.

He said, “It's not inferior to the elves' powerful bows and crossbows.”

Kang De nodded. In human history, after the appearance of hot weapons, the crossbow was not completely replaced. Instead, it suppressed the gunpowder weapons for a period of time. After the hot weapons were updated, for a long time, the crossbow was still on par with them, let alone in the other world. With magic, the elves' technology tree was a little crazy in this aspect. The elves' archery skills were indeed peerless in the world.

At the end of the battle of Valentine, the elves entered the city. He had fought in an alley battle with the Dusk Legion. Dozens of archers quickly fired arrows. Light arrows shot quickly, heavy arrows sniped, armor-piercing arrows suppressed, cracked rocks and wood, and shot down walls. Some even f*cking knew how to turn. They covered the sky and earth and whistled. Occasionally, there was an enchanted arrow mixed in, and it was even like a grenade. That level of attack was not much different from light weapons suppressing shooting.

In fact, what completely eliminated cold weapons was not the rear rifle.

It was the machine gun.

The appearance of the machine gun caused the power of hot weapons to undergo a qualitative change compared to cold weapons.

“The difference between this thing and the elf bow is…” Kang De raised his gun and pointed at the black hole at the muzzle, “We can do whatever we want and make it thicker and larger.”

Hong San nodded and said, “I understand.”

“Horus will teach you the use of all kinds of firearms, from shooting, reloading, maintenance, and even management rules. After you learn them, teach them to our group, Valentine's group.”

Hong San nodded and said, “I understand. I won't teach the Crimson Lady and the orcs for now.”

“Yes, in my opinion, the group of people pulled up by the gorilla have different thoughts. They followed the gorilla. Many of them have other motives. Some are spies, and some want to use her martial strength… We have to screen them. As for the green-skinned…” Kang De revealed a speechless expression, “I have to think about it.”

Humans might not be suitable for them, and the size did not match.

He shook his head and said, “It's originally better to be taught by Horus personally, but it's injured now. It's better not to see anyone casually… Therefore, I'll have to trouble you.”

“It's not hard, but Your Highness…”

Hong San looked at the row of guns and ammunition on the table. “You want to give these heavy weapons to others?”

Kang De replied, “Since it's a weapon, we have to use it.”

The current him was no longer the Kang De from the battle of Valentine. He was rich and had many weapons. He had even opened up a situation on Earth. Most importantly, his situation had already improved. His horizons and thoughts were already different. There was no need to hide mere light weapons.

—I even have an F35. Why are you telling me this?

“With such a sharp weapon, if there's enough ammunition, it can indeed form an extremely great combat strength. Although the elves' archery skills are powerful, to form such destructive power, they need elite archers. Every time they draw the bow, it consumes strength. The combat time is ultimately limited, and this weapon… only needs the strength to pull the trigger.”

The war pattern was going to be rewritten… No, it had already been rewritten.

Before the battle of Red Maple City, who would have thought that an alchemical weapon could suppress the Twilight Expeditionary Force and make all their methods useless…

However…

He said, “After this battle, the elves, the Empire, and even other factions are searching for your methods and weapons. If such a sharp weapon falls into the hands of the elves and the Empire…”

“Therefore, I'll first push forward the separation policy and implement the custody regulations. Then, I'll develop an enchantment that can automatically be destroyed… Actually, it doesn't matter if it falls into their hands.”

Kang De shook his head and said, “They most likely can't replicate it. If there's really a God of Crafts or a Great Mage, it's meaningless to use magic methods or level ten clamping techniques to replicate it one by one…”

Moreover, so what if he replicated it? There were still cannons, missiles, and nuclear bombs.

Learning to make guns and immediately making cannons was simply a fantasy. It was two different things.

Moreover, guns were difficult to make.

Although military light weapons were fun, that was only for large countries.

Even on Earth, it was impossible for most countries to develop and produce an assault rifle from scratch.

A rifle had a simple structure and parts, but the craftsmanship, technology, and technology contained in it, such as metallurgy, press, forge, polish, and heat treatment. Car milling, design, and assembly process. Where could it be produced from? Workers who could use these equipment proficiently needed a perfect education system to nurture and train. Where did this thing come from?

After paying, they got scammed. They knelt, licked, got blackmailed, but still called the other party daddy.

This was the case on modern Earth. Small countries were not worthy of defense or even a gun.

The countries on Earth were already like this, let alone the other world. If he gave him an assault rifle, he would first review the technology on Earth and start industrialization. Then, there would be bloody internal strife. After working for many years, it might be enough. Then, he would introduce him to the military-industrial combination and let him see what the bullet production line was like.

Therefore, he did not panic.

“It's good that Your Highness knows what you're doing.”

Hong San did not insist anymore. In fact, as long as Kang De could still throw forbidden curses, this was not a huge problem.

“Oh, right.”

Kang De continued, “Tina just told me that the Grand Duke has the intention to reopen the Cathay Embassy and plans to hand that place to us to make a place for you to stay… What do you think?”

There was a lot of information about this matter. No wonder Kang De wanted to discuss it with Hong San.

When Hong San heard this, his expression turned serious.

Cathay Embassy.

Many years ago, Goethe maintained a commercial relationship with Cathay and even sent envoys to exchange culture. Now, the embassy was already useless, and the communication between the two sides had long been cut off. If the Grand Duke reopened the Cathay Embassy and used it as Kang De's official residence, such an action…

It was basically equivalent to making a claim for Kang De.

Chapter end