Chapter 637

Facing the two choices proposed by Hearing Li Ang, the freckled prince was rarely tough for once.

He neither chose to hand over the intelligence directly, nor chose to take Hearing Li Ang's slap hard, but relied on his own courage to successfully walk out a third path...

He was beaten up first, and then handed over the future intelligence while crying.

What are you trying to do?

Looking at Watching Qiaoshuya, whose snot and tears were smeared into a ball, but who was still holding his swollen cheek and glaring at him indignantly, Hearing Li Ang couldn't help but sigh, feeling that he was a little bit excessive this time.

Although he was already using the prince's name to cause trouble everywhere, the freckled prince was actually younger than his sister Anna, didn't even have a beard, and was truly still a half-grown child. He not only beat him with force but even robbed his "things," which was really a bit immoral.

But it concerned the future of so many people in the kingdom, and might even concern the safety of the Watchtower, and even the safety of all mankind. This kind of important intelligence must not be missed... Maybe next time Watching Qiaoshuya gets sick again, he can endure it and beat him one less time, just treat it as an advance payment for this time!

While the freckled prince was sobbing and starting to write silently, Senior Jie Rui had already returned to the Bureau in advance. Hearing Li Ang, who had made the "advance payment" decision, took out the sheep head and asked the freckled prince a few questions. After confirming that this intelligence was true, he directly took out the 【Infected Blood Band】 and wrapped it on his face to help the freckled prince reduce the swelling. Then he quickly left the palace, called a carriage, and rushed to the Bureau.

So that's how it is...

After unfolding the future intelligence written by Watching Qiaoshuya in the carriage and reading it quickly, Hearing Li Ang finally knew why the future kingdom didn't choose to cooperate with the Kroke Kingdom, but refused the request to jointly develop "minerals," and was eventually attacked by the Kroke Kingdom.

Because the so-called "energy minerals" discovered by those Kroke Kingdom sniffers in the kingdom were actually not minerals, but dozens of underground lava rivers stretching for hundreds of kilometers, and eleven extinct volcanoes distributed in two counties of the kingdom!

The Bobby Laien County where he "originated" and the Merino County, famous for its wool, were both on a special "hot spot" in the crust, with near-infinite thermal energy underground. If the mining of these volcanoes was completed, it would be enough to meet more than 80% of the Kroke Kingdom's energy needs.

But the fatal thing was that the mining method proposed by the Kroke Kingdom was too rough to imagine. Not only did it require digging up these eleven extinct volcanoes again, but it even required multiple active detonations!

If the kingdom really reached a cooperation with the Kroke Kingdom, not only would the residents of the two counties need to be relocated on a large scale, but the volcanic ash and smoke sprayed after the eleven volcanoes erupted would also drift all the way west under the action of the monsoon, dispersing over most of the kingdom.

Next, not only would Bobby Laien County and Merino County become unsuitable for human habitation, but tens of thousands of large farms and pastures throughout the kingdom would be affected by the volcanoes, resulting in a terrifying scale of production reduction or even total crop failure, causing large-scale famine lasting for several years.

In addition to this, the crustal changes brought about by the detonation and subsequent mining activities might also bring intermittent earthquakes and large-scale ground subsidence. Faced with the consequences of this degree, even if the Kroke Kingdom gave more, the kingdom side would not be able to agree.

So... one side was determined to get these underground energy sources, while the other side could not accept the consequences of mining no matter what. With core interests conflicting, naturally, the only choice was to resort to force and communicate directly with fists.

And although the Kroke Kingdom had a very small population, the hardness of its fists was something the kingdom could not compare with. Once the two sides started to "communicate," the situation was destined to be one-sided. The kingdom almost had no ability to fight back on the large-scale battlefield. After the princess, who was the most determined resistance faction, was killed, it almost completely collapsed and was on the verge of national destruction.

After reading the news related to the Kroke Kingdom's invasion, Hearing Li Ang's doubts about the future were slightly resolved.

No wonder the middle-aged Watching Qiaoshuya didn't run away at that time, but chose to bite the bullet and negotiate with him under the siege of the rebel faction, hoping to persuade him to attack the landing tower and kill the Kroke Kingdom's sniffers, because this was already the method he could think of that was most likely to succeed in avoiding this future. And now it seems that he really has to go to the landing tower. Even if he doesn't kill those Kroke Kingdom sniffers directly as the middle-aged Watching Qiaoshuya said, he has to bring the Phoebe sisters who can modify memories to prevent the intelligence of the "mineral deposits" from being sent back to the Kroke Kingdom, which would lead to the subsequent invasion war.

Also...

Looking at the dark future recorded by the freckled prince, where smoke filled the sky and ash was everywhere, the kingdom's population was reduced by more than half, and nearly 60% of the people had lung diseases, Hearing Li Ang's brows couldn't help but knit deeply.

Since this future really happened, it meant that the Bureau didn't intervene, and really followed the agreement with various kingdoms, only responsible for dealing with anomaly-related situations, and never interfered in areas not involving anomalies.

Based on the state he saw with his own eyes today, where the Bureau's various branches acted on their own and were almost like a pile of loose sand when there was no large-scale action, it was indeed very likely that this result would appear.

Not to mention those branch directors who had been deeply infected by anomalies and whose feeling of being "human" had begun to deviate, even the few directors who arrived were quite indifferent to the fact that the Aquarius Director had privately caused a large number of casualties.

The only Taurus Director who might care was about to ascend to the palace next year. So when the Kroke Kingdom invaded, it was estimated that the only ones who would pay attention to this matter would be the Virgo Branch and the Gemini Branch.

And judging from the Aquarius Director's brain-swapping surgery, the relationship between the Gemini Branch and the Kroke Kingdom seemed "quite close," and it was unlikely that they would intervene to stop it. So...

What about the Director? What is the Director doing?

After pondering his own Director's style of doing things, Hearing Li Ang's brows frowned even deeper.

Although the Director was not very reliable, loved to tease people when there was no wine to drink, and her brain would go offline directly after drinking too much, she was truly a good person on the "kind side." Even if she couldn't intervene directly, she wouldn't really do nothing when seeing these things.

But in the future written by Watching Qiaoshuya, there was almost no shadow of the Virgo Branch. Even the Aquarius Director, who failed to replace the Taurus Director to ascend to the palace, had appeared several times, but his own Director seemed to have evaporated from the world, as if she had never appeared, and even the entire Virgo Branch had no news.

According to his understanding of the Director, this situation was absolutely impossible to appear. So... in that future where he didn't appear, would the kingdom have encountered some extremely serious large-scale event, leading to heavy casualties in the entire Virgo Branch, or even...

"Woof! Woof woof!"

Just when Hearing Li Ang was holding the intelligence written by the freckled prince and thinking about what went wrong, a rather urgent dog bark sounded in his ear.

Hearing Li Ang turned his head in surprise and found that it was Senior Jie Rui's beloved dog... partner, Ms. Lisa. This... this adult golden retriever was poking her head out from the carriage window and stuffing a hastily written note into his hand.

'Come back quickly, something happened in the Bureau!'

?!!!

(End of chapter)