Chapter 2895: Announcement of the Grey Peak Mountains Development Plan

Regarding the idea of retaining this mobile Spellcasting team, considering the impact on subsequent actions, Xia Duo does not intend to immediately propose this suggestion to the Northland Alliance.

However, the concept of a Public Computing Resource Pool does not have much direct impact on the Mages of the current action group; if there is any impact, it is a favorable one.

Therefore, during a break after a rehearsal, Xia Duo proposed this suggestion through Ambassador Tili'ao, and the result was that Tili'ao also said this suggestion came at just the right time.

If it had been proposed at a different time, given Xia Duo's human identity and his special role in the Spirit Thought Network, the various Elf nations might not have been willing to grant Xia Duo's wish.

But now, there is a need to create some commotion to distract the Demon Descendants, and Tili'ao claimed to have a high degree of confidence in finalizing this matter in the near future.

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Next, Xia Duo stayed at the Northland Alliance Headquarters, as did the volunteers temporarily recruited this time; of course, only the members of the action group needed to remain on standby at the Alliance Headquarters, while the others only needed to stay in Evereska.

As for when the action can begin, this is not decided by the Northland Alliance, but by the Demon Descendants; currently, the overall trend of the Time Line Fluctuation signals monitored by the monitoring center is that the duration is continuously getting longer.

But the interval between signals is also getting longer, and not all signals have a longer duration than the previous one; occasionally there are some shorter ones, as if the Demon Descendants are deliberately teasing.

By the second day of Xia Duo's stay at the Northland Alliance Headquarters, the longest signal monitored by the monitoring center had not yet reached eight minutes in duration, and that time was still enough to locate a relatively accurate position.

It is conceivable that the current probing by the Demon Descendants is likely not a rehearsal for a formal ritual, and as long as the opponent's ritual is stopped once, causing them to miss the window period, it will be easier to stop their subsequent rituals.

More importantly, the equipment related to the development of the Grey Peak Mountains cannot be sourced from the Elves or Dwarves; what remains is nothing more than providing personnel and plans, and in this regard, humans are not necessarily much inferior.

Changing every ten years certainly compresses the profits of the winning chambers of commerce and workshops, but it also gives other chambers of commerce and workshops opportunities; more importantly, it forces technological progress through such methods, allowing output and quality to continuously improve.

Because the bidding plan involves operational plans, but what kind of operational plan can a mine have? In reality, it is the output and quality of various resource finished products.

"Truly swift!"

The main body continues to study the Order Force.

Yet Xia Duo sensed something unusual from Ruier's words; being interested but not entering the formal voting stage clearly meant there was some aspect that was not yet satisfied or that there were lingering doubts.

Xia Duo roughly understood the situation, and it was indeed similar to what Tili'ao had said before: first establish the Grey Peak Mountains Resource Management Committee, and then conduct resource development under the committee's framework.

Afterward, Ruier stayed with Xia Duo for a while longer to talk about outside matters before leaving. After Ruier left, Xia Duo remained on standby as usual—the avatar conducts an action rehearsal with the Mages of the action group every once in a while.

This plan is indeed just as Tili'ao had discussed with Xia Duo before; the chambers of commerce and workshops of Netheril are eight or nine times out of ten going to miss the first wave of dividends.

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The so-called bidding is a bit like outsourcing the mines, collecting plans for mine construction, management, and operation from qualified chambers of commerce; after deliberation, relevant teams will be selected for recruitment and incorporated into the Northland Alliance system, but in reality, it is just hanging an extra sign.

Specifically, it is to build a large-scale mine in the Grey Peak Mountains, which requires recruiting a large number of grassroots management personnel and technical workers, while also purchasing a large amount of mining and smelting equipment.

Without a vote, there is no chance; at least this meeting had no chance.

That noon, Ruier came to bring food to Xia Duo and also informed Xia Duo of the latest progress of the Alliance high-level meeting.

It is just that, considering the window period for stopping the ritual, the action must begin within 6 or 7 minutes of discovering the signal; otherwise, if it really is a ritual, it will be too late to stop it.

However, Xia Duo has a premonition that the Demon Descendants should not probe many more times, because the ritual window period was mentioned in Pafen's consciousness; although Pafen does not know the specific time and location, he can also feel the sense of urgency from the various arrangements of the Darkness Society.

And the reason why they do not go to the field to investigate the source of the signals 6 or 7 minutes early is out of consideration for the possibility of the Demon Descendants probing; for the time being, they cannot expose that the Northland Alliance has already mastered the Time Line Fluctuation signal monitoring technology.

Therefore, timing is very important. Although the Northland Alliance does not know of the existence of the Darkness Society's Time-Involving Ritual window period, they have invisibly made a relatively correct decision, which is not to startle the snake, but to wait for the opportunity to act, and when they do, to strike at the vital point.

The Northland Alliance cannot allow individual chambers of commerce to monopolize the development of the Grey Peak Mountains; the preliminary plan is to re-conduct bidding every ten years.

"Just a moment ago, the Alliance meeting officially passed the Grey Peak Mountains Resource Development Plan and established the Grey Peak Mountains Resource Management Committee based on this plan. If nothing unexpected happens, it will be announced to the public this afternoon."

Even if the experience is relatively poor for a time, at worst, they can sacrifice the profits of the first few years to gain experience, and they will always be able to improve later; moreover, it can also drive technological progress within Netheril.

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"Ambassador Tili'ao has already mentioned it at the meeting, and the representatives of various countries seem quite interested, but I don't know why a formal vote has not been held."

In fact, even for signals over ten minutes, it is not necessarily possible to conclude that the signal source must be a Time-Involving Ritual!

If they miss the first wave, they can still catch up later.

It counts as a test of patience with the Demon Descendants; after all, a signal from 6 or 7 minutes ago, even if caused by a ritual, is within a controllable range.

Although the technical level of Netheril's relevant chambers of commerce and workshops is generally lagging behind the Elves and Dwarves, if the strength of the entire nation is gathered for integration, while still lagging, it would not be to the point of being completely unable to touch the edge of the Elves and Dwarves.

But a signal of only three minutes cannot conclude that a Time-Involving Ritual must exist there.

By around 3 o'clock in the afternoon, news came from the Spirit Thought Network of the computing group, saying that the Northland Alliance had officially announced the Grey Peak Mountains Resource Development Plan, and someone had even "forwarded" the complete plan into the Spirit Thought Network.

That evening, Xia Duo received a "call" from Zhenna, inquiring about the inside information of the Grey Peak Mountains development plan, which made Xia Duo's heart stir; if the relevant resources of Netheril could be integrated, it might not be impossible to win the bid in the first round.

If one further considers the Northland Alliance's balancing measures in the development of the Grey Peak Mountains, it might not be impossible to tolerate the existence of a human team that is still somewhat lagging behind.

Xia Duo sighed, then asked: "What about the Public Computing Resource Pool? Did the Alliance meeting discuss it? What was the result?"

Of course, because of this, the difficulty for latecomers to rise is greater, but at least there is an opportunity.

But the Mithril Mine discovered in the Grey Peak Mountains is too rich; with the current mining technology of various countries, if they mine with full force, a thousand years might be a bit uncertain, but supporting it for a few decades or a hundred years is absolutely not a problem.

Xia Duo felt it might be because of himself, but it could also be out of consideration for the risks of the Mind Link; after all, the risks of small-scale use and providing it to everyone are completely different, so the Northland Alliance ought to be cautious.

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