Chapter 271

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Protagonist:

Chen Yi

"Your request, I will report to the Elder Council." Muse looked somewhat dejected. Three thousand soldiers of a heavy infantry battalion, including the standard bearers either captured or killed in action, even the temple fleet's standard bearer nearly died at the West River Water Fortress — hearing it all made one's heart turn cold; these things decided that he had no capital to bargain with.

However, Muse still tried to strive for something, saying: "Knight Lord, if there are surviving officers, may I take a few back? Fifteen conch shells per officer."

This way, it could prove the other party indeed had captured heavy infantry officers. It was just that his authority was too small; fifteen conch shells were agreed to through gritted teeth. If heavy infantry weren't extremely valuable, he fundamentally wouldn't be willing to take even this much risk.

Chen Yi, however, chuckled and said: "No living ones."

Muse coughed twice, then said: "Then, may the soldiers' and officers' armor be returned?"

"Same price as the corpses."

Multi-layered hard leather armor was very valuable, but definitely not as much as one conch shell. Facing Chen Yi, the rat face no longer had arrogance to support it, and he said helplessly: "I understand. I will certainly report back to the High Priest and the Elder Council as soon as possible. Finally, may I ask you to go to Ma La to participate in further discussions."

Chen Yi laughed heartily and walked away on his own.

Muse stared blankly for a long while, then let out a heavy sigh. If the other party were weak, talking would be fine, but with such a hardline Village Master, he also had no mood for peace talks.

"Anyway, I'm just a messenger. Negotiation matters, let the big shots handle them."

Muse frowned his field-mouse face and walked out of the room limply, like he had been teased by a cat.

To obtain this envoy position, he had specially gone to request a male favorite of the High Priest, wanting to gamble on it. After all, doing well meant merit; doing badly didn't matter. Of course, now he was in the "done badly" situation, merely wasting a favor.

Leaving the West River Government Office, Muse led a group of people, leading horses as they walked on the street. Although he wasn't a noble, his subordinates were merely knight attendants, but due to the High Priest's tacit permission, they were all dressed one rank higher. Muse disguised himself as a noble; the knight attendants disguised themselves as knights, because no real nobles or knights were willing to come to this place.

The beautiful hemp red cloaks were truly cool to the extreme; from time to time little girls would blow flying kisses over, even undressing by the roadside, revealing a glimpse of tender white or sallow thigh skin, seducing them.

"Truly not a bad place." Muse's mood suddenly turned great, his face full of smiles.

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Chen Yi returned to Jiangning, ordering the construction of a new Martial Arts Hall at the original Jiangjing Service Area, now the Jiangjing Storage Area, and transferring students with Loyalty Level A or above, Control Coefficient A+ or above, and Body Technique Level 3 or above to this place, preparing to accommodate new members from the West Continent.

Don't look at the evaluation system having only been out for a little over a month; with so many students joining, the supplement of several thousand bottles of Luoti Divine Oil per week meant that in just two short weeks, over a dozen new Level 3 students appeared.

This is actually a perfectly normal accumulation-and-burst phenomenon; if there are no major changes, the high-speed growth can continue for two or three more months, then will naturally fall into a slump.

Chen Yi deeply knows this point; while specially getting more Luoti Divine Oil from the Holy Qiao Kingdom, he is also making multi-pronged efforts to expand the types of goods sold on the Crystal Screen.

Improving his own martial arts level, or completing the subway genes, could both achieve this goal, but neither is something that can show results in a month or two.

No matter how anxious, Chen Yi can only wait.

Finishing the second day's training, the panting Chen Yi and the exhausted little lizard appeared at the Jiangjing Storage Area. The roaring mechanical sounds still resounded through the construction site; only in the parking lot, several super-heavy automobiles bearing military plates were loading cargo.

Those were all prepared for Chen Yi.

With them, a 10-ton capacity truck could haul 40 tons, and in the middle of the night, could haul directly to the bustling Binjiang Road Subway Station, then pass through the abandoned and renovated subway tunnel, directly entering the subway station interior.

Around the parking lot, a full squad of Martial Arts Hall Inspection Team members stood guard, all Level 2 students, holding long spears and shields, theoretically able to resist ordinary police for over 20 minutes. Of course, if they encountered a police inspection, as long as they notified Deputy Bureau Chief Yan, there would be no trouble at all.

"Which vehicle has the A-grade goods?"

"J678060." Xie Wuyang, guarding this place, pointed at the large container truck at the very edge. The 30-year-old uncle was relatively steady, and had taken Chen Yi as master, being the senior student with the highest Control Coefficient; as for his Inspection Team members, they rotated in three shifts.

Chen Yi himself had a string of keys, got in the vehicle and started it, confirming the vehicle condition was normal before going to check the carriage. A-grade meant absolutely contraband materials, but the Inspection Team members guarding here never knew what was placed in the parking lot, nor the meaning of the different English letters.

J678060 appeared to have only a single container hoisted, but inside there were nearly 100,000 rounds of bullets, plus various textiles and pure metal javelins.

If not for Zhu Guangliang and Deputy Bureau Chief Yan's connections, no matter how capable Liu Xinyu was, she would have difficulty hauling a whole truckload of arms into Jiangning City. Now the Chen Family's power has greatly increased; Deputy Bureau Chief Yan almost has the trend of squeezing out the Bureau Chief, plus the Security Department — in Jiangning, the Chen Family now covers the sky with one hand for the time being.

Chen Yi hefted a javelin in his hand, took out two and put them in his Space Ring. At the very beginning, he had once transported iron ingots, steel ingots, and copper ingots to the West Continent, but they weren't very popular. On one hand, the blacksmiths couldn't afford them; on the other hand, re-forging produced too many impurities. Although they were also quite good, they simply couldn't compare with modern craftsmanship.

Jin Douna hurriedly arrived at the Jiangjing Service Area. She now manages the daily affairs of the Martial Arts Hall while simultaneously monitoring Liu Xinyu's behavior. Liu Xinyu has resumed her original identity as the Jiangning head of the "Human Development Research Society"; mainly reviewing and pinning various evaluation tables. Due to the Martial Arts Hall's abnormally rapid development, whether this change is cost-effective in the future remains uncertain.

Using two days' time, they delivered 50 tons of various goods to the West Continent and the Holy Qiao Kingdom, while simultaneously hauling back a large quantity of Luoti Divine Oil.

Paper measured in tons had long filled the Holy Qiao Kingdom's Treasury, thereby greatly increasing their expansion speed. Getting tens of thousands of bottles of Luoti Divine Oil, whether urging the country's mage apprentices to produce or purchasing from the Merchant Alliance, was very simple.

Storing the Luoti Divine Oil in the Martial Arts Hall's warehouse, Liu Xinyu quietly came to find Chen Yi and said: "The things you want are prepared."

"Where?"

"J674564." This was likewise a container truck.

"How many units?"

"How many? Three units."

"That's definitely not enough."

"Only this many."

Chen Yi shrugged, just about to get in the vehicle to look, when Liu Xinyu stopped him and said softly: "That arms dealer wants to see you."

"See me? Why?"

"Are you referring to openly smuggling three machine cannons into the Jiangning city center, plus 10 bases of ammunition, or purchasing 24 heavy machine guns, hundreds of thousands of bullets……"

Chen Yi rolled his eyelids and said: "What does he want?"

"Perhaps he wants an additional channel."

"Not seeing him."

"He has missiles. Laser-guided missiles." Liu Xinyu actually also really wanted to know Chen Yi's channels.

Student Chen raised his eyebrows and smiled: "Buy his laser-guided missiles over."

"He wants to see you."

"Give more money." Chen Yi spoke and got on the container truck.

The M242 Machine Cannon, also known as the "Big Poison Snake," is widely equipped on US Military and NATO armored vehicles. Its 360-degree rotating turret can also serve as an anti-aircraft gun. Effective range reaches 2000 meters, slightly farther than the M2 Heavy Machine Gun — power is a different matter entirely. The Big Poison Snake's caliber is 25mm, nearly double the 12.7mm heavy machine gun. It can penetrate 25mm sloped armor. Using its maximum 500 rounds per second rate of fire to shoot people is obviously extremely stimulating.

In fact, even a single shot is enough for cavalry to drink a pot. The reason for purchasing American products is also because this model of machine gun withstands the test of harsh environments and has passed the test of harsh environments. The West Continent's humid environment is not something every product can endure — Chinese textiles can certainly do it; for weapons, the user must make their own judgment.

"Has the armored vehicle I want arrived?"

"Over there." Liu Xinyu pointed at the Humvee blocking the way behind the truck. Also a military vehicle model, it could be freely modified; once fitted with a machine cannon turret, it would presumably be no problem to deal with cavalry.

"Continue training the trainees; this time I'm taking 30 people."

Liu Xinyu didn't ask where he was taking them, only nodded in agreement.

Two days later, the West River Water Fortress highway officially began extending toward the direction of Ma La.

Yu Weichao didn't choose the troublesome method of bridging wherever there was water, but instead extended forward along the existing roadbed, which was equal to replacing the earthen ground with a cement surface.

For this, not only were the newly established Transport Battalion and Cement Company busy, but Chen Yi also had to transport in a massive crusher — a real power guzzler, pure mechanical claws and teeth, all-steel mass; when it moved it was as if the Thunder God had been reborn, making the native workers stare at the machine with worry.

When Muse had played enough with the newly met village woman and prepared to leave West River Water Fortress, that simple highway paved with volcanic ash and crushed stone had already reached nearly 2 kilometers.

"Truly flat." Muse looked at his mount beast, quite suspecting how fast it could run on this road.

Just too short! he thought in his heart.

He then noticed the "metal carriages" advancing on the highway, and stared at them without letting up, not noticing the heavy machine gun fortified bunkers on either side of the highway at all.

"Is that real metal?"

"These Jiangning people are truly too rich."

"Could there be metal in the river water?" Muse blurted out involuntarily, then tightly pressed his foot against the leather bag on the right side of his mount beast; inside were the several tens of Good Citizen Certificates he had purchased, the price not small.

"Report to the Elder Council." The Knight Attendant beside him hurriedly suggested. Being able to speak the Elder Council's name aloud gave him a cool feeling of being a big shot.

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