Chapter 776: A Stone Stirs Up a Thousand Waves
Chapter 776 A Stone Stirs Up a Thousand Waves
”… Really? It sank after all.”
Dawn City, Shelter No. 404, Browsing Room on Floor B4.
When Sun Yuechi heard the news of the sinking of the Seashore, he was stunned for two seconds, and a complex expression appeared on his face after a moment.
Chu Guang could see that when he heard the news, his face showed both relief and hesitation about the result, but more of it was what he said, “as expected.”
He seemed to have guessed such a result from the beginning, and before he threw the mess of Shelter No. 70 to himself.
Chu Guang couldn’t help but feel a little curious in his heart.
But before he had time to ask, Sun Yuechi, who was sitting opposite him, spoke first.
”Is it okay for you to leave the front line?”
Chu Guang said with a faint smile.
”I’m not really needed there. They did a good job without me. In comparison, the meeting with the representatives of the South China Sea Alliance authorities is more important.”
Although the Iron Heart has been on the front line, he doesn’t actually stay there all the time, and occasionally he will take a plane back.
For example, when the Sticky Community has an important agenda to be discussed at the meeting, or when the internal affairs of the alliance need him to make decisions, etc.
Sun Yuechi nodded in understanding, forcing a gratified smile on his face.
”That’s good… I heard that the Southern Alliance was jointly established by the residents of Shelter No. 70 and the survivors of the southern seas, right? In the end, they still eliminated the barriers… It’s actually quite stupid. They turned VM into a ‘black card’, and we all forgot that we were compatriots. The door of the shelter has been open for a century and a half, and it’s too stupid to still call ourselves residents of the shelter.”
”Sometimes I can’t help but think that the shelter should be designed with a self-destruction age, and it will explode when the time is up… Maybe it will be better for the survivors.”
”That’s too formalistic. Even if there is no shelter, there can be a ‘black card’. After everything is over, wouldn’t it be nice to turn this place into a museum?” Chu Guang glanced around and continued in a joking tone, “For example, the library theme museum, I have collected a lot of books here, some from the prosperous era, and some written by the people of the wasteland era themselves.”
Sun Yuechi praised sincerely: “It seems that you have really learned a lot of experience from Boulder City.”
Chu Guang: “After all, we don’t want to go through the same path they took again… If we do, we will fall into a new cycle.”
”Very good.” Sun Yuechi said sincerely, looking at Chu Guang, he could not help but nodded again.
This was a conversation between two managers.
Chu Guang knew what the phrase “very good” meant. It was the affirmation of one shelter to the “business” of another shelter – the manager of Shelter No. 70 believed that the method of Shelter No. 404 might really end the Wasteland Era.
He had no regrets about the transfer of management authority.
Seeing that Sun Yuechi seemed to have nothing to say, Chu Guang asked out his curiosity.
”I always have a feeling that you have guessed the ending of today.”
Sun Yuechi said with a wry smile.
”Do I still need to guess? I remember I should have said it a long time ago. I am just a paperhanger. I finally can’t paste it anymore during my term. I have considered all the possibilities, but in the end it is the same result. My residents think I am irresponsible, but they actually don’t know anything at all. I have seen all the possibilities. This is almost the only way to save them from disaster.” After
a pause, he said again.
”You should have seen the ‘inventory’ in Shelter 70, the things that the guys who blamed me for not opening the door nagging me to open.”
Chu Guang nodded.
”I haven’t been there, but my residents went to take a look for me, and there are indeed a lot of good things.”
Sun Yuechi continued with a smile.
”Do you think those things can change anything? Or what will change if I give them those things?”
Chu Guang thought about it and said pertinently.
”It really can’t change anything.”
There are quite a few power armors in the inventory, but if they rely on the rookies in Shelter 70 who have never even touched a gun, even if they go out, they will probably be beaten by the federal marines. Weapons
are weapons, and it is people who operate weapons, and war is a system.
The residents of Shelter 70 did not suffer any damage in the entire civil war, and eventually played a pivotal role in the formation of the new Southern Alliance.
In particular, they are the only ones whose hands are not stained with the blood of their compatriots in the entire civil war.
No matter how many times they cursed the people outside, wishing that all those people would die and start over, that was just what they thought in their hearts.
Everyone has a dark side in their hearts, at least their behavior is standing on the right commanding heights.
After this civil war, all their past mistakes were written off.
Judging from the results, this guy’s shock treatment was actually a little useful, at least it avoided the worst and most tragic results. It is biased to say that he is an irresponsible manager.
Sun Yuechi was silent for a while, sighed softly and said.
”… We went wrong from the beginning. Maybe the guy who drove the cargo submarine was right. Our ancestors… may not have obtained the shelter rights through normal means. The real residents were actually locked outside. So all along, we have been afraid that people outside will discover the truth, afraid that they will know the whole history, afraid that one day in the future they will wake up and realize that what we gave them originally belonged to them, so the gene of distrust has been engraved in our bones…”
His Adam’s apple moved and continued.
”Except for the battleship Haiya, which was built to deal with the threat from the Legion, all other battleships were built in the name of resisting foreign aggression, but in fact they were only built to insure the rule of Shelter No. 70.” ”
But the irony is… you can see that these checks and balances are actually useless. And the only battleship that was truly built with the Legion as the imaginary enemy was used on its own people from beginning to end.”
”I guessed that the Haiya would eventually sink, but I didn’t expect that this civil war would end in such a gentle way… In my imagination, the price paid might be higher, and the final result might be better than in the past, but not better than now.”
When he said this, Sun Yuechi looked at Chu Guang and thanked him sincerely.
”This is your credit… Thank you.”
”You’re welcome. It’s the job of us managers to end the Wasteland Era.”
Chu Guang nodded to him, and suddenly thought of something, and continued.
”By the way, Li Minghui has come to Shuguang City and plans to meet with me about future cooperation. Although he has not asked to meet you, do you want to meet him?”
Sun Yuechi was a little moved, but he seemed to remember an unpleasant meeting with someone before, and shook his head with lingering fear.
”It’s better not to… I’m retired, and it’s useless for him to meet me.”
”Really? I think it would be better to meet him, after all, he is your compatriot. Of course, it doesn’t matter if you don’t meet him, it’s your freedom…”
Chu Guang said this with a smile, paused for a moment and suddenly said, “There are many missing parts in the administrator’s log of Shelter No. 70. Don’t you plan to complete it?”
Sun Yuechi was a little moved, but it seemed that for the same reason, he finally shook his head.
”Let’s talk about it later… I like my current job very much.”
Although Chu Guang was a little disappointed, he didn’t say anything, just nodded.
It is not an easy thing to settle your own problems.
He could understand Sun Yuechi’s thoughts. He still had feelings for Shelter No. 70, and even more than for the survivors in the southern seas. It
was enough to settle the cause of the civil war – the collapse of the ocean current power station.
The Torch Church was the one who took action directly, while Charas and his followers were accomplices, and the deceased President Mongo was the one who condoned it.
As for what happened in the past 150 years, and what happened more than 200 years ago, the survivors in the southern seas no longer wanted to pursue it. As the former manager of Shelter No. 70, he naturally had no reason to take the initiative to do this. Chu Guang had no reason to do this from the standpoint of the alliance and the current manager of Shelter No. 70.
This guy had thought about it from the beginning, so he threw the authority of the shelter to himself without hesitation.
The South China Sea Alliance undoubtedly won this civil war, but the biggest winner was actually Shelter No. 70, which had always stayed out of it, and the alliance, the actual owner of this shelter.
As for the survivors in the southern sea area, they won and lost completely…
…
In the lobby of the Highway Town Hotel on the North Street of Dawn City, there was a bustling crowd
in front of the bar. The guests who were sitting here eating breakfast were watching the TV next to the bar.
For the survivors of Dawn City who had already used controlled fusion power, television was not a rare thing, but it was only recently popularized.
Some traditional media that developed on newspapers and radio stations have expanded new businesses, and the general public has a new option of watching TV news in addition to reading newspapers to obtain information.
Before this, most of the viewing devices of local survivors were tablets converted from VM, and the former was mainly produced through black boxes.
Nowadays, VM no longer needs to be manufactured through black boxes. The industrial zone of Dawn City has not only achieved mass production, but also has iterated its model several times.
As a result, players use new wrist computers, and the residents of Dawn City also have their own new TVs. In the future, they will have their own computers, mobile phones, smart wearable devices, endpoint clouds, and even bionic maids.
From this point of view, a certain manager has indeed fulfilled his promise to build a new ideal city in Qingquan City.
This place is indeed becoming more and more like that good place.
Although it is still a little low-end at present.
At this moment, the TV is playing today’s morning news.
”…At 8:15 last night, the Burning Corps successfully captured the Presidential Palace on North Island and found the body of Charas in the bunker below the presidential palace.”
”Based on the gunshot wound on the lower jaw and the location where the weapon fell, it can be preliminarily determined that Charas’ cause of death was suicide.”
”The commander of the Burning Corps refused to disclose any information about the casualties of this operation, but specifically mentioned that there were no casualties during the attack on the airport.”
”At present, the Burning Corps has handed over Charas’s body to the South Sea Alliance and stored it in the morgue of the North Island Hospital. Local survivors will decide how to deal with it. At the same time, a number of officials including Charas’s followers and his pseudo-cabinet have also been handed over, and subsequent trials will be carried out in the near future.”
”With the fall of the Charas authorities, the long-standing chaos in the southern waters has finally come to an end. Investigations into the causes of a series of shipwrecks such as the sinking of the Ocean Current Power Station and the Golden Coast research vessel will be carried out simultaneously with the reconstruction of the North Island.”
”The South Sea Alliance authorities said that the top priority is to restore local production and living order.”
The TV screen changed from the studio to the port of the ring island.
Li Minghui, the commander of the South China Sea Alliance Navy and interim president, said in a loud voice facing a circle of microphones.
”The war is not over yet. The Alliance supported our war. Now it is our turn to support our allies!”
”The North Island Naval Port and Airport will be permanently open to the Alliance, including the shipyard on the North Island!”
”If the Torch Church is not completely eradicated, trouble will come to us again and again. We will learn from yesterday’s lesson and never cooperate with barbarism again no matter what difficulties we face in the future!”
The screen on the TV continued to switch and returned to the news studio.
”According to our reporter’s interview, the authorities’ representatives thanked the Alliance for its help at the press conference and said that the survivors in the South China Sea will always remember the Alliance’s help to the locals in times of crisis, and welcome the survivors of the Alliance to vacation, work, live and invest in the South China Sea.”
”For more latest developments in the situation in the South China Sea, our reporter will continue to follow up for you!”
After the report on the situation in the South China Sea ended, the TV screen quickly switched to the North Line.
Several guests sitting in front of the bar exchanged glances, and a drunkard who had been drinking early in the morning burped and said.
”The Southern Alliance… is it the alliance of Jinchuan Province?”
”Are you a pig? Where can there be a sea in Jinchuan Province?!” A man who looked like a mercenary laughed.
The drunkard was not angry, and said confidently.
”What if there is? I haven’t been there, so how can I know…”
The merchant sitting next to him said in a casual tone.
”That place is much farther than Jinchuan Province, and it’s a little further south, up to the equator.”
The guests sighed when they heard this.
”…That’s really far away.”
”I’ve been traveling around for a few years, and I haven’t been to such a far place.”
The drunkard took a sip of vodka and muttered.
”Going to such a far place to fight, I don’t know what use it will be for the alliance…”
”What use is it?” The mercenary-looking man laughed and teased, “The fact that you can ask this question shows that you have read the news in vain.”
What use is it?
The alliance directly inherited the various maritime military and civilian technologies developed by the survivors in the southern seas over two centuries. The alliance, which was launched for the first time, skipped two hundred years of exploration and became a “sea power”. This is already a big win!
Even if he is just a mercenary, he can see how many times their respected manager has won.
The drunkard was a little confused and scratched the back of his head with his right hand.
The merchant sitting next to him smiled faintly, said nothing, and just ate his breakfast.
He booked a ticket to French Fries Port last night, and the flight will take off in three hours. While these people were still messing around, he had already planned his future business territory.
Since the civil war in the southern seas started, he has been paying attention to the changes in the situation of the war, and now he has finally waited for the war to come to an end.
At present, the entire southern seas are in ruins. Not only the North Island needs to be rebuilt, but also the ocean current power station and Coral City, etc. These are all visible business opportunities.
Including the future development of the Tianting, the Alliance’s investment in the southern sea area will not be small. He can make a lot of money by doing anything there.
After pushing away the beef noodles he had finished, he picked up a tissue to wipe his mouth. Suddenly he thought of something and said to the old man standing behind the bar.
”Boss, give me a glass of vodka too.”
Old Hook recognized this familiar customer and remembered that he was a merchant from Jinchuan Province and had settled in Shuguang City since last year.
After pouring him a small cup, Old Hook smiled and teased.
”Strange, you drink so early in the morning.”
”Today is an exception, haha.”
Zhou Nan smiled in a good mood, took the wine glass from Old Hook’s hand, made a clinking gesture towards the TV, and then raised his head and drank it all.
”Cheers to the victory of the Alliance!”
Praise the manager!
Since he came to the Alliance, his good luck has never stopped!
…
On the roof of a three-story house with a front and back yard on Embassy Street, the flag of the legion stood tall.
This is the Legion’s embassy in the Alliance, which was just built not long ago.
Before this, the Legion’s delegation had always camped in the suburbs of Dawn City.
Originally, this was nothing, but as time went on, the Willants themselves found it troublesome.
Especially with the advancement of the Sticky Community plan, more and more Willants went to Dawn City and the Legion participated in more and more affairs in the Sticky Community. In the end, Benoit broke the convention and agreed to the invitation of the Alliance Foreign Minister to set up embassies in each other’s countries.
At this moment, Benoit was sitting on the sofa in the embassy reception room watching the news on TV.
When he saw the part about the naval battle between the South Sea Alliance and the Northern Federation, a disdainful expression suddenly appeared on his face.
”Oh, these days…what kind of broken copper and rotten iron dare to touch my Legion.”
On the TV screen, a towering battleship slowly sank to the bottom of the sea in a boiling smoke.
According to the news, the battleship named “Sea Edge” was built by the survivors in the southern seas to deal with the threat from the Legion, and the main gun at the bow was directly removed from the starship, specifically for the Legion’s airships – or the deflector shield on the core of the frigate.
After watching the news to the end, Benoit curled his lips and turned off the TV.
Although he disdained the “fishermen” on the islands from the bottom of his heart, he was still shocked when he heard that the main gun of the battleship was removed from the starship.
Fortunately, the battleship sank.
If it fell into the hands of the Alliance, I’m afraid it would be played by those guys again.
Thinking of the Heart of Steel, Benoit breathed a sigh of relief and threw it aside without paying attention to it. After
all, the southern seas are too far away. The navy of the Legion is mainly in the hands of the Western Legion, and the core of the interests of the Western Legion is on another continent, which is too far away from here.
Anyway, as long as this thing doesn’t fall into the hands of the Alliance, it’s fine.
At this moment, Benoit didn’t know that there were four electromagnetic guns of the same model in Shelter No. 70!
And with sufficient supply of steel and electricity, the shipyard of the North Island can build another similar toy in minutes…
…
It’s not just the Willant people who are paying attention to the situation in the southern seas.
For the “South Sea Alliance”, a new member that looks like a “vest” of the Alliance and is about to join the Commonwealth, all major forces in the wasteland have more or less paid attention to the latest developments in the situation in the southern seas through the Alliance’s media.
This includes not only enterprises and colleges, but also the Free State… and even the distant Xilan.
Tiandu, on the magnificent palace.
Wu Tuo, sitting upright in a chair, was tasting the fine wine imported from the Golden Gallon Port while happily listening to his eunuchs reading the latest issue of “Dawn Garden News”. He was so happy that his mouth was almost unable to close, and he couldn’t help but shout several times of cheers.
To be honest, not all members of the Alliance are flatterers. There are still people who dare to speak the truth. The news in the newspaper is indeed very interesting.
Because the manager of the Alliance has taken a fancy to the Queen of the Lion Kingdom, the King of the Lion Kingdom dared not speak out, and his tacit and permissive attitude not only caused the people of the Lion Kingdom to boil with resentment, but also caused the little princess of the honey badger who was in love with the manager to be jealous, resulting in a fight between the two kingdoms on the border, which was likely to trigger the second Battle of Sunset.
The Alliance’s back garden was already full of smoke, and now the fire has spread to the southern sea area. It is said that a Tianting ship was burned down, but the media in Dawn City did not mention it at all. Only the Dawn Garden Newspaper, which dared to speak the truth, stood up and made the naked truth public, stripping the Alliance’s underwear without leaving anything.
”…This Alliance has done many unjust things and brought disgrace upon itself. I’m afraid it will be finished soon!”
Wu Tuo was very satisfied with what he saw, with a slight blush on his face.
If they were not too far away, he would have wanted to give some money to the newspaper to let those reporters who dared to tell the truth to report faster.
Perhaps because he drank too much, his eyes turned slightly, and suddenly he had a sudden thought.
”The alliance is busy with Luoxia Province and the Ten Peaks Mountain front, and must have no interest in the southern seas… Wouldn’t it be perfect if this South Sea Alliance became a tributary state of Xilan?”
He learned the term tributary state from the Dawn Garden Newspaper. He heard that the Lion Kingdom and the Honey Badger Kingdom were both tributary states of the alliance, the Hump Kingdom was half, and the Golden Lizard and the Falcon belonged to the Academy and the Legion respectively. The
eunuch who was reading the newspaper was stunned for a moment, and the Duke Nihak who was sitting next to him was also stunned for a moment.
The former was mainly because he did not follow the thoughts of His Majesty and was not sure whether he should respond, while the latter had just returned not long ago and had not read the previous few issues of the newspaper sent by Duke Galawa, and did not understand what a tributary state meant.
Seeing that no one objected, Wu Camel touched his chin and said.
”… Didn’t the Weilants get some cement in Xifan Port? And steel and other things, they are almost rusting in our warehouse, why not sell them to them… Oh, by the way, use Xilan coins to set the price! We also have to get the pricing power!”
According to the “Dawn Garden Newspaper”, the reason why the Alliance rose so fast was largely because the managers of the Alliance stuffed silver coins into the pockets of the wastelanders in exchange for the truly valuable things in their hands.
Although the newspaper did not say how the Alliance stuffed silver coins into the pockets of the wastelanders, Wu Tuo thought it was really a genius idea. The Empire had to find a way to do it, so why not take this opportunity to do it in a big way.
The survivors in the southern sea area must rebuild their homes, and steel and cement are definitely needed, and he just happened to have a lot of extra of this stuff.
Those steel and cement were originally used to build roads, but rebuilding the infrastructure around Tiandu and Xifan Port did not require so many resources, and the things that were not used were almost piled up in the warehouse.
To be honest, he didn’t really understand why the Weirant people spent so much effort to produce so much steel and cement. What he wanted was rifles and artillery, and soldiers who could fight.
However, the big noses really didn’t treat him as an outsider. Not only did they force him to buy and sell, but they also used the goods they couldn’t sell to pay off their debts.
He thought that since he couldn’t get the debt back anyway, he might as well follow their wishes and get a bunch of messy things.
Who knows when it will come in handy?
He was very lucky now. Fortunately, he had the foresight to agree to the Weirant people’s plan at that time. Those piles of junk will come in handy now!
Duke Nihak touched his chin, thinking that what His Majesty said seemed to make sense.
He had been the governor of Jin Gallon Port and had some understanding of business. Xilan coins were indeed not competitive when facing dinars and silver coins, which caused them to suffer a lot when doing business, and the imperial finances lost a lot of money.
Now the surge in tariffs at Jin Gallon Port has brought a lot of income to the empire, and they can use this spare money to do something.
”The only problem now is… the South Sea Alliance doesn’t have Xilan coins. How can we get them to buy our things with Xilan coins?” Nihak thought while touching his chin.
Looking at Nihak who looked depressed, Wu Tuo took a sip of fine wine and said with a faint smile.
”That’s easy. It doesn’t matter if they don’t have it. We can just lend them some Xilan coins.”
He also learned this trick from the Dawn Garden Newspaper.
At the time of the Sunset War, the Alliance provided a silver coin loan to the Lion Kingdom and the Honey Badger Kingdom. On the one hand, it stimulated the infrastructure construction of the two countries, and on the other hand, it allowed the Alliance’s companies to make a lot of money from those infrastructure projects.
In the long run, the assistance provided by companies to the Alliance was also in a similar form.
Although he couldn’t explain the ins and outs of it, he still had the ability to copy the gourd.
Nihak looked at His Majesty who suddenly came to his senses in surprise. The expression on his face gradually turned into surprise, and he stood up from his chair.
”Your Majesty is wise! As long as we lend them some money, we can not only sell the unsalable cement, but also become their creditors!”
He had worked in Jingalon Port for so many years and never thought of this trick. He didn’t expect that His Majesty would think of it! Is
this newspaper really so magical? !
Nihak couldn’t help but ponder in his heart. When he returned, he must ask Duke Nagarawa to send him a few copies so that he could study them.
Looking at Nihak who was shocked, Wu Tuo smiled faintly and put down the cup in his hand.
”Thank you for the compliment. Sit down.”
Although his face was expressionless, he was still very happy to show off such a skill in front of his ministers. At
the same time when Wu Tuo was complacent about his strategy, a massive battle was “quietly” kicked off in Mammoth State in the northeast of Borneo Province.
On one side was the local army of Mammoth State, with a total of 50,000 people, claiming to be 100,000, led by the governor of Mammoth State himself.
On the other side was the Moon Clan resistance army, which claimed to have 10,000 soldiers, but in fact, it was less than 6,000. More than half of them were serfs and refugees picked up along the way. They were led by Laxi, the former head of the Jingalon Port Militia.
Obviously, the governor of Mammoth State did not take this group of vagrants seriously at all, and did not even bother His Majesty. He was still thinking about sending the victory report to Tiandu after the battle was over, giving His Majesty a big surprise.
Coincidentally, his opponent Laxi was the same, and did not take his opponent seriously at all.
100,000 people…
How dare he brag!
In this poor and bad place, if ten people can get together a gun, he will lose!
After arranging the combat deployment, this unkempt guy simply squatted in the barracks and flipped through the “Survivor Daily” that was delivered with the supplies.
Looking at the headlines about the southern sea area, Laxi muttered to himself while biting a steamed bun.
”Damn, it’s pretty fast!”
He remembered that when he was still the boss in Golden Gallon Port, the Alliance was still in a stalemate with the Federation in the southern waters. Apart from transferring the Burning Legion away, there was no sign of a fight.
As a result, the Federation was defeated in the blink of an eye.
Now that the Alliance has taken over the southern waters, it will definitely build infrastructure there immediately.
If you want to develop this rotten land of Mammoth State, you must seize this opportunity!
There are only people left here!
Lacy stuffed the last piece of steamed bun into his mouth, chewing with a gleam of brilliance in his eyes.
He has to be faster!
(End of this chapter)
