In Lu Ming's hand was a very scrawled map, the outline of the Third Continent that they knew had been hastily drawn by the adventurers.
The Third Continent does not have the concept of a country in the strict sense today. Therefore, there is no authoritative data on the specific population and land area of the Third Continent.
Including the disk-like continent drawn by the adventurers, it is only knowledge passed down a hundred years ago, and they do not know whether it is true or false.
The third continent is vast and sparsely populated, with extremely poor resources, and there is a kind of desert beast that lives all over the continent. According to the descriptions of the adventurers, what Lu Ming formed in his mind was a picture of a doomsday desolate world without much order.
People freely associate and form various settlements. The distance between the settlements is extremely long, and usually the scope of adventure activities in each settlement does not overlap.
Once the scope of resource collection between the two sides overlaps, a life-and-death war between the settlements will often break out.
In order to compete for another settlement's sphere of influence, women and children, it is also common to initiate wars and bloody killings.
Adventurers and merchants are occupations that are not limited to their own settlement, with high risks and high returns. If these adventurers disappear silently, no one will find their whereabouts.
In fact, this group of adventurers is very famous, and the leader "Jack Spinner" has a somewhat evil reputation among some settlements in the west.
Because the population of settlements is very small, a settlement with a few hundred people is usually a large settlement.
Therefore, a particularly fierce team of more than a dozen adventurers is also an object of great fear and precaution for the small settlement.
According to adventurers, the civilization of the Third Continent was very developed a hundred years ago, and there are still urban ruins all over the continent, such as their muskets, which are usually large settlements that slowly learned how to use craftsmen's equipment found in urban ruins.
Some small settlements have weapons such as bows and crossbows passed down from their ancestors.
It seems that when the Third Continent was at its peak, it was actually about the same level as the seventy-two city-states today. The technological level of the earth in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was then encountered by a wave of ferocious beasts, and it turned into an apocalyptic desert.
The vomit of those ferocious beasts is very corrosive, and even if a fertile field is trampled by a large number of ferocious beasts, it will turn into a place of corruption.
However, a hundred years have passed, and the ferocious beasts no longer seem as boundless as they once were. After all, almost all living things on the continent have been eaten, and there is no ecological balance at all. Now they can only devour each other or attack settlements. Those who can survive to this day
Settlements, large and small, have had rich experience in guarding against ferocious beasts, but instead they have become man's greatest enemy. This is the cycle of man.
It seems that no matter which world, human beings have the strongest ability to survive.
Just as Lu Ming was sighing, the phone rang suddenly, and Anilova, who was standing beside Lu Ming, went to pick it up.
The call came from the embassy of Lone Bamboo Kingdom in Baishi City. Ambassador Honghu Sanshi said that the seventy-two city-states would soon hold a roundtable meeting to discuss the sudden changes in the southern region, and invited him to participate in the meeting.
"It seems that a big event like the isolation of the north from the south will not cause any panic." Red Fox Sanshi sighed. Although his wife brought him here, his relatives and friends are all in the country. If he can never return to the country in this life, think about it.
It's so disappointing.
The unhurried attitude of the city-state lords made him even more worried about the future.
Lu Ming made a gesture, and Anilova said on the phone: "Sir, don't be too impatient at the meeting. Just follow their ideas. The most important thing for you is to immediately make statistics on Lone Bamboo Country and other countries."
The number of people stranded in the Southern Territory must be treated meticulously. No foreigners should be left behind in the statistics, and all of them should be contacted. If anything changes, we must be prepared to protect all foreigners in the New World."
"Yes, I understand, Lord Adjutant!" Red Fox Sanshi's heart trembled. It was obvious that the extremely noble and true ruler of all countries had considered the worst case scenario, but no matter what, "he" was here, which made people feel
There is a backbone.
Lu Ming made another gesture. As the slave of the God Master, Anilova knew what the master was going to say, and said into the microphone: "After the meeting, you invite King Shiraishi to visit the embassy tonight, and my master will also go."
"Okay, okay!" Red Fox Sanshi replied repeatedly
answer.
King Shiraishi is the leader of the first city-state, and he is also the king of the Southern Territory of this generation elected by the Seventy-Two City-State Round Table Conference twenty years ago.
Originally, the nobles in the Southern Territory did not have surnames. After the arrival of the New World, the main family of the first city-state was named after Baishi of Baishi City. The title similar to Duke became a local name meaning "First King". The New World also became
The translated leader of the first city-state is King Shiraishi.
At the end of the meeting, Red Fox Sanshi called again to report.
The seventy-two city-state lords held a round table meeting and agreed that this matter would have little impact on the southern region, and that they could just appease the merchants who had trade relations with the north.
King Shiraishi asked all city-states to provide warriors, and his proposal to gather together to find a new passage to the north was rejected.
Most city-state owners believe that the north is technologically advanced, and if there is a new passage, the country in the north will naturally find it, and there is no need to worry about it at all.
The first city-state to gain the most from its contacts with the north is the first and only power plant in the southern region, which was built on the outskirts of Baishi City.
Obviously, most city-state owners are very worried about this. If this continues, the first city-state is afraid that it will become so powerful that it can resist all city-states.
Nowadays, the north and the south are suddenly isolated, which is simply undesirable.
But what they said is correct. The connection with the north will be cut off, and only a few specific groups of people will be affected, such as businessmen who have trade relations with the north, practitioners of some new industries, etc.
It has no impact on the vast majority of people in the Southern Region, and even on more than two-thirds of the city-states.
Citizens in most city-states in the Southern Territory can feel the current changes and see some new technological products, but they only know that these changes are brought about by the northern countries.
For example, let’s take electricity. Even the middle-class civilians in the city cannot afford electricity, and only the elite areas use it.
The people in the countryside don't even know about contact with the northern countries.
Those who have access to universities or new industries are a very small group of people.
Just find a way to appease this group of people.
…
In the evening, Lu Ming came to the embassy after dinner.
In the backyard pavilion, while Lu Ming was sipping tea, Red Fox Three Stones and White Stone One King came.
King Shiraishi was very dissatisfied. Before dinner was finished, he suddenly said that someone wanted to see him. The ambassador urged him and even ordered his servants to remove the bowls and chopsticks directly.
Now King Shiraishi suddenly felt that it seemed understandable to those city-state lords who were allied against him.
These northerners are too condescending.
"Sir!" Red Fox Three Stones bowed slightly in front of Lu Ming.
King Shiraishi was startled. He was depressed at first, but now he saw that the ambassador from the north came in a hurry without even finishing his meal. The person in front of him seemed to have a very high status in the north. He was actually much higher than the ambassador, but he didn't expect that,
There is such a number one person living in this city.
Red Fox Mitsushiki introduced Shiraishi Kazuo again, "This is Mr. Genzo."
Although Shiraishi Kazuo was wearing New World-style clothes and trousers, he still had the image of a typical medieval city-state lord with his beard and curly hair. At this time, he hesitated and stroked his chest slightly, "Hello, Mr. Genzo!"
Lu Ming nodded slightly and said, "Mr. Yiwang, don't worry too much about the temporary loss of contact with the North Country. I still have channels to continue to supply the much-needed resources locally, such as coal for power generation."
King Shiraishi was stunned and immediately overjoyed: "Is it true?"
Red Fox Sanshi coughed lightly, "How could you lie, sir?"
Lu Ming said: "I will send someone to deliver the coal to you tomorrow."
Nowadays, we only need to maintain the lighting in a few areas where the rich and powerful gather, universities and other areas in Baishi City, and at most the electricity used by the telephone company. Nothing else is necessary. The power generation is actually not much, so I can use a storage ring to do it for a month.
Just bring over 180 tons of coal.
"That's great!" King Shiraishi was extremely happy. There was no coal in the southern region and it had always relied on supply from the north.
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The price is still calculated based on the previous contract price.”
Lu Ming's words made King Shiraishi heave a sigh of relief. He stroked his chest and bowed slightly, "Thank you, Mr. Yuan San!"
Lu Ming added: "In addition, we will notify all overseas Chinese to return to Baishi City in the near future. Their safety depends entirely on your guarantee. I am worried that something unexpected will happen if the two places have been separated for a long time." He glanced at Baishi Yiwang and said,
"Actually, I just don't want to cause a bloody storm in the local area!" As he spoke, he made a gesture, and a steel giant more than three meters tall suddenly appeared out of thin air. Under the moonlight, the metallic luster of the black mechanical giant exuded a cold atmosphere.
, the insect's compound eye-like metal mesh eye shoots out dozens of red rays of light, interweaving and scanning, even though it clearly doesn't understand its function, it seems to know that it is looking for a target to kill, any target it determines as an enemy.
, will be shattered in an instant, even a country.
A red thread just flashed across Shiraishi Kazuo's face. Shiraishi Kazuo felt as if his heart had been hit hard by a giant hammer, and cold sweat broke out all over his body. It felt like he was only one step away from death.
.
Even facing the most ferocious beasts, fear cannot inspire the deepest fear in human genes.
"One king? One king?"
King Shiraishi suddenly came back to his senses and looked at the mysterious young man who was looking at him with a smile.
The steel giant that looked like a killing machine was gone, but it was still the quiet and elegant little courtyard under the moonlight, making people feel as if they had just had the most terrifying nightmare.
"I, I understand..." Shiraishi Kazuo's throat felt inexplicably dry, and he struggled to speak, causing him to stutter.
Lu Ming smiled and patted his shoulder, "I believe that no matter what happens in the future, even if the Southern Territory and the Northern Continent are forever separated, our friendship will not change!"
"Yes, yes!" King Shiraishi unknowingly showed a flattering smile on his face. He never knew that everyone could smile like this to please others. In the past, he only saw it on the faces of his princes and ministers.
People who smile like this think that this is their unique innate hypocrisy. As a royal family, their ancestors have been royal families for thousands of years, they are upright and honest, and they don’t have this gene. But now I know that it is just
Because I have never met anyone who needs to please me.
This made him feel a little frustrated, but also relieved.
After all, the northerners will still be his biggest support, and he doesn't have to worry about the city-state owners who have been secretly dissatisfied with him in recent years uniting against him.
"Okay, let's talk!" Lu Ming nodded with a smile and turned to leave.
King Shiraishi looked at his back, then at Ambassador Red Fox, wanting to ask the identity of this noble man, but in the end he shook his head and swallowed his words.
