"With all due respect, Commander-in-Chief." Dak thought about it for a while and said truthfully:
"Those technological objects left over from the old empire are ominous objects. They may have been contaminated with evil spirits and dirty things from the underworld. If you pick them up now, not only will they not be put into actual combat immediately, but they will corrode the user, and the gain will outweigh the loss."
"Oh? Why?" Yaroslav was curious, deliberately straightened his body, moved closer to Duck, and asked in a patient and gentle tone:
"I know that there is actually two-way information transparency between the Federal Council and the Lost Organization. What I saw and heard in the 'Bitter Ruins' will be known sooner or later to the top committee officials, especially Lord Vasily. So, I started from the beginning.
I don’t want to hide it.” Dak didn’t answer directly. Instead, he sighed and brought the topic onto the right track, saying:
"Looking at your status, you must know that the old empire's 'New Construction Plan' triggered the 'New Yuan Crisis'. Ivan XXII once ordered a 'deduction team' to scientifically calculate the fate of the empire. After the discovery,
After concluding that it was 'certain to perish' anyway, he transformed the 'Ivanov virus' at that time...
"And released them at a certain point in time more than five hundred years later, Ivan 22... has actually been driven mad by obsession and confused by desire. Its heart has long been occupied by Satan, and the sequence
A god abandoned it, and antiquity and the 'power of the tomb' completely eroded its body."
"You mentioned just now... that you met Ivan XXII, right? Is that... what he looks like in this portrait?" Yaroslav's expression became serious, and he was a little unbelievable as he rarely had contact with extraordinary things.
He stood up, pointed to the "bound" portrait of Ivan XXII hanging on the wall in a photo frame that had been polished and polished, and asked.
"That's him... at least, the uniform is the same, Crusted's emperor's uniform. However, the basic color of the style he was wearing at that time was purple, but it was cyan in the picture." Duck recalled it as best he could and described it.
"You... shouldn't have had the opportunity to come into contact with the history of the old Krusted empire, right?" Yaroslav asked as the doubts on his face faded a little, but the shock increased.
"No, dealing with extraordinary events and participating in battles in various places almost consumes my time. I don't have time to watch those." Dak complained.
"Then I will choose to believe your description." Yaroslav sat back on the sofa and told:
"Ivan XXII's dress was made using expensive fabrics, fuel, gemstones, gold, etc., and was made through complicated manual processes. The value of one dress is equivalent to ten percent of Krusted's annual industrial output.
1. Therefore, in any official portrait, many expensive features of the dress will be deliberately hidden, and instead depicted in a simple yet elegant style.
"Sure enough, the information provided by Mirren in the temporary prison was confirmed. Ivan XXII did not die that year, but fell into a deep sleep induced by drugs and magic power. He tried to maintain the 'Millennium King'
This extravagant idea not only evades the final destination that everyone deserves, that is, death, but also triggers a disaster that is enough to fall into hell. So Dak, the Ivan II you saw in the "Relics of Deep Bitterness"
Twelve lives, what happened in the end...?"
"Dead." Dak said very straightforwardly, and his face was very calm, without any emotional ups and downs. He organized his words slightly and said:
"When I broke into the core area inside the 'Ku Shen Ruins', which is the so-called 'lower bottom', the large laboratory room filled with 'culture boxes', aerospace models and technological products, Yi
Fan 22 has actually opened the connection channel between the ruins and the underworld, where he fought two lost teenagers.
"Ivan 22 used the many demonic powers fused by the [Order] to first die and then resurrect, turning into a dark and evil monster with withered wings. But even so, he was defeated by two young men.
He was forced to retreat to the large laboratory room.
"Later, Ivan XXII suffered a fatal wound on his chest, which caused all his blood to drain out and eventually lost his life breath. At that point in time, when I faced off against the two Lost Boys, we were both exhausted and had no extra energy to fight.
, we could only escape with the help of water pressure impact before the water filled the laboratory."
When telling the story, Dark deliberately concealed the fact that he personally ended the life of Ivan XXII. This is the most famous and outstanding emperor of Crusted. He has been admired by the vast majority of Crusted people for thousands of years.
Especially those in the military.
In order to avoid trouble and hostility after speaking out, simply blame everything on the Lost. After all, the Lost are the natural enemies of the Human Federation, and all bad debts can be blamed on the enemy.
After hearing this, as Dak expected, Yaroslav suddenly stood up, took off the medals he wore in front of the military meeting one by one, walked to the portrait of Ivan XXII, bowed and saluted with a sad face.
After doing all this, he returned to his seat and sat down, as if he had completely forgotten the sadness just now, and continued the topic with a smile:
"For this battle, the Federation not only selected outstanding [soldiers] from all over the country, but also many people with special abilities like you who undertake special tasks. We will first transport the excavated weapons to the north of Iceland Province.
There is no need to worry about the special warehouse not far east of the town. After being properly handled by the superpowers, Ross and Igor will organize manpower to research and reproduce it.
"But having said that, Duck, before you go to the hospital to visit Wulfya and Luo Nie, you have to spare half an hour to do a small test with me."
"Small test?" Duck asked confused.
"Yes." Yaroslav nodded and said:
"For careful consideration. You also know that the current campsite on the 'Man-made Lake' is not entirely up to me. I am indeed deeply trusted by Chief Vasily and hold an important position, but many officers are more inclined to worship Gennadi, and
The 'Vikings' behind him.
"You also know that as long as there is a little peaceful space, human beings will fight with each other and seize benefits. Your behavior of injuring the two [soldiers] guarding the gate just now will cause trouble. Wait, I will entrust a boy to check your body.
Make sure you are not contaminated with anything unclean in the 'Ku Shen Ruins', which has damaged your spirit. By the way, I will help you test the level of the magic source power.
"After all, at least half a month has passed since you disappeared until you came back. The adventure travel during this period should help you accumulate a lot of experience. Maybe you have been promoted without knowing it. As a superpower
Or, if you can reach Order 4, I think the 'Vikings' group will choose to win over you instead of becoming your enemy.
"But then again, Dak, didn't you gain anything from the 'Bitter Ruins'?"
"Harvest?" Dak subconsciously pressed his chest where the "Tears of Bizuni" was stored. His eyes were a little flustered and he said nothing.
Seeing this, Yaroslav laughed out loud, took Duck's blood-stained hand, and explained:
"Don't worry, the Federal Council has long passed the "Trophy Storage Regulations". You are now in the hurricane level and you have less than three pieces of loot. As long as it is not harmful to the body or mind, you can keep it by yourself. You only need to report it.
"And if we talk about the trophies obtained in the 'Suffering Relics', then the person to report to is me, the commander-in-chief. I believe that based on your current mental and physical condition, the trophies obtained must be beneficial and harmless."
Yaroslav's meaning was very obvious. Through Dak's performance, he knew that Dak must have obtained some unexplainable, very important, and possibly powerful trophies of sequential monsters.
After seeing Dak's strong physical fitness, fighting skills, magic power level, and the aura of sublimated power after experiencing the "Bitter Relics", Yaroslav tried to win over the young man to fight against the loss.
and opponents of the "Vikings".
For a young man like Dake who is already strong enough but also has firm ideals and beliefs, interests and status actually do not play much role. On the contrary, recognition of achievements and help in moving towards the goal are attractive enough.
Powerful.
Therefore, after thinking about it for a while, Yaroslav did not mention his intention to apply to the Federal Council for promotion to the rank of Dak. Instead, he stood up, took out a tin can from the low locker on the side, and took down the stove.
A kettle of boiling water is placed on top.
Then, he took out two Putua style lace tea cups from the bottom drawer of the old desk, opened the tin can, took out a small copper spoon, scooped out two spoons of dark black powder, and put in two
Pour boiling water into a teacup, stir it, and put it in front of Duck.
"Mellow fragrance?" Duck took a deep breath and felt very friendly and inexplicable happiness.
Putting the kettle on the ground and stirring it again with a copper spoon, Yaroslav pushed one of the teacups to Duck, picked up the other, blew in, tasted it briefly, and said:
“This is a unique drink made by grinding coffee beans produced by the Ptoia Empire from a large number of plantations in the mountains of the ‘Sanchezhuer’ region of the ‘Philican’ continent close to the equator.
"During the most prosperous period of the Steam Age, due to the power of the Ptoia Empire, this drink originated from the nomadic tribes in the vast desert area in the east under the control of the Central Empire, almost completely covering up the Khitanris people's thousands of years of tradition.
Tea has become one of the most popular drinks."
"Really?" Duck was in disbelief. He took a small sip, but was instantly filled with a bitter taste and almost spit it out.
"It smells good, but the taste is weird. Maybe I've never seen this kind of drink before, so I'm not used to it." Duck said with an embarrassed smile.
"It's not your fault. In the final analysis, we Crusted people have a lot in common with the Putua people in terms of culture. But in fact, we have a small amount of Khitanris blood. If it weren't for those people in the east who transferred their own
The culture is packaged in a way that is too mysterious and too obscure. I believe that we Krustedians have long been like the Khitanlis." Yaroslav said with a smile:
"The main function of this drink is to refresh yourself. I think you should be like me and disdain to inject those dangerous medicines to maintain absolute concentration and sobriety during battle. That will cause irreversible damage to the body.
"However, today I am not selling you this best-selling product that has long been out of date, but I want to tell you something. Have you noticed that during this period, although we and the Zinni people are trying to eliminate the Lost,
A lot of efforts have been made to eliminate the 'unintentional people', but they seem to have no effect, but in fact, the world is slowly recovering."
"Slow recovery? It sounds very novel. After all, I have never seen any clear light of hope in this long night in the wasteland." Dak joked.
"A ship, named 'Continental Explorer 5', arrived at the port of Nantoya in North Karloff Prefecture just two weeks ago. After the local army commander received them, they discovered that the ship was in mainland China.
I wandered on the sea for a full five years and went through all kinds of hardships before I came to our territory of Krusted." Yaroslav recounted.
"Five years? Ships? How did they... come here? I remember it was told in history that because of the vast territory, large population, and lack of unity, the Putoya people suffered a disaster in the early stages of the New Dollar Crisis.
, most of the cities were completely captured by the 'unintentional people'." Dark said with some curiosity:
"At least three hundred years ago, we completely lost any information about the Ptoya people. Many people, including scientists and leaders, have speculated that the area governed by the Ptoya people may have been completely captured by the 'Wuxin people'
, it is now a field full of blood and death, and they...if they are really Putoyan people, their persistence and courage are enough to be admired."
"Without a doubt! They are the Ptoyans." Yaroslav explained:
"Their blue eyes, brown hair, and even pirate-like clothing definitely reflect the characteristics of the Ptoa people. It is said that they set out from Roman, a famous port city of the Ptoa Empire in the Third Era. Approximately
Five or six years ago, due to the operational errors of the local governor, the 'unintentional people' were led by the local lost people and sneaked into the city through the sewage pipes, and captured it under the coordination of internal and external cooperation."
"Those who came by boat belonged to the survivors of the city's 'Guardian Group'. Relying on the only remaining steamship, they passed through many abandoned or fortified port cities of Putoa people in the past five years.
We also briefly docked at the Sinevlaf New Port of the Zine people, and after receiving supplies, we finally arrived at our Nantoya after a long journey.
"I heard that they brought a lot of materials collected along the way, as well as a lot of weapons developed by Putoa, as well as maps and situation information there. This is enough to prove that the gears of the entire world's stagnation may have begun to loosen, and will soon