Baoxiang County is the entire Indochina Peninsula, located between China and the South Asian subcontinent. It borders the Bay of Bengal, the Andaman Sea and the Strait of Malacca to the west, and the South China Sea of the Pacific to the east. It is one of the three major peninsulas in southern Asia and is one of the East Asian continents and islands. bridge between.
Joseph Chapman, the actual controller of Baoxiang County. Coupled with Wandao County, he is the master of the entire Southeast Asia with the land of these two counties.
At 2:30 in the morning on August 29, Joseph was woken up by an emergency call shortly after falling asleep. In the past two days, he had been suffering from headaches due to the reduction of Fortress No. 5. In addition, he was severely humiliated by Hughes when he attended the Cologne Conference. He had never suffered such an offense in half his life, but Xius's words were unpleasant, but they were the truth.
Shenwu's production reduction involved too many things, and Joseph was so worried that he didn't fall asleep until late at night every night. He held back his anger and answered the phone: "Raymond, what's the matter?"
Raymond is the governor of Baoxiang County and Joseph's confidant. A call at this time would definitely not be a trivial matter.
"Sir, something big happened in Long County!" Raymond's voice was even unstable.
"What big change? Speak slowly." Joseph advised Raymond to calm down.
As a result, as soon as Raymond said a few words, Joseph jumped up from the bed, walking as fast as flying, and he didn't look like an old man in his seventies at all.
"Quickly, wake up Palmer and all your senior officials and prepare for a video conference!" Joseph's voice was high, like a croak.
"Lord Joseph, I'm here." Palmer's voice joined the conversation. He is the governor of Ten Thousand Islands County, and Raymond and Joseph are both Joseph's right-hand men and competitors.
"Okay," Joseph was very pleased to see that his left and right prime ministers were very efficient: "I'll give you fifteen minutes. After fifteen minutes, I want to see the faces of all the people with enough level to participate in discussing this matter."
"Yes, sir."
Joseph put down the phone and was about to get dressed when another phone rang.
"Which one is it..." This phone was specially used for communication between federal cabinet members, and the caller could only be one of the eleven people except him.
"Joseph, it's me." Kimura Yansheng's hoarse voice came from the receiver:
"I'm in big trouble."
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While Joseph and his officials were discussing the Long County issue in full swing, two small planes flew over the Beibu Gulf and entered Baoxiang County. One to Kuala Lumpur and one to Bangkok.
The special planes of the Dark Army and BTS are specially registered, so it is not difficult to fly directly around the world. But neither Xu Xi nor Yun Ming could land at the government airport carelessly. After all, they were on the run.
Planes of this era can already take off and land regardless of most terrain conditions. Xu Xi landed the plane on a certain tributary of the Pahang River. This was a deserted wilderness. She and Jiang Yao sank the plane into the water, walked to the surrounding villages, and then headed to Kuala Lumpur after getting transportation.
As for Yun Ming and the others... they successfully attracted the attention of the police.
These three are also trying to cover up their whereabouts. The pilots in charge of flying the plane also landed in a wilderness around Bangkok, but they accidentally blew up the plane while handling it.
Fortunately, they noticed the possibility of the plane exploding in advance and fled quickly. Just after slipping out fifty meters, a ball of flames rose into the sky.
The explosion of a small plane in the wilderness is still very conspicuous. The key is that what the three people mistakenly thought was wilderness is actually a shifting cultivation plantation. Plantation workers were awakened by the explosion in their sleep. They saw fire in the fields from a distance and decisively called the police.
As soon as the alarm call was put down, three vicious gangsters broke into the dormitory building where the workers lived. There were only two people who took action, but the dozens of workers were no match for these two people. They were taken out of the dormitory one by one and squatted together in the open space.
Among these three people, one has empty hands, a wolf-like waist and ape-like arms, and a body full of sinew meat, and is extremely heroic; one is white and clean, with two long knives on his back, and a short knife flying up and down in his hand, with fierce eyes; and another one, The other two men looked up to him and must be the leader.
This man was fully armed with all kinds of guns and ammunition, as well as light and heavy firepower. His expression was indifferent, and he just glanced coldly at the workers squatting in front of him with their heads in their hands, and then looked away. This action was misunderstood by the frightened workers as a sign that this person regarded them as ants whose lives were worthless, and they cried out in their hearts that this leader was some extremely evil person.
Yun Ming looked at the workers squatting on the ground: "Are they all here?"
Zhong Yi nodded: "I counted, fifty-two, not one missing."
"Okay, Brother Pu, then you've got to work." Yun Ming looked at Pu's carriage attendant.
This conversation frightened the helpless workers, who thought Yun Ming was going to kill someone and silence them.
"Gentlemen, please look at me." Pu Chai Shi walked to the front of the workers and said, "Please listen carefully to what I say next."
"You will forget everything that happened now..."
Half a minute later, the workers' eyes were dull, and they walked mechanically back to the dormitory to continue sleeping.
"It's done." Pu Che Shi said "OK" to Yun Ming and Zhong Yi: "When they wake up, they will forget about us."
This was the first time that Pu Che Shi used "Proverbs" on so many people. It seemed that the hypnotic effect was good. He felt that he had touched the threshold of the ghost level.
Yun Ming assigned the task: "Let's hurry up, it will be dawn soon. Zhong Yi goes to see if there is any surveillance here, and if there is, destroy it; Puche waiter, follow me to find the kitchen."
"I don't know about you two."
"I'm starving to death anyway."
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At seven o'clock for breakfast, the four-hour video conference finally ended. Joseph, who had been up almost all night, still looked energetic.
He left Raymond and Palmer alone. In the video conference just now, Joseph did not disclose to everyone the call from Kimura Yankatsu.
The information Kimura told was of great importance, so Joseph decided to tell only these two people first:
"Kimura Yansheng called me before."
Raymond and Palmer were both stunned: "What did Mr. Kimura say?"
"He told me that what happened in Long County...he was also involved." Joseph told Ying County about sending high-level ability users to support Qian Jin.
Raymond was speechless: "It's understandable that Mr. Kimura wants to use Qian Jin's power to attack Tang Wenlong, but it's too..."
Palmer echoed: "Mr. Kimura has always had a stable character, but this time he was reckless. It would be a bad idea to directly send high-level ability users to assist, and there are even nuclear-level ones among them. Nuclear-level ability users can only be driven by cabinet members. Power, Mr. Kimura can’t even find a scapegoat now.”
"It's not that Kimura is impulsive." Joseph shook his head: "It's that Qian Jin's price is high enough."
Raymond and Palmer racked their brains to figure out what high price Qian Jin offered.
"Okay, stop guessing." Joseph interrupted their imaginations and asked a question he didn't want to do: "What do you think of Ying County's Shenwu resources?"
"Hmm... Sakura County is not a large area, ranking last among the thirty-six counties in the federation. However, it has as many as five wellheads, making it the county with the largest number of wellheads." Raymond answered.
"So, Mr. Kimura's amount of divine mist should be sufficient."
Palmer nodded in agreement.
"Enough?" Joseph laughed loudly: "If his divine mist is enough, why would he get involved when I went to trouble Hughes? Did he go to the meeting to observe?"
"What? Ying County's Shenwu production is not enough?" Palmer didn't believe it.
"If it were in the past, of course it would be more than enough. But in recent years, the output of Shenwu in Wujing, Ying County has been declining."
"I didn't know until Kimura told me personally a few hours ago that Yokohama Well No. 1 had completely stopped production last year, thanks to his ability to hide it. I always thought Sakura County was simply cutting production, but I didn't expect the situation to be so serious."
"Sir, the output of Shenwu from Well No. 5 in Manila has been decreasing in recent years." Well No. 5 is in Ten Thousand Islands County. As the governor of Ten Thousand Islands County, Palmer is familiar with its situation: "We have calculated. Even if this alien invasion event did not lead to the destruction of Fortress No. 5, according to the decline in the past few years, Well No. 5 will be exhausted in the next three years."
Raymond immediately thought: "Sir, we can make a bold assumption: these wells have a life span. Well No. 1 appeared first, so it was the first to die, and then the production was discontinued in descending order."
"Your hypothesis is almost a fact." Joseph confirmed his idea: "I asked Abram and Cooper that the situation of Well No. 7 in Mumbai and Well No. 4 in Liverpool is similar to that of Well No. 5."
"Every cabinet member should be aware of this matter now. As more and more wells become abandoned, the wellheads that can still produce divine mist become more and more precious."
"There will be less and less divine mist, but the number of people who need divine mist will only increase."
"What happens next is up to you."
Raymond and Palmer broke out in cold sweat: "Total war!"
The precious thing about Shenwu is that it can prolong life. Anyone who has supreme power wants to live forever and enjoy endless glory and wealth. Just look at how many emperors in ancient times were coaxed into taking poison by charlatans.
There are twelve supreme beings on this earth, and each of them has friends, relatives, and so on; cultivating subordinates who have abilities is also a great drain on Shenwu.
Shenwu is not enough, and there is no way to increase revenue but can’t bear to cut costs, so just rely on robbing.
Judging from the speed at which wellheads are dying, drilling could begin within fifteen years or even earlier.
Seeing the complicated expressions of his two confidants, Joseph said:
"You must be mentally prepared for all-out war as early as possible."
"But it's not enough to be so pessimistic. After all, no one in the cabinet is a fool. When launching a war, no one can guarantee that he will be the final winner."
"Therefore, it is inevitable to put pressure on Hughes at the year-end cabinet meeting three months later."
Raymond and Palmer calmed down a little, and the former thought of something: "Sir, you mentioned the reduction of Shenwu production. Could it be that the price offered by Qian Jin to Kimura Yansheng included methods to alleviate the shortage of Shenwu in Sakura County. "
"Smart." There was a rare hint of envy in Joseph's tone: "Qian Jin doesn't know where he got a special ability user. This ability user can attract aliens. Let him stand at the mouth of the well and activate his ability. It can make the divine mist from the other end of the well flow into our world continuously."
"Qian Jin is really willing to give up." Palmer was speechless.
"Yes. Apart from Hughes and him, there should be no third super power related to aliens in this world."
