Chapter 64: The Crisis of the Tisru Nuclear
"If you live too tastefully, it will definitely attract attention. Looking at it this way, it is becoming more and more suspicious. β
Such a nonsensical answer will naturally not be approved by Seyleus. Lu Xi's gaze was full of oppression at that moment, and it was easily reminiscent of some kind of big cat.
"Okay, okay, don't look at me like that. Really, how cute it was when I met the ghost......"
"Forget it! Right now! Right away! β
"I've forgotten about him, really!"
ββ¦β¦ Hell you believe you. Forget it, let's get down to business first. Lord Lucy Belencaster, as your Chief Adjutant, I have the right to know the purpose of your actions and your plans. β
"Well, didn't I say that the so-called state secrets mean that if you say it, at least we will go to prison or even go to the guillotine?"
"Do you think I'm going to be fooled?" Sehireu's face was clearly written with this sentence, but out of respect for her boss, she said, "There are only three of us here." Or are you still unwilling to trust me and Lim? β
"Then if I don't say it, will you be passive and even refuse to carry out the order?"
"No, it won't. However, I am your adjutant after all, and if I have doubts, it will definitely have a negative impact on my future work. I'm sure that's not what you want to see. β
"To put it bluntly, isn't it still the meaning of passive slacking......" Lu Xi held his forehead with a headache, sighed, and then said: "That, first of all, don't be an adult, you or something, I don't feel comfortable listening to it." β
"That is to say, what you say below is to a friend of equal status, not to a superior to a subordinate, is that what you mean?"
"Well, it's Sehireu, I understand it so quickly." Lu Xi said with a smile, he glanced at Primla, who was silent next to him, and said, "Before that, I must state again: what we are doing is extremely confidential, please keep your mouth shut." β
"Everybody is not a child. I have my own judgment on the priorities of things. Sesiluk replied lukewarmly.
So, Lu Xi could only start to tell the story of the incident with a wry smile on his face.
Lieutenant Colonel Bals Delbo, Counsellor of the Military Attache at the Federal Embassy in Auckland, is 41 years old. If you are a magician, you can't be a general at the age of forty, and that can only be said to be a shame; But it's a pity that this Bars is not like this, as an ordinary officer born in a military academy, it is not bad to be a lieutenant colonel.
The Highest Military Counsellor of the Auckland Embassy is Brigadier General Koflona Pascal, a three-star mage of the Alliance of Learning, who also serves as an advisor to the magic of the Auckland court; As a second or even third alternate, Bars's authority in the entire embassy is actually in a very awkward situation. Naturally, the big things were handled by His Excellency the Ambassador and the Counsellor's Lady, and it was naturally impossible for a lieutenant colonel to come forward for the small things, and the clerks who ran errands could handle them. As a result, Lieutenant Colonel Bars's status in the entire embassy is equivalent to a soy sauce player, and because he is not handsome or cute, let alone famous, he can't be a mascot.
Such a mediocre official who has no great merit or fame, and does not necessarily have any talent, is assigned to such a casual post, and the future of Bars's life is probably over.
According to Sesilu: This is just an uncle whose character, appearance, abilities, and even his whole life are extremely dull and boring. Every day lives a life without new ideas and tastes, occasionally complains about the injustice of society and life, and the biggest ideal is to be able to get the rank of brigadier general before retirement, and then you can enjoy the retirement treatment of a general. β¦,
It's nothing suspicious that people like this can be caught all over the street, isn't it?
However, the mission letter given to Lu Xi by the Field Service Department of the Ministry of Military Affairs clearly stated these articles.
"It is suspected that foreign intelligence elements have rebelled and betrayed state military secrets......"
"Special Execution Officer Lucy Berencaster conducts an investigation, and if there is evidence, the death penalty will be carried out immediately......"
Look at these murderous words. If Baals is really as mediocre and boring as he appears, why should the dignified Field Service Department, the "Jinyi Guard" of the Scholarly Alliance, come to his trouble?
Of course, as an anti-institutional body that is not subject to legal and congressional scrutiny, the Department of Field Support can also be used as a tool for those in power to exclude dissent. If it was said that it was a big man like the ambassador or the counselor's lady, Lu Xi might still be suspicious in this direction, but the object was such a boring middle-level bureaucrat......
Lu Xi explained his mission to the two girls in detail, but he hid the storage of the Field Service Department. Primra is okay, even if Lu Xi is working for the Demon King, she is probably still the cute face of the ancient well, but the upright and somewhat old-fashioned Sesiluk is different, if you know that there is such a reactionary official organization in the federal society, maybe it will bring a heavy blow to the girl's outlook on life.
"In other words, this guy is a spy, right? Well, I really can't see it...... But what is this so-called 'military secret'? If we don't even say this, how can we find out? Sesilio quickly accepted that he had become a national intelligence agent and immediately became motivated. The energetic girl quickly got into the working state and asked the question sharply.
"Well, you're right, at least it gives you a clear understanding of the state of affairs." Lu Xi thought for a minute and organized his language, "The biggest military secret of the Federation, or rather, the strongest weapon in the hands of the Learning Alliance now, what do you think?" β
Sehiraeus didn't seem to expect a cross-examination, she paused for a moment, and then thought about it very seriously.
As a top student of the Central Academy of Magic, a high-profile new magician with full honors, and a future pillar of the Federation, it is obvious that this problem cannot stump her. The girl frowned and looked at Lu Xi, and solemnly gave the answer: "The strongest weapon of the alliance, and it is also the strongest deterrent to foreign enemies in the Federation, well, it should be a floating battleship!" Well, this is indeed something that only the Federation can make, could it be that what Bars wants to sell is the technology to build floating warships? β
"Not really. To be exact, what he wants to betray is the legendary Tisru core! β
In terms of individual lì quantity, no matter how powerful the arcane law is, it is not necessarily more useful on the battlefield than good warriors and knights. As the saying goes, "A magician can kill ten warriors in an instant, but he can cast enough time for one warrior to kill ten magicians." "Even after more than ten centuries of evolution and progress in the study of arcane law, there are more and more magicians who can use their own strength and mysterious items to perform instant magic, but there are also more and more means to fight magic. To this day, no one can say that magicians are a profession that stands at the top of personal force.
At least Lu Xi knew that the dragon knight leader Hector, who couldn't do magic, duel with his teacher who stood at the pinnacle of the arcane realm, and the final result would be the same end.
However, as I said before, the reason why magicians can rule the vast heavenly world is not because of the personal power of the myccanes, but by the group of magicians, who have studied the myccanes, evolved and produced more and more props that affect human life and production, and even the way of warfare. β¦,
Spellbooks, Efficient Staffs, Enchanted Armor, Thunderbolt Javelins, Flaming Crossbows, Constructed Golems, Crystal Cannons, and other murderous weapons are the result of the Alliance's research on the combination of arcane law and military engineering. One of the most terrifying is the floating battleship.
This man-made behemoth that can float in the air can be said to be the crowning achievement of the Academia Alliance. They can carry dozens of tourists as small as they can carry hundreds of armed professional soldiers. The top speed of their flight exceeds that of flying monsters such as horned eagles, manta beasts, and even griffins, and is only below the dragons. Flying warships equipped with a large number of crystal cannons, ballistas, and trebuchets can even carry out suppressive attacks on the ground from the air.
Imagine a swarm of flying warships coming and going without a trace, capable of dropping thousands of troops in any one location, and bombarding the skies indiscriminately beyond the reach of people on the ground. Such a weapon is enough to be called a nightmare for all enemies of the entire Federation.
In fact, it is precisely because of the huge flying fleet, the population and territory (referring to the sum of the area of floating islands) far behind the Federation of the Oakland Empire and the Virginia Empire, that it can ensure its condescending deterrent power against the ground world and establish its status as the "third pole of the world".
The agility and speed of these floating warships are naturally not comparable to those of aircraft in another time and space, but their carrying capacity is far exceeded. What's more, the structure of this floating aerial vehicle, which is similar to that of the sea ship, completely violates aerodynamics, and does not have a powerful power propulsion engine. The reason why it can fly in the air is completely due to something called the Tisru core.
This kind of magic channel, called the Tisru Core, can be understood as a combination of precious metals and gems and an efficient automatic magic array. When the circle of runes, gems, and precious metals is activated, the Tisru Core can automatically operate, directly extracting wind elements from the heavens and the earth, and even the elemental plane, providing the floating battleship with the power to float or move forward in the form of magic. This magic guide and automatic magic circle were invented by the archmage Tisru in the early days of the Kaiming War, hence the name.
For more than 500 years, the manufacturing process at the heart of Tisru has been a top secret of the Federation, and they have never sold more than 1,000 tons of floating ships abroad, even small yachts and cargo ships. The core of any floating ship is tightly wrapped in a metal shell, and there is also an inducing magic circle engraved inside. There is naturally no problem in starting the ship, but if someone has some bad idea and forcibly dismantles the shell or uses perspective magic to peek into the internal structure, the inducing magic array will activate immediately. Massive amounts of wind elementals will turn into earth-shattering tornadoes, turning cores and wrongdoers, and entire ships into dust.
For this reason, the big and small forces in the surface world have long coveted the manufacturing technology of floating ships, but they can only beat their chests and watch the Federation's troops float above their heads, but there is nothing they can do.
Sure enough, when the term was mentioned, Sehireu had already stood up with a "whirl" on his face, his face full of undisguised anger.
"Tisru Core? How can it be? β
"It's impossible to do nothing, only dare to do it." Lu Xi replied very admittedly.
"However, how could he, a small military attachΓ© counselor, have access to such top secrets of the Federation, and how can he talk about betraying them?" Worthy of being an honor student, Seyriliu quickly got to the center of the problem.
"So, it's just suspicion."
In March of this year, a small, old-fashioned floating boat was ready for its last voyage. Its destination is an old shipyard affiliated with the Federal Army, which is planned to be decommissioned and destroyed, and the Tisru nucleus that comes with it is supposed to be rebuilt. However, just before the ship started, the captain discovered that the Tisru nucleus attached to the trap room was gone. Along with it, the ship's captain was gone. β¦,
The size of the Tisru nucleus is directly proportional to the size of the floating ship, if it is a large warship of several thousand tons, the nucleus is about the size of a horse-drawn carriage, and a small ship like this one, with only a dozen members, needs a larger leather case at most.
The Federation soon secretly wanted the chief, and all the covert forces were in action at that moment. Three days later, the body of the head of the agency was found in a remote town of the Federation, but of course, no Tisru nucleus was found. However, according to the information gathered from eyewitnesses, the chief of the agency has been staying in the hotel since he came to the town and has not come out. It wasn't until the night before he died that he saw a man in the tavern. Memories of witnesses extracted from the mnemonics of the magician GuΓ² soon resulted in the appearance of the mysterious man.
"That mysterious man is Bars, isn't he?" Sehiraeus asked. After getting Lu Xi's affirmation, she asked again: "So, we can completely arrest us, what are we waiting for?" β
"This is not a prisoner. The key problem is the Tisru nucleus," Lu Xi couldn't help but smile bitterly, "That's the 'nucleus' that is more hostage than all the hostages." If I were Bals, I would have hid the nucleus in a secret place and find a few unwitting friends and say to them, 'If something happens to me, I'll give this thing to that person.'" At that time, it will be the so-called one-shot split, even if we catch the prisoner, what is the use of not being able to get the nuclear back? β
"How can you be sure that guy hasn't taken the nuke yet?"
"It didn't matter, when it was determined that the guy was a suspect, there was already a covert team member on the spot, and he had been on vacation at his home on Ceuta Kong Island from March to May, and only returned to Radiant City in June to report on his duties. The people who came into contact with him during this period have been investigated, and there is nothing suspicious. Although the Tisru nucleus was not found, it is at least certain that he has not yet made a move. Now, all we have to do is wait, and when that guy makes a deal with the other forces, we will get the stolen goods! By the way, knock on those buyers who are eyeing it! β
"And this time is the emperor's 80th birthday celebration, and tourists and missions from all over the world enter the city every day. If you want to make a move, this is also Bars' best chance. That's the idea you're fighting, isn't it? β
"Yes, that's right. Therefore, it is up to you, the assistant and Lim, to take care of them a lot, and the task of monitoring him can only be left to you. After all, I'm also a so-called counselor military attachΓ©, and my goal is too big. β
"I'm going to get it done." Sesiluk nodded firmly. Then, she groaned slightly, and sighed again: "To be honest, I really can't imagine that ordinary uncle has the ability and courage to do such a big thing. That's really ...... Shall not a man be a disfigurer? β
That's what I'm going to say next. When arresting is carried out, it must be caught alive. If there is no backstage, I don't believe that a small military attachΓ© would dare to do such a thing. At that time, Bars's confession was very important. This is mostly for you, Lim, don't accidentally smash people into small pies...... Oops, why are you hitting me again? β
Lu Xi was silent for a moment, and then said: "In addition, if the situation changes, retreat immediately, and you must pay attention to safety." β
Sehireu was slightly stunned, and then smiled: "Don't worry, we are also a team that has captured the lich." β
Lu Xi did not speak. Will he casually tell the other party, is this mission to recapture the core of Tisru marked as "A-grade" on the system? If there is no danger, will the system be so comfortable to brush up on experience? β¦,
Mission Statement: Tisru Nuclear Crisis (Class A). If the Tisru nuc is acquired by a foreign hostile power, the position of the sole ruler of the federal sky will encounter an unprecedented crisis. As a brocade ...... Ah, secretly traveling in the imperial history, you must at least prove that you are not a mixed meal.
Success Rewards: 15000 XP, 20 Attribute Points, 5 Skill Points, +1 Opinion of the Alliance of Knowledge.
Failure Penalty: None...... Well, please consider it carefully, dear.
Lu Xi has already taken on a lot of tasks without failure punishment, but they are generally small tasks such as "watering the flowers for the neighbor Uncle Zhang" and "buying vegetables for Aunt Li in the neighborhood" such as D-level and E-level. A well-paid A-class mission doesn't even have a penalty for failure, but it's suspicious how you look at it. In this regard, Lu Xi can only understand that the punishment for failure cannot be simply quantified by the system.
After Sai Xiliu and Lim left, Lu Xi pondered slightly for a while and said, "Anji, are you there?" β
In this empty living room, Lu Xi was not talking to himself. In the hidden corner, the void transparent air suddenly appeared in the shape of water-streaked magic fluctuations. A calm female voice floated out from behind the slowly swaying waves like flowing water: "Here, master." β
"How's it going?"
"No signs of contact between the subject and others were noted."
ββ¦β¦ All right. Lu Xi stood up and stretched: "Keep watching, thank you for your hard work." β
"Yes." As the voice fell, the ripples of magic gradually disappeared.
Okay, should I also go and see for myself? Lu Xi thought of it
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