"You don't know?"

Roland puts down his coffee cup and stares at his childhood friend, trying to find traces of lying on his face, only to disappoint him.

"I'm not a jack of all trades, I'm not a high-level cadre, and I certainly don't know what I shouldn't know and can't know. ”

The plump buttocks of the high-end restaurant waitress faded out of sight, and Caspar replied solemnly.

"I've been on a business trip for a while ago, and when I got back, I worked with the knights of the peace to arrest fools who published illegal publications, and when I knew that the lord and the captain of the guards were going out, it was yesterday morning. ”

"You're going to raid illegal publications, and what did they write?"

What kind of books could have allowed the lieutenant of the Imperial Guard to participate in the crackdown? The inside story of the company? The exposure of illegal business operations, and the exposure of smuggling weapons?

"Nearly eighty percent of the 18X literature with the president as the protagonist, including multi-P, NTR, young girls, stockings, foot fetish, gloves...... By the way, the subject matter with you as the recipient is particularly well bought. There have been a lot of requests from readers for a reprint, and at the same time for 'a little more shame', 'more sadomasochism, SM, and femdom'. ”

"Who asked you this?!"

"There are two percent left, and one percent is the so-called 'reveal', 'truth' and the like, nonsense stall literature. There is also a denunciatory literature that enumerates the company's operations and criticizes the president as a dead businessman who loves war. ”

Does Li Lin like war?

In Caspar's opinion, the only ones who will ask this question are the fools who don't know anything about the consuls.

In the eyes of that adult, war was like anything else. It is a means used to achieve an end. He deliberately prepared for war only because he would eventually use such means if he wanted to achieve the goal of achieving a new order.

This, in turn, meant that the Archons did not care about those who were caught in the flames of war and struggling to die, whether they were humans or orcs, Albions or Charlemagne—their only value was to be statistical, to provide the necessary values for the ultimate achievement of their strategic goals.

Take the political leader as an example. There's nothing wrong with that. It can even be considered an excellent quality. However, for some naïve teenagers who have a moral purity and resist murder and death in their hearts, this quality can disappoint them and even give them a headache.

-- Just like Roland now.

"On the bright side, a local war is better than a full-scale war. ”

Caspar breaks down freshly baked lobster, and the chefs here are skilled. Creamy grilled lobster can fully whet people's appetite regardless of their aroma and appearance. Separate the red casing. The tender pink shrimp meat was exposed, but the fork and knife did not fall.

The overly calm face across the table affected Caspar's appetite.

"Okay. I admit that this is better than an all-out war. ”

Roland stared at Caspar and said in a tone that was more than just approving:

"And everybody likes it. ”

A not-so-subtle condemnation, of which humans, orcs, and elves are all condemned, and no one can refute it.

"So what?"

Caspar looked nonchalant as he quoted a quote from the Archon.

"It's a good thing that war is so brutal, otherwise someone would like it. ”

That's a good thing to say, and most people would agree with it. It's just that no one has ever taken this passage as a moral code that must be followed. In fact, when General Robert Lee's famous quote came out of the mouth of Li Lin, it had already become a kind of irony.

The president of the monopoly plutocracy, the merchant of death, the war broker - tell the world: war is cruel.

The joke is really cold and has a bit of black.

Yes, few people will like war, except for real war maniacs, or fools who don't know anything about the cruelty of war. Everyone just needs war to seek profit, and everything is for profit.

"Your problem is that you're thinking too much, war is inevitable anyway, just like right now - no one is bothering to sow seeds, humans and orcs can still find a reason to start a war, and if you don't manage and control the flames of war, the flames of war that get out of control can burn the whole world. ”

With a "Do you understand?" look, Caspar picked up a piece of cold shrimp meat, dipped it in the milky white sauce on the edge of the plate, and put it in his mouth.

"This is a social complication, and it is impossible to completely cure it at this stage, but we can control this disease and wait for a certain time when this stubborn disease can be completely solved, and at the same time, control the speed of the spread of the disease. ”

Reasonable, exemplary and correct statement.

Against the backdrop of the current general upgrade of the armament of the armies of various countries, an all-out war will be more brutal than ever, and the destructive effects it will cause will be dwarfed by those of previous wars. And due to the lack of the most basic channels of trust and communication between humans and orcs to manage the crisis, coupled with the accumulation of historical feuds, this war seems to be inevitable. In this situation, promoting the localization of the war seems to be the best and only option.

Is this a very simple choice: is it to use a local war to consume tens of thousands of lives and huge war expenses, so that all sides can calm down and return to the negotiating table? Or will the countries slide all the way to the world war, with millions of lives, thousands of towns, and fertile fields consumed by the flames of war, and the tragic picture of the final judgment reproduced on the ground?

The answer is obvious.

Whew――

Roland gave a sigh of emptiness and shook his head.

He didn't deny Caspar's theories, and he had expected to hear such an answer before meeting the old friend he had grown up with.

They were childhood friends, and just as Caspar knew Roland's strengths and weaknesses, Roland also knew Caspar's situation.

The pro-guard is not an organization that anyone can enter, and counting on the guò relationship to go through the back door will hit the head and break the bloodstream. In order to become a member of the Guard, you must not only be familiar with various practical combat techniques, proficient in combat and firearms skills, but also have an in-depth understanding of magic and Tianjing. Unable to meet the above basic requirements, they can't even touch the gate of the pro-guard.

This is true for ordinary elves, and Caspar, who is a half-orc, faces even greater difficulties and pressures. But in the end, he succeeded, and he did a very good job - not only did he pass many tests to become a member of the glorious personal guard, but to this day he even holds the rank of lieutenant, and the hardships and efforts in this process are unimaginable to ordinary people.

That's right, Caspar is really good.

To Alfheim he was an excellent warrior, to Nona he was a gentle and amiable brother, and to Roland and the rest of his friends, Caspar was a bit of a ruffian and very reliable friend.

The only problem: he is always imitating Li Lin.

Since he was a child, I don't know if it was influenced by anything, or simply worship, Caspar would always imitate Li Lin's posture and tone of voice. At that time, everyone just laughed it off, and no one took the child's behavior to heart. As I grew older, the deliberate imitation disappeared, and was replaced by the unconscious imitation of Li Lin's thinking, quoting Li Lin's speech -- this point was vividly displayed in the speech just now.

Successful people are the object of imitation by many people, which is not surprising, super successful people like Li Lin, no one imitates it to be strange, but Caspar seems to have gone a little too far.

He was becoming more and more like a kind of copy of Li Lin, except that he was not as complex and inscrutable as Li Lin.

Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing, Roland is still difficult to say, for now he can only think about the real problem.

"How's the battle going?"

"It's not very good for the people of Albian. ”

This is a discounted statement, to quote the Albians themselves, that the march has become a mess.

After a not-so-glorious start, the Wang navy began to move north and crashed headlong into a mine array. After losing three destroyers and two cruisers, the Albians finally discovered the secret of the underwater and immediately organized the killer whale riders to carry out underwater demining work.

"They tried freezing the anchor mine with cryotech, and then cutting the mooring with a cutter to recover it without triggering it. ”

Caspar lowered his voice, looked around, and smiled sarcastically.

"They thought the woolly bear and we wouldn't expect this kind of thing?"

Not only did they think of it, but they also prepared countermeasures -- mixed minelaying.

In addition to the anchor mines, V.E also urgently supplied a batch of spook mines and oyster mines. The trigger mechanism of the former is a small piece of celestial crystal, under normal circumstances, whether it is knocked with a hammer or roasted by fire, it will not be touched, but once someone uses this precision device to start the magic within 2 meters, the detonation device will immediately start to operate, and after 5~10 seconds, the warrior who is close to him will be used to the mother goddess; the latter is a kind of submerged mine that detonates with a sense of water pressure change, and the method of dealing with anchor mines has no effect on this kind of mine.

It is not impossible to get through the dead sea of Guò, but it comes at a cost, too high for the people of Albion to bear.

After several attempts, the Albians largely abandoned their original plan to storm St. Petersburg and prepared to land in Riga and then continue north. ”

"Is the information reliable?"

Roland couldn't help but ask, not that he didn't believe Caspar, but that he couldn't believe the stupidity of the move.

Riga, which had been an important military town operated by the Principality for many years, had probably strengthened its anti-landing measures before the start of the war, and hastily launched a landing in this direction? He could almost see a large group of Albion soldiers stumbling onto the beachhead and immediately exposing themselves to the tragic sight of the Principality's firepower.

"The detailed battle plan is not clear, but it is certain that last night the 2nd Cold Spring Praetorian Guard, the Royal Fusiliers, and Rear Admiral Edward Parkinson had set sail for Dover, and the Duke of Marlborough was moving towards Dover. You know—"

Caspar paused, then laughed sinisterly.

"After kicking the iron plate at sea, the people of Albion are about to step into the quagmire of the land battlefield again. (To be continued......)