Witch Wind

Chapter 59: Grand Curtain
Marseille Palace, Café.

Maria was drinking coffee while her two Pekingese were lying on the coffee table in front of her, licking the milk from the saucer in small sips.

Several delicate girls and two skinny men sat nearby with blank expressions, drinking coffee and eating snacks. Their movements were almost identical: they raised their hands, looked up, swallowed, and blinked, with no change in frequency.

All the people who were watching them openly or secretly felt an indescribable chill running from the soles of their feet to their foreheads.

The truth is, Maria and her group of people give people a feeling that they are too "inhuman".

The whistles outside continued to sound, and high-level officials from various countries were alarmed. Inside the coffee shop, intelligence officers from various countries were whispering to each other, frantically exchanging information from the outside world - a group of minotaurs suspected of being involved with the Virgin Mary Church had slaughtered half of the Yidoli immigrant community?
There was a commotion in the Palace of Marseilles.

Maria, who was looking down and picking up a small piece of cake with a fork, suddenly had a flash in her eyes.

She, two Pekingese, two pit bulls, a few delicate girls, and two skinny men, all had quick flashes in their eyes. Their bodies froze for a moment, then Maria took out a few bills and put them under the coffee cup, picked up the two Pekingese and put them on the ground, then stood up and walked out of the coffee shop.

"What a pity!" Maria muttered to the delicate girl beside her as she walked. "We should have asked them to gather a large amount of gold, silver and other precious metals. The huge amount of wealth and technical information would have doubled their greed and made the conflict more intense."

"But the situation has changed, which may threaten our own safety. Execute Plan No. 1, abandon the subsequent funds, leave all technical data in the Marseille Palace, and retreat directly." Maria muttered in a low voice: "First sequence, No. 1 order, protect our own safety!"

When they walked out of the cafe, hundreds of eyes in the hotel lobby fell on them at the same time.

The two elevators arrived at almost the same time. The iron gates opened with a bang, and several delicate girls and a dozen thin men walked out of the elevators. They nodded to Maria, and the group strode out of the Marseille main building.

Two delicate girls and four thin men driving six cars also arrived at the door of the main building.

There were four cars and two family station wagons. Maria and others got into the cars swiftly. The car engines immediately emitted a low roar. The vehicles gradually accelerated and were about to leave.

A Saint Ross military counselor suddenly opened his arms and blocked the front car. "Ms. Maria, where are you going? Lord Mazarev is raising funds. Do you want to give up the deal? The Saint Ross Empire cannot tolerate such humiliation. You are provoking the powerful Saint Ross!"

Maria's eyes flickered, and she muttered in a low voice: "First order, second order, keep the International Concession intact as much as possible, do not harm the high-ranking officials of the countries in the International Concession, preserve their lives, and use them as the source of war!"

Maria curled her lips and showed a smile without any trace of laughter: "Your Excellency misunderstood. We have discovered some dangers that may cause harm to us. We must evacuate and stay away from danger."

"As for our transactions and all our technical drawings, they are all in the floor we have reserved."

"We believe in your credibility, and we believe in the credibility of your countries. You can go to our room and take out all the technical data from the auction. After a while, when the International Concession is safe, we will come back and collect the promised fees from you!"

Officials from all countries present were dumbfounded.

Because of the turmoil in the Yidoli overseas Chinese community, you guys with mysterious origins and amazing moves are going to leave, abandoning all the technical data and all the auction money?

All technical information will be left to officials from various countries to take?
You even said that after a while, when the International Concession is safe, you will come back to settle all the payments?

Ha ha!

As long as you have the technical data, do you still want to get back the subsequent payment?

What a naive woman... The faces of several diplomats from Saint Rose present all became extremely interesting - they knew that Mazarev was not going to raise funds, but to contact the armed forces and prepare for a reckless action!
The Saint Ross Empire simply does not have the budget or the financial resources to obtain these technical data.

They are prepared to use force to get it for free!
They even planned to take the money handed over by Maria and others to other countries for free!

By the way, let’s kill someone to silence them!
The Saint Ross Empire is very skilled at doing this kind of thing!

But now, Maria and others felt some kind of risk. They gave up the handover and settlement. They wanted to evacuate?
"Oh, the Supreme Holy Father!" Several officials from the Holy Ross Empire who were present screamed loudly. They shouted madly in their native language, pushed aside several officials from other countries around them, and ran straight to the lobby like mad wild bears.

They howled loudly. From far and near, at least two or three hundred strong and muscular Saint Ross men, with an average height of nearly six feet, came running out with various guns in their hands, shouting the slogan "Long Live the Divine Emperor" as they rushed over in a disorderly manner.

For a time, there was chaos in front of the main building of the Marseille Palace.

Thousands of soldiers from the major powers who were lying in ambush in the surrounding landscape forests rushed out together. Their diplomats screamed loudly and cursed wildly like a group of lunatics, punching and kicking the officials of other countries around them. Everyone was rushing madly towards the elevators in the lobby.

Several Saint Rose officials rushed to the front, creating a gust of wind, rushed to the elevator door, and pulled open the iron door of the elevator.

Behind them, a diplomat from some unknown country grabbed a vase on display in the lobby and threw it at them. Bang! The heavy vase hit the back of the head of a Saint Rose counselor, shattering the vase and the unlucky guy rolled his eyes and fainted.

Several Saint Rose officials turned around, their eyes widened, their sleeves rolled up, and cursed in their native language in an extremely ugly manner.

Officials from various countries crowded in the lobby.

Except for officials from England and Saint-Norman who stood by and watched, hiding cautiously in the corner, the other officials from Idoli, Saint-Russia, Farus, the North Sea Seven Alliance, and their vassal states, hundreds of officials, started beating like wild beasts in the lobby.

Seeing his immediate boss, his immediate boss's immediate boss, and even higher-level immediate bosses fighting in the lobby, outside the lobby, more than two thousand elite intelligence officers from various countries, as well as top military elites, also rolled up their sleeves and started fighting.

Fortunately, these guys still had a little bit of rationality left and they didn't open fire, otherwise the situation would have become even more difficult to control.

You must know that although there are only two or three thousand people in the Palace of Marseilles, outside the Palace of Marseilles, in the streets and alleys around Fontainebleau Street, the consulates general of various countries have ambushed a large number of plainclothes personnel, the total number of which is as high as thirty to fifty thousand.

Even though some of them have been transferred to the Yidoli immigrant community to wipe out those damn Minotaur monsters, there are still about 20,000 elite troops from various countries near Fontainebleau Street, each of them fully armed and ready to go at any time.

With just one gunshot, the entire Fontainebleau Street, the central and elite area of ​​the International Concession that the French people spent decades building, would surely be reduced to a rubble field.

As a result, the Marseille Palace, which was considered the most luxurious hotel in the International Concession, turned into a bloody boxing ring.

Dirty words poured out in various languages, and after a while, they were unified and integrated into the official language of the Dayu Dynasty.

Amid the roar of curses, elites from various countries threw punches and kicked. Some sinister fellows imitated the Eastern gangsters and put brass knuckles on their fists. There was a constant sound of 'bang bang' and soon a large number of guys were lying on the ground with blood on their faces.

Some diplomats who were usually pampered were more cautious. Seeing that several elevators had become the focus of the battlefield and seven or eight unlucky guys had fallen down at the door, it was impossible for them to take the elevator upstairs. So they immediately ran straight to a corner of the lobby and the stairs leading to the upstairs.

Then, another bloody battle broke out at the entrance of the stairs.

Some people picked up vases, some grabbed chairs, and some kicked the stair railings in half and waved them in their hands.

The battle entered a new climax.

At the same time, at the Dagger Gang's headquarters, Xing Tianli asked the seventeen survivors of the Five Mountains Hall to sit cross-legged on the ground. He held the Magic Bamboo in his hand and danced beside them, performing the Yu Steps, leaving behind a trail of blurry afterimages.

He chanted the spell in a low voice, and the two small tripods in his body continuously released endless primordial Qi.

Under the smelting of fundamental law.

The clear air rose, the turbid air fell, and the harmonious air permeated the whole body. Strands of pure life essence and blood continued to grow from the bone marrow, and in the secret spell chanted by Xing Tianli, they turned into strands of pure and powerful innate essence and blood, which sprayed out from the fingertips and injected into the bodies of the 17 survivors of Wuyue Hall.

These men, with tough faces and yellow hair and eyes of varying shades, were shaking violently. Their bones were emitting a terrifying high temperature, which seemed to evaporate their flesh and blood and roast them.

They were like extinct volcanoes, with not much vitality in their bone marrow. Under the stimulation of external essence and blood, wisps of broken witch patterns slowly lit up in their bone marrow.

Xing Tianli's secret spell triggered the power hidden deep within their bodies.

The power of their bloodline is like a 'fossil dragon egg' buried deep in the rock for tens of millions of years. Although most of it has decayed, the bit of tenacious vitality in the core has been activated.

Their blood began to burn.

Their bones began to boil.

Their blood, their flesh, the fat in their bodies, and the little essence and blood stored in their bodies from the food they had eaten over the past few decades to grow to such a size were all burned up in an instant.

Just like He Xi, whose blood vessels were spontaneously activated, they instantly became skin and bones, and then their skin was covered with a layer of earth color.

Among them, He Duo was the worst.

Under his skin, one could even faintly see lines like dragon scales. After all, he was a generation older than He Xi, and the concentration of his blood was much stronger than He Xi's.

The more 'strong' the bloodline, the more blood and essence will be consumed when it is stimulated.

He Duo's body instantly turned into a pure skeleton. His bone marrow was madly agitated, almost swallowing his thin layer of human skin into his bone marrow.

If there was no Xing Tianli, He Duo and others would have surely died, just like He Xi before.

Xing Tianli took a deep breath and tapped the Tongtian Miaozhu lightly. At the door of the room, He Xi began to get busy. He pulled over one big fat pig after another, one big fat sheep after another, and even grabbed a few donkeys and horses that were pulling carts. He easily broke the necks of these animals and threw them directly into the room.

After all, they run a tavern, and have so many gang members to support, so the Dagger Gang raises a lot of pigs, sheep and other food all year round in their base. And because they do all kinds of illegal businesses, they also have dozens of oxen and horses for pulling carts.

These large animals were constantly thrown into the room.

Where the Tongtian Magic Bamboo was swung, wisps of bronze divine flames lingered, and all the animals were reduced to ashes with just a roll. Their huge bodies, all the blood and flesh nutrients, all turned into wisps of thick blood essence, and under the control of Xing Tianli, they were continuously injected into the bodies of He Duo and others.

The life flames of He Duo and his group, which were almost extinguished, were slightly stabilized.

Of course, the life force contained in each of these pigs and sheep is not as strong as that of aged ginseng, ganoderma lucidum, Polygonatum multiflorum, and other great medicines. But when hundreds of fat pigs and sheep and dozens of cattle and horses are added together, the vitality is quite impressive.

The lives of seventeen people were saved.

He Xi was busy himself, moving in a large amount of scrap copper and iron.

Xing Tianli took a deep breath, and as his magic power was transferred, a circle of extremely fine bronze divine light spread out from under his feet. The divine light spread out to a size of about ten feet, and the small tripod in his heart vibrated slightly. In the circle formed by the thin divine light, countless agile ancient witch patterns moved as nimbly as swimming fish.

"She!" With a light shout, all the scraps of copper and iron that He Xi had brought in disintegrated, turning into strands of hot currents that sank into his body. The two small cauldrons shook violently, and strands of mellow Taichu Qi continued to flow out. Xing Tianli did not refine it, but instead continuously injected the Taichu Qi into He Duo and others, including the busy He Xi.

The world today is the Dharma Ending Age!
Poor He Duo, He Xi and others, how many years has it been since the witch blood in their bodies tasted a trace of the primordial Qi?

It was as if barrels of kerosene were thrown into the crater of a dormant volcano that had just emitted a few sparks. With a loud bang, the entire volcano erupted.

He Duo, He Xi and the others were all yellow, and the image of Hou Tu gradually emerged on their chests. They were sweating profusely, and then the sweat evaporated. They took big gulps of air, breathing hard like fish thrown into the desert.

There is not a trace of primordial Qi in the air.

Only from Xing Tianli's palms, there continued to flow out strands of breath that made them feel comfortable all over their bodies.

The bone marrow revived and gradually turned a light yellow. The broken blood fragments in the bone marrow gradually pieced together. Along with the ethereal and vicissitudes of life's secret spell sung by Xing Tianli, the blood power of He Duo and others continued to increase and improve.

The sounds of pigs and sheep could be heard outside. The Dagger Gang members took advantage of the chaos outside and brought in a large number of livestock from the messy expatriate area. Even dozens of cats and dogs that had lost their owners were captured by them without mercy.

Well, there was also a smart and alert young man who used a fishing net to pull up thousands of kilograms of fish directly from the creek outside the tavern!
That's good!
The livestock continued to turn into ashes, and their blood and essence continued to replenish the physical losses of He Duo and others.

Strands of primordial Qi continuously merge into the blood, stimulating the blood fragments and continuously increasing the blood concentration.

He Duo and others, who were as thin as skeletons, gradually had some flesh and blood growing under their shriveled skin.

The members of the Dagger Gang were very powerful. After all, they were the local bosses in this area. They even used various legal and illegal means to move all the bacon, ham, cheese and other foods stored in nearby hotels and restaurants.

In just half an hour, He Duo, He Xi and the other 18 people consumed the equivalent of all the meat they would need for a normal life of more than ten years. Their bodies finally returned to normal, their hair and eyes turned into pure earthy yellow, and their skin also turned dry and yellow, as if they had jaundice.

But they are completely different from before.

At this moment, their physical strength alone has increased to 20,000 to 30,000 pounds, and even their physical strength alone has surpassed Xing Tianli!
After all, they are the bloodline of Hou Tu. In terms of physical defense and physical strength, they are absolutely superior to the same-level witches of other bloodlines.

A young man ran in and hurriedly reported the fight that had taken place at the Marseille Palace. Now that all parties had calmed down, they began to hold meetings and negotiations in the Marseille Palace.

"Hold a meeting to negotiate?" Xing Tianli raised his eyebrows in surprise: "Maria and the others actually retreated?"

Xing Tianli gave a few instructions to He Duo and others, then pointed to the ground in front of them. The earth began to wriggle like flowing water. Xing Tianli easily sank into the ground and headed straight for the Marseilles Palace!
"It seems that we can do it too!" He Duo, He Xi and the others stared at the piece of ground where Xing Tianli disappeared with their eyes blazing with fire. Just now when Xing Tianli performed the earth escape, a strange earth force wave rippled from the ground, and this wave touched the blood power in their bodies, and they suddenly found that they could also escape into the ground!

Even, there is no need to use any magic power.

For the shamans of the Hou Tu lineage, earth escape is something as natural and smooth as eating, drinking, and breathing. As long as their life fire is not extinguished, they can naturally travel through the earth.

"First, let's finish what the Great Witch Chief has told us to do!" He Duo's face darkened and he waved his hands vigorously: "Follow the Great Witch Chief wholeheartedly. Sooner or later, one day, we will be able to stand upright in front of those so-called direct descendants. We don't covet their property or wealth. We just want them to put the names of our ancestors back in the family tree!"

He Xi and the others were so pale that they all agreed and started to work according to Xing Tianli's instructions. They exchanged banknotes, purchased metals, stockpiled meat and grain, and stockpiled some medicinal materials that would be sufficient for the year. Just now, Xing Tianli gave them new orders to purchase sufficient quantities of high-quality rice paper and ink from different channels in batches.

When Xing Tianli takes action.

At the International Concession Wharf, a heavy bronze bell rang from the towering clock tower of the Dayu Dynasty General Customs Building.

Six cars stopped in front of the General Customs Building, and Maria and others got out one after another.

In front of them was the mighty river with dozens of piers extending into the river. On weekdays, some anti-smuggling boats of the customs and some unlucky cargo ships that were seized by the customs were moored here.

This customs dock is one of the largest docks in the International Concession, and it is also the first comprehensive dock built in such a large concession.

When the bell rang, the huge dock was empty, without a single soul in sight. The ships that usually docked there were nowhere to be seen. In the distance, on the river, dozens of large and small ironclad ships were crossing their hulls, with their black gun muzzles firmly locked on the direction of the dock.

Amid the sound of dense footsteps, a large number of Ingish and Saint-Norman soldiers rushed out from the General Customs Building and several nearby buildings. Soldiers holding heavy firearms appeared on the tops of various tall buildings, and even the thick barrels of rapid-fire cannons tilted down and locked onto Maria and others.

At the entrances of streets near and far, with the clear and melodious sound of bells, a dozen men in white robes, accompanied by hundreds of clergymen in black and brown robes, gently rang silver bells, chanted the name of the Virgin Mary, and walked out with a large number of patrolmen and soldiers, completely blocking the nearby streets for several miles.

"It doesn't make sense!" Maria looked at the large group of people coming out from all around, and a faint light flashed in her eyes: "We flew the naval flag of Yingjishi and bombarded the cathedral in public, so why didn't Yingjishi and Falushi fight?"

A thin man beside Maria whispered, "These fragile creatures, many of their behaviors do not conform to absolutely 'rational' and 'correct' logic. However, it doesn't matter. Provoking a fight between them is only a small problem of the third sequence. Compared with the second sequence mission, we let everyone see the power of the two battleships. Whether they fight or not is actually not important."

"They will fight sooner or later." Another thin man sneered. Nearly twenty thin men waved their hands at the same time. With the sound of "humming", they swung out the shining swords in their hands at the same time.

"Sword?" Augustus and Dis appeared side by side on the steps of the main entrance of the General Customs Building, surrounded by nearly a hundred heavily armored soldiers.

Those whose armors gleamed with cold metallic light were on Augustus' side; those whose armors were like insect shells, with a restrained luster and a faint glow of some kind of active light were Di's men.

Disi and Augustus both smiled brightly: "Do you want to have an ancient duel with us?"

Amid the sneers, the sword in the hand of a thin man suddenly shook violently, and the sword tip suddenly turned into a dazzling red, emitting terrible high temperature and heat. Then the red turned into a dazzling blue-green, and he swung the sword in his hand. With a dull roar, a ten-foot-long arc of plasma tore through the road with a terrifying sound, and slashed straight at Augustus and Dis.

The pupils of both of them suddenly shrank.

Although such weapons and technology were not rare in their eyes, how could they possibly appear in the hands of these people?

"Who are you?" Disi rushed forward, blood flashing in his eyes, the flesh on the palm of his right hand squirmed, the snow-white flesh suddenly turned into pitch-black chitin, and the palm that had expanded three times 'bang' caught the sword light.

A large amount of plasma splashed, and a thin red mark appeared on the palm of Di Si. The plasma splashed on the ground, burning the exquisite cloud-patterned marble slabs on the steps of the General Customs Building into a horrible burn.

Dis's hands trembled slightly and he took a step back unconsciously.

It was obviously a bit difficult to block the thin man's attack with just one hand.

"Biological transformation!" Maria's eyes sparkled. She muttered in a low voice, "Poor fellows, your body composition has determined that you can't go far on this path. The nature of living things is fragile. You who have souls and changeable temperaments are even more fragile."

"You are nature's cancer cells."

"Inferior carbon-based life forms should not even exist!"

Loud sounds of bolts being pulled could be heard from all directions. On the armors of nearly a hundred armored soldiers, fine lines lit up with various colors at the same time. Two armored soldiers with completely different design concepts stepped forward together. Such huge armors landed lightly on the ground without making any sound, and at the same time they pressed towards Maria and others.

On both sides of the General Customs Building, more armored soldiers appeared.

As for these armored soldiers, the wearers were from the Yingjishi Consulate General, such as Xing Tianli's old acquaintance Joseph, who was one of them. The heavy armor they wore was obviously far inferior to Augustus's direct subordinates in terms of rank. When they moved, the armor movements were also extremely smooth, but the "chi chi" sound of the high-pressure air jet always gave people a sense of "backwardness".

The low roar of a whistle came from afar.

In the lower reaches of the river, two giant steel ships with a tonnage of nearly 50,000 tons, carrying twelve large ships with a tonnage of over 10,000 tons, were lined up in a horizontal row in an extremely arrogant manner, tearing open the surface of the river and heading straight towards this side.

On the fourteen huge ironclad ships of astonishing tonnage, only one iron-gray flag shining with metallic luster was raised on the main mast. On the dark flag, a hideous, bony metal hand, with its sharp fingertips, picked up a ball of tiny, jumping electric light.

At first glance, the metal hand looked just like a human hand with all the flesh peeled off.

But its details, lines, contours, and dark metallic luster all reveal a suffocating horror. And the tiny electric light dancing on the fingertips makes people feel extremely smart and vivid, as if it contains some kind of wonderful beauty that makes people's souls want to fall into it.

These huge ships were approaching at a terrifying speed. When they were still more than 20 miles away from the dock, the main guns on the bows roared. Before the low sound of the guns could be heard, one after another large-caliber shells accurately hit seven or eight Yingji ironclad ships cruising on the river.

It’s a pity that these British ironclad ships, the largest of which had a tonnage of over 10,000 tons.

On weekdays, this concession fleet of England is the most powerful surface force in the entire East China Sea. It can beat or slap anyone it wants. The other countries in the International Concession have to piece together all their concession navies to barely suppress this concession fleet of England.

But with just one round of shelling, this fleet that suddenly arrived caused two 10,000-ton ships and several smaller frigates to become covered in thick smoke. The bridge of one 10,000-ton ship was hit by two large-caliber shells, and a small half of the island was flattened. The command cabin had disappeared, and the main turret at the bow was hit by several smaller-caliber shells, and the detonated shells directly blew the turret up.

With just one round of shelling, the British Concession Fleet lost half of its tonnage!
The bombardment was terrifyingly accurate.

The power is so powerful that it is terrifying.

Augustus and Di's eyes narrowed slightly. Such precise bombardment was quite interesting!
The British Consulate General officials present, including Peter Joe, had already gone weak in the knees and almost fell to the ground - half of the battleships of the British Concession Fleet just collapsed like that?
They seemed to have seen themselves being recalled to their homeland, questioned in person by Her Majesty the Queen, scolded by the gentlemen of the House of Lords, then dismissed from their posts, and even sent to a secret court.

Even if he managed to escape trial under the protection of his family, he would be sent to a newly opened wilderness colony, where he would live and die with a group of indigenous monkeys and would never be able to touch the civilized world again.

"Sir Augustus!" Joe Peter screamed.

"It's my responsibility!" Augustus waved his hand nonchalantly. "It's an outdated thing that will soon be eliminated. It's no big deal if it's destroyed. Transport more people from the East Country back. You will only be rewarded, not punished."

Suddenly, Peter Qiao and the others felt their legs no longer weak, their bodies stopped shaking, and they even had strength to breathe.

Well, compare it with the new battleships that are speeding over - they also learned that the two huge ships weighing tens of thousands of tons were built according to the drawings of the "super-dreadnought battleship" given by Augustus.

The Royal Navy of England will soon have such a terrifying giant ship.

With such a brand new big thing, I don’t have to feel bad about those broken ones anymore.

"Your reinforcements have arrived." Augustus and Dis walked down the stairs at the same time, and Disman said in a loud voice: "But it's useless. We will keep you. No one can plot against us behind our backs without paying a price."

"Especially, this world is our hunting ground and playground, and you must be our enemy." Augustus said coldly: "These warships look good, but they are just good."

Maria smiled as she watched Augustus and Dis approaching her, and as she looked at the heavily armored soldiers, she suddenly raised her foot and touched a Pekingese squatting at her feet with her toes.

The Pekingese's fur slid to the sides, revealing the dark matte metal skeleton inside. Then the skeletons slowly slid apart, revealing a fist-sized egg-shaped object in the middle that was shining with a faint light.

"You guys, do you want to see what this is?" Maria smiled and said, "If my little pet explodes, 'bang'!"

Augustus and Dis's smiles suddenly froze.

They stopped, and the armored soldiers also stopped, looking at Maria with flickering eyes.

After hesitating for a long time, Di Si whispered, "The remnants of the 'Eternal Life Church'? Damn bastards, one hundred and fifty years ago, we wiped out the last transformation altar of the Eternal Life Church and killed the last 'Quantum Bishop'. You, yes, only you!"

There was a faint light flickering in the eyes of Maria, those delicate girls, and thin men.

They all raised the corners of their mouths at the same time, revealing smiles that were completely devoid of smiles. Even the two Pekingese and the two pit bulls had their eyes flickering, their mouth corners raised, and they stared straight at Dis and Augustus with extremely malicious smiles.

Beside Augustus, two pale golden crystal eyes lit up at the same time on the visor of an armored soldier. Ripples invisible to the naked eye swept across the Pekingese, and then, subtle but extremely frequent alarm sounds rang out from within the armor.

The visor was lifted, and a woman with blonde hair and golden eyes, who was extremely cold and beautiful, came close to Augustus' ear, with a look of horror on her face, and whispered something to him in a low voice in some strange language.

Augustus took a deep, deep breath and smiled at Maria, "How did you get here? Did you find a new passage? Congratulations!"

Maria smiled and said nothing.

She and the girls and boys behind her all maintained smiles without any hint of laughter, with dim lights flickering rapidly in their eyes, and it was clear that they were madly calculating something.

Disi waved his hand gently and whispered, "It seems to be the Eternal Life Cult. These guys, no wonder they can come up with the battleship blueprints you gave them. Their level in working with these metal lumps is much better than ours."

"What should we do?" Augustus gritted his teeth and said, "We are the advance team, and we are here for vacation. We are not ready to fight to the death with those lunatics of the Church of Immortality. Besides, we can't win!"

Augustus' attitude was very lenient - with such a small number of people in front of Maria, they couldn't win.

They dare not fight even though they can win.

Two Pekingese and two pit bulls were enough to intimidate them. Even Maria and the others might have the means to kill each other. Even the fourteen warships that were approaching quickly, with the inhumane means of the Eternal Life Cult, they might have prepared a killer weapon in the warships that could completely raze the entire Pinghai City, or even the entire Jieshi County!
Disi and Augustus slowly retreated.

Nearly a hundred armored soldiers around them also slowly retreated.

The two men sent out signals at the same time, and the surrounding Ingish armored soldiers, Holy Mother Church clergy, and the armies of the two countries all withdrew in an orderly manner.

On the river, the fleet of the British Concession Fleet sounded mournful whistles. They lowered their guns, extinguished their boilers, lowered lifeboats, and began to rescue their own sailors on the ships that were severely damaged by the shelling.

Soon, fourteen huge ships arrived at the nearby river. A 10,000-ton ship slowly approached the berth. Several thin men in dark gray uniforms and expressionless faces walked out of the cabin and lowered the gangway from the high deck.

Maria nodded to Dis and Augustus, and then they all quickly walked up the gangway and entered the bridge.

Dis and Augustus watched the fleet Maria was on sail away. They didn't see that Maria brought people to the empty cockpit of the giant ship and whispered to the shining crystal screen on the main control position in the cockpit: "Eternal Life Church? It's very interesting. It seems that among these despicable and inferior creatures, there are some lucky ones who have found the right direction!"

"It's a pity that it was destroyed, otherwise."

Maria's eyes shone with a dazzling light in the same frequency as the crystal screen.

After a long time, Maria nodded slowly: "Change your face, change your identity, continue to lurk in the International Concession, and provoke war."

A cold and mocking smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, and Maria whispered: "That's right, no matter where these blond guys come from, they are just low-level creatures that will be destroyed. All the creations they build will become our kind and our limbs!"

Dis and Augustus stood in front of the General Customs Gate, which was burned into a mess by plasma. Augustus handed Disus a cigarette, and Disus took out an old-fashioned pure gold kerosene lighter, and with a "ding ding" sound, he lit the cigarettes for Augustus and himself.

The two of them puffed out a puff of smoke, and Augustus whispered, "They want to start a war!"

Di Si nodded and said, "It is in line with the practice of the Immortal Religion. Ha, optimize the population as much as possible, reduce the loss of resources as much as possible, and provide all the advantageous resources to the Immortal Religion's 'superiors' to enjoy."

Augustus frowned. "Can I really achieve immortality by transforming myself into a machine?"

Disi blew a puff of smoke directly into Augustus' face. "Do you dare to raise this question in front of your committee? The Church of Eternal Life is a heresy. This is the final ruling jointly signed by your committee and our elders."

Augustus' body trembled violently. He laughed dryly and said, "I absolutely support the will of the committee. Well, what about the technical data?"

Dis stared at Augustus with wide eyes: "Do you care?"

Augustus shook his head: "I don't care!"

Di Si said softly, "Then, let them go to war for these things. There are so many countries in the Far West, it's a bit too noisy."

Farther away, on the top floor of a building, behind the shutters, Og ​​raised his camera and filmed everything that happened on the dock. He whispered, "Interesting. These blond guys, and those strange metal life forms. Our potential opponents are very powerful, Lome."

Lome, who was wearing tight clothes, stood behind Og. After hearing his words, Lome gently waved his right hand.

In the air around her, wisps of water vapor rapidly condensed, and in an instant formed a perfectly shaped hexagonal palm-sized piece of ice, which flew out at an extremely terrifying speed and split a vase on display in the room into two pieces.

"The Lome Federation should take action. Provide secret assistance to the Dongyun people."

Oger said expressionlessly: "Assist them, build ten large shipyards, build at least fifty large docks, give them technology, give them workers, give them steel, give them everything they need to build ships."

"Time is running out, and this world should become lively again." Oger took a deep breath, and the invisible spiritual wave around him shook violently. Everything in the room, the tables and chairs, the furnishings, including the oil paintings hanging on the wall, all turned into the finest powder.

(End of this chapter)