Alien Arms Empire

Chapter 363 Chapter 363 There is a dragon

“Have you heard?” In a dark bar in Bunas, a man approached his friend mysteriously and asked in a low voice. His expression was very exaggerated, as if he wanted to reveal a shocking secret.

His friend held the wine glass and frowned at him, not knowing what scary secret he was going to tell: "What did you hear?"

　　We are all old friends. Going out to drink is just for bragging and chatting. Who doesn’t know who else’s background?

One of them is the foreman of the port handling team, with dozens of porters under his command. They have a little bit of money. They are considered middle class. Although their life is very comfortable, they are not rich.

 One person is a clerk in the urban construction department of Bunas, responsible for managing the transportation of urban construction materials. He has a little bit of power, but he doesn't have the guts to take kickbacks and cheat. He is just a small employee.

How can these two people know such a shocking secret? Isn’t it all just gossip from hearsay?

However, drinking, national affairs and shocking secrets must be an enduring topic. It must be a normal thing for two men to point out the country while eating and drinking.

 Just listen to the porter leader on the pier, seriously tell a secret that makes people laugh: "Dragon Island...there is really a dragon on it..."

Mr. Clerk, who usually goes home from work to the first line at two o'clock, certainly cannot believe this kind of thing: "How is this possible? Who did you listen to? How can this kind of thing be true?"

 Although there are still many islands in the world that have not been discovered, or have just been discovered, to say that dragons still exist is something that no one believes.

  Dragons have long been extinct. This is something that everyone is sure of. There cannot be any living dragons on Dragon Island, otherwise everyone would have known about it.

These days, if someone finds a living dragon, captures it and sells tickets, he or she can probably make a lot of money. This thing is not a secret, there is no need to keep it secret.

Seeing that his old friend didn't believe it, the little boss on the dock immediately said the familiar prelude: "My brother's friend, the one you know, is a sailor... Hasn't he been following you all the time? Is the Big Turtle sailing for transport?”

 For this kind of thing, it is naturally a friend of a friend, a friend of a friend's younger brother, a friend's second uncle's son-in-law, a friend's brother's brother-in-law's next-door neighbor...

 In short, I have a friend, I have a relative, I have a friend of a relative... This is the convention for the opening of a story.

Probably, it's like a disclaimer. Anyway, I didn't say it myself. If you want to pursue it, then you can find someone else. I just heard the gossip.

As expected, Mr. Clerk knew this person and knew him very well: "That drunkard? I know. Did he make up a story to tell you again?"

"Well... I'm not making up the story. Didn't the Big Turtle transport fabrics to Dragon Island this time?" The man on the pier spoke swornly and told the story from the beginning.

"Then what? He saw the dragon?" The clerk took a sip of wine and suddenly felt very happy. He made a sound of satisfaction and continued to ask according to his friend's words.

 Chatting, or chatting, gossiping at dinner parties, only by complimenting and teasing can the topic continue.

If we don't follow the funny words and start chatting, the topic will end, the situation will be awkward, and the drinking party will have to end on bad terms, right?

Since we have been friends for many years, we can definitely chat together, so we are not afraid of being left alone.

 The man on the dock immediately nodded and replied affirmatively: "Well, he saw something flying in the sky on Long Island!"

"Is there something flying in the sky?" The clerk raised his eyebrows. He felt that the other party might have mistaken it for the so-called dragon.

These days, there are so many things that can fly in the sky, including large kites, and hot air balloons are nothing new in Bunas.

“Yes, there is something flying in the sky!” The foreman on the dock nodded and took a sip of wine.

Burnas’ beer uses updated brewing equipment, and after adding hops, it tastes better and is more popular.

This new, processed drink became increasingly popular and quickly became popular in bars. Compared with the expensive Bunas 3-year-old or the top-quality Bunas 4-year-old, cheaper beer has become the main force of public consumption.

Meeting up with friends to have a drink at a bar after get off work has become a pastime for many men, and it has also become a new source of income for Silver Fox.

The clerk complained disdainfully: "What's so strange about this? There are also things flying in the sky in Bunas, like hot air balloons."

 Obviously, he was being a bit exaggerated.

 Sailors who can go to Dragon Island have naturally stayed in Bunas. Wouldn’t you be a fool if you didn’t recognize the hot air balloons you see almost every day?

 The hot-air balloon industry in Bunas is quite developed. It has developed to the point where wealthy nobles will hire hot-air balloons to hang advertisements in the sky when they get married. Every day, hot air balloons with slogans hover in the sky for the opening of various shopping malls, company recruitment, and advertisements for new products.

Sure enough, in response to his friend’s criticism, the man on the pier immediately explained: “No, it’s not the kind that stays still! It’s in the sky, flying!”

“Hmm, airship? Isn’t it big?” The well-informed clerk looked scornful.

  As an aircraft that is more advanced than hot air balloons and has not yet become completely popular, airships are still relatively rare.

However, the people who hang out in Bunas are all the proud ones at the feet of God. Who has not seen a little bit of the world?

Now Bunas has opened an airship passenger and freight line to Ice Crystal City. The fare is extremely expensive, but many nobles flock to it.

 This is like a trip, or simply an experience. You only need to spend dozens of gold coins to fly once, and the nobles still think it's worth the money.

What's more, it's so stable that they can sit by the porthole and drink a glass of wine while overlooking the earth. The speed is not slow, which is in line with their noble status, isn't it?

The man on the dock nodded, and then continued: "I asked him the same thing, and he said it wasn't an airship, but... how should I put it, much smaller than an airship, and much faster... He said, just breathe. Just fly away!”

With the increasing number of airplanes, gliders, and primitive passenger aircraft on Long Island, it is almost impossible to keep it completely secret and not be seen.

Some airports are built next to Dragon City. When planes take off and land, they will naturally be seen by some residents of Dragon City.

 The airport is being built in the middle of the island, and more and more aircraft are being built - dozens of Camel fighter jets alone have been built.

This thing is not like a battleship, which takes a year or even several years to build. Its structure is very simple and its size is small. If mass production is really crazy, dozens of them can be produced in one day.

The real restriction on the number of aircraft of Datang Group is actually that there are too few pilots. This profession is too difficult to cultivate, and it completely depends on the accumulation of time.

 Training pilots from scratch is definitely a very troublesome task. If you want them to fly alone, it will take at least dozens of hours of training flight time.

The first batch of pilots could only cross the river by feeling their own way, and many bold flying maneuvers had to be figured out through experiments.

If Tang Mo had not provided supporting teaching materials and personally explained flight theory knowledge to these pilots, Datang Group's pilot training might have been much slower.

 However, Datang Group now has hundreds of reserve talents who can fly airplanes or gliders.

 In order to meet the flying needs of these people, Datang Group arranges sufficient flight training every day - it is inevitable that some people will fly beyond the prescribed boundaries and be seen by people in Weigang or Longcheng.

 Moreover, more and more people are seeing it.

Especially the locals of Long Island, they have seen such flying things more than once, soaring far in the sky.

 What they saw was not necessarily a specific type of aircraft, but many strange and weird things.

 So, almost all the people who spread the gossip have different opinions. Some people said that the flying monsters they saw were very small, while others described them as very large.

 Because some people see just a small training glider, while others may see a large biplane with three engines.

Datang Group only has three types of gliders for training. If you include two-seat trainer aircraft and real fighter jets, there are even more types of aircraft.

While rumors about Long were in the air, more well-informed people also heard that in a secret factory on Long Island, the Datang Group was building many very large airships.

I heard that these airships are larger than cargo airships, equipped with more engines, and can carry weapons and fly to attack the enemy...

Of course, such news only circulates among some high-level officials, and ordinary people cannot hear it. The most they could chat about was a certain inert gas produced by their factory and sent to a secret base in the middle of Dragon Island.

 “How much did the drunkard drink...” The comrade, who thought he was well-informed, raised his eyebrows and his expression was on point.

He felt that this kind of thing was simply nonsense. Except for things like hot air balloons and airships, only birds can fly in the sky!

“You don’t believe it?” The porter leader on the dock didn’t dare to say that what he heard must be true, so he asked with a guilty conscience.

The clerk, under the influence of alcohol, slapped the table in front of him hard, shouting arrogantly: "How could I believe it... If what he said is true, I will eat this table!"

 (End of this chapter)