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“Commander, Mr. Will of the Austro-Hungarian Empire is on the line again,” Xiao Lin reminded.

“Okay, put him through,” Dongfang Chen said.

Dongfang Chen had been deliberately delaying his response to Will, planning to keep them in suspense.

He intended to use them to probe the depths of Modo Da's strength.

“Mr. Dongfang, the military exercise is scheduled for 2 PM China time, at Istanbul on the west coast of the Black Sea,” Will said.

Istanbul is located in the border area between the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Modo Da. 2 PM in China is around 8 AM local time.

“I’m sorry, Mr. Will, I don’t plan to participate in the military exercise,” Dongfang Chen said.

“Mr. Dongfang, didn’t we already discuss this last time?” Will said anxiously.

“Last time we only said we would discuss it further, but now I’ve changed my mind.”

“Why?”

“I know nothing about the situation in Modo Da, so doing this is too risky,” Dongfang Chen said.

“Risk exists for everyone, but if we cooperate sincerely, we can reduce that risk,” Will tried to persuade him.

“Sorry, I don’t want to take that risk,” Dongfang Chen didn’t budge.

“If our attack fails, I’m afraid there will be no force in this world to restrain them, and humanity will be destroyed,” Will’s tone became a bit cold.

“So I suggest you cancel the plan and not do something you’re not sure of.”

“You can name your conditions,” Will conceded.

This was already very obvious; the Austro-Hungarian Empire's plan to attack Modo Da was firm, even at some cost.

“I need more intelligence,” Dongfang Chen said.

“We’ve tried many times, but there’s no way to get intelligence out.”

“So that further illustrates the high level of danger. Without intelligence, I’m afraid I can’t risk it,” Dongfang Chen was firm.

“How about this, we can provide you with some conveniences, you can go and try,” Will followed his lead.

“There’s no need to send people over. I can provide you with some technical support, and you can arrange for people to investigate,” Dongfang Chen suggested.

“You…, alright!” Will was very dissatisfied, feeling it was a contempt for them. But in order to make Dongfang Chen give up, he reluctantly agreed.

In fact, the closest place to reach the heart of Modo Da is the Aksu region of Xinjiang. It’s only about 1,000 kilometers away from the central area of Modo Da.

But if you were to enter from the Austro-Hungarian direction, the distance would exceed 3,000 kilometers.

However, Dongfang Chen couldn’t do this himself.

Because he still had to play a neutral role.

Once involved in the war, many things would become inconvenient to do.

From the current situation, it was most appropriate for the Austro-Hungarian Empire to do this.

The deeper the conflict between them and Modo Da, the more beneficial it would be for humanity.

“Okay, that’s settled then, the items will be delivered soon.”

Today is January 17, 2057, with only 14 days left until the Modo Da Grand Sacrifice Ceremony.

In order to improve the efficiency of the investigation, Dongfang Chen specially sent three warships and a full load of crystal cores.

He was preparing to make a feint to the east while attacking in the west. Under the guise of supporting the Austro-Hungarian Empire in investigating Modo Da, he would build an ultra-long underground communication tunnel spanning West Asia and the Middle East in segments.

This would solve Modo Da's signal shielding problem.

But how could this project be completed in just 14 days?

The only way was to deploy a large number of queen bees and carry out the construction in segmented stages.

If the deployment of the queen bees went smoothly, Dongfang Chen was confident that he could complete this groundbreaking feat within seven days.

The principle of the project was very simple, but there were two points that were more difficult to operate:

1. How to deploy. Modo Da would definitely not allow the Austro-Hungarian warships to roam freely, and they would be easily destroyed.

2. How to coordinate. The deployed queen bees would not be able to contact the supercomputing center due to signal shielding. Without remote control, unified scheduling would be impossible.

Dongfang Chen had already thought of a solution to the deployment problem.

He could make use of the Great Sun Nation's warships.

As for how to coordinate, he could only use a clumsy method.

Plan the tunnel route in advance, number the queen bees, and set the section each queen bee was responsible for.

Have the adjacent two queen bees complete the docking by shaking hands, so that the entire communication line would be connected.

But doing so created a new problem in the middle.

If a certain queen bee was not deployed successfully, or was captured during the deployment process, then the entire line would not be able to connect.

In order to solve this problem, the number of queen bees needed to be increased by a margin of 100%.

For example, if 500 queen bees were originally needed, with each queen bee responsible for 6 kilometers, then 1000 queen bees would be deployed now, requiring each to be responsible for only 3 kilometers. If a certain queen bee in the middle could not work normally, then it would skip over it and contact the next queen bee.

In this way, even if some queen bees were lost in the middle, it would not affect the overall progress of the project.