Gold is Justice

Claude nodded and turned to leave.On the contrary, Little Arthur glanced at Mei Liti over there, and said, "Ma'am, tomorrow, when will we pick up my sister before we go out to play?"

After hearing this, Claude frowned slightly, reached out and pulled Arthur's sleeve, and said, "Be like a real apprentice knight, don't say such things, it will cause trouble for the lady and Aunt Suta."

But Arthur waved his hand away from Claude's pull, turned to Alice over there again, and said with a smile: "Sister, you are so beautiful! My sister is as beautiful as you, no, It will definitely become more beautiful in the future! I want to play with my sister tomorrow, can I come and take her out tomorrow?"

Seeing Arthur's enthusiastic expression now, Alice couldn't help but smiled and said, "Thank you very much for playing with my little sister today. Do you... really like my little sister?"

Arthur nodded immediately: "I like it! Why don't you like it? Sister Mei Liti is so cute, of course I like it, I like it very much!"

Alice smiled again: "Then are you willing... to protect her for the rest of your life and prevent her from any harm?"

Seeing that Arthur was about to promise others casually again, Claude behind finally couldn't hold back, covered his mouth, and dragged him away at the same time, saying as he walked, "Knights can't promise casually." You really don't know what others can't do?"

As he spoke, Arthur was dragged out of the room, and he finally let go when Claude closed the door with his backhand.

At this time, Arthur saw the flickering lights through the window, and also saw the shadows of the queen and the leader reflected on the window. He couldn't help but put his hands on his hips, smiled hehe, and looked at his own with Claude. Go to the residence.

"I just said something casually. Do you really think I'm serious? That's the daughter of our enemy. If you coax me a few more words, it's just coaxing. Why are you so nervous?"

Seeing Arthur put on that frivolous look again, Claude frowned even more, and said, "Whether the other party is the enemy's daughter or not, Little Sister Meliti is innocent. What if she wakes up at that time?" I came here, and I heard that you promised to protect her for the rest of your life, but if you couldn’t do it later on, wouldn’t you be deceiving others on purpose? This is against the chivalry that Aunt Suta taught us.” Seeing that Claude is so on the line now, Aya Se snorted again: "Isn't it just to deceive the little girl? The people from Lanwan came to us this time because they were uneasy and kind. It's hard to say what will happen to our relationship in the future. Are you still worried that I won't be able to deceive you?" Liar? Don't worry! In a few days, the queen's visit should be over. When they leave, I'm afraid they will never see each other again in this life, why are you still entangled in this?"

Seeing Arthur's understatement now, Claude became a little nervous instead.He turned his head and saw that the guards of the blood race had taken up the protection work and squatted on the roof of the lady before he could walk towards the residence with Arthur——

"Oh, maybe we won't meet again in the future, so you can lie to people casually? Don't forget, Ms. is my sister's godmother. In terms of status, my sister will call Ms. Madam in the future. How can a lady ignore her younger sister?"

Hearing these words, little Arthur rolled his eyes, and suddenly seemed to understand something, stretched out his hand and hooked this good opponent's shoulder, and smiled cheerfully: "Hey, Crowe De, you don’t seem to have any interest in those sisters and sisters on weekdays, why are you so interested in this little princess this time? Hmm, yes, but it’s true~~~! Meili Little sister Ti is indeed beautiful, with fair skin and a beautiful face. And there is such a beautiful mother, I heard they say that woman is the number one beauty in the Blue Bay Empire, right? Then Mei Liti will also be the number one in the future A beauty? Hahaha, it's understandable for you to care so much!"

Claude was slightly taken aback, then pushed Arthur's arm away, and said: "Our sisters and sisters can fight, what interest do they need from me? Besides, who do you imagine me as? My sister is beautiful, This may not be a good thing, but it may be a bad thing! Have you ever thought that since Lan Wan dared to let the queen and the princess come to us, it means that they are almost complete for the people of Lan Wan? It's worthless. Even after they go back, their situation won't be much better, won't you be worried?"

Arthur continued to hold the back of his head with his hands, strode forward, and said as he walked, "I don't care about it~~~! There are so many people in difficult situations in the world, can I care? Do you think If you want to care about that younger sister, you can take care of it yourself. If you feel uncomfortable, you can go with them when they go back. Anyway, I think that after these few days, Melitty Bilan will be completely out of my life Disappear. In that case, why waste so many feelings?"

Seeing that he couldn't talk about this friend, Claude had nothing to do now, he could only sigh, turned his head, glanced at the house where the lady lived, and left with Arthur.

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The days of the mission's visit passed quickly, but the short period of seven days seemed to pass in the blink of an eye.

During these seven days, the Mermaid Army and the Blue Bay Mission discussed many issues related to trade, military, and economic cooperation.There is perfunctory in this, but there is also serious treatment of each other.Some projects were negotiated, but others had to be put on hold.

During these seven days, the imperial army... no, it should be said that the Duke's army is indeed marching towards Shannan Province.However, before they officially entered Shannan Province, they had already received the news that the Mermaid Army had prepared themselves.At the same time, they hadn't heard the news of the Queen's assassination of the leader of the Mermaid Army or the Queen's execution for a long time, so they didn't dare to act casually, so they could only continue to drag on like this.

During this process, Alice never made such an aggressive move as on the first day.She doesn't understand diplomacy or internal affairs, so every time she negotiates, she just sits at the negotiating table as a facade figure, and all matters are discussed by those specialized officials.

And after the meeting, she would immediately travel with Ariel hand in hand, or go out for a walk, or take an element car together to find some scenic spots in the Qiongshen Mountain area.

Every time this happened, Melody would go out with those two "apprentice knights" and have a good time.It can also be regarded as lightening Alice's burden of taking care of the children.

Finally, on the seventh day, after the envoys sorted out all the things that should be discussed and discussed with the mermaid army, the team finally planned to withdraw.

"I didn't expect you to leave so soon. If possible, I really want to keep you for a few more days."

There was a little loneliness on Ariel's face, and her expression became even more depressed.

Alice sighed, reached out to hold Ariel's hand, and said, "Sister, just like you persuaded me, I also want to persuade you. The imperial power monarchy has been practiced for thousands of years, even in the It has always been like this before the Demon Sealing War, and it has always been like this since ancient times. Are you really sure that the path you are taking is different from the history of so many years? History always repeats itself.”

Ariel sighed slightly, and said: "Miss, you don't need to worry about my affairs. In contrast, since the two of us can't reach a consensus on military management, I still hope that we can reach the most basic Mutual trust. Or... let me put it more bluntly, both of us should be prepared accordingly."

Hearing what Ariel said, no matter how dull Alice was and how ignorant of military deployment she was, she knew that these words were equivalent to the mermaid army's ultimatum to the Blue Bay Empire.In this regard, she couldn't help taking a breath, and her whole body was slightly unsteady.

The queen turned her head and looked at the houses all over the mountains, as well as at the elemental factory that was constantly emitting heat in the distance, and those elemental vehicles wandering on the mountain road.

Look at the thick barn again, everything seems to prove one thing——

The mermaid army is about to start.

Seeing this, Alice couldn't help but silently clenched her hands. She looked at Ariel, as if she wanted to say something more, but at this moment, Ariel's eyes were no longer the gentle look she had just seen her relatives.

On the contrary, these eyes are already full of fortitude and determination.This is a pair of eyes of a leader, a pair of eyes that know what they want to do and how much it will cost to do this kind of thing, but they will still decide to do it after weighing the pros and cons.

Alice had never seen this kind of look in her husband's eyes, but on the contrary, she had seen it in the eyes of the late Menglang Bilan.It's just that this time, the firmness and fortitude in the eyes of this girl who used to be her personal maid are more stable and unquestionable.

At this point, Alice also knew that what she said was useless.After hesitating for a while, he finally could only sigh, turned around, and greeted: "Meilitie! Where are you? We should go!"

Not far away, Mei Liti was on tiptoe looking at the mountain road in the distance.But waiting left and right, it seems that there is nothing to wait for.But just when the little girl turned her head sadly and wanted to go back to her parents...

"Sister Mei Liti!"

Suddenly, a voice came.Mei Liti was taken aback for a moment, turned her head hastily, then her eyes lit up, and she happily ran towards the two people over there.

"Brother Claude! Brother Arthur! You...you still come to see me off?"

Claude nodded lightly, with a little worry written on his face, and at the same time a little bit of reluctance.However, the child still maintained his mature appearance, and handed over a box of shortbread in his hand: "Don't be hungry on the road. I know you like to eat our shortbread, this is my begging lady, it's hard work Make a box, you have to keep it for eating on the way, and pay more attention when you go back, you know?"

After taking the shortbread in Claude's hand, Mei Liti smiled into a crescent moon and nodded: "Thank you brother Claude, I knew that brother Claude must care about me. Then..."

As she said that, Meliti's eyes aimed at Arthur, who had a reluctant face beside her.

Claude also gave Arthur a slight push and winked.

Seeing this, Arthur reached into his arms with some reluctance, took out a water-blue rope from his pocket, and waved to Meliti again: "Come here, sister."

Meliti leaned over with a curious face: "Brother Arthur, what are you doing—oh! Brother Arthur! It hurts so much!"

Arthur didn't care about Meliti's complaints, he held a piece of hair from her head in his hand, and intertwined it with the water-blue rope in his hand very skillfully, then took Meliti's hand, A knot was tied around her wrist.

"Huh... the blessing of the water god, the place of the soul; protect the life and sacrifice, and pray for peace. Knot."

As Arthur's words fell, the water-blue rope flickered on Meliti's wrist, and then tightened suddenly!It's as if it's going to be embedded in the flesh of her wrist!

Such a violent contraction naturally startled Mei Liti, and the tightened rope choked her flesh also caused her pain, and she immediately wanted to pull the rope.But Arthur held down Meliti's hands, preventing her from pulling them.It waited until the rope was completely caught in the flesh of Mei Liti's wrist, and finally disappeared, and her wrist was completely restored to its original state.

"It hurts! Brother Arthur, your wrist hurts...why are you bullying me! Woooooo...I hate Brother Arthur! Brother Arthur is so mean!"

After Arthur let go of his hand, Mei Liti quickly checked her wrist, and after confirming that there were no water marks on her wrist, she blew her nose at Arthur angrily, and then hugged the shortbread Turning around, she ran towards her mother.

Arthur just snorted coldly.But Claude next to him frowned, stepped forward and said: "Are you crazy? Don't you want to be a brave man? This is the last power given to you by the fairy in the lake. If you just waste it in vain, in the future you How can you compete with me? Besides, I have prepared gifts for you before, why don't you use them?"

One Thousand 620 Chapter Two The Opening of a New Battle

Regarding Claude's worries now, Arthur still rolled his eyes, took out a small bag from his arms, opened it, and inside was a carefully polished stone pendant, and said, "Who are you bluffing? Oh, you Send delicious food, and I will send a stone that can be seen everywhere? Do you think a little princess will have this thing? Cut."

After speaking, he didn't delay anymore, but turned around and left directly.

Seeing Arthur's current handling, Claude could only sigh and leave together.

On this side, Ariel is also saying goodbye to Alice now, watching the staff leave one by one and go down the mountain.

This diplomatic act may be considered useful between the two parties, but it is indeed of little use.In addition to allowing Ariel to see more clearly that the strength of the Blue Bay Empire has become so weak, it is extremely sad that even in this situation, the two parties still need to intrigue each other.

But even so so what?

Not only will it take up to 50 years to conquer humans, but it may also take 50 years for humans to unite with each other.This war will probably be a very long battle for both sides.

After sending away all the members of the mission, the base area is now back to normal again.

And for Ariel, now is also the beginning of preparations for the next battle, everything has to start to prepare.

"Ma'am, since we have not been able to reach an agreement with Lanwan now, is our next move to attack Lanwan immediately and annex them? Or continue to maintain the route of fighting against the Demon King Army?"

At the strategic meeting that night, the generals and guild members of the mermaid army had also arrived again, and they began to discuss the next strategic goals.

Ariel looked at the map on the wall, then looked at the many documents on the table, and the faces of the participants present, and said: "Originally, it should be our responsibility to investigate the Blue Bay Empire. The remaining troops pay a visit, and if they disagree, we will attack. After all, we have made alliance requests with them many times before. They have stabbed us in the back after agreeing to the alliance, and they have also refused in person. So If they disagree for the third time, even if our mermaid army is only for them, there will be no pressure."

"But now, the other party has sent a queen of a country to us to form an alliance to discuss how to deal with the Demon King's army. In this case, if we attack them immediately after the other party visits and leaves, our slogan and Faith will definitely encounter suspicion from some other countries and rebels. At least, it will also generate a little vigilance when contacting us."

Buzz Mackerel folded his hands in front of his chest, and now he said slowly with an indifferent face——

"President, we need to take our reputation too seriously in our actions. I heard that you recently stopped a secret assassination of the emperor of the Blue Bay Empire? It seems too restrained to be cautious everywhere."

Among the participants present, there were those who agreed to assassinate the Emperor Lanwan. After all, the current Emperor Lanwan is useless, and the royal family member who has the right to inherit is either the seven-year-old prince Menglang Bilan, or The six-year-old princess of Tide and Bilan who came together for the envoy's visit.No matter who is in power, it is destined to mean that the Blue Bay Empire will become more divided, weaker and easier to defeat.

However, such a proposal was directly rejected by Ariel.

"I'm here to say it again now."

Ariel took a deep breath and said slowly——

"We, the mermaid army, absolutely cannot do any assassination, kidnapping or other acts targeting important figures in other organizations. Perhaps for those empires, they like assassination, which directly erases the thorn in their eyes, but the goal of our mermaid army It’s not just about destroying the enemy physically. We want to let many common people who have not joined our mermaid army know that the mermaid army is a trustworthy army. We will never engage in tricks such as terrorist assassination, and all criminals will To be sent to court for justice rather than to be killed without any refutation. We must have confidence that what we want to seize is fundamentally different from what the empire wants to seize, and we absolutely We will not use terror to achieve our goals. Please keep this in mind.”

As Ariel's voice fell, everyone present said you look at me, I look at you, and stopped talking.

Seeing this situation, Ariel brought the topic back and said, "Now, because of Lanwan's initiative to seek peace, even if there are still many things that we have not reached an agreement on, we are not suitable for direct attacks. And, since the other party is willing to cooperate with us, we can still carry out some cooperation projects first.”

At this point, the jelly on the side took a step forward and said slowly: "President, since it is not convenient for us to directly tear ourselves apart with Lan Wan, can we carry out some tentative attacks on the occupied area of ​​the Demon King Army now?"

Ariel nodded and said, "I have the same idea. How do you want to fight?"

Jelly walked to the map, looked at it for a while, raised his left hand, and an iron piece floated up in his palm, clicked on a position on the map, and said——

"After receiving the magic blood, those monster legions seem to be able to achieve strong combat effectiveness for a long time, and they don't need much supplies. The reason why they occupy human settlements is largely to be able to transform their battles as much as possible Source of soldiers. However, so far, the troops of the Demon King’s Army that we have seen have never sent out a large number of sources of soldiers. It is conceivable that even if it is to transform humans into monsters, there are also those who are suitable for transformation and those who are not. the difference."

"Miss Sweet Wine Cheese has personally seen the scene of those monsters transforming humans through some blood-red liquid. Then, this should be the blood magic that Miss Mochi mentioned earlier."

"If this is the case, then I would venture to predict that the blood of this blood magic should be their source of power. In other words, it is their 'supply'"

"So, if we can occupy this small town in one go, then we can cut off the connection channel between the front and rear Demon King's army in one go, causing the Demon King's army on the front line to lose their supplies and wait to die."

"Of course, this is still a very rough proposal, but I have also talked about this idea with everyone in the past few days, and I have also mentioned it to the people of Blue Bay. Aid us when we attack this town."

Ariel looked at the spot pointed by the iron piece, lost in thought.While she was thinking, someone among the generals stood up and said, "That's right, Mr. Fleiser has indeed discussed with us a lot about the weaknesses of the Demon King's Army in recent days. Look, everyone, the name of this town is Woodpecker , it is located at the junction of Hanhai Province and Heize Province, and it is about a month away from our nearest base. If we can use the mobile ability of the elemental vehicle to march quickly, it may take ten days... no, if we travel day and night It should be there in five days."

"To the north of Woodpecker Town is Juyang City, a provincial city in Heize Province that was just occupied by the Demon King's army. According to the information obtained by our spies, a large number of monsters have boarded and rested in the city after capturing this city. Apart from sending a small number of monsters to patrol around every day, there is no other news."

"In the east and south of Woodpecker Town, there are large areas of hilly terrain. The terrain is complicated. Even if the Demon King Army wants to come to support, it will take a little time."

"As long as we can sneak in from the mountain to the west of Woodpecker Town, and then rely on the advantage of the mountain to cover Woodpecker Town from top to bottom, I believe we will be able to cut off this location soon, so that the head and tail of the Demon King Army can't Link."

Ariel nodded, and said: "The idea is a good one, so what's next? The Demon King's army has a strong ability to move, even if the blood is really their supply, how many times do they eat it every few days to maintain their combat effectiveness?" ? Can our army hold on for such a long time under the attack of the other side?"

At this time, another general stepped forward and said, "No, ma'am. What we are asking for is not really to cut off the supplies of the Demon King's army. What we really need to do is to use this to mobilize the Demon King's army." All along, the actions of the Demon King Army have been too smooth, except for a few confrontations with our mermaid army, all the actions of these monsters seem to be so smooth."

"Since this is the case, if we can really cut off the node of Woodpecker Town in one go, will it cause the Demon King Army in front to immediately turn around and return to defense? After all, the Demon King Army has just captured Juyang City. The population in the city can be considered large, if all of them are converted into monsters, and those who dare to resist are eliminated with a single blow and the transformation fails, their supplies should not be much now."

"In this case, if these monsters are not in a hurry, but continue to garrison Giant Ocean City, or even send a small group of troops to recapture Woodpecker Town, then the duration of the durable combat ability brought by the magic blood can be basically determined. It can be very long. But if not long after we captured Woodpecker Town, they sent an army eager to retake this passage, then it proves that their supplies are really scarce. And, the magic blood can maintain The demonization time should not exceed ten days."

Another general snapped his fingers and said, "It's simple, just send someone to keep an eye on it for a while. It's easy to figure out how much logistics data the opponent has, and then we can infer the maintenance time of the magic blood and their supply."

Ariel nodded: "In other words, as long as you attack the opponent's logistics unit once, you can know the recovery time of these monsters. But..."

Seeing that Ariel was hesitant now, Jelly immediately said, "President, are you worried about the opponent's flying monster?"

Ariel nodded slightly.