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"Wait." Brando stopped him, "Don't you want to know how long it will take for the Quiet Forest to disappear?"
Zhang Mu turned back halfway and asked, "You know?"
"A little bit."
"Talk about it."
Zhang Mu didn't expect him to tell the truth, as the two sides were mortal enemies.
As for asking even though he knew all this, he wanted to see what tricks Brando was playing.
Brando put his hands behind his back and said, "Half a year."
"Do you think I will believe it?"
The day when the Quiet Forest disappears is the day when Lagu attacks. Will he tell me the secret military intelligence of his kingdom?
"It's the truth." Brando looked solemn.
"Let's just assume you're telling the truth." Zhang Mu became interested and didn't rush to leave. He turned to him and asked, "Why did you tell me this?
Are you planning treason?"
"Brando's loyalty will always belong to Ragu."
"Go back and tell your king this."
Brando smiled and brought the topic back on track: "In short, the Quiet Forest will no longer exist in half a year, and hatred will not be the top priority for Lagu and Lake.
Mr. Zhang Mu, you are very strong and have terrifying talent. In addition to your strength, you are also good at war.
But... can these things handle dozens of Saint-level monsters?"
Zhang Mu raised his eyebrows: "There are so many holy monsters in the Quiet Forest?"
Unlike monsters, monsters have inheritance from their ancestors and their strength is usually superior to that of monsters of the same level.
"They mostly appear in the forests close to the Lagu side. It's normal that you don't know about them."
"It's close to your side, why should I be in a hurry?"
“Can Mr. Zhang Mu guarantee that since we are closer, we will definitely go to Lagu instead of Lake?
Even if most of it comes to us, the rest will go to Lake."
Indeed it is.
Zhang Mu admitted that what he said made sense, but he didn't back down at all: "After all, most people go to your side."
"As long as there are more than five Saint-level monsters entering the country, there is no point in comparing who has more or less. It is just a matter of how soon or late they will perish."
Either Lagu or Lake could only barely tie with five Saint-level monsters. Beyond this number, it was really pointless to worry about who had more or less, because it would be a dead end anyway.
Brando paused for a moment and continued, "I know a little about the situation in Lake King's capital last year. He was able to turn the situation around when it was almost hopeless.
I believe you are sensible enough."
Zhang Mu understood the meaning of his words.
The two countries had a feud, and it was a feud that had been accumulated for thousands of years, but the importance of all this was not as great as the continuation of the kingdom.
Brando believed that he could realize this and make a rational judgment, instead of just thinking about his own happiness and ignoring the overall situation.
Zhang Mu narrowed his eyes slightly, recalling the intelligence the king had received that Lagu had not revealed his magical weapons to the coalition forces: “You want to join forces?
And a kingdom that was labeled as heresy by God, and a person that was labeled as heretic?
Even if you are brave enough, can the two countries join forces to resist those holy monsters?"
"It's not that simple. Well... you'll know when the time comes."
Zhang Mu’s face turned dark and he said, “You’re pretending to be a riddle teller. Believe it or not, I’ll chop you to death.”
Just as he was about to take action, Brando turned his head and walked into the darkness deep in the woods: "We'll see each other soon."
After thinking for a while, Zhang Mu placed his hands naturally on both sides of his body, stood there, and let his back disappear into the woods.
Weird, weird everywhere.
Zhang Mu's eyes were still looking in the direction he left, and he felt that this accidental encounter was filled with a strange smell everywhere.
It doesn't mean that Brando deliberately created an encounter. Zhang Mu's visit to the Silent Forest was purely coincidental. If Palina hadn't accidentally discovered the changes in the forest, he would probably have to wait until the forest disappeared and the monsters came out in droves to cause a disaster before he arrived.
Therefore, it was impossible for him to predict that Zhang Mu would arrive at the Silent Forest today.
As for the reason why Brando came here, it was probably because of the forest changes.
After all, this matter not only affects Lake, but Lagu cannot escape it either.
“But…” Zhang Mu turned and walked out of the forest, muttering, “We can’t defeat so many Saint-level monsters even if we remember, so what’s the point of joining forces?
Or is he simply trying to paralyze me?
Forget it, let’s stick to the original plan.”
He decided to ignore today's encounter and carry out his plan as he had planned, withdrawing part of the First Army to garrison Gul. What to do next would depend on the situation.
After seeing this, Zhang Mu returned to the capital along the same route, said hello to Avril, and summoned a portal to return to Blue Star.
As soon as he landed, he rushed to Ame to find Neo and took away more than 20 high-yield nuclear bombs that had been prepared.
Later, Zhang Mu heard that Amei's spacecraft project had already started and was just waiting for the materials to arrive. He was very happy as it saved him the time of making up excuses.
Zhang Mu asked him to prepare some main battle tanks, as well as matching artillery shells and gasoline as exchange items. He would come to pick them up in a few days and also deliver the materials at the same time.
Because of the experience of China and Ying in building spaceships, Zhang Mu no longer had to prepare a variety of materials for Neo to choose from, as he did in the initial transaction. He returned to the "world" and directly picked the ones that could be used for the spaceship, and rushed to Amei again five days later.
Neo acted quickly. Moreover, the military-industrial enterprises in the United States were very keen on selling weapons. In just five days, they had prepared a considerable number of tanks and supplies.
Zhang Mu estimated the total price of these things plus the nuclear bomb based on the transaction ratio with China, and then put them all into the inventory.
Then, in front of the astonished looks of Neo and his entourage, he took out materials of equivalent value from the inventory and threw them on the ground, then activated the shadow spell and left.
He was too busy to chat with Neo.
After all, getting a tank is not the only way to go. The training of operators is also a big project.
Taking the tanks through the portal to the Sol Continent, Zhang Mu found Domit who was busy and ordered him to immediately mobilize a group of backbones of the First Army to go to the uninhabited mountains a hundred kilometers away from the royal capital.
After all the personnel arrived, Zhang Mu took out some tanks for training. He did not rush back to Blue Star and trained the first batch of tank soldiers personally.
Zhang Mu can only let go of this batch of tank soldiers after they graduate successfully.
The soldiers of the First Army were very curious about the iron lump parked in front of them. After getting permission, they surrounded it, touched the tracks and knocked on the body armor, and some even crawled in front of the gun barrel and looked inside with their eyes close to the muzzle.
Zhang Mu waited until they had seen enough and their curiosity was satisfied before he gave the order to line up.
Standing in front of the soldiers lined up in neat formation, Zhang Mu first introduced the basic concept of tanks and talked about their power.
Once the soldiers understood what this thing was used for, they began to explain how to operate it.
The process was not smooth.
Before today, they had never come into contact with modern means of transportation, and naturally they didn't know what "gear, accelerator, brake" and so on were.
Zhang Mu could only teach from the most basic posture, and then proceed to the next step after everyone understood.
This lecture lasted for three whole days, and the soldiers even had to eat on the spot during those three days.
After explaining the operation method clearly, Zhang Mu distributed the instruction manual he compiled and printed, and gave the soldiers a week to memorize it. At the same time, they also had to find time to train in driving tanks on simulation equipment.
A week later, the soldiers gathered in an open space and took an exam.
The content is divided into two parts: written test and practical operation.
The written test questions were prepared by Zhang Mu himself, and were all taken from the instruction manual. The actual operation was much simpler, just get on the tank, drive a circle and fire a shot, and you're done.
The exam lasted three hours in total.
After grading the test papers and combining them with the practical scores, Zhang Mu picked out the three people with the highest scores to form a complete tank squad.
In the next few days, he trained the three men non-stop until they had mastered the tank.
Things became easier from then on, and Zhang Mu didn't have to do everything himself.
The three men were immediately transferred to coaching positions, responsible for training the remaining soldiers to become excellent tank soldiers.
Half a month later, Zhang Mu called out the inventory, looked at the gasoline consumption, and estimated how much supplies were needed for a day of tank battle.
"War is all about money, that's true."
Zhang Mu was shocked by the calculated number and said with emotion that he would go back to Blue Star and use the materials to exchange for a batch of supplies from the Three Kingdoms, which would be enough to support the tank troops in fighting for more than three months.
And he plans to change to a three-month one in a few days.
After Lake went to war with the coalition forces, he had to coordinate the overall situation and run back and forth between Blue Star and Sol Continent without any breaks. Naturally, he had to prepare the consumables needed for the war in advance.
A few days later, he replaced the second batch of gasoline shells and prepared to send them to the Sol continent.
However, as soon as he entered the "world", he heard the director outside shouting for him.
Zhang Mu thought he would deal with him before going to Thor Continent, but when he came out and asked, he found that he couldn't leave for the time being.
More than a month ago, Zhang Mu added a sense of urgency to the director, and the effect was surprisingly good.
The director was so worried that he couldn't sleep, so he urged his employees day and night, offering generous bonuses to boost morale and optimize the construction process.
After more than a month of hard work, the spacecraft was finally completed as expected.
Chapter 338: The Xuanniao's maiden flight, all eyes are focused on it.
The news that China is about to launch a new generation of rockets was announced on its official website and reprinted by official media of various countries, quickly spreading around the world.
The upper echelons of Ami in Ying country were shocked.
Mr. Gao and Dumbledore have informed the two countries separately that China's spacecraft project is progressing very rapidly and will most likely be completed first.
They were mentally prepared for this, and the two countries accepted the fact that China was the first to launch a spacecraft, but they never expected that it would be to this extent.
How did China do it?
Neo has just started work and has not yet had a clear idea of the difficulties that will be encountered in the process of building the spacecraft.
NW was different. The construction of her country's spacecraft was already more than halfway completed. She was well aware of the difficulty involved, so she was more surprised than Neo that China had only taken about a year to build the spacecraft.
Of course, China would not reveal the details of the project. The two could not figure out the answer, so they put the matter aside for the time being and turned their curiosity to another question.