Age of Arcane

Chapter 182

Yomington was frightened by his own speculation. Although there is no evidence that Meteorite and his people are launching a big conspiracy against the City Alchemists Association, he still believes in his instincts.

It's just where the opponent's attack point is, and what makes them so confident that they can destroy the status of the Urban Alchemists Association in Raging Waves City in one fell swoop.

The current city of Raging Waves has been disturbed by the meteorite, and it seems that it is waiting for the final detonation.

Yomington knew he couldn't wait any longer and had to remind the City Alchemists Guild.He brought all the materials he had compiled during this time, and then hurried out to meet Orlando Glover, the president of the City Alchemists Association.

Grover is also the speaker of the city council.

The headquarters of the City Alchemists Association is next to the city government affairs building, on the west side of the government affairs square, a five-story building.There are not only official research departments funded by the City Council, but also offices set up here by a large number of private research institutes.Once a new development project appears, the Urban Alchemists Association can build a research team extremely efficiently.

It's just that the headquarters of the Urban Alchemists Association has been severely harassed by the Haijiao District Secret Affairs Bureau recently, and many tasks are difficult to carry out.When Yomington arrived, he saw a group of imperial spies rushing out of the building in a hurry, still holding a lot of documents in their hands.

Yomington immediately pulled down the brim of his hat to avoid it, he didn't want to be noticed by these spies.

After entering the headquarters of the City Alchemists Association, according to his identity, he met Chairman Glover very easily.

Grover is a human being who has halfling blood and has undergone extraordinary transformation.He is only 1.3 meters tall, but he has an extremely large head.Red hair, red beard, long sideburn hair and beard together.

The powerful mental power allowed Grover to float in the air for a long time. He shook hands with the visiting Yomington, and then floated back to his seat and sat down.With a wave of his hand, a chair placed by the wall moved to the opposite side of his desk.

"Your visit came later than I thought. I thought you would come to see me as soon as you were released from Oulu Academy, but you chose to come now."

Yomington sat down, and the whole room was filled with the spiritual power emanating from Grover, as if surrounded by an oppressive magnetic field.

Slightly getting used to this uncomfortable feeling, Yomington replied to Grover: "The attitude of Oulu Academy is very subtle. Meteor exposed our crusader project to Willred, and he saw it again. Kestrel, it affected his attitude towards us.

But I'm sure that Meteorite doesn't have all the support of Oulu College. "

Grover sighed and said: "Wilred is a very old-fashioned guy. He doesn't like me, and I don't like him either. If it weren't for his high moral line, what Oulu Academy could achieve would be far away. Not at this level.

We can only hope that his successor can be more enlightened, and bold experiments can continue to be at the forefront of the world.

You didn't come here this time to talk to me about this..."

"Yes." Yomington shifted the topic to his own purpose: "I think Meteor has used the Changxiang-class hydrogen airship incident to continuously disrupt the city's Alchemists' Association because he is preparing to attack the Alchemists' Association." s plan.

If the influence of the Urban Alchemist Association is greatly damaged, it will greatly affect our control over the city. "

Grover shook his head helplessly: "I didn't expect that I didn't pay attention to the city council for a while, and you made Rage City look like this. Now the incident of the Changxiang-class hydrogen airship has forced me to interrupt my research. Do the aftermath of this.

The explosion of the hydrogen airship was a great blow to the Urban Alchemists Association, and now we don't even know how it exploded.I asked the direct person in charge, and he said that he personally added the stabilizer into the airship, and it was impossible for the airship to explode. "

Yomington asked: "I heard that Meteor drove all the crew members off after boarding the airship. Did he tamper with the airship?"

"I don't know yet. But the manufacturing formula of the hydrogen stabilizer is strictly confidential. After all, we plan to make money from it. Theoretically, it is impossible for the meteorite to know the formula of the stabilizer, so there is no way to destroy the hydrogen stabilizer."

Yomington asked: "Is it possible that an insider leaked the secret? After all, the Imperial Bureau of Secrets is dedicated to collecting this kind of confidential information."

"The confidentiality measures of the hydrogen stabilizer include targeting this kind of intelligence theft. And I have asked everyone who has access to the manufacturing process of the hydrogen stabilizer. I can be sure that no one has betrayed."

It seems that the explosion of the Changxiang-class hydrogen airship was really just an accident, and it was a problem with the stabilizer itself.It's a pity that Meteor Xing was not killed, but he seized the opportunity to fight back.

This is also a blessing in misfortune.If Meteor really knew the formula of the hydrogen stabilizer, then his intelligence acquisition ability would be too terrifying, and there would be no secrets for him on behalf of himself.

"Sir, I feel that the Urban Alchemists Association must now make up for the negative impact of the hydrogen airship incident as soon as possible, and can no longer allow the meteorites to continue to harass it.

I know him, and he definitely has big plans for the City Alchemists Guild. "

"I agree with your point of view..." Glover nodded his big head: "Although I haven't seen Meteor, I have to admit that he took a district in Raging City for Her Royal Highness, and he did a very good job. Now Her Royal Highness wants more, of course we can't let them succeed.

The effects of the hydrogen airship explosion will soon pass, and I have found a very confident partner. "

Yomington wondered what kind of partner could bring this mess back.I am afraid that even if the imperial family comes forward, there is no way to eliminate such a large negative impact.

"who is it?"

As Grover was about to answer, an assistant opened the door and walked in.

"Your Excellency President, two people who claim to be directors of the World Bank have come to visit."

"They are here. This is the partner I found. You accompany me to meet them." Glover was very happy, and he said to the assistant: "Please go to the living room."

Yomington did not expect Grover to invite the World Bank to join the hydrogen airship development project.

The credibility of the World Bank is as stable as a star. If the World Bank joins this project, it will surely restore public confidence in the hydrogen airship project.

It's just that the World Bank's participation also means that they will take away a large part of the benefits, but it's better than losing completely now.

Moreover, it can also destroy Meteor's plan and keep the basic situation of Raging Waves City.

Yomington followed the floating Grover to the reception room with anticipation, and met the visiting World Bank director.

A man and a woman, twins, twins.

Glover shook hands with them enthusiastically, and introduced them: "Director Pan, Director Yin, this is Mr. Yomington, the Chief of Staff of the Empire, Mr. Gabriel, the Chief Assistant of the Empire, is also very interested in the development of hydrogen airships. supported."

Glover invited Yomington to meet with people from the World Bank, also to show them the empire's support for this project and to give them confidence in investment.

Pan is a very heroic young man with golden hair and a very sunny and cheerful expression.Yin is Pan's twin sister, and her performance is more restrained, a standard blonde beauty.

Although the two were from the Shuojin people, they did not show arrogance because they were ancient races.The glory of the Shuojin civilization has long passed, and now they have all adapted to their identities and status at this time.

Pan shook hands with Grover and Yomington, and after being seated as the guest of honor, he said positively: "The World Bank has always been very interested in the hydrogen airship project of the Urban Alchemists Association of Raging City. Although it had an accident, Before some new inventions are safely used, there will be some accidents.

We have seen the controllable side of hydrogen. As long as the problems discovered are solved, the hydrogen airship is still the best high-level replacement for the steam airship. "

Pan's attitude represented the attitude of the World Bank. This positive affirmation made Grover and Yomington very happy, and it seemed that things were easier than they thought.

Grover said: "This accident is a big blow to the research and development of hydrogen airships, but it is also a good thing in a sense. It appeared in the experimental stage, and we can make targeted compensation so that future hydrogen Airships are safer.

The cause of the accident may be the attenuation of the inhibitory power of the hydrogen stabilizer in the extremely high airspace environment.I will find the defect as soon as possible and fix it, this is not a difficult task for Raging Waves City's scientific research force. "

Pan replied: "Since we all have confidence in the hydrogen airship project, there is no obstacle to cooperation. The World Bank is willing to invest in this project and hopes to obtain 40.00% of the future profits of all hydrogen airship industries as this investment s return."

The World Bank wants 40.00% of the profit when it opens its mouth.

But since it is a negotiation, it is asking for a price and paying back the money when it lands.

Grover stated the conditions in his mind, which were obviously far from the World Bank's asking price.This meeting fell into a back-and-forth debate, and the investment conditions were also approaching a mutually acceptable balance point.

Just a meeting didn't close the deal.

But Glover and Yomington are already very satisfied, and the attitude of the World Bank is enough to save their current decline.Once the negotiation was over, Glover immediately revealed some news to the newspaper, that the headlines that Inspector Meteor had dominated for days were finally about to be replaced.

At this time, Luke didn't know that the plan he was advancing had the variable of the shimmering gold civilization.The Bureau of Secret Intelligence has found accounting problems in the hydrogen airship research project. The whereabouts of a large amount of research funds raised are unknown, and a lot of money has entered private pockets without any concealment.

Through searching these days, the Secret Service has found some fragments of the wreckage of the airship.The melting and deformation of the metal part is enough to see how high the temperature was at that time.

Throwing out these evidences can increase the public's fear of hydrogen airships, and then there will be a formal attack, mobilizing investors to sue the City Alchemists Association for financial fraud.

During these days, Luke never stopped studying ancient characters.He has already learned five ancient Glittergold scripts from the troll scholar Laconia. The number is not many, but every word he learns is a great consumption of spirit.

Even with such a slow progress, Laconia still marveled at Luke's talent in learning ancient characters.Every time he learns an ancient character, the written ancient character will become a mysterious prop. If he can master more words to form sentences, he can directly activate the secret technique to use the power of ancient civilization.

In order to witness the miracle, Laconia took great care in teaching Luke.

And the fundamental reason why Luke was able to master ancient characters so deeply was because of that egg of unknown origin.

The thing sealed inside the egg, he called himself Banat.Banat followed Luke to learn modern language, and the progress was much faster than he taught Luke the ancient golden script.

And he is still playing tricks on teaching ancient characters, he only teaches what Laconia teaches, and pretends to be deaf and dumb in others.Even if he could have a simple communication with Luke, he never said his identity or anything related to ancient civilization.

"It's very immoral for you to do this..." Bored Luke said to the egg in his consciousness: "I taught you so many modern languages ​​and told you so many things about this era, you just give I repay you so little? You should keep your privacy, but I rescued you here from the hands of the ancient shimmering gold people, won't you give me a little favor as a reward?"

"Do you think you rescued me here from ancient times?" Banat had mastered the modern language and was able to communicate with Luke.

"Otherwise? As far as I know, the ancient Shuojin script mastered by the Shuojin people is not enough to set such a complicated seal. You must have been captured and sealed by the ancient Shuojin people in the ancient war. I rescued you." about you."

Banat seems to be in high spirits today, and he said a few more things: "But it is also possible that after I was sealed, I was kept by the Shuojin people until now...or in the future...and then you transferred here at this point in time .

I am very curious about the power you hold, it is beyond my knowledge, even in our time, no one can get something from the future. "

Luke, who was still chatting casually, suddenly became nervous: "What do you mean? You said you are not from ancient times?"

"Although I was sealed, my perception of time still exists. According to the current time unit, you transferred me from last week to a month ago. Such a long time span really scared me.

And I also want to remind you that the Shuojin people who are guarding me now must have discovered that I disappeared, and they will send someone to look for me.I don't know if you have left any clues that they can find. If you have, you must have caused big trouble. "

From this point of view, there is nothing wrong with the secret technique of "revolving between the future and the present". This egg did not come from ancient times, but was preserved into the future by the Shuojin people.

Are there any clues left?
Does the [-] gold coupon for buying eggs count?

Luke could already imagine the expression on the face of the Glitterman when he opened the safe where the sealed egg was placed and saw a large sum of gold coupons inside.

(End of this chapter)