lethal arsenal

Chapter 293 Original Armor
"Discuss? What are we discussing? Is it useful?"

Ma Xinyi had always known Lin Dong's temper and warned him that if he had to take action against Sosnovsky, it would be best to discuss it with Zuo Zongtang.

At least don't do anything before signing an agreement to collect grain and grass.

Lin Dong sneered at this.

Whether it is Lao Ma, Zuo Zongtang, or other figures in this period, Li Hongzhang, the first-class, still takes the credibility of other countries, the so-called great powers, too seriously.

Rakshasa is like a wolf, and the expedition team came under various banners and names to collect military intelligence from the Qing court.

Wolf Zi's ambition is obvious. Even if he can get some food from him, the price will be high.

The Rakshasa people were unwilling to establish the political power established by the Kokand Khanate in central Asia and formed a stronghold against the Rakshasa Empire.

And Agub, who was born in the Kokand Khanate, under the banner of the Ottoman Empire, wanted to use the power of the Peacock King Cult in the Western Regions to establish a neutral country between Qidu and the Rakshasa Empire centered on the Seven Cities and Seven Rivers Basin, and give The Kokand Khanate has certain support.

For this reason, destroying the Hongfu Khanate founded by Agub was in line with the strategic purpose of the Rakshasa people.

Zuo Zongtang's expedition to the Western Regions was equivalent to giving him a helping hand.

Of course, the Rakshasa people preferred that the Qing government could suppress the Hongfu Khanate, but not win too quickly.

After the Rakshasa destroyed the Kokand Khanate and occupied the most elite areas in central Asia, they turned around and began to compete with the Qing court.

Tear off a large piece of flesh and blood from the same huge, stiff and decaying empire to strengthen itself.

Therefore, even if Zuo Zongtang didn't mention it, the Rakshasa people would try their best to send a batch of food and grass.

But don't expect as much food and fodder as the actual signed treaties.

For example, the regulations stipulate a 500 million kilograms of grain and grass, but in fact, it may be less than one-fifth.

And this amount of food and grass can only be said to be a drop in the bucket for the overall situation of the entire expedition to the Western Regions.

Placing your hopes on the kindness of your competitors is simply a big joke.

When Zuo Zongtang built this line for transporting grain and grass, his main focus was on whether there was grass or not. If he hit a pole, he could get a little bit, but not a bit, and that was fine.

Lin Dong had no intention of being polite to Sosnovsky who came from the Rakshasa Kingdom.

Of course, killing people is not enough. After all, this guy is somewhat useful.

But he must get his hands on Minerva's owl statue.

Similarly, Lin Dong did not intend to let Zuo Zongtang know about this matter. He was a gentleman in Liang Shang, which sounded a bit despicable, but... he remembered that in his previous life, Rakshasa had cut off a piece of land, and hadn't he never returned it?

For this matter, just take some interest for yourself.

There are only interests but no friendship between countries.

Three poles in the sun.

Lin Dong stood up and wiped his face. Before he had breakfast, the door of the house was knocked.

He wrung out the towel, threw it on the shelf, and went up to open the door.

"Master, we found the traces of the Rakshasa people."

After the door opened, Zhao Ergou's face full of flattery was revealed.

Lin Dong didn't follow Zuo Zongtang's path, but it was easy to inquire about individuals. He didn't have to deal with such trivial matters personally, his subordinates would take care of it for him.

Zhao Ergou was still holding a drawer of steamed buns in his hand. They were steaming hot and fragrant. "I just made them from the pan. You can try them." He handed the steamed buns over.

Lin Dong took it and asked Zhao Ergou to sit in the small courtyard. He took a bowl of salt water and gargled his mouth with a willow branch.

"have you eaten?"

Lin Dong picked up the bun and asked.

"I've eaten, I've eaten, Master, I'd better get down to business first."

"Ah."

The steamed buns that were freshly taken out of the drawer had delicious meat, and the juices could still be seen when taking a bite. Lin Dong devoured them happily.

"That group of foreigners are now placed at the end of Dongjiao Alley."

"That land is next to the embassy. It's in an excellent location. This time the earth dragon turns over, the impact will not be big. There are many foreigners and thieves coming across the sea. In addition, there are many strange buildings."

"By the way, Sauches, where we are stationed, foreigners are used to calling that place - uh, yes, it's called the Steam Club. I couldn't get in, so I leaned against the wall and sniffed with my nose. The smell was very strong. Yellow gunpowder, the smell of rusty iron..."

"Well, there is also the sound, the noise of tearing steel, the ticking sound of the air valve is very heavy, very loud. I dragged A Bing over and asked him to go inside to explore the information. A Bing only said fire, there is Fire, fire all over the sky..."

Zhao Ergou's introduction was vivid, and one can imagine that it took a lot of effort for him, a person with no knowledge of foreign ink, to get this information.

However, Lin Dong's attention obviously went astray.

"Who is A Bing?"

Lin Dong asked suddenly.

"Hey, I have a new big black dog. It's so majestic. It's a mastiff. It's tall and strong. It's bigger than the average foal. Even the alpha wolf in the mountains trembles with fear when he sees it."

"If it were a little bigger, it could be used as a mount."

Zhao Ergou said cheerfully.

"Dog?"

Lin Dong remembered that this old boy had a book called "The Law of Six Animals". With the blessing of dragon energy, he had probably already understood this book, and he probably knew the dog language by now.

After thinking for a moment, Lin Dong said: "I have on hand a copy of "Lingre Palm" and a "Lingwen Guilu Dog-shaped Fubuzo". One is for martial arts training, and the other is a secret book on how to open a Shinto altar and raise soldiers. , I will give you another decree for the opening of the altar in Lushan. You can use it to practice. How far you can practice it depends entirely on your own destiny."

"Thank you, master."

Zhao Ergou changed his mind again and was sincere.

As Lin Dong's official authority gradually deepened, Zhao Ergou became more and more loyal.

Ergou's name, ability, and temperament are almost a trinity, making him look like a vicious dog that has become a spirit.

Vicious dogs hurt people, but not their owners.

Lin Dong patted his shoulder and didn't say anything. After a moment, he looked up at the sky and said casually: "Just wait, it won't be long until dark."

……

Sosnovsky is said to be a descendant of General Rakshasa, with golden blood flowing through his body. Some say he is a descendant of the Immortal God, and some say he is a descendant of the bloodline of the ancient god Perun.

(Perun, the supreme god of Rakshasa, ruler of the sky, god of thunder and lightning)
Of course, these two statements cannot be verified, they are just a tool for him to flaunt himself.

As a feudal country like the Qing Dynasty, the Rakshasa Kingdom's reform pace was much faster than that of the Qing Dynasty.

Under the influence of nature and science, the entire country is undergoing drastic changes from top to bottom.

Although due to religious reasons, Dongzheng and the other two Holy Sees are not in the same pot, they influence each other.

When the Rakshasa Queen came to the throne, in order to secure her throne, feed the nobles, she continued to increase rewards, and led troops to conquer all over the country. The victory of many battles, coupled with the wave of change, combined to bring all the people in the entire country together. Contradictions were covered up.

The Rakshasa Kingdom, which claims to be the master of Europe, has not abolished the serfdom system, except for these basic imperial national policy systems.

In other aspects, large-scale natural and scientific reforms will be carried out almost unconditionally.

A large number of military academies have been established throughout the region. The mechanical transformation of alien bodies is the most popular among several continents, and the science of armor is unique.

There is a lot of commotion in the market, and the "Will of Peter the Great" fabricated by the Poles even circulates such content - the Rakshasa Kingdom will occupy the Pulos Strait, enter the Mediterranean, occupy the entire Europe, rebuild the order of the Third Holy Empire, and restore The glory of the great Qin in the West.

However, there are still many nobles in Rakshasa's country who believe it, and the entire country is filled with a fanatical and undiminished fighting spirit, as well as the ambition to conquer everything in sight.

At this moment, the entire country of Rakshasa is burning and crazy.

They are wrestling with the sun in central Asia, trying to get involved in the poisonous country.

And Sosnov, who graduated from the Supreme Military Academy, has excellent skills as a pioneer in gathering intelligence.

Lin Dong was not going to kill people, but to get things. For such a strategic purpose, of course he had to take advantage of the night to act.

At midnight, the clouds were thick and the night was dark and moonless.

"General Sosnovsky, I came to see you and brought the best spirits. In addition, Zuo Zongtang has agreed to our request and agreed to open the tea market."

Amidst the knocking on the door, a strong man wearing a blue uniform with gold thread and a warm hat on his head, with a high nose and deep eyes, opened the door.

Opposite him was a short black man carrying two bottles of spirits. In the already dark night, this slave-like character almost completely melted into the night. Only a few white teeth could barely remind him of his existence. .

Boom.

The nearly eight-foot-strong man grabbed the bottle and started drinking it.

Sosnovsky leaned his head against the door and drank the drink almost in the blink of an eye.

"Damn, that's not what I want. I want vodka, stupid."

Sosnovsky said coldly, threw the bottle away, and then stepped forward and pushed the black man away. "It's a good thing that Zuo Zongtang can agree to us. However, even if you bring good news, you can't go in. I really don't understand what His Majesty is thinking! He would put you, a guy who is full of curry smell, , put it next to me, Akasa, please keep a distance of three meters from me, thank you."

The Rakshasa Empress assigned an attendant and assistant to the best military strategists, adventurers, and elite scouts in the academy who were originally sent out.

It is used to help those who have extraordinary talents in certain aspects to deal with various trivial things in life.

Sosnovsky was unlucky to be matched with this young man who came from a self-addicted family.

This guy's skin is as black as coal, his eyes are like black diamonds, and he speaks seven or eight languages, including the two Mandarin languages ​​of the Qing Dynasty, Manchu and Chinese.

He said that he was of the Kshatriya caste, a child of a noble family in terms of body poisoning, and he also had certain mechanical skills and could control the latest armor device developed by the mysterious transformation machine No. [-]. It was true that he was a millionaire. There is no talented person among them.

It was precisely because of this that he was chosen by the Empress to clear various obstacles in Sosnovsky's path.

Oops, really bad!

Rather than this dark-skinned boy, Sosnovsky hopes to be matched with a sugar baby with blond hair and strong lips.

A scumbag whom he met by chance was not the favorite of Mr. Sosnov.

Perhaps Akasa was used to the rejection from the General, so he stepped back more than a foot and shrugged helplessly.

"What conditions does he have?"

Sosnovsky asked rhetorically.

The vast majority of people understand this simple and unpretentious truth - there is no free lunch in the world.

"Grain, 500 million dans of grain."

Akasa said with a serious face.

"how is this possible!!"

Sosnovsky roared and grabbed the door frame with his rough fingers, almost sinking into the wood. He obviously had considerable strength.

"He's dreaming."

Wooden stubble fell continuously.

"Uh, but General, I think we might as well pretend to agree to him first, but actually..."

Akasa tried to explain his reasoning and scratched his nose in embarrassment, but the other party didn't listen at all.

"Impossible, never. If we hadn't been unable to withdraw our hands during the Eastern War (Cromean War), this place would have become our province long ago..."

Sosnov cheered.

"That impossible general, instead of talking nonsense, I think you might as well drink yourself two more bottles of vodka." As Akasa's slightly mocking voice fell, Sosnovsky suddenly stretched out his big hand. He tightened his grip on Akassa's collar: "Boy, you are getting bolder and bolder. Are you looking for death?"

"No no no!"

Akasa raised a finger, shook it gently, and sealed Sosnovsky's mouth.

This moment was like a dynamite barrel being lit.

Sosnovsky punched Akassa hard in the face. With his huge fist and immense power, Akassa was directly thrown away, like a deep-water howitzer, blasting the ground. A deep pit was opened in the yard.

The clods of soil were scattered and the dust was billowing. Alkasa was like a piece of black rubber that had been beaten to pieces.

The hands and feet that separated and flew up spontaneously crashed into the body in the center of the pit.

The tall oak tree planted in the courtyard was hit by Akasa's broken arm just now, causing a huge dent.

The left hand embedded in the wooden stake couldn't help but tremble. After a moment, it broke free and flew back into the pit.

"General, why are you destroying these poor flowers and plants? It's not like you don't know that you can't kill me. It would be bad to make such a big noise and wake up the original armor in the backyard."

Except for the damage to his clothes, the black man Akasa got up as if nothing had happened.

Sosnovsky's eyes were filled with blood, and his gaze was like a quenched red-hot sword. "Do you really want to die?" he said with an extremely cold tone, his tone seemed to be mixed with a piece of solid ice.

"Okay, no more joking. General, look at what this is?"

Akasa took out a round thing from the pocket of his pants, a white bead with a milky white, magnificent halo like moonlight.

"This? How would I know."

Sosnovsky asked with a frown. Even though he was far away, he could still sense energy from the beads, a completely unfamiliar strange wave that was neither steam kinetic energy nor electromagnetic energy.

"It's worth a thousand pieces of gold. It's a gift from Mr. Zuo."

Akasa raised his neck and even changed his name.

"How many benefits did you receive from him, you bastard."

Sosnovsky was extremely angry and said that he would take action again to teach this rubber man a lesson.

Unexpectedly, Akasa continued to introduce at this time: "This is given to you by Mr. Zuo. It is said to be a treasure refined by the local Tianli Sect. It is called a sensor bead. It can predict dangers within [-] meters around it. Usually it is white. , the more dangerous it is, the redder it will become, and it can reveal people’s fate.”

"By the way, I asked the people at the pawn shop. The silver is worth at least 3000 to [-] taels. If converted into silver coins, it is about five to six thousand rubles in silver coins."

Akasa shrugged his shoulders and said indifferently.

"Six thousand?"

Although this number was not particularly exaggerated, it still made Sosnovsky raise his eyebrows.

"Generous left."

He also changed his tune.

"Well, if, I mean if, if it can be ten thousand, no! At least ten thousand silver coins, I think I can convince the Queen to consider his proposal, of course just consider... And if it is fifty thousand silver coins, mercy The queen will definitely agree to help our old neighbor in the east. You, please remember to tell him this tomorrow..."

Sosnovsky said, stroking his chin and calculating.

"Of course, my general, that's a full fifty thousand silver coins. It can completely replace the original armor with a new engine and a new set of skins."

Akasa bowed and snickered.

"Humph."

Sosnovsky held his head high and snorted from his nose, but what he was thinking was - at this time, it would be nice to have a bottle of pure vodka, I need it.

"Boy, do your job well. I will not forget your achievements in front of the Queen."

Sosnovsky said this to Alkasa who turned to leave.

"Thank you very much, will..."

Akasa turned around and saluted again.

At this moment, before he finished speaking, the white beads in his hand started to get hot.

Not to mention, the beads turned from white to bright red at a speed visible to the naked eye, so red that they could almost bleed, and even faintly turned purple and black.

The energy in the manor suddenly changed...

"No, someone is touching my original armor."

Sosnov's expression suddenly changed, he turned around and ran towards the courtyard warehouse.

"General, no, it's dangerous, General."

Akasa tried his best to remind.

However, at this time, Sosnovsky could not care about this.

The original armor was everything to him, the fire of life and the light of desire.

It is honor, status, and various embodied symbols of power.

Without the original armor, in this terrifying man-eating swamp in the Far East, his fate will be destruction, and even the Queen will not forgive him.

You must know that there are less than thirty such machines in the entire Rakshasa Kingdom.

This is a weapon used to suppress a country and deter the Europa Islands.

During this trip to the Far East, he also spent countless costs to invite such a terrifying magic weapon.

"General!"

Akatha shouted sadly.

Boom!

From the cloud-covered sky, an arc of lightning struck down towards the warehouse.

The purple thunder light lit up the entire backyard in an instant.

(End of this chapter)