Previously, I painstakingly captured the giants and kept them alive, and now I have to find a way to release them. This has added a lot of trouble for Qing Chen.
But at that ti, the A-class airships had already established a firepower suppression. If Qing Chen deliberately let them escape, he would definitely be held accountable afterwards.
He naturally wanted to preserve as much as possible the forces that were hostile to the Roosevelt Kingdom, but if he had to choose between "laying low" and "killing the giants and capturing them alive," he would probably choose the forr.
Because helping the East Continent defeat the Roosevelt Kingdom is his top priority. That's where his friends and family are.
The problem now is how to release the giants without implicating himself? He has to find the insider in the outpost base to help him.
First of all, the communication in Outpost No. 9 has never been interrupted, so it can be ruled out that soone cut the military fiber optic cables and set up additional equipnt outside the base.
In fact, military fiber optic cables cannot be casually dug up. If a construction contractor accidentally cuts them, the process would be like this: The cable was cut at 10 am, the boss ran away at 10:05 am, the person was caught at 10:30 am, and the cri was sentenced at 12 noon.
That's how efficient it is.
So, this person is more likely to be in Outpost No. 9.
It was so easy to place soone in the previous base. So, a person who can access the communication base station and communication fiber optic cables must leave a trace for Qing Chen to find.
He first went to the underground base station of Outpost No. 9 and took a look. After searching for half an hour, he found a black box that had been externally connected to the equipnt in a very hidden location.
The black box was about the size of two palms and two fingers high. It seems that this black box is the key to intercepting the signal.
Qing Chen knelt down and carefully checked the extent of the floating dust. After removing the black box, he returned to the Marquis's office to check the surveillance footage. He adjusted the surveillance footage back to a month ago and started watching at 16x speed.
Judging by the amount of floating dust, the other party should have installed the black box a long ti ago, probably between 15 and 20 days.
Then, taking advantage of the lax managent of Outpost No. 9, the other party was not afraid of anyone discovering it.
Moreover, the other party was not afraid of anyone checking the surveillance footage. The entrance to the underground base station is at a corner on the first floor of the office building. There are three surveillance caras nearby, which Qing Chen labeled as points A, B, and C. The surveillance cara at point B, which is directly facing the entrance to the base station, has been broken for more than six months without being repaired.
The videos are automatically stored for six months, so it's impossible to see how the surveillance cara broke. In other words, the other party started plotting this Giant Dynasty invasion event six months ago.
Now, Qing Chen can only judge who installed the black box from the crowds passing through points A and C. However, the first floor of the office building is the military canteen, and an average of tens of thousands of people co here to eat every day. It's impossible to check.
Perhaps...the other party knew this, so they were so confident.
Outpost No. 9 was too poor before, so only uncultured giants dared to do this.
However, Qing Chen didn't care about these things. He just seriously watched the surveillance footage, simultaneously viewing the footage from points A and C on the screen, identifying useful intelligence from a massive amount of information at 32x speed.
At this ti, Marquis Barton returned after lunch: "I took a look at the dungeon's surveillance footage. I don't know what the giants are muttering about, I can't understand it..."
"Is there anyone in the kingdom who can understand it?" Qing Chen curiously asked while staring at the screen.
"No," Marquis Barton shook his head: "The kingdom has been trying to study the giants' language, but their language is completely irregular and completely different from ours. Linguists can't decipher it either. On the contrary, so giants have learned our language."
"Mmm," Qing Chen said seriously, "We must find a way to decipher their language!"
Marquis Barton glanced at the inattentive Qing Chen: "What are you looking at?"
Qing Chen didn't tell the truth: "I'm reviewing the previous managent of the outpost base to see if there are any mistakes to correct. The war has just begun, Marquis, you still have a long ti before you can return to the Royal Capital, I have to help you manage this place well."
Marquis Barton was imdiately moved: "Butler, you're too kind!"
Qing Chen: "..."
He still has to say thank you to .
Marquis Barton said, "However, my wife said that the rit is too great this ti, and I may be transferred from the outpost base to a more important unit to serve as the main officer."
"Oh? Where is the Marquis going?" Qing Chen asked.
"I don't know yet. She said she'll bring the King's edict. The edict cannot be opened before it's delivered to ."
It was at this ti that Qing Chen fast-forwarded the video from 30 days ago to 23 days ago, and finally discovered sothing unusual in the surveillance footage.
Marquis Barton leaned over to take a look and found that the surveillance footage on the screen was playing at 16x speed. However, as soon as he saw it, the speed of the surveillance footage was adjusted back to normal by Qing Chen.
Marquis Barton thought he had seen wrongly.
Qing Chen seriously looked at a young man in the screen. In the video, he was walking like a normal soldier, but Qing Chen felt sothing was wrong.
When the man passed point A, the movents of his underarms were uncoordinated, as if he was hiding sothing. By the ti he reached point B, he had returned to normal, and the thing he was hiding was gone.
Soon, Qing Chen repeatedly compared the videos of points A and C and found that the total ti taken by the man was 1 minute and 27 seconds.
However, it wouldn't take 1 minute and 27 seconds to travel between points A and C. At most 16 seconds would be enough, even if he knelt down to tie his shoelaces or fell, it wouldn't take that long.
Qing Chen used this simple and brutal thod to pick out the person from hundreds of thousands of people, and he knew him: Francisco.
Qing Chen picked up the internal phone: "Francisco, Daniel, Amy, the three of you go to the dungeon to change shifts. Rember not to let the giants escape."
Daniel and Amy were the two soldiers who had previously tried to push Qing Chen into the toilet and break his ribs with the corgi officer.
If Francisco wanted to let the giants escape, he would undoubtedly kill these two people. Qing Chen was not very vengeful, as long as the enemies are dead, the feud is resolved.
Next to the Kennedy No. 1 airship, a newly promoted arsenal manager from the outpost base was ticulously checking the ammunition that needed to be replenished.
"A base number of ammunition was fired in last night's battle, and another 17 slave soldiers didn't have ti to board the ship and died from being trampled by wild boars," the Asian officer said softly, "Who is in charge of your airship, co and sign on the LCD screen."
The black-clad mber of the Chi Blood Squad said, "I'll sign."
While signing, he secretly took out a gold bar and handed it to the outpost base officer, and whispered, "By the way, officer, what's your na? I don't recognize you."
The Asian officer glanced at him and said coldly, "My na is Lü Zhe, I just transferred to the outpost base, it's normal that you don't know . Besides, you also know why I can fill this vacancy, it's because all the officers in the outpost base were executed for corruption. So, put the gold bar away, I don't want to die."
Lü Zhe is fff. Without his knowledge, Qing Chen had already transferred him to the outpost base.
When the transfer order ca down, the baron in charge of him was amazed and thought that Lü Zhe had climbed up to a big shot, so he could get this fat position.
However, Lü Zhe himself was also puzzled for a long ti. Although he had made so money recently, he did want to buy a fat position to help his boss launder money, but the problem is that he hadn't had ti to act yet!
Strange.
Just as Black and Lü Zhe were talking, another newly appointed officer walked over and said to Black, "Kennedy No. 1, right? Where is Nosen Kennedy? I'm here to count your rits from last night, and confirm that you injured two giants, right? Give the battle recorder, I need to confirm."
Black's face lit up: "I've already prepared it."
The officer continued, "Also, there's a transfer order for you. Who is Edward Campbell, Elliot Sanchez..."
The officer ntioned seven nas in a row, and Black was stunned. These were the seven mbers of the Chi Blood Squad!
He asked in bewildernt, "We're all here, what's going on?"
"Oh, the officer saw your registered identity information and found that you are all B-level experts who have been to the battlefield three tis. He thinks it's a bit of a waste to put you on the airship, so he transferred you to the Third Division's Second Field Corps. Report quickly, we only give you three hours. Last night, the Giant Dynasty invaded, and Storm Duke has ordered the Third Division to speed up the exploration process."
Black's face turned ashen. The reason why they were able to go to the battlefield three tis and return alive was because Marquis Kennedy always brought them with him, then smoothed things over and appeared in the safest place where it was easiest to gain rit.
But now?
The place where the Third Division is going is restricted by the rules of the Forbidden Forest. Once a mistake is made in the Forbidden Forest, even a B-level would be hard to survive.
That's the Forbidden Forest!
That's the Third Division, the Third Division with a casualty rate of 91% in every Forbidden Forest expedition!
There's actually a tradition in the Kingdom's army. Anyone who offends the higher-ups will be directly assigned to the Third Division. The commander of the Third Division is also a ruthless and rciless general. No matter who cos, they are treated equally, no gifts, no favoritism.
Black felt a little strange. Marquis Kennedy had already arranged everything, why would he, as Marquis Kennedy's direct troops, be transferred to the Third Division separately?
Black's mind flashed the image of the butler, he thought, could it be the butler's doing?
However, he also felt a little unlikely. He had spent a lot of money to bribe the officers to kill the butler, although the officer and the second butler were executed, but how did the butler have the ability to turn the tables?
What ability does a little butler have to issue this order?
At this ti, the officer looked up at Black: "Aren't you going to sign the order? Do you want to go to the military court?"
Black said softly, "Allow to make a phone call."
He was going to use other relationships to try to contact Marquis Barton and plead for rcy.
Even if he spent all his money, he couldn't go to the Third Division. Money can be earned again, but if you lose your life, it's gone.
But Black made many calls, and they all told him that Marquis Barton wouldn't give any face and wouldn't take any money.
He's going to the Third Division!
Lü Zhe, who was beside him, watched Black's face turn gradually ashen, thinking that if he hadn't been pulled into the outpost base by the mysterious transfer order, he might be as desperate as this Black.
After a simple farewell to Lan Shan, Black went to report to the Third Division.
Lan Shan watched the backs of the Chi Blood Squad, wondering what he was thinking. He looked at Lü Zhe and said, "I am the eldest son of Marquis Kennedy. Can you help inform Marquis Barton? I want to visit him."
Storm Duke arrived.
The huge black Storm airship slowly arrived in the sky above the outpost base. Around it, hundreds of airships were circling, like birds around a towering tree.
The sky was obscured, and everyone couldn't help but look up at the base of the Storm airship. On it, were densely packed main firepower railguns and honeycomb structures for charging drones.
It looked particularly spectacular.
An Air Fortress is like a city, the most powerful strategic weapon in the sky.
The next mont, hundreds of airships landed and were about to dock at the outpost base for fuel and ammunition replenishnt.
Last ti, Storm Duke impeached Marquis Barton because a year and a half ago, the Roosevelt Kingdom went to war with the Giant Dynasty for mineral resources, and the Duke's fleet passed by here and wanted to dock, but there was no place for the airships to land on the ground.
After landing, Storm Duke's soldiers couldn't find ammunition, couldn't find fuel, and even ate undercooked potatoes in the canteen...
It was simply ridiculous.
This ti it was different. Hundreds of airships landed at the sa ti, and within half an hour they were all docked, and they were all parked according to the strictest standards...even though half of the ground of the outpost base was cracked.
At the sa ti, a larger airship descended from the Air Fortress.
Those with insight knew that this was the mount given to the four dukes by King Roosevelt.
After landing, the more than two-ter-tall Storm Duke, wearing a black robe, slowly walked down from the airship. He looked down on everyone and calmly asked, "The outpost base looks quite decent this ti. Where is Barton? Why didn't he co out to see ?"
Storm Duke is a master, not only because of his Demi-God level, but also because of his ability in military campaigns.
Therefore, outsiders would only think that the operation of the outpost base is neat and tidy, and they wouldn't be able to say anything else.
But only Storm Duke and Black Widow know how difficult it is to do this after executing all the officers!
Governing a large country is like cooking small fish, only those who have managed an outpost base can understand how difficult it is to manage an outpost base. Tens of thousands of instructions need to be issued every day. Without officers, it all relies on Barton?
Is this Barton an AI? Barton certainly isn't.
Black Widow followed behind Storm Duke and whispered, "In the previous communication, he said that he had just finished his official duties and went to sleep."
Storm Duke coldly snorted: "Asleep? Did you look in the Virtual Realm?"
"He just deleted his account and started over, and currently his ID is unknown, so we can't find him," Black Widow whispered.
Storm Duke said, "Let's go and see this rising star in the political arena. Let's see if he has been disguising himself for three years, or if he has the help of a master. I chatted with him before. If he was pretending to be stupid at that ti, then I would think highly of him. But if not, the talent beside Barton should be found by . He is underutilized beside Barton and should follow ."
With that, a large group of people walked towards the office building.
During the march, Black Widow gave a wink to the elite mbers of the Arbiters, indicating that their subordinates should implicitly surround the office building.
In fact, she and Storm Duke didn't quite believe in Barton's ability. Barton used to be a small 18th-line actor. Do you think he played dumb for three years, and suddenly beca a political affairs expert and repeatedly achieved remarkable achievents?
Most people would believe it, but Storm Duke didn't.
So, they ca today to expose Barton's true face, and by the way, grab the talent.
However, at this mont, another airship flew from the sky and quickly landed at the outpost base.
Black Widow's pupils slightly contracted, and she saw the Fate Weaver logo painted on the airship: a pure gold scepter.
The airship opened its bridge, and a slender woman wearing a black robe and hood walked down.
Storm Duke stopped and turned slightly, nodding coldly, "So it's Fifth Princess who has arrived."
Fifth Princess passed by him without stopping.
After walking a few steps, she retreated again, looking up at Storm Duke: "My father said he had seen fragnts of my destiny, but he only told you one person, is it true?"
Storm Duke replied: "Yes, Fifth Princess."
"What is my destiny?" Fifth Princess asked.
"You can ask His Majesty yourself."
Fifth Princess stared at Storm Duke: "Then has he seen fragnts of your destiny?"
"Never."
Fifth Princess smiled: "Maybe I will see your destiny soon, and then I will share it with you."
Storm Duke frowned slightly. This Fifth Princess was clearly implying that she was about to cross the threshold of Demi-God, because only a Demi-God Fate Weaver could see the destiny of a Demi-God!
No wonder Fifth Princess is so powerful now, even a waste can be arranged as the commander of the outpost base.
In the royal city, so people have secretly made their choices.
And this Fifth Princess will beco an existence that no one in the kingdom can ignore.
Storm Duke smiled: "Congratulations, Fifth Princess."
"Thank you," Fifth Princess continued to walk into the building, "Let's go, let's see what my husband is doing. He must have been working hard recently. I brought my father's new edict. After this war, he will return to the Royal Capital and take over the chanical Manufacturing Departnt, but I think this may just be a transition. I may prefer him to take over the Logistics Departnt. What do you think?"
The chanical Manufacturing Departnt manages all the production permits and license issuance of Cybernetic Limbs, which is powerful but not core.
But the Logistics Departnt is different. This is the standing committee of the Military Committee, and it truly holds great power.
Storm Duke did not comnt: "As Princess pleases."
The Roosevelt Kingdom has female emperors. In the nearly thousand-year history, there have been seven in total, and no one can be sure whether this Fifth Princess will be the eighth.
The Arbiters' elite retreated, no longer surrounding the office building. Storm Duke decided to wait and see.
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