Yomington was frightened by his own speculation. Although there was no evidence yet that Yue Xing and his people were launching a big conspiracy against the City Alchemist Association, he still believed in his intuition.

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

The current city of Raging Waves has been stirred by the meteorite and seems to be waiting for the final explosion.

Yomington knew that he could not wait any longer and had to remind the City Alchemists Association. He brought all the information he had compiled during this period, and then hurriedly went out to see Orlando Grover, the president of the City Alchemists Association.

Grover is also the Speaker of the City Council.

The headquarters of the City Alchemist Association is adjacent to the City Government Affairs Department building, a five-story building on the west side of the Government Affairs Plaza. There are both official research departments invested by the City Government Affairs Department, as well as offices set up by a large number of private research institutes here. Once there are

When new development projects appear, the Urban Alchemists Association can build a research team extremely efficiently.

It’s just that the headquarters of the City Alchemists Association has been very seriously harassed by the Cape District Secret Intelligence Bureau recently, making it difficult to carry out many tasks. When Yomington arrived, he saw a group of imperial agents rushing out of the building in a hurry, with some weapons in their hands.

Holding a lot of information.

Yomington immediately lowered the brim of his hat to hide away. He did not want to be noticed by these spies.

After entering the headquarters of the City Alchemist Association, according to his identity, he easily met Speaker Grover.

Grover is a human with halfling blood and extraordinary transformation. He is only 1.3 meters tall, but has an extremely large head. He has red hair, a red beard, and long hair on the sideburns connected to the beard.

into one.

Grover's strong mental power allowed him to float in the air for a long time. He shook hands with the visiting Yomington, then floated back to his seat and sat down. With a wave of his hand, a chair placed next to the wall moved.

Go to the opposite side of your desk.

"Your visit came later than I thought. I thought you would come to see me immediately after you were released from Oulu College, but you chose to come now."

As Yoomington sat down, the entire 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 College is very subtle. Meteor exposed our Crusader project to Wilred, and he saw it again.

Kestrel, it affected his attitude towards us.

But I can confirm that Meteor does not have the full support of the Oulu Academy."

Grover said sadly: "Willred 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, Oulu College would have achieved far more achievements.

Not at the current level.

We can only hope that his successor will be more enlightened and bold experiments can continue to lead the world.

You didn’t come here just to talk to me about this..."

"Yes." Yaomington changed the topic to the purpose of his visit: "I think the reason why Yue Xing used the Changxiang-class hydrogen airship incident to continuously disrupt the City Alchemist Association is because he is preparing a plan to attack the Alchemist Association.

plan of.

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

Grover shook his head helplessly: "I didn't expect that I hadn't paid attention to the city council for a while, and you would have turned Raging Waves City into this. Now, the Changxiang-class hydrogen airship incident has forced me to interrupt my research.

Make arrangements for this incident.

The explosion of the hydrogen airship was a huge blow to the City Alchemists Association. Now we don't even know how it exploded. I asked the person directly in charge and he said that he personally added the stabilizer into the airship, so it is impossible for the airship to explode.

."

Yaomington asked: "I heard that after Yue Xing boarded the airship, he kicked all the crew members out. Did he do something inside the airship?"

"We 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 meteorites 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 Secret Service specializes in collecting this kind of confidential information."

"The confidentiality measures for hydrogen stabilizers include targeting this kind of intelligence theft. And I have asked everyone who has access to the hydrogen stabilizer manufacturing process. No one has betrayed me. I can confirm this."

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

This can be considered a blessing in misfortune. If Meteorite really knows the formula of hydrogen stabilizer, then his ability to obtain information is terrifying, which means that there are no secrets for him on his side.

"Sir Speaker, I think the City Alchemists Association must make up for the negative impact of the hydrogen airship incident as soon as possible, and we can no longer allow meteorites to continue to harass us.

I know him, and he definitely has a big plan for the City Alchemist Association."

"I agree with your point of view..." Grover nodded his big head: "Although I have never seen Meteorite, I have to admit that he took away a city area in Raging Wave City for Her Royal Highness the Princess, and he did a very good job.

Now Her Royal Highness the Princess wants more, and of course we can't let them succeed again.

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

Yeomington was curious as to what kind of partner could save this mess. I'm afraid the imperial royal family couldn't eliminate such a huge negative impact.

"who is it?"

When 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 are here to visit."

"They are here. This is the partner I have found. You will accompany me to meet them." Grover was very happy. He said to his assistant: "Invite them to the living room."

Yomington did not expect that Grover would enlist 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.

Just because the World Bank has joined in, it also means that a large part of the benefits will be taken away by them, but it is better than losing completely now.

Moreover, it can also destroy Meteorite's plan and preserve the foundation of Raging Wave City.

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

A boy and a girl, twins, golden people.

Grover shook hands with them enthusiastically and introduced them: "Director Pan, Director Yin, this is Mr. Yomington, the chief assistant staff of the empire. Mr. Gabriel, the chief assistant of the empire, is also very interested in the development of hydrogen airships.

Supported.”

Grover invited Yomington to meet with people from the World Bank to show them the empire's support for this project and give them the confidence to invest.

Pan is a very heroic young man. He has blond hair and looks very sunny and cheerful. Yin is Pan's twin sister, but her performance is reserved and she is a standard blonde beauty.

Although the two of them are Shuojin people, they are not arrogant because they are an ancient race. The glory of Shuojin civilization has long passed, and now they have adapted to their current identity and status.

Pan shook hands with Grover and Yomington, and after the guests of honor took their seats, he said very positively: "The World Bank has always been very interested in the Hydrogen Airship Project of the Urban Alchemists Association of Raging Wave City. Although it had an accident,

Before some new inventions can be used safely, there will be some accidents.

We have seen the controllable side of hydrogen. As long as the identified problems are solved, hydrogen airships will still be the best alternative to current steam airships."

Pan's attitude represents that of the World Bank. This positive affirmation made both 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 in a sense it is also a good thing. It occurred in the experimental stage, and we can make targeted compensations to make future hydrogen

Airships are safer.

The cause of the accident may be the attenuation of the hydrogen stabilizer's inhibitory power in the extremely high airspace environment. I will find the flaw as soon as possible and repair it. This is not a difficult task for the scientific research power of Raging Wave City."

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% of all future hydrogen airship industry profits as a

The return on this investment.”

The World Bank is asking for 40% of profits. It is simply taking advantage of someone's crisis.

But since it is a negotiation, it means asking for a high price and paying back the money on the ground.

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

Just one meeting didn't seal the deal.

But Grover and Yomington were already very satisfied, and the attitude of the World Bank was enough to save them from their current decline. After the negotiation was over, Grover immediately revealed some news to the newspaper. The meteorite inspector who had dominated the headlines for days was finally going to be replaced.

Already.

At this time, Luke still didn’t know that the plan he was advancing had a variable called Shuojin Civilization. The Secret Service had found accounting problems in the hydrogen airship research project. The whereabouts of a large amount of research funds raised were unknown, and a lot of the money was undisguised.

Entered a private pocket.

Through these days of searching, the Secret Service found some fragments of the airship wreckage. The metal parts were melted and deformed, which is enough to show how high the temperature was at that time.

Throwing out this evidence can increase the public's fear of hydrogen airships, and then launch a formal general offensive, mobilizing investors to sue the City Alchemists Association for financial fraud.

During these days, Luke has not stopped studying ancient characters. He has learned five ancient golden characters from the troll scholar Laconia. The number is not many, but every word he learns is a spiritual blessing.

huge consumption.

Even though the progress is so slow, Laconia is still amazed 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,

You can directly activate the secret technique and use the power of ancient civilization.

In order to witness the miracle, Laconia was very attentive in teaching Luke.

The fundamental reason why Luke can master ancient texts so deeply is because of the egg of unknown origin.

The thing sealed inside the egg claimed to be Banat. Banat learned modern language from Luke, and his progress was much faster than when he taught Luke the ancient sparkling gold writing.

Moreover, he was still being careful about teaching ancient writings. He would teach only what Laconia taught him, and he would pretend to be deaf and dumb for the rest. Even if he could have a simple communication with Luke, he would never reveal his identity or say anything.

Anything related to ancient civilizations.

"It's immoral for you to do this..." Luke, who was bored, said to the egg in his consciousness: "I have taught you so many modern languages ​​and told you so many things about this era, and you just give me

Such a small reward from me? You should keep your privacy, but I rescued you from the hands of the ancient Shuojin people, so why don’t you give me some benefits in return?"
To be continued...