. "Last night's banquet was so boring!"

Lisa walked barefoot to the window and gently lifted a corner of the curtain. The world outside the window was already bright. The sun was rising, and the holy light-like sunlight shone through the window on the brightly colored carpet, and the whole room suddenly woke up from its sleep.

Chen Tian stretched his back against the pillow, agreeing very much with Lisa's words: "Yes, it's all a bunch of flatterers, and I'm tired of hearing it!"

"I'm going to visit New York today, right?" Lisa seemed to be expecting, then reluctantly put down the curtains, turned around, and walked towards the dressing table slowly. The moment the curtains were put down, the whole room suddenly lost its light, and the soft light of several desk lamps re-dominated the space.

For safety reasons, the guests staying in the hotel were told not to open the curtains or stand in front of the windows, so as not to be attacked by sabotagers. So even during the day, every window facing the street here is pulled with thick curtains.

"Well, it is the most prosperous city in the United States and even the world! If the wind is not strong, we will take the airship to New York as planned! How about it, are you happy?" Chen Tian was not in a hurry to get up, closed his eyes lightly and waited for himself to wake up completely while talking.

Lisa sat in front of the dressing table, picked up a comb and slowly combed her somewhat messy hair.

"Well, I always hope to go to that place known for its prosperity! As for airships, although they are not particularly comfortable, I think they are always more convenient than taking a car or a train!"

"More than that!" Chen Tian looked up, his smile filled his face. "I was looking forward to such a picture for a long time ago: the sky was gloomy and the clouds were very low. At this time, a black airship with a striking iron cross slowly floated over the city, and finally docked at the top of the Empire State Building in people's respectful and fearful eyes!"

Lisa smiled and replied, "Haha, it's such a good idea! But what country does the Empire State Building belong to? I never seem to have heard of it!"

"Uh..." Chen Tian was stunned. He suddenly opened his eyes. This was still the top suite at the Capital Hotel in Washington, USA. It was December 6, 1915, and now it is 15 years away from the completion of the Empire State Building in New York, USA.

This is not a dream!

Chen Tian exhaled gently, "The Empire State Building...that is a very, very tall building in my dream!"

"Oh! How tall is that? Is it 30 stories? Or 50 stories?" Lisa asked relentlessly. The Capital Hotel they are currently in is already a very tall building in the world, but it is less than 30 stories. The tallest building in New York was completed in 1913, with a total of 55 stories high and 320 meters high.

"102th floor!" Chen Tian accurately said this number, which was one of the miracles in the history of world architecture.

Lisa almost blurted out when she heard this: "Oh, that would definitely become the greatest building in the world!"

"In 15 years... Americans probably won't have this opportunity! Great buildings... Why must they be built in the United States?" Chen Tian told himself a lot in his heart.

"Your Majesty?" Seeing that Chen Tian suddenly stopped talking, Lisa turned her head and called out softly.

"Hmm?" Chen Tian looked at his wife like he woke up from a dream.

"What are you thinking?"

"It's nothing! I think we'd better set off as soon as possible!" Chen Tian jumped up after saying that, then grabbed the bell on the bedside table and shook it.

The attendant who was waiting outside the door immediately pushed the door in. At this time, it was not Von Jonalet who was in charge, but another elderly attendant with white hair.

"Change clothes! Let's go ahead and we'll set off at 9 o'clock!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!" The attendant waved his hand to signal the four maids outside the door to come in, then took out their pocket watch and took a look. It was 7:3 in the morning.

Half an hour later, breakfast was delivered directly to Chentian's room.

Another quarter of an hour passed, Chentian and Lisa finished their meal.

At 9 a.m. Chentian's convoy drove out of the Capital Hotel on time. The accompanying place included 21 attendants and 21 attendants, 45 members of the Royal Guard, 11 members of the direct staff, 12 members of the Navy delegation, and the rest continued to stay in the hotel.

After leaving the hotel, the convoy drove north along 16th Avenue. Along the way, the US authorities had implemented temporary traffic control. Both sides of the street were policemen in black uniforms and military policemen in khaki uniforms. Although cars were already quite common in the United States, pedestrians still looked at this special convoy from afar with curious eyes.

In addition to the police car leading the way in the front and the truck loaded with American soldiers at the end, the 20 cars in the middle of the convoy were all painted in black. They were all transported from Germany thousands of miles away! Each of these cars had two small black and white and red flags in front, and German Royal Guard soldiers with golden pointed helmets on the pedals on both sides, wearing standard gray uniforms, black holsters on the waist, and shiny leather boots.

From the appearance, the box shape of Daimler cars is not much better than that of American cars. Compared with American cars that are still using narrow tires at this time, German cars' tires are generally wider and make less ground noise when driving. In the eyes of experts, the engine technology of these German cars is indeed one level higher than that of American cars. After all, German military and civilian engines currently have the title of world number one.

Those pedestrians who were stopped by the police could only watch the almost identical Daimler cars passing by one from a distance. In the eyes of American citizens, the Germans' mechanical stereotypes are indeed well-deserved, but in the eyes of some people who looked at this convoy with different eyes, it was very difficult to tell which of these cars was a German car.

"It's so damn! Why doesn't that German emperor ride in a convertible like an Austrian?" A thin and tall young man in a gray windbreaker muttered to his companions. His so-called Austrian, the former Austrian-Hungarian Crown Prince Ferdinand, a guy who was originally intended to show off his force but was assassinated and triggered a world war.

The tall and thin companion, a relatively solid-looking guy, also wearing a gray windbreaker, looked fiercely at the German convoy that was about to go away, and whispered in English with a northern Scottish accent: "The Germans are not stupid. Otherwise, our situation would not be as bad as we are now!"

"It seems that there is no chance this time!" The tall and thin man sighed helplessly.

"Don't be discouraged, let's find another chance!" The dun-shen guy said, and walked towards a remote street next to him. The tall and thin man looked around and followed closely, and their wide swaying windbreakers seemed to be in proportion to their figure. They were enough to hide some fatal things.

Just where they were talking, three men in black windbreakers and black hats looked at each other, and then two of them walked quickly in the direction where the two men left before, while the other walked towards a military police officer not far away.

There was still some distance away from the temporary airport where the airship was docking, and Chen Tian and his party could already see the gray and black guys like huge cigars.

"Don't worry, the airship we were riding this time is particularly safe!" Chen Tian comforted Lisa, who looked a little worried. Since she saw an airship igniting in the airplane due to a hydrogen leakage in the exercise field two years ago, she seemed uneasy as soon as she approached the airship.

Lisa showed a reluctant smile. "It's nothing, I just have...habitually bad feelings!"

"It's really safe, because it's filled with inert gas worth tens of millions of dollars!" When talking about this, Chen Tian couldn't help but look at the helium airship that looked smaller among other airships. The cost of tens of millions of marks was amazing. You should know that the cost of the large Zeppelin of the German Navy at the end of the war had dropped to about 400,000 marks, and the cost of the Army Zeppelin was even less than 250,000 marks. In other words, the funds for building this ammonia airship can be used to build 25 aluminum keel airships or 40 wooden keel airships, or 1/5 of the latest main battleships.

Lisa was a little surprised when she heard this, "Inert gas? I know, it seems that it is a gas that will not burn anyway, right?"

Chen Tian nodded. "Almost! If the cost of extracting this gas can be further reduced, this airship can become a very common and safe means of transportation! Although hydrogen airships can also voyage, safety hazards always exist!"

As the two were talking, the car became bumpy. At this time, the convoy had already left the road and turned to this open area of ​​several square kilometers. Since it was a temporary place for airships to park, there were no decent buildings here. It was just a steel watchtower of more than three meters high in each corner, and several large iron piles scattered on this open area to tie the airships. After entering this open area, Chen Tian saw some American soldiers carrying rifles, but except for these infantry performing warning missions, there was no decent air defense weapon in the entire airport. This peaceful atmosphere was completely different from the European continent, which had just experienced the war.

Five gray German airships and two white American airships float quietly at a low altitude less than three meters above the ground. This scene is like a few giants lying on the ground, giving people a sense of oppression before they even approach.

Compared with these huge aircraft, the people and cars on the ground are simply a group of inconspicuous ants.

When he landed here two days ago, Chen Tian did not see the American airships. It seemed that the two white airships were docked here later. Although it was not the first time he saw American airships, Chen Tian still looked at them with interest.

In terms of size, they are not smaller than German airships, and they are generally cigar-shaped designs, but their white appearance seems to be the original color of the airship skin. Under the huge hull are still small pods. Although their pods are not simple, they are indeed a bit simple compared to German airship pods. German airships basically follow the design of the war, and their pods are durable and equipped with machine guns, telegraph machines, bomb bays, etc., while American airships based on civilian use passenger pods.

After a while, Chen Tian's car, the sixth-ranked car in the convoy, stopped beside the helium airship "Oriental". The staff waiting there quickly spread the red carpet under the door, and the other end of the carpet went straight to the gangway.

After getting out of the car, Chen Tian looked up at the blue sky. It was an absolutely sunny day, not the background he imagined with black clouds pressing against the top.

"Let's go!" Chen Tian gentleman held Lisa's hand, and the two walked slowly on the red carpet. Soon, the entourage boarded other airships in advance according to the prior arrangement, and hundreds of people including the airship members took five airships, so the space on the airship was still spacious. After the airships took off one after another, Chen Tian learned that the two American airships were sent by the authorities to guide them, and by the way, they carried some American officials and guards who accompanied German VIPs to visit New York.

"I hope their speed won't drag us down!"

Chen Tian did not expect that this small wish was not realized. When the American airship was sailing slowly at less than 30 knots (about 55 kilometers per hour), the German airship following him had to start half of the engine. As a result, the scheduled 3 and a half hours of flight took a full 6 hours, and it did not arrive in New York until 4 pm.

Since it was winter, the sun was about to set the mountain at this time, and the sky to the west showed a faint orange color, and the only few clouds were dyed with the same color. Under such a background, seven airships lined up appeared in the sky southwest of New York.

"Your Majesty, the American airship sends a signal that the ground is in good condition and the wind is low. We will pass over the city as planned and then land in Hasbrook Heights on the Hackensack River!"

After captain Svenschiffert reported the situation, he took out two pairs of telescopes from behind him like a magic trick.

"Your Majesty, from now on, you can enjoy the scenery of New York. Not far ahead is the Statue of Liberty!"

"Thank you!" Chen Tian said as he took the telescope and handed it to Lisa.

"Look, that's the Statue of Liberty!"

Following the direction of Lisa's finger, Chen Tian saw the famous building on Liberty Island, New York Harbor through the porthole. Unfortunately, he could not feel its grand momentum and exquisiteness from the air.

"That is one of the masterpieces of the Frenchman Eiffel! Unfortunately, the Eiffel Tower in Paris was destroyed in the war!" Chen Tian said with regret, but don't forget that the damage to the tower had a lot to do with him. Although there was no way to verify whether his artillery bombed the tower, the battle was designed and initiated by him.

After the collapse of the Eiffel Tower, the Parisians originally planned to restore it, but some of the materials of the tower were used by the German army to cross the river and build bridges. After that, although some people proposed to build a new tower, unfortunately, France was poor and unrestrained after the war, so although most of the buildings in Paris had been restored, it always made people feel that something was missing.

Lisa looked at the Statue of Liberty with a telescope for a while, then turned her gaze to the city ahead, and soon found Woolworth Building, a 55-story Goethe-style building with a pyramid-shaped spire on the upper floor, as well as buttresses, arches and 4 small towers, which looked spectacular in appearance.

"So beautiful!" Lisa exclaimed softly, and after a while, she put down her telescope and looked at Chen Tian, ​​"How great it would be if we could dock directly in that building!"
Chapter completed!