Tales of Soldier - Chapter 163

[Chapter 163]

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Xing Ling closely followed Tang Long and walked quietly by the harbor. This seaport has been under martial law for a long time, except for the guards hiding in the dark, there is no unsightly person at all. So at this moment, it seems that there are only Tang Long and Xingling left in the world.

Xing Ling was not in the mood to appreciate the beautiful seascape, but stared down at the white sand beneath her feet. Tang Long, who was standing beside him, scratched his head and looked around boredly. Neither of them spoke, and there was no other sound except for the sound of the waves.

Xing Ling was in chaos at the moment, as if he was thinking about everything, but also like he didn’t think about anything. Not long ago, Tang Long’s joy in asking him to go out for a walk also faded after he was speechless all the way. Xing Ling, who has been in contact with many human beings, already knows that he is in a state of confusion at this moment. This situation was caused because Tang Long treated himself with the attitude of being with strangers. The previous situation where the two talked about the world has disappeared, and a kind of separation has developed between the two sides.

Thinking of this, Xing Ling couldn’t help but wonder whether his decision to pursue emotional experience with all his heart was right or wrong. If you have been with Tang Long all the time, I believe that now you and Tang Long must be talking and laughing very affectionately. Isn’t that sister who grew out of her own program that is so affectionate with Tang Long?

Tang Xing? Why would my sister choose such a name for herself? Maybe she really treats Tang Long as a family member, but why does she always feel that she has an inexplicable feeling when she looks at Tang Long? Has my sister become like me?

Xing Ling looked at Tang Long who was so bored that he picked up the stone and threw it to the sea, and sighed inwardly: “What kind of person are you? Why do we, the self-consciousness born from the program, involuntarily want to stay with you? By your side? Why do ordinary robots start to have self-awareness after getting along with you?” Xing Ling remembered what Wen Na told herself before, except for the last batch of robots with self-awareness, there are no robots in the Silver Eagle Empire anymore. New, self-aware robots have been created.

“Uh, Miss Xingling, it’s windy here, shall we go back?” Tang Long asked cautiously. The sea breeze blew up the white sand and swept towards Xingling. When Tang Long said this, he subconsciously blocked the sea breeze for Xingling.

“Yeah.” Xing Ling nodded, her mind was still immersed in the tender emotions that Tang Long’s inadvertent actions just now produced.

When Tang Long turned to leave, Xing Ling gathered up his courage and said to Tang Long, “Tang Long, you… can you call me like you did before?”

Tang Long was stunned for a moment, but nodded quickly and said, “Okay,…sister.” Tang Long felt a little awkward when he said this, as if he had never called the elder sister to anyone other than Computer Sister.

Hearing this, Xing Ling immediately had a happy smile on his face, and suddenly he took Tang Long’s arm boldly and said with a smile, “Let’s go.”

Tang Long was a little embarrassed to want to keep his body away from Xingling, but because his arm was tightly held, he could not get rid of Xingling’s fragrant feeling, and Tang Long, who could not forcibly break free, had no choice but to be greeted by Xingling who suddenly became cheerful. dragged away.

When he was about to arrive at Xingling’s residence, Tang Long suddenly received a report from his subordinates: “My lord, Chen Kang asks to see you.” Tang Long, who had long wanted to leave Xingling, immediately apologized to Xingling, and then left with his subordinates. . Xing Ling, who looked at Tang Long’s back, could only sigh helplessly, and walked into the residence with his head down. And Wen Na and the others, who were waiting for the return of the sporadic people at the door, also sighed secretly.

Before Tang Long went to see Chen Kang, he met Yuna, Tang Xing and others. “Sister, Chen Kang must have come this time to want me to allow them to control our business and military industry!” Tang Long said angrily. Tang Long, who had quarreled with Chen Kang because of this, heard that Chen Kang was there At this time, I came to know what he wanted to do, because I didn’t do business with him at all. There is no special thing, that arms dealer can’t come here.

“What’s going on?” Una asked curiously. Tang Long immediately repeated what Chen Kang had said to himself before, and after hearing these words, the sensitive Ling Li immediately asked, “My lord, do you think Chen Kang planned this terrorist attack? He wanted to control our economy and our military industry!”

Everyone nodded when they heard this, and surrounded Tang Long if there was nothing, ready to stop Tang Long when he was looking for Chen Kang angrily. However, everyone found that Tang Long was not angry at all. Instead, he rubbed his chin and whispered: “If it was Chen Kang, why would he do this? If he really wants to control our business and military industry to make a fortune, he shouldn’t give such a generous offer. After all, there are many forces with better conditions and rich materials than us!” Speaking of which, Tang Long suddenly raised his head and asked, “Ling Li, what do you think of those thunderstorm mercenaries who were arrested? Do the people of the regiment have the ability to attack our factories and personnel?”

Everyone is very strange to hear this. Didn’t the thunderstorm mercenary group attack us? Why now ask them if they have the ability to attack?

Ling Li thought for a moment and immediately said: “My lord, looking at their resistance to the army, my subordinates think that they are completely incapable of attacking our factories and personnel. I just got the latest report from the surveyors, they said that they must complete these attacks, The attackers must have the same abilities as our special forces!”

Tang Long clapped his hands abruptly and ordered Ling Li, “Go and interrogate the arrested members of the Thunderstorm Mercenary Corps immediately, and ask them if they have attacked our factories and personnel.”

“Yes!” Ling Li immediately stepped back.

Tang Xing asked Tang Long curiously, “Do you suspect that there is another group of real assassins hidden on our planet?”

Tang Long nodded: “Yes, you have also seen the scene of our army and the thunderstorm mercenary group exchanging fire, and I have also commanded several mercenary groups to fight. It can be said that the performance of the thunderstorm mercenary group is not outstanding. They can only be regarded as a mercenary group with average ability. Although the guards in our factories and research institutes are weak, it is impossible for ordinary soldiers to destroy the targets they protect without them noticing. Even ordinary soldiers are better than ordinary soldiers. It is even more impossible for the Thunderstorm Mercenary Group to succeed in attacking!”

“Why did you think of this all of a sudden?” Tang Xing looked at Tang Long suspiciously. If Tang Long could make these analyses when he was capturing the Thunderstorm Mercenary Group, he wouldn’t think it was strange. The strange thing was that Tang Long was accompanying the star. Ling came up with these things when he came back from a walk, did Ling Ling remind him?

Tang Long shook his head with a wry smile: “When I was walking with Miss Xingling, the two of them didn’t say anything, so I just thought about the thunderstorm mercenary group in my mind. Because I’m very curious about why the mercenary group has completed the task. Not hiding right away, and wandering around for us to spot them. Until just now, I didn’t realize that they were wandering around because they hadn’t completed their mission and were looking around.”

“Oh.” Tang Xing had a smile on her face, but she didn’t know why she was smiling. The little black cat in her arms once again covered her mouth and snickered, but this time it focused on Tang Xing.

Soon, Ling Li ran back eagerly and shouted, “My lord! They said that they didn’t have time to do it yet, and we discovered it when they were still surveying the terrain, so they resisted!”

“Continue to blockade the port, and the armed personnel will be dispatched again. This time the target is everyone! The assassin is likely to hold the identity certificate of our local people!” Tang Long ordered.

Seeing Yuna and the others running away in a hurry, Tang Xing asked Tang Long, “How to solve that Chen Kang? We have no evidence that he did it.”

Tang Long smiled: “I’m going to treat him well… Hehe, anyway, he’s the first guest who came after we were attacked.” He left the room after saying that.

Tang Xing, who looked at Tang Long’s back, smiled leisurely: “I have made progress.”

The little black cat in Tang Xing’s arms asked curiously, “What’s the progress?”

“Hehe, didn’t you see it just now? When they said that the attack might be the ghost of Chen Kang, did everyone surround Tang Long without a trace?” Tang Xing held the little black cat to his face. He rubbed forward and smiled.

“I see, aren’t they waiting for orders?” The little black cat said while pressing Tang Xing’s face with his paws, trying to force his cat’s head away from Tang Xing’s face.

Tang Xing shook his head: “No, they are going to stop the angry Tang Long.”

“The angry Tang Long? Listening to you, it seems that Tang Long is very easy to get angry.” The little black cat said with cute eyes.

“It’s not that it’s easy to get angry. In the past, Tang Long was very impulsive. Like what we suspected of Chen Kang just now, Tang Long had already rushed to Chen Kang and pointed at his nose to ask if this was the case. “Tang Xing rubbed the little black cat’s head with his face again.

The little black cat said suddenly: “Oh, so it is, no wonder you say that he has improved, he has been able to control his impulses.” At this moment, it forgot to avoid Tang Xing’s harassment.

Tang Xing squinted his eyes and said, “Well, seeing Tang Long now, no one would believe that he was an impulsive guy who would go head-to-head with tens of thousands of people.”

The little black cat said with bright eyes: “Down with tens of thousands of people? Tell me about it!”

“Okay, take a shower with my sister, and I’ll tell you about my sister.” Tang Xing said and walked out the door.

The little black cat immediately shouted: “Don’t! I’m afraid of water! Let me go! Help! Kidnap!” Of course, no one paid any attention to the cry of a kitten.

“Hi, Mr. Chen, long time no see, thank you for the last batch of battleships.” Tang Long extended his hand to Chen Kang who had been waiting in the reception room for a long time with a smile on his face.

“Hehe, it’s nothing but a trifle. Mr. Tang is getting more and more powerful now. He has expanded the site by several planets after not seeing it for a while. It’s really admirable.” Chen Kang held Tang Long’s hand enthusiastically and said. . At the same time, he looked at Feng Bing and Feng Shuang who were standing behind Tang Long, and while secretly praising the beauty, he also secretly wondered why Tang Long brought two female guards to follow.

After the two sides sat down, Tang Long didn’t introduce his two guards. He took a sip of orange juice and said directly, “I don’t know if Mr. Chen needs my help this time?”

Seeing Tang Long’s appearance, Chen Kang pretended that the two guards didn’t exist, took a sip of the fragrant tea and said with a smile, “Oh, this time I got a tip that a mercenary group called Thunderstorm was going to attack Mr. Tang. So I came here to remind Mr. Tang.”

“Alas, Mr. Chen’s news is a step late.” Tang Long shook his head sadly.

“Ah? They have already attacked you? Are the losses serious?” Chen Kang suddenly stood up and asked in surprise.

“The talents in factories and various industries are exhausted. By the way, since Mr. Chen knows that the Thunderstorm mercenary group is going to attack me, I wonder if you know who hired them?” Tang Long stared closely at Chen Kang and asked. road.

Although Chen Kang was very uncomfortable by Tang Long’s eyes, he still pretended to be sorry and sat down and said, “Unfortunately, there is no way to know. That news was only occasionally heard by one of my subordinates.” Chen Kang’s topic changed: “Although Mr. Tang’s factories and talents in various industries have been lost, the industries in various places should be able to recover quickly, right?”

“Recovery? Hoho, all the talents have been killed, how can it be so easy to recover. If you really want to recover, you have to wait for new talents to be cultivated.” Tang Long shook his head helplessly.

“Cultivating new talents? This can’t be solved in a day or two. The chaos-free galaxy has been surging recently, and war may break out at any time. Does Mr. Tang have any countermeasures to solve this problem?” Chen Kang asked cautiously.

“Countermeasures? What else can I do now? Only by recruiting some Wanluo Federation personnel to rescue the emergency. They are more chaotic than mine, and they should be able to attract some talents to come here.” Tang Long said casually.

Chen Kang felt a sudden shock. He never thought that Tang Long would immediately go to Wanluo Federation to recruit talents, but he thought that Tang Long, who was in the chaos-free galaxy, was unlikely to recruit many talents from Wanluo Federation, so he felt relieved. Taking retreat as advance, he said: “Is that so, then I can rest assured. I am still worried for you, for fear that your great cause will be hindered. Then…” Chen Kang got up and prepared to leave.

“Hey, Mr. Chen, you’re leaving right now, isn’t that out of the way? Why don’t you come here to play for ten and a half months.” Tang Long hurriedly stopped Chen Kang and said.

“Ah, no, I’ve recently received a commission from several forces. Our company is busy helping them develop their economy and military industry. If it wasn’t for the purpose of passing news to you, I really wouldn’t have time to leave.” Chen Kang was busy and euphemistically Refuse.

“Hey, it doesn’t take much effort to stay for a day or two. Besides, I’m catching terrorists now. The cosmic port can only enter but not exit. You can’t leave if you want to. Come, let’s talk about those who entrusted you with it. It’s a matter of power.” Tang Long enthusiastically asked Chen Kang to sit back on the sofa.

Chen Kang broke into a cold sweat when he first heard the words ‘you can’t go even if you want to go’, but after hearing Tang Long ask about the factions of those forces, he couldn’t help but feel relieved. It seemed that Tang Long was already tempted.

“This, it’s not easy for us to tell outsiders. This is a breach of contract.” Chen Kang made it difficult.

“Hey, what are you afraid of, do I still say it? We are good friends. Come, let’s talk and listen after a sip of tea.” Tang Long smiled and poured a cup of tea for Chen Kang.

Seeing Tang Long’s impatience, Chen Kang was no longer embarrassed. After drinking a sip of tea, he began to say, “Since this is the case, then I’ll let you know. We have received entrustments from three factions, and these three factions are also in chaos. The forces of the galaxy are the Dark Empire, the Mingfeng Family, and the Potter Republic.”

“Yeah? All three different political systems have come to you? Where are their positions? Oh, wait, I’ll get the galaxy map.” Tang Long ran out of the reception room without waiting for Chen Kang to speak. , made Chen Kang stunned for a while before shaking his head helplessly.

After a while, Tang Long had begun to ask Chen Kang to point out where these three forces were on the galaxy map, and listened to Chen Kang’s introduction: “The Dark Empire is here, they have 5 administrative stars and about 1,500 battleships. Ming The Feng family is here, with 7 administrative stars and about 1,300 battleships. The Potter Republic is here, with 6 administrative stars and about 1,000 battleships.” After Chen Kang finished speaking, he suddenly found that Tang Long was staring at the galaxy map, and There were bursts of cold light in his eyes, and he couldn’t help but jump in his heart, and immediately reminded: “Mr. Tang, you are not trying to attack them, right? There are thousands of forces between you.”

“Hehe, how could I possibly hit their minds? After all, as you said, there are thousands of forces between me and them. I’m afraid I’ll be stopped by the barrier systems everywhere before I go to them.” Tang Long smiled all over his face. said.

Chen Kang glanced at Tang Long meaningfully, and said in a nonchalant tone: “The barrier system doesn’t matter, as long as you have the information about the exact jumping point, you can still reach them. Of course, the premise is that you have A warship that can jump so far at one time. But even occupying these places is useless, unless there is a territory near them, it is equivalent to an enclave and will be swallowed by others at any time.”

Chen Kang paused when he said this, and continued after taking a sip of tea: “What I want to tell you is that their military production is dozens of times stronger than they were before with our help, and they can produce every day if necessary. Twenty to fifty high-level warships, and it won’t be long before their military strength is not the number you know now.”

“The production volume of twenty to fifty high-level warships per day? How could they have such a powerful production volume? You must know that the original Wanluo Federation, a country with thousands of administrative stars, has a maximum of two hundred ships per day. Production capacity, they only have a few administrative stars!” Tang Long shouted in surprise.

“Hehe, their arsenal is only responsible for assembly and debugging. The main body and main parts of the battleship are all provided by us early in the morning, so the output of fifty ships per day is not very surprising.” Chen Kang said with a smile.

Tang Long immediately breathed a sigh of relief: “Oh, the production volume of the original assembly.” Tang Long suddenly asked curiously: “What funds do they rely on to operate? It is not a trivial matter to support so many warships.”

“Their economy mainly relies on processing and commercial trade, and these are developed with our help. And we have taken care of their logistics and other issues. With our help, they don’t care about funds at all. For the problem of supplies, you can concentrate on expanding your power.” Chen Kang said with a smile.

“Oh, so good?” Tang Long asked suspiciously.

When Chen Kang heard Tang Long say what he had been waiting for for a long time, he immediately said: “Of course it is so good. If you didn’t refuse last time, now you don’t have to worry about these issues, you can concentrate on capturing other planets.” This, Chen Kang saw the thoughtful look on Tang Long’s face, and couldn’t help but work harder: “If you are willing to cooperate with us now, you don’t have to worry about the shortage of talents at all, we will send a large number of talents to Your service, the last agreement still counts.”

After pondering for a while, Tang Long finally said in the eyes of Chen Kang’s eagerness: “It is not impossible for you to be responsible for the business and military industry of my planet, but I must first solve my doubts.”

Chen Kang, who finally waited for the answer, suppressed his excitement: “If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.”

Tang Long crossed Erlang’s legs and said slowly: “You also know that my sphere of influence implements the dictatorship of the family system, which means that 90% of the various materials and major enterprises within my influence belong to me personally, And your company only pays me taxes after controlling these materials and enterprises, which is equivalent to taking my things and returning a little of the profit to me. And those military factories, these are all private factories that belong to me, you After taking control of the military factory and then selling the arms to me, you will simply treat me like a dumb ass.”

After Chen Kang heard this, he stayed there. After a while, he asked in surprise: “You mean that the military factories in your power are all yours? And you own 90% of those various materials? This is impossible! Don’t your retainers have a share? Don’t your subjects have those materials? Also, even if the Zhongzhou Star and the original Caesar’s administrative star were occupied by you, the owner of the family, 90% of the materials, But the two planets of Oder and Winter, it is impossible to say that all the materials are yours!”

Tang Long glanced at Chen Kang and sneered: “Please, you dare to say that you are responsible for my business and military industry even if you don’t even understand this? Don’t you know that all the materials under the family system belong to family members? To put it a bit poisonous , even these people belong to the family, how can the people have these resources? As for those retainers, hum! Before I captured the Zhongzhou Star, the material control of my retainers was taken away from me, etc. Not to mention after I control the Zhongzhou Star. As for other planets, all the land, minerals and materials after the occupation belong to the public, that is, they are completely owned by me. The remaining 10% is allocated by me to increase the enthusiasm of the merchants. Otherwise, they can only work and get paid. If you don’t solve these problems, it is impossible for me to let you be responsible for the business and military industry within my power.”

Chen Kang was dumbfounded. He didn’t expect that the head of the family under the family system of Tang Long was actually more emperor than the current emperor. Just like the ancient emperor, everything in the world belonged to him alone! Such a situation where a person completely owns all the materials of the entire country will not appear even in the Dark Night Empire, where the imperial power is the most concentrated. If the Dark Night Emperor digs the mines, he still needs to pay the national treasury.

I always thought that Tang Long’s territory would be the same as other family system forces. There are several big officials or big financial groups that control most of the materials. I really didn’t expect Tang Long to deprive the retainers of the material control. Isn’t he afraid that the retainers will rebel? Alas, what a mistake, I thought it was the same as other places, and I forgot to check it out. Just like what Tang Long said, those enterprises, factories, and materials all belong to Tang Long. Taking them over by himself is equivalent to robbing Tang Long of his wealth. No wonder Tang Long cursed people without saying a few words last time. What should I do now?

Chen Kang thought for a while and immediately said: “So what do you think of this? Our company has established enterprises and factories within your power. These enterprises and factories are heavily taxed to you, and I will help you manage those of yours. The guaranteed profit is the same as that of the company’s own factory. The profit of your company’s factory belongs to you completely, as long as you pay the wages of the talents who work in your company’s factory. Other businessmen compete fairly and will never bully them. As for the development and use of minerals and other materials in various places, our company needs priority, which will pay you a high development and royalty fee. And the arms produced by the military factory will only receive Your cost and technician fee, and the rest are free. As for logistics materials and the like, they will also be given to you at the cost price plus shipping fee.”

Tang Long nodded: “In this case, it’s okay, but what about the talents in various industries that I need?”

“The company has a dedicated headhunting department, which will find the outstanding talents you need. Of course, the company needs to charge a certain fee.” The leadership of the industry, Tang Long’s economy and military industry are completely in the hands of the organization.

Tang Long nodded with satisfaction, stretched out his hand and said, “Okay, you can discuss the contract with my finance minister Yuna later. Do you need to ask the company?”

Chen Kang immediately took Tang Long’s hand and said happily: “No, I am the full agency of the company, I just agree to it. When Minister Yuna is ready, please notify me immediately.”

“Okay, then you can rest here for a while, and I will ask Yuna to come to you to draft the contract.” Tang Long said a few polite words to Chen Kang and left. In the living room, Chen Kang walked back and forth happily and anxiously.

Yuna, who was instructed to discuss the draft contract with Chen Kang, ignored Chen Kang’s request to sign the draft contract immediately after making the draft contract with Chen Kang, and hurriedly took the draft contract to find Tang Long.

After reading the grass contract, Tang Long smiled and nodded and said, “Chen Kang actually missed the earth star. Hehe, maybe he looks down on this primitive planet. Well, it’s alright.” Tang Long handed the grass contract back to Yuna.

Yuna didn’t take the draft contract, but said anxiously: “My lord, have you taken a closer look? How could there be such good conditions! Judging from these contracts, Chen Kang is doing business at a loss! And although he built another enterprise Factory, but our enterprise factories are all managed by him, and he also has priority to develop all kinds of materials. And those talents, who knows whether these talents are his people, after they occupy all walks of life, our economy, military industry, Logistics is equivalent to being completely controlled by him!”

“What can the arsenal within our sphere of influence produce?” Tang Long didn’t explain much, but suddenly asked.

Yuna immediately said: “In the past, the battleship could be repaired to produce at most some energy, individual weapons and the like, but now it can’t produce anything after being attacked.”

“Hee hee, that’s why I handed the military industry to Chen Kang, an arms dealer.” Tang Long said this without waiting for Yuna to speak, and immediately continued: “Don’t worry, our armaments will not be controlled by him. , Sister Tang Xing owns a planet full of military industry, that is a military factory that can manufacture Beluga battleships.”

Yuna’s eyes lit up immediately: “You mean that Miss Tang Xing’s Beluga battleship is made by Miss’s factory?”

Tang Long nodded: “Yeah, so it’s not a big problem for our current military factory to be handed over to Chen Kang.”

Yuna still insisted: “Even so, our economy and talents are still controlled by him. You must know that the economic lifeline is more important than the military lifeline!”

Tang Longyin smiled and said, “Hehe, you just need to add the word ‘now’ after ‘Tang Long’ in the ‘Tang Long’s sphere of influence’ at the beginning of the draft agreement. As for talents, we can secretly cultivate them.”

“All the planets within Tang Long’s sphere of influence…” Yuna was stunned after reading it, but she quickly woke up and said, “My lord means to only hand over the economy of the existing 6 planets in the Central State Star Region to the Chen Kang’s management? He will not be eligible for the planet he occupies in the future? This Chen Kang is impossible to agree to.”

Tang Long said indifferently: “If he doesn’t agree with us, we can change it back. It’s no big deal, as long as he doesn’t know how many planets we have.”

“I don’t know how many planets we have? Is this possible?” Yuna asked in confusion.

Tang Long said with a smile: “Why is it impossible? As long as we go to distant places and secretly occupy a few planets without making any noise or publicity, who knows how many planets we actually have.”

“Uh… a distant planet?” Yuna was stunned.

Tang Long shook his hands in front of Yuna and shouted, “Okay, come back to the soul, the draft contract is about to be signed, and I need someone from Chen Kang to come to the rescue.”

“Oh.” Yuna replied dumbly and walked out the door, but when she reached the door, she suddenly turned around and asked, “Master, you are so wary of Chen Kang, are you sure that he is the mastermind behind the attack?”

Tang Long sighed and replied nonchalantly: “There’s no way, now Ling Li still has no news about those real assassins, which means that these assassins are more powerful than our special forces, and it’s impossible for anyone to master such a powerful force.”

Yuna stood at the door and thought for a while, then nodded thoughtfully and opened the door.