Chapter 494, New World

After Luo Lan and the others left, the SUV fleet drove all the way towards the Central Plains with the yellow sand rolling behind them, their destination this time was actually the Central Plains.

On the road, Luo Lan didn’t even dare to roll open the window, he was worried that a gust of wind blowing in, he would eat a mouthful of sand: “This hell of a place, only the group of 178 fortresses take it as a piece of treasure like guarding, will soon be going to the Central Plains that the world of flowers, think about it even a little bit of excitement.”

Zhou Qi sat next to him, but has been silent for a long time, seems to be thinking about something, he suddenly said, “You want to open up the railroad line, I can understand, but now the southwest is already high and dry, why do you still always look like you are full of crisis?”

Zhou Qi used to be the secretary of Qing’s Presidium, so don’t look like he’s dangling now, but he’s not stupid.

So he saw from Qing Zhen’s behavior of sending that girl to the Northwest that the Qing Clan was already determined to ally with Fortress 178, “And how did you guys convince Fortress 178 to agree to us building the railroad? You have to know that after the railroad is really built, 111 Barrier will only be a day away if you want to go to 178 Fortress, and it won’t even take a day.”

In this way, if the Qing Clan grabbed the lead in the future, as long as a solid forward base was established up front, then this railroad would be like a lifeline, constantly transporting soldiers and military supplies.

At that time, I’m afraid that this speed of transporting soldiers would be even faster than mechanized troops!

“Wait,” Zhou Qi said to himself, “Do you have a common enemy? But where is this enemy ah, that can make you guys act as if you’re facing a great enemy.”

“Like an enemy is a bit of an exaggeration,” Luo Lan cheerfully laughed, “This can only be considered as saving for a rainy day! The price we pay is not small, first of all, if Fortress 178 encounters a foreign enemy again someday, Qing’s troops will have to rush to the battlefield.”

“What?” Zhou Qi froze for a moment, “Zhang Jinglin can agree to you guys driving your troops next to him?”

“Of course not,” Luo Lan shook his head, “It’s that starting today, Qing is going to open up a corridor from the mountain range further to the west of us in the southwest, slanting into the hinterland of the plateau, so that if anyone lays siege to Fort 178, we’ll be there to support the encirclement from the back.”

“It’s not easy to open up a corridor in this mountain range,” Zhou Qi lamented.

“Trying to get Fortress 178 to agree to our parallel railroad is equally not easy, let’s just say that we have made concessions and efforts for each other,” Luo Lan said calmly.

“Good, even if Zhang Jinglin believes that you will go to support him when the time comes, then who is Qing’s enemy?” Zhou Qi asked.

“The Central Plains Wang Clan,” Luo Lan laughed, “Unexpected, right? In fact, I didn’t expect it at first, why Qing Zhen would care so much about this Wang Clan.”

“That’s interesting,” Zhou Qi came to be interested, “That Wang Sheng Zhi, I heard that he’s still in a wheelchair and has always liked to be kind to people, you guys are afraid of this kind of person too?”

“We’re not afraid of anyone,” Luo Lan looked out of the window at the yellow soil, “But Qing is not as secure as one would think, now that Qing holds more than 40 barriers in his hands, he has already become the most powerful organizational force in the entire barrier alliance as it seems on the surface, the tree attracts the wind, and a lot of people will start to pay more concerned about this land in the southwest.”

“And what does this have to do with the Wang Clan?” Zhou Qi knew very little about the Wang Consortium, which was why he asked this question.

“This Wang Shengzhi used ten years to twist the Wang Clan Consortium into a rope, and then opened the most important Northwest Resource Channel, and then for ten years as one day, he implemented the mandatory military service policy, at first, perhaps it was not obvious what was going on, and the Wang Clan’s active duty troops were not particularly large, but after a long period of time it was a different story, and once the war started, almost all of the Wang Clan’s side of the country who are under the age of 35 years old adult males, can immediately become soldiers,” Luo Lan calmly said.

“It’s just military service,” Zhou Qi said doubtfully, “You’d have to say that this alone is a way to judge his constant readiness to wage war against others, it’s kind of a lustful offense.”

“More than that, Qing Zhen said that Wang started to buy silkworms at high prices some years ago, and the location where Zhou’s consortium belongs to is one of the most suitable places for breeding silkworms, many of Zhou’s stragglers fled into the mountains to breed silkworms, and Wang silently bought them at high prices and gave them subsidies for supplies, and as a result, guess what, Zhou even found himself with fewer and fewer stragglers the year before last, and a lot of the factories were understaffed, and there was almost not enough food! There’s almost not enough food to go around!” Luo Lan hemmed and hawed, “Of course, there’s much more that the Wang Consortium has done.”

“I want to know what Qing Zhen thinks of Wang’s?” Zhou Qi frowned.

Luo Lan calmly said, “He said that Wang has the ambition to unify the Barrier Alliance.”

“That’s why Zhang Jinglin and Qing Zhen thought together and agreed to your proposal, and then the two sides secretly joined forces to resist future risks,” Zhou Qi sighed, “Can’t we all just live a good life? Make money, pick up girls, and enjoy a lifetime of glory and wealth, isn’t it quite good? Why is it that there are always people who want to pocket everything in the whole world?”

Luo Lan laughed, “Human greed, you and I have seen a lot, but this Wang Shengzhi is not because of greed …… which is the most frightening. Moreover, the Qing Clan still has some old rivals that have been around for many years now, for example, that mob leader has never let go of his preconceived notions about us, for example, the Fire Seed Company has also been looking at us unfavorably for a long time ……”

“To have you say that, there’s even a feeling of having enemies all over the world ……” Zhou Qi said breathlessly, “What I’m curious about is, does the Qing Clan really have a nuclear base?”

Luo Lan cheerfully laughed: “You guess?”

Zhou Qi skimmed his lips, “Fooling around.”

Luo Lan suddenly lamented, “If only we could have pulled Ren Xiaosu to our side before, with him sitting at 111 Barrier, my brother wouldn’t have to stay in the barracks every day.”

“Who is this looking down on?” Zhou Qi was not happy, “Wasn’t I guarding him before? What, don’t believe I can protect him? In what way am I inferior to Ren Xiaosu?”

“Do you dare to break the 146 barriers alone?” Luo Lan was curious.

Zhou Macedonia said for a moment, “Take it as I didn’t say that! But if I go to the Central Plains here, who’s going to protect Qing Zhen?”

“A fellow called Zheng Yuandong has returned,” Luo Lan laughed, “He’s a bit more powerful than I thought.”

“Zheng Yuandong? Sounds quite familiar.”

“You should be more familiar with his codename, Evernight, he’s a Transcendent now.”

The speed of the caravan towards the Central Plains was not slow, this time, Luo Lan and Zhou Qi’s mission to the Central Plains seemed to have suddenly become important, they wanted to use gold to obtain cheap friendship in this Central Plains chaos, and then try to drag it out for as long as possible, so that the day that they feared the most, would come a little later.

This would buy Qing Zhen more time to consolidate the resources of the entire southwest.

Of course, it would be even better if the danger could be nipped in the bud.

“By the way, what about that Green Harvest Group?” Zhou Qi asked, “Doesn’t that one need to be worried about?”

“No need.”