Chapter 542: Lanqi's Salem Plan
"Today is your sixth day in this shadow world."
"Although you have achieved some results, you are not happy. News has come that the neighboring Kingdom of Bliss is losing ground."
"You know you can't be confused anymore."
The cat boss said to Lanqi, while curiously scratching a music box with his claws, and a little tune full of tense atmosphere played on it.
The string sounds, sometimes lingering and sometimes running wild, carry a sense of anxiety, and the confusing melody seems like a lonely person dancing in the mud, searching for light in the darkness.
It was late at night at the Ranchiher Salem's home.
He sat alone behind an old wooden desk, surrounded by piles of books.
There were many magical engineering instruments in front of him. The one that attracted Boss Cat's attention the most was a Nixie tube timer. The tube emitted a saturated orange-red light, like magma lighting up the numbers, which looked particularly mysterious in the dim room.
The faint buzz of the timer echoed in the silent room, as if reminding them of the passage of time.
"It is indeed time for me to leave Hersharem."
Lanqi's face was illuminated obliquely by the desk lamp. His expression was deep and his eyes were bright, and his gaze seemed to penetrate the snowy fields in the north.
These days, the Honing Empire not only directly attacked its neighboring Kingdom of Bliss, but he also received intelligence that the Honing Empire's special forces were also infiltrating the Kingdom of Fuklo and the Kingdom of Edith on the east and west sides.
But Lanqi himself could guess it.
Although the northern snowfield, a place of eternal night with little daylight all year round, is not a strategic location in history, it is a Feng Shui treasure land for the vampires.
Because the nights there are so long and the sun rarely appears, they can avoid their only weakness.
It would be a real disaster if the vampires were to open a gap in the east or west, occupy the Land of Eternal Night, and begin to encircle the Polant Empire from the north and south.
The Land of Eternal Night may be much more dangerous now than before, and no one is sure whether any vampire vanguard has successfully sneaked in.
But fortunately, the ancestors of the blood clan have been monitored by the demon world for many years. If an ancestor of the blood clan who is an eighth-level marquis or above goes north, it will definitely cause movement on the demon side first.
One of the clauses in the "North-South Treaty" between the vampires and the demons is that the vampires are not allowed to easily cross the Land of Eternal Night without permission, unless they are like the vampire envoy Baron Sanchez in the Purgatory Corridor Academy in the Shadow World. After prior negotiations between the demons and the vampires, they can be received into the Demon Realm openly and search for humans lurking in the Purgatory Corridor Academy together with the Demon Realm Investigators.
"Boss Cat, we should leave Hersarem tomorrow morning and go to the demon world."
Lanqi tapped his fingers lightly on the table as he stared at the [Transformation: Human] he had just made.
This is a spell card that can transform into him, Lanchy Wilford, and it was made by him personally in the past two days.
Because he brought Boss Cat with him this time, there were plenty of card slots, and he even let it carry a portable card-making tool set consisting of ten equipment cards, so he could make magic cards even in the shadow world.
However, this compressed portable tool is far inferior to the high-end tools in the real world workshops. The difficulty of making cards in the shadow world is much higher than in the real world.
Lanci will have a trusted subordinate from his faction transformed into him, and have him act as him for the next three to four weeks, maintaining activities in Hersharem according to his plan.
During this time, he will transform into Rocky McCarthy and travel through the Land of Eternal Night to the Demon Realm to find Hyperion and seek some negotiation possibilities with the great demons.
During this period, he will turn off the live broadcast of the shadow world. In addition to not wanting the people of the southern continent to see Rocky McCarthy, he also doesn't want the people in the real world to see that he has now turned into a demon.
As long as he transforms into a demon and loses the disguise of human skin, other demons in the demon world may find out that he is a big demon, which will be difficult to explain to the people of the southern continent.
"Meow, I don't know how Hyperion's magic veins are doing in the demon world now. I'm worried that she won't be able to adapt to the new environment."
Boss Cat misses Hyperion very much.
Previously, when Hyperion fell into the Kingdom of Aethertalan, it was not worried about Hyperion at all because it was a pure land, but it was afraid of the demon world just by thinking about it.
"Don't worry, just wait until I get her back."
Lanqi reached out and touched the little black cat, and said firmly.
"Um."
The little black cat nodded.
Lanqi has been unexpectedly normal these days, although it can't understand what Lanqi does every day.
Apart from negotiations and writing plans, he was doing the normal work of a prime minister. After get off work, he did some small-scale magic research and development, and did not give a grand speech as expected.
It was very happy that Lanqi finally listened to it and Hyperion's words.
Although this shadow world looks very hopeless, after the trip to the Northern Continent, it has great confidence in Ranchi's ability and upper limit. This shadow world is exactly Ranchi's strong point. As long as he works hard, it may not be difficult to increase the chances of winning from 0% to the target 1% in more than forty days.
All it has to do is take care of Lanqi's daily balanced diet and health.
It saw that the current situation of the Polant Empire had become——
[Public support: 145 → 276/1000 (popular support and cohesion)]
[House of Representatives: 252 → 227/1000 (Support rate among the top leaders of the Polant Empire)]
[Military Strength: 124/1000 (with the Honing Empire as a reference)]
[Finance: 222→236/1000 (Current productivity of the Polant Empire)]
[Diplomacy: 115/1000 (diplomatic relations with the Demon Realm and surrounding countries that have not surrendered)]
The chance of winning is still 0.0000%, and even the fourth decimal place does not show a positive number.
However, this is understandable, because the actual results achieved by Ranch this week are very small. Apart from basically stabilizing public sentiment and the parliament, the only decisive factor is the slight increase in finance, which is still due to the related impact of the rise in public sentiment.
Boss Cat felt that because Lanqi's decision this time was too prudent and normal, in the eyes of people outside the shadow world, Lanqi might have been almost idle for a week to get familiar with this shadow world.
Or a total of forty-five rounds, he has wasted the first six. It is hard to imagine how much pressure Lanqi's teacher Loren is facing outside now.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
The next trip to the demon world will require cutting off the live broadcast of the shadow world for three to four weeks. It is unknown whether Loren can withstand the time when the live broadcast of the shadow world is reopened.
This desperate diplomatic journey can only be a win, not a loss, otherwise Ranch and Loren may have to defend their families in the face of public opinion.
"By the way, Lanqi, what's the use of this you prepared?"
The cat boss standing on the table patted some handwritten notes and complex planning projects scattered in front of Lanqi with his paws.
Lanqi arranged a lot of work before he set out. He could understand the one in front of him a little better. It did not involve too many political issues of the Polant Empire. It was just a simple engineering strategic plan.
The title of its cover is "The Salem Project"
It will be led by the Army, using a large amount of resources and manpower. The initial plan is for magic engineers to conduct research and experiments in a confidential research institute located on the outskirts of the capital, Hersharem, and then quickly complete the construction and expansion, setting up multiple laboratories and factories across the country to assist.
"Whether it succeeds or not is not important. What I need is to do my best to let the spies in the south know that we have a 'Salem Project' and are investing all our efforts in manufacturing a secret weapon. Anyway, I want to make the Horning Empire suspicious of us."
Lanci replied.
He has no secrets with Cat.
"Can that create something?"
The cat boss was even more confused.
In fact, it felt that it would be good enough to complete the startup phase in just over forty days, and it was impossible to produce any results.
“It can’t be made.”
Lanqi shook his head calmly, "But as long as we can make the Horning Empire confused about whether we have the 'Salem Plan', it will be enough."
"But it is true that I have not."
Boss Cat was confused by what he heard.
"Who knows?"
Lanqi spread his hands.
Just because something cannot be created doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
When the time comes, if we airdrop a [Nuclear Fusion Wolf] to the Honing Empire, the Honing Empire might believe it.
They even believed that this type of bomb could be manufactured continuously and that the Polant Empire could drop a second one from the air.
Anyway, we can just fabricate a void "Salem Plan" to make the Honing Empire suspicious, which will naturally give the vampires a little light and heat shock.
Throwing a fusion wolf in this era probably wouldn't result in a military court, so he could just press the button with peace of mind.
The key now is to go to the demon world and find fuel.
And tomorrow morning, the secretary will help him find a snowy coachman who can take him and Boss Cat safely through the land of eternal night, and the journey will begin.
(End of this chapter)