Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 597 Chapter 597 Candle Seventeen
In the early morning of Bunas, the guards were looking listlessly at the sweeping old man who passed in front of him.

The place must have been much deserted before, and the old people who stayed behind told the new young people about the glory of Bunas all the time.

In the past, Bunas really did not close the door at night and did not pick up things. Even the beggars here earned several times the income of farmers in other places.

It is no exaggeration to say that this place used to be the wealthiest place on the entire planet. People who have never been to Bunas will not be able to appreciate the prosperity of this place at all.

In fact, after living here for a few days, you can easily understand how luxurious it was back then.

The roads here are all powered street lights, and the power consumed in one night has already made some cities salivate.What's more, the streets and alleys here are flashing countless neon lights every night.

There are 7 large casinos and more than 30 small casinos open all night. There is a huge movie theater that broadcasts the latest movies every night.

Betting people at the racetrack outside the city will wave their bills and shout wildly every week, and the cars parked around can even jam the traffic.

There are tens of thousands of workers in the factory in Bunas who go to work every day. When they get off work, countless bicycles and cars fill the streets of the entire city like a flood. The scene is absolutely spectacular.

The air in this city is filled with a proud industrial smell, and the severe pollution makes people here cough non-stop every day.As long as the window frame is not wiped for a day, black soot will fall and accumulate as a thin layer.

The spherical storage tanks of the huge chemical factories here are connected one by one, and the steel pipes connect the surrounding factories. Even walking on the small roads of these factories, you can't see the complete sky when you look up.

This is Bunas, this is the industrial pearl Bunas that Liones I dreamed of and tried so hard to get!
It's a pity that this place is no longer what it used to be. Although the Lions Empire tried its best to rebuild the glory here, it still couldn't return to its former appearance.

Although a series of compensation policies have been introduced and a large number of workers have been moved in, the decline of Bunas is still irreversible, visible to the naked eye, and unstoppable.

It was hard to find a room in the formerly prosperous Bunas Hotel, but now the occupancy rate is not even half of what it used to be.

The door of the Silver Fox Tavern, which was still crowded half a year ago, was locked, and even the sign hanging on it was damaged, and no one went to repair it.

The nobles of the Lions Empire came here, carve up the former rich area and took away some profitable industries, and the rest of the area began to irreversibly decline and desolate.

But even so, the Lions Empire still made a lot of money: when the Datang Group withdrew, the machines and equipment left behind were worth hundreds of millions, which instantly provided Lions with more than ten times the production capacity.

These instantaneous increases in production capacity even caught Lioness a little off guard, causing indigestion: they didn't even know what many production items were for.

Of course, more of the products in the factories actually produce some obsolete products. Since the development of Long Island, the industries of Bunas have rarely undergone industrial upgrades.

It is hard to imagine that the first-generation Rolls-Royce car production line left by Bunas is still useful now that the Datang Group has begun mass production of the third-generation Rolls-Royce luxury car.

For the Lions Empire, perhaps these technologies still have reference value, but for the Datang Group, these things are of little use.

Of course, for the Lions Empire, the improvement is not limited to this point: in the military factory in Bunas, there is a complete production line for Thomson submachine guns, as well as a production line for matching .45 caliber bullets.

At the same time, there are also production lines for Maxim machine guns, howitzers, MK tanks, and airships...

This is simply pie in the sky: if you want to buy these weapons before, it will cost a lot of money.Now, the Lions Empire can have these advanced weapons and equipment without having to pay.

Leaving aside the munitions factory, just a part of the remaining pharmaceutical factories can make the Lions Empire a fortune.

However, in order to prevent Datang Group from taking any equipment, Lions Empire took over some production contracts from Datang Group.

These are the arms sales contracts signed by the Datang Group back then: for example, the MK series tanks sold by the Datang Group are now taken over by the Lions Empire.

These factories are still in operation now, and workers transferred from various regions have begun to resume production in Bunas.Although it is not possible to restore the production capacity to its original state for the time being, most factories have resumed work.

On the pier, a sailboat gradually approached the pier, the gangway was lowered, and the sailors unhurriedly carried the catch down.

These days, if you just do transportation, you can rarely see new sailboats, and most sailboats are fishing boats.The number of ocean-going sailing ships is gradually decreasing, and they are just old ships waiting to be eliminated.

The sailboat parked on the pier is obviously this kind of old sailboat waiting to be eliminated: the ship itself is very dilapidated, but it is still not willing to be eliminated, and it is only used temporarily.

In fact, this kind of makeshift does not save money: motor sailboats and similar ships may not be much more expensive than sailboats in terms of operating costs, but may be more powerful, so they may be more cost-effective.

It's just whether you can get oil and coal, and whether you can get the quota for the purchase of ships. These are the important reasons that hinder the ship owner from changing the ship.

The pier is not busy this morning, only a huge freighter has arrived, and this freighter is carrying rubber from Dorne, and the crane is hoisting these goods to the pier.

Next to the sailboat, the dockworkers gathered around were already unloading the fish. The small pier here is specially prepared for sailboats, and there is no crane, so it is more troublesome to unload the cargo.

"Woo!" Accompanied by a long siren, everyone's eyes fell on another dock not far away, a large ship entering the port.

It was a battleship, with light smoke still curling from two huge chimneys.It leaned against the pier gradually, its front and rear barrels covered with waterproof canvas.

It can be clearly distinguished without careful identification. It is a Burnas-class ironclad ship.Made by the Datang Group, with the flag of the Lions Empire hanging on it.

On the sea not far away, another Cyric-made cruiser is also preparing to enter the port, and another Cyric-made cruiser is adjusting its course.

It's a fleet!Lyons transferred from the south to Burnas' fleet!At a glance, there are as many as seven or eight warships, all of which are iron-clad ships, densely packed in darkness, with a sense of wealth and wealth.

The porters on the pier watched these warships gradually approaching the port, and the foreman shouted impatiently behind them: "Hurry up! Hurry up! What are you looking at? Haven't you seen enough after all these years?"

Accompanied by their shouts, these workers lowered their heads helplessly, and began to carry the fish that had just been unloaded.

The old man sweeping the floor disappeared at some point, and the soldiers of the Lions Empire who were on guard didn't care.He stood there with his weapon on his back, curiously looking at the warships next to each other in the distance.

In a building near the wharf, a stooped old man knocked on a door.The sound of his knocking was very regular, and soon an old woman inside opened the door.

The two looked at each other, the old man stretched out his hand and pressed the old woman's palm a few times, and then left as if nothing had happened.

The old woman closed the door, then walked to a room inside, opened the wardrobe door, pushed open the secret door, and walked to the next room.

It was next door to the house where she lived, and there was a telegraph on the table.The old woman took out the cipher book from her pocket, put it next to the telegraph, put on the earphones and started working.

She tapped very seriously, and quickly sent out the most important information to be sent.Then she put away the codebook and calmly returned to the room where she lived.

Far away in the telegraph room on Long Island, the officer on duty tore off a telegram he had just recorded, and handed the telegram to the officer on duty behind him: "A telegram from Candle 17!"

"Candle 17? From Bunas?" Hearing this, the officer on duty immediately lowered his head to look at the information content, and turned around and ran away in the next second, without the leisurelyness of the past at all.

The sound of his boots hitting the tiles was heard in the corridor, and soon a telegram flew across the endless sea to Ump.

"Information from Bunas! Information from Candle 17, Lyons' fleet has found it in Bunas!" An officer rushed into the conference room and shouted loudly at everyone.

"Huh!" The naval liaison officer let out a long breath, and the expression on the face of Loew at the side was also slightly relaxed.

"It seems that the enemy fleet is not fully assembled, at least Lyons did not participate in Cyric's military operation against Dragon Island this time." A general took off his hat and scratched his head and said thankfully.

"It seems so." Tang Mo on the side also smiled - it seems that the other party has not completely united, which is definitely good news for the Tang Kingdom.

"Report!" Another officer rushed into the conference room panting, bringing another piece of good news: "The Frozen Empire's fleet has also been found, and their fleet has returned to Eternal Winter Harbor!"

"It's okay! It seems that apart from Cyric's fleet, only Dorn's and Goblin's fleets are left, threatening us." Tang Mo smiled even more.

(End of this chapter)