Alien Arms Empire.

In this world, there is a castle with a red wall, which is very famous.The people living in the castle are also so precious that people dare not mention her name easily.

That's right, this castle is the Flame Castle, and the woman who lives in this castle, named Sophia, is the actual controller of the Cyric Consortium.

Luxurious decoration makes this historic castle look full of modern charm inside.

The enlarged windows lost their previous defensive function of the bunker, in exchange for better lighting and a more gorgeous appearance.

Expensive electric lights have been replaced in the rooms, and expensive fluorescent lamps are even used in some rooms, which are expensive.

In the room filled with priceless sofas and artworks, there are actually several telephones on the coffee table, and a desk lamp carved with an eagle is placed next to these telephones, and two pens can be inserted into the base.

Sophia sat on the sofa and put aside the telegram about the Ice Kingdom.She sneered, and her beautiful face became even more charming: "When you see that the limelight is not right, you plan to run away."

Recently, as the war situation continues to deteriorate, all countries on the Eastern Continent actually have the idea of ​​withdrawing from the war.

Originally, everyone thought that they would defeat Tang and carve up Tang's inheritance, but the direction of the war seemed to be significantly different from what they expected.

At the beginning, all the countries felt that a huge combined fleet could easily gain control of the sea, cut off Tang's maritime transportation lines, and eventually force Tang to sign an alliance under the city and honestly donate their advanced technology.

What made them depressed was the fact that the Tang army was invincible on the battlefield and easily defeated the Dahua Empire, gaining the advantage in land warfare.

And on the damned sea, Tang Jun's new weapon submarine sank an alliance transport ship of millions of tons, forcing the alliance fleet, which was supposed to be in the upper hand, to hide in the northern part of the endless sea and dare not show up.

The naval fleet of the Lions Empire suffered heavy losses. Ships from many countries dared not return home. The entire naval battle was no longer what it was estimated before the war.

When everyone thinks they can win, it's one thing to invest something in the feast after a future victory, but it's another thing to accept failure and involve yourself in the failure that may be lost.

Now, seeing that the sea can't be defeated and the land battle is about to lose, many countries that want to take advantage of the fire have begun to study the matter of withdrawing from the alliance.

Even many countries did not deliberately avoid Cyric's side. They used this to express their dissatisfaction with the repeated decision-making mistakes of the Cyric Foundation-you see, people are like this sometimes, obviously it is their own decision, yes They have a lot of ideas, and the Cyric Foundation's lobbying is only a secondary reason, but when things come to an end, they will still put the blame on Cyric.

Of course, Cyric wasn't wronged, after all, they were the ones who made the trouble, and the alliance was indeed formed by them.

Sophia knew a month ago that the ministers of the Frost Empire began to persuade His Majesty the Emperor to send envoys to shake hands with the Tang Kingdom as soon as possible, and to leave the alliance and withdraw from this protracted war with no chance of winning.

Half a month ago, the Susas Empire and the Dorne Empire also had some voices opposing the continuation of the fight.

More and more countries are considering the feasibility of withdrawing from this so-called alliance and unilaterally negotiating peace with Tang.This kind of thing has begun to make Cyric feel uneasy, and it also makes Sofia feel dangerous.

Cyric has never been a place where people can do whatever they want. There are many shareholder directors here, and these directors represent more complex and huge interest groups.

On this point, Cyric is completely different from Datang Group. Datang Group has always been a company that belongs only to Tang Mo, so these forces that have invested in Cyric will regard Datang Group as a thorn in their side.

This is one of the reasons why so many empires are unwilling to allow Tang to develop and grow: Tang is a different country at the national level. Its system, its soul, its mode of operation, and its speed of advancement all make it incompatible with other countries. .

Similarly, Datang Group is completely different from other corporate consortiums. Its expansion and development methods cannot be replicated by other companies. Tang Mo's rise directly makes traditional businessmen and rich people very nervous.

Tang Mo and everything about him are changing the rules of this world and re-establishing another new system.If you can't keep up with this step, those old imperial kingdoms, or those old corporate conglomerates will be swept into the dustbin of history and become decayed dust.

Some people chose to destroy the Tang Dynasty and destroy the Datang Group before this change came.For example, Sophia.

Some people are willing to follow and learn, willing to make some compromises and concessions in exchange for more benefits, so that they can continue to develop along with the historical trend.For example, Marquis Egret.

After the Cyric consortium experienced the last failure, the internal voices have actually begun to split.Some people think that everyone is in business, and they do whatever business they do. As long as Datang Group can give them some ways to make money, there is no need for Cyric to chase Datang Group to death.

Although these voices were not mainstream, Sophia, who controlled more than one-third of Cyric's power, easily suppressed these discordant proposals.But after all, some people thought so, and naturally some people continued to think so.

You know, Sophia was the first to make a change back then, sending her maid Jenny to contact Tang Mo, and secretly killed several main competitors before she got the position.

Since she is taking the path of secretly cooperating with the Datang Group, she will naturally guard against someone who learns from her, secretly colludes with the Datang Group, and finally kills her.

Looking at the telegram in front of her, Sophia angrily pulled out a snow-white cigarette from the shiny iron clip box with her slender hands.

This kind of cigarette is very thin. It was launched by the Datang Group. It is a brand name cigarette exclusively for female nobles. The brand is called Rose.

Once the rose cigarette was launched, it was loved by the noblewomen, who regarded it as an important symbol of their equal status with men.

Therefore, the more successful, rich, and widowed female aristocrats, the more they like to light a cigarette like this at a party to show their status and taste.

Of course, there is another important reason, which is to reflect their wealth: such a cigarette is enough for an ordinary family to buy food for a month.

Sophia held the cigarette in her hand, lit it with that beautiful and equally valuable lighter, and exhaled a mouthful of white mist.

In the tumbling white smoke, her eyes were a little blurred.Because just yesterday, many shareholders of Cyric, that is, the directors, formally expressed their dissatisfaction with her.

Everyone used their connections and relationships to come up with real gold and silver. What is it for?Is it not for making money?
If there is a lot of money to be made, the leader is a good person, a guiding light for everyone, and a good captain of this giant commercial ship sailing to sea.

But if you can't make money, then everyone has to talk about it.If it doesn't work, try another person, there is no need to hang yourself on a crooked neck tree.

What these directors mean is that if Cyric is defeated again in this war, Sophia must at least surrender the position of the director and Cyric's authority.

Although in terms of shares, Sophia still holds one-third of the entire consortium's shares, but the combined shares of other shareholders are enough to remove her and challenge her.

Sometimes things are like this. When you ring the bell to go public, there are countless investment companies willing to pay you. It is called financing, and it is more pleasant to say that it is optimistic about your development direction.

But if your company’s stocks continue to lose money, then many people will sell your stocks to cash out and run away. They are not willing to pay attention to your pleadings. No matter how you show your company’s future prospects, they will not stay. You take a look.

Cyric was an arms company that influenced the whole world. It provided artillery, warships, muskets and bayonets to almost all countries in the world. It can be said to be the most influential "private enterprise".

Even this company has its own private armed forces in many countries, and has greater power than the king in many countries.

But that's all in the past.

The current situation of the Cyric Consortium is actually very bad: in the process of negotiating with various countries, too many officials of the Cyric faction have been exposed, and all the prestige and popularity that Cyric has accumulated before have been completely destroyed. Splurge.

You know, lobbying many countries to make similar decisions at the same time is not an easy task.Even in the heyday of Cyric, it still needs to pay a certain price and make some exchange of benefits.

Everything needs to be compensated with the benefits obtained in subsequent actions.Following Cyric has soup to drink and benefits to take, which is the important reason why these countries are willing to give Cyric face.

But in the past ten years, the countries that followed Cyric were either destroyed, or suffered heavy losses in successive failures.Under such circumstances, there are very few countries that are willing to follow Cyric for nothing.

Now everyone's attitude is: what do you want us to do, we can think about it, it is not impossible to kill any dear relatives and friends, but...you have to pay more.

There are various exchanges of interests. In order to convince so many countries to follow it and Datang Group, and to oppose Tang State, the price Cyric has to pay is also varied and strange.

Sometimes, it is Cyric who wants to take the initiative to hand over some officials from various countries who have been bought by him and have a little bit of loyalty.

So in these years, the officials who were bribed by the Cyric Foundation and related to the Cyric Foundation have been sacked one after another. They either went home to pick up their children, or were imprisoned without further details.

The emperors of various countries consolidated their imperial power one after another, and employed a large number of young people to inject fresh blood into the courts of their respective countries.

At the same time, Cyric had to spend his savings to provide military assistance to so many countries.This is also a part of cooperation and the selfishness of all countries.

It's hard to say whether this is good news. Under Cyric's helpless compromise, technology began to spread crazily, and the industrial strength and technology accumulation of various countries have made great progress.

To put it bluntly, technology has spread, and everyone has some capital, and can develop some weapons and equipment by themselves without relying on Cyric.

Dahua's Type 1 fighter jets and Type 2 tanks, the Ice Cold Empire's ice tanks, and the battleships secretly built by Mirage are all the results of the diffusion of these technologies.

Because of the industrial foundation of Northridge and Bunas, the Susas Empire and the Lions Empire are at the forefront of industrialization.The industrial zones of these two empires were built by the Datang Group, so they are naturally much stronger than those counterfeit products.

These two countries have now developed their own tanks and aircraft, and their performance is surprisingly good.

The record player didn't know when it stopped, the record that was just played kept spinning, the needle had been detached at the outermost circle, and no one had dialed it back to the record.

Glancing through the smoke at the huge lily-like speaker of the record player imported from Tang, Sophia took a deep breath of the cigarette bitterly.

This thing is also produced in Tang country!Everything she likes and pursues with money: those beautiful shoes, those luxurious cars, those bright light bulbs, the cigarette in her hand, the record player by the wall...all of these are imported from Tang.

She hated Tang Mo so much, hated the business empire that Tang Mo had built, but she almost filled her meeting room and bedroom with goods produced in Tang.

For Sophia, this is simply a great irony.

"Bastard!" She cursed, and wanted to kick over the coffee table in front of her, but she didn't kick it because the coffee table was full of real materials.

There are guards and servants standing by outside the door, but they will come in only when they hear Sophia ring the bell on the coffee table—the door of this room is really thick, and the sound insulation effect is really good.This is also Sophia's need, she doesn't want all the voices she makes in the room to be heard by the people outside the door.

The recent troubles made her even see her female companions for a long time, and whenever she thought of these, she would become even more irritable.

When she thought that she might be liquidated after the war, she felt that Zhao Kai, the emperor of the Dahua Empire, was a waste, Chu and Qin were also wastes, Mirage Kingdom, Frozen Empire and Suzas The Empire Lions Empire is also all trash!
Those Cyric directors are short-sighted bastards!These people are all incompetent people who drove her to a dead end!
Unknowingly, she remembered the telegram Tang Mo sent her on the day the war started.I remembered the sentence on the telegram: This time, it will not work to just push someone to replace the dead ghost!
Looking at this sentence before, no matter how you look at it, it looks like a curse of Tang Mo's incompetence.

But now, these words.Floating in front of her eyes, like a ghost, lingering.

Is it really like that damn guy said, this time she will pay for what she did?
hateful!Does he still want to kill me?Sophia thought fiercely in her head.She looked at her warm, white and flawless hand holding the cigarette.

There is a brilliant gemstone ring on her finger, every nail has been carefully trimmed, and all the radians are perfect.

As a woman, she has everything that is almost enviable: her hair is thick and naturally fiery red, like a bursting flame, hot and full of vitality.

Her neck was long and slender, it was a natural necklace neck, every time she flicked her hair to reveal this coveted neck, those men would swallow their saliva without exception.

As far as the eye can see, her chest is towering. She has been educated by nobles since she was a child, and she has a good figure. She is proficient in dancing and has a graceful posture.

Those slender jade legs that make countless men crazy, and countless women envy, even Sophia will haunt her dreams when she touches them.

What makes it even more unfair is that she is also smarter than many people.She has been running a huge business empire since she was a child, she is more sensible than her peers, and she is better than many business wizards.

In addition to her excellence, she also has money...in the true sense of the word.If there is no up-and-coming star named Tang Mo in this world, her wealth can definitely aspire to be the richest man in the world.

How could such an excellent woman die so willingly?He had the heart to let himself die?
Doesn't the stinky man just want to be himself?Sophia narrowed her eyes. At this moment, she felt that she had guessed Tang Mo's plan.

That's right, she felt that the telegram sent by Tang Mo was to use the safest and easiest way to end the competition between the Tang Kingdom and Cyric.

Obviously, if Tang Mo married Sophia, he would be able to take one-third of Cyric's shares in one fell swoop and gain the full support of her, Sophia's director.

The more I thought about it, the more I felt that I had guessed the truth, Sophia's face blushed slightly, and she was quickly suppressed by her again.

She repeatedly told herself that Sophia didn't like men, even if it was the strongest man in the world, she wouldn't... At least she wouldn't surrender easily.

For a moment, she seemed to understand why the maid Jenny stayed in the Tang Kingdom and why she married a man named Harry.

But in an instant, she became rebellious and furious again: If you want to succeed, you want to be beautiful!There was no way she would be with her enemy, never!
Just as she was sitting on the sofa and thinking wildly, the door was knocked by someone outside.Sophia ordered people from outside to come in. She knew that if someone disturbed her at this time, it must be very important.

A maid came in, presented a telegram with both hands, and handed it to Sophia respectfully: "My lord, it's a telegram from Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty."

"I see... let's get down!" Sophia felt her cheeks burning hot, and she even wanted to throw this telegram into the trash can.

Probably the hardest decision for her to make is this type of decision about personal relationships.In business, she would never have been so flustered.

what to do?At this moment, Sophia was really afraid of the telegram in her hand, which was a courtship letter sent to her by Tang Mo.

If it is really this kind of content, Sophia doesn't know whether she should refuse or agree to it.

For a competitive businesswoman, she felt that she should admit defeat, since she lost the war, she should pay the due price.It makes sense, doesn't it?
If Tang Mo really makes such a request, she can at most satisfy Tang Mo's bad intentions: she can also use this relationship to threaten Cyric's competitors in turn, get more Tang's technology, and revitalize Cyric. , gain the initiative.

She is very confident in her body, it is a beautiful face, there is no man who is not interested in her face.

At this time, she doesn't think much about her liking for women. For a person like her, doing some disgusting things is nothing more than a trade-off of interests.It's like being bitten by a dog!Subconsciously, Sofia convinced herself so much.

After thinking for so long, all the maids waiting to deliver the telegram went out and closed the door, but Sophia didn't even open the telegram from Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty.

She held the folded paper in her palm, as if grasping the future, as if recapturing Cyric's authority.

A telegram to me... a telegram to me... Sophia, who had already started planning how to ask for technology related to weapons such as the Butcher fighter jet and the Flying Fortress bomber after spending the night with Tang Mo, finally looked down at the telegram in her hand.

Nervously, she pushed the half of the cigarette in the other hand into the ashtray on the coffee table, and nervously opened the folded letter.

There was still a very short sentence inside, but it wasn't what Sophia was thinking about: "Have you decided whether to use poison or a pistol?"

Sophia closed the message and reopened it... She couldn't believe what she saw with her eyes.

Finally, she confirmed the contents of this telegram, and it had nothing to do with the flowers before the moon.

There is no ambiguity or pornography in this telegram, every corner is full of coldness and ruthlessness.

"Have you decided whether to use poison or a pistol?" Sophia read this passage again, and she seemed to see a young man standing in front of her in a dignified manner, and placed an emerald green vial on the table in a very gentlemanly manner next to the pistol.

All the desire to refuse and welcome, all the self-confidence stemming from a woman, all vanished at this moment.She even began to wonder if Tang Mo liked men because she liked women...

Staring at the telegram in her hand for a long time, Sophia finally recovered: that man in Chang'an is not one of those vulgar trash, it seems a bit whimsical to want to understate and let the other party forget about it.

So Sophia, with an ugly face, rang the bell on the coffee table, and the door was pushed open immediately, and the servant guarding outside entered the room, lowering his head and asking, "What are your orders? My lord."

"Prepare the car! I'm going out for a trip!"