Edge of the Apocalypse

Chapter 370: Xenogeneity

At noon, Alan brought Shawn to the Shandiborah Sea Restaurant. This is a special restaurant, the restaurant owner with a few medium-sized sail-like iron chains connected together, and fixed it on the bay to form a water platform. Some of the excess components on the ship were removed to keep the space spacious enough. After erecting the sunshade and other necessary facilities, it became such a unique restaurant on the sea.

Below the dining hall, the abdomen of the boat, was even transformed into an elegant room to meet the special needs of some guests.

Roger booked a nice spot in the dining room, where he could look at more than half of the Silver Gull Strait. When the sea breeze rises, the water platform will rise and fall along with the waves. Closing your eyes will make people suspicious of being above the blue sky and blue sea.

By the time Alan arrived, Roger, as the initiator, had already arrived. "Long time no see, Mr. Allen," he greeted with a smile, "you look well."

"Mr. Roger is also in good spirits." Alan replied.

After the two of them took their seats, they chatted for a while before guests arrived one after another. After Alan, the young president of the Lily Chamber of Commerce, Jessica, arrived. Then there were two elderly people. Just by looking at their attire, one could tell that they had a great background. Seeing that all the guests were seated, Roger snapped his fingers. In less than a minute, all kinds of exquisite dishes, seafood sashimi with local characteristics, and fruit wine brewed by the restaurant were laid out one by one, covering a large table.

When all the dishes were served, Roger stood up and raised his glass. "Come, everyone here is my friend. It's a rare opportunity for us to meet today. I'd like to introduce this young gentleman to you."

He looked at Ellen and smiled, "I believe everyone here has received the news. Sir Maud of Storm City has fallen, and it is the young and promising Mr. Ellen who is in charge of Storm City instead of Sir Maud. I propose a toast to him, everyone."

The few of them raised their glasses in greeting, but Alan naturally wouldn't push it off and drink it all in one gulp.

Next, Roger introduced the two old men to Alan. They sat on Jessica's left and right, the red-skinned Reese on the left, who always had a smile on his face and half-closed eyes. What surprised Allen was that this old man who looked friendly was the boss of the three mercenary corps. The Rangers that had been pulled over through the Adventurers Association were one of Reese's mercenary corps.

Apart from the Rangers, Reese also had a trident that specialized in naval battles, as well as the Hundred Battle Corps that had been hired by the various merchant corps to protect them all year round.

Reese smiled as he waited for Roger to introduce himself. He turned his finger and said, "Hansen told me about you when he came back. In his words, the strategy you used to defeat Storm City was brilliant."

"Exaggerated." Alan said modestly.

Roger introduced another old man named Fellows as the vice president of the Iron Flag Chamber of Commerce. The Iron Flag Chamber of Commerce was engaged in the trade of weapons and equipment, as well as weapons raw materials such as copper and iron. Among them, guns and cannons were their main livelihood. Fellows was very thin, his thin face almost sticking to his bones. He did not like to laugh and looked like a mummy that had just been unearthed.

Fellows only nodded his head at Roger's introduction, but didn't say anything more.

"As for this beautiful lady, I'm sure I don't have to waste my breath. You two already know each other," Roger smiled as he spoke of Jessica.

"Our Lily Chamber of Commerce is happy to work with people like Mr. Allen, and I'm sure we'll have a good time." Jessica raised her glass and said happily.

"Come, eat." Roger did not forget his role as host and helped to promote the atmosphere at the table at the right time.

After tasting some local seafood, Allen heard Roger's voice.

"Now that Storm City has basically stabilized, may I know what Mr. Allen plans to do next?"

Finally, Alan thought, getting to the point. He glanced at the people on the seat. Including the expressionless Fellows, all of them revealed subtle expressions. Obviously, they also wanted to know Alan's answer.

Alan smiled faintly and said, "Storm City is rich in both copper and iron minerals. The two ore veins can produce large quantities of equipment materials every year. I don't plan to waste them. Right now, a weapons workshop is being built. I plan to gather blacksmiths from the two cities to devote myself to the development and production of weapons and equipment in the next few days."

"I wonder which direction you're leaning towards?" Reese straightened up and asked.

'"When the workshop was built, it would be more inclined towards equipment like swords and armor. After all, they are in greater demand. But my ultimate goal is to have the ability to produce firearms on my own. For example, a continuous firing firearm …"

The atmosphere at the dining table froze.

"Consecutive fire/guns?" Fellows sneered, "Mr. Allen is an outsider after all, so he naturally doesn't know that even the empire's Royal Workshop is unable to produce a continuous firing firearm at the moment." That was not something that could be done by applying the principle of continuous firing guns to firearms. Every time the same components were reduced by a factor of two, the accuracy requirement would need to be increased by a factor of ten. The problems that followed, such as rifling and ammunition, were all difficult to overcome. If the continuous firing firearms were really that easy to produce, the main corps of the empire would not be using the flintlock firearms anymore.

Ellen shrugged his shoulders and said, "Just because you can't make it now doesn't mean you can't make it in the future. It's like a flintlock gun. If it was a hundred years ago, people probably wouldn't have thought they could make such a weapon, right?" josei

Fellows was speechless, so he could only snort and silently picked up his glass to drink.

Roger exchanged glances with Reese, who smiled and said, "Mr. Allen is impressive, not to mention the possibility of producing a continuous firing gun. Although our mercenary corps has firearms, they still use cold weapons. "If Storm City's weapons workshop has the ability to mass produce saber and sword equipment, I hope Mr. Allen can sell it to us at a relatively favorable price."

"Of course." Alan said.

Roger smiled and said, "The Iron Flag Chamber of Commerce mainly sells equipment. In the future, we don't need to be too distant. We can place orders directly in Storm City's workshop."

Hearing this, Fellows replied coldly, "That may not be possible. Our Chamber of Commerce has a long-term cooperation agreement with a few weapons dealers. We cannot exchange them."

"It's a pity that our Lily Merchant Guild does not do business in equipment. However, the cloth Mr. Allen provided last time is selling well. I hope that Sur City can continue to develop new cloth."

"Mr. Shawn will follow up on this point." "And I have other ideas about fabric production," Allen said. "If I could work with the Lily Chamber of Commerce to bring in excellent designers, would it be better to upgrade the textile mill to a garment factory and sell the garments everywhere?"

Jessica's eyes lit up and she nodded, "I've had this thought before. It seems that I can talk to Mr. Shawn about it later."

She acted straightforwardly and immediately made an appointment with Xiao En. Alan looked at Roger and said, "Mr. Roger's group should be going to quite a few places. I wonder where the Silver Channel leads to. Mr. Roger, can you tell me?"

Roger let out a deep smile. The weapons workshop from before had now inquired about the world outside the Silver Channel. Alan had already revealed a lot of information. This information showed that the young knight in front of him was not content to dominate the border. He looked at the bay outside the restaurant and said, "We can reach Ark Harbour after a month's journey from the Silver Gull Strait."

"Ark Port?"

"Yes, it is also a port city. Entering Ark Harbor was equivalent to entering the interior of the empire's territory. Ark Harbor is famous for its shipbuilding industry. Most of the sailboats and hybrid ships we use are from Ark Harbor. At this point, Roger had a leisurely look on his face as he said, "We're working on a kind of tin boat that's more robust, that can withstand storms and allow our adventurers to explore further into the world."

"If we don't take the water route, we can reach the heart of the empire from the north of the Wild Highlands through the south of Violet Harbor." Reese added: "However, the Wilderness Highlands are not peaceful. It is filled with dangerous cliffs, desolate forests, and beasts, filled with blood and chaos. Compared to the Blood Rock Wilderness, it was simply a child's play. Very few people are willing to cross the Wilderness Highlands, although it only takes about two weeks to do so. However, people would rather choose the waterway. After all, it is safer. And if you're lucky, you'll meet a Naga Fishman at sea. Those are all beautiful and sexy mutants. "

Alan was drinking fruit wine when he heard the word "Naga Fishman" and almost spat out the wine. He suspected that he had heard wrongly and asked, "The kind of fishmen you're talking about are not all females, are they? The kind of fishmen whose bodies are covered in purple soft scales and have no bones?"

Reese laughed, "Yes, that's right. Looks like Mr. Allen has heard of the beauty of a Naga Fishman. An adult Fishman can sell for up to 100,000 gold coins in the empire. Of course, no man would be willing to give her up if he got a Fishman."

The men at the table laughed embarrassedly, and even Fellows' lips curled into a faint smile. Alan was smiling, but he was extremely shocked in his heart. The so-called Naga Fishman that Reese and the others spoke of was clearly the Soft Bone Naga that he had seen at the slave auction in Babylon. However, the Nagas had always lived on one of the planets in the Rudson Domain. Why did the Nagas exist in this world?

Originally, Alan thought that the natives of this world were humans, but it was only now that he realized that there were other intelligent beings on this planet besides humans. This strange planet was slowly unveiling its mysterious veil to Alan.