"Father!"
Nancy came to the tent where her father was. The moment she opened the tent curtain, she almost fell to the ground due to exhaustion.
She ran all the way from the container house on the other side of the camp to the tent area, and she looked around the tent area before she found where her father lived.
Fortunately, Maurice III's guards were quick to help the frail princess up.
"Nancy, what happened?"
Morris III put down the heavy book in his hand and took a chair for Nancy, who was breathing a little rapidly, to sit down.
"Blood crystal beast..." Nancy adjusted her breathing and said, "The Kingdom of Fekegis was conquered by the blood crystal beast just now."
"The Crystal Spirit has already told me about this." Morris III pointed at the... fat seal lying on his desk.
"Then father..." Nancy adjusted her breathing and looked at Morris III at this moment. He was so calm that Nancy found it unbelievable.
The Kingdom of Figgis, also known as the Gray Feather Kingdom, is only one duchy away from her homeland.
The Blood Crystal Beast was able to capture the capital of the Gray Feather Kingdom. Once the plague of the Blood Crystal Beast spread to that principality, the principality would have absolutely no ability to resist.
Nancy has witnessed the horror of the blood crystal beast disaster in Scarre, and what Xiu Enzhe will have to face in the future is... a tide of blood crystal beasts that may devour the core of the earth veins of the two countries!
Nancy felt a chill run down her spine at the thought.
"Calm down, my daughter. Perhaps the invasion of the Far South Empire will require us to sharpen our swords to meet the enemy, but as for the blood crystal beast disaster... our allies will find a way." Morris III said.
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Nancy's fear of the blood crystal beasts was suddenly replaced by the scene that day when the rabbits' artillery fire covered the entire Scarre Royal City and the group of blood crystal beasts were reduced to debris in an instant.
"But we can't always rely on others." Nancy regained her composure when she thought of this. She moved a chair and sat in front of Morris III and said, "One day we will have to rely on ourselves."
"I know this better than you, so I'm studying this book."
Morris III showed Nancy the thick book in his hand, and Nancy saw the title on the cover of the book clearly... "Encyclopedia of Commodities of the Industrial Age".
The title is written in Chinese and this universal language.
"Those gods handed this book to me at noon today. I think there will be no problem in treating this book as the scripture of the Almighty God." Morris III said as he handed the thick encyclopedia to Nancy.
Nancy took the book with more than 600 pages. The thickest Chinese book Nancy has ever come into contact with is the "Xinhua Dictionary". This encyclopedia is three times the size of the "Xinhua Dictionary".
Nancy thought that this amount of weapon could be used as a street fight weapon.
Nancy opened the thick encyclopedia, and the first scene that caught her eyes was the blue ocean, in which there was a steel-made beast sailing slowly on the sea.
This page was specially bookmarked by Morris III, so Nancy could turn to it at any time...
As the king of a coastal country, what Maurice III wanted most was of course an invincible warship.
A description of this beast is also included below it.
The Snow transport ship has a displacement of 2,150 tons and a maximum speed of 16 knots. It can transport a military formation of more than 400 people and 250 tons of logistical supplies...
Nancy looked at the instructions above. Even though the instructions were in the common language of the other world, Nancy could only understand part of them.
She flipped through a few more pages of the encyclopedia. In addition to these giant beasts sailing on the sea, there were also records of golems called vehicles on land.
Except Nancy didn't find anything... related to military weapons.
Therefore, this encyclopedia is a civilian version, but instead of calling it an encyclopedia, it might be better named "How Do You Want to Kick Open the Door to the Industrial Age?"
"Dad, do you want to buy those products?" Nancy took a quick look at the products and found that the prices were all based on the energy of the earth's core.
The transport ship named Snow requires a full thousand human units of earth core energy.
As far as Nancy knows, one human unit is equal to ten tons of supplies.
"If the core of our country's earth veins accumulates enough energy, I want everything in this encyclopedia." Morris III's voice sounded a little weak.
After the Xiu Enzhe Kingdom signed an agreement with the Celestial Empire, Morris III gave Lucheng 10,000 human units of energy to express his sincerity.
These energies are equivalent to one tenth of the core of the earth vein in Xiu Enzhe, which means that Morris III still has 90,000 "currencies" in his hands.
Before this encyclopedia, Morris III had no idea what to buy from the Celestial Empire.
After all, he couldn't just say to the Celestial Empire, "Give me the love of the God of Forging," right
But after getting this encyclopedia, Morris III experienced for the first time the pain of a tight budget... If he wanted to buy this, he couldn't afford that other thing; if he wanted to buy another thing, he had to give up the new thing.
For example, the thermal power plant in the encyclopedia, the cornerstone of the industrial age, requires a full 70,000 energy coins to buy a medium-sized one.
The problem is...Morris III bought the power plant, but he couldn't get it running.
Coal mining and supply is one problem; another is that no one knows how to operate a thermal power plant.
So Morris III obediently followed the advice of the 'shopping guide' and obediently paid the electricity bills for the rabbits for several years, which was the 10,000 units of energy currency.
"Father, communicate with them and send an envoy to study here."
Nancy also saw the biggest reason why Morris III was in a dilemma. Even though the products in this encyclopedia were full of "divine power", they didn't know how to use them...
Things like vehicles left a deep shadow on Nancy.
"I have already communicated with the delegation, and they are willing to accept our delegation, so Nancy... you must stay here." Morris III said earnestly.
"Did they agree so quickly?" Nancy's hand, which was flipping through the encyclopedia, suddenly stiffened.
"You seem surprised, my daughter," Morris III asked.
"When I was studying at the Gemansis Secret Society, a lot of knowledge was forbidden to be taught to outsiders, because it was the property of the Gemansis Secret Society to maintain its status."
The knowledge Nancy has been learning in the camp recently is Chinese and arithmetic. In her opinion, even if she learns this knowledge, it will not pose any threat to the existence of the camp itself.
But the envoys sent by Maurice III may have learned more than just these... such as how to operate ships and their understanding of the world.
Perhaps nothing would be apparent in a year or two, but if Xiu Enzhe came to the kingdom and relied on this knowledge to become powerful decades later, Nancy was not sure whether the next heir to the throne would be as rational as her father.
"My child, I know what you are thinking." The seal lying on the table suddenly spoke, "If you or your descendants do anything stupid, I will stop them... Those who lead my children into the abyss of war are not qualified to be king."
In the eyes of the Crystal Spirit, it is a foolish thing to be an enemy of the Celestial Empire, whether now or decades later.
Crystal Spirits themselves have no emotions, so they are the fairest "observers". The principle of Crystal Spirits' actions is "how to protect their children."
That is, the creatures within the coverage of the core of the earth veins. If Maurice III were to declare war on the rabbits as king now, this seal would directly remove Maurice III's royal power and transfer it to another more wise ruler.
"Don't worry...I would never do anything so stupid."
Maurice III said this from the bottom of his heart. His ambition died on the day Nancy's mother passed away. The king's only thought now was to watch his three sons and his youngest daughter get married and have children.
The three oldest sons have already done it, and now only the youngest, Nancy, is still alone.
Therefore, before Nancy got married, Maurice III must find a way to eliminate the threat from the Far South Empire.