Chapter 73: Interests

I arrived at Okusi with Rose. There was only one village here, surrounded by trees. I originally wanted to talk to the locals, but I found that there was no one. After asking the people from our guild who arrived in advance, I realized that Okusi was an enclave and was not connected to the main area of ​​East Timor. After the defeat, all the players in East Timor ran to the main area.

Since people were not here, I had to teleport there to find people. Fortunately, the area of ​​East Timor is really small. We used the tweeters carried by the fleet to cover almost the whole country. After an hour of shouting, someone came out.

The East Timor representative I met was a young man of twenty-five or six years old. The race he chose was a black elves, which matched his skin color. No matter what, I am currently an invader. Although I am taking the blame for the Americans now, we are all alliances after all. And according to the agreement before the war, the cities captured during the war were set to become subordinate cities of our guild. We can only start dividing the territory until the entire battle is completely over.

Because of our embarrassing identity, the other party was very rude after seeing me. Of course, I can understand this, and we will not be polite when we see the Japanese.

"What do you have to say?" asked the black elf.

I took off my helmet and handed it to Rose for me to hold it, then said, "Hello, my name is Zi Ri, I am the president of China's Frost Rose Alliance."

"I don't want to know who you are. I have nothing to say with you invaders. I just finished what you want to say."

"Actually, I'm here to apologize." A trace of surprise flashed in the other party's eyes, but he said nothing. I continued: "This incident had nothing to do with you East Timor. The cause of the incident was that the Indonesians robbed a very important ship on our guild. Our guild decided to rob the ship and retaliate against the robbery of the Indonesians, so we joined forces with some Chinese guilds to join the war."

"That's your problem with Indonesia. What's the matter with us?" The other party finally began to react.

"That's why I apologize!" I smiled gently. Then I continued: "Although China is a huge country, everyone has their own affairs, and not the whole country will help us for this matter. Considering that there are too few guilds who can participate, our guild was forced to seek help from abroad. This time we invited some guilds from Germany and the United States to help us fight, and the cities they occupied will be converted into cash and finally shared with them. The players of the guild in your area are the American guilds. They did not discuss the attack on you East Timor. I know that when this matter was taken over, you were already occupied, and it was too late to intervene."

The other party began to think about it. It seemed to be evaluating the credibility of what I said just now. Rose saw the other party’s doubts and explained to me: “Please believe our words. If we really plan to attack you, we would not have come here at this time. Please think carefully, are there any Chinese players among the attackers?” Seeing the other party shook his head, Rose pointed to the sea again: “Did you see it? The surrounding sea is full of our warships. If we want to attack you, these warships should be helpful, but have you been bombarded?”

This time the other party shook his head and said, "No. Those warships did not fire at us from beginning to end. I believe your words. But now that our city has been occupied, what is the point of your apology?"

"Of course there is no point in apology, but apology is just the first step. If you accept the apology, I have a second step in helping."

"Step 2 plan?" the black elf asked in surprise: "What are you going to do in the second step?"

I did not answer his question. Instead, I asked with a smile: "Do you tell me your name and your identity in East Timor before I tell you the second plan? Also, can you accept our apology?"

He immediately replied with a smile: "My name is Allah, the president of the Red Forest Federation. My guild is the largest of only seven guilds in East Timor, and currently has more than 13,000 members. I accept your apology on behalf of my and my guild. But I can't make any decisions about other guilds."

"You can accept it." I shook hands with him. "My second plan is actually very simple. This time we made a land agreement with the Americans and the Germans that the occupied cities do not necessarily belong to the occupier, but are converted into contribution value. We can auction the cities in the future and then divide the auction amount according to the contribution value. If the participants want the city, they have to bid on their own. Even if they get the auction, they can only give it to others if they don't."

"Do you want us to pay for our city?" I shook my head, and he immediately said, "Do you want to give it back to us?" I continued to shake my head. "Then what do you want to do?" Alla was a little anxious.

"Since the city has been occupied, the auction is inevitable. Although these cities were occupied by Americans, they should actually belong to the common property of all the people participating in the battle this time. Even if I am the organizer, I cannot take it out and return it to you without authorization."

"Then what else were you talking about?" Allah was a little angry.

I didn't care about him, and then said mine. "Although I have no right to deal with public property, I am qualified to participate in the auction. And we agreed in advance that if we buy it ourselves, the actual auction price will only be 95%."

"Are you going to buy this place?" Allah finally understood what I was going to do.

"Yes. I want to buy this place." I paused for a moment and then said, "But I can't buy it and give it to you for free."

Allah began to get angry again. "This is our land. After you occupy it, do you still have to pay for our own land?"

"Did I ask you to buy it?"

"Then what do you mean?" Alla was already confused by my jumping expression.

"Although this land was originally yours, the problem now is that it was occupied. This occupation was said to be the three-national coalition forces. In fact, it has nothing to do with us. Even those American guilds are not aware of this. Attacking you is just a temporary decision on the whim of those American guilds. In addition to the responsible attack on the island, other American guilds know nothing about it with us. Therefore, you can think that this time you have encountered something bad.

Fortunately, it was just an accident. If I give it to you for free after I purchased the land, you would lose nothing, and this misfortune was passed on to me. I apologized for the Americans because we were coalition forces. Although it was not what I meant to attack you, our guild would still get real benefits at the end of the auction, so we took the blame and we accepted it. But why should we replace these misfortunes for you? Is it just because this misfortune brought us benefits?"

Seeing that the other party didn't speak for a long time, I then called an example: "If you were hit by an American on the road, and the money in your hand was blown away by the wind after falling down, the American happened to hit you to help me do things. And I picked up a part of this money. Did you ask me to compensate you for all the money you were blown away by the wind?"

Bingling suddenly spoke, "We are indeed indebted in morality, but in essence we have no obligation to compensate. Please understand this."

Alla thought for a long time before speaking, "But our city..."

"I will be responsible for buying the city, but I cannot give it to you for free. Moreover, your country has been fully occupied, and your players now do not even have a village. I estimate that if the system counterattack is successfully defended by us in seven days, your country will likely be revoked by the system. At least because a country should have a territory and a village, you have nothing. The system cannot retain the status of the country. Because there is no precedent for the destruction of the country so far, I don't know much about what changes will happen in the future, but I guess you will definitely be punished to varying degrees, and it will be more difficult in the future than now."

"Then what you mean is…?"

"You join my guild."

"ah?"

"If you all incorporated into my guild, the punishment in the future will not fall on you. Because you are considered members of the guild in China. At that time, the city will be included in our guild, but you are still using it, or there is no difference from now. You can reduce your losses. I don't suffer any loss. Do you think this is OK?"

"Incorporation?" Ala thought for a long time before saying: "It's easy to say. After all, your current identity is a foreign guild. If you want to be fully incorporated, you are betraying yourself. Do you think we will accept it?"

Rose immediately began to explain the benefits of the merger with Alla, and Bingling also helped to convince Alla, but he kept opposing and asking questions and did not intend to merge at all.

Bingbing suddenly pulled me and said in a low voice: "Brother Zi Ri, I think it's better not to merge."

"Why?"

“Because this country is too troublesome.”

"trouble?"

"Don't you find it strange that such a small place in East Timor is independent?"

"It's a little strange." I nodded: "But according to my opinion, most of the reason is because of their forest resources and racial characteristics."

Bingbing immediately said: "Since you understand, you should know what I mean."

I suddenly slapped my forehead. "Why am I so confused! Really, I got the point wrong!"

The conversation over there just ended, and Allah didn't hear me. He came over and said to me, "The merger is a great insult to us, which is equivalent to betraying our own country. But we don't want to bear such a huge loss. If you can promise us to control ourselves and give us enough power to mobilize, we can consider a merger."

I suddenly laughed and shook hands with him and patted his arm, which made him inexplicably. "Alla, you don't have to make things so difficult. In fact, I mainly came to apologize. Since you accepted the apology, I will feel at ease. I was confused. I actually asked you to be traitors. I am really sorry. Since you don't want to, let's forget it." I quickly winked at Rose.

Rose immediately understood what I meant, and she pulled Bingling and walked into the village. "I'm sorry for delaying you for so long. Brother Alla, don't mind, we really didn't mean it. Since you don't want to merge, then forget it."

"Hey...? That...? Zi Ri...?"

Rose and I almost ran back to the village with Bingling and Bingbing pretending to be stupid. The Allah wanted to catch up, but heard a neat clamor. Hundreds of spears pointed at him, and scared him back.

I pulled Rose and the others back to the middle of the village quickly. Rose only had time to ask me now: "Why did you suddenly change your mind?"

I smiled and pulled Bingbing in front of me. "It was Bingbing who reminded me."

Rose looked at Bingbing in surprise, her eyes full of inquiring. Seeing Rose so confused, Bingbing repeated what she said to me again. Who is Rose? She immediately understood when she heard it. At first, my inertial thinking blinded her judgment. Then it was immediately clear.

I said, "A country that is so small can make independence, and there must be a reason. Most of the small countries in the international world have created micro-countries in the cracks because wars between big powers require a buffer zone, so these micro-countries are born. They are intermediate forces created under the influence of big powers. For example, Singapore, Switzerland, Mazziton, these small countries are formed under special factors. But in fact, there is a relatively rare micro-country, that is, national independent countries. This small country is often a single nation, and this nation is generally backward, but it is extremely xenophobic. When they come into contact with the prosperity of the outside world, they are exposed to the prosperity of the outside world.

Later, they dreamed of such an environment. However, objective conditions did not allow it, so they used the opposition between nations to divide themselves, and then used their subtle status to attract the great powers to use them. They betray themselves and at the same time restrained the country they originally belonged to and gained a lot of benefits from it. East Timor is actually a typical representative. If we really take in people from such a country and merged them into the guild, it would be like being bitten by a leech. It would constantly ask for assistance from us. There might not be much at first, but it would become more and more powerful, until we sucked us dry. This big trouble is really dangerous!”

Bingling didn't understand what I meant. "Then you apologized so positively at the beginning and you still have to compensate them. Want to merge with them?" Rose laughed. Bingling asked strangely: "Is this funny?"

I hugged Rose in my arms. "My wife knows me the best!"

"What the hell are you talking about?" Bingling was completely confused.

Rose smiled and explained, "Do you think he is really that easy to apologize? He is obsessed with the forests."

"ah?"

Rose looked at Bingling's face full of confusion and continued, "Don't you understand? The first reaction of the Americans to fight here is to discover huge wealth. They occupy this place because they want it. At that time, they will definitely not be ruthless, and this is the place they occupy, morally they give priority, so this is a decisive thing, and the Americans must get it. Zi Ri, of course, discovered the value of this place after seeing this, so he temporarily decided to bring locals into the association. When the battle was over, we could propose that this place was unplanned land. Then we could buy it in the name of the local residents of East Timor, so the Americans would have no way to rob us."

"After a long time, you are going on such a big turn for these woods? Why are you so active?" Bingling suddenly said in surprise: "Sister Rose, you have seen it long ago?"

"Haha, why do you think I was trying hard to lobby at the beginning?"

"You are so scary! Just like a conspirator!" Bingling hugged his shoulders and looked cold.

Bingbing smiled and said, "Although Brother Zi Ri looks like a big demon who likes to conspire, he is a celestial master to his own people."

"It seems that birds of a feather flock together."

"Hahahaha!" We laughed together.

Bingling stopped first and asked, "Since we have given up the emotional card of the locals, what should we rely on to fight for the ownership of this city next?"

"I'm also considering it, but even if you can't get the ownership rights of these cities, you can't be bitten by the blood-sucking worm. The city dispute is just a matter of how much you make. Those guys are eating people and don't spit bones. And you still have the hardships."

Rose said: "No matter what, the task now is to win more cities to earn merit points, so that you can get more benefits at that time. Don't worry, husband. With me here, we won't suffer any losses in the final division."

I really believe this. Rose is an expert in this regard, and our guild has a simple beauty.

Since I decided not to use the local crowd card, I had no need to stay anymore. I quickly left here and let Rose command the players of our guild to participate in the battles in various cities. I led a part of the fleet to drag Feng Chengcheng to appear near the last three cities on Sumatra. The battle of the code-name harvesting operation broke out at midnight and was finally over until dawn the next morning. The Indonesians actually engaged in tunnel battles with us in the city, which made us finally have to rely on the help of the dragon troops to attack smoothly.

Those urban tunnels are like spider webs. Our players don’t know the way and always make a blow to the inside. Later, the dragon troops arrived. The dragons inserted their mouths into the entrance of the tunnel and ejaculated the dragon flames. The flames immediately moved along the tunnels in all directions. As soon as the dragon flames went down, the drainage channels in many nearby places were blew upwards, and some bed boards or stoves in the houses suddenly fired out. Those were the entrances of the tunnels. As soon as the dragon flames ejaculated, countless Indonesians were covered in fire and ran out screaming.

The tunnel wars were a lot of years ago, and there were even those who were not afraid of death who dared to play a big axe in front of Luban's gate. After burning these ground mice out of the tunnel one by one, we began to strangle them. Once they went to the ground, they had no combat power and were easily completely cleaned.

After all the cities here were occupied, the Americans and the Germans also met successfully. It was Monday morning, and the only island of Irian that was connected to Papua New Guinea was left in the whole of Indonesia. Our fleet helped New Guinea players block the maritime power of the Indonesians, but they still fought with the Indonesians. After we successfully occupied most of Indonesia, they were still fighting with the Indonesians for a few small cities.

Many people were going to work on Monday, and our team basically left Indonesia. There is no need to worry about the Indonesian counterattack now. The remaining Indonesians on the main island are too small to attack any city, and most Indonesian players retreat to Irian Island. The NPC counterattack battle is still five or six days, and we just need to hurry up and carry out construction and we don’t need to worry about other issues at all. Anyway, the teleportation array is connected, and the city guard can support any city at any time.

There is a Bird Peninsula from Irian to the northwest corner. It was originally an affiliated island of Irian Island, but it seems that it will take at least ten days and half a month for people from New Guinea to reach here, so we can't wait that long. A few people were sent to notify the guild in New Guinea, and we have handled this island by ourselves.

On Monday afternoon, Ashufud's Iron Crusaders and several American guilds landed on Irian Island together. Under the attack on both sides, the last big island in Indonesia was also over. Now the remaining land in Indonesia is only some unknown islands, and most of these small places are remote, we can't take care of that much for a while.
Chapter completed!