When Lloyd was conducting a video conference, Xiao Ran had been paying attention to the Britannia emperor Charles who was always in the center of the picture. This militaristic dictator had stationed huge Military Strength in countless places around the world. He was also the culprit of Nanalie losing his eyesight and being unable to stand up.
In the eyes of Xiao Ran, the performance of this dictatorial emperor is a bit strange. He is indeed interested in the Lancelot project, but he does not feel too urgent. It seems that the completion of Lancelot can bring a larger Military Strength to the empire after mass production. On the contrary, he is more enthusiastic about the new machine project, which currently only has a catalog and development plan.
This can be seen from the fact that nothing was said about the situation of Lancelot. In the end, it was just a random arrangement to make a few samples to prove the performance of Lancelot, but then it was arranged for a new project with only one plan.
Now that the empire has some unknown new-type machines that threaten the empire, it is necessary for the empire to replace a group of forces that can compete with them. Lancelot has such capabilities, even if Lancelot will become an appetizer and a stepping stone under the new machine project plan. Stone, but at this time period of at least one year before the official appearance of the new machine, this year is also the time for the empire to stabilize the situation in all aspects after the emergence of many strange machines. However, the current standard KF cannot meet such needs. Lancelot is the only choice the empire can make.
Weapons can always be used after they are manufactured. There is no situation where the mass-produced Lancelot will be directly eliminated after one year and waste resources. If the Lancelot is mass-produced, it only takes one month with the power of the empire to produce a large batch and deploy it to various places. In this way, the Lancelot can be used to at least hold on until the emergence of new models.
As a person in power, if Xiao Ran is chosen, he will definitely choose to mass-produce Lancelot, or manufacture a complete version of Lancelot to a certain extent and distribute it to places where it is needed, and he will also try to make Lancelot enhanced it. Of course, this was Xiao Ran's choice when he was sure that he could develop a more powerful new machine within one year. But without knowing it, did Emperor Charles really believe that Lloyd could create the planned machine body?
Even if you trust Lloyd, it is impossible for the fate of the entire empire to be affected by Lloyd's words, because if it is not done well, there will be military backwardness and large-scale defeat.
And if it is not certain, in the absence of strong foreign aid, the rational and prudent approach is to immediately carry out full mass production of Lancelot, and specially manufacture the complete Lancelot for distribution to various places to stabilize the situation. power, and then use various means to draw other forces into the trap of increasing conventional armaments, trying to gain more stabilization time for their ongoing projects and regional stability, and also consume more of Hostile Faction's resources and productivity.
But Emperor Charles is so stable. Whether he has a city or a mountain collapses before his eyes, he is as stable as an old dog. He seems to have placed all his expectations on the updated aircraft project plan proposed by Lloyd. He seems to be sure that the new aircraft plan can determine everything, and he is even more certain that there will be no changes within this year. What kind of confidence makes this emperor have such an idea?
The only possibility is that Charles may have a powerful power in his hand that no one else can even imagine, but Xiao Ran, who has read the original work, knows that the only possibility that has such power is Participant Legion.
There may even be a worse situation for Xiao Ran. Participant Legion directly contacted Charles and joined the imperial camp represented by Charles. Moreover, it is a legion with a good Technicians. It has already started another airframe plan that completely surpasses Lancelot. Maybe it will have certain results in less than a month since the mission began.
Regardless of whether this is the case or not, what is the real situation, what kind of idea is Charles, and what is it planning? In short, the next situation may be more complicated.
Xiao Ran thought, "But this shouldn't be a bad thing. If there is really an extra Participant Legion next to this Emperor Charles, Lloyd mentioned me several times today, which means that I should also appear in the sight of this legion. For the next step, we only need to see what kind of people Emperor Charles sends will be clear."
"Although we have been investigating various aspects of intelligence with the help of Guard Force, the information that can be collected is quite limited. We still know very little about the internal situation of the empire, especially the situation of those legions. We don't know anything about what happened around the emperor. With the ability of the participants, it will not be too difficult to bypass everyone and contact Emperor Charles. Really, this mission really feels more and more constrained."
"If Luo and El-Elf were here... tsk tsk tsk, I thought it would be a simple mission, but I didn't expect that in the end I would be asking for trouble... I need to make more preparations next."
After saying hello to Lloyd, Xiao Ran left the institute, but he did not know that the short battle record about him sent back to the empire by Lloyd had already fallen into the hands of many people. Various analyzes of his battle record had already begun, but there was only one thing, Lloyd didn't know what kind of mentality he had, but he actually concealed most of the damage caused by Xiao Ran after driving Lancelot. There was a little bit of deception to improve the performance of Lancelot, but the real purpose was unknown. Even Xiao Ran didn't know about it.
However, it cannot be completely said that Lloyd is making false data, because after re-repair, Lancelot has indeed made targeted reinforcements and modifications in the areas where Xiao Ran was damaged. Although it still cannot withstand the operation of Xiao Ran, except for the person involved, who really knows that Xiao Ran will damage the body when operating Lancelot? And no matter what, Lancelot's plan was absolutely successful, so at this point Lloyd did it without any burden at all.
With Emperor Charles's order, Lloyd submitted the list of personnel he needed on the first day. On the third day, the first batch of personnel came to Area 11 from the mainland and settled in the special mission. The first batch of personnel were all non-professional Technicians, guards and Intelligence Department personnel.
As for how to know the identities of these people, that is because Lloyd gave Xiao Ran a list of people at the first time. With Lloyd as the number one insider, it is not easy to know the status of the people coming and going, not to mention Xiao Ran's personal special ability is not a joke.
In order to carry out the development plan of the new machine, Special Envoy Research Institute, which was originally located at the Council Hall, naturally had to change its location. A college was directly requisitioned to establish a new Special Envoy Research Institute, and then the busy relocation work began. At the same time, the establishment of a warning zone also began around the requisitioned college.
Until this step, there was no need for Euphemia to appear. That is to say, Saki Maski, as the governor's affairs officer, made a brief appearance after the arrival of these personnel and welcomed the arrival of these personnel. After all, these people came to Area 11 under orders from their own countries to carry out the tasks of the new project. Necessary reception and arrangements still need to be made.
Even if Euphemia wants to appear, it will have to wait until Special Envoy Research Institute is completely relocated and all personnel arrive to start work. Moreover, Euphemia also needs to pay more attention to this research institute that has attracted Emperor Charles's attention, as well as the new machine project. The current special dispatch has also been promoted from overnight to become the most important department of Area 11.
And Xiao Ran just observed every person who came from afar in the dark, carefully identified every person who might be a participant, felt everyone's mood and mental fluctuations, and checked them one by one against Lloyd's list of people.
After doing all this, Xiao Ran returned to the Governor's Mansion even later than Saki Maski who actually showed up. When Xiao Ran came back, Saki had After all the reception arrangements were reported to Euphemia, when he stepped into the Governor's Mansion, Xiao Ran was still called to Euphemia immediately.
"You're back." The first time Euphemia saw Xiao Ran, he stood up happily and waved his hand towards Xiao Ran with a smile, "I just have something to tell you."
Xiao Ran glanced at Saki Maski, who was holding a document and nodding slightly to him, and said to Euphemia, "Your Highness, what can I do?"
"That's it." Euphemia walked up to Xiao Ran, took his arm and made Xiao Ran sit on the chair, and then said, "You know that the special mission is going to expand its scale, and the first personnel sent from the country have already arrived."
"Yeah." Xiao Ran nodded and said, "I know."
"That's it." Euphemia pursed his lips and smiled, and said, "Just before these people arrived, my country gave me a notice, saying that your order for canonization has been issued, and the emperor father personally signed and agreed, and it will be handed over to the next batch of personnel. I will bring the canonization order here, and there will be an envoy sent by my father to witness it. Either tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, you have to be prepared, but with my father's signature, now you have finally become my real Personal Knight, aren't you very happy?"
"Also, the person who led the team here today is one of Knights of the Round under my father. Governor's Mansion will come to visit later. I specifically asked Saki to inform me that I must let you attend the dinner tonight, saying that I want to see you."
Xiao Ran raised his eyebrows and turned his gaze directly in the direction of Saki Maski. Even through Xiao Ran's mask, Saki could still feel Xiao Ran's gaze on him. He nodded and said, "The person who is really leading the team today is one of Knights of the Round, and his name is Bismarck Waldstein."
Xiao Ran frowned. Today, he looked at all the first batch of people who came over in the dark, but he didn't find anyone wearing a knight uniform. Otherwise, he would have noticed it at a glance, and he was not in the list of people Lloyd gave him. He had never even seen this person before.
Perhaps knowing what Xiao Ran was thinking, Saki Maski said, "The first batch of personnel are mainly responsible for the security protection of the expanded special mission. It is also a cover-up. The real purpose of Knights of the Round's coming here is just to receive the information from the special mission and send it back to the country, so they did not interact with the first officer of the special mission. Together with the first batch of expansion personnel, Area 11 entered through another channel in order to maintain confidentiality. At that time, there will be another Knights of the Round escorting the real research Technicians, and then Area 11 will be stationed there. When the next batch of personnel arrives, they will return on the aircraft of the second batch of personnel."
"Except for us, only a few people know about this matter. At this time, Knights of the Round and his subordinates should have been drinking tea in the special party."
"It's a secret operation, so that's what it is." Xiao Ran nodded clearly and smiled at Euphemia, "Knights of the Round, who is directly under His Majesty the Emperor, wants to meet me. I definitely have no reason to refuse. I will attend the dinner tonight."
As he said that, Xiao Ran turned around and looked around, chuckled and asked a little strangely, "I asked why it was so quiet today, but Qing Guildford is not here?"
Euphemia blinked, smiled and said, "I gave him a very important job, and he should be drinking tea in Lloyd's office now."
Saki Maski also smiled, "His Royal Highness has entrusted him with the work of receiving Knights of the Round and cooperating with the expansion of the special mission. He should not have time to keep an eye on you for a long time."
"Qing Guildford is actually a good person." Euphemia rubbed his head in pretense of distress and said, "But even Tiandu's serious look makes me feel very distressed. Unknowingly, it seems that I have to learn to be as serious as him to be a qualified governor. It really feels very tiring."
Xiao Ran smiled and glanced at Saki Maski. Seeing the way Saki blinked at him, how could he not know that this girl came up with this idea? After laughing, he also said to Euphemia, "Then I must find a better mission for Mr. Guildford in the future."