082 Celestial Blaze Ring Red Brigade Army Isshou Kenmei
Caramel Snail was dragged into the Martial Arts School to learn, and soon screams could be heard from inside.
"Looks like this is going well. Other professional players will probably be heading my way soon—no rush, let them wait and see."
Li Aoz glanced at the time, estimated it was about right, and then leisurely walked towards the outskirts of Nura City.
He came to Nura City, this dilapidated industrial city, for another important reason.
Li Aoz searched for the location of Huxin Town on the terminal map, then immediately flew stealthily to the mountains and forests on the outskirts. After twisting and turning, he finally arrived at the town. With his strong affinity, Li Aoz smiled and let the town's security guards let him in. He then walked smoothly towards a tavern called ' Raging Highway '.
Outside the tavern, a large number of heavy motorcycles were parked, many of which were decorated with snow-white flags bearing the words "Isshou Kenmei" written in bold, flowing ink. Two men dressed in full motorcycle gear stood warily beside the motorcycles, with Tachi without hilts hanging from their waists. They looked puzzled when they saw Li Aoz, a Red Arrow People, approaching.
"Hey, Imperial," the man said coldly, "Do you know where you are?"
Another man placed his hand on the hilt of his sword and warned, "This is the base of the Tianchi Ring Red Brigade Army, not a place for you imperial people."
"You should welcome me precisely because I am Red Arrow People."
Without needing to add any tone, Li Aoz's arrogant demeanor, amplified by his ' Past Years ' outfit, deeply provoked the two men, yet the ' Aura of Goodwill ' prevented them from sensing Li Aoz's malice.
One after the other, they could only interpret it as a high-ranking official from the Red Arrow coming to them with important business.
Realizing this, the two silently watched Li Aoz, wanting to see what this decent-looking Red Arrow People had to say.
"The Celestial Blaze Ring Red Brigade a radical and violent organization that aims to overthrow the clan and samurai classes, strip power from the royal family, and abolish the four-clan system. It also enjoys considerable international prestige."
Li Aoz calmly said:
"However, because you have carried out numerous terrorist attacks that have resulted in the deaths of hundreds of innocent people, you have been repeatedly identified as a terrorist organization."
"What the Heavenly Ring People want to do is none of your Red Arrow Empire's business," the man leaning on his Tachi sneered.
"I'm just stating the facts." Li Aoz casually raised his hand to press down. "However, the Empire is very grateful for some of the actions of the people of Celestial Blaze Ring —especially the strikes and anti-war demonstrations organized by your army during the Huameida Island Chain incident, which effectively prevented the Hojo Conglomerate's security forces from continuing to land."
His tone was heavy:
"Salute to the anti-war students who made great sacrifices in opposing Prime Minister Piao's insane war tactics."
The Huameida Island Chain is a disputed area. In the Old Era, it belonged to the Red Arrow Empire —no, to be precise, the Red Arrow had not yet formed and was still in the form of a fragmented tribal alliance.
Yes... The empire that is now at its zenith and commands respect across the world was, in the Old Era, a very primitive and loose alliance of chiefdoms called Blue Ink.
The Lanmo Alliance has long been isolated from the world, living a carefree and joyful life, like a paradise on earth.
In the Old Era, Blue Ink possessed abundant aquatic and agricultural resources. Its territory and territorial waters were vast. However, due to its high latitude, most of its territory consisted of tundra and permafrost, so it never developed into a powerful industrial nation. Even with a beacon of humanity like Yamiliao Ke at the same time, the Lanmo Alliance remained a very Zen-like and gentle agricultural and maritime civilization.
However, with the arrival of the Malefic Calamity, the entire world became uneventful due to the lack of sunlight. The Heavenly Ring Nation, the Frostplate Kingdom (during the reign of the Twin Queens), and dozens of medium-sized countries all coveted Blue Ink's territory.
The resources of Azure Planet were once almost inexhaustible, and no one cared about this tundra. But now things are different. The Malefic Calamity has turned the whole world into ice and desert. The former oceans have been sublimated and frozen, turning the Blue Ink Sea into an unobstructed continental passage. It has also exposed all the important resources deep in the seabed, such as natural gas, manganese nodules, oil, gold, silver, helium, etc.
People say that true friendship is revealed in times of adversity, and facts have proven that this is true.
The Old Era empires, led by the three kingdoms of Frostplate, Sky Ring, and Zhengxu, truly loved the territory of the Lanmo Alliance.
Blue Ink is an ordinary chieftain alliance with virtually no communication or unity. Because the Old Era entered a developed age where people had no shortage of food or clothing too early, Blue Ink, this peculiar agricultural alliance, doesn't even have a concept of ethnicity. The member states are basically not willing to resist foreign invasions.
The people lacked national identity and cohesion, and were quickly divided up and devoured by the world, leaving only one republic with less than 2 million square kilometers of territory, barely surviving under the dominance of the three nations.
At the time, no one paid any attention to this tiny country. In fact, a pilot from Sky Ring got drunk and accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb on the iceberg that this small country depended on for survival, destroying their vital water source.
Despite the dignitaries from small countries crying and pleading at the GTB summit, no one listened to their suffering. That afternoon, due to the intensity of the storm, Sky Ring also dropped bombs at an off-center location, falling into international Daoism refugee camps and claiming the lives of thousands of starving and freezing women and children.
The Frostplate women ruthlessly took away their mountains and fertile lands, driving the people of the small country to the icy plains where survival was nearly impossible.
The Nethermark Heavy Industries set their sights on a tundra and incidentally released several biochemical test subjects, deliberately creating a biological invasion that resulted in tens of thousands of people in a small country being bitten to death by the beasts.
The warriors of the Sky Ring swaggered in, seizing their swampy woodlands where they hunted roe deer and scooped fish, as well as the vital Huameida Island Chain, leaving the entire country without any natural defenses.
Even Zhengxu, who is usually righteous, couldn't resist kicking someone when they were down and used immigration policies to take away a lot of people.
At the time, with no fertile land, no natural defenses, and no population, it was clear that the demise of this country was only a matter of time.
But afterwards, people will feel deep regret for not listening to the cries of pain from small countries.
In return, they will have to listen to the Empire's mechanical torrents rushing past frozen corpses, trampling Ice River, and roaring deafeningly.
Because that small country that was about to perish was called Red Arrow.
'If you won't listen to my cries, then I'll have to ask you to listen to the roar of cannons. No matter how many mistakes we've made, they can be forgiven—the world owes us.'
— Caesar Imperator I, the first emperor of the Red Arrow Empire.
Tomorrow I'm going to the police station to give the telecom company a good beating. We argued on the phone for ages today, but we didn't get anything out of it.
The reason was found out: some woman from who-knows-where maliciously reported me for telecom fraud. When the police spoke to the telecom company, they didn't even check my call records for the past few months, which showed less than 10 minutes of calls, and they immediately disconnected my phone.
The really intriguing thing is this: how did she manage to get a police report filed and get it accepted without any evidence? And the telecommunications fraud is even more outrageous. Have you ever seen a telecommunications scammer use someone who's been using their phone for over a decade and whose contacts only contain family members' numbers?
Telecom has never disappointed when it comes to being disappointing; it's disgusting.
I've arranged to meet with the police tomorrow to ask them about it. I suspect that woman might have some kind of grudge against me and is deliberately trying to annoy me.