----Private property was fine.
This wasn't some private occasion.
People from both delegations were watching.
And Zhang Qian represented the Nine Provinces government. What did he mean by saying that?
Damn it, at least explain it clearly.
Otherwise, how were they supposed to have a meal?
Were they being told not to make an issue of those resources at the upcoming negotiating table? That they were private property, that the Nine Provinces government had no right to interfere with or transfer a citizen's private assets, so they needed to negotiate with Lu Xiu herself?
Or was it that...
The status of Nine Provinces' chief Architect had become so transcendent that even the state apparatus had to actively vouch for her?
In an instant, Ulysses and Rosalind, the two leaders, thought of countless possibilities.
As for the group of top players behind them, they were all completely numb by now.
A long-distance teleportation point capable of changing an entire nation's landscape in this gamified era, along with this endless forest that had risen from the ground overnight, seemingly controllable and clearly able to welcome guests voluntarily—which meant it could surely obstruct enemies as well.
Either one of those things would be enough to drive any nation mad.
Yet in Nine Provinces—they were a single Architect's private property?
Could this really be private property that a player could possess?
In Franca, or even in the more chaotic Red Tide, such a thing could never happen—so long as the regime's legitimacy had not been exhausted and it still possessed the strength, it would have forcibly absorbed them by any means necessary, wouldn't it?
Yet in Nine Provinces—the officials could remain so calm, even openly acknowledging in a diplomatic setting that this was the private property of a single citizen.
What did that mean?