"Haha, between you and me, all we have to do on the way back is follow an ocean current. It'll take half the time it took us to get here." Deep Sea Admiral Taduo heartily drained his large cup of liquor. "If you humans want to visit us, you can follow that undercurrent too. It's fast."
Those three years had also given the Honggang Civilization's soldiers plenty of rest and replenished their supplies.
The time to part soon arrived.
However, one last matter remained unfinished!
Taduo could not help bringing it up somewhat nervously. "Mr. Wang, now that the trade has been successfully completed, could we contact that person?"
"It's not that I'm impatient, but... this really is important. My superiors gave me strict orders. I'm in a difficult position here too."
Old Wang's heart lurched. He had discussed the possibility that Zhang Ming was dead with a very small number of senior human officials.
Their final conclusion was that having the Honggang Civilization contact him to confirm the facts would be a good thing.
After all, the humans were only guessing...
The dead could not come back to life. They could not keep hiding it forever, could they?
Even if they concealed it perfectly, a hundred years later, when the Honggang Civilization had everything ready except the final piece and enthusiastically invited Zhang Ming to lead the delegation, the humans would suddenly stand them up and say Old Zhang had died long ago.
What would these Bearded People think then?
They would be so frantic that they would surely declare war on the damned Human Civilization!
Besides, how could they possibly conceal it perfectly?
As the saying went, "If it's a blessing, it won't be a disaster; if it's a disaster, there's no escaping it." In any case, this