Steel steam and flame

"Not yet." Cassia replied immediately. Sotagang adjusted his glasses at this time, and the eyes behind the lenses glanced at Cassia and Ye Jielin.

"It's late, and probably nothing will happen tonight." Sotagang said, standing up, "Everyone, let's rest first, my assistant Berta also needs some time to recover from his physical injuries. Then let’s go there first.”

Seeing Ye Jielin nodding, Sotagang stepped out of the room, with Berta following closely behind him. Only Cassia and Ye Jielin were left in the conference room.

"First point, this is something Fatty and I have discussed. You don't have to complete the task." Ye Jielin waited until the door of the conference room was closed, and before Cassia could speak, she started talking to herself, "One year I think you already know about the final knight squire assessment, right?"

Cassia nodded. Coach Bei did emphasize this matter before the mission.

"Fat Man won't go. This is his own intention. And even if he has that intention, he, I, and you can all have a rough idea of ​​how far Fat Man's strength will be in one year. .The minimum standard is the third stage of surgery, which is when the operator is in a real transformation. Some people can get through it quickly, but some people will be stuck there forever. Surgery is never a smooth thing, just like Students in the military school will still be divided into levels from one-star to three-star academies. In the empire, everyone is not born equal, and there are very few fair things. The same is true for the surgeries on our bodies. There is always the integration of people The assimilation progress will be faster than others."

Ye Jielin stared straight at Cassia: "Just like you."

Cassia didn't know how to answer, but she couldn't tell Ye Jielin the actual situation, so she could only nodded and admitted.

"Second point, based on what was said above, this cooperation with Sotagang is not for a short period of time. In other words, we will not turn around and deal with him after Ovelia's matter is over. More and more The more we feel the urgency of time, the more assistants we need to go further. Sotagang is just a suitable candidate. He is a well-known black market intermediary agent here. He will be very important to our own business in the future. It will also be very helpful.”

"In other words, in the future, all the products from the factory will be handed over to Sotagang for processing and sales?" Cassia knew that among the four main members of the alliance, except Selmer, he and Atuohuan, and Ye Jielin They already have their own factories and small forces.

"This is the initial idea." Ye Jielin's words are not absolute. "Both Fatty and I are born in merchant families, and we more or less retain the talent of being a merchant. But within our respective families, this This kind of talent has almost no effect. It is the last choice for marginalized people. If you want to seek the huge benefits hidden in the family, the most important chips are still power and strength. "

"Maybe I don't want to be distracted." Ye Jielin laughed, "Especially after seeing you, I think my strength must be greatly improved. Otherwise, if we encounter a situation like Ovelia's in the future, the surgery will be more difficult. In the future, as I begin to carry out in-depth development of various surgeries, the gap in strength will widen even further. At that time, if you want to make up for the gap purely by quantity, the price will be much higher. Maybe once or twice It's acceptable, but if this continues, it's only a matter of time before our minor league collapses."

Cassia understood part of it, but he knew that this was not all. There should be other reasons. Otherwise, with Ye Jielin's character and the resources at hand, she would want to find someone like Sotagang on her own, and Not difficult.

Ye Jielin bypassed Cassia's staring gaze and turned her face to one side.

“And by cooperating with Sotagon, we also have our own advantages.”

Cassia listened quietly.

"The forces that Sotagon belongs to have some strength in the dark world, and their business is also common smuggling and arms trafficking."

"It just matches the nature of the Webley family?" Cassia thought this way, "Can both of us get help from the other?"

Ye Jielin shook her head: "Although Webley Arms Company is a giant in firearms and weapons, that does not mean that all weapons and ammunition in the empire are manufactured by Webley Company. I think you should understand this? It's just that It's just the most famous, and its quality and technology are much better than those on the market. After all, there are two standards for firearms and ammunition in the empire. One standard is called the 'standard', which is the standard of the Imperial Military Department. And Another standard is Webley Arms Company."

"When I came here to find Sotagang and proposed a cooperative relationship with him, I realized that he was not just a black market middleman. He also had many factories and workshops of his own in less prosperous areas throughout the empire, which were used for Manufacturing weapons and ammunition. However, smuggling weapons in and out from other countries, or collecting arms from various regions of the empire at low prices and selling them to other regions through their own channels, this kind of business is also going on at the same time. Sotagang has a story of its own, He is not willing to just be a well-known black market middleman. When we cooperated, he also said that he wanted to take advantage of our strength and status to help himself go further."

"And what we can provide him, besides the benefits brought by his identity and family background, is technology."

Cassia shook his head at this time, he didn't have the skills. He has the factory built by Webley Company itself, with complete production lines and supporting machines, but the technicians he asked Delya to recruit have not been able to fully understand the extended craftsmanship and technology points until now.

The situation of Ye Jielin and Cassia is generally the same. Neither of them is engaged in technology-related personnel. Maybe Atohuan has some communication capabilities, but it is also very limited. They are not technical people, and the people the military school wants them to be are not technical people either.

The ones with the technology are Webley Arms Company behind Ye Jielin, and Infinite Communications Company behind Ato Ring. This is what Sotagang values. And Ye Jielin and Atuohuan are indeed capable of taking out some non-core technologies from their family companies.

"Sotagang's current technology for manufacturing weapons and ammunition is generally stolen from the Webley Company, but the machines and processes are not matching, so it can be regarded as a simplified version. The things manufactured have no advantages in the dark world. . So he values ​​this cooperation and wants to make a huge improvement in his production line." Ye Jielin continued, "In the black market, weapons and ammunition may be the most competitive piece of profit cake. He wants to make himself bigger in it. In business, either the price is horribly low while ensuring a certain quality, or the quality is high, with strong power and stability. Both have technical content, and the path is not easy to find. One is By opening up the relationship with the Imperial Military Department, you can get enough standard equipment from them, and then flow it into the black market to make money. But you also know that most of this kind of business is done by officials of the Empire and will not be easily occupied by others. Empire Management The benefits offered to them by institutions are far from satisfying their huge appetite.”