Lorraine took the thick stack of documents in her hand and glanced at the title, which was beautifully written in cursive letters: Preliminary plan to enter Almohad under cover to collect economic intelligence.
Lorraine lowered his head and casually browsed through the directory on the first two pages, and found that the directory clearly listed items regarding personnel composition, scale, funding, cover status, assigned areas, etc.
Opening the content at the back, I found that it was written in great detail, and it was very different from what I had been boasting about. It added practical content and many very feasible suggestions.
He couldn't help but be secretly surprised. Whoever could draw up such a detailed and feasible plan in such a short period of time was definitely not an ordinary person.
"Your Excellency, Count of Lorraine" Russell leaned back in his chair, looked at him for a long time, and then suddenly said: "Frankly speaking, I think you are a very outstanding nobleman."
Lorraine raised her head and looked at Cassel, mentally calculating: Does this old man praise me? Or does he hurt me?
Russell continued: "Negotiating with a dragon for a servant proves your extraordinary courage."
Lorraine secretly thought: If he hadn't met Vera in advance and knew that she was a little fool who couldn't even tell the difference between three and four, and was extremely naive and easy to deceive, he wouldn't have been so rash in saying anything.
He smiled bitterly and said, "That's just because I don't know how high the sky is. In fact, everyone is calling me a stupid boy behind my back."
"Haha" Russell chuckled softly and said: "You were caught between a dragon and a lich, and you came back alive from their battle, and it is said that you also won the friendship of the dragon."
Lorraine said: "Your Excellency, Prime Minister, it is just a legend. In fact, there is no such thing."
Russell nodded and said: "Well, I also think this is a legend. But with this proposal..."
He pointed to the document in Lorraine's hand and continued: "It can be seen that you are very smart. My staff could never come up with such a simple but highly feasible plan, and
According to rumors, you are also very powerful."
Lorraine couldn't help but shudder. She was afraid that he would say again, 'Young man is good, you can use some exercise~!', and then imitate Catherine and issue a transfer order to transfer himself to the northern front to grow potatoes with those barbarians.
He smiled quickly and said, "Rumors and rumors are not true."
Russell seemed to have seen through his thoughts, smiled faintly, and said: "No matter what, you are an outstanding talent, and you have a relationship beyond friendship with Earl Anson. It is foreseeable that your future is unlimited.
.”
Lorraine knew in her heart that Russell was obviously saying that he might be the uncle of the future emperor.
"I am a Ruman, first the Prime Minister of Ruman, and then a priest. Although we have differences on some things, in general, I think we are consistent. And regarding those rumors,
I'm not interested."
Russell looked at him calmly, and there was a faint flash of light between the opening and closing of his cloudy old eyes.
He coughed lightly, and then said: "I received such a top-secret document a few days ago. It looked good to me, so I revised it slightly."
Lorraine couldn't help but feel shocked and looked at the Prime Minister with admiration.
I originally thought that he would just sit behind his desk, arbitrarily mobilizing and giving random orders to the legions thousands of miles away. Or he would marry other people's daughters to fill his own holes. But I didn't expect him to speak.
Even though he came here, he was very lavish, and he did things in an orderly manner. He made such a grand plan, but he didn't reveal any details, and even took care of some details.
Regardless of whether what he just said was to lure Lorraine into ecstasy, he was able to flesh out such a plan in just a few days. He was indeed a veteran in government affairs.
Russell seemed to have thought of something, paused briefly, and then continued: "Logically speaking, I shouldn't take action in this matter myself. But because it is confidential and involves many things, it can be expected that once this plan is
Implementation will require a huge investment of manpower and material resources, as well as a considerable amount of time, so we have to proceed with caution. Now tell me, if we send out spies, what conditions do you and your company need to support us?"
Lorraine snorted noncommittally.
This matter is too important. Morgan has just negotiated a construction intention with Gondolas.
The two parties had not yet discussed basic things such as the size and time of the transaction. Here he took advantage of every opportunity and rushed over to plant a spy.
If the Almohads find out about the secret, their business will be ruined. Not only this business, once it is exposed, in the future, except for the people on the board of directors who will consume for themselves, there is no need to count on the external market.
. Even if you offer a 30% discount, people will still doubt your motives.
More importantly, although this plan is already quite good, it is just a plan. Lorraine knows very well that any plan cannot keep up with changes when it is implemented. During the specific implementation, if any problems are encountered
, it might turn into a disaster.
At that time, I was the one who sent them to their death.
Not only will your investment be accepted by the Almohad people, but the technicians you have trained with great difficulty will also be enthusiastically retained by the other party to continue working for free - turning valuable people into slaves, Almohad
Germans are experts at this.
He was looking through the documents when a page of information was not clamped securely and slipped out of the documents.
Lorraine bent down to pick it up and took a look, only to see that it was filled with a dense list of personnel. She wanted to take a closer look, but found that the light in the carriage had dimmed before she knew it.
He had no choice but to turn sideways and use the light from the car window to look at the list. Suddenly, a feeling of laughter and tears came to his heart, and finally he couldn't help but burst out.
He shook the list in his hand and asked: "Sir, do you mean to let these people disguise themselves as employees of our company and then sneak into the Almohad Empire?"
Lorraine pointed at the rows of names on it and complained: "Don't you see, none of these people are from noble families. Let them go to the construction site with a group of country bumpkins, not to mention whether they can bear it."
That kind of bitterness. Just the thin skin and tender flesh on their bodies has already exposed them."
As he spoke, he threw the piece of paper onto the chair next to him and said disdainfully: "If these people drink, fight, and flirt with each other, I would be willing to make friends with them, but I'd better avoid doing this kind of thing.
~!"
Seeing his reaction, Russell couldn't help but blinked in surprise.
He looked over, quickly put the piece of paper away, typed a haha, and said with sweating profusely: "Misunderstanding, misunderstanding. These people have all given me gifts, and I am preparing to give them an official job casually."
I did it, but I didn’t expect the list to come here. My female secretary must have misplaced it when she picked up the documents last night."
After finishing speaking, he looked up and saw the surprised look on Lorraine's face. Then he realized that he had made a mistake. He couldn't help but blush, coughed slightly, and said, "Let's talk about business, talk about business."
He took the document, pulled out a list from it, looked at it carefully, then handed it over and said: "Actually, these are the personnel list this time."
Lorraine reached out and took it, hesitated for a moment, and then made a decision in her heart.
No matter what, he is still a Ruman nobleman. If the Almohads really attack, they will not show mercy.
Moreover, if this plan is not carried out, Leo will call him a "traitor" again, and Catherine will be angry. Duke Julius will definitely not be able to pass, and he might actually join the death squad.
Lorraine said with a serious face: "Our Black Hawk Company is a very formal large-scale international group company. There are many employees in it, who come from all over the world.
These people are all recruited by our general manager Leo and personally evaluated by Catherine. Moreover, our company adopts a humanized management method and provides employees with meticulous care like a family.
But we are just a company, not their nannies. We only have fourteen hours of relaxing and pleasant working hours every day. Outside of this time, we are firmly opposed to inhumane management and restraint on them."
He paused for a moment, then blinked his eyes and said, "I said this, sir, do you understand?"
Russell looked at him in astonishment and saw the smile on his face. Then he suddenly realized it and couldn't help cursing in his heart: This damn hypocrite actually turned a blind eye and pretended not to know.
little trick.
Leo recruits and Catherine assesses, which means that the candidates sent by Russell must also obtain Catherine's approval, which means that those people must also accept Catherine's command.
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but sigh softly: I used to play this trick on others~!
At this moment, Lorraine continued to say: "But it is precisely because of the lofty purpose of our company that we have created our gold medal quality. Therefore, we are very strict in recruiting employees, and in order to enable them to
To adapt to the requirements of the job, a lot of training funds must be invested.”
Russell couldn't help but feel his heart sinking, knowing that he was asking for a condition like a lion opening its mouth. He couldn't help but sit up straight, and was ready to be beaten by him.
At this moment, I heard an angry shout coming from outside the carriage, saying: "Be careful, there is something... ah~!"
Everyone couldn't help but be stunned when they heard the scream.
Immediately afterwards, the sounds of weapons clashing, roars, screams, and the screams of war horses could be heard constantly.
Lorraine's heart sank, and she was about to reach out and open the car door to see what was going on. At this moment, with a shrill scream, the outside returned to calm.
And their carriage swayed and stopped.
Lorraine couldn't help but be startled. He listened carefully, but couldn't hear any sound outside. There was only silence, like deathly silence. The hand pressing on the car door hurriedly retracted.
He knew that those knights could serve as the Prime Minister's bodyguards, and their military strength was extraordinary. However, they were easily dealt with in an instant. This showed that the other party was well prepared and had superb martial arts skills.
For people like me, it's useless to go up there. You might have to fall down once you meet someone. At this time, you can only hide in the dark, use some coolness to make a sneak attack, and maybe you can still succeed.
Thinking of this, he reached out and took out a musket from his arms, then slowly opened the safety and pulled the spring of the flint. Then he touched the piece of gray stone tied with a ribbon and hung around his neck.
.These are the guarantee of his life and will never leave him.
Ever since Adele got in the car, she saw Russell's strange look. Even though she was good at dancing, she had been feeling embarrassed. In addition, what they were talking about had nothing to do with her, and she couldn't interrupt.
Go in. Out of boredom, she noticed that the velvet in the cushion next to her had been dug into by her slender hands at some point.
At this time, when she heard something was wrong outside, Adele seemed to have found some way to escape. She let out a long breath, then lifted up her skirt and pulled out two cold-light gleaming weapons from somewhere.
The three-foot-long sword was drawn out.
The three of them hid in the carriage and waited for a while, but could not hear any movement outside.
Adele couldn't help but be confused. When she turned her head, she saw Lorraine looking at her long legs with strange eyes. She couldn't help but smile, blinked her beautiful eyes, gave a flirtatious look, and whispered.
: "Do you want to know where my two knives are hidden?"
Lorraine's old face couldn't help but blush, and she said in a low voice: "Actually, I don't think too much about it."
Russell coughed dissatisfiedly behind them and said: "You can't stop flirting at this time. Someone wants to assassinate me~!"
Lorraine turned around and looked at him, and saw a strange-looking staff in his hand. White ripples kept rising from the top of the staff, like water waves, and slowly disappeared.
in the air
Russell glared at him, shook the staff in his hand, and said angrily: "What are you looking at? I am a cardinal after all. Of course I have a staff for protection. What's so strange about this?"
Lorraine immediately turned back and looked at the car door.
In fact, all three of them knew the seriousness of the matter. The other party killed four guards as soon as they took action, so it was obvious that they were bound to win. If their luck was not high, they would definitely have to hang here today.
But after all, the silence just now was like a death tomb, too depressing, and everyone had nothing to say to soothe their spirits.
At this time, I suddenly heard a strange hissing sound outside. The sound was not like what humans could make at all. It was sharp, harsh, and extremely unpleasant to hear.
Immediately afterwards, with a loud bang, countless debris flew out of a wooden board on the carriage body, and then broke into two pieces.
Then, the second piece, the third piece...
All the wooden boards surrounding the bottom of the carriage were smashed to pieces. Then the carriage began to shake violently, and the entire body made a heart-breaking groan, then tilted to the side and collapsed suddenly.
The three of them suddenly felt their eyes light up.
Lorraine looked around and felt frightened.
I saw that the originally bright sunshine had been obscured by dark clouds, and the surrounding area was shrouded in a miserable gray mist. The thick clouds and fog seemed to be alive, rolling around the three of them. And from time to time
They turned into ferocious humanoid faces, opened their mouths wide, and let out silent and shrill screams.
Just like when he met that terrifying lich~!
He couldn't help but turn around and glared at Russell fiercely. He didn't have any hatred skills, so the only person who could attract such powerful boss-level hatred was a priest.
Adele also looked surprised. She raised her slender eyebrows and said, "Undead?"
Russell frowned and said: "A little necromancer dares to act wild in front of the bishop, protected by the Holy Light!"
Russell lightly paused the staff in his hand, and the top emitted a bright and soft white light, forming a ball of light that enveloped the three of them and continued to expand, and soon became entangled with the black mist, like a warrior fighting.
Just like that, the fight between you and me started, and soon a few white lights penetrated the black fog surrounding the three people in Lorraine. Just like the sunlight penetrating the clouds, the scene outside the black fog could be seen through the white light.
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Adele flicked her hands, flicked the long knife in her hand, and said nonchalantly: "Have these undead souls been squatting in the coffin for too long, and they dare to appear in Maple Leaf Danlin? I thought the magicians here are only afraid of their wives."
? Just hold him for two minutes, and someone will come soon."
Lorraine didn't expect that Adele would not be afraid at all at this time, but would also have the time to tease her grandfather, so she couldn't help but look at her in surprise.
Adele's eyes turned like water, as if she had seen through his mind, and she chuckled: "What's the point? Every once in a while, those bastards from the Dark Council will sneak in like thieves and cause trouble.
Everyone has been used to it for a long time. It would be abnormal if they didn't come."
At this time, the black fog surrounding them suddenly became thicker, and a sharp scream like a ghost came from the black fog.
At this time, Russell raised his staff and shouted a spell. The staff hit the ground hard, and thousands of rays of light emitted from the top of the staff, dispersing the black mist in an instant.
Russell then shouted: "Detect evil. Sneaky guy, watch where you run, Holy Light Bullet."
Lorraine saw Russell waving his staff, and a washbasin-sized white ball of light flew towards the roof on one side, and then exploded on the roof. A gray figure flashed out of the explosion.
Pass.
Suddenly there was a row of fireballs in the sky, chasing the figure. Lorraine looked up and saw Lester rushing over. Behind him, there were several black figures flying towards here quickly. Lorraine knew,
These are the mages in the academy.
Lester paused in the air, looked at the three people on the ground, and said: "Adele, why are you here? Lorraine boy, come back to me to settle the score. Russell, protect them two."