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Amidst the hustle and bustle of the Lingshan Council, it was already the end of summer before I knew it, and the weather was getting cooler.
After experiencing a rainfall the day before, the air in Kelal Manor became particularly fresh.
The bright sunshine shines on the grass, and the grass is green. The smooth lawn stretches as far as the eye can see.
The tender green grass is as soft as the finest Bohemian carpet, making people want to lie down and roll on it.
Occasionally, a breeze with the scent of grass and trees blows by, bringing bursts of coolness.
This place is only thirty miles away from the Imperial City of Akadelin, but it has mountains, water, and lakes, beautiful scenery, and a pleasant climate. It has always been one of the favorite resorts of the wise dignitaries.
In particular, a world-class par-54 luxury golf course was newly built here, which attracted many dignitaries to flock to it.
Melo wore a simple short-sleeved shirt, a pure white sun hat, and white leather sandals, walking on the soft lawn.
He raised his head and glanced at the small bulging soil bag not far away, leaned over and inserted the tee into the soil, and then placed a small white ball.
Immediately afterwards, he waved the club in his hand, stood still with both feet, held the club tightly with both hands, turned his head and looked at it, aimed at the small pennant in the distance, raised the club above his head, and then swung it down hard.
The club hit the ball with a sharp wind, making a crisp sound similar to a metal impact. The white ball instantly turned into a black shadow that was almost invisible to the naked eye and flew out.
"Beautiful~!" Elegant applause sounded from the side.
Behind Mero, several young men and women in fashionable clothes generously gave their applause and praise.
A young and beautiful girl with a youthful and healthy atmosphere all over her body said with a smile: "My lord's football skills are becoming more and more proficient."
Melo smiled modestly, showing his white teeth, and said, "I'm still far from Miss Rachel's level."
As he spoke, he threw up the club in his hand. Then he grabbed it again gracefully, and then walked towards the green in front of him.
The others quickly followed, talking and laughing along the way.
The caddies next to him struggled to drag their huge backpacks, while the attendants on the other side followed behind carrying insulated boxes filled with ice cubes and various drinks.
Since this casual and noble sport appeared in the cities of Nedel and Ruman, it was immediately warmly welcomed by nobles, government officials and wealthy people, and became popular throughout the upper class in a short period of time.
Think about it, swinging gracefully on the open and beautiful grass. Hitting the ball like an artist, pushing the ball into the hole.
You can be alone, enjoying the loneliness and fun of grass and sunshine alone, or you can be surrounded by elegant ladies and successful men who laugh with witty words...
What's more important is that the highly priced clubs and the membership fees that can kill several godfathers have blocked out all the poor people, making it a game only for the noble upper class elite.
This luxurious golf course in Kelal Manor was built less than a month ago. It was originally a well-known noble territory and was built by a royal nobleman four hundred years ago.
There is a grand castle, several manors with villas, an orchard, and a winery.
With beautiful scenery and beautiful mountains and rivers, it is the best summer resort around Akadelin.
Because of its beauty, the place changed hands several times. The last owner was Minister of Military Order Fell. After he was sentenced to death by a military court, all his property was confiscated.
A multinational group with a mysterious background purchased this land from the government, invested heavily in transforming it into a six-star hotel and resort called Sheraton, and developed the surrounding area into high-end villas.
On the day of the ribbon-cutting ceremony, even Mr. Leo Lei, the director of the Lingshan Taxation Administration, took time out of his busy schedule to come and congratulate him in person. He also sent several flower baskets.
Senior officers of the human coalition became the first guests. Under their leadership, senior officials and congressmen of the republican government soon discovered the beauty of this visit.
Melo has the platinum membership card of this golf course, which means an annual fee of three thousand gold coins. Taking advantage of this weird weekend, he gathered the key members of the black band together to hold a small gathering in this summer resort.
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Melo found the ball that he had missed, and then looked at the location of the hole not far away. A satisfied smile appeared on his face: The ball stopped at a good location.
He thought for a moment, then stretched out his hand and said: "Pole No. 4."
Before the caddy next to him could react, the charming Miss Rachel had already stepped forward, took out the club from the bag, and placed it in Melo's hand with a smile.
There was also a smile on Mello's face, and he nodded slightly towards Miss Rachel. Taking advantage of the indifference of the others, when he took the cue, he stretched out his fingers and gently placed them in her slender palm, which was like gelatin.
The ground scratched.
Miss Rachel couldn't help but tremble, and almost cried out.
The companion next to him looked at it and couldn't help but asked with concern: "Rachel, what's wrong with you? Your face is so red?"
"It's nothing, it's just that it's too hot." As Rachel said this, she glared at General Mello angrily while no one was paying attention.
Seeing the beauty's slightly angry expression, Merlot coughed heavily, then walked around the ball, aimed at the hole in front of him, stood firm, and swung the club twice to find the feel.
Just as he was about to swing hard, a man quickly squeezed into the crowd and shouted: "Signed, signed~!"
Everyone, including Mello, raised their heads and stared at the speaker with bright eyes.
The man had obviously run a long way and was out of breath. He pressed his hands on his knees and breathed heavily for a long time. Then he shouted: "The President... signed... signed, yes."
The thunder and lightning war plan is approved~!"
The young people next to him suddenly jumped up excitedly and shouted excitedly: "Okay~!"
"Success~!"
"This time, we can flex our muscles."
"..."
In the excitement, some ruffians celebrated by hugging the woman next to them and spinning them around a few times. Then they gave her a romantic wet kiss - Semitic people are passionate and unrestrained. They are more open-minded than humans in public.
Melo pressed the club with both hands, like a general who had won a battle, and calmly watched the young people celebrating, with only a faint smile on his face.
This calm demeanor and mature demeanor made several girls next to them have stars in their eyes. Compared with the restless boys, the charm of these mature and successful uncles is fatal.
Melo was quite disappointed to find that the turf had been trampled into a state of disrepair by the young people celebrating reveliously. Even the golf hole had been trampled into a pit.
He wanted to hit the ball into the hole and show his calm general demeanor, but he could only do it now.
In desperation, he had no choice but to throw the club back into the bag, then waved to everyone and said: "No more playing, go back and celebrate."
Following the order, everyone was led back to the Sheraton Hotel in a mighty manner.
They didn't enter the restaurant, so they found a table outside under the shade of the trees.
Merlot specially took out a bottle of 1817 champagne, and a young man shook the bottle with a strange cry. Then he quickly removed the finger that was holding the cork.
There was a 'bang' sound, and the cork flew out. The foamy white wine sprayed into the air like a fountain.
After pouring the unique amber liquid into everyone's wine glasses, Lieutenant Colonel Langley raised his wine glass and loudly said: "For the unity of the Semites, for our victory."
Morgan raised his wine glass to greet Merlot and said with a smile: "Speaking of General Merlot who wished us bravery, no, Marshal Merlot triumphed and returned in triumph."
Merlo smiled modestly and clinked glasses with Miss Rachel next to him.
Just as he was about to drink the cup of celebratory wine in one gulp, he heard someone from a distance shouting in panic: "It's not good, General, it's not good."
This attracted all the surrounding guests to look askance, laughing at whose stupid servant this was. He made such a loud noise on such an occasion. He really didn't understand any rules.
Mello frowned. This voice was very familiar to him. It was his secretary in the Ministry of Military Affairs.
When the man walked in, Melo's face became serious and he scolded: "Urban, what the hell are you doing? You're yelling."
Urban's face was covered with sweat, his wet hair stuck to his forehead, and his shirt was soaked with sweat. He clutched a document tightly in his hand and gasped: "Sir, it's not good, the president just got pregnant."
Order."
Morgan interrupted him and said: "We all know, that is not a good thing."
Urban shouted anxiously: "There is no us, no, there are no generals. The president has excluded the generals."
Melo's heart suddenly tightened, and he forced himself to calm down and said, "Please be more careful."
Urban shouted loudly: "The president appointed the commander of the attacking thunder and lightning, Pal Berendi."
Melo's eyes suddenly flashed with cold light. He stared at his secretary, like a lion locked on its prey. In the next second, he would pounce on him and bite his throat, and said in a deep voice: "Say it again."
The secretary turned pale in fright at Mello's eyes and did not dare to look at him. He lowered his head and said, "Pal, Berendi, has become the commander of the expeditionary force. General, you..."
Mero pursed his lips tightly and remained silent for a few seconds, his face uncertain.
Just when everyone thought he would get angry, Mello suddenly laughed and said calmly: "As long as it is for our Semitic tribe, no matter who comes, brothers, we wish Commander Belendi victory.
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As he spoke, he finished the wine in the glass, nodded to everyone with a smile, and said: "Wait while I go get a new set of clubs. They are limited editions from Ruman, a masterpiece of the alchemist."
He nodded to everyone, turned around and walked to the hotel.
The young men and women looked at each other and marveled at Melo's magnanimity and broadmindedness.
For a long time, almost everyone believed that the position of commander of the expeditionary force should belong to Mello. Regardless of ability, qualifications, prestige, meritorious service, and position, Mello was the number one person in the Free Army and was a well-deserved candidate for the commander of the expeditionary force.
Unexpectedly, he was cut off by a man named Pal and Berendi.
Many people have never even heard of this name.
Some people even asked their companions: Do we have such a person as Ling Shan?
But even so, Melo didn't lose control of his anger. He was still able to take things up and let them go. He was always calm and unfazed. He was truly a character.
Only Miss Rachel, who was beside Merlo, noticed that Merlo crushed the wine glass in his hand when he turned around.
This big shot in the Republican government, a man who might become president in the future, was not as calm as he appeared.
The young people repeatedly chanted the names of Pal and Berendi, but they could not remember who this person was.
In the end, Urban, who was still working as a secretary in the Ministry of Military Affairs, slapped his forehead and shouted: "I remembered, Pal, Berendi was the previous admiral of the Guards. At that time, he was the superior of General Parker, the military affairs chief, but...
But he has been retired for almost twenty years."
Apparently, when Pal and Berendi retired, some of them were still wearing crotchless pants, and others had just learned to pull girls' pigtails.
Everyone looked at each other in shock, thinking that President Brad was crazy for actually asking an eighty-year-old grandfather to come.
"By the way," Urban suddenly remembered something and said: "The expeditionary force does not have Melun and the Caribbean Division."
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Rayburg.
Continuous clouds shrouded the earth. This summer, it rained a lot in Leibao.
The city has been flooded several times due to heavy rains. To this day, many streets are still filled with mud, and citizens have to trudge through knee-deep mud.
The atmosphere of the city was like the weather above them, weighing heavily on their hearts.
With the extremely spineless Lingshan people surrendering to humans, war seems to be inevitable. Six hundred thousand human armies and overwhelming war fortresses will appear on the land of Leishan at any time.
Under heavy pressure, people can't muster the energy to do anything. From time to time, they have to raise their heads and look to the east to guard against the coming of human war fortresses so that they can escape early.
In the early morning, people who got up early to make a living trudged arduously on the sewage-filled streets, struggling to provide food and clothing for their families.
Many shops on both sides of the street were closed and boarded up. Because they were afraid of the war, many people fled Leibao, and the business activities in Leibao also became depressed.
Only when you pass by the door of a nobleman can you see busy servants and luxuriously dressed masters.
In the early morning, people busy in the main square first heard a rumble in the sky. The sound was extremely strange, not like thunder, but continued and became louder and louder.
The strange loud noise caused people in the square to stop and look up, but there seemed to be nothing in the gray clouds.
"Over there~!" Someone pointed and shouted in the air.
As he shouted, everyone saw a black figure appear under the clouds and quickly fall to the ground.
Along with the whistling sound, its figure grew larger and larger, and finally turned into a huge battleship above everyone's heads, floating overhead.
"It's a war fortress."
"Damn it, it's humans, humans are coming~!" A well-informed person can recognize at a glance that this is not a war fortress of the undead.
The crowd in the square immediately burst into wild screams.
People were crying and running for cover, escaping from the human war fortress as quickly as possible.
In just ten seconds, the center of the square was clean, with only shoes and debris left on the ground.
The war fortress slowly landed, making a muffled sound when it collided with the ground, and then the door opened.
The bold Leishan people hid in the corner and watched quietly. They saw a group of people in black running out of the gate. They held strange iron pipes in their hands and spread out to surround the war fortress.
The fortress is behind you.
Then five livid-faced civilians walked down from above.
Immediately, with a whistle, the men in black quickly ran back to the war fortress. The war fortress quickly rose up and disappeared into the clouds in the blink of an eye, leaving only five people standing alone in the empty square.
Everyone might be scared when they see the war fortress, but there are only five people there, so no matter how you look at it, there is no problem. In order to grab the credit, bold people rushed out from every corner, wielding kitchen knives, bricks... and shouted towards the square
The five people in the center ran wildly.
But before they could get closer, a group of cavalry rushed out from the palace gate of the temple, surrounded the five people, and walked into the temple together, leaving only the common people of Leishan who were in a daze.
Later, the five royal nobles who had been huddled in their respective castles rushed through the street with great arrogance and went straight to the Grand Temple. Even those with a dull sense of smell knew that something big must have happened.
Sure enough, a few hours later, shocking news came from the mouth of the source: the Lingshan people are coming to attack Leishan, and they want to conquer us.
All the Leishan people were surprised at first, and then angry. At this moment, they had a common question.
"Why the Spirit Flash?" In the building behind the temple, Drow and Aaron asked the five negotiators: "Why not humans? Why not Lorraine?"
From the perspective of Patriarch Aaron, they had already reached peace talks, but Lingshan came to invade them. Wasn't this taking advantage of others' misfortune?
Chief Zatan asked equally puzzled: "Can't Lorraine control the Lingshan people?"
Termo, one of the five representatives, Sarah shook her head and said: "Lorraine told us that he would not interfere with the actions of the Spirit Flashers. I think this is his test for us."
The patriarchs of the five royal families looked at each other in confusion. With their wisdom and experience, they couldn't figure out why Lorraine did this. Why did he let the Lingshan people come? Do they really think that they were easy to bully?
When Prince Reuenthar married Adeling, he got involved and stole the most beautiful woman of the Semitic tribe. Moreover, the prince also wore a green crown on his head. Theoretically speaking, Luo Yanthal
That ruffian Lin took advantage.
And this time, for the sake of peace talks, everyone quietly put the prince under house arrest. As long as the peace talks were successful, the unlucky prince would be deposed to show sincerity.
But why is this scoundrel Lorraine still so stubborn?
Originally, the Leishan people were already angry because of their request for peace, but they did not expect that Lorraine would be so arrogant and not take the Leishan people seriously at all.
Killing people is just a nod, and this is also bullying~!
For a moment, everyone present had a look of displeasure on their faces.
The ruling prince of Skurachman, the most powerful person in Leishan, stood up and said solemnly: "No matter what, we will never surrender to the Lingshan people."
His words won the unanimous approval of the royal family chiefs. They would rather surrender to humans than to the Lingshan people.
This world has always been dominated by the weak and the strong. Whoever is stronger will listen to whoever is the boss.
Humans have war fortresses, cannons, spears, trains and other incredible alchemical weapons in their hands, and can easily annihilate the millions of Semitic coalition forces. Even the undead high priest, the most powerful person under the starry sky, was killed.
Ran away.
Lei Shan negotiated peace with them, which was nothing extraordinary.
But surrendering to the Lingshan people is different.
Since ancient times, although the Lingshan people have always claimed that the Shan clan is orthodox, the fists of the Leishan people have always been superior to the Lingshan people. If they surrender to them, the ancestors and names of the Leishan people will be humiliated, and they will be disgraced by their fellow tribesmen.
People have despised it for a thousand years. (Just like in North Africa during World War II, it would be okay if the British soldiers surrendered to the German soldiers, but surrendering to the famous Spaghetti Soldiers would be disgusting.)
Patriarch Alva pondered for a moment and said: "Perhaps only if we defeat the Lingshan people, Lorraine will seriously sit down and negotiate with them."
Chief Tidamia said loudly: "So we cannot lose this battle. Our Tidamia family will mobilize all our strength to fight the Lingshan people in our territory to the end. Even if there is only the last man left,
Never retreat, never give in."
"They can't beat humans, so they think they can beat us Thunder Flash people."
"Give them some color and unleash all our power."
Under the pressure of Lingshan, the five royal families united unprecedentedly. They divided defense zones according to their own territories, cut their palms with knives, and swore a blood oath to help each other, actively support the compatriots besieged by Lingshan, and prepare for a bloody battle with the Lingshan people.
in the end.
The last time they reached such a consensus was five hundred years ago when they fought a bloody battle for Caribbean City with the Lingshan people under Caribbean City. (To be continued...)