I didn't open it in another world, I'm sure

In other words, the longer the soldiers of the Qin State carry individual power mechas with them in the mecha library, or wear them directly, the full version of the artificial spirit crystals can always strengthen the physique and elemental attributes of the soldiers of the Qin State, and the soldiers' physique and elemental The stronger the attribute, the higher the combat effectiveness of driving an individual power mecha, until the power mecha's increase in combat power against soldiers becomes useless.

From this point of view, the individual power mecha can be said to have entered the threshold of the "super series" mecha.

And this is not the end, or even just the beginning, because when the existing power mechs are useless to the Qin army, the individual power mechas must be iterated again, and the upper limit of soldiers' reinforcements will definitely be further increased.

It doesn't even need to be that time, as long as the relevant technical departments of Qin State have a thorough understanding of the humanoid device technology on the information integration mind body, a new round of iteration will definitely usher in.

That is to say, in time, it will no longer be a dream for Qin soldiers to rank seven or eight, or even higher.

As for all the mechas that Nangong Xiao sells, they only have a cut-down version of the artificial spirit crystal as the energy supply for the mysterious power furnace, so there is no effect of strengthening the human body, and the upper limit of energy storage, energy conversion power, energy quality, etc. In terms of quality, they are all a grade lower than the genuine ones.

After all, it is the 'Foreign Trade Edition', everyone understands it.

To put it more intuitively, the Qin Army's self-use version of the powered mech must be five to ten times higher than the foreign trade version of the same model in terms of comprehensive combat effectiveness.

Of course, the tens of millions of "old-fashioned" individual power mechs replaced by Qin Jun will not be rebuilt, but after a certain amount of technical "simplification", "optimization" and facelifting. , put it in the 'lower-level' market, to gradually replace the large biped upright mechas that have gradually begun to become saturated in the member countries of the Dimensional United Council.

In addition to using waste to create additional value, it can also improve the strength of allies within a controllable range, so that when allies are needed to support the scene, the allies are over-armed and stretch their hips, which is not a good thing.

To put it bluntly, the eldest brother is so beautiful, but the younger brother is like a beggar. As long as his mind is normal, no matter whether he is a member of the family or an outsider, he will re-examine whether this elder brother is worth following and making friends.

Put it in the Dimensional United Council, Qin is the veritable "big brother", and the joining countries are the younger brothers. If you want to secure the position of this "big brother", relying on coercion alone is absolutely inferior. Increase the carrot The stick is the truth.

At present, in addition to changing the individual power mechs of the Qin army, warships applying new technologies are also undergoing all-round technical verification, and it may not take long for an iteration to be carried out.

Thinking of the battleship iteration, Nangong Xiao had a headache.

Because the replaced battleships cannot be dealt with in the short term, most of them can only be sealed.

Especially for some battleships, Nangong Xiao didn't dare to sell them indiscriminately in the short term, and they couldn't sell them either.

Because the spaceships of the Qin State are basically designed for large-scale space battles, and they are the kind with a length of tens of thousands of meters.Although it can be sold to the member countries of the Dimensional United Council, there is currently only a little demand for this in the 00 world, because the aliens will come soon.But as high as 00, the Human Revolutionary League can afford one or two small and medium-sized warships of the 5000-meter class. Lian can't afford it either.Even if the Human Revolutionary League can barely afford it, it is meaningless to the Qin Army's tens of thousands of large warships of the [-]-meter class alone.

Didn't you say you want to put on a facade for 'little brother'?

That also has to act according to the actual needs of the 'little brother'.

All the franchise countries don't have this demand, or the demand is not up to this level, so should they force it to the other party?

To put it bluntly, the member countries of the Dimensional United Council are still too weak to keep up with the footsteps of the 'big brother'.

Of course, the Qin army had to iterate the warships again, otherwise, when it was time to use them, the soldiers couldn't be allowed to take risks with 'old' equipment, right?

Then there is the frighteningly high construction and maintenance costs of warships.Especially the maintenance cost after service, that is a big headache for even the Qin country, let alone those allied countries.

Even if it weren't for the fact that military power and arms development, production, procurement and other related rights and industries have always been in the hands of Nangong Xiao, Nangong Xiao has always put the wartime economy alone on military purchases, that is, arming regardless of cost Qin Jun went up and down, which allowed Qin Jun to make a big change in such a playful way.

If it is following the normal financial process of the Qin State, then don't even think about it, not to mention the warships, even the cost of the major refit of the individual power mechs can make the cabinet hang themselves collectively.

However, the Qin army warships that will surely be stored in large numbers in the future are not completely useless. For example, in the current world, there are many and vast cosmic civilizations, and although the main opponents of the human race represented by the Song Dynasty are the various subordinate planes of the earth. ethnic group, but it does not mean that the Song Dynasty did not have the ambition to conquer the Milky Way, or even the universe.

In other words, the State of Song has a potential large-scale space battleship installation demand, and has sufficient financial resources.

And this is also one of the fundamental reasons why Nangong Xiao worked so hard to develop the Song country's military trade market.

To put it bluntly, since Nangong Xiao had a certain understanding of this world, he regarded the Song Kingdom in this world as the main consumer market for the eliminated products of the Qin Army's military equipment iterations.

Once it is established, then Song State will become one of the countries that joined the Dimensional United Council before it developed, and the Qin army lags behind in the field of arms disposal.

Even if the existing members of the Dimensional United Council have developed, the Song Kingdom is still a huge all-round economic and trade market.

Therefore, in addition to the mecha trade, Tiannan Gongxiao also started large-scale trade negotiations with Song State in warships, magic equipment, etc. due to the greatly reduced connection restrictions with Chengtian these days.

And this is not just a simple military trade negotiation, but is still paving the way for economic and trade cooperation after the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries in the near future.

Based on the principle of mutual benefit and win-win cooperation, the two parties showed their true sincerity, and the result was a happy conversation and everything went smoothly.

However, this made Nangong Xiao focus on exchanging opinions with relevant personnel of Song State in the next few days.

It also resulted in not having much time to spend with Suzumiya Haruhi and the others.

As a result, when Nangong Xiao was free, he met Asahina Mikuru, Xu, and Zhao Hao in the old library of Nishinomiya Beigao.

Zhao Hao was mentioned by Nangong Xiao, and there is nothing to say about Suzumiya Haruhi's going to recruit people into the group.However, Nangong Akatsuki forgot about Asahina Mikuru, and Xu didn't mention it. As a result, Suzumiya Haruhi was still energetically looking for "prey" besides daily study and training.

Regarding this, Nangong Xiao didn't say anything, after all, this is an 'inevitable' development from a certain level.

In addition to seeing these three people at school during the day, Nangong Xiao also officially received the long-awaited Teresa Testarossa at Nangong Mansion at night...

Chapter 1062 Teresa

It was night, in the living room of Nangong House, in front of the coffee table, Nangong Xiao and Teresa Testarossa were sitting here opposite each other.

Sagara Sousuke, Cruz, and Melissa stood behind Teresa, lined up, with serious expressions and fixed eyes.

Ryoko Asakura in casual clothes and Gurefia in maid outfit stood behind Nangong Xiao, calm and natural.

Nagato Yuki... This guy is hiding in the room and playing games.

In a sense, Nagato Yuki has been adopted by someone.

Getting back to business, Nangong Xiao nodded and said after hearing Teresa's statement that she was neither arrogant nor humble.

"Ms. Testarossa, I've already understood your needs. If it's just three sets of foreign trade special machines, I can indeed sell them."

"!" Teresa's eyes lit up.

"However, I'm not interested in gold and silver money, and you can't produce enough special minerals."

"What does Your Excellency Nangong mean?"

"I'm no longer interested in the information that Mithril currently stores in the database, but I think Mithril still has a lot of things that survived by using more 'traditional' storage methods. Maybe these can meet my needs."

"... Your Excellency is really... straightforward."

After struggling for a while, Teresa could only smile a little embarrassedly and say the word 'straightforward', which is not a derogatory term.

No way, she didn't expect someone to admit the act of 'thief' so openly.

"Don't beat around the bush. I know that my previous behavior was disgraceful. However, I had no communication with Mithril before, and I didn't care whether I was an enemy or friend with Mithril, so I don't have any psychological burden on how Mithril behaves. But now that it is officially If I get in touch, I will not do some things that cross the line, and at the same time, I will make some compensation for the previous things. Unfortunately, it is only the value of knowledge I obtained from the Mithril database, and the three planes you proposed The foreign trade version of the specially installed machine is not equivalent, and you need to make up the difference."

"...I see."

Teresa gradually realized that it turned out that the other party was willing to meet them because of this reason.

Teresa is not stupid, or Mithril's high-level executives are not stupid. This proactive contact is essentially a chance, and even more or less hopes that through Sagara Sousuke and Chidori's weak relationship with this , so as to mix a familiar face.

After all, Teresa and the others understand that the strong on the mysterious side really don't have to do everything in ordinary society, and whether they are willing to formally contact Mithril depends entirely on their mood.

So now hearing what Nangong Xiao said, Teresa was completely stunned, and the doubts in her heart dissipated.

And Teresa didn't misunderstand this as "sorry", but concluded that it was just the other party's behavior style.

As far as Teresa knows, the emotion of 'sorrow' will only appear on the target of status or relative treatment. If the status of the two parties is very different, it will only be 'compassion', not There is 'sorry'.

The logic is also very simple. If you 'care', you will be able to apologize. If you 'don't care', then what's the point of apologizing?

Of course, if the other party is a saint, or a morally perfect person, that's another matter. However, Teresa has seen through the person in front of her. At least, she has seen through that the other party is not a saint or a morally perfect person, but just an 'ordinary person'.

After making a preliminary judgment, Teresa said seriously, "Your Excellency Nangong, we have indeed sealed up some special technologies that we don't understand at all, but we can't determine the price."

Teresa intends to push out the pricing power, but she wants to see this person's behavior pattern.

Teresa Testarossa, 16 years old, silver hair, Asian-European face, petite build, listener, head of Mithril West Pacific branch, captain of the attacking Yanglu submarine 'Son of Danu' , the military rank of Mithril is a colonel, good at making decisions on the fly, and formulating tactics. Apart from swimming, his motor cells in other aspects are close to zero, and he can even fall on the ground.

Also, she likes to play such innocuous little tricks.

Facing the temptation of this calm silver-haired girl, Nangong Xiao didn't care, but said bluntly, "I can't make a conclusion without seeing the real thing, but the value of the λ-driver system alone is enough to match a set." The price of the foreign trade version of the mass-produced machine is too high."

"I already understand what Your Excellency Nangong means. Can you give us some time? Some things cannot be decided by me alone."

"no problem."

"Thank you."

"polite."

"If that's the case, then don't bother Your Excellency."

"Please."

After the simple and non-stop communication ended, Teresa left Nangong Mansion with the confused Sagara Sousuke trio.

After leaving Nangong House, Sagara Sousuke looked back at the brightly lit Nangong House, and saw Minase mother and daughter ringing the doorbell of Nangong House holding some things.

But Sagara Sousuke didn't care about the mother and daughter who had a close relationship with Nangong Xiao, but asked softly the doubts in his heart.

"Captain, was that just now?"

When Sagara Sousuke asked, Cruz and Melissa also pricked up their ears.

While walking, Teresa was fiddling with the single braid on her right shoulder with her right hand, and said calmly.

"He has no malice towards us, nor does he have any good feelings for us, but for some unknown reason, he has the willingness to sell us the power mecha, but he is unwilling to sell us favors along the way. This is not difficult to understand. He doesn't need Our favor. It’s just that we are willing to contact but keep a distance, and we are armed but we don’t have a clear direction... I don’t understand it, I really don’t understand it... The only thing that is clear is that our ideal expectations have been shattered. It’s okay , the normal communication channels are no longer a problem, it is considered a blessing in misfortune."

"??"

Well, the trio of Sagara Sousuke was a little confused.

Teresa who entered the state ignored the doubts of her subordinates, but said again, "Melissa, Cruz, Zongsuke."

"In!" X3

"The URUZ team will temporarily stay in Neon Nishinomiya City while ensuring that there is no problem with the follow-up of Chidori Kaname's mission. Sousuke will continue to maintain his student status, so he can use Chidori Kaname's relationship as much as possible to get in touch with that person."

"captain..."

Sagara Sosuke opened his mouth, and when he was about to say something, Teresa shook her head and said.

"Zongjie, our purpose is to deepen the friendship between the two sides. Although the fundamental logic is for profit, it is not malicious targeting, and there is no need to have a psychological burden."

"...Yes!"

Teresa glanced at Sagara Sousuke, said nothing, nodded, and then said, "Melissa, Cruz, apart from providing assistance to Sousuke, you are temporarily acting as liaison officers for the affairs of Nishinomiya City and the headquarters." , the deadline is yet to be determined."

"Yes!" X2

"Let's do this first, let's talk about the rest when we return to the temporary stronghold—hmm? Why don't you go?"

"...Well, Teresa, the road back to the temporary stronghold is this way." Melissa held back a smile and pointed to the road on the left.

Teresa couldn't help but blushed, but she also silently turned and walked to the left...

......

During the lunch break the next day, in the old library of Nishinomiya Kitakami, all the members of the "Magic Science Organization" gathered around the long table to enjoy lunch. At the same time, Nangong Akatsuki and Zhao Hao talked about some A topic that frightens people after hearing it.

"So, Song Guo officially signed a memorandum of understanding and a strategic partnership agreement with Sidi and Gremory?"

"Yes sir, it's just that due to various factors, it's not suitable to be made public at the moment."

"Song Kingdom really needs enough time to prepare for war... Do you want to carry out the procurement project of the 1:5 mental acceleration spiritual realm (fully submerged in virtual reality) device in advance?"

(By the way, "Lingjing" is the name of the late Guozhu, Mr. Xuesen, who named virtual reality technology more than 30 years ago. is still dominant.)

"Yes, sir."

"I have no problem here. It just so happens that [-] sets of Song Guo's custom-made models have been rolled off the assembly line and have completed the quality inspection process. I will give them to you in the afternoon and treat them as the first batch of deliveries."

Zhao Hao said with a smile, "Thank you sir for your understanding."

"En." Nangong Xiao nodded slightly, and said again. "Where are the detailed course videos of various categories of knowledge related to immortal martial arts?"

"Sir, it is already in production, and it can be delivered the day after tomorrow at the latest."

"Very good. By the way, Mithril has approached me, hoping to purchase individual power mechs."

"What do you mean, sir?"

"I didn't refuse, but don't worry, I will control the amount well, and suggest that Mithril use this to contact Song State officials, and coordinate with you to improve it yourself."

"In this case, I will report to the above in the afternoon."

"Well, and..."

The conversation between Nangong Xiao and Zhao Hao, Suzumiya Haruhi and others are of course used to it, but it is a different feeling to Koizumi Kazuki, Xu, Asahina Mikuru and others.

Especially Xu, he is really just an ordinary high school student who can no longer be ordinary.

Inexplicably, he was pulled into a strange organization by the "strange girl" at the back table, and even at first he thought that the magic claws of MLM had reached into Nishinomiya Beigao, but gradually after seeing more incredible things, Xucai finally realized come over.

He was, really, up to something big.

After realizing that he had really come into contact with this incredible existence, he wanted to quit this organization with an awkward name several times, but "Strange Woman" was his back desk, his home was also in Nishinomiya City, and the members here No matter how you look at it, he doesn't look like a good stubble. If he really mentions quitting, he always feels that he will not see the sun the next day.

Because of this, he finally had to resist the urge to hide as far away as possible, and try to reduce his sense of existence as much as possible, even if he came over, he tried to listen as much as possible and talk less.