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the War of the Wellheads
Chapter 8: Thinking for Yourself

Chapter 8: Thinking for Yourself

Parata lived up to its reputation as a place of flight, with airships of all sizes flying from one peaked platform to another, representing a powerful transportation force. The airship transportation power of this world was the combined railroad and marine transportation power of Earth. The high density of air limited the speed at which objects could fly, but it also made the air more buoyant. Originally, airships on Earth had a load of only a few dozen tons, but in this world they had a load of hundreds of tons. There is no need to lay railroad tracks, as the sky is full of roads for flying machines. There was no need for a compass to guide them, because the landmarks on the earth were fixed and not immobile like the waves of the sea.

When Giacomo and General Kalini arrive at Peralta, they meet Carlini, the current leader of the Peralta family, a beautiful and seductive female pilot who ignores the attempts of a white traveler to strike up a conversation. Giacomo is the heir to a powerful industrial city-state in this world, and is recognized by the world's upper class aristocracy as an outstanding bloodline.

This white man has been raised stupid by the state welfare of Earth. Renyu guessed that Carlini would slap the white man, but sadly, there was no such scene.Carlini just politely rejected the white man. The white man's eyes had an unbelievable expression. Lee Cun Sung quietly said to Renyu, ''His talent may be a charm-like effect. But it looks like the talent effect is very limited.”

Although all the travelers had talents though, the effects of the talents seemed to be very weak, and the talents were not omnipotent. Andrew spoke to the protagonist in an organized manner, not just saying a random sentence and the protagonist's favorability would still increase. Apparently, this white man overestimated the effect of his gift.

Renyu recalled the probability of his success in dating a woman, Renyu nodded and even a trace of jealousy welled up, his talent was really great. The corner of Renyu's mouth twitched a bit when he thought about his own talent. His own talent ability can't be said to be weak, a light ball space the size of three centimeters in diameter, after an object enters this light ball space for a minute, this object will be softened and like mud can be pinched into other shapes at will. Of course this light ball space can be stretched and deformed into a thirty centimeters in diameter light ball space, but the space becomes larger, the effect of the softened object will also be weakened. The hardness of the object is not permanently changed, after taking the object out of the light ball space, ten minutes, the hardness of the object will be completely restored. In other words, Renyu could process any material if prepared with a hard abrasive tool.

Of course this ability has two drawbacks, firstly it can't soften living things (including living plants) and it seems that there are invisible energies on life that counteract this innate ability.Renyu trapped a beetle with a bullet shell in one of his experiments and sent it into a force field.Thirty seconds later, under Renyu's observation, the beetle tore through the softened metal shell like it was a buttered crust and escaped.

The second disadvantage, is that it will not automatically distinguish between different materials, different materials mixed together, and when covered with the light sphere space, all of these materials will be mixed together to be pinched into other shapes.

Renyu has yet to reveal his gift, and while Andrew and Inoue Ohno aren't terribly frosty with themselves, they aren't terribly close either. Smaller groups in the Crossing team emerge. Andrew is very close to a couple of white guys, and Inoue is taking a little more care of the two remaining Japanese. renyu doesn't think he'll ever get their full approval.

Outsiders are outsiders, and Renyu's talents are best suited to logistical work, but once he gets into logistical maintenance, he'll be working for Inoue Ohno, who is experienced in mechanical repairs. Working under a Japanese dominated job, Renyu doesn't believe he'll get a fair return. As for surpassing Inoue Ohno, huh, it was impossible, others had accumulated decades of maintenance experience, one could not possibly bridge the gap with a talent accomplished. Just like one's ability to do fast math, honed by countless exams, is not something that others can level up in a short period of time with their talent. Of course the few other travelers who had incorrectly guessed Renyu's talent as a calculation class were not prepared to challenge Renyu in the field of math.

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Compared to the complicated personnel relationship, Renyu was now very interested in Lianlana's flying machine. Ten meters long like a dinghy, Renyu estimated that there was at least four hundred cubic meters of gas capacity inside. Adding the four hundred kilograms of weight of the single-mineral combustion engine and the five hundred kilograms of weight of the entire skeleton of the small dirigible, This thing had a load capacity of two tons. Two three meter diameter fan blades could provide enough propulsion. The twenty-millimeter rotary ammunition launcher mounted on the lower part of the airship could project a larger mass of ammunition up to sixty meters away.

The city-state of Peralta also had ambitions, but unfortunately the Governor was more mobile and used a blitzkrieg to quickly capture the large mountainous islands surrounding the city-state of Peralta. In the middle of Peralta's trade routes an immense and unimaginable aerial suppressor was constructed, which could hurl shrapnel and could shoot down all craft of the Peralta city-state from a distance. Renyu would have shouted, well done, if he hadn't been forced to stand against the Governor.

(Peralta, a two-faced force, assists the Governor in the early stages by having the Governor's army appear near the city-state of Mina. Then turn around and assist the protagonist by helping him fight his way to Venucci. Finally, have the Governor shell Mina with DOOM. Renyu doesn't believe that DOOM's huge cannon can hide from the airborne Peralta city-state.)

Renyu doesn't care about politics at all, but this is too much of a conspiracy, and it's Renyu's personal opinion that it would be best to take over the Governor's airborne suppressors and force the Peralta to choose sides. Of course, Renyu knew that if he dared to propose such a thing, Carlini, the leader of the Peralta city-state, would continue to make trouble for himself in the coming battles until he died.Renyu's more than twenty years of life had made him realize that there were too many things in the world, and if he didn't have enough power, he would be in trouble. one is caught up in it and one's abilities are not enough, then in the end the bad luck is one's own.

The battle for Peralta can be very easy, and the Peraltas live up to their reputation as the groundhogs in this part of the world. The Venucci's army was strong, but there were always loopholes, and the Mina's city-state army's logistical base was constructed on a summit platform that the Viceroy's army hadn't yet noticed. With Carlini's guidance, Mina's legions ascended to the edge of the Governor's army's control.

Peralta is a city-state made up of a number of separate mountain peaks, and over the millennia one by one the peaks have been flattened into platforms where humans can survive. After nearly a hundred years of industrial development, mankind has mastered the technology of smelting iron and steel, the city-state of Peralta began to build steel bridges between some of the closer platforms, and as more and more platforms were connected by steel bridges, the Peralta region was gradually put together as a whole, and it also helped the Viceroy to capture most of the Peralta region with the blitzkrieg war of the army in the very beginning.

The city-state of Peralta, founded on commerce, finds its eastern trade routes threatened by the Viceroy of Venucci, but is unable to fight back because of its own weak land forces. Now is the time when Peralta is at its weakest, and Renyu guarantees that if only Giacomo's heart was a little darker, he could not only hold the girl, but also sign an unequal treaty with the city-state of Peralta. Unfortunately, facing the flavorful Carlini, Giacomo can't even say the words to finish it, and only asks the Peralta city-state to act as his ally and send out the air force to provide air cover for his legions.

Giacomo was a fledgling, and although Renyu himself was a fledgling, and no better in the face of Carlini, Renyu would definitely choose a diplomat with thick skin to deal with this kind of big matter at stake.Renyu had once inquired about Andrew with his eyes. But it was clear that Andrew did not want to offend Giacomo.Although the medicine could cure, it tasted very bitter. Sacrificing his future to remind Giacomo, Andrew was not willing to do so.

The travelers who see through the situation have their own ideas in mind.