Struggle in the Steam Age

Chapter 527: Dealing with the Loka Murloc

After hearing Lawrence's promise, the green-faced Loka murloc first showed a smile that had become a little distorted because of pain. Then the whole person showed an extremely distressed look. After seeing him show this look, Lawrence spoke up before Lawrence could say anything.

"Mr. Greenface, what's the matter with you?" Saifei asked in a puzzled way. "Lawrence is a powerful nobleman, and he has a high reputation in the White Eagle Federation. So he said that if he can set you free, he will definitely set you free. You don't need to worry too much about this."

"No, miss, what I worry about is not whether I and my compatriots can be free. I believe in the credibility of Your Excellency August." Greenface shook his head when he heard Seifer say.

"It's just that because our plan failed, the group of Sahua murlocs executed at least half of our young and middle-aged labor force and all our leaders, and our home was destroyed by them. So I am thinking about what we should do next. What can I do to spend the next difficult time."

"Tough times?" Hearing what he said, Lawrence immediately realized that compared with land-based creatures like humans, the biggest problem encountered by marine intelligent creatures like Loka murlocs is that it is difficult to store enough food. Because of the foods they eat, no matter it is seaweed, kelp or a variety of seafood, they cannot actually be stored in sea water for a long time.

If the intelligent creatures at the top of the marine life pyramid, such as sahua murlocs or merfolk, are okay, because they have sufficient resources and extraordinary powers, they can always find ways to create some water-free space that can store food. It is a more top-notch fresh-keeping space.

But a race like the Lorca is more miserable. On the one hand, the political system of the Lorca is a loose tribal system, so it is impossible to possess and concentrate enough like those empire-based marine intelligent creatures. The resources are used to build expensive facilities for storing food under water.

On the other hand, because the cost of using fire underwater is extremely high. Therefore, the aquatic intelligent race itself suffers more in terms of industry. In this way, they need enough extraordinary power as a backing when they are building. But the Lorca murloc obviously does not have this power.

Therefore, after the Sahua people carried out a series of raids on the villages of the Lorca and the surroundings of their villages, the resources that could be supported by the surrounding Lorca were seriously damaged. And their severely damaged strength now makes them unable to open up new territories at all.

"Can the island provide some help?" After thinking about this whole thing, Lawrence raised his head and asked the young officer who led them in. "I think these Loka murlocs should have lived near the island before, they used to and the Federation—"

"Sorry, Lord Lord. They had nothing to do with the Federation before." The officer said after watching Lawrence turn his face to ask questions to himself.

"The Lorca murlocs' previous contact with the island was limited to some extremely sporadic non-governmental exchanges, so there was nothing to do with our island. As for assistance, I think I need to ask."

Faced with a person of Lawrence's identity, it is natural that this officer cannot be slanderous on such issues. So after a salute to Lawrence, he walked straight out of the room. Five or six minutes later, the officer walked in with a middle-aged man in a gray suit and top hat.

"Hello, my name is John. It is the temporary special agent of the White Eagle Federation stationed on Vieques." After the middle-aged man came in, he came to the table and stretched out his hand to Lawrence who was already standing. shake hands. At the same time introduce myself. "And I have now obtained everyone's consent to inform you about how to deal with this batch of Roka murlocs."

"Since you have confirmed that they are also the victims of the brutal Sahua murlocs, they will be released unconditionally and will not be used as an investigation for any damage caused to the island during the war." After seeing Lawrence nodded slightly, this A federal official directly announced the results of the discussion on the island.

"As for the current situation of these Lorca murlocs, we also deeply sympathize with each other from a moral perspective, but they are really helpless." The federal official turned his head and looked at the green face of the Lorca murloc who was in the tub and said.

"Because of the previous war, the various materials on the island are only enough for the people on our island, so at most they can only provide food equivalent to this group of Roka fish for about a week. However, this batch of aid The premise is that they have to leave the waters around Vieques."

"Understood." Lawrence nodded. He had expected the unconditional release of this group of Lorka murlocs on the island. After all, the Lorca murlocs were forced to attack the land by the Shahua murlocs before, so in this behavior Chinese should be regarded as a tool. The tool man is innocent. Not to mention that the attacking Lorka murlocs were basically dead on the island.

As for the lack of assistance, it is also easy to understand, because these Roka fish people have nothing to do with the island. Therefore, the island has no obligation to assist them.

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However, even in this situation, out of the peculiar compassion of intelligent creatures, after a series of discussions just now, the island decided to provide some food reserves as a charitable help for these Loka murlocs.

On the other hand, this kind of charitable help comes at a price. If the Lorka murlocs want to get these relief supplies, they must stay away from the island under their supervision. From a certain perspective, this approach is actually a disguised exile. Because they were worried that Lorkayu who had lost everything would choose to attack them and rob food, so they hoped that they would go as far as possible.

"Can we help them?" Nora said suddenly at this time. Obviously, she understood the meaning of the arrangement on the island. "This situation is equivalent to letting them die if they are ignored. It is really cruel. The news I got from the priests of the Agricultural Church before is that the ocean around us is very rich and should be able to help them~lightnovelpub.net~ It’s not a bad thing to help them, but the reason why we help them What?" As Lawrence, who had a heart-to-heart relationship with the little doll, immediately understood why she was saying such things at this time when Nora had just said these things, so she just followed what he said.

"You know, many things need proper reasons, even those recognized good things. If there are one or two Loka murlocs I would naturally be willing to help freely, but living in such a race needs to mobilize the power of the entire island. So I definitely cannot use your resources to do this favor, otherwise it will be unfair to other people."

"Yes, Lawrence is right." Saifei received a standard aristocratic education before, and then helped Lawrence deal with government affairs for a long time. Therefore, after listening to the conversation between Lawrence and Nora, he also played the rim drum. "As a lord, when you do many things, you can't just think about your own thoughts, even if your ideas are correct."

"Your Excellency, are you willing to accept citizens of different races?" After listening to the conversations between Lawrence and the others, the green face of the Loka, who is not stupid, also figured out something, so he stayed in the tub. Zhong stood up and bowed deeply to Lawrence, then stood up and asked cautiously. "I think everyone is willing to be your leader."