C2034 night exercise (1/2)
Zai Chun was not sleepy at all. When he heard the knocking and urging, he sat up on the bed.
”Time?”
Xiao Sixi then looked at his pocket watch in the candlelight: ”4: 35 AM”.
”So early?” Why is Master looking for me? Could it be that Liu Dadao's identity was exposed? ” Zai Chun's heart thumped once, as a baffling sense of fear surfaced in his heart.
”Your Majesty, don't panic …” ”Since Liu Dadao was chosen by the empress dowager, there's no need to say anything about his abilities and loyalty. It won't be so easily exposed so easily.
As Da Sixi helped Zai Chun put on his clothes, he spoke in a deep voice, ”Take a deep breath, your majesty. Don't worry, Xiao Letian won't dare to do anything to you!”
Of course, Zai Chun knew that Xiao Letian would not do anything to him, whether it was due to the relationship between master and disciple, or the fact that he was the main character in this visit, Xiao Letian would not fall out with him because of a Qing Dynasty spy.
But fear was something that was not controlled by a person. Zai Chun just felt panic, and even his legs started shaking.
Later, when Zai Chun was in power, he recalled that night in the Mediterranean where he was terrified. He realized that the one he feared was not his master, nor was it the conspiracy behind it.
What Zai Chun was afraid of was the first time he discovered that there existed an insurmountable gulf between himself and his master. From the night that Liu Dadao had brought his mother's secret order to meet him, the path of's mind, which was originally set straight by Xiao Letian, once again underwent an irreversible deviation.
The reason for the uneasiness and fear in Zai Chun's heart was because the master-disciple pair had a clear split in their core values. However, the current Zai Chun was still very young, and he did not realize the root of the problem.
After donning his clothes, Zai Chun opened the cabin door. One of Xiao Letian's guards stood outside and respectfully said, ”Please go to the front deck, your majesty. The battleship is already close to the Strait of Gibraltar.
”Strait? Master wants me to see the strait in the middle of the night? ” Zai Chun was stunned.
However, the soldiers did not know how to answer His Majesty's question. He just silently led the way, and very quickly, Zai Chun saw that the group of people on the deck were gathered, with Xiao Letian leading the high ranking officers on the Zhiyuan Warship.
”Zai Chun, come over here! Look to the north... Over there is British Gibraltar. The British are ready to welcome you in advance and show you a big show... ”
”A big show?” Zai Chun looked at the ocean in a daze. It was only now that he realized that the surrounding British warships were much more dazzling than usual. If the brightness of the lights a few nights ago was 100 for these British warships, then today it would be 300.
Almost every single British battleship was desperately sending lighting signal to each other. The specially made signal detonators were opened and closed by metal baffles, and under the control of the signal soldiers, different rhythms of lights switched on and off, forming a series of code messages that only the British could understand.
Without even turning his head, he said softly to Zai Chun who was beside him. ”The British are conducting night time combat training, they are showing off to us, they are showing off their powerful navy!”
”It's very scary! The strength of the Royal Navy is not only due to the large number of advanced battleships, the more terrifying thing is that they possess extremely high quality naval officer s and soldiers … ”
”It's not chaotic at all. Even though it's late at night, it's not chaotic at all when the battleships are changing their formations …” The whole of Royal Navy was like a huge and precise steam engine, displaying the immense power of the Industrial Revolution without a doubt! ”