"Two were captured and are currently being held at the protectorate office!"
Li Xiaogong replied promptly.
"Take me to see them!"
"Yes!"
About ten minutes later, they arrived at the location of the Australian Protectorate Office.
A three-story villa, separate from the Bayu Lake villa district, situated on a small island in the center of the lake.
If placed in the main world, this would undoubtedly be a rare lake view property, incredibly beautiful!
As they approached, Li Shimin saw the group of black dragons, just as Chai Shao had said. They were indeed playing in the lake.
To them, since they had already arrived in this world, water and oxygen were unavoidable elements.
Whether they cared or not was no longer important!
As Fang Er had said before, if the problem of the two-hundred-year limit couldn't be solved, all parallel worlds would perish along with the main world.
Reality was like being under some spell; resistance was futile, so the black dragons readily chose to enjoy themselves...
Moreover, the crocodiles in this lake tasted quite agreeable to them.
But Li Shimin didn't stop; instead, he urged Li Xiaogong to row faster.
Cheng Yaojin, Yuchi Jingde, and the others stared at the graceful figures of the black dragons, their mouths agape.
"My heavens, these dragons, a single whip could feed us for several meals, couldn't it?"
Li Xiaogong felt like laughing but forced himself to suppress it, reminding him softly from the side.
"These dragons... are all female!"
Cheng Yaojin: ...
"Are you sure they're all female?"
"Is there any doubt? An Zhi said it himself!"
"Tsk tsk tsk, what a shame, such a shame! Male dragons could be stewed for soup to replenish strength, but female dragons... seem only good for riding!"
Yuchi Jingde was somewhat speechless: ...
Everyone jokingly called you a demon, but you actually think you're a demon?
Is the size enough!
Throw a toothpick into the ocean, and it'll drift for half a month before you can't find its whereabouts, right??
Upon reaching the island in the lake and seeing the somewhat shabby protectorate office, no one commented.
After entering, Chai Shao instructed someone to bring out the two who had escaped via parachute.
That's right, it was Shang Boliang, who had a giant cigar tattooed on his forehead!
It was this tattoo that easily led to misunderstandings...
For example, Zhang Gongjin, who was standing before him!
"Holy cow! Why does this guy have a gil tattooed on his forehead..."
"Are you blind, that's a cigar!"
Shang Boliang didn't know who he was and directly retorted, his neck stiff.
"Uh..."
Zhang Gongjin was momentarily speechless. He took out a cigar from his怀, and compared it to the tattoo on Shang Boliang's forehead.
"That's not right! A cigar doesn't have those two balls behind it!"
Shang Boliang casually took out a cigar cutter and clamped it onto the cigar in Zhang Gongjin's hand.
"Now?"
Everyone: ...
Damn it, what a character!
Who would have thought you'd get both a cigar and a cigar cutter tattooed!
It's outrageous!
Li Shimin reached out and took both the cigar and the cigar cutter from Zhang Gongjin.
After casually trimming the cap, he pocketed the cigar cutter.
"Shang Boliang, right? Ask for me, what's the situation in that world!"
"How many countries, how many people, how many are warlike, how many lean towards peace!"
"How many soldiers do the warlike countries have, what weapons and equipment do they possess, ask about everything for me!"
Shang Boliang was still feeling the pain for his cigar cutter when he suddenly heard the word "朕" and realized the person before him was the Emperor of the Great Tang!
"Oh my god! You, you, you are His Majesty the Great Tang Emperor?!"
"This humble subject greets His Majesty the Great Tang Emperor, may His Majesty the Great Tang Emperor be well!"
Li Shimin exhaled a puff of smoke and casually waved his hand at him.
"Alright, don't dawdle, I don't like such formalities. If you want to work for me, you don't need to say 'my god', and not everyone can become a eunuch just by wishing it."
Shang Boliang: ...
How did it suddenly turn into becoming a eunuch?
I heard that profession requires... cutting off your gil...
Hiss...
Just thinking about it made his crotch feel ice cold!
He shivered subconsciously and dared not delay any further. He quickly began questioning the two soldiers according to Li Shimin's request.
These two guys, after being captured, were only roughly interrogated. Since they still held out hope that someone would come to rescue them, they hadn't revealed much useful information back then.
Furthermore, Li Xiuning had led a team to the main world, so the interrogation was temporarily shelved.
As Shang Boliang questioned them, Cheng Yaojin and Zhang Gongjin stood beside them, gesturing with their weapons.
"Alas, if he doesn't answer later, where would be a good place to start cutting?"
"Cut off the gil, I heard Old Jiu say that using that thing to hook fish can catch a big turtle, shall we stew it for soup to replenish your strength later?"
"Don't talk nonsense! Can you eat a turtle caught with that thing?"
"Or, cut off an ear? It's not fatal, but it's incredibly painful!"
"No, no, that's too bloody, I can't stand the sight of blood..."
"..."
The two US soldiers, after being imprisoned for so long, hadn't seen anyone come to rescue them. The hope in their hearts had long since diminished.
Now, seeing these two burly, fierce-looking men staring at them, with knives ready to stab them at any moment, they quickly chose to comply.
"Report!"
"Reporting to Your Majesty! Director of the Temporal and Spatial Administration under Duke An, Wang Xuance, has returned from the other side!"
Just as Li Shimin received the soldiers' confessions and had not yet had time to examine them carefully, a personal guard under Li Xiaogong ran in.
"Summon him quickly!"
Soon, Wang Xuance was brought in.
"This subordinate greets Your Majesty!"
"Tell me, what's the situation over there!"
Compared to the captives' words, Li Shimin naturally preferred to hear news from his own people.
However, what Wang Xuance knew was only basic information. But when combined with the confessions of the two US soldiers, it could verify whether these two were telling the truth.
A global population of eight billion two hundred million!
This number alone shocked Li Shimin.
"Damn it!"
When he learned that the ones who had fought the Heavenly Fire Army before were a country located in the Americas, and that country had only 350 million people, yet its military strength ranked among the top three in the world...
"Damn it!"
When he learned that on the land that inherited the territory of the Great Tang, now known as Country Z, as many as 1.7 billion people were supported...
"Damn it!"
When he learned that the US fleet had as many as eleven carrier strike groups, and after inquiring about the configuration of each carrier strike group...