Novel Full Chapter 292 - Interest (4)
"Marianna's Commanding Officer. I suggest you reconsider your words, and I can take what you said as inexperience. As this was your first offense, please check your naval's rights before you reply," said the Oceana Alliance's Naval Officer.
"Check again with your president and the memo on his table regarding the Oceana Alliance's request. We've already mentioned clearly in the note that all fishing activities shall stop before we take action. What we're doing was according to the treaty convention." he added.
"Naval Officer, my president admits that he received the memo, but we've yet to give you a reply. This means you're not approved to come into our waters and start shooting at our fishing boats."
"This will be our last warning. Pull back ten miles away from our water, or we'll be forced to open fire at your ships. I'm sure you don't want to be involved in this because an exchange like this will bring no benefits to either of us." the Commanding Officer replied immediately.
"..." the Oceana Alliance's side went silent for a while after hearing the Commanding Officer's reply. But since their turrets were still pointed at the fishing boats, both sides were on full alert until close to ten minutes later.
The turrets from the Oceana Alliance side stopped aiming at the fishing boats soon after a decision. It seems that because of specific convention rules tying them down, they're unable to recklessly get into a fight unless provoked.
But that didn't prevent them from behaving like a rascal and spill some oil on purpose. The thick sludge contaminates a part of the sea where the ships were before this. After leaving a trail of sludge on purpose, the vessel sailed.
"YES!!!" the fishermen were cheering at the victorious confrontation against the Oceana Alliance.
The good news soon arrived at Jason Deng's working desk. But a new memo soon arrived as the Oceana Alliance quickly came up with new reasoning to invade Marianna's water.
But this time, Jason Deng's reply was resolute. He sternly rejected their request to enter Marianna's water for all kinds of reasons and restricted the vessels' entry coming from the alliance's partnering countries.
This quickly got to the alliance's nerve when more companies complained about Oceana Alliance's attitude. Since business and profit were the main concern here, the Oceana Alliance hatefully resigned and pulled their forces back to New Panem.
Their initial plan of slowly introducing their influence into Marianna ended up in failure. It never came to their mind that Jason Deng would be so resourceful in his method to control the Oceana Alliance's forceful approach.
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Meanwhile, Zhang Qin Feng took the opportunity when Jason Deng was busy to organized the refugees. There are only fifty kids out of the 500 refugees from Panem. To make sure they received quality education to serve Zhang Qin Feng's faction in the future, he arranged for them to be taken into the school.
As for the adults, 250 males and 200 females were given jobs all over the island. The females received some training and worked in an industry requiring more female workers. The males were given better treatment to help with the construction, maritime, and more.
The number of Zhang Qin Feng's Wind Base Security Force also increases to 200 men. Their number is expected to reach the manpower of the Tianhe Special Squadron in the next few months.
After being together for a while, both Zhang Qin Feng's partners were finally willing to return to where they came from, and they couldn't leave their post for so long. After he fed them sexually, Zhang Qin Feng sent them back to their respective country by assigning two elites to accompany them.
In a flash, another month has passed.
The two remaining Patrol Vessels were finally completed and came into service. As for the post-apocalypse, their concern is now focused on rebuilding the Turbine Town. The Wind Base will also change its name to Wind Group and permanently based at Turbine Town.
They would be putting all their attention in fortifying the territory of this Turbine Town and its surrounding before making their way to the Strand Metropolis.
While on Marianna, the second phase of the construction is getting close to its completion. The number of people working exceeds what outsiders can imagine.
With the newly upgraded International Airport, the country can handle close to a hundred inbound and outbound flights in a single day. Furthermore, they're currently planning for a second airport for domestics and cargo.
Part of the manpower also slowly shifted to the port of Mari and Anna. Right now, the Naval Forces could only be stationed in the city of Anna because the port over at Mari is incapable of such a task.
The upgrade will make sure that the Naval Forces can confidently dock at both ports without a problem. Although Zhang Qin Feng has the vision to create a new military port in the future, this would have to be much later, not now.
Also, the facility for the private military forces is half-complete. The facility should be ready for use in another half a month.
Their improvement here slowly attracted the attention of the four superpowers, and soon, one started to have an interest in Marianna.
It was a part of the Pacific Union.
While the motive behind their sudden interest is still unknown, their attempt to strengthen their influence in Marianna is something that could be stopped. By the time Jason Deng received the report on this suspicion, it was already considerably late.
"Boss... What do you think about this group of people doing business here on our island?" Jason Deng asked. He placed a stack of reports on his table, all related to this member who was a part of the Pacific Union.
"What do I think? Would you believe me if I tell you that these people are likely terrorists?" Zhang Qin Feng chuckled and put the folder aside.
"The Horusian Republic, huh?" it was a memorable name to him.. The instant he heard the name of the country, Zhang Qin Feng immediately remembered Horus Eye Mercenary's existence and the enmity between him and them.