kingnovel Chapter 1367 The Enemy Trained Like a Dog
Chapter 1367 The Enemy Trained Like a Dog
"Your Highness, what is the meaning of this?"
Yue Fei was the first to react. He looked at Lin Zhen, his bronze, resolute face filled with incomprehension.
Why should this cowardly, unprincipled traitor be made an agent of the Nihilistic Party?
Isn't this like raising a tiger to cause trouble?
Elizabeth also looked confused.
Although she wasn't as loyal to the emperor and patriotic as Yue Fei, she knew that Van der Wiel was an ungrateful wretch.
Today he can betray the Ottomans and the Nihilists to save his own life; tomorrow he can stab the prince in the back without hesitation for greater gains.
Entrusting such an important position to him is too risky.
"Your Highness, please reconsider!"
Van der Wiel himself was also bewildered.
He knelt on the ground, staring blankly at the Eastern man who, in his eyes, was no different from a god or demon, his mind completely blank.
He didn't understand.
Why would this man make such a crazy and illogical decision?
To become an agent of the nihilists?
Isn't he afraid that he might outwardly comply but inwardly defy him, secretly collude with the nihilists, and turn against him?
"What, do you think my decision is foolish?"
Looking at the expressions on everyone's faces, which were as if they had seen a ghost, Lin Zhen's smile became even more amused.
He slowly rose from the Sultan's throne, which symbolized the highest power in the Ottoman Empire.
He walked step by step toward Van der Wiel.
Looking down at them from his high vantage point, he saw the pitiful creatures he had long since manipulated, his deep eyes gleaming with an all-knowing wisdom.
"Van der Wiel, do you think I'm giving you a chance? Do you think that as long as you become this agent, you can escape my control, and even turn around and use the power of the Nihilistic Party to take revenge on me?"
Lin Zhen's every word was like an invisible needle, precisely piercing the darkest corner of Van der Wiel's heart.
His heart, which had just begun to stir again after his narrow escape, sank once more into the icy abyss.
"I wouldn't dare! I had absolutely no such intention!"
Van der Wiel's body began to tremble violently and uncontrollably.
He buried his head in the ground, not even having the courage to look at Lin Zhen.
He knew that in front of this man, all his thoughts were as transparent as words written on his face, leaving him nowhere to hide.
"Don't you dare?"
Lin Zhen sneered.
He reached out and gently lifted Van der Wiel's chin, forcing him to look into his eyes.
"Look into my eyes."
His voice was calm, yet carried an undeniable air of authority.
Van der Wiel struggled to lift his head, and when he met Lin Zhen's deep eyes, which seemed to see right through his soul.
His pupils suddenly shrank to the most dangerous pinpoints!
What did he see?
He saw a vast, golden sea of stars, filled with death and destruction!
He felt as if his soul was about to be swallowed up by that golden ocean!
"Now, do you still dare to have any other thoughts?"
Lin Zhen's voice, like a death sentence from the deepest hell, exploded in Van der Wiel's mind.
"I won't dare! Your Highness, spare me! Your Highness, spare me!"
Van der Wiel's psychological defenses were completely shattered at this moment by Lin Zhen's unreasonable supernatural power.
He lay on the ground like the most humble lapdog, kowtowing frantically to Lin Zhen.
That voice was filled with the purest fear and submission.
"very good."
Lin Zhen nodded in satisfaction.
He released his grip, leaving the Dutch governor, who was already terrified and soiling himself, to collapse on the ground like a lump of mud.
He turned around and looked at Yue Fei and Elizabeth, who were speechless with shock behind him.
"Now, do you understand?"
A confident and calculating smile curved at the corners of his mouth.
"A dog whose spine has been completely broken and whose soul is branded with fear is the most loyal and useful dog. It will work harder than anyone else to bite people for us because it knows that once it loses its usefulness, what awaits it will be endless torment a hundred times more terrifying than death."
These words sent a chill down the spines of both Yue Fei and Elizabeth.
Looking at Lin Zhen, whose face always wore a "calm and collected" smile, they felt, for the first time, a deep-seated, almost godlike awe for him!
This man is more than just powerful.
He is also a devil who manipulates people's hearts!
They had no doubt that from this day forward, Van der Wiel, the former governor of the Netherlands, would become the prince's most obedient dog.
He would use every means to gather intelligence on the Nihilistic Party for the Prince and to disrupt the situation in Europe for him.
He might even be more eager than the prince himself for the Nihilistic Party to perish as soon as possible.
Only in this way could he completely get rid of the terrifying man who loomed over him like a nightmare.
"Your Majesty is wise."
Yue Fei and Elizabeth bowed to Lin Zhen at the same time.
The voice was filled with heartfelt admiration and... submission.
"Okay, this matter is over."
Lin Zhen waved his hand, as if shooing away two annoying flies.
"Pass on my order: the fleet shall rest for one day."
"Tomorrow, we set sail."
"Go back to Daqian!"
……
boom--
"Husband! Husband!"
shore.
Murong Yan suddenly woke up with a start.
Today is the day my husband returns victorious from his campaign in Japan, how could I have fallen asleep?
Strange, it seems like I just had a very long dream.
In my dream, there were pirates, whales, the East India Company, and the Ottoman Empire.
Do all these countries actually exist?
Where is your husband?
My husband!
"Your Majesty, the Prince has returned to the capital in triumph!" a minister reported.
When that invincible fleet, composed of thirty-six jet-black steel behemoths, appeared on the sea outside the capital of the Great Qian Dynasty.
The entire capital city was in an uproar.
Countless people flocked in from all directions, crowding the port and the streets.
They craned their necks, looking at those steel behemoths that seemed to have stepped out of myths and legends with eyes full of curiosity and awe.
They couldn't figure it out.
Why is it that their prince and emperor, after only a few months at sea, brought back such a seemingly powerful and invincible fleet?
"May Heaven bless our Great Qian!"
"With such divine weapons, what need is there to worry about unrest in the world or unrest under heaven!"
"Long live the Prince! Long live His Majesty!"
Cheers as loud as an avalanche echoed throughout the capital city.
Inside the palace, the civil and military officials, who had already received the news, were all excited and discussing it animatedly.
They couldn't understand it either.
But they knew that from this day forward, the fate of their Great Qian Dynasty would be dramatically changed by the appearance of this fleet.
They will no longer be the land-based powers that can only passively defend their own small territory, but will become an empire that can truly plant its dragon flag all over the world!
At this moment of national jubilation.
A grand palace banquet to welcome the prince and the emperor's triumphant return began within the palace.