"Greyhound, the situation you're worried about is precisely what I am most concerned about!" Layton replied with a wry smile.
"But ultimately, we don't have a good way to rein in this Liu Kai Xuan!"
"The intelligence personnel have already transmitted Liu Kai Xuan's detailed information to me!"
"This Liu Kai Xuan is absolutely an extremely difficult opponent to deal with!"
"The various forces in the Kingdom of Kaia have suffered greatly at his hands!"
"Now, this brat has dared to cause trouble for our Thunder Empire, truly damnable!" 138 Reading Network
Greyhound continued, "Based on my research on Liu Kai Xuan!"
"Although this person is extremely troublesome, he is a person of great principle!"
"As long as we don't provoke him, he most likely won't confront us head-on!"
Layton sighed helplessly, "The key is, he has already come to cause trouble!"
"He directly snatched our Hero Island!"
"If this matter cannot be resolved properly, how can our Thunder Empire stand in the gulf in the future?"
Turning back, he said faintly, "I believe His Majesty already has a plan in mind for handling this matter, so I don't need to repeat it, do I?"
"Hahaha..."
Layton laughed heartily and replied, "Greyhound, Greyhound, you truly are an old fox!"
"Of course, I have a plan!"
"How about we each write down our thoughts on paper and see if there are any common points in our strategies!"
Greyhound immediately grabbed a pen and wrote a few words on the paper.
At the same time, Layton also wrote down his thoughts on paper.
Afterward, Layton and Greyhound simultaneously revealed the papers in their hands.
The words written on them were indeed identical: Strike but don't exert full force!
That's right, Layton's final plan was exactly this.
On the surface, he would have the empire's diplomats issue statements in the media, condemning and so on.
Condemning and criticizing Liu Kai Xuan's barbaric behavior.
But the means he would employ would only be limited to such verbal methods, and he would absolutely not use force to attack Hero Island.
He would wait for those powerful nobles to get impatient and fight Liu Kai Xuan to the death, while he would stay in the rear and reap the benefits.
Hero Island, although it was territory of the Thunder Empire.
The actual control of the island had always been in the hands of Grand Duke Merkai.
Even if Layton sent troops to recapture Hero Island, it would still have to be handed over to Merkai.
This meant that Layton could not gain any benefits from this matter.
Layton was a person who didn't act without profit, and he was too lazy to do things that yielded no benefits.
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Hero Island, with its superior geographical location.
Now that Liu Kai Xuan had gotten his hands on it, he would naturally develop and utilize it well.
The military bases on Hero Island were being built at an almost visible speed.
The development speed was so rapid that it was simply astonishing.
At the same time, while expanding the military bases on Hero Island, Liu Kai Xuan did not forget about the pursuit of pirate forces.
Every day, drones patrolled the sea.
Once the trace of a pirate ship was detected, it would be struck fiercely.
In the previous naval battle, drones had identified and recorded most of the pirate ships.
Even if those pirate ships disguised themselves as fishing boats and operated at sea, they still couldn't escape big data analysis.
Once their identity was exposed, with no cover in the vast ocean, they had nowhere to hide and could only be blown to smithereens.
The only way for pirate ships to preserve themselves was to change their paint and completely alter their hull identification characteristics.
For pirates, changing the hull paint was as much work as getting a new ship.
Undoubtedly, this method was not feasible.
Wolf Tusk was now truly regretting it!
If he had known Liu Kai Xuan was so difficult to deal with, he should have swallowed his pride and endured it back then!
Originally, Wolf Tusk was the leader of the pirate alliance in the Mania Sea, an absolute emperor-level existence.
All the big figures in the Mania Sea bowed respectfully before him!
Companies and institutions from gulf countries that wanted to transport goods overseas had to offer him gifts and tributes!
But now, all of that had turned into smoke!
The more glorious the former pirate king was, the more embarrassed Wolf Tusk was today!
Liu Kai Xuan's drone fleet had achieved normalized patrols in the Mania Sea.
The strategy for pirate forces was to strike them as soon as they appeared and eliminate them completely!
Various pirate forces were beaten to the point where they couldn't lift their heads.
The once arrogant pirate alliance had now fallen apart, existing only in name.
The remaining few pirate ships of the Wolf Tusk Pirate Group had all left the gulf and disguised themselves as fishing boats, temporarily docked at a remote port in the Thunder Empire.
Only then could they survive Liu Kai Xuan's fierce attacks.
Although Liu Kai Xuan's aerial strike was powerful, the targets he struck were mainly suspicious ships on the shipping routes.
Basically, these areas belonged to international waters!
Liu Kai Xuan would not easily encroach on the territorial waters of other countries.
From this perspective, as long as the Wolf Tusk Pirate Group's pirate ships did not enter the shipping lanes, they would be safe.
But this was the biggest paradox: if they didn't enter the shipping lanes, how would the pirates survive?
While Wolf Tusk was in a frenzy, a dark-skinned, slightly hunched old man approached Wolf Tusk.
This hunched old man was named Tuo Ma, the third-in-command of the Wolf Tusk Pirate Group, and Wolf Tusk's strategist.
Upon seeing Wolf Tusk, Tuo Ma said, "Brother, this endless stalling is not a solution!"
"In my opinion, we should take the initiative to talk with Liu Kai Xuan!"
"Although we lost this time, he can't push us to a dead end!"
"He must leave us a way to survive, otherwise, we brothers will have to fight him to the death!"
Wolf Tusk sighed helplessly, "Looking at Liu Kai Xuan's current stance, he clearly intends to annihilate us!"
"He has no intention of showing us any mercy!"
"If we go to negotiate with him now, it would be equivalent to sending ourselves to our deaths!"
Tuo Ma, however, had a different view: "Brother, we can find Grand Duke Merkai to help us communicate with Liu Kai Xuan!"
"After negotiating and reaching an agreement, we can then send a representative to have a detailed discussion with Liu Kai Xuan!"
"I have always believed that there are no eternal enemies in this world, only eternal interests!"