Chapter 76

After sending off the British envoy, Wilhelm immediately convened a high-level military meeting. "Everyone, I just reached an agreement with the British envoy, and we have revised the 'Treaty of Versailles.' General Lenderschmidt, start expanding the army. Let's temporarily increase it to seven hundred thousand troops. This batch of seven hundred thousand soldiers should also be trained to become elite troops capable of serving as squad leaders."

General Lenderschmidt responded with a smile, "Understood, Your Highness."

"And the British have also allowed us to openly equip tanks and airplanes. Recall some personnel from the Soviet Union and China to train our soldiers..." Just as he was saying this, Annie hurriedly entered, walked to his side, and whispered, "Your Highness, the Prince and Princess have returned."

"Hmm?" Wilhelm was taken aback for a moment, then realized that she was referring to his parents as the Prince and Princess. "Where are they now?!"

"They are in the reception room number one."

Wilhelm raised an eyebrow. They had already returned to the palace? This couple really appeared and disappeared like ghosts. "Everyone, excuse me for a moment. You can continue discussing; any issues can be addressed when I return." With that, he immediately stood up and walked out.

Having traveled for almost six years and still not having seen his "parents," he was genuinely worried that he might miss them again, just like the last time.

Hurriedly arriving at reception room number one, as soon as he stepped in, he suddenly felt a slight sting on his right shoulder, as if a mosquito had bitten him.

"???" What was this? He couldn't even lower his head, as if all the strength in his body had been drained, leaving him completely weak. If Annie and Ina hadn't been quick to support him, he would have fallen flat on the ground.

"Yahoo!"

Supported by the two, Wilhelm saw a pair of middle-aged women celebrating with a high-five. Meanwhile, he could only move his eyeballs, unable to even move his tongue.

Annie and Ina were alarmed. "Your Highness, Your Highness, are you okay? Are you alright?"

Ina shouted, "Someone, call a doctor!"

The man who resembled Wilhelm II, Prince Oscar, waved his hand to stop her, seemingly unconcerned. "Oh, no need to bother the doctor. He's fine. Help him to the chair and get him some water."

Wilhelm slumped into the chair, watching as Prince Oscar played with a long, thin stick in his hand.

After about ten minutes, he gradually felt his strength returning to his body, and with a thick tongue, he asked, "What on earth is this thing?!" If they weren't his "real" parents, he would have asked the guards to take them away and bombard them with a 20mm anti-aircraft gun for ten minutes.

Prince Oscar shook the stick in his hand. "Oh, this? It's called a blowgun. Fun, right?"

"Fun my foot! You're playing around with me for fun? Aren't you guys bored?" Wilhelm retorted.

Prince Oscar pointed the blowgun at Wilhelm, pretending to be stern. "You, young man! Who gave you the idea to plaster our images all over the world? Now everywhere I go, little kids are calling me Grandpa KFC and your mom Granny Domino's." In this era, Wilhelm KFC was an amalgamation of the original timeline's Colonel Sanders and McDonald's, while Granny Domino's remained the same as the original timeline, still representing a pizza chain offering various pizza flavors from around the world.

Wilhelm smirked. "Well, you left the empire unattended and went on adventures everywhere. At least I'm making some contributions to the empire with this. Your images alone must be worth quite a lot."

Prince Oscar sighed with emotion. "You are now a world-renowned musician, writer, screenwriter, painter, mathematician, physicist, chemist... You name it, you have done it in every field... and still more to explore."

Seated beside him, the Princess looked smug. "Of course, don't forget who gave birth to this child."

"Exactly, with both of us being outstanding, our child is bound to be even more exceptional."

Such shamelessness! If it weren't for me being a genius with photographic memory in my "past life," your son wouldn't even know what kind of mess he'd gotten himself into. "Where did you learn this thing?" Shouldn't this be a primitive tool?

Prince Oscar casually replied, "In a primitive tribe deep in the Amazon rainforest. I found it interesting, so I learned it."

"A primitive tribe? You're so audacious! Aren't you afraid of poisoning your son?" Perhaps I should do a full medical check later to see if I've contracted any strange viruses.

Prince Oscar dismissed his concern. "Rest assured, they've been using this substance in their tribe for hundreds of years, and nobody has been poisoned to death. Besides, I'm perfectly fine now, right?"

"You've been hit before too?"

"Of course. Not only that, I was almost cooked by them."

With a nonchalant tone, Prince Oscar mentioned that he was almost cooked by the cannibalistic tribe. "The primitive tribe was cannibals? How did you escape?"

"No need to escape; your dad here has good people skills. I became friends with the tribe chief. Otherwise, how could I have learned this blowgun?" He proudly displayed a bone bracelet on his wrist. "See this? The tribe chief personally gave it to me. With this, I can enjoy VIP treatment whenever I enter their territory."

"VIP treatment?" Are they going to serve you dishes made of human brain?

"What poison is it?" The effect of this substance is so quick. It seems to be some kind of nerve toxin?

"They said it's an extract from a certain flower. I don't know the flower's name in English, but it only grows near their tribe. Ha ha, it seems you're interested. Good timing, I brought two bags of seeds and two bottles of the extract."

Prince Oscar bent down and rummaged through his travel bag, taking out a bag containing about a hundred black rice-like seeds and two small medicine bottles.

Wilhelm looked at the two tiny bottles, each holding about 20 milliliters, and said helplessly, "Is that all?"

"Don't underestimate it, my boy. This is concentrated liquid. The tribe chief said one bottle needs to be diluted with 50 kilograms of water to reduce its potency to just causing dizziness. Otherwise, pouring the entire small bottle into someone's mouth would bring even an elephant down in minutes."

"..." So powerful?! Looking at the transparent concentrated liquid, Wilhelm suddenly had an idea. "Dad, can you give me one blowgun too? Also, do some of your guards know how to use the blowgun?" Wilhelm handed the seeds, liquid, and blowgun to Annie. "Annie, take this blowgun, the liquid, and a few guards who know how to use it to Sköldzna. Also, find a few botanists to create an environment similar to the Amazon rainforest and plant these seeds."

After giving instructions, Wilhelm turned to his father. "How many days are you planning to stay this time?"

Prince Oscar, while organizing his bag, casually replied, "Two days, I guess."

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