CHAPTER 555: CHAPTER 453: CAVIAR

After experiencing the riots and a series of subsequent events, the official faction in Lucia became highly attentive to intelligence gathering on the revolutionary forces.

After all, they are currently the biggest opponents to the official faction. Even if both sides have come to some cooperative understanding and temporarily ceased fire, it doesn’t mean that the hostility between the two has been eliminated.

In order to minimize the influence of the revolutionary forces on the official rule, after the riots were quelled, Lucia’s officials diverted elite intelligence personnel to infiltrate the revolutionaries’ ranks secretly.

It must be said that sending elite intelligence officers to infiltrate civilian organizations was really too easy. Some of the outstanding operatives even made their way to the committee, becoming influential figures within the revolutionary ranks.

In the end, it’s just a group of young people who established an organization driven by a moment of hotheadedness and so-called ideals, lacking a solid organizational structure and talent within. The infiltrating operatives only needed to display a bit of talent to get promoted.

Under such circumstances, gathering intelligence was extremely simple for these seasoned intelligence officers.

These seasoned operatives didn’t even use any high-tech equipment or intelligence interrogation methods; they just shared two bottles of vodka with the other party to obtain the information they needed.

Thus, the information about the revolutionary forces considering the Flame Country’s research on Weather Controllers as some powerful weapon quickly reached Lucia’s leadership.

This matter itself wasn’t particularly noteworthy, but at this banquet, it was indeed a good topic.

Moreover, as the leader of Lucia and a former Suyia operative, he himself was also curious about what results the Flame Country had achieved on the Weather Controller project.

"Did they really mistake the Weather Controller experiment for some kind of explosion? These guys sure have an imagination!" After listening to the "interesting" news shared by Lucia’s leader, Chen Xin nonchalantly raised an eyebrow and said, "Although the Weather Controller does count as a kind of weapon, I think instead of worrying about whether we’re researching some massive destructive weapons, they should rather concern themselves with why they still have caviar to eat."

"Is this because today’s banquet menu includes caviar?" The leader of Lucia raised an eyebrow at Chen Xin’s mention of caviar, thought for a moment, and understood. He said to Chen Xin, "In fact, we’ve always had caviar, and the sturgeons being slaughtered are made into canned fish to provide more ordinary people with food, offering them protein and nutrition. Caviar is only a byproduct of the sturgeon’s slaughter process."

The leader of Lucia bypassed the topic of caviar and instead emphasized that the fish meat was not wasted, allowing more people to eat meat.

Chen Xin did not disagree with this but curiously asked, "So how do you breed so many sturgeons? Sturgeons that produce caviar are not easy to raise, especially under current environmental conditions where you need to maintain water temperature and their living environment.

The key is that feeding these fish requires consuming a lot of food, right? Although I understand the significance of ensuring meat supply, diversifying food types, and maintaining a balanced nutritional intake for the populace, why not breed some animals that are easier to raise and have a higher meat yield? Or is it simply that someone wants to eat caviar?"

"Breeding sturgeon isn’t actually that difficult." The leader of Lucia laughed and explained to Chen Xin: "This actually relates to your Flame Country. Before the disaster, the booming sales of your Flame Country’s caviar squeezed our nation’s caviar industry. Lucia has always used traditional methods of catching wild Black Sea sturgeon to produce caviar. Although the quality was good, production was not as high as your Flame Country’s artificially farmed sturgeons.

So a few years ago, to improve the disadvantage of our national caviar industry, our caviar producers learned from your methods, constructed several artificial breeding facilities, and started breeding sturgeons to produce more caviar.

At the time, to maintain secrecy and uphold the high-quality reputation of Lucia’s wild natural caviar, they did not make this public. Even I only learned about it during an inspection."

At this, the leader of Lucia paused, clinked glasses with Chen Xin, and drank to moisten his throat.

Chen Xin took a sip from his own glass, savoring the beauty of the wine’s aroma while continuing the topic: "But no one expected a meteor strike, thus the entire plan of raising sturgeon for caviar died prematurely. However, obviously some people didn’t want to give up on such luxury food. Under the guise of species preservation, they employed artificial breeding techniques to cultivate large numbers of sturgeon, so they could still have caviar after the disaster... right?"

Faced with Chen Xin’s speculation, the leader of Lucia did not deny it: "You know, there are always some people who do things for their own palate and enjoyment that might seem irrational or incomprehensible to the common person.

It’s no surprise that even in a post-apocalyptic environment, maintaining a luxurious lifestyle by raising fish with precious food to eat caviar doesn’t seem too out of the ordinary, right?"

Speaking of this, the leader of Lucia smiled at Chen Xin.

Chen Xin raised an eyebrow, said little more, and nodded in understanding.

Seeing Chen Xin not continuing the topic, the leader of Lucia moved on and asked Chen Xin: "By the way, about the research on the Weather Controller, have you made any progress?"

"Just a simple start-up test, but the results deviated a bit from our expectations, which caused some extra effects." Chen Xin did not mind sharing the progress of the experiment with the leader of Lucia but would not disclose specific details: "And such things are quite normal, after all, the Weather Controller itself can also be considered a kind of weapon, right?"

"That’s true, after all, Suyia pursued the development of meteorological weapons years ago when researching the Weather Controller." At this, the leader of Lucia couldn’t help but shrug, acknowledging this fact.

After continuing to chat on a few more topics, as the leader of Lucia had other matters to attend to, he took his leave.

Seeing the leader of Lucia leave, Chen Xin became disinterested in the banquet, so after telling others to enjoy themselves, he left with the wine gifted by Lucia’s leader and returned to the base.