March 24th. The fleet finally arrived in Australia. Unlike the U.S. Marines, who were welcomed by throngs of people when they landed, the Australians barely reacted to the arrival of the Chinese.
Well, the old white Australians—most of them are racists to the core.
However, Australia was not the troops' final destination, just a stopover to replenish fuel and water. While the fleet was resupplying, the officers and soldiers stayed in a camp near the port, which had been used by the U.S. military for the past few years.
Once the troops had settled in, Pierre set out to visit someone—not an Australian official, but a king: Charles Vyner Brooke, the second White Rajah of Sarawak.
At present, this king was living in exile in Australia.
"Now this is interesting..."
On the way to the Sarawak exile government, Pierre pondered the king's motives for inviting him.
In fact, what Pierre didn't know was that Vyner Brooke had been waiting for him—waiting to sell his country to him.
