The period that followed could be described as calm and harmonious. The Imperial warships accompanying the Scarlet Throne actually began to withdraw, and in the end only one special hospital ship and three destroyers were left, ensuring safe navigation under the lowest conditions.
Later, before the Scarlet Throne arrived at the Gate of Glory, an engineering ship from the Empire even flew over to help install two more shield generators on the Throne, saying it was for the "joint reconnaissance team of the two countries".
Little support.
From this perspective, Admiral Farrell is really a very particular person.
"Feifei, as expected, no one in this world is a fool!" Yu Liandao said.
He had to admit that Admiral Farrell's operation was indeed a bit unexpected. When he did this, he characterized the matter as a joint investigation operation between the Empire and the Community, which gave both parties a step up.
Let the two countries be at odds because of King Suliuka's little willfulness.
The community is afraid that its skin will be exposed, so why is the empire not afraid that the community will completely fall to the alliance?
In addition, since it is a joint investigation operation between the two countries, the empire can send representatives aboard the Throne. Of course, Yu Lian can also refuse. However, if he is really planning to pass through the Gate of Glory, no matter what he plans to do, the situation will be
Bibi will pass through the empire's colonies. In this way, having someone on board who is familiar with the local conditions will indeed save a lot of trouble.
In the subsequent New World operations, no matter what Yu Lian did with this Marauder warship, the Empire would always have a share of the credit.
However, Yu Lian had to accept this situation. He was actually taking risks now, betting that the empire would not overturn the table. However, the Tiruiro people were a nation with a flexible moral bottom line, and they were not historically
There is no precedent for turning the table over. Now, the other party has given out the conditions. If you are still unwilling to accept it, you must be mentally prepared to bear uncontrollable consequences.
"There is one more thing." Feifei analyzed: "Yu'er, you are an active officer of the community. It is said to be a so-called joint operation, but it has not been approved by your superiors. In the eyes of the Lords of the Earth, this at least proves
, you are not a good boy who follows the rules."
Big shots like capable children, but they prefer well-behaved children even more.
"This is planting a nail between you and the real power holders in the community. Even if smart people will not be fooled immediately, they will still have discord. Fish, as long as the powerful people sit on that high chair, as long as they have a little thought in their hearts
Doubts will gradually turn into real wariness over time." Feifei spread her hands: "Yu'er, what if you are suppressed in the community? What if you can't stand it anymore? What if you can't even bear it?
Is Bai Zhi wronged?"
"General Yue of Qingtian Wings!" Yu Lian was stunned and even sighed.
"What is that?" Feifei was stunned.
"Uh, some imperial-style descriptions of the second grade." Yu Lian shrugged, but felt inexplicably proud: "Haha, it's not like he came up with a solution in such a short time, and he also hid several layers of meaning.
Admiral Farrell's handiwork. It looks like Miss Ostana."
Feifei tilted her head and thought for a moment before recalling the chief of staff who was "wearing" a smiling mask. This imperial female general, who looked like an artistic young woman, didn't have much of a reputation at the moment. She was just regarded as Su
One of King Liuka's accessories, but I don't know why Yu Lian values it so much.
"You can refuse," Feifei said with a smile.
"Why bother? Since the empire is so particular about being honest, it means that it is not ready to act like a hooligan for a while. In this case, let's do it openly." Yu Lian held his chin and thought for a while: "Besides, this is not good for us either.
There’s no benefit at all.”
For example, aren't the two shields that were just switched on one of the benefits?
As a result, Yu Lian completely put this matter aside and began to make the final statistics of the refugees on the ship.
There were a total of 537 civilians on the ship. When they were first liberated, most of them were in a state of extreme malnutrition, and a few were already endangered. Fortunately, after this period of recuperation, everyone's physical condition has recovered a lot.
Even those poor people who were on the verge of death were brought back by Yu Lian's "Touch of Life".
The refugees were all in mourning. When they fell into the hands of the predators for the second time, they never thought that they would see the light of day again. They never thought that there would still be a savior riding a giant dragon and descending from the sky.
In addition, some refugees said that even if they were rescued by the regular fleet of the Empire or Alliance, they would never receive the treatment they received during this time. Not to mention that psykers would personally rescue people.
Yu Lian was speechless for a moment. Soldiers should do their best to save innocent civilians when conditions permit. This should be the basic conduct of the military... No, even if conditions do not allow it, conditions should be created.
However, in this universe, everyone does not think so.
If you think about it more carefully, even on Earth in my previous life, such an army would always be unique.
The refugees were indeed very moved, but the vast majority of civilians still wanted to disembark at the Gate of Glory. After all, they had suffered too much and were really eager to return to normal life. Yu Lian expressed to them
Blessings were given, and 10,000 letter stars were given to each person, and they were told that this was the reward they deserved for working on the ship during this period.
However, Yu Lian's approach was not without any effect. There were still more than fifty people willing to stay on the ship. Most of them had navigation and engineering experience, and they got along very happily with Yu Lian during this period, and
Now they are all homeless and lonely. Even if they get off the boat, they don’t know where they are going.
"I originally thought that "Million Golden Dragon Investigator" was just a half-true and half-false legend, but I didn't expect that there would be so many real-life examples." Feifei said.
"In fact, happy people certainly have similar happiness, but as long as it is a tragedy created by the times, painful people must also have similar pain." Yu Lian said.
However, these refugees who wanted to become official crew members did not feel any pain at all. Instead, they were full of expectations for the future. They even invited representatives to visit and discussed the labor contract with Yu Lian with great interest.
"If you are really willing to stay, maybe you will have to change the nationality of the community and gain military rank in a few months." Yu Lian said to their representatives.
"Well, of course some people will be willing. Especially those gentlemen who were born on earth. However, more people probably still want to be treated as mercenaries. After all, what we value is you and your willingness to obey
It's you, not the government of the community." the representative said.
Yu Lian nodded and took out a prepared standard contract from under the desk in the captain's room and asked the representative to take it back and copy it for signature.
Before the other party was ready to leave with satisfaction, Yu Lian asked again: "They are homeless and want to find a way out. But what about you? Dr. Xie, you are a noble, and you are now regarded as an empire
He is a hero, and he is not without family."
In order to commend Dr. Xie Yiwei for leading a large group of refugees to escape from the clutches of the predators, the Imperial Heraldry Academy has prepared to award him the Knight Order of the Imperial Sapphire Order. In this way, his title of "Knight of the Third Class" will be upgraded to
He is a "Second Class Lord Sir" and can definitely be called "Sir". However, it is obvious that he still likes to be called "Doctor".
This former meritorious designer of the Hand of Glory Shipyard obviously would receive the highest courtesy when he returned to his hometown and would enjoy a happy old age full of glory and admiration as a hero, but he was willing to stay on the Scarlet Throne.
"My nephews are actually quite good. At least they are not the type who are eager to wait for me to die so that I can leave an inheritance. And I don't have much inheritance to begin with." Dr. Xie said with a smile: "But, I was robbed last time.
When they were kidnapped, their eldest was only ten years old, so it’s hard to say that they had any deep feelings. Why go back and cause trouble for them?"
Yu Lian guessed that Dr. Xie's nephews were preparing to serve him as their leader.
"Moreover, the Heraldry Institute just informed me that I have resumed active duty. I will be permanently stationed on this ship as one of the imperial representatives for this joint investigation operation." Dr. Xie added.
As a former meritorious designer of the Hand of Glory, the Doctor also holds the rank of reserve colonel.
This was another situation that Yu Lian had not expected. He originally thought that the empire would at least drag two astral knights out of some corner and board the ship, but he did not expect that Dr. Xie would be the one to do it.
Is this because the opponent really won't be able to find any astral knights who can take over for a while, or is the empire more sophisticated than Yu Lian thought?
But in any case, this joint operation that has been "authorized" by the two countries is proceeding in an orderly manner, at least in the early stages of the operation. Neither side of the operation has any hostility towards the opponent, and is basically still in a
normal stage.
The Scarlet Throne was parked at Space Starport No. 12 outside the Gate of Glory, waiting for all civilians who wanted to disembark to leave, and to complete the handover with the Imperial Immigration Administration.
This process will last approximately six hours.
During this period, the empire will also deliver a batch of supplies and conduct a second round of maintenance on the ship's hull.
Under the supervision of their friends, the engineers of the empire repaired the interior of the hull, replaced the new isolation compartment, installed two spare power furnaces, and sent replacement stellar batteries.
Several semi-automatic engineering ships, under the operation of the pilot, waved their flexible mechanical arms to lay an additional layer of emerald steel alloy armor on key locations on the hull.
As a result, the Scarlet Throne's health bar was paid.
Of course, it is absolutely impossible to overhaul. On the one hand, it is too late, and if it is really repaired, wouldn't it change from a "special reconnaissance ship" to a fearless one? Wouldn't that really violate the "New Continental Arms Limitation Treaty"
?
As for the representatives from the empire, they should use this time to come as soon as possible.
While waiting, Yu Lian received another communication request. This time, it was from China.
He finally breathed a sigh of relief, and when he saw clearly the identity of the person coming, he breathed a sigh of relief even more.
"Teacher Yang, I haven't seen you for a while. You are really... even more virtuous!"
The source of the communication was none other than Commodore Yang Xiyi, Yu Lian’s military history teacher when he was a student at the military academy, who has now been promoted to deputy chief of staff of the Outer Rim Fleet.
He said angrily: "You want to say that I lost weight again, right?"
"The student just remembers that you said last time that you wanted to make yourself fatter. This way you will look like a housewife, and then you will have a higher success rate in applying for retirement. But now..."
"Isn't that also a gift from a certain unscrupulous student? Ever since you went to the empire to become a military attaché, the underground world has become a mess! The intelligence and security departments have to deal with various rampages in the empire every day, and the police department
All vacations were cancelled, and there was a shooting even in the Eternal City of Earth! Do you think I can gain weight?"
Indeed, since the incident at the Emerald Laboratory, the all-out war between the Empire and the Snakes has actually begun. The assassination of King Slein can even be regarded as the Snakes' attack on the Empire.
Of course, Yu Lian estimated that if it were in the empire itself, Snake, the mysterious and number one behind-the-scenes villain organization, would never be an opponent of the empire and would have been completely defeated. The death of King Slein should have been just one.
Small probability event.
However, outside the empire's homeland, it's really hard to tell, especially when overseas governments are bound to sidestep the situation.
Under this situation, the underground war between the empire and the snakes might really turn into a tug-of-war.
Of course, if the empire suffers some losses, it will be something worthy of celebration for all countries in the galaxy, but we must know that the intelligence department must have various intricate relationships with various underworld organizations, and even more
Not to mention the mysterious villain behind the scenes like Snake. Once the fight becomes fierce, both parties will definitely fight to the death. The public security situation will also be affected to some extent.
You said this as if it was all my fault.
Well, even before the will of the universe, I
"Even if it's not caused by you, it must have something to do with your luck! To put it bluntly, isn't it because you were the broom star?" He rolled his eyes, then squeezed out a smile, and raised the black tea cup in his hand to Yu Lian.
For a moment: "How's it going? How does it feel to drink coffee surrounded by a swarm of Imperial warships?"
"All I can say is that this is what a man should do!" Yu Lian also raised his coffee cup in return.
"Haha, young people are indeed very angry!" Yang Xiyi said with a smile: "I hope you can catch it even if you are more angry."
He pondered for a moment and then said: "The empire has already informed the earth about the so-called joint reconnaissance operation."
The movements are so fast! Yu Lian thought. However, with the behavior of those Tiruluo people, it would be weird to be unhappy.
"I guess you're not interested or want to know how the big shots above react. I'll just tell you the conclusion."
Yu Lian thought to himself that actually I am still very interested, as long as you can do a little bit of artistic processing.
"In principle, the National Defense Committee has pinched its nose and acquiesced to this. Of course, it has also acquiesced to your contribution. It is estimated that there will be another Medal of Swords soon. In addition, as a fourth-ring psyker, you do have the right to
A general star has also been added. However, you have only been a colonel for less than half a year. Any promotion is considered a special promotion and needs to be approved by Congress. You know, once it involves that damn place, it will always cost you
It’ll take some time.”
Yu Lian felt that the description "holding the nose" was quite expressive, and could very clearly show the struggle and twisting of the Gongun princes on the other side of the earth.
"Of course, in principle, the predator's dreadnought is also a reconnaissance ship and cannot yet be incorporated into our fleet. As for your words, the Earth has also agreed in principle to you as the commander of this joint reconnaissance operation.
Approval. Haha, Yu Lian, how does it feel to command an actual combat force for the first time, but it is not the army of your own country?" Yang Xiyi smiled.
"It doesn't matter, I'm familiar with this!" Yu Lian also smiled.
At this point, Yang Xiyi suppressed his smile and hid his helplessness in his eyes with a seriousness that was not suitable for him: "According to the decision of the National Defense Commission and the Military Order Headquarters, before the "New Continental Arms Limitation Treaty" is completely abolished, our side
The main fleet cannot rush directly to the New World for support. Then, one person needs to urgently integrate the military and political forces of all the colonies in the New World and organize defense on the spot to prevent predators and others from taking advantage of the loopholes."
"So you are the unlucky... new military and political commander, right?" Yu Lian's sympathy suddenly arose spontaneously.
"Yes, I am the unlucky guy! Probably because you knew you would take the blame, so you gave me a promotion." Yang Xiyi showed an expression that was about to break down and pointed to the extra one on his collar badge.
Jiang Xing: "The only consolation is that I'm not the only one unlucky!"
Having said this, he showed a blatantly malicious smile and said, "Yu Lian, do you think Father Paris will let you go?"