From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 449: Amber, what is A.Bava Curry hiding?
Amber's room in the A-Bava-Ku asteroid fortress was decorated in the most popular 'neo-classical style' in the Star Dragon Empire, influenced by the miner leader George, a former imperial man. The decoration template was also directly searched online by George and used.

According to George, since he was asked to be in charge of the decoration of the Boss Room, it must be in the most advanced style in his mind.

To be fair, the final product is not bad. Like the core of "neoclassicism", it perfectly combines modern technology and ancient art.

But in Amber's opinion, the relatively dim lighting and classical decoration made the whole room look like the place where those stereotypical villains in traditional plays live.
In the room where light and shadow intertwined, Amber's voice echoed in the air and finally fell into the ears of the elegant-looking female elf opposite.

And Ellenita's long golden hair that cascaded down like the galaxy and her loose white robe always made Amber hallucinate a certain adult character from her previous life.

“Actually, I don’t really like money.”

When Amber said this, the female elf opposite him rolled her eyes.

"Mr. Amber, people who can say such things usually seem petty or pretentious to me."

"No no no, you misunderstood me."

Amber shook his head slightly, his eyes revealing a hint of helplessness. He also knew that such words did sound quite outrageous.

And those who had made similar remarks eventually left the stage in disgrace, but he still wanted to tell Ellenita that he was not what she thought.

"I want to say that at this stage, money is really not that important to me personally. Apart from those illusory things, is there anything else in terms of material enjoyment that I cannot obtain?
So for me personally, I have already made enough money. I can cash out my shares now and start a carefree 'retirement' life with Isabel."

"Then why didn't you do that? If you want to retire, I have a lot of good places to go~"

Alanita spoke up. To be honest, she was also very curious about this question, and she also wanted to know what Amber was thinking right now.

"Honestly, I don't know."

Amber sighed helplessly, then looked at Alanita who was full of doubts and continued:
"Ms. Yuge, you know everything I've been through, so there's nothing I can't tell you.
At first, my idea was to escape from Robert Four, find an angel investor like you, start a company, make some money, and then live like that.

But then the situation was beyond my control. As Atlas was successfully established and grew in size, many things started to happen to me. In the process of dealing with these things, I would be involved in new events or make new friends and enemies.
Now, when Atlas has grown to the point where it can make the Federation suffer a loss and still get away with it, and can gain the upper hand in a head-on confrontation with giant companies, and gradually demonstrated its strength and gained a certain degree of voice, I found that it is not so easy for me to withdraw. "

After hearing Amber's words, Alanita did not say anything immediately. Instead, she stared at the former for a while before asking:
"Can't retreat, or don't want to retreat?"

"I don't want to. Because I find that I can't accept handing over this business that I built with my own hands to someone else. This is actually the greed of human nature at work. But unfortunately, with my current state, I can't avoid this. After all, I am also a 'vulgar person'."

"You are quite frank." Ellenita raised her eyebrows. She didn't expect Amber to be willing to tell her these things.

"There is nothing to hide about these things, and you are not an outsider."

"Oh?" The elf's eyes lit up when she heard this, but she immediately heard Amber continue:

“After all, you are a major shareholder of Atlas, a good friend of Isabel, and you helped me a lot in the most difficult times.” “That’s all?”

"yes."

Amber answered with some confusion, then he suddenly realized something and asked in a teasing tone, "Which one do you want to hear?"

"Tsk, you're good in every way, except that you're a little unromantic, and sometimes a bit of a slut."

Ellenita shook her head and didn't want to dwell on this issue. Although she admitted that she was indeed very curious about Amber, a human being full of mysteries, she was not willing to take the initiative to approach her.

"If you don't want to 'retire', what are you going to do next?"

"Now that the situation has become like this, what else can we do? We can only continue to grow bigger and stronger."

"Like you said in the meeting just now, to truly 'eat at the table'?"

"That's right." Amber nodded.

"Anyway, the situation has already become like this, and Atlas is already at the center of the storm. Even if we don't plan to do something, there will definitely be others who will force us to do something.

The Federation and the military-industrial complex used to treat us as minions and thought that crushing us would be as easy as crushing a bug on the roadside. In the end, they suffered a great loss and also made enemies.

If given the chance, I believe they would still try their best to destroy Atlas.

Especially the Federation, they definitely don’t want Atlas to become the second military-industrial complex, so under normal circumstances they will definitely make a bigger move against us.”

"Under normal circumstances?" Ellenita was confused for a moment, then immediately thought of something and continued, "Are you trying to say that the Federation may not be able to spare time to deal with Atlas because of the war between it and the Star Dragon Empire?"

"Yes, the military-industrial complex's attack on the asteroid fortress was most likely instigated by the federal government. Since their main forces are currently on the front lines fighting the Empire, they found the military-industrial complex to do the job.

To be honest, from a strategic point of view, there is nothing wrong with it. Let us and the military-industrial complex consume each other, and they will sit back and reap the benefits. "

"I didn't expect that this 'thug' I hired would be so weak." Having said that, Ellenita also laughed.

"Hmm, I didn't expect that. If those two naval fleets hadn't intervened, the casualties in this fortress defense battle might have been smaller."

"Amber, now that you've mentioned that, I have a question for you as well."

The female elf suddenly sat up straight, and brought her face closer to Amber, staring at him and asked:
"What on earth is A. Bawa. Curry hiding? What could have caused the two newly formed naval fleets to come here instead of going to the front line to provide support, and to try to forcibly invade the fortress?"

(End of this chapter)