Him and their stars

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 in the lowest possible condition.

Later, before the Scarlet Throne arrived at the Gate of Glory, an engineering ship from the Empire even flew over and installed two more shield generators on the Throne, saying it was for the "joint reconnaissance team of the two countries". Small support and so on.

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. As soon as he did this, he characterized the matter as a joint investigation operation between the empire and the community, which gave both parties a step forward. The two countries would not be at odds with each other because of a little willfulness of King Suliuka.

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 reconnaissance operation between the two countries, the Empire can send representatives aboard the Throne. Of course, Yu Lian could also refuse. However, if he is really planning to pass through the Gate of Glory, then no matter what he plans to do, Shibi 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 predator battleship, the empire would always have a share of the credit.

However, Yu Lian had to accept this favor. He is actually taking risks now, betting that the empire will not overturn the table. However, the Tiruiro people are a nation with a flexible moral bottom line, and there is no precedent for overturning the table in history. 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's 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, he thought of a way to deal with it in such a short time, and he also hid several layers of meaning. This is not like The handiwork of Admiral Farrell. It looks like Miss Ostana."

Feifei tilted her head and thought for a moment before recalling the chief of staff lady "wearing" a smiling mask. This imperial female general, who looks like an artistic young woman, does not have much fame at present. She is only regarded as one of King Suliuka's accessories. I don't know why Yu Lian values ​​her so much.

"You can also refuse." Feifei smiled.

"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. 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 the 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 several 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 devastated. 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 be treated like this period of time. Not to mention that psykers would personally save 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 the Earth in your previous life, such an army has always been 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 have endured too much suffering and are really eager to return to a normal life. Yu Lian expressed his blessing to them, gave each of them 10,000 letter stars, and told them that this was the reward they deserved for working on the ship during this period.

However, Yu Lian's approach was not ineffective at all. There were still over fifty people willing to stay on board. Most of them have experience in navigation and engineering. They got along very happily with the Yulians during this period, and now they are all homeless and lonely. Even after getting off the boat, I didn’t know where to go.

"I originally thought "Million Golden Dragon Investigator" was just a half-true and half-false legend, but I never thought 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, you may 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 want to be treated as mercenaries. After all, what we value is you, who are willing 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 satisfied and ready to leave, 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’s a hero, and he doesn’t have a 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 "Third Class Knight" was upgraded to "Second Class Knight", and he could be honored as "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.

"The nephews are actually pretty 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, last time I was robbed 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 estimated 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 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 held 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 didn't expect that Dr. Xie would do it.

Is this because the opponent will really not be able to find an astral knight who can step in for a while, or is the empire more sophisticated than Yu Lian thought?

But in any case, this joint operation, which 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 toward its opponent, and is basically in a normal stage.

The Scarlet Throne was parked at Space Star Port No. 12 outside the Gate of Glory, waiting for all civilians who wanted to disembark to leave, and to complete the handover with the people from the Empire 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 repairs on the 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 driver, 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 grew again.

Of course, a major overhaul is absolutely impossible. 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 ship? Doesn’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’s from China.

He finally breathed a sigh of relief, and when he saw the identity of the person clearly, he breathed a sigh of relief even more.

"Teacher Yang, I haven't seen you for a while. You are really... even more celestial!"

The source of the communication was Brigadier General Yang Xiyi, Yu Lian's military history teacher when he was a student at the military academy, and 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 your application for retirement will have a higher success rate. 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 have been cancelled, and there were shootings even in Eternal City on Earth! Do you think I can gain weight?"

Indeed, since the incident at Emerald Laboratory, the all-out war between the Empire and Snake has actually begun. The assassination of King Slein can even be regarded as the snake's attack on the empire.

Of course, Yu Lian estimated that if it were in the empire itself, Snake, the mysterious and number one villain organization behind the scenes, would never be an opponent of the empire, and would have been completely defeated. The death of King Slein should be just a small probability event.

However, outside the empire's homeland, it's really hard to tell, especially when overseas governments are bound to pull their own strings.

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 py 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 sides 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 can only admit that I lost the first small spark. But if things get too big, isn't it because of your own evil intentions?

"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, raised the red 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 and shouted back.

"Haha, the young man is indeed very angry!" Yang Xiyi said with a smile: "I hope you can catch me even if I am more angry."

He pondered for a moment and then continued: "The empire has already informed the earth about the so-called joint reconnaissance operation."

The action is so fast! Yu Lian thought. However, given the behavior of those Tirello people, it would be strange 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 I am actually 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 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 sequence. 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.

Having said this, 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 he knew he would take the blame, so he gave me a promotion." Yang Xiyi showed an almost broken expression 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, "Yulian, do you think Father Paris will let you go?"