Across the thick metal wall, you can hear the noise in the bar on the upper floor and the casino next door. The eyes of the businessmen penetrate the floor-to-ceiling portholes, and they can faintly see the advancing base suspended in the dark universe in the distance. , This spherical base, which is larger than ordinary asteroids, seems to have become a golf ball painted in dark blue.
In order to deal with the threat of the imperialists, especially the terrifying prospect after the other party masters the law of the giant torsion rate, the federal government began to advance the base plan decades ago. After President Pabble took office, the plan has been strongly promoted, and the government has allocated a lot of resources. And money, under the full efforts of Nutshell Motor Company, the base was finally perfectly presented in front of people.
This is the nearest space station to the forward base. It is responsible for the entertainment life of officers and soldiers on weekdays. It has various entertainment venues with complete equipment, and even a casino that is not known to be legal. You can see many vacations on the veranda. The federal soldiers chatted easily with wine glasses, but in the quiet coffee house at the moment, except for a few groups of officers gathered together, most of them looked like businessmen, and their accents when talking were obviously with Bermuda accent.
Bermuda's businessmen appearing in the Federal Military Space Station very close to the front line is a very incredible scene, especially not far ahead is the boundless Wanscorpion Nebula space channel surface of Haohan, these businessmen appearing here must be smuggling channels with the Empire related. However, for some unknown reason, the federal officers who were drinking tea in silence did not show any consternation.
There is a federal proverb: Money is everything, but it has little to do with the proverb that the federal military can tolerate aliens without chips behind their necks appearing in military space stations. The reason why these Bermuda smugglers have this privilege is not only because of their inexhaustible ties with the big families of the Federation, but more importantly, for some reasons, the federal government has been acquiescing and even condoning this kind of smuggling all these years.
There was light music floating in the quiet cafe, but the atmosphere was not very relaxed. Whether it was the Bermuda merchants waiting for the arrival of the smuggling ships or the silent federal officers, their expressions were extremely serious and depressed. The federal officers were worried about the situation on the front line. Merchants worry about how the situation on the front line will damage their cargo.
"The battle on the front line is getting more and more tragic. The fleets on both sides are fighting vigorously. In the past three months, fewer and fewer manga have come over. The two sides have been doing business for 70 years. Torsion rate voids are getting higher and higher accuracy, but the cargo loss ratio is unprecedented."
A middle-aged businessman with curly hair shook his head, refused his companion's signal to pour coffee, and said in a low mood: "You all play hard currency, and you can go to the mining star to find a backup source, at most the cost is higher, but you all I know, my master has been dealing with silk for many years, and this will be out of stock, and I am very worried that it will not be able to slow down."
The so-called Mengka refers to the unmanned cargo spaceships in the Empire. Because of the lack of the technical ability of large fleets to pass through the twist rate void, the smuggling transactions between the two sides in the past few decades have been carried out through this clumsy or even gambling method. , Fortunately, the terrifying profits of smuggling goods are enough to offset the loss of space channels as much as 40%.
The businessmen in the cafe knew each other well and knew where the curly-haired businessman represented Bermuda’s interests. They were just little people who were pushed to the most difficult front lines to do things. In this federal military space station far away from Bermuda, speaking naturally Also relax a lot.
Someone comforted: "Although Bermuda has never found an environment suitable for that kind of small meat worms, artificial cultivation can always replace it. By the way, I heard that S3 has a companion star that is very suitable for planting mulberry trees. Haven't your owner considered it?"
"Raised in the Federation? I haven't even thought about it. You all know that our partner in the Federation has some strength, but if we really want to spread such a big face, how could the HTD Bureau agree?"
The curly-haired silk smuggler lit a cigarette, shook his head with a wry smile, and said, "I don't really care here, but it's Libanxing. I heard that the economy is getting worse and worse, and I'm really worried that those aristocrats will destroy their sang and move back to Tianjingxing. , what will be the price of the goods next year and the year after?"
His companion said with a gloomy expression: "The number of manga sent from Hanxing to us has dropped sharply, and we can't get a sufficient number of returned goods, plus what new life movement their royal family is now promoting, vigorously suppressing luxury goods. For consumption, those nobles on Libanxing will definitely withdraw, not to mention next year, I dare say that the asking price of the next batch will be doubled."
People who do private business are still businessmen. The prospect of higher costs and lower profits, or even loss of money, is like a whip with a steel wire that bleeds their cold hearts. All businessmen are silently thinking about the future. Prospect, the discussion suddenly became smaller.
The wine bottle in front of a businessman was already half-empty, probably due to the dual effects of alcohol and a bleak future, he slapped the table heavily and shouted angrily, "It's all a fucking war!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he noticed that the silent federal officer at the table on the right seemed to be listening to the conversation here. Inside the military's space station, he coughed unnaturally and said, "I really hope the federal forces will win quickly."
Looking at the surrounding businessmen looking at him with a half-smile, he explained embarrassedly: "How to say, the Federation and Bermuda are also one family, although we do business with the group of orcs in the empire, it is only to earn their money, our feelings and positions are not It will definitely be placed on the federal side."
This is not hypocritical. Whether in terms of race, language, or culture, the Commonwealth and Bermuda are like two separate brothers, while the Empire is an evil neighbor across the street.
The previous silk smuggler looked at his embarrassed expression and said for him: "How can it be so easy to win, I don't understand the military deployment of the front line, but the internal political situation of the Federation has become so chaotic, I don't think the Federation will be able to win in a short time. a decisive victory within.”
"Isn't the federal political situation very stable?" Someone asked in surprise: "Last month, Parliament Hill successively passed the estate tax bill, the limited disclosure of information bill, and the foundation clean-up regulations. Who dares to go against President Pabble?"
"This re-election of the Federal Administrative Council, the president's family has won a big victory. Anyone can predict the passage of these bills and regulations, but the prince suddenly did such an earth-shattering thing. I don't believe that he really just wanted to give back. Society, and nothing else. I see, President Pabble is now in real difficulty."
"Which... Prince?" Someone asked with a frown.
There was a dead silence in the cafe, as if the man had mentioned a name that should never have been mentioned. The silk smuggler put down the coffee cup in his hand and explained with a wry smile, "Don't get me wrong, I'm talking about the prince of the Tai family."
Hearing the explanation, the atmosphere in the room suddenly loosened a little, and the buzzing discussion sounded again. The businessmen who didn't know much about the latest information asked the Tai family prince what exactly he had done.
The previous smuggler, who almost said the wrong thing because of drunkenness, slumped weakly on the chair, looked at his colleagues around him with a sad face, and said, "If the silk is broken, at most you will lose some money, and the big guys will wear less clothes. A piece of silk underwear, the jewelry is out of stock, it is not a big problem, but the goods I want to pick up are super-hard graphite, and the goods I want are nutshells, but there are no goods for 42 days, you say I should How to do?"
The smugglers next to them were stunned when they heard this. Supplying the Nutshell Mobile is equivalent to supplying the federal military. In the past, this kind of smuggling business was undoubtedly the most profitable and most secure category. The federal government will send a whitewater company's combat team to escort the hard graphite. But if the supply fails, causing losses to the federal military, then no matter how powerful this person’s family is in Bermuda, they will instantly become ashes in the anger of the big man in the federal government. It is no wonder that this person is so miserable. Drink a cup.
"Filter-grade ultra-hard graphite? That can only be found on the Imperial Mohua Planet, and those mines seem to be still under the control of the Imperial Army."
Hearing the words "Mohua Planet", the room fell silent again. The expressions on the faces of the merchants became extremely strange. The shock and fear were intertwined in one place, as if they heard the name of hell, and even the tables in front were silent The federal officer couldn't help but slowly straighten his body.
Planet Mohua, an ordinary administrative planet near the L galaxy of the empire, has now become a hell on earth, a cruel and cold-blooded meat grinder because of its important strategic position and the most powerful declaration in this cosmic war. .
On the surface of the planet with hundreds of millions of square kilometers, the Federation and the Empire have unhesitatingly deployed unprecedented military power. Thousands of the latest military mechas, like two huge waves of different colors, collided silently and tirelessly, smashed together and then collided again, leaving countless blood-stained corpses and charred corpses on the battlefield. Mecha remnants.
This is the bloodiest and most brutal battlefield in the 70 years since the Federation and the Empire fought. There are only victory and defeat, survival and death, and there is always only one way to practice these words—killing.
The Federation needs to advance to the solid jumping point of the L galaxy, and needs to protect the crystal ore mining of the X galaxy in exchange for the final victory. In addition to the opposite reason, the reason why the imperial army fought so tragically was because when the imperial army retreated in exchange for strategic space, when the princess controlled the peach miasma to violently kill the commander of an army group of the Federation under the gun, Once announced to the entire universe in the twilight: The empire is here, and it will never retreat!