"Hiss", with a long jet sound, three cold condensers brought up white fog, blowing dust on the ground. A super-high-speed "Dartfish VII" transport boat's dark red external armor slowly recovered its normal dark green color in the white gas, carrying a trace of residual heat and slowly landing on the ground.

  A team of gendarmes, dressed in black uniforms, white steel helmets and white gloves, marched out of the transport boat. The leading gendarme lieutenant showed a military order to Gu Xiechen who was waiting at the dock. With a stern expression, typical of gendarmes, the lieutenant said coldly: "Colonel, we must arrive at Pangu Base within ten minutes."

  "Wow, you guys came quickly!" Mo He creaked his finger joints with a 'crack crack' sound and laughed eerily: "We just chased those bastards away less than half an hour ago, and now you're here."

  "Namo Amitabha!" Prajna clasped his hands together and looked at Gu Xiechen, his eyes revealing the question in his heart: "Should we also give these constables a good beating?"

  Taking the military order and scanning it, Gu Xiechen shook his head. "Harmony generates wealth, harmony generates wealth, this is a phrase my father taught me since I was young. Sai Zhen, Aridiya, you two come with me."

  Six well-trained gendarmes split into two rows, one on the left and one on the right, sandwiching Gu Xiechen, Sai Zhen, and Aredia, adopting a posture of escort. Gu Xiechen was very cooperative with the gendarmes' actions, allowing the two gendarmes to tightly grasp his arms. However, Sai Zhen and Aredia's faces suddenly changed, and the two gendarmes holding Sai Zhen were violently punched away for over ten meters, not making a sound before spitting out white foam and fainting; the two gendarmes who dared to sandwich Aredia fared even worse, as two flashes of fire suddenly appeared, and two black figures with wisps of black smoke were sprayed out for over thirty meters, looking like they only had breath left.

  Kuxie dusted off his mouth and laughed, he whispered to the constable lieutenant: "Sorry, Mr. Saijin and Miss Aridiya, they are all boundary officers. Your attitude is not very good!"

  The face of the Constable Lieutenant twitched, he glared fiercely at Gu Xiechen and silently waved his hand. Several constables rushed over to help their injured comrade into the transport boat for emergency treatment, and the lieutenant led Gu Xiechen and three others onto the transport boat. This time, even the two constables beside Gu Xiechen kept a safe distance from him.

  The Dartfish VII transport boat is less than forty meters in length, but its engine is the medium-sized ion engine of the light rapid assault ship "Thunder V", so this transport boat has an extremely high speed in the atmosphere and is the only one in the Federation. The type of warship that can travel at a speed of five times the speed of sound in the atmosphere.

  In less than five minutes, Gu Xiechen and others landed at a helipad in Pangu Base, the easternmost part.

  Pangu Base is located in the eastern part of this continent, and it is one of the seven forward bases of the Federal Expeditionary Army. It is less than a thousand kilometers away from the Roman base. Therefore, Pangu Base has mobilized a large number of personnel and materials to build it up quickly. In just a few days, Pangu Base has been built into shape. The main camp area on the ground, which is over ten kilometers long and wide, has been completed. Various firepower points and artillery emplacements have also been built. When Gu Xiechen walked out of the transport ship, he saw two heavy-duty helicopters carrying a 58-centimeter high-energy cannon flying towards a gun emplacement on a distant mountain head. There were fifteen gun positions on that gun emplacement alone.

  Inside the Pangu base, it was even more bustling, with countless soldiers and vehicles rushing about, the dull mechanical roar making people's ears ache. Right next to the apron, in a dense forest, a tank production line was operating at full capacity, and a 'Sand Scorpion III' all-terrain six-wheeled assault vehicle was just coming off the assembly line. Several comprehensive mining trucks slowly drove along the temporary road that had been pressed out with thick tire tracks, pouring large amounts of refined metal ingots and other materials into the various ingredient slots on the production line.

  A thick haze of smoke and fog filled the air, less than a kilometer away on an empty lot, a half-built factory building had just completed assembling a vertical takeoff and landing fighter jet, with a dull roar, the plasma engines under the left and right wings of the fighter jet shot out bright blue flames into the sky, directly joining the patrol fleet in the air.

  On the left side of the apron, a small hill had been dug out, and inside, three missile production lines were packed to capacity. Teams of logistics soldiers shouted slogans as they pushed heavy launchers out of the hill, each carrying twelve large anti-ship missiles with diameters exceeding fifty centimeters. These missiles, which had just been assembled on the production line, did not even have their serial numbers sprayed on yet, but on the missile wings, there was a very familiar logo - the emblem of the Gu Shi Group.

  "This time the expeditionary force rushed to Paradise Star, those military groups must be overjoyed?" Gu Xie dust narrowed his eyes and looked at the logistics soldiers who were sweating profusely. These shirtless soldiers pushed the heavy missile launcher into the apron, filling a few high-speed assault boats with deadly anti-ship missiles.

  The lieutenant colonel of the military police glared at Gu Xiechen, and after a few seconds of silence, he said in a cold voice, "This is a military secret, I have no right to answer."

  Gu Xie laughed coldly and said to Sai Jin, "Take note, I just saw several production lines, including those of the Gu Group, Kergin Group, Valore Heavy Industries Group, and the Shan Yuan Heavy Aviation Machinery Research Institute. Four of the top ten military-industrial groups in the Federation are here, I reckon they're all going to pay us after this battle is over!" Sai Jin responded seriously, pulling out a small notebook from his pocket to record everything.

  The Constabulary Lieutenant looked at Gu Xie Chen in surprise, and Gu Xie Chen glared back at him. He sneered, "Do you know or not, that one-tenth of the mining rights on this Heavenly Star belong to our Hell's Angel Mercenary Group! These military groups excavate the minerals here to manufacture arms on-site and sell them to the Expeditionary Army Department. One-tenth of the profits are ours!"

  "According to the Federal Wartime Requisition Ordinance..."

  Guxiaozhen gave a thumbs up to his own nose, then drew an elegant arc with his thumb towards Sai Zi and Aridiya. He sneered: "Boundary officer, do you know? Legal immunity, do you know? Even in wartime, you can't deduct a single penny from our profits." After sneering several times, Guxiaozhen pushed the stunned junior officer forward and urged him to hurry up and take them to see General Wagri. He demanded: "I want a copy of the production data for these production lines... We will severely crack down on all tax evasion and smuggling activities."

  Sai Ren raised an eyebrow and gave Gu Xie a thumbs up.

  Ardita nodded in agreement, saying matter-of-factly: "The Evil Dragon is absolutely right. The wartime requisition order can't control us, and these war-profiteering munitions groups must cough up the share that's rightfully ours. Otherwise, I don't mind helping the Romans and the Expeditionary Force go to war!"

  The Constable Lieutenant almost fainted, he glared at Aridy for a moment, and then led Gu Xiechen and others to a base transportation vehicle next to the apron in a state of extreme anger.

  The vehicle drove along the temporary road inside the base for less than two minutes before arriving in front of a flattened mountain cliff, where a huge square gate opened on the over 300-meter-high cliff. In front of the gate was an elite heavy armor squad guarding it. After a series of tedious verifications, Gu Xiechen and others changed to a small transportation vehicle and drove into the Expeditionary Force Command Center.

  On the passageway leading to the command center, there were ten thick gates made of heavy metal alloy, each two meters thick. If all ten gates were closed, they could withstand a nuclear explosion of at least tens of millions of tons. After passing through this two-kilometer-long passageway, everyone arrived in front of an elevator heading downwards. Taking the elevator down over 700 meters underground finally brought them to the true command center of the Expeditionary Force.

  In the circular command center with a diameter of over 200 meters, General Wagheri stood behind his hands in front of a comprehensive command platform. More than a dozen light screens flickered rapidly in front of him, and various data continued to feed back on the screens. Dozens of staff officers with the lowest rank of colonel surrounded this comprehensive command platform, busy sending orders to nearly 100 combat troops around Pangu Base.

  As Gu Xie dust walked into the command center, a lieutenant general staff officer was loudly shouting: "The Red Arrow Squadron and the Roman Fighter Squadron have encountered each other, and the Romans have launched an attack."

  Wagri's deep gray eyes flashed with a fierce light, and he said in a low voice: "Recently, the three branches of Red Cloud, Red Ghost, and Red Swan have gone to reinforce, and wipe out this Roman fighter squadron!"

  Another colonel's aide shouted: "Two Roman fast attack boats are on a collision course with our transport fleet and the Heavenly Body One satellite."

  "Vagari's voice was icy cold: 'The assault fleet in ambush at A1 area, set off and drive them away.'"

  The atmosphere inside the command center was fiery, and the Romans and expeditionary forces had already begun their initial contact. The Roman vanguard units were constantly probing the defenses of the expeditionary forces, who countered with extremely strong head-on blows. It was clear that when such probes accumulated to a certain extent, a large-scale battle would inevitably erupt.

  Gu Xiechen stood ten meters away from Wagri, but was stopped by several robust guards.

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