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“You can question my orders, and afterwards send an appeal to the highest imperial court. But for now, you have to perform your duties to the letter! Otherwise, I will immediately order someone to replace you!”

“……” Fenglin Bo glared at his former boss, grinding his teeth and said nothing.

The Defense Minister sighed, then relented: “Xiao Feng, how many years has it been, you not changed your stubborn temper a bit nor have you had a good disposition towards me!?”

“This is a secret you are not qualified to know. But I a.s.sure you that within three days, the two main forces guarding the empire’s central territories, ‘Thrill of Climbing’ and ‘Fu’ will immediately head to the northwest to reinforce your defenses, along with all the various logistical supplies needed will soon be in the appropriate place! So are you satisfied now?”

“If this is so, then I have nothing more to say!” Fenglin Bo looked at ease, with a standard military salute.

The three-dimensional image gradually faded, the Minister stared at the two doc.u.ments on his desk, and inadvertently a bitter smile emerged on his old face.

It was his well-prepared, military budget for the next fiscal year for the empire. The other doc.u.ment’s content was about solutions to the increasingly serious security situation on the empire’s periphery, and a set of special military expansion plans created from joint a.s.sessments of military advisers.

Undoubtedly, these two programs will cost a huge amount of financial and material resources from the empire, even far more than the highest ruling cla.s.s could spend, in the next budget council, he really did not hold many expectations for the two programs getting pa.s.sed.

Although he is the highest governing member of the council, even though he has the highest decision-making authority in the empire,the power of the military isn’t dominant, those who hold power wanting the approval of financially great men, is easier said than done?

Thinking for a long time, he let out a tired sigh, put the files away, and then left his office intending to discuss something with some relatively close colleagues.

……….

In the immense void, a fleet hurried along.

After ten days of sailing, the Empire’s sphere of influence was getting closer, s.h.i.+p officers an various people who had taut nerves could not help feeling let down.

“General, a group is ready to provide a.s.sistance, we are being contacted by the Imperial Army!”

In the c.o.c.kpit of the flags.h.i.+p, the officer in charge of communications liaison excitedly reported to the Major General.

“Where are they?”

“A distance of about seven hundred light years, opening up a wormhole, with up to more than an hour of effort, we can join them!” the officer replied. (Note: It was originally seven hundred years not light years, so I changed it.)

The Major heard the news and nodded, his spirits slightly lifted.

Wars.h.i.+p would generally not take the time to go through a wormhole, as the time consumed to open one usually took the time taken to reach the destination. Since the imperial legions were already in close proximity, they really didn’t worry too much.

However, the time closest to success is when accidents tend to occur.

……….

In s.p.a.ce, hundreds of giant flying saucers have been quietly tracking the fleet for a while!

UFO nearly 10,000 meters in diameter, had a dark purple body clean and smooth like a mirror with a ten meter thick purple energy s.h.i.+eld, from time to time the s.h.i.+eld swept away s.p.a.ce debris which was easily blocked, so it could not have any impact on its existence in any way. (Note: Switched out ‘ontology’ for existence.)

“Dear revered elders, everything is ready, do we grab them now?” A soft voice echoed inside the s.h.i.+p.

“You are certain the object has fallen into the hands of the human race?” the dignified voice sounded m.u.f.fled.

“Of course, when the human expedition fleet entered the Yue Long ancient ruins my family’s valiant men found their trail!” the previous voice replied.

“Now that they have finally left the absolute domain of that place, they seem to have lost a great amount of strength, which where my family is concerned, in undoubtedly a great opportunity.”

An obviously much more sedate third voice: “But even so, it can not be determined whether that thing is in the hands of mankind, after all the dangers in the ancient ruins, my family of warriors have never been able gain anything! Nothing at all.”

“If we rush things and they do not have what we need, but anger the humans, leading to renewed fighting between our two societies, would be too uneconomical! Do not forget my family is still in a stage of recuperation, a Human and Han war is by no means a wise move.”

“Dear elders, on this point we can confirm that there is sufficient certainty!” a voice explains,

“We have used repeated screening, on the flags.h.i.+p in the central regions of the human fleet there are some subtle energy fluctuations, very similar to our observations many years ago, so we conclude that they’ve got something from the cache of relics.”

“Now that we have confirmed, it seems we must take a chance!” the elders were silent for a moment.

“Elders, this is what we should do!” Another sharp sounding voice,

“The human family has grown more powerful in the last hundred years, the number of clashes between our peoples are countless, although we are evenly matched with each other, and nothing can be done, but you should understand what the results will be.”

“If this thing fell into the hands of the human civilization, it means they solved the mystery, and given time they can train higher-end strategic forces, which will make my family’s situation more difficult, so no matter what the consequences will lead to, we now have no choice! Our highness the great dragon, has led the army to the northwest frontier of the human empire, we should finish with our side of things as soon as possible and catch up if we want to partic.i.p.ate in the battle! Understand?”

The inside of the UFO was silent, with the presence of great thinkers.

“…… Well! Since it is so, lets go grab it!” an elder said slowly, “But the human empire’s reinforcements are very close, so we must deal with this quickly!”

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