Through the thick metal walls, you can hear the noise of the upper bar and the casino next door, and the eyes of the merchants can faintly see the forward base suspended in the dark universe in the far distance through the floor-to-ceiling portholes.

In order to deal with the threat of the Imperials, especially the terrifying prospect of the other side after mastering the law of the giant torsion rate hollow, the federal government began to advance the base plan decades ago, and after President Pabul took office, the plan was strongly promoted, and the government allocated a lot of resources and money, and with the full efforts of the Fruit Shell Mobile Company, the base was finally perfectly presented to the people.

This is the closest space station to the forward base, Pingrì is responsible for the entertainment life of the officers and soldiers on rotation, has various entertainment venues with complete equipment, and even has a casino that does not know the legality, on the verandah, you can see many federal soldiers on leave chatting easily with wine glasses, but in the quiet coffee house at this moment, except for a few officers who gathered together, most of them looked like businessmen, and the accent when they talked was obviously Bermuda.

The presence of Bermuda's merchants on the Commonwealth Military Space Station, which is very close to the front line, is a very incredible sight, especially not far ahead of the boundless Late Scorpion Nebula space passage in Haohan, and the presence of these merchants here must be related to the Imperial smuggling channel. However, for some reason, the federal officers who were silently drinking tea did not show any consternation.

There is a federal proverb: money is everything. But being able to make the federal military tolerate these strangers who don't have chips behind their necks to appear on the military space station has little to do with this proverb, and the reason why these Bermuda smugglers have this privilege is that in addition to their slightest connection with the big families of the Federation, and more importantly, for some reason, the federal government has been acquiescing and even conniving at this kind of smuggling for many years.

The quiet café was filled with soft music, but the atmosphere was not very relaxed, whether it was the Bermuda businessmen waiting for the arrival of the smuggling ships, and the silent federal officers, the expressions were extremely serious and depressed, the federal officers were worried about the situation at the front, and the merchants were worried about the damage that the situation at the front would bring to their goods.

"The battle on the front line is becoming more and more fierce, the fleets on both sides are more vigorously clearing, the last three months have come to the gunwales less and less, the two sides have been doing business for seventy years, and now the Ming Ming Empire's accuracy rate of torsion rate is getting higher and higher, and the cargo loss ratio is unprecedentedly large. ”

A curly-haired middle-aged businessman shook his head, refused his companion's gesture to pour coffee, and said in a depressed mood: "You are all playing hard currency, and you can also go to the mine to find a spare source of goods, at most the cost is higher, but you all know that my family owner has been dealing in silk for many years, and this is going to be out of stock, and I am very worried that it will not be able to slow down." ”

The so-called gangster refers to the unmanned cargo spacecraft on the imperial side, because of the lack of technical ability of large fleets to pass the torsion rate, the smuggling transactions between the two sides in the past few decades have been carried out through this clumsy and even gambling method, but fortunately, the terrifying profits of smuggling goods are enough to offset the loss of space channels by as much as 40%.

The merchants in the café knew each other well, knew where the curly-haired merchant represented Bermuda's interests, and they themselves were just small people who had been sent to work on the hardest fronts, and in this federal military space station far from Bermuda, they naturally spoke much more relaxed.

Someone comforted: "Although Bermuda has not found a suitable environment for the life of that kind of small flesh worm, but artificial cultivation can always be replaced, by the way, I heard that 3 has a companion star that is very suitable for planting mulberry trees, and your owner has not considered it?"

"I didn't even think about it in the Commonwealth. You also know that although our partner in the Federation has some strength, how can the HTD Bureau agree to such a big face?"

The curly-haired silk smuggler lit a cigarette, shook his head with a wry smile and said: "I don't really care about my side, but I am away from Hanxing, I heard that the economy is getting worse and worse, I am really worried that those noble lords will destroy the mulberry and move back to Tianjingxing in anger, so what will be the price of the goods next year and the next year?"

His companion said with a gloomy expression: "The number of ships sent to us from the Diaspora Star has decreased sharply, and we can't get a sufficient number of returns, plus what kind of new life movement is their royal family is now promoting, vigorously suppressing the consumption of luxury goods, those noble lords on the Lihan Star will definitely be withdrawn, don't say next year, I dare to say that the asking price of the next batch of goods will be doubled." ”

People who do private business are still businessmen, and the prospect of rising costs and decreasing profits or even losses is like a leather whip tied to a steel wire, which makes their cold hearts bloody, and all businessmen are silently thinking about the prospects, and the discussion suddenly becomes quieter.

The bottle in front of a merchant was already half empty, probably under the dual effect of alcohol and a bleak future, and he slammed the table and shouted angrily, "It's all war!"

As soon as the words fell, he noticed that the silent federal military characters on the table in front of him seemed to be listening to the conversation here, his mood suddenly froze, and he woke up most of the wine, remembering that he was not in the bed of the Bermuda brothel at this time, but in the space station of the federal military, Shen Yi coughed twice unnaturally, and said: "I really hope that the federal forces will win quickly." ”

Looking at the merchants around him with a smile, he explained embarrassedly: "Anyway, the Federation and Bermuda are also a family, although we do business with the group of orcs in the Empire, just to earn their money, our feelings and positions will definitely be on the side of the Federation." ”

There is no hypocrisy, the Commonwealth and Bermuda are like two separate brothers, and the Empire is a bad neighbor across the street, whether in terms of race, blood, language, or culture.

The silk smuggler from before looked at him with an embarrassed expression, and said for him: "How can it be so easy to win, I don't understand the military deployment on the front line, but the internal political situation of the federation has become like this, I don't think the federation can achieve a decisive victory in a short time." ”

"Isn't the federal political situation very stable?" someone asked in surprise: "Last month, the Parliament Hill passed the Inheritance Tax Bill, the Limited Information Disclosure Bill, and the Foundation Cleanup Ordinance, and even the Sanlin Union Bank is now silent, who else dares to go against President Pabul?"

"The Federal Council of Management has won a big victory in this election, and 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 wants to give back to the society, and has no other ideas, I see, President Pabur is now in real difficulty. ”

"Who...... Prince?" someone asked with a frown.

There was a dead silence in the café, as if the man had mentioned a name that should never have been mentioned, and 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 and discussion sounded again, and the businessmen who didn't know much about the latest information asked what the prince of the Tai family had done.

The smuggler who almost said the wrong thing because he was drunk before, slumped on the chair weakly, looked at the peers around him with a sad face and said: "The silk is out of stock, at most it is to lose some money, the big guys wear a few less silk underwear, the jewelry is out of stock, and the problem is not big, but the goods that my master wants to receive are super hard graphite, and the goods he wants are husk mobile, but there has been no goods for forty-two days, what do you say I should do?"

The smugglers next to them were stunned when they heard this. In the past, this smuggling business was undoubtedly the most profitable and secure category, and it is no exaggeration to say that when he went to pick up the Mongs carrying super hard graphite, the federal government would send a Whitewater combat team to escort him throughout the journey. But if the supply is not available and the loss of the federal military is caused, then no matter what kind of power this person has in Bermuda, I am afraid that he will instantly become ashes in the anger of the federal bigwigs, no wonder this person is so sad and drinks cup after cup.

"Filter-grade super-hard graphite, that can only be found on the Imperial Ink Flower Planet, and those mines seem to be still under the control of the Imperial forces. ”

Hearing the words of the Ink Flower Planet, the audience fell silent again, the expressions on the faces of the merchants became extremely strange, and the shock, emotion and fear were intertwined together, as if they heard the name of hell, and even the federal officers who had been silent at the tables in front of them couldn't help but slowly straighten up.

Ink Flower Planet, an ordinary administrative star in the empire's vicinity of the L galaxy, has now become a hell on earth, a cruel and cold-blooded meat grinder because of its important strategic location and because of the most powerful declaration in this cosmic war.

On the surface of hundreds of millions of square kilometers of the planet, the Federation and the Empire have mightily and unhesitatingly projected unprecedented military power, under the indifferent gaze of hundreds of space warships of all kinds outside the atmosphere, millions of ground troops, hundreds of thousands of various equipment, and thousands of the latest military mechas, like two huge waves with different faces, silently and tirelessly collide together, shatter and gather and then impact again, leaving countless blood-stained corpses and charred mecha remnants on the battlefield.

This is the bloodiest and most brutal battlefield in the seventy years of war between the Federation and the Empire, where there is only victory and defeat, life and death, and there is always only one way to practice these words - and that is killing.

The reason why the Imperial Army fought so fiercely, in addition to the contrary, was that the Imperial Retreat was exchanged for strategic space, and Her Royal Highness the Princess manipulated Peach Blossom to kill the commander of a certain group army of the Federation under the gun, and announced to the entire universe in the twilight:

The empire has never retreated from this......

(I don't have it today, and if I think about it in the evening, I can't think through it if I can write less in the past two days.) ）