Chapter 676, Business Thinking

Yalina was pacing on her warship, feeling anxious.

She had been in this state since the meeting with Marshal Xi Rui.

She looked young and beautiful, but she was actually 120 years old. She came from Yinghu Universe, which was part of the northern border of the empire, in the north of the Swallowing Star Universe.

This Iron Armor War, including the subsequent war against the Void Zerg, strictly speaking, had little to do with the Yinghu Universe. It was still a long way to go to Yinghu.

However, the call from the central government of the empire could not be ignored. The many bigwigs in the Yinghu Universe discussed with each other and handed over the task of sending troops to support the star field where Yalina was.

She was originally the owner of an imperial chamber of commerce in the star field, but her chamber of commerce was different from the general imperial chamber of commerce. She did business and transportation, of course, but she also controlled many ships that were named merchant ships but were actually warships.

The reason for this is that the star field where she is located has a relatively wide path to explore the outside world. Although that area is not connected by a star tunnel and belongs to the empire, it is actually quite densely populated.

Some are human colonies, but they are not included in the rule of the empire, of course, for tax evasion.

Some are aliens, but they are local indigenous elements that can communicate.

Doing business and dealing with these non-imperial forces actually requires special permission, and it just so happens that Yalina's chamber of commerce has such a permission.

If she wants to do business, she must maintain a strong fleet and also play the role of the star field navy.

Now, when troops are needed, the responsibility of sending troops falls on her head.

To be honest, she certainly doesn't want to come.

Yalina has experience in fighting, but not much. In the wars she has experienced, it is nothing more than escorting and fighting pirates; or turning into a pirate to plunder those non-imperial forces.

More importantly, the wars she participated in were not large in scale, and all of them had clear benefits.

If there is no benefit, then she is even more reluctant to fight.

In her opinion, responding to the call of the empire, joining the North Line Corps, and coming to the Spider Web Universe to fight is a matter of huge risks but unclear benefits.

Of course, it is not that there is no benefit, or even that the benefit is small. If she can gain merit in it, the huge political benefits can make her Chamber of Commerce and herself rise to a higher level in the political arena of Yinghu Universe.

This also clarifies her goal of participating in the war.

Unfortunately, a tragic defeat made her lose everything.

Not only did she lose a lot of ships and suffer painful losses, but the defeat also made her expected benefits become a bubble.

Originally thought that everything was like this, but unexpectedly, she was saved by the alliance.

That not only stopped the loss, but also made her see the possibility of winning, gaining political capital, recovering losses, and even making a huge profit.

But the premise is to rebuild the North Line Corps.

She was the one who connected many people who had similar ideas to her and finally gave Xi Rui advice, hoping that he could take up the responsibility.

After the last meeting, although Xi Rui did not say it explicitly, she felt that things were more stable from her attitude.

The marshal of the Black Crusaders was also unwilling to be lonely.

From her point of view, that was too normal.

What is his identity?

A marshal!

Before that, he was also the second-in-command of the Northern Front Corps, taking over the identity of the commander-in-chief of the Northern Front!

If he came to the Alliance, he could only be an ordinary war captain and obey the command of Gu Hang.

How could he be willing?

In fact, Yalina also thought that the Alliance was very powerful. If the distance between the two sides was closer, she was also eager to build a good relationship with the Alliance, and it would be easy to do business in the future.

But unfortunately, her base was too far away from the Alliance's territory, so she could only give up regretfully.

It's better to think about the independence of the Northern Front Corps.

After returning, her orders were conveyed to every ship she could control, asking her men to be prepared.

Although she didn't want to make things particularly ugly, it seemed that Governor Gu Hang was not a kind person. It was impossible to easily resolve this struggle that directly affected the actual power.

At the critical moment, let alone fighting, at least the side had to show enough muscle to make Gu Hang make concessions.

After all, Commander-in-Chief Gu didn't want to cause an internal conflict before the war, right?

While making preparations internally, she was also paying close attention to the movements of Marshal Xi Rui.

This was exactly why she was anxious at the moment.

According to the agreement, the time was almost up.

At this moment, her adjutant suddenly came in and reported to her: "President! Marshal Xi Rui went to the 'Golden Pass'!"

"Is he alone?"

"With a team of space warriors!"

A long sigh of relief, this is the first step.

According to the theory, Xi Rui should go to confront Gu Hang.

He will be protected by a large number of space warriors, and if necessary, there will be their Black Crusaders' think tank, which can teleport the marshal back to the warship, so his safety should be guaranteed.

Moreover, from the beginning to the end, they did not intend to resort to armed confrontation.

Therefore, Marshal Xi Rui's safety and their demands could not be achieved through words alone.

"We have to prepare to launch the attack." Yalina said to the adjutant, "Get all the ships ready, and notify the other leaders. We must support Marshal Xi Rui when necessary, so that we can negotiate what we want."

"Yes!"

After the adjutant responded, he added, "By the way, there is another spaceship coming to us from the 'Cross Black Star'. The Cross Black Star has already greeted us. It is Marshal Xi Rui's envoy who wants to see you."

Yalina was not surprised. She said, "I will wait for the envoy of the Black Crusaders here. You go down and prepare first."

"Yes!"

After a while, heavy footsteps sounded outside the door.

Pushing open the door, a dozen Space Marines walked in.

Yalina was not surprised that the people who came were Space Marines. It was a little unexpected that more than a dozen came at once.

Logically speaking, the number of Space Marines around Marshal Xi Rui was 300, which was not enough.

But she thought that it should be Marshal Xi Rui's attention to the troops under her control. After all, judging from the size of the fleet, the part she controls should be the largest and most numerous of the remaining remnants of the northern line.

In addition, there is another point that is a little strange: why are these Space Marines wearing robes?

She stood up and prepared to greet them.

However, the next moment, her face suddenly changed.

She saw these Space Marines who were wearing robes and did not show their regiment logos at the beginning, took off their robes.

The regiment logos on their right shoulders were various, symbolizing that they came from different regiments; on their left arms, the uniform silver skulls and dense prayers symbolized their identities:

Silver Watch!

These Space Marines made way, revealing a mortal behind them.

Qin Zhiping took off his hood: "Ms. Yalina, hello."