Chapter 359 Mars

"Ha! I knew I was with the wrong person!"

Randall said excitedly, and Cliffs was equally relieved after hearing Amber's decision.

"You two guys are just waiting for me to say this, right?"

Although Amber was still very pleased that his two fleet commanders had "human nature", he still wanted to give these two people a warning in advance.

"Are you ready? Hell is coming next."

Amber sighed and continued:

"Once we begin to accept the surrender of the imperial forces, the Federation will definitely take the opportunity to cause trouble. They now both hate and covet us Atlas. I have a strong feeling that this will not be that easy. End. So I command"

After hearing the last sentence, Randall and Cliffs immediately sat upright and became serious.

"The Atlas fleet will enter the highest state of combat readiness from now on, ready to respond to provocations and attacks by the federal fleet at any time. At the same time, we must keep in mind our principle of not firing the first shot."

"Understood!"×2

"How is the construction progress of the Infinity?"

"The final outfitting work was completed yesterday, and according to plan, we should be ready to start full system testing today.

Ms. Saleh you brought back is really amazing. With her assistance, the progress of the entire construction work has been accelerated a lot, and many problems have been solved in advance."

Randall replied that since Cliffs, as the chief commander of the fleet, focused more of his energy on the fleet, Randall was keeping an eye on the progress of the 'new ship' for the time being.

"Tsk, this is really a rush to put on the shelves. Originally, I wanted the Infinity to be tested for a while, and the personnel and equipment on it also need to be adjusted. Now it seems that time is no longer enough."

Amber frowned, it was obvious that the current situation was developing faster than he had previously expected.

"Let them rush here while testing. The combat ships left behind at the Tower of Babel and the asteroid belt will also set off at the same time. They will join the Infinity halfway and jump directly over."

"Amber, are you going to stud?" Randall asked in shock.

"'When a lion fights a rabbit, you have to use all your strength.' What's more, the strength gap between us and the Federation is so big. Since a conflict with the Federation is highly likely to be inevitable, then we might as well give it a try and let them know what 'pain' is."

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The imperial infantry platoons that surrendered to Atlas, after being disarmed and completing inspections under the supervision of Atlas soldiers, entered a separate area in the camp one after another.

I don't know why, but when these surrendering Imperial soldiers saw the Atlas soldiers all around them and the red cross symbols on their bodies, and then thought of the legend about the 'Battlefield Angels' circulating among the Imperial civilians, they suddenly became confused. Everyone relaxed.

Even they themselves don't know why they completely let down their vigilance. So much so that after entering the camps and temporary cabins built by the worker bees, most of them didn't even bother to eat and just started to fall asleep.

On the other side, as the surrendered imperial soldiers gradually relaxed, ten refugee camps, including this camp, all received orders from Amber.

Soon, the military commanders of the ten combined battalions and the teaching team knew about the threats they faced from the Federation after they began to accept the surrender of Imperial soldiers.

The reaction of everyone was similar to what Amber expected - everyone screamed "please fight" and said that they would definitely continue to fight to maintain the "bottom line of intelligent creatures".

This is especially true for Roma people like Menton and Terak.

Just like what the ram-head platoon leader Om said at the time, the Roma people have their own persistence and principles in this regard. Their race has an unimaginable attitude towards "providing shelter to the weak". of persistence.

This is of course good news for Amber, because it means that these Roma people have gradually broken away from the 'money orientation' in this incident, but really want to do this from the bottom of their hearts.

Of course, the bad news is that they should be easily 'red-tempered' by the provocation of federal soldiers, and 80% of them will be able to fight after the conflict breaks out——

In the atmosphere of increasing tension between Atlas and the Federation, time passed like this day by day.

During this period, due to the persecution of refugees and surrendered soldiers by the federal army, the treatment on Atlas' side almost reached two extremes.

Therefore, more and more refugees began to come to seek asylum, and at the same time, imperial soldiers began to surrender to Atlas's troops in an organized manner.

Of course, all of this is limited to the area covered by ten refugee camps and outposts. Atlas cannot take care of most other places on the planet now.

This directly caused many refugees and surrendered soldiers who were not within the coverage area to follow the coordinate guidance shared by others in the local network and start moving towards their nearest refugee camp, embarking on a difficult road with an extremely low survival rate. '.

The federal ground troops naturally discovered Atlas's actions.

In particular, Camp No. 5, which is responsible for the Second Heavy Combined Battalion and currently houses the largest number of refugees and imperial prisoners, can be said to be receiving the most attention.

Every day, countless drones conduct reconnaissance and provocation outside the "no-fly zone" designated by the camp, and the reconnaissance troops sent by Monton and the temporarily deployed satellite reconnaissance also found that the federal ground forces were mobilizing troops here.

The scale is about two synthetic brigades.

In response, Amber also transported the three synthetic battalions in his hands as reserves in the name of "replenishing manpower due to the increase in refugees".

Twenty days later, the Infinity and other combat ships in the formation completed the jump and arrived in deep space about 5 hours away from Pella IV to wait.

After the arrival of this strongest combat force of Atlas, Amber felt a little relieved, but then another piece of news came, which made him feel anxious again.

According to the intelligence collected by Lilith with the assistance of the Intelligence Analysis Center, three unmanned fleets of the Federal Navy also arrived in the Pella galaxy and replenished and repaired the fleet in deep space where the specific location was unknown.

Their arrival brought the possible fleet battle to a situation that was absolutely unfavorable to Atlas.

At the same time, an urgent message came from Camp No. 5 - a federal force requested to enter the refugee camp to inspect the refugees and imperial troops that had been recently admitted.

"It's finally here. The show is finally about to begin."