In the afternoon after three days of fierce night fighting, many Marines and soldiers who had participated in the battle that night and had been honored were invited to gather at Barracks No. 1 at the ground base.

In the largest room in the barracks, the Marine Corps wears and unloads armored power combat suits, Captain Leona, the supreme commander of the Hope, who has arrived at the ground base in an armored transport spacecraft, is ready to award medals to all the combatants who have made meritorious contributions in the night battle three days ago, and conduct a planned promotion ceremony for those who have achieved the merit standard.

Among them, the commander-in-chief of the ground base command center, Lieutenant Colonel Doug, was specially promoted from the original rank of lieutenant colonel to the rank of colonel because of his good command and dispatch and outstanding performance.

Galen and Darius, the two captains of the Marine Corps, have made outstanding achievements because they are fighting on the front line, and their ability to command the troops has also been fully recognized! Therefore, in this battle, he was also promoted to the rank of lieutenant officer of the Marine Corps.

As for the other tank units and marines, as well as SCV engineers, logistics and internal affairs personnel, etc., they also received medals or corresponding promotions in military ranks.

Of course, among them, the most envied and hated by everyone is the second colonel officer in the USS Hope's army: Ghost Agent, Colonel Anne Hasta!

This little girl, who was originally fished back from the space lifeboat by Hope, has not only successfully blended into the military system of Hope, but also turned the tide and saved the ground base many times, making several great achievements!

It is not an exaggeration that she can be said to be the life-saving benefactor of the entire Hope, so it is natural that she will naturally accumulate merit now, and she will be promoted directly from the rank of major to colonel?!

Many people have this thought: Perhaps, in the near future, as long as the bugs attack a few more times, as long as this little girl makes a few more feats, then it seems that it is not impossible for her to be promoted to general?

She seems to be only eight years old now, right?

An eight-year-old girl who is about to get mixed up with the rank of General Hope?

And what about these people? I guess there aren't many lieutenants, right? These are a lot of mid- and low-level non-commissioned officers, I don't know how many years they will have to stay up to get out of the way?

Luckily, this little girl is only the current Supreme Commander of the Ghost Force of the Hope!

Except for herself, the Hope didn't have any ghost troops to command her, so this made the others stare at the three dazzling rank silver stars on her chest with envy and jealousy, and at the same time, there was a faint sense of schadenfreude?

And what about the youngest colonel? Even if you become a general in the future, what can you do?

At the end of the day, she's not a bare-bones commander yet?

Anyway, it is foreseeable that in the next ten years, before the new generation of the Hope grows up, she will most likely not see the new ghost agent of the Hope appear, right?

Sure enough, it was not entirely unreasonable for the top governor of the Hope and the politicians in the parliament to agree to grant the little girl such a high military rank.

"Please be quiet! Everyone, listen to me now! ”

After a brief ceremony of awards and promotions, Captain Leona once again stood in front of the microphone on the high platform, and now she was going to make her final closing remarks.

"Ladies and gentlemen, it's January 19, 2499 in the park, and January 20 in the new calendar of the Hope! It's been over a hundred years...... We, we, we've been stuffed into hibernation bunkers by those scraps of UPL and forcibly banished from Earth for more than a hundred years......"

After a pause, Leona glanced around the faces of the soldiers below who were staring at her.

"Perhaps, as we all know, we were banished here by the UPL bureaucracy: yes, because of our respective beliefs; others are unwilling to give up the ancient cultural heritage they are upholding; Others, just for the sake of their beloved ones......

So! We must be convinced that we are not criminals, scoundrels or exiles as they say!

They, no doubt, are a gang of dictatorial persecutors!

And we are just a bunch of persecuted innocents!

Those damn bureaucrats of the Earth Federal Government UPL, they wish we were all dead sooner so that no one would oppose them again!

However, we will tell them with our own actions: we will never admit defeat! ”

Leona raised her fist, slowly strengthening her tone, looking at the faces of the officers and soldiers below who were aroused by her speech.

They were staring at her with hot eyes, their chests heaving and panting.

Seeing this, Leona nodded in satisfaction.

She had succeeded in mobilizing their hatred of UPL, and now, it was time to add another fire, and she had to redirect the soldiers' emotions to where she needed them.

"Today, we have finally come to the present and are starting to gain a foothold on this dangerous planet!

This is inseparable from the efforts of all of us and the sacrifices of those brave and fearless people before us......

They, as well as us, are all silently contributing to the survival of the Hope and the future of humanity for us!

And now, all this has finally paid off!

You have all seen: our ground base, which is constantly evolving; We thwarted the attacks of the bugs again and again, and let them know that we humans are not easy to bully!

The most important thing is that our energy pool is also being replenished day by day! The expected goal will soon be achieved!

Therefore, until now, we must firmly believe that the dark and difficult days are about to pass, and the dawn is just around the corner!

Let's start now and keep up the good work!

With our own sweat and blood, on this dangerous planet, in this treacherous star field, to us, to all the human beings of the Hope, and our future generations, to water a soil for survival!

We'll let those UPL bureaucrats of the Earth Federation know!

We, too, will let the evil bugs on this planet who are trying to destroy us and drive us away know!

We hope that the humans of the ship, all of us, will continue to fight!

We will never give in! ”

Finally, Captain Leona's speech in the barracks, as well as on the channel of the USS Hope and all the officers and men, came to an end with her last shout.

"Never give in!"

"Never give in!!"

"Never give !!"

With Captain Leona's muffled voice, after the final inspiring speech, those present, those watching and listening began to shout loudly.

"Salute !!"

In the equipment room, with the shouts of a soldier, all the officers and men present, including Captain Leona, saluted the list of fallen soldiers and the flag of the Hope, and the ceremony of awarding and awarding the title finally came to an end.

"Leona, why did you suddenly come down today? It's not very safe on this planet......"

After the speech, the newly promoted Colonel Doug, next to Captain Leona, who was about to leave, asked a little curiously.

The two of them, in addition to the relationship between superiors and subordinates, are still very good friends and girlfriends, so in private in informal settings, they are usually directly addressed by their names.

"Huh...... You're all here, why can't I come? Moreover, the Hope is not necessarily safe! ”

As she walked, Leona replied to her friend with a smile.

Actually, in her opinion, if this star field is really dangerous, what difference does it make between the Hope in space and the base on the ground?

"It's also ......"

Doug thought seriously and nodded.

The high-level warfare of the interstellar era, this distance, can be regarded as within the enemy's attack range......

"So, Leona, are we really not going to open a sub-base anymore? Since these days, the strength of the insects has probably been touched by us, right? As long as you do a good job of corresponding prevention, it must be possible to open another sub-base, right? ”

Doug, who was following Captain Leona and was about to send the captain out to board and leave the base, finally couldn't help but come to the other party's side after walking a few steps and began to ask in a low voice.

Today, Leona will personally land on the planet and come to the ground base of Planet JNO.3 to preside over the ceremony, which is quite surprising to Doug.

Because, in the original plan, the award and promotion ceremony should be carried out by Captain Leona after her holographic projection speech.

But where did she think that when the time came, she found that the supreme commander of their Hope, Leona, who was also the captain of the ship, actually took Planck's armored transport ship 01, escorted by ten Wraith fighters, and went straight to the ground base and personally presided over today's ceremony?

Doug ...... This planet, although we have almost scouted it, whether it is the surface or the caves near the sea, we have also figured out a little bit of the trajectory of the insects...... But, trust me and be vigilant! Because, in my intuition, they may be far from being as simple as we think! The sneak attack the other night is proof of this! If it weren't for Little Annie's timely reminder, we'd probably ......"

I'm afraid of what, Leona didn't say much, and Doug should be able to understand.

If, without Little Annie's timely warning at that time, their base, at night, under the overwhelming sea of insects, would still be able to survive in the end!

And, until now, the bugs have even appeared terrifying ranged units and flying units?

Think about it, the kind of snake-like bugs that emit bone spurs, and their threat to human lightly armored units has been proven in actual combat!

Then, there are the flying monsters that resemble wyverns, with their poison sacs attacking, and even being able to directly destroy tanks and corrode metal structures with thick armor.

By now, the bugs have been seen in melee combat, ranged, and large heavy armor units and flying units, plus the tunnel-digging bugs, who knows if there are any other species of them?

Just thinking about it can make Leona feel uneasy!

Therefore, she will never agree to the matter of dividing the base!

Not only will she not open a base, but she will also face the bugs on the planet with the utmost vigilance, or some threats that have not yet appeared.

"However, if we don't open a sub-base, our ground base, which is limited by metal resources, is really too slow to develop......

In fact, if there are enough metal resources, the ground base that Doug is in charge of now is probably a different look.

Now the ground base is no longer short of manpower.

So far, the number of various logistics personnel and engineers or manufacturing engineers operating SCV engineering vehicles has almost exceeded 2,000!

And the ground troops, such as marines, medics, fire bats equipped with heavy combat suits and plasma hellfire throwers, etc., are already almost 1,500 people!

Even the armored vulture levitating combat vehicle currently has a reinforced battalion of nearly fifty vehicles!

They were already under Doug's orders, and the beaches around the base islands and the buffer zones included in the defensive belts were all covered with dense reinforced large spider mines that could target heavily armored targets.

The heavy arc siege tank, the current scale, has expanded to as many as thirty-nine, the fourth batch of tanks has gone off the production line, human heavy firepower, has been greatly improved, can definitely use a steady stream of long-range high-power artillery fire, to support the marines offensive or defensive operations.

Four barracks have already been built, and a second heavy factory is under construction.

Others, such as fences, machine-gun bunkers, missile towers for air defense, various signal towers, military radars, and electromagnetic metal columns that have recently begun to be built around the island and drilled deep into the ground to defend and monitor the burrowing bugs, are now under emergency construction.

Therefore, the current ground base is here: there is no shortage of manpower, no shortage of high-energy crystals as energy, and no shortage of high-energy gas, only a variety of metal resources!

After all, they human beings, whether it is to build the most basic supply depot or supply depot, need a lot of steel and other metals, and they are at least in 10,000 tons!

And buildings like those large heavy factories, barracks, engineering stations and arsenals, as well as the planned small interstellar ports, are often at the level of 100,000 tons or more, far from being able to supply the meagre output of the current No. 1 base.

"Don't worry, Doug, the three small interstellar ports of Base 2 already have the second batch of 200 armored transport ships on the production line, and in the near future, your dilemma of lack of metal materials here will definitely be improved."

Either way, Leona disagrees with Doug's idea of opening a new ground base, and she prefers to be a little more conservative.

Even now, the war between humans and bugs seems to have the upper hand on her side, but Leona still wants to continue with her original idea: to work hard to mine precious energy crystals and gas, and then, to create and develop a military force strong enough to defend the Hope colony ship.

Ideally, there should be about ten heavy battlecruisers and one or two air-ground Wraith fighter carriers, so that the safety of the people on board the Hope can be fully guaranteed.

It's not that Leona doesn't want to produce more fleets, it's just that she hopes that the number of humans on the ship is limited, and it will be good to be able to put together such a fleet.

Then, they hurriedly packed all kinds of resources and set off, away from here, looking for a planet that could provide a living environment for human beings, and then slowly developed and grown......

That's enough!

"Well, I hope you're right......"

Seeing that the captain disagreed with his idea, Doug had no choice but to nod and follow him to the outside of the barracks a little gloomily.

Here, SCV engineers have temporarily sealed a passage and a hemispherical fully enclosed apron with glass pipes.

The ship on the tarmac was the one Captain Leona was riding in when she returned home, and the number painted on it indicated that it was the armored transport ship operated by the old drunkard, the technical mystery of Captain Planck.

"Alright, you can get here, Doug, and I'll go back to the Hope first."

Leona, who was busy with business, was reluctant to linger longer.

So, she stepped forward and hugged Doug a little, and after smiling at the impatient little girl Annie, who had just been promoted to colonel, she turned and walked towards the hatch of the transport ship.

"Have a nice trip, Your Excellency!"

Doug stood upright in a straight military posture and gave a standard military salute, in stark contrast to little Annie, who was standing next to her, looking at the ship without squinting.

When the hatch closed, the two Titans behind the opposing armored transport ship pushed the main engine, and began to spray two streams of blue high-energy particles, and then the spacecraft began to slowly lift into the air.

At this time, in front of the senior officers who saw Doug off, a glass of isolation and protection suddenly fell, and then, the spherical gate on the top of the hemispherical closed apron finally began to slowly crack to both sides, and when it was fully opened, the engine of the armored transport ship gradually began to strengthen, and then, it rolled up a violent air current, and jumped up into the sky.

Subsequently, ten Wraith fighters that had been circling over the base for a long time and waiting, also followed closely, and circled around the transport ship in the same direction and speed, forming a relatively tight protective circle.

After all, there have been flying bug units on this planet now, and they can't afford to be careless!

Even Captain Planck, who was usually drunk and crazy, was honestly driving the spaceship at this time, and he didn't dare to abandon the protection of the Wraith fighter and fly back to the Hope alone.

"Alright, troublesome Big Sister Leona is finally gone, and now, Galen, and Darius! Let's hurry back to the barracks, your melee training is about to begin! ”

After seeing that the captain's spaceship had finally flown away, little Anne immediately cheered loudly and hurriedly ran to the barracks.

Because, after many days of hard work and persuasion, and the increasingly powerful threat of those bugs, Galen and Darius finally agreed to accept her melee training, and at the same time changed the names of Cobra Squad and Viper Squad to Demacia Squad and Noxian Squad that Little Anne requested, respectively......

The preferential conditions for receiving are that Little Anne must forge ten enchanted two-handed swords and ten two-handed battle axes for the two of them and their direct team of ten people, respectively, and must satisfy the two of them!

"Ah, that, Commander Doug, I'll go first?"

Lieutenant Galen, who was qualified to see off the captain of the Hope, first gave Commander Doug an apologetic smile after hearing Little Annie's greeting, and then quickly turned around and chased after the little girl and left.

"What, Commander, I'll go first?"

After Darius saw Anne and Galen leave first, he also grinned at Doug and said hello, and then wanted to turn around and leave.

"Wait, Darius, little Anne just said close combat training...... What's going on? ”

If it was just a special training, Doug would not only not stop him, but would also raise his hands in agreement.

After all, the stronger the combat power of the marines, the safer this base will be!

Moreover, now that Little Annie's military rank is not lower than herself, although the other party is still subject to her certain control, but she really has no way to care about the other party anymore for ordinary small things.

Therefore, Doug really doesn't know much about the melee special training in the little girl's mouth, and now there is no need to report to her what the other party is going to do.

"Progression training is melee training...... Anne ordered the equipment production department to forge ten two-handed greatswords and ten battle axes from the best alloys, and she was going to train us in the game platform to become what she called the Demacia squad and the Noxus squad? It seems like...... That's it? ”

Darius explained a little scratching his head.

Commander Doug asked by name, and of course Darius didn't dare to leave at will, so he could only stop and answer carefully.

"What's the use of that? This little girl is messing around, you two, you are also following her to nonsense?! ”

Melee training? Greatsword? Battle-axe?

Commander Doug almost laughed when he heard this.

She actually knows the strength of this little ghost agent and the reliability of critical times, but in normal times, naughty mischief is absolutely indispensable! On weekdays, the soldiers' complaints about the little girl are not less!

And now, the other party is obviously messing around, right?

In her opinion, playing melee combat with the bugs is self-defeating! Rather than this, it is better to practice more marksmanship to be effective and realistic!

Take a sword and axe and fight the bugs...... How can they figure it out?

"My mother! Commander, you really misunderstood little Annie! ”

"She used to pet us casually before? Oh, or is it enchanted? Anyway, it was with her kind of magic that she got us an ordinary dagger. And then the dagger became amazing! A composite armor steel plate as thick as a few inches can be cut in half with a single knife! ”

As soon as he thought of this, Darius felt a burst of envy.

He was only slow for a moment because of his astonishment, and the dagger had already been swallowed by the honest-looking Galen and loaded onto the opponent's electromagnetic rifle, acting as a bayonet.

“……”

Doug opened his mouth to say something, and then, holding back, stopped.

Thinking about the various magics of little Annie before, as well as those powerful magics, she suddenly felt that it seemed that it was better not to interfere with them?

So, you might as well look at the results before making a conclusion......

"I'll go, Xi'an won't say anything, they're urging me. Let's do it first, Commander, and I'll go first? ”

After receiving a nod of agreement from the other party, Darius finally strode towards the barracks as if he had been granted amnesty.

He heard that Little Anne used her authority to let Brain Dawn design a holographic game map for melee training, and he didn't know what it looked like?