Three days ago, after Shen Chao handed over the action plan here to him, Hargrave began the implementation of the branch plan he had developed. ,!

The reason why Shen Chao was relieved to hand over this important branch plan to him was because of Hargrave's unique experience.

He is the only person on the expedition who has a long history of managing large corporations, and he has extensive experience in communicating and negotiating with government and military personnel, so he is best placed to carry out this branch of the project that requires relevant experience.

After starting the operation, Hargrave first managed to find out his identity with Custer's remote support, adding his information to the federal government's management network, and creating a perfect fake identity.

Subsequently, he and Roy appeared in the city of Los Angeles, registered several bank accounts under his new identity, and injected a large amount of operation funds.

Subsequently, he used a large amount of money in his account to successfully acquire a small outer space colony development company. Prepare to use this as a springboard to implement the next plan.

What the? Where did these funds come from, you ask? That's another story, in fact, all the money Hargrave used to buy it was bank funds stolen from the Castelton Guò network.

As mentioned earlier, cybersecurity in this world is a tragedy. Completely unable to withstand their attacks. Therefore, since the military network is so miserable, let alone the private network.

After an effortless network incursion, Custer obtained the host passwords of several large banks, which he used to gain access to the trading server. Stealing all the electronic money needed for the program.

Because he has complete system control, not only is it very easy for him to draw accounts, but he also does some cover-up work after stealing the funds, so that the stolen banks still don't know that their network funds have been stolen.

The colony development company that Hargrave acquired was only 2 years old, and before that it was mainly engaged in interstellar mining and exploration.

In total, the company has two medium-sized interstellar cargo ships, six small cargo ships and a total of nearly 200 employees, as well as a significant amount of debt.

In the industry, this company can only be considered a small and medium-sized enterprise. He doesn't have a military and political background, so the business situation is not good. Hargrave is now the company's largest shareholder.

A day earlier, he had collectively fired the entire management of the company. and reformulated the direction and scope of the company's business development.

Now, the company has started a new business: interstellar development security. The ostensible goal is to create a branch office dedicated to security issues during interstellar development.

As a matter of fact. This is also in the service of their recruitment program. The purpose is to recruit soldiers in a sincere way. At this time, Hargrave was waiting for a negotiator from the military.

His previous guess had succeeded, and the military was already looking for a safe way to bring these soldiers out of the army, and the military certainly knew that these soldiers were only killing fighters with no other life skills.

Kicking them out of the army rashly may create a scene in society that some military bigwigs do not want to see, so they are looking for ways to do so. Fight to get these veterans off Earth and never to return.

Hargrave's plan was to negotiate with the military in the name of recruiting armed security guards from the Far Colonies, and to recruit all the soldiers still on Earth into his company in a short period of time. It's not surprising that federal government servicemen join such security companies after retiring from the military.

There is nothing wrong with this name, and there are quite a few interstellar pirates in the Far Colonies. It is true that a certain amount of armed forces is required to develop.

The company was in trouble before he bought it because a group of pirates, financed by their rivals, had been harassing a faraway colony that he had developed, and the result was disproportionate. Troubled financially......

"Mr. Hargrave, they're coming......" a young man reminded him of the assistant he had just hired in this plane, opening the door to the lounge.

"Got it, I'll be ......there soon," Hargrave waved for him to leave, and with that, he put his tie one last time in the mirror before taking Roy with him to the next conference room.

Their conference room was in the next room, where stenographers, accountants, and lawyers were ready. The meeting can begin as soon as the parties to the negotiation arrive. If you go along with it, you will be able to reach some consensus on intentions today.

Hargrave led Roy into the conference room and greeted their lawyer and accountant. Then they sit down separately and wait for their guests.

They didn't have to wait long, and soon, the door to the conference room was opened, and two officers in military uniforms led the bright conference room under the leadership of the young man just now.

Both of these soldiers wear military uniforms, and one of the senior officers appears in the movie, the extremely arrogant Bento Colonel. The other is clearly a follower. Responsible for recording and transmitting texts.

"Colonel McCann, welcome. Hargrave and Roy stood up and welcomed him. This guy in front of them is the key to their rapid recruitment of Phase 1 soldiers.

Because this colonel is the head of the federal government in charge of the 2nd phase of the soldier training program, as long as the 1st phase of the soldiers is kicked out of the army sequence, he can place his 2nd phase soldiers in various important positions. and then get promoted......

"Thank you for the welcome, sir. However, I have a tight schedule and a lot of work to do. So, if we can, I hope we can end the negotiations soon......" Colonel McCann replied with a smile.

Today's negotiation was originally nothing for him, but he "heard" that someone contacted the military and wanted to help the first phase of the soldiers "change jobs," so because of the joint relationship, he tried to transfer the task of this negotiation to his own hands.

At least, it was his own thoughts, and in fact, the rumors he "accidentally" heard were all directed by Custer to his colleagues. So, he "stumbled" over the rumors and moved the negotiations under his own management as part of the plan.

Hargrave smiled inwardly when he heard this, he had made the plan, and Colonel McCann was now reacting exactly as he expected.

This arrogant officer was born into a military family, and although his grades in the military school were very bad, he was promoted to colonel at such a young age.

Now, with the efforts of this guy's family, he is only one step away from being promoted to general, as long as his Phase 2 soldier can prove to be a more effective killing machine than the first phase soldier, he can be promoted to brigadier general immediately.

Any soldier likes to be promoted, even this colonel with poor professional ability, and it is precisely because of this that Hargrave can accurately predict this guy's reaction, if it goes smoothly, he can convince this guy to cooperate with him today, and quickly kick the soldiers of Phase 1 out of active service.

Back in the Arcadia system, Shen Chao and Alice conducted reconnaissance of the bunker for several days while keeping a safe distance, during which Todd's physical condition recovered.

Judging from the strength and speed of his training table, this veteran is very physically functional, although it is even worse than a top-notch replicant like Roy, but it is at the same level as when he and Custer first crossed over.

I don't know if it was because of the previous drone incident, Todd's relationship with the residents here deteriorated quickly, although he had no intention of hurting people, but just his strong physique and indifferent expression made these civilians very frightened.

Finally, ten days later, he was kicked out of the bunker by the residents like in a movie, leaving the only civilian ghetto he had ever spent his life in, armed with a knife, a water bottle, and a handful of tools.

As a person who has been deprived of a normal life since he was a child, the experience of the past ten days has been like a dream for him, there is no wake-up number, no training, no officers who keep giving him orders......

He finally got a taste of the life of an ordinary person, but unfortunately, years of training had already turned him into a pure killing machine, and no matter what he did, he would scare the civilians here. So, after inadvertently scaring a few residents, he was naturally evicted.

In the eyes of almost all the residents, Todd was driven out of the bunker. After a final look at the bunker where he had spent most of the month, the incomprehensible veteran turned around and left the bunker alone along the safety rope, and his figure slowly disappeared in the wind and sand.

At the same time, a few hundred meters away, Shen Chao began to track from afar with the thermal imager on his helmet. He would continue to observe after Todd moved away from the civilians here.

If he is a good person, he will also try to contact this soldier to see what changes he has made, and whether the contact with civilians in the past ten days has achieved the effect they need.

Two days later, on Earth, after three rounds of negotiations, Hargrave managed to get all of the federal government to hand over the first phase of the army to him. The process was no small one, involving multiple network intrusions, tampering with commands and communications, and the full cooperation of Colonel McCann.

Now, with the wrong information, the military has finally decided to sell all of its soldiers, and Hargrave's company is the highest bidder. So, the two sides hit it off and quickly signed a contract for job transfer.

Once the final handover is complete, the soldiers will be separated from the federal forces and become armed security guards employed by an interstellar development company.

Now it was time for the final handover, and Hargrave was invited to a land base in Maryland to receive all of the Phase 1 soldiers. All the soldiers who were still serving in the 6 teams were here, lined up in neat 6 teams, motionless and waiting for orders.

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