134: Norma: I understand! I understand everything!

87/15 = 5...12,

37/15 = 2...7,

17/15 = 1...2.

"Jinghai-Class Missile frigate"

...

Ten minutes later, Xi Hai stated: That damned likely a game really didn't disappoint him.

Seven FG300 blueprints shattered the good impression Xi Hai had just formed of the likely a game.

(Guaranteed Box 15=5: The likely a game setting characteristic, meaning that only 5 of the 15 Technical Reservess spent are returned when a duplicate blueprint is drawn.)

In the very end, perhaps even God couldn't bear to watch, and gave him the Jinghai, one of the Three Wasted Seas.

"Fine, consider it a Lifespan Balancer, perfectly offsetting the previous good luck."

Giving up on thinking, Xi Hai could only calmly accept the result of this run—

It wasn't actually too bad.

He immediately opened up the general communication channel and said:

"All hands! The objective of this operation has been achieved!"

"Take our spoils of war and retreat immediately!"

Saying this, Xi Hai walked outside—

They were currently still drifting in the Void Channel, so for safety's sake, they should head back first.

As for dismantling the spoils of war, engaging in reverse engineering, and the like?

That would have to wait until he had a good sleep—

After all, after only 40-plus hours, he was already starting to hallucinate,

Xi Hai thought this as he looked at the storm outside the window turning red.

(Ten minutes later)

"No appropriating allied equipment! Especially Warships!"

Finally, Xi Hai, who had arrived on the storm, helplessly scolded the 9-89th Legion personnel standing before him.

He truly—had never been so speechless.

That's right, the storm turning red wasn't a hallucination, but the 9-89th Legion's Automatic Looting Ability, akin to a Conceptual God—

They figured it was parked there and "unwanted."

It seemed that a Major Rectification Campaign for the entire 9-89th Legion was even more urgent than he had imagined.

After grumbling and ordering these people to restore the storm's paint job before returning, Xi Hai casually climbed into a Hibernation Pod and fell into a deep sleep—

Dozens of hours of high-intensity work had resulted in mental exhaustion,

and this exhaustion could only be relieved by sleep... A few hours later, inside Ursa Major V12.22,

Norma sat in the makeshift office built after the Node Space Station was reconstructed, looking at the huge pile of reports on his desk, and sighed deeply.

Some time ago, after defeating a large number of attackers, his father left him here with a heavy responsibility—to control Ursa Major V12.22, claim Sovereignty Claim, and proceed with construction.

The Bugs in the star system had been cleared out a few days prior,

They tried to fight a war of attrition against the Empire, but because the cleavage void was closed, the Bugs were the first ones to collapse—

First, their combat units were insufficient, and then their nest was literally crushed into dust by a large fleet of dilapidated Warships that were nearing or past their service life.

Not to mention those Relic Warships, the Imperial Navy was even reluctant to send over a few newly built Warships.

The only thing noteworthy during the entire cleanup was the Warship factory at the L3 setting stable point, which was covered in a layer of flesh and turned into a site for the Bugs to produce Special Units.

However, that thing was directly transported away by Imperial personnel, and it had nothing to do with him.

Honestly, Norma felt the work here was very boring,

Every day he flipped through reports on various materials received, construction reports for various Fortifications, and watched large numbers of Slave Laborers being transported in to participate in the construction.

He always felt that his father leaving him here certainly wasn't just so he could sit idly by, doing nothing but looking at documents that didn't require his decision-making,

His father definitely had his own profound meaning.

Thinking this, he recalled the words his father had spoken to him when he decided to leave him here:

[You stay here, establish and build a Regime, alright?]

[I know this is difficult, but this is an order.]

[Moreover, only you can do this right now.]

[Do not disappoint me.]

So, what exactly did he want him to do?

He felt like he had thought of something, but he wasn't quite sure what it was,

It was the feeling of his left and right brain fighting each other, making him spiral into the sky in an Armstrong Cyclone posture, which he didn't know how to describe.

"Beep beep!!"

Suddenly, the communication alert sound interrupted his thoughts,

He looked, oh, was it that fellow Gunnar?

What was that thick-browed and big-eyed guy looking for him for right now? And he even sent a video?

Let's see... When the screen opened, flying blood and scattered bullet marks appeared before his eyes,

But the first thing he noticed was the figure in black military uniform standing on a red Mecha—

That was the father he recognized based on his own merit.

The person in the video was delivering a heartfelt speech, conveying the true meaning of courage and glory to the soldiers.

His body language was expressive, his tone was measured and rhythmic, and his voice and infectiousness were just like they were during his first speech.

How nostalgic... Wait! During his first speech!

Father seemed to have said—that he felt this starry sky shouldn't be like this?

Something "Pah!" exploded in his mind—

He remembered the large groups of Slave Laborers recently entering Ursa Major V12.22, recalled his own life as a Slave Laborer, and remembered his father calling this an "Unreasonable Yoke" at the time,

Norma quickly pulled out the notebook from his desk where he had recorded his father's speech—

Initially, he only hoped everyone would remember Xi Hai's magnificent figure and deafening speech content,

But now it seemed, his father definitely thought he did a good job!

He understood! He understood everything!

Building a Regime here, in a place surrounded by those his father called "Oppressors,"

His father must have seen him spreading his spirit, which is why he said that only Norma was qualified for this place!

What he wanted was for Norma to quietly ignite the Spark of Resistance deep behind enemy lines!

Norma's body shook, and immediately, the feeling of emptiness vanished,

He was instantly filled with motivation, zoomed in on the new video of Xi Hai's speech, carefully observed it, and began extracting the essence and ideology within,

He was going to fight for his father's great ideal!

... (In reality, the following was Xi Hai's true thought process at the time)

(Need to leave someone here to establish a Regime?)

(Nobody suitable... Xu Chang is incapable of doing it; White Shark here? No, we're short-handed, so he needs to handle things for now, and later he needs to be sent out for Archaeology; Gunnar... that thick-browed and big-eyed guy only knows how to WAAAGH, and we still need to rely on him for fighting later.)

(Then let's use Norma. He's clever and has good judgment; he can manage things well enough.)

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