257: Chance!

In Tianjin Seat V89.05, inside the Principal's office located at the top of Weiyang Academy,

Xi Hai sat in front of that desk, processing the mountain of government documents in his hands.

Not long after the academy opened, Xi Hai had moved his office location here.

After all, the Guardian Angel Legion's headquarters space station was an antique from the pre-era that had passed through who knows how many hands, and it had no shortage of issues like aging equipment,

And the office on the storm was simply inconvenient.

By comparison, the newly completed academy not only had a spacious Principal's office specifically set aside, but was also equipped with a large number of functional facilities such as reception rooms, lounges, and emergency shelters,

Whether in terms of convenience or safety, this place was much more suitable for working—

Of course, the several space station clusters being built as the headquarters for the Guardian Angel Legion were already under construction.

"Military trade orders from the Empire; follow-up plans for the 'Great Uprising'; stargate construction progress reports..."

"Ugh, ahhh—"

After approving another construction document and signing his name with his comments, Xi Hai leaned back hard and stretched, muttering whatever came to mind:

"night lamp, why do you think there's been more and more work lately?"

"Could it be a conspiracy by some big blue bird-man?"

(Tzeentch: Tzeentch doesn't know)

"Ding!!!"

"Report!"

Suddenly, the office doorbell rang, and immediately, the holographic projector on the desk projected the image from the doorway camera—

It was an officer, a colonel from the Guardian Angel Legion.

"Come in, it's not locked."

"Click!"

The sound of the door opening rang out, and the officer walked in. He saw Xi Hai behind the desk at first glance, then picked up a paper document in his hand and walked closer, saying:

"Supreme Director, as of now, all the support fleets we secretly dispatched have completed their support missions. This is the summary report of the operation, which has been made into a paper version according to your requirements, and there are no electronic records."

Xi Hai took the thin report, opened it, and saw a simple sentence at the beginning:

"This 'Great Uprising' directly affected 112,322 star systems and indirectly affected 1,492,888 star systems,"

"The total scope of influence has reached one-ninth or even more of the current total volume of human civilization."

Directly affecting over a hundred thousand star systems, and driving over a million star systems...

This number stunned Xi Hai—

He swore he really didn't know Norma's plan was this big, big enough to affect one-ninth of human civilization:

After all, the report at the time only said that they would launch a large-scale, mutually responsive uprising within the secondary regimes—who could have imagined this wildfire could burn to such an extent!

Xi Hai composed himself. With strong curiosity and amazement, he turned the report in his hand to the next page.

"Among the 112,322 star systems, a total of 48,879 star systems overthrew their original reactionary regimes on their own, and over 30,000 relied on support provided by other external interventions—including the mobile fleets dispatched by Xi Hai, and support dispatched from nearby star systems where the uprising had already succeeded,"

"The news of the uprising was not blocked. After it spread, large-scale Slave Laborer rebellions broke out in many star systems, but the success rate was extremely low..."

He flipped to the end in one breath. It was very concise—only a short sentence:

"Casualties from this uprising cannot be counted in detail; it is estimated to be between 150 billion and 400 billion."

"Slap!"

After reading it, Xi Hai rubbed the bridge of his nose and slammed the document heavily onto the desk.

The conjectures and plans made regarding this matter before seemed so powerless under such a huge base number—

All that talk of secrecy, of keeping himself completely out of it, had become unrealistic fantasies.

But this wasn't a bad thing—

Thinking this, Xi Hai stood up abruptly from his seat.

He had realized that, right now, he was facing a fleeting opportunity—

Since this fire had already burned to the point where no one could ignore it,

then why shouldn't he borrow the momentum from this fire?

"night lamp! Send a notification for me immediately! Summon all high-level personnel! Regardless of whether they are in government or military affairs!"

"We need to hold an online meeting now! Immediately! Right now!"

As he spoke, he took the access card for the reception room out of his pocket—to carry out certain confidential work (such as online meetings, etc.), the reception room was not open to the public—and pressed it against the access control at the door with a "beep"—

Incidentally, he also looked at the officer standing by and asked:

"By the way—soldier, is there anything else you need?"

The officer hesitated for a moment, then immediately replied: "No, nothing."

"Good, if not," Xi Hai said, pushing open the door to the reception room and continuing to speak to him:

"Then you should return to your original unit as soon as possible—"

"During this time, we will be very busy."

After speaking, the door to the reception room "clicked" and closed again.

...

"Beep, beep—"

After a blue light shone, Xi Hai's figure had already appeared in the main conference room of the Guardian Angel Legion headquarters—in the form of a holographic projection.

"Report, Supreme Director! The servers are running normally! All meeting participants are online!"

Seeing Xi Hai's projection light up, Legion Commander Julius, who remained at the Legion headquarters, hurriedly hurried over and reported loudly.

"Good—good that it's normal," Xi Hai's blue projected image moved and nodded.

He had also heard that some time ago, a group of remnants of The Consortium had accidentally obtained a fourth era mainframe.

Subsequently, that group of lunatics launched indiscriminate attacks on every server they could reach—although their demonstration method wasn't very clever; they just replaced all the content inside with videos about teaching biological knowledge,

referred to as "Pian".

Subsequently, Xi Hai's projection walked up to the podium located in the center of the conference room and looked down at the audience.

At this moment, all his high-level subordinates, some in the flesh, some as projections, had already found their seats below.

White Shark, Keith (that Old Ice Stick of a second era legal expert dug out of the megastructure), Julius (Guardian Angel Legion Commander), Gabriel (Guardian Angel Logistics Chief)...

"Comrades, hello."

Looking at the sea of heads below, Xi Hai greeted everyone lightly, and then went straight to the topic:

"For this meeting, most people should have already guessed why it was called, right?"

"That's right, it's exactly the Great Uprising that just happened and swept through one-tenth of humanity..."