259: Light it!

Yesterday's meeting concluded in a flurry of hot-blooded excitement.

For everyone below the stage, the significance of this meeting was unparalleled—their Supreme Director, standing high upon the platform, had made a declaration of independence and a promise of resurgence to them,

and had also injected boiling blood and passion into the spirit of every single one of them.

To the point that after the meeting ended, they passed this passion on to their respective subordinates without reservation, initiating the most thorough mobilization since the Legion's reorganization.

Everyone was incredibly excited, everyone was filled with immense anticipation—

The Guardian Angel Legion, having completed its reorganization, restructuring, and re-equipment, was like a beast that had struggled in the mire for so long but was now brand new. At this moment, it was like a giant steam engine running at full power, already smoking and constantly heating up.

It was ready for war.

For Xi Hai, this enthusiasm was both expected and planned:

High enthusiasm meant an extremely high mobilization rate and more morale bonuses, which was undoubtedly a great help.

However, the pressure it brought was also unparalleled—

At this time, Xi Hai already felt this heavy pressure.

After yesterday's meeting concluded, Xi Hai immediately began comparing the strengths of both sides and deploying strategies.

As the saying goes, "Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated." Before playing one's cards, it is a crucial step to clarify what cards you have and what face-up cards the opponent holds.

Of course, under night lamp's incredibly transparent surveillance, the information of both sides could be said to be unilaterally transparent.

Had it not been for the fact that the coalition formed by the Big Five (the Empire, the Democratic Alliance, the Haivier Federation, the Xila Republic, and the Legion's Loyalist Faction) was too backward in terms of numerical control, and the existence of certain wetware computers, the coalition's secrets would have been completely exposed before the battle even began.

But when Xi Hai compared the numerical values of both sides, he still had to admit one fact—

That is, the numerical disparity was truly terrifying.

The armed forces gathered by the coalition, just in terms of the number of Large Capital Ships over 1,000 meters long, was more than three times the total number of Guardian Angel Legion Warships.

And this was only the confirmed number of capital ships, not including those small Warships and undetected fleet,

There were too many, truly too many.

However, after the initial shock, Xi Hai was not intimidated—

Once war leaves the ground, quantity is no longer an overwhelming advantage; quality is.

The coalition's vast numbers were actually a good thing for him:

This wasn't the army of a single entity; it was a coalition of five.

They had five sets of command systems, five sets of tactical systems, five sets of military terminology, and perhaps even five sets of daily customs.

To put it nicely, it was a coalition; to put it bluntly, it was a giant powder keg composed of five different systems.

The only reason they could gather and hadn't fallen apart yet was entirely because they temporarily had a relatively weak, common enemy—those "rebellious" regions.

If Xi Hai were to ignore them, they would likely start fighting among themselves over the distribution of interests as soon as they finished clearing out the rebelling regions.

Moreover, based on some of the information provided by night lamp, there were plenty of conflicts within the coalition—things like withholding military pay, cross-departmental physical abuse of subordinates, and the illegal reselling of supplies were common occurrences.

Of course, there were elite units with strict discipline, but whether it was because those major regimes didn't value them or were hiding their strength, there weren't many elite fleet in the coalition, accounting for only about twenty percent.

The rest were line-filling cannon fodder with dilapidated equipment and no Relics.

In contrast, the brand-new Guardian Angel Legion had no reason to fear a direct confrontation with these guys—

"Compared to them, we are like gods."

This was Xi Hai's most intuitive reaction after comparing the weapon differences between the two sides.

Therefore, there was no need to worry about the early stages of the battle; even in a head-on clash, the coalition had little chance of winning.

What he should be concerned about was how to face the five major regimes behind the coalition after repelling or annihilating it.

That was the real problem.

Even if the five major regimes were decadent and incompetent, a starved camel is still bigger than a horse—not to mention these "camels" were far from being "starved." In humanity's current situation, none of those who could survive and even grow were simple characters.

One person taking down all of humanity's regimes and conveniently beating to death any aliens who came to mediate?

This was as ridiculous as in a certain five-character god-tier game, where at the start, one spawns at Site B without throwing smoke, stands on the yellow pipe to hold angles against Mid, Kobe, Blue Slope, Jail 2, and the Skybridge... and then conveniently snipes some trailing rat that popped out of nowhere.

Although for Xi Hai, this wasn't impossible,

But, what would be the price?

It would be a mutual destruction where all of humanity's existing territories would become battlefields, scorched earth, and even ruins.

And his talk of "Humanity's Resurgence" would become an utter joke.

He himself would become humanity's greatest civil war leader.

In contrast, Xi Hai still preferred to exploit the contradictions between the five regimes, letting the already loose alliance disintegrate on its own, and then picking them off one by one from the inside out.

An alliance bound by interests can be shattered by interests.

Thinking this, Xi Hai put down the pen in his hand and picked up a piece of paper on the desk with wet ink.

It was filled with writing, and upon closer inspection, one could see that the content had only one central theme—

That was how to quickly integrate the regions where uprisings had already broken out.

"Beep, beep, beep!!!"

Just as he blew the ink dry, the communication device on the desk let out a sharp, piercing alarm.

Xi Hai was startled. He reached out and took the communicator. As soon as it connected, a flurry of excited shouts came through—

"Supreme Director! According to your requirements, the megastructure named 'stargate' that we built at Tianjin Seat V89.05 has been completed and passed night lamp's inspection!"

"The lighting experiment can now be conducted! Please give us your instructions!"

Suddenly, Xi Hai's eyes lit up—

His stargate!

That epoch-making megastructure, a wonder representing pioneering and enterprise,

Was finally finished!

Without any hesitation, Xi Hai switched the communicator to another channel and said quickly to the Orderly:

"Prepare a ship! We're going to the experimental Industrial Zone at Point L3 right now!"

"Yes, sir!"