The day after Yi Chen and Treya broke up, the square in front of the administrative office building of the 11th Regiment Base was bustling with people, and a venue had been set up.
A banner scrolled on the erected holographic display: "202021 Memorial and Commendation Conference for the 11th Regiment Base Monster Attack War!"
More than two months have passed since the monster attack, and the sad atmosphere has long faded. After all, the death of interstellar airborne troops is very common, and the remaining soldiers must continue to live. But this is just the right time for the 7th Company, and they take this opportunity to remember their comrades who died in the Atlantic Sea yesterday!
At this time, news spread throughout the base that the hero who saved the 11th Regiment base would be awarded a medal in front of the administrative office, so the soldiers spontaneously came to cheer for their savior.
Starting from early in the morning, soldiers began to gather here. By 9 a.m., the entrance of the administrative office building was blocked tightly, leaving only a central passage surrounded by colorful ribbons for people to enter and exit.
Yi Chen was received into the venue by base personnel early in the morning.
There are more than a dozen rows of seats in the venue. As the protagonist of the conference and the person with the greatest contribution, Yi Chen's seat is on the far left of the front row. On the right is Phelps-Maybach, and on the right are some senior instructors from the base. At the center of the first row are Miles Mark, commander of the base of the 11th regiment, and Major Haoman Farmer of the Changgeng Galaxy Military Region. In short, only Yi Chen and Phelps Maybach were ordinary soldiers in the first row, and the others were people with status in the 11th Regiment base or the imperial military.
Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Lima sat directly behind Yi Chen, in the first position in the second row. This shows that although he does not belong to the military, he has a high status in the army. To his right were more than twenty ordinary soldiers who had made great contributions in the monster attack battle.
In front of them is a temporary high platform with an area of more than 200 square meters, specially used for the awarding of medals.
At 9 o'clock, the conference officially started, and ordinary soldiers also entered the venue, occupying all the seats in the venue.
The host was Miles Mark's adjutant, Alice. He first asked everyone to observe a three-minute silence for the soldiers who died in the monster attack, followed by a bunch of polite words, and then asked Major Haoman Farmer to represent the Imperial Army. Fang took the stage to speak.
Major Haoman Farmer is worthy of being the major section chief of the Propaganda Department of the Changgeng Galaxy Military Region. His speech was full of emotion: "Although we suffered huge losses in this battle, a number of heroes were born on the battlefield in the iron and blood." Heroes who dared to fight desperately and risked their lives for the empire, they should not be forgotten by us! One of these heroes not only properly commanded the entire company during the battle, but also influenced all the soldiers in the entire base, and even went deep into the monster group alone. During the battle, he killed 358 dead wood elves and jungle war elephants until he was seriously injured and almost died! The empire will not forget any soldier who shed blood for it, nor will it treat any respectable hero unfairly! Therefore, the imperial government decided to award He has a glorious honorary title --- planetary combat hero, and at the same time, his military rank has been upgraded 4 levels to staff sergeant! Now let us ask him to come up and say a few words, everyone welcomes Staff Sergeant Chen!"
"Okay, the clown is a sergeant. He is the first sergeant among the 202021 recruits at our 11th regiment base, and he is also a sergeant of our Panhua tribe!" Li Feng was happy for his good brother and showed off to the surrounding Kabas tribe. .
"The clown deserves his name. If he hadn't sent people to the weapons depot to get weapons and elixirs last time, the base of the 11th regiment would have been occupied by a group of monsters, and none of us would have survived!" said a relatively objective Panhua soldier. .
"Hey!" A Kabasi nationality populist sighed reluctantly.
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In short, Yi Chen deserves the title of a planet-level combat hero. No one from the Panhua tribe or the Kabasi tribe can give any reason to object.
Amidst the thunderous applause, Yi Chen walked to the high platform and said into the microphone: "Thank you for the applause, thank you! I want to thank many people, my comrades in the 7th company, my instructors Huffman, Bill, Yan Hui , and the officers of the 11th Regiment Base, it is you who have allowed me to continue to grow. Without you, I would not be where I am today. At this moment, I deeply feel the power of fate. It was fate that brought me to this world. At that time I did those things. Without the help of fate, I would have died under the hammer of the dead wood elf; even if I escaped, I would not be able to escape the thorn of the jungle elephant's bone knife! Finally, if you want If you are grateful, please thank the omnipresent fate!”
Applause rang out again. After Yi Chen finished speaking, he took the medal and certificate from Haoman Farmer and returned to his seat.
The Planetary Combat Hero Medal is a gold badge. It depicts the structure of the sharp star system. A five-carat thick blue ice is used in the center to represent the sharp sun, and five orbits are inlaid with silver lines around it. There are five gems of various colors in the orbit, representing the five planets of the Sharp Star System.
This is an important honorary title awarded by the Kabasi Empire. The recipients of the award have many benefits, and it is also very convenient to find employment in various industries in the empire after retirement.
Then Major Haoman Farmer, on behalf of the empire, awarded corresponding medals and certificates to other meritorious people, which attracted bursts of applause from everyone.
Next, the host Alizi invited Miles Mark to the stage to give a speech on the award. Yes, this guy who had been hiding in the underground conference room during the monster attack also received a generous reward and was awarded a medal for outstanding command. Officer Medal.
Of course, his medal is not as important as Yi Chen's planetary battle hero medal. As an ordinary soldier, Yi Chen's merit points in one battle exceeded 1,500, which was also very rare in the history of the imperial army.
Miles Mark immediately cheered up, straightened his clothes, especially the pile of various medals on his chest, and then walked onto the high platform with a friendly smile.
Phelps Maybach on the side quietly approached Yi Chen and asked, "Why do you suddenly think of your destiny?"
"This is destiny. I just expressed my heart truthfully." Yi Chen said matter-of-factly, and then asked: "But you, although we meet often, I still don't know your name!"
"Then let me introduce myself!" Phelps-Maybach stretched out his hand and said: "My name is Phelps-Maybach, the temporary company commander of the 18th Company."
Yi Chen had actually known him for a long time, but the two had never communicated publicly. He held each other's hand and said, "This way we officially know each other!"
Phelps-Maybach formally thanked Yi Chen for giving them 10 LM50 grenade launchers for the 18th Company during the last monster attack, which allowed their 18th Company to reduce casualties.
"It seems that this Phelps-Maybach guy is pretty good and knows how to repay kindness!" Yi Chen thought to himself.
Miles Mark on the high platform was talking about how he kept in touch with Yi Chen and helped Yi Chen gain the confidence to continue fighting at the critical moment. In the end, it was as if Yi Chen were his siblings, he was Yi Chen's brain, and all Yi Chen's actions were completed under his instructions.
Phelps-Maybach blushed after hearing this, but when he saw Yi Chen's expression remained unchanged, he couldn't help but ask: "Aren't you angry after hearing this!"
"What's there to be angry about!" Yi Chen smiled slightly: "Besides, strictly speaking, everyone in our 11th Regiment base is under Miles Mark, and he must have a share in all our military exploits!"
"Yeah!" Phelps-Maybach nodded slightly, agreeing with Yi Chen's statement.
Yi Chen is very relaxed now. He has long known about the darkness and decadence of the Kabasi Empire from Stark, so he can look at this matter with a detached eye.
At this time, Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Lima patted Yi Chen. Yi Chen turned around and asked, "Major, what are your orders?"
Andrew Lima chuckled: "I heard what you just said. Young people can have such an open-minded and detached sunshine like you, and they can avoid many detours. Do you really not want to participate in the action I mentioned?"
Yi Chen fell into deep thought for a moment. He neither refused nor agreed immediately.
Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Lima did not rush Yi Chen and continued to watch the commendation ceremony patiently.
Yi Chen's brain was calculating the gains and losses at high speed, whether to agree to what Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Lima said.
Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Lima is the deputy director of the Imperial Security Department of the Chang Geng System. The purpose of his visit to Fengrui Star this time is for Yi Chen.
After Director Verus Butler of the Imperial Security Agency ordered the execution of Operation Shadow, his secretary Beretta began the specific implementation work.
In order to gather 300 planet-level combat heroes from the Panhua clan, the Imperial Security Bureau worked hard and spent a whole month in the world without being able to complete the staffing.
The reason is also very simple. There are not many planet-level combat heroes in the first place. Although the empire has hundreds of billions of active soldiers, there are only a few thousand people who truly hold the title of planet-level combat heroes.
Because the Imperial Security Bureau requires those participating in the operation to be of the Panhua ethnic group, only a few hundred of the thousands of planet-level combat heroes actually meet the requirements. The 300 planet-level combat heroes are almost the total number of planet-level combat heroes of the Panhua ethnic group.
Shadow Operation is a gamma-level mission. Participants must commit suicide after being exposed. This has led to some planet-level combat heroes of the Panhua ethnic group to refuse to participate in Shadow Operation.
Therefore, the staff has not been fully in place for a long time!
In order to speed up the progress of the task, Beretta issued a death order to the Imperial Security Department of each system under the Imperial Security Bureau, and assigned rigid targets, requiring that they must be completed within the specified time limit, otherwise the directors and deputy directors of each security department The commander is removed from his post on the spot and replaced with someone who can complete the order.
The Security Department of the Chang Geng System Empire is still short of a planet-level combat hero. In order to complete the mission, they have been desperately searching for it. For this reason, the director and deputy directors personally went to various military bases to do work. However, they searched all over the area under their jurisdiction. All military bases failed to find the last planet-level combat hero who met the conditions.
Hard work paid off, and they suddenly heard from the Propaganda Department of the Changgeng Galaxy that a Panhua tribe member would be awarded a planet-level combat hero.
So a deputy director was sent to follow Haoman Farmer to the 11th Regiment base, preparing to persuade Yi Chen to join Operation Shadow as soon as he was awarded the planet-level combat hero.
By coincidence, Andrew Lima met Stark when he came to the Sharp Star Soldier Bar to drink. The two were comrades in the army, and Stark saved Andrew Lima's life many times when they were performing operations together.
The two friends, who were close friends in life and death, drank some wine and talked openly. After Stark knew Andrew Lima's purpose, he called Huffman.
Huffman had participated in the empire's top-secret operations and knew that there were many secrets involved. For this reason, he also killed 50 comrades of the genetic warriors.
The three of them were genetic warriors of the empire, and their loyalty to the empire was unquestionable. Andrew Lima did not hide anything and told the two of them what he knew about Operation Shadow.
Of course, Andrew Lima does not know the ultimate goal of Shadow Operation. He only knows the type of operation, risks, rewards, etc.
So Huffman called Yi Chen to help him analyze the pros and cons, and let Yi Chen decide whether to participate in this operation.
Yi Chen was not an imperial sergeant yesterday. Andrew Lima told him that after participating in Operation Shadow and returning alive, his military rank would be promoted by three levels. He made a calculation in his mind. A private with level 3 would be a sergeant. After a narrow escape, he still wasn't qualified to be a company commander. Damn it, he just decided against it!
It's different now. Yi Chen now has the rank of sergeant. After adding three levels, he will have the rank of captain. He is more than enough to be a formal company commander.
In this way, Yi Chen can truly rely on himself to get the ticket to climb up in the Kabasi Empire's military!
Thinking of the recent failure experience, Chang Meng, and his parents on Earth, Yi Chen gritted his teeth and said: "Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Lima, I agree to participate in Operation Shadow!"
