After hanging up the call with Ralph, Han Xiao did not bother with repairing his mechanical suit. He left the workshop and went to the command room on the bridge. He gave the order to gather all the officers of the fleet for a meeting.
There was no need for the officers to keep an eye on the battlefield. After the order was given, the officers of the fleet came to the flagship one after another. They gathered in the command room and nodded at Han Xiao.
Han Xiao nodded in response to the old officers under him. There was the dejected Lagi, the calm and reliable Herlous, the graceful Sylvia, the reckless Harmon, and the three Calamity Grade Supers who had joined three years ago — Kampe, Marian, and Misecech.
Other than the officers of the army, there were also a few other Section Zero members in the expedition fleet. They had fought side by side for half a year and were very familiar with each other.
After everyone was present, Han Xiao knocked on the table, and the chatter stopped.
"I've gathered all of you this time to inform you of the next step. I've just received news from Purple Crystal. They're very satisfied with our results over the past half a year. They've decided to conscript us back and give us a long holiday. Our mission is over, so we can rest for a while."
Hearing this, everyone was overjoyed.
"That's great. I haven't been home for half a year, and my wife has been asking me every day when I'm going back. Haha, I can give her a surprise now." A core member of another organization was the first to speak.
"Maybe she'll give you a surprise …" Lagi patted his shoulder comfortingly.
"Thank you." This person's face was full of gratitude. Wasn't this settled?
"Finally, I can rest …"
Sylvia's eyes lit up. She bit her lower lip and almost cheered out loud.
Han Xiao glanced at her and nodded. In the past three years, Sylvia had devoted herself to actual combat and walked on the edge of life and death. Her growth was far faster than before, and she had entered a period of rapid growth.
In his previous life, Sylvia had been a Calamity Grade Super in Version 3.0 and had earned the title of 'Female Mechanical Knight'. In the past three years, this potential had gradually revealed itself. In the past, Sylvia had been very envious of Fu Ding's terrifying talent, and now, she had also discovered a similar talent.
Han Xiao reckoned that Sylvia might really be able to advance from B class to A class during the update period. She still had nearly seven years to grow.
However, Sylvia's biggest change was her appearance. Women change eighteen times between childhood and womanhood. In the past three years, Sylvia had gradually grown up. She had a head of long brown curly hair, a tall figure, and snow-white skin. As the saying goes, a fair complexion can hide a hundred ugliness. However, not only was she not ugly, her appearance was also very outstanding. Not only were her facial features beautiful, but when put together, they were that kind of pure and charming appearance. Her valiant and valiant temperament revealed a natural charm.
She did not wear a heavy alloy mechanical suit and mainly wore a light combat suit with a shield as the main component. Thus, she looked rather cool and revealed a large portion of her hot body covered by the high-strength fiber combat suit. She had a strange charm to her, and her charm had increased by at least thirty percent.
Beautiful women were always pleasing to the eyes. He could not help but sigh. In his previous life, Sylvia had been a frequent customer in the game world, and she probably would not be able to escape in this life. It all depended on when the players would discover her.
"Old Herlous, after you go back, take over Reynold's job and check on the development of the industries in the various Star Systems," Han Xiao turned around and instructed Herlous.
"Okay." Herlous nodded.
Herlous had always been an important management officer. In the past half a year, in order to train himself, he had followed the fleet on the expedition. The daily affairs of the Black Star Corps were temporarily handled by Reynold and a group of administrative officers in the headquarters. They would report the situation to Han Xiao regularly.
In comparison, Han Xiao trusted Herlous' ability more. Other than Old Herlous liking to play cards, he was quite reliable in all other aspects. In the past half a year, he had also gained quite a lot, becoming one of the best among Grade B +. He was finally starting to touch the threshold of the Calamity Grade.
In his previous life, Herlous had died early in the beast tide of Planet Sunil. Han Xiao did not know if he had the potential to become a Calamity Grade Super.
However, since he was a protagonist-type character with Luck Glow, even if his talent and aptitude were not as good as Fu Ding's, he was still far superior to ordinary people.
…
After giving out some instructions, Han Xiao ended the meeting.
The battlefield had been cleaned up, and the fleet set off to return to Colton.
Han Xiao locked himself in his office and calculated the current business situation of the Black Star Corps.
In the past three years, the development of the Black Star Corps had been smooth sailing. The importance of the mercenary business had dropped to third place, and the industry had gradually completed its transformation. It was no longer a mercenary group but a large private armed organization.
The original mercenary business had been separated and formed the mercenary division of the Black Star Corps. It followed the structure of a mercenary group and specialized in the mercenary business. Thus, it satisfied the wishes of many freelance mercenaries and did not lose many talents. Instead, it increased the attractiveness of the mercenaries.
The Mercenary League in the Shattered Star Ring had been established but had not been officially announced. The Black Star Corps was currently one of the positions of the upper echelons.
Sky Ring, Blades, and the other large armies were using Han Xiao's name to recruit people from all over the Star Field. At the same time, they also had to negotiate with the Mercenary Guild Alliance. This was a universe-level guild, and the Shattered Star Ring was only one of the divisions of the Mercenary Guild Alliance. If they wanted to establish an army, they had to go through the Mercenary Guild Alliance.
The mercenary business had dropped to third place. The main business of the Black Star Corps was the long-term cooperation with Purple Crystal and the secret war.
The second most important business was mining. Dozens of Star System civilizations had invited them to help them build bases in their territories and allow them to mine resource planets. The profit from this was the most terrifying and was the biggest source of income for the Black Star Corps.
With bases built in dozens of Star Systems, the territory of the Black Star Corps had expanded to more than half of the Colton Star Cluster.
With so many Star Systems being so far apart from each other, if they were to use their own funds to build a base, the expenditure would be enormous. Adding on the cost of maintenance, logistics, and so on, this would cause the financial flow of the army to become unhealthy.
Although the contracts offered by these Star System civilizations were not small, they were not enough to support the huge cost. Furthermore, if they wanted to mine resource planets, they would have to invest even more, recruit a large number of people, and manufacture or purchase all kinds of mining equipment. This was another terrifying cost.
Although the Star System civilizations would provide some support, they would not fully help the Black Star Corps to mine their own resource planets. They would only provide a certain amount of manpower and equipment so that the Black Star Corps could mine a resource planet.
Mining resource planets required a huge amount of investment, and most organizations would not be able to afford it. If they only used the army's funds to mine resource planets, the value of the mining rights of the resource planets would be extremely small, even with the help of the Black Spirit Race. Although the Black Spirit Race was good at mining, they were still very backward. After being killed on Planet Sunil, their population had not recovered in just a few years.
However, Han Xiao saw the characteristic of businessmen that pursued profits. He publicized the mining rights contracts between the Black Star Corps and the various Star System civilizations and opened them for public bidding. The target of the bidding was the financial groups of the entire Star Field. These financial groups were clear about the huge profits of resource planets, so they all flocked to them to seek cooperation.
Of course, Han Xiao could not sell the mining rights of the civilizations, but it was not a problem to get people to cooperate. He could get the financial groups to provide the funds to help the Black Star Corps conduct large-scale, multi-planet mining, and the resources that were mined could be sold through the channels of these financial groups, allowing them to earn a commission.
Han Xiao bid the mining rights of the different Star Systems separately, clearly dividing the areas that each financial group would be responsible for investing and selling.
This way, although the profits could not be compared to the profits of mining independently, it could be accumulated.
With a huge influx of funds, the Black Star Corps completed the business expansion of many Star Systems in the past three years. The sub-bases of every Star System were mining six or seven resource planets, and the actual income was much higher than mining independently, maximizing the utilization of the mining rights.
Just the number of financial groups that cooperated with them jumped from single digits to 127, and they were all famous financial groups in the Star Field.
Therefore, in just three short years, the scale of the Black Star Corps had snowballed!
War, mining, employment, these were the three main businesses of the Black Star Corps. With the diversification of the business, it showed the characteristics of a financial group. The official members had already exceeded the ten million mark, and the management personnel who handled the daily chores had also become an important part of the army.
Because the scale of the army had skyrocketed, the number of matters that came with it also increased exponentially. There were a lot of problems that needed to be solved every day, and Han Xiao experienced the headache of a galactic contractor. If only this thing was as simple as fighting. He could only leave the specific matters to his subordinates to handle. He only needed to control the overall blueprint of the organization and go out to fight frequently. There was nothing else for him to do.
"The three main businesses of the army are already on the right track. Money is rolling in, and it's a virtuous cycle. I only need to maintain the stability of the army."
Han Xiao pondered.
Ever since the first wave of income from mining the resource planets more than two years ago, he rarely looked at the amount of his savings. Anyway, he knew that as long as he did not do charity, his funds would not run out.
This holiday was very rare, and he did not want to worry about the miscellaneous matters of the organization. Instead, he prepared to use it to complete the legacy mission.
In the past three years, Han Xiao had found a mission in his memory that could give him a level 180 silver legacy blueprint. The mission process could be summarized as passing the tests one by one and working hard to obtain the recognition of the inheritor.
Because this was a level 180 blueprint mission, the process was extremely complicated, and the mission location was in another Star Cluster.
Han Xiao had not taken many holidays in the past three years, and he had only reached the seventh round of this mission. He estimated that he should be able to complete this mission and obtain the legacy blueprint during this long holiday.
Obtaining the blueprint was only the first step. He still had to create the orange product. Han Xiao did not want to use a Mission Completion Card. In order to level up his Cutting-Edge Knowledges, he had spent a lot of experience to level up his skills. Although killing Calamity Grades gave him a lot of experience, the experience he had was only enough for him to level up about ten times.
There were still seven years until the start of Version 3.0. Without enough experience, it was basically impossible for him to become a Beyond Grade A Super. His current strength was also relatively sufficient. Therefore, Han Xiao felt that there was no need to look for Mission Completion Cards everywhere. After all, the level 200 Promotion Mission was another hurdle.
While thinking, Han Xiao opened the interface and browsed through the mission list. There were quite a lot of missions on it.
The fourth round of [Prey] had not been completed. For some reason, Thousand Shadows had been silent for three years. This made Han Xiao very cautious. It felt like the calm before the storm. The longer it brewed, the scarier it would be.
Han Xiao did not have the time to do Godora's Grade S [Bloodline] mission. He felt that it would be very troublesome. If he had the time, he might as well use it to develop the Black Star Corps. The benefits would definitely be much greater than the mission reward.
Aroshia's personal mission was still delayed, but Feidin's hidden mission, [Choice], had been completed in the past three years, reaching the fourth result … Feidin and Chen Xing had gotten together, and they were really sleeping with each other.
The mission reward was not bad. It gave him a lot of experience and a chance to obtain a Random Reward. Fu Ding and Chen Xing's Favorability increased greatly, making Han Xiao feel like he was the matchmaker.
Speaking of which, isn't this a narcissistic situation?
Han Xiao did not dare imagine what the wedding ceremony would be like if the two of them were to get married. It would definitely be an eyesore!
Beep beep!
While looking at the interface, Han Xiao's communicator suddenly rang.
He picked it up and saw that it was a message from Aesop.
"Vilna … hmm? She wants me to hand over the job and train a successor in advance? "
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