Zorik chuckled. "You must be joking, General. I have no hidden motives. I just hope we can wrap this up quickly so we can head back. You’re overthinking it."
"Good," Aelra replied. The matter seed to end there as Aelra resud, "Proceed according to the original plan. Noryn and the others will continue advancing on Lumora and other nearby targets. No matter the cost, we must secure these planets."
Zorik huffed lightly. "This should’ve been done from the start. Wasting so much ti here was pointless. These humans are all spineless—they mistake our restraint for rcy. If we wait for them to grow stronger, it’ll only be trouble."
"What about Lumora? Lorrik is gone. Soone has to go there," Zorik pressed.
"Send Koryn," Aelra replied without hesitation.
"Koryn was previously in charge of Astralis He’s already familiar with it. Transferring him to Lumora might be difficult for him to adapt to," Zorik objected imdiately.
"And what would you suggest, General Zorik?" Aelra asked, his expression unchanging.
"Send Xevra," Zorik proposed.
Amalia knew that Xevra and two other captains had been assigned to Astralis.
These planets seed similar enough, yet disputes were arising over them.
Could there be sothing hidden on these planets?
"Fine," Aelra agreed after only a mont of thought.
Zorik, caught off guard by Aelra’s quick assent, briefly suspected so hidden agenda.
After pondering it, however, he dismissed the idea—if there were a sche, he was confident it wouldn’t escape his notice.
Amalia glanced at Aelra.
Among the four present, he was the most inscrutable.
His emotions were so restrained that no matter what happened, his composure never wavered.
Since the following discussions adhered strictly to the original plan, the eting didn’t last long, nor did it require summoning other ch squad captains.
The orders were issued directly.
Amalia left the war eting room when her terminal suddenly buzzed.
Just as she opened it to glance at the screen, she felt a hand tap her shoulder.
She instinctively shielded the terminal’s screen with her fingers and turned to see Vynar behind her.
"Noryn, the General has more to discuss with you."
"I understand," Amalia replied, closing the terminal.
She gave Vynar a asured look, relieved that he hadn’t seen anything on her screen.
"Is sothing wrong?" Vynar asked, noticing her glance at his face.
"It’s nothing." Amalia returned to the war eting room and approached Aelra. "General, you called for ?"
"Be extra careful on this mission," Aelra advised.
Amalia paused for a mont, then asked, "Are you referring to the matter with Shadron?"
Aelra looked at her with approval. "Of everyone, I admire your intelligence the most. Talking to you requires no effort."
"Thank you for the complint, General. I just want to lighten your burden," Amalia responded.
"Then I’ll wait for you to find the right monts to do so," Aelra replied, returning to the main topic. "The disappearance of Shadron unsettles . I have a feeling that if we don’t resolve it, there will be problems down the line."
"Do you have any suspicions, General?" Amalia asked calmly.
Aelra sighed softly. "I don’t want to think in that direction, but the only ones capable of this are our own people." Amalia’s pupils constricted. "Are you suspecting...?"
"Be careful with your words," Aelra interjected, stopping her. "So things are better left unsaid."
"But what could their motivation be?" Amalia asked, puzzled.
"Profit is the root of all motivations. Our enemies are not humans from the Androda Universe, but from within our own ranks," Aelra said, his words carrying a deep significance.
After speaking, he gestured for her to leave.
Amalia didn’t ask any further questions, respectfully stepping out.
"Congratulations, General, Noryn is becoming more and more impressive," Vynar said with a smile to Aelra.
Aelra chuckled. "I just hope he doesn’t disappoint my expectations."
"Noryn is so clever. He won’t," Vynar said confidently.
He trusted Noryn’s judgnt.
Before long, Amalia t with Kenny Lin in a secret room.
"What did you do today? Just now, soone nad Koryn asked if I had noticed anything unusual about Xevra."
As soon as she saw Kenny Lin, Amalia imdiately asked.
She had nearly been seen by Vynar earlier, which could have led to complications, and their plans might not have gone smoothly afterward.
"He actually went to ask you? It seems that Noryn has a good relationship with him. Today, I discovered a ch plaza where chs were being loaded with red crystals, one after another. He seed very nervous about it," Kenny Lin shrugged.
"By the way, those red crystals are the sa energy stones you found inside the chs earlier. It seems like this battleship has more than one place like that," he added.
Amalia pondered for a mont after hearing this. "Does that red crystal have any unusual properties? From my previous observations, it shouldn’t require machinery to function. The aliens can carry it around with them."
"There’s a faint sense of threat from it, almost negligible. Because it wasn’t obvious, I didn’t pay much attention," Kenny Lin replied, seemingly unfazed.
Amalia speculated, "Perhaps everything has a double-edged nature."
"What happened after you went there?" Kenny Lin asked again.
"The aliens decided to follow through with their original plan and attack other planets. It seems there’s so kind of secret associated with these planets. Even the generals had their disagreents about them," Amalia replied.
"A secret?" Kenny Lin’s lips curled into a knowing smile.
"Do you know why?" she asked.
"I’m not certain, but I can guess. It’s probably related to the humans on those planets. After I left that ch plaza, do you know what I saw?" Kenny Lin’s smile grew more playful.
"You saw a lot of humans on the battleship?" Amalia said matter-of-factly.
"You’re so smart. No wonder I love you so much," Kenny Lin said with a mischievous grin. "At the bottom of the battleship, there were many imprisoned humans. For the aliens, it wouldn’t make sense to capture and keep them alive when they could just kill them. Not only were they imprisoned, but they were also being fed and kept alive. Don’t you think that’s strange?"
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