Qu Jianlei agrees with the judgment of Paranoid and Hua Xiezhi: Three United Company's abnormal performance shows that the possibility of it being a trap is very small.
As for being 100% sure it's not a trap? Please, there are never absolutes in the world.
Anyway, Three United Company's forced siding with others has already caused serious consequences, so it's normal for him to be the first to be retaliated against.
Because someone provided accurate information, 8384 Ship took off again only an hour after it landed.
They were not the only ones at the market. When they saw the tattered starship leaving, someone quietly picked up the communication equipment.
Qu Jianlei could predict what would happen after he left, but there was nothing he could do about it.
You can't control everyone in the entire market, right? That's really crazy.
Therefore, the retaliatory action that is about to be carried out will definitely not be hidden from those who are interested.
However, he has no other choice. Who makes him short of people? We used to work alone, but now we have organized a team, but we are still short of people.
If an intelligence network can be established as envisioned by Fourth Boss, there will be no need to worry about no one doing the job.
But this assumption is too far away, and Qu Jianlei doesn't want to think about it that much.
His current thinking is: This operation is straightforward, saves time, and is quite good.
As for the resistance encountered may increase, that doesn't matter... If the resistance is not big, how can it reflect the tyranny of Hongjingtian Team?
Although there is suspicion of self-deception in thinking this way, objectively speaking, it can indeed better demonstrate strength.
Since it is possible to attract enemies from other directions, after 8384 Ship takes off, the selected target will be sprinted all the way.
Qu Jianlei chose a star with a diameter of more than 400 kilometers, named "Tear".
This star is in the shape of a drop of water, originally like a teardrop, and the entire mining process of this star also makes people cry.
When the star was first discovered, there were many kinds of precious metal mines on it, and they were very rich, which triggered fierce battles.
But it is a pity that during the subsequent mining process, everyone discovered that precious metal ore only exists in the outer shell of the star.
Ordinarily, this situation is not uncommon. After all, mineral veins are natural products. If there is any, it will be there. If there is no, it can be stopped instantly.
But on this planet, all the mineral veins are distributed on the surface, and the content is very high, but they are all interrupted suddenly, which is unreasonable.
If it hadn't been for exploration showing that the stars were indeed formed naturally, everyone would have thought that this was a scam.
Therefore, it is quite normal for this star to be called "tears".
Three United Company also participated in the fight back then and paid a heavy price. In the end, he finally robbed a mineral deposit.
Unsurprisingly, they didn't feel proud for long before they discovered that the mineral vein was exhausted.
Later, other companies gradually withdrew, but Three United Company felt that the location here was good and there were a large number of abandoned mines.
So they made some renovations and set it up as the company's hub in Asteroid Belt.
Originally they wanted to build a market similar to Azure Cloud, but it turns out that they thought too much.
But the center of Three Harmonies is indeed placed here, and a hospital, maintenance shop, etc. are also built above.
The environment and equipment and facilities here are much better than Azure Cloud, but I don't know why, but it really can't afford to be a market.
However, because of its complete equipment and facilities, it has also attracted many individual tourists to come and relax, so that the service industry has become relatively developed.
——However, unfortunately, it just cannot do the market. There is really no reason to explain this kind of thing.
Qu Jianlei chose this place because it is the hub of Three Harmonies.
Three United Company has participated in many mines in Asteroid Belt, but they are only shareholdings and there are no independently operated mines.
——Maybe it happens privately, but this is obviously not information that ordinary people can grasp.
Qu Jianlei didn't want to go to those mines. He had no interest in making new enemies, so he came to "Tears".
Before he arrived, people from Three Harmonies heard: Hongjingtian showed up and wanted to support those who bought the card! They also knew what they had done. Although they had no choice but to do so, it was a high probability that Hongjingtian would come to their door.
However, the people at Three Harmonies are not sure when the other party will come looking for them, and where exactly they will find them.
This is also the disadvantage of casting the net too wide. If you want to defend yourself, you don't know where to defend yourself.
Generally speaking, Tears Star is still the first focus of defense, but obviously, other places must be defended as well.
It is not impossible if the other party takes advantage of this misunderstanding and directly attacks a certain mine.
Asteroid Belt is more about bravery than profit. If the latter situation happened, no one would say that Hongjingtian is not particular about what he does.
You know, Hongjingtian is selling Protection Card, which only ensures that the person who buys the card will not be involved in Vortex.
If the buyer is really involved in Vortex, he will react, but the specific reaction... This person did not say.
The purpose of Hongjingtian should be to "give the opponent some color", so attacking the mine can be said to be a reasonable choice.
Qu Jianlei is worried that the opponent is too tough to attack, but Three Harmonies also has a headache - there are too many places to defend!
To sum up, although the people of Three Harmonies are highly nervous, it is impossible to concentrate all their combat power and guard Hongjingtian at Tears Star.
8384 rushed all the way, and after arriving, without saying a word, he opened fire on the space monitors surrounding the star.
Qu Jianlei didn't even declare war. When he found that there was no strong fleet nearby, he just opened fire.
After he started attacking, he connected to the public channel and said, "Hongjingtian is doing the work, and the uninvolved people will retreat to the open space immediately!"
"Irrelevant people should retreat to the open space immediately. I won't say it a third time... I'll give you one minute!"
The public channel was silent for three or four seconds before someone shouted, "Supreme Lord, please listen to our explanation!"
"I'm not here to hear an explanation!" Qu Jianlei replied coldly, then raised his hand and cut off the communication on the public channel.
"This is simply... too much bullying!" In a room on the ground, a middle-aged man cursed through gritted teeth.
The man is Earth Attribute Rank A, and he has a black mole as big as a soybean on his nose.
This is Three United Company's second-in-command to Tears Star. He was injured in Star Wars a while ago and is recovering from his injuries.
"Quickly!" Someone rushed in, "Go to the open space, otherwise it will be too dangerous here!"
"This is a hospital!" Black Mole Man snorted, "Does he dare to risk the disapproval of the world and openly attack the hospital?"
The hospital on Tears Star is not large, covering a total area of less than 10,000 square meters, and the construction area will not exceed 2,000 square meters.
It is divided into three floors, all underground, which is really shabby.
However, despite the small area, the level of medical equipment and professionals here is not bad, ranking in the top five in terms of Asteroid Belt and Buduo.
Moreover, attacking a hospital is a behavior that breaks the bottom line in the empire and will be despised by everyone.
Even if there is a war, if two warring parties attack each other's hospitals, it will be regarded as cruelty.
The wounded soldiers have lost their combat effectiveness, so attacking the hospital can only appear to have no limit - don't you have any wounded soldiers at home?
However, the people who rushed in were also a little angry and couldn't help but refute loudly.
"Sir, you are right, but as a company, when we coerce others to join the war, have we considered public outrage?"
When the man with the black mole heard this, all the words were stuck in his mouth.
Yes, attacking a hospital is against moral cognition, but is it right to coerce others into participating in the battle?
All this time, he didn't think this was a problem, because all the strong people were doing it.
It is only natural to coerce the weak. Even the military will take similar actions when faced with emergencies.
But now, he had to face a problem seriously: did the military really have the power to do this - it was called conscription! And Three United Company is just a commercial organization, why should it forcefully recruit others to join the war? So this is really not a recruitment, but a real coercion! It's just that everyone was used to it being smooth sailing before, and no one pointed it out.
Now that he had hit a big wall, he had time to reflect on it, and then he was shocked to find: We seemed to be a bit unreasonable! Before he could think more, he felt the entire basement shaking violently.
Immediately afterwards, even the room began to shake, and everyone was spinning as if they were on a roller coaster.
The next moment he found that his body was floating, as light as if it had no weight.
He reached out and grabbed a metal pipe, "Oops, the anti-gravity system has failed... How dare he, how dare he!"
However, it was the cry of a defeated dog after all. Amidst the deafening sound of artillery fire, no one cared about his reaction.
It was not just the 8384 Ship that opened fire above the star, but another repaired ship, the Anti-Smuggling Warship, also joined the attack.
In addition, there are two Attack Ship and two Assault Ship.
The number of starships was not particularly large, but at the moment all firepower was unleashed, and the overwhelming attack seemed extremely ferocious.
Although Tears Star is not small, the hub of Three United Company does not occupy a very large area, only four to five square kilometers.
Even with this small area, it is vast and sparsely populated, and this place was originally just a gathering point.
Even because there were no mines to protect, they did not have many forts for defense, with only five main forts.
One of the five forts is located in the middle, and the other four are about four kilometers away from the central fort.
All the forts' artillery fire can only protect dozens of square kilometers of land.
It's not like no one thought that Hongjingtian's team would attack, but there was no time to temporarily build a fortress.
In addition to the five main fortresses, there are also some small firepower points of the star Diandian, which I will not go into details.
Seriously, there are two Armed Merchant Ships in the basement of the star.
After the star was attacked, the two merchant ships quickly launched into action.
It took about two minutes for all the crew to board the ship and take their places.
From this reaction speed, we can know that Three United Company is highly alert to the intrusion of Hongjingtian Team!
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