There was no stirring plea for everyone to stay and fight back against the Federation's invasion.
Nor was there any impassioned outrage, condemning the warlords for turning Maliro into what it was now.
There was only some melancholy, some helplessness.
It was these ordinary things that left many people silent before their radios.
The Federation was really about to invade.
Some people looked south. They could not actually see anything, only the pitch-black sky.
But they knew that the Federation... was right there!
One night could not change anything. The next day, Mr. Truman publicly declared that the Maliro government had shown no remorse whatsoever for all the wrongs it had committed against them.
Amid the cheers of the Federation's people, he said those words—
"Use artillery fire and war to reclaim justice for the soldiers who were wounded!"
At 9:35 a.m., the Federal Government declared war on the Maliro government. The 350,000 Federal soldiers stationed at the border entered Maliro and advanced deeper into the country.
At the same time, Peng Joe's Minister of Foreign Affairs accused the Federal Government before the International Community of deliberately creating trouble and invading Maliro.
This was not a war of revenge. This was a naked invasion.
Peng Joe's Minister of Foreign Affairs demanded that the Federal Government immediately stop its "stupid actions" and actively apologize to and compensate the Maliro government and the civilians who had been harmed. Otherwise, the Peng Joe Empire, along with its subordinate countries and allies, would impose sanctions on the Federation.
If necessary, they would settle the dispute through a special military operation.
The statement from Peng Joe's Minister of Foreign Affairs immediately drew a fierce counterattack from the Federal International Affairs Department. The two sides and their allies engaged in heated arguments from afar over these