The fourteen days flew by amid tense, orderly preparations and waiting.
During that time, Helu City's settlement ran like a precision clock wound tight, every part operating efficiently.
The troops completed another round of ammunition resupply and stockpiled enough supplies to sustain continuous, high-intensity combat. The training camp was finished at the Old Department Store Building and the surrounding area, with essential training facilities and trainee dormitories all in place.
The crucial "Vortex Type I Deep Space Source Energy Condenser" had also been installed and tested by the technicians. It was ready to be activated as soon as the camp opened.
The first eight hundred trainees selected from across the country had arrived in batches and been settled in.
They included soldiers, students, workers, and farmers. Their ages and backgrounds varied, but their eyes all burned with the same yearning and anticipation.
Their arrival brought a little more vitality and energy to the settlement.
Even more striking was the arrival, one after another, of foreign delegations that had made their way through the Gap Zone to this city, now so significant to Blue Star's survivors.
Tomorrow was the official opening of the East Vanguard Training Camp.
In the afternoon, the distant rumble of rotor blades grew louder.
A transport helicopter bearing the Union Jack, escorted by two armed Xia military helicopters, cautiously landed at a makeshift helipad cleared outside the settlement in Helu City.
The cabin door opened, and a fifteen-member British delegation stepped onto the land.
At their head was a neatly dressed man of about sixty, his hair meticulously combed.
He was the delegation's diplomatic chief, Sir Howard.
Behind him came a young man and woman. The man was tall and straight-backed, with keen eyes; his name was Adams. The woman had a striking, resolute face and a