The staff officer who had just arrived happened to witness the entire scene.
As he listened to the squad leader's words, he felt his blood surge!
He immediately ran back to the bridge and reported everything to the ship's commander exactly as it had happened.
"Report!"
"The comrades on deck said that, as soldiers, we must have the courage to stand on the front line and defend our country!"
"We must keep every invading enemy beyond our borders!"
The commander froze for a moment after hearing this, then burst into a hearty laugh.
"Hahahaha! Good! Well said!"
He slammed his hand down on the console, his piercing eyes sweeping everyone on the bridge as his voice rang out.
"Who trained those soldiers? They've got guts!"
"That's exactly the fighting spirit our Great Xia soldiers should have!"
"With a collision coming, instead of thinking about dodging, they stepped up to the front line!"
The commander's gaze returned to the Eagle Country cruiser now close at hand, a wolfish ferocity flashing in his eyes.
"With soldiers like these, how could Great Xia ever fear defeat?!"
On the icy sea, two thoroughly enraged steel bulls charged headlong toward their targets, carrying unstoppable momentum!
Inside the Antietam's bridge, Commander Thompson stared with bloodshot eyes at the Great Xia 055 Destroyer drawing ever closer.
That damned warship with those big spheres on top!
Suddenly, Thompson's pupils contracted slightly.
Something was wrong!
Through his high-powered binoculars, he could clearly see a faint blue-green glow covering the Black Tortoise Ship's bow.
Its color and material clashed with the gray paint covering the rest of the hull, as though it were a foreign object welded on afterward.
Beneath the gloomy sky, that blue-green glow held an ominous, unsettling strangeness.
A bad feeling shot through him without warning.
But