Seven Lù was also restless at this time, but with Huo Yushen here, it didn't dare to act rashly.
It didn't even dare to write on Xia Chujian's eyepiece display screen.
It only emitted a faint electric current within the confines of her Other Shore Flower Necklace, stimulating her twice.
Xia Chujian raised her head and said, "Marshal Huo, are you monitoring me?"
Huo Yushen said dismissively, "When you were in the Asteroid Belt, I couldn't monitor you."
"When you're not in the Asteroid Belt, I don't have time to monitor you."
"Besides, what earth-shattering secrets do you have that would require someone of my level to personally monitor you?"
Xia Chujian: "..."
That made sense, and she couldn't refute it.
She silently looked at Huo Yushen and said quietly, "Marshal Huo, just say what you want to say directly. Why bother with so many parallelisms and rhetorical questions?"
Huo Yushen said casually, "In the past, I told you not to use rhetorical devices such as metaphors and parallelisms because I thought you were young, inexperienced, and lacked knowledge."
"But now it seems that although you are still young, you have made great progress in terms of experience and knowledge, so I can raise the level a bit when talking to you."
Hearing this, Xia Chujian only felt it was strange. It wasn't exactly a compliment, but he was praising her.
But if it was a compliment, the feeling was just off...
Xia Chujian didn't have much time to ponder, and she wasn't used to pondering so meticulously. She simply ignored it and said, "Then thank you, Marshal Huo. At least I can finally talk to Marshal Huo normally in the future."
Huo Yushen: "..."
"Then let's talk properly in the future." Huo Yushen glanced at her, "And then?"
Xia Chujian perked up and said, "Then I just randomly boarded a Starship. I was lucky..."
Xia Chujian recounted what happened on Starship No. 18, even including what the woman who claimed to be the Captain's Daughter said.
At the end, she said uneasily, "Marshal Huo, that female Star Pirate said their goal was to surround and not attack, and then withdraw after Seven Days."
"But I saw how brutal they were, and I was indignant that they could retreat unscathed, so I organized forces and annihilated them all..."
"Will you blame me?"
Huo Yushen said sternly, "Of course not. Although that female Star Pirate said their goal was to surround and not attack, do you have any other evidence to prove that what she said was true?"
"Even if what she said was true..." Huo Yushen's tone became more somber.
"The Bodhi Leaf Star Pirates have countless blood debts to our Beichen Empire over the past thirty years. If you had let them go, I would have truly blamed you!"
Xia Chujian's eyes lit up, and she nodded repeatedly as if she had found a kindred spirit, saying, "Marshal Huo is absolutely right! That's exactly what I thought!"
"Those Star Pirates hurt so many innocent people. Why should they surround and not attack, as if they were bestowing a favor on us! I just couldn't stand it!"
"But at the time, I was worried that others would know this and oppose my plan to annihilate the Star Pirates, so I didn't tell anyone!"
Huo Yushen thought, If you really said these words to those people, they really would oppose your plan to annihilate the Star Pirates...
This girl really has an extraordinary intuition for danger and trouble.
He became even more amiable and said, "You can just tell me about this matter. Don't tell others."
Hearing this, Xia Chujian understood.
Probably if everyone knew this key information, apart from Huo Yushen, no one else would support her plan to annihilate the Star Pirates at that time.
But as long as Huo Yushen supported her, Xia Chujian felt there was nothing to worry about.
She smiled broadly and said, "Got it, I'll only tell Marshal Huo. Others aren't worth my heart-to-heart."
Huo Yushen's mouth twitched, "Is that how you use 'heart-to-heart'?"
Xia Chujian giggled, "It's just a metaphor, Marshal Huo just needs to understand what I mean."
Huo Yushen: "..."
He didn't want to understand! Helplessly rubbing his forehead, Huo Yushen closed his eyes and continued to ask, "And then? You only had one Starry Sky Cruiser. How did you deal with the enemy's eight combat-capable Starships of Starry Sky Cruiser level?"
Xia Chujian: "..."
Need to ask so many details? It's like interrogating a prisoner...
She grumbled inwardly, but on her face, she still wore a smug expression, proudly saying, "Of course, it's thanks to my wit and the bravery of my subordinates!"
"I know I only have one Starry Sky Cruiser, and only two Space Ion Beam Cannons on board!"
"The other side's three Starships that could fight normally each had five Space Ion Beam Cannons, making a total of fifteen!"
"Fifteen to two, we were at a clear disadvantage!"
"So I transferred two hundred elites from those five hundred Starry Sky Marines."
"I had them each carry fifty pounds of High-Energy Plasma Explosives and Punishment 0937 Electromagnetic Cannons, and go with me to those Starships!"
"My plan was to use High-Energy Plasma Explosives to directly destroy the power systems of those Starships without combat capabilities."
"That way, even if we couldn't destroy the entire Starship, we could prevent them from running away."
"For those Starships with combat capabilities, like the three with Space Ion Beam Cannons, we would first use Punishment 0937 Electromagnetic Cannons for physical destruction."
"Then we would use five hundred pounds of High-Energy Plasma Explosives per ship to directly pile on the explosive power!"
"As for the remaining five Starships that could barely fight but didn't have Space Ion Beam Cannons, I would directly deal with them using our own Starry Sky Cruiser."
"We have two Space Ion Beam Cannons, which is more than enough to deal with such lousy Starships."
"Of course, there were also the base's Warplanes!"
"Marshal Huo, you don't know, there were actually five Warplanes in the base's Warplanes that also carried Ultra-Micro Space Ion Beam Cannons!"
"But I secretly requisitioned them all, using up all their Energy Blocks."
Xia Chujian said with a grin, getting more and more excited, "Guess what happened?"
"After the battle started, we discovered that most of the Space Ion Beam Cannons on the Bodhi Leaf Star Pirates' three Starry Sky Cruiser-level Starships were unusable!"
"Only two Space Ion Beam Cannons on each ship were working; the other three were just for show!"
"That's when our explosives came in handy, and we almost effortlessly took down the other side's Starships!"
Xia Chujian certainly wouldn't mention Seven Lù's "cycle" mini-program.
She attributed everything to those High-Energy Plasma Explosives, the Cruiser's Space Ion Beam Cannons, and the Ultra-Micro Space Ion Beam Cannons secretly carried on the base's Warplanes.
After speaking, she said in a low voice, "Marshal Huo, our base's Warplanes aren't actually allowed to carry any Space Weapons when carrying out this Asteroid Belt flight mission."
"But those Nobles have privileges... First Jiang Yongbai, then these five Noble students... I don't want others to know that they also have battle merits..."
Because in the Asteroid Belt, conventional weapons are not lethal.
Using up ammunition is just using up ammunition, just joining in the fun.
At that time, Xia Chujian had Seven Lù control the base's Warplanes and Airships to use up their ammunition, just preparing for a rainy day, in order to disarm them.
To prevent that traitor from getting on her Cruiser and staging an "armed coup" or something...
Inside the Starry Sky Cruiser, conventional weapons can be effective!
Huo Yushen understood what she meant and said, "So you don't plan to expose them for violating the rules and carrying Space Weapons?"
"No." Xia Chujian nodded without hesitation, "It's a bargain for them. Even if I expose them, they're just violating the rules within the base, and at most they'll be punished by the base."
"But the battle merits for annihilating the Star Pirates are for the entire army. I don't want them to pick up military merits with me!"
"So, weighing the two, I won't expose them, and of course, they won't get battle merits."
Besides, those Ultra-Micro Space Ion Beam Cannons were all fired by her, Xia Chujian. What do they have to do with those Nobles? Deny, deny, deny!
Huo Yushen found her tangled little expression amusing, but on the surface, he still said coldly, like an iceberg, "It's right for you to choose the lesser of two evils."
"Once we're on the battlefield, we have to weigh things every moment."
"You did well this time. I hope you can not only maintain it next time but also do even better."
Xia Chujian nodded vigorously, and then naturally turned the topic to the victims.
Secretly concealing the round-hat-shaped Flying Vehicle that flew out of one of the five Starships, and the little ghost-face safe that fell out of that Flying Vehicle.
She said embarrassedly, "...Those Star Pirates were really inhumane, so I killed them all..."
"However, I brought back the thirty-eight surviving women. The oldest of them should be under fifty, and the youngest is probably just eighteen, or seventeen."
Before Huo Yushen could respond, Xia Chujian added, "Marshal Huo, let's not talk about the insurance terms for now. They really don't want to go back. Going back would be too much of an economic blow to them and their families."
"Someone as high up as you might not understand their choices, but I do. I understand because I'm also from the common people. I understand all too well what it feels like to be impoverished by a major illness."
Huo Yushen understood that Xia Chujian was referring to the three years her Aunt was in a coma and hospitalized.
If it hadn't been for those three years, Xia Chujian's capacity for empathy wouldn't be so high.
To want to lend an umbrella to someone without one, just because you've been rained on yourself, is already a great virtue.
Because there are also people who, having been rained on themselves, can't wait for everyone else's homes to be flooded.
However, her heart is good, but her actions are truly indescribable.
Huo Yushen looked at her, his expression as cold and stern as ever: "...So you plan to help them commit insurance fraud?"
Xia Chujian: "!!!"
She hadn't thought about this at all! "How is this insurance fraud?!" Xia Chujian said anxiously, blurting out words she wouldn't normally say, "This is clearly because the insurance terms are unreasonable! They're rogue terms! They just want to bully us commoners at the bottom!"
Huo Yushen said calmly, "The insurance terms are the insurance terms' problem, not your reason to commit insurance fraud."
Xia Chujian was choked speechless and could only sneer, saying, "Okay, fine."
"They don't want the insurance money anymore. I'll just distribute the Star Pirates' stolen goods to them, which is much higher than the insurance compensation they would get after death!—That's not insurance fraud, right?!"
She had originally planned to hand over the entire wall of gold, as well as the other treasures hidden inside.
The Bodhi Leaf Star Pirates' thirty years of accumulation, even if it was only a tenth of it, should not be underestimated.
The treasures hidden in other Starships had been destroyed by her, and no matter how much gold was vaporized, she didn't care.
Huo Yushen's face darkened, and he said sternly, "You get military merits for fighting Star Pirates. If you distribute the Star Pirates' stolen goods, you'll lose your military merits. Are you sure you want to do this?"
Xia Chujian said indignantly, "I don't want this kind of military merit!"
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