From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 502: Sucking Federation Blood and Exploding Amber Soldiers

"Blackening?"

A real 'question mark' appeared on Lilith's head, flashing and emitting yellow light.

This strong artificial intelligence often uses such concrete symbols to express its thoughts, emotions, and status in the virtual space. To Amber, it feels like déjà vu, as if she had returned to the game and seen other players sending emoticons.

"Is it the one that says 'white-washed is three times weaker, blackened is ten times stronger'?"

"Well, you are right. Why do you spend all day watching this stuff?"

Amber didn't expect Lilith to describe "darkness" in this way, although there was nothing wrong with her description.

"One can do many things with one heart, it would be a waste if you don't use it."

Lilith's tone was extremely relaxed, and then she saw Amber's raised eyebrows, and immediately added hurriedly:

"Master, don't worry! I definitely put my main job first. Even though I'm multitasking, I definitely don't slack off!"

"Why are you so flustered? Did I say anything?"

Seeing Lilith clearly trying to cover up her crime, Amber said unhappily:

“Let’s get back to the point. Anyway, I personally think that Norton II will become more and more radical because the situation has deviated from his expectations and is moving in an increasingly disadvantageous direction.

This is a tyrant who will stop at nothing to achieve his goals, so he is very likely to take advantage of the fact that he still has a certain amount of bargaining chips in his hands and "all in" to launch an armed coup d'état.

When the news of Princess Agnes's coronation was officially announced, that was when the fuse began to light."

Lilith: "So when you say 'blackening', Master, you mean that the actions of the regent will become more and more radical?"

"That's right." Amber nodded.

"Before this, in order to maintain his image among the people, Norton II acted relatively conservatively. Occasionally, he would take some relatively radical actions, but he would do so in a way that would conceal their presence, at least to make it look like they had nothing to do with him directly.

But after this, no one can tell, maybe Norton II will show his truest side."

"Then what do you need me to do, Master~"

Amber: "Well, apart from strengthening the information collection on the Star Dragon Empire, there is nothing else we can do for the time being. The Federation, especially the Rubion Galaxy, has not yet finished its affairs. Let's focus on settling the affairs here first.

And I still don't want the Atlas Group to take the initiative to intervene in the situation of the Star Dragon Empire. If no one throws out a sufficiently attractive "reward", we can just sit back and watch the fight~"

"Yes, Master~"

Lilith stood up straight and saluted Atlas, then tilted her head and said:

"Speaking of the latter point, Princess Agnes's special envoy, Mr. Bass, has always wanted to meet you, but because we have encountered so many things during this period, he has not given you a reply."

"Ah? Is there still such a thing?"

Amber was stunned for a moment, then quickly recalled that Lilith seemed to have mentioned it once or twice, but it was indeed not appropriate to meet this "Princess Envoy" at that time.

"After standing him up for so long, I guess Viscount BASF's patience is almost exhausted." Lilith nodded. "When he declined the first two times, the Viscount did seem a little angry and felt that our Atlas Group 'takes itself too seriously' - these are his exact words, and he also said that he would report our attitude to the princess~"

"I knew it." Amber covered his forehead helplessly. He had to admit that Atlas was indeed in the wrong in this matter.

"but--"

Lilith deliberately prolonged the ending of the sentence, and after seeing Amber looking at her again with a puzzled look, she continued:
"I don't know what instructions the Viscount received. Anyway, when he contacted us again, he put on a smiling face again, as if nothing had happened before. He also said that he would patiently wait for you, Amber, to contact him when you have time."

"So easy to talk to?" Amber asked again.

"I don't know either. Anyway, this Viscount has suddenly become very patient."

Amber: "Then Lilith, please arrange a time according to your schedule. It's not good to keep dragging it out. Besides, he is probably here to 'talk business' with us. It's better not to refuse the money that comes to your door. By the way, how does Viscount BASF want to communicate? Face-to-face meeting? Or remote communication?"

"He hopes to have a face-to-face meeting with you, Master, and said he is willing to come to our place in person to show his sincerity."

"Oh, then we can't be negligent."
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After confirming the time for the meeting with Viscount Basf, the "Princess's Special Envoy", Lilith also "exchanged" some other information during the "emotional interaction" with Amber.

The most important thing is the Atlas Group’s recent business operations, financial revenue, and expansion of power.

To sum up the recent situation in one sentence, it is 'sucking the blood of the Federation and exploding Amber's soldiers'.

Ever since the Atlas Group won the defense of the A.Bava.Ku Fortress and took the opportunity to go all out in the federal financial market, the military-industrial complex relied on its foundation to fight back in the beginning. But after the giants such as the Nutao Group, Gabriel Biological, and Deep Space Mining fell one after another, the remaining companies were directly defeated.

If it weren't for the Federal Economic Security Committee's proposal that the two federal houses quickly passed the amendment to "restart the circuit breaker mechanism", the entire federal financial market might have been completely destroyed by the operations of Lilith and Atlas Financial Business Center.
It was after this that the federal government gradually gave up sanctions and took the initiative to extend an "olive branch".

However, even though it could no longer continue its "slaughter spree" in the financial market, the Atlas Group still made a lot of money from this aspect during this period, and its revenue even exceeded the combined revenue of all its subsidiaries' regular businesses at one point.

So much so that the group's CFO, Sarbanes, and the director of the financial business center said the classic saying together at a meeting: "Doing this makes money much faster than doing a proper business."

However, this astronomical income did not stay in the Atlas Group's account for too long, but soon accompanied Atlas in another way.
There are quite a few companies in the federal military-industrial complex. In this incident, due to the armed conflict and continuous failures in the financial market, they suffered losses and were left with nothing, and finally had no choice but to declare bankruptcy.

The Atlas Group, on the other hand, used the money it had "robbed" from them to buy up the physical properties of these companies at prices so low that they would give the directors of these companies a heart attack, taking away even the factories and skilled employees.

While completely completing the light and heavy industry chains of the Atlas Group, it also gained a lot of reputation from the public.

After all, when these employees learned that the company went bankrupt, they thought they would lose their jobs in this recession, but they didn't expect that the Atlas Group "took action" to save their jobs.

Although after the acquisition, these employees also learned that they would gradually leave the federation and move away from their hometowns along with the factory.

But most people chose to leave with Atlas, tempted by higher incomes, more humane working hours, and benefits to help them settle their families.

In an environment where most companies are not very "human", a strange thing like Atlas suddenly appeared, and it would be easy for ordinary people who have been oppressed for a long time to regard it as a "holy place".
Then, after a period of adaptation, these newly acquired industries became part of the Atlas Group's "explosive force".

Under efficient industrial production, the embarrassing situation of 'equipment waiting for people' soon emerged.

Sometimes, Amber really suspected that she might have the "halo of the protagonist", otherwise it would not be possible for her to always have the good fortune of "someone giving her a pillow when she is sleepy".

The problem of industrial overcapacity had just emerged and no suitable solution had been found yet, so the only option was to reduce production efficiency. The emergence of the Renaissance Alliance led by Franklin could be said to have been a great help to Atlas.

(End of this chapter)