You were told to search and attack, but you're supporting Asara?

Chen Xiao, of course, had no idea that Said was poaching GTI players. He hadn't had time to care about the players these past two days; Chen Xiao was in the Special Operations Department, grinning from ear to ear.

The GTI offers way too much.

The combat, medical, and logistics departments were producing almost non-stop supplies, with repair kits, field medical kits, and various types of ammunition continuously flooding into the stockpiles.

"We're rich! We're rich!" Chen Xiao rubbed his hands together, his eyes shining as he looked at the mountain of supplies. "My neighbors hoard grain, I hoard guns. My neighbors are my granary."

"The stuff we've produced these past few days is enough to arm a hundred-man squad."

In this joyous atmosphere, Zoya's communication request seemed particularly inappropriate.

"Hello, Dr. Zoya, what's up?" Chen Xiao answered the call with a disgruntled expression.

Zoya reprimanded Chen Xiao in an unfriendly tone: "Presumably, Officer Chen has already received the supplies distributed by headquarters. Headquarters has fulfilled its promise, and Officer Chen should consider fulfilling his duties."

"Haha, I was wondering what it was about." Chen Xiao chuckled and asked, "Is the deployment to draw away air power complete?"

"Yesterday, the commander notified David Ferrell, who was on vacation in Australia, to return to headquarters. He will be responsible for piloting the Lightning 3-1 to draw the attention of the Hafk air force."

Zoya dutifully explained GTI's arrangements for this:

"And three days later, a batch of rockets will land in Hafk, which is the perfect time to implant the Minerva program."

"If it's Uluru, then I have no objection. Just tell him not to stay cooped up on the island raising crocodiles all the time, and to go out on the bridge more often." Chen Xiao shrugged. "As for when the Hafk rocket will return, don't bother telling me. I'll do some ideological work with Said. He'll have to put in the effort to attract the Hafk ground forces."

"You must be familiar with every detail of this operation," Zoya instructed meticulously. "Because the Commander has authorized you as the planner and commander-in-chief of this operation, even I need to report to you on every single thing."

"Me? Commander-in-Chief?!" Chen Xiao almost jumped up. "When did I agree to take this job?"

"Agent Chen, watch your words." Zoya seemed quite pleased with Chen Xiao's surprise, her tone even carrying a hint of cheerfulness: "Don't forget, you're still working for GTI, at least nominally. It's a good thing that the Commander has entrusted you with such an important task. A soldier's first duty is to obey."

"I don't care about that, let me make this clear from the start." Chen Xiao wasn't brainwashed by such slogans: "I've never commanded an operation like this before, so don't blame me if I mess it up."

"I won't blame you. If this operation goes smoothly, Commander, you are prepared to appoint an operator as your subordinate to assist you in handling affairs in the Asara region," Zoya said in an ambiguous tone.

"Assist? More like supervision, isn't it?" Chen Xiao sneered inwardly. "What if the operation doesn't go smoothly?"

"Then she will become your superior."

"If you do a good job, you get promoted; if you don't, you get demoted." Chen Xiao said with a displeased look, "Then I demand that the special operations agents for this operation be designated."

"As you wish, Commander Chen." Zoya smiled as if she had seen a fish take the bait: "Before that, please give this operation a code name."

"The codename for this operation..." Chen Xiao asked without hesitation, "The Ascended!"

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The next day, Chen Xiao drove three fully loaded off-road vehicles toward Dam Zero.

The garrison soldiers, seeing the off-road vehicle with the GTI logo drive up unsuspectingly, resisted the urge to raise their guns and opened the gate, watching Chen Xiao lead the convoy into the dam.

Said was sitting in the manager's office in the east wing, playing with a silver lady's pendant in his hand. When he saw Chen Xiao push the door open without knocking, he found a place to sit down and grinned foolishly.

"Do all of you GTI people possess some kind of sorcery?" Said asked with a suspicious look.

"These past two days I've been taking those two bastards to Longbow Valley to beat up Reis and Hafk scum. Every time we finished, those two bastards would get into a helicopter that appeared out of nowhere and disappear."

"You didn't exert much effort, but you've captured quite a lot of spoils. You owe me an explanation."

"With you around, do they even have a chance to show off?" Chen Xiao mumbled a compliment, pointing to the parking lot outside the building: "As for what to say, I'm rich now, don't say I've forgotten my brothers."

Following Chen Xiao's finger, Sayed looked out the window and saw the guards carrying supplies from the GTI SUVs to the warehouse.

"What is this?" Sayed looked at Chen Xiao with some wariness.

"All kinds of firearms, level 3 bullets, medical kits, surgical kits, and various repair kits." Chen Xiao counted on his fingers as if listing a treasure: "Anything that can improve the survival rate of your guards' soldiers is made by GTI, and it's guaranteed to be top-notch."

"GTI is that kind?" Said asked, his face full of disbelief.

"GTI certainly isn't that kind, but I am," Chen Xiao said, hooking his arm around Said's shoulder, his bright white teeth flashing in a grin. "We're brothers, aren't we? And no matter who goes after Reese, I, Chen Xiao, will definitely be there to lend a hand!"

"You and Reis don't get along?" Said frowned.

"That was quite a bad situation." Chen Xiao still couldn't forget the consequences of taking the Black Hawk to Daeres after listening to his teammates' nonsense when he first entered Longbow Valley.

Not to mention the heinous and outrageous things Reissian did in the brain-computer interface recordings.

"But besides these reasons, there's something else I need your help with, Big Brother." Chen smiled, his eyes narrowing into slits.

"I knew you GTI people never tell the truth!"

"What do you mean 'you,' 'us,' and 'them'?" Chen Xiao protested. "I'm offering GTI stuff to you, Big Brother, so it should be 'us'!"

"Spit it out!" Sayed clearly couldn't stand Chen Xiao's attitude.

"Here's the thing, GTI recently conducted an operation targeting Hafk's space base in Asara." Chen Xiao cleared his throat. "This operation was led by me."

"Air combat units to draw Hafk's air power and three-man squads for the main operation have been arranged, but there are still a large number of Hafk mercenaries stationed in the space base."

"GTI has always respected Asara's sovereignty and does not have any organized ground troops within Asara's territory."

"Hafk keeps clamoring that the sky belongs to Hafk, but the rocket launch base he built is on Asara's territory. I've been disgusted by that for a long time."

"If you ask me, the sky should belong to Asara!"

Chen Xiao said in a very serious tone.

Said stared intently at Chen Xiao: "Do I look like an idiot?"

Chen Xiao gave a dry laugh: "I might be exaggerating a bit, but that's how it is."

"Brother Sai, can you help me out?"

Saeed stared at Chen Xiao in silence for a moment: "Your GTI operation expects us Assara people to risk our lives?"

"These brothers in my guard are starving and freezing, yet they still follow me. I can't let them die in vain!"

Chen Xiao blinked, about to speak, when he heard Said's resolute words:

"You need to pay more!!"