Chapter 587 Atlas Psychic Boy
“Master, the children still want to stay in Atlas?”
On a tree-lined path in the psionic area of Zhongsi Academy, Amber asked Master Ain Stormrage beside her as she walked.
In addition to his routine meeting with these young psychics, he came today to prepare for one last chance to give these children a choice.
In his opinion, this is a group of children after all. The road ahead is still long and there are many options to choose from. They do not necessarily have to stay in Atlas.
Even if you stay in Atlas forever, you don't have to get your hands stained with blood one day in the future
And this kind of practice of training a group of orphans into 'killing machines' from a young age, Amber always feels that it is a bit too cruel - although Amber has never considered herself to be a 'positive person', being able to be regarded as a 'hero' is already a very good evaluation.
Amber admitted that when she adopted these 13 young psykers, she thought for a moment that she wanted to train them into Atlas's own 'psionic agents', or what if they were In a strategy game, he would do this without hesitation.
But it's obviously not as simple as in the game now. Amber can say that he will watch these 13 children grow up, so he couldn't convince himself to train them for a while.
Please ask Elenita to find Master Stormrage, it is just to guide the spiritual growth of these children correctly and prevent them from going on a "psychic rampage" one day in the future
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Aoun Stormrage: "After you asked them last time, Mr. Amber, I also communicated with the children several times later, but they still want to stay here. Well, not only do they want to stay here, but they also want to Can you join Atlas like others?"
"Others?" Amber asked with some confusion.
“After the psychic training class moved to Chuji Academy, I took the children to visit the ‘Chungji Memorial Hall’ in the college several times. There are many stories of sacrificed employees of the Atlas Group in there. , as well as the several wars that Atlas Group has experienced so far."
Ion Stormrage spoke slowly, and the old god said calmly. Said:
“These children have no impression of their parents, and the memories left at the Federal Institute of Psychiatry are not good ones, so they have formed a negative impression on them after coming to Atlas. In this case, it is normal for them to feel dependent on Atlas Group.”
"Dependence" Amber muttered this word in a low voice and kept thinking about it in her mind.
At this time, one person and one elf also came to the classroom where the 13 children were currently.
Ion Stormrage made a gesture of invitation, and then took the lead in opening the door to the classroom for Amber.
Amber, who was rarely nervous, took a deep breath, then raised her head and walked into this classroom dedicated to psykers.
Since he was going directly to the deployment bay in a moment, he was also wearing the Atlas Group commander's field coat, which made him attract everyone's attention as soon as he entered.
"Mr. Amber!" An older boy responded first, and then the boys and girls in the classroom also excitedly greeted Amber.
“Mr. Amber comes to see us again!”
“Is there any new story this time? Mr. Amber!”
“Mr. Amber, I The psychic strength has broken through again!”
“Me too, Mr. Amber”
To be honest, Amber never thought that after bringing these children back, they would be so dependent on him. Every time he came to visit these 13 psychic teenagers, they would be very happy - especially when he showed these children When a child shares a recent anecdote or praises their increased psychic strength.
And Amber also received a lot of 'positive feedback' from their reactions. Although they are all psykers classified as 'dangerous people' in this world, Amber is still among them. I feel the unique liveliness of teenagers.
So he doesn’t look at these teenagers through colored glasses like other forces. When Master Iron Stormrage taught everyone how to control their psychic powers, Amber actually wanted to let these teenagers return. Live a normal life, rather than growing up in an atmosphere like the Atlas Group where one is destined to deal with blood and fire.
Soon, after chatting with these 13 children After playing around for a while, Amber looked at the time and asked everyone again seriously and seriously:
"I actually have one more serious thing to do when I come here today, and that is to ask everyone about their future plans one last time. , I know that after living in Atlas for so long, everyone is reluctant to leave this atmosphere, so I have slightly adjusted my thoughts about last time.”
Amber paused, looked at the gathered gazes of the boys and girls, and then said:
"I can narrow the scope of your future guardians to those within the Atlas Group. In this case, you will still be A member of Atlas will officially join the Atlas Group through his own efforts when he becomes an adult in the future.
I don’t think that you can’t help, on the contrary. Some of you actually Already satisfied to enter a special force Standards, but I don't want your hands to be stained with blood. You have the right and should grow up in a normal living environment like other ordinary children.
I promise that your adopted people will be better than your biological parents. I love you, and apart from coming regularly to receive spiritual training from Master Stormrage, your life is no different from other children of Atlas employees."
After saying that, Amber stared calmly. Waiting for everyone's reply.
After a moment, Foster, the oldest among the 13 people, raised his hand.
"Mr. Amber, are we going to make a decision today?"
Amber shook her head: "Of course not, I will give you plenty of time to think and wait until I come back next time Just give me an answer when you visit everyone~"
Then he looked specifically at the youngest Torres. Although this little fat man had lost a lot of weight, his habit of eating snacks had not changed at all. .
"Especially you, Torres. You have to think about it carefully. If you have a guardian to look after you, you can still eat your favorite snacks in the future, but if you join the special forces, you will have to undergo military training. With centralized management, it won’t be up to you what you want to eat~”
"Huh?"
Torres's little face suddenly fell, but another little girl next to him quickly pinched his arm, making him put away his frustrated expression.
Amber is no stranger to this little girl.
Pru, it was she who covered Torres’ mouth in the basement of the research institute to prevent the fat man from ‘confessing’ under the temptation of snacks.
Amber smiled at their little actions and said nothing. After looking around at everyone again, he said:
"As I just said, this choice is in your hands. During this time, think about what kind of life you want to live in the future. When I come here next time, I will hear your answer. Oh~"
After talking about this slightly serious topic, Amber played with the children for a while to relax the atmosphere again, and chatted with Master Aon Stormrage alone for a while. leave.
Before leaving, the words of this little elf man who looked like Master Yoda also made Amber fall into deep thought. "For these children, 'being you' is more tempting than living a happy and prosperous life"
Amber: "Why would they want to be me?"
Aoun Stormrage: "It's very simple, because psykers in the human world have been treated too unfairly. The official even guides ordinary people to reject psykers among the people, and then allows these desperate 'others' to join the official organization Go and fight for them.
But Amber, you showed them another way. You let them know that psykers can fight for themselves. Take out a future, and everything that Atlas Group is doing now just proves that you are not talking nonsense, this road can indeed work. This is better than what I showed them in the Psychic Research Institute. Countless 'brainwashing' promotional videos must be effective."
It can be said that the words of this 'Master Yoda from another world' opened the door to a new world for Amber.
"Perhaps I can make Atlas a 'new home' for human psykers?"
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A. Bawa Ku Asteroid Fortress, Deployment Bay 322.
All warships of the 'Red Hand' special strike unit, as well as the combat units carried on board, were assembled within the specified time.
After all, if soldiers are late for combat missions, a large performance bonus will be deducted and their qualifications for year-end evaluation will be cancelled. Officers at all levels will be ranked from bottom to top based on their military rank. Hold more accountable.
When the punishment mechanism is set up strictly enough and will never be lenient or discounted in execution, the probability of such problems that can be avoided manually will be infinitely close to zero.
At least until the establishment of Atlas's combat forces, neither the fleet nor the ground combat forces have ever been late for combat duty assembly - in fact, more than 90 years have been able to do this. % of the federal garrison and private soldiers of the imperial nobles.
Even the regular armies of the Federation and the Empire cannot guarantee that every unit can achieve emergency attendance on time like Atlas
And after Amber ended her visit to the special psychic training class, she immediately The deployment bay located outside the asteroid fortress is reached via a high-speed commuter elevator.
However, when he and others boarded a battleship as the flagship of this operation and commanded the special strike team to begin the departure procedure, they also received the latest news from the scientific research ship. .
They discovered that the fleet of the 'Quest for Truth Foundation' appeared near the Forerunner Research Institute.
“No, how did they find it? Isn’t this research institute in a ‘hollow area’?”
The "void area" Amber refers to is the "dead place" in the universe that is completely surrounded by no other celestial bodies.
The area where this Forerunner Research Institute is currently located is a typical 'void area'. The nearest planet is hundreds of light-years away. Under normal circumstances, it is impossible for any living thing to approach it. here.
If Saleh hadn't conducted a needle-in-a-haystack search based on a rough coordinate in his memory, Amber and the others might never have discovered this research institute.
This was originally the purpose of the Forerunners to set up this research institute here. After all, this is a place to study 'eternal life'. If possible, they would probably want to stuff this research institute into subspace. ——This was indeed one of the site selection plans for this research institute that year.
But according to Saleh, the situation in the subspace is more complicated and dangerous than the Jerram people imagined. The Jerram people have studied the subspace for many years, and have sent many After all the expedition teams failed to return, they finally gave up their research on subspace...
Although Amber was curious about why the Quest for Truth Foundation found this place, she thought that this foundation was established to dig the graves of the forerunners. In addition, after being established for so many years, there would be some gains, so she could find this place. It's not impossible to do research.
The Atlas scientific research ship ahead is actually a professional reconnaissance ship to a certain extent.
After all, I am alone in the field every day, and I must have the ability to "seek advantages and avoid disadvantages". In addition, Amber is "no expense spared" in the construction of scientific research vessels, so in terms of investigation ability, Among all human warships currently, they are also at the T0 level.
So in addition to reporting traces of the Quest for Truth Foundation battleship, the archaeological ship even sent back a reconnaissance report on the Foundation fleet.
In addition to informing the rear of the fleet's size, the most important information in the report is that there are multiple battleships in this fleet...
"Are there even capital ships now? There are even four battleships among them..."
Amber frowned while looking at the investigation report, because in his memory, the Quest for Truth Foundation owned Capital ship, that was already the second DLC - at that time, the official strengthened the combat effectiveness of a wave of early NPC forces, and the Quest for Truth Foundation was one of them.
"This is not surprising, Boss..."
A combat staff officer on the bridge replied:
"After the strategic decisive battle between the Federation and the Empire, Some of the battleships on both sides have been lost among the people. Now if you have acquaintances on several major black markets, you can indeed get a way to buy the battleships..."
Amber nodded after hearing the words of the combat staff.
In the previous wars between the two major human forces, not every soldier and every battleship could show enough bravery.
Many warships failed to return to the team due to reasons such as disappearance, defection, and getting lost in the melee.
It is not uncommon for ships that have been deemed scrapped by repair docks after being damaged in battle to be secretly resold to the private sector under the guidance of some thoughtful people...
“If the other party has capital ships, we still need to be a little more cautious, although I do not believe that these capital ships will be able to regain combat effectiveness among civilian organizations in a short time...”
After Amber thought for a moment, he felt that the things in this research institute were still relatively important, and he did not want others to get there first, so he continued to give the order:
"Send my order, and the 'Red Hand' strike team will launch at the scheduled time. Navigation, jump coordinate adjustment For the second hidden coordinate!
The reserve strike team 'Qiang Yun' will begin to assemble immediately, and will set off immediately after the assembly is completed, and be ready to support the operation! ”
(End of this chapter)