When Zhao Chen returned to the Holy Radiant Empire's starport, it was already the end of January.

And here, a fleet of JF-17 interstellar warships was spotted waiting.

A shuttle flew out from one of the starships and went directly into the Hades' hangar.

It is possible to directly access the Hades hangar without authorization from the Hades.

There were very few of them in the entire Xiaolong Legion.

Not long after.

Zhao Chen looked at a white figure that rushed out of the bridge gate.

The next second, Zhao Chen felt something rush to his chest and hit him hard.

If Zhao Chen hadn't been physically strong, an ordinary person would probably have suffered internal injuries from that blow.

"I'm fine."

"Why did you two make a special trip over here?" Zhao Chen looked at Charlotte in his arms, then at Lilith who was slowly walking into the bridge.

"I just came to check if you're missing any limbs." Charlotte glared fiercely at Zhao Chen.

Perhaps noticing the gazes of those around her, she got off Zhao Chen somewhat embarrassedly.

Lilith approached at this moment, looking Zhao Chen up and down, as if a weight had finally been lifted from her heart.

"It's good that you're back safe and sound."

"Be extra careful next time you go out!" Lilith cautiously reminded her.

Zhao Chen shrugged helplessly: "This kind of cosmic disaster, which only happens once every few hundred thousand years, happened to me. What can I do?"

Lilith rolled her eyes at Zhao Chen.

"I heard the meeting with the angels went fairly smoothly?" Lilith brought up the important matter.

Zhao Chen nodded and took out a data hard drive: "This contains 90% of the technical blueprints for a medium-sized interstellar destroyer called the T3 Radiance-class, developed by the Angel race."

I discussed with the three Angel Kings of the Angel race that as long as we, the Xiaolong, can provide enough parts for 10,000 of these interstellar warships within a month.

We can then form an alliance with the Angels! Furthermore, we will subsequently manufacture a large number of interstellar warships for the Angels.

Hearing the commander's words.

Lilith frowned slightly: "Right now, our own production tasks are already very heavy, with a large number of interstellar warships to be built."

"Then produce another 10,000 interstellar warships for the Angel race..."

“I’ve calculated that the cost of this order is 50 billion star coins, while the order amount is 2 trillion star coins.” Zhao Chen had barely finished speaking when he said this.

Lilith immediately adopted a serious expression: "I believe we can definitely take on this arms deal."

Even excluding subsequent transportation costs, this military purchase order...

The JF-17 can make at least 1.9 trillion Star Coins in profit!

This is equivalent to roughly two months' worth of revenue under the Xiaolong Galaxy Interstellar Group's structure!

"Contact Li Wei of Beiyan Group and give him this technology."

Make him finish it for me within a month... twenty days.

"Then help me contact Chief Engineer Annie," Zhao Chen instructed.

When Lilith heard Zhao Chen mention Chief Engineer Anne, she whispered a reminder: "Commander... although our Chief Engineer Anne is extremely talented."

But during this period, due to various heavy workloads, she has really been exploited... and is completely drained.

Even if a sheep is very healthy, you can't just pluck it.

"It's nothing, just a small task."

If all else fails, we can ask Chief Engineer Nana and the others to help out. Zhao Chen was well aware of Chief Engineer Annie's limits.

Charlotte then brought up a more serious matter: "There's a rather urgent situation."

We received the news.

Just five days ago.

Marshal Red Devil led his Red Devil Legion with 600,000 starships, along with 200,000 starships each from the Ghoul Legion and the Balam Legion.

A total of one million interstellar warships have formed the Demon Legion's expeditionary fleet, and they have already set sail to launch a new expedition against us!

Upon hearing this news...

Zhao Chen's face darkened.

Because he had been in warp drive mode, Zhao Chen was unable to learn of this news immediately.

Charlotte and Lilith were probably waiting for him here, partly out of concern for him, and partly because of this emergency.

Zhao Chen paused, then asked, "Do you know where their Demon Legion expeditionary fleet is right now?"

Charlotte immediately pulled up a star map, which was the 'Devil's Route'.

"This time is different from the last time. This time, the demon legion fleet is much larger, and because they suffered losses before, they are sailing very cautiously, which makes their journey relatively slow."

This also allows our T4 Banshee-class light interplanetary stealth reconnaissance ship to conduct tailing and tracking.

In the past five days, they have only traveled less than one-tenth of the distance of this 'devil's route'.

In addition, there may be a relatively long pause and rest period in between.

It is estimated that it will take at least two months to finally arrive here.

That is, around mid-April." Charlotte finished her analysis and looked at Zhao Chen.

Mid-April...

There is still time.

However, this puts immense pressure on the JF-17 Thunder.

"One million interstellar warships... That Red Devil Marshal has really lost his mind this time."

Charlotte, do you think we can rely solely on our own strength at that time?

"How confident are you?" Zhao Chen asked.

Charlotte paused for a moment, then said thoughtfully, "Less than 30%, and it will be a Pyrrhic victory."

Thirty percent... a Pyrrhic victory...

This is not the outcome Zhao Chen wanted.

Zhao Chen scratched his head in frustration, thinking that the demon race would launch an even fiercer attack because of their previous defeat.

But unexpectedly, there were more than a million interstellar warships.

"Among the enemy's million interstellar warships, we know of nearly ten T5 Terrorblade-class medium interstellar battlecruisers!"

According to our JF-17's current production plan for combat-type interstellar warships.

Actually, we are not afraid of the enemy when it comes to T5 starships.

The problem lies in the size of the fleet.

By mid-April, the total number of interstellar warships in our Xiaolong Legion could only barely reach 50,000!

The difference in the number of interstellar warships is twenty times!

This is ten times the size of the fleet in the previous battle, and double the size!

"That's doubled, it's not as simple as one plus one." Charlotte shook her head helplessly.

This huge gap is something that the JF-17 alone can hardly withstand.

Lilith added helplessly, "If the demon legion had arrived a few months later, it would have been enough time for our T5 star-level interstellar industrial base to carry out production tasks for several months."

"It couldn't be this bad!"

"It seems that relying on ourselves is too much of a challenge, so we'll have to ask for outside help," Zhao Chen muttered.

As for the foreign aid recipient.

There's one right here in front of us.

Angels! 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

As long as an alliance can be formed, and the Wyvern generates value, the Angel race will not abandon their 'ally'.

Sending reinforcements is only a matter of course.

Of course, all of this is predicated on Zhao Chen being able to facilitate an alliance between the Dragonflight and the Angel race.

This alliance must be absolutely flawless!