The old man pointed at the T2 Carrier Starship in the image: "According to the information I've found so far,

this Starship is called the t2 bee queen-class heavy carrier starship. Before it appeared, there was no public information about this Starship in the Starlight Empire or even the entire Galactic Alliance.

And the owner of this T2 Queen Bee is a person named Zhao Chen."

As he spoke, the old man pulled up a personnel file, and the profile picture was exactly Zhao Chen!

"Zhao Chen is twenty-one years old, the lord of the Owl Dragon Star System, and a baron of the empire.

He is a fourth-year student at the North Star Starship Military Academy, with excellent theoretical grades.

Before this, he had no outstanding performance until the last six months.

At the North Star Starship Military Academy, he assembled a T2 Starship named Blizzard Zero using three old Starships!

Its speed can reach 100 knots of stellar speed!"

Chu Xuan interrupted the old man and corrected: "The maximum speed exceeds 130 knots of stellar speed!"

She still remembered the scene where this T2 Starship named Blizzard Zero rammed and killed a level 2 Zerg Hive Mothership.

The old man continued: "After that, he brought out this T2 Queen Bee and participated in your incident regarding the level 2 Cosmic Insectoid Hive.

At that time, this T2 Queen Bee did not use Star Shield technology, but its drone combat capabilities were quite excellent, ranking among the top of the same level and type of Interstellar Drones!"

Chu Xuan nodded and recalled: "During the battle with the Zerg, his T2 Queen Bee was under the protection of my fleet, so it didn't use Star Shield technology!"

"Besides these two Starships, there is another one." The old man brought up a holographic image of a Starship, a small black elliptical Starship with a large black horn at the front of the bow.

"This is an Interstellar Frigate called the t2 black rhino-class interstellar heavy assault frigate. At North Star Academy, it once dueled with a T2 Purple Rose-class Medium Interstellar Battlecruiser."

"What? An Interstellar Frigate dueling with an Interstellar Battlecruiser?" Chu Xuan was astonished.

"That's right, and this T2 Black Rhino won decisively!

Also, in that battle shown in the video, five T2 Black Rhinos cooperated with one T2 Queen Bee to destroy a T3 Black Iron-Class Medium Star Destroyer of the Mechanical Race!

Additionally, they eliminated thirty T2 Mechanical Starships.

These six Starships sustained hull damage, but none were lost!" the old man said seriously.

Chu Xuan looked shocked and took a long time to recover.

"Grandfather, what are you trying to say?" Chu Xuan looked at the old man in confusion.

Her grandfather rarely spent so much time talking about one person, especially a twenty-year-old young man.

The old man pointed at Zhao Chen's profile picture: "This person has secrets, and he has outstanding talent as a Starship engineer and scientist!

I heard you are also interested in him. Since you don't want to stay here,

I'll give you a mission: get close to him, find a way to extract his secrets.

Ideally, make him cooperate with our Chu family!

But if you find he might become an enemy of our Chu family... Chu Xuan... you understand."

The old man's expression was serious, with a hidden ferocity in his eyes.

Chu Xuan nodded. She knew her grandfather's temper well; although he acted like an old child in front of her,

when it came to important matters, he was decisive and ruthless.

After all, he was once a Five-Star Marshal of the Starlight Empire who ordered the massacre of hundreds of millions of intelligent mechanical lifeforms in a single Star System!

It was because of him that the Chu family had achieved its current status.

"I understand. I will try to contact this Zhao Chen." Chu Xuan nodded, accepting the mission.

Compared to 'reflecting on her mistakes' in the Chu family mansion, this mission was acceptable to her.

Moreover, she was already curious about this person named Zhao Chen, and now that he owned a T2 Carrier Starship with Star Shield technology, that made her even more curious!

"I'll arrange an identity for you. You'll go directly to the North Star Starship Military Academy." the old man said.

"Yes."

...

In early March of Galactic Calendar 3031, 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

Zhao Chen's fleet finally returned to the North Star System, a full ten days later than the originally scheduled return time.

Fortunately, this escort mission ended without any major incidents.

When Zhao Chen arrived at the temporary base of the Xiaolong Fleet, it had changed significantly compared to when he left.

Originally, there were only five T2 Black Rhinos, one T2 Iron Hammer, and one Blizzard Zero.

But now the numbers had directly doubled.

At the same time, the expansion platforms built by two T2 Iron Hammer-class Heavy Interstellar Industrial Ships looked like simple space stations ➤ NоvеⅠight ➤ (Read more on our source) from a distance.

Small engineering robots were busy working around the hulls under construction in the space environment.

Industrial robotic arms, controlled by engineers and extending from the T2 Iron Hammers, were assembling and connecting parts of the hulls.

The most eye-catching was naturally the construction platform for the T3 Blizzard-class Light Interstellar Battlecruiser.

The expansion area under construction was several times larger than the hull of the T2 Iron Hammer itself!

Construction of the T3 Blizzard had started a month ago. The hull's keel was already built, and some important hull modules were being installed, giving a slight glimpse of its shape.

On the other side, the T2 Iron Hammer was mass-producing T2 Black Rhinos. In that expansion platform, there were five T2 Black Rhinos under construction!

"Commander." Charlotte's video window popped up. Clearly, she was delighted to see Zhao Chen return safely.

She didn't know when she had started to care about this man.

"How is the base?" Zhao Chen asked.

"Everything is normal at the base. The 20 million star coins worth of raw materials you prepared earlier have been mostly consumed!

But they can still meet the construction plan needs for March.

So far, completed Starships include one T2 Iron Hammer, one T2 Bronze Eden, and five T2 Black Rhinos.

Under construction are one T3 Blizzard and five T2 Black Rhinos.

By the end of March, another five T2 Black Rhinos will be completed." Charlotte reported.

When Zhao Chen left, Charlotte had already been granted permission to know that the T3 Starship under construction was named 'Blizzard'!

Zhao Chen felt relieved. At this construction speed,

completing that quarterly mission by the end of March shouldn't be a problem.

"The T2 Bronze Eden is finished?" Zhao Chen was curious about this T2 Bronze Eden-class Starship, which would be his cash cow for future wealth.

"Yes, and a group of Half-Beastmen I recruited are already working on the T2 Bronze Eden." Charlotte said.

"Then I need to go check it out!" Zhao Chen immediately arranged his next itinerary.

Heading to the T2 Bronze Eden-class Starship!

The old man pointed at the T2 Carrier Starship in the image: "According to the information I've found so far,

this Starship is called the t2 bee queen-class heavy carrier starship. Before it appeared, there was no public information about this Starship in the Starlight Empire or even the entire Galactic Alliance.

And the owner of this T2 Queen Bee is a person named Zhao Chen."

As he spoke, the old man pulled up a personnel file, and the profile picture was exactly Zhao Chen!

"Zhao Chen is twenty-one years old, the lord of the Owl Dragon Star System, and a baron of the empire.

He is a fourth-year student at the North Star Starship Military Academy, with excellent theoretical grades.

Before this, he had no outstanding performance until the last six months.

At the North Star Starship Military Academy, he assembled a T2 Starship named Blizzard Zero using three old Starships!

Its speed can reach 100 knots of stellar speed!"

Chu Xuan interrupted the old man and corrected: "The maximum speed exceeds 130 knots of stellar speed!"

She still remembered the scene where this T2 Starship named Blizzard Zero rammed and killed a level 2 Zerg Hive Mothership.

The old man continued: "After that, he brought out this T2 Queen Bee and participated in your incident regarding the level 2 Cosmic Insectoid Hive.

At that time, this T2 Queen Bee did not use Star Shield technology, but its drone combat capabilities were quite excellent, ranking among the top of the same level and type of Interstellar Drones!"

Chu Xuan nodded and recalled: "During the battle with the Zerg, his T2 Queen Bee was under the protection of my fleet, so it didn't use Star Shield technology!"

"Besides these two Starships, there is another one." The old man brought up a holographic image of a Starship, a small black elliptical Starship with a large black horn at the front of the bow.

"This is an Interstellar Frigate called the t2 black rhino-class interstellar heavy assault frigate. At North Star Academy, it once dueled with a T2 Purple Rose-class Medium Interstellar Battlecruiser."

"What? An Interstellar Frigate dueling with an Interstellar Battlecruiser?" Chu Xuan was astonished.

"That's right, and this T2 Black Rhino won decisively!

Also, in that battle shown in the video, five T2 Black Rhinos cooperated with one T2 Queen Bee to destroy a T3 Black Iron-Class Medium Star Destroyer of the Mechanical Race!

Additionally, they eliminated thirty T2 Mechanical Starships.

These six Starships sustained hull damage, but none were lost!" the old man said seriously.

Chu Xuan looked shocked and took a long time to recover.

"Grandfather, what are you trying to say?" Chu Xuan looked at the old man in confusion.

Her grandfather rarely spent so much time talking about one person, especially a twenty-year-old young man.

The old man pointed at Zhao Chen's profile picture: "This person has secrets, and he has outstanding talent as a Starship engineer and scientist!

I heard you are also interested in him. Since you don't want to stay here,

I'll give you a mission: get close to him, find a way to extract his secrets.

Ideally, make him cooperate with our Chu family!

But if you find he might become an enemy of our Chu family... Chu Xuan... you understand."

The old man's expression was serious, with a hidden ferocity in his eyes.

Chu Xuan nodded. She knew her grandfather's temper well; although he acted like an old child in front of her,

when it came to important matters, he was decisive and ruthless.

After all, he was once a Five-Star Marshal of the Starlight Empire who ordered the massacre of hundreds of millions of intelligent mechanical lifeforms in a single Star System!

It was because of him that the Chu family had achieved its current status.

"I understand. I will try to contact this Zhao Chen." Chu Xuan nodded, accepting the mission.

Compared to 'reflecting on her mistakes' in the Chu family mansion, this mission was acceptable to her.

Moreover, she was already curious about this person named Zhao Chen, and now that he owned a T2 Carrier Starship with Star Shield technology, that made her even more curious!

"I'll arrange an identity for you. You'll go directly to the North Star Starship Military Academy." the old man said.

"Yes."

...

In early March of Galactic Calendar 3031,

Zhao Chen's fleet finally returned to the North Star System, a full ten days later than the originally scheduled return time.

Fortunately, this escort mission ended without any major incidents.

When Zhao Chen arrived at the temporary base of the Xiaolong Fleet, it had changed significantly compared to when he left.

Originally, there were only five T2 Black Rhinos, one T2 Iron Hammer, and one Blizzard Zero.

But now the numbers had directly doubled.

At the same time, the expansion platforms built by two T2 Iron Hammer-class Heavy Interstellar Industrial Ships looked like simple space stations from a distance.

Small engineering robots were busy working around the hulls under construction in the space environment.

Industrial robotic arms, controlled by engineers and extending from the T2 Iron Hammers, were assembling and connecting parts of the hulls.

The most eye-catching was naturally the construction platform for the T3 Blizzard-class Light Interstellar Battlecruiser.

The expansion area under construction was several times larger than the hull of the T2 Iron Hammer itself!

Construction of the T3 Blizzard had started a month ago. The hull's keel was already built, and some important hull modules were being installed, giving a slight glimpse of its shape.

On the other side, the T2 Iron Hammer was mass-producing T2 Black Rhinos. In that expansion platform, there were five T2 Black Rhinos under construction!

"Commander." Charlotte's video window popped up. Clearly, she was delighted to see Zhao Chen return safely.

She didn't know when she had started to care about this man.

"How is the base?" Zhao Chen asked.

"Everything is normal at the base. The 20 million star coins worth of raw materials you prepared earlier have been mostly consumed!

But they can still meet the construction plan needs for March.

So far, completed Starships include one T2 Iron Hammer, one T2 Bronze Eden, and five T2 Black Rhinos.

Under construction are one T3 Blizzard and five T2 Black Rhinos.

By the end of March, another five T2 Black Rhinos will be completed." Charlotte reported.

When Zhao Chen left, Charlotte had already been granted permission to know that the T3 Starship under construction was named 'Blizzard'!

Zhao Chen felt relieved. At this construction speed,

completing that quarterly mission by the end of March shouldn't be a problem.

"The T2 Bronze Eden is finished?" Zhao Chen was curious about this T2 Bronze Eden-class Starship, which would be his cash cow for future wealth.

"Yes, and a group of Half-Beastmen I recruited are already working on the T2 Bronze Eden." Charlotte said.

"Then I need to go check it out!" Zhao Chen immediately arranged his next itinerary.

Heading to the T2 Bronze Eden-class Starship!