Counterfeit Hero

Chapter 1595: Chapter 57: The Bandit Army Unleashed (Part 3)

”Just take care of your President.” Fatty waved his hand, his gaze turning to the porthole, ”As for the old man’s affairs, we’ll handle them ourselves.”

”Fatty...” Margaret felt her heart tighten, a sense of foreboding confirmed by Fatty’s face, as hard and cold as iron.

Nobody understood Fatty better than she did. She knew that once pushed to the edge, this guy was scarier than the craziest madman in the world! The expression on Fatty’s face now was exactly like those usually timid and weak people, brandishing a knife when finally pushed to their limits and charging at bullies.

There was a kind of suppressed hysteria, a frightening neuroticism.

”I need to make a call.” Fatty ignored Margaret. He looked straight out the window, images of meeting Bernadotte continuously replaying in his mind like a movie.

At the Military Academy in Gallipalan. The old man with a stern face, after a speech full of praise, sent him off to the Kato Front......

While welcoming returning prisoners at Gallipalan Airport, the old man stood at the forefront of a group of high-ranking generals, saluting with pride.....

At Mars, the old man wrote a letter, telling him he was proud of him......

In Chuckna Hanjing, the old man came up, opened his arms to give him a strong hug, smilingly saying to him... ”Welcome home!”

Every single frame from the past was so clear.

Bernadotte was different from Russell. He wasn’t a Great General, nor did he have Russell’s profound military command skills. However, he was selfless, composed, and resolute. He embodied the quintessential traits of the Leray Federation. He was a representation of all Leray soldiers!

Fatty couldn’t understand, after losing Hamilton, Schneider, and Brown, after losing thirty million Leray Warriors, what more must the Leray Federation sacrifice for this war?

How many more people did those damned bastards expect Leray to sacrifice? How could they dare target the people around him?!

”No matter who you are, I will personally send you to hell!”

Fatty coldly looked out the window, and after hearing the automatic door close upon Margaret’s departure, he got up and moved to the table, picking up the phone.

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After closing her mobile phone, Fang Xiang stared blankly at it for a long time.

On the streets of Mars Central City, people came and went, with many passersby casting amazed glances at Fang Xiang. However, no one knew that this beautiful woman, dressed in an eye-catching mix of casual wear and holding shopping bags while standing charmingly on the street corner, was the actual controller of Mars Free Port.

In the shop windows along the street, the displays were full of variety. The bustling crowds, with their quick footsteps, imparted a rapid rhythm and vigorous vitality to this world.

The highways, like colorful ribbons flying in the air. Countless flying cars sped along the roads, with some veering off the main flow, turning onto side roads, while others passed through overpasses, cautiously exiting the merging lanes, then accelerating back into the main traffic.

Above the city, the clattering sounds typical of construction sites were everywhere. Countless dominating single-arm tower cranes rotated in their respective territories. On top of the robustly framed Space City coated in steel beams, hundreds of construction Mechas bustled about like ants carrying earth on ant hills.

After experiencing the Mars Sect War, the Free Port was recovering at an astonishing speed.

The war had given the Free World far more opportunities than times of peace. Smuggling ships, Free Merchant Groups, Mercenary Organizations, and large financial enterprises, coming from different places, gathered their wealth here while enjoying Mars’ extensive interstellar routes.

The ruthless pirates along the routes had been wiped out by the bandit army, and the major space docks and space stations were under the absolute control of the bandit army. The Commerce Groups and smuggling ships traveling along the routes no longer needed to fear for their wealth and lives. They could purchase food at reasonable prices and sell their goods in the Free Port’s market without fretting over transaction fees.

Low transaction and transport costs, safe transportation channels, the war blockade on the main routes, and the hunger for various materials across the Star Domains touched by the Mars Free Channel had made Mars more prosperous than before.

The wealth of the bandit army was growing at a staggering pace. With remarkable talent in management, Audrey relied on the blockade of the entire human interstellar map during the war to make money in a near-plundering manner.

Besides profiting off smugglers and Commerce Groups, Audrey also profited off the Western Alliance Countries and the Fei Alliance Countries. This short, seemingly pure and lovely girl with a mature woman’s deadly allure navigated the merchants daily, not sparing even the Leray Federation.

However, it was precisely her manipulation that caused the Gold Coin of the Brody Regime to flow extensively into her pockets, while the smugglers desperately broke through the Western Alliance’s blockade, rushing toward the Atlantis Star Domain under Flavio’s control.

With sufficient funds, the development of the bandit army progressed by leaps and bounds. The frequent smuggling ships, Commerce Groups, and enterprises, endowed with immense power in their respective fields, with cooperation from several neutral countries and Mars, ensured a continuous flow of scarce strategic materials into Mars.