Meteor Fall Master in the 'Starry Abyss'
Chapter 261 - 083. Sky Blazing Ring Red Squad, a lifetime at stake in the military career

Chapter 261: 083. Sky Blazing Ring Red Squad, a lifetime at stake in the military career

Caramel Snail was dragged into the martial arts studio to learn, and soon there were screams coming from inside.

"It seems rather enjoyable, doesn’t it? Other professional gamers should also be coming my way — no hurry, let’s leave them hanging for a while."

Li Aozi glanced at the time, estimated it was about right, and then leisurely made his way towards the outskirts of Nuliang City.

He had come to this shabby industrial city of Nuliang City for another important purpose.

Li Aozi located Lake Xin Town on the terminal map and immediately used invisible flight to arrive at the outskirts’ woodlands. After a series of turns, he finally reached the small town and, with his strong charisma, Li Aozi smiled and easily got the town’s security to let him in. He then headed straight to a bar named ’Fury Road.’"

Outside the bar, a large number of heavy motorcycles were parked, many of which bore white flags flourished with the ink-written phrase "Live on the Edge." Two men dressed in full motorbike gear stood guard beside their bikes, cautiously, each with a tachi on their waist without the crossguard. Seeing Li Aozi, a Red Arrow person, approach, confusion appeared on their faces.

"Hey, Imperialri, do you know where this is?" the man coldly said.

The other man put his hand on the hilt of his sword, warning, "We are the station of the Sky Blazing Ring Red Squad, a military force. This isn’t a place for you imperials to come."

"It is precisely because I am a Red Arrow person that you should welcome me."

Li Aozi didn’t need to exert any tone; under the influence of the ’Bygone Years’ fashion, his arrogant demeanor deeply irritated the two men, but the "Aura of Goodwill" prevented them from sensing any malice from Li Aozi.

Caught between two perceptions, they could only interpret that an important official or noble from Red Arrow, with urgent matters, had come to them.

Realizing this, the two men fell silent, now curious to see what this proper-looking Red Arrow person had to say.

"The Sky Blazing Ring Red Team, with the aim of advocating the overthrow of the clans and samurai class, stripping power from the royal family, is a radical and violent organization that wants to dismantle the four-clan system. It also has quite a reputation internationally."

Li Aozi spoke unhurriedly:

"However, because you have carried out multiple terrorist attacks, causing the deaths of hundreds of innocent people, you have been repeatedly labeled as a terrorist organization."

"What the People of Sky Ring want to do is none of the Red Arrow Empire’s business," said the man leaning on his tachi, smirking.

"I am merely stating facts." Li Aozi raised his hand casually to quell any tension: "Nevertheless, the Empire is very grateful for some of the actions of those in the Sky Blazing Ring — especially during the Hameda Archipelago incident, your military organization’s strike and anti-war demonstration effectively prevented the Houjo Group’s security team from continuing their landing."

His tone became grave:

"Salute to the anti-war students who made great sacrifices to oppose Prime Minister Park’s insane war tactics."

The Hameda Archipelago is a disputed territory. In the old times, it belonged to the Red Arrow Empire — no, to be precise, the Red Arrow had not yet formed at that time, and they were still in a highly fragmented coalition of chieftains.

Yes... the Empire, now in its prime and feared across the seas, was a very primitive and loose coalition of chieftain states known as Blue Ink in the old times.

The Blue Ink Alliance had long been isolated from the world, leading a content and self-sufficient life, as if residing in a utopian land.

In the old era, Blue Ink boasted abundant aquatic and agricultural resources. Both its territory and territorial waters were vast. But because it was located in high-latitude areas, most of its land consisted of tundra and permafrost, and so it never developed into a powerful industrial nation. Even though humanity had luminaries like Yamiriko during that time, the Blue Ink Alliance remained a Buddhist-minded, gentle agrarian and maritime civilization.

However, when the Ersha catastrophe struck, the whole world, deprived of sunlight, became equally destitute. Countries like the Sky Ring Country, Frosted Kingdom during the Twin Queens era, and dozens of medium-sized nations, all set their sight on Blue Ink’s territories.

Once, the resources of Azure Star seemed inexhaustible; no one cared about a piece of tundra. But now, everything changed. Ersha transformed the world into a realm of ice, snow, and desserts. Former oceans were crystallized and frozen, turning Blue Ink’s maritime area suddenly into unobstructed continental passages, and revealing all the valuable resources from deep sea floors—natural gas, manganese nodules, petroleum, gold, silver, helium, and so on.

People say that true colors are shown in times of adversity, and indeed, that was proven to be true.

The old empires led by Frost Plated, Sky Ring, and Zhengxu showed genuine passion for the land of the Blue Ink Alliance.

Blue Ink was an ordinary chieftain alliance that hardly had any internal communication or unity. Due to the old era’s early arrival of an affluent time when people were not lacking food or clothing, this exceptional agricultural alliance of Blue Ink didn’t even have a sense of national identity, and its member states hardly dared to resist foreign invasions.

With no sense of nationhood or unity, people were quickly divided and consumed by the world, leaving only the last member republic, less than 2 million square kilometers large, struggling to survive under the pressure of the three countries.

At the time, no one paid attention to this tiny country; a pilot from the Sky Ring even carelessly dropped a nuclear bomb into their iceberg that served as an important water source, destroying it.

Despite the exhausted cries and wails of the country’s diplomats at the GTB summit, no one listened to their pain. That afternoon, Sky Ring, due to a severe storm that affected their bombing aim, accidentally dropped the bomb into an international humanitarian refugee camp, taking the lives of thousands of starving women and children.

The women of Frost Plated unapologetically took away their mountains and fertile lands, forcing the people of the small nation onto ice plains where survival was nearly impossible.

Mingji Heavy Industries coveted a swath of tundra and casually released a few bio-experiment subjects, intentionally causing biological invasions that led to tens of thousands of people from the small country being bitten to death by the beast calamity.

The samurai of Sky Ring swaggered in, seizing their swampy woods used for clubbing deer and scooping fishes, as well as the vitally important Hameda Archipelago, leaving the entire nation without natural defenses.

Even Zhengxu, always known for its righteousness, couldn’t resist kicking them while they were down and used its immigration policy to take away a significant portion of the population.

Clearly, the nation’s demise seemed imminent, with no fertile land, no natural barriers, and no population.

But later on, people would deeply regret not listening to the cries of pain from that small country.

As a consequence—they would have to listen to the roar of the Empire’s machines as they traversed over the Frozen Stiff corpses, trampling the ice fields with deafening outcries.

Because that small, doomed country was called Red Arrow.

’If you refuse to listen to my cries, then I will have to ask you to listen to the roar of the cannons. No matter how many mistakes we make, we can be forgiven—the world owes us.’

—Emperor Xizer Imperad I, founder of the Red Arrow Empire.