Chapter 587 Atlas Psychic Boy
"Master, do the children still want to stay in Atlas?"
On a tree-lined path in the psychic area of Zhongsi Academy, Amber asked Master Ain Stormrage beside her while walking.
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, and they do not necessarily have to stay in Atlas.
Even if you stay in Atlas forever, you don’t have to have your hands stained with blood one day in the future.
And this method of training a group of orphans into 'killing machines' from an early age always makes Amber feel a little too cruel - although Amber has never considered herself a 'positive person', she can be regarded as a 'Xiongxiong' is already a very good rating.
Amber admitted that when she adopted these 13 young psychics, she thought for a moment that she would train them to become Atlas's own 'psionic agents', or if it were in a strategy game If so, he would do so 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. This 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.
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 Be able to join Atlas like no one else."
"Others?" Amber asked with some confusion.
"After the psychic training class moved to Zhongsi College, I took the children to visit the 'Chungsi Memorial Hall' in the college several times. There were many stories about the sacrifice of employees of the Atlas Group, as well as the Atlas Group. The Si Group has experienced several wars so far."
Aon Stormrage spoke slowly, and the old god said calmly:
"These children have no memory of their parents, and the memories they left behind at the Federal Institute of Psychiatry are not good ones, so they formed a sharp contrast after coming to Atlas. In this kind of It’s 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.
During this time, one person and one elf also came to the classroom where the 13 children were currently.
Aon 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 the classroom dedicated to psykers.
Since he was going directly to the deployment bay soon, 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!"
"Any new stories this time? Mr. Amber!"
"Mr. Amber, my 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 were all psykers classified as 'dangerous people' in this world, Amber still felt the kind of teenagers in them. Unique sense of liveliness.
Therefore, he does not look at these teenagers with colored glasses like other forces. When Master Aoin Stormrage taught everyone how to control their psychic powers, Amber actually wanted to let these teenagers return to normal life, rather than Atlas Group grew up in an atmosphere destined to deal with blood and fire.
Soon, after chatting and playing with the 13 children for a while, Amber looked at the time and asked everyone again seriously and seriously:
"I actually have one more important thing to do when I come here today, and that is to ask you one last time about your future plans. I know that after living in Atlas for so long, you are reluctant to leave this atmosphere, so I would like to express my thoughts a little bit about last time. Adjusted it a bit.”
Amber paused for a moment, looked at the eyes of the boys and girls gathered around, and then said:
"I can narrow the scope of your future guardians to within the Atlas Group. In this case, you will still be a part of Atlas. When you become adults in the future, you will officially join the Atlas Group through your own efforts. .
It’s not that I think you can’t help, on the contrary. Some of you have actually met the criteria to join a special force, but I don’t want your hands to be stained with blood. You have the right and should be like other ordinary children. Grow up in a normal living environment.
I promise that your adopted people will love you more than your biological parents ever did, and that apart from coming regularly to receive psychic training from Master Stormrage, your lives will be no different from those of other Atlas employee children. "
After that, Amber calmly looked at everyone, waiting for the children's response.
After a moment, Foster, the oldest of the 13, raised his hand.
"Mr. Amber, are we going to make a decision today?"
Amber shook her head: "Of course not, I will give you enough time to think, and you can give me an answer when I come to visit you next time~"
Then he looked at the youngest Torres. Although this little fat boy has lost a lot of weight, his habit of eating snacks has not changed at all.
"Especially you, Torres. You have to think it over. If you have a guardian to take care of you, you can still eat your favorite snacks in the future, but if you join the special forces, you will be subject to military management. At that time, you can't decide what to eat~"
"Ah?"
Torres's little face fell all of a sudden, but another little girl next to him quickly pinched his arm, making him put away his depressed expression.
Amber was no stranger to this little girl.
Pru, in the basement of the institute, was the one who covered Torres' mouth to prevent the little fat boy from "confessing" under the temptation of snacks.
Amber looked at their little actions and smiled but didn't say anything. After looking around at everyone again, she said:
"As I just said, this choice is in your hands. Think about what kind of life you want to live in the future during this period. When I come next time, I will hear your answer~"
After talking about this slightly serious topic, Amber played with these children for a while to relax the atmosphere again, and chatted with Master Ian Stormrage alone for a while before leaving.
Before leaving, the words of this little elf old man who looked like Master Yoda also made Amber fall into deep thought.
"For these children, 'becoming you' is more tempting than living a happy and comfortable life."
Amber: "Why do they want to be me?"
Ian Fury: "It's simple, because the psychics in the human world have been treated too unfairly. The authorities even guide ordinary people to exclude psychics in the folk, and then let these desperate 'different' people join the official organization to work for them.
But Amber, you showed them another way. You let them know that psychics can also fight for a future for themselves, and all that Atlas Group is doing now just proves that you are not just talking nonsense. This way can really work, which is more effective than the countless 'brainwashing' propaganda films that they have shown them in the Psychic Research Institute."
It can be said that the words of this 'Master Yoda from another world' opened the door to a new world for Amber.
"Maybe I can make Atlas a 'new home' for human psychics?"
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A·Bawa·Ku Asteroid Fortress, Deployment Bay No. 322
All the warships of the ‘Red Hand’ special strike team, as well as the combat units on board, were assembled within the specified time.
After all, if soldiers are late for combat missions, they will be deducted a high performance bonus and disqualified from the year-end evaluation, and officers at all levels will be held more accountable from the bottom up according to their ranks.
When the punishment mechanism is set up strictly enough and the execution will never be lenient or discounted, the probability of this kind of problem that can be avoided manually will be infinitely close to zero.
At least since the establishment of Atlas’ combat forces, whether fleets or ground combat forces, there has been no case of lateness in combat attendance assembly - in fact, more than 90% of the federal garrison forces and imperial noble private soldiers can do this.
Even the regular armies of the Federation and the Empire cannot guarantee that every unit can achieve the emergency attendance punctuality rate of Atlas.
After Amber finished visiting the psychic training class, she immediately arrived at the deployment bay outside the asteroid fortress through the high-speed commuter elevator.
However, when he and others boarded a battleship that was the flagship of this operation and commanded the special strike team to start the departure procedure, they also received the latest news from the research ship.
They found that the fleet of the "Foundation for the Quest for Truth" appeared near this Forerunner Institute.
"No, how did they find it? Isn't this institute in a "void area"? "
The "void area" that Amber mentioned refers to the "dead land" in the universe where there are no other celestial bodies around.
The area where this Forerunner Institute is located is a typical "void area". The nearest planet is hundreds of light years away. Under normal circumstances, it is impossible for any creature to approach this place.
If Saleh had not conducted a needle-in-a-haystack search based on a rough coordinate in his memory, Amber and his team might never have found this institute.
This was originally the intention of the Forerunners to set up this institute here. After all, this is a place to study "immortality". If possible, they probably wanted to stuff this institute into the subspace-this was indeed one of the site selection plans for this institute that year.
However, according to Saleh, the situation in the warp is more complicated and dangerous than the Jeram people imagined. The Jeram people have studied the warp for many years, and after sending out many expeditions without return, they finally gave up their research on the warp...
Although Amber was curious about why the Truth Seeking Foundation could find this place, she thought that this foundation was established to dig up the graves of the forerunners. In addition, it has been established for so many years, and there will be some gains, so it is not impossible to find this research institute.
The Atlasco research ship in front is actually a professional reconnaissance ship to some extent.
After all, when you are alone in the wild every day, you must have some ability to "seek benefits and avoid harm". In addition, Amber "spare no effort" in building research ships, so in terms of reconnaissance ability, it is also T0 level among all current human warships.
So in addition to reporting the discovery of the traces of the Truth Seeking Foundation warship, this archaeological ship even sent back a reconnaissance report on the Foundation fleet.
In addition to informing the size of the fleet in the rear, the most important information in the report is that there are multiple battleships in this fleet...
"Do we have battleships now? There are even four battleships among them..."
Amber frowned as he looked at the reconnaissance report, because in his memory, the Seeking Truth Foundation had battleships in the second DLC - at that time, the official strengthened the combat effectiveness of a wave of early NPC forces, and the Seeking Truth Foundation was one of them.
"This is not surprising, Boss..."
A combat staff on the bridge answered:
"After the strategic decisive battle between the Federation and the Empire, some battleships of both sides were lost to the public. Now if you have acquaintances in several major black markets, you can indeed get a way to purchase battleships..."
Hearing the words of the combat staff, Amber nodded.
In the previous battle between the two major human forces, not every soldier and every battleship could show enough bravery and fearlessness.
Many battleships failed to return to the team in the end due to disappearance, defection, and getting lost in the melee.
The ships that were judged as "scrapped" by the repair dock after the battle were secretly resold to the public by some people with ulterior motives. This is also common in the rear of the Federation and the Star Dragon Empire...
"If the opponent has a main battleship, we still need to be a little cautious, although I don't believe that these main battleships can restore their combat effectiveness in a short time in the civilian organization..."
After thinking for a moment, Amber felt that the things in this research institute were still relatively important. She didn't want to be beaten to the punch by others, so she continued to order:
"Pass my order, the "Red Hand" strike team will set sail at the scheduled time, and the jump coordinates will be adjusted to the second hidden coordinates!
The backup strike team "Strong Luck" will start to assemble immediately, and set off immediately after the assembly is completed, and be ready to support the battle!"