I can upgrade the shelter-Chapter 512 - 510: Responses from All Parties

Regarding Lucia’s official request to borrow Titan to break the obstacles set up by the rebels, the Flame Country’s top brass agreed after a brief discussion.

On the one hand, the matter itself is not significant; it’s merely the loan of equipment. Although Titan is considered top-secret technology, simply borrowing it won’t lead to a leak.

Moreover, whether or not to lend doesn’t truly affect Lucia’s official suppression of the disturbance. It’s merely a matter of whether the suppression is easier or whether everything gets broken in the process.

As for the Flame Country’s high-level consideration on the other hand, which is the main reason for agreeing to loan Titan, it revolves around diplomatic relations between the two countries, given that Lucia’s officials have been dealing with the Flame Country for many years, with both sides being familiar with each other.

It could be said that since the Suyia era, the high-level officials of the two countries have had interactions, and over the years, both sides have come to understand each other and know how to communicate.

However, if there were a change in leadership, the Flame Country would need to reassess the relationship between the two countries, the cooperation with the counterpart, and whether previously reached agreements can continue to be executed, among other matters.

Even before the disaster, this was not an easy task to complete.

After all, diplomacy between major powers is inherently complex, where every action can influence multiple aspects. Even a slight mistake, such as a leader misspeaking, could spark diplomatic disputes or even war.

More crucially, the Flame Country top brass does not believe Lucia’s officials would fail to suppress a mere disturbance, even if Lucia is at its most vulnerable.

Ultimately, it’s just a group of rebels without military support or battle experience, and even lacking external intervention.

Under such circumstances, if a group of rebels were to successfully overthrow one of the top five ruling powers on Blue Planet, it would be quite humiliating for Lucia’s officials.

However, although Lucia’s officials successfully borrowed Titan from the Flame Country, the two Titans cannot be used immediately.

In fact, like all other vehicles, Titan relies heavily on logistical maintenance.

Previously, because it was intended for one-time use in a rescue operation where the equipment would be returned immediately after, Titan was transported directly via helicopter without any logistical maintenance.

This initially posed no problem—no matter how much Titan required logistics, it wouldn’t be as exaggerated as needing a major overhaul after one use.

Just that the previous rescue operation caused some wear and tear on Titan, requiring logistical inspection.

Because Lucia’s official suppression action would evidently demand intense use of Titan, to prevent any issues, logistics must conduct inspections and maintenance before it can be safely deployed.

Of course, while maintaining Titan, logistics will undoubtedly collect usage data without needing to be stated.

Upon receiving the definite response from the Flame Country, Lucia started actively preparing for the upcoming suppression action, planning to solve the issue in one go once Titan was ready.

Meanwhile, as Lucia’s officials carefully prepared for suppression, the "Revolution Committee" among the soon-to-be suppressed "Revolution Army" was also intensely discussing the matter.

"We should negotiate with the officials! Bargain with them!" a slightly frail young man was passionately trying to persuade others, "The officials have the army, and our revolution army doesn’t even have decent weapons! If the army attacks, we can’t resist at all!"

The frail man’s words were factual. Although they had organized the rebels into the so-called revolution army and earnestly performed military training with high enthusiasm, these efforts could not hide the fact that they didn’t even have enough guns.

They were even worse off than the French during World War I. At least the French could have one person holding the gun and another the bullets; they had to share one gun among five or six people with very few bullets.

Yet besides the frail man, others expressed worry but possessed a more blind confidence.

"Don’t worry, Valentine. Our comrades won’t fear those Capitalist’s dogs even without weapons!" a woman brimming with enthusiasm and pride tried to comfort the frail man Valentine, gaining wide support from the others present.

"Dalia is right! We are revolutionaries, destined to thrash those rulers!" someone loudly applauded, along with clapping, which heated up the meeting atmosphere significantly.

But Valentine wasn’t convinced; he remained stern and anxious: "We can’t let our comrades use their flesh and blood against bullets! Do you want them to block army machine guns with their bodies?"

"Why not? During the Great Patriotic War, didn’t our ancestors use their flesh to block the German advance?" another "committee member" interjected, although his demeanor and tone carried a hint of frivolity.

Though this "committee member" supported Dalia, she clearly didn’t appreciate such remarks: "No, we must be responsible for our comrades’ lives! Valentine’s concerns, albeit gloomy, are justified. We can’t let our comrades make fearless sacrifices!"

"Then let’s send someone for negotiations! We can resolve this peacefully!" Valentine, hearing Dalia’s words, showed a hint of joy and eagerly tried to persuade her.

"No, Valentine! We won’t negotiate!" Dalia shook her head and rejected Valentine’s suggestion: "Revolution is conducted through tyranny! Expecting success through a ruler’s compromise without bloody sacrifice is impossible! We must resist resolutely!"

On this point, Dalia raised her hand to stop Valentine from further speaking and looked towards Vasily, asking him: "Vasily, you are the only one among us who has fought the army, share your thoughts!" 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

Dalia’s gaze towards Vasily was full of encouragement. They were great friends, Vasily used to be very proactive, but previous failures made him much more dispirited. Dalia had always been trying to encourage him to recover his spirit.

"Honestly, we can’t hold them back." Vasily helplessly shook his head, recalling the black steel giant effortlessly pushing through barriers, ignoring the flames, appearing before him like a Demon God: "The military previously deployed a frightening steel giant. I don’t know why they didn’t continue using it, but once deployed in combat, even with weapons, we’d struggle to fend it off."