Three days have passed since that meeting, and the mercenary group has been working in an orderly manner. The combat team bought a large number of powerful arms, and Katharine has already started contacting her colleagues in the universe. At this time, Rhodes felt that he had been hanging the ZAFT prisoner for war for a long time, so he went to the room where the latter was imprisoned for a look.

Rhodes came to the detention room deep in the underground base, supported the guards and opened the locked automatic door and walked in. Although it was detention, it was actually a well-sanitary single dormitory. As soon as Rhodes entered the door, he saw the ZAFT girl sitting by the bed.

The girl naturally saw him, but she didn't rush forward and fought hard. It seemed that she had fully understood her situation. She had been detained for three days since she woke up, and the so-called impulse had long been smoothed out by time.

"Hello, let me introduce myself, the leader of the Silver Wolf Mercenary Group, Rhode L. Laurenz, you can call me Rhode or the 'captain'." Rhode said as he grabbed a chair and sat down. He didn't think that this girl would pose any threat to him. Even if he was a coordinator, he was just a little girl in front of a master of hand-to-hand combat.

The girl looked up at Rhode, but she turned her face aside in a flash. It seemed that she didn't want to cooperate anymore. However, at this time, Rhode saw the girl's appearance clearly - a slightly heroic melon-shaped face, with green eyes, and long golden hair shawls. This look was also considered a top-notch among the coordinators who were all handsome men and beautiful women. The girl's figure was not tall, and it was about 1.6, and her development was quite good, at least her chest was already bulging high.

"It's very impolite to keep staring at the lady, Captain Laurenz." Perhaps influenced by Rhode's gaze that could see through her whole body, the girl finally spoke. Although her face was blushing because of shyness, her tone was very bad.

Rhodes is not a porn maniac, and he is not interested in this loli who is at least ten years younger than him. After coughing lightly, he asked: "Your name? Position and Army number?"

The girl was stunned and suddenly realized the fact that she was still a prisoner. However, she was considered a regular soldier of ZAFT and used the method that the military instructor once told him to deal with the interrogation: "Tresa Beldandy, soldier number G0025734."

Rhode sneered. It seemed that no matter where he was, the captives would always say their names and soldiers' numbers at the beginning. Of course, this was useless. If the girl wanted to tell what she knew, he had at least a hundred torture methods that could do this. However, Rhode was not the Earth Army and could not be interested in the ZAFT's troops organization. It would be enough to know the name and facilitate communication.

"Then Miss Berdandy, like my initial introduction, I am not a member of the Earth United Army, so I will not have any interest in your ZAFT military secrets. I just want you to do me a favor, and then our mercenary group will release you, that's that simple." Rhodes lit a cigarette for himself and said slowly.

“What’s the busy thing?”

"Teaching me to open an MS, or handing over the operating guides of the MS taught in your military academy is that simple."

"Impossible!" Teresa knocked on the table in front of the bed and stood up with a squeak. She looked straight into Rhode's eyes, and her green eyes were full of angry flames. "You killed Kai and Roger, do you want me to teach you how to use MS to kill more coordinators? And you are just a natural person, and it is impossible to learn how to manipulate MS." The first half of the girl was angry, and the second half was deep contempt.

Rhode's eyes were already cold, and he underestimated the girl's perseverance. The days when he had not seen a human for three consecutive days seemed to have no big impact on this girl who was only in her teens. However, based on the principle of friendship, he still explained: "We are mercenaries, money is our friends, and the mission target is our enemies. If you ZAFT has a corresponding commission, we can still fight with the earth."

"Shameless." The girl responded coldly, and she felt that such guys who fought without faith were really pathetic.

"Okay." Yuan Ye sneered, and slowly stood up. At the same time, he stared at the other party with his light blue eyes that had long been coldly caused by killing and fighting. Until the girl looked away, she said: "I only said once that we are mercenaries, not the Earth Army that is loyal to the duties, nor are you full of fantasy ZAFTs. We fight for money, and then let us fighters with only special abilities survive. If you want to avenge your comrades, I welcome you to decide on the battlefield at any time, but if you want freedom now, then do what I said."

Theresa is just a teenage girl. She has never been looked at by this murderous animal, but she still gritted her teeth and said, "How can I help you if you kill my friend?"

"You are a soldier, and you must have a considerable awareness when you go to the battlefield. So what are the soldiers of the Earth United Army who die under your hands?" Rhode strongly despised the ideological education work of militia-like military organizations such as ZAFT. It was a "great" army to let a group of fantasy teenagers go to the battlefield. However, he did not discuss such profound questions as why fighting. In his opinion, fighting is for survival. If you think so much every time, then soldiers will become philosophers.

"It seems that you don't want to be free anymore, but it doesn't matter. It takes a little time to find something like data." Rhodes put out the cigarette butts, and he didn't have to let the girl tell him that the Earth Army can get such data by spending some money. After all, so many ZAFT prisoners of war may have even revealed what their speakers were wearing in front of the modern interrogation of the Earth Army, but it only took some time and money.

As for why not torture is used to deal with this stubborn ZAFT girl, this is not a bullshit plot like mercy. The mercenary is a businessman, so how could he offend ZAFT? Maybe he will collect money from the coordinator and turn the gun to deal with the Earth Army next moment. The captive of the ZAFT was originally going to set up a line for the coordinator, so Rhodes would not touch it even if he had a hair.

"Let me think about it." Just as Rhode walked out of the room, a girl's voice came from behind her. It seemed that she was also tired of this dark life as a prisoner. Giving some unpainable information in exchange for her own freedom was also a choice for smart people.

Rhode nodded, then closed the automatic door. At this time, he said to the guard beside him with a gun on his back: "Look at her, you will meet any requirements."

"Yes." The guard responded, holding a gun and standing straight at the door.

Rhodes returned to his room to take a shower, and then looked at the battle situation in recent days. During this period, ZAFT and the Earth Army were still calm. Although the two sides had constant small-scale wars, the main fleet had not been mobilized yet. However, anyone with discerning eyes knew that this was just the tranquility before the storm.

This kind of life will be difficult for me to shoot down an MS today and sink a warship tomorrow. After all, the huge resources of the Earth Army can afford, and the ZAFT's only tens of millions of people cannot be consumed slowly like this. Rhodes looked at it for a long time and found two key points: one is to make the Earth Army's nuclear bombs and proud naval guns use the Neutron Jammer more and more frequently. Even the Earth Army has launched its own products and began to interfere with ZAFT's long-range communications. Thanks to this, the communications in the universe are now simply messy.

The second is that the ZAFT airborne troops that were defeated in Victoria Harbor a few days ago became more and more active. After adopting squad guerrilla tactics and cosmic airborne supplies, several mechanized infantry divisions of the Earth United Army suffered heavy losses. The chariot brigades fighting in regiments and battalions were beaten to pieces in the African tropical rainforest. According to the information sent from the inside, the elite 7th Armored Division of the Eurasian United Army was killed.

Tanks and heavy artillery were destroyed, and the traditional infantry who were still carrying assault rifles and grenades became innocent onlookers. In comparison, the mercenary squad doing business there was doing well, at least in terms of record, it had surpassed the well-equipped Earth Army.

Of course, this kind of record was naturally added to the Earth Army by the propaganda department of the Earth. The mercenaries who have made comfortable profits of this shameless deception will naturally not object to it. Who said that the mercenaries are asking for profit? The Earth Army is asking for fame. Both sides will cooperate happily when they take the needs.

However, as the Earth United Space Army has adopted the turtle tactic of retracting the moon base under the attack of ZAFT, there are more and more reinforcements and materials from the Earth's orbit to the African continent, and the Eurasian Federal Army's unlucky moment is getting closer and closer. But Rhodes is neither the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Earth United Army nor the Minister of Defense of the Eurasian Federation. He can see that the situation is getting worse and worse, and he is helpless, or he is more and more happy.

For mercenaries, the more stalemate the war, the more money they make. At this point, they stand on the same front as the arms dealers. He can see that the already in a hurry, the Eurasian Federation military is eager to hand over all combat tasks to elite mercenaries, anyway, they do not have to bear any responsibility for adverse combat.

Just as Rod thought, the communicator next to the computer rang.

"I'm Laurenz." Rhodes connected the passage.

"BOSS, the re-arrangement of the operating system of that MS has initial results. Let's see if it needs improvement." Brandt's voice came from the other end of the communicator.
Chapter completed!