"Students, today, one of our outstanding students has completed the graduation examination ahead of schedule. He will be awarded the title by Five-Star General Liang Xingchen!"
After Li Fulai spoke and Liang Xingchen walked onto the stage, the audience immediately became uneasy.
"Who is so awesome? He actually let the Federation Military God personally award him a title?"
"General Liang Xingchen, the hero of mankind! Appeared in front of me unexpectedly!"
"By the way, isn't Admiral Liang's information confidential? Is it okay to show up so directly?"
"It's kept secret for the public. We are a military academy and we are part of the federal fleet!"
"If I take pictures now, will I be arrested?"
"What do you think?"
Seeing Liang Xingchen take the stage, the audience was in chaos, and whispers filled the entire auditorium.
"Quiet!"
Li Fulai shouted, and the scene instantly became quiet. The dean was still somewhat majestic, although he was a bit mean in private.
"What does it look like? You are soldiers, have you forgotten the basic disciplines? Now please invite Lin Fan, a student of the 55th Fleet Command Department of the Military Academy, to come to the stage."
So it's him? No wonder, the entire academy is said to produce only one monster every thousand years. No wonder General Liang Xingchen came to confer him the title in person.
Everyone in the audience understood instantly. After all, Lin Fan's evil nature has been known to everyone for a long time.
His commanding ability is unparalleled in the entire academy. Even the instructors were resigned to being inferior. He even directly tortured the famous Wood Scott before, who was an active colonel and was called by many people the next genius of Liang Xingchen.
commander.
And Lin Fan's reputation as a monster doesn't just come from this. What's even more frightening is that in addition to his commanding talents, this guy's scientific research talents also blinded everyone.
In the three years since I entered the academy, I have produced some scientific research results from time to time. The key is not just one subject, but covering all subjects.
The most famous one is that Lin Fan designed an artificial gravity device.
I remember that there was no gravity in this college a few years ago. After Lin Fan designed the artificial gravity device, the college became no different from the earth.
Even the artificial gravity currently used in the Federation fleet comes from Lin Fan's design.
Of course, Lin Fan said that he didn't want this situation either. Who told this system to give away technology every time it completed a task?
At this moment, Lin Fan had changed into the black military uniform of the federal fleet and came to Liang Xingchen. He stood at attention and saluted with meticulous movements.
Liang Xingchen looked at Lin Fan, nodded with satisfaction, turned around and picked up the military rank from the tray held by his adjutant, and solemnly put it on Lin Fan.
"Congratulations! From today on, you are an official federal soldier!"
"Yes! I will live up to the commander's expectations."
At this time, everyone in the audience was wondering. The military rank on Lin Fan's shoulder was that of colonel.
Lin Fan is only 19 years old, okay? Has anyone heard of a 19-year-old colonel?
But all the students thought it was reasonable. After all, whether it was in fleet command or scientific research, Lin Fan's reputation as a monster was too loud.
Regarding the appearance of a 19-year-old colonel, no one had any objection for a while, which is also incredible.
The next moment, the entire auditorium burst into applause, which lasted for a long time.
Then Lin Fan, who was on the stage now, was a little excited because the lovely system sound sounded in his ears.
"Ding, congratulations to the host for completing mission 2: promoting the military rank to colonel and being rewarded with a tube of gene enhancement potion, which has been placed in the system space."
This is a gene-enhancing potion, something that has always existed in various human novels, film and television works, how can Lin Fan not be excited!
But no matter how excited he was, he couldn't take it out right now, so even though he was excited inside, Lin Fan still managed to maintain a serious look on his face.
Emma in the audience stared blankly at Lin Fan on the stage, applauding and speaking softly in a voice that only she could hear.
"I will go to the Mars base to find you next year!"
...
At four o'clock in the afternoon, Lin Fan, who had finally finished the investiture ceremony, set off on the journey to the Mars base with Liang Xingchen under Li Fulai's farewell.
Three days later, the Haiyan-class destroyer Lin Fan was aboard arrived at the Mars base.
This is the first time Lin Fan has come to Mars since his time traveling. The entire base is built on the orbit of Mars. It consists of a small space city, 38 large orbital star ports and countless small and medium-sized orbital star ports. The first station is stationed here.
20,000 warships of the Fourth Fleet and countless civilian ships.
Why are there so many civilian ships? The main reason lies in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. As the current only source of resources for the Federation, it naturally needs to be vigorously exploited.
However, in today's situation, mining the asteroid belt is risky.
Although the two sides have not fought since the Federation in 52 years, the Oaks Empire has been sending small fleets into the asteroid belt to carry out sneak attacks, and the main target of its attacks is the Federation's resource extraction ships.
Therefore, one of the current main tasks of the Second Fleet is to patrol the asteroid belt and provide protection for resource mining ships. Therefore, in the past six years, countless small-scale battles have broken out in the asteroid belt.
Therefore, 18 of the current 38 orbital star ports in the Mars base are used by resource extraction ships and transport ships.
"Is this a Mars base? It's really spectacular!"
Lin Fan looked at the scene in front of him through the observation window of the battleship. As far as the eye could see, there were no less than 1,000 battleships docked in a military starport, which was very spectacular.
Lin Fan couldn't help but feel excited when he thought that there were 19 such military ports.
Soon, the destroyer docked at the port of the small space city, which became the headquarters of the Mars base.
After getting off the spaceship, Liang Xingchen took Lin Fan to his office and asked his adjutant to notify Liang Xue to come.
Lin Fan didn't know who Liang Xue was and didn't care too much.
"This is your appointment, take a look."
When the adjutant walked out, Liang Xingchen sat in his seat, looked at Lin Fan who was standing straight in front of his desk, and handed over a document.
Lin Fan took the document and quickly glanced at it. He was very shocked that Liang Xingchen actually gave him a fleet.
The content of the document is that after the recommendation of Admiral Liang Xingchen, the commander of the Fourth Fleet, Lin Fan was promoted to the rank of colonel of the Federation Fleet and concurrently served as the commander of the 101st mixed fleet of the Fourth Fleet, taking up the post immediately.
"The 101 Mixed Fleet is the latest experimental fleet of our Fourth Fleet, with a total of 144 battleships, including 9 aircraft carriers, 9 battlecruisers, 18 cruisers, 36 destroyers, and 72 frigates."
"In addition, the Mars base will allocate a medium-sized star port as the exclusive base for the 101 mixed fleet."
Hearing this, Lin Fan was a little surprised. Logically speaking, a medium-sized orbital star port can dock 50 battlecruiser-level battleships and 500 destroyer-level battleships.
But now Liang Xingchen actually told Lin Fan to use a medium-sized orbital starport as the exclusive base for the 101 mixed fleet?
This is quite abnormal. Do 144 warships need such a large star port?
"Are you wondering why such a large star port is used as the fleet's exclusive base?"
"Yes, Commander!"
"This is because this new port was once a warship experimental port. It can only dock more than 100 warships. The rest of the place is a variety of production workshops. Do you understand?"
As he said that, Liang Xingchen gave Lin Fan a meaningful look.