Chapter 29
The Antique Bell
The Antique Bell was one of the biggest spacecraft of the Antique Bell company, the ability of the continuous voyage was also in the top ten in the whole Federation. And the Antique Bell company was also the largest company of the West Forest Region of the Federation, its scope of business spread all over in every field, its capital was extremely tremendous. But even the Management Committee of the West Forest Region had investigated for hundreds years with the CFIA(Company Freedom of Information Act), they still couldn’t look into it totally, who was the capital owner behind this giant company.
A lot of people were in guessing, in addition to the Federal Assets Committee, several families which had the most tremendous actual strength in the West Forest Region were still behind the curtain of this company. Or even some people associated it faintly, the Antique Bell company might have some kind of relationship with the Forth Military Region, which had already stationed in the West Forest Region for many years and had the super position.
This time, in order to cooperate with the federal plan, the Antique Bell company sent this spacecraft to the East Forest Region, brought with the West Forest greetings and the officials, opened up a series of exchanges with the government and the folks. On the surface, all these activities were just to cover the action of the special mecha squad of the Forth Military Region. But who would ever expect, the real deadly strike to give this treason mechanic, was this spacecraft itself on the contrary!
Except for a commercial spacecraft, how might the space weapons which were controlled severely by the military be allowed to carry?
The captain of the Antique Bell spacecraft was a big fat man, through the thermo-sensitive instrument and the imaging system of the East Forest satellites, after he confirmed the effect of earlier that vertical heavy artillery, he rested his heart assured, breathed heavily to lean on the couch, took over that cup of still warm coffee from his secretary, and drank a few mouths without knowing the taste.
“When colonel Lake come back, he might be very angry.” The secretary reminded the captain in a whisper. According to the general allocation, the captain should be assigned an affair officer by his side, but this fat man obviously didn’t have the consciousness of the enterprise, he regarded himself as some kind of official. Because in fact, he was an official originally.
The face of the fat captain was very gentle, but the thrilled through cold light in his eyes occasionally could show his true character, he said in a soft voice, “if Lake could accomplish the task, of course I wouldn’t take this kind of risk to open the main gun.”
Having a flicker of gloomy color in the brows which was occupied by pulp lines, the fat captain bit his teeth and said in pain, “one cannon wiped out half of the company’s yearly energy quotas, do you think that I don’t have the heartburn? Lake that boy really fucking let me down, how much money the military region spent to keep them the special mecha squad every year?”
“There is no other way, the Capital have the dead command over there, the President Office, the Charter Bureau, and the Ministry of the National Defense all gave the pressure to commander, it’s impossible for us to spare these energy.” The secretary shrugged his shoulders and said, “the problem was settled, I have to run in a rush, I still have to report and explain to the regional office and the governing committee of the East Forest Region, and also need to show them the command of the Federation. Otherwise, I think this exchange between the East Forest and West Forest will be dashed to pieces, the battleships of the East Forest garrison command would come up to here to surround us with anger.”
“Give them four times courage.” The fat captain flashed a flicker of taunt in his eyes, “the East Forest here has already been decadent too long, you just need to show the secret order of the Federation to the regional office. I think these officials wouldn’t dare to do anything to our Forth Military Region, but then again… The Military Region really lost all the face on this fucking damn planet in that very year, and today we at least got some back as well.”
The secretary shrugged his shoulder once again, he joint the Antique Bell company after he retired as a civilian officer, not like the captain these guys, until now still kept the military status of the Fourth Military Region in the dark. So he didn’t understand, why his comrades of the Fourth Military Region would always have such strong animosity to the East Forest Region. It’s clearly that the East Forest and the West Forest were located on the different ends of the Federation, they were apart very far away, they might not likely deal with each other for years.
The captain cabin was back to quiet, the fat captain put the cold coffee by his side carefully, open the confidential line, looked at that without any motion head portrait, with the incomparable respect, or even some flatteries to bow down his head and said, “boss, we succeeded.”
The head portrait was a middle-aged man, dressed in a well-ironed dark military uniform, the gold stars and the silver lines on the shoulders clearly show the scaring military rank of this serviceman. The communication between the East Forest and the West Forest needs at least fourteen minutes, so the head portrait of that middle-aged general remained motionless, it’s like a puppet, but the deep brows and the cold eyes still let people feel the endless pressure.
The fat captain swallowed a saliva down, he kept saying, “just to kill that mechanic… It took half of the yearly energy quotas, but this is the mission sent down from the Federation, you see whether we should send a letter to the President Office, let the Ministry of National Defense and the Energy Committee to have some coordination, give the company… Some sort of compensation?”
He thought of a problem suddenly, before the head portrait which he revered the most moved on the light screen, he bulged his face and said, “there’s one more thing… Miss still refuses to eat today.”
After he finished this sentence, this gave order to open the main gun while laughing, made the mecha as smoke and ashes, and ruined countless green land of the East Forest suburb fat captain shut off the communication device in advance, then warped up his bottom to run out of the captain’s cabin.
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Sheilor also didn’t have any food today yet. With the cover of the big explosion, he ran down from the hill. With the aid of the chaos on the West River state suburb, he got into the underground sewer once again successfully, ran like all possessed, and he finally ran into a pathless woods.
Sat his bottom down onto the thick leaves, shook some fusty taste up, the youngster had the pant rapidly, felt the extreme exhaustion and hunger in his body, his heart was also very tired, the tiredness was because of the sadness. No matter who experienced the things such like today, the mind would have the very strong impact, moreover he was not up to eighteen years old yet.
It was already in the dead of the night at this time, some “Pa Pa” noise sounded above the woods suddenly, the rain fell down without any excuses, shook up the dust which was covered by the fallen leaves, and let the whole woods pervaded a share of the dust taste.
The dusty Sheilor had his eyes full of sorrow. He closed his eyes, had a bite on his lips hard, took a deep breath, took a look at the shielding device which was held tightly in his hand. He found that the blue light was getting lighter and lighter, at most it would lose its effectiveness in two minutes.
Let’s begin.
Sheilor looked at that metal bracelet which was on his wrist somewhat callously, he touched it slightly with his finger, showed the inside those metal wires and those tiny chips, he felt that his heartbeat was getting stronger and stronger and the body was getting weaker and weaker. The pain on the nape came from the bone, transferred to the whole body, and it’s incomparably cold.
The new life, was waiting for him.