Chapter 39
The first step of the M02
“The current output of the area 38 is abnormal, please check.”
In the captain master control cabin of the Antique Bell commercial spacecraft, went off the no any emotion sound of the computer. The captain seemed to not hearing anything, put down the in his hand coffee by his side, talked to himself with a kind of nervous tone, “where did she go? Where did she go?”
The spacecraft had just left the East Forest Region for a month, but just in this month, the originally fat Mr. captain, was obviously thinner for a round, especially that pair of eyes had been surrounded by the dark circle, he looked abnormally gaunt, seemed the one cup by one cup of the coffee on hand didn’t bring him any help neither.
“Area 38 was abnormal.” The computer of the spacecraft didn’t repeat the warning, this time the sound was the secretary of Mr. captain, this middle-aged man took a look at his boss and said, “whether send the engineer to take a look or not?”
“Look look look, look the shit!” The captain got angry suddenly, jumped up like a ball, pointed at the nose of the secretary and scolded severely, “I don’t care about any stinky woman in the area 38, I don’t care the fucking three times seven is twenty one, I want all the people go out to look for miss! Look for miss! Have look for her for this fucking long, how come still didn’t find her?”
Obviously, the secretary was not the first time to meet the Mr. captain’s anger, so his expression was still composed enough, he answered calmly, “there are totally forty two areas on the Antique Bell, if search one time without any place to be left out, it takes standard time five days. But the problem now is, we don’t have enough people to conduct this work. The most critical thing is, it’s too varied for the people on the spacecraft now, we can’t do it in a big way. The central control computer of the spacecraft could always confirm the safety of miss these days, and she was on the ship indeed, so captain, please don’t worry about it too much.”
Not waited for the captain to continue the anger, the secretary followed on to suggest, “if we have the synchronization and request the assistance of the Charter Bureau to have the positioning, then I believe, at most in three minutes, then we could find the whereabouts of miss.”
The captain had the silence, he had too many reasons why he couldn’t let federal capital those people know about the missing news of miss, because this thing would cause too much trouble. The central control system of the spacecraft could always confirm the safety of miss, so besides the anger and anxiety, he still maintained some of the calm, wasn’t aimless and silly to have the urgent application to the Charter Bureau.
The captain heaved a sigh, rubbed on his two slightly sore fat on the cheeks, closed his eyes and fell into thinking. The Antique Bell had three missions in this long trip, the first one was the friendly visit between the East Forest Region and the West Forest Region. The second one was the secret transportation for the special mecha squad of the Fourth Military Region, to execute the plan 4427. The third one was to escort Miss to capital planet to go to the school.
Originally in the plan, the executing second mission special squad had one more mission, it’s responsible for the safety and defense work for Miss, but these came from the West Forest people didn’t expect, the target of the plan 4427, that treason mechanic would actually be so strong, finally it forced the Antique Bell consumed enormous energy, at the same time it also let the fourth military region to pay the price. The mecha squad Colonel Lake lead was affected by the shock wave, all had the serious injury, although no misfortune sacrifice, but these many days passed by, there were several people still in coma, and a few people still had been vomiting.
Just because of the happening of this kind of accident, the safety and defense work for Miss had a huge leak. After Miss was missing, the West Forest side didn’t have enough people to conduct the search work. The fat captain opened his eyes, said angrily, “what about those student soldiers of the delegation? Didn’t have a little bit news in these days, are they growing up by eating shit?”
The people on the spacecraft were too many and too varied, the West Forest side also didn’t know who could be the secret agent of the FBI, the expatriate of the Charter Bureau, or the special agent of the Secret Service, all unable to be confirmed. If they want to find Miss silently, they could only trust the local West Forest people, just happened in the visiting East Forest delegation, had a group of students of the West Forest military school, so this rigorous mission was handed to them.
But the surveillance video of the day had been watched for many times, the Antique Bell people confirmed that miss didn’t left the second floor, so the search scope had been confined in the upper level, those regarded as genius military students, just like the spider limited activity route in the cobweb, and how could it be possible for them to find the target which had already climbed to another tree?
The secretary took a look at him, thought in his mind that Mr. captain and he himself all came out from the West Forest military school, those just eighteen or nineteen years old officers should be counted as the junior fellow apprentices of them these people, won’t he had the heart to say the kind of words like growing up by eating shit? He lowered his head and said, “I always feel that we have missed some places.”
“Then expand the scope of the search.” The fat captain had a flicker of fantod in his eyes, “go down there to had a search, but… Remember don’t alarm too many people, don’t let those irrelevant people to know about it.”
Just while talking, the communicator of the spacecraft suddenly lit up, a face of a silent and cold middle-aged man showed up on the screen. The secretary stood at attention right away and had a salute to that on the screen middle-aged man, and then walked out of the command module. The fat captain also stood up right away, although he knew it clearly that it took a very long time for the interstellar communication, but he still had a salute fastidiously, said in a loud voice, “report, commander, still no news, we only could confirm the safety.”
And then he lowered his head right away, said enormously ashamed, “boss, damned the fatty.”
This time the communication didn’t have the time correction and tuning, the words of that middle-aged general was said several minutes ago on the other side of the screen, not the order aimed at the captain, “keep searching. Firework is very naughty, but Firework is also smarter than what you these people thought, so don’t need to worry about her too much, just remember one point, Firework must go to the capital to go to the school. So this time her missing news is strictly prohibited to be leaked, I don’t want those dry and thin old senators of the Management Committee make an issue of this thing, say that our Fourth Military Region is looking for the excuse to delay.”
“Yes, boss.” The captain was very ashamed in his heart, held his hands tightly by the sides, pondered that if he really found miss, must see who dared to help her, found the food for her every day, he would tear that guy into pieces by then.
Just right at this time, the central control computer gave out the cold voice again, “the power output of the area 38 is abnormal, the condition of the ground load-carrying capability is abnormal, suspect that getting the inside impact.”
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At this time, Sheilor didn’t have the consciousness to be torn into pieces, although he had been in doubt about Little Watermelon’s life experience, but it’s out of question that he could connect this little girl with the remote upper class of the fourth military and so forth the Federation, he was just an orphan living in the rock bottom of the Federation after all, he felt that those things were very far away from him subconsciously. And the now him had already put all his mind onto the broken mecha which was under his feet.
The operating cabin had the dim light come out, just in the light, the stepping on the cabin door of the mecha Sheilor was just like the people on the picture. Suddenly found the secret hidden in his hands, knew what kind of
things on earth he had learnt in this four years, at this moment he thought of his teacher naturally, the friendship between generations, his boss-- Fengyu. The youngster couldn’t control the sentimental emotion in his heart, lowered his head and cried out soundlessly, the tears dropped on the surface of the mecha, and washed away several dust tracks.
Little Watermelon saw him to cry, made a gently “Ah” sound, and then covered her mouth with her two small hands in a rush. She didn’t know why brother Sheilor would cry, could it be said that because he had fixed this broken mecha capably, could it be said that it’s the words tears of joy on the book?
Not for a long time, then Sheilor was clear in mind, wiped the tears off from the face with the all oily sleeve, made himself the dirty face, somewhat embarrassed to look at on the floor Little Watermelon, and made an effort to say, “scared you? I wouldn’t cry no more in the future.” He was a people who suited the action to the word, since his boss had already gone, no matter life and death, then it’s no any meaning to sink himself into this kind of emotion again, just remembered him in the heart, and then lived his own life nicely. From this second on, Sheilor would cry rarely, until one day drenched in that rain while he was walking on the street many years later.
The central control chip of the M02 was broken, the most functions were already failure, of course Sheilor didn’t have the extravagant hopes that he could fix the chip in this kind of situation, he just used some seemed very clumsy ways, shielded the self-alarm system of the mecha, he needed to try whether the transmission system was good. Since the mecha had already passed the self-checking now, of course the excited him would give it a try, climbed into the no hatch cover operating cabin with some difficulties, according to the direction of the instruction book, it’s not hard for him to find the operating station.
Sheilor put his hands into the standing valve carefully, put his ten fingers on the simulation screen board in accordance with the fixed arrangement, then found it out disappointedly, although the transmission of this mecha seemed to can be used, but the signal input device still couldn’t be connected, said it accurately, between the simulation screen board of the operating station and the chipset he installed, couldn’t reach the connection. No matter how he tried, the whole mecha still kept its body unmoved.
In the situation of no other ways, he had to change to the simulation system, connected the sensors to his skin surface directly-- This kind of system had already been eliminated, because the scientists confirmed after researches, no matter how developed the human body was, the reaction speed by using the simulation system still could be very slow, and this kind of operation way would consume too much power, nobody could operate the mecha for a long time by this way. Just in the early days of the Constitution Calendar more than sixty years ago, the M02 would still keep this kind of unworthy system-- Just wanted to let the mecha’s finger to have a move anyway, Sheilor didn’t mind to be in a sweat.
This was a kind of illusion of the skin and muscle tissue, very thick and very deep, Sheilor had his eyebrows frowned up, found that maybe because the mecha was broken for too long, there was some problems with the sensor system, his nerve system commanded the muscle movement, didn’t have any way to let this mecha moved a bit.
Suddenly he had the cognitive snap in his mind, or maybe the instinct reaction, Sheilor had a sip on his lips, closed his two eyes, his waist began to tremble, the enormous power was transferred to the arms from the waist and abdomen, then he made a stuffy sound, and raised his both arms.
Exactly same as his movement, the huge broken M02 mecha slowly raised both arms in the causing sour tooth sound!
In the surprise gaze of two children, the mecha took a step forward, and then… Collapsed with a loud crash!
After the loud noise, in front of the dressed in white pajamas little girl, the M02 mecha fell broken into the metal parts and rising smoke circuit boards all over the ground.