translator: loop
“My darlings, come out and greet everyone, don’t shrink back.” Tang turned on the portable finger light strapped to his middle finger and waved the white beam of light across a row of windows. “Hurry up.”
“How many times have I told you, don’t tie the finger light to your middle finger, every time you stick it out I subconsciously want to send a slap to your face.” A person inside used the back of his hand to shield his face from the light and came out of the house cursing.
With a flick of Chu Si’s fingers, the cupped communicator he was holding turned around and was thrown back into his pocket.
He narrowed his eyes at the group illuminated by the light of Tang’s fingertip.
The first person was a beautiful girl with obvious Menle City ancestry. Her skin was dazzlingly white even under the starry night, and her long brown hair was tied in a high ponytail behind her head. She was wearing a tight vest and military trousers, proudly displaying the ten-centimeter-long scar on her arm.
She first stuck two middle fingers in front of Tang’s nose with no expression on her face, then glanced half arrogantly and half lazily out of the corner of her eyes, sweeping a gaze towards Chu Si’s face in the dark.
Her beautiful blue eyes suddenly widened, “What the hell…”
Chu Si nodded, “I’ll accept that greeting, Miss Le Pen.”
Le Pen withdrew her fingers quickly, turned around on the spot, slapped her heels together, and saluted: “Allow me to try again, long time no see, Executive!”
With such a shout, the people behind her also saw Chu Si’s face clearly one after another. Like they had suddenly seen their grandpa, they ran over and slapped their heels together: “Fuck!”
The earth shook.
Chu Si: “…”
Everyone reacted in a flurry and shouted again: “Hello, Executive!”
Chu Si’s gaze swept over their faces one by one. Coincidentally, each of the five people standing there were trained by him.
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“Long time no see.” Chu Si touched his brow with two fingers. He hadn’t performed this kind of military-style salute ever since he left the training camp.
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She licked her lips and said, “I’m hungry just looking at them, I haven’t eaten meat in a while…”
Jin: “…”
He took a step to hide behind Chu Si with a dry laugh and whispered, “Why do your people always talk about eating humans?”
Chu Si said, “The main culprit for all faults brought out in the training camp is that negative textbook example. You can complain to him.”
This very unkind way of speaking was Sa’e Yang’s favorite. When he was in the sanatorium, he passed it on to a group of patients, and after entering the training camp, he passed it on to his teammates, accidentally spreading it from generation to generation.
Later on, no one knew who the source was, because the name “Sa’e Yang” was the only dark stain of the training camp. He became a forbidden topic that was avoided for more than a decade, by everyone from the trainers to the trainees.
“This is…” Tang pointed to Jin and said two words before trailing off.
“Jin Fergus.” Jin thoughtfully gave him his name and patted the little mop’s head. “This is my daughter.”
“What a pretty little girl, she really doesn’t look like you,” Tang complimented.
Jin: “…” Can’t your training camp produce someone who can speak the human language?
“This Mr. Fergus has a butt full of poisonous spikes, if he keeps standing like this he’ll probably cry out in pain. Le Pen, help get some medicine,” Tang said, looking around carefully again, before leading everyone towards the largest room. “Let’s go and talk.”
Chu Si followed his gaze and also looked around.
The place where the base was located was surrounded by layers of tall trees. The dead branches and leaves hanging down were intertwined and crisscrossed, forming a natural nest half-enclosing the base.
Apart from the trees, which could perhaps be salvaged, there was no semblance of other living things around.
“This is our dining room, which functions as a meeting room and a living room, if there are guests,” Tang briefly introduced. “There are several rooms over there. Mine, Joel’s, and Le Pen’s are in the middle, on the far side are Liu’s and Guy’s. Over there is the surveillance room.”
There were a few low concave chairs in the dining room surrounding a dual-purpose electric stove. A very ugly pot was placed on top of it, cooking something unknown.
Everyone sat down in the chairs. Le Pen crossed several rooms, took out a medicine box, and nodded at Jin: “Go lay down on the box by the wall and take off your pants.”
Jin: “???”
“Wait wait wait, sit down, give me the medicine and the tweezers, treat yourself like a girl every once in a while.” Joel, who had a baby face, rushed over to intervene and kindly led Jin to his room, sparing him the embarrassment of having his pants off in full view.
As soon as the door of the room was closed, Le Pen sat in the chair next to Chu Si and said to him: “Executive, this base was just built not long ago, and there aren’t a lot of rooms. Let Tang and Joel move together later, and Liu and Guy can also move in together and free up two rooms first. After saving up enough material, we can expand a few more rooms.”
“Why are you here?” Chu Si added after asking, “Of course, choose your words carefully.”
The people looked at each other, and ultimately, it was Tang who opened his mouth. “Actually, there’s nothing we can’t talk about in this situation.”
Le Pen let out a “hmm” and said, “We received a mission at the same time to come to Fort Barney to secretly clean up the sixteenth floor and the two basement floors of the East Tower. The time requirements were very tight, and it had to be cleared within five days.”
Chu Si frowned upon hearing this, “Clean up the East Tower?”
The original Fort Barney incident happened in 5667. The fuse was an encryption error in a message sent by Fort Barney, which was leaked, leading to a group of rebels within the Military Department and General Government colluding with other planets.
The marshal of the Military Department and the leader of the General Government reacted quickly and immediately sealed off the entire Fort Barney. It took five days and four nights to check everything up and down, no matter whether it was the people who worked there or the various messages stored within, without letting a single one slip past.
All suspicious personnel were imprisoned on the spot, and various experimental and research projects involved were called off.
As a result, the rebels were driven to desperation and took out their weapons.
There were three large battles, one at the third research base of the military department, where Chu Si’s adoptive father Jiang Qi was at that time. His private laboratory was on the top floor. Maybe when he was monitoring data, or when he was leaning back on his chair and closing his eyes, the rebels used an N11 beam cannon to keep him and his laboratory together forever. Not even ashes were left behind.
And of the other two, one was at the White Eagle Conference Building, and the other was at the East Tower of Fort Barney.
Back then, the East Tower suffered the most fire, so it became a mess from top to bottom. When it was later cleaned up, the clearance team worked continuously for a full month to collect important samples.
After that, Fort Barney was permanently sealed off.
How could a place that was permanently sealed off suddenly send someone to do a secret cleanup again after 46 years? A cleanup of what?
“It’s odd, isn’t it?” As soon as Tang saw his expression, he spoke: “We also thought it was odd at that time, but it was an S-class encrypted mission, so we couldn’t ask more questions. Executive, it was only after we arrived at the East Tower that we realized how bullshit the mission really was.”
Tang “bah”ed, gesturing, “At first we thought it was cleaning up some confidential stuff, or hiding some high-end things, but it turned out… it was all fucking metal wreckage and fragments, and collapsed consoles, shattered glass screens, broken wires… we only had to sweep the floor!”
“Five days later, when we cleaned the last floor, we received instructions to withdraw immediately.” Le Pen said, “To be honest, I always thought this was very strange. The instructions specifically stressed that we should go from the east hills, along the Gura River, to the swamp area, where there was an aircraft to pick us up. Luckily there was a bit of a situation and we were delayed an extra two hours. Otherwise…”
“Otherwise the moment the planet blew up, not to mention a cryo-capsule, we wouldn’t even have time to find a shelter and would’ve gone straight up in the wave of impact.” Tang thought for a moment and added, “But that’s not the strangest thing.”
Chu Si: “Oh? What else?”
“The strangest thing was after we woke up.” Tang explained, “We woke up one by one two months ago and initially stayed in the basement of the East Tower, but we ran into some…”
He exaggeratedly shivered and said: “Some strange things, and we really could not stay there, so it took a lot of work for us to move here.”
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Mr. Yang will appear next chapter~
Sa’e Yang is probably in the middle of nowhere right now 😭
Ooh~~ how fun!! Can’t wait to see how angry our dearest Mr. Yang will be!
Aliens? 👀👀
All this talk about rebels… the government and military might not be very trustworthy (training child soldiers doesn’t exactly scream morally upright)