pr: roki
Although Shao Heng had been kidna… no, dispatched, the security troops wouldn’t be affected.
The security troops were originally part of the military. After the Security Building was constructed, 200,000 elite troops were transferred from the military. As it developed independently later on, it gradually grew and its size doubled, becoming a force that belonged exclusively to the Security Building.
Under normal circumstances, the security troops were divided into two branches, one for interstellar diplomacy and the other for maintaining balance between the military and the general government. Six captains were responsible for different teams such as rescue teams and teams that maintained stability. The position of commander-in-chief of the entire security troops was held by the Executive Alliance, the highest authority of the Security Building.
Chu Si, as a member of the Executive Alliance and the only one who had woken up, currently had exclusive access to all of the highest authorities in the Security Building, including the highest dispatch authority of the security troops.
But the size of the security troops at present was indeed limited. It was impossible to send them all away and leave the White Wolf ship as an empty headquarters, nor could the majority stay behind with only a few small teams dispatched.
Under this situation, Chu Si’s vague doubts about the military had to be temporarily put aside to let Zilder Feng hold a joint meeting with the military and the general government to integrate a mixed force and dispatch a collective rescue.
“The meeting will be held here, Executive. Please sit.”
Zilder Feng turned his head and was about to say something to the messenger when Chu Si raised his finger and pointed at the main seat. “You sit there.”
“Ah?” Zilder Feng was taken back and said, somewhat bewildered, “But that’s the main seat. How could I sit there?”
Chu Si perfunctorily said, “You’re good-looking, you sit.”
“…” Zilder Feng: “Executive, with all due respect, your words seem like sarcasm.”
Chu Si tsked and said, “Sit in the main seat when I tell you to, I have my own reasons. When the meeting starts, act as usual and hold the meeting however you held it before. You were the Security Building’s representative before and are still the representative now. Consider it as though I haven’t woken up yet, as if nothing has changed. Understand?”
Zilder Feng certainly understood the meaning behind these words, but he didn’t quite understand why Chu Si was having such thoughts.
This simpleton was someone who asked questions the moment he wanted to, but as soon as he opened his mouth, his feet were stepped on by the deputy executives on either side of him.
Zilder Feng: “…”
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Chu Si gave those two an approving glance and said to Zilder Feng, “Let’s start the meeting.” After speaking, he walked straight to the surveillance screen area and found an empty seat to sit down. The surveillance officer sitting next to him instantly straightened up, like an upright coffin board.
A layer of soundproof glass had been raised between the surveillance screen area and the conference table, sealing off all sound between the two sides.
Chu Si put on his earbud, supported his elbow on the armrest of his seat to prop up his head, and listened to the meeting on the other side.
He spoke very little and was like a real observer throughout the whole process, listening to Zilder Feng continue to carry forward the spirit of “a simpleton.” When the military and general government were choked to the point they couldn’t breathe, he even lifted the corners of his mouth in schadenfreude.
The two lieutenant generals currently in charge of the military were named Benson Joyce and He Xiuwen. They were not young, similar in age to Zilder Feng, but looked very majestic and completely different. Perhaps it was because Zilder Feng had always been in charge of the publicity department, so he was relatively… livelier.
Chu Si had met the two lieutenant generals when he was very young.
It was because Jiang Qi had to stay in a sealed zone for a full four months to test a certain research result. He was worried about leaving Chu Si alone at home for so long, so he submitted an application and brought Chu Si with him.
During the day, he stayed in Jiang Qi’s temporary residence. Three meals would be specially delivered. Sometimes Jiang Qi would return to eat, and sometimes he couldn’t. But when Jiang Qi returned in the evening, he would always take Chu Si out for a walk.
For Chu Si, who had a somewhat closed personality at that time, living in the city was no different from living in the zone. He even quite liked the zone’s quiet and undisturbed atmosphere.
He had met the two lieutenant generals while on a walk. They were smoking and talking to each other by a lake on the west side of the zone. At first glance, they seemed to be getting along well, but after a few words, they started to quarrel, their argument becoming more and more intense. If they got any more violent, they probably would’ve thrown each other directly into the lake.
Chu Si couldn’t remember what exactly the argument was about, but in those intense emotions, eight out of the ten words thrown out were curses, and the two men were nothing like lieutenant generals at all. Back then, Jiang Qi had patted his head and said, “Son, stay here and wait,” before rolling up his sleeves and walking over.
At first, Chu Si had thought that Jiang Qi was going to start a fight, so he suddenly gained interest and silently stared over there with his dark eyes wide open.
But Jiang Qi, this shameless person, stopped two steps away from those two people and opened his mouth to try and calm the situation. This person said he was trying to “calm the situation,” but the two lieutenant generals began arguing even more fiercely, spitting at each other.
And whenever they were about to call it quits, Jiang Qi would speak up again, reigniting the flames of war with just one sentence, and the two would once again start fighting.
What “calming the situation”? He was just there to watch a cockfight.
At that time, Chu Si watched from the side for about five minutes before he couldn’t endure any longer and walked towards Jiang Qi, wanting to drag him away. He couldn’t help but feel that if the argument continued, the one getting beaten up in the end would probably be Jiang Qi, who kept on feeding the fire.
Later, the two lieutenant generals finally couldn’t argue any longer. They propped themselves up against a tree and stared at each other, gasping for breath. Only then did Jiang Qi say with a smile, “That’s nearly enough. Having run your mouths for so long, aren’t you tired?”
The two lieutenant generals rolled their eyes coldly at each other then turned to Jiang Qi and nodded, saying, “Are you taking your son for a walk?”
“I am. You were arguing so fiercely that it almost frightened my son to tears. I had to come to mediate the conflict no matter what,” Jiang Qi joked.
At the time, Chu Si stared up at him expressionlessly, feeling that his words were a great insult to himself.
Only then did the two lieutenant generals completely stop. With their still-angry faces, they gave Chu Si as kind a smile as possible, but the final effect was very frightening.
The violent tempers of these two left a deep impression on Chu Si. Later, when he entered the Security Building, he heard that the relationship between Lieutenant General Benson Joyce and Lieutenant General He Xiuwen of the military was very strained, and if they spoke more than three words to each other, an argument would start.
Everyone said their tempers weren’t compatible, that their political views weren’t compatible, that their attitudes weren’t compatible. From the hairs on their head to the tips of their toes, they couldn’t get along with each other.
At one point, Chu Si actually thought it was a bit strange. After all, even he and Sa’e Yang could barely get along sometimes. It was quite rare that the two people really couldn’t get along with each other from beginning to end.
Normally, there were other people acting as mediators between the two. Now, however, they were the only lieutenant generals awakened from the military. One could almost imagine how terrible the atmosphere of the military headquarters was every day.
During this short meeting alone, the two of them lost their tempers three times.
Fortunately, there was no peacemaker anymore, and both of them slightly restrained themselves. Despite stiffening their faces and creating a tense atmosphere, they still continued the meeting. The people in the general government and the Security Building turned a blind eye and pretended that nothing was wrong.
When the topic finally came over to head counts, Chu Si finally spoke up and instructed Zilder Feng to speak up, gathering half of the awake soldiers from the military and the police from the general government. Together with the dispatched security troops, they formed a rescue team of nearly 5000 people, and their command was temporarily taken over by the security troops with the Dragon Pillar star map.
Chu Si divided the rescue team into a hundred groups of fifty people and refined the rescue zones previously divided by Zilder Feng and others according to the current size of the rescue team. The estimated time was reduced to three days, leaving much more room for Chu Si.
Perhaps it was because the rescue time was shortened by a large amount, or perhaps it was because Sa’e Yang had tied up Shao Heng and left to go cause trouble elsewhere, but the tension brought by the countdown dissipated greatly. Chu Si’s mood could be considered relaxed.
Taking advantage of his good mood, he took out his communicator and sent a message to appease Captain Shao Heng, saying, “Mr. Kidnapper didn’t do anything to you, did he?”
After sending the message, he took Roger and a row of guards out of the command center and turned to the warehouse where the Black Swan aircraft was placed.
When he entered, the communicator in his hand vibrated, and Shao Heng’s message returned: “Mr. Kidnapper threatened to throw me into space if I didn’t cooperate. I had no choice but to become his accomplice. On the other hand, Executive, you’re actually using a private channel to send me a message? Also, Mr. Kidnapper is now trying to take possession of my communicator by force.”
This robber…
Chu Si turned his communicator around in his fingers and replied, “Tell Mr. Kidnapper that he’ll get a new communicator when he returns.”
A message almost immediately returned. “After kidnapping me, he actually gets a reward????”
Chu Si pretended not to see it.
The harsh sound of metallic friction rang out, and the static electricity effect on the aircraft had completely disappeared. Roger and the others forced the hatch open, and the smell of tobacco emanated from inside.
“Just how many smoking pipes are inside?” Roger waved his hand around and muttered.
The guards held all their weapons in their hands. As soon as the hatch was opened, they lined up and crept in against the edge of the door.
The communicator vibrated once more, and a message from Shao Heng appeared again. “No, doesn’t Mr. Kidnapper have a communicator? He placed it on the verification platform when passing through the security door.”
Chu Si thought for a moment, then continued playing dead.
After another moment, the communicator suddenly vibrated again.
Chu Si thought it was another one of Shao Heng’s messages, but when he looked down, he realized that it was actually a holographic communication request.
He was taken aback for a moment, thinking that something had happened, so he accepted the request and reduced the size of the holographic screen a little. As a result, the screen flickered before Sa’e Yang’s face appeared in front of him.
“What happened?” Chu Si glanced around and said in an unusually businesslike tone.
Roger glanced at his communicator before turning away, not paying much attention.
Sa’e Yang lazily said, “Nothing, just making sure you can still use your left hand. In the near future, there’ll be many more communication requests like this. You’d better get used to it in advance, Executive.”
As he spoke, a guard poked his head out of the Black Swan and pulled down the mask from his face, saying, “Executive, Captain, there’s no one inside this aircraft.”
“No one?” Chu Si frowned. “How could that be?”
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