Volume 1: Destruction and Rebirth Chapter 57: The Ark of Death

Two days later, at 8:50 p.m. local time, the Sixth Star Port Upper Station, a geostationary orbital platform.

Han Jianfei held the blue-gray cat, and together with the barefoot girl Yuan Zhizi next to him, stood alone in the empty square of the Xinggang platform.

As the largest starport station in the capital, it has always been crowded with people, but today, in addition to the still busy starport staff and ground staff, there are only two people and one cat in the entire square.

Han Jianfei stroked the short hair of the blue cat Kelly, and the cat let out a soft cry in his arms.

He suddenly felt that his behavior of holding the cat was really a bit ...... Cissies. But looking at Genchiko, who was silent beside her, and remembering the several conflicts between the girl and the blue cat in the past few days, she could only resist the urge to throw the cat to her.

"Don't you think, I'm holding the cat, it's a little ...... Quirky? After a few minutes, he couldn't help but ask the girl.

Genchiko glanced at him and the cat in his arms: "I think you are very brave, not everyone has the guts to hold the cub of the bladetooth beast in their arms." ”

Han Jianfei couldn't wait to slap himself in the mouth.

After the speech at the high-level meeting of Baishan, known as the "Break Meeting", Han Jianfei rented the entire Sixth Star Port Upper Station for three days through the Prime Minister's official residence.

Since 6 o'clock in the evening, all the starships docked at the airport have left one after another, leaving only the "Feilaifeng" transferred from the second starport, but that starship is the size of an ordinary cruise ship, and it doesn't seem like it can take many people away anyway.

I don't know where to get the news that Han Jianfei, the founder and boss of Baishan Company, intends to completely split Baishan, the major media in Augustusburg, like when Han Jianfei came to the capital star, came to the airspace near the upper station of the sixth star port early, because the star port was closed, their news ships could patrol the nearby orbit, but no one could dock in.

The media's keen sense of smell tells them that something big will happen today, but they don't know what kind of heavy news they can get.

When the bell rang at nine o'clock in the empty square of the Starport platform, the first upward elevator finally stopped on the platform square with a "ding" sound.

After the wide elevator compartment was secured by mechanical latches, the connecting passages began to be filled with air to keep the pressure of the elevator and the plaza equal.

In the sound of "Boom" to relieve pressure, Han Jianfei took a few steps forward with the blue cat in his arms, quietly waiting for the moment when the elevator door opened.

Although he said that he didn't care how many people would come, he still had some expectations, looking forward to how many of these brothers and sisters who had been born and died with him for many years, almost everyone was raised by his own hands, and how many people would still be willing to follow him to move forward.

The process of equalizing the pressure lasted a minute, but to those inside and outside the elevator car, the process seemed to last for a century.

Reluctantly, the inner hatch of the space elevator opened at the same time, and the sound of the sliding door motor was like a long sigh.

Through the window of the outer hatch, Han Jianfei seemed to see the empty seats in the huge elevator car.

With another sigh, the hatch outside the passage slowly opened, showing the scene in the elevator car in front of the two people and a cat.

As Fort Augustus, and the largest airport in the entire alliance, the sixth star port has the most powerful ground-synchronous orbit carrying capacity in the entire alliance, and it is equipped with a space elevator that is capable of carrying 500 adult passengers and nearly 140 tons of cargo at a time, so its elevator cabin is extremely large, almost equivalent to a large passenger aircraft.

After the elevator doors were all opened, Han Jianfei only saw rows of empty seats.

Han Jianfei waited silently at the door for a few minutes, but still no one came out of it.

He smiled self-deprecatingly, he had thought of the worst-case scenario, and it would not be that no one would come.

As if sensing his emotions, the barefoot girl beside her crept closer, and in her opinion, since those people were silent while he was being hunted down by their own people, there was no reason for them to abandon everything for his words.

It's really normal, but she can still feel the loss in his heart? Or other negative emotions.

The two waited at the door for a while, but there was still no movement inside, and it didn't look like anyone would come out.

"Let's go." Han Jianfei rubbed the cat's head, "In an hour, when the next elevator comes up, let's come back again." ”

He gave them three days, maybe they weren't ready, maybe they were still waiting?

Just as the two of them were about to leave the space elevator drop-off area, a somewhat old voice suddenly came out of the elevator compartment: "Mr. Han, I have some vertigo, can you help me?" ”

Han Jianfei turned his head suddenly, with a smile on his face, but the corners of his eyes were a little wet.

"Madame Crawford!"

He didn't care about the blue cat in his arms, and rushed into the elevator car with an arrow.

Mrs. Crawford was the first employee he had recruited when he had just retired from the Alliance fleet and founded White Mountain, and at that time, he and his comrades only knew how to kill, and almost all the internal and external chores of the White Mountain Company, from cleaning to document processing, were handled by this old lady who was always dutiful despite some nagging.

Born into a declining family in Fort Augustus, Madame Crawford was more responsible for her work and loyal to the White Mountains than anyone could have imagined.

When she joined the White Mountains, she was just an elderly widow with no relatives, and her only son was killed in the death march of the planet Osmey.

But this old lady let the stunned young men and big-headed soldiers in Baishan really know what is called professionalism and what is called the quality of the ancient family, even if she does the lowest and most humble work, she still uses the most serious and rigorous attitude and a wordless noble posture to complete it meticulously.

It is even said that Baishan later really established a cooperative relationship with the military and took off from there, and it is also inextricably linked with the old relationship of the old lady's family.

Therefore, after the Baishan Company officially settled next door to the Ministry of National Defense, Han Jianfei enshrined Mrs. Crawford, who had been the same for more than ten years, as a veteran, and let her spend her old age in the most prosperous area of Fort Augustus.

However, at the "Break Meeting", he didn't even notice the existence of this old lady, who was 73 years old and still considered a high-level member of the White Mountain Company.

But what Han Jianfei, and even everyone didn't expect, was that after he issued a plan to completely divide Baishan Company, it was Mrs. Crawford who was the first to stand up, and she stood up without hesitation and walked to Han Jianfei's side.

As she has been doing for more than a decade.

Han Jianfei walked into the elevator car and helped Mrs. Crawford up on the seat not far from the hatch.

Han Jianfei walked to the square with the somewhat weak old lady in his arms, and listened to her keep nagging in his ear: "...... They said I wasn't old enough to ride the space elevator alone, so I used my cane to teach them how to talk to an old lady......"

Han Jianfei nodded with a smile and did not speak.

“…… I arrived at the Sixth Star Port Station yesterday, and it was so hot that I didn't like the humid and hot climate, so I waited for the first elevator...... I said to the ground crew, 'I'm a senior executive of the White Mountain Company, and I'm going to the platform!' He even asked me to go to see Alzheimer's, and although I was old, I knew who I was......

Han Jianfei suddenly missed the days of the past, he hadn't heard Mrs. Crawford's chatter with a thick ancient accent for several years, and at this time, he sounded a little happy.

"Madame Crawford." Han Jianfei still interrupted the old lady who was complaining to him about the management of Xinggang, "Actually, you don't have to go with me, you are so old......"

"Mr. Han!" The old lady seemed to have recovered quite a bit from the vertigo of the space elevator voyage, and said with some displeasure, "You can't be prejudiced against my age like they are!" I'm old, but I still know what's right and what's wrong! ”

The two spoke, and when they walked out of the passage, the blue cat saw Han Jianfei and jumped into his arms again.

Madame Crawford frowned and took the blue cat from his arms: "Mr. Han, raising cats is not your style. ”

Han Jianfei smiled and patted the cat hair on his arm: "It's not mine, but we're going to take it to Silla Song and hand it over to its owner." ”

In the midst of Madame Crawford's somewhat rambling complaints and narrations, before you knew it, an hour had passed, and the second space elevator had stopped again on the platform square.

Han Jianfei glanced back at the elevator and ignored it.

After a loss and an unexpected surprise, he doesn't seem to care if there will be anyone in the elevator.

When the inner and outer doors of the second elevator slowly opened, fifty-four neatly armed mercenaries rushed out, led by a man with two scars on his face.

The sound of the elevator quickly attracted the attention of the three people in the square, and looking at this group of menacing Baishan mercenaries, Han Jianfei narrowed his eyes slightly.

The group of men and women, each with more or less scars on their faces, carried with them a variety of weapons, long and short, but they looked like they were part of their bodies.

More than fifty people soon lined up in three rows in the square, the formation was loose, but it seemed to hide danger, and even when they were lined up, they seemed to remain vigilant about everything around them.

This is the entire membership of the 19th team of the White Mountain.

The 19th team is the unit with the highest casualty rate in Baishan, but the strongest combat effectiveness, and its most commonly used tactic is to airdrop directly from low-earth orbit to the enemy's core area, and this unit also has the title of "Demon Airborne Squad".

In the initial siege of Han Jianfei, Zhai Liu sent the captain of this team, ace mobile armored pilot Ozzy Monroe, but after that battle, Monroe chose to commit suicide.

"Boss!" The current captain of the nineteenth team, a "mad dog" with two scars on his face, saluted Han Jianfei who walked in front of them, "All members of the nineteenth team report for duty!" Swear to follow your steps! ”

Han Jianfei patted Mad Dog's shoulder: "Disband, rest in place and wait for your life." ”

Not only did the Nineteen Squad come with all their members, but they also brought their ten mobile armors, and Mad Dog said that it was because of these big guys that they missed the first elevator.

"Brother Fei, the migratory bird team reports to you!" An hour later, another organized team stepped on the square of the Sixth Star Port Upper Station.

"Zhao Bing, the third section of the Baishan War Intelligence Department, report to duty!"

"The fourth laboratory of the technical equipment department reports to Bainiu!"

"Chief Instructor of the Integrated Training Center...... Belch...... Diapers, report with 319 recruits! ”

……

Forty-eight hours passed, and members of the Baishan Company continued to take the space elevator to the Starport platform, making the originally somewhat empty square lively.

Those old people in Baishan, who gave up everything before and came to the Sixth Star Port without hesitation, looked for their familiar people in the increasingly crowded square with surprised or disappointed eyes, and after seeing each other, they punched each other hard, or secretly scolded after not discovering the person they wanted to see.

Until the third day, after two empty ladders, Han Jianfei knew that no one should come again.

Genchiko threw him an inquiring look and asked, "Why didn't that fat man with a shiny face come?" ”

Han Jianfei was just about to speak, and the chief instructor codenamed "Diaper" approached him with a sad face: "Brother Fei, there are more than 3,000 people here, but you have a small boat here, let's ...... How to go? ”

Han Jianfei looked at the personal terminal on his wrist and said, "You'll know later." ”

Almost as soon as he finished speaking, the early warning system of the Sixth Star Port suddenly let out a piercing buzzer, and a huge electronic broadcast sounded at the same time: "Warning, a large mass collapse has been found, please prepare for the gravitational anomaly!" ”

At the same time, in the field of vision of everyone on the Starport platform, including everyone in the news ship cruising outside the starport platform, a huge and terrifying black disc-shaped starship suddenly appeared in the starry sky!

"Deep Space Lord"-class area control ship!