633 Old Friends Meet
At about 4 o'clock in the afternoon of this day, in the dormitory area of Avalon First High School, John McTavish, who had just finished a day's work, drove his little electric donkey back to the dormitory...... This kind of small electric donkey is not the kind of electric car in the old era, but a suspension motorcycle similar to the kind of suspension motorcycle driven by the male protagonist in Men in Black 4, compared to the early luxury goods, today's suspension car, motorcycles have long been popular in the Star Alliance, even if it is a civilian who does not work and only eats subsistence allowance for a few months or can buy a basic model through a loan, not to mention John, a university teacher with a high salary and benefits.
But as soon as he entered the garage today, John noticed that something was wrong...... Outsiders came into his dormitory.
The welfare of the First Higher School is very good, so John's dormitory, as a lecturer, is not a small apartment, but a small cottage with a large area. With such a large area, it is naturally impossible for him to clean and maintain it by himself as a single person, so he has bought a bionic robot nanny to take care of his daily chores.
Normally, as soon as he enters the garage, the nanny robot will greet him through the house's intelligent system, but today the house is surprisingly quiet...... There is no doubt that someone has entered his home and shut down or destroyed his robot nanny...... But strangely, John didn't sense the presence of someone in the house.
Yes, John is actually not an ordinary person, but a battle-hardened, quite powerful psionic warrior, who has served in the old Northern Ireland paratroopers, the British SAS Air Service Regiment, and the secret force 141 Special Service, etc., and has been transformed by the terrorist organization Umbrella Group, codenamed Soap.
For various reasons, in the chaotic period of the replacement of the old and new eras, Soap chose to retire, and in order to avoid some disturbances, before the official establishment of the Star Alliance, he used his generous pension to buy a ticket to Mars, and came to settle in Avalon, and by chance, he used to be an explosives expert, because of his deep chemical skills and powerful brain after being transformed and activated psionic energy, he became a lecturer in the chemistry department.
Therefore, under normal circumstances, ordinary people would not be able to avoid his psionic scan at all.
But now that he couldn't sense anyone in the house, there were only two possibilities, either the intruder had left, or the intruder had a stronger psionic energy than him.
However, the possibility of the latter is very low, because after the establishment of the Star Alliance, there was a group of so-called psionic police who registered psykers like Soap, after all, if someone like him wants to cause sabotage, it is not an ordinary threat. And the person who came to record him at that time was a beautiful woman named Alice, and he also learned from the other party that there were very, very few psionics of his level, and most of them served in the army.
The other party also asked him if he wanted to join the Star Covenant fleet, John hesitated to refuse, and the other party didn't say much, so he has been living a fairly peaceful life on campus...... It is only in this vibrant campus that looking at those energetic young people can he calm his PTSD.
However, knowing that the intruder was unlikely to be a more powerful psionic than him, Soap carefully picked up an alloy dagger from the garage...... According to the Covenant's laws, ordinary people in the city can own firearms, but only light firearms from the old days.
But this kind of weapon can only be a certain threat to ordinary civilians who have not gone through any strong ones, but for the robocops on the streets, and even those who have the money to carry out genetic strengthening, the threat is very low, not to mention the strong man like soap, in the hands of people like him, it is cold weapons that are more threatening. So Soap naturally abandoned firearms, a weapon that he was once extremely proficient in.
Soap held the dagger in her hand, carefully opened the door, and saw the bionic robot motionless in the living room at a glance, although there was no damage on the outside, but her closed eyes indicated that she was in a state of shutdown.
"Don't be nervous, soap." At the moment when Soap stepped into the house, a voice came from the side, which provoked the dagger in Soap's hand to point in that direction instantly, and then saw the other party clearly...... It was a robocop.
"I'm sorry, officer, but I want to know why you broke into my home without permission!" Seeing this Robocop, Soap immediately understood that he would not be able to sense people, because although the psionic energy is very powerful, it can only sense living beings, and ordinary RoboCops obviously do not belong to living beings, unless they are those RoboCops transformed from humans. And the mechanical cop in front of him doesn't seem to have any human characteristics in appearance, so he naturally treats the other party as a robot.
But Soap didn't let his guard down because of this, although the other party didn't look much different from the mechanical police on the street, but he still easily distinguished that the other party's model was a relatively old first-generation mechanical police, and a mechanical soldier, without formal channels, entered his private residence without authorization, and also closed his robot nanny, which is not a normal thing, but the most important thing is that the other party actually called out his nickname when he served in the army in the old era? So he still held the alloy dagger in his hand tightly.
"Very good, it seems that the long peaceful life has not worn out your vigilance." The Robocop on the other side, who was believed to be a robot, looked very calm when he saw the soap soaked in this way, and then the mechanical mask on his head opened, revealing a face that made Soap remember deeply.
"Price? Is it really you? But you're dead! Seeing this face, Soap couldn't help but exclaim, but quickly reacted, "You have been transformed into Robocop?" ”
The person who suddenly appeared in the soap dormitory was none other than his former comrade-in-arms and boss, John Price.
"As you can see, the first generation of Robocops, apart from the brain and this face, has nothing of my own." Price shrugged, then pulled out a box of cigars out of nowhere, threw one for the soap, and took one himself and lit it.
"So you've been a cop all these years?" Soap caught the cigar and lit it, then looked at Price with a strange look...... Is Robocop's body so bullish? All that's left is the brain and face, and you can still smoke cigars?
"No, I'm a test model, although it looks no different from the first generation Robocop, but in fact, it is far superior to ordinary RoboCops in terms of materials and systems, so I didn't become a police officer like the average Robocop, but entered Overwatch." Price replied after taking a puff of his cigarette, and then talked about his experience of being transformed.
"So you're now a high-ranking officer of the Covenant?" After listening quietly to Price's story, Soap spoke.
"Yes, the first squadron and captain of the Task Force of the Strategic Intelligence Department of the Star Alliance, with the rank of colonel." Price replied.
"So who are you here this time?" Soap asked, but in his mind, he knew exactly what Price meant.
"John McTavish, now I declare that you have been drafted...... I hope that after so long and a peaceful life, you haven't rusted. Price said, handing out a metal disc the size of a button, "Put it on." ”
"Can I refuse?" Soap didn't take it right away, but asked.
"What do you think?" Price raised an eyebrow.
"Okay!" Soap shrugged and took the piece of metal, "How do you use this thing?" ”
"Just put it on your watch!" Price replied that after the formation of the Star Alliance, every civilian and citizen who was officially registered with the Star Alliance would be issued a watch. This watch is actually a miniature terminal, with various functions such as communication and payment, and it is also a DNA-bound identity certificate, and what Price handed to Soap is a nano upgrade module, which can upgrade the soap watch from the civilian version to the military version, and at the same time, it also has a new identity information for soap.
"Huh, is it a major who came up?" Yiyan upgraded the soap of the watch and looked at his new identity inside.
"With your strength, this rank is not high, but the start can only be like this, give you a day, don't be late to the address inside on time the day after tomorrow to take the spaceship, and I'll take you to meet a few old friends then!" Price patted Soap on the shoulder, walked out the door and left, leaving Soap alone in the living room.
In fact, soap is not the only one, similar scenes also happened to different people in multiple colonized planets and regions in the solar system at the same time.