Chapter 11 - Friend and Foe
Parana is battle-hardened and has a very fast reaction time. As soon as the gun rang out, he staggered to his feet, and the lightsaber he didn't know where he was hiding was already in his hand. Holding a lightsaber in his right hand, he protected Christina behind her and slowly retreated into the shadows. The personal terminal on the left wrist has been opened, and it is Testin in the picture.
"Immediately implement GH-04 emergency plan." There was no trace of panic in Paraná's tone. There are many winds and waves, how can the boat capsize in the small river ditch? He closed his personal terminal, he knew in his heart that the rapid reaction force carried by the aircraft carrier fleet would arrive in five minutes at most, and he was very confident in his troops.
There was chaos in the venue, and the enemy fired gunshots and threatened them, but no one stood still and fled in all directions. Instead of strafing the crowd, the enemy shuttled through the field, seemingly searching for something. The two of them bent over and hid in the corner, untouched for a while. But Marshall, in the center of the venue, is gone. Barana secretly screamed badly, and Marshall was also quite careless, and he didn't even bring a bodyguard. No one expected that the hinterland of the United Earth Council would be attacked, and it seems that Admiral Leslie, the commander of the Earth Defense Forces, did not want to do it. Could it be that Leslie is a spy for Chrisselis? The thought flashed through Paraná's mind. But he quickly got rid of this crazy assumption.
Paraná watched as the people in the hall scattered and fled, and no enemy came to provoke him, the "colonel". There are so many big fish that no one wants to catch his little shrimp. He watched the generals of the fleet and defense forces being chased around in luxurious dresses, and his heart was not in a daze. As a soldier, what he believes most in the world is the weapon in his hand. Looking at them, they are no different from lambs to the slaughter.
Finally someone noticed Paraná, but he was not at all an opponent of the commander. Parana had already seen through the details of this group of enemies. A small group of people armed with laser guns were looking around the crowd. Everyone else is armed with electromagnetic guns and is blocking the entrances and exits. He didn't even wear armor for individual combat, Barana laughed in his heart. The recoil of the electromagnetic gun is amazing, and it is difficult to fire continuously without piercing combat armor. But where to get so many sets of combat armor so close to the moon base. There is always a limit to the darkness under the lamp. Parana quickly lunged at him, spotting the man's pull on the trigger and sideways dodging the large-bore spike. Turning around with a sword, the man was already in a different place.
Paraná could see that the gang did not have a clear organization. Just now he put down a person, and they didn't even notice it. Although they have a general goal, they have been doing useless work. No matter where they came from, being able to get here is a sign that there are traitors within the military. If this is a tactic used by some of the top brass to root out political opponents, it would be too clumsy. Eventually, they will all be caught, and where they came from.
Christina was also unexpectedly calm. But Parana wasn't sure if she hadn't seen such a scene and was stunned. Paraná didn't bother to look for Marshall, a fleet commander plus a president of the academy. Paraná was convinced that the lives of both of them were far more important than a politician. However, a cloud of doubt began to loom over Paraná's mind.
As soon as the riots began, Marshall was gone. It stands to reason that he was in the middle of the room and should not have been the first to be attacked. Besides, the gang was still searching everywhere. Paraná understood that there was only one reason why these people did not shoot indiscriminately, and that was that the people behind them wanted them to be arrested, and they did not know who they were going to arrest. If this is a conspiracy by Chrissellus, then all it takes is a strafing pass and the defense of the planet will be paralyzed. Among the people present, he used a digital mask and a colonel's uniform, and Christina changed her database identity, could it be that this group came for one of the two of them?
Paraná remembered what Cristina had said, "As the newly appointed president of the highest academy of sciences on Earth, there should be no citizen of the Earth-Moon system who needs to consult the database to recognize me." Could it be that the target of this gang is him?
He sneered, wanting to arrest him, the commander of the fleet, and this group of people was not good at it. The gunfire that had already subsided rang out again, outside the Golden Hall. He could already clearly hear the scream of the interceptor across the sky, it was reinforcements. Parana sat down slowly, but did not let go of the sword in his hand. He looked at the personal terminal, five minutes and twenty seconds. Although the rapid reaction force came a little slowly, it was time for this farce to end.
This group had no intention of taking hostages, and when they saw the overwhelming number of interceptors, they scattered and completely lost their fighting spirit. Completely a bunch of second-rate thugs, Barana looked at them with disdain. These people were able to break into the Golden Hall of the Council, and they couldn't figure out what kind of loophole had appeared. This time, the Earth Defense Force lost face, and the people present were all powerful people from various countries, which was a big shame.
Within ten minutes, all the fleeing enemies had been captured. This absurd farce ended abruptly. Barana sat leisurely in his chair, watching his subordinates pull out Marshall, who was knocked down by the bodyguards, from the crowd, it seemed that he was not stupid to the point I imagined, looking at the disgraced Marshall, Barana couldn't hold back a smile. On the other side, Admiral Leslie finally arrived at the scene, obviously already in a rage. Although Parana didn't mean to see Leslie's jokes, he didn't want to help him clean up the aftermath either. After a moment of leisure, Parana glanced at Christina behind her, who was calmly using the terminal to do calculations. Could it be ...
How did the group know I was using a mask, could it be that Christina was a spy? Wrong. Paraná thought to himself. Or am I inferring wrong, there are other people in the room? Or is it simply a show orchestrated by Leslie's political opponents? Things are not simple, the people in the hall are almost all the top of the council, but these people seem to have no interest in them at all. Christina had said that there were Crisselles' spies in the upper echelons of the Council, and it now seemed that the most suspicious person was undoubtedly Leslie. But Marshall's behavior is also questionable. How likely is it that the chairman is a spy...
Simply clueless, Parana was now beginning to doubt everyone he saw. This can be an extremely hilarious and failed decapitation operation. It could also be a well-planned counter-plot. Maybe the enemy wants to disintegrate us from the inside and make us suspicious of each other, yes, it must be so. Paraná felt that this explanation was the most logical.
Paraná finally cleared his mind and saw that Marshall was calming the dignitaries of various countries. He decided to take advantage of the opportunity to slip away, he didn't want to have another press conference. The protagonist of this press conference must be Leslie, who became a military spokesman as he wished. Although it seems that he is reluctant. Who would have thought that he was just about to slip away, when Christina suddenly reached out and grabbed the corner of his clothes from behind.
He looked back and saw that her hands were shaking, and she was speechless with her head down. Parana couldn't see her face, but he figured she was about to cry. She must have been terrified, he thought to himself. It seems that her calmness is all faked, no wonder, after all, she is still a little girl less than twenty years old. Thinking of this, Barana smiled dumbly, what qualification does I, a twenty-one-year-old have, to say that she is a little girl.
However, the attack here shows that the territory of the Joint Council is no longer safe. Whoever is a spy could be attacked again at any time. The dockyard of the Academy of Military Sciences is no exception, and there is a killing machine hidden on the moon. He decided to take Christina back to the flagship, the bridge of the USS Washington probably the safest place in the solar system right now.
In fact, there are few places in the solar system that are safe. Paraná's Third Fleet was just a small pawn in the game of various forces, and all three fleets had been wiped out in an instant, so what could he do with his incomplete fleet.
The commander of the fleet was rushing back to the flagship with the dean. At the same time, out of everyone's sight, there is a battle that has already been decided.