Chapter 17: Misfortune

Alwin's chest was a little dull, he had always been a peaceful and good man, from his school days until he entered the workforce.

Maybe his temperament is not liked by everyone, and there are many contradictions, but his nature will not change.

But for some stupid, selfish people, he is still not prepared to stingy with his anger.

"What about the staff, where are they?!"

The man on the screen seemed to be startled by Alwin, and the whining dust collector in his hand fell to the ground.

"Whew, don't be nervous, just tell me where they are." Alvin calmed down a little and said to the man in the gentler tone possible.

"They left the observation center at eighteen o'clock Earth time and went to the space elevator waiting area to prepare for evacuation."

"Who allowed them to evacuate?"

"Uh...... Now the Martian base is panicked and trafficked, and everyone wants to get out of this dangerous ...... early."

"Okay, I'll find out, but why don't you leave?" Alvin asked curiously.

"I'm doing my job, and I'm very late in the evacuation sequence." The man said helplessly, making a look of resignation, full of indifference and indifference, "Obviously, there is no use in being anxious except to make yourself angry." ”

Alvin smiled slightly, if only those people had the composure and sanity of this man.

"Very well, you have won you a prize of 100,000 yuan and a return ticket that will be used soon."

"Really?!" The man was very excited, but soon dimmed, "No, I still have a wife and a daughter, I want to stay and go with them." ”

"Rest assured, your family will get a ticket, and your wife and daughter should thank you."

Alvin didn't give the man a chance to thank him, and simply asked the operator to disconnect the link.

The screen of the display turned to pitch black, and he turned his gaze to Anos.

"Sir, they should still be on Mars at this time, I can request to connect to the Mars base control and ask for details." Arnos said understandingly.

"That couldn't be better!"

Alvin's depressed tone forced Arnos to cheer up and ordered the operators to immediately connect to the Mars base control room.

The screen of the monitor reappears in front of an Asian man dressed exactly like Anos, and from Anos's surprise, Alwin realizes that the two should know each other.

"Mr. Erwin, this is one of my former partners, Owen, I didn't expect him to be sent on a mission to Mars, this is Mr. Erwin, the current head of the United Nations Astronomical Observatory."

"Mr. Alwin, it's a pleasure to meet you, is there anything you can help me with?"

"Hello, help me check if the staff of the Mars Astronomical Observatory are all in the waiting area, let them return to work immediately, otherwise they will all be removed immediately, you should understand what to do!"

"Understood, I've sent the message to the system, and there will be news soon."

"Okay, can you tell me what's going on at the Mars base right now, I've heard it's messy."

Owen sorted out his thoughts and said: "Since the news of the alien fleet was announced a month ago, the atmosphere at the Mars base has been very tense, because it has become a very dangerous place, people have arranged to return, and you also know that the daily flow of people from Mars to Earth is less than 300 people, but there are more than 100,000 people ......on the Mars base."

Alvin nodded, he knew that if the alien fleet came with hostile intentions, the Martian base would not be spared, and it had become a place destined to be abandoned.

The United Nations had already prepared and carried out the evacuation mission of the Martian inhabitants, but he didn't care, after all, it had little to do with his work.

"In this month, my colleagues and I are preparing for the evacuation from Mars, which is expected to take 11 months and 9 days, and can evacuate all the staff, at that time, the speed of the alien fleet is speculation, and scientists have always said that for known large volumes of matter, the speed of light is difficult to surpass, so the earliest arrival time of the alien fleet will not be less than a year,

In other words, the last group of people will be evacuated on the eve of the arrival of the alien fleet, and if the alien fleet is slower, there will be more time......"

"That's right, that's reasonable, the situation should be stable, after all, no one gets hurt." Unless something happens, everyone should be sane.

"The situation has changed two hours ago, someone has received reliable information from the Earth, and according to the calculation of several images taken by quantum faster-than-light communication probes, the speed of the alien fleet is close to the speed of light,

This also means that the so-called rich time does not exist, and then panic spreads in the Martian base, and some people spread public opinion, saying that alien technology is unfathomable, and maybe it will suddenly accelerate beyond the speed of light, so people are now taking various ways to leave the Martian base as soon as possible. ”

"News from Earth?"

"Yes, sir, these messages shouldn't have been posted directly from you......" Owen also seemed to realize the problem.

Alwin's heart was cold when he heard this, and the only person who could retrieve the information base of the quantum faster-than-light communication detector was a member of the United Nations Astronomical Observation Center.

In other words, someone leaked the news to the outside world during the period after the meeting, which is a serious violation and indirectly leads to the emergence of Martian chaos.

"Immediately check all today's communication records, don't miss a single signal, arrest the suspect and interrogate him immediately." Arnos instructed an EA.

Elwin, Arnos, and Owen all fell silent, all three waiting for the results.

In the waiting hall of the space elevator on the Mars base, a team of soldiers with United Nations symbols rushed into the waiting area with rifles.

The crowd in the hall moved out of the way, and the crowd was rarely quiet, although the evacuation sequence was important, but no one wanted to touch the official mold.

A drone quickly drives into the center of the crowd, and the scanning ray feeds everyone's faces into a repository of information for comparison.

After a second, the target's location is confirmed and uploaded to the system.

The soldier was led by an EA to the men who were still wearing the uniforms of the Astronomical Observatory.

"Staff of the Astronomical Observatory, who of you is in charge now?" EA asked, showing her ID.

"I'm in charge, I'm in charge." A man stood up from his chair trembling slightly, his expression uncertain, and the presence of EA made him panic.

The drone carried out the identification scan, and the man's number and identity were revealed.

"Number A1468, I now ask you and your subordinates to return to work immediately."

"No way, we are a series A, and we have the right to return to Earth immediately." The man numbered A1468 refused.

"Are you the same?" The man in black ignored him, and instead asked the rest of the personnel in their work uniforms.

"We are all A-series, it is natural for us and our families to return to Earth immediately, no matter how much we are paid at this time, don't think about letting us go back to work!"

"Okay, I respect your choice." The man in black nodded, he waved his hand to let the drone come over, opened the operation panel, and after a little clicking, he smiled at everyone.

"Okay, you've all been fired, and you're no longer in Sequence A, your family will be sorted into Sequence B, and you'll be in Sequence C, and you'll be here until the Alien Fleet arrives."

"What?! You don't have the right to do that, you want to threaten us to go back! The face of the former head of the original number A1468 changed drastically, and he pointed to the nose of the man in black and shouted.

"No, no, I have the right, there is a point that you misunderstood, you have been fired, and you will be notified immediately......"

As if to confirm EA's words, they soon received an announcement on their mobile phone, which turned out to be exactly what the man in black said.

"This is the price of stupidity, gentlemen, you have misunderstood one thing, the A sequence has never been your right to evacuate early, it is only to give you the convenience of your work, and you mistakenly think it is a superior, how ridiculous!"

The man in black taunted a group of dejected staff members before turning to leave.

"No, you can't do that!"

The man, originally numbered A1468, pounced frantically, but naturally ended up being thrown to the ground by EA's backhand and put to the head with a gun by a soldier.

The cold muzzle of the gun against his temple made him sober up a little in an instant, and his legs trembled all the time as he knelt on the ground.

"You'd better not make any moves, because I'm going to be the last to leave, don't challenge our authority!"

EA quickly evacuates the waiting area with a squad of soldiers, leaving behind a trail of lost walking dead.