Chapter 8: Is War Really Coming?
When I returned to the wheelhouse with a full plate of coffee, all of Benjamin's members had arrived, watching a screen around the old captain, all with solemn expressions on their faces. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Seeing me approaching, the old captain said, "Let's all sit down and talk." ”
Everyone sat down at the conference table at the back of the wheelhouse, and I hurriedly brought coffee to everyone, and the old captain did not rush to drink the coffee after taking it, but sighed and said to me: "Xiaoqiang, sit down too, what I want to say now has nothing to do with you." ”
Hearing his words, I don't know why, my heart suddenly trembled, and a sense of foreboding flooded from the depths of my heart, which made me shudder, and sat down at the table obediently.
The whole table did not speak again, but watched as the old captain turned on the screen in the middle of the conference table and called up a few pictures, and I looked intently, and I could only see that these pictures were all pictures of the starry sky, but if I looked closely, I would find that some of the stars in these pictures were unusually bright, but I could not see anything more.
Then, the old captain called up a lot of text messages, but he didn't read them carefully, but kept skimming them until something that looked like a document appeared in the middle of the screen, and he stopped, but I didn't know much of the text at the time, so I couldn't understand what was written on it.
As if to see that I didn't understand, the old captain spoke: "These are the real-time monitoring photos of the Sixth Star Region that I just received, the exact time was three hours ago, and the scope covers the entire Sixth Star Zone. At the same time, all the information searched by the AI from the Internet was filtered, and only one inference was obtained, the Duke of the Sixth Sector Longge had launched a rebellion, and now there was a war with the Fifth, Seventh, and Ninth Sectors, and the three Duke Lords of the Sector had already requested reinforcements from the Holy Capital. In addition, my friend in the military sent news that Emperor Qin Xiao had issued an order declaring the 5th to 11th star zones to be war zones and fully implementing martial law, and requiring all neighboring star regions to fully mobilize and strictly defend them. ”
These heavy words are like big stones, smashing my heart down a little bit, although I can't understand all what the old captain said, but there is one thing I know, molybdenum ore 045 is in the sixth star area!! The old captain had obviously thought of this as well, so he asked me to stay and listen to it too, but I had no idea what war meant, and I just felt suddenly at a loss.
None of the others at the table spoke, but their faces were horribly gloomy, and I don't know what my own face was, but I guess it wasn't much better. The old captain saw that everyone did not speak, so he continued: "I believe everyone remembers that our Benjamin is a reserve formation, and all of us here now, except for Xiaoqiang and Huyce, are also reserve officers; To put it more clearly, we are all now on active duty again and must report to the nearest military region in the shortest possible time. ”
Speaking of which, he took a sip of coffee to moisten his throat and continued, "I have ordered the AI to find the nearest safe passage and contact the Ninth Military Region, and if we do, we must go to the rendezvous point as soon as possible. But after all, this time is a real matter of life and death, after all, everyone has their own ambitions, and I can't be the master for everyone, so I want to hear everyone's thoughts now, let's talk about it. ”
As soon as the old captain's words fell, Sister Isa's voice rang out, still her trademark rapid and fast speed: "Grandpa, you have already said it, now that the war is really going to war, then what else is there to say, of course it is to obey the imperial conscription, I have no other ideas, I will go wherever you go!" ”
The old captain looked at Sister Isa lovingly and nodded, but did not speak.
"My thoughts are the same as Isa's, I've been following you for so many years, and I have nowhere else to go, so I'm still following you." The second person to speak was the first mate Li, the burly middle-aged uncle's voice seemed very calm when he spoke, and after saying these two sentences, he lowered his head and drank coffee again.
Sitting next to Li was the navigator Xu Sheng, and seeing that Li didn't have anything more to say, he spoke: "Captain, I want to know, is the Ninth Military Region our only choice?" ”
"Da Xu, I know that the people of the Ninth Military Region had some entanglements with you before, but after all, now that we are going to support them, no one will be unclear at this time. Besides, we're not afraid of them, are we? It was not the old captain who answered him, but Dr. Wang: "Just like the head said, we are all active soldiers, and it is not the first time that brothers have been born and died together, so we can't be embarrassed at this time!" ”
"I didn't say I didn't want anything, I just didn't want to cause trouble for everyone because of my business." Xu Sheng didn't mean to be dissatisfied with Dr. Wang's words, but just said another sentence sullenly, and then stopped talking.
The next one to speak was the baby-faced Tommy, whose words were extremely short: "I'll follow the captain!" ”
Coincidentally, when I sat down earlier, I was right between Tommy and Huyce, and the others had already spoken, and the old captain turned his gaze to the two of us.
Huyce slowly finished the cup of coffee, slowly put the cup back on the table carefully, raised his head again, and looked at Captain Jason calmly, and then spoke: "Captain, I have also thought about it carefully, the current situation is clear, the country has fallen into war, and three hundred years of peaceful development have finally come to an end. I still have something to do with Benjamin, and if I try to escape the war, I don't think anything good will come of it. So, I think the same way as everyone else, I follow you wherever you go. Speaking of this, he smiled self-deprecatingly and continued, "It's just that I've never undergone transformation, and I don't know if I can keep up with you." ”
The old captain did not reply, but looked back at Huyce with firm eyes and nodded solemnly. Then, he looked around at everyone at the table again, and said, "In this case, then listen to my orders, and the Benjamin immediately turned to the route from the Ninth Military Region, and rushed to the base camp of the Military Region as fast as possible to report for duty." ”
"Yes!" There was only one word to answer, and then the group turned away, and it was clear that they all had a lot of work to do.
There were only two people left at the table, me and the captain, one old and one young looking at each other across the table, and after a while, he slowly spoke: "Xiao Xiaoqiang, although I don't want to admit it, but the reality now is that you can't go home for the time being......"
In this way, in the year 297 of the galactic calendar, the first civil war broke out, and I, who was stranded on the cargo ship "Benjamin" due to an accident, was forced to become the smallest supernumerary crew member of this transport ship.
That year, I had just turned eleven years old.
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