Revised Edition Volume 3 Star Forsaken Chapter 3 Ten Years, Ten Years! (below)
There are so many things in the Leilundo Intelligence Bureau, and we newcomers don't know how to do it, so we have to ask the old ones to do the handover and teaching. It took www.biquge.info more than a week to basically settle down and get on the right track. I was about to start my special assignment to investigate the case that had been handed in, when the secretary of the Governor's Office told me to prepare for a three-star liaison meeting soon. I hurriedly began to collect and sort out the data of the Intelligence Bureau again, and began to memorize some key data by rote to avoid making a fool of myself.
On 13 February, the regular Samsung Liaison Meeting was held at the Governor's Palace in Leilondo. Lieutenant General Overmars arrived, and Barrett finally put away his frenzy and received him with a polite and thoughtful reception. I sat down for the meeting and asked me to take the minutes. I was most annoyed by these things, and I was about to protest, but Barrett said, "There will be a secret meeting at once, and all officers below the rank of colonel will have to leave." Lieutenant Colonel Huang, you are the only full-fledged college student here here who is eligible to attend the meeting, so you won't even shirk this job, right? β
I immediately scolded in Nandu dialect in my heart: "College students are alas crimes?!" β
But seeing Overmars and a few brigadier generals and colonels standing tall, I couldn't get this grumbling out there, so I had to drag the typing terminal in front of me in a proper manner.
At the beginning, Brigadier General Zhang Ning, deputy commander of the fleet of Overmars, spoke. He reported on the contact with xenomorphs a month ago: on January 11, 66, the Adams mining ship Y-4407 was attacked and crashed by unknown armed forces while passing through the second jump port to collect minerals in the far outer universe. After investigation, the possibility of space pirates committing crimes was ruled out. At 3 a.m. on January 26, the Y-5540 mining vessel was being pursued on its way back by an interspace fighter manned by an alien creature. It was pursued until it was 3,000 kilometers away from Adams, and was surrounded by patrol aircraft of the first squadron of the three aerospace flight groups of the Ovemas fleet. The battle lasted fifteen minutes, and the 1st Squadron lost two Ghost fighters and destroyed the enemy aircraft, and the wreckage was transported back to the lunar base for examination.
Barrett had obviously known about it before, unlike when I was dumbfounded when I heard the report. Seeing that my image was not good, he whispered to me: "There was a briefing at that time, but it only said that there was this matter, and it was not too detailed. The former intelligence chief knew about this and didn't hand it over to you because it wasn't accurate. I couldn't help but be indignant and thought, "Make excuses now, damn it." β
Zhang Ning finished speaking, and changed Barrett to talk about the situation of Leirondo. He gave a brief introduction to the state of war preparations, saying that the ground fortifications had long been relatively strong, which was the result of decades of painstaking operation by GDI. As long as the planetary fortress cannon on Adams' side can provide enough support, it should be impossible for the enemy to gather enough strength to break through the defense. The only thing to worry about is that Adams and Leilondo's fortress cannons shoot the dead ends, and if you want to increase your defense, you have no money and no resources. According to Zhang Ning's report, Adams' mining work seems to be unable to resume for a while, so the only financial route on Samsung's side is gone, and funds are even more tight, which is the focus of the contradiction. In addition, if the enemy attacks Alpha, I don't know what preparations will be made over there.
"We're going to check back on Alpha in a few days." Ovimas finally spoke: "The situation is not optimistic, but at the moment we do not see that the enemy's strength is too strong for us to resist. We are also in trouble here, and the shipbuilding factory has not been overly popular since it took office, and it has asked the Space Administration for money and resources, and it has to buy our sitee and lower the price. The cost of mining here is high, but it is still there. They have been making trouble in the fantasy world for so long, how many have they collected? Hum! β
Lieutenant General Austria is a Dutchman, and it is rare that he speaks Chinese very fluently. As soon as his disgruntled speech came out, there was immediately a lot of discussion at the conference table. Barrett immediately asked: "Vice Admiral, is the three-star fleet now insufficient?" β
Overmars took a deep breath, shook his head with a wry smile, and said: "The configuration of the planetary fleet has to take into account three planets, and one is unarmed, do you say it is enough?" The trouble now is that thirty percent of the old ships have been badly damaged and need urgent repairs. The moon base said that there was no money and asked us to send it to the main star to repair it. NASA also said that it would conduct a biochemical test and that it would take six weeks before it could enter the main star, and the restoration was not mentioned. Didn't we just throw two Julian-class cruisers last year and the year before that to the factory? I heard that the whole thing is rusty now, and the screw hasn't been given to us yet! β
Lieutenant General Ao became emotional as he spoke, lit a cigarette and stopped talking. Lieutenant Colonel Guo Yingying, Chief of Tactical Staff, began to speak, reporting on the preparations for the Ovimas fleet. This person is quite interesting, with a very atmospheric name, but he is short in stature and has a baby face. The appearance is not amazing, but the speech is sonorous and powerful. He reported on the current situation of the Austrian fleet's personnel training and equipment allocation, and it seems that it is indeed as the Vice Admiral Austria said, which is not optimistic. The Samsung fleet was built on a planetary fleet basis, but no ships have been added or overhauled since then, and only about half of the original ships are available today. In the end, in the event of a large-scale contact operation, the Austrian fleet could only ensure the safety of the Adams fortress guns, and Alpha and Relondo would have to defend on our own. If possible, at most one flying group can be stationed on both of our planets for a little support.
Guo Yingying's report was finished, and everyone in the conference room fell silent. After a long while, Barrett said, "Lieutenant General, when we people speak, the top will not listen at all. This kind of greeting is only up to you. β
Overmars sighed and said, "The fax clerks at NASA are now hiding from me when they see the faxes I send, do you think I didn't say much?" He sighed, knocked on the table, and said, "Be quiet, a top-secret document transferred by the Space Administration will be conveyed to everyone here." The content of the meeting just now can be conveyed to the following, as long as you pay attention to the choice of words and sentences, and do not cause exaggeration and panic. The following is a top-secret content, which cannot be communicated, and the leaker is in accordance with military law. Lieutenant Colonel Huang, there is no need to record the following content, you can stop for a while, just listen. β
The lieutenant general knew that my surname was Huang, and I was so flattered that I stopped and listened. The lieutenant general opened a file bag, pulled out a dark red document, and read: "GDI Global Federation ********** resolution: At present, Samsung is in trouble, and the personnel guarding it are indispensable. We will support it to the best of our ability and have decided to extend the original five-year secrecy order to 10 years......"
The lieutenant general read slowly, almost sentence by sentence, probably because it was difficult to recognize Chinese characters. I was about to ask what a "five-year secrecy order" was, and the lieutenant general had read the following:
"All personnel of the Samsung system, including all cadres, workers, officers, soldiers, residents, etc. of the lunar base, are not allowed to return to the main star for ten years from the date of entering the Samsung system, and the native residents of Samsung will continue to be subject to the provisions of the native law."
Everyone here, except me, should know what a "five-year secrecy order" is, and they didn't look too surprised when they heard it, but there was a muttering that someone complained. I was so shocked that my face was paleβwhat does this mean, Lao Tzu can't come and go?
While I was still surprised, the meeting was over. The Ovimas fleet and his party left one after another, and only me, Barrett, and a few other Colonels of Lelondo were left in the conference room. I looked up at Barrett, trembling with emotion, and it took me a while to muster up the courage to ask, "What's going on?" β
He looked at me expressionlessly and said, "Originally, the five-year secrecy order was executed, and the members of your cadre regiment will be notified to serve for another two years after the three-year period expires. Now, the two-year retention order will be repeated until the end of the 10-year period, and the right of return will not be granted until the end of the 10-year period. Or, the day of death. β
The world before me spun around. I'm going to spend ten years on this asteroid? No kidding! Not to mention that the flames of war have already burned around us, and there is a danger of losing a small life at any time - what should Ferrari do? When I go back, she'll be 38 years old! Even Shizune Matsuda, the youngest member of the Leilondo group, will become a 27-year-old woman......
I don't know how I got back, but I must have been lost for a long time. When I came to my senses, I found that Royan and the others were talking about the xenomorph invasion. They seemed to think it was one of the more interesting things, and talked about it happily.
Now I finally understand the difficulty of being in a high position. I've been searching for so long, and now I've finally got some of the status I've been looking for and the right to know secrets, but now I've found that it's the happiest thing to know nothing. (To be continued.) )