Chapter 516 Lying!
In the corridor outside the control room door, there were crisp and hurried footsteps sounds.
Soon, a fully armed soldier stood outside the cabin door, saluted at attention, and said loudly: "Captain York requests to report."
Jon walked quickly to the door, his tall figure blocking the soldiers' view, and returned the greeting, "Go ahead, Captain."
York put down his hand and said without looking away, "Major General Jon, the hostage rescue operation on the Blue Coral Sector-class frigate has achieved all its goals. We conducted three carpet searches on the frigate to ensure that no one was left out. The rescued hostages have been treated on the spot and have been evacuated to the apron to await evacuation."
"The enemy personnel are currently being held in the medical cabin. The target instrument has been found. Please provide further instructions."
Behind him, Ai Wanxin, who had put on the quantum mask again, walked up and said, "Go and take a look."
York stepped aside and looked with some surprise at their commander, the major general, and four men with a fierce look, tall and long legs, but wearing golden masks on their faces, who surrounded the young woman and strode along the corridor.
The captain, who had served in the navy for nearly ten years, inexplicably felt that the scene looked familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere before.
Before he could figure out what was going on, Ai Wanxin suddenly stopped and turned to look at the closed door of the conference room: "I almost forgot to bring them all with me."
York only felt a flash before his eyes, and the blond man had disappeared from the spot. The next second, he reappeared with two blood-like people in his arms, shaking his head and saying, "He's not dead yet."
The silver-haired man next to him opened the door of the conference room, and a man with blood splattered on his body and face staggered out.
His eyes flashed with evil light, and he gasped excitedly and shouted, "Master, Master, Park Seung-gi just appointed me as Prime Minister. He and his son killed each other and only had one breath left. He can no longer perform the duties of the president. According to the constitution, I should now exercise the power of the president on his behalf. When he dies, I will be the president, Master!"
"Oh?" Ai Wanxin asked, "Don't we need an election?"
Quan Zhengyu smiled with his lips twitching, "No need. The constitutional amendment stipulates that if the president dies in office, the prime minister will immediately succeed the president. This is to ensure the continuity and stability of leadership."
Ai Wanxin nodded in understanding, without making any further comments, and turned away. Quan Zhengyu followed at the end of the team, beside York, and kept muttering, "President, I will be the president soon."
York: ...Why do I suddenly feel that the people in their country are a bit miserable?
Jon knew the structure of every ship under his command very well. As he led Ai Wanxin to the medical cabin, he said, "After the Far Star War, the Parliament established the Interstellar Joint Strategic Command above the Military Department. They found a group of guys who had hardly ever been on the battlefield and formed the Galactic Military Staff Group as the highest military decision-making body of the Federation Army."
"They have come up with many ways to restructure the federal navy's fleet in the name of adapting to new strategic needs, building a more efficient combat system, and saving military expenditures."
"For example, downgrading the command ships of some fleets and reducing the size of the fleet."
"Another example is that we cancelled the professional medical support ships in the sector-level fleets. The reason is that every ship has a modular medical cabin and highly maneuverable medical robots, so there is no need to bring a separate medical ship."
"Money was saved, but no one considered that this would squeeze out combat resources on other warships, reduce the fleet's sustained combat capability, and even the survival rate of personnel."
"Because we were going to Earth, I could only free up half of the Blue Coral's cabin and convert it into half a medical ship."
No wonder they chose to extract telomerase concentrate from the Blue Coral...
However, Ai Wanxin knew that Qiao En told her these things, on the one hand to synchronize the information, but on the other hand he was also holding his anger in his heart.
She comforted him, "The fleet has to travel outside, how can we save money? The poor are rich on the road, and we can make up for it by letting them stay at home every day."
York, who was following at the end, tilted his head in confusion. What did it mean? He seemed to not understand. Who could make up for the military expenses?
That's not a small amount of money. I'm afraid it would be possible only if we raided the homes of all the wealthy and powerful families on the new main planet.
Along the way, cleaning robots were busy cleaning up the splattered blood and broken glass, which were traces left by the brief exchange of fire. When they saw Ai Wanxin, they all stepped aside and waited for them to pass.
The closer you get to the medical cabin, the stronger the smell of blood becomes. This is the effect of turning the air circulation system to maximum power.
The hatch opened, and the fishy smell was no longer blocked, rushing into Ai Wanxin's nostrils.
In front of her was a vast hall that seemed to have no end. The towering ceiling imitated the real sky. The artificial daylight illuminated the hundreds of capsules placed side by side in the hall, the messy transparent hoses extending from the capsules, and a huge titanium-silver instrument in the center that looked like a rockery.
The strong and foul smell of blood came from those tightly closed capsules.
Ai Wanxin's gaze flickered between the blood-stained outer shell of the capsule, the transparent hose filled with flesh-pink liquid, and the half-filled plate of light blue syringes on the titanium-silver instrument, and finally landed on a group of people squatting on the ground with their heads in their hands in the distance.
Seeing someone coming in, the group of people became agitated and shouted at the top of their lungs, "Please spare us, we were forced to do this."
"These are all orders from above. We have no other choice!"
"Yes, if we don't do as we are told, we will be the ones to be shredded!"
"Please, please—"
The soldiers standing guard raised their electromagnetic guns flashing blue light and shouted, "Everyone, stay down and don't shout!"
York trotted past the crowd, picked out a burly man wearing a khaki T-shirt from the crowd, and brought him in front of Ai Wanxin.
He seemed to have realized that this strange woman was of a higher rank than their major general.
"This is the captain of their gendarmerie." Not knowing how to address Ai Wanxin, York could only say it briefly.
The man looked burly, with blood and mud on his face, and his hands were shackled and handcuffed behind his back. Without waiting for Ai Wanxin to ask, he fell to his knees with a plop, his upper body suddenly prostrated on the ground, and shouted, "Please let them go, they all obeyed my orders, I will bear all the sins alone, I am willing to pay with my life!"
Quan Zhengyu wanted to squeeze in, but was blocked by several tall and strong sentinels. He couldn't move forward at all. He could only jump up and down and say, "Master, you can't listen to him. He is Park Seung-gi's confidant and a treacherous villain!"
The man didn't recognize whose voice it was. With his face buried deep in the ground, he clenched his teeth and interrupted, "Yes, it was me who didn't have the courage to disobey the president's order. In order to save the lives of my team members, I didn't stand up to stop this. All the blame is mine, not my team members'!"
"team leader!"
"team leader--"
"Don't blame the captain. We didn't dare to resist."
"It's all forced upon us by the higher-ups!"
The crowd became agitated again.
"Liar!" A sharp female voice exploded out of nowhere in the sky. Ai Wanxin looked up suddenly, and a mass of thing that was completely integrated with the sky suddenly broke away from the ceiling and swooped down towards her.