Section 11 Dark and turbulent(1/2)
The wild star, the wind and the sun are beautiful. The rare insects do not come to disturb the people in the base, so everyone is speeding up the production of metals, robots, explosives and computer chips...
...No matter how you look at it, it was just an ordinary morning.
Lao Wang visited the factory and had a cordial exchange with the general public, listened to their difficulties and hopes, and ensured that those who could improve were improved as soon as possible. If they could not improve, everyone worked hard to overcome them...
...After soothing the masses, Lao Wang returned to his office with a swaying wave, took out a bag of "tea leaves" baked from unknown plants, and made them happily boiled water and brewed tea.
I was busy with my hands and mouth, but I was not idle either. I was washing the teacup and humming a song with my eyebrows:
"Socialism is good, socialism is good~ the socialist people have a high social status..."
"The reactionary was defeated, the imperialists were trapped with their tails and ran away~ Oh, what a trap~ ran away~"
"Huh? Comrade Lao Wang? Why are you so happy today? What happy things can I say to make me happy too?"
Suddenly, a long-lost voice suddenly sounded in Lao Wang's office.
"Old Xia?" Lao Wang said in surprise, "Long time no see, busy man... Why do you have time to come to my idle yamen? It's great. It's better to come early than to come by. Come and try the tea I cooked by myself..."
Lao Xia was not polite, so she sat opposite Lao Wang and waited to drink the ready-made one.
A pot of tea was quickly brewed. Looking at the cup of green brown tea, which was radiating with water vapor, Lao Xia seemed a little restrained.
In fact, his relationship with Lao Wang has never been good - to some extent, it is not an exaggeration to be called a mortal enemy. The reason is actually very simple, because of a woman they both love deeply.
When Lao Xia was young, the scholar was too angry and was not as slick as Lao Wang, who was so slick about to please girls. Therefore, in this love war, he was completely defeated and convinced.
But just when he himself felt that she would be happier with Lao Wang than with him... she disappeared silently. No matter how crazy he asked and investigated, she seemed to have never appeared in this world, and there was no news.
In addition to love, Lao Xia began to use crazy work to suppress the grief in his heart...
As decades passed, his status became higher and higher, and that friendship gradually became deeper in his heart. Sometimes when he worked until late at night, he would occasionally sigh to the bright moon.
It was not until more than ten years ago that the level of confidentiality had reached, and by chance, Lao Xia finally fell until her whereabouts - it turned out that she had already passed away in an alien invasion.
And this is why he hates Lao Wang so much, and this is also the driving force behind his desperate research on the tide phenomenon.
For more than ten years, the two have never dealt with each other. Fortunately, they are in different jobs and may not be able to encounter them once in a few years, which has relatively reduced the chance of friction.
Until this time, Lao Xia took the initiative to run to Malaysia... and ended up trapping himself and being caught by aliens on such a dangerous planet.
However, during this period of time, the relationship between Lao Xia and Lao Wang was actually gradually eased, especially when they learned that they would be sold to slaves by aliens and were determined to show their ambitions by death.
It can be said that it is precisely because of this common experience that the two changed from rivals in love to friendship.
However, the good times did not last long. With the emergence of Chen Zheng, the two of them had some deviations in their most fundamental concepts again.
For Lao Wang, everything is for the country. He encouraged Lao Xia more than once, hoping that he would convince Chen Zheng to serve the country. However, Lao Xia was obsessed with the research resources and knowledge provided by Chen Zheng, and did not want to be hated by Chen Zheng like Lao Wang...
So although the two are no longer in love, this embarrassment has always existed between them.
"Drink? Why? Are you afraid that I will poison it? Then I will drink it for you first." Lao Wang, Maitreya Buddha, smiled like a sip of tea, and looked up and down at Lao Xia with interest: "Or... what's wrong with you?"
"...It's hard to say." Lao Xia shook his head, and did not express his concerns. He just lowered his head and stared at the fragrant tea.
"Actually, I probably know, too." Lao Wang sighed, "Actually, I always knew what you thought."
"..." Lao Xia didn't say anything.
"You must think we will return to Earth soon, right? Are you a little confused about whether to continue to do research here or return to China to serve?
"Lao Wang looked at Lao Xia's expression and looked clear.
Obviously, he had guessed it.
"Don't worry, no...at least you don't need to consider this issue for the time being." Lao Wang shook his head.
"Hmm? What do you mean?" Lao Xia was stunned.
"Tsk tsk...you, you... are still so dull." Old Wang smiled bitterly and shook his head, "It's obvious that there are such good resources...ah, I'll tell you clearly. That little guy has great ambitions! He won't take the risk of letting everyone go back when he is not sure to control all forms."
"No! He is not that kind of person!!" Lao Xia affirmed, "You may not know very well. This child can be said to have grown up when I was a child! Although his personality is somewhat imperfect, he is definitely not so selfish! He will not be for the sake of rights..."
"...Yes, yes..." Lao Wang sighed helplessly, "Then let's change the word... If you can open that door immediately now-"
"Tidal Gate!" Lao Xia interrupted.
"——Tidal Gate." Lao Wang gave him a angrily glance and then said, "Do you think it's over to send everyone here back to Earth?"
"Isn't it?" Lao Xia was stunned.
Lao Wang said seriously: "... Haven't you ever thought about what happened next?"
"After?" Lao Xia thought for a while, "Everyone goes back to their homes and finds their mothers... what else can I do?"
"No, I believe that no one who returns to the Wilderness Star will have freedom anymore. The lucky ones will be secretly protected by the Earth Shield member states. On the one hand, it is to ensure that the news will not spread, and on the other hand, it is to conduct research."
"Research!?Human body research!?" Lao Xia waved his hands frequently, but Lao Wang did not give him a chance to continue.
"No matter what research, including human body research." Lao Wang's eyes floated out the window, "Do you think that a person who has traveled through countless light years and has survived in an alien environment for a whole year has no scientific research value?"
"..." Lao Xia never thought about this issue from this perspective, but what's terrible is... Following Lao Wang's thinking, he found that if he knew that someone had "traveled most of the Milky Way and lived in an alien environment for a whole year", such an individual would be too experimental! No matter what, he wanted to get a...
I imagined it a little when my colleagues looked at me with the eyes of the experiment...
...Old Xia couldn't help but shivered.
"Besides, we have many agents from various countries here. These people now seem to be pretty, but I'm sure that as long as there are few opportunities, some of them with ulterior motives will cause big things..."
"Whether you want to keep it secret or protect us, with the child's character, he would never allow us to appear on the earth without protection until he is absolutely sure."
"So put your heart back in your stomach. It is better to do a good job of research than anything else! If you really have the right opportunity, the child will arrange everything properly if you don't have to worry about it..."
...
After more than ten minutes, after consuming a pot of hot tea, Lao Wang sent away Lao Xia, who had no doubts.
"Hey... it's really..." After Lao Wang returned to the office, he couldn't help but shake his head and smile.
"But... that child is really amazing... No wonder people say that the world belongs to us, and to yours, but it is still the young people after all..."
Lao Wang returned to the office and took a pot of water to the stove.
The matter of the Mei people has been solved, and Lao Wang has rethinked it many times during this period and found that no matter from which perspective, Chen Zheng's plan is better than his plan.
And the Mei people did not turn against each other - because Chen Zheng really grasped the other party's weakness.
It is precisely because Lao Wang knows how many trump cards Chen Zheng has that he can better understand how rare this keenness and decisiveness are.
Chen Zheng pressed all the means he could use, and directly broke through the opponent's psychological defense with a quick knife to cut the mess. He stopped the opponent's invasion at that time, and at the same time created an image in the opponent's heart that was extremely powerful, allowing the opponent to greatly overestimate his ability, and instead avoid further conflicts.
"What a pity..." Thinking of this, Lao Wang couldn't help but sigh again.
Because of the initial mistake in handling, I missed the best opportunity to win over Chen Zheng, and it will be even more difficult to easily gain Chen Zheng's trust in the future.
However, the good news is that Chen Zheng does not reject further cooperation with foreign-related departments for the time being.
...
In the Pacific Ocean, huge fleets of ships gathered here. They neither advanced nor retreated, and just floated on the sea east of Yiben.
This is the Mei people's fleet.
The injured Reagan is being repaired at Yokosuka Port, and the first Ford-class aircraft carrier to replace it as its flagship is the Ford-class aircraft carrier.
At this time, countless supply ships driven from Japan were replenishing fuel, fresh water and food to this huge fleet of ships.
All the officers and soldiers' faces were gloomy.
It is no wonder that the invincible aircraft carrier formation was driven away by a mere plane in shame... When did the Mei army soldiers, as the world's number one power, have been humiliated like this?
...
Meiguo, white house.
"Bang!!"
"I want to blow it up!! Blow it up!!"
The very reliable president slapped the table excitedly, and his iconic hair stood up high in anger, like a threatened umbrella lizard.
"Your Excellency... Calm down! I can guarantee that the other party is definitely more difficult than the Als..." The Minister of Defense persuaded him in a cold sweat.
"In fact, even if we launch a nuclear bomb, because the opponent's information ability is too strong, once we encounter an invasion, it may not fall on the heads of aliens in the end."
"The Secretary of Defense's words make sense. For those aliens, the missiles we launch are no different from the missiles they launch themselves." President of Earth Shield followed and made up the knife.
"Bang!!"
A valuable vase was violently hit by the President.
“…huhhh…huhhh…”
After standing there for a long time, the President finally calmed down, "The problem now is... how do the Als explain it?"
"No need to explain." Chairman of Earth Shield seemed to have thought about this issue long ago.
"You're crazy!...You're not afraid that they will make another 'sky leak'!" asked the President in disbelief.
"No, I'm sure they dare not." President of Earth Shield pushed his glasses, "because I suddenly discovered a key news that we hadn't noticed before."
"Do you remember the first time we discovered this 'Al Butcher' was?"
Without anyone else's answer, the Chairman answered himself:
To be continued...