A few days later. Emerald woke up early that day, and Patrick was still in a coma. She made the breakfast deftly. After eating, she started to check out the things left in their house. Then she had a rest for half an hour and felt pretty good. She started working in and out without the machine soldiers noticing. When she walked into the bedroom, the beautiful sunlight was shining on Patrick’s face. There was no emotion on his face, and his black eyes were staring blankly. Emerald took a warm towel to wash his face and gave him the gargle. After washing up, Emerald found out that his face was ruddier than yesterday and felt relieved. “Are you hungry?” Emerald smiled at him brightly, carried a bowl of porridge for him, and sat beside him. He looked at her sweet smile and struggled to sit up. His voice was husky, “I’ll eat myself.” Emerald suddenly raised her hand and patted his cold face, “Just listen to me.” Then she filled the spoon with porridge and pushed it into his mouth. This was the first time that she had talked to him like this. He looked at her pellucid eyes, feeling surprised. He opened his full lips and ate the warm and fragrant porridge. He felt that his pain was all erased by the tenderness at this moment. After the porridge, Emerald let Patrick eat the medicine and gave him a shot according to the doctor’s instructions. Then she finally sat at the bedside, holding his hands and looking at him gently. “Taron Locke was killed, and Veronica was imprisoned.” Patrick said slowly, “Emerald, if I don’t come back one day, you have to live on happily with the child.” Emerald was trying to be happy for a whole morning, but his words just suddenly crushed her into tears. Her eyes were wet, and the emotions filled her chest and her head. “No!” Emerald was too sad to think clearly,” You have to come back no matter what happens.” Patrick watched the tears fall from her eyes and turned his head to look away. After a while, he said with a hoarse voice, “Okay, I promise you.” They looked at each other silently. Patrick said, “Emerald, I’m not defeated. I will try everything to fight back.” “I know.” Emerald stood up, “I’m also trying my best. Let me show you what I’ve done these days.” She walked in and out and carried several boxes into the room. She opened the boxes to show Patrick, “These are the guns and weapons in our home. I think the machine men will soon come to expropriate them. I will only give in to half of them, and the rest were buried on the lawn at the back door. I buried them so deep that the machine men couldn’t find them.These are the knives that the machine men wouldn’t care about. I will keep them in the cupboard. I dug a trap in front of the house in case of emergency, just as you told me. I also made the basement deeper and put the things we prepared for the baby in it. Even if the machine men wanted to kill us all one day, I could still hide in the basement to give birth to the child. Besides, this is a radio station in our house. Next time you see her, you can let Yvonne turn it into an encoded channel. In this way, you can communicate with your soldiers secretly. I have also checked all the medicine we need, and you can take some with you…” While she was still talking, Patrick had already pulled her into his arms. Patrick understood that what she had done may not be useful at all, but she still did it for the whole morning by herself. He knew that she wanted him to know she was supporting him.He understood. They held each other silently, and no words were necessary anymore. In a few days just after the war, every family on every planet was anxious. However, in this family, which the machine men worried about the most, the couple were just spending the day as peacefully as usual. Emerald took care of Patrick and herself carefully. The machine men lifted the ban three days later, and society was back into order. Malcolm and other officers rushed to Patrick’s home as fast as possible, but they saw Patrick leaning on the sofa and reading a book, and he looked much better. According to the machine men’s terms, the humans had to narrow down their work into agriculture, medical treatment, manufacturing, and the army in one month. All the people could have food after they had finished a certain amount of work. The mercenaries were all incorporated into the Empire troop, and the machine men would monitor them in every space fortress. All the soldiers should work with other humans when there was no task, and when there was a task, the soldiers had to be the vanguard and risk their lives for the machine men. This was not good news for Emerald. According to the rules, all the soldiers had to register themselves at the new headquarters of the machine men. The injured ones only had ten days more to recover, but Patrick still couldn’t walk, which meant he had to work with the wounds. Likewise, women also had to work, and there was no special treatment for pregnant ladies. However, they couldn’t think of any solution. A captain said carefully, “Should we find Calman Henry...?” Patrick looked at him lightly, and he stopped talking. Emerald understood that it must be Calman Henry who helped the machine men to find them every time they leaped. Over one-third of the warships were manufactured by Henry Group, so it would be extremely easy for him to do something to the ships. It was horrible that the machine man hid among the humans for such a long time! But when did he come to Galaxy Eternity? He was a good friend to Patrick and was even captured by the Zergs. Was it all his disguise? They discussed it for a while. Without question, all the soldiers still hoped that Patrick could lead them to fight against the machine men and take their land back. But now was the most dangerous time since the machine men were still monitoring them, and there was a huge gap between their strengths. After the discussion, they decided to wait and see and got to know the machine man’s technology. Then they could take a sudden strike. In a few days, the doctors of the army came to their house every day to change the wound dressing. He recovered very quickly, but since he was injured badly, the doctor said he’d better stay in bed for a month. Emerald could only force a wry smile. The baby was very healthy. Emerald felt energetic when she thought she could see the child in four months.The machine men soon finished the population census of the base. They made an announcement through the broadcast that all the people, except those who were seriously injured, must work for fourteen hours every day. Men should participate in the manufacturing of the fighters, and women should exploit and smelt the minerals. After the first day of work, Emerald felt that her legs were as soft as jelly. As soon as she went back home, she lay down beside Patrick. After half an hour, she finally stood up to cook dinner. Patrick still couldn’t walk, but he pulled her into his arms. His eyes were red because of anger. He wouldn’t let Emerald go out the next day.