When the Galaxy Wept

Chapter 46 I'll Come Back At Night

The military police who were in charge of looking for Emerald soon found the column of Robert and Foxy, who had already left on a transportation fleet to transport the energy minerals for the expedition mercenaries at a distance of thousand and five hundred light-years away. “Is this woman on their team?” The military police took out the portrait. Watching how the two military policemen bossed around without giving any rewards, the officer of the column felt the wad of money in his pocket, which had been given to him by Foxy, and shook his head, pretending to be confused. “I don’t know. I’ve never seen her.” Emerald had no idea now that the military police had found her hideout. She was piloting a Cheetah, and she had enough energy supplements in the space station to the destination, and space leaped several times.During the past five days of flying, Robert and Foxy quarreling with each other were Emerald’s biggest entertainment. They were typical mercenaries, outgoing, sought nothing but interests, and didn’t care about laws or morals, but still were loyal to their friends. After being partners with them for some time, she felt totally different from before. When she had been in the Phoenix, the biggest radius of the flight was 500 light-years on the condition that she asked to fly herself, but since she had joined the mercenary a month ago, her radius easily had reached 1500. As a soldier of the air force in the alliance, she had to obey so many rules and senior officers’ orders. Still, as a mercenary, she could freely accept tasks if it was not a combat order for all and the rewards of the tasks belonged to all. Interestingly, Emerald had never seen the mercenaries fight because of money. “Competition is allowed,” Foxy said. “But you will be punished by Column Seven if you are involved in the malignant competition.” “Column Seven?” “Yeah. Do you know Bruce Green? He oversaw Column Seven. In the first several years when the Commander just united all the mercenaries, people were trying to provoke and plot against each other, but the Commander told Bruce Green to punish them with no mercy.” Foxy shook her head. “It was not a pleasant experience.” “I’ve heard about it.” Emerald had also heard some “legends” about Patrick Lewis. It turned out that he wasn’t born into a big family, and he was once at the lowest level among the mercenaries. But he could take the most dangerous task that no one dared to do and went to the farthest galaxy, and he had become strong ten years ago. After fighting and conquering other teams, he gradually united all the mercenaries in the range of 3000 light-years under his leadership. He attracted the mercenaries with profit, but most of the mercenaries were crazy about him and loyal to him because of his charisma. “The Commander said that he would die for every one of us, so we should be prepared to die for him,” Foxy said in admiration in the communication channel. “And you believe it?” Emerald didn’t believe it. “I do.” Robert interrupted. “We all do.” Emerald thought about it again and realized that she believed him, too. Not because Patrick really cared about his soldiers, but because he didn’t care about anything, including his own life. “It is said the Commander is over forty,” Robert said with respect. “I admire no one, but the Commander is my role model.” “Forty?” Emerald was surprised. “It’s such a pity that he doesn’t like a woman,” Foxy responded melancholically. Emerald acted surprised. “Doesn’t like… women?”Foxy smiled. “Don’t you know that? You know, every one of the few female mercenaries would like to sleep with him, but he never wanted anyone. I also heard that he doesn’t like those showgirls either. Everyone knows that he likes men. They say his assistant is a young, handsome boy full of energy, who eats and sleeps with him.” Patrick’s cold face emerged in Emerald’s mind. Even though that face was quite serious, she couldn’t help laughing, “Yeah, it’s really a pity.” The last space leaping was finished with the silver light flashing by. The destination this time was the synchronous orbital outside the atmospheric layer of one plane. The expedition team had built a space station there. Although she had already known about it, she was surprised to see the blue ocean and yellow sand. The senior officer didn’t specify what the resource minerals were, but Emerald thought this planet was very similar to the Earth and its inhabitants, humans. She decided to pay more attention to the planet. After the Cheetah docked in the space fortress, the ground staff started to unload goods, and she followed Robert and Foxy to go to the pilot restroom. Since the Commander had ordered many teams to come here, there were at least thirty pilots gathering in this big restroom. Robert was familiar with many people here. When he came back after talking to them, his face lit up with a mysterious smile. “Foxy, Kitten, you know what? There is human civilization here!” Robert looked at them excitedly. “They said that the Commander has already made the order of colonization, and we can stay here. We will make a fortune here!” Foxy was very excited and held her hand under the table to high-five Robert. Emerald still didn’t understand what they were talking about and didn’t give her a hand. “Human civilization?” She smiled. “What does colonization mean?” Foxy smiled profoundly. “If they obey our orders, they get to stay and work, but if they refuse to obey, they are killed. This is colonization.” “Oh. So, when will we start?” “It’s said that we have already contacted the humans down there,” Robert said. “They look the same as us.” Emerald stood up. “I’m going to see an old friend. You don’t need to wait for me. I’ll come back at night.” Foxy and Robert looked at each other after Emerald left hurriedly, even though Emerald pretended to be calm. “What old friend?” “Maybe she goes to find that man.” Foxy seemed to be sure. “It’s said that Captain Harrison Gates was going to direct the landing operation. Could her lover from that day be Harrison Gates?”Both felt ambiguous and decided to ask about her “feelings” of meeting her lover.

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