The Witch's Taste

Chapter 378 The end of the rescue

Green, apart from the special meaning given to it by humans, is generally considered to be natural, harmonious, full of life and vitality.

But these adjectives obviously have nothing to do with the green smoke rising in the distance.

The smoke... looks like densely packed locusts, with dust and suspicious particles moving in crazy trajectories. Just looking at it makes people feel nauseous and vomiting.

If you look down from a high altitude, you will find that the green smoke is expanding extremely fast, as if it is driven by some kind of explosion without fire or gunpowder smoke. In just 5 minutes, it covers the suburbs with a radius of seven to eight kilometers. area, and even the southeastern urban area of ​​Galapasia was also eroded.

The official TV station claimed that this was a chemical smog of unknown origin, and advised citizens to avoid the smoke as much as possible, but how could the citizens have the heart to listen to instructions?
Even if more "natural disasters" strike, it will only stir up the already chaotic situation again.

A large number of federal starships are taking off from the surface of the planet Garcia. These are privately owned ships of the chaebols, responsible for carrying key assets and equipment, or escorting important people out of Garcia.

As the "Imperial Merchant Group" responsible for rescue on the planet's surface was attacked by the Federal Intelligence Agency, the starship humans quickly destroyed one of the ships and declared it a "retaliatory reciprocal attack."

Sure enough, Gloria's next actions seemed to be ignored by federal officials and plutocrats, and she never encountered any resistance.

Due to this sudden emergency, the military's rehearsals for the military parade were also suspended.Supreme Leader Chen Ziang gave instructions to mobilize all available ships to carry out "humanitarian rescue" to Garcia as much as possible.

Of course, limited to humans.

A large number of ships landed on the outskirts of Galapasia without being intercepted by air defense forces or orbital facilities. It seems that the sector government and the plutocrats have reached an unspoken understanding: as long as you don't stop us from running away, we will It doesn’t matter how you save people.

The human residents who came after hearing the news boarded the ship in an orderly manner under the supervision of soldiers.At the same time, there were elves, orcs, dwarves and other ethnic groups who tried to mix in for survival, but they were basically driven away by the soldiers... Because the starship humans must be a single-ethnic country, there is no way to work around this.

Even if it is "only saving humans", the short-term transportation capacity is still insufficient.Therefore, we can only refer to Takamagahara and Aegelaos, giving priority to technical experts in various fields and their families, followed by human families who have not married other ethnic groups (after all, family members have to follow the ship), and then... nothing Then, the first two have completely occupied the transportation capacity.

On the second day when the green mist appeared, nearly half of Galapasia had been occupied.The drone that penetrated deep inside would immediately lose its signal, and the exploration team also disappeared without a trace. It wasn't until someone tied a carbon fiber rope to the expedition team, and after losing contact, they forcibly dragged them back, only to find that the bodies in their protective suits had already grown... It was full of bloated and putrid pus, with dark green juice squirming in it.

This change made the citizens staying on the surface of the planet extremely uneasy. Many gang members launched attacks on starships in an attempt to seize a ship to escape, but were shot down mercilessly by the human military of the starships. kill.

Chen Ziang monitors the overall situation on the Forever.Federation humans sent to the starship will first undergo a complete quarantine, then fill out documents and undergo identity verification. Finally, they will be placed into an isolation area at the rear of the mothership by family - they will need to undergo strict scrutiny.

At the same time, the situation on the planet is deteriorating rapidly, and the green fog is spreading faster and faster. A large number of blowflies have begun to appear in it, flying everywhere and biting all visible flesh and blood life, and those bitten by them People will soon fall into coma, and their bodies will quickly swell, eventually becoming a breeding ground for these flies to breed larvae.

And deep in the green mist, the figure of some kind of corrupt behemoth can be vaguely seen - it has sharp mouthparts and a carapace body the size of a mountain. It is surrounded by endless swarms of flies and clouds of disease, spreading plague and disease around it. die.

It was already the last day of the five days in the plan. The fleet responsible for the rescue did not dare to risk being stranded. After receiving the signal from the starship, they immediately left behind the citizens who were still queuing to board the ship and started their engines together. , take off and run away.

Chen Ziang stood at the bird's-eye view window of the bridge and saw these ships landing one after another inside the Forever, while the huge planet Garcia in the distance was now covered by a green mist covering one-third of the hemisphere.

As for the urban area of ​​Galapasia, it has been completely occupied and can no longer be seen from the position of the starship.

It is obvious that this colonial planet will soon turn into a plague world, and then be quietly wiped off the existing territory by the Federation.

Chen Ziang was horrified by the power of gods that could easily destroy the world.He is not even sure whether the main enemy of starship humanity in the future is the Federation that is powerful enough to abandon a colonial planet at will, or other unknown dangers hidden in the darkness deep in the universe.

The Forever and the Transient set sail.The fleet left the Garcia sector and came to the edge space of the galaxy, and then conducted a simple military parade as planned.

The people were watching the live broadcast of the military parade, and the senior officials held another brief meeting and began to review the report of the rescued Garcia human.

Both belong to the Federation, but there are quite obvious differences between the humans of Garcia and the humans of Aegelaos.In the words of Suzuna Tsukimiya, "many people have not positioned themselves correctly."

Some of the Garcias who were quarantined have made various demands: such as providing drinking water that meets international standards for refugee support, arranging suitable accommodation within 24 hours, and promising to transport them to a nearby federal star as soon as possible. District and so on.

It was as if the refuge was a vacation.

What is even more strange is that according to previous intelligence, these Garcias have shown an extremely docile "submissive attitude" in front of the federal sector government, and are not even willing to participate in demonstrations to defend the interests of the human race.

"Actually, the reason is very simple." Tsukimiya Suzuna said with a sneer, "These Garcias do not have the consciousness to join the starship humans, but still regard themselves as federal humans."

"They believe that we, the starship humans, want to rescue them because they hope to use this matter to negotiate with the Federation to remove the title of 'evil organization' from our heads, so they adopt such a confident attitude—— They expected that we would not dare to harm them, otherwise we would break with the Federation." "This conclusion is too outrageous." Xia Zili sighed, shook her head and said, "Didn't Garcia already have propaganda against humanity before? Where do people get the confidence that the Federation will continue to protect them?"

"Even if you are a third-class citizen in a powerful country, once you arrive in what they consider a 'backward country', you will become arrogant and show off your power." Suzuna Tsukimiya said sarcastically, "If it were me who made the decision, I would kill these people who made the demands. We will kill them all, and they will be executed publicly in front of the rest of the Garcia people, to see if there are any ignorant idiots who will jump out to seek death."

"You are a bit too extreme." Chen Ziang waved his hand and said, turning to Song Mingyuan and asking, "Are there any production fields that are in urgent need of labor?"

"Yes." Song Mingyuan said respectfully, "But sir, it may not be a good idea to send these thorn heads to forced labor."

"Oh, what should I say?" Chen Ziang asked.

"Because the reason why the pricks are pricks is because they are ungrateful and have no loyalty." Song Mingyuan replied, "Even if they were given a precious labor opportunity instead of being thrown out of the airlock and killed, they would only blame We did not give them preferential treatment - such people always like to overestimate their own importance, and will become resentful and resentful after being hit by the gap in reality."

"If things go on like this, this group of people will inevitably become resentful and take extreme measures, such as sabotaging the interior of the ship. They will become the dregs of our great society, unstable elements among loyal citizens, and seriously damage the planet. The overall cohesion of the ship's human race. If we were fighting the enemy at that time, we would have to be careful of these people holding us back... It would be a hundred harms and no good."

"Then how do you think we should deal with it?" Chen Ziang said heartily that it was indeed the case.

In normal times, even if someone makes a rebellion, it would be enough to suppress it; but if we are at war with the federal fleet and these extremists take the opportunity to cause destruction everywhere in the ship, the threat will be great.

"If the punishment is carried out publicly, it will definitely make the rest of the Garcia people feel uneasy." Song Mingyuan said confidently, as if he had already prepared the plan, "They don't know why we punish these people, and in the end it will only endanger everyone."

“But it’s not possible to just let it go, so I suggest that the review can be ‘appropriately extended’.”

Chen Ziang was silent for a moment, a little speechless.

What Song Mingyuan calls "extended review" is, to put it bluntly, the procrastination technique that civil servants are best at.Find various reasons to prevaricate these people, and use a lot of reviews to delay them, so that they can be "temporarily detained" in the stern area for a long time.

Doing so effectively creates a prison, which prevents these guys from causing trouble.But this can be denied to the outside world. After all, they are indeed undergoing a "boarding review" procedurally, but the review process is a little longer.

Wonderful!

Chen Ziang confirmed the opinions of others.Xia Zili was doing nothing, and Tsukimiya Suzuna seemed to think it was a bit too merciful, but she couldn't come up with a more suitable plan.

Xia Qingyu remained silent, which made Chen Ziang more certain of his original guess: Song Mingyuan's opinions might have been discussed with Xia Qingyu a long time ago.

So the matter was settled like this: these Garcia people who made various unreasonable demands first rejected the results of their review and ignored the various demands they made, and then arranged endless new review procedures to detain them in place. .

If you don't accept it, we can put you in a jar and throw it out, and you can catch a ride on other passing starships.

The immigration work of Garcia humans will be handled by the corresponding team of civil servants.The next thing to summarize is the military parade that just ended a few minutes ago.

Judging from the ratings, this military parade undoubtedly attracted the attention of all starship humans, and the public's reactions to it varied.

Through small-scale polls, the vast majority of people still do not believe that starship humans can defeat the Federation, but the proportion of people who believe that starship humans have the ability to protect themselves has increased significantly, and currently reaches about 47%.

Due to the serious disaster that occurred in Garcia, the disembarkation party also quickly turned to silence and dormancy.After all, a large number of Garcia humans are boarding the ship. At this time, it definitely makes no sense for you to say that it is better to get off the ship and go to Garcia than to stay on the ship.

All in all, the military parade ended smoothly and achieved its intended effect.

After Garcia's rescue operation is over, the starship humans will make a long-distance jump to Ophiuchus as planned.

There must still be human residents in the Federation, but most of them are scattered on various colonial planets. It is unrealistic to search and rescue them one by one. In addition, the internal capacity of the Forever is close to saturation, so after arriving at Ophiuchus, it is just to replenish energy supplies, and then It is necessary to jump to the edge star area again, thus completely escaping from the Federation.

"I'm afraid the supplies in Ophiuchus will not go smoothly." Chen Ziang said worriedly.

No one can answer this question because Ophiuchus is extremely far away from Hercules, where the Garcia sector is located.Even if information is transmitted from there to here, the situation there has already changed.

But no matter what, the starship humans are like small boats traveling in a dark underground river. No matter what is waiting for them ahead, they can only continue to move forward along the current.

(End of this chapter)