Chapter 192: What’s Missing?
Callisto, Pioneer Base.
When the Punisher’s sky-obscuring hull arrived, Mo Han could confidently say that his heart rate was definitely exceeding that of any previous emergency.
It was too big!
The 2000-meter-long ship hull was no longer comparable to the super aircraft carriers once on Blue Star’s seas.
After the spaceship slowly landed at the huge port of Pioneer Base, even the Giant Elephant Class not far from it appeared petite and delicate.
Inside the base, tens of thousands of South Australia workers were now crowding at the windows, marveling at the scene.
The Punisher’s tail door opened. Then, Space Force soldiers wearing army green nano combat outerwear calmly and orderly began lining up to disembark.
Soon, the vast landing field was fully lined with 2000 Space Force soldiers.
And in the higher sky, 20 Young Dragon B-types were now circling in formation over the base, closely watching the ground and the surrounding environment at all times.
Li Jian stood in the square, looking at the thousands of Space Force soldiers in perfect formation before him. Every time he saw this scene, infinite pride and heroism welled up in his heart.
However, he did not immediately disband the formation or issue orders. Instead, he maintained the same at-attention posture as these warriors, standing quietly in the square as if waiting for something.
On the square, this silent and solemn scene brought a tremendous shock to the people of the Workers’ Rights Association.
Mo Han trotted over from inside the base with his deputy and came directly before Li Jian. Looking at the army before him that seemed composed of robots, even though he knew these people would not harm him, his heart couldn’t help but tremble at this moment.
“Hello, Colonel Li. I am the person in charge of the base, Mo Han. I am very sorry that due to my management oversight, you and your troops had to come all this way.”
Upon hearing this, Li Jian turned his head to glance at him, his expression still serious.
“Director Mo, my unit has been ordered to maintain order on site and will later be responsible for escorting them back to Blue Star. You can state any issues now.”
His attitude was not cold, but it was not particularly enthusiastic either.
Seeing this, Mo Han subconsciously wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, only to immediately realize that his entire body was covered in a layer of nano-coat, so there was no sweat to spill.
“No problem, no problem. I will fully cooperate with your work.”
After Mo Han finished speaking and saw that Li Jian had no response, he awkwardly chuckled, then hurriedly said: “Then I’ll go back and make arrangements. Thank you for your hard work, Captain Li and your subordinates.”
Li Jian turned his head and shook it, saying: “Wait a moment.”
Then he turned his gaze to the formation ahead and loudly commanded: “All of First Company, step forward and follow your captains into the base to maintain order.”
With his order, the 200-man square formation on the far right of the team slowly stepped forward in unison under the lead of their squad captains, heading toward the base.
Li Jian then said to Mo Han: “For any issues, communicate directly with the Captain of First Company.”
Hearing this, Mo Han nodded repeatedly, then hurried back inside the base with his silent deputy as if fleeing.
The rest of the matter was simple.
Before the fully armed Great Xia Space Force, the tens of thousands of mining workers who had joined the Workers’ Rights Association could not stir up the slightest ripple.
After dozens of Gales arrived, the crowd began to be escorted onto the ships.
From now on, all the salary they had earned at Pioneer Base over the past year was confiscated by Great Xia, and their direct three generations of relatives were permanently added to the blacklists of Great Xia and Xinghai.
No one dared to rebel. They truly believed that these Great Xia Space Force soldiers would unhesitatingly subdue them, unarmed miners, like fierce beasts in an instant.
The fleet began to slowly lift off.
Here, under Li Jian’s lead, the 2000 Space Force soldiers returned inside the Punisher.
Then the micro auxiliary thrust engines at the bottom of the ship hull activated. Under Mo Han’s shocked gaze not far away, this colossal object slowly lifted off. A few minutes later, it rendezvoused with the higher Young Dragon B-types and flew majestically toward outer space.
“Director Mo, back to the base? Chief Jin has arranged for the next batch of workers, already on the way. Expected to arrive in ten days.”
Mo Han silently nodded and walked toward the base without a word.
“David, you’ve been with me for so many years. Tell me, how did Great Xia suddenly become like this?”
At the base entrance, Mo Han suddenly stopped, his face heavy as he looked at his deputy who had followed him for many years.
Hearing this, Deputy David was stunned for a moment, then slowly shook his head: “Sir, these things are no longer important. Or rather, do you think the United States still has a chance to surpass them now?”
Hearing this response, Mo Han couldn’t help but sneer.
“Them? Are they really that much better off than our South Australia now? After Mark retired, he established a space tourism company in Great Xia. How much did he cash out his shares in Spitz? He invested it all into this tourism company that now belongs to Great Xia.”
David slowly shook his head; he was not aware of the details.
Seeing this, Mo Han sighed, then walked into the base.
Mark was extremely clever and also very bold.
This former president, after stepping down, cashed out almost all his personal shares and then invested them all into Great Xia to establish a space tourism company.
If that was all, it wouldn’t be much.
What was most admirable about Mark was that, with Xinghai holding 51% shares and himself 49%, he fully entrusted the entire company to Artificial Intelligence A’dai for operation and management.
Afterward, he was sent into a hibernation pod on the Conqueror and disappeared from the public eye ever since.
Now, under A’dai’s operation, this company offered outer space day trips at a price of 10,000 per trip, with development speed increasing by leaps and bounds daily.
What surprised Mo Han most was that due to equity issues, this company already belonged to a Great Xia enterprise.
Did Mark really have such boldness to hand over all his assets accumulated over the years to Xinghai?
He did not know.
But he knew one thing: Xinghai was truly wealthy.
After he left office, Spitz’s stock price plummeted to a low over several years. The newly appointed president was a female president only 40 years old.
After she took office, facing the extremely decadent internal economy and the people’s endless expectations, the United States broke from convention. Military industrial enterprises began to exert force, once again raising the knife of external harvesting.
But this time it was different from before; this knife was placed on the necks of all White Alliance member states and the former peripheral member partners.
Little Japan and South Island Country had spent decades to restore their once collapsed economies to normal development.
Faced with such rogue actions, they could only shoulder their responsibilities and begin passively bleeding.
