Chapter 1,287 Arrest

In the Martian colony, a white woman was imprisoned in a small dark room under the torture of several soldiers.

"What do you want to do! Let me go, you have no right to restrict my personal freedom!" Beating the iron door with her hands, Jenny, with her hair disheveled, angrily looked like a lioness and shouted at the Star Ring trade soldiers outside the door, "You savages, I want to file a complaint against you! Let the media around the world know the unfair treatment I received here."

The soldier who reached the door stopped and turned to look at her.

Feeling a little frightened by those two eyes, Jenny's tone was slightly weaker and she said coyly.

"I have the right to know the reason why you locked me up. I clearly abide by the laws of the colony and have not violated any rules. Why do you arrest me here..."

Until now, she still had some luck left in her heart.

She thought that what she did was flawless.

And even if Star Ring Trade found sufficient evidence, she would still have a way to quibble. Many people blink when they are nervous. She has never learned any Morse code, and she has no idea that her accidental movements due to nervousness will be over-interpreted.

However, after hearing her words, the two soldiers just looked at each other and sneered at her in unison.

"There is no point in sophistry. There are no lawyers or courts here." One of the soldiers took two steps forward, curled his lips and said, "The arrest warrant was issued by a ghost agent. When we were investigating your communication records, we found that you Exposing our sensitive information via Morse code."

"I request extradition. There is an extradition treaty between New Zealand and the United States!" Seeing that her trick was exposed so easily, Jenny said in a panic.

"Oh? Really. I've never heard that espionage can be extradited? And this is a Martian colony, not a new country." A sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth, and the soldier said with mockery, "Besides, I can Let me tell you, because of your stupid behavior, the return time of you and all American astronauts will be delayed. Until you are sure that you have not overheard more information that you should not hear, you can stay here and play with us in the sand. ”

"You, you can't do this." Until now, Jenny finally realized how much trouble her behavior had brought to her teammates, "I..."

However, the two soldiers did not intend to listen to her nonsense anymore. Just when she wanted to say something more, the door of the confinement room was slammed shut.

In the narrow corridor, darkness returned.

Standing at the door of the solitary room, the officer from the Army Intelligence Section made a check in the record book and nodded to the two soldiers, indicating that they could leave.

Standing at the other end of the corridor, Blaise hesitated for a moment, and finally made up his mind to step forward.

When he saw the black astronaut walking towards him, the officer grinned with a sneer.

"You want to plead for your colleague?"

"Is there no other solution?" Brace glanced at the place where his colleague was imprisoned, and then looked at the soldier, "Maybe this is just a misunderstanding. Jenny is a good person..."

"Misunderstanding? Good guy?" The officer pushed up the brim of his hat and stared at Blaise with a half-smile. "Good guys don't become spies."

"Spy?" Blaise frowned slightly, his heart suddenly secretly calling for disaster.

In fact, this bad feeling has been lingering in his mind since the soldiers of Star Ring Trade came to take the people away early this morning. He kept warning Jenny not to pry into things she shouldn't know, but it was obvious that she didn't take his words to heart.

When he heard the word spy, he immediately understood what was happening to this girl.

I was afraid that I was snooping around again and ended up being caught by people from Star Ring Trading.

Thinking of the phone call he had just had with his relatives on Earth a few days ago, Brace's face suddenly turned green, and he fervently greeted all the female relatives of that idiot in his heart.

"...but do you know that your actions may hurt the feelings between the people of the two countries?" The scolding continued, but after all, Jenny was his subordinate. Blaise tried to plead, "I mean, if there is confirmed evidence, Before the evidence—"

"When our soldiers risked their lives to rescue you from that broken iron barrel, they took the utmost care of the feelings between the people of the two countries," interrupted the former captain, and the officer smiled. He said without a smile, "But this is how you repay our life-saving grace?"

It was not just the American astronaut who was imprisoned, but also the Intelligence Section investigator responsible for supervising her communications, and also his subordinates. His subordinate was placed in solitary confinement, and the face of the Army Intelligence Section officer certainly didn't look good.

"Sorry..." Blaise said with some embarrassment, "I apologize for my colleague's reckless behavior."

"We will not offend you," the officer said coldly, "but don't expect us to look good on you. As you wish, I now provide you with an additional option that takes into account the feelings of the two peoples. Either Do as we tell you, or pack your things and go back to your Ares."

Blaise's expression suddenly froze on his face.

Go back to Ares?

Isn’t that sending someone to death?

"If you want to go back, you can come to me in the office at any time. I will drive you back personally." Staring into Brace's eyes, the officer said this word for word, leaving Brace standing there blankly. He walked away without looking back.

Outside the colony cabin, the war with the insect swarm continues. The soldiers leaned behind the bunkers on the wall, dodging the acid shots and firing back at the Corruptors outside the colony with their Gauss rifles.

Insect swarms' attacks on colonies seem to have become a norm, and it seems that these insects can't be killed no matter how hard they are killed. And the most terrible thing is that the intelligence of these bugs is obviously not on the same level as the devil bugs. In just one week, their tactics have gone from the initial swarm to now using frequent attacks to consume the ammunition of the Halo Marines.

The production cost of an earth-penetrating bomb is close to S$6 million. Taking into account all costs from transportation to launch, this figure may be closer to S$10 million. Although cost should not be considered by the military, the Aerospace Command has proposed to the captain of the Expedition more than once that if electromagnetic naval gun support can be used, missiles should be used as little as possible.

Sitting in the office of the Aerospace Department in Halo City, Kerwin looked at the budget report in his hand with a headache.

At this moment, there was a knock on the door.

"Come in." Kerwin put aside the budget report in his hand and glanced at the door and said casually.

After receiving permission, a staff member from Starring Trading walked into the office.

"Report. "

"What's up?"

"Origin successfully completed deceleration in Mars synchronous orbit, requesting instructions for the next step."

After hearing the news, Kerwin was slightly stunned and looked at his watch.

Speaking of which, it’s been a week...

Looking away from his watch, Kerwin looked at the staff standing in front of his desk and ordered in a deep voice.

"Start weapons deployment immediately."

"yes!"

It's time to end this.

Looking at the back of the staff member turning away, Kerwin thought in his heart.

As for the weapon tailor-made for bugs, he had no doubt that it had the combat power to crush them into pieces...