Chapter 168 - Chapter 168: One Month’s Limit!
Chapter 168: One Month’s Limit!
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
Hearing these words, Luka felt a wave of contempt in his heart.
The Star Beauty? Nothing but a filthy ship filled with women for people’s pleasure.
And the captain’s family? This was a space expedition. How could he bring his family along? All that was on the Star Beauty were a few women who regularly spent time with the captain.
“No need to persuade me further, my mind is made up!”
Kote announced righteously, “It’s just the family. Give them a few rooms to live in, that’s all!”
“Captain is righteous!”
“The captain is truly our role model!”
There was a wave of flattery from the crew below.
Kote accepted it calmly. After listening for a while, he turned to Luka, “1 happen to need a deputy. Are you interested in working with me?!”
Flattery aside, someone capable still needs to be valued.
Luka was delighted and quickly agreed.
“Congratulations Deputy Luka…”
“The captain truly has discerning eyes, choosing Deputy Luka from the crowd…”
There was another wave of flattery, but this time, it was directed at Luka. Listening to these words, he seemed indifferent on the surface, but deep down, he felt a bit elated. He thought to himself, no wonder everyone wants to be a leader, it feels good.
Kote nodded in satisfaction and ordered, “Good, send someone to the Star Beauty, evacuate everyone, then send some elites to pilot the Star Beauty through the wormhole…”
After he left, many people approached Luka to build rapport.
Luka dealt with them all one by one.
However, soon, with the arrival of a certain individual, the others tactfully retreated.
“Deputy Captain!”
Luka was startled and quickly saluted.
“Heard you became a deputy officer?”
The deputy captain was tall and handsome, with a unique aura. Standing in a crowd, he stood out, drawing attention easily.
That’s why, many times, Kote would send the deputy captain to other warships for inspections.
He felt that standing beside this man, he was easily overshadowed.
“Yes…”
Even though the deputy captain had just arrived, he was fully aware of the events that had transpired.
He slowly began, “The captain asked you to send elites to pilot the Star Beauty through the wormhole, who are you planning to send?!”
Me? Send people?!
Luka was shocked but quickly realized, being the deputy officer, he did have such authority.
He was somewhat delighted but soon became nervous, “1 have just assumed this position, I’m not very familiar with all this, please guide me, deputy captain…”
The deputy captain nodded slightly, saying, “Send the same people who were sent to the wormhole in the three previous rounds, understand?”
Luka couldn’t help but think of the teams close to the deputy captain. Was he worried that Luka would unintentionally send his people into the wormhole?
But if he didn’t, would the captain blame him?!
Luka was both frightened and felt like he was overthinking.
“Don’t you understand?!”
It was only when the deputy captain’s voice echoed again, that Luka snapped back, quickly saying, “1 understand, thank you for your guidance, deputy captain!”
“Hmm!” The deputy captain turned and left.
Luka broke out in a cold sweat.
After pondering for a while, he finally understood some things, affirming, “I was promoted by the captain, that makes me his man…”
A week later, under everyone’s gaze, the Star Beauty activated the wormhole, slowly being sucked into it and disappearing.
On the command ship, Kote and Luka stood together, staring at the gravitational wave detector.
“Captain, you should rest. I can watch over here…”
Hearing this, Kote turned to Luka and asked, “Luka, why do you think 1 promoted you?”
Luka shook his head, indicating he didn’t know.
“Do you think you were the only one who could come up with that plan?”
Hearing Kote’s question, Luka was taken aback.
The method of using a warship longer than 50 kilometers to show up on the gravitational wave detector wasn’t hard. Anyone who studied and observed even a little could figure it out.
But oddly, no one proposed it that day.
Kote continued, “Many people knew this method, but most preferred to play dumb, fearing responsibility…”
“I like your straightforwardness, your composed demeanor, it keeps us on our toes…”
As he said this, Kote pointed disapprovingly at Luka’s insincere smile, saying, “Keep that fake smile to yourself, I don’t like it!”
Seeing this, Luka quickly stopped his false smile, but was somewhat puzzled in his heart.
“Why does he never say such things to those who flatter the captain, but only to me?!”
“You’ve studied for 28 years to reach high school, surely you don’t want to end up in a useless position, just waiting to die?!”
Captain Ketai shook his head, indifferent to Luca’s thoughts, and continued, “Truthful words are usually hard to swallow, but people who sit in high positions for too long become intolerant to contradictory views.”
“But no matter what, there always needs to be someone who dares to speak the truth around…”
Luca understood and felt a stir of excitement.
The captain wanted him as a confidant!
“Captain, rest assured, 1 will always speak the truth and be your trusted advisor…”
“Don’t say things like ‘trusted advisor’, we are all loyal to the Alliance.”
“Yes, yes, yes…”
Listening to their conversation, a guard standing by looked confused.
This conversation seemed familiar.
Who had he heard it from?
After some thought, he remembered. It was the same conversation the captain had had with the previous deputy when he had taken office.
“This civilization is a bit stupid, sacrificing three groups of people…”
The Great Whale fleet was the only civilization among the seven in the Proxima system who knew the truth.
The other six civilizations were completely oblivious to the situation in the Solar System, making wild guesses.
But they had used super gravitational detection technology to clearly see everything within the Solar System.
“Another 500,000 warships were sent to the frontline, this should be the indigenous civilization…”
Dugo sighed, this was the advantage of fighting at home, they could endlessly manufacture war machines.
Unfortunately, they were facing a Level 3 civilization, the mighty Modou civilization.
Dugo was confident that no matter how the indigenous civilization of the Solar System operated, they could hardly escape death.
“Commander, are we just going to watch them fight?” asked a deputy standing nearby.
“Otherwise?”
Dugo retorted, “You want to mediate? Tell them, ‘everyone go home, we are here to destroy your civilization?’”
The deputy smiled awkwardly, “I was just worried that you had been waiting for a long time.”
“Heh, to destroy seven civilizations in one go, even if it takes another ten years, so what?”
Dugo said calmly, destroying seven civilizations, that achievement would definitely take him up another level.
Considering the lifespan of their Modou civilization, waiting for ten years was nothing.
Just as Dugo was about to continue, a communicator came over.
“Commander, there’s a call from headquarters!”
“Hmm?”
Dugo was startled, but without giving it much thought, he quickly went to the special quantum communication room and with the help of staff, checked the message sent by headquarters.
The more he read, the worse Dugo’s face looked.
The deputy beside him was curious about the content.
After Dugo finished reading, his chest heaving, the deputy asked, “Commander, what did the headquarters say?”
“Bastards, definitely someone is envious of me encountering seven civilizations…”
Dugo swore vehemently before explaining, “The headquarters has ordered me to end the battle within a month, or they’ll replace me…”
“Damn it, a month, how is that possible?!”
“Such battles for annihilation, don’t they usually take years, even hundreds or thousands of years…”
The deputy was also furious, “They’re trying to pick peaches…”
“No one wanted this task before the expedition, but now that we’ve paved the way, confirmed that there’s no danger, and found seven civilization fleets, a bunch of people are eager…”
Angrily, he said, “Commander, what do we do? Let’s just destroy the six major fleets and that indigenous civilization!”