Chapter 127: Civil strife on Red Planet, Fuling and Chi Huan trapped in Tuttle Building
Chapter 127: Civil strife on Red Planet, Fuling and Chi Huan trapped in Tuttle Building
Fuling had a full meal, then took the water cup and gulped down two large cups of water.
Chi Huan finally finished his meal. The two of them put away their dishes and chopsticks. A police officer from Red Star came over. He was very old and looked at the two young men with a kind face.
"Are you full? If you are, put your bowl down. The cleaning staff will come and take it away later."
Fuling quickly stood up and looked at the visitor with gratitude. "Uncle Marcy, thank you so much! Thank you for rescuing us from Tuttle Building. If we had been locked up for a few more days, my companions and I might not have been able to get out."
Just a week ago, civil unrest broke out on Red Star. The people of Red Star, who were short of food and shrouded in hunger, rushed into the royal palace of Red Star in large numbers and angrily trampled the ruler of Red Star to the ground.
Yes, they crushed it. There were so many people that they not only beat the current ruler of Red Planet to death, but also trampled him underfoot, crushing him to the ground. The angry people not only crushed the ruler, but hunger had made them lose their minds. They also surrounded the Tuttle Building.
The Tuttle Building was the political and military hub for the high-ranking officials of Red Planet's ruling circles. Of the 100 floors in total, 99 were occupied by high-ranking officials from Red Planet's powerful strata, who would reside there and work there.
Fuling and Chi Huan were brought here after arriving on Red Star. They had Xu Yanqing's keepsakes on them, and they also had their respective IDs.
When the contact led Fuling and Chi Huan into the Tuttle Building, neither Fuling nor Chi Huan was surprised. Anyone who could cooperate with Xu Yanqing, the head of the Blue Star Federation, must be a powerful figure on Red Star.
What surprised Fuling and Chi Huan was that after entering the elevator, the contact person swiped his identity card and entered the floor as 98.
Xu Yanqing's partner this time was surprisingly the second-in-command of Red Planet. Gossipers in the interstellar world were familiar with some of the more famous planetary leaders. Red Planet's ruler was the hereditary King of Red Planet, and Red Planet's second-in-command was Marshal Jerry Bradley. Jerry Bradley commanded 80% of Red Planet's military, with the remaining 20% consisting of the personal guards of Red Planet's King, Patrick Austin.
The expressions of Fuling and Chi Huan changed.
What are Xu Yanqing and Jerry Bradley trying to achieve by collaborating? In other words, what is their shared goal? Before climbing to the pinnacle of power through his own abilities, Xu Yanqing was also a marshal.
The two marshals cooperated.
Fuling and Chi Huan's palms were sweating. When these two people were put together, the first thought that came to their minds was that they wanted to start a war.
The cooperation between the current marshal, former marshal and current head of state of the two planets has a high probability of triggering an interstellar war between the two planets.
If the marshals of the two planets are partners, then there must be another victimized planet.
What a tragedy that would be...
Fuling felt a slight pain in her forehead, and her face turned a little paler, but she did not make any abnormal movements.
Fuling and Chi Huan beside her exchanged a glance. From the moment they entered the Tuttle Building, they knew one thing: they could no longer chat casually like they usually did when they went out. This wasn't Blue Star, it wasn't the federal military headquarters, and it certainly wasn't their own little nest.
This is the Tuttle Building on Red Star. They are about to arrive at the 98th floor of the Tuttle Building, the residence and office of Marshal Red Star.
When Fuling and Chi Huan entered the 98th floor of the Tuttle Building, they were arranged to stay in the same room by Marshal Jerry Bradley. Bradley simply sent someone to inform them that he had some matters to deal with recently and that they should stay in the Tuttle Building for a few days. Once the matters were dealt with, Bradley would naturally meet with them.
Everything was normal for the first two days of this stay. Although my movements were restricted, my daily life, and even my contact with Xu Yanqing, were still normal.
On the third day, their meals became simple, but they were temporarily living under someone else's roof, and they were representing Xu Yanqing to meet the partners, so Fuling and Chi Huan could not cause trouble.
Fuling wanted to take advantage of the lunch delivery person to discuss the food issue.
As a result, the two waited until the afternoon, but the staff responsible for delivering three meals a day to the two did not show up. Fuling and Chi Huan both felt that something was wrong. They opened the encrypted channel on the optical computer terminal to contact Xu Yanqing. They tried to contact Xu Yanqing, but they found that the situation might be more serious than they imagined.
The signal source on the optical computer cannot be sent out, nor can it receive any signal source.
At this time, the Red Star Palace had been swarmed by hungry and angry Red Star people.
Tuttle Tower was the first to receive the news that Patrick Austin, the ruler of Red Planet, had been killed by the citizens of Red Planet. Tuttle Tower entered emergency defense mode, activating not only the building's defense systems and firepower, but Marshal Jerry Bradley also deployed the army.
Although only 5% of the Red Star's armed forces were mobilized, Bradley believed that it was enough. After all, those who were about to attack the Tuttle Building were just ordinary Red Star citizens.
However, things went far beyond Bradley's expectations.
If it were just ordinary people, they would probably just surround the Tuttle Building to demonstrate and protest, holding signs and banners, shouting and cursing at the ruling class of Red Planet. If they went too far, they would just throw bricks and other debris at the Tuttle Building.
But this time, the civil strife was caused by all the angry people on the entire planet Red, whose sanity had been devoured by hunger.
The Tuttle Building was surrounded. Although due to the special nature of the Tuttle Building, there was enough food stored in the building to last for half a month or even twenty days.
However, these reserves weren't intended for all staff members, but rather for the senior executives living within the building. While ordinary employees were required to leave the building at the end of each day, only the senior executives had the right to remain.
The Tuttle Building was surrounded by hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions, of people.
The soldiers were all panicked. Where had they ever seen such a scene? In previous battles, they had faced uncivilized, inferior races in the universe, or in interstellar battles. The enemy would not bring tens or even millions of people to surround them with human waves.
They are all human beings with their own bottom lines, with thoughts and feelings, and they cannot point their guns at these ordinary people who are starving. Among them may be their relatives, or the relatives of their comrades.
Bradley didn't dare to issue such an order. He only ordered the army to protect the Tuttle Building, but he didn't dare to actually order the army to point their guns at the civilians. Bradley was even afraid of the soldiers and fired the first shot in fear.
Then Jerry Bradley would be truly dead. He would be trampled by the people of Red Planet until even his hair would be crushed to pieces.
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