Chapter 107 Choice and Dispute
"Keep hiding it for as long as you can."
Calvin also put away his tableware, then stood up and said.
The two people behind him also stood up and followed his footsteps and walked out.
"I don't have the final say on this matter, but the old men in the family are handling it. They have many more things to worry about than the rest of us."
Golden and Tariq had no objection to this statement. They had also served in the company as champion swordsmen.
During that period of personal protection of the Grand Masters, they could also understand how heavy the work pressure these Grand Masters endured on a daily basis.
"I noticed there seems to be something wrong with your gauntlets?" Tarik decided to change the conversation in a lighter direction.
"Well, it's not just the gauntlets, actually."
Calvin looked at the position of his hand in annoyance, and gently opened and closed the armor and electromagnetic muscles of his hand with the help of the power servo. The touch from the latter clearly told Calvin:
This armor was a little too small for his rapidly growing body.
He shrugged awkwardly and said: "As you know, my body is still in the growth stage. Just like everyone at this stage, I also have the troubles of this stage..."
"Like a boy who doesn't know how to ask his father for new shoes?"
Tariq picked up what Calvin was saying. But there was a clear sense of joking in what he said.
"That's a good point, but don't say it next time." Calvin rolled his eyes and decided to refuse to continue discussing this embarrassing topic.
While he quickened his pace, leaving Tarik behind who was about to laugh at him, he began to explain to Golden the next steps for the Gray Knights.
The two people behind him also looked at each other and smiled after seeing Calvin's actions, and then followed him.
After the black ship reached the outside of the Rust Belt, it finally got rid of the pirates who were following them like hyenas.
The latter's trail eventually stopped at a distance of 10 AU outside the asteroid belt.
After being freed from these threats, the Noble and Dirty ship focused its work on cleaning up the interior while sailing.
After all, under the influence of these uncertain factors, the black ship will not be able to guarantee that it will stably enter the state of subspace navigation in the next voyage.
After Calvin's Gray Knights participated in the initial cleanup operation as a support force, they never participated in the remaining operations.
Under further evaluation by the bridge commanders, the threat of these orcs who have broken away from their organization and organization is declining at an unreasonable rate.
Regardless of their IQ or fighting will, these orcs are rapidly degenerating into savages.
This phenomenon further confirmed Calvin's conjecture.
This kind of threat that has dropped to the level of a security incident is enough to be dealt with by the mortal troops on the black ship.
No one wanted to trouble the Emperor's Angels with something like this. As things went by, Calvin no longer cared too much about this.
His energy is now mainly focused on discussions with Constantine and others, and they have considerable differences on the choice of the next course.
The alien inquisitor Mavi has been in a state of ruin recently. The reason is naturally due to the inevitable and expensive cost of large-scale memory clearing due to the participation of the Gray Knights in the war.
However, under the joint efforts of Constantine and Calvin to remind him, the stingy fat man still managed to gather his energy and participate in the ensuing discussion.
Based on the considerations of Calvin and others, they hope that the black ship can go to the nearest assembly point of the Tribunal, or report beyond the level to get in touch with the nearest troops of the Holy Hammer Order.
The latter option has been implemented and is waiting for a reply, while the implementation of the former has caused certain differences with the Mechanic-Priest Constantine.
The priest insisted on waiting outside the nearby sector defense node to wait for the exploration fleet or other units from Mars to come to respond.
Before meeting these people he could trust, he had become frightened and did not trust any local forces.
It seems that the abnormal arrival of Grea's exploration fleet has aroused the high vigilance of the Martian Mechanical Priest with a secret mission.
Several people at the decision-making level, including Calvin, also pushed back on this afterwards, but could not find the place where Constantine's whereabouts were leaked.
Constantine slowly fell silent as he recalled the details of the action one by one.
After all possible details were eliminated one by one, those possibilities that were originally impossible became a reality that no one wanted to face.
Because what they are about to face is the possibility that this operation has been noticed by interested people from the beginning;
Or, there is a more cruel possibility, that is, there are some people inside Mars who have reached some deals with local forces like the Grea Forge World.
The former speculation made everyone worry about whether they could safely return to the Sun Star Territory on the next journey;
And once the latter becomes a reality, it means that all the actions of everyone are betrayed by the big shot far away on Mars, and are displayed to the local forces here in a one-way and transparent way.
The nature of this extremely serious betrayal was extremely bad, and it was impossible for the other party to allow anyone to return to Terra alive to accuse him.
During the next three days of the voyage, the three decision-makers were silently thinking about where to go next.
They knew that no matter which speculation eventually became a reality, they would have little time and opportunity to struggle for survival.
On the fifth day after the Black Ship left the asteroid belt, the orc remnants on the ship had been cleared to the level of a polar region.
The engine room, fuel tank, weapon array, and the most severely damaged ammunition tank have all been confirmed safe after repeated key screening.
Until now, the Black Ship finally had the basic conditions for subspace navigation.
Without the Manzeville point of the galaxy as a gravity bow, the Black Ship that wanted to enter the state of subspace navigation could only rely on its own engine to slowly accelerate. This process takes about 3 days.
And in this seemingly long but actually short time, the choice of the next target of the Black Ship's folding finally caused a fierce conflict among the three decision-makers.
"I don't agree with your plan. In any case, the Order of the Holy Hammer is not the standing armed force of the Inquisition and Mars! Without any agreement, returning to our combat sequence is our top priority! We have participated in your muddy water enough. I don't want the precious power given to me by the Emperor to be damaged in the next trip because of the interests of Mars!" Calvin directly refuted Father Constantine's proposal to wait for Mars to pick up. In the previous deduction, they no longer trusted the reaction of Mars. Calvin even doubted whether the person he faced after jumping out of the warp at the predetermined location according to the agreement was an enemy or a friend. And the priest was the most unable to refute this, he silently insisted on his opinion. But as the real owner of the black ship, Inquisitor Mawei's attitude has inevitably moved closer to Calvin's opinion. In public, Mawei could not accept that any brother unit's power was lost on his ship, let alone the Grey Knights, a precious asset of the entire human race. If these Astartes were really injured because of this private work, even if he could survive in the end, he would not be able to escape internal accountability and cleansing.
Personally, this favor transaction had actually ended after the Valley Operation on the planet Oman.
As the victim and employer, Constantine had no reason to keep Calvin and others, let alone Ma Wei as an intermediary and broker?
But the mission is the mission, whether it is Calvin's mission or Constantine's mission. They are not allowed to retreat at this time.
The meeting ended unhappily in a stalemate atmosphere, and this was the third time these people met in just one day.
The three people on the black ship with different origins, originally had a temporary friendship due to tacit cooperation, and finally collapsed under the interest disputes represented by their different positions.
Black ship time, evening. Calvin, who had completed daily training and armor maintenance, was on his way back to the base. The daily holy ceremony of the squad was waiting for him as the leader to preside over it.
In the silent march, there was nothing but the heavy footsteps of the Terminator itself, like the sound of a bell.
Calvin likes to think in this solitary process, thinking about his own meaning, thinking about the gains and losses of the past.
The communicator beside his ear suddenly rang, and the beeping of the electronic sound broke his thoughts.
The voice of Judge Ma Wei, which was somewhat distorted, came out from the microphone of the device. Calvin was a little uncomfortable with the original polite tone:
"Respected Arbitrator Calvin, please come to the bridge. The priest has a new decision."
The tall Terminator armor in the light gray corridor stopped his heavy steps. After a few seconds of silence, his figure returned to the original path in the puzzled eyes of the mortal crew standing against the wall and preparing to make way, and walked towards the distant bridge with the same heavy steps as when he came.
This time the discussion was initiated by the other party.
And this conversation was also his last expression of patience.
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