The Osiris drove out of the Mycenaean colonial satellite group, turned to its maximum speed, and headed towards the military colonial satellite Nineveh.
The universe is chaotic and dark. The so-called vast stars and gem-like planets are not visible on this route. You can't even take a look at the earth. You can only watch videos.
Li Youde looked at the drowsy darkness, yawned, and looked at his watch. It was time to have lunch.
Seeing Li Youde getting up to leave, Jessica stopped him, took out a cardboard box from somewhere and handed it to him.
"This is it?" Li Youde asked curiously.
"cake."
"cake?"
"Rear Admiral Shepard's cake. Isn't he his favorite cake? Later, when he was not in good health, I didn't give it to him. There was a lot left, and it was almost past the shelf life. You can have this for lunch. After finishing the captain's room There are still quite a few in the refrigerator and the cold storage of the restaurant.”
"Uh... why don't you just share the cake with the one who loves to eat on the ship? It's not a special gift from the captain."
"No, everyone has been eating it for a while and is tired of it."
"Teacher, did he vacate a cake shop when he left Mycenae? You'd better keep this. I don't want to eat it today, I want to eat a hamburger."
"Burger? Good luck."
Li Youde didn't understand the meaning of Jessica's last sentence, so he changed hands and gave Kawaguchi the box of cakes that were about to expire tonight...
"Teacher, it's true that you still eat so many sweets when you are older."
Li Youde muttered all the way to the restaurant, greeting strange faces along the way. It would take some time for him to integrate here.
There were still empty seats in the restaurant. Li Youde scanned the dining tables and did not see the standard burgers in the Star Alliance warship restaurant. He walked over to a bronze-skinned woman who was clearing away the tableware and asked her:
“No burgers?”
When he said these words, the entire restaurant fell silent. Almost everyone looked at Li Youde. Before Li Youde noticed anything strange, he saw the bronze-skinned woman turn around and show Li Youde her beautiful face, but this one The expression on his face at this moment is enough to intimidate any man.
"What, what's wrong?" Li Youde felt inexplicably that he had done something wrong.
"No Sakura" Fiona, the cook, replied coldly.
"Is it sold out? If you have the ingredients, can you make one for me? I love hamburgers the most, thank you."
"No, there is no Sakura"
"Um...is there any?"
"There are no cherry blossoms"
"What's next?"
“No cherry blossoms”
"...Does this ship ever sell burgers?"
Fiona put her hands on her hips: "Since I got on the ship, there have been no burgers."
For some reason, a drop of sweat flowed down Li Youde's forehead. He originally thought that the woman's bad attitude towards him was because she didn't like him as the new captain, but after the exchange, it seemed that it was for other reasons.
"That...that...ahem, although I feel like I'm exercising my privilege, my favorite thing to eat is burgers, and the restaurants on the Star Alliance warships all have burgers. Can I add hamburgers to the broadcast in the future? This is not a requirement. Share it? Please."
Li Youde's low profile did not get any compromise from Fiona. Fiona took a step forward and said solemnly: "The Osiris is not a Star Mei battleship, right? Besides, hamburgers are the least nutritious of all foods. I I’ll get you a green salad.”
"Huh? No, how did you come to this conclusion? Hamburgers are not very nutritious, but Xingmei burgers are specially made for soldiers, so the Osiris should also have them."
"My ex-boyfriend, a Covenant sergeant, died after eating a burger."
"???Wait a minute, this is too exaggerated, he died in battle, right? You can't stop everyone from eating hamburgers because of this kind of prejudice!"
"No one knows burgers better than me. You, eat the salad, or digest the cake left by the former captain."
Fiona stopped talking nonsense, made a bowl of vegetable salad and handed it to Li Youde, telling (threatening?): "You must eat it thoroughly."
"this…"
Li Youde took the salad and felt particularly aggrieved. After all, he is also a seven-foot man, a hot-blooded soldier, and a captain. Now he was being pinned down by a cook and could hardly lift his head. He wanted to resist, but as soon as he raised his head, Fiona stared back with fierce eyes.
"Just wait, I will definitely have burgers on this ship..."
Li Youde was too embarrassed to stay in the restaurant to eat, and ran away with the salad between his legs like a defeated wolf. Now let him choose and he will choose cake.
Seeing Fiona turn around and enter the kitchen, everyone in the restaurant breathed a sigh of relief. Miao Haosi lowered his voice: "The new captain was the first to take office, but Fiona made him autistic."
Li Si took over the conversation: "No, she's not the head chef. Before, she forcibly crossed out the hamburgers in the restaurant. Both Bart and Old Jack argued with her several times, but she was defeated every time."
"Don't mention it..." Bart touched his neck, as if recalling this matter was more painful than the war.
"I used to know Fiona, and she wasn't like this before. Her ex-boyfriend loved to eat hamburgers, and she could only complain and give some advice, but she became like this after her boyfriend died. Maybe she wanted to compensate for something in her heart... "
As soon as Old Jack said this, everyone nodded as if they understood.
"No one knows this shit better than me."
Old Jack inexplicably played the air accordion with his hands, and no one knew what he meant.
…
The Osiris sailed calmly for two days and could already see the outer satellites of the colonial satellite city-state Nineveh. As an independent city-state based on industry, the people of Nineveh seem to value efficiency more than beauty. No matter what the function of the satellite is, the outer walls are all iron red like rust. This style is believed to be caused by British workers in the 18th century being responsible for the decoration.
"We will enter the capital of Nineveh in a while. This is just as planned. Two more people will come, one more will be traded, and two more will be returned. My first mission as captain can be successfully completed. "
"You can't say that." Lieutenant Anton reminded Li Youde: "Nineveh is also doing HER business. If we encounter HER's warships, we will be in trouble."
"Yeah, but Nineveh has been in the arms business for so long and there has never been any trouble. There shouldn't be any problems on our trip."
"That's right, hahahaha."
Jessica didn't want them to make a flag anymore, so she interrupted their conversation.
"Nineveh has allowed us to dock, and there will be someone dedicated to guide us."
"As expected of a commercial satellite, it's really thoughtful. Can we just leave the negotiation to the negotiating team who are on board this time?" Li Youde asked.
"That's right, we soldiers can just protect this ship."
"However, it is a rare opportunity for me to leave Mycenae, so I still want to visit the city with the negotiating team."
Li Youde patted his butt and stood up. Both Jessica and Anton pretended not to see the purchase list of burger making materials peeking out of his trouser pocket.
"Okay Captain, I'll keep an eye on the Osiris while you're gone."
"Please, Lieutenant Anton!"
Nineveh was conducting transactions with multiple forces at the same time, so there was a certain risk. For this reason, they divided the capital's commercial district into multiple areas. If you are a HER person, you can only move in a certain area, and the warships are parked at the port in this area; if you are a star charmer, you have to park your ships and activities in another area. This avoided the outbreak of conflict as much as possible, although everyone knew that an enemy ship was docked at a certain port on this satellite. But then again, as long as you are willing, it is not difficult to deceive the security of Nineveh and sneak into other areas, so you cannot let down your vigilance.
Li Youde did not disembark in military uniform. This was done to avoid conflicts and not cause tension among the residents of this satellite. He painstakingly tied on his tie, straightened his suit, and looked at his shopping list again.
"If you buy it separately, you will probably have to go to several places, and some places are not allowed to go. If you go directly to a fast food restaurant, you can buy it all at once, but only private restaurants will sell the ingredients...ah, really, I just became a captain not long ago. I’m so worried about the burger, but I really want to eat it!”
In this way, Li Youde, a foodie, got into Mycenae's carefully selected negotiation team. As soon as he left the port, he started to act alone and asked the locals about a good private fast food restaurant.
Not far away, Li Youde, who looked like a business elite, walked into this fast food restaurant that was not very clean. The boss could tell at a glance that he was a soldier and asked in an attitude that was neither enthusiastic nor cold: "What do you want to eat?"
Li Youde took out the list and asked, "Do you sell these things?"
The boss took the order, looked at it, and asked, "Sell it, but you only want to buy this? I can help you get more, enough for one ship."
"No, thank you. Please prepare it if you have any. Also, I want to have a hamburger set here."
The boss shrugged, handed the set meal to Youde, and went to the kitchen to prepare the items on the list. Li Youde took a bite of the burger with satisfaction. After the aroma of meat and sauce filled his mouth, he began to look at the other guests in the restaurant.
It's not lunch time, but one-third of the seats in the restaurant are full. Some people look like local workers. They may have skipped work to sit and chat together. There are also a pair of people with suspicious identities like Youde. , sitting on the other side of the same bar as Youde.
They are a man and a woman. The man is tall and looks like a soldier. His skin color looks like Indian. He wears sunglasses and a suit. Ever since Youde walked in, he has been watching him warily.
The woman has curly curly blond hair, wears sunglasses and a hat with a long brim. She looks like a lady from the clothes on. Of course, if there is really a lady who likes to have afternoon tea in this dirty fast food restaurant.
If these two people are disguising their identities, then this is too high-profile, although Youde himself is not qualified to criticize them. With strange people around, he didn't want to stay long. He just wanted to finish the burger and leave with the ingredients.
Li Youde did not know that these men and women were Major Vega and Staff Sergeant Singer, captains of the HER battleship "Leon" that had previously participated in the Battle of Mycenae. They came to Nineveh for supplies. Qiao Zhuang sneaked into an area where non-HER soldiers were allowed to move, hoping to get information about other forces and secretly date them.
Li Youde's strangeness caught their attention, but they didn't know that Li Youde was the new captain of the Osiris, and they just regarded him as a Covenant soldier who escaped from the ship.
"Do you want me to inquire?" Singer asked. His inquiry was to find out the sailing time of the Covenant ships. Once they knew this information, they could lay an ambush nearby. This kind of thing happened frequently in the early stages of the war, and for a time ships from other forces did not dare to dock at neutral satellites.
"It's not that easy. In my opinion, it's better to send out spy drones and find out the location of the port, the name of the ship, and the sailing time. You can get it by bribing the port staff in Nineveh."
Singer nodded in agreement, so they followed Li Youde out after he left holding the big box. Seeing Youde getting into the car, Weijia took out a foundation box. When he opened it, there was a mechanical dragonfly inside, which followed the car where Li Youde was sitting and flew away.
