the days before i bought the galaxy
Chapter 37 Assassination
The annual Business Awards ceremony is one of Bethel's most important events.
Each year six people are awarded this honor.Since the Business Awards honor individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the Bethel business community, the recipients are not limited to the Chamber President.Many outstanding scientists and economists have also stood on this podium.The most special one is the famous physicist Kechar who invented the fluid platform at the age of 92. It was his invention that finally allowed Bethel to gain a place in the top technology field. Since then, various fluid platforms have become Bethel. One of Searle's most popular "specialties".
As in previous years, this year's award ceremony was still held in Star Garden, one of Bethel's most famous tourist attractions.The garden sits in the middle of Bethel's second largest freshwater lake and consists of [-] suspended fluid platforms of various sizes.Each fluid platform is moving all the time, and this movement is not only in the horizontal direction, they even rise and fall.These "garden fragments" supported by invisible hands are like a starry sky in motion, which is where the name Starry Sky Garden comes from.
There will be a waterfall on each fluid platform, and the water will fall straight into the lake, which is so beautiful that it does not seem like a human scene.To navigate the garden, one has to move from one platform to the other while the two platforms are briefly joined together.Interestingly, regardless of the choice, visitors can reach one of the two central platforms within an hour and return to the outermost part of the garden within three hours.
There are also air scooters available for rental on each platform.Thanks to this fully automatic vehicle for two people, visitors can leave the garden anytime and anywhere.
The two platforms in the center of the Starry Sky Garden meet every half hour, forming a pattern like a yin-yang fish.Tonight's awards ceremony will be held on one of them.The entire platform is decorated with white lilies that symbolize Bethel.There are dining tables and small round tables under the white tents.Well-dressed guests shuttled among them, chatting and greeting each other with wine glasses.
Warren was standing at a dining table chatting with Odin.Millet went to the bathroom for a touch-up of her makeup, which was more beautiful than ever tonight, and she planned to announce her engagement to Warren before the first dance.
"Did you change your decorative flower?" Warren frowned suddenly.He clearly remembered that Odin had placed a white rose before.
"Did you say this?" Odin took out a pale pink lily from his shirt pocket and smiled, "This is a small gift someone gave me. It can eat other plants and become a swallowed lily." The way the plants look when they get down. I didn't notice at first that it works just as well on the cut flowers."
Odin glanced around, and then placed the lily in his hand on a bunch of table flowers as if by magic.In an instant, the bouquet that was originally placed in the vase disappeared, while Odin was holding a bouquet of exactly the same flowers in his hands.
"Look, although they look the same, they are actually connected at the bottom. I guess it can't divide itself into several parts." Odin showed Warren the end of the bouquet. The thin green lines like wires connect all the flowers. The flowers are all connected together.In order to avoid being discovered by others, he immediately "turned" the whole bouquet into a red rose and put it back in his shirt pocket.
"That's interesting." Warren's eyes lit up.He touched the petals of the red rose, and felt that it was no different from a real red rose.
"Warren, someone over there has been watching you." Odin said in a low voice.
"Oh, that's Jacques Ruddick." Warren glanced at the direction Odin was pointing at and shrugged. "He probably wants to cause me some trouble in the end."
"It's a pity that Lan isn't here." Odin looked rather regretful.
Because the robot could not attend the awards ceremony, Lan was left in the hotel to take care of Feret who had not fully recovered tonight.Of course, to deal with a provocative natural person with no combat experience, Odin thinks that he alone is enough.
"No, he doesn't dare to do anything to me, at most it's just a few verbal threats. Don't forget, the administrator will be there tonight." Warren smiled, and asked in a low voice, "Do you think he's right about M. How much does Lite know about the secret about me?"
"He may not know anything, otherwise he should at least sound out your words first, instead of directly threatening you to let you go." Odin analyzed, "But if the secret is really priceless, maybe he pursues it. Millet is also for this wealth, but he has not yet been able to connect this matter with you."
"That makes sense." Warren nodded, looking in Jacques Rudick's direction thoughtfully.
After leaving the Lesley Chamber of Commerce that day, he immediately used the superluminal communication equipment to notify the subordinates who stayed in the Red Capital, asking them to investigate the area around the Red Capital and look for secrets that might be hidden there. Unfortunately, there has been no news so far. came.Whatever it was that Millet wanted, it must be hard to find.
The voice of the host finally sounded in the venue, reminding the participants that the awards ceremony was about to begin.The list of winners tonight is no secret, all winners have been notified in advance by the Administrator.As the host called Warren's name, he walked onto the podium with a relaxed expression.Compared with other winners, his mood is calmer.He knows this is just the beginning, and the challenges ahead will follow.
A few minutes later, Administrator Henry Wickham personally awarded Warren the Silver Lily Medal representing the annual business award.
"Thank you for your contribution to Bethel's business circle. This is the reward you deserve." The administrator smiled sincerely. "Congratulations on your engagement to Millet."
"Thank you, Henry! May I have the honor of visiting you privately again?" Warren asked in a voice only the two of them could hear.
"Of course, I have some free time the evening after tomorrow." The administrator gave Warren a hug.
Warren knew he was halfway there.As long as he can establish a close relationship with the administrator, even if he and Mirit part ways in the future, he can continue to develop in the Bethel business circle.
After accepting the medal, Warren and several other winners took a photo with the administrator, and then chatted with each other on the stage before walking off the awarding platform.
The rest of the time, until the beginning of the dance, Warren stood with Millet.He went on to accept the compliments of many strangers, with a proper display of self-satisfaction due to a young man who had just won an honor.
Warren found that Odin was more at home in this situation than he was.Far from making natural people keep Odin at arm's length, being half-human has become part of his charm, attracting groups of guests to talk to him.Warren had no doubts that his lieutenants were skillfully obtaining the intelligence they needed to gain a foothold in Bethel.
"Honey, it's time to announce." Millet looked at her watch and reminded.
Warren nodded and told the waiter politely that he needed a little light.Soon, as a beam of white light shone on him and Mirit, everyone's eyes also focused.
"Ladies and gentlemen, as one of tonight's honorees, I have something very important to announce, that is, Miss Millet Leslie and I have officially..."
Just as Warren said the word "engagement", a gunshot suddenly rang out in the venue!
A familiar figure stood in front of him and fell down.
Warren's heart sank suddenly.
It's Odin!
Seeing his adjutant lying face down on the ground, he rushed over and tried to lift him up.
"Odin, how are you?" Warren felt that he had never been so anxious.
Since Odin covered his chest, he couldn't see how Odin's injury was.There was no blood around the wound, and Warren guessed it might have been an extremely small-caliber weapon.Considering that most of these weapons have the nature of biological and chemical weapons, he couldn't help but feel even more worried.
"Shh - he missed me," Odin whispered.
"What's going on?" Warren blocked the others' view with his body.
Millet wanted to go there, but was stopped by a circle of robot guards.To prevent further shooting, robot guards formed a human wall around Warren and Odin.
"I have long felt that there is a killer hidden in the venue, but I have no way of knowing his exact location. I think if he wants to attack, he will definitely do it while you announce the news, so I just walked here to block the bullets. direction." Odin explained in a low voice.
"Are you looking for death? You could have informed me first! If he hadn't missed, you would be a corpse now!" Warren said in a low voice, he was angry at Odin's boldness.
"No, no, no, I'm not looking for death, I wear a protective shield." Odin smiled.
"How is it possible?!" Warren's eyes widened.He remembered that everyone who attended the award ceremony had to be scanned to prevent anyone from entering with a weapon.
"It's a modified disposable protective shield. A killer can come in with a miniature pistol, and of course I can sneak through security with a protective shield. I'm always used to being prepared! Take it easy, Warren. Although the bullets It failed to penetrate the protective shield, but the impact was not small, and now my chest is still hurting!" Odin gritted his teeth.
"Okay, let's get out of here first, and let Lan scan it for you when we go back. If that idiot from the Rudick family did it, he'd better pray that the administrator doesn't kill him now. At the annual award ceremony It’s thanks to him that he can figure out how to assassinate the winner at the ceremony!” Warren helped Odin up, shouted that he would take Odin to receive treatment, and left the venue smoothly under the guidance of the robot guards.
He didn't care whether the news of the engagement was announced, anyway, the whole of Bethel would soon know that the adjutant of the Slim family was assassinated and seriously injured when the president announced the marriage with the Leslie family.
Fifteen minutes later, when Warren and Odin returned to their hotel room, Mirit called and told Warren that order had been restored.
"They didn't catch the killer," Warren said, putting down the phone, frowning.
"I guessed it." Odin sneered, Lan had already checked his body, except for a small bruise on his chest, he was not injured in any way. "I suspect that the killer was a pirate."
Warren was taken aback. He had never heard of any connection between the Ruddick family and space pirates.Is this Jacques Ruddick jumping over the wall in a hurry and spending a lot of money to buy off the pirates, or is he simply willing to degenerate to the point of becoming a pirate's eyeliner?No matter what the situation is, if Odin's judgment is correct, he must remain vigilant for 24 hours before eradicating the Yaker Chamber of Commerce.
"Can you prove that the killer is a space pirate?" Warren asked.The federal sanctions against collusion with pirates are quite severe. If this is confirmed, not only Jacques Rudick may face life imprisonment, but even the Ruddick family will be implicated.
Odin shook his head: "It's just a feeling, I can't explain it clearly. In short, try to be careful and don't go out easily. As long as we enter space, the chance of the other party attacking us is very small."
"I see. Blue, you sleep with me tonight. Good night, Odin." Warren walked out of the room with Blue.
Odin thought for a moment.He was sure that the killer's behavior pattern seemed familiar, and the other party was probably a half-human like him.
Which pirate will it be?
He took out the plant that turned into a red rose from the pocket of his suit on the back of the chair, and placed it casually on the bed.A small piece fell to the ground with this movement.
is a bullet.
Odin was taken aback.He held the plant up to his eyes, and found that the calyx had been pierced in half, just enough to catch the small-caliber bullet. It seemed that the plant blocked the bullet and failed to penetrate the skin.He couldn't help but be amazed at how resilient the plant was.
He tried to tear off a petal, but found that he couldn't tear it off.But it is very easy to get bent and deformed, but no matter how twisted it is, it will quickly return to its original shape.
That is to say, this is an indivisible whole?
Odin thought for a while, and brought in a pot of green leafy plants from the window sill as a "night snack" for that strange plant.Soon, his plants looked new again, without any signs of being hit by bullets.
Let's study again when you have time!Now just dealing with pirate-born killers is enough to cause headaches.
Odin walked over to the cradle, leaned over and kissed his adopted son, adjusted the baby cradle to rocking mode, and lay down on the bed.
Each year six people are awarded this honor.Since the Business Awards honor individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the Bethel business community, the recipients are not limited to the Chamber President.Many outstanding scientists and economists have also stood on this podium.The most special one is the famous physicist Kechar who invented the fluid platform at the age of 92. It was his invention that finally allowed Bethel to gain a place in the top technology field. Since then, various fluid platforms have become Bethel. One of Searle's most popular "specialties".
As in previous years, this year's award ceremony was still held in Star Garden, one of Bethel's most famous tourist attractions.The garden sits in the middle of Bethel's second largest freshwater lake and consists of [-] suspended fluid platforms of various sizes.Each fluid platform is moving all the time, and this movement is not only in the horizontal direction, they even rise and fall.These "garden fragments" supported by invisible hands are like a starry sky in motion, which is where the name Starry Sky Garden comes from.
There will be a waterfall on each fluid platform, and the water will fall straight into the lake, which is so beautiful that it does not seem like a human scene.To navigate the garden, one has to move from one platform to the other while the two platforms are briefly joined together.Interestingly, regardless of the choice, visitors can reach one of the two central platforms within an hour and return to the outermost part of the garden within three hours.
There are also air scooters available for rental on each platform.Thanks to this fully automatic vehicle for two people, visitors can leave the garden anytime and anywhere.
The two platforms in the center of the Starry Sky Garden meet every half hour, forming a pattern like a yin-yang fish.Tonight's awards ceremony will be held on one of them.The entire platform is decorated with white lilies that symbolize Bethel.There are dining tables and small round tables under the white tents.Well-dressed guests shuttled among them, chatting and greeting each other with wine glasses.
Warren was standing at a dining table chatting with Odin.Millet went to the bathroom for a touch-up of her makeup, which was more beautiful than ever tonight, and she planned to announce her engagement to Warren before the first dance.
"Did you change your decorative flower?" Warren frowned suddenly.He clearly remembered that Odin had placed a white rose before.
"Did you say this?" Odin took out a pale pink lily from his shirt pocket and smiled, "This is a small gift someone gave me. It can eat other plants and become a swallowed lily." The way the plants look when they get down. I didn't notice at first that it works just as well on the cut flowers."
Odin glanced around, and then placed the lily in his hand on a bunch of table flowers as if by magic.In an instant, the bouquet that was originally placed in the vase disappeared, while Odin was holding a bouquet of exactly the same flowers in his hands.
"Look, although they look the same, they are actually connected at the bottom. I guess it can't divide itself into several parts." Odin showed Warren the end of the bouquet. The thin green lines like wires connect all the flowers. The flowers are all connected together.In order to avoid being discovered by others, he immediately "turned" the whole bouquet into a red rose and put it back in his shirt pocket.
"That's interesting." Warren's eyes lit up.He touched the petals of the red rose, and felt that it was no different from a real red rose.
"Warren, someone over there has been watching you." Odin said in a low voice.
"Oh, that's Jacques Ruddick." Warren glanced at the direction Odin was pointing at and shrugged. "He probably wants to cause me some trouble in the end."
"It's a pity that Lan isn't here." Odin looked rather regretful.
Because the robot could not attend the awards ceremony, Lan was left in the hotel to take care of Feret who had not fully recovered tonight.Of course, to deal with a provocative natural person with no combat experience, Odin thinks that he alone is enough.
"No, he doesn't dare to do anything to me, at most it's just a few verbal threats. Don't forget, the administrator will be there tonight." Warren smiled, and asked in a low voice, "Do you think he's right about M. How much does Lite know about the secret about me?"
"He may not know anything, otherwise he should at least sound out your words first, instead of directly threatening you to let you go." Odin analyzed, "But if the secret is really priceless, maybe he pursues it. Millet is also for this wealth, but he has not yet been able to connect this matter with you."
"That makes sense." Warren nodded, looking in Jacques Rudick's direction thoughtfully.
After leaving the Lesley Chamber of Commerce that day, he immediately used the superluminal communication equipment to notify the subordinates who stayed in the Red Capital, asking them to investigate the area around the Red Capital and look for secrets that might be hidden there. Unfortunately, there has been no news so far. came.Whatever it was that Millet wanted, it must be hard to find.
The voice of the host finally sounded in the venue, reminding the participants that the awards ceremony was about to begin.The list of winners tonight is no secret, all winners have been notified in advance by the Administrator.As the host called Warren's name, he walked onto the podium with a relaxed expression.Compared with other winners, his mood is calmer.He knows this is just the beginning, and the challenges ahead will follow.
A few minutes later, Administrator Henry Wickham personally awarded Warren the Silver Lily Medal representing the annual business award.
"Thank you for your contribution to Bethel's business circle. This is the reward you deserve." The administrator smiled sincerely. "Congratulations on your engagement to Millet."
"Thank you, Henry! May I have the honor of visiting you privately again?" Warren asked in a voice only the two of them could hear.
"Of course, I have some free time the evening after tomorrow." The administrator gave Warren a hug.
Warren knew he was halfway there.As long as he can establish a close relationship with the administrator, even if he and Mirit part ways in the future, he can continue to develop in the Bethel business circle.
After accepting the medal, Warren and several other winners took a photo with the administrator, and then chatted with each other on the stage before walking off the awarding platform.
The rest of the time, until the beginning of the dance, Warren stood with Millet.He went on to accept the compliments of many strangers, with a proper display of self-satisfaction due to a young man who had just won an honor.
Warren found that Odin was more at home in this situation than he was.Far from making natural people keep Odin at arm's length, being half-human has become part of his charm, attracting groups of guests to talk to him.Warren had no doubts that his lieutenants were skillfully obtaining the intelligence they needed to gain a foothold in Bethel.
"Honey, it's time to announce." Millet looked at her watch and reminded.
Warren nodded and told the waiter politely that he needed a little light.Soon, as a beam of white light shone on him and Mirit, everyone's eyes also focused.
"Ladies and gentlemen, as one of tonight's honorees, I have something very important to announce, that is, Miss Millet Leslie and I have officially..."
Just as Warren said the word "engagement", a gunshot suddenly rang out in the venue!
A familiar figure stood in front of him and fell down.
Warren's heart sank suddenly.
It's Odin!
Seeing his adjutant lying face down on the ground, he rushed over and tried to lift him up.
"Odin, how are you?" Warren felt that he had never been so anxious.
Since Odin covered his chest, he couldn't see how Odin's injury was.There was no blood around the wound, and Warren guessed it might have been an extremely small-caliber weapon.Considering that most of these weapons have the nature of biological and chemical weapons, he couldn't help but feel even more worried.
"Shh - he missed me," Odin whispered.
"What's going on?" Warren blocked the others' view with his body.
Millet wanted to go there, but was stopped by a circle of robot guards.To prevent further shooting, robot guards formed a human wall around Warren and Odin.
"I have long felt that there is a killer hidden in the venue, but I have no way of knowing his exact location. I think if he wants to attack, he will definitely do it while you announce the news, so I just walked here to block the bullets. direction." Odin explained in a low voice.
"Are you looking for death? You could have informed me first! If he hadn't missed, you would be a corpse now!" Warren said in a low voice, he was angry at Odin's boldness.
"No, no, no, I'm not looking for death, I wear a protective shield." Odin smiled.
"How is it possible?!" Warren's eyes widened.He remembered that everyone who attended the award ceremony had to be scanned to prevent anyone from entering with a weapon.
"It's a modified disposable protective shield. A killer can come in with a miniature pistol, and of course I can sneak through security with a protective shield. I'm always used to being prepared! Take it easy, Warren. Although the bullets It failed to penetrate the protective shield, but the impact was not small, and now my chest is still hurting!" Odin gritted his teeth.
"Okay, let's get out of here first, and let Lan scan it for you when we go back. If that idiot from the Rudick family did it, he'd better pray that the administrator doesn't kill him now. At the annual award ceremony It’s thanks to him that he can figure out how to assassinate the winner at the ceremony!” Warren helped Odin up, shouted that he would take Odin to receive treatment, and left the venue smoothly under the guidance of the robot guards.
He didn't care whether the news of the engagement was announced, anyway, the whole of Bethel would soon know that the adjutant of the Slim family was assassinated and seriously injured when the president announced the marriage with the Leslie family.
Fifteen minutes later, when Warren and Odin returned to their hotel room, Mirit called and told Warren that order had been restored.
"They didn't catch the killer," Warren said, putting down the phone, frowning.
"I guessed it." Odin sneered, Lan had already checked his body, except for a small bruise on his chest, he was not injured in any way. "I suspect that the killer was a pirate."
Warren was taken aback. He had never heard of any connection between the Ruddick family and space pirates.Is this Jacques Ruddick jumping over the wall in a hurry and spending a lot of money to buy off the pirates, or is he simply willing to degenerate to the point of becoming a pirate's eyeliner?No matter what the situation is, if Odin's judgment is correct, he must remain vigilant for 24 hours before eradicating the Yaker Chamber of Commerce.
"Can you prove that the killer is a space pirate?" Warren asked.The federal sanctions against collusion with pirates are quite severe. If this is confirmed, not only Jacques Rudick may face life imprisonment, but even the Ruddick family will be implicated.
Odin shook his head: "It's just a feeling, I can't explain it clearly. In short, try to be careful and don't go out easily. As long as we enter space, the chance of the other party attacking us is very small."
"I see. Blue, you sleep with me tonight. Good night, Odin." Warren walked out of the room with Blue.
Odin thought for a moment.He was sure that the killer's behavior pattern seemed familiar, and the other party was probably a half-human like him.
Which pirate will it be?
He took out the plant that turned into a red rose from the pocket of his suit on the back of the chair, and placed it casually on the bed.A small piece fell to the ground with this movement.
is a bullet.
Odin was taken aback.He held the plant up to his eyes, and found that the calyx had been pierced in half, just enough to catch the small-caliber bullet. It seemed that the plant blocked the bullet and failed to penetrate the skin.He couldn't help but be amazed at how resilient the plant was.
He tried to tear off a petal, but found that he couldn't tear it off.But it is very easy to get bent and deformed, but no matter how twisted it is, it will quickly return to its original shape.
That is to say, this is an indivisible whole?
Odin thought for a while, and brought in a pot of green leafy plants from the window sill as a "night snack" for that strange plant.Soon, his plants looked new again, without any signs of being hit by bullets.
Let's study again when you have time!Now just dealing with pirate-born killers is enough to cause headaches.
Odin walked over to the cradle, leaned over and kissed his adopted son, adjusted the baby cradle to rocking mode, and lay down on the bed.
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