Chapter 999: The story of the doctor
"It seems, Commander... Your Excellency, you've investigated me quite a bit," the doctor said.
Zhao Chen did not hide what he had already given the order: "I have collected your genetic information and am investigating your information through the information networks of the three great empires."
"There's no need for such trouble, Commander... If you want to know, I'll just tell you."
A hint of reminiscence appeared in the doctor's left eye, the human-shaped pupil: "Where should I begin?"
...
Let me start from when I was the captain of the Seventh Fleet of the Fourth Expeditionary Force of the Starshine Empire.
Commander of the Seventh Fleet of the Fourth Expeditionary Force of the Star Empire?
Upon hearing these words...
Zhao Chen frowned.
Lilith, who was standing nearby, immediately began to investigate the information.
"Are you an officer of the Starry Empire?" Zhao Chen asked.
“It used to be,” the doctor recalled.
"Then why have you become like this, and why have you done such things to your former motherland!" Zhao Chen questioned.
"The motherland?" The doctor chuckled and shook his head. "That fleet captain who was willing to fight for the motherland died in that battle long ago."
Just then, Lilith patted Zhao Chen on the shoulder from behind, and a video window appeared in front of her.
Opposite them was none other than Marshal Chu Changhe.
"You are... Ge Hui?" Chu Changhe also saw the imprisoned person opposite him, but perhaps because the person was too different from the one in his memory, he could not confirm it.
"Captain Chu, it's been a long time," the doctor said.
Zhao Chen noticed the unusual nature of the title; he did not address Chu Changhe as Marshal, but rather as Captain Chu.
That means their relationship must be unusual.
When Chu Changhe joined the army, he did not take advantage of his family background to immediately assume a high position.
Instead, he climbed the ranks step by step from deputy captain to captain, and his promotion speed was extremely fast!
If Zhao Chen remembered correctly, Chu Changhe had served as the captain of two interstellar warships, a period of about six months.
"Ge Hui? Is it really you?"
You... you've already died in battle!
How could you... have become... like this...?
"Those things... you did them all?" Chu Changhe's face was filled with disbelief.
"right.
"The Starry Empire and the Holy Radiance Empire, I created them all." Ge Hui's lips curled up slightly, as if he were showing off his own creations.
Upon hearing Ge Hui's reply...
Chu Changhe asked in astonishment, "Why? Why did you do this?"
"Why!
This is the choice you made!
"Marshal Chu!" Ge Hui suddenly roared uncontrollably.
This time, his title changed to the cold and aloof Marshal Chu.
Zhao Chen looked at Chu Changhe and asked if there was any story between the two.
Chu Changhe sighed and looked at Ge Hui with a complicated expression: "Ge Hui used to be my adjutant, and he followed me for three months."
Although it was only three months, he left a deep impression on me.
Because he was not of noble birth, had no background, and was just a commoner.
But he was exceptionally talented, and through his own abilities, he became the first mate of a T3 starship before the age of thirty.
Zhao Chen's gaze swept over Ge Hui, who had a self-deprecating smile on his face, as if he, too, had fallen into memories while listening to Chu Changhe's words.
It is extremely difficult for a civilian to become the first officer of a T3 starship before the age of thirty.
Although the Star Empire's military system also provides promotion channels for civilians, military academies such as the Northern Starship Military Academy can also recruit civilians.
However, ordinary people without connections or status need to put in several times the effort to get promoted.
"Later I heard that because of his outstanding performance on the battlefield, he was promoted to the position of fleet commander, who could command three hundred interstellar warships."
Later, in a campaign to conquer the Machine Race's occupied territory in an attempt to recapture a resource point.
The entire expeditionary force was attacked by the machine race and was wiped out.
"Furthermore, due to command errors, some Imperial troops chose to retreat, disregarding their allies fighting on the front lines, resulting in the fall of several star systems that were originally in our hands," Marshal Chu Changhe recalled.
"It's not that we've fallen, it's that you've abandoned us!" Ge Hui suddenly roared angrily.
Zhao Chen sensed something and tentatively asked, "Was it because you were abandoned by the higher-ups on the battlefield?"
"That caused the annihilation of your entire fleet, is that why you hold a grudge?"
Ge Hui said with a sneer, "I am a soldier, and a soldier's duty is to obey orders."
If I and my fleet are abandoned on the battlefield, I have nothing to say.
But...they shouldn't be abandoned!
them?
Zhao Chen grasped the important part of the information.
At this moment, Lilith whispered in Zhao Chen's ear, "I found some information that may be related to this matter."
Mid-July of the Galactic Calendar 2988.
The Starry Empire's Fourth Expeditionary Force suffered nearly 90% losses during its mission!
Among them, the entire force of Seventh Fleet Commander Ge Hui was annihilated.
Hearing this, it was almost identical to what Zhao Chen had just learned.
But Lilith's next words revealed the mystery: "According to the information, Ge Hui's wife also has a newborn child."
Located in the KO1 system, it was overrun by the machine race a day later... and perished.
Zhao Chen's eyes widened as he looked at Chu Changhe in the video window.
"KO1 Galaxy?"
That must be the star system that the higher-ups discovered was not right and directly ordered to be abandoned.
"But... shouldn't all the military families have evacuated by then?" Chu Changhe said in surprise.
"Yes, all military personnel's families have been evacuated."
To be precise, it refers to all noble military families.
Not only were their entire families evacuated, but even their dog was allowed to board the evacuation ship.
But my family, and tens of thousands of military families from civilian backgrounds, were kept outside the evacuation ship.
"Abandoned on that desolate planet, awaiting death!" Ge Hui suddenly sprang up in anger, but the next second his body trembled violently as he crashed into the electromagnetic prison, and then he collapsed to the ground.
Zhao Chen frowned and looked at Chu Changhe.
Chu Changhe's expression was also very unpleasant.
But he didn't say anything, so it seemed that what Ge Hui said was probably true.
After all, there's no need to lie at a time like this.
Ge Hui slumped to the ground, laughing self-deprecatingly, "I was so stupid back then, thinking I was fighting for the Starry Empire."
Even if I sacrifice myself, my family can receive a pension and live a life free from financial worries.
But when I miraculously survived the battlefield and went back to investigate...
But I discovered that my wife and my child had been cruelly abandoned because they were not eligible to board the ship.
It was because the person in charge of that evacuation ship discovered, when he was looking up my wife's information, that her husband was just a civilian officer.
So she wasn't even qualified to board the ship!
Ahead of her, a wealthy woman with her three pet dogs was allowed to board the ship!