Immortal from the villains of Gundam Seed

Chapter 75

"Lieutenant Colonel, have all the cargo been delivered safely to the ship?"

Rhodes, who had already retreated before the satellite collapsed, stayed on a spaceship that was many times safer than the escape cabin of the shelter.

Quietly looking at the escape pods swarming out of the ship like a swarm and ejecting frantically, he asked the lieutenant colonel on the phone.

"Your Excellency, please rest assured that all the goods have been safely delivered to the spaceship."

As always, the lieutenant colonel, who can make people feel at ease just by hearing the voice, replied calmly.

Then he asked again. "Do you need to let the hidden fleet attack to rescue the refugees?"

"No, it will be difficult to explain to let the fleet come out now."

Rhodes looked out of the window and suddenly paused, then continued.

"Let the fleet calculate the time to appear almost before the fleets from United, Orb, or PLANT arrive."

"Otherwise, the coordinators will find an excuse in time, and if they give them the opportunity to pour dirty water on us, all previous efforts will be wasted."

"Understood." Upon hearing the reply, Lieutenant Colonel Kane was silent for a moment, then hung up the phone.

Rhodes didn't care about the lieutenant colonel's silence just now.

Because he should have seen the scene he just saw.

Through the glass while speaking, Rhodes saw some unfortunate guys.

There is one biggest difference between space satellite cities and cities in the earth circle, that is the atmosphere and indestructible land.

If there is a disaster on the earth and you don't have time to enter a safe haven, then if you are lucky enough, you may survive.

But there is absolutely no such opportunity in the universe.

The vacuum environment will instantly make you lose your life and turn into a dead body.

And hiding in a shelter doesn't mean you can sit back and relax.

The impact of the collapse of the satellite is a disaster that people who have not seen it with their own eyes cannot imagine.

The explosions that randomly appear around you anytime, anywhere will directly engulf you.

All kinds of broken fragments of the artificial earth, under the acceleration of kinetic energy, will be like whistling meteorites, bringing people into hell.

All kinds of dangers that humans living on the earth can't imagine will challenge your heart like a blind box that can only open disasters.

Even if you have survived all these crises, the long wait and the unknown future, the despair of losing all your wealth and not knowing where you are going will continue to torment your heart.

Because of these mentally disturbed fellows in the escape pod, maybe they will drag everyone directly into the darkness before the dawn.

Knowing all this, Rhode silently put away his phone and looked out the window silently.

Immediately he was ready to make the best use of everything, and finally he was trying to create a wave of cohesion among natural people.

But before he started to take action, the door of the lounge was violently pushed open by Kajiali.

Looking at the automatic door that was forced open, Rhodes raised his eyebrows and secretly told the girl that she was unexpectedly strong.

"Rods, the satellite is really destroyed, how dare ZAFT and the others! How dare they do this!"

Angry and full of tears in her eyes, she has lived in a superior environment since she was a child, although she is not a delicate girl herself.

But seeing such a miserable situation for the first time, Cagalli unconsciously regarded Rhodes, the guy with the title of fiance, as the closest person, so she came to talk to her.

He waved his hand to let the guards following the door go away, and watched as the door closed. Rhodes came over and held Cagalli's trembling hand because of anger and panic.

He gently hugged her into his arms and patted her shoulders gently.

After thinking for a while, Rhodes planned to talk about the friendship between countries, although it cost too much for this girl to understand.

But thinking that she will become the leader of this country in the future, Rhodes said in order to see a Kagali different from the original world line.

"Because PLANT is better than Aubu. People in this world don't want to hit you because they don't dare, but because they don't want to hit you because they are in a good mood today."

"Think about it, if Orb has enough power to destroy PLANT, would ZAFT dare to do what happened today without any scruples?"

Unconsciously wetting Rhode's chest with tears, she buried her head in Rhode's arms and listened to his words, while Cagalli spoke sullenly.

"Don't say that Aub is weak! It's all because my father didn't speak out to stop him, otherwise ZAFT would definitely retreat, why didn't he speak."

Patting her on the shoulder, listening to her jumping speech, Rhodes said quietly.

"Probably there are many reasons, but I think the biggest possibility is not to dare, so is Orb's lion also old?"

It's just that he felt a pain in his shoulder as soon as he finished speaking.

Looking sideways, he found that Kajiali was really biting his shoulder like the lioness he jokingly called, and there was still a trace of hatred in her eyes.

As for whom this hatred is aimed at, Rhodes thinks it may be everything.

"Reason?" As if no one had bitten him, Rhodes asked lightly as he watched the oozing blood start to stain his clothes.

"You know it, right from the beginning? Then why didn't you make preparations early!"

"With your ability, you can definitely prevent such a thing from happening, right? Then why did you choose to watch silently like your father!"

Kagali is only impulsive and has experienced relatively few things, but she is not a fool.

And with her status and status, even if she couldn't think of it for a while, there would be someone reminding her.

During the time she was away from Rhodes, those around her who were loyal to the Ashar family or had other thoughts.

More or less, they have already said a little doubt about Rhodes himself.

Then she analyzed it herself, although she was indeed the one who called Rhodes over.

But Rhodes obviously didn't know the slightest bit about what might happen.

So, what kind of role does he play in this?
"How do you want me to stop it, with a whole united fleet, like a knight rescuing a princess from a dragon?"

Rhodes put his forehead on Cagalli's head, and the exhalations of both sides could be heard, and Cagalli quietly let go of her clenched mouth with a blushing face.

"Why do you think your father doesn't speak? A neutral country means that the two will not help each other, and at the same time, no one will help if something goes wrong."

"Whether it's United or PLANT, everyone is happy to see Orb disappear."

Rhodes uttered earth-shattering words.

"What did you say? But isn't Orb helping to jointly develop MS!"

Unknowingly, Kajiali, who had already sat on her buttocks, stared at Rhodes in disbelief with her big eyes.

"Why not develop it locally in Orb?"

The step-by-step guidance made Kajiali follow her own thoughts and associations. Sometimes what she said was not as good as what she made up, and Rhodes finally began to figure it out.

"For secrecy!"

She blurted it out and then thought about it, this is wrong, isn't it more convenient and safe to keep secret in China?
"Why did ZAFT seize the opportunity to snatch the newly developed new machine at the moment of transshipment so coincidentally?"

Staring at her expression, Rhodes continued to strike the soul.

"Here, you leaked the secret!"

Cagalli, who had been completely misled by Rhodes, stubbornly pushed all of this to the faction that Rhodes belonged to.

Because she didn't want to believe the not-so-good guess in her heart.

"That's the body that was developed for us."

Although it was Azrael, the guy who killed a thousand swords and competed with his brother for the chairman of the Blue Cosmos, Rhodes would not admit it.

So a seemingly unassailable reason was thrown out.

Unable to refute, according to common sense, it is indeed the case, and Cagalli went deep into deep doubts.

Where exactly is the problem?
While shouting that Orb is a neutral country, he is secretly developing MS for the United.

But it puts the development site on ZAFT's most powerful universe, which...

She couldn't understand her father's thoughts, combined with the attack on the satellite, there was no response from the Orb capital for such a long time.

Gradually, her view of her father began to change.

Rhodes spoke at the right time.

"You are his only daughter, anyone can doubt him, but you can't."

Specially emphasized that Cagalli is the only daughter, Rhodes of course meant something, and then he continued.

"In today's situation, if you want to maintain neutrality, you need enough force to protect yourself. I think your father accepted the joint MS development project for the purpose of wooing because of this idea."

"And putting the project in the universe may also be to show goodwill to PLANT, showing that I have no intention of being their enemy."

"But Uzmi's approach was wrong from the very beginning. If you want to please both parties and take advantage of it, you will only offend both parties."

"Is that so?" Kagali, whose mind was getting more and more confused, said uncertainly.

"When the boss fights with the second child, the third child will die first. Kajiali remembers the citizens who died outside, and then she will never forget today's scene."

"It's always better to choose than not to choose! Staying out is only when you need help, and no one will come to help you, because those who might help you have all fallen while you stand by!"

In the end, Rhodes lowered his voice in her ear, and said with a hint of psychological tone.

"Aub's future is in your hands. When you can make a decision one day in the future, think about today and make the right choice."

"The right choice?"

The voice slowly fell, and there were several emotional ups and downs. She wanted to argue with Rhodes and fell asleep like this.

And when she woke up from her sleep, Rhodes had already left quietly.

Looking indifferently at the familiar clothes covering her body, Kagalli put them away with flickering eyes.

"Outside?"

Just as she was about to go out to find someone, she suddenly noticed outside the window, where a joint fleet was nervously searching for and rescuing Orb's refugees.

"That is the fleet urgently summoned by His Excellency Rhodes. Thanks to the rescue of these joint forces, many refuges with problems were able to get out of danger."

"Our government's rescue team is one step behind them. I really don't know what the local bigwigs think."

Hearing the sound coming from the room, the guard who hastily opened the door and came in replied respectfully.

The response to this comparison was slow, until all the major media in the Earth circle began live broadcasting the rescue of Orb satellite refugees by joint warships.

The government belatedly issued an announcement of serious concern, but in fact it was weak in tone.

The guard, who was angry in his heart, unconsciously began to lean towards the alliance, so his words had a bit of the tone of being ridiculed by the locals as the Federalist Party.

"Really? The combined army that guy summoned."

Pressing Rhode's clothes firmly against her chest, Cagalli said silently.

And where is the Rhodes she was talking about now?

He was on his own transport spaceship, watching Orb, who was plundered by fire, steal the MS developed for him by United Technologies.

(End of this chapter)