Gundam: From Piece to Player

Chapter 84 Treasure Land

"The damage is really severe."

"It can be sent directly for scrapping."

"As expected of Colonel Sally, she managed to be brought back by the mech even after that."

On Zeon's warship, Haman had just disembarked from the Zaku and saw the charred and battered Zaku from afar.

As Miss Sally's aircraft was about to land, it was already emitting thick black smoke. The moment it stopped at the arresting net, the maintenance crew's carbon dioxide fire extinguishing equipment began to cool it down.

She activated the spherical cockpit, which triggered the escape system. The nearby explosives blew open the connecting structures, although the impact when they hit the hangar floor was quite frightening.

But Miss Sally still shakily stepped out of the cockpit.

Without even taking off her helmet, she refused the call of the ambulance crew waiting in the hangar.

He returned to his room alone.

When Haman approached again, he discovered that the Zaku's left leg and shoulder armor were covered with all sorts of bullet holes, and the connecting tube was broken in two places, indicating that many of the bullets had penetrated through it.

The battle just now was extremely dangerous; the Federation's mobile suit had overwhelming superior performance against the Zaku.

She recalled how Miss Sally stopped her from making contact with that machine first.

If she were to engage that machine in combat, could she survive?

Recalling his ambitious words when he set out on the expedition, Hamman couldn't help but feel ashamed.

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With the Zeon forces having completed the occupation and consolidation of all landing sites, all fronts on Earth fell silent.

Mark Bay's Earth Prospectors also began doing their regular work, their task being to mine the Earth's unique mineral resources in eastern Ukraine and then transport them back into space.

In Kalmar's view, this was just an excuse; Kycilia needed this form to maintain her presence on the gravity front.

This paves the way for the slim possibility of her taking over Zeon.

Kycilia represents the conservative Zeon noble forces led by her father, Dekin.

Even when Haman came to power, he was supported by the same group of financial backers. This group was called the Zabi Family Restorationists, which is why Haman used such strange slogans.

Later, when Hamman wanted to break free of his constraints, this group searched through the Zabi family genealogy and found Geri Toto, an illegitimate son born to one of his brothers and a woman from the Toto family, to represent him, thus fundamentally destroying all the legitimacy of Hamman's rule.

Just as Char said... so Haman Kahn really is a clown. She thought she could control her destiny, but in reality, she was just a pawn that big shots could discard at will.

Karma noticed his terminal was ringing; it was a high-powered laser communication call. Upon seeing the caller ID, he immediately put down his work and went outside the tent.

"What is it, darling?"

“Senior, we encountered a Federation machine with a face while mining. It has the exact same face as your machine.”

Karma looked up at her watch to check the time.

6 month 2 day.

It's only June now. I remember that Gundam didn't "stand on the earth" until almost mid-September, right?

Are there any casualties?

“No?” Sally said. “My mech was damaged in the battle, I was no match for them.”

"You've gone to the battlefield?" Karma immediately tensed up. "Didn't I tell you that if you encountered a machine like that, you should find a way to escape?"

Are you going to lecture me?

Karma thought to herself, "If everyone says that, isn't that the same as covering my mouth so I can't say anything?"

"Shall I modify another Gundam for you to use?"

"No need... You have two spare parts for your current machine, but if you need to modify another one, the parts will be in short supply."

“…Then I’ll get you a Rick Dom. I can use my connections to get a new machine and modify it.”

"Thank you so much, senior! I like you the most~"

Sally agreed, seemingly just to avoid disappointing him.

Karma sighed. As a beneficiary of Zeon to some extent, a powerful figure who controlled resources, it would be difficult for an ordinary woman to refuse him.

Take the senior student, for example. Although Meixi is not a gold digger, her research requires a lot of resources, which Karma can provide indefinitely. In return, Meixi provides Karma with AI-related research and application results.

This kind of "economic" relationship actually strengthened the foundation of their relationship.

Sally can solve all problems on her own, while Kalma sometimes needs her advice to solve some tricky issues.

Aside from the gender crisis that required Karma to act as a protective shield, she never made any demands... saying that going to Pluto might be the only one, but Karma later reflected that the request might not have been as simple as it seemed.

Sally's behavior was more like a form of inducement.

Is there a way to make Sally more dependent on him?

"My dear sister didn't do anything, did she?"

“Miss Harman is watching my every move, and I probably report everything to her in detail. She doesn’t seem to like you very much,” Sally said. “Are you interested in taking her into your harem? I can sing your praises, you know.”

"Please don't hurt me. I don't want to be divided into 'parts' later. Don't tell me you don't care about my relationship with my senior!"

Taking this opportunity, Karma decided to stop acting altogether.

"...The senior is well aware of his own philandering ways."

"You were the one who encouraged me to pursue the Doctor in the first place."

“If you didn’t have this thought, I wouldn’t have said it… I was just inducing you to give in to your desires.”

Karma was speechless. "If you really give in to your desires, they'll tie you up in a dark room and make you do all sorts of things."

“Alright, let’s get down to business,” Karma said. “Now that we have face-equipped aircraft, I’d like you to initiate the next phase of preparations to ensure the operation proceeds as planned.”

"Received, understood."

The communication was interrupted, and Sally stopped typing.

"Is everything going according to plan?" she murmured to herself.

The next moment, a burning, stinging pain in her abdomen made her grab the table for support.

"Even battles of this level have aftereffects... Haven't you gotten used to it yet?"

Sally took a handbag from the bottom of the drawer.

Her backpack was haphazardly stuffed with all sorts of drugs, each only marked with a number. She found one of the bottles, poured out a few capsules, and popped them into her mouth. Only then did the pain in her body finally subside.

The calm didn't last long. The phone inside the ship suddenly rang. Sally showed a hint of impatience, but still picked up the phone.

"it's me."

“Miss Sally, are you alright?” Harman’s voice came through the communicator.

"I was a little tired just now, so I rested for a while."

"I'm so sorry... I just wanted to tell you that I just received a letter from Lady Kycilia. She has other missions scheduled and won't be able to do any mining or scavenging work for the next two months."

“Okay.” Sally nodded. “Do you want me to take you back to Granada?”

“No need,” Harman replied. “I’ll just go back with the transport ship.”

"Try to avoid any battles; the shipping lanes are not as safe as they used to be."

“Okay.” Harman responded earnestly to Sally, then suddenly said, “Actually, I’d like to know where General Kalmar’s gold is stored?”

Chapter 85 Simulation of a Powerful Enemy

Sally tapped the table with her index finger and, in response to Harman's probing questions, replied with a location: "At the Pezen Base."

“Is that so? It’s not very safe to keep the gold there. Lady Kycilia has also planned a new secret storage point, saying that the gold here with the General can also be stored there. What do you think, Miss Sally?”

"no problem."

Sally seemed to have genuinely begun analyzing the feasibility of transferring the gold, "But... the war is ongoing, and accidents could happen during the gold transfer voyage..."

"Haha, of course we won't move now. Let's wait until the situation stabilizes a bit more."

"We not only need to be wary of the Federation, but also of the covetousness of other forces, right?"

Harman gripped the communicator tightly in his hand, pressing his ear firmly against the microphone.

By listening to tone of voice and pronunciation, Harman can intuitively judge whether someone is lying.

While the effect on-site is good, it can also arouse the other party's vigilance. This can also be achieved by making a phone call.

The barrage of questions was increasingly pressuring Miss Sally to the point where she had to give direct answers.

These were notes passed to her by the Kycilia staff who had just been moving the gold.

There is only one sentence above.

[Testing the waters for gold.]

Lady Kycilia is in too much of a hurry, Haman thought to himself.

Lady Kycilia is becoming increasingly uneasy about that man.

“Miss Sally, you don’t need to be so nervous. We’re just having a casual chat.”

"Haman, I'm not nervous."

Sally said on the other end of the phone, "But you, were you too tired from searching for that item? You need to get some rest during this time."

Sally changed the subject again, and Harman did not pursue the matter further.

She asked about the results.

For the first time, the usually sincere Miss Sally lied to Harman in order to protect the wealth of her beloved.

The gold is not in the Pei Zeng base.

This means that the man was not being honest and once again showed signs of betrayal towards Lady Kycilia.

Loyalty that is not absolute is absolute disloyalty.

Perhaps in the near future, that man will grow into the next great enemy of Lady Kycilia, following in the footsteps of Commander-in-Chief Kiran.