CHAPTER 427: CHAPTER 427 DROPPING SUPPLIES

"No, I must go."

"What for?"

"To rescue someone."

Horace had realized, upon seeing the gigantic warship appear in the atmosphere of Helheim Star, that Lin Fu must be among those people.

He could ignore the others, but if Lin Fu died on Helheim Star, he would never have to go back, just wait to be imprisoned until death!

On the contrary, if he saved Lin Fu, the Commander, considering Lady’s sake, would take him back as well.

The old man, watching Horace’s receding figure, muttered softly, "Who indeed is the cleverer one here? If Joseph V had foreseen this, I wonder if he would be green with regret."

...

The gigantic warship remained stationary in the outer space of Helheim Star, but the atmosphere inside the ship was anything but calm.

They had received news of the Imperial Marshal’s death.

A disagreement arose among the people.

The school representatives demanded that the warship arrange a rescue, to pick up the students below, while the organizers insisted on continuing the competition.

Neither side would back down, leading to a physical altercation.

The fight caused the warship to malfunction, with engine trouble, and it became temporarily inoperative, the engineers reported that repairs would take about half a month.

Now, there was no need for argument.

But the school representatives and the organizers had completely fallen out, each occupying a section of the warship and completely ceasing communication, now all they could do was wait.

Wait for the Military Academy to send someone to pick up their respective students.

"Can we even go back?" someone pessimistically asked, "The organizers fired first, they really went in hard, clearly intending to silence us by killing."

Everyone fell silent.

"Go where? To Capital Star?" someone scoffed coldly, "Didn’t you hear that people have already fled from Capital Star? Going back might mean dying even faster."

"That’s not necessarily true, I can’t guarantee the safety of other places, but the three major military schools on Capital Star are absolutely the safest, no one would dare to start a conflict there." With the long history of the three great Military Academies and the countless elite officers they have produced, no one would dare to cross that line.

It is well known that once war breaks out on Capital Star, the most dangerous places are the Artificial Sea and the Imperial Palace.

Next would be the Noble District.

"It’s useless; we can’t return to Capital Star anymore, or by the time we got back, what was going to happen would have already happened, and everything would be over."

Again, there was a silence among the crowd.

Finally, someone spoke, "Our mission is these students, failing to securely bring them back would be our negligence."

"Who knew we would encounter such a scheme."

Actually, the school representatives couldn’t be blamed; they were just following routine, who could have anticipated that the organizers would be bought off and turn against the students?

The only ones who could command the organizers were the Marshal and the Emperor Himself.

"The Emperor has truly gone mad." someone bluntly said, "It has been a tacit agreement of the Empire to never involve students, yet now His Majesty is using students as an entry point, after this storm, whether he wins or not, he is bound to lose the people’s heart."

If it were not for experiencing it firsthand, it would be hard for everyone to imagine that such a thing could be done by His Majesty.

Those who understood knew, this was easier than the coup ten years ago, targeting children had given the Emperor a taste of victory.

"This is bad, very bad!"

Someone shouted as they rushed in.

"What happened?"

"What’s going on?"

Everyone urgently inquired.

"The organizers are dropping supplies below."

Everyone immediately understood the situation; nobody was foolish enough to think the organizers were genuinely dropping supplies for the students. Most of the dropped supplies would end up in the hands of the prisoners, and it had only been five days, the students hadn’t even exhausted their supplies yet.

Now was definitely not the time to be dropping supplies for the students.