Chapter 723
Cruze Arrives in Carpentaria
Chapter 723 Cruze Arrives in Carpentaria
As the car was turbulently passing through the atmosphere and the scenery outside the window changed from the dark void to the blue sky, Isaac impatiently loosened his seat belt and began to move his hands.
"Hey! Yizhak! It's not landing yet!"
Diego, who was sitting next to him, immediately reminded Isaac when he saw him unbuckle his seat belt.
"Shut up! Don't you think the turbulence when passing through the atmosphere is torturous? This damn gravity is really unpleasant."
After cursing impatiently, Yitzhak tried to move his body, but finally gave up because of the seating problem.
"Yitzhak! You need to move your body. After we land, you'll have plenty of time to run."
Diego felt a terrible headache.
"Diego, it's okay. Let Isaac stretch his body a little! After all, humans who grew up in a colony satellite will have some abnormal reactions when they feel the gravity from the earth for the first time."
Cruze, who was sitting opposite and flipping through a book he found from somewhere, didn't think there was anything to worry about Isaac's current behavior. Instead, he persuaded Diego not to worry about Isaac's safety.
"Yes, but..."
"Diego! You're so annoying! Didn't you see Captain Cruze said that?"
Izak glared at Diego and patted the handle of the chair impatiently.
"Captain Cruze. How long will we stay on Earth next?"
When Cruze heard this, he immediately closed the book in his hand and put it aside.
"Yes. It could be as short as one month or as long as three months! It depends on the arrangements of the headquarters."
After a pause, Cruze smiled.
"In the final analysis, we were lucky. Not long after we formed the team, some members left for various reasons. Therefore, a team like ours that is short of personnel but can add strength to other main forces has become a fire brigade."
When Yitzhak heard this, he fell silent.
This is something they cannot deny.
First, Siegel Klein and his daughter were "attacked", which forced Aslan Zala, his fiancé, to leave the team and take care of his seriously injured fiancée personally.
Later, after Nigel Amalfi was captured and returned, he took the initiative to ask to follow his father Yuri Amalfi to conduct research and develop a new MS for ZAFT.
After a while, the team that was supposed to be a four-man team was reduced to only Isaac and Diego who were still following Cruze.
In such an atmosphere, Diego didn't know how to start for a moment.
Cruze, on the other hand, smiled slightly and said nonchalantly.
"Before landing, I heard about the uninhabited island from my colleagues. I'm afraid that our next move will be closely related to that island."
"Uninhabited island?"
Diego followed immediately.
"Next, we're going to have a naval battle?"
"Yeah. Probably! But, I'm afraid we should first conduct training on how to control the GU to fight."
Cruze nodded and told them that the first and most necessary thing they had to do after landing on the ground was adaptive training.
"GU? Is it an auxiliary flight system that can assist MS and support MS in air combat?"
Yitzhak understood immediately.
"Yes. Although I don't know the details, it is very likely that in the next battle, we will have to fight the enemy while facing the risk of sinking to the bottom of the sea at any time."
"So, please don't be anxious! Isaac, Diego, the gravity of the earth will quickly allow you to adapt to the rhythm of future operations."
"I have a hunch."
Just as Cruze said, after landing, the first thing Isaac and Diego faced was gravity adaptation training and how to control the GU for air combat.
Although they were adjusters with outstanding abilities and qualities, the two adaptive trainings still made Isaac and Diego suffer a little. As their captain, Cruze seemed a little more relaxed.
Early in the morning, they changed into casual clothes, left the Carpentaria base and headed for the surrounding towns.
Although he had first-hand information from within ZAFT, Cruze still had some doubts about it.
After all, from the perspective of human nature, even if failure is inevitable, the losing party will more or less not confess the full process of failure, not to mention subconsciously attributing the cause of failure to the enemy being too powerful.
Cruze, who knows human nature very well, naturally took the opportunity when the two little guys were exhausted by the adaptive training and went to the surrounding towns to see if there was any chance to get a glimpse of what was going on.
As the city at the end of the road became clearer and clearer, Cruze unexpectedly discovered that a truck full of people was just driving out of the town and happened to collide with the car driven by Cruze.
"This is?"
Cruze frowned slightly.
With his sharp eyes, he easily noticed that most of the people sitting in the carriage were hungry and malnourished adults.
Even though Oceania is a pro-PLANT country, it is still having a hard time facing the dual crisis of energy and food caused by the neutron jammers spread around the world.
Although PLANT provided a lot of food to Oceania, it could only keep the people from starving to death.
"Is this a mass exodus? Or is it?"
Cruze, who had been thinking about this question constantly, just parked his car and found a group of people gathered on the other side of the road.
The crowd gathered there looked very similar to the group of people Cruze had seen just now. They were all hungry and malnourished adults. Among this group of people, there were even a few skinny figures with tattered clothes.
This immediately piqued Cruze's interest.
Cruze looked at the crowd as he walked to a tea shop on the street.
What’s interesting is that the tea shop that Cruze has entered now is elegantly decorated, clean and tidy, and the waiters have ruddy faces and friendly attitudes. However, the group of people opposite the tea shop have hungry faces, tattered clothes, and numb expressions.
Such a contrast gradually gave Cruze an indescribable feeling.
This is not pity, nor is it compassion, but Cruze is looking forward to what will happen next.
"Hello, sir. What can I do for you?"
The waiter came forward and asked.
"Yeah. Let's have a cup of this!"
After glancing at the menu and ordering a drink, Cruze seemingly casually pointed at the group of people across the street.
"They, what are they doing?"
Seeing that Cruze was dignified and well-mannered, the waiter thought that those people were annoying Cruze.
So the waiter quickly explained.
"Sir, I'm very sorry! They are just gathered there waiting for work! I hope you don't mind! They will leave on their own later."
"Work?"
Cruze raised his eyebrows.
“Who gave me the job?”
The waiter was a little surprised, but he still said it.
"It's a job from the Equatorial Alliance. I heard that the Equatorial Alliance is involved in the construction of the orbital elevator and is now short of manpower. They urgently need to recruit healthy adult workers to fill this labor gap."
"The work of the Equatorial Alliance? It's actually posted to Oceania? That's interesting."
(End of this chapter)