Chapter 28 Former Imperial Technology

The duo got out of the car and headed towards the crowd, who had left the large table full of food and walked over to surround the two newlyweds. Female family and friends swarmed Elina towards the villa to get ready to dress. While the male family and friends cheered and lifted Edward up towards the beach where the old General Barr was already waiting, the crowd threw Edward towards the sand in front of him and quickly formed a circle around the perimeter, surrounding the two in the center. Edward climbed to his feet, dusted the sand off his body and said, 'Pops, let's just compare notes, shall we?" The old general took off his shirt, leaking out the upper half of the muscle coiled gnarled, a few scars also show the old general that glorious years, although the abdomen has a little flabby, but also can not hide this body that strong power, attracted the surrounding friends and relatives a sound of amazement. Edward looked at the old general to move the real thing, busy said: 'Pops, but I was a few years as a special operations officer." 'Don't rub it in, have you forgotten who taught you that skill of yours? Let Laozi beat you one last time." The old general said. Edward had no choice but to take off his top and meet the battle, his body was different from the tiger-like old general, his muscle lines were more even and he appeared to be more agile. Amidst the cheers of his friends and family around him, the old general took the lead, he kicked his toes, which had long been buried in the sand, forward, and a cloud of sand and dust swooped towards Edward. Startled, Edward busied himself with shielding his arms in front of his face, unable to resist cursing, 'That bad old man!" The old general took advantage of his effort to protect his face, and with an arrow step leapt to Edward's right side towards the blind spot of his vision to deliver a downward kick. Edward knew that the general would have a backhanded move and dodged it with a backward jump. The old general saw that a blow fell through, quickly collected the leg, bullying forward left fist after two times, the right fist hard toward Edward's face door swung a heavy punch. Edward clenched both hands to avoid the old general's left fist's false point, looking at the right fist that came towards him, the reflex nerves in his body that were proprietary to special operations personnel were activated. Twisting his body violently to the left side, his right hand grabbed the left wrist and pulled it back, his left hand opened up and passed under the old general's right armpit from bottom to top, and the heel of his palm struck the old general's chin hard and straight. The old general swayed a few times, and his bear-like body fell straight to the ground. The surrounding family and friends were silent, then seven hands and eight feet went up to check the old general's condition. Edward pushed his way through the crowd and shouted, 'It's fine, it's fine! It's probably just a concussion." The crowd was busy lifting the old general to a recliner and setting him down, and under Brenda's care, the old general slowly opened his eyes in no time, and Edward slowly breathed a sigh of relief when he saw him wake up. 'This is a handful of years old, but still want to go to show off, this is good, right? Shame on you." Brenda said while holding a small fan to fan the general. 'Ugh, I can't even close my fists well in my old age." The old general said as he rubbed his head, then he saw Edward who wanted to blend into the crowd to bolt and shouted, 'Don't run you kid, what did you just call me? Bad old man right?" Edward didn't dare to return his head and slipped away even faster, but the family and friends attending the wedding had the mindset of watching the fun and squeezing him out of the crowd. 'Aiya, Pops you see why you are still angry, I can't grasp the degree well." Edward said in his heart, I didn't break your jaw by slapping you, you're in good shape. The old general put his hand on Edward's shoulder and said in a long and serious tone, 'Okay, okay, Elina is in your hands, treat her well for the rest of your life." At the same time, Elina also finished changing, beautifully dressed, she slowly walked out accompanied by her family and friends. That pure white backless wedding dress with a bouquet of bouquets made Elina's sweetness and shyness blend together perfectly, Edward walked to her side and cupped her chin, and amidst the cheers of her friends and family, the two of them embraced tightly and kissed each other. The two completed their vows as the master of ceremonies officiated, and then the party began with the old general's booming voice. Everyone was talking, laughing, pushing glasses, and the bride and groom were the subject of much flirtation as they sang, danced, and played games. The good times always flew by, and in the wedding room, Elina lay on the bed looking at Edward, who was a drunken mess, and gradually fell into dreamland. It was noon the next day when Edward woke up again, he was feeling like he had a headache and leg pain at this point, he got dressed and rubbed his head as he walked downstairs to see the family eating lunch. 'Oh..! The groom is awake, I should have known that's all you had I should have compared you to drinking." The old general said, greeting him as he sat down to eat. 'Pops, where's Elina?" Edward asked as he poured a glass of juice. Brenda handed Edward an apple pancake and said, 'Your wife went to the black market early in the morning." Edward nearly spit his juice out and asked, 'What's she doing at the black market?" 'Said that the place for the honeymoon is quite far away, and it's too inefficient to use a regular spacecraft to make the leap, so I'll see if I can buy military goods in the black market and modify it." The old general said, getting up with Brenda beside him and preparing to go out. 'Are you guys going out too?" Edward asked, chewing on his food. The old general said with a raised eyebrow, 'You two are done with the wedding, it's our turn next, don't we have to go get some things." Then pulled Brenda out the door, leaving Edward alone with his jaw dropped. At that moment, Edward's communicator rang and he picked it up, Elina's excited little face shifted on the screen a few times and stabilized. 'I'm at the Pedro Brothers Scrapyard, I got a good one, come on come on come on." Elina said excitedly with a full flushed face. 'What could the two of them have that they're so happy about." Edward said as he put on his jacket, he couldn't help but think back to yesterday's wedding where the two brothers had playfully poured alcohol on themselves, and suddenly felt that he had made a bad friend. 'You'll see when you get here, you're guaranteed to be shocked." Elina said and hung up. Edward went out and called a shuttle, the driver watched the youngster with interest as he reported his destination and it wasn't long before the shuttle pulled up in front of the Pedro Brothers Scrapyard. He handed the driver his credits and the driver gazed at Edward with a smile, removing his hat to reveal half of his burnt scalp and said, 'You are Lord Edward, aren't you? Thank you for bringing peace to Dosas, I could never accept this money, have a nice day." The driver finished his speech and with one acceleration lifted off, Edward gazed at the distant shuttle and muttered, 'Have a nice day as well." He pushed through the mottled iron gates and stepped inside the factory, realizing that it was not unlike the place from his childhood, when it wasn't called that. As a teenager he used to come over to the brothers' house and play around, sliding down the garbage hill over and over again, charging at the brothers with an iron bar in the garbage as an electromagnet gun, back when the younger of the two could still talk. Later on, when the Resistance was crushed and the Imperial Army occupied the town, those cruel Imperial soldiers cruelly cut out the tongues of the captured children in order to terrorize the townsfolk who were hiding the wounded, that unfortunate younger brother was one of them. 'Brother Edward is here." The older of the Pedro brothers said, 'Elina is tinkering with something in the workshop." With that, he turned to lead the way signaling Edward to follow. 'It's still just as messy here as it was before." Edward said. 'Well, after Pops died, we were planning to follow in his father's footsteps, after all, this is where the intergalactic scavengers sell their loot, it's good to be messy." He said pulling open the heavy workshop door. All that could be seen was Elina standing on a strange large piece of equipment drumming away at something, with Pedro's brother babbling and gesticulating next to her. Stepping in slightly, Edward realized that the strange large machine looked like a figure eight that had been put down, covered in twisted pipes and wiring. As Elina adjusted it, the large machine emitted a low rhythmic humming sound, and with this sound came a slight itch all over Edward's body in addition to a surge of heat. Elina saw Edward coming and signaled for brother Pedro to turn off the device. The buzzing sound stopped and then Edward felt the warmth fade and the itchiness disappeared, instead he felt the air around him waft out a scent of grass and trees, very refreshing. 'Edward, look at this thing, is it awesome? There aren't many of these big guys in the entire Milky Way except for the military." Elina said excitedly running over and wrapping her arms around Edward, making Edward covered in oil as well. 'What's this big guy for?" Edward looked at it for half a day but couldn't figure out what kind of device it was. 'Guess." Elina asked and then waited with interest for Edward's answer. 'An air purifier?" Edward replied scratching his head. Elina and Pedro froze on the spot before the brothers covered their stomachs and laughed.