Chapter 40 Opportunity

The visitor jumped to his feet in fear and shouted, 'Hey, hey! It's all said to be a misunderstanding." After saying that he rushed towards Edward. Edward also knew that he was now affected by the lack of oxygen, raised his gun and continued to shoot, when he raised his arm but found that his body, which usually had sharp reflexes and movements in place, was like a drunk, he simply threw his pistol behind him and rushed forward to meet the incoming man. He knew that his reaction slowed down, decided to preemptive strike, he will be the left hand back, slightly protect the head, set up a shield defense art stance, left leg step forward, waist and abdomen force, shift the center of gravity, the right leg rushed to the coming person is a straight stomp leg. The visitor had already been prepared, as if he did not intend to attack, his arms were protected in front of his chest, and he lowered his body to quickly advance, wanting to take advantage of Edward's high center of gravity to pull in his body position. Experienced countless times of life and death combat Edward has long seen the other side of the road, he will protect in the head of the left arm down, the upper body left leaning, once again control the center of gravity transfer, forward stomp half of the leg suddenly turned sideways, into a side kick accurately hit the person's jaw. With the sound of hey, the person's center of gravity was disrupted, tripped a little, Edward heart can not help but a burst of annoyance, according to the usual who if he was hit by such a moment on the spot will have to lose consciousness. Right now also can't let him think too much, he retracted his right leg, right foot pointing to the ground, twisting the body to turn around, the left leg full force stomping to the target. Snapping sound, this kick back pedal leg solidly kicked in the face of the person, this time he did not even make a sound and fell backward. Edward dragged his heavier and heavier body forward, pinning the visitor down and raising his fist to slam it down. The visitor put his arms in front of his face and whispered, 'Stop it, I'm an infiltrator for the Free Federation, if you keep tossing me around Joe will die!" Edward, his brain a little foggy, stopped without half a movement with his fists raised and said, 'Prove it." 'I've got my gun put away, so what's the point of proving it!" The visitor covered his bleeding nose with one hand and handed over a capsule-shaped pill with the other, then said, 'Emergency oxygen absorber, bite it in your mouth and breathe through your mouth, don't swallow it." 'Proof!" Edward said through clenched teeth. At this moment, rather than ironically trying to figure out the identity of the other party, Edward was more like he was obstinately trying to prove that Elina and the girls were not in danger at this moment. 'Oops! Joe will only live for another five or six minutes! I guess you can't last ten minutes even if you are physically strong, why don't you beat me to death and go to the underground floor first to slow down the line? If you die here, you'll be counted as a failure of my mission." The visitor spoke in a low voice, but it caused Edward to recall Joe, who had collapsed next to him due to lack of oxygen. Deciding not to be obstinate, he took the emergency oxygen absorber and crunched it in his mouth, a pungent sensation characteristic of manganese-containing compounds spreading through his mouth. He then opened his mouth and took a sharp inhale, and that awful taste went into his lungs with his airway, choking him and causing him to cough several times, nearly spewing out the bitten capsule. 'Breathe in small bites, breathe in through your mouth once followed by your nose a few times, alternate, this thing is not very technically mature you pay attention to it." The visitor finished and ran towards Joe who was on the ground. Edward held his knees and tried to adjust the rhythm of his breathing, gradually getting used to the lousy emergency oxygenant. He ran after the visitor and picked Joe up by his legs, then the two ran through the shattered glass doors of the starport and towards the elevator. The two men put Joe into the space elevator, and Edward saw the visitor spit the shattered capsule in his mouth onto the floor, and did the same with the emergency oxygen absorber. He asked, 'What's your name?" The visitor pressed the button for the basement level on the elevator and turned around, 'Sir Edward, just call me Freddy." After Freddy finished speaking, he squeezed out a smile at Edward, but the hanging nosebleed jaw and twisted nose bridge made the smile bizarre to the extreme. Edward smiled awkwardly and asked, 'How long does it take to get to the basement level?" 'The underground floor is about two hundred meters underground, you don't have to worry, you'll get there soon." Freddy said as he pulled out a bottle, took a sip and gargled in his mouth and spit it directly into the elevator. He then handed the bottle to Edward and said, 'Every time you use an emergency oxygen generator afterward, it causes some damage to your mouth, so gargle if you don't want to get mouth ulcers." Until he was sure that Elina and the girls were safe, Edward wasn't going to let his guard down, he took the bottle and took a sip of it with confidence, gently gargling it before spitting it out, the pungent feeling in his mouth had indeed subsided quite a bit. With a soft ding, the elevator doors opened and the pair carried Joe out of the elevator. Just as they exited the elevator doors, Edward threw Joe to the ground and began contacting the Silver Dragon. 'Edward where have you been, what happened!?" Elina's anxious voice reached Edward's ears through the headset and his hanging heart finally dropped. 'The clouds are too thick and there's been lightning, the signal can't be contacted, right now I'm in the basement level, there's a signal relay unit here." Edward said. 'What's going on with Joe?" Elina asked. 'We were just at the surface, where the oxygen levels were so low that he fainted from lack of oxygen, we've just gotten underground, I expect he'll be able to slow down in a little while." Edward said, re-lifting Joe's legs and the pair moved him to set him down next to him out of the way. Freddy put his hand on Joe's carotid artery and tried his pulse, slow but steady, he said, 'It's nothing serious, I reckon he'll wake up in a bit." 'So what, I'm glad you guys are okay, stay on live comms, I'll leave it at that for now." Edward said to Elina, as he finished, he looked at Freddy's weird and bloody face, and smiled awkwardly, saying, 'Instead, I think your injuries are more serious, I'm really sorry." Seeing Edward completely drop his guard, Freddy grinned and said, 'It's nothing, it's rather Your Excellency's close combat ability is really great, I still lost under that oxygen-deprived environment,really ashamed." 'Hey, what is that black building on the ground?" Edward looked down and pretended to check on Joe, he didn't want to see Freddy's twisted face. 'Those are all yeast food factories, ah, this one planet produces yeast food to supply nine neighboring galaxies totaling eleventy billion people." Freddy said while activating the selfie function of his communicator, looking at his evil ghost-like face he was also shocked. He touched the bridge of his injured nose, the kind of paralysis from the initial injury gradually receded, he touched it and grimaced in pain, his whole face was as hideous as an evil ghost. 'Why is this man so scary, what in the world happened, how did he get hurt like this?" Elina's voice in the headset was still chattering as she asked, she had obviously seen Freddy's grim face through the real-time communication. 'Nothing, just a little misunderstanding." Edward just wanted to get this over with at this point, he had so many questions he wanted to ask Freddy right now. 'Did he get hit in the face by a flying motorcycle?" Elina asked relentlessly. Edward was so frazzled by the question that he simply answered, 'I kicked it!" 'What did he do that you had to kick him into a flying motorcycle?" Elina snapped next, paying no attention to Edward's gradual breakdown. Edward steadied himself and replied, 'There was no flying motorcycle." 'No flying motorcycle then what hit his face like that?" Elina's question became more and more difficult with Edward's somewhat impatient tone. 'I kicked it!" Edward's voice drew up a few degrees, almost shouting, before removing his headphones and putting them back in his pocket. The voice startled Freddy, who was checking for injuries next to him, and he shrank back a little, saying shakily, 'I know you kicked it." Edward stuck his hands in his hair and scratched, trying to ease the irritation of the moment, and when his emotions had stabilized a little, he walked over to Freddy and slowly sat down. He opened his mouth and asked Freddy, 'Why is the current state of Achilles so different from the planetary information labeled on the charts?" Freddy leaned his head against the wall and replied, 'It's because the Empire's star charts haven't been updated in a hundred years, and they've long since lost the heart to do so. Ever since fifteen years ago, when Achilles was forcibly transformed by the Empire from a traditional agricultural planet to a modern agricultural planet, the planet has been gradually withering away, and is now on the verge of death." Edward asked in confusion, 'Dying? Can planets die too?" Freddy blankly glanced at Edward and said, 'Your Excellency really knows how to joke, you have seen the situation on the ground, it is no longer suitable for life to survive, everyone on the entire planet Achilles is living in the underground metropolis. The people living on Achilles have only one job, to take care of those uncountable yeast food factories, those factories have been emitting carbon dioxide moment by moment for the past fifteen years, those greenhouse gases have caused the entire planet's ecology to be destroyed in a very short period of time."