StarCraft: Tyranid Empire

Chapter 26 The Bennett Family

Lee Pachin Yang, he used to work for Wolf Industries. After the outbreak of the war, the Great Depression and the company laid off employees, he came to serve as a soldier. Li is a person who is very serious in whatever he does and never cares. Well, if When you see him, you will definitely remember his black eyes as deep as the sky.”

Rick looked at Augustus intently. For a moment, he felt that Augustus was the elder brother of these people, and he knew his subordinates like a brother who had grown up. Augustus would be annoyed by their bad habits and proud of their strengths, and that picture was a family portrait.

In the boot camp, few people in the same class were willing to talk to Rick because he didn't like to communicate with others and was not humorous enough. On top of that, he always looked fake when he smiled.

Although Rick looked in the mirror countless times during boot camp to straighten his smile and make it more natural, it did not make him more popular.

Rick was once a member of the founding family of Tarsonis. He grew up in a materially well-off but extremely closed environment. In the city of Tarsonis, which still has huge slums, Rick's life is simply a paradise for the people at the bottom who can't even survive.

But in Rick's mind, everything has its price.

Growing up, Rick had never stepped out of the hundreds-story Bennett Sky Tower owned by his family in the center of Tarsonis City. The people Rick has met the most are his nannies, housekeepers and maids, ranging from economics, politics, art, management, history, aristocratic etiquette. There is a whole team of private teachers responsible for his education.

In addition, Rick also has to learn aerospace, starship manufacturing, interstellar port management, and other knowledge closely related to his family's industry. When Rick was five years old, his father gave him a homework assignment - which cost items in the interstellar barge shipping network should be cut to provide profits, and Rick's answer was people.

The parents never allowed anyone other than family members and servants to have close contact with their son. This was of course to keep their children exposed to the public as little as possible and reduce the risk of them being kidnapped.

However, Rick knew that they just wanted to ensure that this son who had the excellent genes of both families could become the heir they wanted with 100% freedom from outside interference.

Rick doesn't like politics. He has long been aware of the intrigues between the Creation families. All the Creation families are both friends and enemies. They will form alliances for interests and rights, and they will also fight swords for greater rights and interests. The leaders of the founding family are the monarchs of business empires, and their families are the royal courts of these empires.

As the economic and political center of the Tyranid Federation, Tarsonis has in recent decades absorbed nutrients from other planets for its own growth through commodity dumping, land annexation, economic sanctions and other means.

The Tyranid Federation is like a pressure cooker placed on top of a blazing fire. Hundreds of planets such as Korhal IV and Turasis II are thrown into the pot and cooked until their flesh and bones are separated, until all the nutrients are lost. All the nutrients were precipitated, leaving behind bones.

This life like a palace prince made Rick feel really empty. For eighteen years, his life has always been the same, without any difference day by day.

He overlooked the bustling Tarsonis every day from the top floor of the Bennett Sky Tower, watching hundreds of skyscrapers and Sky Towers cut into jagged shapes in the deep blue sky of Tarsonis.

But like all cities in the Terran Federation, the majestic skyscrapers are followed by miles of slums. Under the shining and beautiful buildings are gray, where rivers of industrial wastewater flow and discarded parts are piled up. , the garbage discarded by the upper class.

People who cannot see the sun live in shacks made of old metal. This is the most miserable hell on earth in the Terran Federation, wandering on the edge of law and morality.

Rick knew that the slums were where the poor lived and how painful their lives would be, but those were so unreal to him, just like the bustling Tarsonis outside the window, he could not touch them.

If Rick is the only heir in the family, then he asks himself, maybe he can tolerate this kind of life, because sooner or later he will be in charge of the Bennett family, and sooner or later he will be free. But he also has a sister who is far more outstanding than himself and is good at managing businesses. She has been determined to be the definite heir to the family.

Rick's future life will be bleak from now on. He will not receive any business or starport and space station under the family's name to avoid the dispersion of family assets and rights.

After his father decided to let Rick marry an aristocratic lady from another family to achieve a political marriage, even though the aristocratic lady looked pretty and charming just from the photos and portraits, Rick, who was not willing to be bound, resolutely Escaped from home, concealed the name of Bennett, the founding family of Tarsonis, and joined the Marine Corps incognito, determined to pursue his own future.

Why are you looking so sad? Smile. Augustus saw something was wrong with Rick's face.

Rick knew he must be smiling ugly.

From now on, three platoons and one class will be your home. Augustus said, We are all your brothers.

After Rick Kidd was incorporated into the first squad, there were already thirteen people in the squad, which had exceeded the standard number of staff.

The sniper badge on Rick and the slender and graceful Boatswain FN-92 Boatswain sniper rifle carried on his shoulder made a group of soldiers, especially Renault, envious, but Rick still seemed quite reserved in front of everyone.

After getting along for a while, although Rick didn't want to discuss his family, Hanak concluded that he came from a noble or wealthy businessman family - because he didn't even know how to say a loud swear word.

After learning that Augustus had been promoted to lance sergeant, although everyone in the class was mentally prepared, they were still overjoyed. Lance Corporal was the transitional rank from soldier to non-commissioned officer, which meant that Augustus would be promoted to corporal very quickly at the same rate.

After being surprised, what followed was uncontrollable pride. During the more than two months of getting along in the boot camp, they had regarded Augustus as their true one of their own. There is no doubt that Augustus has become the soul of this fighting class.

That night, Augustus originally wanted to take his class to have a big meal to celebrate his promotion like he did in the boot camp. Unfortunately, the 5th Battalion only had supply depots and troops dropped by air. canteen. The cooking class in the camp would only cook a few dishes, stewed potatoes, vegetable soup and boiled pork sausages.

Marines like this don't always have access to such food. In many cases, they can only eat quick-heat food or dessert bars.

After training ended at 8 p.m., while others were busy doing their own things, playing cards or reading e-books, Augustus was seriously writing a letter to be sent to his sister and mother.

Since leaving Korhal, Augustus always found time to write letters every week.

As in the past, in Dorothy's letter, Augustus never talked about the cruelty or politics of the battlefield, but mostly talked about the beautiful starry sky outside Korhal and the humanities and customs near the station. In letters to his mother, Augustus asked about the current situation at home as usual, and occasionally asked about his father and his revolutionary cause.

Augustus knew that such a letter would please both his father and his mother.

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