During the bumpy ride through the atmosphere and the scenery outside the window changed from the dark void to the blue sky, Yitzhak impatiently loosened his seat belt and began to move his hands.
"Hey! Yitzhak! We haven't landed yet!"
Diego, who was sitting next to him, immediately reminded him when he saw Yitzhak loosening his seat belt.
"Shut up! Don't you think the jolt when passing through the atmosphere is excruciating? This damn gravity is really unpleasant."
Yitzhak cursed impatiently and tried to move his body, but finally chose to give up because of the seat problem.
"Yitzhak! You need to move your body. After landing, there will be plenty of time for you to start running."
Diego felt a huge headache.
"Diego, it's okay. Let Yitzhak move his body a little bit! After all, when humans who have grown up in colonial satellites feel the gravity from the earth for the first time, they will be a little bit weird.
reaction."
Cruze, who was sitting across from him and looking through a book he found from nowhere, did not feel that there was anything to worry about Yitzhak's performance at the moment. Instead, he persuaded Diego not to worry about Yitzhak's safety.
"Yes, but..."
"Diego! You are so annoying! Haven't you seen Captain Cruze say this?"
Yitzhak glared at Diego and patted the chair handle impatiently.
"Captain Cruze. How long will we stay on Earth next?"
When Kruse heard this, he immediately closed the book in his hand and put it on the other side.
"Yeah. It could be as short as one month or as long as three months! It mainly depends on the arrangements of the headquarters."
After a pause, Kruse showed a smile.
"After all, we have drawn a team that is not very lucky. Not long after we formed the team, there were cases where players left the team due to various reasons. Therefore, we are short of personnel, but
A team that can just add a fighting force to other main forces becomes a fire brigade-like existence."
When Yitzhak heard this, he fell silent immediately.
This is something they cannot deny.
First, there was the "attack" on Sigurd Klein and his daughter, which forced Aslan Sala, the fiancée, to leave the team and personally take care of his fiancée, who was seriously injured and had not recovered.
Later, after Nigel Amalfi returned from being captured, he offered to follow his father Yuri Amalfi to conduct research and develop a new mobile suit for ZAFT.
After a while, Yitzhak and Diego were left with Cruze out of what was supposed to be a four-person team.
In such an atmosphere, Diego didn't know how to speak for a moment.
On the other hand, Cruze said with a slight smile on his face.
"Before landing, I heard about the uninhabited island from my colleagues. I'm afraid, our next actions will be inseparable from that island."
"Uninhabited island?"
Diego followed immediately.
"Next, are we going to have a naval battle?"
"Hmm. Probably! But, I'm afraid we should first conduct training on how to control the GPU for combat."
Kruse nodded and stated the requirements for adaptive training that they must first and foremost carry out after landing on the ground.
"GPU? Is it the kind of 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 impatient! Yitzhak, Diego, the gravity of the earth will quickly allow you to adapt to the rhythm of future combat."
"I have a hunch."
As Cruze said, after landing, the first thing Yitzhak and Diego faced was gravity adaptability training and how to control the GPU for air combat.
Despite being adjusters with outstanding abilities and qualities, these two adaptive trainings still caused Yitzhak and Diego to suffer a little.
As their captain, Kruse seemed a little more laid-back.
Early in the morning, he changed into casual clothes, left the Carpentaria base, and headed to surrounding towns.
Although he had first-hand information from within ZAFT, Cruze still had some doubts about this information.
After all, from the perspective of human nature, even if it is an inevitable failure, the losing party will more or less completely confess how it failed, let alone subconsciously attribute the cause of the failure to the enemy being too powerful.
angle.
Cruze, who has a very good understanding of human nature, naturally took advantage of the fact that the two little guys were struggling with adaptive training and went to the surrounding towns to see if there was any chance to get a closer look.
As the city at the end of the highway became clearer and clearer, Cruze unexpectedly discovered that a truck full of people was driving out of the town and happened to meet the car that Cruze was driving.
"This is?"
Cruze frowned slightly.
With his sharp eyes, it was not difficult for him to notice that most of the people sitting in the carriage were adults with hungry faces and malnutrition.
Even though Oceania is a country in the pro-PLANT camp, it is still difficult to face the dual energy and food crises caused by the neutron jammers spread around the world.
Although PLANT has supported a lot of food to Oceania, it can only maintain a situation where the people will not starve to death.
"Is this a collective escape? Or is it?"
Cruze, who was constantly thinking about this problem, had just parked his car when he found a group of people gathering on the other side of the road.
The crowd gathered there looked very similar to the car of people that Cruze saw just now. They were all adults with hungry faces and malnutrition. Even among this group of people, some people could be seen.
I saw a few skinny figures with tattered clothes.
This made Cruze immediately interested.
While Kruse looked at the crowd, he walked to a tea shop on the street.
What's interesting is that the tea shop that Kruse entered now is elegantly decorated, clean and tidy, and the waiters have rosy faces and friendly attitudes, but the group of people opposite the tea shop have hungry faces, tattered clothes, and numb expressions.
Such a contrast gradually gave Kruse an indescribable feeling.
This is not pity or unbearable, but Cruze is looking forward to what will happen next.
"Hello! Sir, do you need anything?"
The waiter came up and asked.
"Well. Just have a cup of this!"
After glancing at the menu and ordering a drink, Kruse pointed to the crowd across the street seemingly casually.
"What are they doing?"
When the waiter saw Cruze's extraordinary bearing and decent manners, he thought it was those people who bored Cruze.
So, the waiter quickly explained.
"Sir, I'm very sorry! They are just gathering there waiting for work! I hope you don't mind, sir! 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's a job from the Equator Alliance. I heard that it's because the Equator Alliance is involved in the construction project of the orbital elevator. It is currently short of manpower and urgently needs to recruit healthy adult labor to make up for this manpower gap."
"The work of the Equator Alliance has been released to Oceania? It's interesting."
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Chapter completed!