Just time E-Book

HARRIS TERRENCE

• Herausgeber: TERRENCE/HARRIS
• Kategorie: Krimi
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Beschreibung

Reincarnated to the fantasy world, penance for 500 years, finally great enlightenment, ready to lie flat, the system activated.
As long as you get a wife, have children, develop a family, you can get various rewards.

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Just time

by TERRENCE HARRIS

© 2023, TERRENCE HARRIS

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Author: TERRENCE HARRIS

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Chapter 1

Many of the people who came out of the central business district were divided into those with professional expertise, and those who were identified as having no professional expertise were from the flower streets, pawnshops, bars, restaurants, small casinos and pawn shops. Among them, the people of Flower Street accounted for a large part.

Lauren scanned the crowd and spotted a waitress who used to work at the same bar, Tina, the same Bitch who had used lacquer nuts on her. Besides Tina, there were the two mermaid underwater dancers their boss had hired at a premium.

These girls must not have heard the stories Lauren's grandmother told them, because not only did they not stain or cover their faces, but they also deliberately wore light makeup, beautiful clothes and inexpensive and beautiful accessories.

This group of people most let Allie attention, is an age is not young street girl. She wasn't even pretty, but she was in the crowd, and she saw her at a glance. Because she had a little baby in her arms.

In Liberty City, which is the busiest crime capital of casinos and flower streets and willow streets, it is natural to say that the flower street girls managed by shops and bosses, and even the Liberty Street girls have their own rules and familiar private doctors. What is Liberty City? What kind of people do they pick up? What happens to a Free City street girl when she can't work? There are no beggars in Liberty City.

So, the vast majority of girls on the street do a good job of contraception. Many people regard pregnancy as suicide.

And the people who do other things in Liberty City are not the kind of stupid white sweet who would want to get married and have children in Liberty City and have a dog.

Even the big boys with mistresses, they never let their kids be born in a place like Liberty City.

So, in Liberty City, let alone babies, children are very rare.

Probably because of this, there was something unnatural about the people standing around the mother. Unconsciously, everyone stood a little further apart, so that a limited empty circle was formed around the mother, but they all unconsciously glanced at her from time to time.

Ellie had not been to many places, and she remembered as if it was the first time she had seen such a small baby.

The little creature was pitifully small, its face only a little bigger than its fist, its exposed skin pink, its fist tightly held, its eyes closed, sleeping so soundly that it had no idea what was going on around it.

The baby's mother noticed her gaze and gave her a smile.

Ellie smiled back. She noticed that the mother was probably missing one of her front teeth, and as soon as she laughed, she pressed her lips together, but they sank.

Looking at the clothes she was wearing, there was no doubt that she lived in one of the poorest parts of Liberty.

So why was it born?

Such a small, helpless little baby.

Ellie looked at them, puzzled. She couldn't imagine what life would be like for mother and son.

But she didn't let her confusion out. She gently stroked Millet's fluffy head and sat with Lauren on the floor.

The second day of inspection was quickly over.

At 7:50, a fleet of twelve transports appeared over Liberty City. After they land on the customs tarmac, the professional talents willing to serve the Empire are ushered into one of the transports by Octopons.

Allie and her worthless crew were led to another transport ship.

As for the citizens of the Empire and of the Federation who remained in the customs clearing, they were sent to two small transport ships.

The prisoners complied by handing over their luggage to the Octopus, who placed them one by one on carts and carried them into the hold, and then climbed up the gangway in a row to the hold.

Allie looked back to the Liberty City Customs House. Outside the customs house, many prisoners were still walking toward the house. Watched and driven by octopus, they look like livestock. These are probably the last remaining residents of Liberty City to be accounted for.

They're supposed to be from Zone h, the furthest from customs. Among them were the richest men in the Free City, and even now, at this distance, some of them could be seen with jewels in their hair and on their skirts, glittering in the artificial sunlight, and normally these men were mighty, but now it seemed that the fate of all was the same.

I wonder how many of them have professional expertise.

Ellie thought and followed the crowd into the cabin.

Transport ships, as the name implies, carry supplies.

Passenger seats on these ships are very limited.

For those who have no professional expertise, they are treated like goods.

Even the six mercenaries charged with watching over them were treated no better. People stood in the cargo hold, held in place by a fixed collar made of synthetic material hanging from the roof of the cabin, and if they were lucky enough to stand on the side of the cabin, they could rest against the bulkhead, or they could stand at the end and front, and could either sit or crouch.

When sitting together, it felt like there were a lot of people, but after standing in the designated position, Ellie found that they were the first batch of captives on board but more than two hundred people.

Once a section of the cabin was filled, an alloy fence was slowly lowered over the cabin, confining the prisoners and their mercenary guards in it like a can.

After the captives had been held for about half an hour, someone tried to bribe the mercenaries to move to a slightly more comfortable position.

The mother with the baby, who had been sitting against the bulkhead next to the iron bars of the compartmented cabin, stood up without hesitation with a trembling lip when she saw the paid mercenary looking at her, like a stray dog who had been beaten too many times, and who dared not resist anything but accept it whenever a threatening look was thrown at her.

Ellie, who was sitting next to her, reached over and pressed her shoulder. "You're sitting in my place." She looked at the man who offered the bribe. "Is that OK?"

The man looked at the woman holding the baby, then at Ellie, and suddenly sighed, "Forget it."

The mercenary weighs the money in his hand, "This is not for you to change."

The man said with a hearty smile, "Yes, yes, yes."

But the mercenary seemed suddenly to have found a way to make money, and he scanned the cabin and asked loudly, "Does anyone want to sit in the back?"

Ali's spot didn't hold up in the end. Lauren, Mi, and Mi-Yul, the mother with the baby, jostled to clear a little room for Ellie to sit against the bars.

The iron grating pressed against her back, and in the sealed cabin, the remaining prisoners were sweating more than usual from fear and tension, and the sweat was becoming unbearable.

The ship has not yet taken off, and the air circulation system is suspended, which leaves the sardine can of the cabin full of sweat.

After waiting for another half an hour or so, a second group of prisoners came in and were locked in another section of the cabin separated by iron bars.

The second group of captives to board were rich men from Block h, easily distinguishable by their clothes.

This group of people remained gorgeously dressed after the fall of Liberty City, not because they did not want to wear a low tone in this time of chaos, but because their simplest clothes were already so gorgeous.

Against these dresses of satin or linen, with intricate patterns embroidered on the edges of gold thread, and jewelry that had not been thought of or removed, the faces of the prisoners who came in after them seemed bleaker than those of Ellie and her fellow captives who had been locked up in the tank for so long.

But the mercenaries in charge of these captives were much nicer to them than they were to Ellie.

This was probably because the mercenaries believed that the nobles were only temporary captives and would soon regain their wealth and power, and, of course, because the nobles had already put a lot of their jewels into their hands.

Guard Ellie they this group of civilians that several mercenaries saw the heart angry, iron bars, they can not past, had to take this group of poor ghosts out of the gas, one of them kicked the people around a few feet, "move over!" Make room for God!"

Most of the people dared to be angry and dare not speak, and moved to the side with pain, and those who had been unlucky enough to stand in the middle of the crowd quit, Shouting, "What a fierce! You too are prisoners now! Dare to bully!"

This remark really added fuel to the fire, the mercenary exclaimed angrily, "Who said it! Stand up!"

But the man who speaks will not speak to him.

He became more angry and kicked the prisoner in front of him, and the man who kicked him fell backwards onto the man behind him. Each prisoner was standing just a little wider than his own body, and many of them had their fixings loosened by the heat of the delay in taking off, and were falling on one another like dominoes.

For a moment, there was a mixture of angry curses and cries of pain.

The mercenary laughed out loud.

Suddenly, his malicious laughter turned into a strange breath of air.

Ellie put her arms around Mi, covered her eyes, and whispered to Lauren, "Sit still. Don't move."

Lauren felt that some hot water had just spilled on her eyelids, and wanted to wipe it with her hand. Ellie's hand froze when she said this.

When she opened her eyes, the mercenary, a few captive distances away, was raising his hands to grasp his throat, which had been pierced, and a steel tentacle was being drawn back through the blood hole in front of it.

The mercenary's face was half covered by a protective mask, but his eyes were wide with fear and disbelief.

Lauren's body shook and she was as silent as the other captives in the cabin.

The blood-stained tentacle claw slides out of the mercenary's throat, flips through the air and retrieves the air vent in the roof of the cabin, and the blood draws an arc of flesh and bone fragments to the bulkhead.

An impatient male voice from a hidden channel in the roof of the cabin said, "What a noise! The prisoners next to the body, take off your clothes and stick one of them down that fool's throat! Don't let it bleed everywhere! What a nuisance! Cleaning the cabin again... Everyone shut up, behave, and fasten your seat belts. Any more disturbances will be followed by the release of anesthetic gas."

Suddenly another male voice with a touch of schadenfreude came from the channel, "I'm afraid it's harder to clean the cabin after releasing the anesthetic gas? Many people will be incontinent after inhaling the gas..."

The channel is shut down.

The unfortunate man who had just been kicked down crouched on the ground, and the other prisoner who had suffered the most took off the large scarf over his head and wrapped it in a circle over the bloody hole in the mercenary's throat.

The other two prisoners took off their blood-spattered coats and applied them to the wound of the mercenary's corpse, as the unseen male voice had ordered.

The cabin was quiet for a moment, except for the muffled sound of the dying mercenary kicking his foot against the bulkhead.

Finally, the sound stopped.

Now the cabin smelled of blood as well as sweat. Moreover, the bodies lying on the ground take up more space than those standing, and the position of everyone shrinks a little further.

But at least, no one dares to bully them until they reach their destination.

An hour later, the third and fourth prisoners were also taken aboard, and this time the transport finally took off.

The captives, who had only a fixed collar around their waists, were so shaken during takeoff that they had to hold each other close.

Ellie, Lauren, Millet and Mei Xue hold each other tightly, protecting Mei Xue's baby, Tabi, on Mei Xue's chest.

When the ship stabilized, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and relaxed for a while.

There was no artificial gravity field in the hold, and the captives were tethered to their waists by fixed ferries, like floating sausages hanging from the roof of the hold.

While floating, however, you could see a little of what was going on outside through the small porthole on the roof of the shed.

Liberty City, or the Troeandron, a battleship of the Imperial Expeditionary Force's 3rd Division, was now in darkness again, except for a few lights on the tarmac outside the customs house.

It now looks like an unmanned ghost ship floating in space.

The utterly dark, broken-down battleship known as "Broken Sword" Medel had once been their home.

Now, they've all been uprooted.

Ellie and Lauren looked at each other with a confused look in their eyes. I believe many people are in the same mood as they are at this time.

The transport was not moving very fast, but after half an hour the outline of Free City was almost hidden in the dark universe, with only a few faint points of light to prove its existence. At this time, the faint and almost invisible points of light on its body suddenly became more and more, and the points of light quickly enlarged and became brighter.

The light suddenly changed from bright yellow to orange-red to incandescent, too bright to look at.

Everyone in the cabin who saw the scene screamed.

'What's the matter?

'What's going on?

People who couldn't see out their portholes asked anxiously.

They soon saw, too, that the incandescence had changed into a beautiful halo, emitting wavy streaks of light that quickly spread out into the endless darkness of space.

But the beautiful bright halo disappeared after ten seconds, and the light streaks were swallowed up by the dark universe.

"The Free city... Destroyed..." Someone murmured softly.

The news came as a shock to all the captives, but as the fact of Liberty City's demise settled in everyone's minds, their reactions varied.

Ordinary people are shocked and scared, while the rich are much worse off. Some of them were already crying, their tears floating in the weightless environment, and others were not only crying but also berating the Imperial Army for being insane despite the fact that they were still on Imperial ships.

A good free city, even if there are some ugly buildings built illegally, it is the crystallization of many people's efforts for decades, not to mention the treasure they still have in the mansion in the free city that they can't take away!

And, as it stands, the Imperial Army did not take any time or thought to collect the treasure before blowing Liberty City to pieces.

It's crazy.

The rich cried even more when they recalled the luxurious days they had spent in the Free City, and the prospect that seemed as dark as space outside a porthole.

In a cry, the cabin gradually had a gravitational field, the captives no longer like hanging sausage floating and colliding with each other, the poor people were a little happy, as if the stone that had been hanging in the heart had finally fallen to the ground, but the rich people were still crying, as if their hearts had been pierced by a falling stone.

Chapter 2

The baby is playing with little legs crying, Mei Xue told Ellie they, Tabby this is hungry. He's only a month old, and soon he's hungry. But eat and sleep. It's actually pretty easy to take care of.

Lauren unbuttoned the skirt with both hands to hide as much as possible Mei Xue, Ellie also quickly followed suit, they covered Mei Xue and Tabby in the small space surrounded by the skirt, let her feed Tabby.

The baby does not respond to the changes in its environment around it, it is also easily satisfied, after a while full, and then a few purrs to sleep.

Two hours later there was another sound in the sound channel on the roof of the cabin. The impatient male voice told the mercenary guarding the prisoners to take whoever he needed to the toilet. Two people at a time, toilets at either end of the cabin aisle.

Since the crowd gathered on the main road, no one has had a chance to use the toilet, and I'm afraid some people will reach their limit in a few moments.

Ellie thought that maybe the impatient Imperial army was afraid of the trouble of cleaning up and then kindly let them go to the toilet.

However, the mercenaries see this as a great opportunity for them to earn extra money.

Looking at the mercenaries of the poor and looking at the mercenaries of the rich negotiated well, let the rich people go first, and receive half of the money.

No money. Just wait till the end.

Among the first ladies to use the toilet, Ellie met an acquaintance.

The Peach Princess.

She wore a snow-white gown with a front, the neckline embroidered with peach-red flowers, the stamen of which were embroidered with gold thread, and each stamen topped with a round pearl the size of a grain of rice. She wore no wig, and her slightly curly chestnut hair was cut short, almost like a boy's haircut, but it was very matter-fitting, and her soft bangs and sideburns framed her white face, making her look much younger than she had in a blonde updo, and there was an almost innocent playiness.

The light in the cabin was not very good, but Allie could see the expression on Dorothy's face.

The woman didn't seem flustered or upset, but she walked slowly, and Ellie wondered if the injury to her leg had taken its toll after all, but the slower-than-normal gait gave her a special beauty, a grace that seemed like she was in control.

Ellie didn't think Dorothy, whose eyes were still above her head, would recognize her, but she pulled the scarf around her face a little tighter. Princess Dorothy must have come with her servants and mercenaries, and the princess who went with her to the toilet, though more richly dressed than she was, was very respectful, and evidently subordinate to her.

After all the rich people had used the toilet, it was finally their turn to use the poor.

Looks like their mercenary thinks he's not making enough money, and he needs to get to the bathroom first.

The poor, who had endured for a long time, finally became dissatisfied, and no one was willing to bribe them, and some people pulled the clothes from the dead mercenary's throat and threw them at the heads of the mercenaries.

The mercenaries had to give up and let everyone line up for the toilet.

After going to the toilet, people who had not eaten for several hours felt hungry again, some people could not help but take out the food hidden on their bodies, Ellie and they watched for a while, the impatient Imperial soldier has not made a sound, they feel that they may be acquiescing in the captives to eat, and quickly take out the food and water hidden on their bodies.

Mei Xue also brought a lot of food, are some taste of general but nutritious food, such as protein nutrition bars and so on, and Allie Lauren's various taste rich but not nutritious snacks are completely different, we exchange food, this meal is very enjoyable to eat.

Woe befell the mercenaries who guarded the poor; they were the first of all the inhabitants of the free city to be captured, and had long since run out of power-squeezing biscuits with them, and dared not blackmail the poor, and of course no one was willing to share their food, so they finally had to buy some food and water from their comrades who were watching the rich.

A mercenary looks at a gloating fat man in the crowd and snarls, "Just wait, this ship has to land sometime."

The implication, of course, is that he'll take revenge on these poor bastards after he lands.

The fat man shivered, did not dare to laugh at the mercenary again, and quickly lowered his face to eat silently.

A worried Lauren and Allie locked eyes. Allie kept her voice to a whisper. "Don't worry." Who knows how long these mercenaries will survive after they land.

The impatient male voice then sounded again, "No food and drink in ten minutes, no more food until the destination." You can go to the bathroom again in four hours."

Mei Xue listened blankly at Ellie and Lauren, "Then my baby..."

A baby who needs to poop and eat doesn't care about you.

Ellie and Lauren had no experience with baby feeding, and they were lost.

The male voice suddenly added, "Except for babies."

After that, there was no sound.

Lauren whispered to Allie, "I think these Imperial soldiers are better than the Free City mercenaries."

Ellie doesn't know if she agrees with Lauren.

In her mind, the Imperial Army should naturally belong to the evil side. They have captured Suranto, waged a hundred years of war, reduced many planets, including b612, to dust, and now they have captured them from Liberty City and shipped them off like cattle on transports somewhere.

But...

She's a little lost.

Millet ate and drank enough and fell asleep like Tabby.

She leaned on Ellie's shoulder, still clutching the spherical probe in her hand.

The flight went on for another three hours, and by this time it was late at night in the Free City, and the prisoners in the cabin were so crooked that they could lean against the bulkheads and bars, and with nothing to hold on to, they fell asleep against each other.

During this period, Mei Xue's little baby ate milk again and changed a diaper.

The diaper wrapped in poop is folded into a small bag by Mei Xue, and the people around them consciously help them throw the small smelly bag onto the corpse of the mercenary.

Ellie and Lauren were quietly discussing where they were going to leave their destination.

Impatient said, four hours to go to the bathroom, which means that the total length of the trip is more than eight hours, and he didn't specifically tell us what to do with the dead mercenaries, which means that the trip is unlikely to be longer than ten hours.

The cabin is at room temperature, and the body will begin to decompose after eight to ten hours, and although there are no flies in the cabin for the time being, after ten hours the belly of the body will begin to swell, and there may be water overflow and make the cabin even dirtier.

Given his operational aversion to sweeping, they would surely arrive before that, or at least land for a resupply stop.

So, the only planet that is eight to ten hours away from Liberty City is Hela.

Ellie thought again about how long they had flown before Liberty City was barely visible, estimated the transport's speed, and was confident in her prediction.

Four hours passed quickly, and the impatient male voice reminded the captives that they could go to the toilet, but they still fasted after that, he added, except for babies.

Watching the poor mercenaries see that the Imperial soldier watching the cabin is very concerned about Miyuki with the baby, so they go to the toilet first.

Lauren helped Mixue carry little Tabby and went to the bathroom with her.

Then it's Ellie and Mi.

None of the rich object to such an arrangement.

There you go, poor and rich, and the prisoners go to the toilet again.

The atmosphere in the cabin was more harmonious than ever.

At that moment, the toilet at the end of the hall suddenly screamed miserably, and someone shouted "sh! t!"

In an instant, a violent shock came from the end of the cabin, and the prisoners were tossed up and down like waves to the floor, and one unlucky rich man's belt broke from the roof of the shed, and fell with a thud on a noblewoman who had not yet risen, and screamed a series of profanities that did not fit her image.

Ellie Lauren called millet tightly hug together, Mei Xue and the baby around the middle. All the prisoners were screaming, and the octopus from the roof vent crawled out and reached out its tentacles to grab the fallen rich man and anchor him. A mechanical voice kept coming out of its large head: "All non-combatants fasten their seatbelts and hold on." Under attack! Under attack! I repeat, under attack! All non-combatants fasten their seatbelts and hold on. Any suspicious action will be considered hostile!"

This mechanical announcement caused the cabin to scream and howl.

The ladies began a new round of crying and cursing, some Shouting in horror, some muttering to themselves what they were saying.

Lauren held Mei Xue and Millet close to her, and began to say the prayer again, but the same sentence was repeated three times, and it was the same sentence over and over again, "Deliver us from evil and teach us not to meet temptations." Ellie was silent, and suddenly there was a sadness in her heart, and this sadness overwhelmed the panic in her heart, and strangely became calm.

She untied the shawl that covered her face, slipped it through the iron bars behind her back and tied it tightly to her breast. She tied it and then did the same with Lauren's scarf.

During this time, the transport ship was hit again, several passengers in the waist of the belt broke off, one sitting in the front flew out of the steel barrier between the cargo holds, hit the head and face of the blood.

Ellie closed her eyes, afraid to imagine what had caused the impact. Shells? Who's attacking them?

Lauren was Ellie firmly fixed behind the iron fence finally calm down from the panic, she instructed millet lie on Ellie's chest, take off the scarf from behind his back to tie the two ends of the iron fence behind Ellie. At the same time she unwrapped Mei Xue's scarf and tied it with herself. Little Tumbi was crying so hard that Mei Xue held her close to her chest, her hand over her head.

As the four huddled together, Lauren asked Ellie, "What now?"

Ellie looked around the cabin at all the clutter and screaming and crying passengers and whispered, "Now, we pray."

Lauren's prayers didn't help much this time.

They pray so much in a short period of time that even God gets bored.

Their transport was soon hit again by enemy fire, and occasionally through the portholes on the roof of the shed you could see burning debris flying from the rear of the transport, which crashed with such force against the portholes and ceiling that the cabin made a terrible creaking sound, as if it were going to disassemble in space the next second.

All Ellie could do was pray that the ship's power bank wasn't too close to her in the cargo bay. If the energy reservoir is hit, it won't take more than a second for everyone to turn into a flash of fireworks.

The Octopus gave up trying to secure the stricken passengers and ran away through the air vents in the roof of the cabin, with the very bad news announced by the mechanical voice: "Engine one has failed, engine two has been hit... The crew prepared for an unscheduled landing... Countdown to the crash landing begins --"

By the time the mechanical sound of the countdown faded from the air ducts, the captives in the cabin were screaming their lungs out.

Waves of terrifying shaking shook the captives like shredded paper, and many of them were completely torn off their seat belts in the shaking, losing what little protection they had and flying around the cabin involuntarily, the sound of human bones breaking and bodies hitting the bulkhead mixed with constant screams of distress.

Lauren and Miyuki can't help but close their eyes. Ellie holds Millet's back and sees a series of bright lights representing explosion and death outside the porthole, which seems not too far away in space. She is forced to close her eyes by the strong light.

More than a dozen lights lit up.

How many transports did the Imperial Army send to Liberty City?

Are those transports loaded with prisoners from Liberty City?

Were they attacked like them?

Is that all the light?

They're still quite a distance from Hela, and probably won't even have a chance of landing.

Next thing I knew, their transport was getting closer and closer to Hela, the gold and blue planet visible through the porthole as the hull continued to rotate.

The transport suddenly seemed to accelerate, the shaking in the cargo hold was more intense, even the iron bars of the isolation shook, and there was a buzzing sound like a buzz, and the rotation became more and more violent.

Then, with a loud bang, the whole ship was like a cardboard box held by a naughty child in the hand, and the captives in the cargo hold became small dolls contained in the carton, crackling against the wall of the carton.

Ellie didn't bother to count how many g's they had taken, because she too closed her eyes tightly in fear and repeated Lauren's prayer.

The walls of the cabin were rattling, and I didn't know if it was just friction with the atmosphere as we accelerated or if the ship had been shot several times and was falling apart.

The ship was still spinning rapidly, and the captives in the cabin were tossed up and down in strange ways, many of them vomiting, many of them incontinence, and unidentifiable muck clinging to the bulkheads and passengers, leaping about the cabin with long-lost jewelry, trinks, scattered clothing, and pieces and parts of the ship.