Chapter 75: Walking the path beyond destiny

Author: Repeated attacks and repeated battles

Chapter 75: Walking the path beyond destiny

"Lieutenant Colonel, was all the cargo safely delivered to the ship?"

Rhodes, who had already begun to retreat before the satellite collapsed, stayed on a spacecraft that was many times safer than the escape cabin in the shelter.

Quietly watching the escape capsules swarming outside the ship and being ejected crazily, he asked the lieutenant colonel on the phone.

"Secretary Officer, please rest assured that all the goods have been safely delivered to the spacecraft."

The lieutenant colonel, who always put people at ease just by hearing the sound, replied calmly.

Then he asked again, "Do we need to let the hidden fleet attack to rescue the refugees?"

"No, if we let the fleet come out now, it will be difficult to explain."

Rhodes looked out the window and suddenly paused and then continued.

"Just let the fleet calculate the time and appear before the fleets coming from the United, Orb or PLANT."

"Otherwise, the coordinators will be given the opportunity to throw dirty water on us and all their efforts will be wasted."

"Understood." Lieutenant Colonel Kane was silent for a moment after hearing the reply, and then hung up the phone.

Rhodes didn't pay attention to the Lieutenant Colonel's silence just now.

Because he should have also seen what he just saw.

While speaking, Rhodes saw some unfortunate guys through the glass.

The biggest difference between space satellite cities and cities in the Earth's circle is the atmosphere and the indestructible earth.

If a disaster occurs on the earth and you don't have time to enter a safe shelter, you may still survive if you are lucky enough.

But there is absolutely no such opportunity in the universe.

A vacuum environment will instantly kill you and turn you into a corpse.

And hiding in a shelter doesn't mean you can sit back and relax.

The impact of the satellite's collapse is a disaster that no one who has not seen it with their own eyes can imagine.

Explosions that randomly appear around you anytime and anywhere will engulf you directly.

Various broken fragments of man-made earth, accelerated by kinetic energy, will resemble roaring meteorites, leading people into hell.

All kinds of dangers that humans living on the earth cannot imagine will constantly challenge your heart like a blind box that can only open up disasters.

Even if you survive all these crises, the long wait and the unknown future, the loss of all your wealth, and the despair of not knowing where to go will continue to torture your heart.

Because these same kind of people in the escape cabin who are suffering from mental stress disorder may drag everyone directly into the darkness before the dawn comes.

After understanding all this, Rhodes put away his phone silently and looked out the window.

Immediately, he prepared to make the best use of everything, and finally created a wave of cohesion among natural people.

But before he could take action, the door to the lounge was violently pushed open by Cagalli.

Looking at the automatic door that was forced open, Rhodes raised his eyebrows and thought to himself that this girl is surprisingly strong.

"Rhode, the satellite is really destroyed, how dare ZAFT! How dare they do this!"

She was so angry that her eyes were full of tears. She had lived in a superior environment since she was a child, although she was not a delicate girl.

But seeing such a tragic situation for the first time, Cagalli unconsciously regarded Rhodes, the guy with the title of fiancé, as her closest person, so she came over to talk to her.

He waved his hand to let the guard following the door go away. After watching the door close, Rhodes came over and took Cagalli's hand that was shaking with anger and fear.

He gently held her in his arms and patted her shoulders gently.

After thinking for a while, Rhodes planned to talk about the friendship between countries, although the cost for this girl to understand was too high.

But thinking that she would become the leader of this country in the future, in order to see a different Cagalli in the original world, Rhodes said.

"Because PLANT is stronger than Orb. People in this world don't hit you not because they dare not, but because they don't want to hit you because they are in a good mood today."

"Think about it, if Orb had the power to destroy PLANT, would ZAFT still dare to do what happened today without any scruples?"

Unconsciously wetting Rhode's chest with tears, burying her head in Rhode's arms and listening to his words, Cagalli preached dullly.

"Don't say Orb is weak! It's all because my father didn't speak out to stop it, otherwise ZAFT would have retreated. Why didn't he speak up?"

He patted her shoulder and listened to her jumping words as he spoke quietly.

"There are probably many reasons, but I think the most likely possibility is that I still don't dare. So is Orb's lion also getting old?"

But as soon as he finished speaking, he felt a pain in his shoulder.

Looking sideways, he found that Cagalli was really like the lioness he jokingly called her, biting him on the shoulder, with a trace of hatred in her eyes.

As for who this hatred is directed at, Rhodes thinks it might be everyone.

"Reason?" As if no one bit him, Rhodes asked calmly as he watched the oozing blood begin to stain his clothes.

"You knew it, right from the beginning? Then why didn't you make preparations early!"

"With your ability, you can definitely prevent such a thing from happening, right? Then why do you choose to watch silently like your father!"

Cagalli is just impulsive and has experienced relatively few things, but she is not a fool.

And with her identity and status, even if she doesn't think of it for a moment, someone will naturally remind her.

During the time she left Rhodes, those around her who were loyal to the Asha family or had other intentions.

More or less, some doubts about Rhodes himself have been mentioned.

Then she analyzed it herself, although she was indeed the one who asked Rhodes to come over.

But Rhodes obviously didn't know a thing or two about what might happen.

So, what role does he play in this?

"How do you want me to stop it, leading an entire combined fleet like a knight to save the princess from the dragon's mouth?"

Rhodes put his forehead against Cagalli's head. Their breaths could be heard by each other. Cagalli's face turned red and she quietly let go of her clenched mouth.

"Why do you think your father doesn't say anything? A neutral country means that neither side can help. At the same time, no one will help if something goes wrong."

"Whether it's the Alliance or PLANT, everyone is happy to see Orb disappear."

Rhodes said something earth-shattering.

"What are you talking about? But isn't Orb helping to jointly develop MS?"

Cagalli, who had unknowingly sat with her butt tilted, looked at Rhodes in disbelief with wide eyes.

"Why not develop it locally in Orb?"

The step-by-step guidance allowed Cagalli to follow her own thoughts. Sometimes what she said was not as good as what she imagined, and Rhodes finally began to figure it out.

"To keep it secret!"

After blurting out her words, she then thought, This is wrong. Wouldn't it be more convenient and safer to keep it secret in the country?

"Why is it that ZAFT seizes the opportunity to snatch up the newly developed new body at the moment of transit?"

Staring at her expression, Rhodes continued to attack her soul.

"This, you have leaked the secret!"

Cagalli, who had been completely led astray by Rhodes, stubbornly blamed all of this on the coalition to which Rhodes belonged.

Because she didn't want to believe the not-so-good conjecture in her heart.

"That's for the body we developed."

Although it was Azrael, the guy who killed a thousand swordsmen and competed with his brother for the chairmanship of Blue Cosmos, he did good things, but Rhodes would not admit it.

So a seemingly impeccable reason was thrown out.

Unable to refute, this is indeed the case according to common sense, and Cagalli went deep into deep doubts.

What exactly went wrong?

While shouting that Orb is a neutral country, he is secretly developing MS for the Alliance.

However, the development site is placed on the universe where ZAFT is the strongest. This...

She couldn't understand her father's thoughts. Combined with the satellite being attacked, there was no response from the Orb capital for such a long time.

Gradually, her view of her father began to change.

At this time, Rhodes opened his mouth to preach.

"You are his only daughter. Anyone can doubt him, but you can't."

After specifically emphasizing the fact that Cagalli was his only daughter, Rhodes certainly meant something, and then he continued.

"In today's situation, if you want to maintain neutrality, you need to have enough force to protect yourself. I think it is because of this idea that your father accepted the joint MS development project for the purpose of win-win."

"The project may also be placed in the universe to express goodwill to PLANT and show that it has no intention of becoming their enemy."
To be continued...