Calvin also put away his tableware, then stood up and said.
The two people behind him also stood up and followed his footsteps and walked out.
"I don't have the final say on this matter, but the old men in the family are handling it. They have many more things to worry about than us."
Golden and Tariq have no objection to this statement. They have also served in the company as champion swordsmen.
During that period of personal protection of the great mentors, they could also understand how heavy the work pressure these great mentors endured on a daily basis.
"I noticed there seems to be something wrong with your gauntlets?" Tariq decided to change the topic in a lighter direction.
"Well, it's actually not just the gauntlets."
Calvin looked at the position of his hand in annoyance, and gently opened and closed the armor and electromagnetic muscles of his hand with the help of the power servo. The touch from the latter clearly told Calvin:
This armor is a bit too small for his rapidly growing body.
He shrugged awkwardly and said: "As you know, my body is still growing. Just like everyone at this stage, I also have the troubles of this stage..."
"Like a boy who doesn't know how to ask his father for new shoes?"
Tariq picked up what Calvin was saying, but there was a clear sense of joking in what he said.
"That's very good, but don't say it again next time." Calvin rolled his eyes and decided to refuse to continue discussing this embarrassing topic.
While he quickened his pace, leaving Tarik behind who was about to laugh at him, he began to explain to Golden the next steps for the Gray Knights.
The two people behind them also looked at each other and smiled after seeing Calvin's actions, and then followed him.
After the black ship reached the outside of the Rust Belt, it finally got rid of the pirates who were following them like hyenas.
The latter's trail finally stopped at a distance of 10 astronomical units outside the asteroid belt.
After being freed from these threats, the Noble and Dirty ship focused its work on internal cleanup while sailing.
After all, under the influence of these uncertain factors, the black ship will not be able to guarantee that it will stably enter the state of subspace navigation in the next voyage.
After Calvin's Gray Knights participated in the initial cleanup operation as a support force, they never participated in the remaining operations.
Under further evaluation by the bridge commanders, the threat of these orcs who have broken away from the organization and establishment is declining at an unreasonable speed.
Regardless of their IQ or fighting will, these orcs are rapidly degenerating into savages.
This phenomenon further confirmed Calvin's conjecture.
This kind of threat that has dropped to the level of a security incident is enough to be dealt with by the mortal troops on the black ship.
No one wanted to trouble these emperor's angels again because of such a thing. As things went by, Calvin no longer cared too much about this.
His energy is now mainly focused on discussions with Constantine and others. They have considerable differences on the choice of the next course.
The alien inquisitor Mavi has been in a state of ruin recently, naturally due to the inevitable high cost of large-scale memory clearing due to the Gray Knights' participation in the war.
But with the joint reminders of Constantine and Calvin, the stingy fat man still managed to gather his energy and participate in the ensuing discussion.
Based on the considerations of Calvin and others, they hope that the black ship can go to the nearest assembly point of the Tribunal, or report beyond the level to get in touch with the nearest troops of the Holy Hammer Order.
The latter option has been executed and is waiting for a reply, while the execution of the former has caused certain differences with the Mechanic Priest Constantine.
The priest insisted on waiting outside the nearby sector defense node to wait for the exploration fleet or other units from Mars to come to respond.
Before meeting these people he could trust, he had become frightened and did not trust any local forces.
It seems that the abnormal arrival of Grea's exploration fleet has aroused the high vigilance of the Martian Mechanical Priest who has a secret mission.
Several people at the decision-making level, including Calvin, also pushed back on this afterwards, but could not find the place where Constantine's whereabouts were leaked.
As he reviewed the details of the action one by one, Constantine slowly fell silent.
After all possible details were eliminated one by one, those possibilities that were originally impossible became a reality that no one wanted to face.
Because the possibility they are about to face is that this action has been noticed by interested people from the beginning;
Or, there is a more cruel possibility, that is, there are some people inside Mars who have reached some deals with local forces like the Grea Forge World.
The former speculation makes everyone worry about whether they can safely return to the Sun Star Territory on the next journey;
Once the latter becomes a reality, it means that all the actions of everyone are betrayed by the big shot far away on Mars, and are displayed to the local forces here in a one-way and transparent manner.
The nature of this extremely serious betrayal is extremely bad, and it is impossible for the other party to allow anyone to return to Terra alive to accuse him.
During the next three days of the voyage, the three decision-makers were silently thinking about their next move.
They know that no matter which speculation eventually becomes reality, they will have very little time and opportunity left to struggle for survival.
On the fifth day after the black ship sailed out of the asteroid belt, the remnants of the orcs on the ship had been cleared to a polar level.
The engine room, fuel tank, weapons array and the most severely damaged ammunition compartment have all been confirmed safe after repeated key screenings.
Until now, the black ship finally had the basic conditions for subspace navigation.
Without the Manzeville Point of the galaxy as a gravitational bow, a black ship that wants to enter the state of subspace navigation can only rely on its own engine to accelerate slowly. This process takes about 3 days.
In this seemingly long but actually short period of time, the choice of the next target for Black Ship's leap finally aroused a fierce conflict among the three decision-makers.
"I do not agree with your plan. In any case, the Holy Hammer Order is not the standing armed force of the Alien Tribunal and Mars! Without the constraints of any agreement, returning to our order of operations is our top priority! You
We have been involved enough in this muddy water, and I don’t want the precious power that the Emperor has given me to suffer in the future because of the interests of Mars!"
Calvin bluntly refuted Father Constantine's proposal to wait for Mars to arrive.
In previous deductions, they no longer trusted Mars' reaction.
Calvin even suspected that if the black ship really followed the agreement and jumped out of the subspace at the predetermined location, he would have doubts about whether the people it faced would be friends or foes.
This was precisely the point where the priest could not refute the most. He silently insisted on his opinion.
But as the true master of the Black Ship, Judge Marvey's attitude has inevitably moved closer to Calvin's opinion.
Yu Gong, Ma Wei cannot accept that the power of any brother unit is lost on his ship, let alone the Gray Knights, a precious asset of the entire human race.
If these Astartes are really damaged due to this private work, even if he survives in the end, he will not be able to escape internal accountability and purge.
In private, this favor transaction has actually ended after Operation River Valley on the planet Oman.
As the client and employer, Constantine has no reason to keep Calvin and others, let alone Mavey as the middleman and broker?
But a mission is a mission, whether it is Calvin's mission or Constantine's mission. They are not allowed to flinch at this time.
The meeting broke up in a stalemate atmosphere, and this was the third time these people met in just one day.
The temporary friendship between the three people with different backgrounds on the black ship, which was originally a result of their tacit cooperation, finally collapsed due to the conflict of interests represented by their different positions.
Black ship time, evening. Calvin, who has completed daily training and armor maintenance, is on his way back to the station. The daily holy ceremony of the unit is waiting for him to preside over as the leader.
During the silent march, there was nothing but the heavy footsteps of the Terminator itself, as heavy as a bell.
Calvin likes to think in this process of walking alone, thinking about his own meaning, and thinking about past gains and losses.
The communicator beside his ear rang suddenly, and the chirping of electronic sounds broke his thoughts.
Inquisitor Mavey's voice came out from the device's microphone with some distortion, and he returned to his original polite tone, which made Calvin a little uncomfortable:
"Dear Judge Calvin, please come to the bridge. The priest has made a new decision."
The tall Terminator armor in the light gray corridor stopped his heavy steps. After a few seconds of silence, his figure returned to the original route in the doubtful eyes of the mortal crew members who were standing against the wall and prepared to give way.
Walking towards the bridge in the distance with the same heavy steps as when you came.
This discussion was initiated by the other party.
And this conversation was also his last show of patience.