"Lee Patchinyang, he used to work at 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 very serious person in whatever he does and never cares. Well,
If you meet 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. He knew his subordinates like a brother who had grown up. Augustus would be embarrassed by their bad habits.
Annoyed, proud of their strengths, and that photo is 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. Most importantly, when he smiled, he always felt fake.
Although Rick corrected his smile in the mirror countless times during boot camp to 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 was difficult to survive.
For the people at the bottom who went down there, it was simply heaven.
But in Rick's mind, everything has its price.
Growing up, Rick had never left the hundreds-story Bennett Sky Tower owned by his family in the center of Tarsonis City. The people Rick saw the most were his nannies, butlers and maids.
, 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 - should
Which of the cost accounts to cut in the interstellar barge shipping network to provide profit, Rick's answer is people.
The parents never allowed anyone other than family members and servants to have close contact with their son. This was certainly 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 their son, who possessed 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 for greater rights.
The swords of interests are at odds with each other. 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 used commodity dumping, land annexation, economic sanctions and other means to absorb nutrients from other planets in order to thrive in recent decades.
The Tyranid Federation is like a pressure cooker placed on top of a raging fire. Hundreds of planets such as Korhal IV and Turasis II are thrown into the pot and cooked until the flesh and bones are separated, until all the nutrients are
All the nutrients are 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 from the top floor of the Bennett Sky Tower every day, watching hundreds of skyscrapers and Sky Towers cut the deep blue sky of Tarsonis into jagged shapes.
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 rivers of industrial wastewater and piles of discarded parts.
, 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, he might be able to endure 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 has someone who is far more outstanding than himself.
, the sister who is good at managing businesses has been determined to be the definite heir of 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 unwilling to be bound, resolutely
Escaped from home, concealed the surname 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 rows and one class will be your home." Augustus said, "We are all your brothers."
...
After Rick Kidd was assigned to 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 the 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, Harnack 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 ecstatic. Lancer is the transitional rank from soldier to noncommissioned officer, which means that Augustus will be promoted to lance sergeant.
He was promoted to Corporal very quickly.
After being surprised, what followed was uncontrollable pride. During the more than two months of being together in the boot camp, they had regarded Augustus as their true "one of their own." There is no doubt that Augustus
Stuart has become the soul of this combat squad.
That night, Augustus originally wanted to take the class to 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 can only cook a few dishes, stewed potatoes, vegetable soup and boiled pork sausage.
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 pm, 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 letters, Augustus never talked about the cruelty or politics of the battlefield. He mostly talked about the beautiful starry sky outside Korhal and the humanities and customs near the station. In the letter to his mother,
As usual, Augustus asked about the current situation at home, and occasionally asked about his father and his revolutionary cause.
Augustus knew that such a letter would please his father and mother.