StarCraft: Tyranid Empire

Chapter 26 The Bennett Family

"Li Pachinyang, he used to work in Wolf Industrial. After the war broke out, the economy was in a great depression, and he came to join the army after the company laid off employees. Li is a very serious person no matter what he does, and he is never sloppy. Well, if When you see him, you will definitely remember his deep black eyes like deep space."

Rick stared at Augustus intently. For a moment, he felt that Augustus seemed to be the elder brother of these people, and he knew his subordinates like the brothers who grew up.Augustus would be mortified by their bad habits and proud of their strengths, and that photo was a family portrait.

In boot camp, very few people in the same class would talk to Rick because he didn't like to communicate and wasn't humorous enough.On top of that, he always comes across as fake when he smiles.

Despite Rick's numerous attempts to straighten his smile in the mirror to make it more natural during boot camp, it didn't make him any more popular.

Rick was once a member of the founding family of Tarsonis. He grew up in a materially rich but extremely closed environment.In the city of Tarsonis, which still has a huge slum, Rick's life is simply paradise in the eyes of the bottom people who can't even survive.

But in Rick's heart, everything has its price.

Since he was a child, Rick has never stepped out of the several hundred-story Bennett Sky Tower owned by his family in the center of Tarsonis City.The people Rick has seen most are his nannies, housekeepers and maids, from economics, politics, art, management, history, aristocratic etiquette... There is a whole team of private teachers in charge of his education.

In addition, Rick has to learn aerospace, starship manufacturing, interstellar port management and other knowledge closely related to his family industry.When Rick was five years old, his father gave him a homework assignment - which subjects in the interstellar barge transportation network should be cut to provide profit. Rick's answer was people.

The parents never let people other than family members and servants have close contact with their sons. This is of course 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 this son, who possessed the excellent genes of the two families at the same time, could become the heir they wanted [-]% without outside interference.

Rick doesn't like politics, and he has long been aware of the intrigue between the creation families. All the creation families are both friends and enemies.They will form alliances for interests and rights, and they will fight swords for greater rights and interests.The leaders of the founding families are the monarchs of business empires, and their families are the royal courts in these empires.

As the economic and political center of the Tyrann Federation, Tarsonis has absorbed nutrients from other planets for its own growth through commodity dumping, land annexation, and economic sanctions in recent decades.

The Tyrann Federation is like a pressure cooker placed on top of a raging fire. Hundreds of thousands of planets such as Keha IV and Turasis II are thrown into the pot and boiled until the flesh and blood are separated, until all the nutrients are lost. All the nutrients are separated out, leaving behind white bones.

This life like a palace prince made Rick feel a real emptiness. For 18 years, his life has always been the same, without any difference day by day.

He overlooks the bustling Tarsonis from the highest floor of the Bennett Sky Tower every day, watching hundreds of skyscrapers and sky towers cutting the deep blue sky of Tarsonis into jagged shapes.

But like all cities in the Tyrannian Federation, behind the magnificent skyscrapers is a sprawling slum for miles, gray under the glorious and beautiful buildings, there are rivers of industrial waste water flowing, and discarded parts are piled up , Garbage discarded by the upper class.

People who can't see the sun live in shacks made of old metal. This is the most miserable hell on earth in the Tyrann 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 couldn't even touch them.

If Rick was the only heir to the family, he asked himself, maybe he could live with this kind of life, because sooner or later he would run the Bennett family, and sooner or later he would be free.But he also has a sister who is far better than himself and is good at managing businesses. She has been determined to be the heir of the family.

Rick's future life has been gloomy since then, and he will not acquire any starports and space stations under the name of any enterprise or family to avoid the dispersion of family assets and rights.

After his father decided to let Rick marry a noble lady from another family to achieve a political marriage, even though the noble lady looked pretty and charming only from photos and portraits, Rick, who was not willing to be restrained, resolutely He ran away 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 do you have a sad face? Smile." Augustus saw something wrong with Rick's face.

Rick knew he must be smiling badly.

"From now on, three rows and one class will be your home." Augustus said, "We are all your brothers."

After Rick Kidd was incorporated into the first class, the class has 13 people, which has exceeded the standard number of establishments.

The sniper badge on Rick's body and the slender and graceful boatswain FN-92 boatswain sniper rifle on his shoulder made a group of soldiers, especially Renault, envious, but Rick still seemed quite reserved in front of the crowd.

After getting along for a while, although Rick didn't want to discuss his family, Harnack concluded that it came from a noble or wealthy merchant family-because he couldn't even utter a loud swear word.

After learning that Augustus had been promoted to a quasi-sergeant, although everyone in the class was mentally prepared, they were still ecstatic.Commodore is a transitional rank from enlisted to non-commissioned officer, which means that Augustus will be promoted to corporal very quickly at the same rate.

After being surprised, followed by uncontrollable pride. During the more than two months together in the boot camp, they have regarded Augustus as their real "one of them".There is no doubt that Augustus has become the soul of this combat squad.

On that night, Augustus originally wanted to take the people in his squad to have a big meal like he did in the boot camp to celebrate his promotion. Unfortunately, the 5th Battalion's garrison only had air-dropped supply stations and troops canteen.The cooking team in the camp will always only cook a few dishes, such as stewed potatoes, vegetable soup and boiled pork intestines.

Such food is not always available to such Marines. In many cases, they can only eat instant food or sweetener bars.

After training at 8 p.m., while everyone else was busy with their own business, playing cards or reading e-books, Augustus was seriously writing a letter to his sister and mother.

Every week since leaving Korha, Augustus has found time to write letters.

As in the past, in Dorothy's letter, Augustus never talked about the cruelty of the battlefield or politics, and mostly talked about the beautiful starry sky outside Korhal and the humanities and customs near the station.In his letters to his mother, Augustus routinely asked about the current situation of the family, and occasionally asked about his father and his revolutionary cause.

Augustus knew that such a letter would please both father and mother.

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(End of this chapter)