A breeze quietly blew through the treetops, rustling the branches and the leaves. Huang Sugui gave the hat he was wearing a good pull and was about to throw it on the ground when he saw Huang Renming. He tossed the hat onto Huang Renming's head and scolded, "What a good son you raise!"
Huang Renming was too afraid to respond with anything. His brother Huang Hengzhan was still clenching his teeth with anger. He could still see his son's body twisted on the wall. "Dad, let's hold a clan meeting," he said to Huang Sugui.
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Huang Xuan told his mom about the conflict on the phone and then he called Modeste to tell him to store more crude oil. The storage center of Capres was near Santos Port, far away from the base. Huang Xuan had requested Capres to purchase some storage facilities near Sao Paulo.
Rolin always complicated things. For example, he would rather wait for a Panamanian ship to return from the Philippines with loads of fruit than hire an English fleet to transport one kilo of oil from the North Sea of the UK. However, since it was not a professional oil carrier, perhaps the ship would anchor longer at the port and he would have to move the oil to another ship. To cut the costs, sometimes the oil from different regions would be mixed into a bigger tanker and be transported to different places for refining.
Rolin would try his best to get energy and not to be found out by the police, so Huang Xuan was not worried about him at all. He read the materials about the authority code carefully in the room. The screen could be touched and even controlled by sound, much more efficient and convenient than a liquid screen.
"Have you decided where to go?" Rolin asked. It seemed that he had settled the storage matter. Right now he was disguised as Huang Xuan's secretary and dealt with ordinary matters alone. Even Zhang Rong and Modeste would not suspect him.
Huang Xuan shook his head. Although there were more than 10 ordinates in the skull of Gay, most of them overlapped Rolin's. The only bright side about these ordinates was that the period didn't matter anymore, that was to say, any level of base could reach them. On the other hand, no one knew whether there were future ordinates or not. Rolin had said that it was very likely to meet another base in a plane beyond T2100.
Huang Xuan opened a tin of Cola and asked, "Rolin, do we have to use these ordinates? It seems dangerous."
"There are always more buffer zone energy fluctuations in the ordinates kept in authority code, so it is wise to follow the ordinates to get more energy.
"But don't you have these ordinates too?" Huang Xuan sounded a little timid.
"These ordinates have much more detail. They must be very important periods. I suggest you give it a try."
Huang Xuan drank more cola. It seemed that Rolin was always right. "Get ready this time. Don't be like last time when the grains didn't sell well," Huang Xuan compromised.
Before Rolin responded, Huang Xuan added, "And we also need equipment for defense and protection such as rifles and bio-bombs. We have enough money now. Don't save money for me."
"Densely woven metal will consume more than 70 million units of energy, the weapons almost the same. Actually equipment is unnecessary, because I can protect you anytime as long as the passage is not blocked."
"Oh, come on. The passage doesn't even work when the base is moving, not to mention blocked or unblocked. What do I do then? It is just 10 million dollars. Take them."
Seeing Huang Xuan insist, Rolin started to make rifles. Since they would consume more energy when they were sent back through the passage, most of them would be throw away then, so would the unsold grains.
One morning during the weekend, with the base loaded with grains and a few art works, Rolin found a long time period and said to Huang Xuan, "The upgrading is done. Time to go."
"Understood." Huang Xuan called Li Qing and asked him to tell Isaac he would gone for some time.