Summoning Mercenaries

"Captain, what's the matter?"

After Kent walked out of the flagship's combat conference room, he saw Cortana waiting for him in the deck corridor.

"Hehe." Kent smiled lightly, and asked Cortana back: "The next battle strategy has already taken shape, but what about you and Dr. Halsey?"

"It is estimated that the system of the Covenant warship will be completely replaced in three days." Cortana followed Kent, and her small hand held Lakent's forearm.

"Huh?" Sensing Cortana's little move, Kent, who was walking towards the combat readiness cabin, stopped and looked at her, and asked with a soft smile:

"Hehe, why are you so awkward all of a sudden?"

"Ken...Kent..." At this moment, Cortana didn't call Kent the leader as usual, and said a little shyly, "The war is over now...can you accompany me to a restaurant in Haiming City?"

"Huh?" Kent was a little confused.

"Captain!" Seeing Kent's confused expression, Cortana quickly waved:

"Leader, I have checked thousands of restaurants in Haiming City, and I am sure which one is the best, don't worry!"

"Haha!" Kent seemed amused by Cortana's flustered and cute look, then patted her on the shoulder and said:

"Cortana, why do you suddenly want to invite me to dinner? Also, can you have dinner?"

After all, in Kent's eyes, Cortana is an artificial intelligence. Even if she has the biological body created by Dr. Halsey, she still belongs to the category of robots... right?

"Yes!" Cortana nodded quickly, patted her very flat belly and said proudly:

"Dr. Halsey made the digestive system for this body, which means I also need to eat like you to provide energy for the body

At the same time, Dr. Halsey also made me a special taste bud, which allows me to experience the taste of your human food."

"Oh? Really?" After hearing Cortana's explanation, Kent also exclaimed, and at the same time his eyes moved down involuntarily...

Seeing Kent's gaze, Cortana blushed and said, "Commander...you and I...except for the difference in brain structure... everything else is the same."

"Pfft! Cough cough!" Kent suddenly seemed to have suffered a critical blow, and almost spit out nosebleeds. He waited for a long time before saying:

"Okay...that... Well, anyway, the work of rebuilding Haiming City is not completely completed by our mercenaries, and this period of time is still very leisurely."

"Really? That's great!" Cortana also jumped excitedly when Kent agreed.

"I happened to be back on the Phantom, and I told everyone to have a dinner together, and I'll treat you." Kent said, and then started walking towards the combat readiness cabin.

"Huh?" After hearing Kent's words, Cortana was immediately dumbfounded, and then ran to Kent to stop him and explained: "Captain, I just want to eat with you..."

"Huh?" Kent didn't know why Cortana made this request, but he nodded and agreed without thinking too much: "Okay, then it's just the two of us."

"Enn!" Seeing that Kent agreed, Cortana finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Then the two walked to the combat readiness cabin on the flagship and returned to the Phantom via the Pelican.

After that, both Kent and Cortana changed into casual clothes, and took the Pelican again to the airport in Haiming City, which had resumed normal operations.

Then he went to the blue mercenary regiment barracks stationed near the airport, picked up a Warthog, and headed to Haiming City.

Although Haiming City was looted by the Star Alliance the day before, there were already many pedestrians on the street today, and the roads were cleaned up by local workers.

Except for the shopping malls that have not yet resumed business, some essential places such as restaurants and small shops have resumed normal business.

As for some obviously popular restaurants that are not open, it is very likely that the store owners died in the attack of the Star Alliance.

And Kent also learned later that the few space shuttles that flew away before were all dignitaries on the sea star, and because they were afraid that hiding in the underground refuge would be a dead end, they forced the army commander to let them take off and leave.

Who knew that it was because they wanted to escape, they didn't know that the reinforcements had arrived, and they didn't want to stay with Ping Ming and Lu Lu and other hypocritical reasons, so these dignitaries were completely self-inflicted.

Since two regiments fought hard outside the city, giving the army enough time to lead the civilians on Starfish to evacuate to underground shelters, Haiming City did not suffer much in essence.

Only 20% of the buildings in the city were destroyed, and workers had to work overtime to rebuild.

There weren't many cars on the street, and most of them were military vehicles driven by other mercenaries, so Kent and Cortana soon came to the restaurant.

but...

Kent looked at the ruins that seemed to be trampled down by the Scarab, and said to Cortana, who was sitting in the co-pilot: "Is this the restaurant you mentioned?"

I saw Kent parked on the right side of the road, and the destination on the right, which is the restaurant Cortana said, has become a pile of ruins, or the commercial shops on both sides of this street have been destroyed due to the fighting.

"Ah?! How could this be..." Cortana was frustrated to see that the restaurant she had chosen for a long time had been destroyed.

"Hehe." Seeing Cortana's sad face, Kent patted the top of her head lightly, and said with a smile:

"In this battle, you helped the captain and the others in the naval battle. You don't know much about the land battle, so you don't know that this place was destroyed."

"But! But the two of us made an appointment..." Cortana was afraid that she would finally get Kent out alone, so it would be a mess.

Thinking of this, Cortana couldn't help puffing her mouth out of anger, crossing her arms and crossing her chest, feeling sulking.

After seeing Cortana's lovely face, even Kent was inadvertently distracted, and after reacting, he smiled at Cortana:

"When we fought against the Star Alliance, there was a Lanzhou ramen restaurant in the next street. I don't know if the boss is open. Why don't we go and have a look?"

"Lanzhou Ramen??" After hearing Kent's words, Cortana was obviously much happier, but she was puzzled what kind of restaurant this was, and then asked again:

"This name is both familiar and strange. Which country is it from?"

"Lanzhou Ramen..." Kent smiled and launched the Warthog, and then pretended to be mysterious: "This is a specialty of China, and every city, every county, and every corner has Lanzhou Ramen. "

"Ah?" Hearing this, Cortana exclaimed, "Could it be a joint catering company?"

"Is it... huh? The door actually opened!" Kent was also surprised.

While the two were talking, they came to the street next door, and a green brand of Lanzhou Ramen was opening to receive customers.