Chapter 28 Kolev's Secret Garden
Of course they did not go directly to the administrative planet of the Kashi Federation.
A normal administrative star with a full range of defense systems around the planet.
This colony was just a coordinate, a beacon, guiding them to the real secret base.
——An abandoned resource star in the same star system as the administrative star.
While Kolev was explaining the various operations of the spacecraft to Yang Ming, he steadily avoided several slow-moving patrol ships and the mostly abandoned defense probes , and entered the synchronous orbit of the resource planet.
After confirming that there were no abnormalities, the pirate ship entered the thin atmosphere of the resource star.
This planet is like a regular block of ice. It is outside the habitable zone of the star system and receives relatively little stellar heat.
When Yang Ming looked down, the ground was covered with white.
"There's plenty of fresh water here, but the atmosphere is thin."
Kolev introduced with a smile:
“This planet was not originally here. It must have been dragged here during the last civilization era to serve as a companion to the planet next door. However, the resources here have been drained, and only some huge holes are left under the ice sheet.
"The planet next door is also very interesting. I have a lot of assets on it. Since time is tight, I won't take you there."
Yang Ming yawned. The operating buttons in his eyes were like a group of flying little fish, attacking his retina frantically.
He felt that he would need to get an injection of gene stabilizing fluid later.
Studying in class is more likely to cause anxiety than fighting.
"How long will we stay here?" Yang Ming asked.
"We brought enough supplies, so we can live here for three years," Kolev said with a smile, "but I can't let Kimo wait too long. We'll stay for about three months, hide from the limelight, and then leave."
Mimi asked, "Dad, is there anything I can do?"
"Happiness, my child," Kolev said with a smile, "You just need to enjoy everything here. This is the fortress I designed for the two of us for more than ten years. You will be surprised later! Guess what I used? This is a small part of the wealth I have accumulated for half a lifetime."
Yang Ming immediately became excited.
——Expectations for the pirates' wealth.
The pirate ship slowly sailed towards the fishbone-like ridge. Kolev steadily stuffed the pirate ship into a very inconspicuous canyon. Yang Ming and others were asked to put on bulky planetary exploration suits.
When the old crew members wanted to move the supplies, Kolev just waved his hand and said, "Don't worry about that. Follow me! There are many tireless workers here!"
The group left the pirate ship and slowly reached the bottom of the canyon along the ridge.
Kolev walked to the knife-like stone wall, lowered his head and fiddled with it for a while, and suddenly a two-meter by three-meter projection screen appeared in front of him.
This is a display interface with monitoring screens displayed in blocks.
Yang Ming leaned in to take a look and exclaimed: "It's much more spacious inside than the spaceship."
"Haha! Hanton! You want to know what I did here, right?" Kolev said excitedly.
"In no mood."
"No! Tell me what you want! My dear First Mate Hanton, I can give you the same management authority as my daughter!"
“The scenery here is really nice.”
Yang Ming looked calmly at the sky filled with aurora.
Mimili on the side couldn't help laughing out loud.
After confirming again and again that the base had not been invaded, Kolev waited for a few minutes before opening the gate of the base.
Along with a roar, the camouflaged ice and stone layers on both sides slowly moved, revealing a passage sloping downward.
Kolev and Yang Ming walked in the front, and everyone lined up and walked slowly down. After passing several rooms with "lock" structures, they finally entered the spacious lobby of the base that looked like a large aircraft carrier hangar.
Kolev's long-planned performance officially began.
Two rows of robots of different appearances lined up neatly, using their bodies of different structures and sizes to bow gracefully at the same time, and then shouted in more than fifty different electronic synthesized voices:
"Welcome home, Master."
Yang Ming looked at these robots with low-level intelligence with interest.
Most of them are humanoid intelligent machines such as maids and butlers, and the others are engineering intelligent machines. There are still stone chips and residues on their tracks, and it seems that they have been running for quite a long time.
Kolev's group of old friends were completely stunned.
"Molly!" Kolev yelled, "Why don't you come out and greet the guests! Where the hell have you been, Molly!"
"Here I come, Master."
A cold electronic synthesized sound suddenly rang out, and light from all corners intertwined to form a three-dimensional projection in front of Kolev.
This is a virtual character with a somewhat contradictory appearance.
She was wearing a professional suit, stockings, and a pair of red-soled high heels, but her small round face looked as childish as a girl, and she was wearing a pair of square-framed glasses.
Yang Ming laughed and said, "Kolev, you have exposed your own fetish."
"Guest, please do not slander my host."
Molly - this virtual image, was speaking seriously, and the voice seemed to come directly from her mouth:
"When the master first designed my appearance, the relevant hormone secretion in his body was not enough to make him interested in this aspect. He was already old enough."
"Molly! Shut up!" Kolev took off the helmet of his exploration suit and cursed through gritted teeth.
Molly whispered, "Good Master, if my momentary honesty has caused you any loss of face, I feel deeply guilty for it."
"Lower your sharp tongue index by 20%, your nagging index by 50%, and your humor index by 50%! Damn it! Why did I give you so many boring parameters!"
Kolev bumped Yang Ming with his shoulder and cursed:
"It's already giving me a headache to have this guy quarrel with me. Now, some of your functions can be laid off!"
“Oh, this is such a joy to behold… the set-up is complete.”
Molly's tone of voice changed slightly and became much more serious.
"Master, please set permissions for the guest."
"Mimili, my only daughter, the heir to everything I have after my death," Kolev pointed at Miimili behind him, "her authority is set to the highest level."
He lowered his voice and added: "Except for the list of my property, I can only give it to her after I die."
"Already set, second master."
Mimi Li raised her hand to her forehead, her face full of helplessness: "Dad! I can survive without you!"
"But you will definitely not be as comfortable as if you were under my care."
Kolev smiled smugly and pointed at Yang Ming:
"This guy has the same privileges as Mimily, but he is prohibited from entering the ladies' next residence. The others have VIP privileges."
"It has been set, third master, to prohibit entry into the ladies' room...but I can't control those mechanical door locks that are not connected to the Internet."
"I just asked you to keep an eye on him! Keep me informed at all times!"
"Yes, my old master."
Molly's virtual image took out a notebook and quickly wrote something down.
Then she turned around and called the shots. Two butler robots and eight maid robots stepped forward to help Yang Ming and his party take off their heavy planetary exploration suits. More than a dozen tracked robots left the base through a dedicated passage on the other side and headed to the pirate ship to transport supplies.
A few minutes later, everyone sat on the soft sofas on the left side of the main hall, drinking delicious drinks, listening to melodious music, and admiring the almost lifelike landscape projection on the wall.
The old pirates kept marveling at the luxury here.
Yang Ming couldn't wait to go around everywhere.
When the robots left, the lobby became somewhat empty.
On the left side of the front hall is the entertainment area, and on the right side is the work area, which is equipped with several workbenches, a row of black square computer cases, and several highly integrated consoles.
The center of the front hall was empty. Yang Ming observed it carefully for a while and soon found something unusual.
This is a circular lifting device with a diameter of 20 meters. There is also a hidden exit diagonally upward. When thinking about the terrain outside - the ridges arranged like fish bones, Yang Ming immediately had some guesses.
"Kolev, there are lifeboats and catapult acceleration tracks here, right?"
Yang Ming asked in surprise.
Kolev, who was showing off to his old friends, raised his eyebrows and said with a smile:
"A qualified pirate should always consider his escape route. Since you are so interested, I will take you to have a look around Henton. This is just the tip of the iceberg."
Mimili asked, "Dad, you disappeared every once in a while before. Did you come here?"
"Yes," Kolev smiled, "If I die in prison, you will get the information Molly gave you. This is my last gift to you, a base that can be self-recycling."
Mimi's eyes were full of emotion, and she said with some guilt: "I messed it up."
"Cheer up," Kolev sighed, "Your uncle Hanton is right. I look at you through too many filters. But don't worry at all. Dad will help you with everything."
"But Dad..."
"Come on, I'll take you around first!"
Kolev did not give his daughter more chance to speak, and he and Yang Ming walked towards the corridor on the far right with their arms around each other.
Mimily's expression was a little gloomy.
"Master Mimili," Molly's projection appeared beside her, "he loves you very much."
"Thanks."
"He loves you more than you ever thought," Molly whispered.
Mimili shrugged, folded her arms and followed the two men in front, laughing softly, "Looking at the current situation, he likes Uncle Hanton more."
Molly said, "It's actually very rare for an old man like your father who is weird and sloppy to find a like-minded friend. This is a wonderful experience for his later years."
Mimi sneered and raised her eyebrows slightly at Molly.
They started a pleasant chat.
…
Yang Ming learned the origin of this base from the old man.
When Kolev was planning all this, he spent a lot of money to get a supporting base system for the planetary transformation system, and it took more than ten years to build the machine.
"Don't worry, I won't cause an Omnic Crisis. If no one comes here, this place will only continue to operate for twenty years."
Kolev smiled and said:
"Molly is the brains here, I put a bunch of patches in her head so she looks silly, which is also my masterpiece."
He turned his head to glance at Mimi Li, who was attracted by the ornaments, and whispered, "I usually call Molly my youngest daughter. In fact, when my wife and I planned to have a second child, we wanted to name her Mo Molly."
"Mimili will be jealous," Yang Ming reminded with a smile, "You'd better treat Molly as a little housekeeper."
"Yes, that's right. Mimily is very much like her mother in that respect."
Kolev paused, looked at the corridor to the side, and said with a smile: "In front is her mother's tomb, and it will be mine in the future. I hope so."
Mimili had been attracted here by the signpost, and accompanied by Molly, she walked towards the tomb at the end of the corridor.
There’s an indoor jungle inside.
Yang Ming leaned against the wall projecting the aquarium landscape, and together with Kolev, he stared at the backs of his two "daughters".
The old pirates have begun to visit the base from other routes.
Yang Ming asked slowly: "What are you going to do?"
"which aspect?"
"Kill Kimo."
"Come with me," Kolev subconsciously put his hands behind his back. This action was still influenced by Yang Ming. "Molly, cancel the monitoring of the two of us. Alert us if someone approaches."
Molly's voice came through the wall: "Okay, Master."
Kolev took Yang Ming for a slow stroll, passing by the elegantly decorated residential area and entertainment room, and heading towards the sports field at the back of the base.
The old pirate analyzed carefully:
"The Black Dragon is not a united front now. Kimo was not originally my designated successor. He is a captain and a captain. The other three captains have differences with him and at least they will not obey him as they appear to be.
“My appearance is like hitting these gaps with a hammer. What we need to do next is to wait, a little while.
“It’s Kimo who’s anxious now.
"I want to choose one of the other three captains to rebel. I know their personalities. They are all pirates I trained. This is the basis for my confrontation with Kimo.
"Then, Hamton, I need you to help me."
"Get rid of Kimo?" Yang Ming said with a smile, "I need an assault boat, or I need to be in the same room with him."
Kolev smiled and patted Yang Ming's arm, saying gently: "Although it is not my intention to say this, this is a deal. I asked you for help because of my daughter's matter, so I should give you enough compensation."
He paused and pressed a few times on one wall. The metal wall slowly rose, revealing a transparent glass wall.
and a giant hangar behind a glass wall.
A medium-sized clamp-shaped ship was lying quietly in the hangar, next to it were some movable scaffolds and a dozen tracked robots busy at work.
"This is your reward. I will transfer it to you at a very low price, just... one million federal credit points. You can pay it in installments. How about that?"
Kolev gave a profiteer's smile.
"Oh, just one million?"
Yang Ming couldn't take his eyes away for a moment: "Are you serious?"
