Chapter 1267.
That night, Meng Liang’o, the commander of the Morihai First Machine Infantry Regiment, hosted a banquet at the Wantai Hotel in the underground city of Yinsen to receive Wang Duan.
As the last stronghold of the empire on the planet Senghai, the Yin Sen base was divided into two parts: the one above belonged to the military base, while the one below was a city that housed hundreds of thousands of people.
The first feeling that this underground city gave Wang Chen was that it was ancient.
It wasn’t that it had a very long history, but the city looked like it had traveled to the present hundreds of years ago, or perhaps it had been built for hundreds of years without being updated.
The various buildings, public facilities, including transportation, and so on, Wang Chuan had only seen in historical documentaries.
For example, the cars running on the streets were all fuel-powered!
And this most luxurious hotel where Meng Liang’ao had hosted a banquet for him, even more so, it gave Wang Chuan the illusion of dreaming back to his previous life.
The high-tech of the empire was not to be seen here.
“Just get used to it.”
Meng Liang’ao was obviously worried that Wang Chuan was not adapting and comforted, “When I first came here, I felt like I had been exiled to a barbaric planet, and it took a long time before I could barely get used to it.”
The reason why Silver Forest Base had such a scene was entirely due to the fact that the geomagnetic storms and energy tides had interfered and invaded the high-tech products too much.
The fact was that this underground city had been built less than a hundred years ago, and even though it had been laid out with a variety of defense and shielding measures, it couldn’t completely withstand the influences from the outside world.
Those valuable tech products were brought over and often scrapped in a few weeks, no one could afford such losses in the long run.
That was why the things in Gensen Dungeon seemed so old – simple and durable!
And while the surface bases were a little better, they weren’t much better; large equipment like transport ships were usually stationed at long term space stations in synchronized orbits, and only landed on planets when a safety window arose.
This also led to the people on Senghai Star not being able to access and use the star network, becoming an isolated existence among the hundreds of living planets in the Empire, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that it was an exile to be sent here.
The officers of the Machine Infantry Regiment who were present at the same table all showed empathetic expressions.
Wang Dust nodded, “It’s fine, I can get used to it.”
Sennheisen was backward, but for him, he could still live comfortably even on a truly barbaric planet, so he didn’t care!
Most importantly, the 7th Fast Reaction Fleet had given Wang Chen a short deadline for his mission, and by then, whether it was completed or not, he was going to return to the TK043 Space Bastion.
“That’s good.”
Meng Liang’ao said smilingly, “Come on, drink, this is the unique Bijou Wine on Senhai Star!”
What this Machine Infantry Regiment Commander used to entertain Wang Chuan tonight was a turquoise-colored liquor that smelled fruity, while the taste in the mouth was excellent, making people feel refreshed.
Wang Chuan dried a cup and couldn’t help but nod his head, “Good wine.”
“Drink more if you like it!”
Meng Liangao’s smile had a hint of ambiguity in it, “Drink up first, there’s still a program behind.”
Wang Chen played with the empty cup in his hand and smiled without answering.
Although this Bijou wine was not a technological product, it had a weak hallucinogenic effect, which was only masked by its unique taste, and ordinary people could not tell the difference.
And then the more you drink, the higher you get.
The more you drink, the more you get high!
So impatient to pull yourself down?
Wang dust with his toes can figure out what the back of the program is, is nothing more than sound and color that set.
But he is new to the country, also see through not to say, anyway, is the cup to wine dry, and Meng Liang Ao and a group of machine infantry regiment officers to drink, drink is a painful and unparalleled.
Finished more than a dozen bottles of Bijou wine, Meng Liang Ao and a few officers, each face red eyes fluttering, speak a little tongue, at least six or seven points of drunkenness.
Wang Duan, who drank the most, was sitting still without changing his color, and his eyes were even brighter.
“Staff Sergeant Wang is a good drinker!”
Meng Liang’ao realized that it was impossible to get Wang Dust drunk, so he sighed, “I can’t even serve my old age anymore, let’s call it a night, our next show?”
There was a hint of solemnity in his tone.
Wang Dust was pleased, “Good.”
Not only was there a restaurant inside this Wantai Hotel, but there was also a large casino and nightclub, with everything to eat, drink and play.
Under Meng Liang’o’s hospitality, after Wang Dust ate and drank his fill, he first went to the casino to play a handful of games and won more than 100,000 star dollars, and then went to the nightclub to spend it all.
As the highest military administrator of Yin Sen base, Meng Liang Ao is just like the supreme emperor of this underground city, entertaining Wang Chuan with the best wine, the most beautiful women, and he did not pay half of his own pocket!
Wang Chen did not refuse the other party’s hospitality, but in the end, he did not bring a girl to stay overnight in the hotel.
The first day he came to Senghai Star was considered a very fulfilling one.
The next day, Wang Dust met his men in the surface base.
He came here as the staff officer and military police chief of the 1st Senhai Machine Infantry Regiment.
Although the former was the main position, this army had a very backward sequence in the Imperial Army, belonging to the third or fourth tier of local garrisons, plus Senhai Star was far away from the front line, so the staff officer was basically a pose.
Even if Meng Liang’o suddenly hangs up, there are still deputy regiments and sergeant majors to take over, it’s not even Wang Dust’s turn to take the throne by the way.
Instead, the military police chief belonged to a real position.
The military police of Senkai’s 1st Mechanized Infantry Regiment was 100 strong, but only 74 people actually reported to Wang Dust, and that included the civilian staff.
The other 26 had either been killed or injured in the earlier civil unrest, and the vacancies had yet to be filled.
As for Wang Chuan, the young captain who had been parachuted in, the military police sergeants didn’t show much welcome or respect, and most of them had a look of suspicion and caution in their eyes, as if the former wasn’t an officer but a rival.
Such a situation was clearly abnormal.
Wang Chen did not care about this, and did not make any moves to establish authority, but simply said a few words, letting everyone return to their positions and do their own thing.
In the next few days, Wang Dust did not rush to investigate the rebel forces lurking on Senghai Star, he familiarized himself with his duties step by step, little by little to understand and grasp the internal situation of Senghai’s First Machine Infantry Regiment.
The soldiers and officers of the Morihai 1st Machine Infantry Regiment also gradually recognized this new Major Staff Officer.
Except for superficial courtesy, they didn’t have much respect for Wang Chuan, and some of them hid their contempt and hostility in their hearts, and then tacitly kept their distance from Wang Chuan.
There was a great flavor of respect and distance.
As a result, half a month down the line, Wang Chuan did not succeed in integrating into this army, but instead was vaguely ostracized and isolated.