章 21: Silver wolf
Meanwhile, on the Red planet a delivery drone landed in the military compound where Esong Wu was staying. His assistant received a message that the delivery had arrived and he picked it up.
Delivery drones could travel from one planet to another in under five minutes using teleportation. And they always specifically landed at the address they were required to.
General, your delivery is here." Assistant Dez went into Esong's private room in his large space ship.
Esong was resting on the bed with his eyes closed. His long silver hair was loose and flowing around the pillow carelessly. His senses were extremely sharp because the moment Dez touched his door, he opened his eyes, scanned around using his mental strength and closed his eyes again.
When he noticed that Esong's eyes were closed, Dez back tracked and tried to tip toe out of the room.
"Put it down." Esong's voice stopped Dez and he turned around.
"Yes General." Dez smiled and placed the delivery down.
He was so curious about what had been delivered that he hung around and pretended to be reorganizing files on the table next to the bed. He might have looked completely absorbed in his task however his eyes kept secretly peeping as Esong unwrapped the package.
Esong in the meantime observed every aspect of this package. It was a box with some visible items at the top, three glasses of pickled vegetables and a container. The container was made of some type of weak aluminum vacuum flask which was not used anymore in the empire.
"Couldn't she afford something better?" he asked aloud.
He unsealed the vacuum flask and the inviting scent of its contents drew him in. Esong was surprised because he had watched Scarlet's broadcast to catch a glimpse of his son. All he saw was Scarlet and her pregnant mother.
He was ready to turn it off when he heard her promoting the eating of mutated beasts which caught his attention. She explained lot of details professionally and he was impressed with how knowledgeable she now appeared to be.
She was different from the shrew he met in the past. When she fried the chicken which she claimed was a product of the beast she called a chicken the enticing smell drew him in. He used his secret account silver wolf to reward her heavily because her viewers said the more rewards you gave her, the higher your chances of obtaining her food.
Now, he was bravely going to taste this beast and if it was not as tasty as she claimed or harmless, he would personally throttle her before the RGB arrested her.
"General do you need me to taste the food for you?" Dez's voice came from behind.
"No, I am the general; I should face danger first as your superior." Esong answered.
Dez pursed his mouth unhappily. He too had seen the live broadcast and he knew what chicken was. He had tasted it!! Did the general think he was fooling a child?
Dez watched sadly as Esong demolished one piece of chicken after another, the mashed potatoes and then one whole jar of pickled vegetables.
When he was done, only the bones were left and even then, Esong was not sure if they could be eaten or not. They seemed to be soft and he was curious if they were chewable.
"Dez, I think there is no danger in the chicken. You can have this one jar of pickled vegetables and contact the shadow guild. Tell them to hunt some chickens for me."
Dez was wailing inside but he smiled like a good assistant and said, "Yes general."
Esong was about to ask Dez to get rid of the box when he noticed that there was something else inside, a bright orange liquid in a bottle. He could remember his son happily drinking something that looked familiar to this.
He ripped the bottle cap off and said, "How fragile," when it came off so easily. "This kind of material is not viable."
"You are right general; I will get rid of it for you." Dez eagerly approached Esong to take the bottle of juice from his hands.
Esong chugged the juice down before Dez could take it. With about one sip left, he handed the bottle to Dez and said "Do you want to have a taste."
"Only if you are satisfied general." Dez replied with red eyes and a big smile on his face.
Esong touched his stomach and he answered, "I think I will need three more of these to get satisfied." He drank the rest of the juice and threw the bottle inside the box.
It hit something and made a sound so Esong looked inside and saw another bottle.
"Oh, there is another one." He exclaimed.
Esong was smiling because he could see Dez's eyes looking at him so pitifully. He enjoyed teasing Dez occasionally because he could be a cry baby at times.
"Here, you can have it." He handed the bottle of juice to Dez.
"Thank you general."
"Get rid of the rubbish."
"Immediately general, the GBCS called looking for you a few minutes ago. I think it has something to do with Justin, your son but they refused to share any information with me. The woman who called said she wants to speak directly to you so I forwarded her contact to you."
Esong who was in an unusually happy mood suddenly frowned, the GBCS could only be calling a parent for one reason.
"Damn you Scarlet." He cursed before he could understand what was happening. "Just when I was beginning to think that she was regaining her senses. Give me some privacy Dez."
Dez was all too happy to grant Esong that privacy and Esong wasted no time to contact the woman who wanted to talk to him.
He went with a video call rather than an audio one.
"This is General Esong Wu; I was told that you wanted to speak to me regarding my son Justin."
"Hello general, I am Mina Lang. I wanted to inform you about a case we are handling that concerns your son Justin. Allegations of abuse have been pressed by his mother against two of her maids Riana and Gia.
The case is rock solid and the criminals will be presented before the tribunal to decide their sentence so we were told to notify you. Ibknow that you are busy however since the child has one sick parent who is also forbidden from traveling to the capital I thought you would want to be present at the sentencing."
Esong Wu was suddenly filled with a lot of sudden rage. "What was done to my son?" he barked.
Mina on the other end of the call quaked in fear as if she could feel his rage through the phone.
"I will send you the file and the evidence general. I have other cases to look at please contact the RGB for more information." She hung up as fast as she could.
Esong was left with so many questions. Rather than call the RGB, he called his cousin the seventh prince of the empire Markay Wu. He was not just a prince; he was the head of the RGB.
After speaking to Markay and looking at the file Mina sent, he decided to contact Scarlet. That's when he noticed that had received a message from her and after reading the contents, he frowned.
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