久久综合激激的五月天

"Give him here, I will take him with me, he can push all the buttons in my office." Adler and Beord took Justin away, while talking about all the new cool toys his aunt Carolyn had crafted. 

"Your aunt created a robot dog." Beord told him. 

"Awesome!!" Justin responded. 

"You made a robot dog!!! why?" Scarlet looked at Carolyn in her bid to understand the knowledge and reasoning behind this. 

"Because, real pets poop, pee and want to play all the time. Ignoring all that, their supply is too little and your husband has taken away one dog. It will take many years for all the stars to have real pets so for now, robot pets will do. It's an independent factory with only ten workers and things are slow but we have sold the first five robot dogs and cats online already and we made three hundred sixty thousand star coins. Tell me you don't see the value in these robot pets?" Carolyn replied confidently, knowing that the addition of money into the equation would get her sister on board faster than anything. 

"Five pets and you made three hundred sixty thousand star coins!! do you know how many packets of crisps I have to sell to make that much?" Scarlet felt incredibly outraged, how could five pets which were not even real make this much money? 

"Your snack factories are still small and the raw ingredients are limited. It's understandable that you would lag behind for now. But the robot pets are still novel, other companies will catch on really quickly and imitate what we are doing which will balance the playing field. We cannot patent the designs unless they are special otherwise, nobody really owns what an animal looks like unless you add unique features to it." 

Scarlet humphed but then she smiled cunningly and held Carolyn's hand and started to wheedle like a child. "Older sister, rich older sister, please give me some shopping money."

Carolyn sneered playfully and pushed Scarlet away, "Let go of me madam governor, when did I become your bank account?" 

"Sis, sister," Scarlet pouted, she also turned her grey eyes on Carolyn, making them as pitiful as possible. Her sister was a sucker for pitiful eyes, did she think they did not know that it was the tactic Markay employed mostly around her? 

"I won't give you anything." Carolyn looked away, choosing to look at anything but those eyes. 

"Sis," Scarlet dug deeper, "I used up many of my personal supplies for the mecha warriors, I have to replace them as soon as possible. Half of them were meant for our citizens." 

Carolyn sighed and raised her hand as if to beat up Scarlet but her hand did not not touch her. "I am only doing this because you are supporting the warriors. Don't expect this to be a daily thing." 

"Mmm." Scarlet nodded. But deep down, both sisters knew it was a lie, if Scarlet asked for something today, she would return tomorrow and plead for more. That's how she turned Carolyn's bed into hers when they were children. 

"I am only giving you...hmmm.....One...no, two million star coins." Carolyn even used her fingers to clearly show her two fingers. 

"Hoo!!!, my rich elder sister," Scarlet batted her eye lashes extravagantly, "My new sugar daddy, maybe we should discuss...." 

"No," Carolyn pulled her arm away from Scarlet, "Absolutely not, I will not be adding more. I contributed one whole million of my star coins to the fallen mecha warriors fund, I am out of cash."

 "Is that a charity organization?" Scarlet had not heard about this fund before but it sounded like charity work. 

"It's a fund run by the mecha warriors association take care of the families of mecha warriors who die in battle. The biggest contributors are the royal family and the noble families. A portion of the people's taxes also go into it but any individual can contribute if they wish to. At least, when they die mecha warriors never have to worry about the families they have left behind." 

Carolyn's explanation explained why many o the widows of mecha warriors who came here with their families could afford two and three bedroom apartments. In addition to their own income, they had that monthly government pay check. 

"Oh the shields are lowering again," Carolyn said something that surprised Scarlet and she looked up again to count more than thirty space ships arriving which she had not been informed about. 

She called Adler immediately. "Brother, who....."

The mecha warrior's new howl bellowed from the landing ships and she did not need to ask any further about who was arriving. 

"Those are the mecha warriors that are supposed to protect us, we have been sent five thousand five hundred men. I was only made aware of their presence when they arrived in our air space and once I confirmed their identities, I lowered the shields." 

"We have not made any sleeping arrangements for them, not even food or_" She could think about a couple of things that had not been arranged. Did their arrival mean that winter was finally descending? Why was the last sun still flickering then?

Adler went to say, "They can sleep in their ships or mechas and they travel with high quality nutrient solutions. We can provide food as a supplement but it's not their main source of nutrition. Mecha warrior's nutrient solutions are different from ordinary ones, theirs are made with special materials to boost energy, strength and speed. Their captain is requesting for a meeting with you at your earliest convenience. When should I tell him that you will be available?" 

"I will_" she was replying to Adler when captain Zorl and Bright, a city hall officer approached her with something to say. "Adler please meet their captain first if it's urgent. I will get back to you." The people in front of her looked like they had something urgent to say. "Can I be of help to you gentlemen?" 

"Yes governor." Bright handed her a computer tablet with a document that needed signing. 

"What is this?" she asked even though she was already signing it. 

"It's a permit allowing the shadow guild to land on the blue star and hunt during the winter. Guilds are the only groups of civilians allowed to do so and the shadow guild is paying us twenty million star coins." Bright explained. 

"Okay." she nodded. "Has the money been deposited?" Why anyone would choose to do such a dangerous thing, she did not know. 

"The money landed in our account five minutes ago and they have already arrived. Sign this too governor." Bright showed her another document. 

"And this is?" She inquired as she signed. 

"Entertainment for when Winter ends, we have to book a well known singer for survival day. We must celebrate after we send off our dead to the afterlife." Bright spoke cheerfully but mechanically, all this was nothing but standard procedure to him. 

She did not ask questions but looked at captain Zorl instead, "So, are you with him or do you want to talk about something else?" 

Captain Zorl maintained his usual demeanor and replied, "Article fifty of our law, section 7b, it says that no one should operate an illegal pleasure house without a permit from the RGB. Did you give permission to anyone to open a pleasure house on the blue star or are you running it yourself?"