Chapter 9: Nuclear Explosion
The B-level rating and job promotion were very smooth. Although He Kui's rocket-like promotion speed was fast, it did not attract much attention. Talents like Su Lei reached B-level at a young age and even became A-level in a short time. They could easily reach S-level or even higher levels. Compared with these geniuses, He Kui can only be said to be more hardworking. Perhaps he has a hard-working talent.

Thinking in this way, everyone congratulated him without any envy or jealousy. After all, no matter how high He Kui's promotion was, he was not yet at the management level, right?

It was Valentine's Day. He Kui pretended that everything was normal, but in fact he was not in good shape the whole day. Even the Hello he gave to Su Lei had his ability value bonus reduced due to quality issues. Of course, He Kui no longer cared about these things.

As an assistant engineer, He Kui is already a member of the team. Simply put, his job is to help Su Lei with her technical verification model.

"He Kui, what's wrong? You don't look right today."

Su Lei asked with a cute frown.

"No apologies."

"Anyway, the microcircuit here is connected incorrectly. That's why the radar just stopped responding."

Su Lei complained that a triangular radar area was magnified several times on the computer.

"Ok."

Just when He Kui was about to pick up the equipment to modify it, a loud air raid alarm suddenly sounded.

All those who were still working were shocked. They stopped what they were doing and, without any instructions, began to evacuate to the shelter in accordance with previous drills.

"Director Su, do you know what happened?"

Another assistant engineer asked.

"I don't know, anyway, go take shelter first."

Su Lei said this and looked thoughtfully at He Kui who was also heading to the shelter ahead, but she quickly denied her idea.

The group walked towards the shelter in an orderly manner. Many people whispered along the way, but no one made a loud noise. The scene was quiet and eerie.

"He Kui, what do you think happened?"

Su Lei, who was behind him, took two quick steps and came to He Kui and asked.

"I do not know."

He wasn't lying when he said he didn't know. Although June City was supposed to be hit by a nuclear explosion, he, like a little butterfly, flapped his wings, so he didn't know.

"That's it"

They arrived at the shelter and stayed there for nearly three hours before the alarm was lifted.

Two pieces of news came towards He Kui. The bad news was that the June City No. 7 colony satellite was still hit by a nuclear explosion. The good news was that when the nuclear explosion occurred, most of the residents were transferred to the most solid shelter at the bottom of the colony satellite, so the death of 240,000 people did not happen. This time only a small number of people died because they failed to evacuate in time.

"The Earth Federation actually nuked our colony satellite!"

He Kui did not go out to sell today. When he returned home from the factory where everyone was in a panic, he saw Shihe, who was looking angry and clenching her fists.

"yes."

Although things deviated from his memory because of his butterfly wings, He Kui did not feel too conflicted. After all, he had to grow up at his own pace, and it would be the same whether he followed the plot or not.

Shihe was angrily saying that they must speed up the research and development of weapons, while He Kui continued with his Hello business.

Only two days had passed, and the situation within ZAFT had not calmed down but had become increasingly boiling. After all, a colonial satellite had been destroyed by a nuclear explosion. Even if there were not too many casualties, the impact on PLANT was still enormous. This meant that the Atlantic Federation was committing an act of genocide against them. If it happened once, there would be a second time, and they had to fight back.

However, now that the United Nations has been replaced, even the former International Court of Justice has directly rejected PLANT's accusation of genocide against the Atlantic Federation, and even made a joint declaration based on this.

Each government hereby pledges to use all its resources, both economic and military, against the Allied Powers engaged in the war. Each government hereby pledges to cooperate with the governments of the signatories to this Declaration and not to conclude separate armistice or peace treaties with the enemy.

This is the joint declaration. This measure has obviously dragged all the countries in the Earth Federation into a hostile relationship with PLANT, which cannot be eased at all.

It is in this context that today, Speaker Klein's speech, which was broadcast live on TV to the entire PLANT, was made. The Declaration of Independence and the exhortation for active neutrality were a counterattack to the Joint Declaration. This declaration was to encourage non-member countries on Earth to actively cooperate with PLANT and to demonstrate PLANT's position.

The all-out war between the PLANTs and the Earth Alliance has begun.

In the morning, outside the window there were slogans in support of the counterattack, and people holding various signs were walking in the deserted streets. These were voluntary marches organized by the Design Bureau. Facing this march, He Kui was still making Haro in his room. It was just a modified version of the radar-type Haro. It would automatically send out warnings when encountering danger. Giving it to others could add more ability points than before, and it was sold for 200 more. Of course, the cost was also relatively more expensive.

"Ding Dong"

"coming."

He Kui opened the door.

"Mr. Kazama?"

It was that familiar person I saw, but he looked much more haggard now, with dark circles under his eyes that could not be concealed. He no longer looked like the elite he once was.

"Come in, what's wrong with you?"

"Isn't your fiancée home?"

"Mr. Kazama, what's wrong?"

Shihe also walked out of the room.

"No, I'll go back first. I'll come back next time."

Seeing Shihe, Fengjian winked at He Kui and walked out. He came and left in a hurry.

"What's up with him?"

"I do not know?"

Both of them looked at Fengjian who suddenly appeared in confusion and then looked at each other.

"This is for you~"

What He Kui gave this time was not Hello, but a small four-legged transport robot. Now he can make not only Hello, but also ordinary transport robots.

[You gave Shihe Hanifs a gift, Micro Component Processing +15]

[Shihe. Hanifs' current favorability is 100]

[Experience bonus 5]

【Micro-component processing level B: (1376/10000)】

[Su Lei's Favorability 80]

[Experience bonus 4]

【Information Engineering C-level: (528/1000)】

Looking at the numbers on the panel, He Kui breathed a sigh of relief. After taking a rest today, he should be back to work tomorrow. Next, he can also get his information engineering graded, and it would be nice to get some bonus.

(End of this chapter)