Chapter 235 Goodbye, Certified Gold.
The identity of the young man who died while secretly trying to record the hunt for the space pirates was released. As soon as his followers found out, they mourned his loss. Certified gold had been a promising live streamer, one was on his way to creating a greater future for himself.
Many of his fans took to star net to mourn his loss, sharing his pictures, videos and funny clips as they expressed how much they would miss the braggart live streamer. One fan even asked the city hall of the blue star if they could preserve his house as a memorial of some kind while another offered them twenty million star coins to transfer its ownership to himself.
#Goodbye Certified gold was trending because even those who did not know him knew his widely used memes of the silly laugh with the chipped tooth.
Some fans like cutie carrot even cried, certified gold had looked so much to the development of the blue star, he was so hopeful and full of life. He always said that when he was rich enough, he would marry the most beautiful live streamer in an extravagantly wealthy wedding and his fans would mock him. He was a trustworthy personal shopper that she could always count on. How could his life have been suddenly cut short?
Zorl sat on top of the desk in his office and rubbed his temples as he read the comments on star net. In the beginning it seemed as if moving to this quiet planet where nothing ever happened would be simple but he was wrong, things were always happening.
"Captain, will you be personally searching the space ship of the space pirates or should we hand it off to the mecha warriors as well?" His assistant appeared in his office in the form of a hologram and asked.
"I will search, tell the other officers to get started and I will join them in a minute." They were the detectives here, they needed to find what the space pirates had stolen, from where, catalogue the evidence and eventually it would be returned to the rightful owners.
"Captain, miss Jelly is still here, should I let her in?"
"No." He uttered immediately. She was still fishing for details on what went down between Scarlet and Anton before the explosion but she would not be getting it out of his mouth. She could have gone to captain Vangar, he was there too but she insisted on questioning him. Darn nosy reporter!!!
"She says that she is not here in the capacity of a reporter."
Zorl was unsure, he squinted his eyes as he thought about it for a few seconds. One could never trust a reporter, especially not when they said that. But, curiosity won over sensibility.
"Send her in." He said.
His office door slid open and Jelly who was standing right outside as if she had been expecting to be allowed inside all this while entered his office for the first time ever.
Jelly's first thought when she entered the office was that it was as cold as the man who occupied it. Black and white with only the necessities and no single decoration whatsoever. She moved slowly, from one corner to the next looking for signs of what in her mind, she called 'life' but there was none.
"Aren't you going to sit down?" Zorl asked her.
" I am, captain," she had been looking at his bare office walls with a look of pity in her eyes.
"Why do you sigh at my walls?" He did not understand what she was up to. Was she planning to bug his office? Is that why she was looking around?
"I think it's a pity that you have an impressive office to yourself and it's so plain." She answered. "You should ask the governor for a plant or place a family portrait on the wall_"
"This is a place of work and not my family's house that I need a portrait of them hang on the wall. All I need to do my job efficiently is here." He was quick with a response to her criticism of the appearance of his office. "Can I help you with something?"
She sat down across from him and looked at him. Without his helmet on, he looked much better, maybe it was because his hair and eyes were exposed.
"Are you fine?" She asked.
The question surprised him, and it showed on his face in the way he frowned.
It was not the thing he was expecting her say, not that he knew what she going to say anyway.
Why was she really here? He observed her face, looking beyond her alluring features for traces of her motives in her eyes.
Maybe he looked too hard because she suddenly averted her gaze from his and looked at the back of his monitor.
Zorl, breathed in and he smelled her perfume, he could not remember hosting anyone in his office that used perfume, she was the first.
All RGB officers did not wear perfume at work because criminals with heightened senses of smell could escape capture by tracking the scents of the officers. He held back the urge to rebuke her for wearing it because she was not one of his officers and she smelled really nice.
Jelly looked back up and found that the captain's unsettling gaze was still on her and his nostrils now, were slightly flared.
"I only came to see if you are fine because of the shooting, then the hostage situation and you had to look at a dead body after." She blurted because she was feeling funny, foolish even for coming.
"I am fine." he told her. "It has been a rough day but that is the nature of the job. You should understand, you were out there with the rest of us."
"We only came after the shooting stopped." she said, "Before that, we did not dare to even peep outside for fear of getting shot. We made the right decision because see what happened to the live streamer."
The captain sighed and said, "The boy was unlucky, simply unlucky."
His death had come as a surprise to everyone, especially because his body was found after they thought all had been wrapped up successfully.
Captain Zorl stood up, picked up his helmet in his hand, looked at her and said, "I have to go and investigate the case further, I cannot engage with you in anymore more conversation at the moment."
She stood up, waited for him to come closer and said, "I will walk you out."
He did not reject her and they walked together, side by side, leaving his office and making their way to the entrance of the building. While they walked, they talked about random things.
She talked and he mostly listened.
Just before they separated, she asked him, "What are you hoping to find in your investigation?"
"A reason for the senseless madness." he replied.
She smiled naughtily and tilted her head to the front, looking into his eyes as he put on his helmet. "Can I quote you on that?"
"No." he said.
"Aah, I guess I will be seeing you around the building then." Occasionally, they would run into each other when one of them was returning or going to work.
"Sure," he answered, slightly impatient, duty called and he was two minutes late.
"Here," she took a box of red Danish cookies and handed them to him. "Your sister mentioned that you like this."
Zorl was never one to turn down food and he took the cookies with a smile. What he did not dwell on was why she and his sister were discussing him.
"Thank you," he nodded, "I have to go now."
His ride had arrived, the official RGB patrol car on the Blue star was designed to look like a range rover from earth. Scarlet added the sirens and the blue lights and stripes on cop cars from earth.
The RGB officers found it novel and cool, often times, they took pictures posing in front of the cars the same way they did with their mechas and ships.
Jelly waved at the captain while he was driven away, she waved until the car disappeared from the peripheral of her eye view. As she did, she wondered what had really driven her to come and see him when she had turned down the opportunity to go on a date with him.