The everlasting link of light

After listening to Ruixi's tearful report, Captain Hijikata suddenly felt his heart sink!

"What's going on! Isn't Kaito working with you? Why can't we get in touch with him?!"

"Just now Kaito said that he suddenly found an unusual energy signal, so he asked me to come back and drive Unit 1, and he went to investigate first. As a result... I couldn't contact him!"

At the end of the conversation, Ruixi almost collapsed. She didn't expect that such a big thing would happen just because she was distracted for a moment.

After listening to Ruixi's report, even though Captain Hijikata usually had a good temper, he felt anxious and angry at this moment.

"Richie you!"

"Captain, there's an urgent call from Commander Tomioka!"

Just as Captain Hijikata was about to criticize Ruixi's behavior, Sheen beside him suddenly patted him on the shoulder and told him the situation.

"call!"

Captain Hijikata had no choice but to temporarily suppress his anger and answer the urgent call from Tomioka. Looking at Tomioka's serious face on the screen, Captain Hijikata was startled, but still asked with a hope:

"Sir, we have arrived at Phantom Island. Do you have any further instructions?"

"Ah."

Captain Tomioka nodded slightly, and then said with determination as if he had made a decision: "According to the latest instructions from the Gaul headquarters, in order to ensure the safety of our homeland, we will launch the Gostiva bomb to destroy Phantom Island in one hour! So for safety reasons, you must return immediately."

Since this was an internal team voice, all the Dash team members present learned the news.

Mizuki shouted excitedly, "Wait! What does this mean? Kaito is still on the island! If we launch a missile, he will also..."

"I know, but this decision was made out of necessity to protect millions of our citizens, so please... return home."

After saying this, Tomioka, who was already old, suddenly looked even older, and even his upper body became hunched uncontrollably. It was obvious that the elderly commander did not want to take this action.

"team leader!"

"Captain! We can't give up on Kaito!"

"team leader!"

At this moment, the choice was in the hands of Captain Hijikata. On one side were thousands of innocent people, and on the other side were young comrades who had been with him day and night.

Captain Hijikata lowered his head and held the joystick tightly with both hands. After a moment, he suddenly raised his head and looked at the screen and asked, "Sir, there is still one hour left before the missile launch, right?"

Tomioka nodded and confirmed, "Yes, there is still one hour left until we reach the final safe distance."

Hearing this, a smile suddenly appeared on Captain Hijikata's lips.

"That's enough. We will definitely be able to find Kaito and return safely within an hour."

"Captain Hijikata, are you going to disobey orders?"

"Every member of our Dash is an indispensable part, and as the captain, I have to ensure the safety of every member of the team."

As soon as he finished speaking, Captain Hijikata unilaterally and forcibly ended the communication.

Looking around at his teammates, Captain Hijikata said with full energy: "Dash, move out! The mission is to find Kaito and return home within an hour!"

"understand!"

Seeing Captain Hijikata's final decision, Motoyasu, Sheen, and Mizuki were overjoyed, and then rushed together to the direction where Kaito's communicator signal was last received.

Titan Base

"Really? This kid Hijikata has actually learned to disobey orders. Wait until he comes back and see how I punish him~"

Although he looked unforgiving, Tomioka couldn't hide the smile on his face.

Seeing Tomioka's hard-mouthed but soft-hearted appearance, Dr. Yoshinaga teased, "Don't blame Hijikata. Didn't you make the same choice back then? And you probably hoped he would do the same."

"No, don't talk nonsense. I just accidentally smashed the communicator, so I didn't receive the order to retreat. Otherwise, I wouldn't care about that kid Ida~"

After mumbling for a while, Tomioka slowly turned around and gave a thumbs up in front of his chest.

"Come on, Hijikata. I leave everything to you. You must bring everyone back safely."

"Ellie, what are you doing?"

"I'm calculating the success rate of this mission."

the other side

After Ellie tapped the keyboard for a while, a line of words appeared on the central computer:

Combat success rate: 3%!

Seeing this, Ellie shook her head and said, "I don't understand. Why would you go if the success rate is so low?"

Seeing this, Yoshinaga smiled and explained: "Sometimes, even if there is only a one in ten thousand chance of success, humans will still choose to act and try, regardless of the final result."

(Just like the last night of the long vacation every year, no matter how much homework there is, there will always be warriors who use a pen and one night to complete this almost impossible task!)

"I don't understand, why do we have to do this?"

Ellie raised her head stiffly and said puzzledly: "Since the success rate is so low, the wisest thing to do is to give up. This will minimize the losses from a probability perspective."

Looking at Ellie's intelligent but confused eyes, Dr. Yoshinaga smiled and reached out to touch her smooth face that was almost indistinguishable from that of a human.

"Ellie, although you have a high level of technology, you still need to keep learning to better understand humans. Sometimes numbers don't mean anything at all. It's through continuous creation of miracles that humans have come to where they are today."

"I still don't quite understand it."

Ellie turned her head back and then clasped her hands together and pressed them against her forehead.

"According to humans, prayer is the most effective at this time. I hope everyone can return safely."