Star Hatching

After playing outside for a while, after returning home, Hogan showed everyone the invitation letter he had received, and Cedric found that he hadn't even received it.

Yaqiong also received the invitation letter, but he was the wife of Lieutenant General Loft, who fought for the empire in the deserted star, so the royal family could not forget to invite his wife.

Cedric muttered, "The emperor is not a person who repays favors." He frowned, and although he spoke in the usual nonchalant tone, his expression was a little nervous, and there was even worry in his eyes that couldn't be shaken off.

Hogan asked suspiciously, "Is the emperor terrible?"

Cedric looked at Hogan, curled his lips, put on a relaxed expression, and said with a smile: "What are you afraid of? I'll go with you, just say I'm your girlfriend."

"..." Hogan gave Cedric a sideways look wordlessly.

Although the topic was diverted in this way, Hogan always felt that Cedric was hiding something from him.But this time Cedric suddenly became witty, and no matter how Hogan made indirect remarks, Cedric just changed the topic with a smile and kept silent.

However, this is too obvious, as expected, something is hidden from him.

It's just that the mid-term exam is coming soon, and Hogan is a bit too busy to take care of him. After the exam, he heard that he has learned the theoretical knowledge and needs to start manipulating the mecha. But, get excited with your classmates.Cedric has few areas that are better than him. Seeing that he likes mechas, he asked to take him to the club to play mechas. Although Cedric has his own mechas, they belong to the military and ordinary people cannot play them.

Anyway, after being busy for a while, the date for the invitation from the palace is coming soon.

Hogan suddenly received a call from Angus.

"Didn't you ask me to pay attention to the situation in your old house last time? I found something here." Angus said, "Is there any conflict between Marshal Sibenfur and the military?"

Hogan frowned: "Why do you say that?"

"It's under the surveillance of the military department, and I suspect..." Angus didn't hesitate to Hogan for too long, and said bluntly, "There are still people inside watching Sibenfur."

When Hogan heard the words "insiders", he sneered and said, "Did you find Jocelyn?"

Angus said: "I knew I couldn't hide it from you. Aren't you guys always looking for traitors in the family? I'll send you the record of Jocelyn's actions that I found, and you'll understand after reading it."

Cedric walked into the bedroom and saw Hogan put down the communicator and turned on his brain again. He wondered, "Didn't we agree to try on clothes together?"

Hogan received the document from Angus, quickly glanced at it, turned off his brain, put on his coat, and said, "Let's go."

Cedric asked, "What was that?"

Hogan said: "Accept the document from Angus. Have you had any contact with Jocelyn?"

Cedric paused, and said vigilantly, "Why, did he look for you?"

Hogan shook his head and asked, "Why are you so nervous?"

"No." Cedric stretched his waist, his eyes were cold, "He is just your father in name, there is no need to have anything to do with him. Your family is me and Xixiu, you know?"

Hogan hesitated and said, "You mean...it should be...he has ignored me for so many years, so he doesn't deserve to be called a father."

Cedric smiled reluctantly, winked at Hogan and said, "Of course, otherwise, what else could it be?"

Hogan shrugged: "I always feel that you have something to hide from me."

Cedric hugged Hogan and kissed him, and said seriously: "I am the man who will protect you from the wind and rain, and I don't want you to worry about it. Try to believe me?"

Hogan said, "Okay, take me to the military headquarters."

Cedric's complexion changed: "Why are you going to the military headquarters, aren't you going to try on clothes?"

Hogan looked at his face, full of doubts in his heart, and said, "You should have a way for me to see Duncan again."

"No, no." Cedric said hastily, "Haven't you already met him once? Ask all you should ask."

Hogan stepped back, frowning at Cedric.Cedric's heart skipped a beat, and he pretended to be calm.

Hogan said: "Okay, there's no need to hide it anymore, I know everything."

"!" Cedric said, "You, what do you know?"

Hogan said coolly: "Duncan has an insider in the Dukuta family, and that insider is Jocelyn. When Colin's terrorists attacked the base, it was Jocelyn who responded. Right?"

Cedric heaved a sigh of relief, and said with a smile: "It was only judged yesterday, and your news network is too awesome. Will you be able to find out if I hide my private money in the future?"

Hogan squinted at him: "How dare you hide your private money?"

Cedric exclaimed, "I've already handed in all the cards. Wouldn't it be embarrassing for me to give you a little surprise, but I don't have any money?"

Hogan shrugged and walked away.

Cedric followed behind him, Hogan didn't speak for a long time, Cedric hesitated for a while, and said slowly: "The matter of Jocelyn..."

Hogan said, "Did you send someone to arrest him?"

Cedric was taken aback: "I didn't do it, I don't have that much power."

Hogan said: "I don't blame you, just like you said, my family is you and Xixiu."

Does this mean "fuck him"?

Seeing that Hogan did not have a sad expression, Cedric relaxed, put his arms around Hogan's waist, and said, "I tell you, someone in the military department wanted to protect him, but Duncan said everything. Colin, that Christie Ann, at first he killed him and didn't explain, saying he would stick to his professional ethics, but after watching the video Duncan explained, he simply said everything. Sibenfer was angry. Don't look at him like an old man, he still has a bit of power in the military , have already sent someone to apprehend Jocelyn."

Hogan said: "Would it be too easy? Jocelyn is all about killing the heir of the Dukuta family, just to be in power. You haven't noticed it for so many years. It can be seen that he is deeply dormant, and he is not prepared at all." , got caught so casually?"

Cedric raised his eyebrows and was about to speak when the communicator remembered that he answered the phone, and after hearing what the other party said, his complexion immediately sank.

Hogan stopped and looked at Cedric.

Cedric hung up the phone and said in a heavy voice: "You are right, Jocelyn is missing, and the killer he sent hit Duncan."

Hogan frowned and said, "Duncan is dead?"

"Still in hospital."

The two looked at each other, walked into the garage, got into the car, and drove to the hospital.

Hogan felt an inexplicable panic in his chest: "Why did he kill Duncan? Didn't Duncan explain everything? If he wants to kill Duncan, he should do it sooner rather than now."

Cedric said: "This shows that Duncan is hiding something important."

Thinking of what Duncan said about the past, Hogan thought, so Jocelyn has something to do with what happened back then?Jocelyn must kill Duncan to cover up an astonishing truth?

As soon as the car entered the parking lot of the hospital, a corporal rushed over, stood in front of Cedric and saluted, and then asked Hogan, "Excuse me, are you Lord Hogan?"

Hogan nodded: "I'm Hogan."

The corporal said: "The prisoner said there is something important to say, but you must be here."

"You mean Duncan?" Hogan said, already walking with the corporal.

The other party replied: "Yes, the doctor said he can live for a quarter of an hour at most."

Hogan galloped up.

***

Walking into the emergency room, Hogan saw that all the instruments on Duncan's body had been removed.He lay clean on the hospital bed.

That's not a good thing, and a hospital would only do this to a dying patient if he was about to die.This means that the hospital is helpless.

Hogan walked up to Duncan, bent down and asked, "Do you have something to tell me?"

Duncan's eyes were already distracted, but when he heard his voice, he insisted on reaching out his hand tremblingly, trying to hold Hogan's hand.Hogan hesitated, and Cedric stepped forward and joined him in shaking Duncan's hand.

Duncan was startled, and two lines of dirty tears slowly flowed from his eyes, flowing over the wound on his face, and when they soaked into the bed sheet, they were already bloody.

Duncan said, "You...are... Xiaoya?"

Hogan was taken aback.

Duncan smiled bitterly and said, "Why...don't...tell me earlier?"

Hogan said nothing.

Duncan stared at Hogan's face, sighed after a long time, closed his eyes, and suddenly fell silent.

Hogan was taken aback, and grabbed his hand: "Duncan!"

There was a dead silence in the emergency room, and Hogan couldn't help reaching out his hand to feel Duncan's neck, but Duncan suddenly opened his eyes, his eyes were bright, staring at him with radiance.

Hogan withdrew his hand and looked at the doctors blankly. The faces of the doctors were indifferent, with the words "Back to the Light" written in their eyes.

Hogan withdrew his gaze wordlessly, and helped him up under Duncan's gesture.

Duncan said quietly and calmly: "I finally waited for you to come, and I was finally able to fulfill this promise."

Hogan's hand was held tightly by him with such strength that you could hardly believe that this was a dying man.

Duncan looked into the distance, maybe he has traveled through time, focusing on a certain moment in the past: "Xiaoya, your mother gave me the suicide note, and I will give it to you now. This is what Jocelyn wants most, But he'll never get it."

Hogan shuddered, goosebumps all over his body.Cedric subconsciously hugged him tightly, looked into his eyes, and soothed the back of his neck, but felt a rash on the back of his neck.Cedric whispered Hogan's name, and Hogan said calmly, or numbly, that it was all right.

Duncan shouted: "Xiaoya, Xiaoya, are you the Xiaoya I'm waiting for?"

Hogan said blankly, "Yes."

Duncan approached Hogan's ear, and whispered vigilantly and cautiously: "Open my head, I will hide it there."

Almost at the end of this sentence, Duncan's hand that was tightly holding Hogan suddenly let go, and then fell down slumped.Hogan stared blankly at Duncan's lifeless face, at his pierced heart, and finally at his head.

There is a chip hidden in Duncan's head.After cracking the chip's password, Hogan heard the chip's contents.

The voice that came out slowly was just as he had imagined, gentle, gentle and strong.

In the room where he was alone, he listened to his mother quietly——

Xiaoya, my child.

Mom is sorry for you.

Mom is leaving this world prematurely. Even if the world to go to is carefree, mom is still full of regrets, because she couldn't feed the young you with her own hands, because she couldn't hear you babbling, and couldn't see you as a toddler. Because I can't wait for you to grow up, I can't wait for you to come to me holding the hand of my lover, I can't wait for time to stop, so that my heart that loves you can beat for a moment.

Mom is sorry for you after all.

The time we spend together is so short, which is also something I didn't expect.It's just that since this matter is unavoidable, you and I can only accept the arrangement of fate.Mom just wants you to always remember, leaving you is not my wish, please remember, mom loves you.

You can't grow up in your mother's arms, and you will suffer unimaginable hardships in the end. My mother has a few words that I must tell you.

You have to grow into a person with a strong heart. You have to understand that it is naive and brave to move forward without experiencing suffering. You have to have a strong bone that has been tempered a hundred times, and you have to fight for the sword of justice and cut off all these injustices.If you are temporarily powerless and look to the west, your morning star will be your eternal light, and it will eventually lead you to find the sword of Damocles, and you will finally stick to your justice.

But at the same time, you must be soft in your heart, and you must always believe in love, because you will be strong and persevering, and you will be able to despise all the darkness around you, and always see the stars and fireflies that illuminate the darkness.Mother endows you with the ability to love. You should not abandon it easily. Even for the closest ones, you must choose your words carefully, act cautiously, and never hurt them. Just because of the consequences of hurting the one you love, even yourself Unpredictable, this is to cherish them, but also to protect yourself.

Finally, mother asks you to do one thing, because you have something to do, that is the mission you have to fulfill throughout your life, and it is the glorious responsibility you have accepted from me since you were born. When you have different opinions, you may also have huge differences with your lover. You have to try your best to find a way to balance. When you feel tired, think about how your mother loves you so much and will always protect you in heaven.

Long after his mother's last words, Hogan remained in that position, curled up in the darkness with his eyes slightly closed.

Someone was knocking on the door, and he didn't stand up for a long time. The other party knocked persistently for a long time. He opened his eyes with clear eyes, walked straight to the door, and opened it.

There were many people outside the door, and Cedric looked on coldly at the person who knocked on the door, leaning against the wall next to him, which was particularly obvious in the respectful crowd.

Hogan put his hand holding the chip into his pocket and asked the person who knocked on the door, "What's the matter?"

"Please return the important evidence provided by the prisoner to the military." The man raised the rimless glasses on the bridge of his nose. "Because my subordinates cannot complete this task, I have to come here myself."

Hogan glanced at the displeased Cedric: "Your name—"

"Adelaide." The man raised his chin slightly, "I hope you won't be unfamiliar with this name, the young man from Sang Ma Xing."

Adelaide, surnamed Tattaglia, military rank, general.

Someone in the crowd sneered and cast malicious and contemptuous glances.

Cedric stared back angrily, walked over a few steps, stood in front of Hogan, and looked at Adelaide coldly: "I always thought that people who were judged by their origins were trash."

Adelaide said coldly: "Then what are you when you see the officer not giving a military salute? Don't rely on your father's prestige to be proud in front of me, get out!"

Just when all kinds of contemptuous eyes enveloped Cedric and Hogan, there was a commotion in the crowd.A group of people lined up the crowd, each wearing a straight military uniform, exuding a chilling aura.

The face of the person who was originally laughing changed, and he closed his mouth in horror and widened his eyes.

Adelaide looked at the tall man at the front, expressionless, but the corners of his mouth suddenly tightened and his pupils contracted violently betrayed his heart.

"Then what are you, who rely on your military rank to play prestige in front of your juniors?" The tall and handsome man with the military rank on his shoulders is the highest rank of five-star general in the empire. Become extremely powerful, gloomy and full of majesty, "I have only been ill for a few years, and the young people of the Tataglia family are already so rude?"

Cedric's jaw dropped in shock: "Sie, Sibenfer?" In shock, he forgot to call him Admiral.

Sibenfer walked up to Cedric, kicked Cedric in the stomach, and kicked him several meters away.Cedric fell to the ground on his back, staring at the ceiling in bewilderment.Sibenfur snorted coldly and looked at Hogan.

"..." Hogan subconsciously took a step back and clenched his hands.

Cedric got up silently and wanted to come over to protect his wife.

Sibbenfer rolled his eyes in disdain, then turned his head to look at Adelaide, and said in that majestic tone again: "You can get out."

Adelaide's face was livid, and he supported the mirror frame with trembling fingers: "You may not know the purpose of my coming..."

Sibenfu said, "Don't you know how to use honorifics?"

"..." Adelaide clenched his fists tightly, but under the oppression of the other party's eyes, he couldn't even transform himself. This is the absolute suppression of a weak species by a powerful species.Sibenfur has returned to the momentum of its heyday!

He took a deep breath and finally lowered his posture: "You, you seem to be different from before."

A lieutenant general behind Sibenfur smiled and said: "Admiral Adelaide is not very well informed, don't you know that Admiral Sibenfur was dismissed by the traitor Jocelyn in the past ten years?" It is an illegal drug that can cause people to go mad. After a few days of treatment, Admiral Sibenfur got rid of some of the effects and has come to his senses."

Another major general said: "In the year of the bug swarm, the heroes of the empire have returned. This is a very lucky thing. Don't you think so, Admiral Adelaide?"

The people brought by Adelaide looked at him silently, his masseter muscles tightened, and he squeezed out a few words from between his teeth: "This is really——that's great!"

Sibenfer waved his hand: "Okay, I have heard too many congratulations. The most important thing now is that my grandson and grandson-in-law still have some misunderstandings. It has nothing to do with others. There is no need to stay here."

Adelaide glanced at the innocent Hogan and Cedric, and said unwillingly: "Your granddaughter-in-law has Duncan's chip in her hand."

Sibenfor frowned, and asked the lieutenant general beside him, "I heard that it is the relic of the child's mother?"

The lieutenant general nodded and said sympathetically, "Your grand-daughter-in-law lost her mother when she was born. That sinful person can repent at the end of his life. He still has a trace of humanity. It can only be said that it is unfortunate to return his mother's belongings to him." The lucky ones."

Cedric was stunned, listening to the level of speaking, saying that Duncan still had humanity, and that being able to return Hogan's mother's relics to him was to scold Adelaide for being inhuman.

Cedric gave Hogan a wordless look. We are still too young.

Hogan deeply sympathized and nodded slightly.

Sibbenforth nodded, looked at Hogan again, and asked, "You were just watching this in the room, is there anything inappropriate?"

Hogan shook his head: "Only my mother's last words."

Sibenforth nodded and said to Adelaide: "Have you heard what my granddaughter-in-law said? I have a lot of guilt for this child. His character is beyond my reach. I trust his words [-]%. You What, Adelaide of the Tataglias?"

Even the former Marshal of the Empire said that he believed Hogan 100%, so could Adelaide say he didn't believe it?Although he didn't believe it 100%, the lieutenant generals and major generals behind Sibenfer would not stand idly by this time.

Sibenfer has "woke up" and everything is different.

He never expected that things would change so quickly.Hogan's mother's relic was something Tattaglia had to get.