go off fire

But that wasn't who he was looking for.The silver-haired man who was hung had his head down, his limbs were limp, and he had lost consciousness.A dagger pierced deeply into his shoulder, almost nailing him to the wall, and the blood spurted onto the wall, which was shocking.

Not Leonard.Levi breathed a sigh of relief from the bottom of his heart, but the next moment, the back of his head was pressed against the cold barrel of the gun.

"Put the gun down and raise your hand," said the man behind him, in a hurried but weak voice.

Levi took a breath and turned around: "It's me, Leonard."

The man opened his eyes wide, and focused his slack pupils, struggling to make out the prince's face in the dim light.

"Lee... Wei...?" He put down the gun.

The prince's voice was choked: "It's me." Almost immediately, he noticed the shackles on Leonard's hands and feet, the ever-expanding pool of blood on the ground, and countless criss-crossing scars on his body.

The lieutenant colonel raised the corner of his mouth, and his tone was a little frivolous: "I didn't expect that I would still be able to see you alive."

But then, the taut string on his body broke instantly, and he fell uncontrollably towards Levi.The prince was so frightened that he hugged him tightly, showing a bewildered expression.So much blood poured out from so many openings, it stained Levi's hands holding him up red.

"Leynard!" He called out in a daze.

The lieutenant colonel raised a hand with difficulty, grabbed Levi's arm, and whispered in his ear: "You asked me if I would go to hell with you..."

"Li Wei, from the moment I saw you again, I have already fallen into hell..."

Levi looked at Leonard, his face was pale, pain and regret overflowed from his eyes: "I'm sorry..."

"Cough." James, who stood aside for a long time, made an uncomfortable voice, "Captain, shall we take Lieutenant Colonel Leonard back first?"

Leonard Summers woke up in a hospital bed.

This is an almost pure white room, with white walls, white curtains, and white sheets. It is so clean that it is disturbingly clean, making it hard not to think of a hospital.

He raised his hand, and found that he had changed into a light blue patient gown. The exposed part of his arm had all healed the wound that had been turned outward, leaving only a few newborn faint red marks, slightly protruding from the The surface of the skin is like the traces left by a snail when it crawls over. In a few days, even these traces will disappear.

All these signs indicate that he has been well healed.

"Are you awake?" Pulling aside the curtain with one hand, a young man in a white coat walked up to him, observed the various data of the instrument, and then scribbled a few strokes on the portable board.

Leonard sat up from the bed: "How long have I been asleep?"

"10 hours is considered a quick recovery."

"This is where?"

"The Lucifer," the man said briefly, pushing his glasses, "I'm Damian Colin, the ship's doctor."

Leonard immediately realized that this was Levi's spaceship, and blurted out: "Levi... Where's Levi?"

Damian, the ship's doctor, looked at him with a meaningful look, which was so insightful that Leonard immediately felt a little uncomfortable.

"Lucifer." The ship doctor quickly looked away with interest, and shouted into the void.

"Yes, Damian." A man with black hair and red eyes immediately appeared out of thin air.

"Notify the captain that Mr. Summers is awake."

"Okay." The artificial intelligence named Lucifer slightly nodded in an extremely elegant gesture, and then disappeared into the room.Only Leonard was left dumbfounded.

"Why did he...?" Leonard pointed to the direction where Lucifer was just now.

The doctor answered the question knowingly: "Has the face of a captain?"

"Well, you have to ask the captain, after all, he is the creator of Lucifer." Damian turned off the portable board, "Although your injuries are not serious, you have lost a lot of blood. Take a good rest and prohibit strenuous exercise." He deliberately emphasized the strenuous exercise, obviously knowing the relationship between Levi and him, which made Leonard a little embarrassed.

Fortunately, the ship doctor left quickly, but Leonard didn't lie down obediently. He sat up and was about to pull out the infusion set on his wrist when that Lucifer appeared in front of him again: "Mr. Summers, Please don't do it, it's not good for your health."

Although his tone was very polite, Leonard always felt awkward with such a face.Nevertheless, he resentfully gave up his attempt to escape.

Speak out.He covered his face with his hands in frustration.When he saw Levi, he could hardly maintain a clear consciousness.

To die at the hands of pirates, and drag along the enemy who killed him, is not so honorable for a soldier, but it is not shameful at all.The casualty rate of the elite troops has always been very high, and from the moment he returned to Elite, he was ready to sacrifice at any time.

He really thought he would die there, so the words just blurted out uncontrollably.

Everything else is dim and blurry, but Levi is clearly engraved in his field of vision, his pale to transparent face, moist blue eyes that are no longer cold, and trembling lips.The sadness engraved on this stern face made his heart sour, and he couldn't help but want to reach out and smooth the gully between Levi's brows.

At that moment he understood his true feelings.It turns out that death is not as good as the pain of the person in front of him; it turns out that after so many betrayals, hurts, struggles and regrets, he still loves him.If there is only 1 minute left in life, he is the only person he would like to spend it with.

—but he didn't die.

Death did not take away all the troubles that lay in front of them, and the reality was still coldly presented in front of them.

The sound of the hatch opening sounded, and Levi pulled the curtain aside, wrapping his hands around Leonard's body, with such strength that he could hardly breathe.

Leonard wanted to break free, but slowly put down his raised hand, and wrapped it around Levi's back instead—since fate has brought him here, at least for now, let him face his heart honestly .

"You made an forced landing there on purpose." Leonard said suddenly, not a question.

Levi hesitated for a moment: "Yes."

"Going to that warehouse is not just for supplies."

"There are still some materials left over from that year."

Levi didn't mean to hide it, he stepped back a little, put his hands on Leonard's shoulders, and was surprised to find that Leonard's face was calm: "Aren't you angry?"

"I'm angry, can you not lie to me?" Leonard curled his lips, "Because you are the kind of person who plans everything secretly, implements it regardless of the consequences, and uses any means to achieve the goal, regardless of whether it will hurt or not. other people."

Levi laughed: "Surely I'm so bad in your heart?"

"Yes." Leonard sighed resignedly, "But I still fall on you."

"I love you," Levi said suddenly.

Leonard froze for a moment, his eyes wandered on Levi's face, but he didn't catch a trace of teasing. Those blue eyes looked at him, like the surface of a calm sea, deep and beautiful.

"Me too." He said softly, reaching over and kissing Levi's lips.

"Ahem, Captain." The first mate who sent a communication suddenly and happened to bump into this scene had a very embarrassed expression.

Levi and Leonard split immediately and turned to him together.

"Yes, James?"

"We are currently encountering a problem with our forward route. Please come over here, er, don't be in a hurry, an hour or two is fine."

He was surprised to see Leonard showing a shocked expression, and greeted uncomfortably: "Lieutenant Colonel Summers, you are awake, remember to take a good rest."

Then the communication was cut off before Leonard could reply.

"That's James?!" Leonard opened his eyes wide, and asked Levi with a look of disbelief, "Didn't he be picked up by you..."

"I know what you want to ask." Levi held down the excited lieutenant colonel: "But yes, James is not dead, I took him back, connected him to the mechanical arm, but he did lose the previous memory, so he doesn't know you."

"You mean he doesn't remember me?" How is this possible? They have been best friends since they entered the military academy at the age of 16, and they have been together countless times through life and death.

Levi nodded understandingly: "This is hard for you to accept."

"No." Leonard shook his head, and the gushing emotion calmed down, "He is alive, this is the best result, I will not ask for more."

"So he's your first mate now?"

"Well. A very good first mate." Levi laughed.

Leonard let out a long sigh of relief. The dark clouds that had weighed heavily on his heart for a long time dissipated a little bit. The joy of knowing that his friend was still alive entered his heart. He smiled involuntarily, but his eyes could not be restrained. reddened.

"You bastard." He punched Levi lightly, "Why didn't you tell me before?"

"I think you'll know anyway, just not in time."

Leonard nodded, and sadly found that he was getting used to Levi like this. In order to divert his attention, he turned to pulling Levi's hair: "To be honest, I'm really not used to your golden hair."

"If you don't like it, I can make it black."

"Don't." Leonard hurriedly said: "Isn't that the same as Lucifer? It always feels weirder. I don't have a special hobby for robots."

"By the way, what's going on with that Lucifer? Why does it have your face?" Leonard thought of the artificial intelligence that had the same face as Levi's - all high-level artificial intelligences have emotions. In terms of self-thinking ability, this Lucifer looks more humane than the previous Harpy, he can almost be regarded as a human being.

Thinking of this, Leonard suddenly felt an indescribable awkwardness, and secretly muttered: "It's really narcissistic." He also made the artificial intelligence look like himself.

Levi laughed: "It's not what you think, the first thing he saw after awakening was me, so he used my appearance."

Leonard reached out and touched his face, and his slightly rough fingertips slowly stroked the smooth skin of the prince: "Lie with me for a while, it will be fine in a while."

The prince took his hand, kissed his palm, took off his coat, and lay down facing each other.

"Sleep for a while." He said, wrapping his arms around Leonard's waist, his soft voice seemed to have hypnotic magic, "You are still too weak and need to rest." They were so close, foreheads against foreheads, when talking We can feel each other's breath.

Leonard sniffed the familiar aroma in his hair, only felt a burst of relaxation, and his eyelids became heavier and heavier.

"Report sir, the abandoned base of the Principality of Ayton was discovered 40 kilometers to the north, and the base of the Murderer is 80 kilometers to the west. It has been breached, and the deputy head Clint has been arrested and imprisoned." Nicholas reported to Luna .

Three hours ago, the explosion at the Dead Soul base caught the attention of the reconnaissance planes. They centered on the pirate's base and finally found the fallen body here.

At this moment they were standing in front of the wreckage of the mecha.

A gust of sand swept past, and the big coat on Luna's shoulders made a loud noise, and the exposed part of the mecha was buried a little more.

One of the particularly broken ones was "Dawn", and the other was a relatively complete enemy mech.There were no corpses in the two mechas, and at the same time, all the maintenance materials were taken away.

Luna narrowed her eyes, "Nicholas, what do you think?"

The adjutant's expression on the ice surface relaxed for a moment, and then said: "There is no trace of fighting near the cockpit, and no corpses were found within a few hundred meters of the mecha. According to my personal inference, Lieutenant Colonel Summers and the enemy pilot survived the fall."

"and then?"

"They went to Ayton's abandoned base. According to the time calculation, maybe they spent the night somewhere before," Nicholas called up the picture of the base, slid to the warehouse where the supplies were piled up, and pointed to the footprints extending into it: "here It's the footprints of two people. They're very fresh, they've been gone for less than seven hours."

Luna glanced at it, and her face sank immediately: "You mean, instead of fighting, they formed an alliance?"

"At present, this is the case. Lieutenant Colonel Leonard and the enemy pilot have to travel together for survival or other purposes."

"And after that? Where did they go?"

Nicholas narrowed his eyes: "The next thing is completely my speculation."

"Say." Luna almost popped the word between her teeth.

"In the secret room at the bottom of the Dead Souls Bunker, we found the deputy head, but at the same time, there was also a large amount of Lieutenant Colonel Summers' blood there. According to the traces at the scene and the corpses of pirates not far from the abandoned base, we speculated that It is suspected that after the lieutenant colonel left, he was captured by the dead soul and tortured, judging from the amount of blood loss, his life may be in danger."

"Where's the enemy pilot? Didn't he leave with Summers?"

"From the scene of the fight, there is only the lieutenant colonel alone."

"So their alliance is broken?"

"I dare not jump to conclusions."

Luna didn't ask anymore, she knew her adjutant well, and ninety percent of what could come out of his mouth was the truth.

She thought for a while, then asked again: "You said a third party attacked the base of the dead souls?"

"Yes, the positron cannon used."

Positron Cannon, she couldn't help but think of the Silencers who destroyed Savaltar.

"However, we didn't find Leonard, so he was rescued again?"

She felt a kind of absurdity—why did Leonard go with the enemy pilot, why did he leave alone, and why did that mysterious third party rescue a Federation pilot.

"On that note, we were lucky to find a working surveillance camera."

Nicholas called up the image again, and a holographic image appeared in front of them, very blurry but very familiar.

This time, everyone showed expressions of disbelief.

impossible!