go off fire

The major general's scorching eyes fell on Leonard, exuding urgency and eagerness, but the lieutenant colonel hesitated for a few seconds and refused to answer.

"I can't tell."

"What did you say?!" Luna immediately jumped angrily and grabbed Leonard by the collar, "Are you kidding me?"

Leonard was unmoved, and at this moment he almost seemed a little cold: "Luna, I know you have been investigating the cause of Stephen's death. If you want to blame, you can blame me, but the content of the mission is absolutely confidential."

For a moment, tears flashed in the female officer's eyes, her nose fluttered slightly, Luna turned her head, bit her lower lip unconsciously, then let go, and finally let go of Leonard.

"Very good, Lieutenant Colonel Leonard, you have preserved the honor of a soldier." Luna's expression turned cold, she left this sentence and resolutely left.

At this point, this long night finally came to an end.When they got home, Christine was already sound asleep. Leonard took a quick shower, changed into comfortable pajamas, and lay down next to her husband.

Probably because the movement was a little loud, and the soldier had always been in a light sleep, Christine opened his eyes dimly and saw Leonard, so he showed a relieved smile: "Are you back?"

"Yeah." Leonard replied in a muffled voice.

Christine reached out and hugged him gently: "Is everything going well?"

"Successful." Leonard looked at the outline of Christine in the dim light, and felt mixed with thousands of feelings for a moment.So many things had happened that day, but there was nothing he could confide in Christine.

sorry.He whispered in his heart.

"Then go to sleep, good night. Oh no," Christine glanced at the morning light coming through the cracks in the curtains, and changed her words, "It's good morning, my lieutenant colonel."

Major General Luna Smith stared at the light curtain in front of her, slightly dazed.

"You don't have access rights yet." 5s ago, the young woman simulated by artificial intelligence rejected her access request.

In fact, this was her 52nd attempt to view the files, so she wasn't surprised or upset.

The first time was when she learned of Steve's death, she lost control of her emotions and rushed to the office of Marshal Fenrir, who was still a lieutenant general at the time, and questioned him about the cause of Steve's death.

Fenrir told her that she had no such authority.

After 52 interview rejections, she has learned to control her disappointment.

For five years, she has not let go, and climbed up step by step, but the answer has never changed-you don't have access yet.

Luna rested her chin on her crossed fingers, her melancholy eyes fell on the void behind the light curtain, and she sighed.

—Steve, it's been five years.

For five years, she has not even touched the edge of the secret, all traces have been erased by invisible hands, and all those who know have chosen to remain silent, and the answer to all these lies behind the smile of artificial intelligence.

She looked up at the ceiling, 389 meters above it, is the never-ending Evansted, where people flow like a weaving, and cars and horses are like dragons. The center of this federation, where countless tragedies and comedies are always staged, never stops her pace.

"Major General, the results are out. This unknown reagent and TX-39 are indeed the same substance." The laboratory sent a communication, and then attached a report, Luna quickly glanced aside.

Her fingers tapped on the table, and everything was expected.

Why did an organization that was exterminated five years ago appear in the center of the federation majestically, and why did it pursue the prince so hard?

Is it really just an attempt to provoke a war between the Federation and the Helen Kingdom?

snort.This inference would be a little more convincing if they were chasing down the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hieron.The royal family has been content to be a symbol of the kingdom for many years, and they have long since lost control of the political situation.

There must be a deeper reason for this.

Luna recalled that Levi's performance in the arena that day was not inferior to Leonard's fighting power, and she couldn't help but wonder in her heart—is he really just an ordinary prince?

There is no coincidence in the world, here, there must be something strange!

The major general turned his gaze back to the light curtain, and was about to call up the prince's information, when her intelligence agent stumbled in.

"Thomas! I've said it several times, you have to report first when you come in." Luna frowned, and looked at the young and reckless intelligence agent with reproachful eyes.

"Yes, yes, sir. I'm sorry, sir." Thomas's face flushed red, he hastily took over the position of intelligence officer, and Luna was still in the running-in period, but this time there was indeed a reason, "I came to communicate An urgent notice."

"What notice? You can send it directly with your optical brain."

"It's Prince Levi."

"Prince?" Luna immediately had an ominous premonition, "What's wrong with the prince?"

Thomas swallowed, with a hint of panic in his expression, "The latest news just now, Prince Levi's spaceship..."

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Christine had already gone to work, and before she left, she specially made breakfast. Although it was just a simple fried egg, bread, and milk, the label "produced by the lieutenant general" alone made this meal extraordinary.

It was just after noon when Leonard woke up, but the room was pitch black—the curtains were drawn tightly, probably because Christine was afraid that the sunlight would come in and affect his sleep.

He fumbled to turn on the light, and saw the note left by his husband beside the bed: breakfast is in the thermostat cabinet, don't forget to eat it.

He stared at her husband's beautiful handwriting on the note, and his heart convulsed violently as if stung by a bee.

Of course he didn't forget what he did yesterday.If Christine knew about this, what would he think?At least he must not be able to write such elegant and unrestrained handwriting.

Leonard got up, washed up, took out breakfast, and started to enjoy it.

The bread was burnt, but the fried egg was just right. The knife pierced the surface, and the golden egg liquid flowed out, exuding the aroma of cholesterol.

He forked half of it and put it in his mouth, feeling a little dazed for a moment.In the three years of marriage with Christine, the two of them have never fought more than once, nor have they blushed once.Of course, this has something to do with how little they get together, but more importantly, Christine is a mild-tempered person, at least he has always been gentle with himself.

Once Levi leaves, I'm afraid he will never come back.

The past few days are like a dream, absurd.But the dream is over, it's time to dissipate, and life will get back on track, as it always has been.

So what happened between him and Levi, Christine didn't have to know.

His mouth was full of the bitter taste of burnt bread, Leonard's eyes darkened, and he made up his mind.

After finishing the lunch called breakfast, Leonard walked to the laundry room and found that the housekeeping robot hadn't washed the coat he threw in the laundry basket.

This may be a hint.Leonard bent down, reluctantly picked up the coat, put his hand into the pocket, and immediately touched the cold and slender texture of metal—it turned out that it was not a dream after all.

Before stepping on the levitation car that Elite sent him away, the prince stopped, turned and walked back to Leonard.

"Indefinitely," he said, with a smirk on his face, and Leonard responded with a deadpan expression.

Levi seemed to have foreseen Leonard's reaction, just smiled casually, then took off the necklace with the ring from his neck, and handed it to Leonard.

"What do you mean?" Leonard raised his eyebrows.

"You own it," Levi said, "so I'll give it back to you."

"Also, I don't regret everything I have done." The prince left this meaningful sentence in his ear, turned around and got on the car, the suspension car roared away, a gust of wind blew up the dust on the ground, and Move the corner of Leonard's clothes.

The necklace was placed in the lieutenant colonel's palm. He stared at the silver ring, and suddenly felt that the soft silver light was so dazzling.

And now, the ring is in the coat pocket, like a ticking time bomb.

Throw it away?Or throw it away?

Leonard stared at the jacket, hesitated for a long time, and took out the ring.

"Reynard!" The light curtain suddenly jumped out, and Luna's face appeared in front of Leonard.Leonard was taken aback, and the hand holding the ring was quickly put behind him.

He replied with an unhappy face: "Major General, do I need to remind you that I am on vacation now. You are invading my personal space."

"Sorry." The woman was unmoved, and there was no apology in her tone, "No matter what vacation you are on, get the hell out of base zero, immediately, immediately!"

"Are you kidding?" Leonard frowned.

"Bad news," Luna said.

"How bad is it?"

"Probably second only to Evansted being captured by the resistance organization."

"So bad?" Leonard began to realize the seriousness of the problem.

"The news just received by the military department has not been officially announced to the outside world. Media reports have been urgently suppressed."

"Speak. Don't beat around the bush." ​​Leonard straightened his expression.

"The prince's spaceship exploded," said the major general.

The ring in his palm fell to the ground, but the lieutenant colonel didn't notice it at all.If you stand in the perspective of Major General Luna, you can observe the lieutenant colonel's gaffe in a very specific way: he seemed to have been sucked out of his soul in an instant, his face was pale, his lips opened and closed twice, but he couldn't make a sound.

"Today is not April Fool's Day, it's not funny at all." Leonard said, the corners of his mouth twitched, as if trying to force a smile, but this effort obviously failed, his body was far away from the light curtain, showing resistance attitude.

"I don't have time to joke with you. I'll give you 20 minutes to climb to the base!"

The prince's spaceship exploded shortly after leaving the star field of the Federation. Just when everyone thought that the visit ended safely without any danger, this silent flame that opened up in the universe engulfed Li. Prince Vil and his entourage.

No one knows the whole story, all we can do now is wait.

"We are extremely saddened by what happened to the prince. The Federation will do everything in its power to carry out search and rescue operations, and at the same time send our most elite personnel to investigate the cause of the accident..."

"Prince Levi Lancaster just finished his visit to the Federation Evansted, when the spaceship left the Federation star field..."

"The combined king and queen of Shieren are in mourning..."

In the hall of Base Zero, the huge light curtain was divided into dozens of pieces, playing the latest progress of the incident without interruption, and various sounds intertwined together, making it extremely noisy.

The Elite members in the hall looked up at these reports, some did not say a word and looked solemn, some were in groups of two or three, exchanging ideas with each other.

Leonard sat alone in a corner of the hall, his eyes were staring straight, and no loud voice seemed to be able to reach his ears. The ring that was supposed to be discarded was held tightly in his hand at this moment.He clutched at the ring like it was the last straw.

"You and Levi have only known each other for a few days, why are you sad like your parents died?" A female officer stood in front of him.

"Who said I was sad?" The lieutenant colonel raised his head, although his face was pale, his eyes were still provocative.

Luna sneered: "I really want to take a mirror for you to take a picture, so that you can see yourself like a ghost." After that, she threw a green uniform on Leonard.

The lieutenant colonel took it subconsciously.Seeing that it was Elite's team uniform, he immediately showed doubts.

"What are you looking at?" Luna rolled her eyes. "From now on, you are a member of Team Seven."

"You mean..." Leonard couldn't believe it completely.

"Is that the ace pilot?" Luna raised her eyebrows: "Put away your ghostly look, and follow me into space in 5 minutes to retrieve the corpse of His Royal Highness."