nebula story

Looking at him quietly, Fern said lightly after a while: "No, Chesu. I don't need it."

Staring blankly at him, Chesu's eyes darkened for a moment, and he lowered his head.

"Yes, Your Highness." He smiled reluctantly, "When the time comes, you will definitely choose a younger, smarter, and better-skilled mechanic."

Fern shook his head slightly, instead of looking at him, he stared at the dreamlike blue starry sky.

His voice was so low, as if he was talking to himself: "No, Chesu.... There will never be anyone better than you."

It is because you are so good that I don't need you to do so much.You deserve a better, safer and happier life. ——He didn't say this sentence, but just thought about it silently in his heart.

In the mecha cabin, there was a moment of silence and tranquility.

After a while, Fern suddenly said, "Chesu, give this two-person mecha a name."

"Oh", Chesu frowned, and began to think hard in a bit of embarrassment.After a long time, Ai Ai said, "How about calling it 'Mecha One'?"

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"Think about it again." His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's handsome face twitched suspiciously.

Ah, isn't it good?Chesu was troubled in his heart, it was so simple and easy to remember!

"So, how about calling it 'New Mecha One'? Your Highness?"

Almost having the urge to vomit blood, Fern turned his head to look at Chesu, studied suspiciously for a long time, and then reluctantly accepted the fact that Chesu, who opened his eyes and looked extremely serious, probably didn't intend to play tricks on him.

"Chesu, I thought I had very few literary cells." He said slowly, "I didn't expect that there is no such thing in your brain..."

Scratching her head in embarrassment, Chesu looked out of the cabin evasively.Sure enough, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is still as difficult to serve as ever!Looking at the dense stars and clouds in the sky, his eyes suddenly lit up.

"Your Highness, let's call it 'Xingyun No. [-]'! Literary or not?"

...His Royal Highness Taixi, who was full of gloomy face, finally nodded reluctantly after a long time: "Okay, let's call it this."

Looking at the black cirrus clouds and little stars in the distance, and imagining the appearance of the mech they were in soaring in the starry sky, he narrowed his sharp eyes and finally smiled. ——The name doesn't seem to be that bad either.

At the same time, the palace is already brightly lit everywhere.In the crown prince's mansion, the phone rang one after another.The old manager kept answering the phone, explaining to the other party the ridiculous reason why His Royal Highness the Crown Prince took a walk outside because of insomnia.

Wood eagerly rubbed his hands while pacing: "Where can your highness go? You should have followed from afar just now!"

He didn't bring a communicator with him, and he didn't have any bodyguards to follow him, but at this critical juncture, His Royal Highness Fern temporarily lost contact for the first time in this huge palace.

"Mr. Guard, think about it, where is His Royal Highness most likely to go?" Visser frowned seriously, "His Majesty the Emperor has called twice, and the Military Aircraft Department and the Intelligence Agency are also constantly calling. Q. General Marshal Au Teng has also rushed to the military aircraft department, and there should be a large number of people waiting there."

Wood sighed anxiously: "All the guards have been sent out to look for it, who knows that His Highness is wandering around in that corner!"

The shocking picture on the huge display light curtain around him stimulated everyone's hearts and eyes.Not daring to look at those bloody scenes anymore, the maids avoided looking directly at the screen in horror.

The phone rang harshly again, and Manager Visser picked up the phone with a straight face: "Hello, this is the Crown Prince's residence... What? You are a soldier on duty at the Royal Private Mecha Training Base?...Understood, what did you do?" very good."

After hanging up the phone, he looked at Wood: "The soldiers at the mecha training base also saw the live TV broadcast, and guessed that they must be looking for His Highness everywhere, so they boldly called to inform——His Royal Highness is driving his exclusive No. [-] mecha , and is still in the air."

With a cry of "Oops", Wood suddenly realized.By the way, Chesu has nowhere to go by himself, the most likely destination is not there!

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is driving the mecha in the air, and Chesu must be on it too!

Taking a long breath, he asked anxiously, "Has Your Highness returned?"

The old manager shook his head: "No. The soldier on duty said that His Highness has not opened the communication link with the ground. So now, we can only wait for His Highness to fly enough before coming back."

With an "oh" in frustration, Wood hurriedly got up and rushed out of the door: "I'll go over there to guard. Mr. Manager, please call someone to prepare the car!"

"It's ready." The boss's usually calm face was also a little uneasy.No matter where His Highness is, he will never go to sleep peacefully when he comes back.The emergency calls from the military department have come countless times, and I am afraid that there is no hesitation in jumping into the special car and rushing there immediately.

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Almost running fast, Wood took a few guards and jumped into the special car parked outside the mansion, and rushed to the mecha training ground.The sky was getting darker and darker, but it was almost the darkness before dawn.

Jumping out of the car and rushing into the mecha training ground, he grabbed the oncoming soldiers on duty: "Your Highness hasn't returned yet?!"

Grinning in pain from his strong grasp, the soldier hastily pointed to the sky.A dark red bionic window of the mecha is shining in the air, and it is leisurely landing towards the ground of the mecha training ground. The wind suddenly picks up, rolling up countless invisible dark dust.

Running wildly, Wood faced the huge airflow brought by the landing of the mecha, and finally saw two figures jumping down from the No. [-] mecha in the light.

"Your Highness!" Wood called eagerly, "Please hurry to the military headquarters, His Majesty the Emperor, the General Marshal of the Imperial Army, and all the ministers have arrived, and an emergency meeting is already underway!..."

Looking at Wood in amazement, His Royal Highness Fern fell into shock for a moment!An emergency meeting at this late hour with so many senior officials? !He only stayed in the sky for such a short period of time, and it was clear that everything was calm just now.

He asked in a deep voice, "What happened?"

"Your Highness, talk as you walk!" Wood sprinted and led Fern towards the car, "Just four or 10 minutes ago, there was an extremely lethal man-made explosion on Fisher, and it was preliminarily judged to be three cluster magnetic storm shells. , fell into the reclamation area of ​​our empire!"

Behind them, Chesu silently followed Xiao ran, feeling surprised and bewildered.

"Go on." His Royal Highness Fern spoke calmly, but the frowning peaks betrayed the same shock in his heart.

"Preliminary estimates, a total of more than 500 untouchable miners in the night shift mines and ground rest miners under our imperial reclamation area have been bombed to death!" Wood's voice was a little angry, "There are also more than [-] civilian and noble engineers working with the mine Not a few died."

"Is the news blocked?" His Highness Fern suppressed his mind.

"Your Highness, this news has not only spread throughout the entire empire, but there are also quite a few people who have seen it with their own eyes." Wood sighed slightly, "There is a live TV travel program late at night, and there happened to be a scene of a tour group filmed on the spot tonight. The whole story of the bomb explosion."

The footsteps stopped slightly, and a stern look flashed on His Royal Highness Fern's stern face. "Live broadcast? Still going on now?"

"Yes, Your Highness." Wood nodded. "It was originally a live TV travel show. When encountering such a big event, it will naturally follow the whole process. Now on the TV screen, all channels are broadcasting the live broadcast of Fisher Star."

I am afraid that countless people have been woken up by friends and relatives from the bed, and they are all surprised or angrily watching the shocking scene.

Tonight's empire is destined to have a sleepless night!

The speeding palace carried them in a car and rushed to the outside of the palace.As soon as His Royal Highness got into the car, he took over the top-secret communication line that had already been connected. Hearing the rapid report from the confidential secretary of the military department, his expression became more and more serious.

Putting Chesu down at the fork in the road near his mansion, His Highness Fern gave a gentle and brief sentence: "You go back first. I have to go to the military headquarters for an emergency meeting now."

After a short reply, Chesu jumped out of the car, and stood quietly watching Fern under the light of the headlights.

The vehicle started quickly and passed by his side.From the car window, His Royal Highness Fern's voice came again: "Hurry up and go to rest..."

Waving his hand towards the open window, Chesu stared blankly at the royal car speeding up like an arrow.Turning around and running to the other side of the fork in the road, he ran towards the brightly lit Crown Prince's mansion in the night.

As soon as he stepped into the hall, the old manager and Aisha had already greeted him.

"Master Chesu, are you back?" Aisha was overjoyed, "His Royal Highness went to look for you, didn't he meet you?"

Nodding in embarrassment, Chesu blushed a little: "I'm sorry, I have caused trouble for everyone by running out like this. I met Your Highness, just now we... drove the mecha to the sky for training. Now His Highness has been taken by Chief Guard Wood. Take it to the military department."

When he saw the TV light curtain hanging on one wall, he suddenly stopped breathing!

Walking to the front of the light curtain in a daze, he held his breath and looked at the shaking camera on the screen.The hoarse voice of the tour guide came depressingly from the TV, accompanied by a burst of disordered current sound wave interference.

They had already penetrated into the hinterland of the mine that was attacked by shells for the first time. Because the members of the tour group were terrified, many of them chose not to continue to follow up, but stayed in the safe zone.

In the shot are the scenes captured by the dedicated photographers and tour guides of this live travel program.The messy explosion scene, the devastated closed mine shafts, and the bombed corpses in the miners' dormitory on the ground. ...

The camera suddenly landed on a pile of corpses hit together by the blast wave, and the miserable scene of a broken intestine caught the viewer's retinas by surprise. Beside Chesu, Aisha, who couldn't help but peek at the picture, suddenly screamed With a sound, I covered my eyes!

Although he didn't move his eyes, Chesu's face was extremely pale.This close-up, unobstructed news picture is terribly real. Although the picture looks a bit blurred under the smoke and dust of the explosion, the bright red color and the tragic death breath are so suffocating.

"Master Chesu..." Aisha said timidly behind her, "Is this going to start a war?"

Chesu was speechless.What else could it be?This kind of obvious fire bombing and targeted and precise strikes obviously cannot be any accident.

The Federation people far away on the Gotha star have really decided to start a war, in this late night without warning?

Manager Visser looked at the light curtain silently, and only after a while did he let out a long sigh.

"The war... has already begun." He sighed heavily, his gray hair looked a little old suddenly under the light.Overnight, 3 people died in the empire.Even if the federal people came out and said it was a mistaken bombing, I'm afraid they would never stop there.

In the hall of the Crown Prince's Palace, everyone was worried, silently looking at the picture that was still being shaken.The voice of the young tour guide was tired and hoarse, or because he was too shocked, the words of the explanation became less and less, leaving only the clear real shots that faithfully and silently recorded the shocking scenes on Fisher.

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Under the bright spotlights, the army's long conference hall was filled with high-ranking generals and officials of the army.Although they were all urgently awakened from sleep in the early morning, the neat military posture still appeared on everyone.

The high-brightness and high-lumen laser projection screen is divided into two pieces.On the left is the real-time broadcast of the late-night travel program, which is no different from what ordinary people in every empire can see; on the right is the urgently transferred high-definition satellite reconnaissance picture.

From a bird's-eye view, the photos captured by the satellite are more three-dimensional and clearer.In the mountains under the jurisdiction of the empire, three huge uniform potholes were smashed out by three high-energy beam shells. The vitality of the underground untouchable miners has been completely cut off. There are more than 3 people, and the number that can survive should be counted on the fingers.

His Majesty the Emperor Kent looked so dazed and helpless, staring at the blood on the screen, he kept silent.

Marshal Auteng stood upright on one side of the projection screen, looking at His Majesty the Emperor. "Your Majesty, the situation is very clear. It is an indisputable fact that the Federation has brazenly launched a war - there is only one thing we have to do now."

His Majesty looked exhausted: "Marshal, what do you mean?"

"Of course it is to issue a strong condemnation immediately and declare war immediately." Marshal Ao Teng glanced at the senior military officials present, "Is there a second option?"

Several deputy marshals looked dignified and shook their heads in unison.

Deputy Marshal Xilinglin said in a deep voice: "That's right, facing this great humiliation and national calamity, the empire's reaction can only be one."

"...Don't you need to communicate with the Federation people?" His Majesty smiled wryly, "What caused such an unreasonable war, and what is their purpose?"

With a sharp sneer, Marshal Au Teng looked at His Majesty almost angrily: "Your Majesty! These are all very clear. The hawks of the Federal Army have been seizing power for a long time, and their tentacles on Fisher Planet have been extended to It's very long. Your Majesty the Emperor, I remember that there are extremely worrying analyzes in my annual military report."

His Majesty the Emperor sighed in distress: "But..."

"Your Majesty, there is nothing wrong with it." Marshal Ao Teng said coldly, pointing at the blood and stumps dripping on the screen, "Your Majesty, open your eyes and see, those are your people, they are lying there, The wronged souls linger, and the blood is still wet."

His Majesty the Emperor looked at the picture worriedly, and finally sighed slightly for a long time, and looked at his beloved prince beside him: "Fern, what do you think?"

Fern nodded calmly: "Father, the Marshal is right. In any case, a declaration of war is inevitable."

His Majesty the Emperor, who has always been gentle, finally fell silent.

Wearily and sadly waving his hand, he stood up and said, "It's up to you to decide." Staring at Fern, he smiled wryly, "Since you have already been entrusted with the military affairs of the empire, the next thing will be hard work for you .”

"Yes, Father. I will do my best." The young and promising crown prince of the empire nodded calmly, "Father, let's go back to rest first, the military department will continue the meeting to discuss, I am afraid that it will not come up with a safe plan until dawn. "

...After His Majesty the Emperor left, the oppressive and heavy meeting of the highest level of the military department was held until the early morning of the next day.

Seeing a group of generals and chiefs of staff filing out and rushing to their respective places, His Royal Highness Fern did not leave.Sitting in front of the projection screen, he silently pulled the picture back to the front of the TV program, and began to watch it in detail in a cold and silent manner.

He came late last night, and he didn't actually have the chance to watch the whole incident.After slowly watching the video twice, he closed his eyes and took a silent nap on the large leather chair.

Across the round table, the Chief Confidential Secretary sat holding his breath.

After a while of silence, His Royal Highness Fern's faint voice came from across the huge long table, soft but clear: "Call Colonel Wesley of the Secret Investigation Department of the Imperial Intelligence Agency and tell him to come and see me immediately."

"Good Your Highness." The steady and intelligent personal confidential officer agreed.

After a pause, His Royal Highness Fern's voice became softer: "You call yourself, don't pretend to be someone else. Also, tell him to wait in my special car, and don't let anyone see it."

Slightly startled, his confidential secretary nodded quickly without any expression: "It's Your Highness!"

In the early morning of the next day, the Fisher star, which had been broadcasting continuously, was finally cut off, and all the radio stations switched to a temporary emergency news broadcast.

His Majesty the Emperor's sad and restrained face appeared in front of the people of the entire empire, announcing the huge explosion and casualties that occurred on Fisher last night.Although the Federation has not made any explanation or response so far, judging from all signs, this is a man-made tragedy.

The calm voice of His Majesty the Emperor Kent Cromwell spread throughout the empire through radio waves. In the noble mansions of the imperial capital and the dark alleys of the untouchables, they all knew one thing at the same time—the spring of 1880 in the imperial calendar. Responding to the Federation's cold-blooded military provocation for a while, it officially declared war.

The more than 100 years of peaceful coexistence between the federal government of the planet Gotha and the empire of the planet Renssel has come to an end, and a formal war has entered.

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