nebula story

Without answering Chesu again, he turned around and sat on the console in silence, regaining control of his mecha.The scenery outside the window was so familiar, he silently distinguished the ambush location of the ambush, and quickly found the impressive terrain.

"I know you are very powerful, but don't try to untie me." Without turning his head, his ears were keenly listening to Chesu's little struggling voice behind him, and he couldn't help but warn, "That's our federal government. Secret agents’ undisclosed methods of tying them up, and their unreasonable struggles, will only make you suffer.”

The rustling behind him finally stopped, and Chesu seemed to feel the pain brought by the metal rope that was getting tighter and tighter into his flesh.

Nan Zhuo breathed a sigh of relief, but his heart was very disturbed, and the depression and anger that he didn't know how to dispel became more and more intense.Silently driving the mech, his movements had unintentionally made mistakes several times in succession.

No one knew how Chesu, who was tied to the ground behind him, suddenly fell into great surprise.

He couldn't believe it when he gently groped for the knot that bound him with his upturned fingers.

... "This knot has a name, it's called "Nine Links"." In my ears, my father's soft and powerful voice echoed, as clearly as if it was in my ears, "There is only one way to solve this kind of knot. Coupled with a high-strength soft alloy rope made of special materials that cannot be easily cut, if you try to untie it by yourself, it will be impossible...Have you learned it?"

That complicated and unique way of knotting is so special that he learned it himself the night he was beaten unconscious by his father!Is it a coincidence, or just similar?Slowly recalling the only solution to the knot, his heart beat faster and faster.

"Find it here, pick it with your little finger, and pay attention to go back at the place where the two nodes are separated on the back...See clearly? Keep picking and loosening like this, don't pull it hard." The explanation of the father seems to be continuing in the ear, He controlled the faster and faster heartbeat, and followed his words little by little, calmly.

The knot was untied quietly, like a girl's soft belt around her waist, completely devoid of any tormenting ability.

Nan Zhuo in front of him suddenly stood up at this moment, turned around and said loudly irritably: "I..."

Before he had a chance to finish speaking, a heavy dull pain suddenly came from the back of his head, thousands of gold stars flashed in front of his eyes, and before he passed out, Nan Zhuo only had time to flash a huge question in his heart: Damn it!The most reliable professional binding of the federal military special agent team, so that Chesu can struggle to untie it! ?

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When he regained consciousness from the drowsiness, it took Nan Zhuo a long time to focus on his blurred vision. Chesu's blow just now was extremely ruthless.

After moving his hands and feet, Nan Zhuo smiled wryly, not only his hands were tied extremely tightly by the metal rope, but also his feet were tied up, the most exaggerated thing was that his hands and ten fingers were also tied up, saying that he is now like a pair of tightly bound mummy , presumably no one will object.

In front of him, Chesu's back turned to him, quietly looking out of the mecha window.Fisher star is far away, and Nan Zhuo can already distinguish the unique color at a glance.

He keenly heard the little movement from Nan Zhuo, he turned his head slowly, and said lightly: "You can't break free, I won't make the mistake you just made again."

Narrowing his eyes thoughtfully, Nan Zhuo suddenly opened his mouth and asked abruptly, "How did you manage to untie the bondage?"

Frowning, Chesu also had a strange look in his eyes.

"You warned me just now that it was a secret bondage method of your federal secret service?" He asked softly, his pretty eyebrows furrowed.

"Yes, one of my best friends in the military academy taught me." Nan Zhuo said coldly, "Don't tell me, everyone in your imperial army already knows about this."

"...Jiu Lianhuan. Is it called Jiu Lianhuan?" Chesu murmured, his palms spread open, and the knot he untied maintained a strange shape, Jiu Lianhuan, strange and mysterious.

Nan Zhuo's eyes were colder, sharp as a blade. "Look, you know even names."

Really, is it the Jiulianhuan that his father taught him?Chesu remained silent, with an indescribable strange feeling in his heart, and he was in a mess.

"Can't you say it?" Nan Zhuo sneered.

Chesu looked at him with a frown, and shook his head apologetically: "Yes, I can't say it....But don't worry, this will never be something that everyone in our imperial army knows."

Closing his mouth, Nan Zhuo looked at the starry sky outside.Both fell silent.Chesu's eyes were a little floating, he was thinking about something, and he looked absent-minded.

"Don't you ask me what I plan to do with you?" Chesu said after a while.

Glancing at him lightly, Nan Zhuo's expression was calm: "One of us will definitely take the other back as a prisoner of war. Since the success fell short, I have nothing to be reconciled to."

Shaking his head slightly, Chesu's eyes were soft.

"I will find a no-man's land on Fisher's planet and throw you there." He said calmly, "The joining war is still going on, maybe we will meet in the sky again. If there is a chance, I hope to be with you." Together with His Royal Highness Fern, personally avenge Captain Fanzhong."

"Revenge? You can start now." Nan Zhuo looked at him deeply.

Chesu was silent for a while, then said softly: "If you want to avenge your comrades in arms, you shouldn't use lynching."

"Even if you don't need lynching, you should take me back to the empire. Capturing a federal colonel should be no small military achievement." Nan Zhuo sneered, the feeling of being aggressive, turning the situation around, and being helpless was very bad. Somehow, Seeing Chesu's calm and indifferent appearance, there will be a kind of irrepressible anger, which will burn his mood that has always been scattered.

"What's the point of taking you back?" Chesu asked in confusion, "You don't know the way back to Nansu Star."

Nan Zhuo choked, a mouthful of blood almost poured into his throat.That's right, compared to his own compulsion to arrest him, Chesu has no reason to value him at all!He looked down on him, and even disdain to take him back as a prisoner of war!

"May I ask, what are you going to do about the resources on Nansu Star?" He asked word by word.

After pondering for a while, he slowly opened his mouth: "I probably won't report it to His Highness immediately. I think I will discuss it with my father before making a decision."

His father?A pariah raised in the home of a manor?Nan Zhuo sneered: "Wouldn't your father be so frightened that he urged you to report it for reward?"

With a smile, Chesu shook his head: "My father is very powerful and has a lot of knowledge."

Nan Zhuo's complexion was extremely ugly, as if he had already seen a very bad prospect.

Looking at his stinky face, Chesu's eyes were complicated, and he said in a low voice: "Nan Zhuo..."

He seldom directly called Nan Zhuo's name, but this call suddenly made Nan Zhuo feel a little dazed.

"Captain Fanzhong, he is a very good person..." Chesu said in a daze, the sadness that had been accumulated for a long time surged up in his heart, like dust in a deep river for years.The haughty but handsome face of the noble young soldier appeared in front of his eyes. "He is the only son of the General Marshal of our empire, and a good friend of the two princes... Although our empire will not casually kill prisoners of war, I am afraid that if you say it, you will be treated differently."

After a long silence, he said shyly, "I don't want you to die."

"Reluctant to part with me? Or are you afraid of seeing blood on your hands?" Nan Zhuo sneered lazily, "You are really sentimental and timid."

Ignoring his provocative words, Chesu playfully played with the bloody screwdriver in his hand. It was stained with the blood they had brought in the fight just now, and he didn't know who it came from. "I've thought about what you said these days, and I think it makes sense. You said that war is not a personal enmity."

Listening silently, Nan Zhuo's anger gradually dissipated, and he felt a little ashamed in his heart.When I first met this young man's eyes that were so pure that they were almost innocent, now they are clear and unchanged, but they are a little more mature and stable.

In comparison, he seemed impetuous and hesitant to be a child.

He seemed to be slowly understanding why the little pariah of this empire was personally chosen as a partner by the arrogant and noble Crown Prince, and dared to entrust his life.

"Okay, see you on the battlefield. If you go back, the gunpowder is still in the air." Nan Zhuo said slowly, put away his provocative look, and responded seriously.

Nodding, Chesu stood up and turned his back to him, looking at the distant Fisher star, a little dazed.After a while, he suddenly said softly: "You know what? When I was young, I dreamed that if I grew up in your Federation, it would be fine."

"What?" Nan Zhuo was taken aback.

How is it possible? It is said that most of the empire’s propaganda towards the Federation is negative, and the untouchables at the bottom of society are even deprived of the right to accept the truth. How could Chesu have such an idea when he was young?

"Because Daddy and I had a chance to go to your Federation!" Chesu smiled and looked at Nanzhuo's surprised expression mischievously, "I'm not lying to you. It was almost sent to your Federation as a gift for the establishment of diplomatic relations..."

"What? What did you say?" Nan Zhuo's heart suddenly beat fast.

The corners of Chesu's mouth twitched slightly, and he stroked his hair behind his ears.He hasn't trimmed it for more than ten months, and his smooth black hair has grown behind his ears, but it doesn't look messy.

"Really, when I was eight years old, I happened to meet a few visitors with extraordinary identities during the naturalization branding process." Chesu smiled, "I was young at the time and didn't know the situation, but later I heard from my father that there were some A diplomatic guest from your federation. A big brother from the federation saw me being pointed at with a branding iron, and probably thought I was pitiful, so he proposed to send me to the federation..."

Unaware of Nan Zhuo's sudden strange look in his eyes, he was immersed in the vague memory of his childhood, and sighed with a smile, "If it wasn't for my father's unwillingness to leave his hometown, maybe I would be a federal citizen now." After thinking about it, he half-jokingly said, "—by the way, maybe, I am fighting with you now, not with His Highness Fern."

Nan Zhuo was in a trance and completely lost the ability to react.I just feel that I seem to be listening to a bizarre and distant story.The story was far away but clear, and when it was about to be forgotten in my mind, it was suddenly broken so vividly, so every detail and every scene suddenly became three-dimensional and vivid, and suddenly hit him for ten years. Memories of former youth.

... yes, it was him!That little boy's moist eyes with tears in his eyes, that child's voice cowardly begging for help; the soft and moist eyes in front of him, that clear and smiling voice!

In that memory, that little pretty boy suddenly overlapped with the boy in front of him, so connected and natural, he was filled with shock and unspeakable complex emotions.

"So, you know? It's hard for me to feel disgust and fear towards you federal people." Chesu smiled lightly, "My father always feels sorry because he secretly told me that in the federal There, children can go to school and learn whatever they want, at least, they don’t have to be forced to learn how to serve others at a very young age like me.”

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Nan Zhuo didn't speak all the time, too many complicated emotions filled his heart, for a moment, he felt as if his throat was blocked by something, no matter how difficult it was to organize his words.

Sensing his strange expression, Chesu looked at him in confusion.

Taking a deep breath, Nan Zhuo grinned at the corners of his mouth, showing a smile that he thought was strange. "You...you were still very young at that time, weren't you?"

"Yes, the untouchables were eight years old when they became naturalized."

"You...do you remember, what was the big brother of the Federation who wanted to take you away?"

"Huh?" Chesu stared at him suspiciously.

"Ha, the incident of the Federation diplomat's visit to the empire ten years ago is considered a historical event, maybe I can help you find that Federation person?" Nan Zhuo stared at Chesu's face, "He... You should be about the same age as me, right?"

Chesu was stunned, but shook his head: "No need, what am I looking for with him?" Tilting his head, he thought for a while, and said with a smile, "He and I should never have anything to do with each other again."

"Oh", Nan Zhuo didn't speak again.

After a while, he suddenly remembered something, and blurted out: "So, don't you remember the other people who were there?"

"What other people?" Chesu was even more puzzled, frowning at the Federation youth who was asking strange questions.

"Ah, I heard you said that there were several distinguished guests at that time, who was among them?" Nan Zhuo probed with difficulty, feeling a little unbelievable. Could it be that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Empire has always remembered this? Untouchable little boy, so... specifically conscripted when he grows up?

"I don't remember. It should be the nobleman who accompanied the Federation guests." Chesu answered honestly without taking it seriously.

With an increasingly weird expression, Nan Zhuo stared at Chesu intently.On that afternoon ten years ago, the bloody scene in the small handyman’s courtyard, the three people in that scene.Fern, the crown prince of the empire, the untouchable boy Chesu in front of him, and himself... Is this a bizarre coincidence, or a predestined fate?

"What's the matter?" Chesu finally felt Nan Zhuo's weird daze and trance.

"...Nothing." Nan Zhuo whispered.

Looking at him quietly, Chesu came over, pulled him up vigorously, and put him by the hatch.

Bending down, he said in harmony: "We're approaching the atmosphere of Star Fisher. I'll fly around it first, find a no-man's land as close as possible to your federal control zone, and put you down—be careful yourself .”

With a wry smile and no answer, Nan Zhuo looked closely at his beautiful and gentle face, and his cute little face like an angel when he was a child appeared in front of his eyes.

"Goodbye. You have to take care of yourself." He said in a low voice, tossing in his heart.

Suddenly, he burst into a warm smile unexpectedly, and the young man from the empire in front of him curved his brows and eyes as softly as spring water: "I seem to remember..."

"what?"

"I remember that the big brother of the Federation is the same as you, with amber eyes." Chesu chuckled, "In the sunlight, the color is very beautiful."

...In an instant, Nan Zhuo's heart was slightly stabbed by something.

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Speeding up quietly, Chesu stared forward, at this moment, his brows suddenly frowned.Several buttons of the mecha system became brighter, and the mechanical electronic sound suddenly sounded: "Attention, an unknown ship appears in the direction of 5 minutes ahead, pay attention, the opponent's ship launches a laser machine language!"

Before throwing himself down on the control panel, Chesu looked nervous. Sure enough, on the surveillance screen, the remote monitoring system had captured the figure of the other party, a shuttle-shaped small ship, completely dark. Shining like a ghost is approaching impressively!

With such a small and nimble body, and such an arrow-like speed, it should be a scout ship!

"Attention, the communication frequency band is captured, and the other party requires a voice connection!" The mecha system prompt sounded coldly again, with some kind of pressure that was getting closer.

After quickly adjusting the system information of the mecha, Chesu did not immediately agree to the docking.Nervously calculating the relative distance, his forehead gradually became slightly sweaty. According to the distance between the two, even if his mecha fled at full speed, he might not be able to avoid all the opponent's long-range weapons launching attacks!

Nan Zhuo's heart also jumped suddenly.Looking from behind Chesu, he also saw the dark ship with no markings and no obvious features for judgment. It was a typical scout ship wandering around the battle circle of both sides.

Which side is that person from! ?

The laser machine language of the opponent's ship was flashing rapidly, Chesu and Nan Zhuo's expressions changed slightly, and they saw the laser machine language translation prompted on the monitoring board: If there is no voice connection, the other party will open fire immediately!

Indeed, a lone mech drifts in the air strangely, without a team, with unknown intentions, suspicious behavior, and delays in opening the communication docking. What a vigilant thing it is near the war zone!

Chesu gritted his teeth, and seemed to have seen the firepower system coldly mobilized by the other party targeting them.Reaching out to press the communication connection button, he suppressed his heartbeat and waited silently for the other party to ask questions.

Sure enough, the inquiry immediately sounded on the communication channel, without any emotion: "Who is in the mecha? Please report the camp and purpose so that we can decide to deal with it. Otherwise, shoot it down immediately."

Cold and domineering, but it should be taken for granted.There is a huge difference in the force of the two sides. On one side is an entire ship with powerful firepower, and on the other side is a single military mech. Strength determines attitude, that's all.

Chesu stared closely at the unidentified ship on the surveillance screen, hesitating in his heart, and suddenly, he manually locked the screen on a spot on the opponent's ship, zoomed the screen to the maximum quickly, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

That is? ...Under the dark side of the fuselage, there is a faintly concealed Imperial Army mark!Silver emblems, black swords and flowers!It was modified for some reason, and the Imperial Army logo was deliberately sprayed, what else could be the reason?It's just a camouflage for reconnaissance!

Chesu was overjoyed, and quickly answered into the microphone: "I am an imperial man! The imperial mechanic who was lost in the previous battle! Please return to the team!"

Nan Zhuo's heart sank with a wry smile.