imperfections

The new ephemeris is March 270, 3.

The Interstellar Alliance urgently issued a summons, ordering General Lin Jingheng of the Silver Fortress to immediately return to the capital, Xingwoto, to accept the questioning.

Lin Jingheng blatantly disobeyed.

The next day, the headline on the front page of the Woto Daily was a furious cry from the air—"Lin Jingheng, do you want to rebel?"

At the end of March, the Silver Fortress was blocked across the board. A mechanical force composed of 3 hyperspace heavy mechas was parked outside the artificial atmosphere. The elites in the Silver Fortress pointed their guns at their comrades, and neither side refused to back down. , By the night of the 26th, the tense standoff had lasted for nearly 48 hours.

The head of the bodyguard, Lord, quietly put the rum and ice cubes on the table, and lightly touched them with his heels.

The general who was standing by the window snapped his fingers at the guard, signaling him to stay.

This Admiral Lin, who has a reputation all over the eight galaxies, is tall. From the strands of his hair to the buckle of his belt, everything is rigorous and appropriate, and his whole person exudes an air of coldness that fits perfectly.He picked up the wine glass, added a few pieces of ice casually, and there was a phantom around his left ear—the admiral's communication was turned on, and he was talking to someone.

The communication technology has been very developed. The phone is directly connected to the personal terminal. If you want to say something, the signal from the brain can directly reach the receiver of the other party. You don’t need to work hard or worry about being heard by a third person. His facial expression judged whether the call was greeting or cursing.

However, the personal guard Lord stood quietly by the side, and no clue could be seen from the admiral's face.

Contemporary society encourages frankness, openness, and outpouring of true feelings. The old-fashioned conservatism and closeness of Lin's body are very outdated. The media and political opponents seize this point and write articles every day to scold him for being scheming and arrogant.

The scheming admiral ended the call, rolled the wine in his mouth around on his tongue, and said to Lord nonchalantly: "The marshal called and asked me to make a strategic compromise and go back to Votto first."

Lord was taken aback.

"Strategic compromise." Admiral Lin repeated the word playfully, smiled, and opened the news with a wave.

The major media in Watto are all paying attention to the tense situation in the Silver Fortress.

The newly appointed General Secretary Gordon was standing at the gate of the Star Congress in the capital, and was surrounded by a circle of reporters, giving a short speech: "General Lin and I are classmates, friends, and relatives. I use my career, personality, I swear everything, General Lin's loyalty to Watto is unquestionable, he will never betray Watto, and he will never betray the alliance, all doubts about his loyalty are malicious slander!"

Admiral Lin chewed an ice cube "creakingly" after listening to these impassioned speeches.

"Jingheng, if you can see, please give me a minute and listen to me," the Secretary-General turned to the camera affectionately, speaking earnestly, "Don't let those false accusations cloud your judgment, don't let this misunderstanding cause The dispute between loved ones hurts and enemies are fast. Come back, Jingshu and I are waiting for you in Woto, Jingheng, Woto and your family!"

The camera then swept across a woman next to her. She was wearing a black dress, no makeup, pale skin, except for her thick and colorful eyebrows, her face was almost bloodless, but she had a kind of almost thrilling beauty.

Lin Jingshu is the general's younger sister, and she married Gordon, the most promising man in the seven galaxies of the alliance, a year ago.

Mrs. Gordon, who was surrounded by guards, did not speak, her eyes were empty, like a delicate doll.

Admiral Lin was unmoved, and turned to his personal guard, "What do you think of the Secretary-General?"

Lord chose his words carefully, and replied cautiously: "He is a man of the hour."

"Well, it is indeed a person. There is nothing wrong with it, but I get goosebumps when I hear him speak. People who don't know this tone can hear me and think that I have an affair with my brother-in-law." Lin Jingheng laughed, raised her hand to turn off the screen, and turned off the screen. She drank the wine in the glass, "It's too nasty."

Lord took the empty cup and said in a low voice, "General, don't worry about those noises, the 'Silver Ten Guards' have been assembled, and we can fight at any time, as long as you give an order."

"What are you doing, are you rebelling?" Lin Jingheng glanced at him indifferently, and suddenly asked, "Lord, are you a graduate of the First Military Academy?"

"Yes, sir, I am an honorary graduate of the 260th class of Wulan College!"

"What does the family do, do you have brothers and sisters?"

Lord was a little confused, not knowing what the admiral was up to at this juncture, but he still replied in a straightforward manner: "My father runs a medical institution, my mother teaches at Ulan College, and there is an older brother and a younger sister in the family."

Lin Jingheng snorted.

Always ready to fight...

This ignorant young man is easy to say - who is he fighting with?

Are you proud of your parents and brothers?

The other name of the First Military Academy is "Ulan Academy". Although Ulan Academy is known as the cradle of senior military officers, very few of them can directly enter the Silver Fortress after graduation.

In addition to the extremely high requirements for grades, the political game at the top also links the whereabouts of the graduates with their household registration, euphemistically called "for humanitarian considerations", so that the soldiers will be closer to their homes.The Silver Fortress is the military center of the first galaxy, and the graduates it accepts must have the household registration of the first galaxy.And most of them come from good backgrounds, their parents are wealthy businessmen, high-achieving, celebrities, and even officials and politicians.

This makes the political ecology of Silver Fortress very complicated, roughly divided into two factions——

Some of them are the direct line troops who hunted and killed the interstellar pirates together with Admiral Lin. They are called "Silver Ten Guards", and their number accounts for about one-tenth of the fortress's garrison.The Silver Ten Guards are as notorious as its commander-in-chief. They are a group of well-known hooligans in the universe. They want to make a scandal every few days to cheer up the public. Some people say that when they fought against the interstellar pirates, they were purely "fighting poison with fire".

The remaining commanders and soldiers are all young masters from Ulan Academy. Behind each of them is an intricate family and connections, weaving a net to bind their loyalty firmly and ensure that the Silver Fortress is impenetrable.

Lin Jingheng waved at the head of the bodyguard, and ordered: "Give me a suit, and send a letter to the checkpoints along the way, explaining the itinerary, and I will leave for Woto tomorrow."

Lord was taken aback: "Sir..."

"The marshal has already spoken, asking me to make a strategic compromise. What else do you want? All of the Silver Fortress—" Lin Jingheng paused for a moment, looking out of the window. Thousands of starships pointed at the uninvited guests outside the artificial atmosphere. They shone mechanically and coldly. Brilliant, reminiscent of groups of whitebait in the sea, reflected shimmeringly in the general's gray pupils.

He took off his gloves and threw them aside: "Disarm."

The next day, the Jingyuan starship sailed away from the Silver Fortress like a flat boat in the vast sea of ​​stars. The mechanical army gazing at the outside of the artificial atmosphere gave way to a narrow road, silently watching the back of the military dictator's curtain call.

Unarmed starships are prohibited from installing jump valves. According to the normal procedure, the Jingyuan needs to go through six checkpoints from the Silver Fortress back to the capital Star Votto, which lasted thirteen days.

On the fourth day, the Jingyuan passed by near the Sima star and encountered an asteroid stream unexpectedly. The starship wanted to avoid it temporarily, but the fourth guard of the capital star regarded Lin Jingheng as the number one dangerous person, and did not receive the arrival of the original plan. On the Jingyuan, the fourth guard was terrified, and issued twelve first-level warnings in one day, ordering the Jingyuan not to delay.

The Abyss was forced to detour to the "Heart of Roses" - the only restricted area of ​​the First Galaxy that has not been explored by humans.

On April 270, 4 in the new star calendar, the Jingyuan was attacked by a group of interstellar pirates hiding in the outskirts of the Rose Heart. Admiral Lin Jingheng was assassinated, and the ship was destroyed.

The news was sent back to Capital Star, public opinion was in an uproar, the ten silver guards mutinied, and the Silver Fortress was immediately paralyzed. Ten years ago, the pirate group that was completely beaten out of the eight major galaxies of the alliance by Admiral Lin got the smell out of nowhere, and made a comeback, and suddenly attacked the civilian shipping lanes of the sixth galaxies.

This series of events is known as the "Silver Disaster" in history.

Starting from the sixth galaxy, a large-scale parade went up the transition points one by one like a plague.

Under the heavy pressure, Watto was forced to change his face. First, he appeased the Federal Military Commission, and then he never mentioned the fact that Lin Jingheng was forcibly recalled before his death. Just use as much space to commemorate and praise him.

The "deeply scheming" Admiral Lin just transformed into a human treasure, unprecedentedly great, glorious and just.

A grand funeral was held in Watto, and Admiral Lin replaced himself with a dress he had never worn before, and was invited into the martyrs' cemetery in Watto.Tickets for on-site viewing were sold at sky-high prices. Admiral Lin was recorded in the annals of history by the Guinness Book of Records because of his extremely expensive death.

On the day of the funeral, Lin Jingshu wore a black gauze and saluted all the dignitaries who came to express their condolences. Even on this occasion, the famous beauty of Watto was still demure and elegant, and her image was perfect.

She was beautiful--all who saw her couldn't help admiring--and heartless.

Secretary-General Gordon came over, and Lin Jingshu took her husband's arm like a dodder, accepting his care submissively, asked him to put on a black gauze hat for her, and then sat quietly, naturally showing adoring and dependent eyes, listening Ged went on stage to perform a painful show, taking out silk from time to time, symbolically dabbing on the corners of his eyes a few times.

The reporters at the scene took photos of her for a while, and then parted ways in a dull manner—because Mrs. Gordon's sitting posture was exactly the same as that of her last bazaar of "Against the Throwing of Pets into Space". use.

The reporters surrounding her dispersed, but Lin Jingshu remained motionless.

She is like a famous flower that admires itself alone, no matter whether anyone looks at it or not, she blooms in the wind by herself.

At this time, this "famous flower" had tears in her eyes and a smile on her face. Her picturesque facial features seemed to be gilded with the light of human civilization. Looking at Gordon who was choked up on the stage, she thought to herself: "I want you to pay for your life. "

Human beings have been peaceful for more than 200 years since they entered the new ephemeris era, but now, a hideous crack has opened up in the peace like a mirror image——