under the mask

At the beginning of October, a group of fourth-grade students who were about to start their internship boarded the desert speedboats parked outside the city gate. Seven or eight speedboats glide on the sand dunes like diving, and soon left the city of Skye.In addition to these students who filled out the internship form, nearly one-third of the remaining students signed up to participate in the military reserve selection training that began in the middle of the year. Together with the students who signed up for the second and third grades, they took the transport ship to escort the sixth training for a period of two days. Half a month of training.

"Seth, your mechanical sword has been repaired." Levi knocked on Seth's door: "Come and get it?"

The blue-haired boy took off the holographic helmet and looked at him sideways, with a habitual smile on his gentle and elegant face: "Wait for me, I still need to check the information."

Li Wei shrugged, and leaned against the door casually looking at Seth's room.From the first day of school last year, he knew that his roommate was a black-bellied and sullen nobleman, which can be seen from the layout of the bedroom.It’s just a school dormitory, with goose-yellow wallpaper with roses on the walls, an antique crystal chandelier above the head, a luxurious bed with red lacquer curtains, and a custom-made optical brain table. Full... Even so, there is an antique half-person-high sunday star porcelain vase with peacock feathers stuffed in the corner.

Looking back at that time, he didn't know why he didn't like Seth, but up to now, Seth helped him the most.

"You went out again last night." Li Wei thought about it, and tentatively said.

"Ok?"

Seth responded casually, busy copying the downloaded data to the communicator and saving it, then sat in the armchair and turned to look at Li Wei: "Ask what you want, I'm afraid to hear your tone." Been holding it in for a long time?"

It should be said that I didn't care about it before, but now I'm a little curious... Li Wei rolled his eyes.

"I said, are you really going to meet your lover?" He snorted, "It's been more than a year, and it's not Jinwu Zangjiao... What are you going to do?"

Seth smiled slightly: "The one who said I went to meet my lover was always you, did I admit it?" He hesitated for a moment, and continued: "Of course not, but I don't know the identity of that person. "

Li Wei asked him in surprise: "You mean, you have been secretly meeting with an unknown person all semester?"

"It's not a meeting." Seth turned off the optical brain and stood up: "We contacted on the Internet. Do you remember the first optical brain class? I saw that person in that class. Later, in order to prevent personal optical brain Being monitored, I went to the Gonggong computer room to surf the Internet at night."

The two walked towards Li Wei's room.

"Then did you find anything after the whole semester?" Li Wei was really curious now.He now has a better understanding of Seth's character. This person does have the cautious and suspicious personality traits of Bluebeard. He wants him to approach others proactively, or he really confirms that the other party will not betray him (this is difficult) , or he is in contact with the other party purposefully.Someone I met on the Internet, and I couldn't see it clearly, there must be something about that person that was so attractive to Seth that he wanted to explore it.

Sure enough, Seth showed a meaningful smile, and said softly: "Have you heard of the central brain?"

Li Wei stopped in front of his bedroom door and looked back at him.Amelia told him that apart from the unknown identity of Hall's intellectual brain, the only two intellectual brains in the empire are Brigitte and Papa of the Central Council, of which Brigitte is a female figure, and Papa Pa, according to Amelia, looked like a teenager on the outside.

"That person has no memory about himself. At first I thought he might be the data generated by the interstellar network itself, but..." Seth's eyes also showed a little confusion: "But later, I found out that he knew a lot about the secrets of the cabinet and the palace. , also know a lot about politics.”

He simply said to Li Wei: "Ever since I heard about Papa's disappearance, I have been doubting his identity."

"You think that person is Papa?" Li Wei was thoughtful.

"That time you were taken away by Palad, the student protest I proposed was actually told to me by that person."

Li Wei looked at him in confusion, even so, how could a brain have no memory?Besides, if he was Papa, Brigitte wouldn't be able to find him?Speaking of which...Brigida didn't seem to care much about Papa's long absence, and Hall didn't mention it to him.what is going on…

Could it be that something happened in the Paramount Palace.

He couldn't help but think of Abel and Jacob. The person they want to find should be His Majesty Rebis. After three years of searching, there is no result. It can be seen that the possibility that His Majesty Rebis is still in the Paramount Palace is quite small... really I don't know how the media reports about the pregnancy of Queen Wen Geli came about.

"Haven't you mentioned that man to anyone else?" he asked Seth suddenly, remembering.

Seth shook his head: "I'm not sure of his identity...and he hasn't appeared often recently."

The conversation came to an end here, and Li Wei had a feeling that Seth hadn't told the truth, but he just remembered to ask casually, and didn't intend to pursue his friend's privacy too much.

As soon as the door was pushed open, both of them closed their mouths and walked lightly, carefully closed the door and walked to Li Wei's workbench on the left.The room is not big at all, and the door is facing the window, and there is a light brain table in front of the window, a built-in wardrobe and shoe cabinet against the wall on the right hand side, and a spacious single bed on the left side against the window, two A small bedside table, and on the left side next to the door is Levi's workbench.Originally, there was no such clumsy mixed metal and wood table, but since he decided to participate in the training camp, Levi bought this workbench from Wolf on the Machinery Street to make and repair weapons and equipment for himself and his friends.Of course, the raw material comes from the friendly sponsorship of Professor Degas. His Oliveira aircraft successfully tested and made Degas shine in front of other teachers.

Li Wei habitually glanced at the bed. There were two small bumps on the quilt on the pillow. This point happened to be when Da Mao and Xiao Mao fell asleep after dinner. He usually forced the two fat balls to digest for a while and burped. Let them drill the quilt.

He turned his head and gently opened the one-person-high safe on the side of the workbench. His fingerprints and pupils were added. Although it was a bit old-fashioned, it was originally just to be prepared.The cabinet made a soft clicking sound, and then opened it silently, cascading and popping out more than twenty layers of velvet partitions from top to bottom. Each layer gave off sharp metal reflections under the soft room light. It was either an energy sword or a Firearms, and some ancient and exquisite cold weapons at the bottom.

"Your skills have improved again." Seth sighed softly, and his eyes lit up when he saw the blue light sword on the top floor.

Li Wei showed a satisfied smile beside him.

"The top-quality kyanite I got from Degas has upgraded your third-level greatsword to first-level." He took out the great sword from the partition and handed it to Seth, "How is it? Are you satisfied? "

"That's right." He fondly lifted the hilt and looked it up and down. The part of the hilt was re-sculpted to make it feel more stable and fit, and the friction increased: "The weight is very even, and the kyanite matches my strength very well!" He swung his great sword joyfully, and the kyanite emits colorful electrodes that wrap around the cold and sharp blade, drawing a sharp mark in the air.

If he wants to become one of the best swordsmen, it is essential to have a great sword embedded with top-level power stones, but good power stones are difficult to obtain even for nobles, and they are usually in the hands of great sword masters or mechanics , the origin of the best kyanite is far away from the stars of Jialai Vance and the output is scarce. It is indeed a surprise that Li Wei can help him get it.

"I can help you the best." Li Wei smiled.

"Thanks." Seth looked at him, and from the corner of his eyes, he saw the two partitions at the bottom of the safe. The ruby's luster was infinitely magnified under the light. He reached out and took out one of the partitions, and found that it was a black steel sword inlaid with red flame stones. , the lower layer is the same big sword, but the position of the flame stone is different.He raised his eyebrows playfully at Levi, and the metal pattern that his thumb caressed was the abbreviation of Abel Sterling.

Li Wei rarely blushed, and pushed the partition back violently with a straight face.He had promised the twins to repair the great swords for them before, and when they returned to the north, he simply used the materials he had collected for a long time to make weapons for them again. It can be said that all the things he had learned so far were condensed on these two great swords. Even Wolf praised the mechanical casting technology.

It's a pity that the real masters of the great sword are still far away in the north.

"Ang——" Da Mao rubbed his fat tail in his arms, poked his round head out of the quilt with difficulty, his eyes were blurred and he looked around but didn't see Li Wei's figure, his big eyes immediately filled with tears and howled stand up.Xiao Mao was woken up by his brother, the yellowed breast hair on the top of his head stood up, and he started to choke with aggrieved and frightened, the room immediately resounded with the sound of baby cries with ups and downs.

Li Wei came to his senses, and hurriedly stepped to the edge of the bed and sat down, skillfully stuffing one hand into the pocket of the sweater: "Okay, daddy is here... don't cry, don't cry..."

The dragon scales all over Comrade Xiao Mao's body are transitioning to light red, and they are curled up into a fleshy little ball in the front pocket of his clothes. He immediately settled down in the familiar breath of his mother, and his curly eyelashes began to droop again. , Gradually fell asleep, only Comrade Da Mao held Li Wei's pocket with his front paws and howled with his neck, which was barely there, and the fat tail behind him violently beat his mother's belly through a layer of clothes. The short and fleshy hind legs kicked at the innocent Xiaomao.In short, I look like I'm not happy, but everyone of us thinks it's easy to die.

"Stinky boy!" Li Wei cried for him until his heart trembled. He had no choice but to reach out and stuff the fat boy into his neckline, only to feel the hot and soft little thing settle down and hit it. Hiccup hung on the collar of his shirt and stopped moving.

Seeing Li Wei's helpless face, Seth couldn't help laughing, and ran his fingers along the small bunch of red milk hair on the top of Da Mao's head, and he was bitten as expected.

"Such a bad temper." He smiled softly, moved his fingers, the little thing has no teeth yet, and his mouth is tender.

"Hey, hey! Don't mess with him anymore, this guy has a very short temper!" Li Wei hurriedly slapped Seth's hand away.

Da Mao looked at them angrily, and a stream of saliva flowed down.

Half an hour later, the two cubs nestled on Li Wei's pillow again and snored.Li Wei and Seth didn't dare to talk in the room anymore, so they made tea and went to the living room.

"What are you going to do next year?" Seth leaned on the sofa and looked at him.

Li Wei knew what he meant and fell silent.Next year when Xiaolong and Mao will be one year old, according to the dragon people's practice, their father should give them an official name, which is an indispensable link for Xiaolong's future... But now they have lost contact with each other, and we don't know what will happen next year.

"Let's talk about it after this semester is over..." That's the only way to go.

Seth raised his eyebrows: "Wednesday will board the ship, and your son will be sent to Russell?"

Li Wei was not reconciled, nodded and said, "I sent a message to Russell, and he will take Da Mao and Xiao Mao away when he comes to the Academy of Birth Science tomorrow." He had a headache when he said this, even though Da Mao and Xiao Mao were delivered by Russell , but they seem to be born little white-eyed wolves. They don't recognize anyone except him as a father. It's better that Seth is in front of them every day. He originally wanted to take advantage of these few days to coax those two Boy, it's a pity that he can't go out, and Russell will only have time to come over tomorrow.

The next day was a disaster. Although Da Mao smelled the familiar scent of Russell, the researcher's cold expression and white clothes still frightened him. As soon as the other party reached out to him, he yelled and hugged Russell. The finished milk bottle rubbed against the back of the pillow, and at the same time, a threatening low growl was forced out of her tender throat.

"..." Russell was silent for a while, and silently took out two brightly wrapped candies from his pocket and peeled them off, revealing the soft little candies inside.He put two candies in the palm of his hand and stretched them out to the two little guys. The big hairy red pupils involuntarily stuck to the candies, and he let out a soft moan, but Ermao unexpectedly remained motionless, not even bothering to lift his eyelids. .

Levi's mouth twitched.He doesn't think Russell really wants to give his son candy...

It's a pity that Da Mao couldn't hold back in the face of this sweet temptation, so he immediately discarded the baby bottle and wobbled it with his fat back legs. Even faster, it arrived at Russell's hand in almost a few strokes.Li Wei pretended to turn sideways to look elsewhere, but secretly observed his boss with a gloating mentality... Sure enough, although Comrade Da Mao's vigilance was no match for the temptation of candy, he still stopped at Russell's hand in conspiracy theory, Looking up at the researcher with his small head up.

There was a smile in Russell's eyes, and he put his hand closer to the little dragon cub.

"Ang—!!" Da Mao stretched out his small front paws and put two small candies into his arms with lightning speed, then rolled them neatly on the quilt, and rolled to Er Mao's side.

Er Mao raised his chin sleepily to look at his brother, and sucked invisibly from his two pink nostrils.