under the mask

The daylight on the abandoned mine star was only a short six hours, and until the second day came again, there was still no ship signal appearing in the communicator.Kevin stood at the entrance of the mine, watching the sporadic fires around him, and realized that they could no longer sit still.

"Pompi," he quickly walked back to his companion, knelt down to check the wound on the tall boy's leg, and then reached out to touch the other's forehead: "It doesn't look worse...do you have a fever?"

Pompey was in good spirits, a suspicious blush appeared on his face, and he turned his head to avoid Kevin's hand: "I'm fine...just tell me if you have any plans."

"Okay, as long as you're fine..." Kevin didn't care about his actions. He glanced at Li Wei helplessly, and said in a low voice, "I don't think anyone will come to rescue us in the short term...we must Go find food and drinking water, and be prepared to stay here for a long time. Fortunately, there is still a medical soldier, and there are enough medicines in the space twister he carries with him."

His voice was lowered again: "But I need manpower, Li Wei doesn't know what's wrong..."

Pompey rolled his eyes, raised his hand and squeezed the tip of Kevin's chin to push him away: "You can comfort him, I guess someone he knows is on the death list."

Kevin turned his chin angrily, stood up and walked towards Li Wei, his back looked extremely awkward.

The black-haired boy was sitting alone on the side of the entrance of the mine, lowering his head and thinking about something. Kevin couldn't help but lighten his steps and sat down beside him, but he didn't know how to speak.Although Li Wei was two years younger than them, he has always given people a trustworthy and calm feeling. For example, now, he especially wants to get some advice from Li Wei.

"There is no signal on the communicator at all..." Li Wei suddenly said, the communicator on his right wrist flashed and then unfolded a light screen, and there was nothing on it.

Kevin surprised: "I thought you didn't...not notice anything."

Li Wei stared at Kevin with his pair of green pupils, his eyes were so deep that people couldn't see the meaning in them.

"Remember the subcutaneous authentication micro-card we injected?" He rolled up his left sleeve, exposing his wrist: "There should be a fairly wide range of signal transmitters in it, if this is the standard configuration used by the base, then they don't May not find us."

Kevin hesitated and said, "You mean... Lincoln is playing tricks here? But... but there are so many medical soldiers, they can't all be with Lincoln..."

"Then there is another possibility," Levi said softly: "This micro-card is useless at all, it cannot be located, and it may even last for a period of time... For example, when we enter the environment of the universe—it happens to dissolve."

Because in a certain conspiracy, these test flight trainees will never have the chance to return to Guardian Six again. In order to prevent the people at the base from knowing the truth based on the micro-card feedback records, once they enter the universe, the micro-cards on them will automatically become invalid... Even if there is Some trainees narrowly escaped death, without identity verification micro-cards, they simply cannot walk across the border without being suspected, and in the end they will be killed as dead or spies in all likelihood!He remembered that when Lincoln's warship was launching torpedoes, he ordered his smart assistant to record everything and send the images to the base, but in the end he didn't know if he succeeded. If successful, he might be able to help them out of danger...

It is also possible to fall into a more dangerous situation.

"We need food, water, and a safe place to rest." Kevin shook his head: "Everyone must get together. If what you say is true, then we will stay here...for a long time." Even forever .

Li Wei glanced at him and caught the despair flashing in Kevin's eyes.Of course, compared to him, no matter how mature and excellent Kevin is, he is still only a teenager. He has not experienced the doomsday that makes people hopeless, so his endurance is naturally weaker.

"Come on, I think there should be what we need here." He pulled Kevin to stand up, pulled off the communicator from his hand and held it in his hand: "Abandoned mine stars like this usually have large warehouses. I see that there are many craters on this planet, and there are still many wrecks of transport ships and people. I am afraid that the personnel were evacuated in a hurry, and there should be a lot of things left behind."

He looked down at the communicator, opened one of the built-in software that did not require networking, and the light screen unfolded again, showing that the underground structure near the mine was being scanned.

"500 meters to the east, there are two warehouses below, and one 400 meters to the southeast." He touched the screen to record these two places, then turned to Kevin and said, "I think we need a lot of people. , All the students should be gathered together to divide the work, try to find some supplies before dark, and settle down the personnel."

Kevin nodded, turned on the communicator and summoned all the students with the loudspeaker function.

Three hours later, the 500 people responsible for collecting supplies found standard dry food from three warehouses found near the landing point, which was enough for more than 800 of them to eat twice a day for more than a month, and 1000 taels of one-piece work clothes More than a hundred sets, including helmets, gloves and boots, and enough compressed sleeping bags. Although there was not much food in the third warehouse, they found more than 200 barrels of distilled water.Li Wei took people to open the container, and transported the materials out one by one. Then, under the guidance of Kevin who was in charge of building the living area, he stored all the materials found at this stage in six small mines.

Kevin led people to use the virtual geological tool on the communicator to select a mountain depression 500 meters away from the landing point after measurement. , the ground is relatively solid, and the entrance and exit are also very secret.The six mines where supplies are now stored are on the right side of this U-shaped valley, while other students live in other mines in this valley.

The short day came to an end, and the night of Mine Star seemed extremely lonely and long. However, the students felt much better than the previous day. Even if rescue was still far away, at least now they didn't have to spend the night in the open air, and they could light the bonfire with peace of mind. , and most importantly, there is finally hot food and water!

"Here," Kevin sat down by the campfire, and handed one of the palm-sized metal boxes to Li Wei: "Be careful of the burn."

"Thank you." Li Wei took it and opened it. The fixed food ration box is divided into four compartments. The largest compartment is compressed bread, which exudes a strong aroma of heat and grains. A pile of stewed beans, a small pile of fruit salad, and a small packet of dairy.This box doesn't look like much, but it's enough to keep a person alive and basically full.

Behind them, in a slightly deeper part of the mine, most of the [-] or [-] students assigned to this mine have already curled up in sleeping bags and slept soundly. Only a few people are still talking in a low voice, and the atmosphere seems very peaceful.

While digging the stewed beans with a small spoon in the box, Kevin said softly, "When do you think the base will find us?"

The black-haired boy sitting next to him fiddled with the food with a spoon, his voice was low and slow: "Maybe soon... because we destroyed Lincoln's plan, whether it was him or not... so many students from the military academy are missing, the base can only find us as soon as possible , so as not to be punished more severely.”

"That's right, and they should be able to find some remaining clues as long as they follow the trajectory of the original battleship launch." Kevin cheered up a little, and lowered his voice: "Even Grad, it is impossible to give up so many of us. People, as long as he still wants the support of the cabinet and the parliament." Because most of them here are noble children, and most of the families occupy the seats in the parliament, not to mention Amelia, Kevin, Pompey, their parents or grandparents They all hold high positions in the cabinet and are indispensable supporters of Greed.

However, another worry arose in Li Wei's heart.Because among all the students, he is the only one who knows Lincoln's other identity. According to his understanding, the northern spies are hidden very deeply, and only those who are loyal to the northern regime led by Claude and have no second thoughts can take on this important task. …If he was not on the list for this test flight, maybe Lincoln was just performing some of his tasks, but according to Ronnie’s confession, Lincoln clearly knew his existence and was ordered to protect him. In this case, Lincoln still carried out Acts of Terror—Why?

He thought of the feeling that the dark-skinned instructor gave him during this time, the other party looked at him differently, and the vague concern in his eyes...the difference between before and after is too great.But regardless of whether Lincoln has any difficulties, or even whether the torpedo that Lincoln dropped in the black python - the person behind him is definitely not Claude, and the person with ulterior motives knows that most of the students have narrowly escaped death, what will happen? ?

If the opponent's goal is to kill them, will they give up just because of one failure and let the base find them?

"I don't know if the other teams are okay..." Li Wei finished eating the food in the metal box, poured some distilled water into the box, and then pushed the box towards the fire: "The mecha department and the mechanical infantry are For base training, they will only conduct cooperative exercises with us in the later stage... Ordinarily they should be safe, as long as there are no other insiders in the base."

"As long as they are in the base, they should be safe, and we are the ones who have trouble... It would be great if our identity verification micro-card is real," Kevin annoyed: "Then we might try to go to other interstellar fortresses for help, or even Go to a neighboring country, such as Seablue Star, where there is an embassy of Jialai Vance..."

He also knows that his idea is not realistic at all, because the communicator has no relationship with the network signal, and they have no way of knowing the current specific location. The transition point that Li Wei told them was just a coordinate, and he had no impression of this coordinate at all. ...After all, the scope of Jialai Vance in the entire Goddess Galaxy is too wide.What's more, their fleet, which is not well prepared or even has no identity, is very dangerous in the space environment, and if they are not careful, they may be killed by other fleets.

Kevin lay back weakly.Now all their guesses can only be guesses. If the base really hasn't come to them, their energy will run out soon.

"Let's look elsewhere tomorrow." Li Wei looked at the bubbling metal box: "The energy of the battleship cannot be used, and a substitute must be found."

At the end of the day, a gray storm blew outside the mine, and the wind mixed with weathered rock particles whizzed past the mine, and even stretched its tentacles into the cave. Many people woke up from their dreams and could only shrink back In the sleeping bag, listening to the sound of howling ghosts and wolves outside, silently waiting for the storm to pass.

Levi slept where the mine snaked its way into the interior, where it was safe.He fell asleep quickly and dreamed of a warm, strong hug and two little things rolling around.

At this time, the fat dragons were taking advantage of the dark moon and high wind to sneak into the Paramount Palace.Since they arrived in Fuxing a few days ago and took their son with them, they wished they could set off to pick up Li Wei immediately, but they faced an eternal problem: how should a man between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law deal with himself?

On one side is the mother who is looking for a husband, on the other side is the wife who is waiting for nourishment, and two cubs waiting to be fed.All the two of them could do was to complete the task in the Central City as soon as possible, and then go to Guard Six.

The Queen's Boulevard where the Paramount Palace is located is the most heavily guarded road in the entire Central City. Except for grand festivals or the opening day of the Imperial University, it is usually not open to the public.Abel and Jacob exchanged their identities with the two divers in the guards using their camouflage masks, and successfully entered the hall of the south wing of the Paramount Palace during the shift change, while members of the royal family, including the emperor and empress, lived in the north wing of three floors.During the most prosperous period of the Paramount royal family, the residences of all members even extended to several suites in the east wing, but now everyone knows that only the emperor Lebis who has been lying in bed for a long time and the pregnant queen Wen Geli live in the palace .

"Didn't you say you're about to give birth?" Abel leaned on the sofa, pretending to be casual and asked, "Everywhere is black, and there aren't even a few maids."

"You are joking," another guard whispered, "His Royal Highness has been born for three days."

"He and I rested that day," Jacob said in a gruff voice, "There was no report in the media, I think you're just kidding!"

The guard immediately raised his voice and cursed, and then quickly lowered his voice: "You know what a fart! Queen Wengeli heard that it was difficult to give birth that day. She was still screaming from the toss in the morning until I changed shifts, but finally gave birth..." He covered his mouth with his hands and said softly: "Unfortunately, it is a congenital deficiency. I don't know if I can survive...Didn't you realize that doctors have been coming in and out these days..."

Abel and Jacob looked at each other.

After the shift, the two did not leave from the main entrance carved with figure reliefs on both sides, but came out of the hall, bypassed the garden in front of the hall, went up from the first floor of the east wing, turned into the arched balcony, and entered the palace.They stayed on the balcony and changed into black tights, and pressed the button on their bodies. Their figures twisted for a while, and then disappeared.This kind of night clothes is made by imitating electronic camouflage clothes, and the scene behind is projected to the front to achieve the effect of stealth.After improvement, the night suits on their bodies can not only avoid the monitoring head, but even some scanning equipment. If they act collectively, the night suits are equipped with special mirrors on the hoods, so that they can see the silhouettes of other team members.

After going up to the third floor, the lights were much brighter, and the suite where the emperor and his wife lived directly in front had several maids coming in and out.

'I'll take care of these two, and you'll do the rest. Abel gestured to Jacob, and then rushed to the corridor on the right side of the stairs like a ghost, clamped a maid's neck and made her faint from suffocation, then quickly covered the mouth of another maid who turned around, and slapped her Press the back of the neck, and carefully put it down on the ground.When he came to the door of the suite again silently, Jacob had already gently opened the door and was scanning the situation inside with the communicator.

'There was only one woman sitting at the... crib. ' he said with his mouth.

Abel nodded, counting his fingers to three, and the two of them slipped in through the gap in the door at the same time.

What they saw inside surprised them!