Counterattack [Interstellar]

After lunch, Pei Yao proposed to go to school, but Alan had no choice but to say, "Major General, I just proposed to you this morning. Even if you are not overjoyed now, at least you should be a little more excited than usual."

Pei Yao's eyes lit up, he lowered his head and smiled, and said softly, "I'm actually very excited."

"Really?" Allen hugged Pei Yao's waist and lowered his head to search for his lips, whispering softly, "Why can't I feel it?"

"It's true." Pei Yao pushed Alan away a little, smiled and said, "But it's working time now, you can rest for a while, and you have to go to Bradman Prison tomorrow, right? You need to recharge your spirits now .”

Allen pursed his lips and said: "Okay, you go first, I will contact Admiral Balck to confirm the next time, and I will find you later."

Pei Yao nodded, took the photon gun on the table, put it on his waist, and walked out. After pushing open the bedroom door, Pei Yao couldn't help turning his head to look at Alan again, and went out with a smile.

Alan watched Pei Yao go out with a smile, and after confirming that Pei Yao had left the apartment, he returned to the bedroom and connected to Balke's communication.

Balk was in a meeting, and he called back after a while. In the holographic image, Admiral Balk had a solemn expression and whispered, "How is it?"

"I'm fine." Alan fiddled with Pei Yao's cigarette case and whispered, "Grandfather, I thought a lot last night. About Benjamin's confession, I think..."

"You can't believe everything he said!" Balk shook his head and said, "Alan, you disappoint me so much, you actually completely believe what a star thief said, I don't know if you are too confident in yourself or too naive , Alan...you really let me down, you..."

"What are you worried about?" Alan interrupted Balke calmly, and asked in a deep voice, "Or, what are you afraid of?"

Balke turned around and rubbed the center of his brows, looked at the camera again, took a deep breath and said, "Alan, I know you are at an age where you believe in miracles and legends, and I am almost two hundred years older than you , I have joined the army since your great-grandfather was in power, and the battles I have experienced can be written directly as the modern chronicle of the Norman Empire!"

"All I know is what I see with my own eyes. I can use my experience in the military for nearly 200 years to assure you that the situation you think is impossible." Balker said firmly, "I don't know that Benjamin What is the purpose of telling you, to be honest, I have begun to suspect that this is a trap in itself, someone wants to harm the empire, and deliberately wants to find out those things back then!"

Compared with Balck's rare irritability, Allen was very calm. He said lightly: "General, I have never told you what I suspect. Why are you in such a hurry? What did you think of?"

Balk was at a loss for words, and waved his hands irritably: "I didn't think of anything!"

"You don't dare to say, it's okay, I will say it."

Alan put Pei Yao's silver cigarette case back on the table. Alan's oil painting on the cigarette case looked extraordinarily delicate against the afternoon sun.

Allen folded his hands on his knees, looked at Balk and said slowly: "You and I are both suspecting that the 'boss' Benjamin mentioned is actually Pei Xuan."

For no reason, after Allen said the name, the tense atmosphere between the two suddenly disappeared, and Balk in the holographic image sat slumped on the sofa, speechless for a long time.

"Since you have also thought of him, it means that my inference is not without basis. It is not a good habit to hide diseases and avoid medical treatment. We don't have to quarrel about unnecessary things. It is rational to face it calmly and actively. I know, so I won't go into details." Alan thought for a moment, then whispered, "Now I need to ask you a few questions, and I hope you will tell me the truth."

Balk looked a little tired and nodded.

Allen said: "Did you find the bodies of all the expeditionary forces?"

Balk shook his head.

Allen let out a "hmm" and asked again: "How did you determine that they must all be killed in battle?"

"The siege lasted for several months. At the beginning, Pei Xuan sent a distress signal to the headquarters, but there was no more... We thought their communication system was attacked." Admiral Balck obviously didn't want to recall that After a while, he said succinctly, "Afterwards, Lestin withdrew the troops there in batches. We waited for a long time and sent people to investigate, but... nothing was found."

Allen nodded: "It means that it is not certain that Pei Xuan is really dead."

"Alan, in that era, this kind of situation could basically determine that they were martyred." Balk sighed, "And you also knew the situation at that time. Auston felt ashamed and did not follow the formal procedures at all. Rescue and search and rescue the expeditionary force, in that situation... no one will doubt anything."

Allen was silent for a while, and said in a low voice: "If it is really him, then many things make sense... By the way, I forgot to tell you, I sent someone to check last night, during the ten years when Pei Yao served Anthony , Anthony also encountered a similar thing, but Anthony had a lot of frigates, and their people were discovered before they got close. Anthony's people only stopped a small starship that was closest to them, and a suicide occurred inside the small starship Sexual explosion, everyone died, and the autopsy report at the time showed...they were all star thieves."

"Similar modus operandi, very careful layout." Allen analyzed, "Every time the dead are star thieves, people tend to think of accidents as ordinary kidnapping and robbery, or they will only think of whether they are the subordinates of hostile politicians. Moreover, these star thieves live in no fixed place, homeless and jobless, even if their identities are confirmed, it is impossible to find out who hired them."

Allen looked at Balk: "One more thing, these star thieves were hired before the operation. The star thieves have never met the boss, and they don't know anything about his past. Benjamin is a good example... The "private soldiers" of his boss he mentioned are likely to be the members of the expeditionary army and their descendants. This can also explain why the boss cares so much about his private soldiers. Yes, they were all officers of the Empire, their fingerprints, irises...all of them are evidence, which can prove that Pei Xuan was not dead."

"Everyone thinks that someone attacked me on the Pearl, and then someone tried to attack His Royal Highness the Crown Prince...... Pei Xuan hit his son with a good smoke bomb, and no one would have thought of several accidents. The purpose is actually Pei Yao." Allen said softly, "Should I feel lucky, he didn't succeed."

Balk hesitated, "Will you... tell Pei Yao?"

Allen shook his head: "No, not yet."

"At least I'm not going to tell him before we get married." Allen suddenly smiled, "I forgot to tell you, yesterday I proposed to Pei Yao, and luckily, he agreed to me."

Balk froze for a moment and said: "You! You want to establish the final mark before Pei Yao knows the inside story! How did you promise me before? You said you have to wait..."

"I said it before, but the current situation makes it impossible for me to wait any longer." Allen said frankly, "The situation is different. Before, I just had to keep Pei Yao a secret. Even if the secret is revealed one day, I can still Pretend to be ignorant, show pain first, give Pei Yao the illusion that I am also a victim, but now it is different, I don't know when Pei Xuan will appear in front of Pei Yao in the future, and I am not completely sure that I can fight against him. Got Pei Yao's long-lost affection for his parents... You know very well that Pei Xuan is not the same as before. He has already had murderous intentions towards me, and the recent disclosure of my relationship with Pei Yao may have stimulated him even more. "

Allen lowered his head and smiled: "Once he has the opportunity to contact Pei Yao, he will definitely persuade him to break up with me...but it will be different after the establishment of a bonded relationship. He can only accept it no matter how unwilling he is. No one wants to let him son to suffer the loss of his guide."

Balk lowered his eyes and said for a while: "Actually, there is another way to do it once and for all..."

"Admiral." A cold look flashed in Alan's eyes, "Please don't disappoint my trust and respect for you all the time. You are my relatives, and so is Pei Xuan. Please don't do anything to embarrass me."

Balk raised his eyes: "Your Highness, I actually understand in my heart that you are secretly looking forward to what Pei Xuan will do, even if it will bring a huge blow to the empire, you don't care, do you?"

Alan was noncommittal: "I can't control your thoughts, but my position is very clear. Regarding Pei Xuan's matter, I will be in a passive state of acceptance, as long as it doesn't violate my bottom line. For example, if he wants me to break up with Pei Yao, He wants me to kill you... As long as there are no such situations, I will not interfere too much in his affairs, and I hope and need you to agree with me on this point."

At this moment, Balk has determined that Allen wants to borrow a knife to kill someone.

Balk lowered his head, shaking his head helplessly, being as gentle and kind as Marianne, he would actually give birth to such a son... No matter what happens, even if it is harmful to him, Alan can get some benefits from it, Barr Ke was silent for a while, then shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, I can't promise you, the interests of the empire will always be the first in my heart, followed by you."

"Then at least don't get in the way." Allen smiled softly, "Grandpa, I never wanted to hurt you, so don't make things difficult for me, okay?"

Allen sighed softly: "Oston committed this crime. He should be responsible for his actions, shouldn't he? When you knew that all the expeditionary forces died, you were also very angry, do you remember? ?”

Balk struggled for a while, and suddenly said harshly: "From yesterday to now, I don't know what happened!" Balk hung up the communication immediately, and Alan bowed his head and smiled.