forced guardianship

Today is a fine day, with stars and clear skies.

In the small town of Kela in the south of Senna in the Yakanan galaxy, in the northwest corner of the former T92 second column camp of the Alliance Army, there are shadows of trees covering an air-raid shelter that has long been abandoned.

A pair of hands pushed the iron plate of the hole from the inside to the outside, and the D-class mech squatting aside stretched out its steel arm to completely lift the iron plate.

"Sorry for keeping you waiting." Joshua jumped out of the hole lightly, and immediately apologized, "Tiangang, are you okay?"

The tone of the D-level mech Tiangang is helpless: "Although I really want to say something beautiful, but I lived for more than 500 years, and it was the first time that I was stolen from the commander's nose, and was taken hostage to the territory of the rebels. When I woke up after running out of energy, I found that I was a prisoner, and my master disappeared, leaving me alone and miserable in this enemy camp... Tell me, can I be okay?"

Joshua said embarrassingly: "I'm really sorry, but I definitely don't want to abandon you."

"Actually, when I found out that you didn't break the connection between your spiritual power and mine," Tiangang said with a slight smile in his tone, "I knew this."

The little count smiled, and made a tacit understanding with Tiangang and touched lightly.

Although it comes from the capital galaxy, as a low-level mecha, Tiangang did not attract the attention of Brigadier General Gail, the commander of the second column. After undergoing a simple mecha overhaul, it was incorporated into the transport mecha team, which has been carried out twice. The task, the mental threshold of the soldiers of the transport team is generally low, which is not enough to manipulate the smart mecha, and they usually work by patching.

In other words, Tiangang has completely entered the new army.

"This is far beyond my imagination," Tiangang laughed at himself. "At first I thought it would be destroyed by An Le."

Joshua explained: "No, the new army is in the preparation stage, and every mech is a vital force for them. I only keep you here temporarily after confirming that you are not in danger. I absolutely It is impossible to put my mecha in danger."

Tiangang paused for a few seconds before saying: "Even though you know that you can control higher-level mechas with your abilities, at this moment I really hope that you will never break the spiritual bond between us."

Joshua said solemnly, "Thank you for your trust."

Tiangang changed a relaxed tone and said: "Now, we can discuss how to return to the capital through the space defense line."

Joshua touched his nose and said, "Before we go back, we have to do something more important."

In the early hours of the morning, Brigadier General Gail was woken up by his adjutant - "What? The mecha is infected with a virus?"

The adjutant looked helpless and said: "Yes, just ten minutes ago, two or three mecha systems were lagging at first, and then they were infected on a large scale. Now all the C-level and D-level mechas in the camp without fixed drivers have died. More than half were infected."

Brigadier General Gail asked anxiously while putting on his coat: "What do the data engineers say?"

The adjutant said: "They said that in order to facilitate management, the operating systems between these mechs were all in the same local area network, so the infection speed was very fast. The source of the virus has not been identified yet, and the preliminary judgment may be that there is a driver using the machine. A network connected to the external network and browsed bad websites..."

Commodore Gale: "...bad website?"

The adjutant said cryptically: "It's those websites that are always being caught."

The Brigadier General said: "Leave the technical problems to the data engineer, and ask them how long it will take to solve the problem?"

The adjutant saluted and turned to leave.

Gail tugged at the neckline and said impatiently, "Ray Joseph, pour me a glass of water."

The guard Lei Yueser quickly brought over a water glass, and the Brigadier General took it and drank a few swigs without stopping.

Lei Yueser asked cautiously: "General, they are just low-level mechs, why are you so worried?"

Gail said with a cold face: "Since the laboratory was built here, and the group of data engineers came again, I haven't been worried for a day."

"Now the new mecha has gone to the north with Admiral Khan Tara," Reyose persuaded, "The data engineers in the laboratory should also leave soon."

Brigadier General Gail squeezed the space between his eyebrows and said, "I'm afraid it will take some time, the general will bring a new mecha for a pre-war inspection soon..."

At this time, the adjutant hurried in and said, "Your Excellency Brigadier General, the Chief Data Engineer asked if the experimental area could be opened to those mechas infected with the virus. The mecha repair station can no longer accommodate it, and the equipment there is not enough."

Gail waved his hand impatiently and said, "It's up to them to fix it, and it must be done quickly. I don't want to see another mess when I go up to the future."

Half an hour after the handover of soldiers, Ray Joseph bid farewell to the brigadier general and planned to go back to his room to catch up on sleep. When he passed the experimental area, he saw dozens of mechas waiting in line to enter.His gaze scanned the group of mechas, and his eyes narrowed slightly.

In the underground air-raid shelter, Joshua was concentrating on communicating with Tiangang hundreds of meters away on the ground.

"I have already entered the laboratory," Tian Gang said, "The mechs have been divided into several groups and taken to different areas."

Joshua recalled the terrain of the laboratory, and said: "The central reading device is in Z02 area."

A few seconds later, Tiangang said: "Only the heavily infected mechs can go to Zone Z."

Joshua hastily opened the control panel of the low-light computer, clicked on the virus package made a few hours ago, and said, "I will wrong you again."

Tiangang smiled and said, "It's a mech's honor to make sacrifices for the master."

Accustomed to another high-level mech that is out of tune, Joshua sighed with emotion for a moment: "Tiangang, you are such a gentleman."

Virus transmission takes less than a second.

The little count frowned and waited for Tiangang's response.

"Report, it has arrived at Z02." A few minutes later, Tiangang said, "The virtual connector has been inserted into the port of the central reading device."

Joshua finally breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "Well done! As a reward, I will help you get a Supreme VIP fuel replenishment card."

Tiangang said: "It seems that you were impressed when I ran out of fuel. In fact, the D-class mech doesn't consume much fuel. I have only done it once in my life."

Joshua said: "Then replace it with an unlimited mech beauty card?"

Tiangang pretended to be angry and said: "Are you openly disliking me for being old and no longer beautiful?"

Joshua also laughed and said, "It's a pleasure chatting with you."

"I'm so glad we have the same feeling." Tiangang said, "The reading of the central equipment is completed, what should we do next?"

Joshua said seriously: "It's faster than I thought, now put your nerve wire into the connector and the port where the device is connected."

Tiangang said in a strange tone: "May I ask, are you using me as a mobile disk by doing this?"

Joshua: "...Congratulations, you got the answer right."

Tiangang coughed and said, "Congratulations too, you have developed another major function of the smart mecha."

Joshua was a little embarrassed. Under the current conditions, he really couldn't find a disk with enough memory, and the security of putting it in the cloud disk was relatively poor-the contents of Pangu's memory were too important, so he had to be more cautious.

For the sake of safety, he spent some time connecting the memory to the virtual connector remotely, and the connector was brought into the experimental area by Tiangang to find the central reading device. Of course, before that, writing and spreading the mech virus used him up. a couple of hours.

Fortunately, everything is currently planned.

There is only one exception.

It was too wet and cold in the air-raid shelter, so Joshua casually put on the dark gray coat that he had always brought with him.

It didn't take long for him to feel that something was wrong, his body gradually felt a little unfamiliar numbness, his body trembled suddenly, he was a little cold, and he seemed to have a low fever. He subconsciously wrapped his coat tightly, but he couldn't control himself. Lived slightly trembling a few times.

This coat faintly smells of alpha pheromone.

Joshua was a little dazed. He had already felt that he was becoming sensitive to pheromones, but he never expected that even the faint smell of a piece of clothing would suddenly fill his senses like blooming tuberose.

And the abnormality of the body seems to be attributed to the teasing of this taste.

He pinched his leg hard, and the discomfort eased a little.

Tian Gang, whose mental power was connected to him, quickly sensed something, and asked, "Kent? What's wrong with you?"

The little Earl of Kent said blankly: "I don't know either...Maybe I haven't had a good rest recently..."

Tiangang said with concern: "Your mental power is not stable, should we stop for a while?"

When the mecha works, it consumes not only fuel, but also the mental power of the owner.The higher the level of manipulating a mecha, the more difficult the task is to complete, and the more mental power the owner will consume. In the history of war, there are countless examples of the mecha owner being seriously injured or even unfortunately sacrificed due to improper control of mental power.

Joshua said: "Don't worry, the storage has been read to 70.00%, and it will be over soon. I'm fine."

At the same time, the northern capital of Senna was still in the evening.

Sean Kent leaned on a deck chair on the terrace to bathe in the sunset, looking leisurely.

Not far downstairs, Admiral Khan Tara looked in this direction expressionlessly, turned around and left after a while, his back showing a bit of coldness.

The ladybug on the Fuxi mech lying at Xiao En's feet shook her head and said, "You refuse to hand over the memory, the admiral is getting more and more unhappy."

Sean looked at the sky with his hands on his head and ignored it.

Fuxi also looked at the sky, and said, "The spaceship that cutie is on should have left the Yakanan galaxy."

Sean said noncommittally, "Maybe."

"Eh?" Fuxi asked in confusion, "Maybe? Right?"

"I'm a little uneasy..." Xiao En said, "Forget it, you don't understand after I tell you."

Fuxi snorted coldly and said, "What I'm talking about is, I really don't understand. I obviously like it so much, why do I have to drive him away?"

Sean sat up, staring at somewhere on the lawn, without saying a word.

Fu Xi tilted his head, changed the subject, and said, "Yesterday that 4S-level mech chatted with you for so long, and you haven't shared your thoughts with me yet."

"What do you think?" Sean shrugged, "I used to think that you were the most boring mech in the world, but yesterday I found out that you can only be ranked second."

Fuxi was dissatisfied and said: "...why do you always make your compliments seem to harm me?"

Sean said seriously, "Because I didn't intend to praise you."

On the miniature optical computer display in front of Joshua, the reading of Pangu's memory has reached 70.00%.

He had already had a dozen bruises on his legs after discovering that pain temporarily dispelled discomfort from his body.

The concept of adulthood is vague, so that the little earl has not figured out his situation until now-not only has he become sensitive to the smell of alpha pheromones, but also the smell of omega pheromones that has been covered by inhibitors It is also gradually spreading out.

There was a slight noise at the entrance of the air-raid shelter, and he raised his head vigilantly, his eyes fixed on the direction of entry.

The heat sensor light on the ceiling flickered on and off, Joshua glanced at the virtual display for the last time, the number on it was "80%", and then quickly cut off the network of the optical brain.

Tiangang: "???"

Joshua: "Withdraw the nerve cable and put the connector away."

Just as this order was issued, a figure appeared on the dark road opposite.

Joshua reached into the tool bag with his right hand and took out the small pistol. He tensed up all his muscles, ready to fight.

The visitor stopped at the corner, seemed to be hesitating for something, and said after a while, "Joshua?"

The little count was startled, but did not answer, he remembered who this familiar voice belonged to.