forced guardianship

Joshua was very surprised and pleasantly surprised that Dean was on Lenaye: "This is really great... Wait, does he still have a normal sense of autonomy now?"

Merlin said: "I've checked the information on him for more than a year after he reported to T92 in the Yakanan galaxy, and he has never directly manipulated a mech. I'm not surprised. In school, he was an uneducated As soon as he comes to the mecha operation class, he will do everything possible to find excuses to ask for leave to avoid class, I was even worried that he would fail the actual combat subject of the graduation exam."

Hearing this, Admiral Kent gave the little earl a meaningful look, and the incident of taking the exam was vivid in his memory.

"Dean is actually very smart." Joshua boasted of his friend guiltily, and changed the subject, "So, is he a spy placed there by His Majesty the King?"

Merlin shrugged and said, "I don't think Tydal's vision of picking spies would be so unusual."

Joshua acquiesced to the teacher's point of view, but felt strange, and said, "Then why is he still in the rebel army?"

"Because his lover was polluted by the mecha and betrayed the alliance, Dean stayed there because of him." Sean speculated, seeing Joshua's blank face, explained, " Don't ask me how I know he has a lover, it's just a past event that you have forgotten."

Joshua scratched his hair and said, "...Oh."

Merlin said: "Admiral Kent is completely right. Dean has a boyfriend who is well-known in the rebel army. He is an outstanding mech fighter. Since the rebel army was announced, he has made many military exploits. Not long ago, his unit was transferred to the Lenayer galaxy, and Dean came with him."

Xiao En folded his arms and said, "You mean, you plan to start with this person?"

Merlin nodded, and said: "A rebel soldier who has repeatedly made military exploits, the situation where his mental power was counter-manipulated must be the most typical case. My plan is to try to get relevant data about the contamination of this person's mental power through Dean." , which will be very useful information for us and maybe turn everything around."

"My data professional grades are probably at the same level as Dean's," Sean said, "but this does not prevent me from hearing that this is a good plan."

Merlin changed the subject: "The biggest problem is to convince Dean."

As the evening approached, in the confidential office of the new army's general headquarters on Star Lenaye, Dean dozed off uncontrollably while sorting out trivial data files.

Thanks to the lack of interest in his studies in the past, his professional skills are extremely bad. He has never been assigned to the front line for more than a year, and he stays in the back office all day doing these piecemeal and tedious finishing tasks. Go to help when there is a shortage of people.

The data engineers of the new army are mainly divided into two categories. One category is mainly high-level technical personnel. They all have the ability and experience to directly manipulate the mechs. They are trusted by the mechas, and most of them hold important positions; He had a record of breaking the law in peacetime, and he was on the blacklist of not being hired by the official data department of the alliance. He defected to the new army at the beginning of the war.

Dean doesn't belong to either of these two categories. He has no skills, and he doesn't want to be treasonous at all, so he seems out of place among data engineers. As a result, he has to spend twice as long as others to finish the work every time.

After finally finishing today's tasks, Dean left his work station, intending to finish dinner as soon as possible, go back and take a bath before going to bed.His significant other is on duty tonight and will not be back until after his shift in the morning.

Walking out of the office door, he was stopped again: "Dean! Go to the No. [-] test area. A data engineer's assistant has asked for leave. I need you to help me out! Run over there! Hurry up!"

Dean responded, feeling very upset. It was not the first time he had been assigned this kind of task. It was already dinner time, and no one else wanted to go, so it fell on him.

What he didn't expect was that the data engineer who asked him to help was actually Merlin whom he had avoided seeing these days.

He murmured, "Teacher Meilin..."

Merlin helped the mirror frame on the bridge of his nose, and said, "I don't intend to waste time reminiscing about the past, the time limit for the virtual communication address not to be detected and tracked by radar is only 5 minutes."

Dean: "???"

Merlin connected the communication equipment that had been prepared, and said, "I'll go to the next door, and I won't eavesdrop on your conversation."

Before Dean understood, Joshua, who had been waiting impatiently, appeared on the [-]D communication screen.

Dean: "..."

Joshua: "Dean, what's that look on your face? Are you upset to see me?"

Dean: "..."

Joshua: "Close your mouth first, I can see your cavities."

Dean: "...hi Joshua."

Joshua: "It seems that they guessed right, you don't seem to want to see me very much."

Dean: "No no, how is it possible? Dear Joshua, we are childhood sweethearts."

Joshua: "But we are in the Lenayer galaxy, but we have never met. I didn't even know that you were here until two hours ago."

Dean: "It happens for a reason, well, it has to."

Joshua: "It's really good to use idioms... To make a long story short, for the sake of my childhood sweetheart, I hope you can do me a favor."

Dean: "I... I... Can I say no?"

Joshua: "Good question, no."

Dean: "I guess I can guess what you guys want to do, but... I can't. I'm getting married, Joshua."

Joshua: "It's nothing to brag about. I'm married. Here, here's my wedding ring."

Dean: "...Congratulations to you, and congratulations to the general by the way."

Joshua: "What I want to say is, even if you want to get married, don't you want to hold the wedding when the alliance is united and the motherland is at peace?"

Dean: "The news says that Parliament is already negotiating with the new army, and peace will come soon."

Joshua: "Don't kid yourself, no one believes that this kind of negotiation will have substantive results."

Dean: "..."

Joshua: "Dean, I think you must love your fiancé very much, so you have to save him. He should be an independent person, not a puppet manipulated by the mecha."

Dean: "I know you're right, but..."

Joshua: "What are your concerns?"

Dean was silent for a long time: "Joshua, you were half right just now, it's not that I don't want to see you, I just don't want him to have the opportunity to see you."

Joshua was at a loss: "You confused me? Who? Your fiancé?"

Dean: "The last time we reunited on Senna Star, I helped you get the spaceship ticket, not just out of concern and help for my friends, but I was actually afraid that you would stay on Senna Star for too long and be caught by him. possible encounter.”

Joshua: "..."

Dean sighed and said, "It's much easier to say it all. I don't want to cheat or lie anymore, really."

Joshua asked blankly, "What are you talking about?"

"A year and a half ago, I reported to T92," Dean said with a broken look, "then went through closed training, and fell in love with an alpha at first sight in the training camp. In fact, when it comes to falling in love, I My actual combat experience is no more rich than yours, and secret love is commonplace. But unexpectedly, after the training, he began to actively pursue me. Never forgetting about me... I just realized that what he likes is the 'Dean Young' who used to operate the mecha with him, not me, but you."

Joshua searched deeply in his memory, and said in surprise: "If I remember correctly, the alpha you mentioned is the senior named Gru? Don't be kidding, I was recognized as soon as the exam was over. Come out, if I hadn't slipped away fast, you wouldn't even get your diploma. With your poor makeup skills, how could Gru not be able to tell that you and I are not the same person?"

Dean said a little annoyed: "Haven't you heard that there is an intractable disease in this world called face blindness?"

Joshua was speechless and said after a while, "So, he still doesn't know about taking the exam?"

Dean said: "I am not in the same unit as him, and we have been in a long-distance relationship for a year. Then the war broke out, and I worked as a data clerk in the rear. He has been on the front line and has no chance to see my scumbag technology."

Joshua said silently, "You play too much."

Dean sighed and said, "He was transferred to the Lenaye galaxy half a month ago, and I applied to follow him on impulse... Maybe I won't be able to hide it soon, and my performance doesn't look like I can pass the actual combat exam." Ree got an A."

Joshua didn't know what to say.

Dean lowered his head, put his hands in his trouser pockets, and said, "Tell me, what do you want me to do?"

Joshua: "..."

Dean said: "Anyway, we will break up sooner or later. I don't want to live this kind of life anymore. You said just now that you can get him out of the mech's anti-control?"

Merlin handed Dean a film-like reader, and when Gru returned from his defense the next morning, Dean quietly stuck the reader on his scalp.

A few hours later, Sean and Joshua, who were waiting in the D2 team, received a message from Merlin. Through sorting out the data of Gru's mental power, he finally figured out how the mech pollutes human spiritual power.

Pangu first manipulated lower-level mechas, and assimilated them through data transmission in spiritual power, and the mecha rebel army began to take shape.Afterwards, during the spiritual communication between the mechas and the humans who manipulated them, the nerve lines of the mechas spread until they covered the gray matter of the cerebral cortex, achieving the purpose of controlling human thinking activities.

This way of polluting spiritual power is similar to the legend of the zombie virus in the ancient earth era, and Pangu is the role of the "maternal zombie".

The key to destroying the entire mech anti-manipulation mental power chain is to destroy Pangu.

The dry season lasted only a few days, and except for the human-inhabited cities that had undergone greening transformation, almost the entire Lenaye planet had turned into a desert.

Major Kent, who was getting more and more emotional, could no longer walk out of the tent, otherwise his pheromone breath would definitely cause riots.

Fortunately, the two sides have temporarily ceased fighting, and the drinking water of the D2 team can be replenished in a timely manner. This is very important for Omega who has entered the estrus period and is seriously short of water.

Sean unfolded the stacked uniform jacket and said, "Raise your hand."

Joshua raised his arms, and Sean put his jacket on, then lowered his head to help him button it.The two looked at each other for a few seconds, Sean squeezed his chin and kissed him, and said softly: "Major, this is the last time I let your personal heroism go."

Joshua said: "Sir, I have said many times, I am just doing what I should do, not trying to be a hero."

Sean picked up the military cap and put it on the major's head, and said helplessly, "If I can replace you, no matter whether you are a hero or not, you will never have this chance to take risks."

Joshua's physical condition has reached the point where he has to separate the chip. The time agreed by Xiao En and Di Ku is this morning. Accompanied by him, Joshua went to the headquarters of the new army to accept Pangu's request for the chip's mental power. pull away.