Dawn Sleep

valley!

Jiang Jianming's finger landed on a valley terrain, which was when the officer in the adaptation period encountered a subspecies, and he designed to blow up the valley on one side.

"Your Highness, please look here. The valley is suitable for ambush, and because the mountains on both sides squeeze out a narrow and closed space, the crystal particles are not easy to escape. It is perfect if you want to cause crystal chaos."

"It happens to be on the necessary route, and it is also the area where Silver Beidou has done the second risk elimination, so it is easy to lower the defense... If there is really an ambush, the location is likely to be here."

Excessive nervousness and rapid speech made Jiang Jianming's pale forehead sweat a little. He stopped here and pursed his lips.

Even if the location where the enemy wants to ambush has been speculated.

But what can they do?

Comet Zhan has been thrown on the other side of the cliff, and it cannot be activated; it is not impossible to force two people to carry two people with a snow dove, but the area of ​​the cliff has been covered by high-density crystal particles, Jiang Jianming can't get through it, Garcia It is also impossible to throw him alone in the snow mountain.

What's more, there are alien creatures above the head who are watching at all times. Once they make a move, they will inevitably be blocked by space pirates.If the other party has more than one interference wave emitting device, then rushing over will also cause a crash.

And the most important, and also the most desperate, is time and distance.

The distance from the snow-capped mountain where the two are located to that valley is almost three times that of Yin Beidou to that valley!

"Xuejiu," Garcia cast his eyes on the mecha on Jiang Jianming's wrist, "Can the communication system of the mecha Xuejiu still be used?"

Jiang Jianming tried it, but the result was disappointing.

"It works," he shook his head, and said in a deep voice, "but... it may be that a special interference wave was placed in that forest, and the communication was cut off when it reached the dense forest. You can still sense Comet Zhan, but you can't get in touch. fortress."

At some point, the bonfire gradually dimmed.The cold wind was still whistling outside the cave, rolling up heavy snow and fog in the dark night.

The planners in the dark have sealed off their escape routes one by one.The boundless high mountains seemed to have turned into giant steel cages, enclosing the two of them in a corner of this small cave.

In silence, Jiang Jianming bent down and slowly fell on his knees.

The chill invaded his body, he couldn't help covering his lips and coughing lowly, his thin spine bulged and trembled.

Suddenly there was a force on his shoulder.

The foreground flickered, and he was pulled into Garcia's arms.

The fire light gradually weakened, and the thickening night blurred the rock walls of the cave, and also blurred the outline of Garcia's eyebrows and eyes.

The prince stretched out his index finger, a small piece of golden-red crystal bone protruded from his nail, and handed it to Jiang Jianming: "Are you afraid of my crystal bone?"

Of course Jiang Jianming shook his head.

Suddenly the wind rose.In the narrow cave, Garcia's shoulders spread out crystal bones as high as a person, wrapping the remnant crystal humans like wings.

"Go to sleep." Garcia lowered his eyes, his tone was always cold and hard, but his breath was like a gentle feather when he spoke, "It won't be cold this way."

"..." Jiang Jianming was slightly stunned, and he tried to put his finger on the red gold crystal in front of him.

Although hard, it is warm.

Just like its owner.

He knew that the crystal bones of new humans would have body temperature.But in my impression, the word "crystal bone" is still closer to a sharp knife and dagger, which is used for fighting and killing.

He never thought that one day he would be hugged by the most noble and powerful crystal bone in the empire.

Garcia: "Take a rest, and tomorrow we will drive the snow dove to leave. If there is a battle, I will stop and you go back to the fortress alone."

Jiang Jianming: "Are you asking me to leave you behind?"

Garcia's expression was calm: "We need someone to go back."

"The jamming wave launcher will not appear out of thin air. As long as you keep a distance from the enemy, there will be no danger of the mecha crashing."

Garcia said in a deep voice, "They can't do anything to me, I will wait for you to come back."

——Maybe it was because of a gust of wind blowing in from outside the cave, or maybe it was because the hastily picked firewood had burned to the end.

With a "huh", the fire in the cave was extinguished.

But no one spoke, no one moved, and they all seemed to have anticipated the coming of darkness.

Boom...boom, boom.

The beating of their hearts beat in their chests.

Jiang Jianming raised his eyes silently, those eyes were pitch black, but when they were sunk in the darkness, they were deeper than usual.

He looked at the distant mountains and snowstorm outside the cave, at the lonely pyre where the sporadic fires were dimmed, and at the calm eyes of the prince who was close at hand.

Two words suddenly slipped into my mind:

battlefield.

This is the real battlefield, a game between human beings. When the lives of companions are put on the gambling table, a single thought will ruin hundreds of thousands of lives.

He plotted in every possible way and worked so hard, just to enter such a cruel battlefield and stand in this position where human life is the chess piece?

……Do not.

He once longed for the universe, but he didn't like fighting, and he didn't have a sense of belonging to the high-level empire and the military. He didn't come here to join the war.

He is just a disabled human commoner, a widow whose ex-fiancé died, even if he joins Yinbeidou, he will be discriminated against.

Apart from collecting His Royal Highness's body and exploring the truth, he didn't want to, and shouldn't care about other things.

But whatever his original intentions, he was already on the battlefield.

At this moment, less than three months after graduating from the military academy, the 21-year-old Yinbeidou new lieutenant slowly raised his face in the arms of the imperial prince.

Jiang Jianming changed his posture in Garcia's arms, staring at the howling wind and snow outside the cave.

If it is said that only victory is the meaning pursued by the fighters——

Since he is here, he must win.

Jiang Jianming half closed his eyes, and his heart suddenly became extremely peaceful.There is a power trembling deep in the bone marrow, and the pictures in memory become pieces when thinking:

Frozen snow-capped mountains, cliffs, dense forests, and the strange smiles of alien creatures.The crashed Comet Zhan, the Interference Wave, the totem of the Lava Pirates, and the bright red L-Hephaestus...

They swirl, dissolve, and become one giant palette.

Silence pervaded for a long time.

It seemed as if a new storm was brewing.

In the darkness, Jiang Jianming patted the red gold crystal bone in front of him.

Without warning, he asked indifferently: "Your Highness, do you have a route map for routine patrols of Yinbeidou Fortress in your wrist phone?"

"--No."

Apparently Garcia was confused by his sudden sentence, lowered his head and said, "But I remember, I can draw it."

Ten minutes later, a simple road map was engraved on the wall of the cave by crystal bones.

Jiang Jianming looked at it for a while, and took out a small box from the inside pocket of his silver Beidoujun coat.

In the box are twelve injections.

"You brought tranquilizers with you!?"

Garcia's voice turned cold instantly, and he said angrily, "Why did you just take it out now!"

Of course it's because it's too expensive to be abused... Jiang Jianming smiled wryly from the bottom of his heart.

He handed the things to His Royal Highness, "Your Highness, I need to sleep for a while. If my condition worsens and coughs up blood during my sleep, please give me an injection."

Immediately afterwards, Jiang Jianming took the snow dove off his wrist and put it firmly in Garcia's palm.

"Wake me up in three hours. Then take off on a snowdove alone...do as I say."

Garcia said in a deep voice, "Why."

"Of course." Jiang Jianming raised his brows slightly, his expression clear, "for our victory."

The other end of night and snow.

Silver Beidou First Fortress.

boom!Xie Yuduo slapped the corner of the table with his palm, pinching several paper documents into a ball with five fingers.

The major general's face was anxious and angry: "Your Excellency also went with His Highness Garcia!?... Nonsense."

In addition to the female adjutant Rita, there were four or five senior military officers standing in the office, with deep anxiety on their faces.

Someone came out: "Major General, it has been a few hours since the comet lost contact and we detected the explosion of high-concentration crystal particles. Please order."

Xie Yuduo took a deep breath, "What about the coordinates?"

Of course, everyone knew that the coordinate point that the major general mentioned at this time was the coordinate of a certain place where Yin Beidou detected an abnormally high concentration of crystal particles a moment ago.

The mecha comet of the second prince of the empire lost contact there, and the situation is still unclear.

Rita: "It's... not yet confirmed, our drone will be shot down by alien creatures if it can't reach there."

Xie Yuduo's eyes were gloomy, and the corners of his lips were tense.

He straightened up, stretched his fingers, and those few poor papers were left on the corner of the table.

"Major General!" The officers became even more anxious.

"The situation is critical, please order!"

Xie Yuduo suddenly said coldly: "Answer me, are you cowards?"

The officers immediately raised their chests and glared, and said loudly: "No!!"

Unexpectedly, Major General Xie suddenly raised his phoenix eyes, and grinned viciously: "Then, are you all idiots?"

The officers were stunned, and saw Xie Yuduo raised his boot and kicked the corner of the table, snorting.

"On the battlefield, those who are afraid of death are idiots, and those who die are idiots—I know you are not idiots, but don't take it as an honor to be brave, idiots."

After finishing speaking, Xie Yuduo turned around, and quietly clenched his fingers from an angle that the officers behind him couldn't see.

Needless to say, His Highness Garcia's combat strength, Your Excellency Jiang Xiao... Although he does not approve of disabled people taking risks rashly, he has also seen His Excellency Jiang Xiao's talent.

If the situation is so dangerous that even these two people are helpless, and Yinbeidou's ordinary military force moves rashly, it is very likely that it will hit a stone with an egg.

But what if those two were really in trouble, waiting for help?

Xie Yuduo said to himself in his heart...then if he stands still, it will be the same as murdering his own people.

It's time to make a decision again.The numbers on the electronic clock were beating every moment, and the soldiers of the Silver Beidou were waiting for their orders.

"..." Xie Yuduo closed his eyes and exhaled. As the general of Yin Beidou, standing in this position, his words can save people or kill people.

"Be prepared to send troops. According to my original plan, I will order [-] people for Lieutenant Colonel Huolin."

"But don't start until tomorrow morning."

Everyone was stunned, and Rita couldn't help asking in a low voice, "Major General, what are we waiting for?"

"I do not know."

Xie Yuduo remained expressionless.The general didn't look back, he looked out the window at the long snowy night with his hands behind his back, and murmured: "But we have to wait."

"In addition to this, point out another five hundred people and notify them to enter the state of preparation."

"Also... prepare energy for my mecha."

The long night is coming to an end, and there is still about an hour before sunrise.

At the corner of the steep mountain, S-Snow Dove took off.

It was the darkest time in the sky, and the mecha groups of the Lava Pirates hovered at a higher altitude, forming a dense array.

And L-Hephaestus is in the center, like a drop of blood on the tip of a knife.

"Garcia left that crippled human?"

In the cockpit of Hephaestus, Chilong frowned and said to himself: "Abandon the car to protect the handsome... No, he wants to clear the surveillance in the air first."

The screen of the mecha was divided into several smaller screens, reflecting the rapidly approaching mecha snow dove from all angles.

Apparently, they installed surveillance cameras on the avian alien creatures.

Beside the red dragon, there stood a lifelike projection of a human figure—a mysterious man wrapped in a long black robe.

At this time, the man in black turned his face to the screen of the mecha, he seemed to look at it for a moment, and said indifferently from under the hood: "It's a bit bold, but it's nothing more than that."

S-Snow Dove is almost hidden in the clouds, and there are occasional red-gold crystal bones or real crystals flashing past.

New human beings and alien creatures were fighting at an altitude of 8000 meters above the ground. Sometimes blood splashed, and they were immediately swept away by the howling wind.

On the screen in front of Chilong, a small screen sizzled and went black.

And another small screen showed a scene of flashes and flashes: the snow dove passed by a giant black bird, the prince supported the edge of the cockpit with one hand and volleyed in the air, and the crystal bone that stabbed suddenly hit the black bird's back superior.

The strength of that blow was terrifying, and the black bird, which was as tall as two adult men, let out a miserable cry, and flew backwards, leaving a long blood mist in the air!

In the dark night, there was a loud bang, and the black bird that was blown away by the crystal bone crashed into the snow mountain. Immediately, the sky was filled with ice and fog, and the thick snow layer broke from it.

I saw the white and hard corner of the mountain collapsed and turned into a huge avalanche in an instant.

The air waves roiled, and the Mecha Snowdove struggled to get rid of the shackles of the strong wind, and rushed to the next alien creature.

The horizon extends under the alloy fuselage, and the snow stream is whistling across the mountains at a very high speed, and all gravel and dead branches along the way are swept into this huge white wave.

In the stereoscopic projection, the man in black who watched all this quietly shook his head slowly.

"The battle of trapped beasts, how pitiful. The imperial prince who came back from the dead, the only remnant crystal officer of Yin Beidou..."

The man in black put his hand on his chest and said calmly: "Unfortunately, it seems that I overestimated them."

Chilong raised his eyebrows, showing an innocent smile: "It's the master's plan that is too powerful."

The black-robed man was noncommittal, and glanced at the screen again: "But the major general of Yin Beidou is very patient, which really surprised me."

"However, the fate of losing the battle has already enveloped him, and the overall situation will not change because of this."

The L-shaped mech belongs to a large machine, and the space in the cockpit is very open. In addition to the red dragon, there are several space pirates standing behind it.

This group of space pirates are dressed in rough and wild clothes, either with gold teeth, big rings, or tattoos on the raised arm muscles.At this time, there was a quarrel with shoulders and backs, some drinking, laughing, and behaving badly.

They were celebrating their victory early.

Since the founding of the New Empire, the space pirates who roam the galaxies have not been able to please.One after another, those small space bandits were either recruited or wiped out, and the only one left was the most powerful "Lava".

But they have also suffered a lot under the hands of the Imperial Legion over the years.

The current emperor of the empire has a strong hatred for Yu Pirates. 40 years ago, the old leader of Lava died under the emperor's hands, and the remaining space pirates are also living a tighter day by day.

As long as this battle is won, they will not only avenge the old regiment leader, but also feel completely proud, why not exciting?

After a while, a middle-aged cosmic bandit with tall stature and bronzed skin strode closer, and bowed respectfully behind the red dragon:

"Boss! Yinbeidou's group of shy-headed bastards have finally dispatched their troops. Hey, there is a long row of mechas. I can tell at a glance that there can be at least 500 people!"

"Haha, they're finished." Chi Long smiled darkly in his eyes, and waved his hands, "Little ones, we should go!"

The projection of the man in black has been silent since just now, and at this moment he spoke with a strangely dignified tone: "Don't be impatient, Young Master, please confirm the situation of those two people again."

Chilong: "Who? Oh, our turtle in the urn, let me see."

"His Royal Highness is still killing birds... Well, it seems to be finished? It's really boring. The beauty with a broken crystal is in the cave. I don't know if he has received any new surprises..."

The man in black confirmed in a deep voice: "Nothing unusual?"

Chilong: "No, sir, don't worry."

Hephaestus started to turn around and flew towards the preset coordinates.

The black-robed man stopped talking, and his face could not be seen clearly under the cover of the hood, but his continuous silence at this time showed that the planner still had concerns in his heart.

Things seem a little too easy.

The man in black rubbed his chest and pondered.

Disorder is the essence of the world, and chaos is the destination of all things. Everything is carried out step by step, but it will make people feel uneasy.

There must be a demon in the abnormal situation.

Could it be that there are omissions that he has not noticed?

But... where would the omission be?

Both the imperial prince and the disabled human officer are under the surveillance of alien creatures, and it is impossible to disappear out of thin air;

The communication blocking device was placed in the dense forest behind the cliff, and they couldn't get in touch with the fort no matter what;

As for Yin Beidou, they still can't figure out the real situation. Once the team of 500 people enters the valley, they will activate the mecha interference wave to restrict their actions.

In the end, the red dragon will release the buried true crystal mine, and a large number of crystal chaos will break out in the Silver Beidou Army.

Lava won an overwhelming victory without a single casualty.

No omissions, nowhere.

--There's none?

Suddenly, the black-robed man raised his head like lightning, and slowly uttered words from between his teeth:

"Wait a moment, Your Excellency, Young Commander."

"Where's the Comet Slayer?"

Chilong was stunned for a moment, unable to understand why this mysterious black-robed man suddenly cared about a mecha that had been abandoned by its owner long ago and should have been forgotten by the war situation.

"Didn't it stop at that cliff? ... I'll ask someone to confirm."

Chilong waved his hand and motioned to the back, "Little ones, tell some of you to go and have a look!"

A few Lava's mechs flew out of formation and came back about 5 minutes later.

The space bandits sent to investigate scratched their heads and began to laugh: "Boss, that mecha is gone. Ahahaha, it must have been washed down the cliff by that avalanche!"

The man in black suddenly turned around!

A pair of eyes shining with cold light appeared under the hood, his breathing seemed to be a little short, and he shouted: "Map!!"

"Ah?" Chilong was taken aback by him, and subconsciously called up the map of this area on the screen of the mech.

The mysterious man in black quickly took two steps forward, his eyes fixed on the map, even in the projection state, he could still see his shoulders shrugging with panting.

Snow Mountain... Cliff...

Below the cliff is a gradually decreasing altitude...

The blocking boundary of communication is the dense forest...

So, Comet Zhan outside the forest can still receive messages?

The avalanche just now...

According to this angle and direction, extend all the way...

I don't know when the atmosphere condensed, and none of the group of five big and three thick space pirates dared to make noise, and they watched the black robed man's breathing getting heavier and heavier.

"Ah."

Until a certain moment, under the watchful eyes of everyone, the man in black laughed muffled and covered his face with his hands.

The man in black exhaled, and the cold and sticky words slipped from his lips: "...unfortunate news."

There is no gentleness or indifference in the voice, only the deep-seated coldness: "We seem to have been tricked, Your Excellency the young regiment leader."

Dawn is about to break, and a row of mottled black-and-white camouflage mechs are moving quickly on the snowy field of Alien Alpha.

They are the second patrol team of Yin Beidou, equipped with B-level mecha M-Diving 07, and they are doing decades of work-early morning patrol.

This work is boring most of the time. They have to get up before dawn, get on the mecha, leave the fortress, and concentrate on running for three hours according to the route between the empty snow field and the jagged mountains and rivers.

The patrol team is not in charge of fighting, so even if they encounter low-level alien creatures, they have to go around in desperation, and the time of the day just goes by in the familiar scenery.

What a waste of life.

However, today is different. A young guy opened the cockpit, and the wind blew his hair: "Captain, the mecha radar shows something strange ahead."

The captain's voice came from inside the mecha: "Recruit, don't open the cabin casually while the mecha is moving. Didn't I teach you? Use the mecha communication to speak."

The young guy shrank back awkwardly.

Another person in the patrol quickly compared the map with the calculation data, and spoke: "It seems that an avalanche occurred on our northwest mountain. Because of the terrain, the snow wave rushed all the way here."

"There is an unknown shadow under the snow, with straight edges and corners...it doesn't look like a natural stone."

The captain hummed and ordered three team members: "Little Cooper, Lin, and Lao Qi, you three go and have a look. The rest stay put and stand by."

The young guy touched his head suspiciously: "Uh...captain, it seems that over there is no longer our patrol area."

The captain twisted his neck, and said flatly: "Recruit, you haven't understood the duty of patrolling soldiers. We are sentinels for the fortress. If we find any abnormality, we have to rush forward to eliminate danger."

"If all the patrolling soldiers were as fond of shrinking back as you are, our Yin Beidou would have been blown away by alien creatures that elude people..."

"Team, Captain!!"

The exclamation suddenly sounded in the communication channel, "Come and see this mecha, isn't this the comet of His Royal Highness the prince!?"

The captain's face suddenly changed!

He flew over with his mech and jumped off a towering stone wall.I saw that the snowdrift below was thrown away by the crystal bones of the three team members, revealing a silver-black mecha!

The captain pulled out of the mech, rushed up in two steps in three steps, and pushed the team members in front of him: "Get out of the way!!"

Zhan Comet's fuselage was scratched everywhere, and the cockpit was open, most of which was filled with snow.The piles of white snow reflected the light, which came from the screen.

The captain was sweating coldly on his forehead, and he didn't care about face at this moment, so he hurriedly used both hands and feet, and got in with his buttocks sticking out.

He squinted his eyes and saw a message asking whether to accept it flashed on the screen of the mecha.

The sender...Mecha S-Snow Dove.

Yinbeidou Fortress, watchtower.

It was almost time to change shifts, and some of the scouts who had been on duty for most of the night began to lean against the wall and yawn.

One of them took out a cigarette case from his pocket, and greeted the veteran: "Old Liu, come here and smoke a cigarette."

None of the veterans waved their hands in a straight line, and groaned: "The replacement hasn't come yet, so I won't smoke, I won't smoke."

"drop--"

The contact device in front of him lights up green and prompts at this time.

The old soldier's turbid eyes immediately widened, and while he quickly connected, he turned his head and shouted: "It's the communication from the second patrol team!"

next second.

The projection reflected the snow-covered appearance of the patrol captain. His facial features twitched ferociously, and he opened his mouth to shout: "Urgent military situation! Quick! Fucking report to the major general!"

"Major General!"

On the second floor of the fortress, Rita almost broke through the door and rushed in.

The female adjutant, who had always been upright and courteous, had disheveled hair on her temples. When she rushed in, she shouted excitedly: "Wait...it's time!"

"It's the message from His Highness Garcia and Your Excellency, both of them are safe and sound! The lava has set up an ambush for our rescue, and the ambush location is presumed to be in the valley of the G2 area!"

Rita handed the wrist phone forward, and the text message sent by Xuejiu floated on the virtual screen.

Xie Yuduo hurriedly scanned his eyes, seeing the words "true crystal mine", "crystal chaos" and "interference wave", his eyelids twitched violently.

"Send a message to Huo Lin and ask the rescue team to withdraw immediately!!"

The major general jumped up against the case and said sharply: "Where are the 500 people I put into preparation for war last night!?"

Rita puffed her chest out and saluted with a snap: "Five hundred silver Beidou soldiers and officers, four hundred M-Jiden 18s and one hundred L-Evil Sharks have all been preparing for battle on the first floor of the fortress since last night. Listen to the major general's orders at any time!"

"very good!"

Xie Yuduo tore off the coat that was hanging on the chair, threw it roughly on his shoulders, raised his legs and walked quickly, "Everyone follow me, set out immediately to meet him!"

boom!Boom!

Following three gunshots, the alien creature that climbed into the cave fell to the ground, blood gushing out from the small hole in the back of its head.

Jiang Jianming leaned against the stone wall of the cave, holding the Wings of Venus in both hands.

His face was pale, his expression was a little tired, his eyelashes drooped lazily, but the timing of his shots was fierce and precise, and there were no misses.

The corpses of four or five alien creatures have been piled up in the cave, and the blood is splattered on the ground.Improvised crude traps and new crystal bullets ended their lives.

Sure enough, as Jiang Jianming expected, once Garcia leaves here, alien creatures will immediately come to deal with him, a disabled human being.

But the enemy seemed to underestimate the enemy, Jiang Jianming thought to himself.

He even made the mental preparation that if a large number of alien creatures came, he would withdraw from this cave and fight with them in the mountains and forests.

But persisting until now, the battle situation is much easier than he imagined, and he can feel that he has not reached his limit.

Perhaps, the enemy is not capable of infinitely manipulating highly intelligent alien creatures?

Jiang Jianming was thinking about it when suddenly a light flashed in front of his eyes.

He raised his gun awe-inspiringly, and put it down after seeing who was coming.

Jiang Jianming raised his eyebrows and said in a warm voice, "Your Highness."

"it's me."

Garcia walked in with a serious expression, "How are you?"

"I'm fine, you came back in time," Jiang Jianming smiled, and raised the silver-gray muzzle in his hand, "There are only two bullets left."

Garcia was frightened for a while, hurried forward and knelt down again, and touched his whole body with a blue face, making sure that he was really not injured before giving up.

On the contrary, Jiang Jianming was very calm. He put the Wings of Venus in the holster around his waist, and stood up on the prince's arm.

"If every link goes well, the fortress should have received the message. Thank you for allowing me to bet such a big one. I hope that no one will lose the chain of the Silver Beidou."

As he said, he stared at the sky outside the cave, where there was already a thin light that dispelled the darkness, and it was dawn.

But their battle is not over, because victory is not yet in their hands.

Jiang Jianming looked at Garcia and said calmly: "I have no fighting ability. Next, you have to continue to work hard."

"If the opponent really has a chess player with a good layout, they should have discovered that we have passed the message by this time. As long as the lava is not willing to give up this great opportunity, they will rush to that valley at full speed, trying to catch up with this time difference , a surprise attack on Yin Beidou."

"——we have done everything we can. Taking advantage of the turning of the main force of the lava, we forcibly broke through and joined the Yin Beidou."