lyra sleepless

"Commander, with the scale of the rebel army, you don't need to go out in person at all, not to mention sending out all the elite forces. Firstly, it will cause our internal defense to be empty, and secondly, it will consume too much. Our military budget for this year is already tight. Bian won't..."

The young adjutant followed the commander-in-chief on the river bank of the main ship with full armor and hurriedly persuaded him.

He hadn't said the rest of the sentence "I won't increase this year's military expenditure because of a few small bugs", the commander-in-chief stopped abruptly, put his hands in his arms, pulled out his gun and pointed at the adjutant, Roared: "You know what a fart!"

He was breathing more heavily than usual, his eyes shone sharply, the adjutant took a step back in shock, closed his mouth tightly, and prepared to follow the commander to board the ship.

The commander shook the gun in his hand, and pushed him back a bit: "You stay behind."

The adjutant widened his eyes, and was about to argue for himself, when the commander's tone suddenly became more serious than ever: "If, if the main force fails to return, blow up all ground facilities and military warehouses! Evacuate to Orpheus, Tell the people there."

He took the adjutant's shoulders, leaned over to his ear, and whispered a short sentence.

The adjutant was like a stone sculpture turned into a spell. He maintained such a deep and complicated expression of astonishment, watching the commander's cloak overturned, and he boarded the ship without looking back.

Two sidereal hours later, the two armies officially exchanged fire.

In front of the majestic and majestic silver fleet of the Lyra, the motley army of the rebels looked ridiculous and had no chance of winning. Under the command of the commander, the river bank army slowly outflanked the rebels from both wings, trying to catch them all.

In the monitoring room of the Riverside Base, someone is already opening champagne wrapped with a victory ribbon.Only the adjutant watched the battle with a serious face.

He walked into the 3D image and was at the forefront of the two armies. He watched the two armies exchange fire with almost playful eyes. The warship gradually became riddled with holes under the fierce attack, and the universe was filled with a kind of silent And the invisible and terrifying, amidst the frightening bombardment effect of the laser weapon, the adjutant's calm appearance was like a tall and ruthless god of death.

Suddenly, the illusion disappeared, and the room returned to its original empty appearance. Someone caught a glimpse of it, stood up abruptly, turned over the chair, pointed to the communication terminal and said in panic, "The... contact has been interrupted."

The engineer almost jumped over from the other side of the table and threw himself at the communication terminal. His fingers were flying, and sweat soon appeared on his neck.

Finally, he turned around slowly, and announced with a dead face: "It's not a problem with the terminal."

Not a problem with the terminal.Everyone quickly realized the horror of this sentence.

It's not a problem with the terminal, it's something wrong with the battlefield.

After being stunned for a long time, someone was finally the first to come back to his senses, and asked tremblingly, "Should we...reinforce?"

Before he finished speaking, the sound of gunshots rang out one after another in the room. Everyone clenched their weapons tightly, fear and nervousness turned into perseverance, and looked at the adjutant in unison, waiting for his order.

The adjutant silently swept across the officers in the room. Almost none of them had experienced war, and there was an unskilled tenacity on their young faces. He let out a breath and waved his hand and said, "Maybe they just passed by the black hole, So the communication wave was intercepted. Besides, most of the troops on the bank of the river have already been put into battle, if the elite army really...really encountered a problem, what would be the use of support?"

He uttered a few words firmly: "Let's wait!"

No one talked, no one sat down, and there was no laughter. The champagne sank coldly at the bottom of the ice bucket. The entire base command seemed to sink to the bottom of the ice bucket. Every officer's lungs seemed to be filled with water. Heavy suffocation, time has never been so unbearable.

Until the terminal lighted up again with a ding, the image spread out in the space again. The main ship, like a proud and beautiful giant underwater creature, led a group of small fish, and slowly sailed past the seven stars in the north of the river base.

Suddenly there was a burst of cheers: "They're back!"

The sound was like a bird soaring into the sky, Yang was suddenly hit by an arrow in mid-air, and the tail sound fell straight down, returning to the oppressive calm.

The officers watched with pale faces as the main ship swam past between them like a beautiful whale, proudly showing everyone its smooth side curves, and on the hull, as always, painted an incomparable national flag.

But this time, it was the flag of the Empire.

There were also people drinking on the warship.

The wine was as clear as flowing gold, and it was poured into the crystal goblet in the crown prince's hand. Lisko lifted the bottle gracefully, and was about to turn to the Marquis of Crotone. Covering his mouth, he said concisely: "He is not yet of age."

Crotor looked at the Crown Prince in disbelief, only to get an irrefutable squint.Holding his glass pitifully, he watched the servant fill him with fruit juice.

Lisko happily poured himself a glass, turned to the crown prince, and smiled with ambiguous meaning: "You are not allowed to drink if you are not an adult, but you can kill people?"

The Crown Prince raised the wine and clinked glasses with him crisply, and made a helpless gesture: "War is so absurd."

He aroused none of this grotesque guilt.

Lisko shrugged and said, "It's better to say that the world is so absurd."

"for example……"

"For example, the true identity of the proud son of the Republic is the sole heir of the empire. For example, yesterday's good student captured his teacher ruthlessly today. For example, I never thought that I would be reduced to work in a refugee area one day, but I became you in a daze. guest of honor."

The crown prince smiled at him noncommittally, that smile was as beautiful as a cheetah on the grassland, but Lisko was fully aware that the sense of openness and strength was just a disguise for the person in front of him, and the glorious emperor only existed in fairy tales.

"What surprised me the most was that you won the war and defeated the world's most advanced military force with a group of old, weak, sick and outdated warships. You are the creator of miracles."

The crown prince laughed very sincerely this time: "It's not a miracle, people just like to cocoon themselves."

Lisko seemed to be interested and asked: "What do you mean?"

"A trainer picked up a milk lion. In the first month, he earned ten gold coins in the circus with this lion, and in the second month he earned twenty gold coins. The lion is getting bigger and bigger, and it can do juggling More and more, the animal trainer soon became a rich man. What do you think is the ending of this story?" The crown prince asked with a smile.

Lisko calmly said the answer: "The animal trainer was killed by a lion."

The crown prince made a knowing grimace at him: "In the long history, we have been exploring the truth of the universe, but the human brain is limited and cannot grasp all the knowledge, so they choose to put some of the things that don't seem to be useful. Leave it to artificial intelligence. Can you believe it? At the Riverbank base, there are at least a hundred officers who major in weapons manufacturing, and at least thirty have a degree in physics, but no one knows how to seize the frequency band of electromagnetic waves in war. What they know is how to make and use laser weapons, control the latest starship navigation system, and leave other issues to artificial intelligence and databases."

"And AI is bound to have its limits."

The crown prince was silent for a moment: "No, I know someone who has no flaws." Even as shrewd as Li Skok, he couldn't catch what flashed across his face at that moment, and the crown prince quickly spread his hands and regained his composure: "In short, Instead, some of the immigrants understood electromagnetic countermeasures, so we occupied all the frequency bands. They tried to fight back but our people were more experienced. Electromagnetic waves are all-pervasive gadgets. They can cut off communications, interfere with positioning, and get into every different An astonishing capacitive reactance is produced in the humble capacitor, unless the warship can completely abandon the electronic circuit...But obviously, no matter how far humans have gone on the road of technology, every footprint is still meaningful.”

"Amazing feat. Who is this genius?" Lisko exclaimed.

"An old miner. He planned the communication network of the whole country before emigrating, but the war killed his three sons."

Li Ke was silent, but still couldn't help but said: "And now he is helping you in the war."

The crown prince raised his glass again, raised his eyebrows and said, "To this absurd world. I found him on the side of the street in an abandoned mining area. He was almost begging. I told him that I would send someone to look for him after the war is over." He almost kissed my boots with his mouth when I lost my wife and daughter back home."

"I'm not qualified to say anything about him," Lisko smiled wryly, "If you can give me what I want, I'm willing to kneel down and kiss your feet immediately, Your Royal Highness."

"I know what you want, Lisko. And I am willing to promise this reward, but you must pay a price more precious than a victorious battle."

"I accept everything." Lisko gritted his teeth, "I am willing to sell my soul for power. Power, power is the devil. I used to have everything in the world, fame, status, wealth, and lover, but a word of power can be enough Take it all away."

The crown prince turned his head seriously, Lisko noticed for the first time how dark and bright his pupils were, only a baby's eyes could be so pure: "Do you really think that with power you can get everything, Lisko?"

"At least power is above all human pursuits." Lisko said without thinking.

"Actually, I have another version of the story about the lion and the greedy animal trainer." The crown prince said suddenly, "The lion has grown up, but he is not willing to eat the animal trainer who raised him, because the lion also has feelings. Yes. And the tamer was rich enough, so he listened to the other tamers and killed the lion while he was juggling."

"This ending is simply nonsense, it loses all sense of power and becomes a downright stupid fairy tale," Lisko commented, "Your Highness, your ability to make up stories sucks."

The crown prince just smiled and pointed to the starry sky in the distance: "I used to be the supreme ruler of this country. I have all the rewards that can be obtained through war."

He said in a fateful tone: "You may gain power by selling your soul, but, Lisko, never think that you can save a soul with power."