The hostage exchange agreement with Jörmungandr was far from the military base, and the Federation Corps headed for their destination early in the morning.

Accompanied by Lin Zexi, Akers stayed at the military base and waited for Chen Jing and them to triumph.

When waiting, time always flies very slowly, and Axes asked Lin Zexi to go to work on the affairs of the legion, while he himself watched the class video recorded by his classmates in the room.

At this time, it had been three weeks since Axes and the others left Syst, but for the little prince, every class in his command department was not left behind, including electives, all of which were recorded with the help of his classmates, and then sent to the little prince by Dominica.

Because the actions of the Federation Legion in Nerder were classified, Ax couldn't talk to Dominica, not even to the Marshal's Mansion's Koshota and Mr. Gray.

Of course, there is a reason for this, which is also to let Sist's friends not worry too much, so Ax himself will not take the initiative to mention the hardships and difficulties he has experienced.

For some time, the greetings from Syst never stopped.

When Akes was looking for a video to watch, he found that Lin Zexin had just sent him an email, so he hurried to take a look.

"Your Highness, I don't know when you and the general will return to Sister...... It's the weekend, but the Marshal's Mansion is so deserted, you are not at home, and it is not lively here! But there is one thing to envy Your Highness, you don't have to take the midterm exam......"

Xiao Lin's email, as usual, was completely about what he thought of and said, and there was no logic at all, but the feelings of longing revealed between the lines were still very clear.

Ax stared at the holographic screen for a long time, looking forward to it - if they can successfully rescue the hostages today, they may be able to return to Sister soon!

"If you can get back to Syst as soon as possible, you might be able to save your mid-level mission." Snow-white hairballs appeared on Ax's legs, and a small claw stretched out to reach his ears to play.

Listening to Qiuqiu mention this, Axes suddenly felt a lot of pressure.

He looked at the progress bar of his "Campus Love" task, and was only a little bit away from completing half of it, but it was still far from being completed.

It seems that when he was not in school, Lieutenant General Clyde, who was temporarily working as an elective lecturer at the National University of Olbi this semester, had a good interaction with Dominica.

It's just that the two people are very different from each other in terms of family background, age and current living conditions, if there are no friends who are familiar with each other, such as Ax, who are matched, if they have to wait for themselves to "go with the flow" together, I am afraid that it may not be successful to "naturally" for a year and a half.

It turns out that this is indeed the case.

Before Axes left Sister, they had only met twice, and they had already developed some affection for each other, and they had developed steadily.

However, after Ax left for a while, the progress bar of the mission slowed down significantly, indicating that they were missing the necessary catalyst in their relationship.

"It's okay, it's okay, when your Chen Jing solves the problem of Nerde, it's not too late to go back, isn't there still two months!" Seeing Arkes frowning, Qiuqiu jumped on his shoulder and stretched out his little claws to touch his eyebrows.

Akes grabbed its little claws and cradled the ball to his chest, finally not thinking about it anymore.

"I don't know if the general has reached their destination." The little prince muttered to himself.

He didn't know that someone was using authority to open the level between the command headquarters and the external passage.

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When Chen Jing and the others arrived at the agreed location, the mermaid of Jörmungad had already arrived.

The federal submarine held hostage by the other party appeared on their holographic radar screen, and was quietly docked about five thousand meters underwater, waiting for the rescue of its own people.

This is also the first time that Chen Jing and the others have come face to face directly with the former mermaid crown prince who defected to Gamir, Prince Marcas.

Like the other two princes and princesses of the merfolk clan they had seen, this prince of Marcus was extremely outstanding, and his golden eyes looked very dazzling.

The other party and some of the merfolk of Jörmungård are in the looted submarine, negotiating with the Federation before the exchange of hostages.

"I have admired the name of the Marshal of the Federation for a long time, and when I see it today, it really deserves its name." Marcas looked at Chen Jing in the holographic screen and smiled.

As long as he thought that Morgan and Nigel, who had grown up with him and were like brothers, had died tragically at the hands of this man, a trace of hatred and cruelty flashed in the eyes of Prince Marcus.

- This time, if you want to make Chen Jing pay a painful price, let him know the pain of loss!

The gloom in the other party's eyes was fleeting, but it did not escape Chen Jing's eyes, he frowned slightly, and said directly: "The purpose of our visit this time is to bring back the citizens of our Federation, if Your Excellency has no other questions, should we start as soon as possible." ”

"Of course, but before that, I want to see if our compatriots are unharmed."

Chen Jing motioned for his subordinates to turn on the surveillance of the room where the mermaid was closed.

The room was specially made, filled with seawater, and the two dozen or so merfolk huddled quietly in the corner, looking uneasy.

One of the mermaid guards next to Marcus saw the footage and immediately moved half a step forward excitedly - apparently there were his relatives or friends in it.

At this time, a middle-aged mermaid asked, "What about our priest?" Why is he not in the picture? ”

This is also the most concerned issue of Prince Marcus, but in front of other mermaids, he can't act like he only cares about Priest Yuraia, so some subordinates took the initiative to ask questions, which made him very satisfied.

"Your priest Yuraiya is a noble priest who cannot afford to slip up in the slightest, so we have placed him alone, so you can see it now." Admiral Bimont, who was standing beside Chen Jing, replied.

At this time, the surveillance screen changed to another room with seawater, slightly smaller than the previous one, and there was only one mermaid in it, Priest Yuraia.

Marcus saw the priest and pressed out the excitement and anxiety in his heart, but the mermaid beside him couldn't be so calm, and directly called out the priest's name, as if he could get a response from the other party by calling at the holographic screen like this.

Unlike the free-moving merfolk in the previous surveillance, Priest Yuraia was clearly "taken care of".

With special shackles on his wrists and restrained movements, as if sensing that someone was watching him, he suddenly looked at the monitor.

Seeing this, the middle-aged mermaid accused angrily: "How can you treat us priests like this?!" ”

"We're also protecting Priest Yuraia, this isn't the Nerd Sea after all, in case his old man has a bump or something, we can't explain it to you, right?" Admiral Bimont sneered and said.

- The last time you locked up the hostages of the Federation in a submarine that was going to carry out a self-killing attack, and wanted them to tragically die at the hands of your compatriots, why didn't you think of the provisions of the Galactic Law on the kind treatment of hostages?! We just restricted that guy's movements, but we didn't kill him!

Prince Marcus, who knew more about the personality of the priest of Yuraia, was very glad that the Federation had "imprisoned" him in this way.

Otherwise, for the sake of Prince Marcus and the mermaids of Jörmungandr, Priest Yuraia might choose to kill himself to ensure that the Federation could not threaten Jörmungård with himself.

"If there is no problem, then let's start exchanging hostages." He spoke.

"Prince Marcas, have you forgotten something?" Admiral Bimont said to the holographic screen, "We've shown you the merfolk, shouldn't you make sure of the safety of the federal hostages from us?" ”

"That's fine." Prince Marcas also motioned to one of his subordinates to turn on the surveillance screen.

Two large rooms appeared in the surveillance, which seemed to be the two dining rooms in front of and behind the Federation submarine, and the remaining 130 hostages of the Federation sat in twos and threes, looking like the mermaids locked up on their side, like frightened birds, nervous all the time.

Admiral Bimont found some of his subordinates among the hostages, and was naturally excited, and he couldn't help but look at Chen Jing, as if waiting for him to give an order.

"Now, then, let's start exchanging hostages." Chen Jing said.

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At this time, Ax was in the room reading the video file sent by Dominica the day before yesterday.

Recently, there have been frequent situations, and he has already missed several professional classes, and because Chen Jing and Lin Zexi are relatively busy, there are some things that can be asked to them in the past, and now Akers can't delay them to ask for answers.

I can only watch the course a few more times by myself, and slowly digest it according to the notes sent by Dominica.

Qiuqiu watched half of the class with Ax, and felt bored, so he returned to Akers' consciousness to rest and wait.

At this moment, there was a knock on the door of the room, and Ax clicked on the video screen connected to the doorway surveillance and found a general of the Fifth Legion and several of his subordinates standing outside the door.

Because he had been following Chen Jing and them to attend meetings some time ago, Ax was already very impressed with some of the generals of the First and Fifth Legions.

"This seems to be a lieutenant general on Admiral Bemont's side, called...... What's it called? ”

While Ax was racking his brains to think of a name, the other party once again issued an application to enter the room.

"What's the matter?" Akers asked the lieutenant general on the video screen.

"The marshal has just heard the news, Colonel Lin Zexi is communicating with the marshal, please come over."

Because most of Nerde is water, there are some places where communication cannot be completed by relying on ordinary signals, and communication can only be done through special military channels.

In order to get the news of Chen Jing and them as soon as possible, Ax insisted on letting Lin Zexi stay in the command room.

Hearing that communication was already taking place at this moment, Axes was very happy and immediately opened the door to the room.

Ax didn't bring anything with him, and rushed directly to the command room with them.

As he walked, Ax suddenly felt something unusual.

- This doesn't seem to be the way to the command room...... And, why didn't you see a single guard in the aisle all the way?! 166 Reading Network