"Say goodbye to it! No one knows when you'll be back here. ”

On the Norman flying boat slowly rising into the air, Lieutenant Notts said triumphantly to Weiss.

At this time, Weiss and Nikolai sat next to each other, both close comrades-in-arms who lived and died together, and brothers in distress who supported each other. Hearing what Lieutenant Notts said, the two of them invariably looked out of the porthole. The city of Somsonas was in full view, and before the war broke out, they flew in and looked down on the small mountain town from a close vantage point. Looking back, although the life at that time was not satisfactory, it was a good time that can be reminiscent infinitely.

Lieutenant Notts's words, Weiss did not want to respond. For Somsonas, he has feelings, and they are quite deep, but they are not attached to their homeland. For more than a year, the twists and turns of guerrilla warfare tempered his will to fight and forged his tactical style, during which time the land and people of Somsonas provided motherly support without expecting anything in return and fearlessly. For Somsonas, he was both grateful and indebted. He hopes that one day he can return it to its former tranquility and vitality, and if he can't come back, he won't be able to repay it for his dedication.

At this point, Weiss's fingers couldn't help but tighten. Nikolai sat beside him, holding his left hand, and of course could sense his reaction. She turned her head, stared at the side of his face, paused, and whispered, "I'm sorry to drag you down again." ”

Weiss shook his head. Even if the Normans took Nikolai alone just now, with her identity, her personal safety was guaranteed, but the loneliness of being isolated would cause immeasurable damage to her mental and mental health, which was a direct consideration of Weiss's choice to compromise. Subconsciously, after learning that this classmate and best friend was his daughter, Weiss's desire to protect her seemed to be beyond the previous moment, even if it was only a brief separation, as if it was even more difficult to accept than a farewell.

After thinking for a while, Weiss whispered, "Don't worry, as long as we don't give up, we will definitely be able to wait for the day of victory." Until then, I will do everything in my power to protect you. ”

After saying this, Weiss suddenly felt a little funny in his heart, when he was at the Bathton Military Academy, it was usually Nikolai who was intentionally or unintentionally protecting himself, and after the outbreak of the war, Nikolai made great contributions to the development and growth of the Federal Flying Force, and became the number one trump card, the real pride of the sky, compared to fighting the enemy in the muddy trenches, fighting in the dark sewers, and fighting around in the poor mountains and bad waters, it is simply the difference between the bright moon and the stars!

Nikolai did not joke or laugh, but looked at Weiss silently, and his eyes seemed to flicker.

After a while, the airship found a "harbor" in the clouds, which was an unusually large flying ship. Judging from the results of Weiss's technical reconnaissance, the extreme speed of this flying ship is not fast, and the offensive and defensive values are also ordinary, but the number of passengers is very considerable, as if it is a floating base that has surpassed its time. The black flying sharks from here must have attacked from here and returned here after the battle......

"It's shocking, I think it's incredible!" Lieutenant Notts said with a smug face, "Now, do you still think you have a chance to win?" ”

"If you have a hundred of these flying ships, we do have little hope." Weiss was quick to strike back.

Lieutenant Notts snorted angrily. The flying boat they were on came to the upper part of the huge flying ship like a small bird's nest, and after a smooth and slow docking, it finally came to rest in its open cabin.

As he left the boat and boarded the ship, Weiss said to Lieutenant Notts: "I have to admit that you are indeed far ahead of other countries in terms of artificial star source stone technology, which is enviable. ”

Lieutenant Notts didn't have to be on the airship, but squinted at Weiss for two seconds, muttered "Don't think about it", and then said to the Norman crew who came to answer him: "On the orders of His Royal Highness Prince Ballas, take these two people to the technical center." ”

"We've been ordered." The Norman crew replied, "Please follow me." ”

Lieutenant Notts bowed his head to the fellow soldiers and said, "Gun safe, stay vigilant!" ”

Then, through the long passage and the partition doors, the group came to a large room with a steel frame and glass wall panels, through one of the walls, you can see rows of "flying sharks" parked in the huge cabin, hundreds of workers are busy, some are doing equipment maintenance, some are loading ammunition......

This scene is probably the ultimate fantasy of the punk genre!

Lieutenant Notts, apparently not for the first time here, walked straight to a drawing bench and greeted the white-haired old man who was engrossed in the technical drawings: "Hello, Dr. Franz! ”

The white-haired old man looked up and said, "Oh, it's Lieutenant Notts, what's the matter?" ”

Weiss looked at it, the old man's face was completely unfamiliar to him, and he had never heard of the name "Dr. Franz", but based on the environment and what had happened before, it was almost certain that this man was the top expert in the field of Norman flying technology.

"I brought the people I said before." Lieutenant Knotts said as he turned his gaze to Weiss.

The white-haired old man also turned his head to look this way, although the eyes of the two intersected, but there was no spark, it was purely a "stranger's look" - not only was there no hostile emotion, but even some politeness.

Lieutenant Notts whispered a few words to the white-haired old man, only to see the white-haired old man nod calmly and return his attention to the technical drawings, while Lieutenant Norman walked up to Weiss with a gentle pace.

"Mr. Clumber-Haysen, think it through! Access to this secret means that you will lose your precious freedom until other nations can grasp it through technological developments, and if you pass it on through some cunning means, then Somsonas and the Clumber-Heyssen family will cease to exist! The above is a kind warning that His Royal Highness Prince Ballas wants me to convey to you! ”

"As long as you keep your promise, I will keep my promise." Weiss said with his head held high.

Lieutenant Notts snorted lukewarmly, motioning for Weiss to follow him to Dr. Franz.

Weiss looked at Nikolai, and she looked at the drawings on the drawing bench, which contained the technical secrets she desperately wanted to know—mastering these confidential information would not only lead to a way to defeat the enemy, but perhaps also allow the Federal Flying Forces to find a "medicine" to break through their own technical bottlenecks......

"Let's go!" Weiss said to her.

Lieutenant Notts turned abruptly and roamed back and forth between the two of them with a strange look, and when they approached, he said to Weiss, and at the same time not shy away from Nikolai, "If I were you, I would rather let her stay out of it, in which case she would have a chance to leave under some political opportunity." ”

Without waiting for Weiss to reply, Nikolai said very firmly: "No matter what happens, I will not leave alone!" Never! ”

These words made Weiss's heart swell with a strong warmth, but in an instant, he seemed to have fallen from a warm spring meadow to an ice valley on a cold winter night, and the huge drop almost made him cry out loud.

It was a face buried in the depths of memory, without resentment or hatred, but it involved an incomparably fragile nerve.

Dr. Z, he's not dead!

The lowest probability hypothesis came true......

The middle-aged man in the white coat who walked next to the white-haired old man had also noticed Weiss at this time. Although the two of them were only one side, that experience must have been deeply engraved in his mind, so after a little hesitation and reminiscence, he obviously remembered who the young man in his sight was, and he was also extremely shocked that he was still alive, and this emotion was clearly displayed in his originally dull eyes.

The souls of the two who escaped from hell looked at each other in the air, looking at each other wordlessly.

Lieutenant Notts also saw the clue at once, and he stopped in front of Weiss: "It seems that you still have old friends here?" ”

Weiss wanted to be perfunctory, but after a little thought, he felt that his identity and experience were not only known to the federal military intelligence, but also to the Normans. In order to verify this, he deliberately said: "With your identity, don't you know anything about this?" ”

Lieutenant Notts may have been deliberately tempted just now, or maybe he didn't think about it for a while, but after being asked by Weiss, he rolled his eyes and immediately said in a weird way: "For you, it's an unbearable memory!" But at the end of the day, it's your own doing, and you can't blame others! ”

This sounds like a wrench, but rationally speaking, the friction and struggle between countries often only have interests, not right or wrong. In the Monamolin Mountains, Weiss lost a group of new acquaintances and nearly lost his life, and for Dr. Z, it was a heavy one, where he lost his most beloved ones. As for his original intention of escaping from the Norman Empire, whatever it was, it would be ruthlessly crushed, and nothing would be left.

If Dr. Z has mastered the key technology of artificial star source stones, then in this battle, the Normans are undoubtedly the final winner.

Although Lieutenant Notts had seen through the relationship, Weiss did not openly identify it, as he did not know where Dr. Z was doing. After making eye contact, he lowered his head and used his body language to send a signal to Dr. Z that they had both died in that nightmarish incident.

Dr. Z's face turned pale and gloomy, and he shook his head with one hand on the table and the other on his head.

Lieutenant Notts sideways gave way, but Weiss did not immediately move forward. Seeing that something was not quite right with him, Nikolai asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?" ”

Weiss smiled bitterly, "The incident I told you, in the Monamolin Mountains, there are now two undead people, or rather, two geyers returning from hell. ”

He didn't deliberately avoid Lieutenant Notts when he said this, and as a result, the Norman officer smiled coldly when he heard this, and this obviously mocking expression made Weiss's heart tighten: Could it be that in that nightmarish battle, there were more than two of them on the side of the Federation?

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