"My reputation will be ruined in your hands today......" Nikolai's words didn't sound resentful, but like a resentment between lovers, which made Weiss a little confused for a while.

Seeing Weiss stunned there, Nikolai slapped him: "Hey, what a daze!" What I want to say, what I want to say, that's all I have to say! ”

"Oh!" Recovering from the short-circuit, Weiss pondered his thoughts: "Let's talk about improving the aircraft for the Normans first!" This is our Clumberg-Heyssen factory, and before the Normans took over it, we organized a mass evacuation and hid all the equipment that could be dismantled and transported to secret strongholds, but alas, the Normans sent Ze, my missing brother, who is now a high-ranking Norman officer. With him as the military governor of Lorraine, we suffered great losses in the struggle against the resistance, and these scattered and hidden equipment were recovered one after another. The factories were back in operation, they became their tools, and they forcibly tied the production of the factories to the survival of the workers. As for me, a month ago I had been fighting the Normans in the woods with the guerrillas, but in the last battle a month earlier, we had lost completely, and in order to save the lives of the more than 2,000 non-combatants in the camp, I had the surviving partisans evacuate and disarm the enemy alone, and then the Normans agreed not to harm the civilians who had been following and supporting the resistance, and to save the wounded who could not be evacuated, on the condition that I would organize the production here, and those civilians would be forced to work here in the form of hard labor. I put it this way...... You can understand that, right? ”

Weiss listed the causes and consequences of the incident as much as possible, and Nikolai was familiar with his way of thinking and expression, and it was certainly not difficult to understand, but when it came to a deeper understanding, that is, recognition, she still showed hesitation and wariness. After pondering for a while, she whispered, "If it were me, I would rather sacrifice my own for the safety of my companions." ”

"I can swear to you, Nikolai," Wei explained: "I did make up my mind to sacrifice at that time, and after the negotiation with the enemy was completed, I only needed a pistol and a bullet to finish this ordinary and tortuous life, but...... Ze stopped me, he said, this is what Prince Barras and Admiral Sedlinz have asked for—they want me to work for them, so I am not allowed to die. If I were bent on dying, they would tear up the bargaining agreement and kill all my wounded soldiers and supporters of the Resistance. ”

Nikolai said with a serious face: "If it were me, I would not serve the Normans in any way, you know, this is essentially sending ammunition to the enemy, allowing them to kill more Federation soldiers on the battlefield and let them plunder more of our land and resources." ”

Weiss sighed and asked rhetorically, "Even if they threaten your family's safety, you won't compromise?" ”

Nikolai opened her mouth, and in the past, she would proudly say that no one could hurt her father and other family members with the support of the people of the Federation, but having seen the cruelty of war, she was no longer as naïve as she once was. After thinking for a while, she asked in a low voice, "So, you survived to protect your family and the civilians who have always supported you?" ”

"That's a big part of the reason." Weiss replied, "Besides, I'd love to live to see us win, and I'd love to see you alive." ”

This just right sensationalism made Nikolai cry silently. Weiss reached out and gently touched her head as before, but knowing her true gender, the touch at this time felt very different from the past.

"That's your name horse?" He asked softly, "Nikolai doesn't look like a girl's name. ”

Nikolai sighed: "Before I was five years old, my name was Isabel Leibold, and after the age of five, I changed my name to Nicola Leibold. ”

"Is it because something special happened to you when you were five years old?" Weiss asked again.

"Yes." Except to give an affirmative answer, Nikolai said nothing.

Weiss faintly remembered what the old lord had said to him on Bella's birthday, and looking at Nikolai's state, he did not continue to ask.

"Believe me, I have a plan to get us out of here while keeping my family and the civilians around me safe."

"Dragon, you know? Later, I realized that there were very few people I could trust, really rarely......"

Nikolai's words were not clear, but Weiss could feel how much she wished she was still the one she could trust and rely on.

Here, no amount of explanation, no amount of vows, is not as good as the sentence "time will tell".

Nikolai suddenly threw himself into Weiss's arms and began to cry loudly. This kind of crying obviously has another meaning. Sure enough, she cried for a while, sobbing, "My brother, Caesar, is dead!" ”

Weiss was taken aback: "Huh? When did it happen? In which battle did it take place? ”

Nikolai's character is so strong that she quickly stopped crying and lowered her eyes: "They said that it was more than two years ago, in the battle of Malogos-Sercilo in the Northern Campaign, that they found his body in the wreckage of the Federation battleship, but I only knew about this some time ago. ”

"What did the Normans tell you? This...... Is it credible? ”

"I didn't believe it either." "But when they brought out Caesar's relics, and the photographs taken at the scene, I had to believe that Caesar, who had been lost a long time ago, had indeed died in battle, and that it was in the distant territory of Wessex." ”

Hearing this, Weiss's first reaction was that he felt that the Normans had deliberately faked it in order to defeat Nikolai's spiritual will. However, this is only speculation, and speculation alone will not only fail to compete with the convincing evidence, but will also lead Nikolai into a deeper struggle.

"I met my father before the Battle of Aojo, and he neither mentioned it nor showed obvious sadness, but now that I think about it, there was something really wrong with his mental state at that time, and if it wasn't for a very painful blow, his eyes wouldn't have changed like that......" Nikolai muttered to himself, and such words and deeds could not help but remind Weiss of a poor and pathetic character: Xianglin's sister-in-law.

In order not to let Nikolai be depressed, he resolutely said: "No, Nikolai, listen to me, the death of millions of Union soldiers, the loss of a large part of the country, and the sacrifice of countless civilians are enough to plunge President Leibold into great and endless sorrow. As for whether or not your brother, Caesar Leeball, was really killed, no matter what others say, or circumstantial evidence, it is not credible. If this is true, when we are out of Norman control and back in the territory controlled by the Union Army, I will accompany you to Mr. President and ask him personally—I will not believe it unless he admits it himself! ”

Nikolai shook his head: "Thank you, Dragon, in fact, I have accepted this reality. You know, the hedron pendant he carried with him was given to him by me. It was only in the event of an accident that the Normans could get their hands on the pendant. Moreover, the photographs of his dead remains are clear, and some of the features match perfectly. ”

The words have come to this point, and Weiss can only bow his head in silence.

After a long while, Nikolai raised his head, still with tears on his face, but he spoke strongly: "All right, dragon, don't talk about this. Let's get down to business! The Normans were very shrewd, especially in mechanics, and they had very good engineers, so don't try to fool them with unsuccessful designs...... I've tried it, and it's useless! ”

Weiss wiped away her tears as he explained: "After the Klumberg-Heisen plant was back in operation, there were two main types of components, which were based on our technical work at the Barston Military Academy – remember? Small artillery buffers, as well as high-mobility gun carriages. ”

"Remember, of course we got a distinction in the technical course, but why ......"

"After they occupied the city, they looted the materials of the Bathton Military Academy, and when they cleaned up, they found the two technical papers in the school magazine, and they thought that our design could bring an improvement to their existing weapons, and they just borrowed the Clumberhaytham factory for production." Weiss explained.

As if out of habitual thinking that questioned everything, Nikolai said: "The Bathton Military Academy is thousands of miles away from here, why don't they use the remnants of the Grumman Group on the spot, but come to Lorraine, why do they have to let the Clumber-Haisen factory produce the modified parts of the weapons designed by the Dragon-Clumber-Haisen?" Dragons, this is by no means a coincidence, but a conspiracy of theirs! ”

"I agree with you, it's their conspiracy. But there's one thing I can't figure out...... Why did they choose me? In the ranks of the Union Army, among the graduates of the Bathton Military Academy, I was at best a good performer, and I was an outlier who didn't follow the rules...... So, why me? ”

Nikolai did not answer, but looked at Weiss's face with curiosity, as if he was also puzzled by the Normans' choice. After a while, as if she remembered something, she whispered, "Tell me what kind of aircraft improvement plan you are going to provide to them." ”

In the field of aircraft design, construction and handling, Nikolai has much more practical experience than Weiss. Because he needed Nikolai to help control the plan, Weiss put his own considerations and ideas out. No, after he finished speaking, Nikolai's expression became a little strange.

"You know what? Dragon! After hearing this, my first thought was...... If they can't get you back to Federalist-controlled territory, you should be killed as soon as possible before your wits can be exploited by the Normans. Nikolai didn't have the slightest murderous aura in him when he said this, but with Weiss's understanding of her, it was not a joke.

"We've been classmates for three years, and we've basically talked about everything, but do you ever think I'm the kind of person who can change the war from a technical level?" Weiss asked rhetorically.

"To be honest, there is a little bit of it." "In fact, familiar people tend to ignore something, and strangers, especially those with insight and vision, may only need one contact to discover values that ordinary people tend to ignore." ”

Weiss retorted wordlessly, although he is not a genius, but his "foresight" in weapons technology does have great use value, but the military system of the Federation is rigid, and the military industrial system is subject to the control of vested interests, and his own value is difficult to realize, and those Normans can be called natural soldiers, they extensively probe intelligence, pay careful attention everywhere, and the probability of discerning Britain is indeed much greater than that of the Union army.