The Battle of Orb Chapter 5: V's Legacy (Part I)
Arlando had enough experiences of resonating with other individuals through induction waves, and in those resonances, Arlando saw joy and sorrow, pain and joy, and even crime and punishment in the other, but ...
[But now the situation should be different] --- Arlando "looked" at the situation around him, and such information crossed through his mind.
In the world of induction waves, a lot of information is vague, but it is also surging, everything is like a sea full of vitality with fluctuations that he can't understand, and what he can feel, experience, and remember is not determined by him; In the world of induction waves that he had experienced before, he didn't remember the concept of limbs, nor did he remember the details around him, he was just a part of the ocean of induction waves or something else ...
But what is it now?
Allando looked at the hall in front of him and asked--- the hall in front of him was undoubtedly the main hall that he had personally walked through during the raid on the Caucasian base, but the scenery he could see was completely different from what he remembered; The hall was not at all the dilapidated and dead silence of the haunted house in his memory, and there was no trace of war, although it was still empty, but Arlando felt that "there should be someone here".
Thinking like this, Arlando subconsciously raised his arm, wanting to hold his forehead, which made him notice his arm--- which was the arm covered by the black cosmic combat suit, which was the equipment he had worn after the invasion when he came to this cosmic base last time.
Arlando froze for a moment, then commanded himself to snort, and what poured into his nostrils was the smell of disinfectant mixed with the smell of recycled air unique to the space base he was familiar with, not the muddy smell of an abandoned space base that no one had cared for a long time.
[This is not the type of induction wave resonance that I have experienced] ...
"It's more like a projection of some kind of memory," Arlando muttered, then suddenly raised his voice and shouted, "Show up!! ”
[Gah... Woo... 】
Arlando seemed to hear this, and he turned his head to see several familiar devices popping up from the ceiling behind him, spinning and lighting up, and a three-dimensional projection of a figure appeared in front of him--- a teenager with short tan ear-length hair.
"You..."
Just before Arlando could spit out a word, the speakers of the stereoscopic projector made a sound:
"Hello, my name is Huso. Aven, and you are the right fit to awaken the Queen, and you are now in the Queen's memory. ”
"Huso. Ewen, who? Who is the Queen? Arlando asked, with some horror, that the brain of the new human was the least susceptible to some influences, including resistance to superficial memory manipulation, and that he was now completely dragged into a memory in a state of wake.
"I'm sorry, due to objective constraints, I can give a limited answer, please try to optimize your questions in the question stage of waiting, the current memory information flow is still dominated by the [Queen], please continue to set off to the next memory node to activate this program."
At the next moment when the projected voice fell, the Caucasian base "came alive" in front of Arlando's eyes--- several isolation doors in the hall opened one after another, and people in various uniforms walked out of it, and his ears also sounded the broadcast of "The first phase of the experimental plan alpha will start in fifteen minutes, please take place in time, and the auxiliary support units will confirm the status".
Only, forward...
With such a thought flashing through his mind, Arlando followed his own memories, along with the busy phantoms that passed through his body from time to time, and took a step deeper into the Caucasus base...
At the same time, the command center of the Federation Army was there, and Saito was sitting in his chair, keeping his lower body still, gently moving his stiff upper body, while his eyes swept over a corner of the vast CIC hall from time to time. Soon, the communications operator in the corner he glanced at responded to his gaze, and the voice of the secretary was heard in his ears:
"General, Cagalli, the representative of the government-in-exile of Orb. Ulla. Asgha sent a request for communication. ”
"Take it in," Saito said with a rare smile on his face, as he stopped his office exercises, "it's time to talk to this lioness cub." ”
Cagalli, who had already connected the communication and heard Saitoichi's words, felt that her body, which was already trembling with anger, seemed to tremble even more, she reluctantly raised her head, licked her lips, stabilized her mouth, and then opened her mouth like a storm:
"General, what the hell is going on with the two nuclear warheads that exploded on the territory of Orb and the public battle plan of the Union Army!!
"Miss Asha, the asymmetry of information is the great enemy between people, because the different perspectives caused by the asymmetry of information make it more difficult for us to communicate, for example, standing on a high place, you see the scenery in the distance, and I can only see a commanding firepower point, this is the difference, ah, ah, Shao'an is not impatient," noticing the words that were about to erupt under Cagalli's bulging mouth, Saito made a stop gesture, "But today I plan to eliminate this asymmetry and let Miss Cagalli improve her realm, so listen to me quietly... ”
"You!!'re here..."
Syllable!
In the astonishment of everyone, Saito cut off the communication directly.
After a few seconds of dead silence, the communications officer again reported in a trembling voice that there was a request for communication from Cagalli, and Saito waved his hand, and the communication was connected again:
"You are!!..."
Syllable!
Saito hung up the communication more quickly.
In the communication that was connected again after more than ten seconds, Cagalli finally turned pale and did not scold as soon as she came up, Saito nodded lightly at Cagalli to express satisfaction, and then opened his mouth while motioning to the secretary to synchronize a document:
"Three months before the capture of Orb by the Blue Cosmos, they had obtained an important archaeological finding, or scientific item, which, I must confess, was acquiesced in or helped by the Union Army. The study of this object is too important, but too dangerous, and it requires not a research team, but a large system of security forces, and the research must be carried out far from the mainland. Of course, the name of the Federation Army also did not appear on this study, now do you understand why Orb was chosen? ”
“。。。 I see... Cagalli squeezed out a short answer almost from between her teeth.
"This is the object," Saito said, pointing to what looked like a large ball of earth synchronized on the screen, "it was found by the Federation's deep space exploration team in a meteorite swarm close to Pluto's orbit, carbon detection shows that it dates back about 70,000 years, but it has a hidden excellent nuclear reactor and an energy system that uses the solar wind... ”
"What?!" Cagalli couldn't help but feel the absurdity of talking to a fanatical believer in ancient alien doctrine.
"This object was intercepted during the recovery, but then it was snatched back and [landed] into the hands of the blue cosmos, who took possession of Orb and started researching, and now is the time to test and recover the results...
"For this, you need to detonate two nuclear weapons in Orb?!"
"Miss Ashar, I'm a soldier, and I hate the evil of being put in front of a soldier more than you, but the reason why I continue to fight is not the evil in front of me, but what is behind me," the corners of Saito's mouth flashed with contempt, "The determination shown by the two small-yield nuclear weapons is enough for Blue Cosmos to decide to activate their research results, and the face-tearing offensive we are about to show will act as a catalyst... ”
"Why do you think they're going to start it without destroying it?"
"Because it's a weapon that can turn the tide of battle, if we don't have anything in our hands that can restrain and tame her, but we do, so..."
"She..."
"yes, no matter how you look at it, the physical characteristics are all hers, although we can't be sure about the soul, ha," Saito looked at his watch, his eyes cast on the distant Orb battlefield, "It's almost time to start." ”
On the battlefield of Orb, in a labyrinth of memories, Arlando followed some thin tubes of his memories flowing with colorful substances to a gate, and then, claiming to be Husso. Aven's projection reappeared:
"[Queen], after destroying our own twisted and deformed hope [Ring of Angels], we tried to fight against the destroyer [Imperial Army] who rushed out of the shadows, but unfortunately, we failed, and she and the only Imperial person we captured were sealed here, hoping that you who have been able to contact and break this seal can reverse your fate."
The door was in front of Arlando, and it opened.
(To be continued)
PS I heard that it's popular now to be short, concise, and severe. . . Well, you can't follow the trend