"Silly girl, what are you talking about? What about the death penalty? To meet you before I die is really the greatest luck in my life! Ye Suifeng put her hand on her cheek and said softly.

Luo Jielin held Ye Suifeng's cheeks, and big tears flowed out from under the white gauze. She cried and said to Ye Suifeng: "Suifeng, you will die!" ”

"Lynn, listen to me. The question now is not whether I am responsible, but who bears the charges. It is impossible for the Empire's top brass to purge all the rebels in the entire Fountain Domain, which is greatly detrimental to the Empire's diplomacy. So they need someone who has enough weight to take on all this, and that person is me. If the two of us had been martyred in the Doge's Palace, as we had announced, the Empire would have been stingy with all kinds of rewards and posthumous titles. But alas, we all survived... Moreover, Lynn is a member of the Tashmungon family, and one of the few closest relatives of Lord Karl and Miss Katis. This responsibility can only be borne by me, and only I can carry it... Ye Suifeng said bitterly.

"But ... But... Luo Jielin couldn't stop crying.

"Nothing but! Lynn, I know it might be hard for you to accept. But trust me! Ye Suifeng grabbed Luo Jielin's hands tightly and said.

There was a tangled look on his face, and then he seemed to have made up some kind of determination.

In front of everyone, Ye Suifeng knelt down on one knee and said to Luo Jielin: "Lin, if I don't die this time, I will definitely propose to you!" Promise me, don't do stupid things, okay? ”

"It's not a matter of performance," Sullivan replied, "it's a question of command." We have captains like painters, captains like merchants, captains like engineers, but there are no captains like captains! As a result, the best starship was only buried in vain. Those experienced captains were basically lost in the first round of battles. ”

"However, the captains who graduated from military academies will not be able to accept such a fleet as now," Lin Bai said with a smile, "The effectiveness of single attack ships and carrier-based aircraft in defensive operations is far higher than that of those huge ships as large as rail batteries, at least when our enemies have absolute superiority in numbers." ”

"But you're also a graduate of a military academy." Sullivan stopped at a door, knocked lightly, and pushed open the obscure door.

"Well, but I'm an aviation officer." Lin Bai followed him closely and walked into the dormitory, which was mixed with the smell of alcohol and the stench of men.

A bottle flew towards them, and then a hoarse voice was heard yelling at them, "Sullivan, you milky and sweet boy, don't report any illusions. While I'm ...... While I'm still awake today...... Hurry up and fuck me off, you don't want me to get on that 'Kailalio'-class modified so-called aircraft carrier in your life, that ...... A broken ship is his coffin. Father...... Lao Tzu is not a soldier for a long time. Why should I listen to your command and die for you? If it weren't for those guerrilla lunatics who blew up that beautiful eggshell,[note 4] I would still be wearing the uniform of the Union Army...... Also ......"

"Still teaching your students." Lin Bai calmly took his words, she walked slowly in front of him, and said softly, "I am still being excluded by them." Right, General. ”

Yaka opened her hazy drunken eyes and looked at Lin Bai for a moment, then shook her head with a wry smile and put down the wine bottle she had been holding in her hand. "Are you my aviation officer?" He snorted a mouth full of wine, as if he wanted to say something more, but in the end, he just shook his head and stopped talking. There was a brief, awkward silence in the room.

"Major," Sullivan broke the silence first, "I'll go back to the preparations on the Chimera first, and the fleet will take to the air in forty minutes." Major General, please respect yourself. He gave a military salute and turned to leave.

"Major General...... I've been promoted again, so it seems that I don't have to come back alive. He took a sip of his wine and muttered to himself in the dark.

"Don't drink it, General." Lin Bai held his hand and snatched the exquisite aluminum wine jug from his hand, she knew that it was a gift she gave him when she graduated. "If you're in command, we should be able to retreat to Singadari alive."

"Lin Bai ......" Yaka to Vitoba tried to break free of her hand and retrieve the pot of wine that had not yet been drunk. But her hands were much stronger than he had imagined. "Did the Pekon Group, or did the Navy send you? They were so amazing that they sent my most admired students to take me on the Yellow Springs Road. ”

"Don't say that, General" Lin Bai let go of his hand, but moved the wine bottle out of the reach of Yaka, "Before coming here, I didn't know that you were the commander of this fleet. ”

Yaka also stopped, looking at the girl in front of him with a slight surprise, at her unpredictable gaze. Lin Bai, what have you experienced in the past two years? He asked himself in his brain, which had not yet been completely anesthetized by alcohol, but he also understood that the Lin Bai in front of him was no longer the girl walking on the sunny campus two years ago. He didn't know if Lin Bai's answer was a white lie, but at least he still believed that he, a haggard but still beautiful student, was still unwilling to hurt him.

"What are you doing volunteering to join this fleet, which is destined to have no future? I'm only 25 years old and I'm in a hurry to die in this era, aren't there enough people who have died? Yaka staggered to her feet, trying in vain to retrieve the pot of wine from Lin Bai's hand, but still without success. Lin Bai simply threw the pot of wine on the sofa and replied:

"I don't know, but General, I just think we should do something for the unarmed people who are being slaughtered. The civilians who are still on this planet are those who have no choice in these matters decided by the legions, they are innocent! ”

"Innocent? Lin Bai, do you know? The lieutenant general smiled and sat down, "You are very much like my daughter, except that she is dead; You are also like my wife, but she is also dead; I can see my mother's shadow even in you, but she's gone. They had longed for independence and freedom before the war, but what awaited them was a plasma bomb that hit the bunker they were in, and everything there was vaporized. And it is thousands of unarmed civilians like them who push the legions with swords to the war innocent, and no one is innocent. ”