The Gelst Office of the Town Guard

Jiqi sat on the chair with a solemn expression, and Lexington, who was across the desk, looked at the telegram that had just come from his hand, and his face was not very good-looking.

"Is this a telegram from the Academy?" Lexington was puzzled. "Shouldn't we be happy to meet such a good thing? Why did the commander still look sad. ”

"It's from the academy in the morning, and it stands to reason that I should be happy." Ji Qi leaned on the back of the chair behind him, looked at the extinguished light bulb above his head, and said solemnly: "The college has given me such good equipment, which is naturally worth celebrating, but I have always kept in mind one sentence since I was a child, there is no free lunch in the world." ”

"What does the Commander mean is ill-intentioned by the Academy?" Lexington asked tentatively.

Jiqi shook his head, "I don't know if I have good intentions, but it's definitely not that simple. He repeated the contents of the telegram. In view of Admiral's excellent grades and poor family, the Academy hereby awarded the MK7 main gun, the Meteor carrier-based aircraft, and the HE-119 bomber to Admiral Jiqi for his contribution to the fight against the deep sea. ”

"Is there anything wrong with that?" Lexington thought it was just a very ordinary reward telegram, concise and straightforward, without any anomalies.

"You've only been here for a long time, so naturally you don't think there's anything abnormal." Jiqi lowered his head and raised his head, looked at the girl with a puzzled face, and said in a deep voice, "Do you know? I'm a person who died once, in other words, I should have been a dead man, do you think it's normal for the academy to give such luxurious and valuable equipment to a dead man? If you were the headmaster, would you approve such a reward for a ruined townholder? ”

"Died once?" Lexington is incomprehensible.

"Indeed, before you and Saratoga arrived, there were only two people in the entire Warden House, me and Wales." Jiqi began to recall the painful experience, "It was the night of the third day after I took office, and the sea around the town guard mansion was full of dense Deadpools, can you imagine the scene at that time? A crowd of creatures with no end in sight gathered in front of your house, each with red eyes and sharp weapons, ready to kick open the door and enter the house in blood. ”

"And after that? How did the commander survive? ”

"After that, the only thing I can do is to fight, although there is no hope of survival, but the Admiral is like that, death will come inadvertently, and once it comes, no one can escape." Jiqi shook his head and smiled bitterly, but there was a determined light in his eyes.

"Why didn't the commander choose to run away?" Lexington was very puzzled, in the face of such a crisis, the first thing the Admiral did was to retreat, even if the town guard was destroyed, but as long as the Admiral was still there, there was hope for reconstruction.

"Escape?" Jiqi seemed to hear a funny joke. "It's the first choice for those of them, but not me." He paused, then continued, "I remember telling you the first day you came, that I was just a lucky slum boy who was lucky enough to be a lieutenant. I don't have any chance to do it all over again, Wales was built by me with the first prize given by the academy and I don't have a chance to do it again, so I won't and don't qualify to be that deserter. ”

"And what's the end?" Lexington couldn't believe that such a young commander had already experienced life and death and put it out of his way.

"The end was that I was killed and Wales survived." He shrugged, pretending to be relaxed. "Even though I was also afraid of death, afraid that it would end here. But I don't regret it, some things are more precious than life, and some beliefs are worth fighting for! If I had to do it again, I would still make the same decision, without hesitation! ”

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"And in the end, Noah's Ark resurrected the commander?" Lexington was silent for a long time, then asked. Because she knew that Wales didn't have any ability to bring people back to life, neither herself nor Saratoga, and the only possible thing was Noah's Ark, an otaku who didn't usually talk much. Although she doesn't know what kind of special abilities the other party has, she knows by hearing the name that she is a ship girl who can create miracles.

"Yes, she resurrected me with the ship's skill, the Life Contract." Ji Qi sighed, and then said, "I asked her how she found her town guard mansion, and she told me that Xu Kai asked her to come. ”

"Xu Kai?" Lexington seemed to remember something, "That Pacific hero?" ”

"You've heard of him too?" Jiqi was a little surprised.

"Yes," Lexington nodded, "he's an idol to many admirals, and everyone is proud of him. ”

"Do you know he's not dead yet? The owner whose name is engraved on the monument of merit is still alive and well. ”

"How is this possible, the news of his death on the front line came many years ago, how can it be that he is not dead?" Lexington is unbelievable.

"That's where it's weird." Ji Qi nodded, "A person like me who graduated from the Enterprise Academy with full marks in all subjects, owns an ultra-rare five-star aircraft carrier, the Enterprise, it stands to reason that he is a promising admiral and a source of hope for mankind, but why would he rather be incognito than show up?" ”

"Maybe someone threatened him and forced him to retreat from the front of the stage to the background." Lexington analysis said.

"Yes, I think so too, so there are very few people who can threaten him, who do you think it will be?" Jiqi continued.

Lexington looked at the telegram in his hand and seemed to think of something. "Does the Commander think it's the Enterprise Academy that threatens him?"

"The Headmaster of the House - Macallen, to be exact." Jiqi gave the answer. From the time he first arrived at the town watchman's house, the strange lieutenant told him in sign language not to trust the concerns of Mercaren and Wales, and he made the good-looking old man a target of suspicion. The siege of the town guard and the telegram that now gave him equipment made him even more convinced of his suspicions. Their town guard mansion is near the inland sea, and even if there is a deep sea around, there will not be too much, and the probability of a large-scale Deadpool attack is even smaller, unless someone shows them the way, and this guide is Mercaren.

"Why is the commander suspicious of him?"

"First, Wales didn't feel very well about him, saying he had a bad smell in him. The ship's mother's judgment of human beings is the most accurate, just like Lexington, you can almost determine whether he is good or bad by looking at people."

"Indeed," Lexington nodded in agreement, "I look at people by my eyes, and the other shipwives rely on feelings." ”

"Second, when I came to the town guard's house, I was on a medium-sized ferry, and when I got off the boat, the deputy on the boat gave me a gesture, and the message of the gesture was not to trust the Mercarron." Jiqi took a breath and continued, "I wondered why he gave me such a subtle hint when I got off the ship, and what happened afterwards made me suspicious of him. ”

"The deep sea is coming?" Lexington guessed.

"Yes, that's it. I had not marked him negatively when I woke up until this telegram. Jiqi sneered and saw the truth. A huge academy didn't even send someone to find out if the town guard mansion still existed, and directly sent weapons over, didn't this know in advance that I wasn't dead? ”

"Is it possible that it was because of the admiral's receipt sent by the commander that the academy knew that the town guard still exists here." Lexington guessed.

Jiqi stood up, smiled and shook his head, "Even if I don't send that receipt, this telegram will probably still come, because it was my temptation." ”

"Temptation?"

"My consumption on the receipt is deliberately exaggerated, indicating that I have more ships and the town guard is more powerful. This is a multiple-choice question, do you think it's better to be the icing on the cake, or is it better to send charcoal in the snow? Without waiting for Lexington to reply, Jiqi continued, "In the end, he chose to send charcoal in the snow, which directly betrays his purpose, which is the most important point I suspect he has." Isn't it strange that an academy that aims for the future of mankind does not send such sophisticated weapons to the front-line soldiers who need them most, but to the rear where there is no worry, and puts them in the hands of me, who is considered a logistics officer? ”

"And what is his purpose in doing this?" Lexington didn't understand, "It doesn't do him any good to do this." ”

"No, there is nothing good that Mercaren will not do, although he is old, but that spirit is still there, and the veteran will only slowly wither if he does not die." Jiqi remembered the old man who stood upright, like a soldier who would not flinch. "He did this for two purposes, the first was to support himself and become his pawn, and the second was to make me a spear in his hand, a sharp spear, the kind that pierced everything,"

"To deal with his enemies?" Lexington answered.

"I don't know if it's an enemy, I don't know what his purpose is, at the beginning there were all kinds of signs that he was standing on the other side of the deep sea, but now it seems to be against those monsters, hoping that I will attract firepower to fight against the counterattack of the deep sea." Ji Qi looked out the window, it was a rippling sea, and the sea water regularly lapped against the shore, making a crisp sound. But the sea water was covered with broken white powder, blocking the boy's vision, so that he could not see the bottom.

"Do we still need these weapons?" Lexington asked.

"Yes, why not!" Ji Qi smiled confidently, "Since he thinks he can play with me, the number one, in the palm of his hand, I want to show him how I jumped out of his chess game and knocked over the chessboard." ”

Mercaren, thank you so much for everything you have done for me, but my last death has paid it off. This time, don't want to get anything from me, let alone touch my ship, I'm not Xu Kai, and I won't be the next Xu Kai. Ji Qi looked at the Admiral's Medal in his palm, and the sea-blue embroidered iron anchor was like an unyielding sword, cutting through thorns and thorns in the waves, and fighting a bloody way.