Interlude: Old Friends (1)
The meeting was over, and Lear turned off his communication device tiredly, then rubbed his brow, twisting his head vigorously, and his neck made a tooth-aching sound of bones grinding.
In another world line, CCP was founded on a cruise ship on the South Lake in Jiaxing, Zhejiang, China, and was attended by more than 20 representatives from all over China.
And on this world line, although CCP does not exist for various reasons, its spiritual successor SWP was also initiated by more than 20 people, and this time it was established on the battleship of SIDE3 in the universe.
Fate is wonderful.
Of course, Lear, an atheist who is still pure even if he crosses over, will not believe in Buddhism because of this, but this kind of coincidence in the whole world is only Lear who understands the flavor of it, and it is quite interesting to taste it carefully.
It's better to say that he is the kind of person who will laugh because of a joke that only he knows.
Just as he began to slowly relax his spirits, a communication request came in, the source was the Zeon Sergeant Military Academy, and he looked closely, it was an acquaintance.
"What's wrong, Instructor Ryanstein?" Lear changed to a more comfortable position: "Is there anything else you haven't said yet?" β
The person who sent the request for communications was named Ryanstein Smol Muh, with the rank of major, and is now the chief instructor of the Fleet Command Department of the Zeon Non-commissioned Officer Military Academy, where he also teaches three specialized courses: Fleet Marching Command, Fleet Communications Command, and Coordinated Naval Gun Shooting (Note 1).
He is also the oldest person in the Philosophy Self-Study Society, and he is the current representative of the Non-commissioned Officer Military Academy Group of the Philosophy Self-Study Society.
"Instructor? Wouldn't it be better to call me the way you used to do in private? The young general named Reinstein has black hair and black eyes, and he is also a Chinese officer, but unlike Zhang Zhongjian, he also has typical Western-style characteristics in his appearance, and he said to Lear in a casual tone.
"I refuse," Lear decisively rejected, Ryanstein's proposal: "Childhood playmates are ashamed to be called at a certain age, and I am no exception." β
"Now, I don't want to use strange names."
"What a merciless guy, Lear, it's still Karma who is simple and frank, and he will call me brother in private." Ryanstein said with a shrug.
"Karma can call your brother without pressure because he is an unsuspecting fool, besides, he already has three brothers, Kilian, Sasro, and Dozru, and he is used to calling him, so he naturally has no pressure."
The two of them talked and began to talk about the past, but because Lear was very mature and cautious since he was a child, and there were not many black spots at all, most of the stories they said were interesting stories about Karma, Casbal, and Aldethea.
For example, wetting pants, fighting, snatching toys, and confessing or being confessed to kindergarten children, if you look at it, it's funny, and if you can't see it, it's the black history of childhood.
The reason why Ryan Stein is familiar with Lear and Karma and others is naturally because he belongs to Lear's 'group', that is, the descendants of the powerful people who gathered around Zeon Dyken at the beginning, but he is much older than Lear and others, so he does not get along with Lear and others as a childhood playmate, but with the feeling of an older relative's brother, and the relationship between Lear, Casbal, Karma, and Aldesia is not as close as that between Lear, Casbal, Karma, and Aldesia and others.
"Time flies really fast," Ryanstein sighed with some emotion, he has experienced a lot of things while he has been away from Zeon over the years, and he also has some life experience: "I was a little bit at the beginning, but today I have become an officer, and I have to sigh the power of time." β
"What's so strange about this, isn't that what growing up is all about, Karma and I have grown up to this day, and Casbal and Aldesia are gone, what's so strange." Lear said coldly.
Although he has actually met with Aldethea, this affectionate man has forgotten his childhood sweetheart's appearance, and the old Hans did not remind him of his plans, in the old Hans's opinion, since Casbar is dead, then Aldesia is the last son of Zeon, and he is ready to keep this secret to the end, and he does not even plan to tell his only son, Aldesia Lear, his fiancΓ©, because he is not ready to let Aldesia participate in the affairs of the Daken faction, It would be nice to let her spend her life as Serra, believing that it would be the best option for both Lear and Aldesia to live a stable life and for Lear not to get involved in the Daken faction that he didn't want to be involved in.
So Lear, for his part, always thought that Casbal and Aldessia were missing, and that the meaning of missing usually is bad.
When it comes to Zeon Dyken's two children, both are in a somewhat depressed mood, not only because of the unknown whereabouts of their childhood playmates, but also because of the heartfelt affection for Zabi's family.
Not only the Casbal siblings, but also their mother's affairs, because Lear was a single parent, and Maggie was still young at that time, and had no ability to take care of Lear's life, so for a long time, he was taken care of by Zeon Daken's side room, Astraya Daken, along with the Casbal siblings, and the gentle lady died of depression shortly after the Casbal siblings disappeared, and Lear felt a little uncomfortable at the thought of this.
"Forget it, I'm not going to mention this, Reinstein, you didn't just come to me to catch up with me, did you?" Lear shook his head, finally not using the title of instructor anymore.
"Of course not, I have some questions for the self-study to ask you, Comrade Secretary." Ryanstein also got serious and changed his official name.
"Cecilia, for her part, invited me to join the Assault Mobile Corps, and she promised to give me command of a detachment and promote me to colonel."
"So I'm here to ask, should I accept this invitation?"
Although this invitation seems to be just a change in Ryanstein's personal career, considering that he also holds the very important position of the self-study group of non-commissioned officers and military academy, if he leaves the military academy to join the assault mobile force, it will naturally be impossible for him to juggle this work, so he must consult the organization before doing so.
Since you have joined a revolutionary organization, it is natural that the work of the organization should be given priority to the work of the individual, and this is true in any political organization.
"Colonel? Isn't this taller than Cecilia's right-hand hand, Ma Kebe? Lear raised his eyebrows: "If you come up, I will give you a two-level promotion, Cecilia really spares no expense, it's really good, she is valued by beauties." β
"Come on, it's not so much that I'm valued by Cecilia as my family is valued," Ryanstein said with a frown, "It's not about my personal ability, and I'm not happy." β
As mentioned before, Ryanstein is a descendant of the Zeon magnates, and his family is the main member of Zeon's large consortium, the Waldsonian Foundation, although they do not have great influence in the military industry like Alkstein, but because they are a consortium complex, they are involved in a wider range of industries, and like Hans Sr., Ryanstein's father was also Zeon Dyken's partner, but unlike Alxstein, who parted ways with the Zabi family after Zeon's death, Ryanstein's father had a better relationship with the Zabi family.
Such a family is naturally the object that Cecilia wants to win over.
"What's not good, whether it's the power of the family or the power of the individual, strength is power, as long as it can help our career, these problems are just minutiae." Lear shook his head and said.
"Then you mean to let me accept Cecilia's invitation?"
"Accept it, it just so happens that we don't have a single officer in our organization who has enough weight, if Cecilia really gives you the command of a detachment, it will be just convenient for us to gather our comrades under the same detachment," Lear touched his chin and said, "At that time, comrades can advance and retreat together, and their safety will be more guaranteed, and we will arrange for them to retire from the army later, and it will be better to operate with you as the leader of the detachment." β
"There's nothing bad about it."
"And what about my current position?" Reinstein asked, not about public positions, but about positions within the organization.
"Over there, I will ask the non-commissioned officer military academy study group to organize an internal election as soon as possible, no, after all, the non-commissioned officer military academy is our base at this stage, and it is still very importantγγγγγ Let's use the priority here," Lear thought about it for a moment and said, "I'll communicate with the others and appoint a new representative as soon as possible, and you can hand it over as soon as you get ready." β
"Alright, then I'll get back to Cecilia."
"That's it," Lear said, "that's it?" Have more questions? β
"No," Reinstein sighed, and then he said as if he had suddenly thought of something: "By the way, you said before that you wanted your comrades to protect themselves, and then arrange for them to be discharged from the army one after another depending on the situation, but what about yourself?" β
"Aren't you ready to quit the army?"
"As the head of the Self-Study Society, you are still unfit in the army, whether it is for the operation of the organization or for personal safety."
"There's no way I'm going to quit," Lear said with a frown, "After all, I'm not like them, even if it's for the sake of restraining my father, I won't simply let me quit the army, unless I'm willing to cripple myself." β
"You shouldn't have joined the army in the first place."
"It doesn't make sense to say this now, because I was trying to fulfill my father's wishes, and on the other hand, I hadn't thought about the development of the organization at the time, and there was no way back when I realized the inconvenience of being a soldier," Lear said. β
"It's like you're very old." Ryanstein complained.
Lear ignored him: "But on the bright side, our organization is now developing very smoothly, and the quality of its members and revolutionary enthusiasm are very high. β
"Alone? You can use Alxstein's powers, right? Ryanstein asked, confused.
"Noγγγγγγγ The revolution is something I have to do myself, and Dadγγγγγ It doesn't matter if there's Maggie," Lear said, shaking his head, "I didn't tell them what I was doing, and I didn't want them to know, I didn't want to implicate them." β
"Hey, Lear, you're going a bit too far, aren't you?" Ryanstein said with a frown.
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Note 1: The three courses listed here are all compiled with reference to the professional courses of the Chinese Naval Ship Academy, namely navigation command, naval gun command, and fleet communication command, all of which are professional courses in fleet command, and are not arbitrarily made up by the author.