In the end, there were no survivors other than the girl, much to the dismay of the crowd.

But there is no way to do it, and the people of the universe are used to the fact that people die in the endless starry sky.

It's not something to be surprised about, as if the occasional school shooting can be shocking and may even become a hot topic for months or a year, but if there is a shooting every other month, the person who sees it will just sigh 'here again'.

Humans are strong, growing from a small planet, overcoming countless species to become the top of the food chain.

Humans are strong, defying gravity and flying into space, walking their footprints to places that other species can't.

But human beings are also weak, and everything in the world, even the breath of man himself, can kill a person.

Nowhere is this clearer than the people of the universe.

After finishing their work, Ryuichi and the others returned to the Ruhr with the corpse of the Zeon soldier, which was already a day later.

When they entered the air port of the Ruhr, they saw a surprising scene, a large number of ships were moored in the port, and it was the first time that Long Yi had seen so many ships parked together.

These ships looked like they were of different shapes, but they all seemed to be civilian ships, but despite this, Ryuichi could see their details in an instant.

Pirate.

The reason why Ryuichi can distinguish is that in addition to those thrusters that have been obviously modified, although they are not up to the power of warships, but are among the best among civilian ships, there is also the hook anchor launcher at the bow of the ship.

That's right, hook anchor launchers, it sounds a little ridiculous, but with the exception of a few corsair ships converted from warships, most of the pirate ships converted from civilian ships plunder the way to get close to the transport ship with a superior speed, then launch the hook anchor, use the hook anchor to close the distance and then launch a gang jump.

After all, the purpose of pirates is to plunder, and to sink ships directly is to put the cart before the horse, in fact, they do not need much firepower.

And now, these pirate ships are openly parked in the harbor of the hinterland of Zeon.

It may sound ridiculous, but it really happened in front of Long Yi's eyes.

But this is not surprising, as it is not uncommon for Zeon to collude with pirates, rather than more than half of the pirates in the universe are run by Zeon.

The current Zeon Defense Force was originally composed of pirates and rebel forces, and in the past ten years, Zeon has also been using pirates to train his own space soldiers, and the Federation also knows this, and the Fourth Fleet annihilated by Lear was thus established, this small but extremely powerful fleet is active on the Mars-Jupiter route all year round, and tens of thousands of pirates die at their hands every year, and their mission is not only to exterminate pirates, but also to consciously combat Zeon's talent reserves, Because more than half of the officers who could drive the Zeon were from military schools, and the other half were born here.

In addition to the military needs, Zeon also has economic needs to support pirates, Zeon is an exporter of heavy industrial goods, and countless industrial products are transported from here every day to various parts of the human activity area, the Earth, the Moon, Mars and Jupiter, etc., but the weak Zeon fleet at the beginning of its creation can not provide escort at all, because the loss of pirate attacks cannot be ignored, for this Zeon is to take the official pirates and co-optation, a large number of independent pirate groups are attached to Zeon's name, Zeon provides them with ' Safe havens' and stolen lands (asteroid bases such as Axis and Peizen have this function), and they provide escorts for Zeon's merchant ships, and even consciously attack other colony convoys.

Unlike other regions, piracy is a profession that cannot be publicized, but everyone knows it, and it can even be considered legitimate, for the reason that piracy is even a desirable profession for children.

But in the Ruhr, pirate ships are uncommon, smuggling ships are common, because the Ruhr is the largest and pure heavy industry base in Zeon, there is no place for pirates to sell their stolen goods, there is no place to supply pirates, and the colonial satellites that serve as windows to the outside world in Zeon are Lübeck and Hamburg.

"Which ones are。。。。。。 It's so handsome. ”

Chris's eyes lit up at the sight of the pirate ships, and he was one of those who longed for pirates.

For no other reason, pirates are a symbol of freedom.

This desire for freedom is ingrained in the hearts of almost every child who grows up in the colony, and it is no wonder that the cosmic colonies are like isolated islands, this small cylinder squeezes into 50 million people, and it is overwhelming.

Not only that, but Zeon's oppressive environment and life with no future in sight are also desperate, except for a very small number of difficult narrow doors (such as being excellent enough to be able to win a place in ten thousand), most people can only walk on the limited road, and with the increase of Zeon's population and the lag of industrial growth, more and more people cannot find a fixed job, and Zeon is also difficult to create new jobs, they can't even organize wasteland, because Zeon has no wasteland at all, The only response of the Zeon government was to send them to Mars or Jupiter in batches of expeditions, which in fact were one of the few ways for the people at the bottom to get out except for studying.

Many of them starved to death, living idly in the dirty corners of the colony, and because of the policy of working and binding their household registration, these people born here did not even have the status of nationals, and were treated as foreigners.

In comparison, although they have to risk their lives, pirates who can fly freely in the universe are certainly enviable.

Long Yi understood this, so he understood Chris's feelings, why hadn't he had a similar dream himself?

Freedom, power, wealth, honor, anyone who has ever had such delusions, and this is not worthy of sympathy.

But now he understands that freedom does not exist anywhere, at least, universal freedom does not exist.

At least not to fight is non-existent.

He could only turn his face sideways so as not to show a disgusted expression towards Chris, but his actions seemed to be noticed by Chris, who misunderstood his actions and thought he was angry, so he apologized: "Hmm。。。。。。 Sorry, I didn't mean that, I just。。。。。。 ”

He was a little anxious to explain to his friend that Ryuichi's father died in a pirate attack, but he said in front of him that the pirate was so handsome, and he suddenly felt at a loss, and his heart was full of apologies for his friend.

"It's okay, I understand." As soon as Long saw that his behavior was misunderstood, he could only smile bitterly and turn his head, but it was too late, this kind of thing was not explained, the more he said that he didn't care, the more Chris would feel that he was forcing himself, and this friend's thoughtfulness became very troublesome at the moment.

"Speaking of which," Ryuichi forcibly changed the subject, "those pirate ships rarely come to the Ruhr, what's wrong?" ”

"This 。。。。。。" Unexpectedly, it was not Chris but Holler who answered: "I have heard a friend who is engaged in shipbuilding mention that recently the army has given them a large order, which is an order for warships. ”

"Hasn't Zeon been building warships? What does it have to do with these pirates? ”

"It's not a production order, it's a modification order, and I don't know the specific situation," Holler shook his head, he wasn't from that line after all, and some of them were just information on the level of conversation after dinner: "But I heard that it seems to be a transformation of civilian ships, and there are quite a lot of requirements." ”

"Just these ships?" Long Yi shook his head: "Transform into a warship?" Are you kidding. ”

It's no wonder that Long Yi is so unimpressed, but anyone with a little military common sense knows how difficult it is for civilian ships to be transformed into warships, and even if they are transformed, they are just temporary emergency products.

After all, in order to meet the operational requirements, warships are more particular than civilian ships from the beginning of the hull design, and the relevant requirements are much stricter, civilian ships will not waste money to equip military-grade large reactors, nor will they waste money to use special ship steel manufacturing, even if it is a transformation, the internal design of civilian ships does not have that space even if they want to replace larger reactors, and naturally they cannot carry Mega particle weapons and high-power thrusters.

What did Zeon want to do with spending so much effort to make a bunch of emergency products, this is information that Ryuichi's world can't reach, but Connecting with the corpse of the Zeon soldier, Ryuichi seems to have a conjecture, maybe it's because the Zeon fleet is defeated, so these pirate ships need to be requisitioned for emergency?

Seeing soldiers in military uniforms talking to those who had disembarked from the pirate ship, Ryuichi was somewhat convinced.

The more Long Yi thought about it, the more he felt that this was the truth, and the more convinced he was that Zeon had been defeated, and he even began to think about the miserable fate of those high-ranking old men with malice, but then he felt that even if these old men were unlucky, the benefits would only fall into the hands of the new masters of the Earth Federation, he thought about it with self-deprecation and resentment, and was a little discouraged.

The atmosphere among the crowd was a little heavy, and they registered in the port like this.

Before they could enter the ring, the loud noise startled everyone.

That's a kind of 。。。。。。 The concert-like feeling is like the Zeon anthem sung by a crowd – unpleasant, out of tune, but with a terrifying force, which is the power of the cluster, as if the ground under the feet of the leader trembled.

Those who didn't sing it were also swept up in it, and countless people sang the national anthem as if to celebrate victory or vent their fears. (Note 1)

It wasn't a noise in a room, it was a sound coming from all directions, and it was almost impossible for people living on Earth to experience it.

The so-called ring area is not just a simple area, but a giant ring located at the tail of the colonial satellite, connecting the fan blade wall, which is the center of the entire satellite, all the control systems, and the port are arranged here.

In short, it would not be a problem for hundreds of thousands of people to pour into the Ring Area, and at this moment, Long Yi felt that he should have witnessed the limit of the Ring District's capacity, and there were people, people, and people everywhere.

Long Yi took a closer look, but found that so many people seemed to have similar goals, they were all going to some small areas that had just been erected, and some of those small areas looked like medical equipment, and those people were lining up as if they were going for a physical examination.

Most of them came with excited expressions, but most of them had to leave disappointed, and only a few lucky ones came to the soldiers sitting next to them with excited expressions to register.

Ryuichi had never seen such a scene before, but he immediately reacted to what was going on.

"Conscription!?"

Ryuichi was very surprised, because in the past there had never been a conscription in the Ruhr, and in Zeon, the conscription was nominally oriented to the whole universe, but in reality it was limited to a few moons centered on Zim, which was determined by Zeon's national conditions.

Zeon is a militaristic country, natural soldiers are superior people, and the military is also one of the few people at the bottom to reach the upper class, but Zeon is not a country with a compulsory military service system, this is because Zeon was still nominally part of the Earth Federation before the war, and there are no conditions for establishing a compulsory military service system, and it is also because Zeon does not need to establish a compulsory military service system.

Zeon is a cosmic colony country, he does not have the need to maintain a huge army, although Zeon had hundreds of thousands of troops before the war, but almost all of these hundreds of thousands of troops are space forces, they are superior people who drive warships and MS, and there are almost no traditional armies, of course, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has an elite commando team, but it is a special force, and the number is only tens of thousands, and their establishment should theoretically belong to the police system, but it is in the hands of the Zabi family like the army.

In the past ten years, when Zeon expanded its army, it basically recruited only two kinds of people, one was a regular military academy graduate, or an officer or technical non-commissioned officer with a high degree of education, and the other was an ordinary soldier, but it would not be recruited in the Ruhr, but in several colonial satellites such as Ezm, Hamburg, and Lübeck.

Although they are all SIDE3 satellites, although they are all Zeon's land, there are of course 369 and so on between satellites, just like the third-tier unknown cities and Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou cannot be compared, whether it is a variety of benefits or policies.

In Zeon, the status of each satellite is divided into three classes, the first class is naturally the capital colony Zim, and the foreign ports of Hamburg, Lübeck and other satellites, they either have a special political status, or are particularly important in the operation of SIDE3, or the first to express support when Daken launched the independence movement, of course, they must be considered first, and the Zeon government believes that these satellites are the foundation of their rule, and loyalty is guaranteed, More than eighty percent of the annual conscription quota is absorbed by them internally.

The second class is the industrial colonization satellites represented by the Ruhr, although important, but not irreplaceable, these satellites occupy the majority of SIDE3, but only account for 20% of the conscription.

There is only one third-class satellite, 'Mahar', and in Zeon, Mahar is synonymous with gangster colonies and slums, and as mentioned above, with the development of Zeon, the number of unemployed people has increased, and these people are treated as foreigners because they have no job and no household registration (even if they are from SIDE3), and they are usually dealt with by forcing them to form pioneer groups.

Mahar was the place where these pioneers stayed, and the Zeon government brought them together in Mahar, where discrimination, poverty, and the desperate self-abandonment of the Mahar people made it a veritable place of chaos.

This situation may also be deliberately parted by the Zeon government, which needs a place to hide filth, and the current situation in Mahar can also give the people of the other satellites a false sense of comfort – at least not the worst of us.

And Sima Karahau was born here, without a prominent background, just an ordinary girl who worked all the way to today, becoming one of the very few soldiers in the army who was born in Mahar, and also became an officer, and she is even the idol and Valkyrie in the hearts of many Mahar people, especially children, is a symbol of their hope, a symbol of their belief that they still have a future.

If they knew what role Sima played in the army and what they were forced to do, what would they think and what expressions would they have?

It's a pity.

To get back to the point, in short, Zeon has never openly recruited troops for industrial satellites like the Ruhr, and there may be universities and the like, but it is impossible for Ryuichi who has not gone to college to know.

"Excuse me, what is that doing?" Chris excitedly stopped a young man passing by and asked.

The young man gave Chris a surprised look, as if he had asked some stupid question: "The 。。。。。。?" Don't you know? ”

He said with an unpleasant smugness that Long Yi was very familiar with, you don't know and I know: "Conscription! ”

"All Zeon recruits three million recruits, it was yesterday。。。。。。 Don't you watch the news? ”

He looked at Long Yi and the others like he looked at the old hat, which made Long Yi feel very unpleasant.

"I'm sorry, I just came back, can you please be clear?" Chris said in a somewhat low voice, and he said in a slightly flattering tone: "What are the requirements?" Is there anything I need to prepare? ”

Probably just missed it with himself and the others, after all, it took more than a day to go out this time, including the search and rescue time, Long Yi thought to himself.

"This 。。。。。。 Well, there's identification, and, what," the young man snapped twice, and said with some annoyance, "Wouldn't you find out if you searched the Internet yourself?" ”

"Okay, I'm going to get in line, don't get in the way."

With that, he turned around very rudely and left, and Chris wanted to catch up and ask something, but was pulled by the dragon one by one.

At the time of Chris's questioning, Long Yi had already searched for relevant information, which was not difficult, the Internet was full of information related to the war, and the hottest topic was the 'relevant person' revealed that the Federation fleet had been wiped out, and Zeon had won the news of a complete victory, but this news that was not officially recognized Long Yi did not believe it, rather, if it was officially approved, he would think it was a smoke bomb that Zeon confused his vision.

In second place was the news of Zeon's expansion of the conscription, but the search results puzzled him.

The requirements for Zeon conscription are usually high, but this time the requirements are quite low, of course, this low is also relative, but compared to the high standards of the past, the requirements for this conscription are incredibly low, how low to say.

It's to the point where even Chris meets the conditions.

He subconsciously glanced at Chris, and sure enough, Chris bit his lower lip tightly, as if thinking about something.

Ryuichi understood what Chris was thinking, and he was undoubtedly thinking about joining the army.

Chris doesn't like, or even hates, Zeon like his father Holler, but if he can get ahead in the army, he will also choose to join the Zeon Army, which is a very realistic choice, and Ryuichi understands this.

But he still developed unhappy feelings.

"Hey, Chris, have you forgotten the one we found?" Long Yi lowered his voice and said sternly.

"Zeon is likely to have been defeated, do you want to join them now, are you going to be cannon fodder?"

Chris's face froze, not knowing if it was because his thoughts had been debunked or something else, he didn't reply, just walked forward with his head down.

Long Yi didn't know, not to mention his other guesses, but this time his guesses were basically right.

Zeon is indeed cannon fodder now recruiting.

Only a handful of these recruits will become what the SIDE3 usually think of as soldiers, the elite who sit on battleships or sit on MS, but the vast majority of them are prepared for a unit that has not yet been formed, but is already on the agenda, and they will undergo 1 to 2 months of intensive training before being integrated into the army, in other words, proper cannon fodder.

In addition to recruitment, in order to achieve the required number of military commands, another group of people will also be important members of this new force.

"Those people are 。。。。。。" Holly suddenly let out an unbearable sound, and Long Yi followed her line of sight, but it was a group of outliers who exuded despair and depression in this still warm atmosphere.

Most of them were visibly malnourished and scruffy, and they were escorted by heavily armed soldiers to the transport ships, whose numbers indicated their affiliation.

Mahal.

These are the low-end population despised by Zeon society - forgive me for my gaffe, perhaps the low-end population should not be used here.

It's supposed to be a garbage population.

Their position in Zeon society is undoubtedly garbage, no, worse than garbage, garbage can still be recycled, and in the common sense of the Zeon people, these people do not work, do not contribute, just consume food and air in vain, although all slaughter violates basic moral values, but under the propaganda of Zeon, sending them to the frontier to create a small value can make the Zeon people feel a trace of cruel pleasure.

These people followed the guidance of the soldiers with pale faces, even if they were dozens or even hundreds of times more numerous than the soldiers, they did not have the courage to resist, and the widespread discrimination and poverty deprived them of all their courage, and they no longer even had personality.

They will also become Zeon Army, but unlike the hot-blooded men who sign up for the army, the latter will be sent to Zeon's military satellite Bavaria for training, while the former will be concentrated in Mahal's concentration camp.

The hot-blooded young men will complement the various units as a regular army, and of course they are far inferior to the old men who ride battleships and drive MS, not to mention those academic elites who were born in military schools, but in general they can get relatively fair treatment.

And this social garbage will form the Foreign Troops (Alien Forces) - because they don't even have nationality, they have difficulty in getting promoted, they are subject to tougher military laws, and they have nothing but a slim hope.

But this is what Long Yi didn't know, he could only express cheap sympathy and disdain now, and he even thought that if he changed places, even if he was shot by soldiers, he would resist to the end, and these people actually didn't resist at all.

What a shame.

"By the way, the corpse, why don't you give it back to them right here?" Holler said suddenly, looking at the soldiers who were leading.

"Yes, after all。。。。。。 The sooner you dispose of it, the better. ”

Long Yi felt that Zeon had been defeated, so of course the sooner the corpse of a soldier from a defeated country was disposed of, this was no longer a conjecture in his heart, and it became a conclusion.

Although in fact this conclusion is not well founded, Long Yi can no longer look at this issue objectively, and it has become that he hopes to get this result, so he sits down and concludes without permission, regardless of whether there is sufficient evidence.

They quickly found a soldier who was on duty, and when they told me about the Leipzig, the soldier did not show any expression of gratitude, or thank you for your cooperation, but just said rudely: "The remains of our fallen soldiers?" Tell me what to do, go to the army. ”

He waved his hand in annoyance, indicating that this matter was not his business, but he, like all those annoying clerks, only said which unit to go to, but did not mention where to find anyone, obviously impatient, with a tone of how can you even bother Uncle Ben with such a stupid question.

Long Yiqiang held back his anger, he was about to say Aren't you just the army, why don't you even care about the remains of your own people, he suddenly noticed the armbands of these soldiers.

That's the armbands of the commandos of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and they are really not the army, but members of the police system.

The relationship between the violent organs at the same level in any era and any country will not be good, and the status of the commando team of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is certainly not as good as that of the army, but as the personal soldiers of the Zabi family, their strength is very strong and cannot be underestimated, in fact, the Zeon army is completely external, and the local defense is all under the control of the commando team of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, such as the domestic defense fleet, as well as various satellite defense brigades (such as the capital defense brigade of Zim) and so on, which is undoubtedly an infringement of their authority in the eyes of the army.

The army did not like the commandos, and the commandos also regarded themselves as commanders-in-chief guards, and they looked down on the army, and the relationship between the two sides was quite bad, almost catching up with the relationship between the Showa Navy and Army.

They naturally didn't want to deal with Long Yi and the others, and they weren't their people.

After understanding this, Long Yi pulled Holler, who seemed to want to say something, and then shook his head, and everyone could only leave helplessly.

In the end, they pulled the corpse to the station of the Ruhr Defense Brigade, and the civilian soldiers who received them were very enthusiastic at first (of course, this was because the Zeon side of the Rum War I also suffered heavy losses, especially the fleet under the command of Dozru, which was badly damaged, and a large number of soldiers, of course, including middle and high-ranking officers, whose whereabouts were unknown, these people were extraordinary and naturally treated differently from ordinary soldiers), but when they found out that the corpse was nothing more than Cao Chang, he cooled down, and then he just took the corpse in a formulaic way, Then he recorded the names and contact information of Holer and others, and then bluntly expressed his gratitude, and then sent off the guests.

As for the corpse, it was just hastily put into a body bag, where would she be sent?

Probably cremated with the other corpses and then sent back to her family, it really can't be considered a good end.

When Long Yi was leaving, he couldn't help but glance at the body bag that was randomly thrown on the office floor, and the black rubber covered the girl's beauty.

He couldn't help but feel a strong sense of sympathy.

But he didn't know the girl, so the sympathy didn't last long, and Ryuichi turned around and returned to his family, leaving the body behind and leaving it on the cold floor.

Long Yi and the others ended this work in this way, they each thought about it, and kept limited communication all the way back to their home.

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Note 1: Please make up for the counterattack Charari, on the subway, the song sung by the people of the universe.

Although it is said to be the national anthem of the new Zeon。。。。。。 But let's consider this song here as the national anthem of Zeon.