A flying machine breaks through the sandstorm and lands on the roof of the American-Israeli Building with a loud bang.

At this altitude, the dust storm has little to no impact.

If someone stood on the edge of the roof and looked down, he would have thought that there was a large yellow river flowing below the building.

The aircraft was parked steadily under the tarmac. A ceremonial prosthetic body remotely controlled by the Paladin Assyrian waited on the tarmac.

The door of the aircraft with the white crane coat of arms opened, and a human appeared inside.

Like most scientific knights, the prosthetic man retains a formalistic head and a face in the image of a blind old man. His prosthetic eyes are on his shoulders, and the white cloth on his body is typical of the Indian robe drape. There is also a brooch in the form of a decoration in the chest position.

The man came up to Assyria and said, "Hello, Assyria ray Guderian Paladin. I am the deputy head of the Crane Knights, Bai · ICA Sky. On behalf of the Knights of Evolved Languages, I would like to greet you. ”

Assyria bowed slightly, and said, "It's a pleasure to see you, Your Excellency. ”

White · ICA Sky - or simply "White Sky", is the leader of the Knights of the Northern Crane of the New World, another knight who has a certain cooperative relationship with the Knights of Evolutionary Language. Their main research is paleontology. The Order's residence is located near the Burgess Shale in the city of Cranes.

It is said that the personal friendship between the heads of the two knightly orders is very good.

"The Evolved Language Knights originally wanted to send someone over, but as you know, Mars and Earth are not near the entrance and exit of the 'Lightspeed Highway' right now, so they can't send someone directly."

Assyria nodded, "Understandable. ”

Although humans have been able to accelerate a spacecraft to the speed of seven percent of light through a non-working fluid engine, materials science is not enough to build a spacecraft that can cruise at seven percent of the speed of light at will. It's not that the ship itself can't withstand acceleration - the engine-less engine is inherently slow.

The problem is that at the speed of seven percent of light, a suspended mass of any size will deal a fatal blow to the aircraft.

Humanity has responded to this with several different approaches.

First of all, it is to cover the surface of the spacecraft with a strong electromagnetic field, and adjust the trajectory of all the charged tiny dust that collides with the aircraft.

The action of force is indeed mutual. When a charged object hits a magnetic field, it also exerts a force on the magnetic field and the spacecraft as a whole. But it's much better than hitting the outer armor directly.

Then, there is the search for "areas with little interstellar matter".

This is the so-called "lightspeed highway". Sub-light speed travel can only be done within the speed of light.

A large part of the light-speed highway overlaps the orbit of the planet. Because the definition of a celestial body such as "planet" includes "the area near the orbit must be cleared, and there can be no larger celestial bodies within the orbital range". Even if there is a large amount of interstellar material in the orbit of the planet, it will be captured by the planet's gravity and fall to the surface of the planet during the day-to-day operation.

Of course, if there are any advanced beings on the planet who shoot something into low Earth orbit casually, that's another matter.

At least the area will be relatively clean.

In addition, there is a complex "pathway" between the various orbital circles.

After all, interstellar matter is not evenly distributed, so there will always be some areas where there is very little interstellar matter.

These areas can support sub-light flight.

This is known as the "Speed of Light Highway".

Like other celestial bodies in the solar system, the light-speed highway itself rotates, and its relative position to the planet changes at any time. I didn't have as much time as I thought.

Although the light-speed highway is not as convenient as people think, each light-speed highway is explored at a huge cost. In addition, the Sanctuary has invested a lot of resources in the maintenance of the Lightspeed Highway.

The maintenance mechanism of the Lightspeed Highway must keep the Lightspeed Highway free of any small meteorites that can penetrate the defensive magnetic field.

If a spacecraft crashes on a light-speed highway, it means that the nearby section of the road will not be usable for years to come, until the maintenance agency confirms that all the space junk has been recovered.

Without the light-speed highway, moving between planets would have been possible only by conventional navigation – which would mean months.

It can be said that the light-speed highway maintains the overall connection of the patrons within the solar system.

By the way, there is no light-speed road that can cross the asteroid belt. Once the fleet capable of sub-light travel has reached the asteroid belt, it needs to switch to regular sailing and circumnavigate the asteroid belt.

Many people believe that the difficulty of the Protectors to quell the chivalrous fire on the outer side of the asteroid belt is also related to this "natural danger".

Assyria welcomed this situation. After all, the main force of the Evolved Language Knights is on Mars. Either they have to endure tens of minutes of delay to make calls, or they have to spend months reaching Earth through conventional navigation. That's a waste of time.

The Knights of Evolved Language had to entrust someone else to negotiate.

Assyria felt that Bai Changkong might not care about the interests of the evolved language as much as the members of the Knights of Evolved Language.

After the two exchanged a few words, Bai Changkong proposed: "Your Excellency, I hope to meet Dai Jiutai, the knight of the Yangtze River. Hope to be able to understand something. Can you prepare a relatively confidential environment? ”

Assyria nodded and smiled, "That's not a problem. ”

Soon, Bai Changkong was taken to a larger room. The room is luxuriously decorated and offers charging ports for different voltages and frequencies. Dai Jiutai sat inside.

Although this room looks very good, Dai Jiu Tai'a is also under house arrest in disguise in a sense.

After bringing everyone else away, Bai Changkong sat down in front of Dai Jiutai'a and said, "I am Bai Changkong, the deputy head of the Crane Knights. ICA Sky is a great knight. I have been entrusted by your Commander to negotiate with the Knights of Mana. I'd love to hear from you about what happened. You see? ”

Dai Jiu Tai'a looked at the scientific research knight with some curiosity and said, "What kind of inside story do you want to know?" ”

"Looks like you still can't trust me." He smiled and said, "I am old friends with several of your deputy regiment leaders. We also occasionally discuss some ancient linguistic material. ”

The prosthetic eyes on Dai Jiutai's chest lit up: "Do you know the ancient poems that His Excellency Lei Yong likes?" ”

"'No return'?"

Dai Jiutai said: "'Six Dragons Turning Sky Wheel'." ”

At least one good thing about using ancient poetry as an incision is that people who have really been monitored or tested by the wrong people can often prevaricate the past on the grounds that "we are discussing ancient linguistic material" - especially since the Knights of Evolutionary Languages have really studied this.

At least for now, the term "Six Dragons" does not appear in the consciousness of the patrons.

Moreover, this poem is not the only thing that conveys a message in this cut. In fact, the hidden information in the body language and situation of both sides is also an important part of this incision.

And the reason why Bai Changkong wanted to test it was because he had to confirm that the person in front of him was really Dai Jiutai.

After all, it is no longer possible to rely on prosthetics to identify an individual. It's all man-made, and it's not hard to make something exactly the same.

It doesn't even have to be "made". Take out the biological brain and stuff it with a biological brain, and you can also deceive a lot of certifications.

After conducting a preliminary check, Bai Changkong ripped off the brooch. A data cable can be pulled out of this ornament to maintain a direct connection between the two individuals.

This method could not be more secretive.

Even if you use a parallel light world to project information on the opponent's prosthetic eye, it is possible that the camera in the right position will catch the clues due to the refraction of air or the reflection of the smooth surface of the prosthetic eye. Electromagnetic signals are at risk of being intercepted and deciphered.

There's nothing more secrecy than a wired direct connection.

Soon, the various internal authentication mechanisms of the Six Dragons Sect hidden in the bodies of the two began to operate, and the passwords were verified layer by layer.

It took a few seconds for the two sides to confirm each other's identities.

[First meeting, 'Sword Envoy'.] 】

[Hello, 'Bai Sanren'. 】

According to the identity of the Six Dragons Sect, the two greeted each other again.

[I heard the news of the 'Great Protector' and rushed over from Youhe City. I just asked, what the hell happened? 】

What do you know now? 】

[A chivalrous assassinated the deputy head of the Knights of Pine Eagle Castle, and then you seem to be suspicious? But I don't think that Assyria really suspects that you have a problem, but wants to take the opportunity to hook up with the Knights of Evolved Language? 】

Bai Changkong was actually a little confused. Although the Evolved Language Knights have a relatively high component of the Six Dragons, they don't carry out cooperation projects with ordinary scientific research knights, but they are not completely without cooperation projects. It's not a big deal. The most terrifying thing is nothing more than "the news that Dai Jiu Tai'a exposed the Six Dragons Sect".

But if that were the case, Assyria wouldn't have fired a cannon salute before he landed—he probably would have prepared a real cannon and aimed it.

So Bai Changkong is really a little curious.

Dai Jiu Tai'a shook his head and said, "Compared to this matter, the Knights of Mana and the like are all trivial. Please take this news calmly. 】

"I see. Say it. 】

[Martial God, once again revived. 】

"What......" the Grand Knight immediately called out. But he reacted instantly, exclaiming, "How could he do this to you?" It's not fair! ”

Although Assyria states that there are no bugging devices in the room, it is not much different from farting.

Bai Changkong deliberately made his voice appear a little exaggerated, sounding as if he was filled with polite indignation at Dai Jiutai's encounter.

At the same time, he asked in the direct message: "What you said is true? Valkyrie Reborn? 】