Zhao Xiaonan raised her head a little tiredly, she had already checked the information about the massacre in Huangyang Town all night, and felt a little tired.

There was half a cup of coffee on the table, which was left for her by Han Jianfei before she left in the afternoon, she picked it up and took a sip, and found that it was already cold.

Zhao Xiaonan yawned and looked at the time on the computer, it was already early in the morning.

Han Jianfei hasn't come back yet, and it seems that he won't be back tonight.

She stood up, stretched, and prepared to take a shower and go to bed.

Dobby's voice suddenly sounded in the ghost base: "Xiao Nan, from now on, temporarily hand over temporary control of the ghost base to you. ”

Zhao Xiaonan stopped, and suddenly had some bad premonitions.

"What's the situation?"

"It's been more than an hour since Han Jianfei lost contact and vital signs monitoring, and according to the plan he set up, in this case, I should hand over temporary control of the base to you until he is found, or Bing Tie is found."

"Wait," Zhao Xiaonan's mind was a little confused, "You just said, what's wrong with Han Jianfei?" ”

"Judging by the information available so far, he should be dead." Dobby's voice sounded devoid of any emotion, and as he spoke, the holographic display in front of Zhao Xiaonan suddenly played news about the destroyer's main gun bombarding a place in Liangyan District.

"Although your backward weapons are not worth mentioning, with the information I have so far, Han Jianfei should not be able to survive an attack of this magnitude." "But there's no clear evidence that he was there, so I'm just going to carry out the first phase of the plan now, handing over base authority to you and giving you a new mission." ”

Zhao Xiaonan barely heard what it was saying, and although Han Jianfei behaved strangely when he left, she still didn't believe that he would die like this.

She had participated in the assassination of him, how could a scourge like him go out and kill someone and die?

So Zhao Xiaonan is not very sad, because she feels that it is impossible for Han Jianfei to put herself in a completely unsolvable dead end, and what she has to do now is to find him out.

Although Dobby went on to tell her that it was no longer able to detect any of his vital signs, calling sensors all over the planet, and finding no trace of him.

Hearing the voices in the base, Mayvis's cat jumped out of nowhere, and when she saw Zhao Xiaonan, the nearest owner, jumped on her lap, just like she had done to Mayvis before.

Seeing the cat, Zhao Xiaonan remembered what the ice iron that Dobby was talking about just now.

"You mean ice iron," she asked, "is it the ring on Brother Fei's hand?" ”

"Yes, according to Han Jianfei's plan, if the current situation happens, your first priority is to find the ice iron, at least to make sure that it doesn't fall into the hands of others."

"If the ice and iron had been on Fei Ge, wouldn't the power of the destroyer's main gun have melted it down a long time ago?"

"I've said a long time ago that your backward main battle weapons are not worth mentioning," Dobby replied disdainfully, "and with your technology, there is no way to harm Ice Iron at the moment. ”

"Understood." Zhao Xiaonan grabbed the cat's neck and threw it to the ground, "I'll go and prepare." ”

The gray-blue shorthair meows twice in dissatisfaction, but the new mistress responds to the dull sound of the door shut.

But it only took two minutes for the door to open again, and the hostess changed into clothes and pushed a hoverbike out of the garage.

"I want to go and see the site," she said, "and show me the way." ”

A miniature robot falls from the overhead crane above the base, just at the end of the motorcycle.

The gates of the base opened, and the hoverbike silently drove into the dimly lit ghost pipe.

If nothing had happened in Boxwood, she would have gone through an exchange spot to study, exercise, and fall in love at a university on one of the Alliance's planets.

But fate, along with the conspirators, has propelled her to where she is now, becoming a warmonger and a wanted Coalition man, and she now has to face the entire Alliance alone.

We have to find that bastard out quickly, Zhao Xiaonan thought.

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If there are only three people in the world who don't believe that Han Jianfei died so easily, except for President Feng and Zhao Xiaonan, there is only Chen Mingyuan.

Because the ship was still in an ultra-long-distance jump at the time of the incident, Chen Mingyuan received the news a day late, and along with him, the prime minister, the president, and the deputy speaker of the cabinet reacted afterwards.

After receiving the news, Chen Mingyuan has been sitting silently in the comfortable leather seat of the flagship command cabin, if he hadn't known the content of the news in advance, his female adjutant would have thought that the chief of the general staff had received some bad news.

But the adjutant didn't bother, she knew that her boss liked to think alone and make decisions alone.

Chen Mingyuan sat without saying a word for more than an hour, and only a few minutes before the fleet entered the next turnaround did he hurriedly issue a few instructions.

One of the highest priorities is to find Han Jianfei's body or relics.

When forwarding the order, the adjutant had always wondered what relics could be left under the saturation fire of the main guns.

Chen Mingyuan absentmindedly signed the order and lay back in the soft and comfortable seat again, he couldn't think of any possibility that Han Jianfei would not die, but for some reason, he had always had a faint intuition, that former comrade-in-arms, now the biggest enemy, not only did not die, but he might be waiting somewhere to see him make a fool of himself.

As soon as he thought of that swishing smiling face, he felt bored for no reason.

This operation of the cannon to hit the mosquitoes was arranged by Mr. Prime Minister, who was just a back-ermother.

In the run-up to the election, the prime minister needs a manageable military contingency to play up a potential threat that doesn't exist, and given the current government's modest performance, the public is willing to choose the more conservative or less changeable option.

But this does not contradict Chen's goal, which is that he does not mind the current prime minister centralizing his powers, at least with less effort when he takes them over.

Besides, it would be even better if he could kill Han Jianfei, who brought him destruction in countless dreams, by the way.

So, when the prime minister's side began to make small moves, he took the initiative to find Higashino Ya and put forward his own plan.

It was described in the briefing he had just received that the plan was implemented flawlessly.

In return, Higashino naturally gave what he wanted, such as an increased military budget for the new fiscal year, and that longer-term plan for the Combined Fleet.

Higashino Ya is a pure politician, and everything he does is only to fight for the interests of himself and the group he represents, and this short-sighted behavior is, in Chen Mingyuan's view, completely worthless.

The only people who can really see the huge threat facing the current alliance are the seemingly harmless old president, Han Jianfei and him.

Thinking of this, he called the female adjutant again: "After this turnaround, help me inform the fleet, temporarily suspend the turnaround process, and I want to contact Fort Augustus." ”

The female adjutant nodded.

"Also, arrange it, this ship will return directly."

If Han Jianfei is dead, he will go back and find that thing, although he doesn't know what it is, but it must not fall into the hands of others.

If Han Jianfei is not dead, then it is time to go back to see him.

In the past six months, the two have fought back and forth several times, and since this can't kill him, they have to sit down and talk.

Two hours later, the fleet ended the twist and turn, sailing in a regular manner.

In the vastness of space without a quantum relay station, Chen Mingyuan can only communicate instantaneously with a specific device in Fort Augustus via a military line that leads directly to the office of President Feng Pinghai, the alliance's nominal military chief.

As a result, in the evening of the second day after the main artillery bombardment, a special telephone rang in President Feng's office.

It was an extremely retro-looking communicator, with no holograms, not even ordinary video messages, and all it could convey was low-density speech that was similar to analog signals.

When the communicator rang, Zhou Rong finally knew why the old president had stayed in the office all day, and even gave up the routine coffee time.

When the bell rang, the old president put his hand on the microphone as soon as possible, but it wasn't until more than ten seconds later that he took off the earpiece and said indifferently: "I'm Feng Pinghai." ”

"Hello, Mr. President, I'm Chen Mingyuan." A faint sound came from the earpiece, and it sounded slightly comically distorted, not knowing if it was a problem with the leased line equipment or the strange effects of instant communication that spanned hundreds of light-years.

President Feng knew that listening to his voice on the other side should be the same feeling.

"This is an emergency military line," the old president glanced at the director of the office and said without hurrying, "Is there any urgent military situation that General Chen needs to communicate?" Do I need to connect to the council? ”

From a conventional logical point of view, President Feng's statement is decent and leaky.

"Uncle Feng, don't make fun of me," Chen Mingyuan smiled bitterly, "You can only use this to contact you until now." ”

"Is there anything wrong with you?" The old president is still playing dumb.

"Uncle, I didn't do what happened last night." Chen Mingyuan's tone sounded extremely earnest, and Zhou Rong, who was standing in Mr. President's office, couldn't help but feel that what he said was right when he heard this sentence.

"What happened last night?" The old president pretended to come to his senses and said, "Oh, you mean the destroyer's defection, it's okay, don't worry, Prime Minister Higashino has set up a task force to investigate, and the information I have received so far is that the destroyer captain deliberately vented his personal anger and fired indiscriminately because of his personal affairs......"

"Uncle," Chen Mingyuan interrupted him, "I know you may not believe it, but this is really not what I did—I will rush back to the Capital Star Circle immediately, and I have all the evidence against Prime Minister Higashino." ”

Old President Feng was silent for a while and said, "If there is anything, let's talk about it when we come back." ”

"There is one more thing," Chen Mingyuan said, "that thing in Han Jianfei's hand, if you can find it, you can hand it over to you for disposal." ”