Hearing Anton talk about what happened in the hangar, Li Youde sighed with emotion: "Lin Ao, I can't see that he is such an impulsive person... What if he's in danger. ”

Anton was obviously still angry with Lin Ao: "Let me go to him, bring him back with that princess, and see how I clean him up!" ”

"It's just to save one person... No need to send two humanoid weapons, I'll get all the fighters out to find them. The most important thing at the moment is to repair the Osiris as soon as possible, and the people in the power room just told me that another engine had to be deactivated. ”

"Alas... Well, count on the fighters to find them as soon as possible, what's the matter..."Anton sighed and asked, "What about Natasha?" What to do with her? ”

"She's your team, so I'll leave it to you."

"Then I'll lock her up first, it seems that she is also repenting, and I will criticize and educate her."

Li Youde nodded, got up and said, "Okay, next, I should think about how to explain to the crew that there is a princess hiding in the HER ship..."

…

Space colonization satellite "Shang"

Dr. Hohenheim followed Dr. Rick to the arsenal located beneath the headquarters of the Moore Chamber of Commerce, where Rick mysteriously did not explain what he wanted to show him. If it had been before, Hohenheim would have refused this crazy guy's invitation, but Rick had only recently given him the information about photonic technology, and in that case, Rick would definitely not be against himself.

Along the way, Hohenheim saw a lot of weapons that the Moore Chamber of Commerce was secretly developing, including several mysterious yellow passages, the Ten Swords No. 10 that had entered the commissioning stage, and the dilapidated Ten Swords No. 9 that had recently been recovered from Mars. He stopped as he passed by a manufacturing shop. Workers on the shop floor were measuring some parts, and although they were only parts, Hohenheim recognized them at a glance.

"This is!? The 5th and 6th arms that were originally planned to be mounted on the Ten Swords No. 2? Isn't the plan to develop a follow-up equipment for the No. 2 machine already canceled? Why didn't anyone tell me? ”

Rick was obviously not interested, and urged, "It's just two arms, I'll leave it to the others." ”

Hohenheim protested: "How are you always like this! Even if you are the director and I am the deputy director, you should tell me about this kind of thing, but I designed the No. 2 machine! ”

"It's noisy! Come with me! ”

Helplessly, Hohenheim knew Rick's temper and muttered a few words to continue to follow Rick. The two walked for about ten minutes before finally reaching their destination.

"Look! Do you recognize it? ”

Rick looked like a child and pointed to a broken merchant ship that was being transformed, and Hohenheim shook his head puzzled: "I don't know, why do we still have to produce warships now?" ”

"This is the Set, which was attacked by pirates not long ago, and after this incident, the Moore Chamber of Commerce has a reason to arm its merchant ships."

"Seth... Seth..."

Hohenheim muttered, he didn't understand Rick's reason for letting him see the ship. Rick liked to see him being played by himself, and after admiring it for a while, he said: "This ship will sail in a few days, and go to the colonial satellite 'Zhou', where the Wan Chamber of Commerce produces ship weapons, to purchase resources to transform more warships, and I have made arrangements, this time you will follow it out of the Moore Chamber of Commerce, don't come back!" ”

Hohenheim was dumbfounded, and a cold sweat broke out in an instant. Why did Rick say that? He knows about the contact between himself and the Wan's Chamber of Commerce behind his back? Who else knows but him?

"I... I—" Hohenheim subconsciously wanted to defend himself, but Rick's expression changed, and he took out a data disk and handed it to himself. In a rare exhortation tone, he said, "You have a Ph.D. in biology, right?" ”

"Huh? Yes. ”

"Very good, you keep this thing, be sure, open it after leaving the Set, and don't contact me again after reading it!"

“… What the hell do you want me to do? Said he didn't want the Moore Chamber of Commerce to monopolize photonic technology and reveal it to me, and now give me something that sounds dangerous..."

"You are a wise man, and a wise man with a conscience. But I'm different, I don't know if I still have this kind of thing. What I can't do, I hope you will do it for me, because you can still get out, but I can't, and even, I still enjoy it. ”

Hohenheim noticed a rare wry smile when Rick said this.

"Rick, I don't understand what you're talking about..."

"You'll understand, goodbye, Hohenheim!"

Rick turned away, leaving Hohenheim standing in front of the Seth looking thoughtfully at the data disk in his hand.

…

"Toth, isn't there any here??"

"You've asked this 100 times in the last three hours! If I find something, I'll tell you! And I'm not a dog either! I'm not good at sniffing things and finding people! ”

It had been three hours since Lin Ao left the Osiris, and there was still no trace of Elizabeth. As the sky grew darker and darker, the ominous blood-colored haze wafting in the sky glowed with a breathtaking red light under the light of the burning rainforest in the distance, and this red light shone on the barren land, making it seem that the earth wanted to be burned red, and the No. 2 machine in this heaven and earth was like a devil walking alone in hell.

"Elizabeth, where have you been? She couldn't have gone far in such a short time. ”

"I can't see it, maybe it's been swallowed up by quicksand, or it's been eaten by wild animals."

"Hey!!"

"It's possible."

Lin Ao didn't think about the possibility of Toth's words, but he didn't dare to think about it.

I don't know how long it took for Lin Ao's eyes to become difficult to open due to overuse. He tried to reach for the can of coffee that was attached to the ceiling, but when he looked up, he saw a wisp of green smoke in the distance, soaring like a snake.

"Toth, there's smoke there!"

"Are you stupid, the Congo rainforest is still burning, but there is smoke."

"I'm talking in the other direction! At 7 o'clock, zoom in on the image there. ”

"Well, it's like a small primitive settlement, and it might eat people. If your girlfriend had been there, the smoke would have been boiled into soup. ”

Lin Ao didn't bother to talk nonsense with Toth, and manually drove the mech towards there. As we get closer, the place where the smoke comes from becomes clearer. It was a gathering place next to a small oasis. To Lin Ao's relief, in addition to some simple wooden or earthen houses, there were also tents, which were obviously not the style of primitive tribes.

The people in the gathering place seemed to be preparing dinner, and when they saw an unidentified body landing not far away, the men picked up their rifles and bazookas alertly, and the children were dragged into the house by the women. In order to lower his posture, Lin Ao drove the body slowly to the gathering place and shouted: "I'm sorry, I'm looking for someone!" A girl, have you ever seen a girl with short blonde hair? ”

Lin Ao asked twice, but there was no response from the other side, and when he was discouraged and about to leave after asking again to no avail, a familiar figure stood out in the crowd, and it was Elizabeth.

"Elizabeth!!"

Lin Ao jumped out of the body excitedly, and staggered through the sand towards the gathering place, where the men were about to raise their guns to tell him to stop, but Elizabeth waved his hand, and the men lowered their weapons. It seems that in just a few hours, she actually got acquainted with the people here.

"Elizabeth!!"

Seeing Lin Ao running over shouting her name, Elizabeth couldn't hide her excitement, and the two ran towards each other, and finally hugged each other together. Although the two are not lovers, they can't take care of much at the moment, as if there is a hand in the dark that pushes the two of them to each other, and the people who may be separated from each other by the end of the world have miraculously converged again.

"Elizabeth! I'm sorry! I should keep an eye on Natasha's, she already knows what she did wrong, and I'll go for it! ”

Elizabeth wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, shook her head, and took Lin Ao's hand and walked towards the gathering place: "There is someone, I want to take you to meet it." ”

"How did you get here? Are you okay? ”

"I'm fine, I met them halfway and was taken in by them, they are a group of escapists who left the city to live together because they are disgusted with war, I want to take you to meet their shaman."

"Shaman?"

Lin Ao was a little confused, at this moment he had been introduced to the gathering place, and there was no hostility towards him in the eyes of the people here. Judging from their clothing, they are indeed people who have lived in the city, but if it is really a small settlement of modern people, why is there a shaman?

Seeing that he was confused, Elizabeth explained: "This shaman seems to have lived in this neighborhood all along, and she taught these people to live in the desert. I was accepted by them thanks to her, and she seemed eager to see you. ”

"See me?"

The more Lin Ao listened, the more confused he became, and in this way he was led to a low tent, in which there was an old woman sitting cross-legged, her whole body was covered with all kinds of strange patterns, and her age was not at all, and the various jewelry embedded in her body made her indeed a shaman's dress.

She raised her eyelids slightly, saw Lin Ao's company, and showed her charcoal-blackened teeth and smiled, "You're finally here... Sit down the child, and the girl, and let me predict your future. ”