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Dr. Hohenheim was working alone in a gloomy lab, and since he had returned to the Moore Chamber of Commerce, he had barely spoken to anyone, and his colleagues had begun to distance themselves from him. But that's a good thing for Hohenheim, who likes to be alone.

Just as he was engrossed in his work, his personal terminal suddenly rang, and Hohenheim's face changed and he clicked on a pop-up window on the terminal, which showed a complex series of data fluctuations.

"Lin Ao? What's wrong with him? ”

The source of this data is the small machinery buried behind Lin Ao's ear, which ostensibly functions to allow the Ten Swords pilot to call the body from a distance, but secretly the Moore Chamber of Commerce is monitoring the physical condition of each driver through it. Hohenheim didn't have access to the data, but he managed to get it while he was on the Osiris.

"It's abnormal... Lin Ao's cerebral blood supply system is operating at a very strange speed, and ordinary people will die like this! But... His vital signs were normal. ”

Hohenheim took a closer look at the data, and it wasn't the first time he had seen such data fluctuations. Lin Ao also had such strange physical signs during the duel between Lin Ao and Sasaki Musashi, but that duration was very short and negligible. Now it lasted a full 1 minute, and then the data began to stabilize, showing that Lin Ao's brain was running in a faster but less dangerous state.

"That's weird, what's going on?"

Hohenheim muttered to himself, wondering what the Chamber of Commerce was doing when he learned that it was secretly monitoring driver data. If you want to do some kind of experiment, there are too few subjects to experiment.

As he focused entirely on the data, a strange figure appeared behind him, an old man with explosive hair.

"Dr. Hohenheim, this data is not what you should be looking at, right?"

The voice from behind startled Hohenheim, who recognized the owner of the voice. Hohenheim is the deputy director of the humanoid weapon opening department of the Moore Chamber of Commerce, and the old man behind it is his boss, the owner of the humanoid weapon development department - Rick. Dr. Brown.

"Dr. Rick!? I..."

Hohenheim looked horrified at the old man with a strange smile in front of him. Brown is a more withdrawn eccentric than himself, rarely leaving his lab.

Hohenheim tried to defend something, but Rick just smiled and looked at him, making him feel creepy. After a few moments, Rick pulled out a data terminal and handed it to himself.

"What is this?" Hohenheim didn't know what he was going to do.

Rick smiled and said, "You're spying for the Wan Chamber of Commerce behind your back, right?" Hohenheim. ”

“！！ I, I..."

"Shhhh Don't alarm the security guards, you don't have to explain I know that I won't tell Thomas. Moore's. ”

"What the hell do you want to do? What is it? ”

"In this data terminal, there are all the research data of photonic technology, which is the most important secret of the Chamber of Commerce."

"What!?"

Hohenheim couldn't believe his ears, it is true that the core of humanoid weapon technology lies in the use of photon technology, but this is a legacy of the "Age of Legends", and modern people can only scratch the surface. In the Chamber of Commerce, only Rick and President Thomas hold the secrets of photonic technology.

Rick's smile was even more eerie, and he said:

"Photons, magical energy. It's not like any energy source that humans have ever discovered before. It doesn't consume, it stays there. A few photons so tiny that they are invisible to the human eye can drive a fighter jet, what a wonderful thing! How great was the human race that invented it! It's all the more interesting that human society, with such brilliant technology, is still dying! I've spent my whole life studying it, trying to understand it, but I'm too old. As Ten Swords 10 is nearing completion, Thomas is beginning to gradually limit my access to this technology, so I'm going to hand over my results to you, I'm sure you can continue my research, no matter what you do, it will be your only strength against the Chamber of Commerce! ”

Still incredulous, Hohenheim asked, "This is your life's work, give it to me and you don't worry about me doing bad things?" ”

"Hah! Do you think what I'm doing is a good thing? The development of technology itself comes with life and death. I don't care! I just want to see that the technology I'm interested in can continue to evolve and not be controlled by anyone! ”

Rick left, leaving Hohenheim staring at the data terminal in his hand.

…

Lin Ao felt like everything had stopped, and the experience was longer than the previous two times (Charlotte, Sasaki Musashi) and lasted for a minute. He was afraid that the minute would be taken advantage of by the Red Knight, but the Red Knight also stopped. When his body could move, the Red Knight continued to move, and it seemed that this was just an illusion of his own. As everything flowed again, Lin Ao saw Li Si's cockpit, which had been severely deformed and distorted, and it was impossible for the people inside to survive in this state.

"Brother Li Si... He's—he's here to help me..."

The Red Knight's eyesight regained a bit at this point, and he didn't stop when he saw that he had shot the wrong target.

"Lin Ao! Surrender! ”

"Red Knight, why did you kill Li Si!"

"Who? So what, don't you kill Kim Sang-joo too! ”

King Fudo turned to kill the Red Knight, who found that Lin Ao's movements were now becoming more and more proficient. The two fought several times before, and Lin Ao relied on his body's multi-hand and laser knife lethality characteristics to barely fight back and forth, but now Lin Ao's movements are obviously different, he seems to be making rapid progress, almost every blow of his own can be accurately resolved by him, and he also uses troublesome killing moves.

"Red Knight, you're slowing down! Surrender, you will pay the price for the death of Corporal Li Si!! ”

Hearing Lin Ao say that his movements were slowing down, the Red Knight was very unwilling, but now Lin Ao's performance made him wonder if he was really too tired. He intended to interfere with Lin Ao with words:

"I killed him, but you're not responsible? The soldiers of the Osiris have retreated, and only you are still fighting me, and he died because he helped you! ”

"You..."

Lin Ao was enraged by the Red Knight's words, and retorted: "It's obvious that you have been pestering me!" ”

"You're enjoying the battle Lin Ao, you obviously have many opportunities to escape from me! You're the same person as I am, you're the one who can have fun in battle, and you're the one who killed him! ”

"I'm not !!"

Lin Ao was angry and swung out the light knife, but the red knight caught the flaw, he plunged the knife into the arm of the Fudo Ming King, and then let go of the protruding sharp corner decoration on the shoulder armor of the Fudo Ming King and pulled it into the distance between the two machines, and reached out to break the door of the Fudo Ming King. Who knew that instead of dodging, Lin Ao hugged Xiahoudun tightly with his arms.

The Red Knight was a little panicked, the two planes hugged each other and couldn't drive normally, now the two of them were too close to the earth, they were being attracted by the earth's gravity a little bit, and the result of not being able to control it would be that the two planes would be burned up by the atmosphere.

"Lin Ao, let go of me!"

The Red Knight thought that Lin Ao was crazy and wanted to die together, but the real situation was that Lin Ao suddenly fainted. It took him a few minutes to open his eyes with difficulty, and he found that the airbag that had popped out in front of him had been stained red with blood from his nose.

"Am I!? Did you get hurt after fainting? ”

"No, I had a nosebleed for a few minutes before you fainted, and it hasn't stopped," the AI said. ”

Lin Ao took more than ten seconds to come back to his senses, and found that his body was falling towards the earth with the body of the red knight tightly in his arms, and he panicked when he reacted.

"Thoth! Why don't I control my body to let go of the Red Knight when I faint and flee back to the Osiris! ”

"I tried, but do you remember that your shoulder has always been damaged? After holding on for a long time, the body finally couldn't take it anymore, and that arm was now in a necrotic state, and my clearance couldn't control it. At present, the driver can only switch the somatosensory control to make a forced action to move the shoulder, but there is a danger that the shoulder structure will completely die. ”

"I have to try! Now the temperature in the cockpit is almost critical, and in ten minutes I will be burned to death in the atmosphere! ”

The Red Knight's voice came in: "You're finally awake, let go of me!" ”

Lin Ao said angrily, "Toth blocked out his voice!" It's not like he's hurt his shoulder, and I don't want to hear him now! ”

At the moment, the temperature in the cockpit of the King of Fudo has exceeded that of the ordinary sauna room, and the air conditioning has no effect at all. Lin Ao was wearing an impermeable driving suit, and he felt that his whole body was soaked, and the sweat left on his forehead mixed with his nosebleed remained in his clothes, which was very uncomfortable. He forced himself to switch to somatosensory mode and twisted his damaged shoulder vigorously. As the AI said, at first the arm didn't respond at all, and Lin Ao's heart was beating wildly. After repeated attempts, the shoulders of the body finally loosened.

“… Finally!! ”

The Red Knight immediately stretched out the two arms of the Immovable Ming King and escaped, he wanted to pull Lin Ao, but because the wound on the chest of "Xiahoudun" was pierced by Lin Ao, too much high-temperature gas poured in, and he was also in a very dangerous state, after weighing it again, the Red Knight chose to fly back to his battleship at full speed.

"Lin Ao, fly back! Don't get sucked down! ”

It's a pity that the Red Knight's words were blocked by Lin Ao and did not convey the past, and at this moment Lin Ao was anxiously controlling the body to accelerate away from the earth's gravity. At first, it was going well, but as soon as he took a breath, the thruster of the King of Fudo Ming broke down due to overheating and cold.

"Broken !!"

King Fudo fell towards the earth like a meteorite, losing the main thruster behind him, and no matter how much Lin Ao called the auxiliary thrusters everywhere in the body, it was useless, and he couldn't resist gravity.

Everyone on the Osiris has been paying attention to Lin Ao, but they can't do anything, now Lin Ao is in a position that can't be rescued at all, Anton, Edward, Natasha and Sima Qian and others can't even go to the bridge to see, they have to go to the shuttle room and wait for the Osiris to break through the atmosphere, all they can do is pray.

Inside the bridge, Li Youde and others were subjected to the strong G-force brought by the battleship's high-speed breakthrough into the atmosphere. Although HER chose to retreat on its own initiative, the Osiris did not have time to slow down significantly and could only land on Earth at an unsafe speed. Even so, everyone was more worried about Lin Ao, and everyone looked at Lin Ao who fell like a meteorite, and they were also praying for a miracle to happen.

"To... Are you going to die here? Toth, can you leave this mech? Lin Ao asked.

The AI said: "It's a pity, I don't have such a setting, I will accompany you..."

"Is it..."

Lin Ao smiled bitterly, intending to close his eyes and welcome the slow death.

That's when a miracle happened.

"The organism is approaching at high speed!!"

Hearing the AI's reminder, Lin Ao opened his eyes in disbelief and asked, "Who?" At this height? Where did it come from? ”

"From the heights of the earth! It's fast and expected to collide with us in a few minutes! ”

"What the hell, at this time... Wait a minute... Is that!!! ”

Lin Ao's eyes widened in disbelief, and a long-lost body appeared in front of his eyes. It was the Ten Swords No. 4 that had been transformed into a fighter form, the Phoenix, and the pilot was Luke. Rand.

"Lin Ao, is that you? Can you hear me? ”

"Luke! Why are you here?! ”

"I still want to ask you!! But let's wait until we get to Earth. ”

"How?"

"The fighter form of the Ten Swords No. 4 has the ability to break through the atmosphere, and when I get close to you, I will hide on the back of my body, and we will land together."

"Good !!!"

Lin Ao approached the 4th machine as Luke had said. The auxiliary thrusters in the fuselage can also control the attitude, and when Luke approaches, Lin Ao grabs the tail of his fuselage.

"Sit tight, we're going to land!!"

The King of Fudo was half-kneeling on the phoenix's body like a skateboard, as Luke said. The phoenix's shuttle-like body acts like a shield to separate the gas from the atmosphere, reducing the frictional heat between the body and the gas, and the temperature in the cockpit has returned to below the critical value.

"Luke, is that okay? Unit 2 isn't too heavy, right? ”

"It's okay! I've heard that the Phoenix has the ability to break through the atmosphere with a mech. ”

Luke said this, but in fact, the phoenix trembled very much, and he was also gambling. Fortunately, they quickly broke through the atmosphere.

The scorching heat visible to the naked eye no longer enveloped them, and a bright light pierced Lin Ao's eyes, a light he knew all too well, the light of the sun rising on the horizon.