168. Return to Earth
The sun rises above the ground, the sun spreads on the sea, and the sea rushes to the beach with a gentle sun...
This is the earth, Africa.
Lin Ao safely broke through the atmosphere with the help of the sudden appearance of Lu Zhuo, but because Luke rushed directly into the air to catch Lin Ao and then returned, too much energy was wasted. As a result, Luke was unable to change courses when landing, and had to land in a straight line onto a large island. The two broke through the clouds and saw a magnificent view in front of them.
"Uh-oh-oh!! Lin Ao, come down now! ”
It's a pity that the two didn't have time to enjoy the beautiful scenery, seeing that the "Phoenix" was about to hit the cliff, the immovable Ming King standing on the back of the phoenix jumped up and jumped down, grabbed the wings of the phoenix with both hands, fell heavily on the ground with both feet, and dragged the falling phoenix with brute force. The last two mechs fell awkwardly on the soft ground, and no one died.
"Luke, King Fudo... The leg of machine No. 2 just had zero failure! ”
"Wait, I'll figure out where we are first, and if we can call for help... This is Madagascar?! ”
Lin Ao stepped out of the cockpit and put his feet back on the ground, solid and gravity. Although he was thousands of miles away from West and East Asia, he felt like he had returned home.
He took off his helmet and shook his hair like a freshly bathed dog, splashing sweat everywhere. He pulled down the zipper of his driver's suit, and sweat poured out, which showed how high the temperature inside the No. 2 aircraft was when it broke through the atmosphere. If it weren't for Luke, I'm afraid that the No. 2 machine would have been burned to death before it was burned.
"Whew... I'm so thirsty. ”
Lin Ao inhaled the air of the Sphere deeply, and unlike the pure artificial air on the Colony Satellites and the Osiris, the air of the Earth was mixed with the aroma of earth, trees, and the sea, which was particularly intoxicating.
"No wonder I saw a shop in the colony moon that buys canned air from Earth..."
He looked up at the King of Fudo Ming, although his love machine was not destroyed in the atmosphere, many places were deformed and damaged due to high temperatures. Lin Ao felt very remorseful, maybe the Red Knight was right, he had changed from a person who escaped the war to a person who enjoyed it, if it wasn't for his love of war, Li Si would not have sacrificed...
Lost in thought, Luke manipulated the mech back into human form, climbed out of the cockpit and looked around, exclaiming, "That's the Bottle Tree!" Tree species unique to Madagascar, it seems that we are really in Africa! ”
"Thank you Luke, I'm going to die without you! But how did you suddenly show up? ”
Luke tiredly lay on the hatch and poured a bottle of water: "Don't mention, our troops were temporarily drawn to participate in a high-altitude battle with HER, and we failed miserably because my body was being chased by the enemy, and in order to break away from them, I had to fly until they reached a bad altitude. I wanted to fly back, but I saw you fall from above... What's the matter with you. ”
"Alas, the Osiris is coming to Earth, and it fought with the HER troops, and it happened to you about the same time, and I got separated... Is Mr. Billy good? Did he go to that fight with you? ”
"Teach me to fly high to avoid the enemy Rao is to brigger-debut him, he and the army should be on the way back to the Balkans... I haven't reached them yet, Lin Ao, can you see if you can contact the Osiris, where have they landed? ”
Lin Ao climbed back into the cockpit and tried to contact the Osiris, and to his surprise, he quickly succeeded.
"Hello? The Osiris? I'm Lin Ao! I'm in Madagascar! ”
Jessica's voice came from the other end:
"Lin Ao!? You're alive?? Thanks! We are also in Africa, can you come to Angola alone to find us? ”
"Huh? I was going to have you find me..."
"Well... We had some accidents when we landed, and now the whole ship is rushing to repair, I'm afraid I can't go to you for the time being. ”
"It's okay, we'll keep in touch, and I'll see if the body can be repaired. Say hello to Lieutenant Anton and Captain Youde Lee for me! ”
"How?" Luke asked, standing a few meters away.
Lin Ao shrugged: "It sounds like they're taking care of themselves. ”
Luke scratched his head: "It's too difficult, I can't reach the troops, I'm afraid we'll have to stay here for a while." ”
Lin Ao asked, "Is it safe here?" Is it a HER controlled area? ”
"I don't know, I can't remember how much land we lost and how much land we regained every week in our new European Union, let alone the African Brotherhood region..."
The two discussed for a moment, and felt that it was better to hide the body first. The phoenix pulls the immovable king with his leg to the woods, and the two work together to cover the body with camouflage nets, and then Luke, who is a technical ensign, takes the lead in repairing it. But before that, the two found a river to bathe.
"You're a warrant officer?" Luke asked.
Lin Ao rubbed his nose: "Mycenae's rank." ”
"Well, even if you're a star rank, you're one level lower than me. I'm the best big brother for you to come, you can ask me if you don't understand anything, but you call the second lieutenant first! ”
"you!"
The two of them were laughing and playing in the river, unaware that someone was watching them nearby...
…
The camera shifts to the Osiris.
The situation of the Osiris is even worse than that of Lin Ao, this large ship forced into the atmosphere at an unsafe speed, and after entering the gravity circle, it fell much faster than ordinary warships, although there was a data of landing on Earth once before, but that time it was completely prepared to land, this time there were too many variables. In order to avoid the ship's destruction and death, the helmsman Yamaguchi had to change the landing trajectory and deviate from its original target and land in Angola, Africa.
The huge battleship fell from the sky like a giant beast, accompanied by a thunderous roar, which seemed to the beasts on the ground to collapse into the void. As the heavy hull came into contact with the ground and began to slide, the friction against the earth made a louder sound that could be heard for miles.
The situation inside the ship was even worse, even with shock absorption, it was difficult to face such a reluctant "landing", and everything that was not tightly locked was smashed everywhere. This is not bad, some of the crew members fainted directly because of the huge G-force when landing, and most of the people who did not faint also vomited.
The same is true of Li Youde, the Osiris glided for a few minutes before it came to a stop, and the first thing he did was to take off his helmet and find a paper bag to spit in it, and then asked:
"Are you alright? Jessica? Mountain pass? ”
"Yamaguchi vomited a lot!"
"I've worked hard for him, take him to the infirmary! Jessica, notify the heads of all areas on board the ship, and ask them to report on injuries and loss of goods. Then inform the staff to contact the locals, and if we fall like this, the residents here will definitely come back to us. By the way, where are we? ”
"Africa, Angola."
"Africa!? Damn, it was supposed to go to Asia, this is too far away! ”
"There's a communication from Lin Ao, he's still alive! But his body couldn't fly. ”
"Let him figure out how to wait, or come back on his own, we're more troublesome here. Okay, I'm going to parallax the situation inside the ship, Jessica has something to notify me! ”
Li Youde took off his spacesuit on the spot, this was the first time he came to Earth, and he fell coldly before he took a step, he got up in embarrassment and complained: "Damn... The gravitational pull on the ground is much stronger than on satellites. ”
Li Youde walked quickly to inspect various areas of the ship, and the most important power room needed to be repaired in a day or two; Fortunately, there were no weapons in the hangar that exploded due to tremors, but it took a few to pack up; The medical room was full, and the doctor, Apu, kowtowed to his head when he landed, and now he is holding on with his injuries; The restaurant was the most damaged, there were a lot of tableware that were not locked, smashed everywhere, if you don't clean up quickly, everyone can't eat today...
Li Youde quickly inspected the rooms one by one, and when he passed by the rest area, he stopped. Almost all the drivers gathered in front of the "Hero Wall" to mourn, and Old Jack held a laser carving knife and carved Li Si's name on it. Li Youde stepped forward and expressed his condolences as the captain of the ship, and:
"Li Si's body is being searched by the Agamemnon who is still in space, but they have limited time..."
Bart and the others nodded in understanding.
"We're in Africa right now, there's a HER garrison here, and you can't let that tragedy happen again."
"Yes!!"
Li Youde's expression became solemn, and he walked towards Elizabeth's room. Seeing him coming, the female soldier guarding the door of Elizabeth's room saluted him: "Hello Colonel! ”
"Thank you for your hard work, just landed and came back to duty. Open the door, I'm going to get inside. ”
Li Youde entered the room and saw Elizabeth still pinning herself to the wall, sobbing incessantly. He busily untied it from the wall and caught Elizabeth in the cold.
"What's wrong with you?" He asked.
"My sister, I saw my sister in battle, if she were..."
"What kind of body does your sister drive? Red? ”
"yes, do you know if she's okay?"
"She got into a fight with Team Z, but they didn't hurt her, it seems like she was saved."
Hearing this, Elizabeth's tears stopped, and after wiping away her tears, she asked, "Are the crew all right?" If it weren't for the fact that I was going to Lhasa..."
Li Youde sighed: "The problem is here, we deviated from the course and are now in Africa. ”
"Huh?"
"It will take a few hours for the ship to be repaired, and in its current state, the Osiris cannot fly to Lhasa at full speed, and it will take a month at the earliest."
"That's right," Elizabeth looked down and thought for a moment, "It's okay, the meeting in Lhasa is still about three months away, so it's in time." ”
"Then there are two things for you, one is that Lin Ao is in Madagascar now, and he can't come back anytime soon."
"Is he alright?"
"It's okay, don't worry. One more thing... Now the Osiris is in dire need of manpower, but because of this landing, there are a lot more wounded... If so, can you help out at the restaurant? ”
"Huh?"
"Can't you?"
"Yes, but I don't know how to cook."
"It's okay, you can take care of the chores, and I'll ask the restaurant manager not to arrange tiring work for you. As compensation, I will pay you the salary of the general crew, and you can buy what you want on the ship yourself. ”
"Does that mean I can move freely?"
Li Youde nodded.
"Then I... Can you go to the ground and have a look? It's my first time on Earth. ”
Li Youde was embarrassed: "This... I'm afraid..."
Elizabeth's eyes flashed wide: "Is it okay?" Please..."
"Uh... I see, I'll let the guard at the door take you down, but you can only move around the boat for five minutes, and then go to the restaurant to report, understand? ”
"Thank you!"
Seeing that Elizabeth agreed, Li Youde breathed a sigh of relief, he had been thinking about this HER princess like this all this time, and it was undoubtedly best to put her under house arrest like this. But Li Youde is worried about what she will do at the Lhasa meeting, if it is to incite new strife... In the end, the answer he considered was to let the princess with the golden spoon in her mouth live with the commoners, let her understand the war from a different perspective, and hope that she would be touched by this, so that she could make some more peace-friendly statements at the meeting. The area with the most civilians on board is the restaurant.
"Alright, I'm leaving, there's a lot of work I need to do..."
…
"Colonel Chen, is what I heard true?"
"That's right, Mr. Chief, Princess Elizabeth of HER will be attending our meeting."
"Will what she publishes do us a favor?"
"Yes, but the real situation will have to wait for us to receive her, even if we don't let her attend the meeting, it is a good card to control her in your hand."
"Where is she now?"
"The Osiris of Mycenae was in charge of sending her off, and now that she has landed in Africa by some accident, I ask that a force be sent to guide them."
"It's a bit difficult, the African Brotherhood is not at peace right now, I'm afraid it won't agree to our request, but I'll find a way. That's it, Colonel Chen. ”
"Goodbye! Mr. Chief! ”
Colonel Chen Ma turned off the video communication, and the young man standing behind him asked, "Colonel, the chief agreed?" ”
Chen Ma nodded: "Almost, let's just wait for the news, Zhang Lei." ”
The man named Zhang Lei smiled: "Is it, the Osiris, right?" I'd love to meet someone like me who pilots the Ten Swords Body. ”