Chapter 211 Sacrificed
After the brief conversation between the two ended, there was silence outside the ward again, and the two sat quietly in the corridor for several hours, and the sun rose the next day unconsciously, and Xiao Lihua was still in a coma. The sun shone on Artoria's jade-like face, and the girl slowly opened her closed eyes, and a trace of exhaustion flashed in her blue eyes.
"I'll go back first, if Princess Lihua wakes up, please notify me immediately." Artoria got up from her chair, tidied up her somewhat messy blue dress a little, and said to Li Xingke, who hadn't slept all night.
"I see." Li Xingke's eyes were bloodshot, and he replied in a somewhat hoarse voice.
Artoria looked at Li Xingke, who was obviously in poor condition, and wanted to tell him to go and rest first, but after seeing Li Xingke's gaze not leaving Xiao Lihua for a moment, he dispelled this idea and walked out of the hospital without saying a word.
Since Dongdao became District 11, there will be a few small and small resistances every day to prevent armed conflict with the Britannian Army, and compared with small fights like District 11, the Chinese Federation is much more lively.
Beginning last night, quite a number of troops began to march towards Luoyang, and the fastest to arrive were Commander Cao of the Northeast Military Region and several generals of the Southern Military Region, who came to the rescue overnight on military transport planes with more than a dozen steel skeletons, and arrived in Luoyang early the next morning.
In Luoyang Airport, more than a dozen local military attaches in Luoyang stood together to greet these bigwigs of the federal military circles, most of the officers in the Luoyang garrison had died in yesterday's explosion, and now only a few of them remained.
Seeing Commander Cao of the Northeast Military Region swaggering in front of several of them, these military attaches hurriedly saluted, this General Cao has been a general guarding the Northeast for generations, and he is also a descendant of Cao Cao, the first prime minister of the Federation, both in strength and status, which is much higher than them.
"What about the eunuchs? Why don't you see them come out to me? General Cao glanced at these guys in military uniforms and asked, in the past, when he wanted to bring the army to Luoyang, he was always stopped by those big eunuchs, but this time the matter was so big, he really wanted to see what reason those big eunuchs had to prevaricate themselves.
"We don't know, General Cao must be very tired when he came overnight, why don't you go to the hotel and rest first?"
Now Luoyang City is in chaos, just cleaning up the ruins and counting the casualties has already spent a lot of manpower, and these officials don't want to have other strong political forces enter Luoyang to stir up the situation, and those central officials in Luoyang have no extra energy to take care of other things when His Majesty's life and death are not clear.
"It's not impossible to rest, but I must see Your Majesty within a week, and I don't mind helping you if you can't find Your Majesty by then."
Commander Cao glanced at a few military attaches and left Luoyang Airport with his adjutant and escorts, and when he came, he was informed that Zhu Forbidden City had been bombed, and then he was also bombed on the plane. I didn't expect those eunuchs to play their cards so unconventionally, they were killing kings.
At first, after receiving the notice from the liaison, he thought that those eunuchs were just relying on the Indian side of the rebellion when the army in the federation was empty and put the Son of Heaven under house arrest, and he took someone to clean up the defenders of Luoyang and teach the eunuchs a lesson by the way, and he could almost go back, after all, no matter how much trouble you make with the eunuchs, you can't kill the Son of Heaven, no matter how strong the Son of Heaven is, he can't eradicate the eunuch group for a while, haven't both sides been so consumed for so many years?
But now it's good, these eunuchs not only want to kill the king, but even the Zhu Forbidden City has been blown up, do they really think that they can cover the sky with one hand, or do they think that there are no smart people in the Federation, and everyone can't see what happened, killing the Son of Heaven can also be explained as an accident or that the Son of Heaven is critically ill or that there are assassins.
Bombed Zhu Forbidden City, others don't have to guess to know that it was their eunuch who did it, can bury so many explosives in Zhu Forbidden City and not be found except for the Son of Heaven Mei Changqing, there is only a group of powerful eunuchs left, Mei Changqing, as the Son of Heaven, will never blow up his family's ancestral house, right? 2
Whether it is General Cao or other people in the Chinese Federation, they now think that the murderer of this incident is the eunuch group, and some people in Luoyang City say that they saw thousands of steel skeletons surrounding Zhu Forbidden City last night, which is the handiwork of the great eunuch, and now if it were not for the people in the Federation who are thinking about dealing with the ruins of Zhu Forbidden City and finding His Majesty's body, it is estimated that they would have swarmed to find the great eunuch for revenge.
General Cao's dissatisfaction with the eunuchs in his heart had already reached the limit, and he made up his mind that once his Northeast Army arrived in Luoyang, no matter who stopped him, he would arrest the group of eunuchs first, and take revenge on the new and old hatreds between them and the Chinese Federation in the past few years.
As the days passed, more and more troops came to Luoyang, and many troops who came to Luoyang joined the security of the capital and the reconstruction of the Zhu Forbidden City.
In a relatively remote hut in Luoyang City, a group of men wearing high-level military uniforms of the Federation sat in a serious discussion about the current situation of the Federation.
"The top priority now is to find Your Majesty, and then discuss how to teach those eunuch thieves a lesson." Commander Cao of the Northeast Military Region walked to the center of the room and said loudly, the Federation cannot be without a leader for a day, although they control the government, they will eventually return power to the imperial family, and they are the masters of the Federation for thousands of years.
In addition to Jiang Qing, the son of heaven who has lost contact, the only remaining princess Jiang Lihua who is unconscious on the East Island is left, Princess Lihua is still too young and in a coma, so the best choice is to find the missing Jiang Qing.
A few days ago, they turned over the Zhu Forbidden City, which had become a ruin, but they did not find the body of the Son of Heaven, and some people speculated that the Son of Heaven may have been blown to pieces, but no one dared to say this now, and everyone continued to search for the traces of the Son of Heaven around Luoyang with the last glimmer of hope.
"But it's been almost a week, and we still don't have any clues......," a man sitting in the corner said hesitantly, he is the commander of the South China Military Region, and their faction advocates bringing back Princess Lihua, who is still in a coma on the East Island, a prince with royal blood who is in a coma can stabilize people's hearts more than a son of heaven whose life and death are unknown, and now the Chinese Federation needs stability.
"Don't worry, I believe Your Majesty must still be alive, maybe now is just looking for a suitable time to appear, we can wait in Luoyang." In the other corner, a man with glasses pushed his glasses and replied, "Anyway, the war situation on the Indian side is not bad, just wait slowly." ”
"Is it ...... India" mentioned that everyone in the Indian room showed a relaxed smile, yesterday morning, the army of the Federation and the Indian rebels officially exchanged fire, the result was beyond everyone's expectations, the Indian army, which had a certain advantage in the mechas, was actually beaten in just a few hours and collapsed, the Federation side just sent one of the four pillars of the god of the letter and 3000 mecha almost defeated the Indian side, and the large army of Honggu behind had already ended the first battle before they had time to play.
According to the intelligence fed back from the front line of the play, the army of the Federation should be able to reach New Delhi, the capital of India, in a few days, and the Indian rebellion will be put down at that time.
The difference in combat effectiveness on the Indian side is beyond the expectations of everyone in the Federation Headquarters, you must know that India is the mecha research base of the Chinese Federation, there are countless advanced mechas, and India's land and number of people are not much worse than the Federation Headquarters, but from the data, it is not a simple matter for the Federation Headquarters to win India.
But the fact is so unbelievable that the federal headquarters actually beat India like a son in three strokes and two blows, and the process was only as smooth as Britannia's fight against the East Island.
The discussion among the military attaches became more and more intense, but these had little to do with Mei Changqing, who was playing missing, and at this time he was looking at Elsa sitting beside him with a nervous expression.
"So, your black scorpion could really be there." Mei Changqing said with a serious face.
"But even then, it may just be your Majesty's delusion, it's normal to get something right once or twice, isn't it?"
Elsa said indifferently, just now Mei Changqing didn't know which nerve was wrong and said that he felt the position of his exclusive mecha black scorpion. The black scorpion had been secretly sent out by the people of the Great Eunuch Group a few days before the explosion in Zhu Forbidden City, and Elsa didn't care too much about it, anyway, her own strength could be to the extent of dismantling the Gundam empty-handed, and fighting with mecha was just to cater to the fighting style of the people of this world in the final analysis, and it was the same with or without mecha.
Elsa didn't care doesn't mean that Mei Changqing doesn't care, he found that he seems to have an ability similar to the seventh sense that can know a lot of things, like the eunuch who found the bomb planted under the Zhu Forbidden City at the beginning was caught with this ability.
People, I always hope that I can have some superpowers, so after feeling that I may have talent in this area, Mei Changqing naturally wants to verify it, if this kind of ability similar to the seventh sense can be fully developed, then the task in the future will be much easier.
"But Elsa, don't you want to get your mech back?" Mei Changqing saw that Elsa didn't seem to want to move, and hurriedly persuaded.
After hearing Mei Changqing's words, Elsa was silent for a while, got up from the bed, took out a bottle of black and purple nail polish from the drawer under Mei Changqing's surprised gaze, and carefully applied it to her fingernails with a small brush.
"Che, don't you really want to go?" Mei Changqing hung up the dead fish and looked at Elsa, if this girl didn't want to go, she wouldn't dare to walk around, and now the situation outside is not very clear, and if you walk around casually, it will be bad if you meet the person who is a big eunuch.
"Now there is a heavily armed patrol outside every half hour, so go if Your Majesty wants to." Elsa looked at Mei Changqing helplessly and said, in the past few days, it has taken a lot of effort to find a safe place to live, and Ansheng's days have not passed for a few days, and if he goes out, it will take a lot of time to find a new place.
Elsa's words made Mei Changqing deflated all of a sudden, there were indeed a lot more people patrolling outside, and I didn't know if those were the eunuchs' people or their own people, so it was indeed a bit reckless to go out rashly.
Elsa looked at the silent Mei Changqing and sighed, she knew what Mei Changqing wanted to do when she went out in such a hurry, yesterday it was reported on the TV news that Xiao Lihua was injured on the East Island and seemed to be still in a coma, so Mei Changqing wanted to go out quickly to reorganize the overall situation and take Xiao Lihua back for better treatment.
"Let's go and get my black scorpion back." Elsa took out two masks and some weapons for self-defense from the drawer and said helplessly, it is indeed not a way to hide like this, she and Mei Changqing have been here for several days and still haven't figured out the situation outside.
"Oh~ wait? Why don't we wait until it's dark at night before we go out? Mei Changqing looked at Elsa in surprise, is it too dangerous during the day?
"I'll go later, the garrison at night is stricter than during the day during the extraordinary period, and it is not easy to be noticed by the large number of people during the day." Elsa took out a mask and put it on, and replied lightly after spreading her wife's hairstyle into a shawl.
After a simple disguise, Mei Changqing and Elsa walked out of the door, compared to the current Luoyang City, it was a little heavier than usual, and there were a lot fewer pedestrians on the streets and alleys, replaced by rows of patrolling soldiers, it seems that Luoyang City is still under martial law.
The afternoon sun shone gently on the two of them, Mei Changqing, who had not seen the sun for many days, was squinted by the sun, and the target of his and Elsa's operation was the black scorpion in a research institute in the center of Luoyang City, which was not a short distance from here, and it would take about a few hours to walk.
"Shall we walk or do we hitchhike over?" Elsa put her arms around Mei Changqing's arms and asked softly as a little couple.
"Let's walk, if you take a ride, it will be troublesome for them to search the car." Mei Changqing thought for a while and replied, now they should try to avoid being exposed and walk relatively safely.
Hearing Mei Changqing's words, Elsa nodded, leaning on Mei Changqing's body, walking slowly on the street like a bird, whether it was the pedestrians on the road or the soldiers on patrol, they didn't care too much about them, and the two of them walked all the way to the research institute in Mei Changqing's impression. 1
There are two federal soldiers guarding the gate of the research institute, and it seems that the military uniforms are not native to Luoyang, but a bit like those from the Northeast Military Region. The two of them obviously didn't adapt to the temperature in Luoyang, and stood motionless and sweaty in the sun panting.
Mei Changqing stepped forward and couldn't help but say that there were two geasses, and walked around the memory corridor of the two, and after getting their memories of the recent day, Mei Changqing made a gesture to Elsa beside her.
"Wait, you can't ......" The guard who had just received two geass shots and had not yet reacted was knocked unconscious by Elsa with two hand knives, Mei Changqing glanced at the two people who fell to the ground and swaggered into the research institute.
This research institute was closed the day after the black scorpion was transported in order to hide people's eyes, and now there is no half of the researchers in it, so he walked straight to a laboratory in the back and kicked the door open.
"You see, this is it... Forehead. After seeing the scene inside, Mei Changqing's originally proud expression instantly became a little embarrassed, there is indeed Elsa's black scorpion in the laboratory, but with the black scorpion, it is the Indian woman of Lakshata, the most important thing is that Lakshata is only wearing a white coat on her body at this time, holding a small notebook, as if she is remembering something.
"Huh?" Lakshata didn't care about the sudden intrusion of strangers at all, and after glancing at Mei Changqing and Elsa who rushed in, she continued to bow her head and take notes.
"Are you here to deliver food, just put it on the ground, I'll eat it myself later." Laxarta didn't recognize Mei Changqing and Elsa after the makeup, but thought they were delivering food.
Seeing what Laksarta was concentrating on remembering, Elsa leaned over with some curiosity to take a look, after all, the black scorpion was her exclusive mecha, and she was also curious about what this Indian woman had done to her mecha.
"What are you looking at?" Seeing that the two of them did not leave, Laxarta came up, and closed his notebook vigilantly and asked.
"It's nothing, just see how your work is done."
"Cut, what's so nice about this." Laxarta picked up the pipe on the table next to him and took a puff, looking listlessly at the black scorpion and chatting with the two.
"Don't look at how advanced this mecha is, in the final analysis, it's just an imitation machine, and it's not a little worse than its prototype, the Red Lotus Second Style."
"Oh~ is there a gap in the performance of the body?" Hearing that she was using inferior goods, Elsa's face showed a dangerous smile.
"That's not it, in fact, it's a sister machine with the Red Lotus II, so it's not much different in terms of performance." Lakshata replied lazily lying on the ground, the whole upper echelons of the Chinese Federation knew that the Black Scorpion had a prototype, but only a few people knew the difference between the two mechas.
"If I really want to tell you, you don't understand, you won't be able to tell it for a while, and if you want to say it, it's probably the gap between the fake and the real thing, and you can't see any difference when you fight with other mechas, but if those two mechs fight, it must be the Red Lotus two style to win."
Lakshata said with some pride, the Red Lotus II is still in the hands of India, although no one can drive it because of the performance of the mecha, but once it finds a suitable driver in the future, India will be equivalent to getting a stronger card to restrain the personal guard of the Son of Heaven.
"It turns out that the mecha I am driving is a fake, what are you going to do, Your Majesty?" Elsa took off her disguise and looked at Mei Changqing with a charming smile and asked.
"If you want the real thing, you can go to India and grab it yourself another day."
Mei Changqing came to Laxia Tower, his eyes appeared with a red bird pattern, and the red light shot into Laxia Tower's eyes, and Mei Changqing, who entered the memory corridor of Laxia Tower again, found the memory of the black scorpion key and closed the geass.
Under Lakxiata's incredulous gaze, Mei Changqing walked to a lockbox in the laboratory, quickly entered the correct password, and threw the key to the black scorpion inside to Elsa.
"I'll talk about the mecha later, let's accompany me to Zhu Forbidden City first."
Elsa took the key, watched the familiar key return to her hand, and looked back at the ghostly Lakshata with a smile.
"You'd better explain to me what's going on later, otherwise I'll go and level your Indian province when I'm done with Luoyang."
Hearing Elsa's words, Laxarta couldn't help but shudder, she could feel that Elsa was really angry this time, after all, no matter who heard that the exclusive supplies she used were actually fakes, she wouldn't be in a good mood, let alone the legendary woman who killed countless people next to the Son of Heaven.
"Wait, wait, that's not what I just said." Lakshata wanted to explain what she had accidentally said just now, but Elsa didn't give her a chance, and after putting Mei Changqing into the cockpit, the huge claw of the black scorpion's left hand turned into a pitch-black color like night, and with a wave of her hand, she cut a huge hole in the steel wall of the laboratory dozens of centimeters thick and rushed out.
The black scorpion that rushed out of the laboratory burst out at a speed that ordinary mecha could not match, and quickly shuttled through the streets of Luoyang, and the streets of the Chinese Federation, which had just experienced a major event, were depressed, and they were not as crowded as usual, and the black scorpion that was walking quickly on the empty streets quickly attracted the attention of the federal government.
At this point in time, any clues about the Son of Heaven will attract the attention of all forces, and the black scorpion, the exclusive mecha of the guards of the Son of Heaven from childhood to adulthood, suddenly appeared on the streets of Luoyang, and this matter quickly spread to the ears of the commanders of the various departments gathered in Luoyang through the various groups of patrol soldiers on the streets of Luoyang.
Mei Changqing leaned behind Elsa, looking at Elsa's bumpy and perfect body, she couldn't help but swallow, maybe it was to make the driver look sexier or other reasons Lakshata designed the seat of the Black Scorpion operating compartment as a kind of seat similar to a motorcycle.
If the pilot wants to drive the mecha well, he has to lie on it and move his hands forward, which feels that this posture is not very comfortable, but Elsa's straight hips and slender and soft waist are undoubtedly exposed, even Mei Changqing, who has touched Elsa's whole body, still can't help but want to reach out and eat Elsa's tofu.
Elsa didn't mind much about this, and after throwing a wink at Mei Changqing, she turned her head and continued to concentrate on controlling the mecha to quickly rush to the Zhu Forbidden City, which was still being rebuilt, and the purple-black mecha stood in the center of the clearing like a god and demon in the sun, attracting the attention of everyone in the clearing.
The news of the appearance of the black scorpion spread through the Internet and other channels in just a few minutes, after receiving the news of the appearance of the black scorpion, several military attachés in Luoyang City who were assembled quickly issued an order to gather the army, the purple-black mecha was the exclusive mecha of the emperor's personal guards, and its appearance showed that the Son of Heaven was likely to be alive, and dozens of steel skeletons and thousands of federal soldiers were concentrated in the open space of Zhu Forbidden City dozens of minutes later.
"Is it Miss Elsa in there?" Commander Cao of the Northeast Military Region walked up to the black scorpion, looked up and asked loudly.
Commander Cao's voice was still a little trembling when he asked, if it was really Elsa who was driving the black scorpion, it would mean that His Majesty should be safe now, then the next thing would be much easier, as long as the Son of Heaven was alive, the Federation could continue to operate normally.
Commander Cao's words caused the scene to be silent for a while, and everyone waited for the driver's reply in the black scorpion. In the mecha, Elsa looked back at Mei Changqing, she didn't know if that person was Mei Changqing's subordinate. Mei Changqing nodded at Elsa, and put the Imperial Tool Shangri-La in his hand back in his pocket, those military attachés were loyal to him.
"It's me, I'm with Your Majesty." After getting Mei Changqing's consent, Elsa opened the cockpit and stood up from inside, looking at the crowd around her with a surprised face, picked Mei Changqing up, jumped from the mecha and jumped to the ground.
Mei Changqing's shoulder-length white hair was extremely conspicuous in the air, and the military attaches around them ran to Mei Changqing's side in surprise after seeing Mei Changqing.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, is that you?" Commander Cao couldn't believe his eyes, he really didn't expect Mei Changqing to be alive, they hadn't found any clues about Mei Changqing in the past few days, and they had already given up the search without any hope for it, but they didn't expect their son of heaven to run out by himself.
"You're really making me wait." Looking at the generals Mei Changqing smiled and said, after these guys came to Luoyang, they didn't show their faces in the media one by one, but they strengthened patrols in Luoyang every day, and they thought that they were stopped outside the city when they encountered some trouble, so they could only hide in that hut every day and didn't dare to go out.
"Haha, I came by plane the night I received the signal from His Majesty, but at that time, Luoyang City was in chaos, and we put all the available forces on controlling law and order and cleaning up the ruins of Zhu Forbidden City." Several military attachés beside Commander Cao replied.
"Okay, I got it." Mei Changqing nodded, and then her face changed suddenly, and her originally warm smile instantly became serious.
"This matter must be strictly investigated, they actually dared to blow up Zhu Forbidden City, and now go and arrest all the eunuchs in Luoyang."