4.17 Resourcefulness and Faith

St. Sauk, the territory of the Gunflame in the Black Sea region, a high-ranking soldier hurried to the territory of the Earl of Gunfire, and the messenger handed the Earl of Gunflame a letter with the royal seal on the seal of the fire. And the Earl of Gunflame was stunned when he saw this letter, which was top secret and must not be disclosed to a third party.

In this era, the major empires had telegraph facilities in the domains of their important nobles, and the contents of the telegrams were deciphered in the telegraph room before being handed over to the upper echelons. This is a common method of communication between the top management.

Carrier pigeons and falconry were the means of communication between the various legions.

However, the upper echelons of the empire still had a tradition of sending messengers to deliver letters, and high-ranking soldiers served as messengers, which was a way to convey confidential information between the nobles of the empire. After these high-ranking soldiers could not see the recipient, even if they directly destroyed the letter, they would not let the letter leak. And these messengers were also the henchmen of the imperial aristocracy.

The Earl of Gunflame entertained the messenger well, and then he went to the study alone. The mahogany door was closed and blocked by a sliding metal gate, and the curtains were drawn, making the room an absolutely soundproof chamber.

After opening the letter, Gunflame Sifen's face changed greatly when he looked at the contents on it. Then he walked out of the room and asked the family to send a carrier pigeon to make his eldest son come back soon.

Eighteen hours later, Gunflame Rose (Liyun's father) hurried back. The letter he received was only one sentence: "Something is going on at home." And in that case, a red circle was drawn, and this red circle indicated that the matter was very urgent.

Rose came to the door of the family study, and saw an old butler standing there. This old butler is a mid-ranking soldier cultivated by the family, and he is a person that the earl absolutely trusts.

The housekeeper outside the study said in a low voice: "Young Master, the master has been waiting for you for a long time. ”

Gunflame Rose nodded and walked in, while the butler on the side closed the door and guarded the door.

Earl Sifen in the study looked up at the eldest son, took a deep breath and said, "Now there is news of Xiao Binghe. ”

Roston paused, he didn't expect it to be this. After a year-long search, many people in the Gun Flame family have completely given up the possibility of finding Binghe after the search was fruitless, and now, the news that has come out coldly has made Rose's mind a little unable to react.

Rose asked, "Where did he hide?" Well, caught back? ”

The Count shook his head and pointed to the letter on the table, motioning for his eldest son to pick it up and read it.

Ross picked up the letter suspiciously, but his face changed suddenly: "Oka? How did he get over there! Well, the king!?"

Narrator: A few months ago, when Binghe came to Oakley with Suta's team, he was seen by St. Sauk's spies, who passed on Binghe's portrait to China

The head of the Gendarmerie General Administration was so distracted by Binghe's escape that he had seen Binghe's photos hundreds of times before last year. And this time, the portrait of the escort of the Oka candidate for the king was passed back, and he was sure of the identity of the person in the portrait at first glance. So young, so similar, and just like the mechanical controller.

Back to the present, after reading the letter from the royal family of St. Sauce that is supposed to explain the facts on the surface, but actually with questions.

Rose looked up in shock and looked at his father with a "look at the backbone" gaze.

Gun Flame Sifen sighed and said: "On the information, it is written that he has been promoted to the mechanical controller, and I don't know if it's true." ”

Rose was stunned, he felt that his father's attention was a little off the point.

Rose sneered, "The younger brother has gone abroad and is still on the side of the Oka people, and the emperor has sent letters of inquiry, isn't it to deal with the family's crisis at home?" Father, why do you care about whether your younger brother is a mechanical controller, is this putting the cart before the horse? ’

However, Gun Flame Rose responded to the earl's words: "Little Four, he is not yet an adult this year, and the information of the mechanical controller may not be true." ”

Si Fen raised his head and looked at Rose, who took a deep breath and said, "His bloodline has the advantage of forming a fine law line. ”

Narrator: Gunflame Sifen guessed wrongly, in fact, Binghe didn't awaken the bloodline on his body at all, except for the invisible genes on his hair that began to appear, and the bloodline or anything, Binghe didn't feel it at all. Binghe was busy using his golden finger, not realizing what blood in his body he was going to stimulate. For example, in the 21st century, you have a height advantage of 2.3 meters, but you have a family fortune of 20 billion inheritance, do you still need to explore your potential to play basketball?

And after hearing the news that his father confided in him that the amount of information was slightly larger, Rose's expression was shocked, and he thought of the rumors of some people in the family.

Gun Flame Sifen didn't let him guess: "Gun Flame Binghe is my son, your biological brother, there is no doubt about that." As for the content of this, I will tell you when you become the head of the house. ”

Roth bowed his head and said, "Yes, Father. It's just, what are we going to do about it? ”

Sifen: "First of all, we have to express our stance to His Majesty the Emperor, we don't know anything about this matter, and it is caused by our failure to discipline. The two ends of the rat's head are the most taboo things for the superiors. As for Binghe, we're going to do our best to get him back. ”

Luo Si nodded, and then asked suspiciously, "What if you can't get the Gun Flame Bing Core back?" ”

Si Fen closed his eyes, pressed his hand on the cannon relief on the wall on the side, slid his palm down, and his fingers couldn't help but press the muzzle of the artillery relief.

Si Fen took a deep breath and said: "The Saint Soke family can stand in the center of the continent for two thousand years without falling, relying on ruthlessness, and we can only act as if we don't know what to do, we can only hope that Xiao Binghe has enough luck to spend the rest of his life in the safety of Oka Neng." ”

Gun Flame Sifen's face was helpless, the responsibility of the patriarch of the big family and the family affection of the old father were now in conflict.

Steam Calendar Year 1025, September 3rd.

Vikrane, the court's planning has been carried out to the end in the various communication salons that seem to be nobles on a daily basis.

What kind of exchange of interests was carried out, and what disguises and deceptions were carried out. Sometimes at the palace banquet, the kings choose an action, and an accessory has a complex intrigue.

And the Oka and Pratt & Whitneys have reached a consensus on the plot.

That is to completely destroy the king-electing ceremony and completely disintegrate the king-electing ceremony that has lasted for 2,000 years. And the way to dissolve this ritual is to punish the heart.

If there is a plot in the ceremony of choosing the king: the previous winner of the election (Oakley) kills his rival (Bix's candidate for the king) in order to win the election again, and when the "conspiracy" of the previous leader of He-Man is revealed, the remaining credibility of the ceremony is completely gone.

The Oka people now hold this script in their hands, firmly grasping the 'tragic character' Suta in the script.

At the same time, there is an important supporting role of Pratt & Whitney to cooperate. With the addition of Oakley's original role, he is more suitable for playing the villain. So the game has been laid out very well so far.

It's perfect, at least in the eyes of the layout, there are no loopholes, in the room of Lantao Chengtou, under the light of the oil lamp, Chengtou holds the baton, and in front of him is a fine and detailed sand table map. On this sandbox map is a record of military forces in the vicinity of Vikra.

This is thanks to the shooting of high-altitude cruising airships in the sky. The high-altitude reconnaissance airship was equipped with a remote control system by Binghe, and this sand table was made by Binghe on his own initiative. Lantao Chengtou could not find a reason to refuse Binghe's labor.

The map of the Vikra region that Lan Tao originally had was drawn by the Oka intelligence organization with local informants. As for the level of education of the informant, there is no accurate map.

Binghe ran around and did the details of the sand table to perfection, which made these Oka people can't help but feel that it is really a great thing to have such a caring mechanical controller in the team.

Cheng Tou put away the sand table and said to the few people in the king selection team who knew the core secret plan: "Everyone, everything can start now. ”

Although the Oakleighs have sane and sophisticated politicians like Quntendinan. But most of the Oakley nobles don't think about crises and conflicts. They took the king too seriously this time

Chengtou pointed to Oakley's military deployment in the capital area on the sand table. The sand table shows that Oakley has ten cavalry regiments nearby, totaling more than 20,000 men.

The officers of these cavalry regiments were all conservative and arrogant aristocrats in Oakline. Although the results of the king election have not yet come out, these Oakley nobles have already said in various salon exchanges that the final winner of the king selection should be Oakley. And he was stubborn and self-serving, and the other small countries participating in the election of the king must also support Oakley. (Refer to Indian honey, which confidently believes that it is diplomatically responsible for inheriting the colonial hegemony of the British Empire in South Asia)

And it is the families of these nobles that there are also spies of the Oka Empire in action. These spies now play a very important role in guiding public opinion.

Cheng Tou said to the captain (middle professional) Mast Sail Karui on the side, "At ten twenty-seven tonight, you go to the knight beside Bix. ”

The captain nodded in agreement.

And Cheng Tou asked Biso, "Let's all evacuate the mechanic team." ”

Peso nodded and said in a slightly sarcastic tone, "The War Department at home was urging them to return their mechanics a week ago. ”

Cheng Tou nodded as if he didn't understand the peso's sarcasm, but looked up and asked, "Polon Keys is still in the factory?" ”

Peso nodded

Cheng Toru asked uneasily: "Are you sure that now all the airships will be outside the factory?" ”

Peso nodded, "Yes, all the airships are in our hands, and he (Binghe) doesn't have a single airship left there." ”

Cheng Toru and several mechanics in Oka repeatedly determined the performance of the airship made by Bing Core. Using a knapsack signal base station, the remote control range of the airship cannot exceed 20 kilometers, in fact, the remote control will be poor because of the weak signal at a distance of 10 kilometers.

So now Chengtou has quietly arranged all the armed airships separately and become the firepower points in the sky, and these airships on standby in the sky are regarded by him as extremely important chess pieces.

The airship could sail at a speed of forty kilometers per hour, and the machine gun could throw a bullet at a distance of five kilometers. The bullet will eventually plummet with air resistance. And at such a distance, the sighter on the ground cannot reach the airship in the sky with the warhead.

When it is determined that the airship in his possession is extremely important, Cheng Tou cares about whether there is a spare airship by Binghe's side, and if Binghe still has an airship, then it can have considerable variables on the entire plan.

Havina's variable was already a headache for the city, and the city didn't want any more variables to appear here.

After hearing Chengtou's inquiry, the ice floe Peso nodded and said, "There is no airship with him anymore, and all the hydrogen storage cans have been transported." ”

Cheng Tou nodded and said, "You go and watch him, and when the incident happens, make sure to evacuate from the factory safely with him." ”

Peso nodded, but he looked at Suta's deathly evacuation route on the sand table, and asked with some reluctance, "Do you want to come this far?"

Cheng Tou raised his head and snorted lightly, "This is politics, Biso Shizi, you are a nobleman of the empire, and the interests of the empire are what you need to prioritize." ”

A few hours later, the captain of the Oka people hurriedly came to Suta's station, and told the chief knight beside Suta in a hurried tone: "Things have changed, the Oakley people want to put the envoys under house arrest, and they need to leave this place of right and wrong with His Highness Suta as soon as possible." ’

Dozens of kilometers away, a carriage stopped at the gate of the palace in Oakley, and Havena, dressed in cloth, hurriedly got out of the carriage and found Carl. Stumbling down the marble aisle, the girl panicked and told Carl a powerful message: "The Oka people are preparing to take Sutar away, and it seems that they are planning some kind of conspiracy. ”

There is nothing false in Havina's words, and lying sometimes doesn't require words, but expressions. Khavena's overly flustered expression and worry made Carl judge the situation as seriously hostile after judging the Oka operation, and at the same time unconsciously judged Havena to be an ally on his (Oakley's) side who was also threatened by the Oka people. This judgment blinded by love is definitely the biggest mistake of judgment in Carl's life.

Originally, when a lie came out of the mouth of a beautiful woman, the credibility had to be raised to a higher level. And now Havina is not lying at all.

So even if Carl thinks about it in hindsight and realizes that he has been deceived, he will still think about her from the perspective of a woman, thinking that she must have been forced to do so at the time, or that she didn't know the situation at all. The subconscious defends Havena. - This is a world of faces.

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A few hours later, the station machine factory tower on the Bingnu.

Quietly unfolded a bird's-eye view, and the information in the whole map is transparent. When an individual's actions are in their own field of vision. The conspiracy has also become a lot more boring.

Binghe didn't need to know the process of the conspiracy at all, but only knew the purpose of the plotters and the weaknesses of the mentality of the parties, so he roughly interpreted the situation.

The greatest weakness of the Oakley people is arrogance, and arrogance is timidity, and the cowardice of Oakley's loss of great power status causes anxiety.

In normal times, reason will also restrain arrogance, but in some sudden situations, reason is left behind, and actions are completely driven by emotions.

Carl is very young and can't think too well in the short term. When he learned that the Oka had asked Suta to leave, he must have ordered the surrounding troops to intercept them first.

Therefore, when Carl gave this order, he ignored what kind of emotions the nobles below would use to carry out this order, and this kind of emotion happened to give the Oka people the opportunity to infiltrate the spies and use them, and the interception could become interception.

And even if the Oakley interception is unsuccessful, it doesn't matter, as long as the Oakley makes the interception, the Oka will complete Suta's death and nail it into fact. No one else in the world could find evidence that the Oka people were plotting all this, so Carl was sure of the black cauldron.

Standing on the rooftop, Binghe watched through the field in the direction of the carriage carrying Suta in the distance.

Binghe said faintly: "In your big plan, some people must die regardless of whether they have done anything wrong or not. Do you think that makes sense? ”

Binghe suddenly pulled out his gun from his waist and fired at the left. The muzzle flames emitted a dazzling yellow light.

The projectile swept the chimney on the left, and the owl, which had been crouching there, was caught off guard and shattered by the sudden storm of bullets. Metal shells ejected from the gun, clanging and falling onto the bricks and rolling under the houses.

Binghe withdrew the magazine with one hand, and the other magazine was pushed in. The muzzle of the gun was pointed at the other side, which had been hiding there all this time.

Binghe: "Don't you say two words?"

Peso came out of the shadows, raised his hands and said with a wry smile: "What do you want me to say at your gun?" ”

Binghe: "If I stay in Oka, what should I do if this happens to me?" ”

Peso smiled and took a few steps closer: "I promise I won't let you encounter this situation." ”

Binghe's gun was still pointed at him, and he slowly shook his head and said, "You? Who are you to say that? ”

Binghe looked at the place where he was located: "In my heart, Oka used to have enough credibility to make a promise, but now he has broken his promise.

And you, you have not fulfilled any promises of sufficient weight now, and what right do you have to promise me these promises now, which even Oka cannot fulfill? Your credibility to vouch for me now is simply not enough. ”

Dumbfounded, he said: "Don't talk about such a heavy topic, it's different from your style." ”

Binghe: "Innocent, I choose to believe in faith. When faith is broken, how dare I be heartless? Hey, it's time for me to go from being a kid to a man. ”

Binghe lowered his gun, and the light cone appeared in front of Binghe. The metallic color of the hair shimmered with a silvery glow in the light of the light cone. And Binghe's expression became serious and solemn.

In the dark night, the glowing lines of the magic veins appeared on Binghe's body, and the huge light cone in front of him made Peso can't help but open his mouth.

He was stunned and then suddenly realized that Bing's firearm had been put down. Randomly ready to jump forward, but a point of light in the sky shone in front of him, so he couldn't help but stop, he suddenly turned his head to look at the sky of Conan, the four armed unmanned airships that had been transferred from the factory, magically circled back, and were hovering in the sky.

Peso turned his head to look at Binghe, and the great god asked, "Polon Keys, what the hell is this?" And there was a hint of disbelief in the tone of questioning. Peso vaguely guessed what the light cone around Binghe was now belonged to.

Binghe looked at the boy, who was four years older than him, and said in a gentle tone: "When a person becomes a man, achievement and talent are secondary, promises, being able to fulfill promises, and being able to maintain credibility that others believe, that is a man." Ice pesos, now I have to grow. ”

At this time, the sound of metal running came from the factory warehouse, and it sounded like the steam boiler had started, booming, as if some mechanical monster was about to wake up behind the metal gate. In the midst of the peso's stunned, the metal door opened.

A few minutes later, the train creaked out of the factory's small tracks

The appearance of the small train spewing steam is like a living mechanical dragon.

Binghe slid down the pole from the house to the front of the train.

Carrying a crowbar, pry the steam gate, after the steam gate is opened. The high-pressure steam in the boiler slammed into the pipes and reached the rear compartment, and the force of the steam began to push the machinery.

The carriage behind the locomotive "Ping Pong" with a series of mechanical locks opened. The iron lid on the roof of the car opens like a delivery cardboard box.

In a train car. With the rotation of the mechanical gears in the car, pipes with a radius of 30 centimeters and a height of 3 meters were erected in the white mist. This is a steam-style missile launch tube.

"And then." A helmet was thrown to a bystander. Binghe's other hand throws out a mechanical bird. The mechanical bird flew quickly in the direction of the west. This is the direction of the Suta carriage.

"What do you want to do?" Peso raised his hand to the sky, trying to interfere with the mechanical bird with magic, but to no avail. He was now only twenty meters away from Bingnu, which was completely within the realm of the domain.

As if he were doing ordinary work, Binghe commanded: "Hurry up and put on your helmet, the ammonia perchlorate oxidizer will emit a white mist of hydrochloric acid." That's blinding. ”

Peso looked at the cruising airship in the sky and did not react to this abnormal situation on the ground, completely cutting off his luck.

He turned his head to Binghe and shouted in an impotent and anxious tone, "Polon Keys, what the hell are you doing?" ”

Binghe, who was carrying a crowbar to check the mechanical condition with one mechanical technique after another, did not turn his head but said in a corrective tone: "My name is not Polenche, my real name is Gun Flame Binghe, by the way, as a friend, you can call me Molten Steel, this is my own name." ”

Speaking of this, Binghe jumped to the roof dozens of meters away and stretched out his hand in front of him, and in the palm of his hand was a brilliant light cone, which was the light information collected by the ball area at a height of 600 meters and a diameter of 40 meters, and it was projected into Binghe's palm.

With a bang, a muffled sound similar to a pressure cooker explosion came from the three-meter-high steel cylinder, and the steam flow pushed the rocket to a height of six meters, and then the rocket immediately ignited. The white smoke spread like a lion's mane, and the trajectory bent rapidly, shooting towards the horizon.

Then the third, the fourth, ....... A total of 10 warheads, guided by electromagnetic waves emitted from the ball area at high altitude, adjust the eight airfoil adjustment orbits on the projectile body.

Binghe sighed and complained to himself: "Hey, the process of mechanical gyroscopes is just rubbish. (If there is no guidance of strong electromagnetic communication, this thing made by Binghe is a Brown bomb)

And just as Binghe complained, Peso jumped out of the smoke and pulled out the knife from his waist and pointed it at Binghe's back.

Fortresses need knights to guard, and almost all fortresses on the continent have absolutely loyal knights by their side. Multiple knight families will serve the fortress for generations, and these knight families and fortress families will lose and win.

At this time, in this workshop, there is no guardian knight around Binghe to follow, and Binghe's own legal lineage cannot be adjusted as a knight for the time being.

Binghe held the light cone in his palm, turned his head slightly, and said unchanged: "If I don't control it now, the warhead will fall in the wrong place, and it will not be good." ”

Peso's face turned pale, and he trembled with the knife in his hand, as if he was being threatened with a knife, not that he was threatening Binghe with a knife.

Peso: "What did you launch?" ”

Binghe calmly explained: "Chlorine warhead. The targets used for shelter and cover were the gardens of the Archduke of Oakleigh's Palace, the fortress of Pratt & Whitney, the arsenal of the garrison, and the cavalry that was about to attack Suta. The lethality is very weak. It's all in the open area, and that's just a joke with everyone. When the joke was over, Sutar was able to leave, and I was able to walk with peace of mind. ”

Peso's breathing began to become gentle, and he asked coldly, "How accurate can you control it?" ”

Binghe tilted his head and smiled and asked, "You guess" (Binghe didn't want to tell the parameters at this time)

Peso's wrist flicked, and the tip of the knife moved to the garment that had pierced Bing's core. Touch directly to the skin.

Peso said coldly: "I'm not kidding. Tell me where you are now. ”

In the face of Peso's persecution, Binghe's expression turned contemptuous

Pointing vigorously at the sky, he said in a tone, "If you want to lose both, you can come." I have the courage to stay away from my family's nest, and I have the courage to travel thousands of miles alone. Now I have the responsibility to make good on my friends. Why should I bow to you now? ”

In the direction of Binghe's finger, machine guns ejected from the mechanical pods of the airship in the sky, and in the pitch-black machine guns were ready to fire, two brass-colored bullet chains were exposed like small braids.

At this time, the airship in the sky was so far away that it actually had no deterrent effect. It takes three seconds for bullets to arrive, and the trajectory of the air-launched machine gun at this distance is so scattered that firing now is equivalent to firing both the core and the peso at the same time. Airships in the sky are just a form of deterrence.

However, this deterrence caused a lot of sweat to appear in the palms of the hands holding the hilt of the sword.

Of course, the sweat of the peso is not entirely carried by the airship hanging high. It is Binghe's behavior that shows the courage to leave home and be independent, the fearlessness of traveling independently, and the courage to take responsibility for his friends, which makes Binghe show the fortitude that cannot be blasphemed.

Although the peso was older, after being questioned by Bingnu, he found that he could not do a single question.

Ice Floe Peso's heart was struck by Bingnu.

Binghe's smile made Peso feel reminded: he was a wall-to-wall grass who could not give promise to his friends around him, and could only passively accept the mercy of the outside world, and now he was holding a knife and pointing at his friends to make his friends obey him, which was even more timid and cowardly to the extreme.

Binghe appears to be only fourteen years old, and Peso's real age is only nineteen.

Of course, Binghe's heart is not as calm as it seems

Binghe's inner rebellious shout at this time: "Come on, whoever is instigating now is a puppy!" ”