Chapter 435: Firm Determination
For Stephanie, Nangong Rong and the others are actually not much of a threat, at least not now. Before the boy grows up, his ability is at most to disgust his opponent in heads-up, and there is nothing to care about. Maybe the kid had recently learned some other interesting ability, but that was at best a problem for the outnumbered cannon fodder boys, and it was a weak blow compared to the trouble that the Alliance bringed.
But the problem is that Nangong Rong and they don't know about it, even the golden retriever cat who shares information with the entire alliance doesn't know the plans of the black-haired girl, and simply thinks that such a large-scale action as the abyss is preparing to do something to the Razfeld plane.
So the friends who felt that they were threatened acted very quickly, and when Nangong Rong and Octavier hid the transport ship in the deep mountains and old forests and returned to the camp, they learned through regular contact with Charlotte that he had brought the knights who were assembled in Drinkper City on standby, and Disya had already arranged the troops responsible for support.
In the same room made of makeshift metal plates as before, everyone greeted the boy and the eldest princess again.
"Then there's the news of the Sitneys. After listening to Disya's report, Octavir pinched the hair in her ear and muttered, "But we need to send an envoy over, and from the perspective of time, we won't be able to make this operation in time." Then Matthias, call the Empire's liaison officer here, and I'll send him a diplomatic mission. ”
The scholar uncle who was named did not take the order, but looked at the eldest princess very seriously: "Your Highness, if you can, can you give me this task?" I have a great interest in that completely unknown world, and I would like to see it for myself." ”
The girl was surprised by this request: "Oh, do you want to travel at public expense?"
"To put it bluntly, yes, I do want to take advantage of this opportunity to travel at my own expense. Matthias didn't care at all about Octavier's teasing, and the serious expression on his face never changed, "It's a plane inhabited by a race that is completely different from ours in terms of technology and even in every way, and it would be a lie to say that as a scholar has no interest in it." ”
"Well, I can understand your excitement at the moment. The eldest princess said and shook her head lightly, "But no, I need you to stay here and prepare for tomorrow's battle." Although the newly created monsters have avoided the control of the abyss, they have not yet been in actual combat, and God knows if something will go wrong tomorrow, if you are there, you should be able to find the problem and solve it quickly. ”
Hearing the girl say this, Matthias also knew that there must be no fun, after all, she will always be a combat-oriented character, and only when she bombards the enemy to the slag can you discuss other things with the girl.
"Understood, let's wait until next time. ”
The scholar uncle quickly retired and left the room, and when Disya saw this, she was about to introduce Mila Toss to Octavier about the progress of strengthening Lin Weiyin's equipment, but the eldest princess suddenly turned her head and looked at Nangong Rong next to her: "Speaking of which, Nakiris has not recognized other controllers until now, do you want to partner with her again?"
As a high-end combat force, that snake girl Lori has always been active in the front line against the abyss under the command of the old man Toronso, but all the controllers who have cooperated with her will be rejected by this girl for the second time on the grounds that they are not suitable, and it seems difficult to serve.
Of course, Nangong Rong didn't know about this kind of thing, and Her Royal Highness the eldest princess only learned about it because she had Matthias in her hand, otherwise it would always be just an after-dinner conversation among the soldiers of the Imperial Front-line Troops - well, it's the kind of gossip like when a picky older girl will be able to marry herself.
Obviously, he had a pretty good impression of Nakirisnan Gong Rong, and the previous cooperation with her was indeed pleasant and unforgettable, and the young man nodded directly without thinking about it: "No problem, anyway, this time there is a chance." Or have you already transferred her to this fight?"
"How is it possible, I am reluctant to release people even if I want to mobilize the army, she is the core person who maintains the morale of the officers and soldiers on the front line. ”
The young man probably hasn't recovered from the state of not needing to think about what he says, so he immediately answered: "Is it stupid to play the second middle school through daily cuteness?"
The eldest princess immediately burst into tears and laughter: "It's taking advantage of the active performance when she participated in the battle in person, how can it be cultivated! Although what you said also accounts for a large part of it......
This time it was Nangong Rong's turn to be embarrassed: "Qiaodou sack, we should decisively deny it here, right? And this Nima's actually occupies a large part, how happy and happy is the daily life of your army's front line, I mean there is no spectrum to get off the line?"
"No way, who made that girl a fool?"
Octavier's two hands were spread out with a helpless expression on his face, and the whole person was relaxed, but it also made Nangong Rong, who was in charge of complaining, feel more and more big: "I said, she is also one of the aces of the empire, you say that she is really a big husband?"
The girl was about to continue her daily routine, but the door of the room was suddenly pushed open, and Mira, whose face was full of excitement, appeared in front of everyone, and immediately grabbed the young man's hand after seeing Nangong Rong: "You came back just in time, come and try the body I specially prepared for you." ”
Mira, if not a genius to become a premier scientist but an ordinary person, would definitely be an alternative otaku who likes robot animation, and her love for mecha has reached the point where she can't hide it at all, even though the glasses girl has never hidden it. However, it is also thanks to this guy [upgraded] that he has become a scientist, and although most of the bodies she has made out because of her own interest are test machine sample machines, many of them have become the standard equipment of the military.
The most direct beneficiary or victim is Lin Weiyin, the girl is often taken away by Mira in the name of testing to do a lot of [beep-] things, and now there are gradually signs of expanding the object to Nangong Rong.
"Alas, why are you here again!?" Nangong Rong, who was grabbed by the glasses girl, suddenly felt messy in a gust of wind, and was dragged out by her before she had time to struggle, "To be reasonable, there is no special mecha production line here, how did you manage to make a new mech in less than two or three days!?"
"Although there is no production line, there are many ready-made airframes stored in the aircraft carrier, so why not take the tools and modify them a little?"
When Nangong Rong heard this, he couldn't help but feel that it made sense, and he couldn't refute it at all, and then he was forcibly pulled away.
Octavir and Disya could only shrug their shoulders in unison after glancing at each other, and then quickly chased after them.
For safety reasons, Mira's mechage test site was placed next to a very empty lake, but it was not guarded, and when they arrived, they could even see a few children bears gathering on the shore.
At first, the eldest princess thought they were squatting on the ground and playing, but when she got closer, she realized that the children were actually fishing with improvised traps, and they were very careful to store their prey in buckets, which did not look like they were playing.
Mira was obviously familiar with the bear children, and when she passed by, she took the initiative to greet them: "Yo, how did you get today? I'm sorry I'm going to start the experiment soon, and the fish will be scared away." ”
A thin boy who God knows if he was over ten years old immediately stood up and nodded politely at the glasses lady and said, "It's okay, Mira-sama, we've gained enough." Originally, I was going to grab a few more and go back for money or something, but since you're going to be experimenting, we're going to take our leave. ”
"Well, what a polite little guy. Come here tomorrow and I'll give you candy. ”
The bear children immediately said thank you happily and left, only to see Octavir was speechless for a long time, and only after a long time did he look at Disya who was accompanying him and asked, "What are those children just now?"
"Fishing, haven't they all made it clear?" Disia replied with a reasonable expression, and then seemed to understand the meaning of the eldest princess's words, and then added, "They are helping with the housework, after all, you must know that living in this camp is not easy, and even with our help, ordinary families rely on the relief distributed every day, it is difficult to eat, and they must find food." ”
"Why, haven't I already asked the city of Drinpel to sell grain to the camp at a low price?" the eldest princess sighed at the behavior of those children and was angry for no reason, "Could it be that those merchants are taking advantage of the opportunity to do something?"
"No, no, no, it has nothing to do with your businessmen, it's just because the price of food has never come down, and money may not be able to buy it. My eldest lady, don't look at me with that kind of suspicion, you think about how many military operations the empire has carried out recently, and how much food it has to consume. It's already hard to supply his own army, who has the surplus to sell to this camp at a low price?"
After listening to Disya's explanation, the eldest princess calmed down, and then quickly realized a very serious problem: "Uh, you mean that the empire doesn't have much food now?"
"If you store grain, you should be able to get a lot back tomorrow, as long as those noble lords don't run away before you find their warehouse, and burn them down by the way. ”
Instantly embarrassed, Octavir couldn't help but slap his hand on his head with a snap, and covered his face with his hand hard, and then he kept the posture of holding his forehead and sighed: "Thank you for helping me strengthen my determination to rob, no, I mean to eradicate those moth-eaten tumors." ”
Disya smiled very gracefully at the girl: "You're welcome. ”
This thought just flashed in the eldest princess's mind, and she casually threw it out of the clouds, and then pretended that nothing had happened and looked up at Mira in the distance.
The glasses lady has already pulled Nangong Rong, who is full of black lines, to the ground, and there is a pure black body that is about the size of a double-decker bus without counting the barrel alone, and the angular shape and cold paint make this thing look full of murderous aura from a distance - but I always feel that something is wrong, because this time the body is unexpectedly not humanoid, to be precise, Ya is simply a huge mobile battery, or the kind with no tracks or wheels on the chassis.
Nangong Rong's gaze was naturally attracted by the cannon-barreled mech, and he asked in a very surprised tone, "Why, after seeing the number tactics of the Abyss, have you finally switched from a Gundam fan to a multi-turret Divine Sect?"
"It's true that this kind of mobile turret is effective against a large number of miscellaneous soldiers on a frontal battlefield, but that doesn't mean I'm going to betray my beliefs. Besides, even if you hand over this body to you to pilot, will you be able to use its full performance?" Mira looked at the boy with disdain and hummed out of her nostrils, "Give you the speed and direction of the enemy unit, plus the flight speed of the cannonballs and the interference of the wind, and you can calculate the landing point and specific time of the cannonballs that can hit the opponent when the distance between the two sides is known." ”
"I'm sorry, but you still let me calculate the area of my psychological shadow. ”
The glasses lady didn't care about this, and waved her hand lightly: "Don't worry, this body is for Weiyin, and it won't be your turn." ”
As she was talking, the assistants of the glasses girl, who were originally around the body and didn't know what to do, suddenly dispersed, and then the roughly rectangular body was suspended on the ground and slowly rotated, but it didn't look bulky at all.
Nangong Rong was stunned at first, and just thought that this thing could fly to the sky, but found that it had always been [floating] at a height of more than one meter or so from the ground, so he gradually relaxed his heart.
Even if the out-of-spec Mira launches an anti-gravity device, the performance is not necessarily exaggerated, so that this mobile turret can move regardless of the terrain restrictions is already its limit, don't think about flying or anything.
The front of the fuselage is concave.,It's a bit like the shape of a certain protagonist ship that can break through from the enemy's encirclement and interception with a Gundam MA.,But there's nothing in the [bridge] position.,It's a little strange.。
Wait, it's not that there's nothing - Nangong Rong soon found a tuft of uncombed and upturned hair in the pile of cold metal, which belonged to the cheap sister.
The girl was simply covered by the frontal armor of the body, because her height was a bit insufficient.
But why is it really so difficult for the little girl to get a special cockpit for her with such a huge body outside?