"How's the rest going?" , Crescent Moon cared.

"Kevin, they're fine, just a little trouble, this operation is in a head-on conflict with Hellfire, and a review of us is being initiated in the council, headed by Congressman Fox, who is a dove, peace-loving, and has always resisted unnecessary wars."

After listening to Patton's words, Crescent Moon paced to the window, looked up at the sky, and said leisurely: "I also love world peace, but we never know what they think. ”

"They are crazy people who want unlimited power and are passionate about domination."

Barton thinks that Dr. Crescent's "they" are referring to the Hellfire Legion.

Crescent turned from the window, looked at the time, returned to the instrument, began to pack up the items on the countertop, sorted some research manuscripts and materials into a delicate hand-held leather briefcase, and said to Barton: "That crystal has been transferred to Albert's laboratory, I will go today, without me, they will make a mess, no one knows particle physics better than me." ”

Barton didn't expect Xinyue to leave so soon, and when he saw Ning Fei, who was still unconscious, he hurriedly took two steps forward, "Then what should he do, he can't do it without you." ”

Xinyue quickly entered a series of instructions on the operating table of the instrument, lowered his head and said: "The nanobot repair procedure is automatic, and it will be self-adjusted through the healing progress, as long as the machine is not powered on, and then replenish him with artificial nutrient solution, after all, he can't recharge......"

After the instruction was entered, Crescent Moon clapped her hands, relieved, but looked up and saw Barton in embarrassment, and quickly patted Barton on the shoulder and said, "Find a beautiful female nurse to do this, it's not a big problem!" ”

Dr. Crescent opened the door and left the room, went to the changing room, took off the medical staff's white overalls, and changed back into casual clothes.

A few minutes later, Barton heard the sound of "pop" on the floor outside the room, the door lock turned, and Dr. Crescent returned, dressed in a new outfit, with a peaked cap and a short coat, from head to toe, fashionable and beautiful, if not spoken, it would be difficult for others to think that it would be linked to the identity of a scientist.

"Forgot to take the suitcase", Crescent walked quickly to the counter, picked up the suitcase, turned around and walked briskly to leave again.

"I'll send you", Barton hurriedly followed the footsteps of the new moon.

After taking the elevator and going all the way down the building of the Alliance Base Hospital, he stood at the door for more than 1 minute, and no one seemed to pick him up, Barton asked, "How are you going to get there, do you need help?" ”

Crescent Moon covered her forehead with her hand and squinted to the side, "Thanks, but no need, my car is here." ”

Patton also looked in that direction, and seemed to see more clearly with sunglasses, a fiery red sports car driving from a distance, no one in the driver's seat, no roar of a high-powered fuel engine, only the sizzle of an electric motor turning, a fully electrified self-driving car.

The vehicle slowly stopped in front of the crescent moon, the double doors turned up vertically, and the crescent casually threw the suitcase into the car, lowered her body sideways into the driver's seat, and said to the car's voice assistant: "Disarm the autopilot mode." ”

"Autopilot has been deactivated, manual driving mode enabled", the voice assistant sounded an electronic tone.

"See you later, Barton."

"See you later", Barton waved his hand, seeing that the crescent moon was in a hurry, probably suddenly remembering some road safety issues, so he pointed to the high heels of the crescent moon on the accelerator pedal, and reminded: "Pay attention to safety." ”

Dr. Crescent Moon made an "OK" gesture nonchalantly, and the door automatically fell and closed, but only to see a foot on the accelerator, the red electric supercar started with a "zi~" ejection, and flew out, galloping, leaving a piece of turbulent dust, and disappeared in just a few seconds.

Colonel Patton passively inhaled a mouthful of dust on the spot, covered his mouth and nose, walked to the side, took off his hat, and kept patting the dust on his clothes.

Sending away Dr. Crescent, Barton was still worried about the guy lying in the sterile box in the ward, after all, he invited this young man to join the quantum company, he was as smart and talented as his father, and now he has not fully grown up, he was hit hard in the mission, especially the trauma to the brain, which was almost fatal, although Dr. Crescent Moon swore by his technology, but no one could guarantee whether there would be any sequelae, and everything could only be known when Ning Fei woke up.

Barton arranged for the nursing staff of the hospital to take care of Ning Fei, and repeatedly asked him to call him directly if there was any abnormality, and only returned to his office after he was done.

Barton sat in the leather black boss chair, took off his sunglasses, took out the eye drops from the drawer, leaned back against the backrest, dripped the red eye drops into his eyes, closed his eyes, and slowly rubbed his temples with his fingers, feeling a little soothed.

"Knock Knock"

"Knock Knock"

There was a knock on the door twice.

Barton opened his eyes, got up from his seat, and said to the door, "Please come in!" ”

The door to the office was unlocked, and two men in suits entered, one younger, carrying a briefcase, blonde hair with hair oil, meticulous, and the other older, slightly chubby, wearing round-framed myopic glasses.

The older man walked in front of the younger man, walked to the opposite side of Patton's desk, and said with a smile, "Colonel Patton, it's a pleasure to meet again, we used to meet in the council. ”

Barton got up from his seat, stretched out his hand and shook the other party's hand, and said with the same smile: "Councilor Fox, I have heard your speech in the council before, your memory is as outstanding as your eloquence, we probably only talked for less than a minute, I didn't expect you to remember." ”

Councillor Fox didn't take Patton's words seriously, and calmly withdrew his hand and introduced him sideways to Patton: "This is Lawyer Chris Wood, who has worked for the Coalition government for many years and has a lot of experience, and is in charge of the review of the temporary military operation at Base Veracruz with me. ”

Patton immediately understood the intention of the two, military operations review is a common procedure in the Union Parliament, mainly for the investigation of military acts suspected of not complying with the relevant laws of military operations, is part of the control mechanism of the army, this intermediate process is very cumbersome, the circumstances are some light and some are serious, for cases that involve too complex aspects, the entire review process will even last more than half a year.

"Please take a seat, you two," Barton gestured as he invited Councillor Fox and Attorney Chris Wood to take a seat on the couch.

The blonde lawyer Wood placed the briefcase on the glass table, unzipped it, and took out a stamped document from the briefcase, and placed it in front of Colonel Barton, "This is the parliament's examination authorization document, please take a look!" ”

Barton picked up the document, scanned it carefully, and then put it down, "There is no problem with the authorization document, what can I do to assist you in your work?" ”

The review objects of this document are Kevin, Caitlin, Fengying, and Ning Fei lying in the ward, Patton has no right to refuse this kind of military operation review, which is in accordance with the law, and the review work needs to be participated by military personnel for the principle of fairness, the whole process is transparent, and it will eventually be drafted by lawyers, jointly reviewed, and a review report will be issued.

"We hope that you, Colonel, will be the military participant in this review and carry out this review of the members of the special operations team led by Captain Kevin."

"What's the reason, the special operations team has an emergency authorization from the base side for this operation," Patton sat up straight, looking at Councilman Fox.

"Colonel Patton", Fawkes took out a handkerchief from his pocket, wiped his glasses, put them back on, and said unhurriedly: "You may not have a deep enough understanding of the latest revised laws of the Alliance, under the framework of the latest laws passed by the Alliance, the military's emergency authorization is limited, within the scope of permitted operations, it does not include launching large-scale military attacks, and the result of this military conflict with the Hellfire Base can even be defined as a frontal declaration of war by the Alliance, and we have been waiting for peace with all this time, It's only been a year. ”

"Peace?" Patton couldn't help but say with some contempt: "The current peace is nothing but the easiest promise of the big men sitting in the council to get a public vote, the dark war never stops, if we don't take flexible measures, wait until Hellfire surpasses us in scientific and technological strength, the whole world will be unimaginable." ”

"Breaking the rules and crossing the line at will, heroism will lead to an unthinkable situation," said the lawmaker, who was a little angry at Patton's attitude.

"You don't know anything about war."

……

"As far as the matter is concerned, gentlemen, if we were to discuss this topic, I am afraid that we would not be able to reach a conclusion for three days and three nights, and I suggest that these questions be put aside for a while, and I believe that the law of the Union and the opinion of the public will have the best solution," counsel Wood advised.