Chapter XXXI—Operational Meeting
"Alas, Lena, how many times have I said that your biggest flaw is that your moves are too simple."
Lena returned to the Washington and was on the phone with Jun. She drooped her head, looking listless.
"Whether it's fire, frost, thunder, light, darkness, you always like to make all kinds of rays. I can't even imagine how you make the wind into a ray too. I'd like to ask for advice. ”
"Yes...... Yes......" Lena replied perfunctorily.
"Forget it, you won't change it anyway...... I have something to tell you, and you can go back and talk to a few of them later, and talk to them......"
Jun said something mysteriously, and Lena nodded as if she didn't understand.
Half an hour later, Lena appeared in the conference room of the Washington, and Paraná was still working on the defense plan in the war room, but Christina arrived first.
"Lena, what's wrong with you?" Christina first noticed Lena's tattered dress.
"It's nothing, it was affected during the fight with Mercury." Lena sat and ate her uneaten marshmallows.
"Well, that's not good in public...... I've got a dress that suits you, come with me. ”
Although Lena looked like a little girl, she was only half a head shorter than Christina, and her clothes fitted well, and Lena looked in the mirror and felt quite satisfied.
"Although it's your Earth's clothes, it's surprisingly similar to our Apocalypse style." Lena changed into a black cape studded with gold thread and a purple skirt and was jumping up and down.
"After all, I made it to cos the magical girl...... It seems that Earth and Apocalypse have the same perception of magical girl outfits......" Christina muttered with a little blush.
"What is COS?" Lena couldn't understand English.
"Nothing. Don't tell people it's my clothes. Christina hurriedly said that she didn't want Lena to ask any more questions, this dress was still a secret of hers.
"Hey, hey, what the hell are you doing, there's no one in the conference room." Paraná's voice came from Christina's terminal.
The three of them finally sat down in the conference room, and an image of Zhang Chuanlan appeared on the screen, which was all the participants in the meeting.
According to Lena, they are trusted earthlings, and according to Jun, it is unlikely that any of them could be a spy for Chriselis.
Zhang Chuanlan told about being attacked by Mercury, and Lena explained what she had said to Barana to Zhang Chuanlan. It seems that Zhang Chuanlan still remembers Shirley's strange actions on the turkey, he said very little, and frequently looked at Christina to check her expression.
"Okay, okay, let's get down to business." Lena yawned, seeming sleepy, "I hope you can go on an expedition to Davion and retrieve the artifact." ”
"I'm afraid this is not for us to decide, whether you trust the United Earth Council or not, they must make a decision to start a war." Zhang Chuanlan crossed his hands and looked serious.
"Why don't you do it yourself, with his strength, it's easy to take away the artifact." Christina asked.
"You can't do that. First, we in the Apocalypse Empire cannot directly participate in the wars of other civilizations. Second, even if he could, he couldn't just go over and take the artifact. ”
"Oh? I would like to hear about it. "Christina didn't want to miss this opportunity to study the apocalyptic civilization.
"Davion has been confirmed to be under the control of Motriti, so if he wants to take away the artifact, he will have to fight Motriti. While Jun and I can outnumber Mercury and Mortrite one-on-one, it's a shame that only two Apocalypse are on your side, and Mortridy has no less than ten under him. The Dry General cannot be used continuously, and each time it is used, there is a corresponding cooling period, which is proportional to the power of the use. This is one of the reasons why Motriti didn't destroy the earth to take the artifact before Jun met you, because she didn't have the power to fight back when she met Jun during the cooldown. And the reason why Motriti was defeated in just a few moves was because he used suffocation against your three fleets. ”
"Suffocation?"
"That's the name of her weapon."
"In other words, none of them can easily make a move to maintain the balance of power, and correspondingly, it is useless for me to make a move, because the other party also has a figure of the same level waiting for me. Therefore, this matter is up to you. ”
That is to say...... Now there is a delicate strategic balance......" Zhang Chuanlan frowned, "If we take the initiative to attack, this strategic balance may be broken, and besides, the remaining half of our earth's fleet is not sure of defeating Davian." Besides, half of Chrisselis's swarm is also stirring. ”
"It doesn't matter. Davian had five kings, and Histasa was one of them. Nethrian, the obsidian king, used an artifact to intimidate the other three kings into uniting the Davian Empire, but they did not know that Histasa was still alive. We are sure to convince the other three kings to turn against the water and deal with Nethrian together. ”
"That's ......" Zhang Chuanlan nodded, "Then we can go and convince Marshall, and then study Davian's combat characteristics and troop allocation." Histasa should know that. ”
"Yes, yes, but she doesn't seem to be going to tell us." Paraná interjected, "I've been listening to Marshall's conversation with Histasa at the state dinner, and Marshall has asked about this, but she has cleverly diverted the subject. ”
"It is understandable that Marshall wants to grab some benefits in Davian, while Histaza wants to use our strength to restore the country, and he doesn't want us to interfere in Davian. It's all cunning. ”
"But without this information, we don't know how much sacrifice we have to make. Be sure to find a way to get her to speak. Lena, is there anything you can do? ”
"It shouldn't be a problem." Lena said with a big grin.
"Then let's split up." Zhang Chuanlan looked like a commander-in-chief, "Parana, you go to convince Marshall, Lena convince Histasa, Christina is responsible for analyzing Davian's military technology, and I will contact Erich to make a battle plan together." ”
On the top floor of the United Earth Council building, Marshall was watching all this with a gloomy face. After a long silence, he called Leslie.
"Hey, Paraná, our Academy of Sciences has its own laboratories and apartments, so I don't need to continue to live in your Third Fleet." Lena and Zhang Chuanlan have already left, leaving only Christina and Parana still chatting.
"For security reasons, not only you, but all the senior leaders of the Academy of Sciences should move to the space-based laboratory to be protected by our Third Fleet." Paraná replied.
"Hmph, in that case, I might as well go to the Sixth Fleet. At least Mercury's scientific research facilities are not bad. ”
"No, the artifacts on Mercury are the focus of the enemy's coveting. There was a fleet there, but it was a dangerous place. Now that the strength of our Third Fleet has been damaged, Lena lives in my Washington, which can be said to be the safest place in the solar system. ”
"I say, Paraná, you're not letting me live here just for safety, huh?" Christina left the sentence and left the conference room.