Chapter 18: A Terrible Defeat

Fortunately, this is not the library of the Jiazi Palace. There are only two of them here, and they are not yet full. It took Amdo less than an hour before he pretended to look through the one on the right. It's all about outdated tools and manuals. It's just the things on the bookshelf on the left, and Andor only opened the first one and was reluctant to put it down. He stood dumbfounded by the bookshelf, flipping through the pages. The text of this book is in the ancient blueprint language that is rarely used in the Sheephorn Star Field. Fortunately, Andor grew up watching this kind of language when he was a child. He doesn't find it difficult to read now. In fact, it was not the text used in the book that piqued his interest. It's what the book is about.

Amdo did not know if it was appropriate for this resource book to be called a book. Look at the form of the description, and the beginning of each article must be embellished with information such as date, place, weather, etc. Just know that it should actually be like a diary written by someone. However, Amdo looks at the content and feels more like a novel and a legend. It's all about interstellar warfare and sniping. There are also many things that Amdo only knows words, but does not know what they mean. Especially the group of armor soldiers mentioned in it.

Judging by his description, he should be a mecha warrior. But this diary writer wrote them as if they were literally omnipotent. How could Amdo believe that a person with a mecha, even if it was a modified special mecha, Amdo also knew that with one person and one armor, how could he participate in a battle across two galaxies. Not to mention whether his power field can provide enough power support. Just getting the mech through the space leakage is a very difficult problem to solve.

Unlike ships, mecha is supported by a powerful energy shield to shield the damage caused by the powerful energy disturbance and spatial misalignment of spatial superposition. And what did that group eat and drink? I can't rest yet, and when I get to the place, I can drive the mecha to fight with another group of people. If it's not fiction, it's certainly a myth. Although I thought so in my heart. But Andor was a little reluctant to see it. If this kind of grandeur and ability really exists, who would dislike it? Even if it doesn't, it makes people's hearts beat hard to beat even if they think about it!

Just flipped through two more pages, and Amdo found that such a group of people had opponents they couldn't beat. These Andors are just mechs that blush when they look at the text description. There are also fleets of flocks. Andor is not exaggerating, as it is written in his diary. Swarms of fleets rushed into the aperture ahead like moths to a flame. Let the already dazzling aperture brighten up again in an instant. That is, to make it light up a point. We watched as the hulls of the ships that turned into photons in the light disappeared in an instant. No! There is no ash and no smoke. They are like nothingness that never existed.

In the light of light, but from one nothingness to another. The speed at which the aperture spreads seems to be very slow and slow. I looked at the mechs of the Sixth and Ninth Teams, as if they were still. They seemed to be waiting for those circles of light to move closer to them. It was in that long wait that the star turned into gray matter. All the level signals in our holographic screen have lost the image of the Sanskrit star. It just vanished into thin air. None of the mechs of the Sixth and Ninth Brigades flew back.

It's like they're lost in the aperture. We don't get their signals, and we don't know if they can receive our messages. We just watched them slowly, waiting silly for the aperture to come in our screens. This is the Second Battle of the Fanyuan Star, and it is the total defeat of the Federation. The 2nd and 3rd fleets were destroyed. Except for the flagship wartime formation, none of the First Fleet had to leave. I was so bitter that I resigned as commander of the Second Army.

This battle has made many people understand something, and it has also made many people completely lose their courage. The position in the headquarters of the Second Army of the Federation, which used to be a source of disturbance, has suddenly become a hot potato. In the space of a week, even the General Staff and Service Department received hundreds of paperwork requesting transfer and resignation. Some of the relationships have been entrusted to me.

Even the bird boldly mentioned to me that he was unwell and needed to cultivate. The atmosphere in the fleet became eerie in a single day. It seems that no one wants to be quiet anymore. Even the flagship's external signal is interrupted. The staff officers of the General Staff Department held the tea or coffee in their hands every day, either in a daze, or chatting weakly. So my resignation letter, which was already written, didn't even have a chance to check it and correct the typo. It was completely purged from the document.

We're all waiting, but we don't know what we're waiting for. The way they looked at me became more and more strange, and even the people in the guard began to get agitated. But we waited for a result that no one expected. I didn't expect it to be like that. Due to an incomparably tragic defeat, our second space fleet. actually ushered in the largest wave of promotions in history. All those who survived were promoted. Even I got a medal of purple belt with a wattle orchid. This is the highest medal of the Union. It was my teacher who was awarded it until he was about to die for the rest of his life. Such a big defeat, there was no accountability, no investigation, no demotion, not even a pretentious interrogation. If you just look at the promotion stance, it's as if we won.

I've always been unsure if failure is the mother of success. Because a lot of failures are always just failures. But now I know one thing, the fiasco must be the mother of the Federal Service Support Department to improve efficiency! The Minister of Service of the Federal Army, the fat-headed and big-eared old man himself came to our fleet. It's really hard for him. The notoriously fearful of death flew over in a fleet of five logistics supply ships.

All supplies, from ammunition to soldiers. It was assembled at a rate far more than double the date given by our staff. At this speed, General Birdmori, who had never been satisfied with the Ministry of Security, shook his head helplessly. We don't seem to have the slightest reason to pull back. Looking at the bird forest who looked at the reinforcement team with a sad face, I was also very powerless. But the meaning of the military and the federal government is clear.

When Amdo heard Fan Yuanxing, he immediately remembered a place name near the mouth of the sheep's hoof, Fan Yuan Heigukou. Some say it's a black hole in the making. But I heard the little monk say that it was just an ancient battlefield that had been stirred up and could be a storm chain. In this way, that place is likely to be the one who remembers the Van Yuan Star in this diary!

Doesn't that mean that what is being said here is likely to be true? And the tone of the account. "Commander of the Second Legion? Such a character must be very famous, right? Why have you never heard of it? ”

"Birth, old age, sickness and death are the laws of the world, and when I think of this day, I will be a little unable to see it." I don't know why Andor was suddenly stabbed in the bottom of his heart by this sentence in his diary.

He felt a little panicked. Even the mood of reading the diary is a little sad. "When my life was about to end, I still had so many things that I couldn't let go. At last I still did not obey the marshal's orders. At the end of my life, I chose a different path from His Excellency Oinou. Marshal, do you regret leading me into the army? I started and ended in a different way than you, and I could still call you 'Teacher'. ”

Seeing this, Amdo's mouth immediately opened enough to plug an egg. His history is not good at learning. It's not so bad that you don't know what the name of the only marshal in the history of the Union is. Kanswiby? Brother Xi? Ounu was a legendary figure during the founding of the First Confederacy. It is unlikely that you will not know this one, his only student, a big beauty (the rumor. None of her images have ever been officially recognized. )。 In the Federation, his popularity is much higher than that of this marshal. That is General Mu Xi, and the only female fourth-order general in the history of the Federation.

Her fame is not because she is a beauty, it is true because she is a general. It's a person like Amdo who has always liked gossip and doesn't know much about official history, and he is not very interested. Some of the things I learned about the female general were also the battles she commanded. Seven-leaf clover galaxy fishing battle, Tutan galaxy siege without attack,...... I'm afraid that there are few people in the Sheephorn Star Domain who don't know these names. Even the people of Pranto, who later became independent from the Federation, also had a good impression of the female general. Thinking of this, Andor was a fool and probably guessed who left this diary.

Before you know it, Andor has turned to the last page. Sandwiched there was a photograph of a group of people standing on the bridge. Amdo looked carefully at each face. He found that he actually looked a little familiar to the person in the middle. Especially her ear-length hairstyle and sharp eyes. Even if it's just looking at the picture, that gaze seems to be about to pierce the bottom of Andor's heart. Isn't this the woman who guides herself in the black and white grid?

Although Andor felt surprised, his mind was not much on this. He was robbed of most of his mind by the events mentioned in his diary. The former base mentioned in the diary is probably here. But what are these things, such as blaster insects, green beetle mosquitoes, and dorsal turtles...... Also, why is this diary here? Although Amdo had already guessed, this should not be as simple as a simple mapping dimensional realm. But what if this is a real space? What's the matter with jumping around like this? The diary also repeatedly reminded that a great danger was coming. But Andor turned it all over again. I also deliberately went back and looked for it twice, but I didn't find any place in the diary that clearly explained what this danger was.

If this is said in the diary of a random ordinary person, Amdo will not take it to heart! But the shadow of the famous tree of man, written by her in her diary, Amdo always felt that there was something heavy in his heart. I want to pretend I don't care, but I'm worried about it if I'm not paying attention. After being stunned for a while, Andor had to put the diary that had been turned over and put it back on the shelf. He wasn't in the mood to pretend anymore. I was always thinking about the things mentioned in my diary. He wanted to find out what the secret was here. Since this is a base, the magnetoelectric power plant must be the key to everything.

Andor picked up the manual that Nada had handed him earlier, and looked through it carefully. The steps to start it were very simple, but Amdo didn't know where the coal it needed came from. It's not like the coal that burns in a boiler. He commanded Bu Taiwei and Reka to dig in the coal pit in the back mountain for half a day, which was enough for a while. "A lot of blackstone blocks are needed (Nada, they call this anthracite lump blackstone. ) to be able to start that guy. "Amdo had to talk to Nada.

"There's a lot of that!" Amdo didn't think of this question, just a sentence. It's so easy to solve. He came to the place where Nada led the way, and looked speechlessly at the pile of black stones as high as a mountain. A full set of conveyor belts, as well as dozens of autonomous mechs for mining that look a little rough but are absolutely usable. Opening the power source bin door on the back, as Amdo guessed, is full of secondary energy storage devices. It's just that now I look at these full sets of automatic equipment, but I don't need them at all.

Andor opened the energy lock disks of these miners one by one, and the energy indicator did not even flash once. "Broken?" This made Nada, who had been standing beside him, very nervous. "Not sure yet. The biggest possibility is that there is no energy. Let's do it with our hands! Amdo had no choice but to carry the black stones from the rocky mountain to the fuel chamber with Nada on their shoulders.

"How long is this going to take?" Nada's body bones looked worse than Andor's. He was unusually excited when he heard Andor say that he could start this big dick. Just carrying a few baskets of black stones, his face has completely hanged. The breath is also panting, and people don't walk in a straight line anymore. If you look at how to fill it, it seems that you can't fill a position designated by Amdo. He sat down on the ground, and he didn't want to get up no matter what Andor said. "It's not something the two of us can do. You go and tell them to go, and let the old man come and they all!" I'm going to die if I make two more trips! ”

The six people who were called by Amdo to the scene, except for Old Man Mai, still looked dignified. All of them looked at the 'monster' in front of them in a daze. "What is this?" Reka secretly used her own hand to pound Andor's waist on the side. "Ultra-high pressure incineration magnetoelectric energy plant." Andor's answer was tinged with a hint of pride that could not be concealed. Old Man Mai seemed to know what he was called for. Andor didn't know why layers of rosy rose up on his face. It doesn't even need to be commanded by Amdo. He personally took a few people with his name, and he was busy carrying the bars and baskets.

"Is this old man crazy?" Amdo has seen enough these days, the old man's style of moving his mouth and not using his hands. "Crazy? He's fine! Lo and behold, your good days will come soon. Nada simply sat down on the ground, watching them go back and forth. Turning a blind eye to the disgruntled eyes cast by the old man Youxi. But when was Youxi so fooled? He shouted at the top of his lungs.

"What are you two doing there? Don't you see that the dean is all busy? He deliberately chose a moment when He Gu Mingyi and Old Man Mai both came in. Andor stood up sharply, before he could explain. Old Man Mai spoke. "Oh, Yuki. This kid is busy with Nada starting the machine. Don't mess around! The words spoken were particularly intimate. It was difficult for Andor to adapt for a while. Andor almost missed the word machine in the old man's words. watched He Gu Mingyi and Old Man Mai walk away, and the look of looking back with hatred and hatred step by step. Andor asked Nada with a bowed head.

"Old man Mai called this thing a machine?" "Oh? Do you think this old man doesn't know anything? Of all of us here, this old man is the best. Don't look at how arrogant you look. When I was young, I didn't know how many times I was cheated by Old Man Mai! It's a pity that he didn't understand it when he was old, and his intelligence only existed on the battlefield! Nada replied with ease.

Everyone gathered in front of the door of the combustion chamber. Even Yuki looked at Amdo nervously, his face full of anticipation. Mai Ziluo's dignified face couldn't hide the excitement in his eyes. Under Amdo's command, everyone stopped transporting the Blackstone. Even the others went to the lake to wash, and the wheat did not leave here. The daimyo's empty words implied that he had a patch of black ash on his face. He just raised his sleeve and wiped it on his face. After his eyes entered the combustion chamber, he never left Andor's side for a moment.

Andor was a little blindsided at this time. He suddenly realized that something was wrong. Whether it is the combustion chamber or the console, none of the indicator panels and controllers are working! The operation manual you see is the normal startup procedure. This situation is obviously very abnormal. It's like Amdo's ship. If all the instruments in the console were not working, it would be impossible for an average person to activate the multibody dynamic field.

Andor pretended to fumble between valves and pipes. While secretly looking at the rows of people who had been looking at themselves seriously. Under their earnest and solemn gaze, Andor found that he could not continue to walk between the valve and the pipe twice like this.

"Master Nada." Amdo tried to calm himself down. Looking at Nada, she seemed to turn her head proudly and looked at Old Man Mai and Yuki. Andor also saw Nada looking at Yuki. Ariki deliberately twisted his head to the other side. "What's the matter?" Nada spoke with a rare demeanor. Stand in a gentlemanly manner, standing tall at Andor's side. Where would Amdo be in the mood to care about this at this time. Seeing that Nada stopped at a distance from him, he waved to Nada anxiously. Fortunately, the days between the two have been together for a long time. Nada immediately guessed what Amdo meant.

"You didn't have the right manual!" Andor leaned closer to him and whispered in his ear. "Impossible? Our academy's mechanics have been studying for many generations. We have compared the pictures inside one by one with here. Exactly the same! Nada said to Andor anxiously. I'm not going to say that this approach is wrong. I mean, the pattern is wrong. Andor didn't know how to explain it to him.