Volume II: The Federation, Chapter 30: Rescue
At night, the downstairs was particularly noisy, and Tianxia found that many strange women crowded into the apartment building where they were located, and there were even more tents outside with bonfires. It was the middle of the night, but there were still women downstairs talking about the Changhe base and the commander-in-chief, the quarrels and crying had never been heard since the middle of the night, and the children and the wild cats competed to see who could bark louder, all of which made her even more irritable. Tianxia locked the bedroom door tightly and closed the soundproof curtain on the window, making the noise a little smaller.
The next morning, a violent knock on the door woke Tianxia up, she rubbed her cheeks tiredly, put on her clothes with sleepy eyes, and staggered to the door, Ciri was washing up in the toilet, she thought about it, and carefully glanced through the cat's eye at the door.
A damn half-race woman, "Luna......." Her eyes widened, and for a moment she thought she was hallucinating, how could she come here to find herself?
At the door, the instructor was leaning against the door with a smile, and when he saw Tianxia wearing defenseless pajamas and clothes, he couldn't help grinning, "Just one day later, you got up so late, and when you called me, you removed the word instructor, facial paralysis, you are really polite." ”
Tianxia remembered what she had asked her to do before, and her face was very long, "Politeness will only give me respect, what are you looking for me." ”
"Tsk, don't do this, this makes me sad," Luna pursed her lips, she stepped into the threshold with her left foot and was about to walk in, at this time, Tianxia suddenly hit her with a fist with her right hand, making Luna fall back a few steps unexpectedly, fortunately, it didn't wipe her face, Luna showed a smug smile on her face, but she was secretly surprised in her heart, this guy's speed is getting faster and faster, it doesn't look like an ordinary person.
Seeing Tianxia straighten up vigilantly, looking like she was still about to call, Luna hurriedly raised her hand to make a surrender, "You are still very resentful, think about it, after slaughtering that golden little girl, everyone will know how cold-blooded and ruthless you are in the future, and no one will dare to disobey our orders, isn't this a beautiful thing?" ”
"Why did I bother to make myself so mad," Tianxia leaned over to signal that she could come in, and then muttered, half reproaching and half hesitant, "You should have done it, you said it, the first one is yours." ”
"Because I'm a sentimental woman, alas, woman, my name is weak," Luna said with a very lewd smile, "if only my chief had known that." ”
She stepped into the apartment, looking at the spacious hall as she looked here and there, as if she had never seen any of these things.
"To be honest, in my opinion, no one should do anything, just let her catch those unlucky people who came to take refuge, anyway, Changhe Town is crowded enough, and it is also good for us to die a few unlucky people."
"That's what you think?" What this guy said before when he was educating recruits in public was completely different from what he said now, which surprised Tianxia a little, and she had always naively thought that Luna was a cold-blooded but very conscientious commander.
"I need to say some pretty nonsense in front of the recruit eggs," Luna looked into the distance and shook her head regretfully, "so that they can do their duty, but have you ever wondered why so many men stronger than me died in the capital, and I survived." ”
Tianxia shook her head.
"Because I'm not as heroic as them, I'm a fast runner," her tone was so relaxed that she thought she was joking, but Tianxia sensed that she wasn't lying. At this moment, Luna was not as righteous as when she was an instructor, she sat on the sofa and looked around again, until another strange girl came over, "Yo, facial paralysis, you also adopted a white spider privately, tsk, I didn't see it." ”
"Didn't you see it, she's not harmful at all," Tianxia saw that she didn't seem to have any vigilance at all about Ciri's appearance, and was surprised in her heart, a thought came to her mind, and she suddenly changed her words, "Have you ever seen someone like her?" ”
"Of course, the tattoo of the flames, I met one recently," Luna said bluntly, "at the Long River military base, we see some of the most senior officers every day. ”
"Is it the Commander-in-Chief?" Ciri stopped suddenly, she smiled at Luna and nodded, then sat down across from her, "Can you elaborate on that?" ”
"I don't know what to say, it's a secret from the top, after all," Luna squinted at Ciri, "but there's one thing you may not know, our heroic Commander-in-Chief Valen is dead. ”
Tianxia and Ciri shouted in unison, "Dead? ”
Luna pointed to the tattoo on Ciri's body, "Three days after this catastrophe, he will be your friend........ Although it has been kept secret from the outside world, we have all heard some gossip, he was isolated by other high-ranking military officials, during that time, ordinary people did not know what was going on above, but anyone who dared to talk nonsense was quickly dealt with by the gendarmerie and put in prison, and externally they only claimed that the commander-in-chief was busy with official business, and at that sensitive time, anyone who dared to find the commander-in-chief we would let people blast him out, everyone had to keep it secret, and no one could see the commander-in-chief, Even when the commander-in-chief ordered to meet any young girl who wanted to look for him, the commanders refused without exception. We all know that his daughter is thirty years old, but no one knows what kind of little girl is more important than his daughter. “
She seemed to know something, and it was obvious to Tianxia that she was glancing at Ciri.
"In short," she continued, "after the quarantine, we heard that the Commander-in-Chief had not undergone the changes that a normal infected person would have, that his body was neither decomposed nor swollen, and that soon the doctors decided that the tattoo was completely different from the disease of the infection, and the Commander-in-Chief was called back to his post, and that he was needed, and Valen, because that would make these foolish soldiers see that he would firmly believe that the Second Fleet had not abandoned them. But they made a big mistake, the commander-in-chief was quarantined for several days, no one was allowed to approach him, he just came out a little unclear about the current situation, plus the quarantine made him a little ....... Furious," Luna shrugged, "or rather confused, as he headed to the capital with his only elite troops, supposedly intent on rescuing his cousin, who also believed that the Second Fleet was coming, and that it was his duty to protect some mysterious Vallean royal family. “
"Royalty?" Tianxia couldn't help but poke her head out to listen, and even Ciri couldn't help but sit up straight.
"Actually," Luna curled the corners of her mouth and laughed half mockingly, "you may not know, the first time we tried to retake the capital, the Commander-in-Chief told us to find a Valenian royal family, and her priority is even greater than that of the Bundestag, ridiculous, a little girl, even more important than the Speaker, the direction of our march is not the Parliament Hall of the Federation, but an unnamed villa near the Federal High School, followed by the Vault, and the Commander-in-Chief decided that Valian was either there or in the Vault. ”
Tianxia quietly listened to her words.
"In short, although he was crazy, no one dared to thwart Valen's decision, and the day after he was released after he was confirmed safe, he regrouped the last of his elite troops and went to the capital, where his body was dragged back by the fleeing men...... After a day, I don't know who spread the death of the commander-in-chief, it is known that the only remaining living military strength of the Changhe military base has been exhausted, and other senior officers have begun to fight among themselves, some people think that they should regain the capital, some people think that they should continue to garrison the Changhe River and regroup, some people think that they should stay away from the light, flee as far as possible, it is better to hide in the mountains, or take a boat to the Genoese island near the capital to rebuild the base, the commanders disagreed, so they split each other, and the soldiers began to flee one after another when they saw that the situation was not good, The Changhe military base is completely finished, you should really stay, see how many evacuees are coming here after you leave, spider killers they haven't slept for a long time, and now they are all vying to go to the post where they are stationed in the white spider to sleep. ”
Ciri suddenly asked, "Then why would you follow his stupid orders?" ”
Luna clenched her palms into fists, her words unusually lightly, but anyone could tell that there was anger hidden in the words, "He's a damn Valyian," she said, "but we can't help it, he's the boss of the base, and we've been asked to obey our superiors since the day we entered the Long River base." ”
Tianxia glanced at the silent Ciri, who became less than a few hours after the apocalypse, while the cousin did not change until three days later, and the mutation time difference between them was several days, could there be any reason?
Tianxia coughed lightly, "So, Instructor Luna," she officially called, "what are you looking for me?" ”
"I need a team to follow me on a mission," she said, "and that's what I thought of you." ”
Tianxia was dumbfounded, "You need a recruit from me who has been training for less than two weeks?" ”
Luna cocked her feet, "The veterans have either escaped or died, and the rest have to maintain the operation of key positions, do you think it will be easy for us to find people now?" I think your marksmanship is good, how about it, I'm going to recruit you as a temporary worker. ”
Temporary workers? The word is a bit subtly unpopular, "What if something went wrong?" ”
Luna nodded as expected, "The army doesn't allow mistakes, so it's up to you to take the blame, but don't worry, little sweetheart, we will provide you with the same salary and treatment as a regular team member." ”
"What should I do? Is it for me to kill the little girl!? Or which kitten is going to strangle?! ”
"No, we're here to save people," Luna said, "to save some important professors, we need their knowledge, and we need equipment." ”
"I don't do it, I can find a safe job," she flatly refused, "I can go to logistics or medical care, I can go to the cafeteria, I can be with my friends." ”
Luna regretfully told her, "There used to be such a job, but as people from the Changhe military base continued to pour into the town, men were vying for this job, and I heard that hundreds of female students had already started to sell themselves at night." “
"So crazy?" Tianxia thought that when she went downstairs earlier, she did see some young female students who looked helpless to greet some senior non-commissioned officers, judging by their head-scratching gestures, she didn't think that they were relatives or partners of these non-commissioned officers, and Luna might not be lying.
"In addition, you may not know that in order to feed the frenzied influx of evacuees, our food supply is insufficient, and the superiors have decided to cut the supply, and the relatively easy work of logistics and medical care has been allocated less than half of the supply compared to before."
But it is enough for people to eat, otherwise no one wants to do this work, Tianxia understood that her words were half-true, for this reason, she thought about it for a long time, and finally said, "When to go." ”
"We'll leave this afternoon," Luna smiled, "we don't have much time, and our superiors don't want us to save some corpses." ”
"So where are we going to meet?"
"I'll pick you up and set off from the west gate of the town to the outskirts of the eastern side of the capital," Luna announced triumphantly, "and I'll show you your former teammates." ”