Chapter VII: Captured
Chas laughed like a hunter has caught his prey, and Iluel's heart thumped, and she turned and ran.
Suddenly, two heavily armed soldiers jumped down from the two large trees in front of her, blocking her path with expressionless faces.
From behind Illur came the unhurried voice of Chas: "Lorca, Lot, my dear warriors: this young lady is lost, please escort her back to the camp to restβtake it with me!" β
"Let go of me!" Luer struggled, but couldn't get rid of the restraint of the two soldiers, "Why did you arrest me?" I didn't offend your Saint Star Army. What barracks are you from? β
"Guess what?" Chas walked leisurely behind them, admiring the tug-of-war between the three of them advancing one meter and then half a meter back: "You can only blame yourself for breaking into my forbidden place by mistake, but it's exactly what I wantβ"
"It hurtsβhelp! Is there anybody? - "A soldier tugged on Lu'er's shoulder, and she began to scream in defiance, and the soldier covered her mouth.
Chas pouted disdainfully: "Don't be so unsightly, here are my elite, you are so screaming, the other soldiers think I brought back a madman." What are you staring at me with such big eyes, bulging like a toad! β
"You ......" Lull pointed to his nose, almost angry. This guy would dare to compare such a cute girl as her to such a disgusting animal.
"Let's blow the truce horn - there are already people watching it below." Chas interrupted her and mouthed out towards the valley nunu. Apparently it was Lull's cry that intrigued the sentinels, and the sentinels who had been standing guard with expressionless faces looked up with great interest, wondering if their commander was doing something evil.
"See," Chas frowned, "my reputation is going to be ruined in your hands." Take her down! β
Annoyed, he jumped down a stone hill. The two soldiers also jumped off with Lul on their heels, but they hit the ground. One of them involuntarily let go of her with both hands on the ground - good chance! Lul quickly shook off their restraints and rolled over to climb to the top of the stone mound.
"I'm not afraid of you running away because you don't know which way to get out of the forest." As she scrambled up the rocky hill, Chas's damned voice rang out behind her: "This is already the bottom of the canyon, the heart of the primeval forest, and I bet you won't even be able to find where you got lost." β
Hearing this, Lu'er's body froze, and he fell back into the hands of the two soldiers.
Chas led her to one of the mushroom-shaped protrusions, where a sentry solemnly saluted him and then tapped the button at the top of the mushroom with his right hand.
"Boom...... ......" Lul felt a flurry in his heart when he heard a strange mechanical sound coming from the soles of his feet, and the sound seemed to open the gates of hell, and the small piece of ground they were on was peeling off the surrounding land and descending rapidly, while the fracture in the ground above their heads was healing again. In front of Lull, a completely different world had appeared, and down the steps, two rows of soldiers bowed slightly, and greeted them with great respect, nay, to be precise, to greet Chas.
As soon as Chas stepped onto the aqua-blue carpet on the steps, the soldiers on either side immediately knelt on one knee.
"Greetings to Director Kechana!"
Kechana? Ilul froze in place. How can it be? This "forest keeper" who seems to have abducted her to this forbidden place in the dense forest for some reason is the most perfect dream prince in the eyes of the Jiaxing girl, the director of the Seventh Army Kechana in charge of space defense and anti-terrorism? She looked at Chas carefully, no wonder she had always felt a little familiar, damn it, how could she not have thought of it.
"Have you studied me enough?" He scoffed lightly.
"You...... You're really the ......" Luer was so embarrassed by his words that she stammered.
"Don't open your mouth so wide, be careful that bugs fly in." Director Kechana turned his head and smiled faintly, the earrings with a mysterious aristocratic atmosphere shimmered blue in the changing light. Luer finally realized: that was the sign of the head of the Holy Star Army.
"But you...... Why lie to me that my name is Chas? β
"I swear I didn't lie to you," he said in a somewhat amused tone, "and Chas is my nickname." β
"You said you lived in the ...... of the forest," Lull reluctantly snapped her tongue. Yes, he does live in the forest, and he is the master of the forest. He also knew where his ambush was on the grass and trees, and he had deceived her without telling a single lie.
While Luer was annoyed, a question arose: "Since you said that this is a forbidden place, why do you go to great lengths to bring me in such an irrelevant ordinary person?" β
Kechana looked directly at her, "Yes, this is indeed a strictly secret military forbidden place. All trespassers are in and out. But based on my instinct for you in the exam room, you may have a very good and strange potential in you...... Do you want me to invest in you and make you a great guardian of the sky? β
Lu Erlen paused for a moment: "What potential?" Isn't it just to soak in the holy spring for a longer time? β
"It's more than that, trust my instincts!" Kechana looked at her and said calmly, "Because only you can identify the disturbance of high-energy particles around the cockpit and make accurate judgments." β
Luer was taken aback: "How do you know that I have a disturbance in the exam?" Don't... Is it your troublemaker?? β
Kechana smiled slightly and admitted unequivocally: "That's right, it was a test item I secretly added, and all the technicians and examiners didn't know about it." β
Luer was depressed now, daring to feel that her failure to pass the exam was caused by this nosy director of the Holy Star Army, she tried to calm her tone: "Then you can at least come forward to explain to the judges and restore my score." β
"Test items cannot be exposed. Although you have been selected now, I can still train you secretly, how about it? Haven't you always wanted to go to space yourself? β
This sentence said to Luer's heart: "Of course I think about it, can I really do it?" β
"Be my soldier, get trained, and everything is possible." Naturally, the clever Kechana will not overly talk.
"Okay, I accept it!" Luer made a decision, even though she was reluctantly coaxed and lured, but the most important thing is to achieve her goal.
"Lhoga," Kechana tilted his head to the soldier beside him, "the room in Area C is cleaned up, you can take her over." β
Luer suddenly realized: "Oh, it turns out that you have already arranged it, and it is the same whether I agree or not." What else do you ask me for? You're a man..."
"Why are you so rude?" The soldier who had just escorted her here interrupted her unceremoniously, and put on a half-serious and half-sarcastic face, "Director, this is a serious respect for you, I really don't know what to do, but you don't even want to say a word of thanks?" β
Even though Ilul still had doubts in her heart, she had no choice but to return the salute honestly: "Thank you, Director." β
"Get up, there's no need to be so formal, this is not at headquarters." Kechana faintly motioned for her to stand up.
Luer suddenly thought about why she always felt that "Chas" was a little strange just now, his calm and proud noble temperament was not something that ordinary people could pretend to be, even when he pretended to be a forest keeper to tease her, he couldn't hide it.
A Saint Star Director who could command tens of thousands of Gastar space fleets was standing in front of her. It's incredible! I still remember that on her birthday, she and her friends still regarded him as an unattainable figure and talked nonsense there. For a while, she was a little slow to react, and her heart was like a hemp rope that she couldn't understand. There have been so many things that have happened around her lately, and it seems that this is just the beginning. From the moment she saw the photos of her biological parents, that peaceful and carefree life had quietly left her.
"Go down with Luojia, tidy up your room, and I'll have something to tell you tomorrow." Kechana gestured and sent Ilul, who looked confused.
Seeing Luel's petite figure disappear away, Kechana suddenly frowned, remembering the biological father that Ilul had mentioned.
"Garson Yi? I seem to hear this name somewhere. If they were Ilul's parents, then ......"
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It was late at night, the lights in the archives had not yet been extinguished, and Kechana sat at his desk, carefully searching the list on the screen.
"Found it!" Kechana read in a low voice: "Garson Yi, in the first year of the Reims era, he was the chief of the Gadi Star Axis Insect Navigation, in charge of the Star Axis navigation passage from Gadi to the home planet Earth; Rejuesi, 2657~2667, served as the joint leader of the Gastar counterintelligence organization, and his wife Vilisal was from the Fog Star royal family. β
The following line continues: "Liu Lan, a Gaxing scientist, is in charge of the project to maintain the Earth's star axis passage with Garson and Rejue, and Liu Lan and Garson are married. In 2667, the star axis suddenly exploded, and all objects in a radius of 10 kilometers around the star axis evaporated without a trace in the hundreds of millions of degrees of heat generated by the collapse, and the negative energy fountain on the moon disappeared from there. Within 10 hours of taking away the nuclear energy and returning to the star axis, the star axis collapsed, and was seriously suspected of being sentenced to death by the fog star court for the crime of destroying the star axis, and was later executed in 2671. β
"It turned out to be really them!" Kechana stood up and stared at the beautiful starry sky outside the window, "That poignant love legend is probably about to be forgotten......
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Kechana looked out the window at the quiet night sky, remembering the first time he had seen Ilul's extraordinary performance on the lookout during the day, and her innocent melancholy and stubborn appearance appeared in front of him again, and Kechana couldn't help but smile on his lips. After revealing her secret as a forest master, he decided to leave her behind. Even if he is charged with "kidnapping" for this, he will not hesitate to do so. With his feelings, Ilul will come in handy in the future.
Of course, all this is just his personal conjecture, and even he is not very sure. The people of the Holy Star Temple have always been full of confidence, who would have hope for such a little girl? Therefore, secret cultivation is the best way, and as for her family, I am afraid that they will be even happier for her. Since Ilul wants to go to outer space so much, she will inevitably cooperate with him obediently. He confidently began to plan for her future training, and with this elf in his presence, it seemed that the monotony of military life had been somewhat adjusted.
The next morning, however, something went wrong. Ilul, gone......