Yasuo, a lieutenant of the Iridium Imperial Army, sat on the basketball court, holding a paper cup in his hand in a daze.

Yongjin, a comrade in sportswear, patted Yasuo on the shoulder, interrupting the lieutenant's musings.

Yongjin held a basketball, sat next to Yasuo, looked at the empty basketball court, and said: "A month ago, because of the lack of basketball courts, the crew of the Liberty Dragon and the crew of the Blue Pegasus almost pinched, so the Nuo Ye Star Facilities Management Bureau also opened a new stadium, but I didn't expect that it would not be long before no one wanted to play basketball." ”

Yasuo drank the coffee from the paper cup, his eyes far away, "You can't blame them, at this time, no one will have the heart to do anything else." ”

Yongjin sat there and quickly slapped the basketball, which bounced up and down on the ground very frequently, showing the officer's excellent touch, and he said, "Iridians will be sad to fight, this is really not like Iridium." For more than 200 years, the work of a generation, without major sacrifices and contributions, we dare not fight for our lives. I don't know if it's good or bad. ”

Kang Xiong said faintly: "It turns out that the United Empire has always been in the first universe, and there is no real opponent, in fact, we have never really let it out, but the enemy is too weak. But now that the United Empire is the enemy of the entire new galaxy, the size and power of the enemy, we are starting to get anxious. ”

Yongjin shook his head and said: "I understand what you said, that is, when some realities are revealed, it is really embarrassing." ”

"The Führer has already made up his mind, Nono will not defend to the death, and the Nono fleet will adopt mobile and flexible tactics to avoid an unfavorable head-on engagement with the enemy, waiting for the main fleet to arrive. In order to ensure the safety of the battlefield, the Imperial General Staff Headquarters requested our reconnaissance ships to carry out a wide range of activities to ascertain that there were no other enemies around us who might attack us, except for the Frost Suppression Corps. ”

Yongjin stopped the action of slapping the ball in his hand, grabbed the basketball with one hand, shook his wrist, and said: "Planning is an easy thing, but whether it is maneuvering to avoid the enemy or expanding the reconnaissance range, it will not be an easy thing for the Nono fleet. With just one omission, the rest of the work will be in vain, and it will plunge the main fleet that rescues us into a huge crisis. ”

Yasuo looked at his friend and asked, "What, don't you want the General Staff Headquarters and the Führer to come to our rescue?" ”

Yongjin smiled, he shook his head but didn't say anything negative, and said: "I'm afraid this battle will be fought for a very long time and very tragically, and we, as soldiers, have a much greater chance of dying in the war." Rather than holding on to the future for a long time and dying after experiencing the pain of various wars, it is better to die at the front, which can be regarded as a peaceful life. ”

Yasuo laughed: "You have a very irresponsible idea." ”

Yongjin put down the basketball and said to his friend very frankly: "Yes, I knew since I was a child that I was unlikely to be a hero, and my father told me that the United Empire doesn't need everyone to be a hero, what is needed is for everyone to do what they need in the position they need, and they don't need to do it well, and it's great to score 75 points." I've always done that. ”

He smiled, threw the basketball into the basket casually, turned away, and said, "But it seems that I can't even score 75 points now." ”

Yasuo didn't watch Yongjin leave, pondering the meaning of his words, and he didn't have any experience.

He looked at the city, Nono Star only built such a city, and its existence was to serve the soldiers stationed here, so it was more appropriate to say that this was a soldier's leisure base. Although it was not too difficult for the Iridium to build such a city, and it took a lot of time, it was very infuriating to abandon it like this, leaving the entire city and the entire planet captured by the enemy.

As soon as Yasuo returned to his officer's quarters, a notice of assembly came from his personal terminal. He changed into a military uniform and quickly arrived at the battleship he served, the aircraft carrier Innocent.

The captain summoned all the officers on board and a small number of senior non-commissioned officers, and the captain, who was usually unsmiling, only sat down with an opening sentence: "Are you all ready to sacrifice?" ”

The officers were stunned for a moment, and they all fell silent. Yasuo, who usually doesn't like to be in the limelight, didn't speak.

The captain glanced at his subordinates, and instead of disappointment or anger, he said, "I didn't do a good job either." ”

This made the officers noticeably more uneasy, and there was even a little commotion among the officers who were strict and disciplined.

The captain did not reprimand them, but used his most ordinary words to say: "We are Imperial soldiers, soldiers who have sworn allegiance to the Führer, and we usually don't think too much about things, we just feel how majestic we are as Imperial troops." And today, I have to reflect and remember, yes, as a member of the Imperial Army, it was originally a duty to die when we needed to. ”

The captain's expression became more serious and solemn, and he said, "The Führer does not want to make such a speech himself, because he does not seem to think that it is the right thing for the Imperial Army to die for him, but in fact, it is like this. If the Führer can't say it, I'll say it. This war that makes no sense at all, and a group of messy guys want to deny the right to exist of the United Empire, which is something that the Iridium civilization will never accept. When war comes to us, we fight back. Therefore, I beg you to die honorably for your uniform, for your fellow citizens, for the United Empire, and for the Führer, when you need to die. ”

This was a particularly sensational remark, but it made every officer, including Yasuo and Yongjin, very high-spirited, and even some of them not only sat more upright.

The captain ended up with only one word: "I will die before all of you." ”

Naturally, it comes naturally. This is the true nature of the Iridium soldiers.

Yasuo smiled at his friend with relief, "We will die, Iridium will live, good deal, done!" ”

Yongjin laughed twice, he touched the three-way lightning military emblem on his chest, and said, "I was a little worried before, with the Big Ten plus a significantly more powerful fallen empire, Iridium may really be finished. But now think about it,, even if the United Empire is destroyed, Iridium will eventually destroy these miscellaneous Big Ten and the Fallen Empire together, and this spirit has supported Iridium to this day, even if it is an enemy of the whole galaxy, even if it is against any universe, we will continue to fight. ”

Iridium people don't admit defeat even if they are broken.