Xingjian left the bottom holding cabin with a depressed expression. Wearily walked into the hanging

The metal door of the elevator closed. Shut out the dark corridors of the captive chamber.

In the huge elevator, the lights are dazzling. The floor numbers on the screen are changing silently. There was no sound other than the almost inaudible sound of the reaction force suspension as the elevator climbed upward.

The whole world, terrifyingly quiet!

The fat man sighed silently and pressed the emergency stop button. The elevator immediately reacted to the command and stopped.

Slowly sat down on the cold floor of the elevator. The fat man stared at the closed elevator door in a daze.

Just now, at the moment when Barbarossa unusually revealed the hidden treasure, a Lelei soldier who hurriedly rushed into the detention chamber completely shattered his joy with a message.

The Salga Confederation withdraws from the war! The Bermuda galaxy is fully retreating, and Leray is retreating to the central galaxy!

Although he had already estimated everything that had happened in this neighboring country, when the news was confirmed, the fat man still felt a deep despair!

Outside the closed elevator door, presumably there was already a mess. These Le Lei compatriots, who had just escaped from the pursuit of the Western Fleet, were so confused and uneasy at this moment.

What about domestic? What has become of the war? Are those wall-to-wall politicians jumping out at this time trying to take Le Ray on the other path? What are the anxious Hamilton, Mihajlovich, and the teacher Russell doing at the moment? Sit in a cigarette-filled conference room for a meeting. Or is it submitting an urgent report to the High Command of the Allied Coalition?

One thought after another was mixed in my head, and my headache was like it was about to blow up.

From the day Gachalin invaded Leredi, this country that had been peaceful for three hundred years was pushed by invisible hands and ran all the way on the road of war. For the glory and freedom of this country, in order not to be conquered, groups of Lelei youths are fighting the bloody battlefield.

And this struggle. Now, it seems, how powerless.

After three years, the war imposed on the Lelei people finally came to an end.

Leray's enemies. It's no longer the Gachalin on the planet Miroc, it's Jeppen, it's Desik, it's Seuss. It's these behemoths like Binart! In the future, maybe Salga!

After three years of fighting, he was born and died again and again, but he only got such a festering and diffusing situation.

The fat man huddled in the corner of the elevator. Take out a piece of paper, draw a deduction symbol on it with a pen, next. But I couldn't figure it out. A feeling of weakness and powerlessness. At that moment struck him. Leave him breathless.

What else can I do?

***************************************

Helen snaps the camera onto the tripod and activates the energy switch.

The camera storyboard was already set up. With the red light flashing. Several shots began to be filmed.

This is already the third day of arriving at this pirate base. Same place, same shot. Every morning at 10 a.m., Helen would stand in this position for half an hour to shoot a picture, and then go to the dock to shoot a set of shots.

It's a lonely battlefield record.

All the pictures faithfully record the bits and pieces that have happened since the escape...... In this cold and dark steel base, there is a group of soldiers who have been far away from their homeland, preparing for a difficult return.

"What if you go back?"

Helen bit her lip lightly, staring blankly at the lifeless base hall in this shot.

In this secret base, there is no access to the outside world...... In order to avoid exposure, civilian networks, military communication relays, and waterway communications are all absent. The only people who can get information from the outside world are the two electronic frigates that are released every day according to the rules of pirates.

Just today, one of the frigates that went to the passenger channel to pretend to be a passenger ship joined the channel to collect information, bringing back news that everyone did not expect...... The Salga Confederation withdrew from the war.

Hearing this, all the people were stupid. And the subsequent news is even more unacceptable...... The main star of the Bermuda galaxy, Rodbia, was forced to give up due to strategic needs. Millions of troops, desperately responding to the fleet, retreated.

Jeppen Army, which has basically occupied Rodbia, and the fleet of the Western Covenant has also blocked all routes, including the marginal shipping lanes.

That means that the way home has been completely cut off!

No one could figure it out.

Salga, the same federal state, is the closest neighbor of the Levay Commonwealth, the strongest support, and the only passage to the Republic of Chakna. At this moment, her withdrawal is undoubtedly a blow to Lelei......

How could they just quit without hesitation? What's the difference between that and surrendering? The flames of war are only burning in the territory of Lelei's country, and Salga has paid nothing more than a few mixed fleets and some supplies in this war!

What do those soft-boned politicians in this soft-boned country think they can get from Seejo?

The large base hall is an oval-shaped metal building. It was on the first level below the giant transport ship on the surface.

In the center of the hall is a metal sculpture of a one-eyed pirate. The stout pirate, with a scimitar in his hand, had a hideous face and a fierce gaze looking ahead. Around his base, rows of energy arrays, thick pipes half-exposed to the ground, supplying energy to the surrounding cabins, environmental balances, and life-sustaining systems.

Outside the two-storey cabin is a railing-enclosed walkway, connected to the lobby by a metal staircase. The metal bulkheads were pinned between the beams and columns in rows of thick rows, and there was not the slightest whitewash on them, except for a few bizarre pirate graffiti.

Exaggerated genitals, grotesque naked women, pirate life, looks as shabble as graffiti.

In the camera, more and more people gather in the base hall.

After getting this bad news, the battleship was repaired in full swing. Supplies and the clean-up of the pirate base have now stopped.

The fighters stood together with heavy faces. They still have it in their hands

There were still black grease stains left on their hands, and the clothes on their bodies had already been misted in the heat.

The whole hall was dead silent, and a sad mood was spreading silently. Helen could clearly see the blankness on the faces of the soldiers in the camera, and she could deeply feel a kind of sadness, a kind of helpless despair that came out of her bones.

Who will tell these fighters who are far from the Motherland. Where do they go from here?

Who is going to tell you where you want to go?

Now think back to the beginning. When Lelei declared war on the Western Covenant nations, he stood before the people of Lelei and said that he would never be conquered. How determined, watching those young people flock to the recruiting office to sign up, watching the troops step onto the front line without hesitation. How exciting.

I have dreamed of being a war correspondent again and again. Follow behind them and use a camera to record the victory of the Federation......

And now, he can only hide in the pirate base in the depths of this universe. Use the camera to record the confusion and desolation of the soldiers. There is no boiling blood here. There are also no fierce battles, all dreaming. All after getting the news of the Salga Federation. Disappeared without a trace.

Stroking the camera. Helen discovers that her ideals lie in the face of harsh reality. It's so vulnerable.

What a war correspondent, what records history with a camera in his hand. Take a look at these shots. I'm just doing the same thing as Robinson carving dates on stakes.

When Leray was ultimately defeated in this war, these shots, in addition to being historical sources of the losers. What else does it mean?

Before. Those exciting videos that are played over and over again on TV. Those scenes of fierce, magnificent battles. It's nothing but a refinement of war by the Romantics. Only when you really set foot on the battlefield did you realize that this bloody romance is so cruel, so monotonous, and so painful!

Aimlessly flipping through the previous shots, Helen's fingers on the touchscreen gradually stopped.

On the screen, the fat man roared with a hideous face, and on the screen without turning on the volume, he could vaguely distinguish what he was scolding......

Helen shook her head, she had never been able to connect the vulgar fat man with the Federation hero.

Turning on the volume, she remembered that the next [Blue Rose], in the roar of the fat man, rushed forward like that, and was in the middle of the criss-crossing artillery fire.

At that time, I was not the slightest timid.

In that frenetic atmosphere where his mind was blank, he held the camera tightly and recorded everything that happened in the main control room.

In the picture, there is a lot of noise...... Communicators are sending signals to the flagship, observers are roaring hoarsely, and radar crews are cursing and swearing in jamming again and again to catch the signal. Everyone's face was abnormally red.

Later, the battleship accelerated and crashed into the tail of the enemy destroyer.

Steering, accelerating, disengaged...... Just like the moment when she escaped, looking at the picture at that time, a feeling of overpower numbness permeated Helen's body.

On the screen, everyone jumped up and high-fived each other!

Helen looked up and looked around, and suddenly she realized that she hadn't seen the fat man for a long time. At this time, what is the dead fat man who is always incomprehensible to people doing? Still squeezing oil out of those pirates?

Following the gaze of the warriors, Helen saw Chekov. The captain who led the [Blue Rose] smoked a cigarette with a heavy face like iron. Behind him, several battleship officers stood with the same dark faces. Not far from them is the doorway of the levitating elevator.

In the circular elevator foyer, a Leray soldier listlessly gesticulates several freight mechs to carry a mountain of old-fashioned metal munitions onto a rail trailer.

Consciously or unconsciously, every few seconds, Chekov, several officers, as well as all the fighters in the hall, looked up at the lights of the levitating elevator.

However, the indicator light is always a red fault sign.

They retract their gaze anxiously and disappointedly, and after a while, repeat it again. And for the elevators next to them that kept their doors open, they didn't even look at them!

More and more people gathered in the hall, except for the warriors of the [Blue Rose]. And the smugglers at Audrey. They also seem to feel something. The hundreds of cadets who were supposed to be in Chakner's military academy for military exchanges also stood quietly in the crowd.

There was only one person who was not there, and that was the fat man.

The one who commanded the [Blue Rose] and miraculously escaped, the most famous civilian hero of all time in Leray.

Where is he?

*********************************

Planet Rodbia, at this moment, the retreat has reached the most critical moment.

Looking down from space. Nineteen cities spread across the planet have turned into cannons. A hell filled with gunpowder.

Infantry in dark brown Lelei uniforms were in the mud of the ground where the shells were raised, and in the dense rain of bullets. Desperately resisting. Federation mechs, roaring across the criss-crossing trenches, assembling as they assembled. While firing desperately.

And only a few kilometers behind them. Countless soldiers, whose clothes still had dirt and smoke on them, were silently lining up onto the transport ship. Among them, there were the wounded, and there were paramedics and nurses carrying medical kits. There are officers holding files. There are also busy mechanics and aviation.

The transport ship kept taking off and landing.

Under the cover of the land-based air force and space fleet, there are various kinds of spaceships, large and small. It was full of Lelei soldiers and people who had left their homes. Leap into the vastness of space. Passing through the emergency passage that was still in the hands of the First Expeditionary Force Fleet in the southeast of the Filipino League, it flew towards the central star field of Lelei.

The Bermuda galaxy is lost. It's a foregone conclusion!

The flagship of Leray's Third Mixed Fleet, the [Castania], has now become a front-line command in space. Countless officers and staff officers. Rushing to and fro, noisy footsteps, roaring and electronic sounds on the ship's radio mixed in. The atmosphere was already tense.

in the main control room. pull

Sit quietly.

The whole plan was completed from the moment it became known that the Salga Federation had withdrawn from the war zone. Now the need for land, just execute.

One by one, the spaceships dragged a long stream of ionic light through the porthole of the battleship and gradually moved away. Following the Lucerne retreat, this was the second major evacuation carried out by Russell involving nearly 10 million people. These two retreats left a deep impression on Russell.

The Lelei were always able to organize themselves tightly and carry out orders in an orderly manner. No complaints, no panic. They just stepped on the transport ship in silence and left. All the ships that can be used, have already been used. Women, children and the elderly, were given priority to the ship.

One infantry division after another, armored divisions, were also neatly assembled at the front line. They will serve as a reserve to rise to the top when the situation on the front line deteriorates. Buy time for the retreat.

The Federation's fleet has appeared in the Bermuda galaxy as far as possible. They resist enemies many times their size. Heroic but not reckless. They can always entangle the enemy with the least cost, like foxes guarding their cubs.

This is a country to be respected.

Unfortunately, in this war, Leray, like Gacharin, will inevitably suffer defeat after all.

Russell sighed, looking at the interstellar map on the main console, not knowing what it was like.

As a sharp-eyed military strategist, Russell knew that in fact, as long as Le Ray could hold out for another year, the war situation would change profoundly.

Within a year, there will be a battle in the Carlston galaxy!

Sauber and Hastings, already in Carlston layout ended. The reason why there was no large-scale confrontation was because these two men were restraining their troops.

They don't want to see any changes in the situation of the universe because of the merger of the two superpowers. The change is only between the two superpowers. Their leadership position will never be allowed to be touched by others. Not even their own allies!

Therefore, the southeast star field has become a battlefield for the two great powers to test each other. They put their allies on the table one by one, and let them bite and fight.

However, there are always some countries that have their own plans.

This is true of Chakner, as is Seuss and Jeppen. These countries are not so easy to command. Every step of their action is guided by one principle, that is, national interests.

Chuckner did not send troops because he did not want to be the focus of conflict before Carlston broke out. And Seuss and Jeppen are even more ambitious. The reason why they sent troops to the Southeast Star Domain was to take Salga. Take Leray, and then take Gacharin...... Historically, these two countries have been synonymous with greed! They all dream of being the next superpower!

Each has its own delicate abacus!

However, no matter how this abacus plays. The escalation of the standoff in the Carlston Galaxy is a fact.

Both Sober and Hastings are looking for opportunities, both carefully looking for flaws in their opponents. I don't know when, they will brazenly strike a thunderous blow!

Only when these two superpowers are completely strangled in the Carlston galaxy, the two alliances. Only then will the Southeast Star Domain be released, and the focus of the war will be put back where it should be. After all, neither the Western Covenant nor the Fijian League. They can't afford to lose in Carlston.

Once the leader of the alliance fails, the chain reaction that follows will be fatal!

By that time, the Naga Federation and the Desik Empire were armies. It will be delivered by the Western Front to the Binarte Empire. And the Republic of Lane, the Republic of Chakna, of the Filipino Alliance, will join forces to resist the attack of Seuss and Jeppen. Leray will also be attacked, though. It will never be the focus of war.

It's a pity that all this is just a theory. Jeppen and Seuss. Leray will never be given the opportunity to put this theory into practice.

Don't say a year. Even half a year will not give the West Covenant! They will continue to attack. Until the Lelei channel is completely opened! And the Republic of Fyan and the Republic of Chakna may send troops when Leray is most dangerous. Or maybe it's going to attack Carlston directly......

Either way, Leray is crippled. This country will become a scorched earth and an insignificant vassal state.

Russell pointed his finger at the star chart, pointing upwards along the chart. In the three-dimensional space between the countries of Lere, Salga, Chakna, Seuss, Jeppen, Tatania, and Puditok, there is another force.

All along, this force has wandered on the fringes of mainstream society. They have their laws of existence, they have their social formations, they are a plate of loose sand, they are a bunch of bloodthirsty gangsters, they are crooks, mercenaries, gangsters, merchants, adventurers and pirates.

They are the least faithful and the most faithful, they measure everything by their strength, they murder, they steal, they rob nakedly.

There is heaven, there, and hell!

If he can get the help of this force, Leray may be able to survive it.

It is a pity that when the High Command formed a force for this region, the most suitable person to lead this force disappeared.

Is he still alive?

Where is he?

************************************

In the hall of the base, there was still silence.

Chekov smoked cigarette after cigarette, and from time to time looked at the closed elevator in a daze.

The atmosphere, in a strange silence, seemed a little depressing.

The warriors looked at their captain. They knew that the captain, like them, was waiting for the man to show up. At such a time, the man who rescued 270 prisoners of war, captured James alive, created countless miracles and came to this base with his own life, may be able to tell everyone what to do in the future.

The long wait has evolved into an expectation.

Confused and desperate emotions need to be dispelled by a person's voice.

Everyone waited silently.

Until the elevator light changed from red to green.

Watch the elevator go up the floors. Suddenly, there was a slight commotion in the hall. Everyone couldn't help but rush over.

Helen pointed the camera at the elevator door.

Either way, she needs to

own duties. The war has lost its romance, and perhaps, there will be surprises left. When the dust settles, looking back, some small details may be the turning point of fate.

Now, what should be done is to record this period of history.

The elevator doors opened.

With a puff of billowing smoke, the fat man with his hair in a mess and his collar wide open walked out with red eyes. In his hand, he also held a crumpled piece of paper covered in strange symbols. He gripped the piece of paper so tightly that it was like holding a life-saving straw!

"Colonel Tian......" Chekov greeted him: "We ......"

The fat man waved his hand.

It was different from the look on his grinning face in the past, and now the fat man's iron face. The expression is unusually hideous.

In full view of everyone, the fat man walked straight towards Helen.

Watching the fat man get closer and closer in the camera, Helen couldn't help but feel a little flustered. What did he want to do?

The fat man passed by Helen. His gaze was fixed on the huge one-eyed pirate sculpture beside Helen.

"The status of a pirate land is destined to be the way pirates store their wealth...... Except for a small number of stocks and deposits in the free port, most of them are stored in the base in the form of precious metals. ”

In the base, the voice of the fat man sounded. He seemed to be talking to himself. And it seems to be speaking to everyone.

"Unlike gold and jewelry in ancient times, today's precious metals have been around since the ancient Earth era. The rarest metal -- . ”

~|. In the ancient earth era, its pure metal was worth 500,000 times that of gold. Even today. When traditional precious metals such as gold, gold and so on have become the most common metals, ~

After some explanation, the fat man turned around. Looking at Chekov, who was following him, he said: "Now one gram, the market price is five thousand Fei Yuan!" ”

I don't know why, it's completely unrelated to the explanation that was expected. In the hearts of all. All set off an indescribable wave.

Everyone looked intently at the one-eyed pirate sculpture that the fat man was pointing to. Listen to him continue: "This three-meter high ground statue, the body is a valuable chrome alloy. And his head is all made of pure metal. ”

"Let's do the math." The fat man held his fingers.

"One kilogram~.The head of the statue is worth hundreds of millions!"

Before everyone could figure out the results, the fat man gave the answer.

"The cost of a [Bolan Rose] is only 90 million Fei Yuan. The cost of a [Shark]-class heavy cruiser of the Republic of Feiyang is only 400 million Fei Yuan! It can be said that the savings of the Redbeard Pirate Group for decades are all in this pirate sculpture land! ”

The hall was silently ......

Staring at the head of the one-eyed pirate sculpture, the fat man suddenly laughed with a hideous face.

He almost smiled and bent over: "This statue!" Enough for us to procure enough materials in Freeport, enough for us to turn this place into a military base! Although we do not have a military-industrial complex and no equipment, we have money, soldiers, and the best researchers! ”

"If we become pirates, the whole free world will be our ......," the fat man's fanatical voice echoed through the hall.

Everyone was stunned by the fat man's words.

"Our fathers and fathers bless us. Gave us such a base. Gave us pirate treasure. ”

The fat man laughed, "Didn't they cut us off our way home?" Didn't they want Lelei to fall like this? …… Don't they want to watch Lao Tzu die?! ”

"Phew!" The fat man spat fiercely: "From now on, this will be the territory of the Lelei Democratic Federation, a part of the Federation, sacred and indivisible!" We stand on the land of our motherland. ”

"Our land ......," everyone muttered blankly.

"Leray has been peaceful for 300 years, but the blood of this country has never cooled. Many people died for the sake of the country. In the future, we will also be one of them. Even if one day, Leray was captured. At least we are still standing on the land of Lelei and fighting them to the end! ”

"Fight to the end!" These four words made everyone's blood boil suddenly.

"Bermuda has fallen, in three months, what will happen to the Lelei Central Star Field, and in half a year, what will happen to the entire Lelei Federation?"

The fat man is asking. No one answered him, everyone just stared at him breathlessly, waiting for him to answer.

"I don't know!" The fat man spread his hands and smiled hatefully: "I only know...... We want peace, they give us war, we want to survive, they give us killing. We are soldiers, and our responsibility is to protect our people. And now, we can only watch as our people are uprooted from their homes, plundered by pirates in the universe, and die in the flames of war. ”

“***！ Now, there's only one way we can get revenge! ”

How? Everyone clenched their fists.

"Robbery!"

The whole hall was in chaos with the fat man's answers.

"That's right! Rob***! ”

"Grab the Jeppen, rob the Seuss! Damn, do you want to rob the Salga? ”

"And the pirates!"

This vicious thought swept away all feelings of despair and confusion. The fat man's words seemed to light a bright light in the fog.

"Tell Barbarossa and his men." The fat man said to Chekov, whose eyes were shining: "Let's go out and tell them, either, to be shot en masse." Or, follow us and be the most ruthless pirate in this star field! ”

"What is the name of our troops?" Chekov asked.

"Bandits!" The fat man made a loud noise. didn't know at all that his image of a bandit had been clearly photographed by Helen, who was stunned on the side.

Last time in Gacharin, but grabbed a base. This time, grab one!