“We_wouldn’t_be_able_to_hold_on_for_ong.

(We won't last long.) ）”

The red-haired Arya looked at the display screen in front of her, her face was full of gloom, and the manta rays on the analysis image were like dying animals after being torn apart by the tyranny of a fierce beast, and all the data showed a red alert.

““Captain，HQ_message_is_coming.

(Captain, there's a signal from headquarters.) The busty female team member who had been with Emily in the hallway earlier reported.

“Put_it_through,Bonnie.

(Pick it up, Bonnie.) Red-haired Arya nodded to the female team members.

Bonnie flicked the button that flashed green in front of her, and a hologram from the headquarters appeared between Arya sitting in the captain's seat and the crew in front of her.

The upper body image of a young officer of Meda Busoya with eagle-like sharp eyes, deep sunken eye sockets, sharp dark brown eyebrows, and an angular face like a knife appeared, and his short dark brown hair, which was tightly combed to his scalp, shimmered in the light, and the two diametrically opposed temperaments of cold fury and subtle Sven in his eyes were enough to freeze everyone who saw them. He was dressed in an iron-gray military uniform with a stiff stand-up neckline, two-bar three-star epaulettes showing his rank of colonel, broad shoulders, a tightened abdomen, tall and lean, and leather gloves on his hands, revealing his paranoid near-cleanliness.

The moment I saw him, I could feel a chill in my face, like a cold and charming devil coming out of hell.

"Hmm, Victor (hmph, Victor) ......" Nakahisa saw the man on the screen, about twenty-five, calling out his name, and his tone was mixed with hostility.

"Yesterday," Victor began, with Yanin subtitles played—an internal declaration of warfare:

“The_17th_November_of_the_15th_MeYa_years—A_day_which_will_never_be_forgotten–The_rebels,who_gathered_in_the_Mirage_old_town,brazenly_betrayed_the_trust_of_Meya_union_ government,and_broken“The_2nd_Mirage_treaty“after_the_war. In_addition,it’s_destroyed_the_hard－fought_peace_built_by_the_people_of_Medarbussoya_and_Yanin.”

(November 17, 15th year of the American-American calendar—a day of shame that will always be remembered—The illegal rebels in the old city of Mirage have blatantly betrayed the trust placed in them by the coalition government of Asia and the United States, violated the provisions of the Second Mirage Treaty after the war, and shattered the peace that had been established together by the people of Meda Busoya and Yaning for a long time.) ）

As_supreme_commander_of_Meya_union_government_in_Mirage,I_command_all_suppression_forces_clearly_convey_the_following_message_to_the_rebels_in_the_old_town.”

(As the commander-in-chief of the joint Asian-American government's mission in Mirage, I ask all the troops involved in the crackdown to clearly convey the following message to the old city:)

“Meya_government_will_make_very_certain_that_this_form_of_treachery_shall_never_endanger_us_again！”

(The coalition government of Asia and the United States will ensure that this form of treachery gets a bloody lesson and never happens again!) ）

He began with the words "God_be_with_us. (God is with us.) As the end of the speech, before the end of the holographic video, you can also hear the roar of the soldiers in the audience who filmed the video to express their allegiance.

The red-haired Alia looked at the screen: "So, Medarbussoya_has_already_started_the_suppression_in_the_old_town.

(Sure enough, Meda Busoya has officially cracked down on the Old Town.) ）”

“Fxxk！” Zhong Jiu turned his head sideways and whispered to himself: "If you don't move early or late, just when we are retreating, and for a mere urban area, you actually use the Valkyrie, regardless of our life or death?!" ”

——————－

The ruins of Imperial Park, in front of the central lake, have been evacuated or moved to other war zones due to the previous melee between the Revival Society and the Manta Rays, which have turned this place into a graveyard of steel ruins and flesh, coupled with night air raids by bat fighters and Valkyries. But there was still an emaciated female figure on the ruins, and under the night shrouded in the surrounding firelight, she reluctantly moved the broken copper and iron or the bloody human stumps that had fallen apart.

"Prince! Prince! Do you hear me? I heard the reply! Her voice was hoarse, her cat-like cheeks were streaked with tears, and she tore around the graveyard in the hope of finding the prince beneath the wreckage, despite the sharp edges of steel that had broken through her clothes, and her arms and hands and feet had scratched, and her face was covered in blood and oil.

"Kiki, forget it, we've been looking for a few hours......" The bear who was searching with him finally stopped, looking at her, he was now back to human form, and he was also injured all over his body, and his left eye was so red and swollen that he couldn't open it. For two days in a row, the yaksha had almost crushed his strong body and taken away all his nutrients, and now he didn't look like his nickname at all, his skin was shriveled and clinging to the broad skeleton, as if a set of air-dried skins had hung on a coat rack, and he looked extremely depressed.

"You talk nonsense! The prince will be fine! How could something happen to him! Kiki's voice was hoarse, ignoring the bear's dissuasion, and she continued to bury her head in the wreckage of a car below.

"He's the crown prince! As long as he is good, I will be obedient in the future, and I will never be temperamental again! ”

"Yes, the crown prince, he must be fine." The bear stood up and staggered over to her.

Kiki then turned around and looked at the bear. Her eyes were red and she sniffed, "Brother Xiong, you think so too, don't you?" ”

The bear nodded and repeated: "Well, the prince must be fine." ”

Kiki laughed, she usually has a perverse and willful personality, but as long as she mentions the prince, she cares that she is too nervous. But then her pupils dilated and she lost her luster—it turned out that the bear took advantage of her relaxation and punched her in the abdomen, knocking her unconscious.

He carried her onto his shoulders and turned to look around. The perimeter of the Imperial Park has been surrounded by a sea of fire, and the place where I grew up has been burned to the ground. In the distance, the city was full of bat fighters, as if a flock of birds surrounded their prey. "Brother Xiong, let's go!" The Renaissance folks under the rubble shouted at Bear - they had a car waiting for Bear and Kiki, "Headquarters has warned all members of the team to go to the shelter immediately!" ”

The bear raised his hand to wipe the tears from his eyes, and limped down the ruins with Kiki on his back.

Behind him, a strange pink-colored gas spreads out......

The Bat fighter in charge of the air raid is hovering the giant red fighter Valkyrie in a cluster, reporting the latest battle situation.

One of the Batfighters' machine gunners looked through the porthole of the plane into the city below, and was surprised to find a pink gas mixed in with the smoke of the war.

“Hi,buddy,what’s_that?

(Hey, buddy, what's that?) The machine gunner asked his fellow driver in the front row.

The driver was also curious to observe through the monitor in front of him, and he further zoomed in on the picture on the ground, and found that the pink gas was spreading through the air at a rapid speed, quickly enveloping the entire area and invading the air.

The song was playing on the car radio:

"I think if I make it clear,

That's going to be stupid.

If there's a way to remember me without hurting~"

Kiki wakes up from a coma with a slow and melodious song playing on the radio in the car.

"When are you still listening to the radio??! The bear on the co-pilot in front asked the driver next to him, dumbfounded.

"How do I know?! This TM broadcast is broken, and it can't be turned off! The driver, who was speeding to the shelter, replied angrily.

Kiki stared blankly out of the car window, the street scene rolled backwards, as if in an old movie, the pink smoke from the ground to the sky chased them, rolled up beside their car, gently stroked the car window, from the outside to the inside of the different shades of pink Ambilight, bringing color to the car, the street, the bat plane, and even the entire old city.

"The quiet inclination of this world,

Quickly crush the good time,

I am gentle near, your heart knows, I am pink,

I'm pink~

I'm pink~

I'm a pink ......"

—————

"Come_on, lads!" (Hurry up, girls!) ）Go! Go! Go!”

The red-haired Arya urged the team to quickly and orderly make their way through the narrow corridor into the equipment room—a few minutes earlier, the red-haired Arya had just made the decision to abandon the ship—the damage to the manta ray rescue plane was no longer enough to sustain everyone on.

"This is your Exosuit, and Lisa will teach you how to do it!"

The red-haired Arya pointed to a silver-white titanium alloy mecha in the equipment room, which was about two meters tall and two hundred and forty kilograms, and said to Hong Yuesheng in Yaning. This set is one of the armor in the room, which is neatly lined up. The heavy armor that completely envelops the human pilot is equipped with eighteen swivel joints throughout the body, which are highlighted in red, allowing the diver to maneuver his arms and legs in the deep sea to allow him or her to maneuver his arms and legs in the deep sea.

Unable to continue riding the manta rays, the team had to swim the last leg of the journey on their own while wearing deep-sea diving suits.

“Others,on_your_position!

(Others, take your seat at once!) )”

Before Hong Yuesheng could ask any questions, the red-haired Arya had already hurried away to continue arranging the actions of the other members.

"Is this the same mech I was wielding?" Hong Yuesheng asked the doppelganger of the artificial intelligence Lisa in the equipment room.

"The Exosuit has a different purpose than a land mech," Lisa's answer to a technical question was serious and meticulous: "It is the most advanced atmospheric diving system (Atmospheric_diving_system) to date, and it is designed to provide the operator with a suitable equipment for deep underwater survival, and the diver will be subjected to the same pressure as on the ground, so that he will not be harmed by the pressure of the deep sea. The Exosuit is equipped with four thrusters to assist the diver in moving quickly, and it carries electricity and oxygen to keep the diver alive underwater for 50 hours. ”

"Put it on and you're a pilot in the water." Emily also happened to run into the equipment room and spoke. After being saved, she had just replenished her calories and finally recovered.

The green snake and the white tiger in front of them had also separately penetrated into the Exosuit assigned to them, but even with the assistance of Lisa, their ability to manipulate the mecha was very clumsy, and they were currently in a mess with the wires around them, which was inseparable.

"Except, of course, these two fools......" Emily looked at the two people in front of her who had fallen home, her face black. But the words have obviously softened a lot. Hong Yuesheng next to her couldn't help but be amused.

"Take care." Emily looked back and instructed Hong Yuesheng.

"Hmm." Hong Yuesheng nodded.

"Emily!" The red-haired Arya beckons at the end of the gear room and asks Emily to come over and help.

"I'm_coming. (Coming)!" Emily replied, and then said to Hong Yuesheng, "I'll go." "Run in the direction of the red-haired Arya.

“Team_One,Go! (Group 1, Departure)"

The team members wearing Exosuit equipment were in groups of three, and the first group members had already entered the isolation cabin, and after the isolation cabin was filled with water, the red-haired Arya gave an order, and the first group of team members were sprayed with manta rays.

Where is Nakaku? Only then did Hong Yuesheng realize that there was no Zhongjiu.

"Where's Zhongjiu?" Hong Yuesheng shouted at the green snake and the white tiger, and the plump female team member Bonnie who answered in the corridor before was taking the initiative to help the two of them untie the wires wrapped around their bodies.

"The big boss was still with the two of us just now, why did he disappear in a blink of an eye?" The green snake was originally blushing and waiting for Bonnie's chest to arc, but when he heard Hong Yuesheng ask himself, he quickly replied, and then looked at the white tiger, who also shook his head.

While talking, I saw Zhongjiu come out of the bathroom with a cane.

"Oops, it's weird to urinate frequently when you're in a hurry!" Zhong Jiu saw Hong Yuesheng and chattered with a sad face.

Hong Yuesheng looked at him: "You can't be afraid of water, right?" ”

"Go, go, what are you talking nonsense?" Zhong Jiu glared at him: "Uncle, I'm not afraid, can I scare my grandfather by just swimming?!" ”

"After a while, when you enter the sea, it's all water, and you don't know how to urinate?" The white tiger muttered silly.

"Shut up!" Zhongjiu pointed at him, "Don't interject if you didn't let you speak." ”

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, big boss." The green snake hurriedly compensated his younger brother and glared at his younger brother.

Zhong Jiu walked two more steps forward on crutches.

“Team_Two,readytogo! (Group 2, Departure)"

Through the window of the isolation chamber, the sea water can be seen completely overflowing the second group.

"......" Zhongjiu looked at Zheng for a moment, then turned around and walked back.

"Hey! Where are you going? Hong Yuesheng was anxious.

"I'll go pee and pee again." Zhong Jiu limped back to the bathroom.

Boom!

There was a muffled sound, and everyone present stopped squeaking...... It turned out that Hong Yuesheng grabbed the Exosuit helmet in his hand, caught up with Zhong Jiu, who had just turned around, and hit him on the back of the head. As soon as Zhong Jiu rolled his eyes, he fell to the floor in the shape of an inverted "out" figure.

"The ...... of the second master This ......" the green snake was dumbfounded, and stretched out his hand not knowing what to do.

Emily burst out laughing at the isolation hatch.

The red-haired Arya snorted, but in fact, she thought that someone should have taught him a lesson.

The tank girl walked up to Hong Yuesheng, who was two heads taller than Hong Yuesheng. Hong Yuesheng looked up at her and said:

"He'll leave it to you next."

The tank girl nodded.

The manta ray's body has begun to crumble, and most of the team members have been ejected from the main ship. When Hong Yuesheng was projected into the water wearing Exosuit equipment, it was a little awkward at first, the buoyancy of the seabed was very different from the feeling of moving on the ground, and the equipment was very heavy. But thanks to his ability to manipulate mecha beyond ordinary people, he soon mastered the essentials, and the feeling of discomfort slowly disappeared. The Exosuit's perfect pressure control means he doesn't have to adjust the ear pressure that novice divers have to deal with, and the sound of his breathing gradually changes from a heavy wheezing to a steady sound. He was able to master his balance and maneuver the movement of the Exosuit's arms and legs, making his gear light and agile. Despite the fact that visible light is almost non-existent in the deep sea, he finds the head light switch, turns it on, and looks around for manta rays and his teammates.

“Get_out,Now! The_door_is_closing! (Come out!) The door is closing! )”

Hong Yuesheng could hear the red-haired Alya's warning from the helmet's communication system, and the tank girl and Zhongjiu were still in the manta ray, and they were the last two people. When Hong Yuesheng's headlamp finally hit the manta ray, it was being crushed by the water.

"Nakajiu!!"

“Tank！！”

The team members in the sea all watched the manta rays with bated breath, worried about the safety of Tank Girl or Nakaku.

A moment of tranquility, but it seems like a year is long.

Suddenly, the door of the isolation chamber was ejected, and a large number of water bubbles gushed out. It turned out that the tank girl kicked open the hatch alive before the water submerged her, and she carried the manta ray, which was about to sink to the bottom of the water, carrying the shoehorned into the Exosuit on her shoulder, and still in a coma. The team erupted in cheers and cheers through the communication device.

"Goodbye." Hong Yuesheng heard Lisa's goodbye voice from the helmet.

"Why did you say goodbye?" Hong Yuesheng hurriedly asked, "You are an artificial intelligence, can't you exist anywhere?" ”

"I'm from the manta ray's parent computer, and there is no internet under the sea to upload my data. Therefore, if the manta ray is gone, it means that I don't exist either. ”

"But Lisa, there must be something to ......" Hong Yuesheng anxiously shone the headlamp back to the sinking manta ray.

"I'm glad to be able to talk to you." Lisa continued word for word,

"You've done something amazing."

The manta fish suddenly struggled to swing its triangular fins, ignoring the fact that more movements would hasten the demise of its limbs—it used its two wings to spread out, mimicking the movement of a pigeon's wings, and at the same time, the lights were fully turned on for the last time, as if to release the last brilliance of life, and an energy beyond a simple creature or machine burst out of the manta fish's body, flew towards Hong Yuesheng, and became one with him.

The other team members were shocked by this strange sight and couldn't close their mouths in surprise.

Hong Yuesheng, who never flicked her tears, suddenly burst into tears, and she was speechless with a whimper.

With the last of its strength, the light system around the manta fish stopped functioning, and its body shattered and became fragmented.

Emily swam up to Hong Yuesheng and patted him lightly on the shoulder. "Let's go, go to the New World."

Hong Yuesheng stared at the sinking manta ray, pressed his hand through the Exosuit to the position of his left ventricle, and recalled everything before, what it looked like, what he had had, and what he had lost...... The team around him turned on the thrusters behind them one after another, spewing out long air currents that pushed out like comets with long tails.

"Goodbye." He said as he looked at the manta rays that had finally sunk into the bottomless black hole at the bottom of the sea.

"I promise myself that if I have the opportunity, I will get back what I have lost, and I will take the opportunity no matter what it takes."

As the proverb says:

Anger and pain, struggle and faith, are the bridges that open up a new world.

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On November 17, 15 years after the defeat of the "Asian-American War", on the anniversary of the establishment of the new American-American coalition government, the Revival Society, a radical anti-American organization with the motto of "tireless fighting for the country", set off the largest mass protest and armed independence activity since the war in the mirage of the capital of Yaning, and once controlled most of the old city. But after a brief gain of just one day, it was brutally suppressed by the forces of the US-Asian coalition government.

After heavy losses on both sides of the war, it eventually ended in the loss of contact with the entire region, and further information was strictly sealed off, and the truth and exact casualties were unknown, writing the darkest chapter in Yaning's history, which became widely known as Black November.

Excerpt from Once Upon a Time in the Empire, Unification and Division: Black November, Finale.