Chapter 264: Meeting with the Tiger
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The sun gradually rose, and the off-road vehicles speeding at more than 100 kilometers of speed enjoyed the scorching sunshine in the desert environment.
"Mr. Li Yuan, how long will it take for us to get to the city we are going to?"
After sitting for more than three hours, Lux Klein, who felt a little numb all over her body, looked at Li Yuan, who hugged Frei and C.C, who knew the girl, and couldn't help but ask.
No, as in the "Gundam SEED" anime plot, the current big pink of Lux Klein was not returned to PLANT as a hostage by Natal Bucky Lulu at all. These days are spent on the Archangel, and except for Li Yuan, Marlu Ramias, and Natal Bucky Lulu who can talk to, the other outsiders on the Archangel (referring to Kira Yamato and Milia Alia) basically do not have much contact with Big Pink.
Now after landing on the earth, Li Yuan, who was thinking about important things, invited Lux Klein, who had been quietly on the ship, out, and then took the other party to the city where the Desert Tiger was located hundreds of kilometers away.
Now Lux Klein is wearing a slightly cute over-the-knee white dress and a pale green short-sleeved top, and her fair and delicate skin looks unusually dazzling in the sun. And with the conspicuous long pink hair and sunglasses she is wearing, the big pink under the scorching sun now looks full of the charm of a beautiful girl, and a hint of mystery that is not there.
"Miss Lux, there's still about two hours to go, please bear with me......
Looking at Lux Klein, who already had a trace of sweat on his forehead even if he turned on the air conditioner in the car, Li Yuan, who was now hugging left and right, shrugged his shoulders a little helplessly, and said to Big Pink very apologetically.
According to the news and maps of the Dawn Desert, the base city of the ZAFT Army in the North African Theater where Andrew Bartfield is located where Li Yuan wants to go is more than 600 kilometers away from the Dawn Desert base. And even if it doesn't leave at 5 o'clock in the morning, it will take at least five hours for the off-road vehicle to reach the destination, which is now hundreds of kilometers per hour. Although this situation allowed the Dawn Desert side to ensure that they would basically not be harassed by the ZAFT army (tigers are generally too lazy to go deep in the desert to clear out the guerrillas), for Li Yuan and his party who plan to go to the tiger's den, such a long off-road desert trip is not a good experience - especially for Lux Klein, the big pink girl, the almost unchanged desert situation definitely numbs her!
Listening to the "bad" news that Li Yuan told herself, although Lux Klein showed a trace of bitterness on her face, she still nodded and continued to sit quietly in the chair.
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More than two hours later, at almost eleven o'clock in the morning, the group finally approached the ZAFT military guard post on the outskirts of the city called Baladia.
"This is our document !!"
On one of the leading off-road vehicles, a soldier who had modulated Yuri's mind control ability didn't even bother to get out of the car, and showed his ID to the ZAFT officer in charge of the checkpoint with a swagger.
“…… Yes, sir, please come in!"
Stopping the actions of those soldiers of the security forces, the officer of the ZAFT army looked at him a little confused, then directly took the certificate and checked it for a while, then directly folded his hands and handed it back, and saluted the reinforcement soldier and said.
After seeing this situation, the other security forces, ZAFT soldiers and the two steel tank-type MSs on the sentry post had no intention of blocking it, and more than a dozen security army soldiers who realized that Li Yuan and his party might be "big shots" even moved the sentry card away, and pulled away the other convoys and crowds of people queuing up for inspection, and respectfully let Li Yuan and his party take the lead in entering the city, and even omitted the steps to check the items on the vehicle and whether there were weapons when entering the city!
"Huh? Do you still have the ZAFT military documents???" Seeing this situation, Lux Klein's eyes had a hint of curiosity, and then asked Li Yuan, who was posing on the side, with a curious face.
As the daughter and singer of the PLANT Speaker, Big Pink, who is now showing an innocent attitude, still knows a lot about the situation of the ZAFT army. Unless there were some secret departments and high-level military ID, the person in charge of the outpost just now would not have made that kind of action. But the problem is that Li Yuan and his entourage are clearly United Earth Forces, and as a member of the United Earth Space Force, how can they carry special certificates recognized by ZAFT ground force officers?
"Haha, that's the question, keep it secret......"
Regarding Lux Klein's question, Li Yuan directly hid the past with a haha.
"Humph! Stingy guy ......"
Seeing Li Yuan playing haha, Lux Klein, who had never refused before, couldn't help but puff out her cheeks, and whispered a little angry about Li Yuan's behavior.
Of course, except for Big Pink herself, neither Li Yuan, C.C, nor Frey paid any attention to this complaint, and even Frei, who was always a little wary of Big Pink, ignored the etiquette of a lady, and unabashedly made a provocative act of sticking out her tongue and making a grimace at Big Pink.
However, for the off-road vehicle team, the fighting behavior of Li Yuan and others did not affect their entry into the checkpoint and moved towards the city of Baladia.
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Later, after passing through a checkpoint with all the weapons and personnel of the ZAFT Army, Li Yuan and his party finally entered the urban area of Baladia and stopped on the side of the crowded street.
"It's really prosperous, it seems that the military discipline and governance methods of the ZAFT army are not bad......"
C.C, who took the initiative to open the door and get out of the car, instantly became the focus of attention of others, ignored the different eyes of peeps, greed, envy, and horror around him, stretched his waist and commented on the situation of people around him.
Of course, C.C's evaluation is not nonsense, in fact, there are only a handful of armies in ancient and modern China and foreign countries, even if they fight at home and cultivate good military discipline, and most of the foreign occupation forces can only ask them to get by. And now in the world of "Gundam SEED", the bustling streets and seemingly peaceful situation of the Baladians come and go, it can be seen that the ZAFT army is maintaining quite good control and order in Baladia.
"Gen, are you with her?"
Similarly, Frei, who had just stepped out of the car, but was not as eye-catching as C.C, couldn't help but ask Li Yuan after seeing that Li Yuan was not moving.
"Well, I'm going to take Miss Lux to meet the tiger, you can walk around here with the security guards first, and I'll meet you later." Listening to Frey's inquiry, Li Yuan pointed to Lux Klein sitting on the side of the carriage, and explained his next action to her and C.C.
"This ......" Listening to Li Yuan's words, the girl Fulei couldn't help but hesitate a little.
"That's it! Frei, let's go shopping around the city, just wait a minute......" For Frei's hesitation, C.C., a witch who looks like a girl but has lived for hundreds of years, is very simple, and directly pulls Frei to say hello to Li Yuan and leaves.
Of course, although she is very confident in C.C's current skills, in order to avoid some trouble when she and Frey go shopping, ten strong soldiers who are tall and wearing uniform uniforms follow directly behind the two girls as bodyguards, and take the initiative to avoid some unnecessary troubles for C.C and Frey's shopping. And there are also two off-road vehicles following them, acting as vehicles for the two girls when they go shopping and buy things.
"Then, Miss Lux, let's go meet the tiger......" After also motioning to the guide and a few reinforcement soldiers to buy food, fresh water and other supplies, Li Yuan turned his head to look at Lux Klein, who was sitting on the side, and said to the big pink who was still looking around just now.
"Well, okay! Mr. Li Yuan......"
Listening to Li Yuan's words, Lux Klein nodded and responded to Li Yuan without the slightest rudeness.
Subsequently, under Li Yuan's order, the remaining two off-road vehicles set off directly and drove straight in the direction of the Desert Tiger's residence in Baladia.
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In Baladia, the home of the desert tiger Andrew Barterfield is unusually eye-catching.
Anyone who sees the huge mansion in the city with its own garden, swimming pool, private plaza and other facilities, and double-digit Dean II MS, Baku II MS, Steel Tank II MS and ZAFT Army patrolling around it, even the first time will understand that this is definitely the place where the big names of the ZAFT Army are.
When the two off-road vehicles carrying Li Yuan and Lux Klein arrived at the outskirts of the mansion, they were directly stopped by the patrol officers of the ZAFT Army.
"Tell Andrew that tiger or Ms. Aisha Trein that there are important people to meet them!"
Looking at the ZAFT patrol team in front of him, who was half-raising his gun and asking loudly, Li Yuan simply got out of the car and shouted to the officer in charge of the ZAFT patrol team.
The former Li Yuan said is, of course, Andrew, the Desert Tiger, and the latter, Aisha Trein, is the lover of the Desert Tiger in the world of "Gundam SEED". And at this time period, one of the two must be in the mansion, even if neither of them is there, Li Yuan believes that the personnel here can quickly contact their boss!
"So, Your Excellency, can you name me?"
Hearing Li Yuan's rather loud words, the low-ranking officer of the ZAFT Ground Army couldn't help but pause for a moment, and then asked Li Yuan a question in a rather polite tone.
It should be said that this officer of the ZAFT army is not stupid, although he does not understand the big man Li Yuan who he has never seen, but when he hears Li Yuan call his boss Desert Tiger and his wife, he understands that this kind of person is either really a big man or a guy who is crazy and plans to find the ZAFT army to commit suicide on his own initiative -- judging from the situation of Li Yuan himself and the two off-road vehicles, there should be no possibility of belonging to the latter type.
However, this ZAFT officer also cautiously asked Li Yuan's name, otherwise if the tiger and his boss were dissatisfied or unwilling to see Li Yuan, it would always be a small person like him who would suffer the loss.
"Tell the two of them that the people on that boat are coming over with the eldest lady, and they should understand!"
Li Yuan didn't think much about the officer's words, nodded and said directly to him.
The ZAFT officer, who had received an inexplicable-sounding answer, did not continue to ask, but began to inform his superiors after apologizing to Li Yuan in a low voice. About ten minutes later, a woman in a blue tights that highlighted her beautiful figure walked over with more than a dozen heavily armed ZAFT soldiers.
"Pull ......" Aisha, who was wearing a rather seductive blue tights, almost shouted in surprise when she saw Lux, who also stepped out of the SUV. But fortunately, this Aisha lady was quite wise, and forcibly held back her shouting before she really shouted, and then looked at Li Yuan and Lux and her party with a look of surprise and surprise, and said in a low voice: "Sure enough, it's you, then please come with me!" Andy's words, right in the room!"
"Yes, Ms. Aisha!"
Li Yuan was unmoved by Aisha's slightly strange eyes looking at him, and responded politely.
Listening to Li Yuan's words, Aisha looked at Lux who was standing on Li Yuan's side, and found that Lux, who was wearing sunglasses and a little disguise, nodded, and then didn't say anything, but said a few words to the ZAFT soldiers on the side and led the way.
With Aisha, a woman close to the Desert Tiger, leading the way, Li Yuan and Lux entered the mansion together very smoothly. Then, under the leadership of Aisha, he went directly to a reception room that looked more comfortable, and saw the current supreme commander of the ZAFT Army in the African Theater and the Mediterranean Theater, and the man known as the nickname of the "Desert Tiger" - Andrew Bartfield!
"Miss Lux? It's really your ??!." After seeing Li Yuan and Lux come in, Andrew Bartfield, who was sitting on the seat in the room, stood up suddenly, looked at Lux with a look of surprise and shouted.
"It's me! Mr. Andrew!"
After seeing Andrew, Lux, who was standing quietly behind Li Yuan, seemed to have changed, walked straight out and took off his sunglasses, and said to Andrew with a smile. However, to Li Yuan's surprise, Lux then pointed at him and introduced Andrew who was excited and Aisha, who had just closed the door and turned around, "In addition, this is the pilot of the new Shura Gundam of the 'X' series of Gundams on the Archangel battleship that you just fought with, and the special commissioner of the 'Project G' project, Your Excellency Li Yuan!" (To be continued.) )