Chapter 28: Revitalization
"I heard that you may receive a knight's Iron Cross when you return to Berlin this time! There are less than 200 people in the entire empire who can have this honor! Of course, I'm not questioning you, your record deserves this honor. β
Red Skull couldn't hide his envy, but his tone was sincere and he didn't have much jealousy. During this raid, Qin Lun first gave the crucial plan to let the Gneisenau shell Casablanca. Although the bombardment plan almost brought disaster to Casablanca, it also won the "League of Gentlemen" a front-line fighter in the Allied Iron Curtain.
Although the raid was rewarding, mainly due to Lily and Xiaolian's intelligence guidance, the "Gentlemen's Alliance" was not aware of this. Skorzny only looked at the final result, and this result was that Qin Lun and Grant found the research materials of the "Super Soldier Project", and Joey killed the only superhuman Catlyn on the other side.
"The results are due to all the gentlemen, and I personally just got lucky!" Joey stared at the red skull with Gerthard's light gray pupils, his chin slightly raised like all proud German soldiers.
"Luck only belongs to those who are prepared!" The Red Skull looked down and sighed, looking at the Iron Cross of the Second Class on his chest, his expression a little depressed.
"You are not a super pilot and sniper, nor are you the commander of an army unit, you can be awarded the Iron Cross of the second class, and the honor in it is not inferior to mine!" A hint of cunning flashed in Joey's eyes, and he suddenly comforted the silver-faced man with righteous words.
"Thank you!" Red Skull gave Joey a grateful look.
Although Joey didn't really praise Red Skull, his words weren't wrong in some way. The Iron Cross of the Third Reich was the first rare military medal of honor during World War II.
There are five degrees of ordinary iron crosses, the lowest of which is the Iron Cross of the fifth class, which is currently counted and distributed more than 5 million, and the fourth class of iron crosses also has hundreds of thousands of recipients. These two low-level iron crosses are more like a kind of small pin in terms of structure, and they don't even have a medal.
It is only from the Iron Cross of the Third Class with a ribbon that it is truly a medal. However, the difficulty of obtaining the Iron Cross of the Third Class and above has skyrocketed. So far, less than 100,000 German soldiers have been awarded the Iron Cross of the Third Class.
And the third-class Iron Cross is basically the highest level of honor that German soldiers can obtain, which is not that the high-level Iron Cross is not issued to soldiers, but that they will not live to that time. In addition to super pilots and snipers, they are basically army officers who command troops above the company level, captains of warships and submarines, and so on.
These people have a much higher survival rate than ordinary soldiers in order to live to receive the glory of the Iron Cross. According to Baron Stark, the commander of the Hydra Force, Red Skull was only a special non-commissioned officer before he became a superpower, and he was able to obtain the Iron Cross of the second class, which shows his heroic and tenacious character.
"Why does Baron Stark call you Red Skull, your real name ......" Joey looked at Red Skull's silver mask with some confusion.
ββ¦β¦ After I became a superpower, I decided to give up my original surname for the sake of the Empire. The Red Skull was silent for a while, then slowly reached out and took off the silver mask on his face, "As for why it's called Red Skull, just look at it!" β
Joey looked face to face at the red skull who had taken off the silver mask, his pupils slowly dilated, and his eyes lit up with a dazzling brilliance.
"That's really...... Beautiful! Unconsciously, the "Dissecter" actually spoke Huaxia, and it was not until the corner of his eye noticed his arm that he had raised at some point, and the killer was startled and realized that he had lost his temper.
"Ahem, I'm sorry, I lost my temper, your face is really ......" Joey retracted his hand in embarrassment and rubbed it embarrassedly.
True to its name, the Red Skull Man not only has no hair on its entire skull, but even the typical high nose of Westerners is missing, leaving only two small holes. The skin of the emaciated face was like blood-red lizard skin, which was formidable, and the whole head resembled a skull covered in blood.
"After Steve Rogers became Captain America, he fought the Hydra many times in special operations. To tell you the truth, we have more losses than we won, and we often have to rely on the bravery of our soldiers to hold Captain America back. Since then, the Hydra Force has been eager to get their hands on the Allied 'Super Soldier Project'. β
The red skull blinked its somewhat transparent blood-red eyelids, and in the dry eye sockets, the white eyeballs as large as ping-pong balls looked extremely terrifying, "After many efforts, we have achieved a small number of results, and the way I am now is the masterpiece of this incomplete achievement!" β
Red Skull pointed to his blood-colored skull, "At that time, dozens of elites of the Hydra Force were involved in the real yΓ n, and I was the only one who survived. I gained powers similar to Captain America, but I lost my human face. β
"It's a pity, if those empire's elites could wait until now, I believe they wouldn't have to pay such a huge price!" Joey shook his head with a pretended sigh, the corner of his eye staring at the red skull's blood-colored head, a subtle hint of greed flashing in his pupils.
"Can't wait, at that time, the United States had just entered the war, whether it was a local special operation or the needs of political propaganda, the empire needed someone to stand up against the Allies with new weapons.
At that time, neither side of the secluded superhumans joined the war. On the battlefield of a group of ordinary people, a Captain America suddenly appeared, and the shock can be imagined, almost equivalent to the British tank that appeared in the First World War! Red Skull put on his silver mask again and said with a wry smile.
Joey looked at the red skull that got up and left and licked his lips, an inexplicable glint flashing in his eyes. This is a soldier who is crazy about honor, and in some kind of Cheng dΓΉ, he is no different from a few murderers.
No wonder he envied his Iron Cross of the First Class, not because Red Skull felt that the Iron Cross of the Second Class did not contain honor. Rather, he thinks that the Iron Cross, which he obtains by virtue of his dedication to superpower, is not as real as the Iron Cross obtained on the battlefield.
Joey almost revealed his true colors just now, but fortunately he reacted in time, if he touched the blood-colored skull like a pervert, he would probably make everyone in the room nauseous.
The red skull with its back to Joey had a hint of doubt in his eyes. His senses were keen, and despite Joey's cover-up, he could tell that something was wrong with Gerthard.
It's just that Gerthard's strange appearance is not like the others, shocked by his ugly and terrifying face, but more like seeing the hunting heart, full of ...... for himself Admire. Red Skull shuddered in his heart, he knew that his thoughts were a little disgusting, but this was indeed his perception just now.
Thinking of this, the brave German soldier did something that he regretted for a long time, and the Red Skull turned around and asked Gerthard, that is, Joey, "Ensign, you seem to appreciate my appearance!" β
As soon as he finished asking, the room suddenly fell silent, although the other members of the "Gentlemen's Alliance" around him did not look back at this side, but judging from the ears pricked up by these people, almost everyone's attention was on this side.
Sensing the curious gaze around him, the red skull immediately regretted his bowels and hurriedly said, "Please forget what I just said, this is really rude!" β
"It's nothing, it's just that you remind me of the first time I went to war. When the bullets flew off the skulls of the enemy, the red and white blood flower I saw through the sniper scope was as stunning as your face! Joey tugged at the corners of his mouth with a strange expression, revealing an ugly smile.
Stunning ...... The blood-colored face behind the silver mask twitched slightly, and compared to the super-grade sniper in front of him, the heroic red skeleton suddenly felt that he should be a normal person. If you have to be like Gerthhard to get the highest honor on the battlefield, then the Iron Cross of the First Class doesn't seem to be so attractive.
If the room was filled with gossip and ambiguity just now, then Joey only used one sentence to completely succeed, and even Skorzny raised his eyebrows and looked at Joey with a new gaze.
Grant lowered his head and cursed to himself. Although Joey was clever enough to salvage the situation, he was really unsure when the time bomb would explode if it went on like this.
For the first time, the clown regretted agreeing to Lily's suggestion and forming a temporary team with them. In fact, when the starry sky was shattered, although Qin Lun asked Lin Feng and the others to sell temporary team slots to other prisoners, there were not many suitable ones.
Qin Lun's original intention was to let them find an ordinary prisoner at random, instead of a murderer to join the temporary team, so that he could control and command the temporary team.
Lin Feng and Xiaolian naturally didn't dare to find death row inmates to sell quotas, and the entire operation was carried out by Lily. Lily thinks that joining one other prisoner at random will not improve the whole team, and that there is only one killer boss in the team, which is not good news for the others.
Lily is not like Lin Feng and Xiaolian, who are full of confidence in Qin Lun, she is very worried that the "dissecters" will use them as bait and discarding children at critical times. Therefore, since Xiaolian and Lin Feng had brought Qin Lun into the gang, then she had to find another murderer to contain Qin Lun.
The first person Lily went to find was the disciple Hansen, but Hansen didn't hesitate to refuse her offer.
Although it was not a bad thing to know the team's mission and the role of the apostle team in advance, Hansen was reluctant to deal with Qin Lun. The last time they were in the scavenger camp, he was caught by Qin Lun when he used his brain. Violent people like disciples, who are stronger than brains, instinctively resist their overly clever and unruly companions.
In the end, Lily only found Grant the Clown, who was willing to join their temporary team. Of course, this is still on the premise that she secretly promised not to let the joker fund the purchase of team spots.
The brief exchange between Red Skull and Joey loosened the solemn atmosphere in the room. After the medical officer took care of everyone's wounds, Skorzny finally got up from his chair.
"German gentlemen, are you ready, let's fight to the end!"