August 8, 2032, 10 a.m.

On the "retro-style" imitation wooden door of the main conference room of the Earth Defense Agency, the words "in meeting" are still pasted with big words.

In front of the door stood a full-fledged Earth Space Force military police with a special armband, and there was silence in the long corridor.

Inside the door, with the exception of Admiral Tashiro, who put one hand in his coat pocket and didn't know what to do, most of the other participants put their hands on the table with sad expressions, and then periodically stretched out their foreheads to touch them.

"Now in this situation where hundreds of millions of enemies are pressed at any time, whether you really give up or ask God and worship Buddha, it's a bit too late, right?"

The silence in the hallway was quietly broken by the slight sound of wheels - in fact, there was a slight sound of footsteps along with the sound of wheels, but obviously the former would attract the attention of the doorman more, and the latter was just the right amount of cover-up - the complaint about the situation in the meeting room was obviously limited to the spiritual link, otherwise this kind of wall perspective would definitely make the doorman look at the people in the hallway as monsters.

But in fact, even the poor gendarme at the door did not hear anything but the sound of the wheels, but this did not prevent him from turning his gaze at the source of the sound into a slight frightened gaze for the first time. Although at the end of the hallway, it was just an ordinary wheelchair that was slowly pushed in.

The wheelchair was dressed in the uniform of an Earth Space Force-style officer, and the rank of lieutenant was so low that it made all people in their right minds wonder why the gate would let these two in. As for the other of the two uninvited guests in a wheelchair, he was simply dressed in a hospital gown and slippers.

There was no cliché of dog blood, and the doorman recognized the two who were slowly approaching almost as soon as he turned his head:

Pushing the wheelchair was Jung, who had red semi-short hair.

And the one in the wheelchair who pretends to have a crooked mouth and slanted eyes like Hawking is, of course, Roger.

The heroic posture of these two hero-level humanoid weapon pilots fighting in Exelion has already spread throughout the Earth Space Army. The gendarmes standing guard at the door of the conference room obviously belong to the kind of people who have to memorize the faces of important people as much as possible due to the needs of their work, so they naturally know what they should do at this time-

That is, of course, obediently getting out of the way.

……

"Oh, I really don't see that Jung's domineering spirit is quite sufficient."

"Don't be kidding, instructor, it's you who just called Admiral Tashiro."

While bored in the spirit channel, the master and apprentice gradually approached the electronic door of the conference room. On the surface, this imitation wood door does not have a fancy appearance, and the electronic lock on the left side of this door also looks a certain age, and each metal code number key is slightly dim, which shows that this large conference room was not used very often in the past.

It's no wonder, after all, many things can be solved directly in the Military Command Department, and basically this large conference room will be used unless there is an emergency that requires a global mobilization. Then, since the "global unification" in history, the Earth Space Force has only had a few limited-scale conflicts with cosmic monsters over the years. By the way, both LUXION and Exelion are not only on the list in these conflicts, but also "among the best" in terms of scale.

"When I saw this electronic lock, I suddenly thought of a problem that had been bothering me for a long time."

This voice did not come from the wheelchair master and apprentice, but directly from the spiritual link, from the voice of the first heroine of the plane.

Because Noriko Takaya's initiative to speak is too rare, everyone in the public channel put on a posture of listening attentively, waiting for Noriko to express her opinions.

"Well, that's right, didn't Jung show me the relevant video materials of the so-called original plane books......" Noriko Takaya's voice was a little expectant, as if it was a little difficult to speak, "I have watched the part about the coach in the original book proposing a battle plan because of the importance of the matter...... And then...... Then I found out ......"

What did you find? The appearance of the plane heroine aroused everyone's curiosity even more. Especially though Noriko Takaya can't be said to be shy, she has always been strictly a school girl, and she will never take the initiative to speak unless she has to, so what is the major situation that can make her so exceptional?

"In that video, the electronic lock on the door of the conference room is indeed on the left, judging from the markings on the side of the door that resemble a handle, and judging by common sense, the door should slide open from left to right. Can...... But...... When the instructor rushed into the conference room, the door opened from right to left......"

"......" Jung was the first to express his silence.

"Well, I actually feel the same way...... Kashiwahara seems to have decided to side with Noriko Takaya for some reason.

"Noriko, your observation skills are really much sharper than before." This is Kasumi Amano, who is trying to change the subject.

"The answer is simple, it's a door that opens both ways." Needless to say, it was only Roger who gave such an irresponsible answer.

"No kidding!" The last one to speak, of course, is the DG who routinely refutes someone's evil deeds, "How can the special alloy door that can withstand heavy weapons at the critical moment of soundproof, shockproof and explosion-proof be sliding and double-opened?" Is the safety performance guaranteed? ”

The other people in the spirit link were obviously convinced by this well-founded assertion, so DG triumphantly continued: "So the correct answer is - the coach in the video is going through another door!" ”

Forget it, it's really our own fault to be gullible. The crowd, led by Roger, silently reached a consensus. So even though DG then took out two doors in the conference room that did open on different walls, and that the doorman who intercepted Ota did not have any armband on his right arm as evidence, everyone passed it perfunctorily......

In fact, everyone knows that this is Noriko Takaya's attempt to adjust the "team atmosphere" by telling cold jokes by herself, but there are a few classmates who are really not very interesting, so they still have to rely on DG to turn the tide after the end.

As for the first heroine of the plane, what do you think needs to adjust the atmosphere now-mainly because of the situation that occurred in the emergency countermeasures meeting in the past two days, DG has broadcast it to Noriko Takaya Amano Kasumi. Compared to the original plane, the group of people sitting in the conference room now, except for Admiral Tashiro, basically did not have any confidence in this battle.

ALTHOUGH ROGER AND THE OTHERS DON'T SEEM TO BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND IT, IT IS PRECISELY BECAUSE OF THEIR OWN EXISTENCE THAT THE ORIGINAL SITUATION OF GUNBUSTER'S ABILITY TO TURN THE TIDE HAS BECOME AN EMBARRASSING SITUATION IN WHICH ROGER CAN ONLY DEFEAT A "SMALL NUMBER" OF COSMIC MONSTERS IF HE IS SERIOUSLY INJURED.

Although the Exelion fleet in the original book was almost wiped out, Noriko Takaya piloted the unfinished GUNBUSTER, and she herself was a crappy pilot at the bottom of the rankings, so that victory could give humanity some confidence.

But now? Although the GUNBUSTER won the battle, and the Exelion fleet was relatively unscathed, it was only after Roger clearly used the power of the over-specification, which in the eyes of the top brass of the Space Force, was almost equal to the contribution of the fifth-generation Eltreum battleship, and the enemy was barely defeated. And Roger, as a cosmic hero in the LUXION era, is already the strongest combat power that the human side can use. Although the rest of Jung Amano Kasumi and his ilk are also very strong, they can still only be classified in the TOP troop level with Noriko Takaya on the whole.

So, with Roger seriously injured and Eltreum far from finished, what to carry a hundred thousand times more enemies?

As soon as the automatic door opened, the wise man in the wheelchair came to provide everyone with the answer~~

……

The appearance of either Roger or Jung is actually beyond the needs of the top brass of the Space Army. As the two strongest humanoid weapon pilots at present, the master and apprentice were theoretically qualified to attend this enlarged meeting, so Admiral Tashiro did not attract any objections when he notified the guards in advance to release them. However, when they actually stepped into the conference room, a few of them were taken aback.

This included Admiral Tashiro, who knew Roger and Jung best.

The news that Roger woke up yesterday is that Captain Tashiro can be said to be the most prophetic on the human side. But he remembered that the hospital at that time was obviously "weak", why did it become almost completely paralyzed now?

As for the other people's panic, the old admiral didn't pay attention anyway. However, the first mate later conducted an analysis based on the minutes of the meeting, and he believed that the members of the military industry and logistics departments who behaved strangely were basically in contact with some secret Soviet consortium before. As for whether there was any other meaning hidden in this, the first mate did not continue, and the then Admiral Tashiro did not ask again.

In short, compared with the tragic passage in the original book where Ota dragged the sick body into the door, now Roger pretended to be slowly pushed into the conference room by the "beloved apprentice", but it seemed to have a strange sense of tragedy.

As for how this guy did this, the reason is very simple, yesterday under the auspices of DG, in a virtual realm similar to the spiritual world, Roger fought a truly unlimited "guidance battle" one-on-four.

However, it is not so much a guidance battle, but a decompression war from Jung to Amano Kasumi, who vented all the grievances accumulated since returning to Earth, the sacrifice of the past ten years and the confusion about the future.

The girls are indeed content to withdraw from the virtual realm, but Roger, who is the venue provider and the sandbag actor, is not so optimistic. The main reason is that the DG guy used "the deity is not there, and the performance of the doppelganger is limited", so that Roger's brain domain has to carry most of the data and calculations. Someone has long been accustomed to the days when everything is assisted by DG, even if his current body composition is no different from DG at the cellular level, but Roger usually "basically does not use his brain" from any point of view. Moving so suddenly now is like jumping into an icy swimming pool without having to do any warm-up for your joints and muscles......

It's strange not to have cramps.

Noriko Takaya, Kashiwahara and Kasumi Amano are recuperating at home at the moment, and only Jung can move normally. From this, it can be calculated that when everyone's strength is above and below the planetary level, Roger can still have three fingers to press the holographic projection remote control, and he can also explain the plan in person, in fact, he is already very lucky.

In short, in full view of everyone, the projection of the Exelion, which was covered in bruises, appeared in the middle of the conference room.

“…… Then the control valve is completely liberated, and the retraction furnace that goes out of control according to the VOID effect will ......"