The noon sun seemed to be extraordinarily bright, with bursts of warmth like a spring breeze.

The grass in the shade of a tree on the side of a path somewhere in military base 32 was dotted with specks of light on the bodies of two young men lying on their backs. The two of them looked calm, and they talked relaxedly, laughing lightly, or teasing......

Fang Shi and Yu Le recounted the past, present and future to each other, and the two people, who had not seen each other for nearly three years, seemed to have returned to the jointly operated maintenance shop at No. 56 Ho An Street, which was their beginning and their cornerstone.

"It seems that you have suffered a lot, and you have climbed from a mechanic to an eight-star pilot." Through the exchange, Fang Shi also had a general understanding of Yu Le's experience in the past two years, and it was definitely not easy to go from an ordinary mechanical maintenance soldier to a high-level pilot in the empire.

Yu Le took off his military hat, touched his still bright head, and said with a smile: "I can't say that I have endured hardships, but I am just lucky, just like you, if I am not lucky to meet Bole in my life, I am afraid that I am still only a maintenance soldier." ”

Fang Shi nodded slightly, the two of them were indeed lucky, he met his teacher Huang Shujian to achieve what he is now, while Yu Le was lucky to meet a high-level pilot to achieve his current eight-star pilot, in some ways the two are quite similar, "Well, it seems that we are both very lucky." ”

……

Time is long, and words are chattering, like a trickle of water.

At noon, Fang Shi and Yu Le had lunch together and separated, after all, Yu Le had just arrived at the No. 32 military base, and there were still many things to handle.

After meals. Fang Shi went to the computer room, turned on the Internet, boarded the community Dudu, entered the 28 community to take a few looks, and then left a message for Ye Xiangyi. In addition to the military's special communication signals, other external signals such as Tianxun and the Internet will all be turned off, which means that he will lose contact with the outside world at that time, and the entire space test will last for almost two months.

To Ye Xiangyi. Fang Shi still subtly treats her as a sister and a relative. On the one hand, it is naturally because of Uncle Zhong's entrustment before his death, and on the other hand, it is natural that the two are indeed very close in Xuehua City. Since Ye Xiangyi left Snowflake City to go to the Battle Ji Mecha Battalion, the two have had a lot of contact, almost every week. Ask each other about what's going on. Like a family member, he asked for warmth.

After leaving a message for Ye Xiangyi. Fang Shi was about to go offline, but Dudu flashed, and someone toked him.

Thereupon. He clicked quickly, a dialog box popped up, and when he saw the other party's name, he was slightly surprised, and it was Gu Ruxin who said to him. For Gu Ruxin, his heart is still slightly complicated, and the reason is naturally because of the unexpected dusk before leaving.

To tell the truth, Fang Shi didn't know how to deal with the relationship with Gu Ruxin, it was a very happy thing to be liked, but it seemed to be a rather troublesome and embarrassing thing to him, he admitted that he was really a little twisted in this regard, if he refused directly, he was afraid that he would hurt the other party, and then if the two of them didn't even have to be friends, it would be worth the loss.

Gu Ruxin did not send him a video invitation, but a voice invitation.

Fang Shi didn't hesitate and quickly accepted the invitation.

After the voice was connected, Gu Ruxin's crisp and pleasant voice came from the other side, "Sir, long time no see." ”

Fang Shi was a little speechless, and it seemed that he hadn't seen him for three days, but he still said quite calmly on the surface: "Well, how are you?" ”

Gu Ruxin replied: "It's okay, I'm on a boring vacation now." By the way, there's something I want to tell you. ”

"Oh?!" Fang Shi was slightly surprised, and said, "What's the matter?" ”

Gu Ruxin hesitated for a few seconds, and said quickly: "That...... Well, actually, I just made a little joke that day, and I hope you don't mind. ”

When Fang Shi heard this, he was slightly stunned, he knew what Gu Ruxin's joke meant, but he was not relieved by Gu Ruxin's words, but it became more complicated, the scene of the twilight that day was still vivid, Gu Ruxin didn't seem to be joking, he didn't know why she said such a thing now, which made him a little puzzled.

Seeing that Fang Shi was speechless for a long time, Gu Ruxin thought that his voice had suddenly stopped, and whispered, "Sir...... Sir......"

Fang Shi took a light breath and said, "Yes, you can call me Fang Shi." ”

Gu Ruxin sighed lightly, and after a pause of two or three seconds, she said, "Fang ...... Fang Shi, are we still friends? ”

Fang Shi replied affirmatively, "Of course." ”

Subsequently, the two continued to chat for more than ten minutes before hanging up the voice system. Fang Shi also told Gu Ruxin that he would "disappear" for about two months starting tomorrow.

Soon, Fang Shi left the computer room and took a casual walk in the activity area, during which he called his sister An Su again, told him about him, and gave him a good explanation. An Su was well-behaved, and there was a slight loss in his tone, after all, Fang Shi would take about two months this time, which meant that he would not be able to get in touch with his brother during this time.

The next day, after breakfast in the Phantom Working Group, they took a vehicle arranged by the military at the base to the spaceport not far away.

Inside the spaceport, the ships of the military are already ready.

A small warship formation responsible for assisting the Phantom working group in space testing, the entire formation is composed of seven warships, the flagship of which is a medium-sized Panther C-class battleship, which belongs to the Panther series of warships, with medium firepower and the advantage of sailing speed. The remaining six warships of the formation are all small warships, namely three frigates, one reconnaissance ship, one missile ship and one transport and supply ship. Compared to the large formation of thousands of ships hoarded by the Empire and the Galactic Alliance on the Eastern Front, the spaceport of Military Base 32, a small warship formation of seven warships, is somewhat insignificant.

The supreme commander of the battleship formation was none other than Gao Zixuan, who boarded the flagship of the medium-sized Panther C-class battleship early in the morning and began preparations before leaving.

The Phantom mecha was also sent to the flagship early. A mech hangar mounted inside a battleship. The Panther C-class battleship has a small mech hangar, which typically carries five to twenty mechs, and a medium fighter hangar, which can carry fifty fighters.

Ye Zhiqiu, Fang Shi and other phantom working groups also went to the flagship.

At ten o'clock in the morning, the battleship formation set off on time.

The seven warships rose into the air one after another, quickly flew out of the gravitational circle of the wolf's tooth star, and entered space like a black hole, and kept an appropriate distance from each other, forming a fusiform formation, flying towards the predetermined space area in the northeast direction.

After Ye Zhiqiu and the others boarded the spaceship. and entered their assigned rooms. The Phantom Working Group is well paid. Each person is a single room, but there is a slight difference in size, and some simple distinctions are made according to the size of the military rank.

Fangshi's room is a single room of more than ten square meters, although it looks small. But it's also totally enough. After all, there is little space for battleships. Having a separate room is already quite a good treat. He simply tidied up his room according to his own habits, and for the next two months or so, he would have to live on the battleship.

Midday. The Phantom Working Group had lunch together, and at the same time, Ye Zhiqiu also briefly explained the work of the past two days, expecting that the area for the space test will take about two days, and during this time they do not mean that there is no matter, in the afternoon they will enter the working state, and use these two days to conduct a simple test on the Phantom Mecha, so that when it comes to the space test area, the working team can immediately start the test.

After eating, Fang Shi rested for an hour, then went to the battleship's mecha hangar and began to conduct a simple test on the phantom mecha before testing.

In addition to the Phantom, there are two other eight mechs in the mecha hangar. Fang Shi glanced at it slightly, five of them were the sixth generation mecha of the empire earlier, and the other three were the fifth generation mecha of the empire, which should be regarded as a mecha that was about to retire. He is not surprised by the eight mecha configured with the battleship, in the empire, the cost of mecha is still quite high, take the ordinary sixth-generation mecha, the cost of a mecha is probably five times that of a fighter, so the replacement of military mecha equipment is still relatively backward.

In addition, in addition to the members of the Phantom Working Group, Yu Le and Bai Wei, two high-level military pilots, also arrived at the mecha hangar, on the one hand, the two of them naturally wanted to further understand the Phantom Mecha, and on the other hand, they first carried out the simulation operation in advance, after all, in the subsequent space test process, two people were required to drive the Phantom Mecha to cooperate with the working group to conduct relevant tests.

At work, Fang Shi and Yu Le did not get close, they both did their own things very tacitly and seriously, and only briefly communicated one or two in their spare time.

Two days passed in a blink of an eye.

At about nine o'clock in the morning of the third day, the Phantom Working Group received a notice from Gao Zixuan that there was still half an hour before the battleship could arrive at the predetermined space test area.

The pre-test inspection of the Phantom Mech has been completed, and everything is normal, which means that the space test of the Phantom Mech can start quickly.

Half an hour later, the battleship arrived in the predetermined space area. Gao Zixuan immediately made arrangements according to the previously booked plan.

Soon, the seven warships of the battleship formation formed a formation with a flagship as the central point, and at the same time, all the ships stopped sailing and quietly stopped in space.

Ye Zhiqiu was not in a hurry to start the space test of the Phantom Mecha, but convened the members of the Phantom Working Group and the personnel related to the space test to hold the last meeting before the formal test, and once again redetermined their respective relevant responsibilities to ensure the smooth and orderly progress of the space test of the Phantom Mecha.

At three o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, the Phantom mech entered the launch platform connected to the mecha nacelle.

Ye Zhiqiu, who was in the test command cabin, stared at the large light screen in front of him, his face was calm, but he was slightly excited in his heart, after all, this was the first space test flight of the Phantom mecha, and it carried the countless efforts of the teacher Huang Shujian, and also carried the hope of the second group.

You're all set!

Ye Zhiqiu took a slight breath and shouted softly, "The countdown to launch begins." ”

"Ten, Nine, Eight......"

"Three, two, one, launch!"

At the same time as the sound of the system firing fell, the phantom mecha in the large light screen instantly moved under the action of a powerful booster, and the speed became faster and faster, leaving only a blurry afterimage at the fastest, and the main launch process lasted less than three seconds.

The Phantom Mech shot out of the mech's launch platform like a flying bullet and flashed into the void of space.

"Launch successful!"

In fact. During the ground test, the working group has carried out many launches of the Phantom Mecha, and it is still very sure that its launch will be successful, but this launch is the first space flight of the Phantom Mecha, which is a very commemorative moment.

Looking at the phantom mecha that was already in space on the big screen, a faint smile appeared on the corner of Fang Shi's mouth, but like his other phantom working group members, after an instant of joy, he quickly plunged into the collection and calculation of mecha-related data.

Ye Zhiqiu sat on the command seat, his eyes locked on the phantom mecha at the same time. Command orders were quickly issued one after another.

Soon. The Mech Launch Booster Platform launches two auxiliary mechs. The auxiliary mech is controlled by two pilots on the ship, and their main purpose is to deal with the unexpected situation that may arise in the phantom mech.

The first test flight of the Phantom mech did not make any complicated flights, but were all simple flights. The pilot who piloted the Phantom was Yu Le, and Ye Zhiqiu gave the flight order. Then it is up to him to carry out the order.

The first test flight lasted thirty minutes. Then smoothly landed on the landing platform of the battleship. The whole process went quite smoothly.

The Phantom working group in the test command module quickly summarized and integrated the data just obtained in an orderly manner, and soon obtained the results of the first test flight of the Phantom mecha.

Ye Zhiqiu glanced at the results, and a smile appeared on his calm face. "The test results were good, and the effect points reached 98 percent, which met the expected goal," he said. ”

Effect points are a concrete data embodiment of the test results, and 100% means perfect state, but it is extremely difficult to achieve 100% perfect state in general tests.

Hearing the results that the team leader Ye Zhiqiu said, everyone in the Phantom Working Group breathed a sigh of relief, ninety-eight percent of the effect points were already a very high number, close to perfection, and the goal of the reservation was ninety percent of the effect points, which was eight points higher than the reservation, which could be regarded as a good start for the space test of the Phantom Mecha.

After a brief moment of excitement, the Phantom Working Group continued to work on their own work.

Fang Shi, his senior brother Feichen, and three other members of the Phantom Working Group quickly rushed to the mecha cabin to inspect the Phantom Mecha and check if there was any problem with the Phantom after flying in space.

Half an hour later, after the inspection, there was nothing abnormal about the Phantom Mecha.

So, Fang Shi, Su Feichen and the others returned to the test command cabin.

Ten minutes later, the Phantom mecha began its second test flight, and this time it was Bai Wei from the Zhanji Mecha Battalion who piloted the mecha. Bai Wei and Ye Zhiqiu are very familiar, when they were at the No. 32 military base, the two talked alone, and Bai Wei treated Ye Zhiqiu with great respect, completely like a junior seeing a senior.

The second test flight also lasted thirty minutes, and it was also a simple flight action, and Bai Wei successfully completed it according to Ye Zhiqiu's order.

After the test flight, the effect points of the test reached 98.5%, a more ideal effect value, so the effect naturally made the Phantom Working Group more assured, although it was only 0.5% of the value, but for them, it was like eating a big reassurance, on the one hand, it showed that the test flight of the Phantom mecha was really successful; On the other hand, the smaller the fluctuation of the effect points, the more stable the performance of the Phantom Mecha, the results of such a test only fluctuate up and down at five percent, after all, the conditions in each test are still different, there will be slight differences, a little change will affect the final test result, and the fluctuation of the effect value of 0.5% is negligible.

On the first day of the Phantom mecha test, a total of three flight test flight tests were carried out, and the results were satisfactory, and the effect points of the third test flight flight were 97.8 percent, although the effect value has declined, but it is definitely still in the ideal range.

After three test flights, the Phantom team ended the first day of testing, and because the test only started at 3 p.m., the time was limited, and only three test flights were completed.

After dinner, Fang Shi did not rush back to his room, but walked slowly on the battleship. Although the Panther C-class battleship is only a medium-sized battleship, its volume is still very huge, only the hull is seven or eight hundred meters long, and the space inside is even more open, with more than a dozen floors up and down, and there are four or five thousand soldiers on board. The interior is completely like a separate space.

There are also many entertainment facilities for shipboard personnel inside the ship, swimming pools, cinemas, music bars and other facilities are quite complete, and Fang Shi is slightly surprised that there is a small machine battle simulation room inside, although there are only more than ten simulators in total, but it is definitely a big surprise for him.

During the space test, although Fangshi has very little time for entertainment, but in addition to sleeping time, there are also a few hours of free time every day, this machine combat simulation room is a very good choice, if you take some time to train every day, then before the end of the Phantom space test. It may be possible to break through the challenge of the 4A rank.

There don't seem to be many people visiting the machine battle simulation room. Fang Shi walked into the more than ten simulation cabins, most of which were empty, thinking of the eight mechs in the mecha hangar, he somewhat understood that there were not many real pilots on this ship.

Fang Shi went through the formalities in the machine battle simulation room. Then he successfully entered one of the analog control cabins. Sitting in the pilot's seat. He hesitated for a moment, but still took out the silver machine card from his card bag and inserted it into the card slot of the simulator.

It only took about five seconds. The silver card successfully decrypted the simulator's authentication system, and Nana's figure appeared on the light screen in front of Fang Shi.

Fang Shi and Nana hadn't seen each other for months, and he hadn't used the silver card since he left S3 Nanzhouxing. However, Nana didn't seem to have any concept of time, and she blinked her big black and shiny eyes in the light screen, and shouted happily, "Brother." ”

Nana's voice was crisp, like a bell.

Looking at the silver-haired little girl in the light screen, Fang Shi's heart was slightly warm, although Nana was just a mechanical life, but in his consciousness, he still regarded the former as an adult, remembering that in the fierce battle simulation room of the second research institute of the snowflake company, he made this slightly lonely person fully experience a kind of warmth like a brother and sister, maybe at that time he subconsciously saw Nana as a substitute for Ansu, but when he found Ansu, he found that Nana was not a substitute, But it really reflected in the depths of his heart.

"Brother, this is a battleship?" Nana's lovely cheeks showed a hint of surprise, and there was a hint of curiosity and doubt in her tone.

Fang Shi was slightly surprised, nodded lightly, and said, "Well, it's a battleship, how do you know about it?" This was what surprised him, he hadn't said a word before, how Nana would take the initiative to say that this was a battleship.

Nana was a little relieved, showing a smug look, and said: "Hehe, it seems that Nana is not mistaken, this battleship is quite big, I wonder if you can play it?" ”

"Play?" Fang Shi was a little speechless for an instant, the battleship is not for playing, but for fighting, but soon his face was a little more solemn, I remember that when I met Nana for the first time, it seemed that she had said that she would not only control mechas, but also control fighters, warships, and even star aircraft carriers, at this time, I couldn't help but be shocked when I thought about it, and hurriedly asked tentatively: "You can control the battleship." ”

Nana thought for a moment and said, "There should be no problem with this battleship, as long as I break its highest-level central permission system first, I should be able to control it freely." Hehe, brother, do you want me to control it to show you, although the central permission system of this battleship is a bit complicated, if Nana cracks it with all her might, if nothing else, it can be easily decrypted in ten minutes and obtain its control authority. ”

When Fang Shi heard this, his face changed suddenly, and he hurriedly stopped: "Don't ...... You don't need to show me, my brother knows that you are amazing. Nana's words really scared him, although Nana still has human intelligence characteristics, but she has not learned to be honest, since she said that she can control the battleship should really be able to control, and once Nana forcibly controls the battleship, then nine times out of ten it will alarm the military personnel who control the battleship, and I don't know what kind of trouble it will cause when the time comes.

Seeing Fang Shi's anxious expression, Nana smiled and said, "Okay, then I won't play with it." ”

Fang Shi breathed a sigh of relief and said, "By the way, Nana hasn't answered my object yet, why did you realize that this is a battleship in the first place." ”

Nana replied casually: "This machine combat simulation system is the same as the battleship's network system, I can guess it by looking at it casually." ”

Fang Shi sighed softly, "I see. ”

…… (To be continued......)