Archangel, bridge.

"Reconfirmed. No enemy ships react within a radius of 5000. It seems that the enemy can't find us at all. Jackie's report relieved the crew.

"Maybe Artemis got in the way and helped us get around, right? That's really thanks to it. Mu said sarcastically.

"However, we still can't be careless, the Kreuzer team will catch up at any time, and most importantly, our supply problem is completely unsolved." Maliu's expression turned melancholy. In the end, they still didn't get supplies in Artimis. The Moon was far away from their current position across the Earth, and the hastily brought supplies from Heliopolis could not hold that far.

Mu came to Maliu's side and asked in a low voice, "Seriously, how is it now?" Isn't it miserable? ”

Malu said softly: "In terms of food, there is still emergency food available, but the problem is ammunition and water. ”

"Water, ......" Mu said with a little emotion: "Anyway, let's think of a plan first." We need to conserve as much water as possible, and we ask the refugees to help us. ”

In this case, they can only reach the moon as soon as possible. A simulation diagram of the intended route of the voyage pops up on the screen.

"Is this the limit? Can't find a more decent route? Natal asked.

"It's impossible. If the orbit gets closer to the Earth, it will run into the gravel belt. ”

"It would be much faster if I could get through the gravel belt." Malu said with a wry smile.

Neumann also responded with a wry smile. "But if you rush through at this speed, it's most likely to turn into a part of the rubble?"

A rubble belt is an area where space debris attracted to Earth ends up drifting. After human beings enter the space field, they always throw discarded artificial satellites or various wastes generated during space development into space. The space waste floats at a distance under the gravitational pull of the Earth, and it looks like a graveyard of garbage.

Inadvertently, Mu, who was staring at the screen, muttered to himself: "Wait a minute, gravel belt?" ”

As if thinking of something, a smug smile appeared on the upright face. Mu looked at Malu and said, "Maybe I'm a man who makes the impossible possible!"

Archangel, restaurant.

"Water... Water! Thor, who was eating, screamed loudly as if he had been swallowed, beating his chest incessantly.

"Really." Looking at Thor like this, Mirialia said softly. As he spoke, he handed less than a third of the glass of water in front of him to Thor.

Because of the lack of water, there is now water control on the Archangel number, and Milia has just a cup of water in front of her at noon today. However, who called Thor is Miriaria's boyfriend, and Mirialia is so gentle and kind.

"Water... Give me water again..."Thor, who was a little grinning and didn't know how polite he was, took a bite to kill Miriaria's water ration and continued to shout loudly.

"Stop making jokes like this kind of indiscriminate jokes." Seeing Thor like this, Sai said, who was carrying the food.

"Water, give." Just as Thor was about to say something, Zheng Shuanglong walked in with Athena in his arms and put a bottle of water in front of Thor. said: "Because I came out on a trip." It's still a little bit prepared, at least, a few bottles of water are still available. ”

"Thank you." Seeing Zheng Shuanglong's behavior, Milia stood up. He bowed earnestly and thanked him.

"Is it for the water now, or is it for the moon of the Eurasian Federation?" Zheng Shuanglong, who brought a lunch and put it in front of him, said softly: "Well, no matter how many times you eat it." I always feel that the craftsmanship is too poor, and the head chef here should go to the training well. yes, Xiaoya. ”

said. Zheng Shuanglong gently cut a small piece of bread with a knife, inserted it with a fork, and handed it to Athena's mouth.

"Well, it's not as good as a dragon at all." Athena said with a slight nod.

"The head chef will be angry when he hears it." Thor, who drank the entire bottle of water in one gulp, laughed dryly twice and said. In fact, Thor was not satisfied with this kind of dish. But what's the solution?

[A little disappointed, swallowing precious water so alone, okay, especially after drinking his girlfriend's water before, how to say it, should I say that Thor is too happy to have such a gentle and kind girlfriend like Miriaria, who doesn't compete with each other, or I feel sorry for Milia to have such a rough-branched, heartless boyfriend. 】

"Yes, anyway, thank you, Dr. Zheng." Milia said seriously.

"That, Dr. Zheng, it seems that you can help all the members of the Archangel at that time, why ......" Sai, who was sitting next to Frey, looked at Zheng Shuanglong, who was rarely seen, and asked in confusion.

At this time, Kira, who had finished the training of the Raid Gundam, also came to the restaurant.

Hearing Said's words, Miriaria, Frey, Thor, Kira, and Katz all turned their eyes to Zheng Shuanglong, looking at Zheng Shuanglong in confusion, waiting for Zheng Shuanglong's answer.

Zheng Shuanglong was carrying out a very loving and intimate feeding behavior, while looking at Sai Yi in a military uniform strangely, and said in a peculiar tone: "You seem to have forgotten. What you're wearing. Or, don't you feel the burden of the thing you're wearing, the consciousness of shooting and killing, the consciousness of being killed? Putting on a military uniform is not a joke, the responsibilities above, the obligations above, and the burdens above, if you don't do a good job, it will be very troublesome. Although you are very young and have not seen much cruelty, since you have put on this skin, you must take on this responsibility. If it weren't for the bald bully little girl who should be protected, I wouldn't have intervened. After all, it is also a truth that war makes women go away. ”

Sai, Kira, Miriaria, Frey, Thor, and Katz were shocked by Zheng Shuanglong's words, and after a while, Sai asked with an ugly face: "In other words, if these men were shot by that commander on the spot, even if you could save us, wouldn't you ask?" ”

Zheng Shuanglong, who was feeding Athena, said as a matter of course: "Of course, I have no obligation to save the soldiers of the Atlantic Federation, or rather. I am not obligated to save anyone who voluntarily puts on a military uniform, war, is not a child's play, since I put on a military uniform and hold a pistol, I should have the consciousness of killing and being killed, right? That's the reality. ”

"It's a harsh reality." After coming over for a while, Frey, who did not participate in the work of the Archangel, said softly.

As for Kira and the others, they were already frightened by Zheng Shuanglong's words. They are not ready for that.

Moreover, who is this Zheng Shuanglong? Being able to say such words can terrify the fortress commander of the Eurasian Federation. I'm really curious. Sai Yi and the others were speculating about Zheng Shuanglong's identity.

[A little disappointed, such a son of luck is not enough to perform a wonderful play. Liu Yi should have a more interesting repertoire on his side. Looks like I'm going to move a little bit as well. Always being hunted down by Zaft, what's going on. It's pretty much the same, Liu Yi. Looking at Kira and the others, who were shaken by their words, Zheng Shuanglong thought with a little disappointment.

"Phew. Boys, you're here. Madek, a member of the maintenance team, came to the dining room and shouted, "Captain, they told you to come over." ”

They were called to the bridge to give an account of the supply. Hear the supplies. The teenagers all shouted. They're fed up with this restrictive life. "Can you accept supplies? Where is it? ”

Mu's answer seemed a little unspeakable. "If you want to say acceptance, hey, or self-help ......"

He was choosing the words. Malu seemed to have made up her mind, and continued to finish speaking. "We're now sailing towards the gravel belt."

"Gravel belt?" The teenagers quickly glanced at each other. Say was the first to notice. "Well, wait a minute! No way? ”

"Your instincts are so sharp." Mu Da patted him on the shoulder.

Malu said in a heavy tone, "There are all kinds of things floating in the cosmic space in the rubble belt. Of course. There will also be some ships that are damaged in battle or something, so ......"

Hearing her say this, Kira and the others finally understood the meaning of the so-called "supply", and suddenly their faces changed. "Ahh Is it to 'resupply' from there!? ”

"It's helpless, isn't it? If we don't, we're going to run out of it! As if he had figured it out, Mu said straight to the point.

Is this war, is this the duty of this garment, it's always a little unacceptable.

The teenagers who had not yet recovered from Zheng Shuanglong's words, but who had been hit by the current situation, all had a look of confusion and disgust on their faces.

In the face of these long-anticipated reactions, Malu sighed. "When the time comes," he said, "I would like to ask you to assist in the outboard activities of the dinghy. Mu's plan also made her hesitate strongly from the bottom of her heart. However, "we have no intention of disturbing the sleep of the dead, but we are just trying to share a little bit of what we need most at the moment from what has been lost." In order to survive. ”

Even though she felt the sound of sophistry echoing in her words, she spoke firmly. Yes, we must live, even if we are stigmatized as scavengers or grave robbers.

"We get it." Looking at the military uniforms on their bodies, a heavy feeling pressed on the hearts of the teenagers.

Space, gravel belt.

The Strike Gundam accompanies the dinghy piloted by Thor and Mirialia into the Sea of Gravel. After circumnavigating the wreckage that looked like the outer wall of a spaceship, an extremely strange sight appeared.

"Ah............h Kira, Thor, and the others shouted at the same time.

In front of me, there is a frozen land.

It's a bit like a rural landscape somewhere in the past. The withered and frozen wheat has been erected into a pale field, with only scattered farm-like buildings, which have been preserved almost in a vacuum. The land was frozen in the blink of an eye boiling under decompression, like a sea of grief and protest over the fate of the colony star. The central axis tower was horribly broken, and around the high-tension strings that were torn like drifting wires, the few remaining outer walls were broken with a little self-repairing glass, enveloping the sea of ice.

It was once part of the plant - now it's just a wreckage.

Kira and the others, who were wearing outboard overalls, descended to this vacuum-covered land. Everyone was speechless. The empty scene in front of me was even more lonely than the darkness of the universe, as if returning to a home without family was terrifying. Unconsciously slowed their pace, and walked down the road to what looked like a storeroom. As soon as the door opened, Mirialia screamed in fear.

Kira looked at the floating objects in front of her as if she was frozen, she must have rushed into this room desperately before this place was destroyed. It was a seat that hugged the child tightly to his chest as if he wanted to protect it. The corpse of a miserable mother bowing her back. Hiding under the mother's arm, the child's gender could not be seen. I saw a baby bear floating next to them with lost eyeballs, probably the child's puppet.

What an indescribable sight.

The people who once lived on this colonial planet have now all suffered the same fate as the mother and son. This is the appearance of "Juneos 7" as ordered, and the place where "Valentine's Day of Blood" takes place.

"Take the water there? Is this serious? Back on the Archangel's bridge, Kira raised her voice in astonishment.

"Because there's almost 100 million tons of water frozen there." Without giving any reason, Natal just told the truth. They had just decided to bring water out of the remains of the Juños 7.

"But you saw that too, right? That's where hundreds of thousands of people died! Kira protested desperately. For him as a adjuster, that place has a special meaning. Except for him, actually. Most people feel similar psychological resistance. But they had a reason to do so.

Malu spoke. "That's the only source of water we've found."

Kira swallowed the words back.

"No one wants to set foot in that place if they can!" As if to give no room for rebuttal, Mu immediately continued. "But it's a last resort! We are alive, so we must live too! ”

Standing on the now-frozen sandy beaches of the past, Milia scattered her hands full of flowers.

Of course, there are no flowers on the Archangel, so she and Thor and others folded these paper flowers with colored paper. Liliana and a little girl from the refugees also came over to help them fold.

As for Athena, Zheng Shuanglong, and Qingqiuyuan Huina. Well, don't look forward to it. The word kindness really doesn't use them.

On the surface of the sea, which solidifies into angry waves, small colorful flowers are flying.

Once upon a time in this place, people were like them. Run, laugh, grow and breathe.

On the frozen earth, or in the ship, people prayed silently at the same time. Maybe it's just to appease their consciences, but at least they all feel they should. This is a cemetery. It is earthly, and it is the imprint of their iniquity.

[It's a little immature, but it's too kind.] It's a miracle that I sympathize with the enemy and survive until now. Twenty-four thousand, what should I do with the wailing of the more than 10 million dead on the ground? The adjuster is a human being, and a natural person is not a human being, what about the more than 10 million natural people who died because of the impact of the neutron jammer, the person who died from the nuclear bomb is a murderer, and the person who died from the energy crisis is not a murderer, and there is more blood in the hands of the adjuster than a natural person. What about the more than 10 million believers, what a huge power of fantasy, it's a pity. 】

The last sentence is the key. Because it is the existence that can bring Zheng Shuanglong resources, Zheng Shuanglong will be a pity. Otherwise, does the life and death of strangers have anything to do with Zheng Shuanglong?

The job begins. Kira was on guard in the nearby Celestial Domain in a Strike Gundam, and during this time, Kira destroyed a Forced Scout Replica Jean who had arrived here. And once again, I picked up a lifeboat.

"I said you, why do you always like to pick things up?" Natal's voice was a mixture of bitterness and a hint of boredom. Kira was also speechless.

"This is a good thing, me, Xiaoya, Lily, and Ena's lifeboats were also picked up by Kira, although such kindness will be more tiring to live, but it should be worth encouraging, right?" Zheng Shuanglong, who felt the arrival of a lucky owner second only to Kira, hugged Athena and came here.

"Yo, isn't this a very difficult doctor to see, how can you have time to hang out here, shouldn't you ......" Seeing Zheng Shuanglong's arrival, Mu looked at Liliana and Qingqiu Yuan Huina behind Zheng Shuanglong, and said with a smile.

"Well, I feel like there's a problem coming, so I'm going to take a look." Putting Athena out of his arms, Zheng Shuanglong walked to Mu's side and said with a smile.

"Trouble?" Ma Lu looked at this very strange Chinese medicine practitioner, Zheng Shuanglong, puzzled.

"It's a big problem, and I feel very accurate." Zheng Shuanglong looked at the escape boat in the hangar and said a little gloating.

[I think it's going to be fun.] It's definitely going to be fun, and before I leave, let me enjoy it, otherwise wouldn't it be boring to stay on the Archangel for so long. Zheng Shuanglong, who squinted his eyes, thought happily.

At this moment, Madek operated the lock between the cabins and shouted "open it". The hatch opened with a small noise, and the soldiers on standby around raised their guns at the same time.

"Harrow, Harrow, Lux." With a stupid sound, a pink ball floated out, its ears flapping like wings, and in the middle of the ball there were two small bean eyes shining, which seemed to be pet robots. The officers and soldiers who were originally waiting for the battle were all dumbfounded.

"Thank you, thank you for your hard work." A delicate voice came from the hatch that caught everyone's attention.

Long soft red hair and long skirt fluttered like waves, and emerging from the hatch was a young girl of Kira's age. Pink snow-white skin, gentle and lovely face, and that smile that will make everyone feel happy. The girl floated in mid-air like a soap bubble, looking beautiful and dreamy.

"Oops...... Oops? Her body seemed to drift away from inertia, and Kira took hold of her hand. Good slender wrists.

"Thank you." The girl was so close to him. She smiled. Stared at by those blue eyes as gentle as a spring sky, Kira's face flushed.

Suddenly, a questioning look appeared on the girl's face. "Huh?"

Her gaze rested on Kira's uniform badge. “…… Huh? ”

She looked around, then spoke in a non-hurried tone. "Oops...... This isn't Zaft's ship, is it? ”

"I told you it was going to be a problem." See Pink Singer Lux? Klein's arrival, Zheng Shuanglong smiled and patted the weak Mu's shoulder and said with a smile.

After saying that, he turned around and picked up Athena, and left the hangar with Liliana and Kiyokuin Megumi like that.

Lux, who was originally very innocent, had doubts in her eyes. This gentleman's back seems to have been seen somewhere, and this voice is also a little impressed, who is it, I am really a little curious.

Zheng Shuanglong's photos are available at the top of PLANT, but unfortunately, some are just a back photo. As for the frontal photo, the spies who pierced the PLANT could not get their hands on it. And Zheng Shuanglong once had a conversation with Kreuzer, and this conversation was also recorded, and it was passed on very lovingly in the hands of some big people.

That's why Lux has an impression of Zheng Shuanglong, but, after all, the information is insufficient and the impression is not deep, so Lux didn't figure out who Zheng Shuanglong is sacred.

It took a long time for Natal to sigh deeply. said to Mu and Maliu: "Let's go, take this big trouble and ask about it." ”

C.E.71.2.3 Lux is piloted by Kira in the Strike Gundam to pick up the Archangel. (To be continued......)