When the commander of the 712th Armored Regiment heard the news and hurried over, he only glanced at it, and the colonel's face immediately changed. The two pilots who had caused him were standing in the middle of the courtyard with their hands raised in the air, surrounded by a few Imperial soldiers with weapons pointed at them, staring at them with nervous expressions, the Colonel knew the soldiers, they were all guards sent to the Major Steve, and the body of the Major himself lay in the middle of the compound, with an expression of unwillingness, reluctance, and disbelief on his face, and a bloody tip piercing from the back of his heart to his chest. Nearby, there was another disheveled corpse of a young woman.

Lieutenant Lando walked over and whispered in the Colonel's ear a brief report. The colonel nodded, his face was cloudy, and the lieutenant didn't need to say much, with the colonel's many years of rich experience and understanding of Major Steve himself, he had already guessed the whole story, although the colonel had never had a good impression of this kind of gentleman, but he didn't want to, or rather, he didn't dare to offend them, the origin behind them was something that his little colonel couldn't provoke, so the colonel turned a blind eye to Major Steve's nonsense, and he wasn't afraid of what he could set off. Anyway, he just wants to make some capital and make a name for himself here, and it is impossible for him to be sent to the front line, let him hang out in the relatively safe rear of the regiment headquarters for a few days, and then he can be sent away.

However, I never thought that such a thing would happen. He didn't care about the dead young woman, she would die if she died, anyway, she was originally from the Federation; It doesn't matter if there are two pilots, although they are ace pilots, but there are more pilots in the empire, and it is not difficult to train a few more aces, and I don't care if there are two of them. And this Major Steve, he is the head of the Imperial Security Bureau, the cousin of the Imperial Führer. Admiral Steve's distant nephew, who was deeply loved by the childless generals, was now dead, dead on his own land, and once the admirals were held accountable, he would not be able to get out of it then.

These two troublesome bastard pilots, the colonel has some hatred, if the eyes can kill, I'm afraid that Risen and Schneier have died many times, and it is really stupid to cause him a lot of trouble for a woman from an enemy country.

"Guards, on charges of killing high-ranking Imperial officers, take Lieutenant Nigaul and Second Lieutenant Schneier into custody for the next step." The colonel quickly made up his mind, and with a wave of his hand, several heavily armed Imperial soldiers immediately surrounded him, and several of the major's bodyguards hesitated, but got out of the way.

"Colonel, we're just ......," Risen was about to say something, but his words were immediately and rudely interrupted by the Colonel.

"You don't have to say anything now, if there's anything, the military court will let you say enough." The colonel glanced at them coldly, and that look made Risen shudder.

"Let's go." Several soldiers pushed Risen and Schneier as they walked outside the compound.

"If they try to escape, they will be killed." The colonel added in a loud voice, and this murderous remark made the two pilots shiver with excitement.

"Colonel, I have already reported this matter to the head of the Heinison region, can I talk to you privately now?" After the two men were taken out, an Imperial officer came over, and the colonel's heart sank, he recognized this man, he was an officer of the Imperial Security Service.

"Okay, please inside." The colonel nodded, what should come, after all.

“........”

“.........”

"What about the gun? That's the Major's own pistol. ”

"Leave it to our Security Bureau, and everything will be done without leakage."

"And what about the guards?"

"Don't worry about them, they're all picked, let them say whatever they want, it's that lieutenant of yours......"

........

They didn't talk for long, but as they spoke, the gloom on the colonel's face seemed to dissipate a lot, and he soon called Lieutenant Lando.

"Yes, sir." Lieutenant Lando ran quickly, and his heart was also uneasy, not knowing what his commander would tell him.

The colonel looked around at no one and immediately continued, "Say what you just saw again, and tell this lieutenant colonel of the Security Service. ”

"Yes, sir. It came to pass that I was taking Lieutenant Nigaul and Ensign Schneier to visit our regimental headquarters in the village, and when I accidentally walked outside this compound, I heard a woman rebelling against Major Steve....... "Lieutenant Lando, although confused, still started the whole thing all over again.

"No, I remember you didn't say that." The colonel interrupted the lieutenant's remarks with a blank expression.

"What, sir? Didn't I just say that? But I just ......"

"I remember what you just said," said the Colonel, with a mechanical look, "when you took Lieutenant Nigaul and Ensign Schneier on a tour of the regimental headquarters, the two officers were a little tired when they came here, so the two of them went into the courtyard to rest, and after a short time they entered the courtyard, you heard a woman's scream coming from within......."

"Chief, sir......" Lieutenant Lando was not stupid in his head, he couldn't help but shiver, and his forehead was immediately covered with cold sweat.

Then you hear the woman's voice rebelling against Lieutenant Nigaul and Ensign Schneier, and at this time Major Steve and his guards pass by, and after hearing two shots from the energy gun, you rush into the courtyard together, and see Lieutenant Nigaul and Ensign Schneier being rejected for their ill intentions against the young civilian woman, and in a fit of rage, they shoot the innocent woman. When Major Steve stepped forward to stop the atrocity, he was attacked by the lieutenant and wounded in the ear, and was knocked to the ground and pierced through the chest with a sharp wooden stick on the ground, unfortunately he was martyred, and the two murderers were also captured by the major's guards and you in one fell swoop, this is all you just said to me, have you forgotten? ”

"But.... But.... Sir, I.... I...."Lieutenant Lando's teeth were so gritty that he could barely speak.

"Lieutenant, we know that your home is in New Manchester, where you have kind parents and a beautiful sister, and I am sure they must have been very appreciative of your heroic act of standing up today. This kind of atrocity is absolutely unforgivable, even if the perpetrator is an ace pilot, our army does not need such heroes, we must strictly enforce the imperial military discipline, if we do not punish this severely and indulge this kind of behavior, maybe the next victim will be your lovely sister. Do you agree? The lieutenant colonel spoke slowly, and the meaning of his words was so relevant that anyone who wasn't stupid could hear it.

"Yes, Lieutenant Colonel, I completely agree with you that such behavior is absolutely unforgivable." Lieutenant Lando was so startled that he immediately replied aloud.

"Very well, tell me, what did you see just now? Repeat the story again. ”

"Yes, sir, when I took Lieutenant Nigaul and Ensign Schneier to visit the regimental headquarters, they were a little tired when they walked here, so the two of them went into the courtyard to rest, and after they entered the courtyard for a while, I heard a woman's scream coming from inside......."

I'm sorry. The lieutenant mechanically recounted what had happened, and muttered in his heart that he was sorry, forgive me, I didn't have any choice.

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The court-martial's proceedings proceeded quickly, and the efficiency of the Empire was evident here, and even Captain Clark did not have time to meet with them. When the rescue plane sent by the fleet returned to the Columbus empty-handed, and reported the news of Risen and Schneier to the captain, the captain was immediately anxious, he did not believe that his subordinates would be suspected of forcibly abusing women and killing the commander, the captain found the captain, and the captain urgently called the fleet commander, but the commander could not do anything about it, because the major who died, his surname was Steve.

While Captain Clark was running around about this, a shuttle had taken Risen and Schneier to a large nearby military base, where a quick interrogation of them soon began, and Risen and Schneier were quickly stunned by what they had heard.

God, Risen thought, what the hell am I, how can the world be so upside down? All the witnesses, the testimony of the guards, including Lieutenant Lando, all accused them of attempting to kill the woman, Major Steve, who had instead become a hero who had died in the atrocities they had done to stop them. And those physical evidence, the energy reserve on his pistol showed that it was indeed two shots, but the bastard major's gun showed no traces of firing at all, and the countless fingerprints found on the woman's body were all his and Schneier's, and he didn't even touch the woman, how did they do it? And the blood stains left by the woman on the side of the mouth when she bit the major, all mysteriously disappeared, in the image, Risen saw that the edge of her mouth was very clean, how could there be any bloodstains? Instead, he found a trace of blood on his hand, which was confirmed by DNA testing to be identical to the Major's......

The whole process was done cleanly and perfectly, leaving no loopholes, Risen collapsed weakly in his chair, what could he say? Relying on verbal words, it seemed so pale and powerless, and the lawyer who temporarily found them quickly shut up after formulaically making some defense remarks, which was simply a formality, and everything had already been arranged.

"Rise. Lieutenant Nigaul, now for the final statement, do you have anything else to say? ”

"No, you lie, you shameless liars, liars, this is not a military tribunal at all, there is no trial at all...."Risen jumped up from his chair violently, venting his anger loudly, he tried to rush towards the presiding judge, but he was quickly grabbed by two gendarmes next to him and pressed into his chair, a liquid injection was injected into his neck, and he immediately fell silent.

In a haze, he heard the judge's verdict, "....... He was convicted of the crime of Qiang X and sentenced to Risen in accordance with Article 156, Paragraph 2 of the Imperial Military Law. Nigaul Death Sentence...... Murder of a commander and the crime of intentional homicide, convicted of the crime, in accordance with the first paragraph of Article 96 of the Imperial Military Law, sentenced to death..... Several crimes were combined and it was decided to deprive Risen of the crime. Lieutenant Nigaul Imperial Army, sentenced to death, immediately executed......."

Is it? Are you going to die? Risen felt a sadness in his heart, he didn't expect to die like this, this is the end, he fought "heroically" for the empire on the battlefield, is this what the empire rewarded him? He suddenly remembered Sergeant Boeira, he had also received the Golden Cross of the First Class, did the sergeant also see through something in the Empire, so he went to the Lodhian Barracks to be an instructor? But he was better off than his own life. But it doesn't matter, let's die, it's okay, I'll be able to meet with you in the underground soon......

Rise's eyes became more and more blurry, and vaguely, he saw that the judge seemed to have taken a note from the side, and after thinking about it for a moment, he continued to read, "...... But considering Risen . Nigaul's heroism in the fight against the Federation...... Special extrajudicial mercy...... Slavery...... Thirty years"

Extrajudicial favors? What is the meaning? Doesn't he have to die? Slavery? Thirty years?? Doesn't sound much better than death...... Here's Schnell, no, I can't hold on.......

His eyes went black and he lost consciousness completely.