"What questions did they ask you?" His friend was a little curious, and when he came out of the cabin where he was talking, he noticed that Risen had been looking like he was thinking about something with his head down.

"It's nothing, it's just a matter of some military ranks, positions, troops, and some military history, which is similar to digging the family's background, what about you? And what do they ask? ”

"It's about the same as you, thorough, you almost didn't ask me what color my panties were. But if they dare to ask this question, I'll tell them I'm not wearing underwear, hahaha, and I don't know if they're going to check it in public. Schneier joked, "And how did you answer?" ”

How else can you answer that? Tell me the truth, I'm not a secret spy, and I don't have any special identity and background, so I don't think it will be too difficult for them to really investigate. ”

"That's not it, just let them check it, we're telling the truth anyway. So what are you thinking? ”

"I.... Man, I've decided, join the Resistance. Risen suddenly raised his head and announced his decision to his friend with a serious expression.

His friend looked at him for a long time as if he had seen something strange, and then said, "This is what you have been thinking about for a long time?" It's such a simple thing, and you want to think about it for a long time?? You can't be spoiled by those bastards! Didn't I already analyze it with you before? ”

"What's the simple thing?" Risen couldn't wait to give his friend a kick in the ass, "I'm not like you, you have little brain, joining the resistance means fighting the empire in the future, I don't care about fighting the Steve family, but it's a pity that they won't go to the battlefield to fight us in person, and the people below are coming, such as the Columbus, such as the captain and the rest of the Thunderbird squadron, can you still buckle the plate machine so easily in the face of them?" You think it's easy?? ”

It was rare to see him, and his friend also sighed, and said with some meaning: "Do you think I haven't thought about it? But what can we do? Do you close your eyes and let the captain blast us to pieces? Whether we join the Resistance or not, as long as we remain enemies of the Empire, and as long as the captain remains in the Imperial Army, we will eventually meet them. On the battlefield, either you die or I live, if possible, of course I don't want to fight the captain, but if we really meet on the battlefield one day, what to do and what to do, I believe the captain can also understand us. Risson, it's painful to make that choice, but we don't have a choice. ”

"I know, so I made my choice." Risen was calm, and he patted his friend on the shoulder gratefully, "Thanks, man." ”

"No, friend, I just hope we have a little luck, just don't run into the captain on the battlefield."

"Hopefully, there are so many troops in the empire, how can it be so easy to say that they will run into each other?" Having said that, Risen still didn't feel very steady.

Both of them were a little silent, each thinking about their own thoughts, Risen glanced at his friend and shook his head in his heart, it was really simple to say, but maybe the moment they really met, they would know their real choice at that moment.

"Man, did you notice?" Sensing that the atmosphere was a little heavy, Risen immediately changed the subject, "They seem to be interested in us, especially when I said that I am an interstellar fighter pilot and have been engaged in fighter maintenance before. ”

"Really? I didn't notice, um, wait, I remember, when it was mentioned that I used to be a pilot in a Banshee starfighter, the questioner seemed interested, and the rest, nothing else, I didn't work as a mechanic for a while, I signed up for the Starfighter pilot selection straight after graduating from the boot training center. ”

"Well, maybe that's the difference between us, anyway, I think there's something unusual about that Captain Ralph, and even though he's pretending to be nothing, I'm sure there's something wrong. I'm a banshee starfighter pilot, and I'm not surprised that he's interested, but if I say I'm a mechanic, he's interested, so that's a bit abnormal......." Risen strung the whole thing together and thought about it carefully, especially when he thought that the rebels unusually used a capital ship to carry out a rescue mission, and most of the people rescued were technicians and researchers, what the hell were these people studying? Why are they so important? Risen now vaguely felt as if he had caught something, not very clearly, but there was something there.

"So what do you think is the problem?"

"I don't know. You ask me, who do I ask? Risen rolled his eyes and replied dryly.

"Die, you guy, don't keep doing this kind of mysterious thing, it's okay, it's not good

"Hahaha......."

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The fast battleship Liberty waited for nearly an hour and a half in this unknown interstellar cloud before restarting its engines again and cautiously continuing toward the interior of the interstellar cloud.

Captain Ralph looked at Risen and Schneier who were standing in front of the porthole talking and joking with interest, he had already used the priority frequency band to report the situation of these two people first, and asked the higher authorities to immediately find out whether there was really a matter of Major Steve being killed, he believed that it should not take too long to get the result, because as long as it was related to the Steve family, it would be included in the category of important intelligence, and the alliance's intelligence system should not miss such a big incident, as long as it was true, it was indeed these two people who did it, and check that the names and photos are correct, then the captain feels that he can basically rest assured about these two people.

In fact, although it has not been finally verified, the captain already believes in his heart that they are not spies sent by the Empire, because if they are really sent spies, they will not use such a big thing as the killing of the Steve family as an excuse, they can make up a more reasonable and less obtrusive excuse, and the captain does not think that the Empire has the ability to guess the rescue operation of the rebels and prepare in advance, if the empire is really so capable, they can already wipe out the rebels.

He walked over, intending to talk to the two former Imperial pilots again and learn more about it, especially that Risson. Nigaul, in that next plan, maybe he will be able to come in handy.

"Sir." Risen and Schneier immediately stopped their conversation.

"What are you talking about?"

"It's nothing, sir, it's just a discussion about joining the Resistance, but now that the discussion is over, we've decided to join." Risen peeked cautiously at the Captain, and he noticed a flash of almost imperceptible joy in the Captain's eyes.

"Don't worry," the captain waved his hand, deliberately pretending not to care, "Now that the Liberty hasn't arrived at base yet, you still have plenty of time." ”

"yes, so how long is it before we get to base? The Liberty stopped just now, and I thought it was all at base. Schneier asked.

The Captain smiled, "I was just waiting for the passage time. ”

"Passage time?" Risen repeated, the word was quite new, he hadn't heard it before.

The captain thought for a moment, and he decided to explain that it shouldn't be a big problem for safety, "That's right, there's a space jump point inside this interstellar cloud, and after passing through this space jump point, we'll reach the base. However, this space jump point is shrouded in an extremely dangerous belt of intense radiation, the high dose of which is enough to kill anyone on board a ship who intends to force its way in. However, fortunately, we also found that the radiation intensity of this radiation belt will be greatly weakened in a certain period of time, and at this time, it is possible to pass through the radiation belt and enter the space jump point, so these time periods are called passage time. ”

"Oh, I see." Risen and Schneier understood.

"I seem to remember that the Eleventh Fleet once participated in the Battle of the Henison Meat Grinder with the Federation, did you two participate in actual combat?" The captain asked casually.

"I have participated, but we only joined the Eleventh Fleet at a later stage, and we have not been on the battlefield for a long time, only three months in total, and as for the battles, we have participated in a few battles." Risen replied truthfully and modestly.

"Three months? Three months is quite a long time, and it shouldn't be easy for you to survive, at least you're not a novice anymore, do you have a record of shooting down a Federation fighter? ”

Risen and Schneier glanced at each other, and then Schneier spoke first, "Sir, I shot down thirteen enemy planes. ”

"X.... Thirteen? "Captain Ralph was taken aback by the number, what is the concept of thirteen? Shooting down five is an ace pilot, and thirteen, this guy is actually a double ace pilot? There aren't many pilots in the Resistance League who have the same record. The captain looked Schneier up and down, and Schneier was uncomfortable. At this point, the Captain's vision was completely different from before, and he felt that he needed to get to know this guy again, and maybe that plan should have sent him, perhaps more appropriately, although he probably didn't know as much about starfighters as Risen standing next to him. Nigaul, however, has more than to make up for this small shortcoming.

"Did you really shoot down thirteen Federation fighters?" The captain asked again in disbelief.

"Yes, sir. What's wrong? Schneier looked at the somewhat agitated captain with some depression, and then at Resson, which was not a remarkable feat, and it was far from the one next to him.

But Captain Ralph didn't think so, he felt that fortunately Schneier had decided to join the Resistance, otherwise he would have tried his best to keep this guy anyway, he remembered a flaw in this raid, the fast battleship Liberty could have carried a wing of thirty-six starfighters, but due to the lack of Banshee fighters and pilots, the number of fighters that could be dispatched in this operation was less than two squadrons, and most of the pilots were newly trained novices, In the air battle, six fighters were shot down and three pilots were killed. Well, the captain thought, he should inform the wing commander of the news as soon as possible, and he must be very happy that he was struggling with the inexperience of his pilots.

After a hurried explanation, the captain hurried away. When he left, he actually forgot to ask more, what is Risson's record, but this can't be blamed on him, in his subconscious, he feels that a trump card is already amazing, people can't be too greedy, and they can't expect the two pilots to be super aces or something.

"What's wrong with him?" Schneier asked, puzzled.

"Maybe I'm frightened by your record." Risen half-jokingly said that he was amused by the captain's reaction, but fortunately he didn't say it himself, if he hadn't told him that his record was forty, would he have fainted on the spot?

"You come less, my record is less than one-third of yours, I ......"

Before Schneier could finish his sentence, a gentle voice from inside the speaker interrupted him.

"Attention, attention, Liberty is about to arrive at the jump point, please take your seats, watch out for vibrations and bumps during the jump, thank you." A computer-synthesized female voice begins to draw attention.

"We're going to get there, let's get out of here, find a place to sit." Risen hadn't forgotten what Captain had said earlier, after passing through this space jump point, they were about to reach their destination, what was the rebel base like? How big is it? He couldn't help but be filled with curiosity.