XXXIX. Comrades-in-arms reunited

The fast battleship USS Liberty quickly broke out of hyperspace and reached the other end of this unknown space jump point. The other end of it is located in a scattered belt of rubble in the deep space of the dark universe, and the concealment is quite good, and one of the bases of the Resistance, the KJZ-11 space station, is near this aerial jump point.

It is said that it is nearby, but in fact, the space station is still some distance away from this jump point, even at the speed of the fast battleship Liberty, it will take about an hour and a half to sail. Risen looked at the approaching KJZ-11 space station, and really admired the rebels, who could think so thoughtfully: a space jump point hidden in a dense interstellar cloud and protected by a strong radiation belt was already rare, no wonder the empire could not find the exact location of the rebel base. After leaving hyperspace, Risen immediately noticed the monitoring equipment set up near the space jump point, which was undoubtedly designed to prevent the Empire from raiding. Even if the Empire is lucky enough to find and have a way to pass through this space jump point, it will be discovered by these monitoring devices as soon as possible and alert the Resistance, and the Rebels can use this little time to evacuate their personnel, supplies and ships before the Empire finds and arrives at the space station. No one would be so stupid as to put themselves in a situation where there is no escape.

"The KJZ-11 space station, this is Liberty, request to dock the space station."

"Welcome back, Liberty, please dock in Port 6."

The massive hull of the Liberty slowly approached the KJZ-11 space station from the side, the main body of the space station was oblate and cylindrical, and stretched out like tentacles in eight different directions.

The people rescued during this operation left the space station in order under the guidance of the space station reception staff. Naturally, Risen and Schneier were part of the group that left the Liberty, but instead of being manned by the space station, they were led to their own cabin by the second lieutenant who had interrogated Resson.

"Uncle, won't you come with us?" Separated from the crowd without taking two steps, Resson suddenly felt that his clothes had been ripped off, and when he turned around, the cute little girl was standing behind him at the moment, looking at Risen with a pair of big watery eyes.

Risen squatted down, hugged the little girl hard, and said softly, "No, Yunyun, uncle has other things, and I can't be with you for the time being." ”

The little girl pursed her mouth, her eyelashes trembled slightly, and her little red face became a little pale, "It's something again, Mom and Dad often say that, and now even Uncle says so." ”

"Yunyun." Ruisen's heart throbbed with emotion, and he carefully coaxed, "Uncle is also for Yunyun, do you remember those bad people who bullied Yunyun, bullied uncle, and bullied Yunyun's parents?" Uncle is going to fight those bad guys. ”

"However, Yunyun still hopes to be with her uncle and parents, and she doesn't want you to ......." The little girl lowered her head, and her voice whimpered.

"Don't cry, Yunyun." Risen was a little flustered all of a sudden, and his ability to coax girls seemed to be really inadequate. "Uncle can swear that Uncle will come back to accompany Yunyun after beating the bad guys away, okay?"

"Really, let's pull the hook then." The little girl finally put away the tears that were about to roll down, raised her head, and the clouds on her face began to disperse, revealing a heartfelt and expectant smile.

A white and tender little finger hooked with Ruisen's finger, "Pull the hook, hang it, a hundred years, and don't change." ”

.........

"I can't imagine that your ability to deceive children is not small, do you beat away those bad guys? Hey, I don't know how long or what month will it take to bring down the empire? But this little sister is so cute, Resson, when did you meet her? How I don't know. And the bracelet in her hand, it's very familiar, I asked you how many times you asked you and you didn't want to, so I gave it to a little girl, a guy who is heavy on color and light on friends. Schneier, who had been watching coldly, waited for the little girl to go away, and immediately began to interrogate Ressen, who was still waving goodbye.

"Hey, hey, hey, you don't talk nonsense, what kind of heavy color and light friends, I'm not perverted enough to be interested in this kind of little girl. I'll be honest with you, I only met her on the Liberty, and her parents were among those prisoners, but they were killed by those cold-blooded Imperial soldiers during the rescue operation, so I gave her the bracelet in the hope of alleviating her thoughts and pain. ”

"I'm sorry, man, alas, what a poor boy." Schneier immediately apologized, and he glanced at the little girl's back again and shook his head.

"That's why we're rebelling against the Empire," the lieutenant in front said, looking back, "The tyranny of the Empire, the oppression of the Empire, must be stopped, and that's why our Resistance League was formed. ”

"However, the empire is so strong that it seems impossible to resist, how can we ...... with our weak strength" Schneier said hesitantly, he also said what Risen thought, although they joined the resistance, but they were more based on helplessness and force, he never thought and dared not imagine that the resistance could defeat the empire.

The second lieutenant stopped, "Nothing is impossible, although our strength is still very weak, but more and more people who desire freedom and justice are joining us, giving us support and help, our strength is growing day by day, I can tell you that the Resistance Alliance is developing at a snowball speed, especially in the past few years, it has changed greatly, what you see now is only the tip of the iceberg, when you really join the Alliance, You will know the true power behind the alliance. ”

Risen didn't squeak, he knew that what the second lieutenant said might be true, because, if the alliance even has a capital ship like a fast battleship, its strength should not be underestimated, if what the second lieutenant said is right, this is just the tip of the iceberg, then the resistance alliance should not only have this base, they should have more ships hidden behind the scenes. Risen felt a little chilly behind him, didn't the empire really find out? Or has the Security Service's ability to block the news already at home?

Just as he was walking, thinking about his thoughts and feeling a little distracted, several Confederate soldiers came from across the aisle, and perhaps the other party did not notice, but Risen and one of them just bumped into each other shoulder to shoulder.

"I'm sorry, I'm not ......." When he raised his head and saw the other person's face clearly, he couldn't help but froze, the person opposite was just about to get angry, but, like Risson, he was also stunned.

"Gram..... Gram..... Crawford, you ..... You...... He pointed in amazement at the other man, who was no longer speechless, and this person was clearly a friend with whom he was training with the Lodesian Barracks in New London.

"Risson." The young man of his age pounced on him and hugged his arm tightly, "I can't believe my eyes, how did you come here?" ”

"I just got here, didn't you go to the Fifth Fleet? I remember you said that as soon as you become the captain, you will transfer me from the logistics department to your battleship....."

"Haha, you remember, it's a long story, I didn't report on the Fifth Fleet Nelson at all, I met some friends when I was in the professional college, and then I slipped away on the assignment and came here. It's you, how did you get here? It's not like me, you slipped away with some friends when you were in a professional college, you mechanic. ”

"Where, I used to be a mechanic, but I'm a starfighter pilot now, can't I think of it?"

"Starfighter pilots? Damn, you guy, how did you do that? Looks like I'm going to have to call you sir, you must have a lot of stories, and I have a lot of stories to tell you, but it's too late today, I still have a lot of work to do here, and when we're free, I'll sit down and get together......"

The two of them talked happily and loudly as if no one was around, causing several people next to them to look sideways for a while, and they were also a little envious, and it was rare to meet acquaintances in war.

"You know?" The lieutenant asked a nonsense, of course they knew each other, otherwise could strangers be like this as soon as they met?

"Yes, sir." Crawford replied loudly, "The two of us were trained together at the Lodtheon Barracks in New London. ”

The second lieutenant nodded, since it was an acquaintance, it would be better to do it, and it would be helpful to find him later to learn more about Risen in detail, which would help to investigate and verify Risen Son's identity. However, perhaps there is no need to bother, Captain Ralph has already been sought by his superiors, perhaps because of the results of the investigation into the identities of these two men.

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"General, is there a result?" Captain Ralph asked eagerly.

"Hmm." His superior nodded, pressed a few buttons on the table, and the heads of the two people were immediately displayed on the big screen in the room, which were the big heads of Risen and Schneel, "This matter is not a trivial matter within the Empire, of course our intelligence system has an archive of this incident, and the public interrogation information of the Empire shows that these two people disobeyed the Imperial military discipline, raped and killed women, killed their superiors, despised their superiors, and deliberately disobeyed military discipline....... A lot of crimes, and that Major Steve has become a hero who sacrifices his life to save people, it's really rare, is the Steve family finally a hero? The general smiled playfully.

Captain Ralph also laughed, "The people of the Steve family are the focus of our attention, and we don't know about that bastard, so I think it's pretty much the same to turn their charges around." ”

"Exactly. Through the information obtained by our insiders, that bastard ** a federal woman killed her by mistake, and happened to be bumped into by these two, who must have killed him by mistake in the struggle. Hmph, the empire comes and goes and still has the same set of methods of planting dirt and framing it, and it has not changed at all for decades, and it is about to get old. ”

"In other words, we can basically rule out the possibility that these two people are spies who have infiltrated us."

"Perhaps," the general shrugged, "the preliminary conclusion is possible, and I am inclined that they are not spies, and the formal conclusion will have to wait until all the investigation of them is over." But if you insist, you can also get them to join the program first. ”

"That's great, General, allow me to revise the plan, I think Schneier will be a suitable person for our plan."

"Schnell?" The general asked curiously, "Aren't you interested in this Risson. Is Nigaul interested? And I agree with your earlier conclusion that he should be a better fit than Schneier. ”

"At first, I also thought so, because he knew both the structure and performance of the starfighter, the equipment, and the pilot, which was exactly what we needed, but I later learned that Schneier was a double ace pilot who shot down thirteen enemy planes, although he did not know as much about the starfighter as Resson, but his technology, experience, etc. were enough to make up for this deficiency." The captain began to state his point.

The general's face became even more strange, and he asked in disbelief, "That's the reason?" ”

"Yes, General." The captain glanced at his boss strangely, isn't this reason sufficient?

"Do you know how many enemy planes this Risen shot down?" The general thought for a moment and asked.

"Uh, sorry, didn't have time to ask." The captain replied apologetically.

Without saying a word, the general pressed a few more buttons, and Schneier's head vanished, and next to Risson's head, lines of text were quickly listed.

"Three...... Thirty-nine? (The one shot down during the ground support mission is not counted)

The poor captain stared at the small number next to the crash record, his eyes almost widened, he seemed to have forgotten to breathe, his mouth was wide open enough to swallow a duck egg, his throat moved, but he could not say anything, and his superior, looking at his subordinates who had fallen into a state of stupor, with sympathy and pity.......