"Sir." As soon as he saw Captain Ralph walk in through the door, Risen immediately stood up from his bed. Well, the meticulous Risson soon noticed that this chief seemed to be a little different from before, his expression was strange, as if it was a little unnatural, and his face was quite ugly.

"Sir, are you unwell? I see that your face is very bad. Risen looked at the captain with some confusion, this officer can't be sick.

The captain didn't say a word, he carefully scanned Risen from head to toe up and down, a very ordinary person, black hair, black eyes, yellow skin, two nostrils, two ears, neither too tall nor too short, I didn't see anything unusual about him, I didn't think it was actually a super ace who shot down thirty-nine fighters.

To be honest, he admired Risen from the bottom of his heart, and at another moment, he might have the urge to pull out his notebook and ask Risen to sign it, and maybe it would sell for a fortune later. But at this moment, this impulse was suppressed by another stronger emotion, a kind of fooled and deceived emotion, this bastard actually pretended to be a pig and ate a tiger, and hid himself tightly, causing him to be embarrassed in front of the general, thinking of his previous naïve and clumsy performance, he wanted to die, and this bastard was still pretending to be innocent, didn't he know that his face was so bad that he was all harmed? Although he was in a hurry after asking Schneier at that time, he forgot to ask him, but wouldn't he take the initiative to confess? How long did it take to say a word? The main responsibility is still on this guy.

The more the captain thought about it, the more angry he became, and he wanted to stretch out his iron fist and beat the fellow to the ground to relieve his hatred, but fortunately he had not forgotten the purpose of his visit, and his reason told him that it was important to get down to business, and he told himself repeatedly in his heart to be patient.

He finally spoke, "Lieutenant, remember what I told you earlier?" Now that we've arrived at base, what are you thinking? ”

"Sir, there's nothing to think about, I want to join the Resistance." Risen replied without hesitation. He had already thought it through, and although he was a little helpless, he still thought that he was more willing to take the initiative to control his own destiny than to be a pirate, escape, and seclusion. His friends, Crawford and Schneier, were all in the Resistance, and he couldn't just leave them behind, let alone save him from the Resistance. And the second lieutenant's previous words also gave him considerable confidence and encouragement, the rebel alliance is growing, and countless people who are eager to establish a free and just order are joining, and maybe, one day, they will be able to openly challenge the rule of the Empire......

The Captain nodded in satisfaction, especially pleased with Risson's steadfastness, and he held out his right hand, "Welcome, Rissen. Lieutenant Nigaul, welcome to the Resistance. ”

"Thank you, sir, it's my pleasure." Risen also stretched out his right hand, clasped tightly with the captain's broad right palm.

"Lieutenant." Captain Ralph smiled and took his hand back, "How's your body recovering?" ”

"Fortunately, thank you for your concern, I estimate that it will be back to normal in a few days at most."

"So can you still fly a starfighter?"

"I think it's fine." Risen affirmed, "Sir, why do you ask?" Is there any mission or action? ”

"Yes." The captain did not deny it either. "That's exactly one of the reasons why I came to you, we have a very important combat operation, and you're a rare fit."

"What kind of action is it?" Risen was a little surprised, he didn't expect that he would be sent on a mission as soon as he joined the Resistance.

"I can't tell you now, I can only say that this operation is quite dangerous, and the pilots who participate in it will take great risks, and even have the possibility of losing their lives, so we will not force orders on our people, and we hope that the pilots will voluntarily participate in this operation."

"This.... So secret? ”

"That's right." The captain nodded.

"Can I choose not to participate?" Risen asked again.

"Yes. You can choose not to participate, or you can choose to volunteer, but keep in mind that once you have decided to participate in the operation and know some of the details of the operation, you cannot quit. Do you understand? ”

"Understood, sir." Risen hesitated for a moment, "Sir, I choose to participate." ”

He could actually not participate in this operation, and Risen was also afraid of death, but as the first operation to join the resistance, he didn't want to miss it, and he also wanted to show himself. Besides, the Captain spoke so mysteriously that it aroused his strong curiosity. Don't forget, he is only about 20 years old this year, and this age is full of energy, ideals, enthusiasm, curiosity, impulsiveness, fearlessness, and eagerness to try.

"You have to think about it, once you join, you can't quit." The captain said with a serious expression.

"I've thought it through, sir, and I'm volunteering." Risen puffed out his chest and replied loudly.

"Very well, since you have made up your mind, then come with me."

"Where are you going, sir?"

"I'm going to go through the routine of joining the Resistance League, you still have your old rank in the Empire, and then I'm going to take you to get your uniform and some personal paraphernalia, and finally, General Martin wants to see you."

"The general wants to see me?" Risen repeated, stunned.

"Yes, let's go." The captain urged, "Don't keep the general waiting. ”

"Yes, sir. Uh, sir, may I ask by the way? What about my friend Schneier? ”

"Don't worry about him, someone has already taken him to go through the relevant procedures."

"Thank you, sir."

"Uh, wait a minute." The captain was just about to go out when he suddenly remembered something, folded it back, and hastily took a small notebook and a pen from his pocket, flipped it to a blank page, and handed it to Risson. "Write your name, write it bigger."

"Oh." Although Risen didn't understand the captain's intentions, he still wrote his name in a few strokes.

"Write another one." The captain flipped to the second page of the notebook and said solemnly.

What does this mean? Sir, does it have anything to do with action? After Risen finished writing, he finally couldn't help but ask.

"It's classified, you can ask, but don't expect an answer." The captain was triumphant in his heart, the first level of the official is good, this can be regarded as revenge on this guy once, well, the psychological balance is much better.

"Turn it over, and there's another one."

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"Rise. Lieutenant Nigaul came to report, General. ”

"Rest a bit, Lieutenant, I'm sure Captain Ralph has already mentioned to you, I'm General Martin, and I'm glad you're joining us." General Martin, like Captain Clark before him, looked at Risen with a critical eye, but he didn't find anything unusual about Riseen, he was completely ordinary and couldn't be more ordinary, and the general couldn't help but wonder a little, was it this ordinary person who set a record of shooting down thirty-nine enemy planes in three months? Is the intelligence mistaken, or is it a coincidence of the same name? I can't believe it. However, he still knows the saying that people can't look good, and he thinks it's better to wait until he sees Risen in actual performance before making a conclusion.

"Yes, general, but the captain did not specify, what kind of task it was, and what kind of danger there was."

The general smiled, "Don't be in a hurry, lieutenant, I'll explain it to you in detail." First of all, let me ask you a question, do you know how you were rescued? ”

"Of course I know, it was the rebels who raided the transport ship holding me and rescued me and Schneier, General, from the bottom of my heart, I am really grateful."

"But, to be clear, we didn't know you and your friends before, we didn't deal with you two, and we didn't know that you were on this ship, so why did we launch a surprise attack on that transport ship escorted by a cruiser?" General Martin continued to ask slowly.

"You.... Do you mean for the sake of the other prisoners who were on the same boat with me? Risen tried his best to hide the beating inside of him, knowing that the mystery was about to be revealed.

"That's right, we've been planning for this for a month, carefully designing the time, place, tactics, and retreat route of the raid, so that we can succeed in one fell swoop and minimize the casualties, do you know why they are so important?"

The general didn't expect him to answer, and continued to himself, "These people are all research and technical personnel from the Dikang Company, and they are also sympathizers of our rebels, lieutenant, you won't have heard of the Dikang Company. ”

Risson's heart was pounding, of course he had heard that the Dikang company was an extremely important space arms company in the empire, especially famous for designing starfighters, although a fighter they had designed before lost to the Vickers Banshee fighter in the bidding, but no one could deny their strong strength and innovative ideas in the design of starfighters, and it was rumored that the Dikang company was secretly designing a powerful and powerful new fighter with far superior performance at the request of the empire, in order to completely overwhelm the Federation, Seize the initiative in the war.

Could it be that their mission is related to the new starfighter? Risen secretly guessed.

"These supporters of our cause have handed over all the technical data, design data, production processes, and drawings of the newly developed starfighter to the Resistance Alliance. Lieutenant, I won't hide it from you, after getting these materials and data, the Resistance Alliance immediately organized manpower and material resources and began to set up several production lines to prepare for the mass production of this new type of starfighter, which we call 'Lightning'. ”

Risen was so shocked that he couldn't speak, this news was so shocking to him, the alliance can actually produce starfighters? Where do they get the necessary materials, especially the rare alloys that are not lacking in the manufacturing process? There are also some sophisticated sensors, flight control systems, engine manufacturing, etc., how do they solve these difficulties? And listening to the general, there is more than one production line, oh my God......

"Unfortunately, building a new Lightning Starfighter was much more difficult than we thought, we encountered many technical difficulties, and our helpers, these brave people, were later discovered and arrested by the Imperial Security Service. Lieutenant, so there was this rescue operation. However, with these people joining the Resistance Alliance, these problems will be solved quickly, and optimistically, within a few months, we will be able to produce the first new Lightning Starfighters. General Martin introduced.

"So what else do we need to do?" Risen can't guess it, everyone has been rescued, and there should be no problem with fighter production, so what are we doing?

"It's not enough to just produce an interstellar fighter," the general sighed, "We have to make sure that it can fly, we have to master its technical characteristics, improve its shortcomings and shortcomings, this needs to go through a long time of test flights and tests, unfortunately we don't have that much time, we can't wait a few years to slowly test flights and tests, we need new fighters to put into active service as soon as possible, that's why we need you." ”

The general's blazing eyes were fixed on Risen, "As far as we know, the Lightning fighter was built a year and a half ago, a total of four prototypes were built, and the TAU-7 space station in the New Lyon system has been in full swing for secret test flights, tests and improvements, and these improved Lightning fighters are now in a fully serviceable state. And this space station, as an important flight test center of the company, which keeps all the test flight, test and improvement data of all the lightning fighters, we need these data, we also need a complete, improved lightning fighter, so that we can adjust our production line with reference to them, so that the produced fighters can play their role, not as a vase. ”

Risen had already guessed the intention of the action, and his breathing began to rapid.

"On the other hand, the Lightning will become the main starfighter of the Resistance League in the future, and we don't want all of its detailed data to be on the table of the Imperial generals. Fortunately, because it was a secretly developed fighter, very few people knew about it, and the people of the Dikang company had destroyed all the information about the Lightning fighter before they were arrested, and only the TAU-7 space station still retained part of the information and related flight and test data. After the arrest of these researchers, the Reich quickly took over the space station, and the prototypes and all the materials fell into the hands of the Reich, and the time was delayed due to the need to reorganize and clean up the mess, and the prototypes and the materials have not been transferred yet, but it is difficult to say in the future, and we will definitely not allow this to happen. ”

"So, despite the Empire's current strong defenses near the TAU-7 space station, a surprise operation is inevitable and must be sacrificed. Our goal is to capture all of the test flight, test, and refinement data for the Lightning Starfighter and to obtain as much of a complete, improved prototype of the Lightning Starfighter as possible. ”

"The code name for this attack is Firefox."

(If you know why it is called Firefox, you will know the history of the development of the MiG-25 in the former Soviet Union and the panic caused to the West)