Truly.

If there is anyone who may know anything about the mechanical tower and the iron man, it is Elaine who has gone into the desert to find out, and judging from the readings of the subspace energy that has gradually disappeared, she may have really found something strange in the desert.

Faced with Coswayne's admonition, Johnson began to ponder.

Johnson had expected such a conversation between himself and Coswayne, but he didn't expect it to be today.

And Coswayne's advice didn't disappoint him.

Indeed, it was not rational to engage in a large-scale conflict with the Seventeenth Legion, and Johnson was not a man who was completely unheeded by the advice he was given—but, except in the case of a more effective plan in front of him, the lion would generally regard the so-called 'advice' as an offense to himself.

And when it comes to offense, Ryan Al-Johnson never has mercy.

Apparently, Coswayne didn't realize that his head and body were just a stone's throw away.

Of course, it is also due to the fact that the advice and logic he put forward are very perfect, and the young paladin has been trained by the Lion King as the head of the legion.

Faced with a decent compromise, Johnson had no reason not to adopt it.

It can not only ease the confrontation between the dark angel and the bearer, but also make the stone in his heart fall to the ground.

It's just that... There has always been a loophole in this solution that is hard to ignore.

That's Elaine herself.

After a moment of silence, Johnson spoke.

"Coswayne, your advice, your opinion, and your will... I've seen it all. ”

"But we can't ignore the reality and argue a vague question."

"And the reality is: we can't find her."

With the lion's cold words, the young paladin's last confidence was suddenly extinguished.

At this moment, Johnson saw Coswayne's gaze suddenly dim.

It was clear that the young brother had done his best in his position - no matter what, at all times, Coswayne would always be the genetic child of Ryan Al-Johnson, destined to be unable to make a decisive decision as a pillar of the Legion, even if he could give a strong advice.

Johnson doesn't blame him for this.

Coswayne was too young, and as Astarte, who was barely able to stand next to him, he was not ashamed of what he did.

Moreover, because Johnson was too aware of the shortcomings of the Astarte Legion, he wanted to cultivate such a legion commander who could assist him at a critical moment, and set up extremely complex, tight, and intricate intra-legion relationships.

On a rational level, Coswayne has met Johnson's needs.

Although his advice did not move his own decisions and ideas, such a symbolic attempt was already valuable.

Moreover, from any point of view, this problem in front of the Dark Angel is difficult to solve:

If you want to deal with this unknown iron man disaster in the first place, then you can't bypass the hurdle of Colchis.

If Colchis and Luojia are not dealt with in time, this Iron Man disaster, which even I don't know about, may expand to unimaginable proportions.

Maybe they're just as weak as they seem, but if there's a 1 in 10,000 chance that they're just disguises?

Johnson never wanted to speculate or engage in such complex gambling, because crises were never measurable equivalents, and all he had to do was to strangle any potential crisis in the cradle and snuff out any spark that could burn the empire's territory, as he had done in the past hundred years.

Although he has never been ignorant of so-called interpersonal relationships, at least, Johnson understands the most simple truth:

The nascent human empire really can't afford the Second Iron Man Rebellion.

If Elaine, who might have known the truth of the incident, was present, then Johnson might have compromised for a while, but the problem was that she wasn't in Colches.

This is why Johnson did not think of such a compromise, and Elaine has not been seen again since the appearance of the Mechanical Tower, so much so that Johnson even thinks that she may have died in the crisis of the Iron Man and the invasion of subspace.

Well, now it's obvious what to do.

"Prepare to fire."

Under Johnson's cold orders, even Coswayne lost hope in his eyes.

In his opinion, the Dark Angel is about to become the culprit who pushes the Bearer to the opposite side of the Empire.

However, as if to interrupt the heavy atmosphere just right, a psychic female voice suddenly reached Johnson's ears.

"Wow... It looks like I'm going to witness something terrible. ”

"A civil war between the two Astarte regiments?"

"But... Judging by the current situation. It's too late for you to withdraw your order, Johnson. ”

It was Elaine's voice.

At this moment, Johnson subconsciously thought that he was hallucinating.

Previously, when he and Luojia had not yet completely broken up, they had dug three feet into the surface of the planet Colchis, and they had not been able to find Elaine's lone intruder into the wind and sand containing subspace energy.

After the wind and sand dissipated, no trace of her could be found in any large-scale bird array, and Ryan even wondered if she had died in that strange sandstorm a long time ago, so that when faced with the mechanical towers that rose from the sandstorm, she was almost the first to face the Iron Man Legion with the same level as if she were an army capable of killing the original genomes.

Now, Johnson even wondered if the voice was played by those evil beings in the subspace.

However, on the star map, the ships of the Twelfth Legion, which had just arrived in Colchis, instantly dispelled Ryan's conjecture.

The person may be fake, but the Legion will definitely be able to prove her identity.

Although Johnson did not know how Elaine had left Colches without knowing it, and even made a trip back to Nucheria halfway, her presence undoubtedly gave a powerful shot in the arm to the current tense situation.

As long as Elaine informs herself of the truth she has discovered, the lion doesn't mind slowing down his means for a while.

"Look. We are not without opportunities – opportunities are right in front of our eyes... And all we have to do is just grab it. ”

And Coswayne, who could see that Johnson's attitude had softened a little, tried harder and harder to admonish the father of genes in front of him, who often insisted on going his own way to the end.

“… Good. ”

Johnson's tone finally softened.

In the face of the admonition of the heir, the muzzle of the guns of the compatriots, and the imminent truth, even if he is as ruthless as Ryan Elzhuangsen, after weighing the pros and cons and the consequences of starting a legion civil war without authorization, he must put aside the extreme plan in his heart for the time being.

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(End of chapter)