Major Ron was very adamant in his request to return to the Pioneer Fortress at once.

Frazier advised him not to do anything stupid, but he hadn't seen this guy so serious and stubborn in a matter since he had known Ron for so many years, this guy was a very "sensible" character, very observant and never caused trouble to others for his own reasons.

Although he usually hangs his son, he is still very reliable at critical moments.

However, perhaps it was Major Dunn's death that spurred him on, and after this seven-day coma, Ron was as angry and irritable as a different person, and Fraser couldn't stop him, promising to take Ron back to find out the matter as soon as his surgery was done.

But he didn't expect that as soon as he left on the front foot, Ron on the back foot asked his iron captain to help him call Brother Loyalty.

Because he bought the highest level of war insurance, this time the mechanical prosthetic surgery was debugged by Brother Zhongzhong himself, and he brought a whole box of modules and accessories for the leg prosthesis alone.

"So, which one do you want?"

Wearing engineering glasses, Brother Loyal holds a cable for tuning a prosthetic in his left hand, a three-claw stabilizer in his right hand that looks very dangerous, and the shelf next to him is filled with all kinds of leg prostheses.

Not only did he make it himself, but also his little mentor Sharon bought the "high-end goods" from the port of Chardo.

Even some of them were only delivered to Transencia yesterday, and they were originally for players to trade, but Major Ron was obviously a big customer, so Brother Loyal could be regarded as a hard work to ensure the quality of service.

"Anything goes, you just need to get me to my feet tomorrow morning, and I'm going to do something."

Ron, leaning on the hospital bed, bit an apple, he stared ahead as if he were staring at an invisible object, and said in a hoarse tone:

"I can't afford to delay Fraser will definitely inform them in advance, even my father will stop me, so I have to hurry, you Translancian airships will dock at the Maginot Line, right?

Can you arrange a ticket for me?

Go to the Ancestral Glade!

From there, it only takes one night to get to the Pioneer Fortress. ”

"You know you're actually doing something stupid, right?"

Brother Loyal blinked and asked:

"You little major, dare to run to question your marshal, this kind of behavior alone can be regarded as a challenge to military law, not to mention that Marshal Loren is a strict army, and if you dare to break into his office, he should kill you.

Your general's father can't keep you.

Listen to my advice, brother, investigating the truth is not the way to go!

You are slamming yourself into the muzzle of the gun, not only will you not get what you want, but you will easily startle the snake.

If you confirm that this matter is being concealed by the military leadership, then what you should do is to be like Colonel Fraser, first stabilize your own safety and then talk about the rest, you have a general father, this is already winning at the starting line.

Uncle sees that you are a good kid, so I remind you, don't fool around.

So if you want to be fast, I'll give you a standard prosthetic first, this thing has been used in Port Chardo for two hundred years, and there have been no major problems, it's all process-based things, and it's very quick to adapt.

I'll give you the best one, five plugin slots, and when you come back from your errands, you'll pick out the combat and auxiliary plugins you need, and I won't have to come over for later installation.

This thing is guaranteed for ten years, so you can save a little use. ”

With that, Brother Loyal turned around and went to help Major Ron concoct the mechanical legs.

As a spy agent, he keenly smelled the opportunity to intervene from Major Ron, but because he didn't have a suitable local agent under his command, it was too late to report to the Phantom Intelligence Bureau, and Lady Adele's main focus was on the Black Plague, so she could only sit back and watch this opportunity slip away.

But in the end, it was an old spy, and a few words that seemed to be comforting were actually on fire, almost blowing up Ron's anger.

The Iron Captain beside him was very worried, and whispered to his commander while Brother Loyal was adjusting his mechanical legs:

"The stranger was very direct, but he was not wrong, Major.

If you really want to find out, the best thing to do is to hold on to your current position and work your way up the ladder until you have access to more information.

I'm stupid, but I think it's a bit extreme for you to question the entire Pioneer Legion just because of the Gnoll Plague. ”

Ron simply closed his eyes and didn't talk.

This gesture of refusing to communicate made the captain quite helpless, but he didn't think to report to Colonel Frazier, after all, he had also experienced the attack and defense of the Black Flame Pass.

That wave of gnoll plague outbreak was right in front of him, if it weren't for Lord Heather's self-sacrifice, the plague offensive would definitely cause even more terrifying casualties, but just a short period of time when the plague broke out, the originally impregnable No. 8 position suffered heavy casualties, and not even a third of the people who escaped from the plantagenet artillery guarding there did not return.

It is impossible to say that the captain did not have a little anger in his heart.

"Here, inhale a little anesthetic gas so that I can implant a control orb in your wound."

Brother Loyalty's side was ready, and took out an asthma respirator-style thing and put it to Major Ron's mouth, and he said proudly:

"This is a sharp cargo smuggled from the port of Chardo, if you are not a big customer, I am reluctant to take this thing, just take a deep breath, the halfling man has done inhalation control, and can accurately control the coma time in ten minutes.

Hey, the big guy over there, your manipulator has a new combat component, would you like to get another one for you? The new arrival of the punch frame is so powerful that we call it the Gorilla Arm.

Commissioned by the Flywheel, the internal structure has been reset, and now it is possible to add additional small mantis knives. ”

"Okay, get me one!"

During the conversation between Brother Loyal and Captain Iron Hand, Major Ron fell into a groggy sleep, and when he woke up again, the mechanical implantation operation had been completed, and his left leg still did not feel like flesh and blood, but he could clearly feel that there was a "new organ" waiting for orders.

It's a novel experience.

He'd heard Captain Robinson describe how he felt when he first got the prosthesis, the clumsy use of the manipulator that always needed to give orders to move, but as he got used to it, he felt that it was much more useful and deadly than the original hand.

"It's a basic prosthetic, but I've also equipped it with a Bounce Force Enhancement and Unloading Impact Mod, so now you can jump high in the air and go into battle with a cool 'Rocket Strike' stance."

Brother Loyal grinned and patted Ron's mechanical leg, and said:

"Let the Captain teach you how to use it, by the way, considering that you may be going to be a poor bastard in the future, so the Captain will pay for the extra modification money this time, and we'll see you later, young man."

I just asked someone to buy a ticket for you on the Maginot Line, and the airship arrived in thirty minutes, but listen to my uncle's words, don't be impulsive in case of trouble!

The future matters.

You know, what you eat is grievance, but what you feed is the pattern. ”

After another archfire, he dragged his mechanical box out of the room, while the iron captain, who had been replaced with an arm frame, stood aside and adjusted to the new robotic hand.

This thing was a full two laps larger than the previous one, and it looked incongruous with the exaggerated upper body muscles of the Iron Hand Captain, but the power that burst out of the steel fist when it was clenched was indeed full of intimidation.

Such a heavy punch hit the head of the jackal, and it is estimated that it can break the skull, and in the battle with the human enemy, this thing is a proper lethal weapon.

Ron tried to jump out of the hospital bed, staggering on his feet but quickly steady, giving orders to his mechanical leg to follow, and on the first leg lift, a miniature steam stove hummed in it, keeping many of the modules running and adjusting the force of the landing to Ron's gait.

It sounds very subtle, but the rugged way of steam engineering keeps it in a "clumsy" stance to a "barely usable" level, and after a few adjustments, Ron can move around in a rather strange manner, but it obviously takes a little time to use his robot as nimble as Captain Iron Hand.

"You stay here, I'm going to the Maginot Line."

Ron put an overcoat over his body and was ready to go, but the captain shook his head, fetched him a warm classic green military coat, and said:

"It's the depths of winter, Major, and you're still a patient."

"What do you mean by carrying a bag?"

Ron glanced at his lieutenant and said:

"I didn't let you follow, you don't have a general's father, dare to rush to the marshal's office with me, be careful of your dog's head!"

"General Soros has given me orders to protect you, sir."

The Iron Captain shrugged his shoulders and said:

"I have to fulfill my duties, besides, I suddenly found that with my background, it is good luck to be able to retire as a school officer, and I still have a large family to support, and I can't make my family live a good life just by relying on military salaries.

You are not the king of Translancia gambling, there are many ways to make money and morality, and you will definitely make a lot of money with you. ”

", stay here!"

Ron snatched the lieutenant's bag and scolded:

"You have fought so many times for the future, and this time you are destined to prosper after becoming a war hero, there is no need to take the future with me, a loser, I didn't need that thing in the first place, but you are different."

"The brothers in Position 8 have only returned a third of the time, and now more than half of them are still lying here, who doesn't have fire in their hearts? You're not alone. If I dare you go alone to seek justice for your dead and wounded brother, others will eat me alive. ”

The Iron Captain sighed and said:

"The future is important, but there are always things in our lives that are more important than these glamorous things, and I'm a rough man, and I can't figure out the complicated things that only Colonel Fraser can figure out.

If you think the hidden ones have anything to do with the Pioneer Legion's higher-ups, then I'd like to follow you through the Headquarters.

I hope that General Soros will see that I am diligent in carrying out my orders, and help me say a word when the angry marshal shoots me. ”

"You won't die, we are already war heroes, no matter how angry Marshal Loren is, he must consider the domestic influence, he can't do the kind of thing that liquidates heroes after the war, because King Louis's negative arrangement in the direction of Transncia can only use us to promote victory in the country after the fall of the Black Flame Pass.

We already have an amulet in our bodies, and it is absolutely impossible to die.

You really think I'm stupid.

But I only bought one airship ticket, so you can figure it out yourself. ”

"Hey, that's a good idea, with the little tricks you taught you to hide cards, I just won a lot of money."

——

"Get out of my office! You two little bastards! Guardsman! Drag them out! ”

The next morning, Marshal Loren's loud voice rang out in the office of the Pioneer Fortress, but this time it was different from usual, and the roar was filled with irrepressible anger.

It seems that someone really the marshal.

The guard at the door immediately pushed the door in, but was easily suppressed by the Iron Captain, and Ron was also slapping the table and yelling at the short marshal:

"You make it clear! Are you in cahoots with the shitty psionists of the Tower of the Ring? You haven't answered me yet! Why is the plague we used exactly the same as the Jackals?

Your soldiers are dead! Killed by the plague we've used! All the survivors on Position Eight saw the gnolls drop the plague bucket with their own eyes, and even the runes on it were identical!

Bullshit soldier like a son, you cold-blooded bastard dwarf. ”

Loren, who was stuck in his office and questioning the damn thing, was going crazy.

The young man in front of him didn't know how many people's heads had fallen to the ground because of the Ring Tower, he was just venting his anger, Loren had also lost his comrades, he could understand where Ron's anger was coming from at this time, but this promising young man used the worst way to vent.

He trampled the face of the Marshal of the Pioneer Corps, and he violated the most untouchable taboo in the system of the army.

"One last word of warning to you, Major Ron!"

Loren stared at him like an angry lion, and he almost squeezed words out between his teeth:

"Get out of my office now! Obey the guidance of the gendarmes and stay in the cage and wait for the court-martial's verdict on the stupidity you and your adjutant have done today. If you think it's too boring, then I can kill you here with my own hands! ”

"We went to 5500 people, only 2000 returned, and that damned gnolls and their vicious plague killed our soldiers, marshal.

I know that in the eyes of a big man like you, the grudge behind these things can be slowly settled after the end of the Black Plague.

I also know it's the right thing to do.

But I'm sorry, I'm just a puppet who survived from the front, I'm just a soldier, I can't see as far as you see, and I don't understand the sacrifices necessary.

I want revenge, revenge for my brothers, for my subordinates, for Dunn!

That's all! ”

Major Ron stepped back.

He grabbed his major badge and pulled it off with all his might, and in the glaring gaze of Marshal Loren, he finally stroked his major badge and threw it on the marshal's desk.

This action happened to be seen by General Soros, who was rushing at the fastest speed, at the door, and the panting general's hand, which had just been raised, fell weakly at this moment.

He knew that he was a step too late, and that his stupid son had already done everything he couldn't do.

Ron didn't care about any of this anymore, and he whispered in a military coat:

"I know that doing this will make it as fast as possible, I know that doing so will put you under the maximum pressure you can bear on politics and public opinion, and I know that doing so will force you to find out the truth as quickly as possible.

The entire Pioneer Corps will be watching your actions in the future because of this.

Those who are dead and those who are alive are watching you!

No one may dare to say it to your face, but be careful, Marshal, you only need to make one wrong choice, and the pioneer army you have worked so hard to build will fall apart from within.

I didn't come here with a hot brain, I learned from you how to put pressure on a target.

I'm sorry, marshal, I am indeed coercing you, for this is the fastest and most direct way I can get justice and avenge my brothers.

I know I'm going to be expelled from the Pioneer Corps today."

"You think beautifully! You bastard only deserve a bullet. ”

Loren slapped the case and roared:

"Guards! Take these two traitors down to a cell and kill them on the spot if they dare to resist! ”

More guards rushed in, and Major Ron and Captain Iron Hands stopped resisting and let them escort them out, their eyes fixed on Marshal Loren as they dragged him out.

Those bloodshot and tired eyes were the eyes of a soldier.

It was even full of supplications.

A few minutes later, General Soros, who seemed to be a teenager in an instant, walked into the office, and before he could speak, he heard Loren's voice in the smoke:

"Your son must be desperate, otherwise the clever boy would not have put up a last stand in this way, and he might have guessed the compromise between us and the Tower of the Ring.

Scald!

I really didn't expect that something that ended two years ago would make waves today

No, it never ended!

The moment I ordered the plague to be sent by the Tower of the Ring, it would haunt me like a ghost.

Rao is that I have come to my senses, but now I realize that I have dug a hole for myself that will never be filled.

The Transians seek revenge on me, the spirits of Sico will not give up, and the dogs hiding in the Tower of the Ring are so proud that even my own soldiers are now rebelling against me.

But don't worry, Soros.

They were war heroes, and King Louis had already begun to publicize their victory at home, and Ron was at the heart of that propaganda, and the court-martials wouldn't have executed them at this time, but your promotion in two months might have to be done for that."

"No, I don't care about that anymore, Marshal."

General Soros stepped forward and reached for the insignia that had been discarded by his own son, and he clasped it in the palm of his hand, and his five fingers made it sink deep into the flesh and make himself feel pain.

He said wearily:

"We've got to fix this! If Fraser's report and Ron's questioning are true, it means that there is a hidden force in our country that can stab us in the back, and I don't know if His Majesty is prepared for this, but there may not be much time left for him.

Tower of the Ring.

You really should have bulldozed it with troops last time! ”

"yes."

Marshal Loren, who was sitting in a special chair, raised his head, exhaled a puff of smoke rings, and he whispered:

"We missed that opportunity but this time. This time it's not a problem that can be solved by clearing up a faction, 3,500 people who died. I want them to pay a hundredfold of blood! ”

(End of chapter)