Inside the HER carrier aircraft No. 0113A, the "Red Knight" was communicating via video with Colonel Zhuge Daozi.
"I can't believe that your second defeat is like this."
Colonel Zhuge Daozi sat on the captain's seat of the "Wuhou" class battleship, crossing his legs and shaking a paper fan.
"Huh? The second time? I don't remember where I lost before." The red knight held a drink cup in his hand and chatted while drinking.
"Have you forgotten? When you were in the military academy, you lost miserably in the rope climbing competition."
"Don't let me remind you who tampered with my rope!"
Talking about the past, the two laughed heartily. After a while, Zhuge Daozi asked:
"Do you think it was Unit 2 stolen by the Osiris?"
"It is very possible that although the people who attacked the fortress were locals and wore the same clothes as the guerrillas, their weapons were all Covenant standard. It may be that the Osiris bribed the guerrillas, gave them weapons, and stole No. 2 machine."
"Then where did they get the information?"
"The captain of the Osiris, Shepard, is a former Covenant Commodore. It should not be difficult to obtain this kind of information."
"Well, if you think about it, including the Osiris surrendering to our army, there may be support from the Covenant war faction behind it."
"Yes, and now that the Covenant has humanoid weapons that can carry out long-range laser attacks, it is only a matter of time before other forces crack the principle of the Maul Chamber of Commerce's machines that can use laser weapons."
"The technological gap between other forces and our army is getting smaller and smaller..."
Having said this, the red knight put down the drink in his hand, stood at attention and saluted Zhuge Daozi and said:
"Colonel, I hope you can allow me to command this carrier aircraft to pursue the Osiris and Unit 2."
Zhuge Daozi put away his folding fan, slapped his palms with the fan bone and said:
"In my opinion, you and Unit 2 are not compatible."
"The eight characters don't match?" The red knight didn't quite understand that it was a Chinese word.
"It's nothing, you can just understand it as 'no chance for you' or 'horoscope conflict' or something like that... I will soon take all the soldiers of 'Wuhou' to support the battlefield in Eastern Europe. You are my indispensable force. But I I understand your character, I’m afraid this is related to your glory, right?”
"Yes"
"Okay, I agree, but I only give you one week. After one week, no matter what the result is, you will ask me to come back."
"Yes!" The red knight saluted again.
"By the way, Colonel, I have one more thing to ask you..."
"You want me not to tell anyone else about your failure, right?"
"That's right" the red knight smiled.
"Hahaha, don't worry. After all, you are also my confidant. I will not do anything that harms others and does not benefit myself. Go ahead! I wish you good luck in martial arts!"
…
The soldiers on the Osiris wake up at 7 o'clock every day, run around the main passage in the ship, and then go to the hangar to do a hundred push-ups. After that, they go to their respective posts.
For professional soldiers, this amount of training is not large, but for Lin Ao, it is hell.
Not long after running, he felt dizzy and out of breath. There were no other trainers in front of him. He wanted to slip away without anyone noticing, but he had no chance because all the refugee children were following him, laughing at him as he ran:
"Run, Lin Ao, run quickly! The last one will be spanked!"
Lin Ao wanted to drive the children away, but he couldn't breathe a word. I had to blush and persist until the children couldn't catch up. Unfortunately, his lazy idea still couldn't be achieved. Because starting from the second half, there were people checking every other period, so Lin Ao had no chance to be lazy.
"Ha ha…"
It took another half an hour for Lin Ao to finish the race, but he finished the last few dozen meters holding on to the wall.
Sergeant Anton put his hands on his hips and tapped his feet impatiently. He had been waiting for Lin Ao for a long time. Lin Ao immediately raised his hands in surrender when he saw him:
"Spare me, let me rest! Ahem!"
"The bad news is you won't get a minute's rest. The good news is you'll save your push-ups for later. Come with me!"
"Is this good news?"
Anton walked in front and asked Lin Ao to follow him. After walking a few steps, he saw that Lin Ao was slow, so he simply dragged Lin Ao to the cockpit of the No. 2 aircraft.
"AI said it wants to give you driving training."
As soon as he saw the driver's seat, Lin Ao slumped down on it without Anton's words. Only now did Lin Ao feel that the leather seat was so comfortable, and he felt like he was alive again.
Anton also wanted to come in, but the hatch was closed with a bang. No matter how much Anton knocked and shouted outside, it would not open.
"Hello, Lin Ao, do you remember the names of me and this machine?" the AI spoke.
"Um... let me think about it... it's called drag... Tot?"
"Hmm, where is this machine?"
"Unit 2?"
"Yes, this aircraft also has a name called 'Chongda'. As a pilot, you'd better remember it."
"Hello Tot, I'm too tired, can you let me have a rest first?"
"Yes, but you need to watch the instructional video of this aircraft first. Then, as the pilot of Unit 2, I will tell you all the weapons of this aircraft, but you don't need to tell people outside, okay? ?”
Lin Ao nodded.
"Very good, I hope you can make some noise next time you agree. I need to go through a lot of background permissions to see you nod. You humans don't know how troublesome this is..."
…
About an hour later, the hatch of Unit 2 opened again. Lin Ao saw a technician using instruments to test the outer armor of Unit 2. Lin Ao greeted him.
"Hello, do you know where Sergeant Anton is?"
"Oh, just call me Armstrong, or Lao Ah. I will be responsible for the maintenance of this machine from now on. As for Anton, he was just turned away and is angry now. You'd better be careful. a little."
"I didn't close the door!" Lin Ao cried out.
"He knows." Armstrong shrugged.
Sergeant Anton was turned away by an AI and vented his anger on other soldiers. All the soldiers who were lazy in doing push-ups were punished by him 100 more times.
When Lin Ao saw this scene, he really didn't dare to go over and say hello to him, but Sergeant Anton saw him first.
"You!" He pointed at Lin Ao and said, "Let old Jack teach you hand-to-hand combat!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a wooden knife covered with a cloth strip was thrown towards Lin Ao, but Lin Ao narrowly missed catching it. But when he caught it, he realized that the wooden knife was really heavy.
A black man in his 30s greeted him with a wooden knife: "Hey boy, I am Jack, the captain of the humanoid weapons team B. You can call me Old Jack, because I am a few years older than most of the people on this ship. Let's Come and sign!"
"Signing? With such a heavy wooden knife? Wouldn't it hurt if you hit it!"
"Don't get hit if you're afraid of pain!"
Old Jack swung his wooden sword and hit Lin Ao's left upper arm with an upper blow. The pain caused him to cover his upper arm and curse Old Jack for being despicable.
"Being mean can keep you alive. Just now I was holding back."
Old Jack struck a few more times, but Lin Ao was too tired to deal with it and could only defend passively. Old Jack's strength was so shocking that Lin Ao had difficulty holding the handle of the knife.
"Attack! Attack!" Anton spurred from the side.
Lin Ao suddenly remembered a swordsmanship move he had just seen on Unit 2. He copied it and pointed the tip of the sword to the ground. When Old Jack swung the sword, he suddenly raised the blade and stabbed the tip upwards.
The knife almost hit Old Jack's chest, but Old Jack did not stop and chopped off Lin Ao's wooden knife.
"That move just now was the 'Fool's Pose'? Not bad, but your strength is too weak."
"No, I can't swing anymore!"
Swinging the thick wooden knife was much more difficult than expected. Lin Ao collapsed on the ground. Old Jack kicked the knocked down wooden knife to his hand, leaving Lin Ao to hold on to the knife and fight again.
"Arrived at Caspian Sea!"
Someone cheered excitedly.
The hangar of the Osiris has no windows, but you can see the outside scene through several screens. We are all residents of the universe. They have only heard of the famous mountains and rivers on the earth, but have never seen them. So they all stopped what they were doing and gathered in front of the screen to enjoy the view of the Caspian Sea.
Although the Caspian Sea is called a "sea", it is actually an inland saltwater lake. Unlike the desert scenes we saw before, there is still a lot of vegetation around the Caspian Sea.
Lin Ao and Old Jack also stopped training and began to appreciate the scenery of the Caspian Sea. This was the first time Lin Ao could remember seeing such a big "sea".
"Did Bashar and the others come here to fetch water before?" Lin Ao said to himself.
Old Jack shook his head: "I don't know who you are talking about, but this is salt water and cannot be drunk."
"Through the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus Mountains, we will reach Europe!" someone said.
"I'm getting further and further away from the canyon..."
Thinking of this, Lin Ao thought of Hafei. He had not heard any news about Hafei for several days...
