Colonial Satellite Merchant
Dr. Hohenheim is working alone in a dark laboratory. Since his return to the Moore Chamber of Commerce, he has barely spoken to anyone, and his colleagues have begun to alienate him. But that's a good thing for Hohenheim, who likes to be alone.
Just when he was concentrating on his work, his personal terminal suddenly rang. Hohenheim's expression changed and he clicked on a pop-up window on the terminal, which displayed a series of complex data fluctuations.
"Lin Ao? What's wrong with him?"
These data come from the small machine buried behind Lin Ao's ear. The surface function of this machine is to allow the Ten Swords pilots to call the machine from a distance, but secretly the Moore Chamber of Commerce is monitoring the physical condition of each driver through it. Hohenheim had no access to the data, but he managed to get it while aboard the Osiris.
"This is so abnormal...Lin Ao's brain blood supply system is operating at a very weird speed. Most people will die like this! But...his vital signs are normal."
Hohenheim scrutinized the data, and it wasn't the first time he'd seen such fluctuations. Lin Ao also had such strange physical data during the duel between Lin Ao and Sasaki Musashi, but the duration was very short and can be ignored. Now it lasted for a full minute, and then the data began to stabilize, showing that the blood supply to Lin Ao's brain was running at a faster but not too dangerous state.
"This is so weird, what's going on?"
Hohenheim muttered to himself, wondering what the purpose of the Chamber of Commerce was when he learned that it was secretly monitoring driver data. If you want to conduct an experiment, there will be too few subjects for the experiment.
When he focused entirely on the data, a strange and rickety figure appeared behind him. It was an old man with explosive hair.
"Dr. Hohenheim, these data are not what you should look at, right?"
The voice that appeared from behind startled Hohenheim. He recognized the owner of the voice. Hohenheim is the deputy director of the Humanoid Weapons Development Department of the Moore Chamber of Commerce, and the old man behind it is his boss, Dr. Rick Brown, the owner of the Humanoid Weapons Development Department.
"Dr. Rick!? I..."
Hohenheim looked at the old man with a strange smile in front of him in horror. In his impression, Rick Brown was even more lonely and weird than himself, and rarely left his laboratory.
Hohenheim tried to argue, but Rick just smiled and looked at him, which made his skin stand on end. After a moment, Rick took out a data terminal and handed it to himself.
"Is this?" Hohenheim didn't know what he was going to do.
Rick smiled and said: "You are spying for the Wan Chamber of Commerce, right? Hohenheim."
"!!me…"
"Shh! Don't alert the security. You don't need to explain. I know it. I won't tell Thomas More."
"What on earth do you want to do? What is this?"
"This data terminal contains all the research information on photon technology, which is the most important secret of the Chamber of Commerce."
"What!?"
Hohenheim couldn't believe his ears. It is true that the core of humanoid weapon technology lies in the use of photon technology, but this is the legacy of the "Legendary Age", and modern people can only scratch the surface. In the Chamber of Commerce, only Presidents Rick and Thomas have the secrets to photon technology.
Rick's smile became even weirder, and he said:
"Photons, magical energy. It is unlike any energy source discovered by humans before. It will not be consumed, but will always exist. A few photons that are so tiny that the human eye cannot see them can drive a fighter jet. What a wonderful thing! Invent it How great human beings were once! Human society with such brilliant technology still perished, which is even more interesting! I have been studying it all my life and trying to understand it, but I am too old. With the Ten Swords Unit 10 As it nears completion, Thomas begins to gradually restrict my access to this technology, so I'm going to hand over my results to you. I believe you can continue my research. No matter what you do, it will be your only force against the Chamber of Commerce. !”
Hohenheim was still in disbelief. He asked: "This is your lifelong research, right? Give it to me and you won't worry about me using it to do bad things?"
"Ha! Do you think what I am doing is a good thing? The development of technology itself is accompanied by life and death. I don't care! I just want to see that the technology I am interested in can continue to develop and is not controlled by anyone!"
Rick left, leaving Hohenheim staring at the data terminal in his hand.
…
Lin Ao felt everything stop, and the experience was longer than the previous two (Charlotte, Sasaki Musashi), lasting a minute. He was afraid that this minute would be taken advantage of by the Red Knight, but the Red Knight also stopped. When his body could move, the red knight continued to move. It seemed that this was just an illusion. As everything started flowing again, Lin Ao saw Li Si's cockpit. It had been severely deformed and twisted. It was impossible for the people inside to survive in this state.
"Brother Li Si...he, he came to help me..."
The red knight's vision recovered a little at this time, and he did not stop when he saw that he had shot at the wrong target.
"Lin Ao! Surrender!"
"Red Knight, why do you want to kill Li Si!"
"Who? So what, don't you kill Jin Shangzhu too!"
Fudo Mingou turned around and charged towards the red knight. The red knight found that Lin Ao's movements were becoming more and more proficient. In the previous fights between the two of them, Lin Ao relied on his multi-handed body and the powerful lethality of the laser knife to barely fight him. But now Lin Ao's movements are obviously different. He seems to be making rapid progress, almost on his own. He can accurately deflect every blow and respond with troublesome killing moves.
"Red Knight, you have slowed down! Surrender, you have to pay the price for the death of Corporal Li Si!!"
Hearing Lin Ao say that his movements had slowed down, the Red Knight was very reluctant, but Lin Ao's current performance made him wonder if he was really too tired. He planned to use words to disturb Lin Ao:
"I killed him, but don't you have any responsibility? The soldiers on the Osiris have all retreated, and you are the only one who is still fighting with me. He died because he helped you!"
"you…"
Lin Ao was angered by the red knight's words and refuted: "It's obviously you who has been pestering me!"
"You are the one who enjoys fighting Lin Ao. You obviously have many opportunities to escape from me! You and I are the same people, both of whom can have fun in fighting, and he was killed by you!"
"I'm not!!!"
In anger, Lin Ao swung the light sword with all his strength, but the red knight caught the flaw. He inserted the knife into Fudo Myoō's arm, then let go and grabbed the sharp horn decoration protruding from Fudo Myoō's shoulder armor and pulled it into the two machines. He stretched out his hand to forcefully open Fudo Mingou's cabin door. Unexpectedly, instead of dodging, Lin Ao hugged Xiahou Dun tightly with both arms.
The red knight was a little panicked. The two machines were hugged together and could not be driven normally. The two machines were now too close to the earth. They were being attracted by the earth's gravity little by little. The result of being unable to control the machines would be that the two machines were burned by the atmosphere. .
"Lin Ao, let me go!"
The red knight thought that Lin Ao was crazy about killing Hongyan and wanted to die together, but the real situation was that Lin Ao suddenly fainted. After a few minutes, he opened his eyes with difficulty and found that the airbag that popped up in front of him was stained red by the blood flowing from his nose.
"What am I doing!? Was I injured after I fainted?"
AI said: "No, you had nosebleeds for a few minutes before you fainted, and they haven't stopped now."
It took Lin Ao more than ten seconds to recover, and he found that his body was hugging the Red Knight's body tightly and falling towards the earth. When he reacted, he panicked.
"Thoth! Why didn't I control the machine to let go of the Red Knight when I fainted, and then escaped back to the Osiris!"
"I tried, but do you remember that the body's shoulder has always been damaged? After persisting for a long time, the body finally couldn't bear it. The arm is now in a necrotic state and I cannot control it with my authority. Now it can only be driven by the driver The player switches to somatosensory control and makes forced movements to move the shoulder, but there is a risk of complete necrosis of the shoulder structure."
"I have to try! The temperature in the cockpit is almost reaching critical value now. I will be burned to death by the atmosphere in ten minutes!"
The voice of the red knight came in: "You finally woke up, let me go!"
Lin Ao said angrily: "Tot blocked his voice! If it's worse than he injured his shoulder, I don't want to hear his voice now!"
At present, the temperature in Fudo Meiou's cockpit has exceeded that of an ordinary sauna room, and the air conditioner has no effect at all. Lin Ao was wearing an airtight driving suit and felt that his whole body was soaked. The sweat from his forehead mixed with his nosebleeds remained in the clothes, which was very uncomfortable. He forced himself to manually switch to the somatosensory mode and twisted the damaged shoulder vigorously. Just as the AI said, the arm didn't respond at all at first, which made Lin Ao's heart beat wildly. After repeated attempts, the body's shoulders finally became loose.
"…finally!!"
The red knight immediately opened the two arms of the immobile King Ming and escaped. He originally wanted to pull Lin Ao, but because the wound on "Xiahou Dun's" chest that was penetrated by Lin Ao had too much high-temperature gas pouring in, he was also in a state of insecurity. In a very dangerous situation, after careful consideration, the Red Knight chose to fly back to his battleship at full speed.
"Lin Ao, fly back! Don't be sucked down!"
It's a pity that the words of the red knight were blocked by Lin Ao and were not conveyed. At this moment, Lin Ao was anxiously controlling the body to accelerate away from the gravity of the earth. It went smoothly at first, but as soon as he took a breath, Fudomyo's thruster suddenly broke due to overheating.
"broken!!!"
Fudo Meiou fell towards the earth like a meteorite, losing the main thruster behind him. No matter how Lin Ao used the auxiliary thrusters in various parts of the body, it was of no avail. He could not resist gravity.
Everyone on the Osiris has been paying attention to Lin Ao, but there is nothing they can do. Now Lin Ao is in a position where it is impossible to rescue him. Anton, Edward, Natasha, Sima Qian and others can't even go to the bridge to take a look. By then, they had to go to the shuttle room to wait for the Osiris to break through the atmosphere, and all they could do was pray.
In the bridge, Li Youde and others endured the powerful G force caused by the warship's high-speed plunge into the atmosphere. Although HER chose to actively retreat, Osiris was too late to slow down significantly and could only land on the earth at an unsafe speed. Even so, everyone was more worried about Lin Ao. Everyone looked at Lin Ao who fell like a meteorite, and they also prayed for a miracle to happen.
"Are you... going to die here? Toth, can you leave this machine?" Lin Ao asked.
AI said: "Unfortunately, I don't have such a setting. I will accompany you..."
"Yeah…"
Lin Ao smiled bitterly and planned to close his eyes and welcome his slow death.
Just then, a miracle happened.
"The organism is approaching at high speed!!"
Hearing the AI's reminder, Lin Ao opened his eyes in disbelief and asked: "Who? At this height? Where did it come from?"
"From the high altitude of the Earth! It is moving very fast and is expected to collide with us in a few minutes!"
"What the hell, at this time...wait...that's it!!!"
Lin Ao's eyes widened in disbelief, and a long-lost machine appeared in front of him. It was the Ten Swords Unit 4-Phoenix that transformed into a fighter plane, and the pilot was Luke Rand.
"Lin Ao, is it you? Can you hear me?"
"Luke! Why are you here?!"
"I still want to ask you!! But let's wait until we get to Earth."
"How to do?"
"The fighter form of Ten Swords Unit 4 has the ability to break through the atmosphere. Once I get close to you, hide on the back of my unit and we will land together."
"good!!!!"
Lin Ao followed Luke's instructions and approached Unit 4. The auxiliary thrusters on the fuselage can also control the attitude. When Luke approached, Lin Ao grabbed the tail of his fuselage.
"Sit tight and hold on tight, we're about to land!!"
Fudo Myooh half-knelt on Phoenix's body like he was riding a skateboard, just as Luke said. Phoenix's shuttle-like body acted like a shield to isolate itself from atmospheric gases, reducing the friction heat between the body and the gas, and the temperature in the cockpit returned to below the critical value.
"Luke, is this okay? Unit 2 won't be too heavy, right?"
"It's okay! I heard that Phoenix has the ability to carry a body and break through the atmosphere."
Luke said this, but in fact the phoenix was shaking very hard, and he was also betting. Fortunately, they quickly broke through the atmosphere.
The hot gas visible to the naked eye no longer enveloped them, and a bright light pierced Lin Ao's eyes. This was the light he was all too familiar with, the light of the sun rising on the horizon.
