News of the victory of the Alliance's First Fleet's "Operation Prophecy" quickly spread throughout the Earth Circle, which naturally inspired many people. The deeds of Lieutenant General Carter, the commander of this battle, and the heroic soldiers who performed in this battle were widely reported by the media. Under the turbulent public opinion, the alliance quickly announced that the ranks of all members of the First Fleet would be upgraded by one level. Outstanding performers and fallen soldiers would be promoted by two levels. Commander Lieutenant General Carter would be promoted to admiral.
Of course, this victory was a tragic victory. After this battle, the First Fleet lost nearly half of its combat strength and no longer had the strength to fight another battle with "H". Fortunately, the Second Fleet had already assembled and began to hand over the defense line to the First Fleet, allowing it to repair and replenish its troops at the rear.
The Osiris is now on its way to the moon, where it will join the Third Fleet.
"After this defeat, h will definitely try to organize a large-scale counterattack. I think the alliance should seize the opportunity, negotiate with h first, and use this time to study its weaknesses."
"I don't think so. Can the diplomacy used to deal with humans be used to deal with AI? Besides, it may be peeking at our show. Isn't it, "h"?"
After finishing today's training, Lin Ao was hanging upside down in mid-air in the gravity-free lounge, sipping juice through a straw and watching news programs.
"Lin Ao, stop watching this meaningless show."
Lieutenant Anton and Natasha appeared in the lounge together. Lin Ao sucked up the juice in his hand and threw it into the trash can.
"What's wrong, Lieutenant, aren't there still 13 hours until we reach the moon?"
Anton said: "This is the case. The commander of the Third Alliance Fleet is General Alan of the New European Union whom we have met before. He seems to want to hold a press conference when the Third Fleet is assembled. He invited members of our Z Team Come and let me inform you."
Lin Ao's eyes twitched and he said, "Isn't he trying to transfer us to his or other troops..."
"I was afraid that this would be the case, so Captain Li Youde asked him to go too. Of course, maybe he invited us just because our team is relatively well-known. As far as I know, in addition to inviting us, he also invited aces from other forces to participate. Press conference.”
"That's it."
Anton continued: "The press conference will be held on the moon city "Verne", and you must wear our Mycenaean military uniforms. Please prepare in advance."
"Okay, I know."
Lieutenant Anton left but Natasha did not leave. She patted Lin Ao on the shoulder and said, "I have to ask you for a favor."
"What's the matter?" Lin Ao asked curiously.
Natasha said with some embarrassment: "Well... it seems that my sister, the Queen of the New Moscow Principality, will attend this press conference as one of the leaders of the alliance. I'm afraid she will stop me and force me to return to the country, but I'm with Sergeant Bart now, and I don't want to go back... So unless I have to show up, please cooperate with Edward to hide me."
"Didn't your sister say that you are allowed to stay on the Osiris before? You are worrying too much."
Natasha shrugged and said, "That's true, but do you understand? I just don't want to run into her. My purpose in getting on this ship in the first place was to avoid her."
"Then do you want to stay in Mycenae with Bart instead of returning to New Moscow?" Lin Ao asked.
"Oh, that's probably it. Anyway, I'm leaving it to you."
"Does Lieutenant Anton know?"
"I told him and he said he didn't have time to help me. That's why I'm begging you."
"ok, I get it."
"Thanks!"
Seeing Natasha leave, Lin Ao suddenly thought that since the commander of the Third Fleet is General Alan of the New EU, he should meet Luke Rand this time.
…
Thirteen hours later, a total of 52 warships of the Third Fleet gathered on the periphery of the moon. Their military appearance was solemn and intimidating. This fleet is different from the first and second fleets that are responsible for fighting with "h" on the front line. The third fleet will launch the main attack on "h" as a sharp knife, so this fleet gathers the elites of all major forces as much as possible. After the Third Fleet, the Alliance does not have many troops that can take action. Everyone has just finished fighting the first Earth Sphere War, and their homes are full of chicken feathers. They will join the ship later.
The team even has to be built on-site, which requires more preparation time.
Lin Ao and his party took a small spacecraft to the lunar city "Verne". This is the largest and oldest city on the moon. The entire city is protected by seven or eight silver circular metal covers. As the city continues to Expansion, perhaps in a few years there will be an additional urban area protected by a circular metal enclosure.
After disembarking at the airport, Lin Ao and his party were driven to Verne, the largest conference center in the city. On the way, Edward yawned and asked, "Why is this city called Verne? Aren't all cosmic cities named after lost civilizations or new ones?"
Natasha answered him, but her tone looked down on Edward's lack of education: "You don't even know this? Verne wrote an article called "From the Earth to the Moon", which was later adapted into the world's first novel. A science fiction movie "Journey to the Moon", so the first city on the moon was named this to commemorate Verne."
Edward asked casually and was embarrassed. He could only laugh and said: "As expected of a princess, the royal education is better than the education received by an American country bumpkin like me."
During the conversation, everyone had arrived at the conference center. After getting off the car, Lin Ao couldn't help but open his eyes. The three floors outside the conference center were surrounded by reporters. They all had cameras mounted on them, filming everyone entering and exiting the building. People were taking random pictures, and he felt as if reporters from the entire Earth Circle were here.
When Edward saw the battle, he turned to Natasha and asked: "Your Majesty, have you seen so many reporters?"
Natasha looked at it and replied calmly: "I represented my motherland in women's figure skating at the Winter Olympics. There are only a few percent more reporters than there were at that time."
Lin Ao and the others need to walk a not too short red carpet to enter the conference center, because there will be many big names appearing. This red carpet is much wider than the film festival red carpet Lin Ao saw on TV, so that the reporters can be covered as much as possible. They were isolated at a distance to protect the safety of important officials, but the people who looked like officials walking in front of them deliberately walked in front of reporters to increase their presence.
Although Lin Ao had been interviewed by Sima Qian several times on TV before, this was the first time he had seen such a big scene, and he probably wouldn't have the chance to see him again in the future. He couldn't help but start to worry about whether his steps were ugly. On the other hand, the other people seemed very calm: Edward walked at the front like a star and waved to the reporters. If Lieutenant Anton hadn't stopped him, he might have been called for an interview by the reporters on the side. Anton and Li Youde walked like soldiers, while Natasha deliberately avoided the camera and walked among them.
"Edward! Don't pay attention to those reporters."
Anton had just finished teaching Edward a lesson when he saw a familiar figure waving to him among the reporters in front. His eyes lit up, and it was his lover Sima Qian.
"Anton!! I'm here!!"
"Eh?? Why is she here??"
Anton rushed to Sima Qian as fast as he could. He was so surprised that he almost didn’t ask. Sima Qian wiped the tears from her eyes because of excitement and explained: "The new task given to me by the station is to shoot this scene." Materials for a press conference, I didn’t tell you on purpose that I wanted to give you a surprise. To be honest, there are so many people here, I was worried that you wouldn’t be able to see me... ugh..."
Anton hugged Sima Qian into his arms and completely ignored Lin Ao and the others. Edward stuck out his tongue, turned to everyone and said, "Hey! Look, he just told me not to talk to reporters!"
Li Youde smiled and said, "Okay, don't disturb Anton. Let's go in first. Anton will follow immediately if he knows what's appropriate."
Everyone left first. Just as they were about to step onto the steps in front of the conference center door, the crowds on both sides of the red carpet suddenly became commotion. Someone shouted: "He's coming! It's just as the rumors said, he's really here. Snap!"
Almost all the shots were turned to the end of the red carpet. Lin Ao looked back and saw a white luxury extra-long car parked in front of the red carpet. This car was protected by eight or nine black cars in front and behind it. After dozens of security guards from other cars lined up on the red carpet, a soldier wearing a black New Imperial uniform opened the door of the limousine and welcomed out a man wearing a sparkling luxurious military uniform.
When Li Youde saw the man appearing, he couldn't help but frown and blurted out: "Why is he here...". Just when he was wondering, he suddenly heard Edward shouting next to him:
"Forest!
! ! do not go! ! "
Only then did Li Youde realize that Lin Ao was rushing towards the man at a very fast speed, shouting the man's name as he ran:
"Zhuge Daozi!!!!!"
At this moment, Lin Ao's expression was like an evil ghost, waving his fists and running towards Zhuge Daozi, so fast that Edward and the others couldn't catch up. There is no doubt that Zhuge Daozi's bodyguards discovered him immediately, took out their guns and shot him immediately. An ordinary person would definitely end up being shot to death randomly, but at this moment, Lin Ao was so angry when he saw the enemy who killed his wife that he had entered a "time-stop" state. Although the bullet fired at him was straight, it was still in front of his eyes. Slow as a snail, he had enough time to adjust his gait to avoid these bullets.
After the first round of shooting, Lin Ao continued to run towards Zhuge Daozi unharmed. Zhuge Daozi, who had been waving to the media just now, saw Lin Ao and hurriedly shouted to the bodyguards: "No shooting! Just subdue him." ”
Hearing what Zhuge Daozi said, more than ten bodyguards rushed to Lin Ao together. Although Lin Ao couldn't defeat any of them in a single fight, with the blessing of the "Time Stop" ability, Lin Ao easily avoided them, and in the blink of an eye he had already run to a place only ten steps away from Zhuge Daozi, shouting: : "Give Elizabeth her life!!"
At this critical moment, two people appeared behind Lin Ao and pushed him to the ground. One of them was the bodyguard who had just been bypassed by Lin Ao, and the other was Lieutenant Anton who was nearby. No matter how powerful Lin Ao is, he can't see what's happening behind him because he is so angry.
"Lin Ao, are you crazy!?"
Anton held down Lin Ao tightly to prevent him from moving, but Lin Ao was still struggling and shouted frantically: "Don't stop me!!! I want to avenge Elizabeth!!"
"Look at what kind of occasion this is!! Calm down!! Now to avenge Elizabeth, you don't have any evidence. Do you know what will happen to you??"
"I don't care!! I just want to kill him, kill him!!"
Seeing Lin Ao's angry eyes, the cunning and eloquent Zhuge Daozi found that he did not dare to speak. He wanted to kill Lin Ao right here to avoid future troubles, but the current situation was too sensitive. He didn't know why he was afraid of an insignificant soldier like Lin Ao. Was it because of the guilt of killing his cousin? Zhuge Daozi took a deep breath, tried to regain his composure, and said calmly: "You have a big misunderstanding. You can't wrongly accuse me because we only met once. How Elizabeth died is obvious to everyone in the world. You are angry." It's no use to me. I won't punish you because of the unity of the Alliance, but..."
Zhuge Daozi looked at Anton with contempt and said, "Tie up your dog and don't let me see him again."
Anton did not reply to Zhuge Daozi's words. He covered Lin Ao's mouth and stared at him with angry eyes. At this time, the flashbulbs were crackling and flashing, recording this unexpected incident that was enough to make headlines. Zhuge Daozi felt that his words were enough to explain to the media, so he ignored Lin Ao and walked to the conference center. His bodyguards have stepped up their efforts to protect him, and they are following him without any hesitation for fear that something will go wrong again. But Zhuge Daozi is now thinking about what just happened:
"Why am I afraid of him? No, what should be considered more is, how did he rush in front of me? My bodyguards are all sharpshooters. After one round of shooting, not a single bullet hit him. This probability is too high. Low.
And when the bodyguards rushed to stop him, he also got around them at a very fast speed. This was wrong... illogical. Could it be...could it be! ? Is he that kind of person? ? No, no, no... I have never heard of someone awakening such a strange ability. How did he do it... And if he really awakened the ability, who transformed him? Did Mycenae have the technology to transform people? There are no signs of surgery on his body..."
Zhuge Daozi suddenly stopped and turned around to look at Lin Ao. An answer he was pursuing but couldn't believe appeared in his mind:
"Did he awaken naturally? Why was it him???"
(End of chapter)
