Chapter 20 Bullet Cases (3)

assembly area.

A terrified silence spreads.

Before the ice forest, those young people who had worked so hard to fight red caterpillars for three hours, holding the fruits of their blood and sweat in their arms—a dozen or twenty pieces of real crystal mines, staring dully at the jet in front of them. Electricity.

Waving the mechanical arm, he took out the electric shock from the stomach to dig out the real crystal ore.

Tang Zhen spit out a sentence: "...Grass!"

He scratched his hair, and said to Beimaner, who was also in a mess beside him, crying and laughing: "I just said that we can easily come first after listening to Xiao Jiang's words, tsk tsk, it turns out that people are waiting for us here."

Lieutenant Raymond's eyes were straight and his lips were shaking: "Yes, how many pieces!?"

Jiang Jianming was sitting in the cockpit manipulating the robotic arm, and he raised his head apologetically: "Sorry... the time is too tight to count."

But when he was talking, the IP mechanical arm was pouring the real crystal ore to the ground, and the transparent crystal blocks were jumping around happily.

Even the original sincere "sorry" has also taken on a mocking meaning.

In the cold wind, a group of young officers touched a few real crystal mines in their arms.

...At this moment, they felt offended.

Huo Lin's face was as black as the bottom of a pot: "Who helped you?"

Jiang Jianming said, "It's His Royal Highness Prince Garcia."

"..."

"...If you really don't want to say it," Huo Lin's forehead twitched with blue veins, and his fingers creaked, "you can choose to shut up."

Jiang Jianming felt that these words were a bit familiar.

He was sorry, he had been telling the truth all the time.

After the inventory was completed, he harvested 113 real crystal ore, which was the first place in this time trial.

And by the way, Li Youfang also worked hard. He won a full 20 real crystal mines, ranking fifth, which is a result to be proud of - provided that there is no certain bad bet.

"It was indeed an accident, and I didn't expect it."

Back at the fortress, everyone got off the mecha.

Jiang Jianming patted Li Youfang when he passed by, and he couldn't bear to see his teammate's pale face, "Don't take it too seriously, that bet..."

Li Youfang looked up deadly, thinking that the other party was going to say "that bet is over".

As a result, Jiang Jianming said: "...you can owe the money first and pay it back slowly. I don't charge any interest."

"..."

Murder and punish, but that's it! !

According to the rules of Yin Beidou Fortress, when you go out to fight, you can choose to exchange success medals or coins according to the quality and purity of the real crystal ore.

It is worth mentioning that "merit" is one of the most important concepts for the soldiers and officers of the fortress.

Yin Beidou has been stationed in the distant interstellar environment with cruel environment all the year round, basically in a special state of "the sky is high and the emperor is far away, no one can control it", and the laws of ordinary imperial legions cannot be applied to them.

Here, military merit and ability are the only criteria.

Soldiers who accumulate more merits can not only get faster promotion opportunities, but also get more advanced weapons, mechas... and decision-making power and command power at critical times.

So unsurprisingly... everyone except Jiang Jianming chose to record military merit.

Only Jiang Jianming breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the sudden increase of hundreds of thousands of coin points on his wrist.

Tang Zhen and the others were still confirming the merit records one by one, and Jiang Jianming was waiting on the side, feeling a little lost in boredom.

He remembered the shocking electric shock, those emerald eyes, and the brass bullet casing that landed in his palm.

Through his military uniform, he touched the cartridge case that he had put in his left breast pocket.

Garcia... Garcia Kaios.

Jiang Jianming looked around and walked in the direction of Lieutenant Raymond.

He has already seen that this young lieutenant is very good, and the most important thing is not to have discrimination against him.

"Lieutenant." Jiang Jianming saluted politely.

Raymond was leaning against the wall with a retro-style cigarette in his mouth. Seeing that his expression was in a daze, he saw him coming over and quickly pinched the cigarette. With a smile, he said, "It's you."

The lieutenant touched his nose: "Cough, Mr. Huo Lin's temper is just like that, don't take it too seriously... I personally admire you very much." He patted Jiang Jianming, "You young man with courage."

"You're wrong." Jiang Jianming said, "Lieutenant, can I ask you a few questions?"

Raymond: "Of course, as long as I can answer."

Jiang Jianming: "Do you know His Royal Highness Prince Garcia?"

Raymond was surprised, he didn't expect him to ask this: "Uh, an ordinary officer like me can't actually get in touch with His Royal Highness..."

He stroked his hair, "Why do you ask this? By the way, you used His Royal Highness as an excuse for the time trial just now."

No, it's not an excuse, it's true... Jiang Jianming was helpless.

But he didn't insist on it, but walked to the lieutenant's side: "To be honest, I admire the old crown prince, His Royal Highness Ryan."

"Oh..." Raymond immediately showed a clear look and raised his eyebrows cheerfully, "Who is this not!"

Obviously, he has classified Jiang Jianming as one of the thousands of young people who fanatically worship the old prince.

Jiang Jianming pursed his lower lip: "I heard from an officer that His Royal Highness Garcia is a new crystal human being no less than his royal brother."

"However, for so many years, the only one who has worked tirelessly to seek benefits for the people of the empire is His Royal Highness Le'an... and this second prince, I have never heard of him."

He deliberately put a little emotion in his tone, so that he looked more like an aggrieved prince fanatic.

...not a widow trying to find out about her deceased husband.

Jiang Jianming wanted to sigh that it was not easy for him, and the expression on his face was still cold and authentic: "Now His Royal Highness the crown prince sacrificed heroically in the frontier for the empire, this His Royal Highness Garcia has become the only prince, won't he inherit the empire justifiably in the future? ?"

Lieutenant Raymond smiled kindly and said, "I can't say that. In the past three years, His Royal Highness Garcia has done a lot for the fortress. He is indeed very powerful."

- These three years.

Jiang Jianming felt that his scalp and back exploded together.

He asked calmly: "You said these three years? What about three years ago... How old is this His Royal Highness Garcia?"

Raymond said: "I don't know the age of His Highness, but it doesn't look like he is much younger than the Prince. As for three years... His Royal Highness Garcia only started going to the battlefield three years ago, and I heard that he grew up in a distant star. , the alien planet where the third fortress is located, Omega, once lived for a long time."

"..."

Jiang Jianming was silent for a long time before he asked the next sentence: "That is, until three years ago, you haven't seen this person, have you? Haven't heard of it?"

"If you have to say that, it's true." Raymond said, scratching his hair, "Omega Alien is too far from Alpha and Beta, I really don't know... Many people don't know. Bar."

Jiang Jianming took a deep breath, letting that breath cool all his internal organs and spit it out silently: "I see... Thank you."

Omega Alien...

Silver Beidou's third fortress...

When Ryan realized that he yearned for the distant stars in the universe, he personally took him to the outer stars where the three Yin Beidou fortresses were located.

Among them, Omega is a bit special - because on this beautiful alien planet with clouds flowing like fire at sunrise, His Highness proposed to him.

Of course, this is not very important now, and what impresses Jiang Jianming even more is that in addition to the military fortress, Omega Alien is also stationed in the most mysterious scientific research base of the empire... the headquarters of the Black Shark Base.

The more Jiang Jianming thought about it, the more headaches he had. Several bad guesses surfaced, but there was no evidence.

He was very tired today, so he simply stopped thinking about it.

There is tomorrow's training content tomorrow. He went back to the dormitory with Tang Zhen and Bei Man'er. He didn't look at Li Youfang's pale face and Qiao's strange eyes. He took a sedative and quickly washed up and went to sleep.

This night, Jiang Jianming did not sleep well. He woke up twice in the middle of the night with palpitations, his heartbeat was terrifyingly fast when he was panting, and he felt chills all over his body.

The next morning, he vaguely heard his own alarm ringing, but it was quickly dismissed.

Someone was talking, but the voice seemed to be separated by a curtain.

Jiang Jianming knew that he should wake up, but his consciousness struggled for a long time before he could perceive his body.

A heavy, sore, hot body.

Jiang Jianming forced himself to open his eyes, his vision blurred for a while before he became clear, he met the complicated gazes of Li Youfang and Qiao in the dormitory.

"Remnant human beings," Qiao muttered in a muffled voice, "Sure enough..." He touched Li Youfang again, and smiled almost scornfully, "Is that so."

……what? His mind was very slow, and he thought hard: what happened to the disabled people this time?

Jiang Jianming wanted to get up from the bed, but he moved, and he couldn't help but take a deep breath and hold down his temple... He had a headache, it seemed like something was drilling his brain.

His fingertips touched the hot skin on his forehead, and he was startled for a second, realizing that the temperature was not right.

Tang Zhen walked from the door with a livid face, and wiped Jiang Jianming's forehead with an ice towel, "Lie down, you have a fever... Have you brought any medicine?"