Chapter 54 Heroic Spirit (1)

He was dreaming again.

I don't know why, maybe it's because of anesthesia, maybe it's because of excessive exhaustion and blood loss, or maybe it's because of the brutal mental shock of first knowing the battlefield.

This time the dream was eerie and continuous, like waves of tides engulfing Jiang Jianming's consciousness. He could only be in a daze, and kept sinking in.

Down, down again.

Until I forget my name, my future and my destination.

...

In the evening of late winter, meteors streak across the night sky overhead.

The young black-haired child huddled in a dark corner, with pale cheeks, coughing with difficulty. As far as the eye can see, there is a foul smell in the gutter with the garbage floating in it. The sensor light is broken, and the darkness is smeared all the way to the end of the line of sight.

The crow slept, and the wild dog in the distance was still barking. The shabby red blanket on his body was powerless to resist the minions of the cold winter, and the black-haired child who was afflicted with illness shrank from the cold and snuggled up to the other beside him.

A warm palm fell on the child's back, the child raised his head dimly, and saw a pair of deep brown eyes, the eyelashes were slightly curled sadly and strongly.

It was a woman who was also in tatters. The cold wind blew her black hair like dead branches. The mother held her child in her arms and patted her gently. The sadness in her eyes lingered for a long time.

The cold wind blew the garbage on the corner, and the woman opened her beautiful but chapped lips. The singing flowed lightly from her throat, flowing under this oppressive dark winter night.

"The black sky embraces the earth,

The white starlight kisses the raindrops,

"When the distant mountains lose track of birds,

When does dawn rise?

"Don't cry, don't cry,

let me keep you forever..."

My mother sang an unknown lullaby in a soft and mellow voice. The ethereal melancholy tones are intermittent, like the stitches of this shabby red carpet.

Gradually, the black-haired child in the woman's arms stopped coughing. He quietly looked at the night sky above his head, and there was a kind of peace in his eyes that was rare for a child of this age.

"The black sky embraces the earth,

The white starlight kisses the raindrops..."

The woman was singing and singing, and the child suddenly asked:

"Mom, are there stars even on rainy days?"

sand……

The bleak wind blew to the horizon, and the dust was flying.

The flaming torches fell from their hands and landed on the shabby red carpet. The teenager ignited the past, and the cold wind rushed from behind him like a huge wave, blowing the dirty cloth cloak and the black hair under the hood.

He turned to look at the open field in front of him, tore the cloak on his body, and walked forward indifferently, never looking back.

"The stars will always be there, my baby."

Under the dark night, the fire after the explosion flickered on the wreckage of the starship, and it remained unextinguished for a long time.

The apple fell from the pale and thin fingers and rolled on the ground.

First rolled a circle of dust and gravel, then rolled into a pool of blood, and finally stopped beside the long, blood-stained platinum hair.

"It's just that the thick dark clouds cover the stars... If you want to see the stars, you must go above the clouds..."

"Mom, we've been above the clouds."

The torrential rain fell from the dark clouds, mercilessly hitting this abandoned land.

"No, it's not enough. You're going further afield."

He knelt in the rain, his eyes dark. Tens of thousands of starships broke through the clouds, turned into blue rays of light, and disappeared into the sky.

Until the sound of rapid footsteps sounded behind him, someone stepped on the road and rushed towards the rain. A graceful cloak covered the top of his head, and a pair of strong and powerful arms wrapped around him, pulling him up forcibly.

"—Get up! Get up!"

"What are you looking at... don't look at them, look at me!"

The boy bowed and panted in the rain, hissing loudly, his icy eyes like a beast that devoured people——

He has a pair of emerald eyes, and a storm is blowing in the depths of those eyes: violent, crazy, with the urge to destroy everything.

"I'll take you farther than those starships!!"

In a long time, beside the dark alley, the woman was still singing softly for her child:

"Don't cry, don't cry,

let me keep you forever..."

In the end, consciousness fell into a snow-white state.

In the snow-white laboratory, a mutilated figure leaned against a pool of blood and stretched out his hand towards him with a weak smile.

"I had a long dream."

The voice was hoarse, with a lingering sad nasal tone, "In my dream... I haven't met you yet."

...

"what……!"

Jiang Jianming cried out unconsciously, his fingers suddenly twitched and grasped, and he woke up from the drowsiness dripping with cold sweat.

There was a thick darkness in front of him, and he couldn't tell where he was. The limbs dipped in the unknown liquid trembled for a while, Jiang Jianming stood up and gasped, like a dying fish thrown ashore.

What... what are those?

Dream?

Can you have such a bizarre and clear dream?

The warning light came on, the darkness in front of him opened a small window, and there were many people outside the window.

"Your Excellency, don't be nervous, you are in the treatment cabin of Yin Beidou Fortress." A female voice called, "I will add some oxygen to you, please try to breathe slowly."

"..." Jiang Jianming closed his eyes and opened his mouth to breathe, his body was weak and weak, and the wound on his flank was clearly painful at this time, causing fine beads of sweat to ooze out of his forehead.

As the memory in the dream quickly dissipated, the mushy brain regained consciousness.

Only then did Jiang Jianming realize that he was really just lying in the treatment cabin, but the beds in the cabin were inclined.

He was stripped and soaked in medical fluid from his shoulders down. In order to protect the patient, a layer of opaque screen was raised on the hatch cover, and this was the horror scene of blackness just after waking up.

Outside the treatment cabin, several full-time female nurses, including the head nurse in the medical area, were watching anxiously.

The head nurse couldn't help but whisper: "How do you feel? If the wound hurts badly, we can add a little more pain reliever."

Three days have passed since the fierce battle between Yin Beidou and the thieves, and the story of this young lieutenant has almost spread throughout the fortress.

Even if the thieves' conspiracy was detected in time, the location of the ambush was predicted, and the avalanche trick was used to deliver the news, some people still wouldn't believe it.

But in the eyes of the public, the feat of this crippled human being to drive a small machine to hit L-Hephaestus, as well as the mecha manipulation in harmony with His Royal Highness, was deeply imprinted on the hearts of everyone present. in the eyes.

Not to mention the two shots at the head of Yu Thief in the face, plus one or two strokes of the heroic color of "after being seriously injured, he insisted on keeping silent until the mech landed"...

The story is always more and more exaggerated in the process of spreading.

In the end, all kinds of wonderful versions that Jiang Jianming himself would not think he was talking about were rapidly evolved.

And the medical staff in the fortress have a deeper understanding. They have stayed in the distant stars for a long time, and they usually treat new humans... Suddenly there is such a thing as a disabled human being pierced by a real crystal. Terrified.

Not to mention that this legendary lieutenant was so young and handsome, pale and thin, and everyone was shocked when he was carried in in a coma.

At this time, people finally woke up, and they all breathed a sigh of relief.

In the treatment cabin, Jiang Jianming shook his head and said in a low voice, "Thank you... no need to add medicine."

His eyes fell on the liquid that almost wrapped his body, and suddenly his eyebrows moved subtly, and there was a trace of unease in his eyes.

The head nurse was in his 50s and 60s, at the age when kindness was overflowing. First, he watched Jiang Jianming wake up from his sleep in panic, and then saw him quietly enduring the pain.

She couldn't help but slow down her voice: "Don't worry, Your Excellency, we will all be watching over you outside, and the call button is on your right."

"Due to the high concentration of crystal particles and the stimulation of crystal particles escaping from real crystals, you were in danger when you were first sent back to the fortress. So we put these medical liquids in the treatment cabin, which is the most advanced medical method now. One, can…”

"I know...don't say it."

Inside the treatment cabin, the legendary young lieutenant suddenly interrupted.

There seemed to be some pain in his expression, and he said in a low voice: "The liquid filling mode of the advanced treatment cabin starts at 200,000 yuan, and 80,000 a day."

"?" There was a hint of confusion in the head nurse's loving look.

While there is nothing wrong, there seems to be something wrong with the point.

I saw Lieutenant Jiang closed his eyes awkwardly. He sighed, closed his eyes and turned his head with a smashed jar, "I'm sorry, I won't give out this money, and I don't have 200,000 after selling it."

The head nurse was even more confused and subconsciously said: "You, don't worry, more than 90% of the medical expenses in the fortress will be reimbursed..."

Jiang Jianming said quickly: "That's also 20,000. It's impossible, I don't have it. Please stop the treatment cabin. The cost that has already been incurred will be paid by your major general."

He said, and resolutely reached out and touched the button next to him, trying to press the stop button of the treatment cabin.

- No money, no cure.

The nurses were instantly panicked:

"Hey, don't move—"

"No, no, sir, calm down!"

"It's easy to talk about the cost! Hurry up and go back-"

In the treatment area, there was a sudden turmoil.

Even when Major General Xie heard the news and came to visit in a hurry, before entering the inner area, he was blocked by the head nurse and scolded his face.

"Major General, what is the treatment of your officers now?" The head nurse wiped tears from her red eyes and said angrily, "Can the heroic warriors of the empire even be unable to cure diseases? Oh my god, I am in the first place. The fortress has done medical care for so long, and I have never seen such a ridiculous thing!"

Xie Yuduo: "?"

The head nurse took out a tissue and blew her nose, and continued with red eyes: "This child is too bitter, too strong, just woke up and wanted to come out of the treatment cabin. Just now, a group of little girls under my team secretly shed tears... …”

Xie Yuduo: "??"

"—Oh, Major General, you should pay the fee first, the activation fee of 200,000 points, 80,000 a day, today is the third day, minus 90% of the reimbursement for the fortress plus the scattered equipment and medicines, no More, it is more than 50,000 coin points."

The confused Major General Xie was grabbed by the head nurse, and he brushed off more than 50,000 points in confusion.

The major general thought in confusion: Wasn't this thing originally designed by His Royal Highness Garcia to drive, why did he end up paying it back?

...

In a single ward.

After Lieutenant Jiang went through all kinds of wrangling with the medical staff, he finally didn't really drag his injured body out of the treatment cabin.

The medical solution was removed, and he was covered with a soft quilt and a thermal blanket. He was still lying down, pondering the strange scene he dreamed of in a coma.

It is almost impossible for a person to remember his dreams, and his memory of dreams fades very quickly.

The only thing that was deeply embedded in his mind was the shivering feeling of "this is absolutely abnormal" when he first woke up.

Jiang Jianming felt unreal: he had lived with his adoptive father since he could remember. Living to the age of 21, the most unusual thing have experienced is that somehow met the prince of the empire, and then went all the way to talk about love, talk about marriage and get married.

He has never undergone any strange human experiments, he has never experienced fragmented memories, and he has never felt any abnormality around him... No matter how he thinks about it, he is just an ordinary military cadet.

Jiang Jianming frowned and thought to himself: Could it still have something to do with his biological parents, who have no sense of existence? Is he really not an ordinary military academy student?

——Then why did he fall to the point where he had to blackmail the superior to pay for his medical expenses.

Jiang Jianming was immersed in an inexplicable complex mood when there was a knock on the door outside the ward.

It was Major General Xie who pushed the door and entered.

Jiang Jianming still wanted to get up, but Xie Yuduo stepped up and held it down: "Don't, don't move, lie down and lie down - if the wound breaks, I have to pay for the medical bill again."

Jiang Jianming had no choice but to go back and laugh, and raised the bed in the treatment cabin a little, so he was half-lying.

The two simply said two words, basically Xie Yuduo cared and Jiang Jianming perfunctory.

After chatting for a while, the latter asked naturally: "Speaking of which, what about your little highness?"

It had been several hours since he woke up, and even the busy Major General Xie knew the news and came to see him, and Garcia didn't show up for no reason.

Thinking of this subconsciously, Jiang Jianming suddenly startled in his heart: something is wrong with him, since when did he acquiesce that Garcia would care so much about him?

This is not the time when he was with Ryan, he and the current Garcia are considered to be subordinates at most.

And His Royal Highness fought for almost all day, guarding him on the battlefield, and it was normal to go to rest now. How big is his face, he still thinks that the dignified imperial prince can always keep an eye on his side?

Jiang Jianming was subtly annoyed, but of course he was angry with himself. At this time, he couldn't take it back. He only hoped that Xie Yuduo would not be too embarrassed.

Unexpectedly, Xie Yuduo showed a helpless wry smile and said: "His Royal Highness, he guarded you for two days and two nights, and his face is too scary this morning. I'm afraid that he will cause trouble for himself, so he will push people outside. sleep in the treatment cabin for a while."

"..." Jiang Jianming was silent.

"I also swore to tell him that you won't be able to wake up today, but I didn't expect..."

Xie Yuduo touched his nose with his index finger in a guilty conscience, pulled a chair and sat beside him, "His Royal Highness, he didn't wait until you woke up and became angry, if you come to kill me in a while, you must beg for mercy to the lower official. "

Jiang Jianming pursed his lips, and there was a flash of loss in his eyes.

He quickly changed the subject, and his fingers silently landed on the bandaged wound on his abdomen: "...Cough, I didn't expect it to be this serious. After sleeping for three days, I still felt that it was only a minor injury."

The black-haired young man lowered his eyebrows, "I'm sorry Major General... I'm still causing trouble. I'll think of a way to adjust my state as soon as possible."

"Your Excellency Jiang Xiao, what are you talking about?" Xie Yuduo was taken aback for a moment, "If it weren't for you this time, the five hundred people in Yin Beidou would have died, so I don't know what happened next."

"Your military exploits are extraordinary. You can even apply for continuous promotions as usual. However, this is not something I can decide as a fortress commander. You have to go to the military headquarters and have Old Marshal Chen seal it."

Jiang Jianming suddenly remembered and asked, "Speaking of which, your military will always..."

Xie Yuduo: "Oh, I'm late, but I didn't delay the big event. Instead, I skipped the nonsense mandarin that makes my ears callous. Not bad."

He said lightly, but Jiang Jianming couldn't help but laugh.

——In the middle of the solemn and dull interstellar meeting, the projection of Major General Xie suddenly appeared with the bloody murderous aura coming down from the battlefield, and he greeted a group of old-fashioned old-fashioned with evil smiles...

This scene must be cool and fun.

Xie Yuduo is also the favorite general of the old Marshal Chen. The old Marshal has not tolerated his temper for a year or two, and it must end with the result that the old-fashioned people dare not speak out.

The curvature of Jiang Jianming's lips became deeper.

That is, the next moment, the door of the ward was pushed open again!

No knocks, no nurses to lead.

In the blink of an eye, Jiang Jianming knew who it was first, and he heard Xie Yuduo call out "His Royal Highness".

He then slowly raised his eyebrows to look.

Garcia leaned on the door frame and panted slightly, his clothes were thin and messy, brightened by the light from the corridor outside.

The luxurious long hair was not tied up either, it was lazily curled all the way down on the shoulders and back, shining brightly.

He stood still at the door, with a trance of waking up from a big dream in his eyes, and he landed in the depths of the ward.

The prince was used to being cold and noble, but at this moment he actually showed a naive and misty demeanor, like a younger boy.

...This person may have just woken up, Jiang Jianming thought to himself. He looked into Garcia's eyes quietly, and couldn't tell what he was feeling for a while.

With a buzzing sound, Jiang Jianming opened the hatch of the treatment cabin and slowly stretched out an arm.

The thin, pale and thin arms, which are not slender, are connected to the thin wrist and the slightly raised fingertips.

Jiang Jianming reached out to Garcia.

With a smile at the end of his eyes, he said, "Good morning, Your Highness."

When he said these two words, something new silently poured out of his heart.

They had gone through such a bloody battle of life and death, and now they can welcome such an early morning, saying good morning with the sleepiness of the first awakening.

It is a very beautiful and happy thing.

Garcia quickly lowered his head in silence, he quickly caught up with the first two steps, and directly picked up Xie Yuduo and pushed him aside.

Then he half-kneeled, and firmly held Jiang Jianming's hand, and said nothing more.

In the treatment cabin, Jiang Jianming's eyes seemed to have faint spots of light.

He curled his fingers and held it back. Although not as strong as Garcia's, he still held it.

The silence lasted for two or three seconds, the prince slowly raised his head, his thin lips were slightly curved, and his eyes were deep and gentle, like a midsummer night.

"You laughed just now." He said in a low voice, unaware that his eyes were also smiling imperceptibly.

"what are you laughing at?"