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Chapter 56 Heroic Spirit (3)
Chapter 56 Heroic Spirit (3)
The scene became so magical.
Garcia, who was almost all pressed on the treatment cabin, retracted his upper body as if nothing had happened. He rearranged his posture, folded his legs, and sat upright with graceful aloofness.
Jiang Jianming also calmly waved to Tang Zhen: "Come on, are you training so late today? Come and sit."
"..." Tang Zhen, who was still kneeling at the door, stared blankly.
In his mind, a certain wise saying was frantically swiped: as long as you are not embarrassed, it is others who are embarrassed.
So... even if Tang Shao seems familiar, he broke through the lingering scene of his friend and the imperial prince.
Even if the atmosphere of this "late night ward" has a kind of premise of a restricted romance movie.
But as long as His Royal Highness Garcia and Lieutenant Jiang are not embarrassed, it will be Tang Shao himself who is embarrassed.
"I'm here... I'm here." Tang Zhen walked in hand in hand, his face stiff as if he had been stroked.
Jiang Jianming sighed helplessly, thinking to himself: It seems that Tang Shao's fear of the little prince is still the same as before, no matter which little prince...
As he sat up, he said to Garcia, "Your Highness, maybe you want to eat an apple?"
Garcia was stretching out his arm to help him get up. Hearing the words, his movements were stagnant.
"Okay," Jiang Jianming said, "Then please go outside and peel the apples."
Tang Zhen's eyes widened on the spot, wondering if Xiao Jiang had swallowed the guts of alien creatures before he fell into a coma. Do you treat people as your ex-fiancé?
The next second, Garcia stood up, went to pick up two apples from the condolences on the other side of the ward, took a fruit knife, pushed the door and went out to find a place to wash the fruit and peel it.
Tang Zhen: "..."
The door to the ward was closed. Tang Zhen said numbly: "Little god, do you want to take a professional license as a prince trainer after you retire?"
Jiang Jianming: "Wake up, there is no such license."
Tang Zhen immediately choked his wrists and made a painful expression: "It's a loss!"
However, after His Royal Highness disappeared, Tang Shao finally returned to normal, and sat down beside the treatment cabin under Jiang Jianming's greeting.
Obviously, he just came back from the training of an officer in the adaptation period. The collar of his uniform is a little messy, his hair is still a little sweaty, but his spirit is the same as before.
"I said Xiao Jiang, why are you acting crazy?"
Tang Zhen let out a long sigh, and he couldn't hold back the chatter box, "How come I'm scared to death if I don't even fuck with you, do you want to kill me?"
"But now the fortress has gone crazy, saying that there is a newly promoted young disabled human officer, a powerful group. Many veterans have come to inquire about you from our little rookies in the adaptation period..."
"This Yin Beidou soldier also loves gossip. If we said it yesterday, it can be passed on to something completely different the next day. Hey, I really can say anything... and pass it on to you and His Royal Highness. ."
Jiang Jianming was still nodding perfunctorily with Tang Zhen's nagging. Hearing the end, he was immediately interested: "What?"
Tang Zhen: "...Forget it, it's nothing."
Jiang Jianming asked him about Chief Huo Lin's funeral.
Tang Zhen shook his head with a complicated expression: "The body has been cremated. The officer seems to have no wife and children, and his parents have passed away. Yin Beidou will follow his wishes and will bury his ashes in the ground of the fortress."
Jiang Jianming: "The Heroic Spirit Monument?"
Tang Zhen nodded: "Yes, just tomorrow. Then..."
His expression became a little unnatural, and he scratched his face with his eyes dodging: "What, this is actually what Lieutenant Raymond meant. He said that the officer missed you in the end, and you will come when you are healed. The Heroic Spirit Monument, look at him... or something."
"Uh, but," Tang Zhen quickly added shamelessly after finishing speaking, "If you don't want to, we won't be wronged! Raymond is also afraid that you will be angry, so he told me to tell it."
"Look, anyway, that guy, Mr. Huo Lin, made things so difficult for you before his death... he had a bad temper, and he cursed... he also discriminated against the disabled people, and..."
Talking, Tang Zhen couldn't continue.
The corners of his mouth twitched twice, and finally turned into a sigh, "Also... ah."
A few seconds later, the young man lowered his head like a frosted eggplant, pursed his lips and clenched his fists. The complicated emotional entanglement in his eyes finally turned into a deep sadness.
Although he also had all kinds of dissatisfaction with Huo Lin, it was impossible for him to be with him for two months in the far interstellar space.
After all, he was the one who yelled at him when he made a mistake in training, and he was the one who rushed to scoop up people from the crystal bones of alien creatures in the next moment regardless of the danger.
But then one person was gone in a blink of an eye. So sudden, even too abrupt. Suddenly, it no longer exists in any corner of the world.
Jiang Jianming sighed in his heart and reached out to pat his friend.
The moonlight outside the window flowed on his fingers, and also illuminated Tang Zhen's slightly trembling shoulders.
Sometimes silence is more powerful than words.
drip...
The electronic sound sounded at this time, and the two turned their heads together.
Jiang Jianming: "Ah, my wrist phone... get it for me."
the next day.
A new day has ushered in the fortress of Yin Beidou. In this steel fortress, everything is running as usual.
The soldiers came and went quickly, and the black boots stepped on the alloy floor, making a neat sound. The newly repaired mechas were sent to the mecha hangar, and sometimes the wounded were sent to the treatment area, and some recovered people came out steadily.
A young officer walked in the direction of the elevator.
It was Lieutenant Raymond. There was a circle of dark blue under his eyes, his face was solemn, and he was holding a black lacquer box in his hand—this little thing was his commander.
In Yinbeidou, personnel sacrifice is all too common. Sixty percent of them will choose to bury their ashes in the monument, rather than send them back to relatives in the empire.
Therefore, the matter of sending urns to the Heroic Spirit Monument is actually not as solemn and solemn as outsiders imagine, and there will be almost no formal funerals.
After getting approval from a comrade-in-arms or a subordinate of a superior, go in with the urn in his arms, stay in it for a few minutes and come out empty-handed, this is the end of the process.
Some noise came into his ears, and Raymond couldn't help but stop, and then raised his eyebrows in surprise.
Ahead... It was the place in front of the elevator he was going to, and there was a group of people, at least a dozen or so.
The crowd gathered and shouted for something new, a scene that is all too common in any star city in the empire.
However, this is a fortress, and here, few people will stop their busy footsteps for some reason.
Three soldiers passed by Raymond talking, and he heard one of them mutter:
"It's really a crippling human being. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, who would have believed that such a small white face could actually drive a mecha of this type?"
Raymond was stunned, thinking that he would not.
Just as was thinking about it, two young female officers who joined the ar last year or the year before came to me. They blushed and whispered:
"Hey, Lieutenant Jiang just talked to me and smiled at me!"
"He's so good-looking... he seems to be prettier than our major general!"
"I didn't expect Lieutenant Jiang to be so unpretentious. I thought that there was His Royal Highness behind him. This Your Excellency would be that kind of person, even more inhumane..."
Raymond hurried two steps, only to see a familiar thin figure standing in front of the elevator.
Jiang Jianming stood there with a peaceful expression, wearing a black and silver Yin Beidou military uniform, his cheeks were still as pale as he had just recovered from a serious illness, but he stood very straight.
The sight around him couldn't move him at all. When someone came over to speak, he responded with kindness; when no one spoke, he stood quietly with his eyes lowered, and he actually stood out in a military fortress full of human hormones.
Raymond stepped forward in surprise: "Lieutenant Jiang?"
At this moment, the elevator made of black steel fell from it, and Raymond's voice overlapped with another person's.
Xie Yuduo walked out of the elevator: "Your Excellency Jiang Xiao, are you looking for me... eh?"
The crowd of people who were watching the "legendary disabled human beings" was suddenly silent.
Xie Yuduo swept his eyes sharply, and the corners of his mouth slowly twitched into his signature sarcastic smile.
"—Big brother, big sister, grandpa and sister-in-law, and younger brothers and sisters, what are they doing all around this place? Are you so idle?"
Major General Xie shook his head like a rogue, and patted his palm lazily:
"Answer me, have the alien creatures in the outer universe been killed, and the wandering thieves caught out and beaten? This year's—oh, this year is almost over, so next year's real crystal ore collection index has been completed. ?"
"No? No, why don't you go and do your own work!?"
When most of the officers saw that Major General Xie opened his mouth to curse again, they immediately ran away and scattered.
A small number of young people who saw Major General Xie for the first time with their own eyes were all taken away by the veterans.
Raymond stood on the side blankly. Xie Yuduo walked to Jiang Jianming's side: "Little Your Excellency."
Jiang Jianming turned to the major general and gestured to the scattered crowd: "What's going on, they scared me."
Raymond couldn't help but twitched the corners of his eyes, thinking to himself, how do you look scared?
He walked over with the urn in his arms: "Don't you know that a few Yin Beidou soldiers who went to battle that day sold their mecha videos in the trading area..."
"You were still in a coma at that time. Many officers and soldiers heard rumors that the person who made the most of this operation was a disabled human being. That's what you see."
Jiang Jianming: "Sell mecha videos?"
Raymond: "Oh, selling this is also an old tradition of Yin Beidou. The first-hand video of some special battles is quite valuable."
"Although the fortress will regularly make simulation review materials and distribute them to everyone, but how can there be a live video stimulation from the first point of view."
valuable.
Jiang Jianming nodded calmly and wrote it down.
Raymond wondered: "So you are here?"
He also knew that Jiang Jianming was seriously injured this time. He had just woken up from a coma.
"...That's it."
Jiang Jianming lowered his head and smiled lightly, and a few Alpha Alien snow seemed to fall from his dark eyes.
He said in a low voice, "I heard that today is the day of Lieutenant Colonel Huo Lin's burial. Can I go to see him off together?"
...
Underground Heroic Spirit Stele, the snow-white obelisk has been sunk in the dark space for decades. Countless monuments emit a faint fluorescence, leading the way for the three people who entered this place.
"Sorry Major General, I sent you a message specifically to call you here."
Jiang Jianming spoke while walking, and in such a solemn place, his voice was lowered a little:
"I do have something I want to tell you personally, but my little highness does not allow me to walk outside for too long with an injury... Due to the time limit, I can only trouble you to make do with me and walk a few more steps."
"It's all right," Xie Yuduo said, turning his head to glance at the urn in Raymond's hand, "I really should have come to see him."
"Back then..."
There was a hint of reminiscence in the major general's eyes: "I was the top commander of the fortress not long ago. A newcomer with a good family background was inserted in Huolin's team. It was from the empire who came in. I am responsible for this. Blame me for not finding it in time."
The three stopped in front of a monument, but it was not a new monument, but an old monument full of names.
It's just that there is an abrupt vacancy among the densely packed names.
Raymond stepped forward and used a special laser pointer, where he wrote Hollin's name stroke by stroke, and the vacancy was filled.
Jiang Jianming immediately understood that perhaps the name in front of this vacancy was Lieutenant Colonel Huo Lin's former companion.
Perhaps after that incident, the lieutenant colonel had considered himself a walking dead and asked the fortress to leave a place for him next to his teammates.
until today.
Xie Yuduo said melancholy: "Those fools are really stupid. They are afraid that I will embarrass me, that I will cause trouble impulsively. Zai also brought it out, stupid... Later, a mistake was made in the mission, and a dozen people came back to Huolin."
Since then, the only survivor has stopped being the hero of the expedition; he chose to stay in the fortress and train the new recruits who come to Yin Beidou every year.
Douse their unworldly innocence, polish their anachronistic edges and corners, and become the devil chief who is scolded behind the backs of many cubs.
Xie Yuduo sighed: "Since Huo Lin served as a recruit instructor, the death rate of recruits in the first fortress has been reduced by a full eight points."
"This guy does have a bad temper, but he's a respectable soldier."
After Raymond finished writing, holding the urn beside him, his eyes blushed silently when he heard this sentence.
He wiped his face covertly, bent down and groped on the ground. There were originally black bricks closely covered, but at this time one of the black bricks was pressed open, and the bottom turned out to be hollow.
Raymond carefully placed the urn inside.
——The names of the heroes will be turned into a ball of light, hanging on the white stele in the air, forever illuminating the latecomers who step into this place year after year;
And the ashes of the hero's corpse will sleep silently under the black bricks underground, and become the cornerstone for the latecomers to step on.
This is the whole picture of the Yin Beidou Heroic Spirit Monument.
After closing the black brick, Lieutenant Raymond began to choked up, his jaw line tightened, and he kept wiping the tears from the corners of his eyes.
Xie Yuduo and Jiang Jianming closed their eyes in silence for a minute, then quietly walked away, leaving time to Raymond.
The two stood still at a distance, and Jiang Jianming began to talk about him.
"I received a wrist phone message last night," Jiang Jianming said to Xie Yuduo, "It's about His Majesty the Emperor's birthday party this year, and Old Marshal Chen asked me to go too."
Xie Yuduo was stunned, but Jiang Jianming admitted frankly first: "It must be suspected, or the old marshal 80% already knew that I came to the far-off star."
In fact, Major General Xie was quite interesting, helping the former crown princess who was dying to keep the news very strict.
However, the commander-in-chief is the commander-in-chief after all. After a long time, how could he not hear the slightest wind?
Xie Yuduo: "Then what do you want to do?"
Jiang Jianming said helplessly: "What else can I do? It's been beyond my expectations to successfully hide it now. When I get better, I will send a message and apologize to the old marshal."
What's more, if he wants to take the credit of this incident to apply for a special drawing, he still has to go around the old marshal, he will know sooner or later.
Unexpectedly, Xie Yuduo rubbed his chin and thought about it, and suddenly said something Jiang Jianming did not expect at all: "Little Your Excellency, then you might as well go back to the empire directly."
"Didn't the old marshal ask you to attend His Majesty's birthday banquet? This year should be quite grand, and you should go too."