Chapter 80 Undercurrent (3)

A few minutes after being picked up by the crystal bone, Jiang Jianming was confused again.

He faintly heard the sound of Mecha Slashing Comet starting, so he was completely relieved, and the memory after that was gone.

Wow... don't know how long it took, and the thin warm water suddenly poured on his body.

Jiang Jianming, who was almost unconscious, shuddered instinctively and woke up. His vision blurred for a while before becoming clear, and he saw Bailiang's spacious bathroom first.

"...Your Highness."

The bathroom was very warm, Jiang Jianming raised his head in Garcia's arms... Garcia's clothes and long hair were wet, and the water vapor softened his stern face.

The prince was expressionless, holding him in his arms with one hand, as if he was holding a small animal awakened from hibernation; the other hand held a shower and poured it from his heart to his limbs.

"I'm much better, thank you. Wait, don't..." Jiang Jianming said hoarsely, propping up his sore body, trying to sit up straight from the prince's arms, "Don't wash me, wait a moment."

He raised his head in a trance and looked around, "Where is this, didn't you say take me back to the dormitory?"

Garcia ignored it and continued to wash him with warm water. Jiang Jianming pushed the sprinkler and stared at Garcia in disbelief: "This is the White Jade Palace? You took me to..."

Garcia stopped the water and gave him a non-salty look: "Yes, this is the old crown prince's room, and now it belongs to me. It seems that you are very familiar with this place, and you can recognize it just by looking at the bathroom."

He first wiped Jiang Jianming dry with a towel, then changed to a dry towel to wrap the person in, and walked out of the bathroom in his arms.

In the middle of the journey, His Royal Highness ruthlessly raised his leg and stepped over the man who was lying dead on the floor, and finally stuffed Jiang Jianming into the quilt on the bed.

After doing all this, Garcia straightened up, and this action allowed him to look down at Jiang Jianming lying on the bed condescendingly.

"Your brain is good."

Garcia took two steps back, and those emerald green eyes became cold: "It sent me a distress message and coordinates before the mecha's system was completely disturbed and failed. You made a very stupid mistake, but after all Let me die."

"..." Jiang Jianming shrank under the quilt, and at the same time looked at the man on the floor with complex eyes.

"What are you looking at?" Garcia stuttered impatiently, poked the man's wrist with the tip of his shoe, "He can't die, this is a new human, didn't you find out?"

He gritted his teeth: "...this is the last time I will save you, don't expect any exceptions."

"Don't come to me in the future, let alone call me 'His Royal Highness'. You know who you are calling."

Before he finished speaking, Garcia had turned and walked towards the door. Jiang Jianming got up from the bed, opened his mouth to subconsciously want to call "His Royal Highness", the words were all on the tip of his tongue and swallowed, and replaced: "Garcia."

His Royal Highness did not slow down in the slightest. He didn't seem to want to stay here for even one more second, and he didn't even care about his soaked clothes and long hair, he just pulled off the thick cloak on the hanger and walked out.

Jiang Jianming wanted to catch up, but he grabbed the quilt and prepared to lift it, but suddenly realized that he was naked, so he had to give up in a complicated mood.

After all, the scene of chasing me with the prince naked in the corridor of the White Jade Palace is too scary, so he doesn't want it.

Garcia must have done it on purpose... Jiang Jianming was angry and funny, and went down to the ground barefoot under the quilt, ready to look for clothes to wear first.

Soon, he saw a set of clean clothes placed on top of a small cabinet not far away.

Jiang Jianming walked over, bent down and stretched out his hand... Before picking up the suit, his eyes first fell on the treatment cabin next to the cabinet.

——This thing appeared so abruptly and so coincidentally that the words "Go in, go in by yourself" were posted on it.

Jiang Jianming couldn't help crying and laughing.

Therefore, His Royal Highness thought that there was no treatment cabin in the staff dormitory of the military academy, and it might not be convenient to even call for help if something happened... That's why he was temporarily brought into the White Jade Palace?

Fearing that he would suffer from the sequelae of freezing or drowning, and that he would not be able to take care of him with his own hands, he hid the treatment cabin in such a place.

He also specially formulated such a "step by step" and "lure the enemy deep" combat plan to ensure that he could see the existence of the treatment cabin.

"..."

Jiang Jianming stood for a long time clutching his clothes, shook his head and sighed, and rubbed his aching temples again.

...Forget it, with this promise, what else are you chasing.

He reluctantly turned his eyes to the man on the floor, thinking to himself: Perhaps, I should first deal with this unlucky Mr.

About half an hour later, Mr. Unlucky Ghost, who was put on clean clothes by Jiang Jianming, put on the bed and covered with a quilt, snorted and slowly woke up.

Jiang Jianming had already tidied himself up at this moment, and he couldn't see the embarrassment of drowning.

He sat interestingly on the soft chair opposite, observing the man lightly, holding a cup of steaming sweet jujube tea in his hand.

"hiss……"

I saw this man in his thirties sitting up with difficulty. He had brown hair, dark eyes, and stretched eyebrows.

"You're awake." Jiang Jianming said gently, "How do you feel, is there any discomfort in your body?"

While speaking, he noticed the man's dark circles under his eyes and the stubble on his chin, guessing that this man has been busy or anxious recently and has no time to take care of himself.

"Ah, no, no, I'm fine." The man turned his head quickly and gave him a grateful look, "Your Excellency, you risked saving me. I... I even caused you to have an accident. I really don't know how to thank and Just apologize."

Jiang Jianming smiled, picked up another cup of jujube tea on the table, walked to the bedside, and put it on the bedside table: "Nothing, drink some hot first. Then can you tell me your name?"

——To be honest, although the White Emerald Palace is a forbidden place in the palace, he has been brought in by Ryan many times, and the robots and intelligent monitoring systems here have his authority.

However, since Ryan's funeral, Jiang Jianming has resolutely stopped coming to the White Jade Palace. It has been almost three years.

He just went out and asked the smartphone for two cups of jujube tea, just to test whether his authority was still there. Fortunately, the authority was not shut down, and the robot quickly brought jujube tea from the kitchen.

And now, this drink, which was a tribute from the palace, was taken by a man who was still at a loss as to where he was.

"thanks, thanks."

The man took it with both hands, lowered his head and took two sips, then cleared his throat, pointed to his chest and said, "My name is Zheng Yue, Guan Erzheng, Chaoyue Yue, a poor military officer with no background. I belong to the guard of the Jin Rilun Empire. The first regiment of the army, with the rank of major."

Jiang Jianming nodded, not surprised.

If an ordinary person fell into the big river in winter, he struggled a few times before he couldn't hold on. Not to mention that the two of them were later trapped in the stopped mecha, and they swam all the way up dangerously.

Judging from the series of qualities the man showed after he fell into the water, he really didn't look like an ordinary civilian.

What surprised Jiang Jianming was the man's next sentence.

I saw him embarrassedly said: "But that was a few months ago, and now I've been dismissed, and I'm uh... a homeless person."

Saying that, Zheng Yue smiled bitterly and touched his hair: "So I'm sorry, my little lord, you saved my life, but I really can't find anything to thank you right now..."

"Removed?"

Jiang Jianming frowned: "Why is this?"

"Oh, my words and deeds are inappropriate." Zheng Yue said succinctly.

At first, when Jiang Jianming only asked his name, he took the initiative to report his identity, which was a demonstration of courtesy and sincerity; then the perfunctory at the moment was a subtle expression that he did not want to talk about this topic.

Of course Jiang Jianming understood, he pulled a chair and sat down on the bedside, and said calmly, "Sorry, Mr. Zheng, I may have to get straight to the point."

"This incident is man-made. Someone wants to kill you. Do you know why?"

Zheng Yue smiled bitterly and touched his nose.

"...It's better that others don't know about this."

Jiang Jianming sighed and turned on his wrist phone, "You said you used to belong to Jin Rilun, right?"

He called up his military status page, projected it in the void, and said solemnly, "I am a graduate of Kaios Military Academy, and Jiang Jianming, an officer under Major General Xie Yuduo of the First Army of Yin Beidou."

Zheng Yue suddenly widened his eyes and jumped up from the bed: "Yin Beidou!?"

"You, you are an officer of Yin Beidou—"

He grabbed Jiang Jianming's wrist and looked at it, and immediately flushed with excitement: "No wonder, no wonder. You even have a folding mecha, I said, so..."

Jiang Jianming put away his wrist phone with a smile. Yin Beidou has an extraordinary position in the eyes of the army and the people of the empire. Even if it is the Golden Sun Wheel, which is also called Yin Beidou on the bright side, most of the officers and soldiers in it will still admire the distant stars and aliens. A star creature of the Silver Hokuto who fought bloody battles.

Zheng Yue is obviously one of them, which saves him a lot of trouble.

"Major Zheng, the reason why I ask you this is to suspect that there may be some conspiracy behind your murder to endanger the security of the empire. If you still have concerns, you can tell me whatever proof you want me to provide, and I will try my best."

I saw Zheng Yue shook his head and sighed: "Oh, don't say that, what worries do you have with your Excellency Yin Beidou? But this is too hard to say."

"Where to start... Oh, since you are an officer of Yin Beidou, you must know about the True Crystal Mine."

Jiang Jianming: "Yes, we scavenge alien creatures on a daily basis, and this is what we collect from them."

Zheng Yue: "Then you must also know that after the fortress of Yinbeidou collects real crystal ore, what will happen to these resources?"

Jiang Jianming realized that Zheng Yue was still consciously testing him to see if he was a genuine Yin Beidou officer.

So he took a sip of jujube tea and chose to answer this question in more detail.

"Well, twice a year in spring and autumn, there will be armed starships transporting supplies between the distant stars and the empire. At this time, the first and second fortresses will return nearly 80% of the real crystal ore collected. Empire, only 20% is left for personal use.”

"The third fortress is an exception. In addition to keeping 20% ​​for their own use, 30% of the real crystal ore is directly supplied to the Black Shark base for research, and only 50% of the real crystal ore is returned to the empire."

Zheng Yue: "You are right. The real crystal ore is a controlled product in the empire. Even for aristocrats, it is a serious crime to hide the real crystal ore. The whole process of transportation is supervised by Yin Beidou and the Golden Sun Wheel, with Alborn Star City as the Transfer stations, and then allocated to each star city according to the indicators.”

He pointed to his nose: "Unfortunately, the supervisor in charge of Aslan Star City is me."

"I and two other colleagues have been in charge of supervising the two links of starship landing and resource unloading handover all year round, but just this fall, a week before the handover, an order suddenly came from above, saying that this time we don't have to worry about it. It's a temporary dispatch, and the headquarters will send other officers to supervise this trip."

Jiang Jianming's expression was slightly solemn, and he listened to what he said.

Zheng Yue said half bitterly and half self-deprecating: "I thought it was very strange at the time, it doesn't make sense. I wondered who robbed me of my job, so I went to ask around, and the more I asked, the colder my heart became... …”

"It's not a secret military activity at all, it's just a routine handover twice a year." The man took a deep breath and suddenly grabbed the corners of the bedside table with his five fingers, "But I just can't find it! I can't find the Jin Ilun officer who oversaw the handover!"

"At this time, the top began to warn me, and my colleagues also advised me to stop tossing, saying, maybe the situation in the far interstellar space is not good this year, and I couldn't send the real crystal mine?"

"But I didn't give up, I felt something was wrong. I have a buddy who works on the space station of the Jin Ilun, you know that stuff."

Jiang Jianming nodded: "Like a big white spinning top."

When he and Garcia returned to the empire, they were on a starship and passed the space station in front of the colorful high-dimensional blockade.

"Yes, that's the one." Zheng Yue's expression gradually became tense, "There will be a review and record of all the starships that come and go. I asked my best friend to help me, and he secretly went to check the data records. It turned out that...

"—The starship that transported True Crystal Ore to Elborn did pass there as usual. But I couldn't find the starship that was transported from Elborn to Aslan, what does that mean!?"

Zheng Yue raised his hands abruptly, his face red with anger: "This shows that the batch of real crystal mines that your Yin Beidou sent to the empire in autumn should have been transported to this part of Aslan... Missing!"

"It didn't land on the starship port in charge of our Jin Rilun at all, but was intercepted by someone in the middle!!"

Before he finished speaking, Jiang Jianming stood up abruptly.

"In the top of the Golden Sun Wheel, someone is stealing the True Crystal Mine!?"

"I...is so suspicious."

Zheng Yue let out a long sigh, sat back down on the bed, and covered his face with his palms: "The so-called inappropriate words and deeds actually means that I am determined to investigate this matter, and I have angered the top."

He shook his head lowly and muttered to himself: "But what can be done, the people behind don't know how much energy is there. I, a little major Jin Rilun, was dismissed in a blink of an eye, and my wife was so angry I ran away, I almost lost my life today. What about you, a lieutenant of Yin Beidou..."

The man muttered in frustration, sinking into a hopeless mood. But in a blink of an eye, he saw the black-haired young man in front of him stand up, put on the headset and turned on the wrist phone.

"Oh, don't..." Zheng Yue raised his head and tried to dissuade him, "This matter is too deep, it's best not to involve other people."

But suddenly, the projection in front of him flickered, and the upper body of an old man wearing a golden sun wheel military uniform popped up.

That is an old man that the Imperial soldiers absolutely, absolutely, absolutely cannot not know.

boom! Zheng Yuewan received a blow in the head, and 100,000 fireworks exploded in his brain, his mouth opened as if he wanted to swallow a star city alive.

And I saw this young officer who claimed to be Lieutenant Yin Beidou, with anger between his handsome brows, his lips were slightly hooked, and his lips were sneering without a smile: "Old Marshal Chen, I am sorry to disturb you, I wanted to ask-"

"Has the Golden Sun Army of our Empire rotted to the bone?"