Chapter 190: Farewell to the Dawn (4)

Soon, Xie Yuduo saw the mecha master.

"Major General Xie, uh, the general has fought hard. The next officer is..."

The middle-aged man on the opposite side had brown hair and black eyes, and his facial features were straight.

Xie Yuduo was already so tired that his brain was soaring, but he still accurately caught a few pieces of information that shocked him from the man's words.

The surname is Jiang, who used to be a serving officer, and was secretly recalled by the Empire after retiring. The mecha division—

"I take the liberty, is your Excellency the adoptive father of Your Excellency Jiang Xiao?"

"Xiaguan wants to ask..." Jiang Sheng was so anxious in his heart, his eyes widened when he heard this, "Ah, little, little lord?"

Xie Yuduo was about to speak, but the words rolled to the tip of his tongue and swallowed hard.

Looking at the middle-aged man whose face was full of tension and panic, with beads of sweat hanging from the tip of his nose, he, like Diana, fell into an indescribable situation for a while.

But unlike the shy lady of Lance's family, Xie Yuduo is a general after all, and it is not the first time to inform the white-haired man of the black-haired man's misfortune.

So after a moment of silence, the major general raised his eyebrows and said solemnly: "Jiang Jianming, Your Excellency Jiang Xiao once mentioned you."

Jiang Sheng opened his mouth blankly, and snowflakes fell on the man's temples: "Major General... Know my family Mingming?"

At this moment, the two people standing opposite each other suddenly sensed some strange sounds.

It's not that there is a sound that shouldn't be heard, but the sound that should be there has disappeared.

The sound of soldiers talking, the sound of military boots stepping on the snow, the sonorous noise of unloading mechas and moving weapons...

The excitement and heat after these victories seemed to be frozen into ice by a sudden cold snap.

Xie Yuduo and Jiang Sheng turned their heads.

The ruined fortress was completely silent. The first ray of dawn light erased the boundary between heaven and earth, and was refracted by ice crystals to dazzling brightness.

The soldiers along the way split a path and then stopped.

The crown prince walked through the crowd and came against the light. The curly hair is loose, and the figure is shadowy, and the expression is not clear.

He was holding a person in his arms, a white cloth was covering the person, and the horns of the cloth were rattled by the cold wind.

Countless blank eyes were cast from all directions, staring at the flying white cloth corner.

No one dared to step forward, no one dared to make a sound, no one even dared to move.

Who is His Highness Ryan holding? Who can be held by the crown prince like this?

Xie Yuduo's eyes darkened and he staggered a step.

In the crowd, there were a few messy fricatives. Zheng Yue rushed over in panic, but lost the courage to step forward.

Instead, Ryan stopped.

The crown prince paused and raised his face——

Immediately, all the people around were terrified.

His Highness Le'an's face was as dead as snow, he was neither mad nor sad, and his emerald eyes did not shed tears.

But all the vitality has been lost, and there are only two dry hollows hanging there gloomily, as if they have really become the "monsters" in the mouths of the thieves.

"Colonel Jiang died heroically for his country."

Ryan's voice was hoarse and soft, perhaps for fear of disturbing someone, "Come and take a look at him."

"Little... Little Your Excellency..."

Zheng Yue's pupils tightened, his lips trembled, he stretched out his hand, and the five-fingered pestle was over the white cloth, but he didn't dare to touch it.

An arm pushed Zheng Yue away.

Tang Zhen came over, he was panting heavily with red eyes, and the wet mist exhaled from his nose and mouth.

He slowly uncovered the white cloth, only glanced at it, and a choked sob came out of his throat, and tears immediately fell.

how come……

"What's the matter..."

Tang Zhen burst into tears and choked: "...Yesterday was fine..."

Under the white cloth, the young black-haired crippled human rested quietly in the arms of the crown prince, with his eyelids and lips closed, a very clean and dignified remains.

The morning light above his head enveloped him like a veil, making him seem to melt into the snow-colored light.

There was silence all around.

Many soldiers opened their mouths blankly.

They are all people who have experienced the separation of life and death on the battlefield, but the scene in front of them is still too abrupt and cruel. More people are still in a state of numbness that cannot accept reality——

How could this be? What happened to this?

Behind Tang Zhen, Beimaner covered her face with the back of her hand, choking.

yesterday.

Just yesterday.

Everyone also listened to Jiang Jianming's cold voice commanding the entire army; Jin Xiaozhi, who woke up after four years, guided everyone to break through despair and live to death.

Now the war is won, and a new dawn has risen.

As for their scarred and scarred two Royal Highnesses, all they need to do now is to return to receive their cheers and admiration, and to reap the merits and honors they deserve.

But how could it end like this?

Also yesterday, Jiang Jianming also entered Major General Xie's starship, but he didn't see anyone. He only left Jin Xiaozhi and Zhinao Set, and then left again.

At that time, the closest straight-line distance between them was maybe a hundred meters.

At that time, more imperial soldiers must have passed him by, and no one noticed any difference, so let this person go.

The first sob came out of nowhere, as if a switch had been flipped, and spread rapidly.

The crown prince's performance was the calmest. He walked forward and even called the major general: "Xie Yuduo, come and see him too."

Xie Yuduo stood there dumbfounded. It was an unfamiliar middle-aged man who stumbled over.

"Ming... Mingming?"

Jiang Sheng's expression was as dull as if his soul had been dug out. His eyes were straight, and he actually reached out in front of the crown prince to grab Jiang Jianming's body.

Ryan raised his head slightly, his pupils glowing with an eerie red-gold dark light.

"His Royal Highness forgive me!" Xie Yuduo almost thought that the Crown Prince would violently kill in the next moment. He rushed over and stopped between the two, "This is the adoptive father of your little lord!"

But the envisaged scenario did not happen. The luster in Ryan's eyes went out again, returning to his empty appearance.

His Highness nodded, and seemed to ponder for a while, and actually handed the thin body in his arms forward.

"Use the rest of your life to be proud of him," he said. "The empire will never have a second Jiang Jianming."

"Dian..." Xie Yuduo could hardly believe his eyes, he watched as Lean handed Jiang Jianming into the arms of the middle-aged man.

However, Jiang Sheng seemed to be unable to bear the weight, so he slumped on the ground with Jiang Jianming in his arms.

"Mingming, is it Mingming?"

Jiang Sheng opened his eyes wide, staring blankly at the young man in his arms, his lips trembling.

He gasped lightly, is this really his child? Why did he become so pale, so thin, so... cold.

In my memory, he was only a teenager, his slender body was soft and warm, his dark eyes were bright and moving, and his voice called "Dad" was occasionally a little sticky.

Back then, when he was away from home, the child silently helped pack his luggage, neither crying nor complaining, and there was no unease about the future between his delicate eyebrows.

He promised the children that he would go home when the war was over.

Mingming nodded and said yes, and sent him out of the house.

So for so many years, he studied desperately, thinking about completing the tasks entrusted by the empire, and returning home alive to see his son.

While others were gossiping, he worked around the clock to calculate data, draw designs, and test mechas.

I never knew which disabled human came to join the army on the front line, nor which crown princess the prince had conferred.

But how could it end like this?

"Obviously don't sleep, open your eyes and see if Dad is okay?"

"It's Dad, obviously... Dad is here."

The middle-aged man used his rough palms to carefully hold Jiang Jianming's cheeks.

He rocked gently, his mouth kept calling, eager to wake the sleeping child.

"The war is over, Dad will bring Mingming back to our home, and then live like before, okay..."

Only the cold wind from the alien planet responded.

More people around were weeping in low voices.

A cold hand was placed on Jiang Sheng's shoulder. Jiang Sheng looked up in a daze, it was His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

But Ryan's eyes didn't look at him, but fell vainly somewhere, and said in a light tone: "My condolences."

Jiang Sheng shivered all over, hugging the young man in his arms tightly, as if he had aged by several decades.

He looked sad and shook his head quickly: "Impossible... It's impossible."

"His Royal Highness Le'an, Major General Xie, my family is obviously in his twenties, he is still very young, how could he have sacrificed?"

"Let's see... Can you... Can you think about saving him... Is there any medic..."

"I beg you...you can save him again and try again? It's obvious that he didn't meritorious service, he survived to make more contributions to the empire, I beg you..."

No one could answer such a humble request for a father, everyone could not bear to look at him, Xie Yuduo just shook his head bitterly.

"His Royal Highness," Tang Zhen chased after him a few steps, his nose red from crying, "Xiao Jiang, what happened to him in the end... Did he go in pain? Is anyone with him?"

"..."

Ryan was silent, staring at Jiang Jianming lying in Jiang Sheng's arms from a distance, and was silent for a long time.

The sound of the wind blew gently by the ears, and it seemed that someone was smiling warmly.

Your Highness.

Say something nice. You look at them and cry like this.

There were a few waves in Ryan's eyes, he thought about it seriously, and said: "Before I fell into a coma, he was coughing up blood, and he was seriously exhausted. In the end, it should only be untenable, and there would be no more pain. "

"As for the dying, although he was alone when he left, there was wind and snow to accompany him."

"..."

Tang Zhen's face was pale, and he held on to the broken wall next to him to stand firm.

"So," he murmured, "In fact, when he commanded the entire army from a distance yesterday, Xiao Jiang already knew that he was about to...?"

Tang Zhen suddenly laughed miserably. Tears kept falling, soaking Yin Beidou's uniform, "Oh, so it's like this again."

...Good Highness, will you speak?

Ryan raised his head and saw in a trance on the other side of the morning light that the night was gentle, the dark-haired young man with a thick coat on his shoulders, sitting under the lamp, said to him with a bit of anger.

Are you mad at me on purpose? Originally, the matter of bringing the body back should be done secretly. It's hard to win the battle, so let's make everyone happy first.

No. Ryan thought to himself, I'm not angry with you, and I won't provoke you in the future. I will listen to you in everything.

never mind. The man shook his head and chuckled, this time leaning against the starship's porthole. And what, Your Highness?

Ryan turned his head towards Xie Yuduo and asked, "The Crystal Sect has withdrawn?"

Xie Yuduo's mind was chaotic, he only felt his stomach twitching, his throat became fishy, ​​and he couldn't speak at all.

Ryan had to ask again.

Xie Yuduo rolled his Adam's apple, and finally said in a hoarse voice: "Let's go, we have eliminated 70% to 80% of the battle... The last battle that broke the game was directed by the little lord."

"Really. Did he know we were going to win before he left?"

"...It can only be said that the advantage was already great at that time."

"That must be knowing, that's enough for him."

"Foot, enough?"

Xie Yuduo opened his eyes slightly, he stared at Ryan for a long time, not knowing what to say.

Ryan looked around coldly and said slowly, "It's alright, let the soldiers cry for a while and then put them away. There is a risk if the army's heart is shaken."

So, not only Xie Yuduo, but more people around began to look at the crown prince with panicked eyes.

"Your Highness... Your Highness..."

Xie Yuduo's face was pale, and he managed to say, "Don't be like this. You don't need to be like this, we are all about your little lord..."

"What are you doing looking at me like that?"

Ryan shook his head blankly: "I persuaded him and begged him, but he refused to stop. In this case, this day will come sooner or later... We owe him nothing."

"What's more, Jiang Jianming is not the only soldier who died. There is no need for special treatment, and he doesn't like it."

"By the way, I brought back that medical mecha. I'll see if Jiang has left a message later. I'll call you when I find something new. Go and rest first."

"—His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!!"

Jiang Sheng was trembling with anger. He didn't expect the prince to be so ruthless, "Obviously he's not an ordinary soldier, he's an crystalless race, and he can't come to the distant interstellar environment at all! Why on earth—"

Ryan said coldly: "That's because of me. You can hate me, but following me is Jiang Jianming's own choice."

"My condolences."

After he finished speaking, he directly turned on the military channel, turned around and walked away, and started to order:

"The war is over. The Second and Third Corps of Yin Beidou will withdraw their troops and return to their respective fortresses."

"Jin Ilun listened to my command. Today and tomorrow, we will count the casualties and rectify the supplies. We will set off on the third day...return to China."

After a few words, the figure of the crown prince has disappeared at the other end of the corner. Major Rita wanted to chase, but was stopped by Xie Yuduo.

"What are you chasing," the major general said abruptly, "What's the use of others chasing after Your Highness like this?"

"Leave him alone, maybe he can vent. But maybe..."

Xie Yuduo leaned wearily against the wall of the fortress, staring absently at the sky in the distance.

He remembered the arrogance that flew between the eyebrows of the little prince in the past. When he was in a good mood, he would narrow his eyes arrogantly, and when he was provoked, he would use real crystal to fry things with his backhand.

He likes to eat apples, and likes to "build a nest" outside the fortress, but later he prefers to roll on the bed with your little lord, and occasionally bully himself confidently to make your little lord happy.

The Major General murmured only he could hear, "Perhaps, we will lose two of your Highnesses."

...

In the distance, Ryan's expression remained calm. Even though he had avoided the crowd, he did not collapse or go mad.

He slowly planned what came next.

First of all, I have to rest for a while. I still have injuries on my body, so I can lie down in the treatment cabin until noon... At that time, the emotions in the army should also subside, so I can come out to appease a few words and rectify the troops.

In the afternoon, it is time to think about the follow-up arrangements. It is certain that the news of Jiang's death must be temporarily blocked. His ethnic identity is special, and the situation may become complicated when the news of the death spreads to the empire. Slow down and think about it calmly.

In addition to the political situation, it is more important to consider the strategic aspect. Is there any possibility for the Crystal Sect to move in the future, and is it possible for Yu Thief to move?

What policy will the First Army of Yin Beidou take next, and the first fortress, which is so dilapidated, the funds for repairs have to be asked from the emperor...

The wind is crisp again.

The man sighed very distressedly: What a huge expense.

By the way, please help me donate my annuity. The money hasn't been moved very much, and it has more than two million coins.

"Got it." Ryan muttered to himself hoarsely.

His Highness recalled how poor he was when the civilian military cadet was just a civilian.

The pension of the adoptive father is obviously a lot, but what Jiang wants to do is too unusual, there are always many large expenses, and private use is reduced to a minimum.

Jiang is also very conflicted and indebted, and he can only help within the scope of the other party's permission.

Later, when he died once, what Jiang wanted to do was even more shocking, and he must have wronged himself a lot in terms of money.

Finally, after all the hard work, he became the crown princess, and Lin Ge also repaid him the royal annuity for the previous three years. Too bad he hasn't had time to use it yet.

Thinking about the ending of this man's sacrifice before dawn, it seems that sometimes he really can't believe his fate.

Ah, are you trying to say I'm out of luck?

In a trance, the figure sat on the fort's fort again, quietly staring into the distance.

Yin Beidou's military uniform was blown up, Jiang Jianming took off the military cap and held it in his hand, turned back at him and smiled softly: Didn't Your Highness just say it well?

"……I know."

Ryan stopped absentmindedly, his Adam's apple wriggling up and down in pain, as if saying these words would stab his vocal cords with blood.

"It's not bad. You are very lucky and happy in your life... You have met all good people, and you have seen hope for everything you ask for. In the end, you are very satisfied with benevolence."

"So..." Ryan slowly supported the wall, his bent back was soaked with sweat.

His eyes were scattered and his lips trembled, like a fish that was about to die when thrown ashore: "I don't have to feel sorry for you."

He reached out and gripped the fabric of his heart tightly. The organs there seemed to be cut open, "...I don't owe you, I don't feel sad."

Ryan repeated it several times, convinced that he was fine, and then raised his empty eyes again.

Jiang, are you still looking at me?

You see, I do what you want to do and say what you want to say.

I am like this, are you satisfied?

The wind stopped at this moment. The smoke of gunpowder dissipated, and the sky was cloudless. Unmelted frost and dried blood were condensed on the alloy black iron of the fortress.

The main battery was silent at the end of the wind, and there was no one there.

The author has something to say:

Lai: I'm fine, not sad.

Everyone: It's over... Your Highness is broken...