Voices and footsteps echoed inside the Heroic Monument.

Xie Yuduo: "...In short, that's how it is. Now Yin Beidou admits that there is such a second prince on the surface. Why did he grow up in the Black Shark base since he was a child, and only went to the battlefield three years ago..."

"But many people still murmur in their hearts, thinking that the so-called Second Highness is the crown prince who came back from the dead, or is not dead. After all, you have seen that face too, it looks so similar."

"This is a minefield for His Royal Highness Garcia. First-time offenders and unintentional slips of the tongue will not do anything to him, but if someone imposes his feelings for the crown prince on him, or wants to force him to accept the identity of Lai An..."

"...Let's put it this way, last year there was a man who was short-sighted, because this incident annoyed His Highness, and an arm was cut off by the crystal bone on the spot."

"It's true, I was the one who rushed over to persuade him to come down, otherwise there might be more than one arm."

While talking, Xie Yuduo had already led Jiang Jianming out of the area of the white obelisk, leaving only the empty land paved with black thin bricks in front of him——

These spaces are obviously prepared for the erection of new memorial monuments.

Jiang Jianming pondered for a moment, then nodded naturally: "...I probably understand."

Xie Yuduo was stunned: "You actually understand!?"

Jiang Jianming: "Your Highness, he...has a strong arrogance in his bones, and he hates being bound by external forces and things imposed by outsiders. He is a natural conqueror, and when he is wrong, he is really wrong."

Xie Yuduo smiled in surprise: "Conqueror, your Excellency would say such a thing, how could the crown prince dare to be majestic in front of you..."

Jiang Jianming also smiled gently: "He is a lion in the first place, he just likes to act like a coquettish cat in front of me."

In short, it is rebellious and willful.

As long as you don't mess with him, he doesn't have the airs of an imperial prince at all.

This person would go to the trading area in the evening to buy apples by swiping coins, drive a mecha overnight to rescue a group of brats who were acclimatizing officers, and even... be rubbed by a handicapped human being.

But if he is not happy to be provoked, even if the crown of the prince of the empire is held in front of him, this person can throw it on the ground and step on it again.

...So, the new identity of the second prince, could it be that Lai An asked for it after losing his memory?

Jiang Jianming was sorting out the logic secretly, when Xie Yuduo's voice interrupted his thoughts.

The major general raised his finger and said, "We're here, there's a secret door there."

As Xie Yuduo said that, he turned on the lighting function of the wrist phone. Jiang Jianming was squinted by the strong light, and looked up after adapting to the brightness.

Sure enough, there was a piece of floor tile that was different, Xie Yuduo stepped forward and swung it a few times, the "floor tile" moved, revealing a downward passage.

Xie Yuduo went down the steel ladder first, followed by Jiang Jianming.

By the time his foot hit the ground, Xie Yuduo had already illuminated the scene in front of him with his wrist phone.

Jiang Jianming held his breath.

Because it just lay there quietly.

At that time, Crown Prince Lai An directly flew into Yu Region with the mech, so the Crown of Dawn in front of him was flying.

It was a huge dark gold animal-like machine with four legs and two wings, like a griffin in ancient mythology. Human beings were as small as a leaf in front of it.

Its head was drooping, its body was lying low, a pair of mutilated iron wings dragged on the ground, and tiny crystal grains were condensed between the cracks.Even though the whole body has lost its luster due to dormancy, there is still an invisible sense of oppression.

This is - the most powerful mech of the human interstellar empire today, L-Crown of Dawn.

"Jin Xiao... I haven't seen it for a long time."

Jiang Jianming took off his right hand glove, reached out and stroked the fuselage with small scars, his movements were so gentle that they were almost compassionate.

This is the mecha flying outside the crystal nest... at the limit of human beings.

After years of fighting and fighting in the flames of war, trekked across the Zhou River for thousands of miles.

It must have been hard work too.

Xie Yuduo folded his arms and chest, looked up at the mecha again, and narrowed his phoenix eyes: "At that time, I personally led people to recover the Crown of Dawn, and it stopped in the outer area of the crystal nest."

"There are traces of fighting with powerful alien creatures on the fuselage, but it is not to the extent of a death fight. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince should have stopped the mecha before entering the really dangerous area."

Jiang Jianming looked up: "Does he deliberately want to keep the Crown of Dawn?"

Xie Yuduo: "It may also be a forced landing after the energy is exhausted, but the possibility is very small."

Then you have to open the mecha and check the energy situation to know.

Jiang Jianming tapped on the wrist phone: "Seth, wake up, can you open your fuselage?"

On the wrist phone, a ray of blue light suddenly popped up, and the blue light flew towards the Crown of Dawn with a trail, and gradually became golden as it approached.

Jiang Jianming and Xie Yuduo raised their heads, and they stared intently at Seth Henry's ray of golden light sinking into the fuselage of Crown of Dawn.

Xie Yuduo was short of breath, and he licked his lips.

Jiang Jianming said: "Seth, try to open the second cockpit."

Xie Yuduo shouted in surprise: "It's done!"

Without saying a word, Jiang Jianming immediately climbed up the fuselage to the position of the cockpit door, and clasped his right hand on the edge of the door.

……what?

Jiang Jianming couldn't help frowning. How could the concentration of crystal particles in the cockpit be so high... Could it be because of flying over the crystal nest area?

But with Jin Xiao's performance, the crystal particles shouldn't be allowed to penetrate into the cockpit.

"Your Excellency?"

Seeing that he was not moving, Xie Yuduo called out from below.

Suddenly, Jiang Jianming smelled a faint sweet smell, and got out along the crack of the cockpit door.

The smell of blood.

"!?"

Jiang Jianming's expression suddenly changed.

With both hands, he slammed open the hatch!

The next moment, the thick blood energy and the riotous high-concentration crystal particle tide were mixed together and rushed towards the face!

Jiang Jianming was forced to stagger by the wave of crystal particles, and suddenly lowered his eyebrows——

If he hadn't been given extra tranquilizers to prepare for special situations before coming here, this would be enough to stun him.

An unknown premonition suddenly came to mind, Jiang Jianming endured the discomfort and palpitations, turned over and jumped into the cockpit.

In an instant, the scene in front of him caused his pupils to contract violently, and the hairs all over his body stood on end, numb from the soles of his feet to the top of his head!

Blood... The color of blood pervaded every place in sight.

In the dim cockpit, there were dried and shocking black blood everywhere.

Blood was splattered on the armrest of the driver's seat, blood was congealed in the gaps of the console, and a large amount of blood was splashed on the dark screen, even above the head...underground...everywhere.

It was as if a person's body was torn apart alive, and all the blood in the body was splashed in all directions.

And this terrifying trace has been hidden inside the mecha for three years without anyone knowing it.

"Sir, please slow down...!?"

Xie Yuduo had just rushed into the cockpit, but was shocked by the scene and took two steps back, speechless!

Jiang Jianming's stomach suddenly twitched violently, his face turned pale, his legs softened and he fell to his knees, holding on to the cold bulkhead and retching.

This is the internal cockpit of the mech. Only one driver's seat has been lifted up. There is no sign of the hatch being damaged by the invasion, and there are no traces of battle in the cabin.

Then these flying bloodstains can only belong to...

"Le... Ann."

Jiang Jianming gasped, the darkness and silence around him seemed to be stretched infinitely thicker.

In the chaos, he vaguely felt a tearing pain, the pain of bones being pulled out of his body alive.

His little Highness, his...

Jiang Jianming's eyes widened blankly, and tears fell without warning - without any reason, as if it should be like this somewhere.

Xie Yuduo suddenly held his armpit from behind: "No, my lord, the concentration of crystal particles here is not right! Let's go out first, first out!!"

Jiang Jianming's consciousness was in confusion. He tried his best to break away from the major general's support, but he fell back to the ground all of a sudden.

His wrist was propped on the blood-stained floor, and he saw traces similar to fingerprints in the black and red, which was very messy.

Has anyone ever fallen here in pain?Have those hands that once embraced you struggled in a pool of blood?

The high concentration of crystal particles in the cockpit... Could these crystal particles be lost from the flesh and bones of new crystal humans?

Jiang Jianming let out a low gasp on the verge of death, suddenly he couldn't take in air, his throbbing heart beat suddenly and then stopped suddenly, his lips turned blue-purple at a high speed, and the feeling of suffocation swept through his lungs.

It looks like he's about to...

He was about to die in this dark blood.

In a daze, a stabbing pain came from the back of his neck.

It was the familiar feeling of liquid being pushed into the body.

"..." After a while, Jiang Jianming took a breath and opened his eyelashes dripping with cold sweat.

Tears were still hanging on his eyelashes, and through the mist of water, he saw the retracting mechanical probe with a needle at the tip.

Seth manipulated the Golden Dawn Crown to give him a crystal particle tranquilizer.

The pain in his body was suppressed little by little.

With the injection of the drug, the collapsed emotions also calmed down.

"Your Excellency!!"

With a clear vision, Xie Yuduo was holding his shoulder anxiously: "Look at me, breathe in slowly... yes, breathe hard."

Jiang Jianming let out a long breath and propped his forehead wearily: "It's okay...I'm fine, sorry, maybe I was just...a little scared."

Xie Yuduo shook his head solemnly, looked around, and said in a low voice: "Don't think about it, it may not be...you don't know anything now."

Jiang Jianming was helped up by Xie Yuduo.

He remained silent, raised his sleeves and wiped away the remaining tears with the back of his hand.

The quickening heartbeat in his chest hadn't calmed down yet, Jiang Jianming walked to the screen with difficulty while supporting the wall, and sat in the blood-stained driver's seat.

Xie Yuduo hesitated to speak, he wanted to persuade Jiang Jianming to go out and have a rest, but when he saw the latter's eyes, he swallowed his words back.

Then, the slender fingers of the remnant crystal human landed in front of the screen.The virtual console unfolded, and a faint golden light surrounded Jiang Jianming's fingertips.

"Jin Xiao is not an ordinary mecha. Even if ordinary people enter the cockpit, they cannot control it."

Jiang Jianming's voice is still a little hoarse, but he has recovered his calmness, "Forcibly connecting will cause backlash. All I can do is activate the body's energy."

He had opened it a few times back then, but it was only a temporary permission given to him by His Royal Highness, and it should be very difficult now.

Xie Yuduo said in a deep voice, "Enough."

Soon, the screen lit up, and various data graphs dazzled the eyes.

Jiang Jianming checked it, then turned around and said: "The energy is still enough, the mecha was indeed parked here deliberately by Lai An."

"You can watch the mecha video and the monitoring data of the grain particles. The time is not short. I will send it to you."

"Other... hmm?"

Jiang Jianming frowned suddenly. He tapped his fingers a few times quickly and found a message showing "unread".

The letter was sent on the same day as the day when the mecha shut down and went to sleep, and the sender was...

It's the L-Crown of Dawn.

It was Lai An himself who sent this message.

He clicked on it, and a snowflake flashed on the screen, and a few lines of "text" that were too blurry to read popped up.

Xie Yuduo changed color.This major general, who knew something, immediately realized that it was an encrypted text message.

"Last words?"

Jiang Jianming was stunned for a second, then laughed angrily, "Leave a last message in the mech that I can't even open unless I come here? There really is him."

Xie Yuduo's fingers were shaking, and his Adam's apple twitched: "I'll make a copy and let the technical department decipher it as soon as possible...!"

Jiang Jianming tapped his fingers quickly: "No, I'll try it first. I am familiar with several passwords that your highness likes to use——Seth, help me calculate."

About fifteen minutes later, Jiang Jianming's eyes lit up.

"...That's right."

Starting from the first line, the blurred parts gradually solidified and became the common characters of the empire.

The first line is a simple four words.

"my sweetheart."

Xie Yuduo silently looked at Jiang Jianming.

Jiang Jianming was shocked.

This message was really for him.

What will Lai An write in it?

He must have known his fate, what would he say to "his lover" - the "lover" who had already sternly severed ties with him?

Jiang Jianming even thought, if the message contained the truth, about the conspiracy and the murderer.

Then the rest of his life is destined to step on the bloody road of revenge from this moment, and he can never turn back.

The subsequent text is also solidified.

Surprisingly, it is very short, only four lines in total.

Jiang Jianming moved closer and read it out gently.

"Please……"

...

"—Please ignite the withered years, pass through the lingering flames of the old civilization and thousands of miles of cold stars, and wake up in my arms before the dawn of mankind."

...

There was silence in the cockpit.

"..."

A full ten seconds later, Jiang Jianming leaned back on the back of the driver's seat, looking at Xie Yuduo in confusion.

This... what does it mean, he can't understand.

There is no truth, no conspiracy or murderer, not even the words of entrustment that a will should have.

The flickering words reflected the dark blood on the screen.

Like a tender yet cruel farewell poem.

The author has something to say: I've been waiting for a long time, I made a fuss yesterday, so I'm giving out red packets today.

Minor patch: The mech levels of Crown of Dawn and Iron Rose are Super S not S, and the S-level mechas haven’t played yet, so don’t get confused!