The scene became so magical.

Garcia, who was almost on top of the treatment cabin, retracted his upper body as if nothing had happened.He rearranged his posture, crossed his legs, and sat up straight elegantly and coldly.

And Jiang Jianming also waved at Tang Zhen calmly: "Come on, have you been training so late today? Come and sit."

"..." Tang Zhen, who was still kneeling at the door, stared blankly.

A certain wise saying crazily swiped in his mind: As long as you are not embarrassed, it is others who are embarrassed.

So... even if Young Master Tang broke the lingering scene between his friend and the prince of the empire with a sense of déjà vu.

Even the scene atmosphere of this "late night ward" has the tone of a restricted romance movie.

But as long as His Royal Highness Garcia and Lieutenant Jiang are not embarrassed, the embarrassing one becomes Young Master Tang himself.

"I'm coming... I'm coming." Tang Zhen walked in with hands and feet, his face stiff as if he had suffered a stroke.

Jiang Jianming sighed helplessly, and thought to himself: It seems that Young Master Tang's fear of the little highness is still the same as before, no matter which little highness...

He sat up and said to Garcia, "Your Highness, maybe you want to eat an apple?"

Garcia was stretching out his arms to help him up, but he froze when he heard this, and said with a blank expression: "If you want to get me away, you can just say so."

"Okay," Jiang Jianming followed suit, "Then I trouble you to go outside and peel the apples."

Tang Zhen's eyes widened on the spot, wondering if Xiao Jiang had swallowed the guts of the alien creature before he fell into a coma. Did you treat him like your former fiancé?

The next second, Garcia stood up, went to pick up two apples from the condolence items piled on the other side of the ward, took a fruit knife, opened the door and went out to find a place where the fruits could be washed and peeled.

Tang Zhen: "..."

The door to the ward was closed.Tang Zhen said numbly: "Little God, do you want to get a professional license to train princes after you retire?"

Jiang Jianming: "Wake up, there is no such license."

Tang Zhen immediately felt sorry for his wrist, and said in a painful expression, "It's a loss!"

However, after His Royal Highness disappeared, Young Master Tang finally returned to normal, and sat down next to the treatment cabin under Jiang Jianming's call.

Apparently, he just came back from the officer's training during the adaptation period. The collar of his military uniform was a bit messy, his hair was still a little wet with sweat, but his spirit was the same as before.

"I said Xiao Jiang, why are you getting more and more crazy?"

Tang Zhen let out a long sigh, and couldn't stop the conversation once it started, "How come I won't fuck with you anymore and still scare you half to death, are you going to kill me?"

"However, rumors are going crazy in the fortress now, saying that there is a newly promoted disabled young officer, a group of powerful ones. Many veterans have come to inquire about you with us rookies in the adaptation period..."

"The Yin Beidou soldiers are also very gossip-loving. What we said yesterday can be passed on to something completely different the next day. Hey, I can say anything... There are also rumors about you and His Royal Highness.”

Jiang Jianming was still nodding perfunctorily following Tang Zhen's nagging before, but when he heard the end, he was suddenly 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 was cremated. The chief 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 Monument?"

Tang Zhen nodded: "Yes, tomorrow. Then..."

His expression became a little unnatural, and he scratched his face with dodge eyes: "Then what, this is actually what Lieutenant Raymond meant. He said that the officer missed you in the end, and he will come when you have time after you recover from your injury."Heroic Monument, look at him... or something."

"Uh, but," Tang Zhen quickly added with embarrassment after speaking, "If you don't want to, we won't wrong ourselves, right! Raymond is also afraid that you will be angry, so he asked me to speak."

"Look, anyway, that guy, Chief Huolin, made things difficult for you when he was alive... He has a bad temper, scolds people... and fucking discriminates against disabled humans, and..."

While talking, Tang Zhen couldn't continue talking.

The corners of his mouth twitched twice, and finally turned into a sigh, "It's... well."

A few seconds later, the young man lowered his head like a frost-beaten eggplant, pursed his lips and clenched his fists, the complicated emotional entanglements in his eyes finally turned into deep sadness.

Although he also had all sorts of dissatisfaction with Huo Lin, it was impossible for him to feel nothing at all after spending two months with him in the distant star.

After all, he was the one who yelled at him when he made a mistake in training, and he was also the one who rushed up to snatch people from the alien creature's crystal bone in the next moment regardless of the danger.

But that one person disappeared in a blink of an eye.So suddenly, even too abruptly.All of a sudden, it no longer exists in any corner of the world.

Jiang Jianming sighed softly in his heart, reached out and patted his friend.

The moonlight outside the window streamed on his fingers, and also illuminated Tang Zhen's slightly trembling shoulders.

Sometimes silence is more powerful than words.

Didi...

The electronic sound sounded at this moment, and the two turned their heads together.

Jiang Jianming: "ah, my wrist phone...help me hold it."

the next day.

A new day has ushered in the fortress of Yinbeidou. In this steel fortress, everything is operating as usual.

Soldiers came and went quickly, and their black boots stepped on the alloy floor, making a crisp sound.The newly repaired mechas were sent to the mecha hangar, sometimes the wounded were sent to the treatment area, and the recovered people came out steadily.

A young officer walked towards the elevator.

It was Lieutenant Raymond, with bruises around his eyes, a serious face, and a black lacquer box in his hand—this little thing was his officer.

In Yin Beidou, personnel sacrifices are too common.Sixty percent of them would choose to bury their ashes in the Heroic Monument instead of sending them back to their relatives in the empire.

Therefore, sending the urn to the Heroic Monument is actually not as solemn and solemn as outsiders imagined, and there will be almost no formal funeral.

After the comrades-in-arms or superiors and subordinates get the approval, they go in with the urn in their arms, stay in it for a few minutes and come out empty-handed, which is considered as the completion of the process.

Some clamor came into his ears, and Raymond couldn't help but stop, and then raised his eyebrows in surprise.

Ahead... was the place in front of the elevator he was going to. There was a crowd of people, at least a dozen or so.

The crowd gathered and clamored for something new, this kind of scene was too common in any star city in the empire.

However, this is a fortress, and here, few people will stop their busy steps for external affairs.

Three soldiers passed by Raymond while talking, and he heard one of them muttering:

"It's really a crippled human being. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, who would have believed that such a pretty boy could actually drive a mecha like the comet?"

Raymond was taken aback for a moment, thinking not.

Just as was thinking about it, two young female officers who joined the ar last year or the year before came in front of me. They blushed and whispered:

"Hey, Lieutenant Jiang just talked to me and smiled at me!"

"He's so good-looking...it seems to be better-looking than our major general!"

"I didn't expect Lieutenant Jiang to be so unassuming. I thought that with the support of His Royal Highness, this Your Excellency would be that kind, even less human..."

Raymond hurried two steps, and saw a familiar thin figure standing in front of the elevator.

Jiang Jianming stood there with a peaceful expression, dressed in a black and silver Beidou military uniform, with a pale face that had just recovered from a serious illness, but he stood very straight.

The sight of the surroundings did not move him at all.When someone came to talk, he responded a few words in a friendly manner; when no one spoke, he stood quietly with his eyes downcast, unexpectedly standing out in this kind of military fortress full of human hormones, with an air of independence from the world.

Raymond stepped forward in surprise: "Lieutenant Jiang?"

The elevator made of black steel fell from it at this moment, and Raymond's voice overlapped with another person's.

Xie Yuduo walked out from the elevator: "Your Excellency Jiang Xiao, you are looking for me...huh?"

The crowds who were watching the "legendary crippled human beings" suddenly fell silent.

Xie Yuduo swept his eyes sharply around, and the corners of his mouth slowly curled up, showing his signature bitter and mocking smile.

"—Big brother, big sister, uncle, sister-in-law, and younger brothers and sisters, what are you doing all over this place? Why are you so free?"

Major General Xie shook his head like a hooligan, lazily clapping his hands:

"Answer me, have all the alien creatures in the Outer Yu Region been killed, have the wandering space pirates been picked out and beaten up one by one? This year's—oh, this year is almost over, so next year's true crystal mine collection target has been completed?"

"No? No, why don't you go do your own work!?"

Seeing that Major General Xie opened his mouth to curse again, most of the officers ran away like birds and beasts.

A small number of young people who saw Major General Xie with their own eyes for the first time, all of them with "filtered scum" and "disillusioned" faces, were also taken away by the veterans.

Raymond stood aside in a daze.Xie Yuduo went to Jiang Jianming's side: "Your Excellency."

Jiang Jianming turned to the major general, and motioned to the scattered crowd with his eyes: "What's going on, they scared me."

Raymond couldn't help the corners of his eyes twitching, thinking, why do you look frightened?

He walked over with the urn in his arms: "Don't you know, some Silver Beidou soldiers who fought that day sold their mecha videos in the trading area..."

"You were still in a coma at the time. Many officers and soldiers heard rumors that the one who made the most of this battle was a crippled human being. They were very unconvinced, so they watched the live video at that time. After three days, it became youThis is what you see."

Jiang Jianming: "Sell mecha videos?"

Lei Meng: "Oh, it's also an old tradition of Yin Beidou to sell this. The first-hand videos of certain special battles are quite valuable."

"Although the fortress will regularly produce mock replay materials and distribute them to everyone, but there is no stimulation from the first-person live video."

valuable.

Jiang Jianming nodded calmly and wrote it down.

Raymond asked puzzled, "So you are here?"

He also knew that Jiang Jianming was seriously injured this time, and he had just woken up from a coma, so he shouldn't be in a state where he could just walk around casually.

"...that's it."

Jiang Jianming lowered his head and smiled softly, a few pieces of Alien Alpha snow seemed to fall from his dark eyes.

He said in a low voice: "I heard that today is the day that Lieutenant Colonel Huolin is buried. Can I go and see him off together?"

...

The underground Heroic Monument, the snow-white obelisk still sinks in the dark space for decades.Numerous monuments exude faint fluorescence, leading the way for the three people who entered this place.

"Sorry Major General, I sent a message to call you over."

Jiang Jianming talked while walking, and in such a solemn place, his voice was also lowered a little:

"I do have something I want to tell you personally, but Your Highness doesn't allow me to hang out with my injuries for too long... Due to the time limit, I can only trouble you to make do with me and walk a few more steps."

"It's okay," Xie Yuduo said, turning his head to look at the urn in Raymond's hand, "I really should come and see him off."

"Back then..."

The major general's eyes showed a little reminiscence: "I was only the supreme commander of the fortress not long ago. A newcomer with a good family background was inserted into Huolin's team. He came in through connections from the empire. I am responsible for this.Blame me for not finding out in time."

The three of them stopped in front of a monument, but it was not a new monument, but an old one engraved with names.

It's just that there is an abrupt vacancy among the densely packed names.

Raymond stepped forward, and with a special laser pointer, wrote Holling's name stroke by stroke, and the gap was filled in this way.

Jiang Jianming immediately understood that perhaps the name in front of this vacancy was Lieutenant Colonel Huolin's companion back then.

Perhaps after that incident, the lieutenant colonel had regarded himself as a walking dead, so he asked the fortress to save a place for himself next to his teammates.

Until today's arrival.

Xie Yuduo said melancholy: "Those fools are also really stupid. They were afraid that I would embarrass them, and they were afraid that I would be impulsive and cause trouble, so they didn't tell me a word and they endured it. They may think of newcomers as newcomers, and take care of them for a year and a half."Zai was brought out, silly... Then there was a mistake in the mission, out of a dozen people, only Huolin came back."

From then on, the sole survivor was no longer the hero of the expedition; he chose to stay in the fortress and temper the recruits who came to Yin Beidou every year.

Destroy their innocence of ignorance of the world, polish their outdated edges and corners, and become the devil chief who many youngsters scold behind their backs.

Xie Yuduo sighed: "Since Huo Lin became the recruit instructor, the recruit mortality rate in the First Fortress has dropped by a full eight points."

"The guy is really hot-tempered, but he's a respectable soldier."

After Raymond finished writing, he held the urn next to him, and his eyes turned red silently when he heard this sentence.

He wiped his face in a concealed manner, bent down and groped on the ground.There were originally densely packed black bricks, but at this time one of the black bricks was pushed open, and the bottom was actually hollow.

Raymond put the urn in carefully.

——The names of the heroes will be turned into clusters of light, hanging on the white stele in the air, and will always illuminate the newcomers who step here year after year;

And the ashes of the hero's bones will be quietly buried under the black bricks in the ground, becoming the cornerstone on which those who come after will step on.

This is the whole picture of Yin Beidou Heroic Monument.

After closing the black brick, Lieutenant Raymond began to choke up, his jaw was tense, and he kept wiping away the tears overflowing from the corners of his eyes.

Xie Yuduo and Jiang Jianming closed their eyes in silence for a minute, then walked away quietly, leaving time for Raymond.

The two stood still at a distance, and Jiang Jianming began to talk about him.

"I received a message on my wrist last night," Jiang Jianming said to Xie Yuduo, "it's about His Majesty's birthday party this year. 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 probably already knows that I have come to the distant star."

In fact, Major General Xie was quite kind enough to help the deadly former crown princess to suppress the news very strictly.

But the Commander-in-Chief is the Commander-in-Chief after all, after a long time, how could it be possible not to hear any wind?

Xie Yuduo: "Then what do you want to do?"

Jiang Jianming said helplessly: "What else can I do? The success of concealing the truth has exceeded my expectations. When I am in better condition, I will send a message to apologize to the old marshal."

What's more, if he wants to use the credit of this incident to apply for special promotion, he still has to go to the old marshal after going around, and he will know sooner or later.

Unexpectedly, Xie Yuduo stroked his chin and thought for a while, and suddenly said something that Jiang Jianming didn't expect at all: "Your Excellency, why don't you just go back to the empire."

"Didn't the old marshal ask you to attend His Majesty's birthday banquet? This year's event should be pretty big, and you should go too."