Ed trotted towards Gnaku, and Tao Xiang followed behind.
"Actually, Mr. Ed didn't believe him in the first place?" The maid asked with admiration on her face, "As expected of His Highness Angelique's lover, she's amazing!"
"Xia Ya is born with a backside of his head, so he can hang a water bottle." Ed was a little embarrassed when Taoxiang looked at him like this, and couldn't help but float a little, "It's not me, I keep everything I do. Keep your hands on him."
"When did that girl named Nanali meet?" Taoxiang continued to ask, "We obviously haven't had contact with strangers these days, but Mr. Ed actually knew a new girl. Incredible!"
"I said you're not helping An Qi gather intelligence, are you?" Ed gave her a suspicious look, and the maid made a statement of innocence, "It doesn't matter if you report it to her, and I didn't do anything wrong. We didn't go to school that day. Eat nearby, Nanali is probably only slightly weaker than Siroc, close enough for this level of NT."
During the conversation, the two came to Gnaku, and Ed was thinking about how to speak, Taoxiang said first: "Mr. Ed is looking for Miss CC, it is too inappropriate for me to follow. Please be careful on the road, I will wait for you to come back. ."
"Well, I'm sorry..."
"I'm just a maid, please treat me as a gift from Her Royal Highness Angelique, don't care about my feelings." The maid gave him a slightly sad smile, "And it didn't happen between us. Last step, please don't feel guilty."
Such a statement made him even more guilty, but his worries about CC immediately occupied his mind, and he could only put this issue aside for the time being. He turned over and jumped into the unicorn whose shell of Zaku II had been completely repaired, ignoring the F91 and Wing Zero, which were still playing hysterically, and left Akama and drove towards the direction reported by Nanali.
MS flew high in the sky, quickly left the town, crossed the hills, and entered the mountains. It was still early January, and the hills that were visible to the naked eye in the distance were a vast expanse of white. As the altitude continues to rise, the snow below is thicker and thicker, and the outside temperature is getting lower and lower.
"Ed, is there really any problem here?" Alice's image appeared on the screen, "You've been walking up the mountain, but there's nothing on the radar."
"No problem." He replied affirmatively, "There is a powerful NT soul in that thing that I don't know if it is a solar furnace or a GN furnace. I can feel it now. Compared with the information provided by Nanali, OO Gundam has a high probability. I'm here to catch her."
"Powerful?" Alice tilted her head, "Alice thinks Ed is the most powerful!"
"Well, it won't be worse than Amuro, maybe it's a character with a name and a surname." Ed gave up after thinking for a while, "It's already lunched anyway, and it has nothing to do with me."
"But wasn't it dangerous before? If it gets polluted like last time..." Alice looked worried, "Would you like to give me the authority first? If something happens, Alice will protect Eddie. !"
"No, I have a countermeasure." He sighed with emotion. "Using Geass to save CC is like hitting Embrio with Yang Wenli's unicorn. I seem to feel the malice from the world."
He has secretly experimented with Char in the past few days, and he has fully understood his Geass. When he turns on Geass, all NTs within a certain radius around him cannot feel other people, and have no effect on ordinary people.
Normally, Geass can only be given to pure earthlings, and it can only take effect on pure earthlings. Considering the identity of CC, the origin of Geass and Code should be related to Lilith, and Geass can only be used on children of purebred Lilith.
The reason why Ed can double-mark the contract with CC is because he was personally pinched by Lilith, and there is no one who is genetically more compatible with Geass than him. But his soul is foreign, so he can evolve into NT without restriction. As a result of all sorts of chaotic coincidences, his Geass can only be used on NT, leaving Lilith's children unaffected.
"Actually, the closeness that CC showed when he first met me was quite suspicious. Now that I think about it, I was pinched by Lilith, and she has nothing to do with Lilith." Ed snorted for a while, "Will it happen again? Yes… "
His desire is to be himself, uninfluenced by any will or soul, pure self. From the ability to reflect, that is, the NT people shut up to me such a very ironic effect.
Xia has been used as an experimental subject these days, and every day she suspects that something is wrong with her NT ability. I used to be short-sighted, but now I am blind. But he also felt that it was shameful to consult Amuro or Ed directly, and every time he was sidelined. Amuro didn't understand what he wanted to ask at all, and Ed pretended to be stupid from start to finish.
Including Tao Xiang at that time, she was controlled by Embrio using a method similar to NT induction, almost pushing Ed. After a series of indescribable incidents, Ed activated his Geass, cut off Tao Xiang's induction of the pseudo-NT, and saved the maid's chastity.
"Honestly admit, I don't want to understand each other with anyone." He understood the moment he discovered the essence of his ability, "I never believed that there was such a thing as mutual understanding in the world."
It flew over a few more hills in this way, and MS signals appeared on the edge of the radar. Ed continued to follow the signal, and finally met his target over a snowy mountain. OO Gundam was holding a distorted spherical cockpit in both hands and walking towards Ed.
"I hate fighting machines, how can I fight this..." Ed only hesitated for a moment and decided to open the public frequency, his life creed is that there is no fighting ACE who doesn't eat trash talk, "Is the opposite one? Put things down and let's talk?"
"Zaku II?" Setsuna was only stunned for a moment, no matter what type of aircraft he was facing, it didn't affect his mission, "Setsuna·F·Qingying, expel the target."
As soon as the words fell, OO Gundam threw the cockpit in his hand towards the rear, then took out a pair of beam saber from the skirt with both hands, and rushed towards Ed.
"Lost your sister, it's my wife inside!" Ed's heart was agitated, and he took the beam Magnon from his back with a single shot.
OO Gundam dodged sideways, and the side without the GN furnace rubbed a little bit, and the entire shoulder armor and the shield mounted on the shoulder were completely destroyed. This kind of power is obviously not something that Zaku II can produce. The opponent is undoubtedly a super-first-line machine, and he didn't hesitate for a second: "TRANS-AM!"
OO Gundam spurted red light particles from his shoulders, and countless noises and screams flooded into Ed's consciousness like a tide. The severe tingling in his brain made the operation of his hands almost unsteady.
"Recently, ACEs don't like chatting more and more. It's hard to mix with my genre." He tried his best to keep his consciousness clear, turned on Geass and sprinted with all his strength, "Shut up for me!"
Instantly, he didn't understand why the opponent had to take the initiative to approach when it was clearly a shooting system, but he still responded faithfully with his body. In the TRANS-AM mode, the OO Gundam crossed the sword and cut through the sky, and it looked like a red afterimage was pulled out at an excessively fast speed.
The two planes crossed in the air, and Zaku II had a large piece of armor torn off, revealing the white body hidden underneath. However, the red light on OO Gundam suddenly disappeared and broke out of the TRANS-AM mode.
"It's actually possible to forcibly turn it off." Ed, who was gasping for breath, was overjoyed, "I'm already invincible when I'm covered in clothes!"
"TRANS-AM!" OO Gundam's body glowed red again, and the screams in the spiritual world sounded again. The two planes collided in the air, this time Ed almost succeeded in blocking the sudden spurt, and the OO Gundam turned off again.
"TRANS-AM!"
Instant never gave up, charging again and again. OO Gundam turned on and off, off and on again and again. And Ed was in an endless, never-ending cycle between a severe headache and a moment of relief.
"That NT is pitiful, do you still have humanity!" Ed shouted angrily, "Soran Ibrahim!"
"Solan... what?" The moment in the cockpit suddenly solidified, he seemed to be about to remember something, but the pain in his brain made him unable to think, "This name..."
The cockpit immediately responded to the word Solan, and the synthesized electronic sound quickly sounded: "The driver is in a dangerous state, and the public frequency has been automatically turned off. It is recommended to abandon the mission and leave the battlefield immediately."
"...Senana F. Qingying, give up the mission." The instinct formed by years of training overcame the impulse for a moment, and Shanna decided to obey the order without hesitation, "Destroy the first target."
From Ed's perspective, OO Gundam was suddenly stunned. Just when he took out the beam Magnum to make up for the knife, the opponent suddenly rushed to the top of the mountain, switched the blade to the beam rifle mode and shot frantically at the top of the mountain. A large amount of snow collapsed, fell down the mountain, and then picked up more snow, culminating in a spectacular avalanche.
The moment he finished all this, he turned his head and ran away, and Ed didn't even want to chase or yell at him. He immediately flew to the direction where CC's cockpit was thrown, but the avalanche still continued below, and there was no shadow of the cockpit.
"There is no signal on the radar, and there is no one on the public frequency." He anxiously drove the Gundam in circles, recalling how the cockpit was deformed. "Is the communication system damaged?"
"Ed, it may have been buried deep, or it may have been swept away by an avalanche." Alice jumped out again, "It is impossible to find it now, let's wait until the snow melts in summer, shall we?"
Ed was in no mood to care for her, just flying up and down the mountain over and over again. However, the avalanche washed away all possible traces, leaving only a vast expanse of land that was really clean.
"Ed, go back?" Alice suggested perseveringly, "It's not as good as last time every time."
"Don't say it anymore, I won't go back if I don't find it!" Ed was stunned after saying this. "Wait, how did I find it last time?"
"Last time? Last time wasn't—"
"Quiet!" Alice turned off the speaker aggrieved.
He turned off all the sounds, closed his eyes, and took a deep breath.
He could vaguely hear his own breathing, but he didn't need hearing. The light from the monitor hit his eyelids, but he didn't need vision. What he needs is that sixth sense, which is like a part of the body, beyond the five senses. Consciousness extends downward, breaking through the high, passing through the atmosphere, seeping into the snow, and spreading it out inch by inch.
What he was looking for was some kind of unfamiliar consciousness, but it was an extremely familiar feeling. It was the ethereal source that gave him meaning in this world, like a candle-like light in the wind found in the dark. His consciousness flowed between ice crystals and snow flowers, shuttled, and then—
Ding sound.
"Got you."
The unicorn flew over a spot that looked identical to all other places and began to dig carefully. After more than ten minutes, a twisted and deformed cockpit appeared in its hands.
Ed piloted the unicorn to fly to the enemy with less snow at the foot of the mountain, and carefully observed the cockpit. The bulkhead was deformed greatly under the action of external force, and the hatch could no longer be opened. I am afraid that this method was used to prevent the people inside from escaping.
Ed put the cockpit on the soft snow, took out the beam saber and turned it to the lowest power, and drew a circle above the bulkhead. Then he jumped out of the unicorn and ran to the deformed cockpit.
He put his hands on the cut he made, and his fast beating heart made a lot of blood pour into his brain, so that he couldn't feel that his hands were being slightly scalded. He used all his strength to open it, the bright sunlight illuminated the dark interior, and what appeared in his eyes was a cute girl with long green hair.
CC didn't know what happened since the escape method was destroyed. It was just thrown around, and the bones didn't know how many of them were broken and grew again. Just when she thought she was going to be taken back to Britannia and never see someone again, the missing face suddenly appeared in front of her eyes along with the sun.
"My life is full of ups and downs, ups and downs, ups and downs..." She tried her best to restrain her urge to cry.
"I found you." Ed smiled happily, and the smile was a little dazzling in the sun. "That's how I found you last time, and this time too. As long as you dare to run, I promise to do it again next time."
"I've broken up, what are you looking for?" She noticed that Ed's hand was burned, resisting the urge to hug and hold it, trying her best to keep her face expressionless.
"I haven't agreed yet. You said you broke up and broke up? I don't want face?" Ed made an angry look, and then showed a sad look, "Don't say such sad words, although I am greedy and slow. , timid and careless, but as long as you live, one day, I will make you feel that it is a happy thing to be with me."
"Who knows if you can live to that time?" She thought of the other two women and felt a little irritable.
"There used to be a sincere—"
"Enough." She glared at him and said impatiently, "Don't make fun of me with these sweet words that you don't believe you copied from somewhere, I'm such a naive and foolish character in your eyes. Is it?"
"I love you."
"Huh?" CC paused, "Huh? That, but, I, but, ah, this..."
It was the first time in her long life that a man she liked confessed to her without Geass. She opened her beautiful golden eyes in panic, and she was at a loss. In their long acquaintance, the most important step that was skipped by her and by him was finally filled in at this moment.
"I'm sorry, I..." She looked at Ed in confusion, "I don't know what face to use to face you."
"Well." Ed tilted his head and thought, "Just smile."
With sparkling water in her eyes, she smiled.