Princess Marina had been driving around in Dakar all day, tossing and turning in her head about what she would say after seeing Covatello the next day. It is said that Covatello is articulate and eloquent, but she is very self-aware and has no confidence in persuading the other party. What she has is just determination.
Before the meteor fell, I heard an explosion from a distance, and the official did not give an explanation, and I don't know what happened. What the naked eye can see is that a lot of police officers who maintain order have suddenly increased on the bright side, and even some people in military uniforms are mixed in.
As the sun was about to go down, Marina decided to return to the embassy. Halfway through the car, a young man in a cape passed her car, and the light wind brought by the high-speed car lifted the corner of the hood, revealing the iconic Middle Eastern face inside.
"Compatriots?!" Marina, who had met by chance in a foreign country with her fellow clan, was surprised, and immediately said to the driver overjoyed, "Go back! That young man just now!"
When Marina got out of the car, she happened to see the compatriot in the cape being stopped by several officers dressed as officers, and a young blond headed by him was questioning him, "Young man, please show your identification."
The boy who was asked kept his head down and said nothing.
"Mr. Officer, please wait a moment!" Marina hurriedly stepped forward, "This person is with us."
"This beautiful lady, A-Laws is on official duty. I am Captain Graham Aika of the Lund Bell Special Operations Unit." The blond young man tilted his head slightly and gestured to his epaulette, and cast his sharp eyes to The visitor, "May I ask who you are?"
Marina's entourage immediately showed Captain Graham the documents from the embassy to prove her identity, and the princess had the opportunity to take a good look at the cloaked boy. The boy's hood has been forcibly removed, and the face shape and skin color are too recognizable, there is no doubt that it is her clan. However, for some unknown reason, the boy's face and hair were covered with dust and sand, so he couldn't see the exact appearance.
"As you can see, this young man is my entourage who just got separated." Marina said nonsense, "Mr. Captain, can we go?"
"Sorry, performing official duties is performing official duties." Captain Graham didn't look at the beauty in front of him, turned to look at the guy in the cape again, "Young man, ultimatum, please show your identification."
Now Marina is helpless. The other party's meaning is obvious. You, a small country without human rights, complain if you don't agree. The opponent's military rank is not low, and what kind of special unit is it, she really can't force it to save people.
"I'm sorry, boy, now I have to suspect that you were involved in a terrorist attack, and I need you to go back with us to assist in the investigation." Graham waved to the person behind him, "Take him—"
"Captain!" one of the soldiers interrupted embarrassingly with his cell phone. "Mr. Covatro's call, it's urgent."
"That guy..." Graham sighed and took the phone with a sullen face, "yes, it's me... um, that's right... what? Why? That doesn't make sense!... Obedience, I know... Okay , I see... bye."
Graham, who hung up the phone and returned the phone to his subordinate, glanced at Marina reluctantly, threw the sentence "You can take him away", and turned and left neatly.
"What did he just say about Mr. Covatello?" Marina's heartbeat seemed to skip a beat. "Did he be shown a favor? Is there any hope for this time?"
But no matter what, the most important thing right now is to take the boy away, fearing that things will change.
The young man in the cape seemed to be in a state of unease for some reason, and followed her back to the embassy ignorantly. With the help of the staff in the embassy, the young man changed into clean clothes, cleaned his head and face, revealing a handsome face, and then was invited by Marina to the living room for a chat.
"Are you from Azadistan too?" the princess said cheerfully, "I didn't expect to meet my kin in Dakar, can you tell me your name?"
"I don't know." The boy replied indifferently, "Sana F. Qingying."
Marina thought for a while before she realized it. The other party's two sentences were used to answer two questions: "Why don't you know? You look like an Azadistan from your face?"
"Not necessarily, such as..." A word popped out of nowhere in Momo's mind, "... Kurgis?"
"But Kurgis has already perished in the one-year war." Marina immediately retorted, "You only look like sixteen or seventeen. You were less than ten years old at that time, right?"
"It was destroyed by Azadistan!" Suddenly, he roared uncontrollably. After speaking, he suddenly covered his forehead with one hand, his eyebrows tangled in pain, and at the same time he spit out rough breath.
"What's the matter with you?" Marina asked worriedly. "Do I need to call a doctor?"
"No." Setsuna took a few deep breaths to calm down, "Can you tell me how Kurgis died?"
The worried look on Marina's face did not dissipate, but she nodded slowly and said, "During the One-Year War, the Federation always tried its best to open up the battlefield with PLANT in countries that did not join the Federation. That's how Kurgis is. Embroiled in the war. Although the Korgis offensive and defensive battle was won by the heroic performance of Second Lieutenant Amuro Ray, but—”
"Amuro Ray?" The image of the MS in the sunset flashed back to his mind again, "Is that, Gun... dam?"
"Yes, it's Gundam, what's wrong?" Marina glanced at the moment in surprise, and she continued without getting an answer, "But the Kurgis has been devastated by the war, and the government is unable to perform its functions. , and was eventually merged by Azadistan. But Azadistan could not support so many people, and some war refugees were absorbed by other countries, such as Britannia.”
"Sophistry." She gritted her teeth and said, "War of aggression, human trafficking, the exchange of interests between countries, everything you say is sophistry."
"I know it's sophistry, but everything in the past has already happened, and we can't do anything about it." Marina looked at Shanna sternly, "What I can do is to try my best to make all citizens live a better life, and let the original Kool have a better life. The Guise can also identify with the country. The reason why I am here now is to apply for federal aid. With aid, we can develop technology and popularize education.”
"Developing technology?" Shanna couldn't help but ask, "Azadistan's MS still uses batteries, right?"
"That's because part of the royal family has a prejudice against Dr. Minovsky and thinks that he has ruined our beautiful life..." Marina said that even she felt that the reason was too shameful, and she spoke too quickly, embarrassedly, " But it will be corrected! I will convince them that a country without technology has no future!"
"I will be persuaded, that is, I haven't been persuaded yet." Instantly snorted coldly, "What you said is all fantasy, meaningless, and impossible to do at all."
"I know it's very difficult, and the domestic resistance is huge, but so what?" Marina said firmly, "Even if you can't do it, you have to try, and if you fail, try again until you succeed, even if you don't succeed, you must try again. Keep working hard towards success. As long as you work hard, both the Federation and Azadistan will be able to understand each other in the end!"
"You are a standard dreamer, and what Miss Lux said..." He frowned again in an instant, and his wrist twitched slightly because of the spasm, "...Miss Lux?"
"Do you know Lux herself?" Marina saw a blank look on her face, "It's that big star who later married Dr. Lingos. You ask Dr. Lingos? Dr. Lingos is the one who invented Gundam. People, and Gundam is the MS that was piloted by Second Lieutenant Amuro Ray in the One Year War and played a big role in the offensive and defensive battle of Kurgis, as I said just now.”
"Miss Lux? Dr. Lingos? Amuro Ray? Gundam?" Countless silk threads cluttered up in his mind in an instant, and hundreds of fragments flashed back without interruption. After a long time, they finally settled on such a familiar scene. On the picture, it was a little boy under ten years old looking up at Gundam under the sunset, "I'm... Soran Ibrahim?"
After saying that, he fainted.
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The next day, Ed and his wife Lux were invited to Karr.
Although Ed repeatedly emphasized to the Federation to keep a low profile and not to publicize, Char still deliberately made it known to the whole city. After the couple got off the plane, they drove to the embassy of the Lunar Government in Dakar. Countless pre-arranged extras stood on both sides of the road and looked at them by their necks.
"Ed, in fact, you don't have to force them all back." Lux in the back of the car leaned on Ed and said softly, "I don't care, really."
"I care." Ed grabbed her weak and boneless hand, "Although it's something I say, but visiting and traveling are still different, I don't want to embarrass you. And that, let's be honest. , the impact on my international image is not very good."
"Do you still know that you have an international image?" Lux gave him a blank look with a smile. "You can now take out your phone and enter your name in the search engine to see what the top ten most searched items are?"
"Ed Ed, I found it!" Alice shouted in his head. "Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! You wanna know?"
"I don't want to know, thank you." Ed replied to the two of them at the same time, and clenched Lux's hand in a guilty conscience, "By the way, you can stay in the embassy later and I will go alone. I want to meet with... Covatro of."
"Now that you are so careful to please me, you are really... What should I say about you?" Luxe sighed leisurely, "I'm just enjoying it."
"Then I'll try harder?"
"Well." Lacus responded softly, leaning her head on his shoulder, "Ed, the apostle has come out, what do you think we will be like in the end?"
"I don't know." For some reason, he suddenly thought of Lao Yang in the kingdom of heaven, "But I've worked so hard, it's not too much to give a big reunion, right?"
"Reunion... What..." Lux reached out and touched the hairpin, "I also like reunion, so I will work hard."
Lux's remarks have been repeated countless times. If Ed can't hear it, it is not a low emotional intelligence but a mental retardation, but what can he say? Shouldn't she be tied up and forced to confess
"I believe in you." He could only repeat the very beginning, on that deserted island, when she first showed her heart, "I believe in you."
Lux didn't say anything else, and the car arrived at the embassy shortly after. Just as Ed and the embassy officials were chatting, Lux's cell phone suddenly rang. She took out her phone and looked at it, apologized politely, walked to the side calmly and pressed the answer button, murmuring and couldn't hear what she was saying.
After finishing the handover with the embassy staff, Lux just hung up the phone and walked towards Ed, with a relaxed smile on her face: "Cagalli asked me to bring some specialties for her and the children, Ed, I can do it this afternoon. Going for a walk in the city center?"
"Of course you can, just pay attention to safety." Ed readily promised, "Then I'll go to the Federation first, see you tonight?"
Lux raised her neck and kissed him lightly on the face, then said with a smile, "See you at night."
Returning to the car alone, Ed took out his phone to check the time, and closed his eyes in pain: "It's the early morning on the moon, Lux... What serious thing happened to make you make such a low-level mistake? "
Twenty minutes later, Ed arrived at the administrative building of the Federal Headquarters. Char, in a suit and leather shoes, received him personally at the front entrance of the building, with a sincere smile on his face. Ed put on a formulaic smirk and entered the building side by side with him.
"I heard that Minerva was sent back to the moon by you?" Xia asked while walking, pressing his voice, "Lingus, in order not to let our father and daughter meet, you must have done it too clearly, right?"
"The city that was just attacked by monsters, I don't know if there will be a second wave. If you want Minerva to stay in such a place, I have nothing to say." Ed gave him a disdainful glance, "The mouse is short-sighted. , inadequacy and conspiracy.”
Xia was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but laugh angrily: "Okay, okay, Dr. Lingos is still as eloquent as ever. This alone is better than Dr. Iolia and Dr. Minovsky. You know where the heights are."
"Where is it? It's far from the 'dead' Char Aznabu." Ed pointed to Maimang, "The insane behavior of throwing satellites can be washed into the future of all mankind. , I still have to learn a high-end skill that makes me bluff and lame."
The two walked as they talked, and soon came to the door of the conference room, Xiaya gave Ed an ambiguous smile at the moment when he was about to push the door: "Lingus, the situation is serious now, it is meaningless for you and me to waste time in vain, so I I intend to show you the sincerity of the Federation."
After he finished speaking, he pushed open the door of the conference room, and a beautifully dressed woman was standing in the middle, with a generous expression on her face.
"Let me introduce you." Char stretched her arms and pointed at the beautiful woman in the middle of the conference room, "This is Princess Marina of Azadistan Kingdom."
Hearing the name of an acquaintance, Ed, couldn't help but take a second glance. The woman called Marina was beautiful, with a firm expression, and naturally had a soft-spoken style. Xia Ya stared at Eddie's eyes tightly, and the sarcasm on his face was even more intense.
"What do you mean?" Ed's face turned cold and he asked sharply, "I thought we were here to talk about the apostles today?"
"Oh? It seems that I misunderstood." Xia raised her eyebrows, "I thought Dr. Lingos was a hero who accompanied his daughter on a trip and had three wives and four concubines to sleep with?"
"So you disgusted me from the beginning to the end because of this?" Ed looked at Marina who was at a loss, and then at Xia, who was complacent, and finally condensed into one sentence, "What kind of courage? Small man!"