In the dark blue space, countless stars are quietly watching the spaceship flying in it, and the people on the spaceship are also watching them. In the field of vision below the dark star field, a giant space station in the shape of a six-pointed star reflects the light of the stars, which is brighter than any star in the four fields. The six-pointed star space station quietly overlooks the planet S1. surface, ready to receive spaceships that leap out of the atmosphere.
Xu Le stood beside the ship window, squinting and watching the space station not far away gradually moving away, feeling a little excited. He has experienced space voyages. The last time he took the ancient bell spacecraft from Donglin to the capital star circle, it was the open-air transfer module in the giant space station. , did not stop in the space station, but directly broke through the gravitational pull of the S1 planet and the entanglement of the atmosphere, flew into space, and went towards the old moon base.
Nutshell Motor Company has its own commercial fleet. The number is not large, but its performance is extremely superior. The technical team went to Jiuyue Base to participate in the test of the new MX mecha. The head office naturally provided the best spaceship. Energy replenishment and transfers are required at the space station.
The light of the stars outside the window suddenly dimmed. Xu Le knew that the spaceship was turning. He walked back to his seat and looked at the serious-looking partners around him, feeling a little nervous.
The technicians of the Nutshell Sports Company all wore dark gray military uniforms, because in a sense, they all belonged to the non-staff of the federal army, and even Shang Qiu had the identity of a civilian major. In this spaceship, the only people who did not wear military uniforms were Secretary Bai beside Xu Le, and Mr. President sitting in the luxurious private room in front of the spaceship. Magnolia made a big mistake in the army and was expelled from the army, and the president was disdainful of using a military uniform to improve his confidence.
The president of the Nutshell Motor Company, if placed in a place like the East Linxilin of the Federation, is roughly the level of the chief executive of the region. A few days ago, the attitude shown by the Nutshell Motor Company in the internal battle of the Federation was obviously not in line with the status of this giant company in the Federation. Xu Le thought of the forty-year-old president, and felt a little puzzled in his heart.
The CEO of Nutshell has not shown much in the past few days. The main reason is that it has been less than a year since the Federal Management Committee appointed him as President of Nutshell. Just when he took over, there were many problems inside Nutshell. After the experiment failed last fall, the Federal Academy of Sciences joined in shamelessly and domineeringly under the pretext of participating in the design of the twin-engine technology. This was an official decision of the Federal Academic Committee, and Nutshell could not use this to accuse the other party, but then the Academy of Sciences stole it. After taking the data in Shen Yulin's laboratory, the independent director on the board of directors of the fruit shell had some problems again, and all the worries were gathered together, which made the new president angry, but also a little bit overwhelmed.
Although the disputes within the Nutshell board of directors, just like the disputes in the Federation, have not completely subsided, Mr. President cannot spend all his time on these political battles. He knows better than anyone that MX mecha is for the Federation and the company. Therefore, he personally led the technical team and boarded this spaceship bound for the Old Moon.
Navigating in space is really boring. Those dancers in hot clothes on the light screen can't attract too many people's attention. Everyone in the technical team is thinking about the mecha battle that will start the day after tomorrow. The part of the technical content that you are responsible for ensures that there will be no loopholes.
Shang Qiu did not come with the technical team. The old moon base conducted the mecha battle test, data collection analysis and evaluation work, but it was in the control hall on the ground. She still had important work to do, so she stayed.
Xu Le looked at Bai Yulan who kept her head down beside him, and couldn't help thinking that if Shang Qiu was by his side at this time, the journey would not be so boring and boring. Secretary Bai was too silent and quiet, and he was really not a good travel companion. .
At this moment, a voice sounded in the intercom. After Xu Le was slightly startled, he left the chair and walked towards the room where Mr. President was.
After not long, he walked back and sat back to his original position with a heavy expression on his face. He couldn't help but glance at Magnolia again, wondering if this news was announced now, or when the mecha battle started
Seeing the change in his mood, Magnolia asked softly, "Are the people over there selected?"
"Yes." I don't know how many people have attracted the attention of this important mecha battle test. The two sides will definitely choose the most mature and powerful pilots in the Federation. Xu Le guessed that the other party should not be able to guess. The shell company had already made the decision to use Magnolia as a pilot, but he had not guessed that the other party would actually have a way to persuade that guy to act in person.
After a moment of silence, he said, "It's Madman Li."
Magnolia's delicate eyebrows were raised, and then she lay flat, like a pebble falling into a lake, she swayed a little, but after a moment of silence, he took out a cigarette from his pocket, lit it, took a deep breath .
Xu Le always thought that Secretary Bai didn't smoke. He didn't know that that night, Magnolia quietly smoked one when he saw him control an old-fashioned mecha and made so many sharp attacks, and he didn't know the moment when MX was successful. , Magnolia also smoked one.
It's not that Secretary Bai doesn't smoke, he will only light one when he feels a real shock.
The smoke detectors inside the spacecraft chirped, and an electronic female voice began to warn. The surrounding technical team members woke up one after another from their contemplation, and looked curiously at the seats of Xu Le and the two of them, and then they saw two heavy and slightly tired faces, and in an instant, they understood something.
Hearing the warning from the electronic female voice, Xu Le felt a little irritable and wanted to kick the speaker away.
"I'm afraid of what's coming." Magnolia only took three puffs, and the cigarette between her fingers burned only a small part. He coughed lightly and said, "Boss, it seems that those people behind you are not It's not as powerful as you think." I don't know since when, Magnolia began to use the boss to call Xu Le, perhaps for the sake of the 20 million federal coins.
Xu Le knew what he meant by what he said. The two of them had a long talk in the Capital District. The Tai family, who had been standing behind Xu Le, had always had a close relationship with the Li family in Philadelphia. But want to intervene in this mecha battle
Mr. President also received the news just now. Xu Le was in the spaceship at this time. Even though he had all kinds of doubts in his heart, he couldn't call to clarify them one by one, so he had to be silent. Secretary Bai lowered his eyes slightly, his fingers slowly pinching a half of the cigarette, thinking of the invincible opponent two days later, he also fell into silence.
In the silence of the two, a barren planet appeared in front of the spaceship. The khaki-colored planet's surface appeared clearer under the light of the stars, so it was dilapidated. Only the ones on the surface looked like The pearl-shaped buildings and the black materials all over the place remind people that this is not an uninhabited barren star, but the largest companion star of the S1 star, the old moon.
Human beings entered the universe for the second time, and the first officially developed planet was the old moon, one of the two moons. In the literature, this satellite that has accompanied the S1 planet for billions of years is called Moon No. 1, but the people of the Federation generally call it the Old Moon.
The development of the old moon has been going on for many years. Although scientists have tried to rebuild the ecosystem until today, they have failed again and again, and the phenomenon of atmospheric escape in a low-gravity environment cannot be eliminated. , is also very in-depth.
Those pearl-shaped buildings that can be seen from space are actually as many as seven hundred living bases. The bases are covered with high-strength multilayer rigid membranes, which filter the blazing stellar light and omnipresent cosmic rays, while at the same time sending The base's life support system is isolated from the outside world.
Those black materials that almost cover a quarter of the land area of the old moon are solar energy collection and adsorption materials transformed from the resources of the ore stars in the four adjacent planets. Now they can fully provide countless military and civilian bases on the old moon. energy supply.
Those ubiquitous blacks are one of the five largest planetary transformation activities in the history of the Federation, costing countless wealth and years, and it is one of the supreme glory of mankind. The poet's pen is often full of poetic descriptions, how the giant pen of human beings painted the barren planet in the sky with a layer of unnatural colors, which can change the world, and it is naturally earth-shattering.
Among the more than 700 bases on the Jiuyue Base, the largest is naturally the General Assembly Base of the Federal Military and the Spaceship Manufacturing Factory of the Nutshell Mobility Company. It is responsible for supplying the three major fleets of the Federation, but ordinary people in the Federation will never be able to see its true colors.
Under the guidance of the navigation control center on the surface of the old moon, a pale white commercial spacecraft drew an almost straight isolated line and sailed towards the predetermined landing point. Just looking at the exterior design of this spacecraft, we know that this is a direct endurance spacecraft that can break through the S1 atmosphere. The side of the spacecraft is painted with a line of striking words: Where there is metal, there is a nut shell.
Seeing that the appearance of those large pearl-like bases became clearer and clearer, the technical team members on the spaceship had already stood up and uttered bursts of amazement. The transformation of the universe by human beings always gives these engineers a sense of reverence from the bottom of their hearts. These engineers and professors are studying mechas but not space battleships. For most people, this is the first time they have arrived at the Old Moon Base. The excitement is so overwhelming that they don’t want to think about it at all. The mecha battle the day after tomorrow.
The boundless Black Sea, which stretches out like the grasslands of Donglin Region, is indeed an extremely magnificent sight, and it is also an exciting process to see the bases that have changed from pearls to huge film-covered bases. Xu Le should have been excited about everything in front of him, but the extremely bad news during the trip made him feel a little heavy, and he actually ignored the magnificent scenery.
The exclusive spacecraft of the Nutshell Mobile Company did not land in its own base, but flew directly to the space assembly base of the Ministry of Defense. With the sound of huge airflow and electronic positioning whistle, the spacecraft landed steadily on the dock, and then was placed under the ground by the large retractable equipment.
The alarm sounded off, the technical team got off the spaceship, got on the electric bicycle under the spaceship, and drove towards the dark and quiet front along the underground passage about ten kilometers long.
Mr. President has a special car to pick up, and has already left. At the moment of leaving, Xu Le noticed that Mr. President's face was a little gloomy, and the secretary beside him was holding a phone, constantly arguing with some aspects, and probably Mr. Huo also smelled a dangerous signal.
Too many people in the federation don't want Nutshell to get the new mech standard. Thinking of this, Xu Le couldn't help but feel a little chilled. Even if the Tie Suanli family is one of the seven great families of the Federation, how can they have such a great influence? He looked at his phone, confirmed that there was a signal in the underground passage, and dialed Secretary Shen's number directly.
On the phone, he told the other party what he had just learned, and then quietly waited for the other party's answer.
After a long silence on the other end of the phone, Shen Li said: "I just verified this news. According to intelligence, it should be the idea of the Medellin Congressman to the National Security Advisor. As for Philadelphia... I have no such influence. ."
"Where's Madam?" Xu Le continued to ask. In the past, no matter who the other party chooses to be the pilot, it will not interfere with his confidence in Xiaobaihua and his judgment on Zihai, but Li Feng is different, he is a lunatic, he is the only grandson of the Li family in Philadelphia , the rare super pilot of the federal military.
At this time, Xu Le and Madman Li were asked to fight, and he didn't mind, but as Magnolia said before, when it comes to manipulating mechas, Madman Li's strength is too terrifying, which is caused by his record.
Sitting under the huge dome, Xu Le looked at the transparent film ten meters away through the glass, a little curious about the material of the film and the operation principle of the supplementary gravity facility in the base. Only when he is in space can he truly feel how far the Federation's technological civilization has developed over the past tens of thousands of years. Even if he claims to be a genius in mechanics, it is impossible for him to fully understand the technical fields of these stars.
After a few phone calls, there was no good news. The secretary of the president called earlier and reluctantly stated that the company's negotiation with the federal government had all failed, because in the meeting of the president's office, the Philadelphia Lee family The old man, the god of war, personally promised the National Security Advisor that the two sides could choose any pilot.
Because of this heavy feeling, Xu Le simply focused his attention on the structure of the final assembly base. However, no matter how he looked at the space scene outside the film, it was still difficult for him to return to calm, and there was even a hint of remorse in his heart. Shouldn't he be the first to ask Madman Li to be the test pilot for Nutshell
The living area of the final assembly base is very quiet. On a dome with a height of several hundred meters, a self-powered ultra-light cleaning and maintenance robot is slowly walking and working along the alloy skeleton. Xu Le took a sip from the teacup in front of him, and felt that he was really sorry for the magnolia in front of him.
"What I said in the hotel that day was a lie." Magnolia said softly, "I have seen Li Feng control the mecha with my own eyes, and I have no confidence in him, but since our goal is to drag the Zihai Three minutes into an unrestricted battle, it's possible."
Hearing this sentence, Xu Le's mood gradually calmed down. It is meaningless to find other ace pilots in the federal military to fight head-to-head with the solitary seedling of the Li family in Philadelphia. By comparison, Secretary Bai has a deeper understanding of the new MX mecha than anyone else, and Xu Le has always been It is believed that the strength of this delicate man has not been fully exerted.
"It won't change anything." Xu Le picked up the teacup and said seriously, "Let's get him."
Magnolia picked up the teacup and touched him lightly.
After drinking a cup of tea in a hurry, the technical team went straight to the core area of the final assembly base without stopping. The Nutshell MX mecha was transported from Hong Kong to Jiuyue Base under the strict supervision of the army yesterday. According to the schedule, the outer armor modification and low firepower of the mecha battle test will be started soon. Chemical work, the technical team members of the Nutshell Engineering Department naturally have to watch with their own eyes, otherwise who knows what the mechanics of the Ministry of Defense will toss their treasures into.
The members of the technical team passed the chip scan one by one and obtained temporary access rights to the old moon base. They walked into the underground warehouse. They looked at the mecha wrapped in the dust cover in the center of the distance, and they became excited, although it was only seven. The days are gone, but to them, it seems like a long time has passed.
Xu Le and Magnolia were still at the end, and there was no problem with the chip scan. However, when the two were about to enter the warehouse, a team of soldiers with live ammunition surrounded them.
"Xu Le, Technical Director of the Nutshell Engineering Department?" An officer in a black formal suit in the army asked sternly.
Xu Le's eyes narrowed and he said, "Yes."
"You can go in, this person stays." The official pointed to Magnolia and said.
Xu Le's eyes narrowed even more, and asked, "Why?"
"Magnolia was suspected of illegally selling ordnance overseas, so he could not enter the core area," the official replied.
Xu Le knew of Secretary Bai's crime back then, but the military court did not convict him. Why did some people suddenly appear at this important moment? Unexpectedly, the faction of the Federal Academy of Sciences began to make moves again, not only preemptively using Li Lunzi as a test pilot, but also trying to temporarily stop Magnolia at this time.
Looking at the indifferent face of the official, he suddenly said, "This is the test pilot of the Nutshell Company participating in the aircraft battle. He cannot enter the core area? How did the aircraft war start? Can you take this responsibility?"
"It's not just that he can't enter the core area, he's going to follow me immediately for further investigation." The official said with a smile: "You don't need to scare me about the MX mech battle, I'm not a federal official."
"There is no end? There is no end?" Xu Le couldn't hold back the anger in his heart, stared into his eyes and said loudly, "I don't care what kind of bird shit official you are, if you dare to stop us, I will see what you do. Confess to the President."
"I'm an official of the Charter Bureau, and I don't have to tell the president when I do things." The official gave a slight salute, and then waved the soldiers behind him to come forward, ready to arrest Magnolia.