At the same time, at 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, the Egret star in Gemini.
Imperial Prison Soderbergh.
The silent corridor was pitch black, only the sound of water droplets in the distance could be heard softly. A group of about seven or eight people were walking through the spiral staircase to an inconspicuous iron door at the end of the corridor, without making any sound during their actions.
A dim light peeked out from the crack of the door, which was the only light source in this dark space. The group of people quickly came to the door, the leading old man pushed the door straight and entered, behind him a woman in a hood also quickened her pace and followed, while the rest stepped back half a step and guarded the door.
There was a graceful figure in the room sitting quietly with his back to the light. When the woman saw her, she immediately pulled down her hood and said in a broken voice, "Edna!"
As soon as the figure moved, looking back, I saw a pair of emerald green eyes on the pale and thin face, and the corners of the eyes seemed to be shining with water: "Caroline..."
Caroline, the principal of the Royal Military Academy, saw her partner for the first time in half a year. No matter what the other party did, it was the relationship for many years. Seeing Edna's down-and-out appearance, she couldn't help but blush slightly Eye sockets, stepped forward and gave her a hug.
Edna also seemed to be very excited, sobbing on Caroline's shoulder for a long time before saying hoarsely: "I may never get out again..."
"No, when His Majesty returns from the fortress, I will personally intercede with him, as long as you stay here—"
"Heinrich won't let me out!" Edna said painfully: "Don't you understand? As long as the alliance doesn't sentence me to death, he won't dare to kill me, but he can keep me here for the rest of my life !lifetime!"
Just as Caroline was about to say something, the old man behind him suddenly coughed and said hoarsely, "We don't have much time, Miss Consettrin."
Although Caroline followed them all the way, she didn't know the identity of the old man, so she couldn't help looking at Edna in confusion. Edna nodded to the old man first, and then said in a low voice: "This is Earl Herschel, the lord of the Empire's New South Gate galaxy. He was a friend of the Consetlin family during the Alliance. He is here to take me out."
Caroline was startled for a moment: "What did you say?!"
——After the establishment of the empire, many members of the alliance family survived, and some of them took refuge in the empire at the end of the galaxy war and actively provided a lot of funds and information, so they all obtained good titles after the new emperor ascended the throne. Most of these aristocratic families are related to each other, and they are a force that cannot be ignored in the upper class of the empire. Heinrich has been hesitant to attack Edna and others, partly because of the "respect for the spirit of the alliance" he swore back then, partly It is also because of scruples about the old and young of these alliances.
"Come with me, Caroline." Edna grabbed her hand and said excitedly: "Earl Herschel can take us out of this prison, and you have participated in the design of the egret star army defense fortress, Know where to lead to the control center. Just open the space blockade a little, and we can leave Egret together... "
"Impossible!" Caroline shouted decisively: "The control center is the top priority of the empire, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the brain of the empire!"
Edna sternly said: "Then do you have the heart to see me locked up here for the rest of my life?!"
Caroline hesitated, the small room was shrouded in stiffness and heaviness, and there was no sound other than breathing. After an unknown amount of time, she finally shook her head with difficulty: "I can go all out to plead for you, Edna, I can even exchange my life for your chance to survive... But this is not possible, this is treason, dangerous Sex is enough to threaten an entire empire...”
Edna stared at her blankly, her eyes were extremely strange, as if she was meeting her for the first time today.
Caroline closed her eyes, and said hoarsely: "Remember when I asked you if you were hiding something from me, Edna? Since then, I have doubts, but I can't always confirm... The era of the alliance has passed Yes, and you clearly agree with the imperial system, why do you want to join forces with the Dark Star Hall to assassinate His Majesty Heinrich? The Concettering family has been famous for hundreds of years, what are you planning?"
"...I..." Edna burst into tears, and choked up after a while, "Caroline..."
Perhaps her tears have been innocuous for many years, but this time the principal of the military academy did not flinch, and only gritted his teeth and looked at her persistently. After a while, Edna finally lowered her head and wiped her eyes, her voice trembling uncontrollably: "I want to return to the alliance, Caroline, and I too..."
"But what does that have to do with assassinating His Majesty?!"
"I also have my own ideals!" Edna interrupted her, "I have my own political ideas, and I have been active in the political core of the alliance for hundreds of years! As a politician, I am no worse than any of them. Start a war with your own opinions and beliefs, and I can't?!"
Caroline looked at her in shock, and saw that Edna seemed to be going all out: "I agree with the imperial system, but I never agree with Heinrich—do you know Caroline? I never approve of Heinrich I can't agree with any of his actions, even his attitude towards the Alliance Government-in-Exile!"
"You want to support the Consetlin family..." Caroline's shocked brain finally came to her senses, and said in astonishment: "You are trying to control the marshal and transform the alliance into an autocratic regime..."
This realization shook Caroline's mind like a bomb. She couldn't speak for a long time, and could only stand there stiffly looking at her partner. Edna's tears gradually welled up from her eyes again, she looked at Caroline as if she regretted it, and after a while she stepped forward and gently held her hand: "But now I don't think about anything, let's leave Egret together... "
Her cold hand suddenly awakened Caroline from the confusion. The headmistress gasped for several seconds, and suddenly shook her head vigorously: "No, I can't do this! You stay here for a while, and when His Majesty returns from the fort—"
Edna snapped, "Caroline!"
The room fell into a stalemate again, no one spoke or moved.
Earl Herschel stood behind Caroline and looked at Edna, finally shook his head slightly, and stretched his hands into his arms.
"... Do you know how many people have prepared for how long, how much energy, money, and even blood have been paid to bring you here tonight?" Edna closed her eyes and said hoarsely: "Heinrich Won't let me go, you know, Caroline - you know I'm going to be locked up here forever."
Caroline subconsciously wanted to defend, but was interrupted by Edna: "Do you know what you and Celia have the most in common?"
It feels really strange to say that, a veteran of the Empire, a descendant of the Alliance, and a natural enemy of the Galactic Army God Empire, these two people should have no similarities in terms of identity or standpoint. However, facing Caroline's puzzled eyes, Edna shook her head with a wry smile: "You all put your national beliefs above your feelings, especially when faced with choices..."
"I'm sorry Edna, but I—"
"There's nothing to be sorry about." Edna said quietly.
She had just finished speaking when Caroline suddenly heard a soft whoosh behind her—the last sound she heard. The headmistress only felt her back getting cold and then hot, a small amount of blood splashed out, and then her eyes turned black and she fell to the ground with a plop!
Earl Herschel put away his gun, and quickly threw Edna a plane equipment glowing with metallic silver. Edna took it, pulled out a long metal probe from the top, knelt down and pierced directly into Caroline's temple!
This equipment is very similar to the machine that Heinrich used to detect the brain image of the teenager Gavin. The metal probe quickly completely entered the head, converted the signal into a picture, and quickly projected it on the optomagnetic plane. Earl Herschel walked over quickly to take a look, and saw that it was full of formulas and messy pictures, occasionally mixed with fragmented maps, but they all disappeared in a blink of an eye.
How can this see the road map of the empire's control center? Count Herschel couldn't help but tilt his head, only to see the changing light reflected Edna's face extremely coldly.
"It turned out to be there."
She pulled out the probe and snapped the gear back together. Earl Herschel couldn't help asking: "But how do we get in? The Egret star space blockade switch is at the bottom of the computer room, and we have to go through dozens of checkpoints..."
"There's no need to bother with that switch."
Facing the count's suspicious gaze, Edna didn't explain much, but just raised her head and clapped her hands. A confidant immediately pushed the door open and put the interstellar communicator in front of her with both hands.
The communicator didn't know which frequency band it was stealing, and the signal was messy. After waiting for more than ten seconds, it suddenly shot a beam of red light into the air, which actually formed Yunes' blurred head: "Consettrin— "
"Where's my father?"
"The former speaker is already on our warship." Younes said with sarcasm in his tone, "but I don't think it's a good time for father and daughter to meet and cry."
A sneer appeared on the corners of Edna's lips, and she said: "I already know how to enter the center of the empire, and I have already obtained the launch code for 'Thor's Hammer'. According to previous calculations, the space energy fluctuations around Fortress Fabras have already It has reached the peak in a century, and as long as it is catalyzed, an unprecedented cosmic electromagnetic wave can be formed, and its energy is enough to completely paralyze ten Fabras fortresses."
"Arrange your fleet around the fortress," Edna paused, "After Thor's Hammer explodes, it's your only chance."
Yunes' face was blurred due to electromagnetic interference, but his expression could still be vaguely seen: "It's really applauded, Miss Consettrin... However, you made a mistake in one sentence."
"Which sentence?"
"This opportunity is not only mine." The dark star warrior's hoarse voice came through the radio waves, and he said coldly: "Consettrin, this is also the only opportunity you have been waiting for for half a century."
He reached out and pressed the communication button. In the dark and narrow room, Edna gently closed the communication device: "... This is the only time for me to practice my beliefs."
She turned her eyes to the unconscious Caroline on the ground, leaned over and kissed her gently on the cheek, "There is no need to apologize, Caroline... I am the same kind of person as you."
Although Earl Herschel was mentally prepared, he didn't fully understand their plan until now, and his entire expression changed completely. Edna ignored him, got up and strode towards the door, and several confidantes immediately stepped up to keep up.
"Go to the national control center," she said without turning her head. "Before dawn, you must launch Thor's Hammer!"
·
Fabras Fortress, four twenty in the morning.
Celia got out of bed again and went to the table to pour a glass of water.
Two mecha balls of light rolled around on the table. As soon as Fenghuang saw him, he immediately jumped into his hands nimbly, and jumped into his collar to hide. The griffin ball of light also rushed over to rub its hands vigorously, and wanted to jump on the wrist at the right time, but the timing was not right, and it plopped into the water glass that Celia was lowering.
With a splash of water, Celia took the griffin out of the water glass and threw it at the corner of the table, then turned and walked towards the balcony.
For some reason, the air became a bit stuffy. Celia opened the glass door, and a cool breeze blew in front of her.
The night sky before dawn is extremely deep and dark, the sky is filled with countless bright stars, and the vast Milky Way runs across the sky. Celia raised her head and squinted her eyes, and could see the dazzling brilliance of the nebula reunion, like a majestic aurora changing freely on the vast stage.
"What a beautiful scene," the phoenix flew out of its collar like a firefly, hovering lightly in mid-air: "Only in the Fortress of Fabras, can we see the nebula cluster of the Mirror Prism Galaxy up close, and Every cosmic year there will be a large meteor shower... ”
"So this is not the best place to build a fortress," Celia said lightly, "but in order to defend the main road leading to the Gemini galaxy, this is the only choice for the empire."
He leaned on the balcony, his eyes reflected the unpredictable light in the sky. The griffin ball of light flew out of the bedroom unsteadily, and first rubbed against the phoenix in a fawning manner, then turned around and laughed happily at Celia: "What kind of art is it for running out in the middle of the night to blow the wind? Do you want to ask your majesty to come and accompany you?" Together? Then you can close the door and go to sleep—"
"Sleep with you..." Celia's joking voice didn't finish before she paused suddenly.
He stared helplessly at the brightly lit night sky, and suddenly said after a few seconds: "Griffin, call the headquarters and find Heinrich!"
The Griffin turned pale with shock: "I'm just talking! Don't go to sleep right away!"
Before he finished speaking, the stupid lion was slapped hard by Phoenix, and immediately rushed to connect with the fortress headquarters. It is an Imperial mecha, and Aaron recently updated its password program, and soon it was connected to the highest command center unimpeded, and Heinrich's tired face was projected in mid-air with a red light: "Gavin? How did you wake up?"
The Griffin still winked and thought they would say something, but Celia's voice was unusually calm: "What is the ray index of the star field around the fortress now?"
A sigh flashed in Heinrich's eyes: "I really can't hide anything from you."
On the top floor of the Imperial Fortress Command Headquarters, the spacious hall is brightly lit, and the researchers are hurrying through hundreds of light screens. In front of the huge podium at the end, the emperor raised his head and looked at the magnificent and changing aurora in the night sky through the floor-to-ceiling glass wall: "A large-scale supernova explosion occurred in the detectable area around the mirror prism galaxy, and the energy of the universe fluctuated rapidly, reaching a peak of a century It’s the highest point since then.” Heinrich took a breath, his voice tense and deep: “I have issued a first-level warning. In order to prevent a large electromagnetic wave from coming, Fort Fabras will enter a full-band alert state.”