Half an hour later, the Imperial House of Representatives.
Heinrich stands tall, surrounded by a circular seat in the style of the ancient Roman Colosseum - the generals of the army occupy the east, the elders of the House of Representatives occupy the west, the heads of various galaxies occupy the south, and the representatives of the people of the House of Commons occupy the north.
"Parliament topic eighth, abolish the mandatory pairing system, and re-examine the privileges of the Omega Protection Association." Elder Longfellow said in a flat tone, "If you agree, press the green button, if you disagree, press the red button, and those who abstain will stand out. Now start .”
The House of Representatives whispered to each other for a while, and then someone reached out to press a button. After a while, the counting was completed on the hanging screen. Ninety-three people agreed, two hundred and eighty-four disagreed, and one hundred and sixty-five abstained.
The abstainers had a lot to say, and everyone was excited. At the same time, everyone held hundreds of pages of papers in their hands, and they wished they could jump out of their seats and spray spittle on the emperor's face.
Elder Longfellow turned to the emperor with a blank expression: "This time you are a minority, do you want to exercise the privilege of 'the emperor alone can hold 20 votes'?"
"...No need," Heinrich stood up and said, "The next topic—"
At this moment, the military department handed over a folded note one by one. The emperor opened it and saw that there were five words written in Aaron's handwriting—the phoenix was activated.
"Sorry everyone," Heinrich got up and said, "Come here today, the meeting is over."
The representatives looked at each other, but the emperor strode out, and the hem of the black and gold cloak drew a sharp arc as he turned around.
—Phoenix activated.
Caroline stood outside the underground laboratory. In front of her was a metal corridor glowing with white light. The tungsten alloy hemispherical door at the end was severely deformed. The door panel almost broke from the wall, and the cracks even radiated more than ten meters away.
The researcher stood behind her shivering: "The impact happened so suddenly that we couldn't get in at all... The shock destroyed the electrical system. It was dark at that time, and we all thought it would collapse..."
Caroline looked at the top of her head. The ceiling was torn apart and might collapse at any time. Now she could only rely on carbon steel beams to barely maintain the delicate balance, and the floor was full of broken metal and concrete.
She stepped into the corridor, and the researchers immediately stopped her: "The principal is too dangerous here! Please don't approach at will!"
"Don't worry, it won't start."
Caroline stepped on the messy floor and walked to the end, gently stroking the deformed tungsten alloy gate. The surroundings were silent, as if the mania and chaos of half an hour ago had never happened, but she could imagine the scene at that time, how this indestructible alloy gate was slammed into it, and the entire tens-ton heavy The spheres are protruding.
One click, one more click, and the door will be completely abolished.
"Hi principal, a confidential communication from the palace, can you connect?"
Caroline waved the experimenter back, and pulled out the three-dimensional communication device from her pocket. Several red lines stretched out quickly, forming Heinrich's cold face in the air.
"Good afternoon, Your Majesty."
The emperor looked past her at the deformed alloy gate, and his expression was indescribably delicate: "Who activated the Phoenix?"
Caroline knew that the military academy had the emperor's nails, but as long as she had a normal IQ, no one would go out of her way to make things difficult for the emperor's nails, so she said honestly: "This is an accident, the phoenix hit the ground in a semi-complete form, and now the whole The power system of the laboratory has been interrupted, and we are temporarily unable to enter."
"Celia he..."
The emperor still subconsciously avoided using sensitive words such as "remains" and "bones". Caroline understood: "Judging from the hardness of the cockpit, it should not be damaged, but the specific situation is unknown. If the Phoenix shuts down again, we still cannot open the cockpit without damaging it and get in touch with the marshal. The... um."
Heinrich stared at her, and said slowly for a while, "Caroline."
"yes."
"I can understand Consetlin's mood."
"..." Caroline was in a bad mood.
Can Heinrich understand Edna's mood? What is the difference between this and the wolf can understand the mood of the sheep? What is the difference between cats and rats? What is the difference between a weasel and a weasel who can understand chickens? !
"But I hope you also understand me." The emperor obviously didn't see Caroline's messy eyes in the wind, and said slowly: "The marshal also has a very special meaning to most stubborn anti-alliance elements. If the heir of the empire has his blood, Then in the future when political reforms take place, the difficulties and obstacles he will face will be much smaller... "
Caroline said in amazement: "Reform?!"
"I don't want to tell you too much. It's also my first time to be emperor, and I have to explore many plans slowly." Heinrich paused, and said, "I couldn't understand many of the marshal's ideas back then, and it's too late to understand now. But I will pass those things on to our next generation little by little, and history will bring us a brighter future."
Caroline stood there bewildered.
"Okay, I just want to tell you that the marshal's DNA is very important, and the mecha phoenix can't compare with it." Heinrich said in a deep voice, "Think about it."
He nodded politely, and the three-dimensional projection disappeared into the air.
Caroline stood in the corridor in a daze, grabbed the 3D communicator for a while, and said sharply, "Edna!"
The red thread shot out again, and Edna's figure quickly formed in the air—she was wearing a white coat, and she seemed to be standing in a research room of the research institute.
"Your Majesty found out about Phoenix's power-up, and came to look for me just now."
Edna looked worried: "He still wants DNA?"
Caroline nodded heavily.
"No matter what happens, you can't give it to him. You know that after the Battle of the Venus Fortress, the Marshal..." Edna swallowed, shook her head and said, "He will find out the clues once he inspects the body, and then he will dissect the body. …”
"I see."
The two looked at each other for a long time, Edna took a deep breath and said, "We must win the league."
"yes."
"You must keep the mecha." Edna said and turned her head, as if someone called her over there: "Wait, Gavin is waiting for the injection, I will be back later."
Caroline motioned for her to go, then cut off the communication.
Since Gavin came to the military academy, he has had an indissoluble bond with injections and medicines. He ran to the military doctor's office every three days, and was injured every now and then.
Edna pushed the inhibitor into the blood vessels in his wrist, and the sweet and alluring omega breath in the air suddenly faded a lot, and disappeared completely within a few minutes.
Dean sat on the side watching, and suddenly understood why Alphas hated inhibitors so much—this feeling of watching food being taken away from their mouths really made hard-hearted people couldn't help but get angry.
"Are you still dizzy? Do you want to throw up?"
Gavin shook his head and said, "No, thank you."
Edna smiled softly, her emerald green eyes seemed to sparkle with lake water. She is so beautiful like this, Gavin couldn't help but bring a softness that he didn't realize in his eyes: "I'm sorry to use Principal Caroline's mecha, if the firefox is damaged in any way..."
"No, no, it's okay." Edna gently put her white and beautiful hand on the back of his hand, and said with a smile, "Actually, both the principal and I need your help..."
The two of them sat and stood, Edna leaning slightly, her hair almost falling on Gavin's lap.
Dean frowned slightly on the side. Although he knew that the two were Omega, this intimate scene still gave him a very weird and subtle feeling.
"What's busy?"
"You know that we participate in the Mecha League every year, and every year we face the Gemini Interstellar Military Academy. This year they have a few particularly good students, and for some special reasons, we must not lose."
Edna looked up at Dean.
"You are the best students in this class—although the cooperation is a bit uncoordinated—but I still want to invite you to form a team and win for the Royal Military Academy."
Dean got up abruptly, and before he could speak, Gavin said, "Okay."
Edna didn't seem to expect him to agree so easily, and she was a little surprised for a while.
… In fact, Gavin was also surprised, as if seeing Edna, he couldn't help but want to agree to her request, and all the words of acceptance subconsciously came out.
"That's great, I'll arrange for them to fake your identity for you - don't worry about anything else, the principal and I will cover for you." Edna said while holding Gavin's hand tightly, gratefully said: " thanks!"
"..." Gavin suddenly felt that there was nothing wrong with agreeing.
"Why did you promise her?" When Edna went out a few minutes later, and only the two of them were left in the ward, Dean finally couldn't help but angrily said, "Isn't the danger enough this time?! How long are you going to mess around?" !"
Gavin wondered: "You caused the danger, right? Let me think about it. In the Omega Protection Law, the sentence for this kind of situation is several years, twenty?"
Dean: "…"
Gavin looked at Dean innocently, and the Alpha military cadet's face was as ugly as the bottom of a pot. After a long while, Gavin finally realized his conscience, sighed and said, "Sorry, I shouldn't have interfered in your competition."
"It's clearly not heavy—"
"I wanted to lead the battle so much that I ignored that it was actually your battlefield." Gavin reached out his hand and said, "I'm sorry, please accept my apology."
His slender fingers were still bandaged, palm up, honest and honest. At this moment, Dean's mood was the same as that when Gavin saw Edna just now, it was absolutely impossible and impossible to refuse.
He struggled to hold Gavin's hand, and asked in a deep voice for a while, "Do you really want to play the Mecha League with me?"
"—Yes, that is our battlefield."
Gavin's eyes were bright and open, and to put it simply, there was a charm that penetrated people's hearts.
In fact, it was simply a professional habit when these words came out of his mouth, but the simple Dean didn't know this, so he couldn't help being a little moved at the time, and subconsciously said: "If this is the case..."
"Go and lose together?" Someone at the door said coldly: "It's really sympathetic."
When the two turned their heads, they saw Claire was wearing a combat uniform, with gauze on the corner of his mouth, leaning against the door of the ward with arms crossed.
Claire is almost as tall as Dean, with blonde and brown mixed hair that looks very messy, with bruises and blood stains on his face, and looks a bit embarrassed - unlike Dean, he has a rebellious and ruthless spirit, The brow bone is high and the eye sockets are deep, and the eyes are full of undisguised arrogance and hostility.
Dean was immediately alert: "It's none of your business Claire, you..."
"—That's right, I won't lose with you." Gavin interrupted him, and said kindly: "Hey, go find your little friend."
Claire: "…"
Claire almost didn't hold back, and grabbed the door frame tightly to restrain the urge to go forward. He stared at the hands held by Gavin and Dean, and after a few seconds, he let out a "hum" with a look of disdain on his face, turned around and strode away.
After the contestants from several schools were finalized, according to the usual practice in previous years, the Royal Military Academy invited contestants and instructors from all schools to hold a warm-up dinner.
Regardless of the fact that the Royal Military Academy does not welcome the emperor, it bears the title of a royal family after all, and the entire auditorium is resplendent with gold and jade, and the reception of the imperial nobles is nothing more than that. On the day of the dinner, representatives of major military academies arrived by airship one after another. When they appeared, all the suits and dresses were very formal, and they looked quite grand from a distance.
Gavin participated in the competition under the guise of someone else, so he definitely couldn't show his face casually at this time, so he hid in the corner with Edna to eat. These two people are very good at eating, and they dug up the fish maw before the Heinexing steamed fish was served, and the golden apple slices were picked from each mint tower before it was served; Chi Huan pointed at the contestants entering the arena: "This one has definitely been treated with fake muscle agents, you look as strong as an ape... Why is that tie pink? Do you think this is a blind date?... Oh, look at Principal Dana ! His nose is at least a bit taller than it was in the newspaper last week! Alpha also undergoes genetic plastic surgery?!"
Dana looked up suspiciously, and Caroline asked sarcastically, "Mr. Principal?"
"...Well, your school's dinner party is really impressive." Dana rubbed his nose unnaturally, "Where did we just talk?"
"The final home layout." Caroline said coldly, "Your Majesty told me that you want to carry the mech phoenix to the sidelines, and the winner will take it away in front of the media from all over the universe."
"Oh—yes, I think it's more motivating for the players. Don't you think so?"
"I just think it hits the underdog harder that way."
Dana smiled immediately: "At the same time, the fruits of victory also appear sweeter and plump."
This smile was very uncomfortable. Caroline stared at him with interest, nodded for a while and said, "I think so too—so I strongly agree with this approach."
"..." Dana's smile faded immediately.
In the corner not far behind him, Edna and Gavin ate three diamond cones and began to march towards the fourth one—they should be lucky that only ten of this expensive fruit were prepared for the whole dinner No one found them, otherwise the two hidden in Gavin's pocket would have been searched for.
Edna held the shiny flesh with a napkin, Gavin looked at her and smiled slightly.
"What's wrong?"
"nothing."
Gavin turned his head, Edna was silent for a while, and suddenly asked: "Do you remember the friend I told you about before?"
"how?"
"When we were young, whenever there was a banquet, we hid in the background and ate and chatted secretly, and then slipped to the garden fountain to look at the stars. I still remember the starry sky of the Alliance, the endless and vast Milky Way and sea of stars, like countless Like diamonds sprinkled on velvet."
Edna smiled reminiscently, and Gavin said casually, "Your friend must have a good family background."
"...how did you see it?"
"Even at the end of the alliance, it is not easy to safely raise an Omega girl, let alone send her to study for a doctorate. This is at least something that can only be done by the upper class. Your friend can be like your childhood sweetheart, if not for the similar family background , that is, I have a special background.”
Gavin said casually: "—No offense intended, just guess casually."
Edna was dazed for a while, then smiled and said, "I was negligent. You are right, there is only one point - when we were young, the alliance was still in its heyday, probably more than five hundred years ago."
Gavin was taken aback. Under normal circumstances, only one genetic operation in twenty years can ensure permanent youth. If it is more than five hundred years, Edna has undergone at least thirty operations.
"The headmaster... has he lived for such a long time?"
"No, Caroline came later."
Gavin nodded, and said after a while: "I feel that you are very different from the principal."
"What's the matter? I'm Omega and she's Alpha. Genes determine that our entire way of thinking cannot be the same."
"No, it's not about this." Gavin carefully chose his words and said cautiously: "Although you have some complaints about the emperor, you fully agree with the empire replacing the alliance. Relatively speaking, the principal's respect for the emperor comes from the heart. But they don't seem to... appreciate the existing imperial system."
Edna fell silent.
The soft music in the hall floated from afar, and all the feasting and feasting of the clothes and temples turned into a colorful and distant background.
"I am not in favor of the Empire replacing the Alliance. The end of the Alliance is a very special era. Caroline and I both..."
Edna still wanted to say something, but at this moment the voice stopped, only hearing a commotion from the entrance of the hall, the crowd separated automatically, and several leaders of the military academy walked forward with smiles on their faces.
Several soldiers wearing the uniforms of the Capital Defense Force walked into the gate and lined up neatly on the left and right sides of the aisle. After a while, a few people came in at the door. The leader was a blond man in a pure black military uniform. He was tall and straight and looked very outstanding—that was Aaron. Admiral.
Edna's face changed greatly: "Why is he here?!"
Gavin took a few steps back without saying a word, Edna signaled him to hide in the backstage bathroom, and then rushed forward to meet him.
Admiral Aaron had not been invited in advance, and there was no word that he would come, so his presence obviously caught everyone by surprise.
But it was an accident. Aaron's position in the Imperial Army was very hot. Many people present expressed their sincerity and enthusiasm immediately, which directly caused Aaron to be surrounded by the crowd as soon as he made his debut.
Gavin took the opportunity to rush to the bathroom, only to hear the griffin yelling in his ear: "Ah! That's my former master! Look at him, he's still so handsome and mighty, you really don't plan to fight How about a hello?! Seriously, he is much more reliable than that little bastard Dean, do you feel the obvious difference?!"
"..." Gavin roughly pulled off the ear buttons and stuffed them into his pocket.
"I can introduce you! Speak good words for you! If you get married, I will tell you his bank password!" Griffin crawled out unwillingly: "And his physiology is also very good! Are you really not tempted? —Aw!"
The poor stupid lion was pinched severely, and lay back in his pocket with tears in his eyes.
Gavin rushed into the bathroom and locked the door behind his back. The lively voices in the hall were still faintly heard, he let out a sigh of relief, and leaned against the counter.
The bathroom was clean and spacious, and there was no one there. Gavin stayed unconscious for a long time, his eyes fell on a floor-to-ceiling glass mirror in front of him, and he couldn't help being slightly stunned.
The young man in the mirror has dark hair, fair skin, thin cheeks and profound facial features, pure black eyes that are clear and bright under the bright light, high nose bridge and thin lips, and the overall appearance has an outline between a teenager and a young man.
Gavin stared at himself for a long time, only feeling something was wrong in his heart.
But what's wrong
He frowned slowly, and a vague and unbelievable thought flashed through his mind: ——He looks different.
"Gryphon," he whispered.
"Dead!" An aggrieved voice came out of the pocket: "When you need it, you call him Xiao Shishi, and when you don't need him, you let him die. Is there anyone like you who is the master?!"
"... You seem to have said that you don't recognize me as the Lord."
"But after you combine with Aaron, you will be my master! Mistress!!"
"..." Gavin held the griffin tightly and brought it out, amidst howling ghosts and howling wolves, he asked softly, "little lion, do you still have the wanted photo that was shown on the TV the day we broke through the customs?"
"Wanted is not a problem! Admiral Aaron will definitely be able to help you! If you unite..." The voice of the griffin gradually weakened under the shock of murderous spirit, and finally turned into a mosquito humming: "... yes..."
The earbuds were decomposed and assembled in the air, turning into a round optical brain, and a three-dimensional image was projected into the air, vividly displaying the image of Gavin when he broke through the customs that day.
The boy rolled onto the airship with his hands, his cheeks were slightly round, his face was flushed, his eyes were wet, his lips were tender from biting hard, and seemed to be trembling slightly.
At that time, his skin was a healthy honey color, and it looked soft and delicate to the touch.
Gavin's eyes were unbelievable. He turned his head in the mirror until the angle of himself in the image was exactly the same. Under the light, his cheeks showed a kind of almost thorough ice whiteness, as if the jade-like cold and glowing texture, completely different from the picture.
No wonder he got away with it.
No wonder no one in the military academy recognized him so far.
In just over a month, he has grown into this!
"You are only 60% consistent with the appearance in the image, which is too strange. Normal people will only change 2% within two months, and adolescents in the developmental period can only change by 3%." Griffin also realized that it was unusual, and his voice became serious: " It's a pity that I didn't save the changes in your appearance in the past two months, otherwise I should be able to draw a comparison picture-oh my god, your facial bones have changed, the bridge of your nose is at least 1 mm higher, and your brow bone and jaw are also... "
"Is anyone in there? Strange, why the toilet is locked." Someone pushed the door twice, and Gavin pressed the Griffon down, motioning it to silence: "Shhh."
The light brain immediately shattered into an ear button, and asked in a low voice, "What should we do now?"
"Let's go first." Gavin looked around the bathroom, saw the small ventilation window on the top of the wall, and suddenly had an idea.
Thirty seconds later, Gavin held his breath, his thin and flexible body passed through the vent, and grabbed the outer wall with both hands.
The night sky is full of stars and breezy, and the lively voices in the hall are far away. Gavin hung in the air for a few seconds, then let go and landed.
With a soft plop, he got up and patted his trouser legs, and when he was about to get up to leave, he suddenly froze.
Not far away, two people were staring at him dumbfounded - one was Claire, and the other was a Beta female student whom he had never seen before. Both of them were wearing suits and dresses, and they seemed to be chatting intimately, and they looked very good from a distance.
"..." Gavin said awkwardly, "Good evening."
Just as he was about to turn around and slip away quickly, Claire suddenly didn't know which nerve was wrong, threw the girl and strode to catch up. Poor Gavin couldn't run as fast as he could, and watched him barge in and block his way firmly: "Hey, what are you doing here?"
Gavin stopped his footsteps and said calmly, "Take a walk."
"Come out for a walk through the bathroom window?"
"What are you doing here again?"
"Walking." Claire said confidently, suddenly showing a malicious smile: "I thought you came out to elope with Dean's pretender—let me see, where is he waiting for you? Dean! Dean !"
At this moment, Gavin really regretted why he didn't kill him back then, and a few students standing at the door of the auditorium in the distance turned their heads curiously.
"Dean! Where are you? If you don't come out, I'll kill you..."
"Shut up!" Gavin covered Claire's mouth: "I just love climbing over walls! Shut up!"
Claire grabs Gavin's palm and breaks it hard. A few seconds later, the silent scuffle decides the winner: Gavin is pushed into the corner, with one hand firmly on Claire's shoulder, and the latter grabs his wrist, showing a shark-like smile : "Don't steal something, let me see—"
He stretched out his hand maliciously, and Gavin grabbed him before he touched it. The two looked at each other for a while, and suddenly Gavin had a flash of inspiration!
"I'm sorry to be discovered by you. I'm sorry that I did steal something." Gavin took out two diamond fruits from his pocket and said sincerely, "Come on, dear, this is for you."
Claire: "…"
Claire stared at the two fruits in a daze, and said in embarrassment for a while, "Just for this?"
"I like to eat! I really like it!" Gavin forced the diamond fruit into his hand, and solemnly said: "I will give you my favorite thing, and we will be good friends from now on! Goodbye!"
Claire: "#￥%*&￥#!…"
Gavin turned around and ran away without saying a word, Claire's bewildered brain convulsed, and he grabbed two diamond fruits and ran after him. The two ran across the lawn like eagles catching chickens. Gavin was about to grab the fence and jump over, when suddenly someone beside him sternly shouted: "Stop! What are you doing?!"
Gavin was jumping into the air, his body lost his balance and almost fell over. At this moment, he was grabbed by the man's strong hand, and he was directly pressed to the ground, with a deep and dignified voice: "As a military student, you are yelling and chasing, what grade are you... huh? "
The man turned Gavin's face and froze for a moment.
Gavin was also stunned.
——The one who was staring at him closely, his eyes full of surprise and shock, turned out to be Admiral Aaron!