In an instant, Heinrich was petrified, and he saw two identical faces on the screen, staring at him from left to right, blinking, blinking, and blinking again.
"Yuan... marshal?" the emperor asked tremblingly.
Gavin nodded, grabbed the test subject's hand and waved: "Heinrich, hello."
Gavin's rare joke didn't make Heinrich relax. The poor emperor almost collapsed inside, and he could barely maintain his superficial calm: "What's going on? The resurrection experiment of the exiled army, Kaleyan and the others..."
"Who knows what that idiot is doing." Gavin said casually: "I can't be sure whether it is resurrection or replication. I plan to go to the base of the exile army to see how many such test subjects are still there. Let's see you later."
—Hearing Celia say that Kaleyan was an idiot, the emperor's first feeling was good, but then deeper doubts came to his mind: Is the one on the screen really Celia
Heinrich is a very cautious person. After seeing Gavin's memory fragments, he has always wanted to get the phoenix. He dissected Celia's body to confirm Gavin's current identity, but because of the rash intervention of the Dark Star Hall, the plan failed. . But now looking at Gavin on the screen, his inner doubts crept up again: if the exiled army copied many test subjects for resurrection, if the one reflected by the soul is not the real Celia...
How likely is this
Heinrich was stunned for a few seconds, then subconsciously denied this guess.
He was too familiar with Celia. Gavin's expressions, actions, words, methods and attitudes in dealing with people, and even some trivial details gave him a strong feeling of being reunited. A person's memory may be copied, but the familiarity brought by the depths of the soul cannot be forged.
"There can be no duplication, you are Celia."
Heinrich paused, and affirmed: "I can recognize it even if there is a copy, it has nothing to do with appearance."
Gavin's expression was slightly subtle, and he didn't speak, just looking at Heinrich steadfastly. The blue bird flew towards the alliance mothership under the effect of huge traction. As the distance between the two became farther and farther, the communication signal between the mechs became more and more noisy, and snowflakes flashed on the screen soon.
Heinrich saw Gavin smile a little bit bitterly: "I don't even know if you trust me or curse me."
He said this in the same tone as when he was the commander of the alliance, and Heinrich couldn't help laughing.
The signal was finally completely cut off, and Gavin made a quick gesture before the communication disappeared, and then waved his hand. Immediately afterwards, the screen fell into darkness, only Heinrich's thoughtful expression was reflected—
That gesture means keep in touch.
With a loud bang, the blue bird was finally completely fixed in the mothership's armor library.
Kaleyan stood in front of the open hatch, waved his men back with a heavy heart, and walked into the dark cockpit alone.
It can be clearly seen here that just after a big battle, the nerve belt has been damaged to varying degrees, there are bump marks everywhere in the bulkhead, and the precision instrument parts scattered all over the ground make it almost difficult to stand.
In order to maintain the sharpness of the nerve belt, the cockpit generally has no lighting facilities. Kaleyan groped to the side of the bridge with a flashlight, and saw a pale young man sitting in the nerve net, his eyes were cold and looking forward, like a perfect statue.
"..." Kaleyan was silent for a moment with complicated emotions, stretched out his hand to pull him out, and ordered: "Go."
The test subject GTX0012 really walked out of the cockpit step by step with him. Except for a slightly stiff movement, it looked no different from a real person at first glance.
In fact, the more this happened, the more it meant that the gene correction procedure was successful, but Kaleyan couldn't help feeling a little disgusted, and kept silent all the way. The two of them passed through the mecha warehouse one after the other, and went up to the laboratory just now through the elevator, only to see that the researchers were gone at this moment.
"sit."
The test subject obediently sat on the operating chair. Kaleyan prepared a tube of injection by the operating table, turned around with the syringe, and looked at him with complicated eyes.
He could feel the deep helplessness and disgust in his heart, but he didn't know whether the disgust was aimed at this empty but ignorant test subject, or the greedy and insatiable alliance council, or himself who was helpless and assisted by tigers.
"That's enough..." he murmured, sighed and walked to the side of the test subject, ready to inject the injection into his carotid artery.
However, the moment he lowered his head, he didn't see the test subject's eyes blink twice quickly, and then he raised his hand to clamp his wrist!
"What—" Kaleyan suddenly raised his head and twitched his hands, the two stood up at the same time, and the "test subject" grabbed Kaleyan's neck like lightning!
"Who!" Kaleyan shouted angrily, and suddenly raised his elbow to block the opponent's five fingers. Immediately after a few flashes, Kaleyan was forced to the corner in an instant, and the boy's sharp fingertips swiped up along his arm, grabbing the syringe instantly!
These few fights were very neat, Kaleyan just opened his mouth to call someone, but was hit hard by the "test subject" with an elbow in the middle of the abdomen. This blow was so hard and heavy that Kaleyan felt his stomach was about to fly out of his throat. Before he could vomit, he was grabbed by the neck and pressed hard against the wall!
-boom!
The back of Kaleyan's head hit the wall hard, his vision blurred immediately, and he almost spat out a mouthful of old blood on the spot. After a long while, he could barely see that the "test subject" was looking at him, his eyes were full of smiles.
"you… "
As soon as Kaleyan uttered his voice, he felt the hand pinching his throat suddenly increase, which made his neck bone gurgling. The "test subject" raised the needle of the syringe to his eyeballs and asked with that teasing smile, "Kareyan?"
"..."
"I don't think it's a good idea to kill people and silence them, what do you think, Lieutenant General Kaleyan?"
Perhaps because of suffocation, the slightly teasing expression on the face of the "test subject" made Kaleyan suddenly stunned. He stared into the young man's eyes, and opened his mouth trembling for a while, but he couldn't make a sound at all, so he just mouthed silently: "Si... Celia..."
Gavin nodded politely, and threw Kaleyan to the ground.
"Cough! Cough, cough!" Kaleyan held his neck and coughed for a long time in embarrassment. His eyes were black and his brain was congested, and he was completely speechless. It took several minutes for him to forcefully raise his head, his voice hoarse and shocked: "Are you... ?!"
Gavin squatted down, stared at Kaleyan with interest, and raised an eyebrow slightly.
This little action was almost iconic when he did it, and Kaleyan just felt unbelievable for a moment—could it be that the test subject GTX0012 did the soul refraction? Could it be that the soul refraction was successful
No, no, it's impossible. When entering the cockpit, it was clearly a body without life and thought...
Kaleyan shook his head feeling absurd, only to see his frightened face reflected in Gavin's eyes. After a long while, an incredible thought suddenly flashed through his mind: "No, no, don't tell me you are—are you the one on Red Saturn—"
His voice seemed to be stuck suddenly: "—how did you get into the cockpit?!"
"I don't know what I am." Gavin said politely, "But I have cheats."
Kaleyan: "..."
If Kaleyan was just shocked when he was beaten just now, now his mind is full of flames and arrows, and his expression is so wonderful that it is indescribable: "You woke up on Red Saturn?! When?!"
Gavin held down Kaleyan who was struggling to get up, but the latter broke free suddenly, and his voice almost changed: "When?! Was it before the Ninth Fleet swept Red Saturn a few months ago? Or On the fiftieth anniversary of Celia's death? The imperial general Aaron was forced to rob mecha on Red Saturn, did you do it?"
Kaleyan had an expression on his face that he was about to die from a heart attack and his blood vessels burst. The corners of Gavin's mouth twitched slightly, and he said after a while: "When I woke up... you and the Imperial fleet were throwing bombs at each other above my head."
Kaleyan suddenly fell silent, and all the voices seemed to be stuck in his throat.
At that moment, Gavin looked at him looking at him, and suddenly had a strange feeling: he was looking at Celia. This man named Kaleyan, no matter what his identity is or how high his status is; that kind of gaze is definitely that he is looking at Celia, the commander of the alliance.
Gavin narrowed his eyes slightly, many thoughts flashed through his mind, and then he directly grasped the key point: "—Where were you the day Red Saturn was bombed?"
Kaleyan moved his lips, but said nothing.
"You were one of the exiles who did experiments on Red Saturn, right?"
"..."
"You were forced to evacuate because of the sudden air strike of the Ninth Fleet. Before leaving, you left me on Red Saturn as a failure, and declared to others that the soul refraction was a failure...but now I can stand here with you Speaking of which, you didn't think about it, did you?"
Judging from Kaleyan's suddenly livid face, Gavin knew that he must have guessed right. After a while, the lieutenant general closed his eyes heavily, and said in a low voice, "You should have woken up half an hour after we gave up hope..."
When he said this, his voice was completely hoarse, and it sounded like an indescribable pain. Gavin's heart sank for a moment, and he couldn't tell what it was like: "So the soul refraction was successful?"
"..."
"So what am I?"
"..."
Kaleyan did not speak, maintaining this half-kneeling posture, with a struggling and slumped expression. Gavin stared at him condescendingly, neither forcing nor urging, the huge laboratory was shrouded in heavy silence, even each other's heartbeats could be heard clearly.
"I don't know what you are," Kaleyan said vaguely after a while, "In short, you are not Celia."
He leaned on the wall and stood up, his shoulders were slightly slumped due to the overwhelming load, and he glanced at the silver syringe in Gavin's hand: "It's not poison, it's a special solvent that allows human cells to divide and rapidly grow into adults The parliament thinks that the adult Marshal Celia has more prestige."
"But you are just a failure, so these have nothing to do with you. You can leave the Ophiuchus constellation, as long as you don't use the name of Marshal to bluff and don't cause trouble for the alliance, just do whatever you want, I won't take your exist to tell others."
Kaleyan paused and remained silent for a while, before dragging his heavy steps towards the door.
But when he walked around Gavin, his knees bent slightly, as if he couldn't support the weight of his body for a moment, and he almost fell down; then he barely straightened his chest, and passed by without looking back, The whole body was tense, almost stiff.
Gavin stared back at his figure.
At that moment, he felt as if he had seen such Kaleyan, but the specific memory was like a layer of veil, and he couldn't see clearly in a trance. He frowned slightly, feeling suddenly sad for some reason: "Kaleyan..."
The lieutenant general didn't look back: "What?"
Gavin sighed and said, "—you're lying."