Kaleyan turned his head, with an almost guarded expression on his face: "Why do you say that?"
Gavin wanted to say casually because your eyes told me the truth... But before he could say it, he was stunned, so he said: "There is no reason, it's just intuition. In fact, you think I am Celia, right?"
Kaleyan turned completely around and was silent for a long, long time. Just when Gavin thought he would not speak, he asked instead: "What do you think? Do you think you are Celia?"
It was a funny question, and Gavin smiled slightly: "What does it matter? Celia is not a title, it's just a person's experience. Whether or not this experience has any impact on my current life , don’t you mean you can’t live without me?”
He paused, and then said: "People will never stop pursuing self-knowledge, but if they don't know, they don't know. Do you think I'm begging you?"
Kaleyan was stunned for a few seconds, then smiled wryly, "This is a typical Celia tone..."
He was about to say something more when suddenly there was a knock on the door of the laboratory. A researcher asked from outside the door: "Ready, Lieutenant General Kareyan?"
Kaleyan turned around suddenly, but before he could stop him, the other party opened the door and came in. When he saw Gavin, he smiled and said, "Isn't it alright?"
Kaleyan looked back and saw Gavin standing there with a blank face, exactly the same as the test subject GTX0012.
"No...no." Kaleyan secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and found a random reason: "The blood pressure may be a little low, so wait two days before taking another shot. What are you here for?"
"Then we have to hurry up, we will almost arrive at Mitala planet tomorrow afternoon. But since we don't need to inject the catalytic needle first, can I ask the research team to draw 400CC blood from the test subjects? We have to start preparing new test materials again." —”
Kaleyan interrupted him without thinking: "No!"
As soon as the words came out of his mouth, he immediately felt Gavin's eyes fall on his back.
This attitude of categorical refusal really exposed his true thoughts, but now he can’t take it back, so Kaleyan could only pretend not to notice it, and said to the researcher, “Blood pressure is low, so don’t panic about drawing blood for experiments. The fight with Qu An just now was severe enough, why don't I take him to rest for a while, and we can talk about it tomorrow afternoon if we have anything to do."
The researcher Monk Zhang Er was puzzled, and after a moment of hesitation, he nodded obediently: "Then let's clean up the cockpit first..."
The real test is now hidden in the cockpit! Kaleyan almost collapsed, and resolutely said: "Leave this to me too! I will send him back to his room first and then go to the mecha warehouse. You can do what you want! Today is a holiday!"
The researchers were amazed, thinking that Lieutenant General Kaleyan was so diligent today? Don't you usually hide and sleep like a lazy bug? Could it be that it's the face of the marshal that makes you extra motivated
The energetic Kaleyan couldn't tell, so he had to take Gavin out of the laboratory quickly, feeling like he was carrying a time bomb with him. Along the way, the two met many staff members, all of whom turned their heads curiously, and some of them passed by several times pretending to be casual, their gazes shot back and forth on Gavin's face like searchlights, making Kaleyan really stressed .
Finally arrived at the dormitory area, Kaleyan led Gavin to the next door to his suite, and said with a sigh of relief: "You can live here."
The room next to the commander-in-chief of the fleet is obviously also very high-end. On a spaceship whose living space has been drastically compressed, this suite occupies at least two hundred square meters. The furniture is expensive natural wood, and the facilities are quite complete and excellent. It can be seen that this is one of the few high-end suites on the spaceship.
Gavin had lived in the Ninth Fleet, so he knew nothing about the residence of the Imperial Admiral Aaron on the battleship. But the empire is powerful, and the Ninth Fleet is the main battle force. It is not surprising to have such treatment. It is intriguing that the Alliance Exile Army also has such equipment.
"The parliamentary standard arrangement, the historical reasons are too complicated to explain in a single word." Kaleyan said briefly: "You hide here for one night, and I will find a chance to take you off the ship after landing."
Kaleyan still has a lot of mess to clean up, and he is ready to leave after speaking. However, at the moment of turning around, Gavin suddenly asked without turning his head: "Why did you suddenly withdraw the troops?"
"-what?"
"You have already gained an advantage on the battlefield of Star Wars. As long as you start the ground battle first, you can occupy the entire planet, and you can also give the Ninth Fleet a head-on blow. Why did you suddenly withdraw your troops and leave?"
Kaleyan looked at Gavin's back, and his eyes were full of obscurity for a few seconds. After a while, he whispered: "The Alliance Council issued an emergency recall order for fear that the military department would take advantage of its merits."
"But it's not your style."
"… I do not understand what you mean."
Kaleyan subconsciously used the honorific, but before he could react, he was interrupted by Gavin's quiet voice: "In the 3060th year of the Milky Way Era, when you accompanied me to the distant galaxy, you fought in the Dark Star Hall Li judged the situation and weighed the pros and cons, and made a decision that was contrary to my order, and then commanded the Glorious Legion to win the decisive battle—the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, so you will not accept the fate of the foreign king. This is the self-defense you wrote to me at the beginning , why are you forgetting now?"
There was silence behind him, Kaleyan's pupils constricted, his raised hand trembled slightly, and it took him a while to utter a syllable: "You...you..."
In fact, Gavin didn't think much about the battle to destroy the Dark Star Hall. Now his memory is still very fragmented and chaotic, but this alone is enough to make Kaleyan's hair stand on end: "But you can't—"
"You are my second-in-command, but you participated in the genetic experiment of copying your own chief. The Alliance Council instructed you to do this? Why are all test subjects Omega? It is for easier mastery and control, right?"
Gavin turned his head, this angle made the lines of his neck and side cheeks more deep and sharp, the corners of his slanted eyes flashed with a cold light, and the oppressive eyes made Kaleyan froze and couldn't move: " The physiological characteristics of Omega are unavoidable, since the test subject is deliberately arranged to be an Omega, the council must have prepared for it an Alpha with a suitable status, equal conditions, and more importantly, who will obey their orders—who will it be?"
There was a dead silence in the room, and the distant voices of people made this small space even more dull and dignified.
Kaleyan pursed his lips tightly, sweat seeped from his back and soaked his shirt along his spine.
Gavin looked at him, and slowly raised an indescribable smile: "Speaking of which, so many test subjects of soul refraction have failed, and only I, who was supervised by you on Red Saturn, successfully awakened. How many coincidences are there? You know that the council is doing its best to make the test subject look like a living person, but you let me, a ready-made living person, leave as soon as possible, is it because you are extraordinarily kind? Or is there some hidden secret in your heart?"
The smile on Gavin's lips became more obvious, and Kaleyan looked at him as if he had been cursed, his eyes trembling slightly.
"...I can't tell you," the lieutenant general said hoarsely after a long silence, "I really want to...but I can't tell you."
He just stared at Gavin, slowly backed out of the room, and closed the door almost trembling.
In Gavin's limited memory, Kaleyan only appeared twice, and they were all chaotic and incoherent fragments. The first time he authorized Kaleyan to replace him and command the Shining Legion to attack the headquarters of the Dark Star Hall; the second time It was after the war that Kaleyan submitted a statement of self-defense, explaining why he did not put the main force directly on the battlefield, but violated the order of the marshal, and adopted the tactics of dividing the troops and chasing and fighting.
But these few memories are enough to describe Kaleyan: he is bold, careful, unconventional, with a strong sense of autonomy and the courage to take responsibility.
"Did you scare him too hard?" Finally Gavin was the only one left in the room, and the Griffin's optical brain immediately flew out of his pocket: "Will he change his mind and hand you over to the Exile Army?" ?”
"No." Gavin said calmly, went to take a shower, and rinsed off his dusty and blood-stained hair. When he came out, he saw a refrigerator next to the bed in the bedroom. He opened it and saw that there were military compressed food and beer in it, so he unceremoniously took them all and ate them all.
He was sitting on the bed, and the griffin brain flew around him, looking at his expression curiously, as if guessing whether he was thinking about the next course of action. However, there was no expression on Gavin's face, as if he had thought about everything clearly and didn't seem to think about anything, then he reached out and pinched the Griffin's ear naturally.
"Aw! Aw!" The ear is the sensor of the spherical light brain, and the griffin immediately flicked twice: "What do you want to do! Kaleyan came to abuse me after he left!"
"Come here and do a checkup for me, you have a basic medical system, right?"
"Of course, I am one of the few 3S mechs in the galaxy, and my medical cabin is the best in the empire's unique universe... What do you want to check?"
Gavin scratched it with his little finger, "Give me a blood test."
Unaware, the griffin poked Gavin's finger with a probe. A few minutes later, the blood test report was holographically projected in mid-air, and all the inspection items were available. Gavin's eyes followed the data line by line, and finally stopped at a certain line.
He was silent for a few seconds and breathed a sigh of relief.
"What's wrong?" Griffin asked curiously.
"It's nothing." Gavin smiled slightly, got up and closed the curtains, and stretched: "Let's sleep first."
·
While Gavin was falling asleep, the griffin scratched his heart, and Kaleyan was struggling, the Egret New Fontainebleau Palace was experiencing the most violent hurricane in history.
With a loud bang, Heinrich slammed the door of the interrogation room, and everyone hurriedly got up: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty..."
At this moment, the emperor's handsome face seemed to be covered with a layer of solid ice, and the air pressure around his body was so low that it made people shiver. Elder Longfellow of the Senate hurriedly winked desperately, and the presiding judge trembled and said: "We are almost out of the trial, Your Majesty... Please, please don't get angry..."
"Really?" the emperor said coldly, staring at the woman at the other end of the interrogation room: "The interrogation is coming soon? I don't think so."
The woman—Edna Consettrin was sitting under the dim light, her wrists were firmly restrained by electromagnetic cuffs, but her expression was leisurely and calm, and she did not seem to be threatened at all: "This is how you treat the old members of the alliance. So, Heinrich? I am expecting you to produce evidence of the so-called 'collusion with the exiled army and leaking secrets to the Dark Star Hall'. Even the emperor can't just engage in framing and slander, what do you think?"
Heinrich glanced at the presiding judge, who was sweating profusely.
"Ahem," Elder Longfellow cleared his throat, "The emperor has the right to arrange an inquiry meeting when someone is suspected, Miss Consettrin—"
"If you call this an 'inquiry'." Edna glanced at the dim and narrow room, and said sarcastically, "It's really as false as your Majesty's oath to 'promise to treat the old members of the alliance favorably'. Really you style."
There are very few people in the entire empire who dare to speak to the emperor like this, but Edna Consetlin, who came from the family of several generations of the Alliance Speaker's family, is definitely one of them. Elder Longfellow wiped off his sweat and stopped talking. The tense atmosphere in the interrogation room was almost suffocating. After a while, Heinrich said coldly: "I have no evidence."
"But don't try to play tricks on me like an old member of the alliance, Consettrin. You and I both know that the so-called 'Chairman's family' is just a high-level political prisoner, and what you rely on is Celia's fiancée. It’s just your status, and the real Legion of Glory won’t buy it from you.”
"It's fine if someone buys my account," Edna sneered. "If no one buys it, how can you tolerate me in every possible way? Isn't it your policy to maintain stability that you set at the beginning of the founding of the alliance? If there is no such policy, do you think the ruling provincial capitals will submit to the empire so quickly?"
She was right in saying that, and Heinrich put up with her because he had to.
It is not an exaggeration to say that Edna Consettrin's status in the alliance is a princess. Her grandfather and father both served as speaker, and her uncle was a member of parliament. She also has great influence and popularity; more importantly, she She is the fiancée officially recognized by Marshal Celia. Although the two have no facts, their status cannot be denied.
And this "title" is the basis of her various special treatment today—people in the whole galaxy are watching, the emperor sent Celia's fiancée to prison for trumped-up charges, so it's okay to spread the word? You must know that the empire is so big, but not all the ruling provinces are royalists. There are still many galaxies that are close to the alliance. The Ophiuchus constellation is a typical example.
Heinrich knew the threat in her words, but he didn't waver, but laughed instead.
"Be kind to the old members of the alliance..." he repeated, with a strong sense of sarcasm in his tone: "in the name of the alliance, but in reality a dictatorship, do you think that once Celia dies, the empire will not be able to move you anymore? In the final analysis, it is nothing more than You are squandering the freedom that Silia bought with her life, how many days do you think you can squander?"
Everyone held their breath, not even daring to make a sound.
"... I don't understand what you mean." Edna said coldly.
Heinrich raised one corner of his mouth, waved his hand and said, "You all go down."
Elder Longfellow glanced at the emperor worriedly, and retreated first. Immediately afterwards, everyone retreated silently, and there were only the two of them left in the small interrogation room. The emperor stared at Edna condescendingly with such a smile: "I can't touch you, but Celia can."
"Do you think you can hold Celia, who has lost his memory, in the palm of your hand? Dream, Consettlin. You use Caroline to summon the Dark Star Hall in the Mech League, and you want them to bring Celia to the exiled army, But they didn’t know that the Dark Star Hall only wanted to kill Celia to avenge the 400-year seal—but their plan also failed, and Celia has already recovered part of her memory.”
Edna's expression changed when she heard that Dark Star Hall planned to kill Celia, and then she heard that he had recovered part of her memory. Edna's eyes were horrified, and she couldn't even hide it: "Is this not true?" -impossible-"
"Why is it impossible? Soul refraction is a technology that transfers thought waves as a whole. Isn't it supposed to preserve all memories?" Heinrich narrowed his eyes slightly, and then smiled: "It is the alliance exiled army who performed the soul refraction surgery. What kind of tricks did you do... So you know, it is impossible for Celia to recover any memory?"
Edna opened her mouth, but nothing came out.
"Memory is a person's most precious asset, especially for a person like Celia who has lived for more than 500 years. The huge knowledge and experience accumulated over a long period of time constitute him, forming his unique character, wisdom and The way of doing things. So after I learned that Celia had completely lost her memory, I had some doubts: how could there be such a fatal mistake in the soul refraction experiment that poured all the scientific research strength of the exile army?"
Heinrich paused, and there was a trace of contempt in his eyes: "Unless...you did it on purpose. You didn't want to bring back the invincible alliance commander, but just wanted an obedient and easy-to-manipulate Gavin It's just Celia."
There was a dead silence in the interrogation room.
Edna's face was ashen, and she said for a long time: "... This is just your guess, Heinrich, you don't even have evidence to confirm that that person is the real Celia!"
Unexpectedly, Heinrich laughed when he heard the words, as if he had heard some big joke: "—No evidence? Do you think I'm sure he needs evidence?"
Edna stared at him suspiciously, until he finally stopped his smile, waved his hand and said, "Come here!"
The two interrogators quickly opened the door and entered. After seeing the emperor's eyes, they consciously went up and pinched Edna's shoulders to force her to stand up.
"I don't need that kind of thing between Celia and me, but I do need evidence to stop your exiled army." Heinrich paused viciously, and said slowly: "So I called you this time, mainly I want you to witness another thing with your own eyes."
Edna didn't react at first, but then suddenly realized something: "Could it be that you—"
"Yes," Heinrich interrupted, "I want to open the cockpit of the Phoenix."