"Yes," Heinrich interrupted, "I'm going to open the cockpit of the Phoenix."
At that moment, Edna almost thought she heard it wrong, but when she was escorted to the huge test site, she realized that Heinrich had to do more than open the cockpit—
He also had to dissect Celia's body.
"You're crazy..." She stared at the emperor in horror, her voice trembling slightly: "If Gavin wasn't Celia, and if this was just a trap set by the exiled army, you actually dissected his body so directly... Aren't you afraid of regretting it?" ?!"
"I can bear it." Heinrich said indifferently, "Fifty years have passed, and now I can bear everything."
They stood on the suspended corridor and looked over the railing at the huge test site below them. The silver-white cockpit of Phoenix was placed vertically in the electromagnetic field. Two thousand and six hundred cutting robots were ready. Everyone looked up and waited for the emperor's order. .
Heinrich opened his mouth slowly, and uttered a word: "Open."
In an instant, all the robots were activated, and countless sawtooths whirled and cut open the cockpit door. The electromagnetic field was filled with sparks, and the last mental bolt of Phoenix was forcibly released, and soon the heavy vacuum cabin lock was completely cut off, and the giant mechanical arm stretched out to grab the latch—
With a loud bang, the heavy hatch that had been closed for half a century was slowly opened.
Edna's pupils constricted, and she involuntarily stepped back half a step.
However, what made her collapse even more was still behind: as the hatch fell to the ground, a large driver's seat slowly rose out of the dark cabin. A half-figure on the seat—
"No..." Edna panted quickly, and hissed, "No, stop quickly... No!"
She suddenly covered her eyes, but the emperor stood there, motionless like a rock.
Celia's body was only half, because his left upper body had been crushed into blood mud when he made an emergency landing on Red Saturn. After fifty years of vacuum sealing the cockpit, the collapsed driver's seat and wires have become a whole, tightly wrapping his mutilated body inside.
Heinrich stared at the driver's seat, his eyes were bloodshot, but his expression was as silent and cold as a knife: "Take DNA from the body...to verify the authenticity."
In fact, the hands of all the researchers were shaking at this time. Celia died so tragically that the entire bottom of the driver's seat was covered with coagulated blood. At first glance, one could imagine the scene of blood splashing out like a fountain.
But no one spoke, and no one even made any unnecessary noises. The two researchers shivered and reached into the pliers through the gap in the wires, took out a part of the body tissue, and sent it for testing with pale faces.
A moment later, the communicator in front of the emperor rang, and the stuttering voice of the research team leader came: "Your Majesty, this is impossible, the remains are Alpha..."
Edna closed her eyes abruptly.
"Do you think I will be surprised?" Heinrich said in a low voice, his voice was hoarse and he couldn't hear the emotion: "—No, I knew it a long time ago. The Phoenix body was melted by more than 50% in the Battle of the Venus Fortress, and Celia is considered There is absolutely no possibility of surviving a robot, let alone appearing at a press conference unscathed after only one month... Yes, I vaguely had this kind of speculation at the time, but I never dared to think deeply. "
"I have been deceiving myself, maybe the constant temperature program of the Phoenix cockpit can withstand the high temperature of tens of thousands of degrees, maybe Celia really has some unknown way to escape... But now thinking about it, I was just deceiving myself and others, I won the victory At that moment, Celia was really dead."
Heinrich paused, and said in a low voice, "I killed him twice."
Edna's eyes were filled with tears, and even her vision was blurred: "Then you... still..."
"I have no choice. If you go on this road, you can't turn back. Some things don't happen if you don't want them to happen. Celia is the commander of the alliance. In that case, who will he not sacrifice? And my position On the contrary, can I send tens of millions of soldiers of the empire to a dead end in order to keep him alone?"
Heinrich shook his head, and whispered after a while: "There are more important things above feelings, and it's the same for me, and it's the same for Celia."
Edna stared at him full of shock and resentment, but saw him turn on the communicator with one hand, and said indifferently: "Notify the biochemical team—take out the body and prepare for the craniotomy!"
No one knew what that moment was like for the Emperor, not even Edna.
Just as no one knew why the emperor had to open the skull of Marshal Celia's body, many researchers at the time felt that Heinrich was crazy, or that he was irritated and distorted by the exile army. When this order was issued, The biochemical team didn't even dare to do anything for more than ten minutes, they were all waiting for the emperor to withdraw his order.
However, they were doomed not to wait until the emperor changed his mind. In the end, they had no choice but to drive the ducks to the shelves and cut off the criss-crossing nerve nets and wires on the driver's seat. The whole group carried out Celia's fragmented body with trembling hands.
The operation was carried out in a fully sealed state. Only three minutes later, the communicator heard the shocked voice of the researcher again: "Your Majesty, we found something in the Marshal's brain! It's... it's a signal transmitter! "
There was an uproar in the test field, so quiet that you could even hear a needle drop to the ground. Heinrich was silent for a few seconds, then turned around and walked downstairs to the operating room.
Edna stretched out her hand to stop it, but halfway up the hand, it dropped down.
The operating room was also stiff, and Heinrich pushed the door open, walking so fast that the research team leader almost couldn't keep up with him.
"We found this in the marshal's brain, and it was found to be something like a transmitter..." The chief surgeon presented a plate in shock, but Heinrich first cast his sight on the operating table, and a few seconds later Then he turned to the blood-stained silver button on the plate.
— This is a typical biological electromagnetic resonator, which Heinrich first identified.
The alliance's excellent bio-electromagnetic technology is fully reflected in this small button: until now, the empire has not been able to use such a small device to refract the thought waves of primates, and the brain capacity of humans is more than a thousand Hundreds of times more, if it is replaced by the Royal Academy of Sciences, at least a resonator the size of a table is needed to barely refract 12% of human thinking.
The alliance's technology in this area is simply beyond the times.
Heinrich was short of breath, stretched out his hand trembling several times, and finally made up his mind to gently pick up the button.
"There should be a receiver for this transmitter, but we can't track where it is." The research team leader wondered: "Unfortunately, the research of the Empire in this area is not as good as that of the Alliance. Used it, can we take it apart and have a look?"
"No, I know..." Heinrich wanted to say that he knew this had been used, otherwise how would Celia be resurrected? But before he could speak, a whirlwind suddenly rose from the button and swept the entire operating room in an instant!
"This is—" The researchers looked at each other.
Heinrich staggered half a step in an instant, his eyes widened in shock!
—It turned out to be the wind!
It's the wind from the Nether Sky Star!
Countless rustling voices contained the power of life, vigorous and enthusiastic, like flying elves, whistling past Heinrich's ears in an instant: "Who are you?" He heard the countless voices converging into one, curious Ask: "You are not the human marshal, who are you?"
"..." the emperor opened his mouth, but couldn't speak. Intense waves of thought hit his brain nerves like a storm, and countless memory fragments were like an automatic projection, eloquently and bizarrely, tens of millions of frames flashed before his eyes at the same time.
"Why didn't the human marshal come to see us?" The voice asked again: "Why is it different from the agreement?"
"Who are you?"
"Where did you hide the Marshal?"
Heinrich couldn't speak at all, and he realized in a trance that this is a star from the sky!
When Silia stood on the Youkong Star listening to the wind and told him that he was listening to the people of the Youkong Star, it turned out that he was referring to such a thing!
"Oh—has the marshal told you?" The Youkong star immediately captured the picture in his mind, and said with a smile: "You can hear us talking now, it's really rare."
"Yeah, originally only the Marshal could..."
"Where is the Marshal? Why didn't you come to see us?"
Countless Youkong Stars were chirping and flying around the emperor, setting off gusts of wind like swirls. Heinrich only felt blackness in front of his eyes, and couldn't hear the panicked screams of the researchers. He could only do his best to concentrate in a trance—[Why do you want to see Celia?]"Because he left us the most precious inheritance," the voices of the stars in the sky rang together: "Now we have to return everything to him according to the agreement."
[… What is the most precious legacy?]
"What do you think? What do you think?"
Heinrich's mind was buzzing like an engine was installed, and the space stars laughed triumphantly, as if they were very satisfied with their prank: "Don't you know? You are so stupid!"
"You really don't know? He even said he was a student of the marshal!"
"It's a memory, don't you know?"
Heinrich's pupils constricted, and he seemed to understand something in a blink of an eye, but he didn't understand anything; then his eyes suddenly blurred, and all the noise disappeared—
The surroundings are no longer a chaotic operating room, but a gentle night breeze.
Heinrich looked around in astonishment, and saw the starry sky above his head, a meadow under his feet, and the long and short sounds of insects in the distance; the young Celia was lying under the laurel tree, with his eyes closed as if he was sleeping.
And another black-robed boy was walking across the lawn towards him amidst the sound of rustling footsteps.
Celia under the tree didn't move or open her eyes, she seemed to be asleep, but at that moment Heinrich realized that he could never really be sleeping... He finally realized that what he was seeing was Celia's memory .
——The secret and unknown memory that Celia handed over to the Space Stars for five hundred years.