Lloyd couldn't help but take a breath of cold air. Xiao Ran's so-called week is equivalent to at least doubling the entire mission's work. You must know that the one to two weeks he just said is already about to be completed. Overtime work was taken into account, and the testing time of the machine was also excluded. Xiao Ran's current attitude was basically to let them complete all the work within a week.
Xiao Ran could see clearly that the corners of Lloyd's eyes couldn't help but twitch, and Xiao Ran couldn't help but smile inwardly. A week has actually been a long time, and now that the body has been completed to this extent, the rest It is not impossible for the entire special mission to completely abandon other tasks within a week and put all the manpower on this machine to complete it. Moreover, Xiao Ran has to do the system adjustment of the machine himself. At most, these technicians will cooperate with Xiao Ran. To complete the remaining detailed adjustments to the machine body, the workload is large, but not so heavy that they are too tired to get up.
A week is so long. If it were placed in the hands of the Burning Legion, it would not be a matter of one or two units. It is estimated that many A-class units with standard configuration would be mass-produced.
"One week is enough. I will do the final testing and adjustments with you. I will put all the power of the special mission into this machine. I believe one week is completely enough."
Lloyd exhaled softly: "Oh, one week is too tight. You simply don't treat us as human beings. I can only say that I will do my best and try my best to take out the body in one week. "
"It's not about trying your best, but doing it for sure." Xiao Ran waved his hand and emphasized the last time again, then looked at the machine that had people working all the time and said, "Okay, I won't disturb your work here. I'll be back in a week, come on."
Xiao Ran and Saki turned around and left, leaving only Lloyd who turned to look at the machine that was still being completed, scratched his head and sighed helplessly: "Oh my, it's such a simple and casual arrangement, one week. The time is just terrible.”
Leaving the Special Mission Research Institute along the same route, Saki asked as soon as she got in the car: "Where are you going next?"
Xiao Ran opened the car window and looked out the window: "I'm going back. The situation there is not suitable for me to leave for too long."
Rukino Saki turned his head and glanced at Xiao Ran, and asked with a smile: "If you don't go and see Euphilia, that child will miss you very much while you are away."
"No." Xiao Ran turned back to look at Saki, shook his head and smiled: "No one else knows about my coming here, and besides, there is nothing wrong, so why do I have to go see her."
"I thought you would want to go see her." Rukino Saki pursed his lips and said with a smile, "Aren't you his guardian knight? Are you not going to see the princess you protect when you come back?"
Xiao Ran smiled and said nothing, but it was true that he had no idea of going to see Euphilia now, and now was not the right opportunity. But when he meets Euphilia next time, this country will also become With another look, Xiao Ran didn't know how Euphilia would look at him as a 'traitor' at that time.
Rukino Saki took Xiao Ran over to District 11. It seemed that he just came here to take a look. Even this look could be done through communication. There was no need to waste time and come here in person, but for Lloyd The delay over there is not to say that this guy is deliberately delaying. Xiao Ran also feels that it is necessary to come and take a look in person to confirm how complete the machine is, instead of listening to Lloyd's message through video communication further away. The nonsense the guy made up to put him at ease.
After returning to District 19 and making an appointment to pick up Xiao Ran next time, Rukino Saki drove the transforming fighter plane away again, and Xiao Ran also drove the car he drove out and returned to the frontline base unhurriedly, and then Went directly to the headquarters.
The headquarters was still as busy as before, or busier than before. Xiao Ran walked directly to the big screen in the headquarters. A lot of people were standing in front of the big screen or lying on the table. Doing the work you should do.
Xiao Ran's arrival did not disturb these people, but when Xiao Ran stood next to Cornelia, Cornelia still stopped arranging the personnel and tasks, glanced at Xiao Ran, and said coldly: " Don’t run around if you feel uncomfortable, you’ve just spent a few hours running somewhere.”
"I have some things to deal with and I left for a while." Xiao Ran was not surprised that Cornelia knew that he had been away for a few hours. She raised her head and glanced at the picture displayed on the big screen, nodded slightly and said: "The speed of progress is not bad. , we have taken over almost 60% of the rebel territory in such a short period of time. Has the EU taken any action in response to our actions?"
Cornelia shook her head: "Not yet, but we have no way to take any action against them. Now the EU's defense is arranged like a turtle and can't find a suitable breakthrough target. Next, we can only wait for us to Only after the center of gravity is taken back from the rebels can we concentrate on launching an offensive against EU."
"However, the Scarlet Knights still followed your arrangements. They led a part of the troops to continue harassing and attacking EU. The cumulative effect was to eliminate the opponent's effective combat power, and they were also looking for someone to defend EU. Weak point, but we have intelligence that between yesterday and today, EU also received support from a new force. However, there is no news yet where this force has been deployed. I am not sure whether this force It’s EU’s special combat power.”
Special combat power refers to a group of participants such as the Scarlet Knights. After hearing Cornelia's words, Xiao Ran lowered his head slightly and supported his chin and began to think, and said: "It is very likely that it is both. Yes, EU has always been a strong competitor to Butaria. It is absolutely impossible to sit back and watch the advantage finally gained here be taken back by Butaria again. Maybe there is something going on here that we don’t know about. thing."
Cornelia looked at Xiao Ran: "What is it?"
Xiao Ran said thoughtfully: "The resistance army and EU were originally an alliance, but now that the resistance army has given up resistance, it is normal for EU to know the specific situation and make some countermeasures. I will go to the details. To understand, no matter what, we need to strengthen the defenses in various places, especially this base. Let Corgi send some people to assist in the defense. By the way, when can my body be repaired? No matter what, it is best to survive this period. time."
Cornelia nodded. She thought that what Xiao Ran meant by surviving this period of time was the time for the Demon God Caesar to be repaired and dispersed to receive the rebels' abandoned territory. However, she did not pay attention to Xiao Ran's true intentions at all. Intention, Xiao Ran's real intention was that the station was completely completed a week before District 11 was completed.
On Lelouch's side, under the protection of Corgi and some members of the Scarlet Knights, the plane was safely parked at the airport, one of the few remaining bases of the resistance. It was originally a civilian airport, but because of The war relationship turned into a special purpose long ago, and the airport was completely transformed into a base.
In this base, the aircraft driven by Corgi and other members of the Scarlet Knights, who were protecting the landing of the aircraft, were surrounded by countless aircraft as soon as they landed, and Corgi and the others did not show weakness and raised their weapons to protect them. Next to the plane Lelouch was riding on, but under the premise that the two sides were about to start real negotiations, even if a confrontation occurred, both sides still maintained their rationality, whether it was surrounding them, raising guns, or confronting them. , are just precautionary measures taken by both parties to distrust the other party.
And when Lelouch got down from the plane with the door open, wearing a black cloak and a helmet, and bravely and needlessly walked to the ground alone, Seleus, the leader of the resistance, also appeared on Lulo Xiu's side. In front of Lu Xiu, little did he know that in this extremely tense situation, Lu Lu Xiu's forehead was already covered with sweat, and even his back was soaked with sweat. He was secretly cursing Xiao Ran in his heart for letting him participate. This kind of risk-taking, empty-handed strategy, a dangerous action of convincing a group of people by one person, is like this for the Scarlet Knights, and it is also like this for the current resistance forces, but Xiao Ran is not with him this time. He was on the plane before. Drinking was also to relieve the nervousness in his heart, and not to let Xiao Ran see his nervousness.
Selleus was very handsome and sunny, with blond hair and a sharp face. Wearing a white vest, he took the initiative to reach out to Lelouch and introduced himself: "Seleus, the commander-in-chief of the resistance army, The commander of the Roaring Lion Legion."
Lelouch took a deep breath in his helmet, stepped forward and held Seleus's hand: "Zero, the leader of the Black Knights."
Selleus nodded and smiled brightly: "I knew it when I saw you, Zero, the famous leader of the Black Knights in District 11, but I didn't expect that you would come to negotiate with us. I didn't know you and What is the relationship between those Lelouch knights?"
"We are both the founders of the Black Knights. The answer should not be difficult to guess. The purpose of my coming here this time is to let you join the Black Knights. I don't know what Mr. Selleus thinks about this."
Lelouch did not hide this. After all, the purpose of his coming here was to merge the resistance army, or the Roaring Lion Legion mentioned by Seleus, into the Black Knights. There was no need to hide this. Moreover, Xiao Ran had already said that the other party would not change his mind.
Selleus shook his head. They were unable to compete in terms of strength. They had no choice when he failed. Although Zero's appearance was indeed a bit unexpected for him, and what was even more unexpected was that the other party asked him to join. It turned out to be the Black Knights, a mysterious new organization, and it was unclear whether there was an organization supported by the participants, but no matter what, he had no intention of going back on his word. After all, they really couldn't afford the price of going back on his word.
After shaking his head, Selleus looked at the machine driven by Corgi and others, and asked with some confusion: "Then the Scarlet Knights are also members of the Black Knights now, right from the beginning?"
"No, just like you, after realizing that your strength is not enough to resist that knight, and that you are in urgent need of the material support we provide, the Scarlet Knights can only become one of us and obey our instructions. , but they are different from you. As far as the Scarlet Knights are concerned, their allegiance is only to me and not to the Black Knights. Although from my standpoint, there is not much difference, but as far as you are concerned, Allegiance will be to the Black Knights."
"I see, it seems that your identity, Zero, is not simple." Selleus nodded clearly, and showed his sunny smile: "But we also have differences, after all, the person who defeated me was Knight Lelouch also asked for loyalty to him. If it is his wish to join the Black Knights, of course there is no problem, but just like the Scarlet Knights, the person they are loyal to is you, the person we are loyal to will only be Lelouch Knight.”
Is Seleus stupid? Of course they are not stupid. Now that they have determined that the camp they are about to defect to is the Black Knights, an organization that has no conflict and can be integrated, of course they choose to agree without thinking at all. The Black Knights are essentially an alternative. It's a rebel army, and the two have no conflict at all and have never been considered enemies. There is no problem at all in switching sides.
Not to mention that the object of allegiance is Knight Lelouch. Knight Lelouch is already a strong man in Seleus's impression, but the zero in front of him is just an ordinary person in Seleus's eyes. And the key point is that the name Lelouch is too special. If you choose who to compare, the result will be obvious, right
Lelouch felt completely indifferent to this. He had always led the Black Knights anyway, and even if the Scarlet Knights were loyal to him, Xiao Ran had not made the Scarlet Knights like servants, and to a certain extent. The real leader in the cooperative relationship between him and Xiao Ran is actually Xiao Ran.
So Lelouch also nodded and said: "Of course there is no problem. As long as we are willing to become a member of the Black Knights, even if we have reached an agreement on the unified goal, everything else can be discussed."
Selleus smiled and said: "Then we need to talk in more detail. For example, what kind of obligations we have to fulfill after joining the Black Knights, and what kind of tasks we need to complete. I have already given Everyone has arranged a place to rest. Let’s rest for a while and then we will talk in detail after dinner.”