Leaving aside the previous performances, Harlan’s recent performances have always given us an inexplicable feeling. This feeling arose from his brazen attack on the border of the Empire that day and almost wiped out the entire army. Today, I feel a strong feeling again. sense of disobedience.
His behavior is too unlike a guy with clear logic and clear goals. He attacked at the most unexpected time, hibernated in the most unexpected situation, and when he theoretically would not show up, he suddenly appeared and robbed us. Fiali merchant ship as bait—his series of behaviors have a "sense of disarray in rhythm", as if he is sleepwalking. The ship used as the bait wandered in the far border for three full days. It stands to reason that its identity as the bait was already arousing suspicion at this time. I can already see the trap at a glance and pop out...
When we received the information from Far Frontier, of course Sandora and I immediately ordered the whole army to attack to block the actions of the remnants of Harlan. I thought of the strange decline in combat power of the fallen apostles during the border battle that day, and I also thought of Harlan’s convulsive military operations. Finally, we came to a conclusion: this time, no matter what, we must find a way to capture that lunatic alive. We must understand him. What part of the brain is wrong...
A few days ago, Sivis rushed to the far border with the large force. She personally commanded the volley against Harlan. Now she has led the previously arranged ambush force to surround the target world layer by layer, and is reporting to us. The situation on the front line - at this time, Sandora and I were still at home. Originally, Sandora had already considered giving up this trapping plan, but now it seems that we will have to set off soon: to deal with a Xiling Being an emperor is not an easy task, and the elite army of Sivis cannot guarantee that there will be no accidents, so Sandora and I have to go to sit in charge in person. In addition, we are still considering capturing Harlan alive, and ordinary troops may not be able to handle this kind of task.
Considering the "distance" between Far Frontier and the capital of the empire, Sandora and I have to leave soon.
"The decoy sent out an attack signal twenty minutes ago," Sivis in military uniform said solemnly on the holographic projection in the center of the living room. Short, lasting less than two seconds, the equipment on the decoy detected that the enemy was indeed the remnant of Harlan. As expected, the enemy did not destroy the ship, but tried to capture it—now the decoy has been captured by Harlan Lan remnants were brought to the main material plane, and we have surrounded this place layer by layer."
"Does he have any signs of breaking out?" Sandora asked with a frown, and all the doll heads in the family were lined up beside her: These little guys haven't seen us having a strategic meeting at home for a long time, and they know that this is going to war again , So they all showed very curious looks. Of course, they were very quiet, and even tried to imitate the imperial soldiers they had seen sitting upright: these little guys who grew up in a special environment, although I usually call them "bear children" countless times, in the current situation Showing unusual maturity and stability, before the war came, they were much more sensible than I thought.
"No, this is also the puzzling part," Sivis said with confusion on his face, "Theoretically, after Harlan dragged the spaceship back to his lair, he should have found out that he was cheated, but they haven't made any movement so far. Our army found this world following the last tracking signal sent by the bait, and found traces of the passage of the abyssal fleet on the world barrier, so I can be sure that the enemy troops are hiding in this place, and with the quality of the enemy's royal fleet, it belongs to the world. Your Majesty believes that Harlan has sensed that the imperial army is approaching - but they show no signs of breaking through."
Sandora didn't have any surprises: "Maybe they know that there is no hope of breaking through, so they are preparing to defend and fight back, or maybe that Harlan's brain is short-circuiting again-in short, you continue to place disruptors on the world barrier, and speed up the speed in the void. Set up a relay station, and when the power of the Death Garden is spread, they will really be unable to escape."
"Shouldn't we launch a general attack now? Your Majesty?" Sivis asked in surprise.
"Don't worry, you must be safe when dealing with that kind of enemy," Sandora stood up, "First release the probe, and then send the scout team to first investigate the situation of the universe and the general situation of Harlan, when we arrive Then prepare for the general attack."
At the end, before I ended the communication, I specifically told Sivis: "Don't rush in, I always feel that Harlan's head is not normal. If an emperor really wants to get angry, I'm afraid you won't be able to control him." , Sandora and I will pass here."
"The head is not quite..." Sivis was stunned for a moment, then silently saluted and ended the communication.
"Light and simple, if we use the fastest shuttle, we will set off after lunch, and we will be able to reach the front line before dinner," Sandora looked at the time, and made an action list based on her meal time according to her style.
I think she is in a good mood now, a little excited, but more of anticipation and joy - I can understand this mood, because I am similar. Although Harlan is powerful, this enemy is at the end of his battle. He is the most destructive enemy we have encountered since the founding of the new empire. Now this enemy has been cornered, which is obviously excellent. So there was an atmosphere of fighting spirit and positive energy between Sandora and me.
But the rest of the family seems to be a little upset. Since I hung up the communication just now, the little puppet has been trying to pull my head off: she seems to be in a very upset mood now.
Of course I know why this is, and this is also a difficult situation: my whole day's war is the most dissatisfied part of the little puppet. This girl looks weird and indifferent, but she is actually the kind The type who will be very dependent on others if you let go of your defenses. Although she never admitted it, Sandora once said this to me:
"If there is anything in the world that can convince that little girl unconditionally, it is only your word."
Yes, this is a hard-spoken, soft-hearted, awkward brat who is obviously clingy but insists on pretending to be invincible. She hopes that I will not run around outside three hundred days a year, but she will never say so clearly: she Will try to bite or do some other head-scratching pranks...
I took the little girl off my shoulders with great effort, and those slender but extremely powerful little arms strangled my neck and turned around. I held her face: "Be obedient, wait at home, this time The war will be over soon, and there are not many troops left in that Haran."
"Then what about next time?" the puppet girl said coldly, with a look of anger on her face.
"Chen, I have a suggestion for you, take her with you."
When I was studying how to make the little girl stay at home as usual, Bingtis' voice suddenly came from the spiritual connection, and what the female hooligan said surprised me.
"Hairy?" My expression remained unchanged, but I quickly replied during the spiritual connection, "This is a war against the fallen emperor. It is a high-risk war. This girl has no fighting power..."
"In the future, there will be no low-risk wars that require you to fight in person." Bingtis didn't seem to be a whim, she was explaining her thoughts very seriously, "You don't understand children's thoughts... look at it with this little girl Sisters who are together, you will understand."
I was stunned, and looked around at the group of little girls—excluding the Pandora sisters, Bubble and Lilina, four special elements that could not be classified as "children". I don't see any difference between the others and the minifigures.
Bingtis sighed, and pointed out one by one in the spiritual connection: "Little Bubble, sooner or later, will grow into a mature body host, even if her defects lead to slow development, her final form will be the same as Bubble; , she is already a powerful Crow God, and except for some strange problems, her mind and body are almost adults, and she can go to the battlefield with you at any time; Xiaoxue... Of course she also has a child, but she will grow up quickly As a commander, it is said that he went to the front line as an official officer of the Royal Fleet at the age of fifteen. These are your children or people who can be regarded as children by you, and they are also the sisters of the little girl with dolls, but they are destined now I will become a member who can fight with you, and I have gone out with you many times, more times than the little girl in your arms—your puppet daughter has a sense of crisis, and you never realized it?"
I immediately reacted.
"I am the most useless of the children"—this kind of thought must have begun to sprout in the little doll's heart, because her sisters' future achievements have been demonstrated in the present, and only she seems to see nothing. Hope that can become more "useful".
It seems that in many stories about court battles, the descendants of the royal family will fight to the death because of their respective merits and talents. Children will have the time to do that, but that doesn't mean they can't have a sense of crisis related to it, especially for a doll with such a competitive and aloof character, when the sisters around her When everyone is active as a commander or a god, she is still a child playing around at home, she must not accept it.
I never thought about this, not because I didn't care about this girl, but because I never linked my daughter with the words "excellent military exploits and boundless future". In my mind, they should be worry-free I play carelessly all day long, so I never thought about letting these babes follow me to charge into the battle. Isn't there a saying that in the eyes of parents, a child will always be a child, even if you have won hundreds of thousands of battles and plundered cities and hundreds of buildings. You have to stand there and listen honestly when your parents tell you about your bedwetting when you were a child: because your parents don’t pay attention to how capable their children are, their favorite sentence is forever Yes: The child is still young!
— By the way, isn’t it a bit sad that I feel so old at such a young age
Look at Xiaoxue, I'm afraid her military literacy and various high-tech professional knowledge are better than mine, but 90% of the time I still feel that she is just an ignorant brat, which fully shows that problem.
Thinking of this, I hugged the little puppet girl and put it back on my shoulder: "I'll take you this time."
My elder sister immediately cast a worried look at me. Obviously she felt that the battlefield was dangerous, and it was not wise to let the little puppet follow rashly, but I waved her: "Don't worry, I won't be unable to keep such a little puppet!" Guy, and she should go to see the world occasionally, everyone in the empire is from the military—it’s been two years since she went to the battlefield last time.”
Sandora nodded in agreement: "Indeed, members of the royal family cannot evade military duties, but this child is a bit special, and has never been counted as a citizen of the empire."
In fact, although I decided to bring a small lamp, in the final analysis, it was just to cheer up the little girl. I really don't think this girl can be of any use on the battlefield: there are gods who are out of specification everywhere. On the battlefield, her combat prowess really doesn't have any sense of presence, and it's clear that she has never learned how to march and fight, let alone interstellar strategy. Of course, she is not a scientist either—she can't be a super soldier, can't be a staff officer, and doesn't know scientific research...
Um, I suddenly understand the depression in the heart of the little puppet.
"We need to eat every bite..." Bingtis seemed to be able to think of my thoughts, she squinted and said something, but soon she saw Sandora looking at the kitchen, so she changed her words instantly, "Uh, The road has to be taken step by step, as the head of state, you can't keep your heirs in the greenhouse forever, can you?"
When Bingtis said the three words "heir", I was shocked for a moment. I usually didn't notice that I was already a character who could be called an heir to children: I feel that these three words are used in Gongdou drama Those royal relatives who can beat their brains out have nothing to do with my family who drink soy milk, eat deep-fried dough sticks and buy discounted eggs. Thinking about it now... I really feel it!
I was the first to think of that very famous sentence: One day, my reign will come to an end, and you will be crowned...
Thinking of this, I couldn’t help but look around. Little Bubble was pulling Jill’s clothes for a toy, Xiaoxue was lying on the sofa reading comics—smiling like a fool, the little doll was counting my hair, if little If the crow is also counted, she is feeding her palm-sized split organisms to eat cabbage gang, and squatting on the coffee table without changing their minds.
I think I should try my best to live, the prospect of my heir is probably a bit bleaker than that of Terenas...
So the little puppet was happily allowed to set off with the adults: she regarded going out to fight as a happy thing, and I don't know if this mentality is a problem. Of course, the consequence of doing this is that all the little ones have a reason to follow. I think Bingtis's view that "the heirs need to be trained, and they will go to the battlefield like Xiaoxue sooner or later" is very reasonable, so I can only agree to all of them, but after agreeing, Sandora and my sister and I are very serious. A statement to the little ones:
War is serious and dangerous. This is not going out to play, nor is it a child's house. Especially this war, we must treat it with awe.
Later I found out that this was almost nonsense: Little Bubble is a professional soldier of Xiling Apostle in her bones, she is like a mirror in her heart; although the little crow is still young, she is growing rapidly as a crow god. Under the guidance of Na, she already understands the meaning of responsibility and devotion; needless to say, Xiaoxue was born in the army; Taiping...
These kids are doing great!
This time Lin Xue will be responsible for keeping the housekeeper. She is mainly in order to meet her father's call at any time, because the eldest lady has been away from home for a long time this year, and this girl may not be able to go out with us for a long time in the near future. Except for her, almost all the elder sisters and adults in the family were dispatched this time, and we brought all the children with us like never before—oh, according to Bingtis, we can’t call children when we are on the battlefield, they should be called "experienced" The Heir" - I can't remember the last time I led these little guys while out fighting.
Because the army is already in place in the far border, we save the time of dispatching the army. A group of people travel easily, and it only takes a few hours to reach the far border. According to Sandora's schedule, we set off after lunch , and met Sivis an hour before dinner.
Let's not complain about Sandora's behavior of using meal times as a schedule
When we arrived, the elite troops led by Sivis were still besieging the enemy layer by layer above the order critical point of the world barrier. They stood still here according to Sandora's order and sent several waves of reconnaissance troops. Now the world has been blocked, and the jump information of the world barrier is fully encrypted: this operation is like transferring a small program to a certain folder, and then putting this folder into a sandbox environment to isolate it , unless the sandbox is lifted, the programs in the folder cannot escape—Harlan is the virus program trapped in the folder.
The engineering fleet built a continuous order field generator on the side closer to the void at the critical point of order. It is like the void node of the Protoss, providing us with the conditions to establish a base in the void environment. Now a central After the base station is being established rapidly, its function is to conduct and amplify the signal from the death garden. After the base station is in operation, the world where Harlan is hiding will be more completely isolated: it is equivalent to the physical isolation of the virus program. It is as safe as going to another storage.
"How's the situation? Harlan still hasn't tried to break through?" Sandora immediately wanted to understand the current situation here when she saw Sivis, and the latter's expression seemed very tangled to us:
"Your Majesty, there seems to be something wrong... Harlan not only didn't try to break out, he didn't even establish a resistance position in the world. They... hid in deep space, and we are looking for them. And there is something wrong with this universe..." RS