interstellar fairy tale

Chapter 19

Fighter planes and warships are not just weapons to kill the enemy, they are the lives of soldiers.

This is what Colonel Edgar often said.

When Shang Ping boarded the space cruiser heading for the Canon military fortress, and saw nearly a hundred Mars single-man fighters in the huge indoor parking area of ​​the cruiser, this sentence came to mind involuntarily.Although he couldn't clearly understand the meaning of this sentence, Shang Ping still firmly remembered Colonel Edgar's expression when he said it.

Deep, serious, and even solemn, like taking an oath.

His adoptives, speaking of them and not of them.

Shang Ping looked at the busy engineers in the airport, and couldn't help recalling the real cosmic war scenes shown in the classroom. When the particle cannons and laser bombs exploded like fireworks, the dark abyss of the universe seemed to be torn apart. Cracks were opened, the scorching light stabbed the eyes, the huge battleship was cut off in the middle, and countless fighters were swallowed by the beautiful strong light and turned into cosmic dust...

Sitting in the training cabin and seeing these warships representing the lives of soldiers is really a world of difference.

"Shang Ping, what's wrong with you?"

A somewhat cold hand grasped Shang Ping's shoulder, and also dispersed the somewhat chaotic thoughts in Shang Ping's mind.

"It's nothing."

Shang Ping turned his head and smiled at Austin, shook his head, and along with other students, lined up on the conveyor belt of the cruise ship.Following the semaphore issued by the ground controller, the hatch of the cruiser slowly closed, and with the launch of two cruisers and a frigate, a vortex-shaped airflow rose from the ground, rolling dust into the air, The clouds are flying together.

A total of 530 students from the Madoff Military Academy went to the Canon military fortress this time. If these young men have not yet been on the battlefield, this team can already form a small fleet with considerable combat effectiveness.

As a non-graduating student, Shang Ping has a slightly different schedule. Together with eight other non-graduating students including Austin, he will take part in military theory courses, and after arriving at the Canon military fortress, he will be allowed to observe Madoff The actual combat exercise conducted by the students of the Military Academy and the single-man fighter unit of the Eighth Fleet stationed in the fortress.

"Why can't we participate in this exercise, and can only watch from the sidelines?" A junior student complained, "We are also here to participate in the exercise, aren't we?"

Regarding this student's complaint, apart from Austin and Shang Ping, the other six students obviously shared the same opinion.Shang Ping only thought that the gray-haired boy in front of him was very interesting. If he was really dissatisfied, why didn't he raise it to the instructor in person, but only dared to complain in private?You know, Shang Ping almost cheered when he learned that he didn't have to board the single-man fighter himself.Austin, on the other hand, gave those students a cold look, and continued to study the treatise on tactics in his hand without saying a word.

After getting acquainted with Austin, Shang Ping discovered that this big boy of his own age has a very stubborn side. This does not mean that Austin is unsociable. He can always maintain the most basic etiquette, without involving his personal likes and dislikes in the slightest.This made Shang Ping very admired.Austin's character, in the eyes of these teenagers, is often automatically replaced by a synonym for arrogance and hypocrisy. John Jonathan complained to Shang Ping more than once.

From another point of view, Shang Ping thinks there is nothing wrong with Austin's personality.His eyes swept over Austin's soft blond hair and emerald green eyes. If this beauty didn't look like a high mountain flower, making people afraid to get too close, I'm afraid there would be a lot of trouble in the Madoff Military Academy.

While Shang Ping was thinking, the book in his hand had not been turned over for a long time, and the complaints of the other seven people were still continuing. Austin walked up to Shang Ping at some point, sat on the armrest of the chair, and touched his white fingertips. On a certain line of the book page, it said: "This interstellar jump theory has been proven to be completely unworkable, so why is it still printed in the book?"

Shang Ping raised his head, and his eyes met Austin's slightly pointed chin, graceful curves, fair skin, and not very obvious Adam's apple, he really wanted to touch it, was it as tactile as imagined...

In fact, Shang Ping really did this.

Austin was stunned, and the other seven boys stopped complaining and looked at Shang Ping and Austin stupidly.Thinking of the raging rumors in the academy a while ago, he opened his mouth involuntarily.

"Shang Ping?"

"Ah, sorry!"

"Why apologize? I don't mind."

Austin grabbed Shang Ping's fingers that he didn't have time to retract, held them in the palm of his hand, and covered his neck. He looked at Shang Ping with green eyes and said, "Your body temperature is very comfortable, I like it very much."

Very comfortable?

"My pleasure."

Shang Ping hooked the corner of his mouth and uttered this profoundly meaningful sentence.

The black pupils and green eyes looked at each other silently, and the black-haired boy and the blond boy seemed to be surrounded by a layer of pink bubbles.The atmosphere in the room began to become a little strange, and the remaining seven boys suddenly had an illusion that they were redundant, but their bodies were stuck to the chair like roots, unable to move at all.

The sudden assembly order from the indoor communicator rescued this group of poor boys. They had never felt like this moment that the instructor's thick voice was like the sound of heaven.

Shang Ping immediately stood up from the chair and was the first to jump onto the conveyor belt. Austin looked at his right hand and followed Shang Ping in front of him.

The conveyor belt sent the nine people to the assembly point, and the graduation students had already completed their team.After the nine returned to the team, the instructor announced that they had entered the interstellar corridor connecting the Royce celestial body and the Canon military fortress. An hour later, they arrived at the Canon military fortress.

"In one hour, your identities will change completely! You are no longer ignorant boys in the academy, but Mars soldiers who can board battleships! You will accept the most severe test since you entered school. Graduated from the Astoria Military Academy successfully! Become a glorious national soldier! Don’t worry about losers, the Jagged Eagle cruiser and laser shovel are waiting for you not far away! You will spend three perfect 'holidays' on the wild planet 'Life." At this point, the instructor paused, his eyes swept over all the students, including the members behind the Nine Lives queue, like an eagle, and asked loudly: "Do you understand?!"

"understand!"

"I can't hear you, do you understand?!"

"understand!"

"Louder! Prove to me that you're not one of Seth's soft-footed cowards!"

"clear!!"

The roar of youth almost broke through the hull, Shang Ping didn't understand why he also shouted along with everyone.However, this feeling is not bad.

In the Kanon military fortress, Correction Edgar was busy arranging the fleet's recent patrol missions. Due to Commander Terry's concerns, the Sixth Fleet had to adjust the original patrol coordinates accordingly, and pushed out the warning range. Nearly 100 million kilometers.Although it is not too far away, Edgar is very troubled that in this way, the patrol unit of the Sixth Fleet is likely to encounter the patrol personnel of the Royce artificial celestial body, no, the chance of encounter is almost as high as More than 80.00%.If it causes misunderstandings on the other side, border frictions will certainly be unavoidable.

"Troubleshooting!"

Throwing away the light pen in his hand, Colonel Edgar leaned back on the wide chair, put his legs on the table, and crossed his hands behind his head, "A dead-headed commander, a hapless neighbor who led wolves into the house, and an outsider with unknown intentions." Star Laid, what a mess!"

"Master Colonel, the commander is looking for you."

"Ah! Can't you let me take a break?! Could it be that besides me, no one in the Kanon military fortress can be tortured by that stone-headed commander?!"

Edgar shouted loudly, the poor guy in the communicator was stunned, but he could only see Colonel Edgar's obviously angry back.

Commander Terry has never been described like that.However, a rock-like brain?Seems like it really is.In less than five seconds, Colonel Edgar's famous words spread throughout the entire Kanon military fortress.

Colonel Edgar rushed into the command cabin with a dark face, but walked out of the command cabin with a smile on his face the next moment, holding in his hand the list of students from the Madoff Military Academy who came to the Canon Military Fortress for an internship.

Baby Shangping, are you coming to see Uncle?Uncle is so touched!

At this time, Commander Terry was sitting at the desk with a puzzled expression, and he was very puzzled why Edgar, who was still so angry just now and wished he could compete with him with a laser gun, why after seeing the list, Will you take the initiative to ask to be responsible for arranging this internship?Didn't he always dislike trouble?