A moment later, everything was handed over. Snow Dove was replaced by the Golden Sun Wheel soldiers who rushed over, and Audrey was sleeping soundly in the treatment cabin.
The mech M-Slash Comet, carrying the crown prince and the newly crowned crown princess, took off, and the messy West Hall ground quickly shrank in view.
Jiang Jianming sat in the driver’s seat. He closed his eyes for a moment, gently adjusted his breath, and reached out to pull over and fasten the seat belt.
Just about to switch the control mode to manual, his forearm was held down, and the voice of Ryann sounded next to him. “Who let you drive?”
The crown prince frowned, “You have just been exposed to the crystal chaos at close range, which has caused you a lot of damage. If you work hard again and have an attack, who will rescue you?”
Jiang Jianming quickly said, “No damage, Your Highness protected me very well.”
Ryann: “Have you taken your medicine today?”
Jiang Jianming: “…”
“Now the situation is dangerous, wait for a formal rendezvous with the frontline military,” the crown prince said gloomily, “I will have someone escort you back to the White Jade Palace, you have to take medicine according to the rules, sleep, and wait for my triumph.”
“Don’t worry, Gerhard Laurent won’t be alive, I can guarantee this. If you have any requirements for the way of death, of course, it can also be.”
Jiang Jianming felt powerless, just about to argue, but Ryann gave him a look to the side, interrupting his unspoken words.
The communication flashed, it was the M-Slash Comet finally contacted L-Gyrfalcon of the old marshal.
Jiang Jianming cheered up and immediately said, “Old Marshal Chen.”
On the other side, the white-haired old man sat deeply in the main driver’s seat. “Well, it’s good that both of you are okay, the situation is a bit troublesome now.”
He didn’t ask about Audrey’s situation, but first talked about the battle. “Laurent’s mecha is rising rapidly, of course, there is also little Yinxing in the mecha, and both sides are at a deadlock. Your Highness, you must join us as soon as possible.”
“Jiang!!” Diana’s heartbreaking cry faintly inserted from behind.
“My brother, how is my brother, let me see him…”
In the corner of the screen, Diana’s tear-streaked face occasionally flashed, and Kevin was anxiously pulling her, barely preventing her from rushing to the driver’s seat.
Jiang Jianming frowned, hesitated to speak several times, but finally chose to remain silent.
The old marshal remained unmoved, speaking to himself, “Laurent’s crystal bone is not quite right, the chief is analyzing it. There might be a tough battle to fight, you should prepare yourself mentally.”
Ryann: “There’s no need for such boring preparation. Share the image with me, let me take a look.”
On the screen in front of them, the communication window dimmed, and the real-time shared mecha image appeared.
Sure enough, Laurent’s mecha was constantly accelerating upwards, as if it was going to fly away from Star City like this.
Jiang Jianming leaned over to take a look, and first whispered, “Something’s not right.”
There were tall buildings everywhere in the Star City, and there were civilians who could make the military hesitate to act. Why would Laurent turn to run into the sky?
This was simply…exactly the same as the development of the last New Year’s civil strife.
The two quickly exchanged glances, could it be that the old play was repeated, and there was a reinforcement from the Crystal Cult in the outer space domain?
“No…” Ryann propped his forehead with his knuckles, analyzing as if talking to himself, “It’s unlikely. Now the Golden Sun Wheel’s guard is stricter, even high-intelligence alien creatures would find it difficult to break through forcibly. Besides, the Crystal Cult is causing turmoil in the territory and inciting public opinion, and colluding with space bandits outside the territory, indicating that they themselves do not have the armed forces to contend with the Imperial Legion.”
“Your Highness is right.” Jiang Jianming was also thinking, he pondered and frowned, his pale fingers messing up his black hair, “How much longer to catch up with Gyrfalcon?”
Ryann: “About four minutes.”
“Good, then you drive the mecha for a while.” Jiang Jianming suddenly unbuckled his seat belt and stood up.
Ryann was alerted and said, “What are you doing?”
“Nothing, this incident ultimately started from who, just ask and you’ll know.”
As Jiang Jianming spoke, he walked around the driver’s seat, picked up a bottle of energy water for the driver to replenish his strength from the side, and quickly walked back.
On the deck of the mecha, there was still a woman’s figure lying across, it was Donna. Sekt, whom they rescued from the West Hall of the Sekt family!
“You said,” Jiang Jianming said indifferently, “Why did Laurent take Xie Yinxing away, but no longer need Madam Donna?”
Before his words fell, he unscrewed the bottle of water and poured it on Donna’s face!
Donna screamed and woke up immediately.
Jiang Jianming didn’t waste words with her, he held the woman’s shoulder, his eyes filled with cold murderous intent. “Madam Donna! Xie Yinxing was taken away by Laurent, the situation is urgent now, please tell me truthfully, what is Laurent’s real purpose?”
Donna was panting in a daze, she slumped on the ground for two or three seconds, suddenly squeezed out a very helpless sob from her throat, and started crying with her face covered.
“I…I don’t know…”
Donna curled up on the ground in embarrassment, her eyes desperate and her voice hoarse, the cold water droplets dripped down her messy curls.
“Emilia was implanted with a dead crystal that he could manipulate, I could only listen to him…I don’t know what he wants to do.”
Jiang Jianming felt a chill in his heart, couldn’t help but look back at Ryann, and said, “Then you listening to him, what did you do?”
But Donna didn’t answer immediately, instead she stared straight at Jiang Jianming with a ghost-like gaze, and asked with a pale face, “If I tell you, what will happen to my daughter…my daughter?”
Jiang Jianming: “Laurent didn’t take you away, which means he doesn’t care about your next actions.”
He deliberately paused, “But the Empire still cares. Your answer determines whether Little Xing needs to watch her mother be executed for treason after being rescued.”
Donna suddenly widened her eyes, this sentence seemed to be a sharp knife, piercing her vital point all at once.
Her lips were trembling, and finally she formed a mournful smile, “…You really are not an ordinary person, Your Highness the Crown Princess.”
Jiang Jianming said lightly, “You flatter me.”
“The first galaxy, Albourne Star City…” Donna closed her eyes and murmured, “There is the power of the Sekt family…”
“Laurent asked me to send someone to blow up two coordinates in Albourne Star City, which are…”
She reported the two coordinates from memory, and then said, “The time is set for three o’clock this afternoon.”
Donna then took a deep breath, smoothed her hair, opened her eyes and looked at the time displayed inside the mecha, “You guessed right, it’s too late.”
She really didn’t know what those two coordinates meant, it seemed that they were neither a large urban area nor any military stronghold.
Just being tormented by an inexplicable sense of unease, throwing down the gem in the rainy night, weakly hoping that someone could see it.
But now——
The time had already frozen at 15:03.
It’s too late to say anything.
****
Albourne Star City, District Four.
In a remote forest suburb, there stood a gray building. There was no special mark on the map of Star City, and it looked just like an ordinary factory from the outside.
Suddenly at this moment, there was a loud noise!
The explosion startled a large number of birds, and the dense black shadows panicked and flew away from the forest, hovering in mid-air.
At the same time, explosions sounded in all major star cities such as Watson, Eden, Purple Silk, and Yongle Garden, all of which were located in remote mountains or suburbs, even underground!
…..
Inside the mech Slash Comet, Jiang Jianming turned his head, “Seth, lock the coordinates, retrieve…”
“——No need.”
The crown prince suddenly stood up.
Ryann slightly lowered his head, slowly clenched the edge of the control panel with both hands, his voice was gloomy, “I know, those two coordinates are crystal particle energy stations.”
“Such energy stations, there are a total of eight in the Empire, the locations are top secret information, specifically for the Empire border’s high-dimensional blockade barriers to supply energy.”
“High-dimensional blockade barriers!?”
Before Ryann’s words fell, Jiang Jianming’s back was suddenly covered in cold sweat, as if a muffled thunder had hit his heart, causing a sudden palpitations.
He never thought that this would be involved, the high-dimensional blockade barriers that locked the warp technology… In this era of interstellar, its existence to the empire was a protection that was more extensive than the Great Wall, and a fortress that was stronger than steel.
And once it collapses…
Donna reacted belatedly, screamed, and the blood on her face visibly drained.
“…The energy station uses space transmission technology, supplying energy uninterruptedly for twenty-four hours.”
“So if,” Ryann’s lips tightened, he turned to look at Jiang Jianming, and said solemnly, “If the eight energy stations are blown up at the same time… Without energy supply, the blockade barrier will fail after twelve hours.”
“By then, the starships outside the empire can directly warp to the front of any civilian house.”
The terrifying silence only lasted for two seconds, Donna suddenly covered her head and fell to the ground, screaming something nonsensical.
Jiang Jianming staggered back two steps, turned his eyes in a daze–through the window of the rapidly flying mecha, he saw the continuous urban area, the prosperous and peaceful urban area of the capital Aslan.
“Little Excellency!”
Suddenly, Jiang Jianming’s wrist device call opened.
The face of Zheng Yue, who was in a mess, flashed on the opposite side.
“Little Excellency, the empire’s high-dimensional blockade barrier had an accident, eight energy stations were attacked at the same time, the entire Golden Sun Wheel Army has entered a state of first-level war preparation – where are you!?”
“It doesn’t matter where you are, come back quickly, the blockade barrier won’t hold up after twelve hours, I don’t know what will happen then, your body can’t…”
Then the crown prince slowly raised his head, under the luxurious platinum curls, the emerald green eyes were like bloodthirsty beasts, making people shudder.
“The situation has changed, it seems that I can’t let you go back.”
“Stay close to me, you’re not allowed to go anywhere but by my side.”
A moment later, everything was handed over. Snow Dove was replaced by the Golden Sun Wheel soldiers who rushed over, and Audrey was sleeping soundly in the treatment cabin.
The mech M-Slash Comet, carrying the crown prince and the newly crowned crown princess, took off, and the messy West Hall ground quickly shrank in view.
Jiang Jianming sat in the driver’s seat. He closed his eyes for a moment, gently adjusted his breath, and reached out to pull over and fasten the seat belt.
Just about to switch the control mode to manual, his forearm was held down, and the voice of Ryann sounded next to him. “Who let you drive?”
The crown prince frowned, “You have just been exposed to the crystal chaos at close range, which has caused you a lot of damage. If you work hard again and have an attack, who will rescue you?”
Jiang Jianming quickly said, “No damage, Your Highness protected me very well.”
Ryann: “Have you taken your medicine today?”
Jiang Jianming: “…”
“Now the situation is dangerous, wait for a formal rendezvous with the frontline military,” the crown prince said gloomily, “I will have someone escort you back to the White Jade Palace, you have to take medicine according to the rules, sleep, and wait for my triumph.”
“Don’t worry, Gerhard Laurent won’t be alive, I can guarantee this. If you have any requirements for the way of death, of course, it can also be.”
Jiang Jianming felt powerless, just about to argue, but Ryann gave him a look to the side, interrupting his unspoken words.
The communication flashed, it was the M-Slash Comet finally contacted L-Gyrfalcon of the old marshal.
Jiang Jianming cheered up and immediately said, “Old Marshal Chen.”
On the other side, the white-haired old man sat deeply in the main driver’s seat. “Well, it’s good that both of you are okay, the situation is a bit troublesome now.”
He didn’t ask about Audrey’s situation, but first talked about the battle. “Laurent’s mecha is rising rapidly, of course, there is also little Yinxing in the mecha, and both sides are at a deadlock. Your Highness, you must join us as soon as possible.”
“Jiang!!” Diana’s heartbreaking cry faintly inserted from behind.
“My brother, how is my brother, let me see him…”
In the corner of the screen, Diana’s tear-streaked face occasionally flashed, and Kevin was anxiously pulling her, barely preventing her from rushing to the driver’s seat.
Jiang Jianming frowned, hesitated to speak several times, but finally chose to remain silent.
The old marshal remained unmoved, speaking to himself, “Laurent’s crystal bone is not quite right, the chief is analyzing it. There might be a tough battle to fight, you should prepare yourself mentally.”
Ryann: “There’s no need for such boring preparation. Share the image with me, let me take a look.”
On the screen in front of them, the communication window dimmed, and the real-time shared mecha image appeared.
Sure enough, Laurent’s mecha was constantly accelerating upwards, as if it was going to fly away from Star City like this.
Jiang Jianming leaned over to take a look, and first whispered, “Something’s not right.”
There were tall buildings everywhere in the Star City, and there were civilians who could make the military hesitate to act. Why would Laurent turn to run into the sky?
This was simply…exactly the same as the development of the last New Year’s civil strife.
The two quickly exchanged glances, could it be that the old play was repeated, and there was a reinforcement from the Crystal Cult in the outer space domain?
“No…” Ryann propped his forehead with his knuckles, analyzing as if talking to himself, “It’s unlikely. Now the Golden Sun Wheel’s guard is stricter, even high-intelligence alien creatures would find it difficult to break through forcibly. Besides, the Crystal Cult is causing turmoil in the territory and inciting public opinion, and colluding with space bandits outside the territory, indicating that they themselves do not have the armed forces to contend with the Imperial Legion.”
“Your Highness is right.” Jiang Jianming was also thinking, he pondered and frowned, his pale fingers messing up his black hair, “How much longer to catch up with Gyrfalcon?”
Ryann: “About four minutes.”
“Good, then you drive the mecha for a while.” Jiang Jianming suddenly unbuckled his seat belt and stood up.
Ryann was alerted and said, “What are you doing?”
“Nothing, this incident ultimately started from who, just ask and you’ll know.”
As Jiang Jianming spoke, he walked around the driver’s seat, picked up a bottle of energy water for the driver to replenish his strength from the side, and quickly walked back.
On the deck of the mecha, there was still a woman’s figure lying across, it was Donna. Sekt, whom they rescued from the West Hall of the Sekt family!
“You said,” Jiang Jianming said indifferently, “Why did Laurent take Xie Yinxing away, but no longer need Madam Donna?”
Before his words fell, he unscrewed the bottle of water and poured it on Donna’s face!
Donna screamed and woke up immediately.
Jiang Jianming didn’t waste words with her, he held the woman’s shoulder, his eyes filled with cold murderous intent. “Madam Donna! Xie Yinxing was taken away by Laurent, the situation is urgent now, please tell me truthfully, what is Laurent’s real purpose?”
Donna was panting in a daze, she slumped on the ground for two or three seconds, suddenly squeezed out a very helpless sob from her throat, and started crying with her face covered.
“I…I don’t know…”
Donna curled up on the ground in embarrassment, her eyes desperate and her voice hoarse, the cold water droplets dripped down her messy curls.
“Emilia was implanted with a dead crystal that he could manipulate, I could only listen to him…I don’t know what he wants to do.”
Jiang Jianming felt a chill in his heart, couldn’t help but look back at Ryann, and said, “Then you listening to him, what did you do?”
But Donna didn’t answer immediately, instead she stared straight at Jiang Jianming with a ghost-like gaze, and asked with a pale face, “If I tell you, what will happen to my daughter…my daughter?”
Jiang Jianming: “Laurent didn’t take you away, which means he doesn’t care about your next actions.”
He deliberately paused, “But the Empire still cares. Your answer determines whether Little Xing needs to watch her mother be executed for treason after being rescued.”
Donna suddenly widened her eyes, this sentence seemed to be a sharp knife, piercing her vital point all at once.
Her lips were trembling, and finally she formed a mournful smile, “…You really are not an ordinary person, Your Highness the Crown Princess.”
Jiang Jianming said lightly, “You flatter me.”
“The first galaxy, Albourne Star City…” Donna closed her eyes and murmured, “There is the power of the Sekt family…”
“Laurent asked me to send someone to blow up two coordinates in Albourne Star City, which are…”
She reported the two coordinates from memory, and then said, “The time is set for three o’clock this afternoon.”
Donna then took a deep breath, smoothed her hair, opened her eyes and looked at the time displayed inside the mecha, “You guessed right, it’s too late.”
She really didn’t know what those two coordinates meant, it seemed that they were neither a large urban area nor any military stronghold.
Just being tormented by an inexplicable sense of unease, throwing down the gem in the rainy night, weakly hoping that someone could see it.
But now——
The time had already frozen at 15:03.
It’s too late to say anything.
****
Albourne Star City, District Four.
In a remote forest suburb, there stood a gray building. There was no special mark on the map of Star City, and it looked just like an ordinary factory from the outside.
Suddenly at this moment, there was a loud noise!
The explosion startled a large number of birds, and the dense black shadows panicked and flew away from the forest, hovering in mid-air.
At the same time, explosions sounded in all major star cities such as Watson, Eden, Purple Silk, and Yongle Garden, all of which were located in remote mountains or suburbs, even underground!
…..
Inside the mech Slash Comet, Jiang Jianming turned his head, “Seth, lock the coordinates, retrieve…”
“——No need.”
The crown prince suddenly stood up.
Ryann slightly lowered his head, slowly clenched the edge of the control panel with both hands, his voice was gloomy, “I know, those two coordinates are crystal particle energy stations.”
“Such energy stations, there are a total of eight in the Empire, the locations are top secret information, specifically for the Empire border’s high-dimensional blockade barriers to supply energy.”
“High-dimensional blockade barriers!?”
Before Ryann’s words fell, Jiang Jianming’s back was suddenly covered in cold sweat, as if a muffled thunder had hit his heart, causing a sudden palpitations.
He never thought that this would be involved, the high-dimensional blockade barriers that locked the warp technology… In this era of interstellar, its existence to the empire was a protection that was more extensive than the Great Wall, and a fortress that was stronger than steel.
And once it collapses…
Donna reacted belatedly, screamed, and the blood on her face visibly drained.
“…The energy station uses space transmission technology, supplying energy uninterruptedly for twenty-four hours.”
“So if,” Ryann’s lips tightened, he turned to look at Jiang Jianming, and said solemnly, “If the eight energy stations are blown up at the same time… Without energy supply, the blockade barrier will fail after twelve hours.”
“By then, the starships outside the empire can directly warp to the front of any civilian house.”
The terrifying silence only lasted for two seconds, Donna suddenly covered her head and fell to the ground, screaming something nonsensical.
Jiang Jianming staggered back two steps, turned his eyes in a daze–through the window of the rapidly flying mecha, he saw the continuous urban area, the prosperous and peaceful urban area of the capital Aslan.
“Little Excellency!”
Suddenly, Jiang Jianming’s wrist device call opened.
The face of Zheng Yue, who was in a mess, flashed on the opposite side.
“Little Excellency, the empire’s high-dimensional blockade barrier had an accident, eight energy stations were attacked at the same time, the entire Golden Sun Wheel Army has entered a state of first-level war preparation – where are you!?”
“It doesn’t matter where you are, come back quickly, the blockade barrier won’t hold up after twelve hours, I don’t know what will happen then, your body can’t…”
Then the crown prince slowly raised his head, under the luxurious platinum curls, the emerald green eyes were like bloodthirsty beasts, making people shudder.
“The situation has changed, it seems that I can’t let you go back.”
“Stay close to me, you’re not allowed to go anywhere but by my side.”
