Gundam: The wind blowing through the universe

Chapter 146 The darkness before dawn - the dawn

In Orb's capital, Eurofatu, in the administrative government that was rebuilt after the war, Cagalli was sitting in the empty living room wearing a highly recognizable Orb representative uniform, looking slightly anxious.

"Mana, I want to see him."

Accompanying Cagalli is Aunt Mana, who returned to her motherland after the war. When the Asgha family evacuated in a hurry, considering that Mana, as a non-combatant, was not suitable to go to the universe together, Uzmi arranged for her to leave Orb first in the first batch of evacuation lists.

But without the people from her motherland, even if Uzmi gave her a generous travel allowance, Mana's life was not good in other countries. So after learning that Cagalli had returned to Orb, she went through all the trouble She has to return to Eurofatu despite all the hardships, because only here can she live like a human being.

"Master Chisaka also said that it only takes one night. After tonight, you will be the representative of the country. You are free to see whoever you want. I have also met that child, and I think he will understand."

"However, I had a hard time calling that guy back from the Heavenly Pillar, but now I am so close but I can't hug him. I still feel a little unwilling."

As someone who has been there, Mana doesn't know that Cagalli is currently in a state of 'love brain'. However, compared to her children's personal relationship, Mana is more concerned about Cagalli's safety. In the end, the Asha family A single seedling must not have any more accidents.

"How could the Sailan family have the courage?"

Before Cagalli could finish her words, a violent explosion sounded from a distance. Mana, who had experienced the destruction of her country and family, had lost all color on her face. Fortunately, Cagalli was calm and snatched it away. The internal line of the mansion was connected to Mayura who was on guard outside.

"What happened? Why was there an explosion in Eurofatu?"

"It's not clear yet. There is no response from the National Defense Headquarters. Your Highness, please enter the underground shelter immediately. We will be here and everything will be fine."

"Where's Qisaka? How's the guest house going?"

"The incident happened suddenly. We can only confirm that the explosion came from the outer port. The National Defense Forces should be aware of it."

"Mayura! Mayura!"

Mayura's voice suddenly fell silent. Cagalli anxiously called to the other party repeatedly but received no response. Mana held her hand and kept urging her to go to the underground shelter. Finally, she thought of the burden she had on her shoulders. Despite everything, Cagalli still put down the phone and turned around to seek refuge.

At the same time, in the guest house, Zisaka's face became extremely ugly. It was not that he had not considered the possibility of the Sailan family jumping over the wall, but no matter how he deduced it, Sailan and his son, who lacked prestige in the army, did not have the confidence and strength to rebel, so for a while he did not know who caused the explosion. , and how did they bypass the Orb Defense Force and invade Eurofatu so blatantly.

"Kannad!"

"I got it, so I said it. Our company's first mobile suit has gone through actual combat testing. It's really a good start for the subsequent units. It's awesome!"

Siegfried immediately greeted Canard. Since the Bayalan test machine was changed to the identification code of the Orb Army, they were arranged together in the underground of the hotel. They only waited until the inauguration ceremony was over tomorrow. Erd cooperated with Shuguang Society to start test flight data collection.

As a result, this Biyalan became their only support. Canad ran out without even wearing a combat uniform. Behind him, Hilde kept shouting "insufficient weapons" reminders. behind.

"Mina, take Hilde and Lars and take refuge quickly. If I remember correctly, there is a passage underground here to go to the Dawn Society. This is the secret passage arranged by Uzmi. Chisaka took me and Steady Take him to the administrative government to protect that fool."

As a result, shortly after Kanad left and Siegfried was about to let the non-combatants take refuge, a second explosion sounded near the guest house. Before Zissaka could contact the nearby Orb army, A strange MS landed in the garden.

The moment it raised its muzzle, Bayalan ejected from the ground and collided with the mobile suit of unknown origin with huge propulsive energy.

"Sister, let's go. MS is weird."

Canard's intermittent voice came through the loudspeaker. Seeing this, Mina no longer hesitated and pulled Hilde and Lars into the underground passage first. Then he turned around and found Siegfried taking Stevie. La still wanted to rush out, but turned around and pulled the two of them up and pushed them into the passage again.

As a result of this delay, Bayalan quickly fell into a disadvantage in the close combat. He was hit by the opponent's balance wing on his back and flew upside down into the hall.

At this moment, Mina came into the critical moment when Chisaka was about to close the passage. As a result, Bayalan's huge body smashed the ceiling, and the falling cement blocks hit Mina, who could not avoid it. Mina was completely buried under Siegfried's gaze.

"Mina!!!"

With eyes wide open, Siegfried broke away from Hilde and rushed directly to the rubble. While recovering, Zisaka also began to turn over the cement debris with his bare hands.

Kanad gritted his teeth after seeing this. Bayalan rushed out of the hall with one hand on the ground and fought with the MS. However, no matter how hard he tried, Bayalan's movements seemed to be locked. As if there was something wrong with the system, several attacks fell into the air.

Siegfried's hands were already stained with blood. At this time, he could no longer think about what kind of existence Mina was to him.

Although Mina kept shouting about marriage, in fact both of them knew that it was just a deliberate attempt to win over each other. However, as the time spent together increased, Siegfried clearly felt that Mina was not so much a lover or a marriage. Think of him as Gina's substitute.

But Siegfried himself did not hate this substitution. As he had almost nowhere to go after the war, it was Mina who brought him and Hilde back to the Pillar of Heaven, and it was only with the support of Mina that Siegfried even knew that Mina had postponed or semi-abandoned his ideals for their group. He really didn't know how he would go back and explain to those left behind if Mina died here.

"Mina, sister Mina!!!"

Hilde looked at Siegfried's back, tapping something quickly on the small quantum computer. After a moment, she called Lars to her side. After whispering, she saw Lars holding the Pendant.

Canard, who was in the midst of regret, suddenly heard a voice coming from his heart. As a witness to the South American incident, he immediately realized that Lars had turned on her ability again.

"Kannad, listen to me. Hilde has preliminary analyzed the ability of that mobile suit. It should be a rare weapon that can spread viruses. You first turn off Bayalan's auxiliary mode, and then switch to the backup system. , that is a biological computer trial system developed by Hilde alone, which should be able to avoid virus interference, but that system has not been optimized, so you have to adjust it yourself."

After hearing Russ's telepathic communication, Canard switched the operating mode without hesitation for half a second. As water wave-like interference appeared on the screen, he finally saw the appearance of his enemy clearly.

"You are such an ugly bitch!!! How dare you hurt Mina!!"

Due to the small combat space, Bayalan's bilateral beam cannons switched to beam saber mode, and under Canard's precise control, the opponent's cockpit position was locked for the first time.

Indoors, thanks to the quality of Orb's buildings, Mina was not buried very deep. Siegfried grabbed her hand after a while, and then suppressed her with Zisaka. The debris on her body was cleaned up, and then the two of them carefully helped Mina into the passage.

"Lars! Lars!"

After hearing his name being called, Lars quickly interrupted the connection with Kannad and ran to Siegfried's side. Mina was lying on the ground with a pale face. Since there were no medical staff, Siegfried had already brought Lars to the hospital. Treating it as a universal wishing machine, he ordered her to use her sensing ability to see how Mina was doing.

Although he wanted to refute that he was only a mage who could sense people's hearts and not be a healer, Siegfried was filled with murderous intent at the moment. Lars could only reluctantly hold Mina's hand, and then began to try Connect with her heart.

However, Chisaka did not let this futile effort last too long. He immediately turned on the emergency switch on the wall. As the wall flipped, a small treatment chamber of the same type that Kira had used appeared in front of everyone.

"One more person, keep your hand movements steady. After putting Mina in, go to Shuguang Society immediately. There are complete treatment equipment there. We can't delay it any longer."

With the help of Stella and Lars, the four of them carefully put Mina into the treatment cabin. It was not until the red light representing the life support system came on that Zisaka walked to the front and started to lead everyone.

"Hilde."

"I see."

There was not much verbal communication. The last two siblings simply exchanged glances. Hilde handed over something similar to a key. Siegfried took it calmly and hid it. In the pocket of the clothes.

"I don't know how it's finished, but even if it's just the main body."

"It uses the Assault frame, which can be used with all Assault backpacks, and Shuguang Society should have spare parts for the IWSP backpack you used, so don't worry."

Just when everyone walked into the underground factory of Shuguang Society from the passage, Erica was already waiting at the door. She immediately arranged for people to transfer Mina to treatment. She was about to turn back to Siegfried to discuss whether he should drive again. When Yan Hong attacked, she found that Hilde was the only one standing at the end.

"Sorry, director, my brother needs that MS."

"How would you know."

"Uzmi gave him a choice and now it's time for him to make a choice."

Siegfried was running in a long corridor. Just when he was about to lose his patience, he finally saw a huge metal gate. After he inserted the key given by Hilde into the electronic lock, With a heart-wrenching sound of metal, a gleaming golden machine slowly appeared in front of his eyes.

"ORB-01, Mingxiao. Old man, please lend it to me for a while."

He climbed into the Dawn's cockpit in a few steps. Since it was a brand new aircraft, the entire Dawn's OS was still at an extremely primitive level. Siegfried was debugging various parameters slowly, but he didn't know. Since when, his pupils have been bright red.

"Old man, do you know?"

Perhaps the process of debugging the OS was a little boring, so before Uzmi's recording started to sound, Siegfried started a one-sided chat with the Orb lion at dawn.

"In the timeline that I know, your Orb has a total of three endings."

"In the first ending, there was no external interference. The country was almost destroyed by PLANT. It was only thanks to the terminal and your daughter's brother that we escaped. Old man, do you think this is the future you want?"

"Ending two, this time there was external intervention. A girl from the Sailan family was lucky enough to be bound to a super ACE, but he and his partners still did not change your Orb, even though Dark Night Jiguang's The name resounds throughout the entire earth circle.”

"Ending three, your daughter met the eldest daughter of the Klein family by sheer luck. With the mediation of her and Lux, Mina planned a surprise attack on the Atlantic Ocean. In the end, Orb became an alliance with South America and PLANT. "

As the last parameter was entered, Mingxiao's electronic eye lit up. Siegfried also felt that it was time to end this somewhat absurd conversation between humans and ghosts. "Now is the fourth ending. I don't know what the future will be like. But old man, I promise that I will do my best to realize your ideal Orb."

The cables around the fuselage were disconnected with sparks. At the same time, Uzmi's long-lost voice also sounded again in the unmanned hangar. But what Siegfried didn't expect was that Uzmi's final voice He did not leave any last words to his daughter.

"Siegfried, I believe you will come here in the end. Now you should have understood what your feelings for Cagalli are. As I said to you, I hope that you who have no home can Treat Orb as your true hometown."

"But power is not everything. Don't fall into the vortex of excessive pursuit of power. I hope this sword of protection can be used where you think it is right."

"Finally, as a father, I regret that I can't see the day you marry Cagalli. Please, boy, go and become a hero."

‘OBR-01, at dawn, the system is activated, please attack. ’

The familiar screen lit up, and Uzmi's last words had just finished playing. Siegfried's heart, which was originally filled with murderous intent, was unexpectedly calm at this moment. He reached out to wipe the tears from the corner of his eyes, and pushed the operating lever to the end with his other hand.

"Siegfried-Nala-Ashar, dawn, attack!"

Thanks to the reward from Dream Dead, this chapter is an additional update for triggering, and it is still an additional 4,000 words!

Just to brag, this is a great chapter. The book I wrote is actually about the SEED universe, but not many readers can understand the easter eggs, right? Only @Long Dou Tian Qiong should know what the second timeline is.

If you understand the easter eggs, you can actually understand that Hilde is not so much Siegfried's hack, but more like Orb's hack, or the whole CE world. The single-player DSSD deserves its reputation.

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