() lure the enemy.

From the written meaning, it means: throwing out less costly bait to induce opponents to deviate from their original functions and positions, thereby creating opportunities to achieve key goals. It is a very old and in a sense quite stupid.

tactics.

But unfortunately, I got hit in the first air battle.

The two escorting [Jacques] acted as decoys, forcing me, a stubborn person, to easily move out of the "key air defense" position, while the two [Tupolev] assault mechas loaded with ammunition were

The attack started as smoothly as hitting a target, and six air-to-surface missiles and twelve 500-kilogram conventional bombs were dropped on the head of the Vyborg Chasseur Regiment, killing at least seventy civilians.

Twice as many people were injured.

When I almost exhausted all the thermal bombs and fuel, and finally managed to get rid of the entanglement of [Jacques] and returned to the base, the massacre was already over, and I only had time to vent my anger by firing a cannonball at the machine shadow's ass.

The incomplete buildings were burning, the broken bullet casings were burning, the human bodies that had not yet cooled down were burning, and even the pale snow was burning. The survivors silently packed up the fragments of their houses and the fragments of their relatives.

Hearing the sound of gas jets, they looked up numbly at the aircraft that was descending. The dull look in their eyes made me feel ashamed and angry.

"Clang"

[Garland] After landing, I landed on one knee. I pulled the halyard down from the cockpit to the ground in despair. The flames burned the air, and the smell of burning compounds and some kind of meat barbecue rushed into my head, almost killing me.

I choked and fainted. I knew that many people put down their work and looked at me, but I kept my head down and didn't have the courage to look at the expressions of the people around me.

Because I'm afraid that after seeing it, I will lose the courage to fly a mecha forever.

So I lost my machine and walked back to the hangar in despair. I didn't know what I wanted to do. I probably thought that the enclosed space was very suitable for hiding.

The hangar was empty, all the equipment had stopped operating, and everyone had obviously gone to provide disaster relief. I saw my lunch box still sitting stupidly in its original position, and I was so angry that I kicked it out

Kick him all the way out and sit down directly there with your head down.

The extreme feeling of loss was like ice water poured from head to toe.

As for how I spent the next few hours, I have no memory in my mind. I just vaguely remember that everyone walked past me in a hurry, but did not speak, and their steps were very low, as if I was just a person.

The invisible man who does not exist.

This feels good.

When I finally realized that the silence around me had been too long, I realized that all the people in the hangar had emptied out at some point. Only the high-level watch room and the hangar were still lit. Look at the watch.

, it was already one o'clock in the morning, four hours had passed since the break, and ten hours had passed since the end of my first air battle.

[Garand] has been recovered at some point, standing alone on the fixed frame. The body is covered with twisted wounds. The most eye-catching thing is a strange piece of shrapnel on the hard steel face of the body.

, scraped out a weird arc-shaped mark, which looked like the giant was laughing mockingly from a condescending angle.

He is really a literary type, oh, I should say it is a type 213 wound.

I thought in frustration.

Suddenly, I glanced at the telecommunications room, only to find that the door over there was still open. Because that thing is usually responsible for receiving telecommunications from other Chasseur regiments and the Confederate regular army. Although they said it didn't matter, I still thought I was

Outsiders are refused entry every time.

In fact, I am afraid that I will see too many things that I shouldn’t see and be killed.

But today I don’t know why, but my courage grew crazily, so I took advantage of the nigger’s mistake and touched it in. At a glance, I saw a satellite phone with a shiny synthetic material placed on the table in the corner.

Dominated by some unknown impulse, I sat down straight in front of the phone. Like a starving person staring at the bread in the window, I swallowed hard, and there was a particularly clear "gudong" sound that knocked me down.

Very scared.

Then I dialed the familiar number that I hadn’t used in a long time after the encrypted number.

"Dudududu"

The monotonous connection tone echoed over and over again on the phone, and I felt my heart beating loudly.

"Hello, who's there?"

My mother's words traveled across the entire earth through radio waves, and eventually turned into a lazy voice that sounded through the microphone. I suddenly remembered that it was already nap time for my family in the Eastern Hemisphere, and I started to stutter a little at that time.

"I, I, I..."

"Hey, Xiaoxiang, how many times have I told you to keep your composure when speaking."

I only heard the sound after I pronounced it. She sighed and scolded me like she did when I was in school.

"oh oh."

"Why won't you come this time? I called your instructor and couldn't find anyone?"

"Oh, the ticket back is more expensive, and the country is stingy and won't reimburse me. I'll just work here to earn some pocket money, and then go back during the summer vacation."

I quickly lied.

"Hey, stop talking nonsense, okay? Your instructor has already told you what your name is... Oh, Yang Mu's classmates have already paid for all your tickets. There are not many people who didn't go back. What the hell are you talking about?

What an idea."

"I, I, I...actually...that..."

The lie that I had spent three days making up suddenly came to naught. I panicked and scolded the two supervisors for talking nonsense.

"Okay, okay, now that I'm older, I'm too lazy to take care of things. I just need to take care of myself when I go out."

"OK."

"By the way, are you going well at work?"

"It's going well...forget it, it's not going well at all."

I threw the lie away in despair and kicked it far away.

"It will always go well, just get used to it."

My mother comforted her with her usual calm tone, but I couldn't calm down at all.

"But I always feel...it's hard to go smoothly, and I might lose."

"Okay, you have been here smoothly every time since you were a child, and you scared us to death every time. From elementary school to junior high school, when you first entered the school, the junior high school was abolished, and you couldn't even read any of the books; the junior high school entrance examination

In high school, just seven extra points cost your father and me more than 20,000 yuan. In high school, let alone the college entrance examination, I dared to give me such a bad score with just one extra point, which made me miserable before the results were announced.

The whole family didn't dare to sleep all night..."

"Stop, stop, stop, it makes it sound like how miserable I was in the first half of my life!"

"It's not that bad. It's probably because your life was so miserable before, so now you desperately want to look up."

I was dumbfounded. I had always thought that I was working so hard on mechas and that loving mechas was just a boy's interest, but I didn't notice that there might be such an element in it.

Maybe there's nothing wrong with that. Mechas, and only mechas, gave me a chance to look up, a chance to become stronger. Mechas, only mechas.

"Okay, the phone bill is expensive, let's not talk about it. Just be careful not to put too much pressure on yourself. You've already been through this anyway, so you don't have to worry about not being able to pass the next test."

After I finished speaking, I hung up the phone. I held the phone for a long time without coming back to my senses. Then I slowly put the thing back in place, hugged my knees and curled up on the chair like a coward, and stretched my body as much as possible.

Squeeze into the darkness and let the surging emotions overflow from the rational dam little by little.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuu"
Chapter completed!