Three lights shined straight down, clearly illuminating the gallows arranged below.
The young man with his hands tied behind his back, his feet locked with a heavy iron ball, and his neck wrapped with a straw rope extending from the gallows also appeared in front of everyone.
In the darkness, a tough man wearing black clothes with an executioner's mark on his chest stepped out, stood next to the young man, and said in a deep voice:
"The 103rd batch student of the Imperial Royal Knights Academy, trainee knight Lei Mingkai, offended the majesty of His Majesty the Holy Emperor at the academy's annual summary meeting and massacred his colleagues. Therefore, he was sentenced to hanging! Your Highness, please be careful!"
The sound falls,
In the darkness behind the lights, there was a conversation.
"Is it him? The apprentice knight who killed the Duke's son at the meeting attended by His Majesty himself?"
"Yes. His name seems to be Lei Mingkai. He is a knight student with very good skills!" There was a hint of amusement in this voice.
"Not bad? Haha. Old classmate. It seems that you have fallen in love with him!" A burst of understanding chuckles sounded.
"Yes. After all, Lancelot is not something that ordinary knights can control. Your Highness."
"Well, then! Even though His Majesty has given the order, I will just do it as a favor!"
"Thank you very much for your understanding, Your Highness!"
"Classmates, you don't have to be so open-minded." I saw a dark shadow rising up, walking to the junction of darkness and light, staring at the young man who was about to be hanged.
"Execution!"
"yes, your highness!"
The executioner knelt down half-kneeling, made a fist with his right hand, raised it flat to his chest and responded, then stood up again, turned around and looked at the young man who had never reacted at all and shouted:
"Sinner! Execution!"
"Click!"
There was a sound of a mechanism starting up, and the wooden board under the boy's feet suddenly opened. The moment the heavy iron ball lost its support, it dragged the boy downwards.
"Crack!"
The young man froze, and the straw rope connecting him to the execution rack was suddenly disconnected.
In the blink of an eye, the execution rack that was supposed to take away the young man's life turned out to be empty.
However, the executioner who should have exclaimed at the vision in front of him did not issue any warning. Instead, he nodded, turned around with a straight face, knelt down again, and reported to His Highness hidden behind:
"Your Highness, the execution is complete."
Then, the lights went dark.
Everything fell into silence again.
"Crack!"
The moment the lights came on again, when the light came on in front of his eyes again, Lei Mingkai found himself lying in a clean and bright room, and there was a man and woman sitting beside the bed.
The man was wearing a white coat and had short silver hair. Apart from the pair of rimless glasses, he always had a cynical smile on his face.
The woman has short purple hair, wears a brown women's skirt and uniform, and looks like a technician.
"Congratulations! Welcome to hell! Lei Mingkai!"
As soon as he saw Lei Mingkai wake up, the man took the lead in saying a greeting to Lei Mingkai that was not really a greeting.
"Hell?" Lei Mingkai frowned slightly, recalling what happened before.
However, his memory only stayed at the moment after the breakdown in Glasgow, when he faced Aang Pedt's murder and when he accidentally caught the white cat that appeared strangely in the cockpit.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah~"
After seeing the confusion on Lei Mingkai's face, the man showed a look that was indeed the case, and said: "Lei Mingkai, you have indeed fallen into a state similar to the legendary berserker!"
"Berserker?"
Lei Mingkai was stunned, but he saw the image played on the tablet handed over by the purple-haired woman who had been sitting quietly next to him.
On the screen, a young man with red eyes and a hideous face was frantically attacking the heavily armed soldiers around him.
What surprised Lei Mingkai was that the boy who attacked the soldiers turned out to be him.
"Lei Mingkai, you really don't remember?" the woman asked cautiously.
Lei Mingkai raised his hand to hold his forehead and shook his head in pain.
"I don't remember this at all."
"Haha. Okay! Okay! We'll talk about these things later. Let's get back to the topic!" The man waved his hand to stop the conversation between Lei Mingkai and the woman, then turned around and took a plate from the table behind him.
"Come! This is your thing. Lei Mingkai, you are a dead person now! Do you know?"
"dead?"
"Yes." Although there was a hint of intolerance in the woman's eyes, she still said calmly: "At the conference, you killed Aang Ped, the eldest son of the Duke of Seid's family. Therefore, His Majesty has ordered that
You will be put to death."
"Yes! Yes! Yes!"
The silver-haired man nodded vigorously, and then said happily: "In short, Lei Mingkai is a dead person now! Whether it is the files of the Royal Knights Academy or the files of the Holy Britannia Empire, Lei Mingkai
This person no longer exists."
Lei Mingkai's brows frowned deeply, and his expression became more and more confused, but he soon relaxed.
"If Lei Mingkai is dead, then who am I?"
As soon as he finished asking this question, Lei Mingkai's eyes fell on the plate in the silver-haired man's hand.
A silver mask with exquisite patterns,
A "hook" that looks like it might be the activation key for the humanoid mobile weapon knightmare.
"Oh! You discovered it! Sure enough, he is the No. 1 of the Royal Knights Academy!" The silver-haired man let out a strange cry, and then he started to introduce himself.
"Oh, by the way! It seems we haven't introduced ourselves yet! My name is Royd Asplind."
Then, he pointed to the purple-haired woman sitting next to him and said: "This is my assistant, Cecil Kermi. We are both members of the Empire's Specially Dispatched Guide Technical Department. And I am the Empire's Specially Dispatched Guide."
The technical department is the main person in charge of the special mission."
"The empire specially dispatched a technical department of guides?" Lei Mingkai already guessed some answers upon hearing this.
"I've heard of you. You are the department that develops the empire's most cutting-edge mobile weapons. Now that I'm here, do you mean that I'm required to put on this mask and serve you?"
"Ohhh!!"
As soon as Lloyd heard this, he started to applaud.
"Awesome! Awesome! It seems that I underestimated you. That's right! Now, under the instruction of His Majesty the Emperor, Lei Mingkai is already dead. Therefore, from today on, you will be a specially assigned test pilot.
Knight K.”
With that said, Lloyd raised his hand to pick up the silver mask with exquisite patterns on the plate and handed it to Lei Mingkai.
"Knight? It seems that I have no other choice." Lei Mingkai smiled self-deprecatingly, reached out and took the silver mask and put it on.
"Oh oh oh! It suits you very well! Cecil, I said it would suit Lei Mingkai very well, didn't it?" After looking back and forth at Lei Mingkai's new look for a while, Lloyd applauded again.
"Earl, now is not the time to talk about this." Cecil rolled his eyes at Lloyd helplessly, then picked up the "hang buckle" on the plate and showed it to Lei Mingkai.
"Lei Mingkai. This is the activation key to the Knightmare, the only seventh-generation humanoid mobile weapon in the world. If you accept it, then from now on, it and Lancelot will be yours."
"In exchange, am I the unknown knight K from now on?" After Lei Mingkai smiled self-deprecatingly, he happily took the key and said in a deep voice: "Whether I want it or not, from today on, I
He is destined to merge with Lancelot as a knight."
"That's right! I'm glad you have such an awareness! Lei Mingkai, no, k!"
In the end, Lloyd admired Lei Mingkai's awareness.
The next day.
At a secret weapons testing site somewhere in the empire, a storm is being stirred up.
"boom!"
"boom!"
"boom!"
Secret sentry forts randomly placed on the plains continued to explode.
What caused these bursts of explosions was the white figure that quickly shuttled across the plain.
While it was traveling at high speed, it was not blocked by the turrets that popped up from the ground. Instead, it waved its hands and threw out the sharp hooks equipped on its arms, accurately blasting these turrets.
"Da da da da!"
On the hillside not far away, several automatic cannon turrets locked onto the white figure that was raging on the fire position, but in the midst of their flames, the white figure was lost.
It was as if the target that had been determined to be locked by the system's red crosshair just now did not exist.
In mid-air, hooks fell from the sky.
In the blink of an eye, all the machine gun emplacements were destroyed.
The scenes of the white figures wreaking havoc on the plain were witnessed by everyone in the command hall. Not long after, the command hall was already overwhelmed by the continuous exclamations.
"The value is much higher than expected! In fact, the adaptability value is still rising." Sehir sat in front of the computer, constantly monitoring the data uploaded from the test site.
Lloyd, with his hands on his hips, leisurely looked at the surprised crowd in the command hall, smiled and said, "Of course. And that guy is also serious!"
"95! The adaptability of k and Lancelot exceeded 95%, and the values are still rising!" Cecil suddenly shouted.
"Oh! Here we come!" Lloyd shouted, his eyes flashing with sharp light.
"96%!"
"97%!"
""
"100%! The adaptability of k and Lancelot, no, it's the synchronization rate!! K and Lancelot have reached 100% synchronization!" Cecil's exclamation once again aroused the attention of everyone in the command hall.
exclamation.
In response, Lloyd just smiled, told Cecil to inform Lei Mingkai to pay attention to the limit time, and then turned and left the command hall.
"It seems that following His Majesty the Emperor to watch a monkey show on a whim is also rewarding. That guy is really the best part in the world!"
The sun sets slowly, and the testing ground is already in a mess.
Whether on the hillside or on the plain, there are all the remains of forts and target drones. The white figure, the brainchild of Lloyd, Lancelot, the seventh generation knightmare of the Holy Britannian Empire, stands quietly.
On the hillside.
In the open cockpit, the man wearing a silver mask stared for a long time at the sun that was gradually sinking into the horizon.
At this time, Cecil's voice came from the headphones.
"k. The latest order. Our special dispatch has been transferred to Area 11, where we will conduct a practical test against Lancelot."
Lei Mingkai responded: "Understood! Start returning now."
The next second, Lloyd's voice appeared.
"k. I'm very sorry! Now I have some bad news to tell you. Your roommate from the Royal Knights Academy seems to have been killed in action. He was killed by terrorists in District 11."
In an instant, the entire testing site seemed to be shrouded in winter.