Warm sunlight scatters from the windows, making the entire large office look particularly peaceful.
On the tea table set up on one side of the office, there were two old men sitting opposite each other. Judging from the way they were talking and laughing, they obviously looked like old friends who had known each other for a long time.
"Teacher Lei, you are back. Just in time, I have some information that I want to hand over to you. Just wait for me here and I will come back as soon as I go."
As soon as the old principal of Jindai High School saw Lei Mingkai knocking on the door and walking into the office, he gave a casual order and then took the initiative to get up and leave the office.
In this manner, there is no doubt that he just randomly found a reason to give this office to Lei Mingkai and another old man who had been chatting and laughing with him before.
The old man that Lei Mingkai had met before and was related to Lei Mingkai joining the Sons of Dannu as a knight, Mallory.
"Knight, long time no see! I heard that you have been very active recently! Do you mind telling me about your wonderful experiences during this period? Just treat it as free time before the principal comes back."
Mallory casually picked up the cane lying beside him, and while standing up, he extended an invitation to Lei Mingkai.
Naturally, Lei Mingkai would not refuse this invitation.
However, when he saw Mallory actually appearing here, Lei Mingkai was really surprised.
Unexpectedly, this man with dual identities and influencing international trends would appear in front of Lei Mingkai, in this seemingly inconspicuous college.
"It seems that the knight is surprised that I will appear here?"
Regarding the name of Remingkai, Malos seems to prefer to call Remingkai a knight.
"Yes. Could it be said that this Jindai High School was also built under your patronage, Sir?"
Lei Mingkai, who happily accepted the invitation and sat down, expressed his doubts.
"No. The history of this Jindai High School may be about the same as my age. Therefore, I did not sponsor the construction. It was just that in the early years, when I was still young, I helped this college, and therefore
I developed a friendship with the principal and his family of this college.”
Mallory, who also sat down, put his cane back beside him and chuckled:
"I came today just to catch up with old friends. I didn't expect you, Knight, to report back to this academy today."
Mallory spoke frankly, but Lei Mingkai knew that this old fox was here for him from the beginning. Otherwise, even if he was looking for old friends to catch up with the past, he would not have appeared in Lei Mingkai's house by chance.
before.
I'm afraid that Mallory had already received the news from the old butler Jack when Lei Mingkai left Dannu's son and returned to his residence here.
So, instead of exposing Mallory's trick, Raymond sat on the sofa and waited for Mallory's next words.
Obviously.
The attitude of Lei Mingkai who was all ears made Mallory stunned, as if he was a little uncomfortable with Lei Mingkai's reaction at this time.
But after all, people mature with age, and Mallory soon found the next topic.
"Knight, the video of you attacking with the crossbow has set off a storm among Mithril. It is especially fierce in Mithril's R&D department."
"Huh? Are you going to transfer me to the R&D department?"
Lei Mingkai frowned and began to guess what Mallory would say next.
The most likely guess is probably the decision to transfer Lei Mingkai away from the front line and into the R&D department.
However,
There are no absolutes in things.
What's more, Mallory never meant this.
Ever since Lei Mingkai showed up in Oceania, he had already guessed that Lei Mingkai's thoughts would not stop at the R&D department.
I'm afraid that Lei Mingkai's ideas overlap to some extent with his original intention of establishing Mithril.
"No. Knight, I, and Mithril will not move your ace from the front line. After all, the pressure we will face in our next actions will be increasing. Being able to support on the front line and have the ability to open up the situation
I’m not willing to waste my combat power on the R&D department.”
Mallory smiled slightly and admitted his thoughts unabashedly. Although it was a straight shot, it was in line with Lei Mingkai's thoughts.
"So, Sir, what do you mean?"
Raymond Kai looked at Mallory's old face.
In the near future, this old man, who is both an amalgam executive and the founder of Mithril, will be shot dead by his own son at some point under the witness of Kalinin.
Mallory didn't speak, but pulled out a document from under the table between the sofas and handed it to Raymond Kai.
"Knight. Although you have not confessed some things, I believe you will be interested in the information recorded in this document."
Raymond Kai lowered his eyes, watched Mallory's hand pull away from the document, and then raised his eyes to look at Mallory.
"This is a return gift!"
Mallory smiled softly. The smile was full of trust between friends.
"Just think of it as a return gift from the knight for showing me the possibility of fulfilling my long-cherished wish."
"λ drive system?"
The only thing that could move Mallory was probably the recent battle between Lei Mingkai and his powerful crossbow against the twin Hell Kings in the port area.
"Yes. Lambda drive system. Although I don't know the origin of this system, I see the possibility from you, the knight, and the AS named Qiangbao."
"Is it possible to defeat or even destroy amalgam?" Lei Mingkai naturally knew what Mallory was thinking, but he still added.
"Sir, I understand your thoughts, but if you really go to the point of destroying the amalgam, wouldn't your wish to purify the amalgam and bring it back to the path that your predecessors prayed for will be in vain?"
Mallory shook his head slightly, then picked up the cane again, stood up slowly, and walked to the window behind the desk while leaning on the cane, looking at the students walking into the college in groups below.
"Knight, what would you do if the abscess has reached a point of hopelessness?"
At this moment, Mallory's back was turned to Raymond Kai.
Lei Mingkai could not see his expression when he said these words, but he could feel a sense of desolation, despair, and uncontrollable anger from the tone of Mallory's words.
Perhaps, a long time ago, Mallory, who longed for the forefathers who sacrificed unimaginable costs in order to lead the world to the path of peaceful reunification, had already been ignited when he discovered that the amalgam had deteriorated from the inside out.
This anger.
However, at that time, Mallory, who had begun to be marginalized, no longer had the power to restore the situation except for his status as a hereditary senior executive of Amalgam.
Facing Mallory's anger, Lei Mingkai was silent for a moment, and then said slowly:
"Of course it is to be cut off. Only by discarding most of the spoiled and festering parts can the amalgam be reborn."
"That's right. The current amalgam has reached the point of no return. Especially"
Mallory's right hand held the cane with great force, as if he wanted to scratch the cane to pieces, but his old body could no longer vent the anger in Mallory's heart. After the anger, all that was left was this old and frail body.
The endless regrets left behind.
"Knight, look at that information! In order to obtain this information, I did not hesitate to bury all the inheritance left by my father's generation, and then I obtained this information."
Mallory's increasingly bleak back made Lei Mingkai feel a bit unbearable, but his curiosity about the information made Lei Mingkai put aside this bit of unbearability.
There was the sound of documents being opened.
The next moment, Lei Mingkai frowned deeply.
Because, he saw it.
The moment the file was opened, what came into view was a photo of a man and a woman standing on an unknown cliff.
The man's appearance was very unfamiliar to Lei Mingkai.
But Lei Mingkai recognized the woman's appearance immediately.
As expected, she ran into this world and lurked.
"Sir, when was this information given?"
Regarding the information involved, Lei Mingkai no longer held back and asked directly.
"It happened after the battle between the knights and you at the port. That man was mr.au. He controlled most of the cadres of Amalgam through various means. He was also the culprit who accelerated Amalgam's slide towards the abyss."
Lei Mingkai agreed with Mallory's words in the first half, but in the second half, Lei Mingkai had a different view.
The existence of mr.au undoubtedly accelerated the collapse of Amalgam, but the most fundamental reason is that in the decades of changing generations, the backbone that could maintain the original ideals of Amalgam was lost.
However, Lei Mingkai had no intention of saying this idea out loud. After all, Mallory, who has matured into a mature man, should also understand this truth.
It's just that I couldn't accept this fact and subconsciously attributed all my faults to the appearance of this man Mr.au.
Lei Mingkai did not take the topic, still waiting quietly for Mallory's next words.
Mallory took a breath and continued:
"48 hours ago, mr.au and this mysterious woman appeared in the Middle East and seemed to be planning a plan. According to the last intelligence sent back by the personnel I sent, this plan may be related to some kind of extremely lethal
It has something to do with powerful weapons.”
"Ultimately lethal? Nuclear bomb?"
When mentioning the Middle East, Lei Mingkai immediately recalled that an original plot in Full Metal took place in the same region.
Mallory was silent for a moment and said in a deep voice:
"I'm afraid that's the case. After learning this information, I asked Mithril to urgently investigate the weapons reserves of various countries. It turned out that there was an abnormality in the weapons reserve database of a certain big country."
"As a result, someone is secretly smuggling this extremely lethal weapon out of the country?"
This conclusion was already guessed by Lei Mingkai after Mallory presented this information.
Unexpectedly, at the moment when Jiulong, who was supposed to implement this plan, received the lunch box, someone else took Jiulong's place and continued to carry out the plan.
"Yes. Knight. Go and destroy this plan! If necessary, the command of the Sons of Danu will be handed over to you."
Suddenly, Mallory actually made a promise that Lei Mingkai couldn't refuse.
"Wait a minute. I can understand wanting to stop Amalgam's plan. But why would you hand over the command of the Sons of Danu to me? Captain Teresa's command capabilities are far superior to mine."
Without even thinking about it, Lei Mingkai directly rejected Mallory's promise.
"No. This is not a complete transfer of command. Knight. What I am saying is that when necessary, the command of the Sons of Danu will be temporarily transferred to you. Because it is becoming more and more intense nowadays, and more and more people are equipped with lambda drives.
In battles where the system's airframes are involved in combat, a frontline commander who can skillfully use the lambda drive system and understand the advantages and disadvantages of its performance is necessary."
Mallory turned around, with his back to the window, and looked at Raymond Kai calmly.
"I know Tessa's ability very well and I agree with it very much. However, Tessa, who has always been on the Son of Danu, doesn't know that the fierce fighting between the machines equipped with the lambda drive system on the frontline battlefield has far exceeded
No other battle in the history of mankind."
"If you are not careful, Mithril, which is already lagging behind Amalgam in the use of the lambda drive system, will lose its only lambda drive system-equipped body, the Qianbao. At that time, Mithril's situation will inevitably become extremely extreme.
Passive. In order to prevent Mithril from falling into such a situation and passively accepting everything, we must take the first step and remove the unstable factors that may cause such a future."
Mallory's voice was unusually firm, as if he had seen a future that was about to happen.
really.
After losing the Arbalest, Mithril's situation became extremely passive, and it was even almost destroyed by Amalgam's full attack.
"Preemptive strike? Sir."
"Yes. I don't know the identity of that mysterious woman. The intelligence personnel who have died have not found out her identity clearly, but I feel that mr.au dared to carry out the plan that we can't see clearly yet.
The confidence should come from this mysterious woman."
Mallory's analysis makes sense and is even close to the truth.
Lei Mingkai closed his eyes, remained silent for a moment, and then said slowly and forcefully:
"Yes, Sir. I know a little bit about the identity of this mysterious woman. She has no name, only a title that is very similar to her code name. That is,."
"Based on the several contacts I had with her, this woman seems to have technology in her hands that we cannot detect clearly, as well as the means to cause unimaginable disasters around the world."
Having said this, Lei Mingkai stood up from the sofa, held the document and shook it, with a playful light in his eyes, and said word by word:
"Actually, even if Sir, you don't promise to hand over the command of Sons of Danu to me when necessary, I will still carry out this task. Because, I still have some things to settle with this woman.