On a clean and quiet street, a figure wearing sunglasses and red hair was walking quickly across the street and came to the door of a house with white walls.
"Kacha!"
The figure quickly surveyed the surroundings, and after confirming that no one was following him, he opened the door and returned to the room they called the safe house.
"You're back. How was your harvest today?"
In the room, a young man who was tinkering with some puzzling device raised his head and glanced at the figure, then said hello casually.
"Yeah. It's still the same. The security at the institute is much tighter than I remembered."
After taking off his sunglasses, the red hair on his head fell off, and a delicate face suddenly appeared in front of others.
He is Nicol Amalfi who recently returned to the capital of PLANT, April City, with the help of Luo and everyone in the recycling house.
However, Nigel, who used disguises and other means to hide his identity and went to the research laboratory where his father Yuli Amalfi was, discovered that there was already a group of ZAFT soldiers at the intersection a hundred meters away from the research laboratory.
Conduct questioning on passing vehicles and pedestrians.
This discovery caused Nicol's attempt to sneak into the research laboratory and face his father, Yuli Amalfi, to fail immediately.
In the following days, many attempts to enter the institute using different methods still failed.
This made Nigel feel frustrated.
"Where are Professor Luo and the others?"
The boy who was sitting on the floor tinkering with an unknown device waved his hand casually.
"Professor? They seem to have gone out. They will be back later. Don't worry!"
At this moment, AI Xiaoba, who was placed next to Luo, told a piece of news.
"Nigel, based on the analysis of the news announced by the PLANT Supreme Council during this period, there are some outliers in the Supreme Council's decision-making deviations."
Nigel was confused by Xiaoba's words, and when he looked at Xiaoba's owner Luo, the latter also had a puzzled look on his face.
"Nigel, don't look at me. I can only tinker with these machines. I don't understand Xiaoba's inexplicable speeches from time to time."
Luo spread out his oily hands, showing a helpless expression.
This made Nigel couldn't help but smile bitterly.
During the time he returned to April City, he saw how strange this team, which was undoubtedly a miscellaneous army compared to the army, looked.
"Oh! By the way. Before the professor left, she seemed to have left a message for you."
Luo seemed to hear something suddenly, and pointed to the table not far away.
There, a CD was lying quietly on the table.
Nigel, who was confused, stepped forward to pick up the CD and returned to his room. When he was about to take a look at what was inside, he saw a note pressed under the CD.
"This is?!"
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The weather in April City is still as mild as I remembered.
Sitting in the orbital elevator, descending from the port to the city, looking at the green city below, Lux couldn't help but feel a trace of nostalgia in her eyes.
Especially after everything she had experienced during this period, people, things, even the hot and cold climates on the earth, when she faced the unchanging warmth of April City again, the indescribable feeling of loss remained.
lingering in Lux's mind.
"Audrey."
Lei Mingkai's voice came from behind.
Lux looked back, only to find that the people around her were talking about the silver mask that Lei Mingkai was wearing at the moment.
From those small comments, Lux could easily tell that the people around her seemed to regard Lei Mingkai's behavior of wearing a mask as some kind of idol worship.
And this so-called idol may be the man who is most valued among ZAFT by Patrick Sala, the current chairman of the National Defense Council and the new chairman of the PLANT Supreme Council, Rau Lu Cruze.
"Everyone thinks you are a fan of Captain Cruze!"
Lux withdrew her gaze and looked at Lei Mingkai with a half-smile.
"Maybe! As long as you wear a mask, this is inevitable."
Lei Mingkai was open-minded.
After all, Lei Mingkai could not use the holographic image necklace to disguise himself like Lux, so he could only use a mask to hide his face.
Fortunately, as Kruse relied on the influence of Patrick Sala, the strong wind sweeping across PLANT, to quickly gain a good reputation among ZAFT and even the people of PLANT, Lei Ming, who put on the mask,
Kai was not treated as a weirdo. Even when he was passing through the security check at the port, the ZAFT soldiers around him encouraged Lei Mingkai with their understanding eyes.
This situation made Lei Mingkai dumbfounded.
After the little banter between the two, Lux's expression became a little lonely.
"Kay, tell me, is it really okay for everyone to stay here?"
The impact of the scorching desert, the high and cold snow-capped mountains, the vast sky, and the cold but mysterious Far North brought to Lux has yet to be fully digested.
After seeing how vast the outside world is, after Lux returned to April City in PLANT, she suddenly found a kind of colonial satellite that was regarded as home by the adjusters, maybe it was a prison!
"Now, there's nothing wrong with that."
Lei Mingkai knew what Lux was thinking at the moment, but judging from the external situation, the situation where the adjusters gathered together to keep warm was the general trend.
"Nothing wrong?"
Lux lowered her gaze and shook her head silently.
Perhaps, huddled together to keep warm is the only feasible way at the moment.
But what next?
one year,
two years,
Even five years,
What about ten years from now?
The consequences of solidifying one's footsteps and vision in these colonial satellites, using the thoughts and names of victims to limit one's identity, and gaining sympathy from the outside world...
Lux's eyes couldn't help but dim.
If that's the case, the citizens who anchor themselves in these colonial satellites may become victims of some people.
"Ding dong!"
The orbital elevator has arrived at its destination.
When the breeze in April City gently stroked Lux's hair again, it also brought Lux's thoughts back to reality.
"Let's go! Audrey and the others are still waiting for us."
Half an hour later, Lei Mingkai and Lux, who were walking along the main road, came to a small house.
On the lawn in front of the cabin, an old man was sitting leisurely on a wicker chair, turning a blind eye to Lei Mingkai and Lux standing in front of him.
"Here, old man, do Cong Yunqi and the others live here?"
When Lei Mingkai saw the old man's posture, some images buried deep in his memory quietly emerged.
really.
No matter how much Lei Mingkai asked, the old man still had no response and was still sitting slowly on the wicker chair, rocking back and forth.
"Kay. Let me try!"
Lux volunteered, but was stopped by Lei Mingkai.
"No, no need. That guy Lux is out."
As soon as Lei Mingkai's voice fell, the door of the hut was knocked open from the inside out.
"Boom!"
When a huge banging sound was heard on the door, a figure rolled to the ground.
This scene made Lei Mingkai and Lux look at each other.
The figure rolling to the ground was a young man that Reming Kai and Lux had only met once, Sven Kal Bayan.
The young man who once almost died at the hands of Lei Mingkai rolled out of the house and fell to the ground in a state of embarrassment when we met again.
"Shi Wen. Stay outside until you figure it out!"
At the moment of doubt, Cong Yunxi's voice also came from the room.
"Cong Yunqi, what happened?"
As soon as he heard Cong Yunzai's voice, Lei Mingkai asked loudly.
"This voice? Is it Kai?"
"It's me! What happened?"
With Cong Yunqi here, everything will be easier.
Lei Mingkai stopped paying attention to the seemingly transparent old man, raised his feet, walked past Shi Wen who had climbed up in embarrassment, and came to the door of the hut. He looked at Cong Yunqi who walked out of it and asked.
"Just little things."
Cong Yungui said something subconsciously, and then changed his words:
"Shi Wen has not left this room at all in the half month since he came here."
"You haven't left this room for half a month?"
Lei Mingkai and Lux both showed a hint of surprise.
Swain Kal Bayan is not the kind of person who can stay at home, right?
"Well, if it weren't for old Bart, this guy would have starved to death!"
Cong Yunqi hates that iron cannot become steel.
But Si Wen, who stood up again, dusted himself off expressionlessly and stood there without retorting or speaking.
Not to mention Cong Yunqi, even Lei Mingkai felt a headache when he saw Shi Wen's helpless look.
"Xi, let this young man stay here! So that I can have something to do."
At this time, the old man who had never responded to Lei Mingkai's inquiry suddenly spoke.
Judging from his appearance, he seemed to want to plead with Shi Wen?!
Cong Yunqi's eyes twitched a few times, but he finally nodded silently, agreeing to the old man's request.
"Thank you! I will let this young man stay in the house and won't disturb you."
The old man seemed to have noticed something. After solemnly making his promise, he slowly stood up from the wicker chair, walked to Shi Wen's side, pulled him away, turned around and walked into the room next to him.
After watching the old man and young man leave, Cong Yunqi slowly breathed a sigh of relief.
"I never thought that the famous leader of the Serpent's Tail would look like this again."
Sven Kal Bayan's fate may have changed at this moment.
"It's just a moment of sentimentality! Okay. Kay, Miss Audrey. We have already obtained the information you want. Please come to the room and tell us!"
Half an hour later, under the greeting of Lolita Azhe, Lei Mingkai and Lux, who were sitting on the sofa, were attracted by a document.
When you open the file, the first thing you see is a photo.
A photo that made Lei Mingkai and Lux's eyes change dramatically.
On top of the photo, there was a picture of the gentle pink princess and a boy with a bandage on his head and a pale face, but who looked very familiar to Remingkai and Lux, sitting on the edge of the bed and chatting.
"This is Kira?!"
In an instant, Lei Mingkai and Lux recognized the boy's true identity.
But compared to Lux's shock, Lei Mingkai's attention was on the other side.
"Is this photo safe?"
Yes.
The pink princess who appears on the screen is undoubtedly a fake, but the person who was able to take this photo is probably not an ordinary person, right?
Lolita Yazhe glanced at Cong Yungui, and with the latter's consent, she spoke the truth.
"The source of this photo is a servant who worked in the Klein faction's official residence. However, when we obtained this photo, we did not contact the servant, but obtained it from a person who had agreed a few years ago.
But I got it from the hidden pile which is not very stable.”
"Servant? Where is the servant?"
Lux quickly asked.
Lolita Yazhe shook her head.
"I don't know. But in subsequent contacts, I didn't get a response from the other party. Maybe..."
"Has it been discovered?"
As long as he saw Lolita Yazhe's expression, Lei Mingkai could guess the fate of that servant.
Either he disappeared or he was murdered.
"How could it be? I don't even know who that servant is."
Lux's eyes fluctuated slightly, and she even looked at the smiling face in the photo.
That was her face, but without her knowledge, she maintained a close relationship with the boy named Kira Yamato, who was also a good friend of Aslan Sara.
"We don't know who that servant is. However, what we do know is that Klein's little princess seems to have betrayed the engagement she had made since she was a child."
"What?!"
Lux raised her head suddenly and stared straight at Lolita Azhe.
"Ahem... From our observations in the past few days, we know that since the boy in the photo was sent to Klein's house, the little princess has not appeared in the public eye much except for necessary official activities."
Loretta Azhe's story made Lux's heart gradually sink to the bottom.
Behind the swaggering actions of the counterfeiter pretending to be himself, it must be the leader of the Klein faction, that is, his father, Sigel Klein, who may have been controlled by the other party!
The more she thought about it, the scarier she felt. Lux couldn't help but feel her hands and feet were cold.
Just as a heart-breaking coldness swept through Lux's body, a warmth quietly covered her hands.
"Don't worry! Everything will be fine."
Lei Mingkai's voice sounded softly in Lux's ears, calming Lux's heart that was gradually panicking due to worries about her father's situation.
"Kay.I..."
Lei Mingkai shook his head slightly and said firmly:
"I will make arrangements."
After saying that, Lei Mingkai looked at Cong Yunqi.
"Xi, I wonder if you can contact Luo and the others?"
Cong Yunzai's eyes moved from the young man's face in the photo, and he looked at Lei Mingkai and nodded affirmatively.