Rolling thunder resounded across the sky, playing the song of the dead for the battlefield strewn with corpses.
The black clouds in the sky were like Mount Tai, weighing heavily on the hearts of all those who survived this life-and-death battle.
The battle was won.
But the devastated battlefield, strewn with corpses, told everyone a fact.
Now Orb can no longer bear another battle.
All Orb defense lines, including the final direction, have collapsed.
Even with the help of that unexpected and unfamiliar battleship, the eventual collapse of the defense line was an established fact.
In this case, any experienced frontline commander may issue an order to regroup and restore the final line of defense as much as possible.
However, under the dark clouds, surrounded by the two unfamiliar machines, the girl who was regarded as the supreme leader of Orb was still unable to issue this order.
Because, her eyes were always on the almost tattered wreckage.
That's Orb's Murasame.
It is also the vehicle of the guardian who has been accompanying the girl through many difficulties.
In the shattered cockpit, the figure was still tall and tall.
But he was already dripping with blood and couldn't find a good place all over his body.
The pilot's uniform that was supposed to protect the body was in pieces, and large areas of rotten flesh stung the girl's eyes.
However, what the girl couldn't accept the most was the figure that was so torn apart by scars, but there was a smile on his lips.
A trace...
My long-cherished wish was fulfilled, and I smiled without any regrets.
"Chisaka..."
The girl's voice was trembling.
Sadness flooded the girl like a tide.
However,
As the supreme leader of Orb, his reserve has now become a dam to resist the tide of sadness, constantly bearing the impact of that sadness.
His increasingly hazy eyes fell on the broken figure, watching the guardian's last moments in the world.
Suddenly, the girl's eyes trembled.
She saw a stain.
piece···
Blood red... "stain".
That is a "stain" painted in bright red.
At this moment, the "dam" forged by Orb's supreme leader collapsed, no longer able to withstand the surge of sorrow.
Tears slipped quietly from the girl's cheeks, dripping onto the charred and broken remains, splashing a little dust.
"Chisaka!! You idiot!!"
The girl couldn't help but fall down on the edge of the cockpit, and her right hand was hammering the blackened steel plate feebly.
When thousands of words rushed to my throat, I couldn't utter a word or a sentence, only the girl's low whimpering sound remained.
"Rumble..."
The thunder in the sky was still galloping above the dark clouds, until the loudest thunder ripped through the sky, and this war-torn battlefield ushered in a heavy rain.
A rainstorm in farewell to the deceased.
"Pap..."
Big raindrops fell on the broken village rain, and at the moment when clouds of smoke and dust were splashed, the girl who was crying softly accidentally saw that the raindrops falling on the battlefield turned out to be black!!
The girl suddenly raised her head, only to see an octagonal light shield emitting a bright green light blocking her from the black clouds, blocking the pouring black rain.
It was the two strange machines that suddenly appeared on the battlefield and saved the girl.
"Sorry! This black rain was not what we expected."
In the black rain, two figures appeared quietly, stepping on the water mixed with blood and black rain, and stood beside Shattered Cunyu.
This Orb defensive battle is finally over.
The report on this battle was also compiled into a book by the intelligence personnel on the Son of Danu, and was transmitted to the throne of domination through the empire's intelligence network, and was placed in front of Lei Mingkai.
Looking at this report, Lei Mingkai fell into silence for a long time.
BETA's actions were not unexpected.
Ever since Lei Mingkai came into contact with the world view of the MUV series, he knew that the BETA race, which is always jokingly called the space miner by the audience, would never be able to reach reconciliation one day for humans.
Therefore, Lei Mingkai didn't pay much attention to BETA.
What concerned him was the information collected from Orb by the intelligence personnel of the Sons of Danu under the leadership of Teresa.
The first one on the list is the many records about Orb since the X1 Rift Crisis broke out.
Among them, there are records about the disappearance of Minerva and the Heavenly Pillar since the outbreak of the X1 rift crisis.
The time span was two years ago, about one year and six months.
It must be said that this record caught Lei Mingkai's attention and confirmed some speculations.
"Buzz!"
As the buzzing sound rang out, a hazy figure quietly appeared.
It was He Meimei whom she had not seen for a long time.
"Oh? A rare visitor!"
As soon as Lei Mingkai saw that the person who came was He Meimei, who had been missing since she claimed to go out to search for information alone, and only conveyed information through He Nana, he casually put down the information in his hand and stood up to greet him.
certainly.
This is just a holographic projection from nowhere.
Except for He Nana, no one can know where He Meimei is now.
He Meimei looked around, nodded and said:
"I didn't expect that you, the prince of the empire, would enjoy it. I heard that not only did you acquire Minerva some time ago, but you also acquired the remnants of the Heavenly Pillar."
Lei Mingkai shook his head.
He knew that He Meimei was just teasing.
As a fellow Gunplan player, Lei Mingkai could understand the meaning behind He Meimei's words.
What's more, He Meimei didn't give Lei Mingkai a chance to be humble.
"That's it for the opening remarks! Now, let's talk about my findings!"
Lei Mingkai raised his eyebrows, turned around and sat down on the sofa, pretending to be listening.
"Nana should have warned you before about the current situation of the world."
"Yes! Judging from the series of events in which the Minerva and the Heavenly Pillar were discovered by us one after another, the world seems to be falling into a time vortex that is difficult to explain clearly."
"Yes! In fact, this vortex is about to reach a threshold."
He Meimei raised her hand and opened a projection.
"This is the conclusion I reached by searching for time anomalies everywhere."
"Time anomaly? Is it a time-space singularity?"
Lei Mingkai pondered for a moment and expressed his doubts.
"Similar, but not the same."
He Meimei nodded. The projection screen in front of her changed several times and stopped on a chart with several peaks marked.
"Time anomalies are just abnormal events discovered in the big world due to various reasons. As long as proper precautions are taken, it will not cause serious things. Well, it is like using a pencil to mark on a white paper
A little, and then it feels like it can be erased with an eraser.”
"The singularity of time and space was destined to be a disaster from the beginning. A disaster that could destroy a world."
Lei Mingkai blinked and added a sentence based on He Meimei's previous metaphor.
"Is it like a world-famous painting that has been splashed with paint and has been scrapped?"
He Meimei spread her hands.
"That's pretty much it."
Then, she pointed at the peak numbers on the peak chart and said one by one:
"This is the remaining space-time fluctuation when the Migne's distress signal appeared."
"This is the space-time fluctuation detected by the Dominion Throne when the Heavenly Pillar was discovered by the Dominion Throne."
He Meimei said and gestured.
"The numerical difference between these space-time fluctuations is getting smaller and smaller. As time goes by, I am afraid that they will become completely consistent in the near future. By then, the world where Minerva, the Heavenly Pillar, originally lived, will
Maybe it will completely integrate with this world.”
"We are already prepared for this."
Yes.
When he learned of the existence of the Minerva, Lei Mingkai had been making various preparations for it.
"No. It's not enough now."
He Meimei waved her hand.
"No one can guarantee that this is just a fusion between two worlds."
"More than plural?"
A light flashed in Lei Mingkai's eyes.
The unknown is far more powerful and terrifying than what appears on the surface.
If it is true as He Meimei speculated, Lei Mingkai, no, the preparations made by the Britannia Empire for this are far from enough.
"That's what I said. But as far as the current situation is concerned, the preparations made by you and Euphemia should be able to cope with the next development of the situation. As for further things, we will talk about it when the time comes!"
He Meimei clapped her hands, turned off the projection screen, and made a casual stretching movement.
"I'll leave it to you here! I'm leaving in less than ten hours!"
"Departure? A new round of intelligence collection?"
"No! I'm going to Jupiter."
He Meimei smiled and said casually:
"I got a piece of data from the teacher before. It is said to be the song of whales on Jupiter. I am a little curious, so I want to try my luck on Jupiter."
After a pause, He Meimei said again:
"I have almost sorted out the space-time anomalies on this side of the Earth's circle. The rest are the space-time anomalies outside the circle. This is also incidental."
"Then, I'll leave it to you to investigate outside the circle!"
Therefore, Lei Mingkai took the initiative and handed over the task of exploring outside the circle to He Meimei.
He Meimei had no objection to this.
I'm afraid He Meimei had already made this plan when she came to her door.
Half an hour later, a flower of light bloomed quietly in the depths of the void on the right side of the throne.
As he watched the light flower bloom, a figure appeared in Lei Mingkai's mind.
If this world is about to be integrated with that world, then I believe that old fox will also appear!
"Gilbert Durandal."
Looking back on the past, when I first met this old fox, Lei Mingkai was just the only survivor of Junius 7, and he was the doctor who saved the last compatriot of Junius 7.
And now...
Pale and frightened face,
listless face,
Holding back the sad face,
Angry face,
These faces keep passing by in the space port of the PLANT capital April City colonial satellite.
He brought a human named Orb refugee to this friendly country that was willing to open its borders and temporarily accept Orb refugees.
However, this friendship is not free.
There are tens of thousands of refugees who can escape to PLANT from Earth, but the number of people who can temporarily live in the refugee area of April City, the capital of PLANT, is less than 100,000.
In order to receive this group of refugees, April City mobilized almost all the forces it could mobilize and tried its best to guide this group of refugees into the refugee area smoothly.
Noisy and boiling sounds,
strange faces,
A hurried figure,
They are all telling the people of April City a fact.
The earth has probably fallen, right?!
"Has the earth fallen? Mayu. I remember that your hometown is Orb, right?"
On a high platform somewhere, a gaze hidden under a hood looked pityingly at the Orb refugees below who had lost their homes.
Next to him, a girl wearing ZAFT red clothes with her long dark brown hair tied into a single ponytail shook her head slightly.
"No. Based on the information ZAFT currently has, it seems that the attack of those bugs has been blocked."
"Yeah?"
"Yes! Miss Lacus Klein. What's more, there are rumors within ZAFT that the fleet led by the Holy Lion Knight has completed the mission of clearing the space surrounding PLANT and is about to return to prepare for a new round of combat missions.
"
When the girl in red mentioned the Holy Lion Knight, the eyes hidden under her hood seemed to have a slight fluctuation.
However, it is just a slight fluctuation.
What concerned the owner of these eyes was the increasingly noisy and restless crowd below.
She knew that now was her, no, it was her turn for that name to appear.