At the XIO combat base, a video of ground shaking was being played. On the screen was a huge, indistinct, dark-blue monster.
"This is the surveillance video from area T4-7 at 4:13 this morning."
"Afterwards, unusual local earthquakes were detected near the suburbs. It is currently speculated that the monster may be moving in and out of the ground."
Captain Shenmu turned around and looked at Dadi Daekong: "Dadi, you go analyze this monster immediately, and the other team members go collect this shocking information!"
"Understood!" the team members responded unanimously.
After they dispersed, a security team member suddenly walked into the command room and bowed slightly to Captain Shenmu: "Excuse me. Captain, I have a message for you."
Captain Shenmu took it and said, "Thank you."
He subconsciously checked the identity of the letter. The signature was correct, but the content...
Wedding Invitations.
Kamiki Yumi, his daughter, and a completely unfamiliar name, Oyuki Daisuke.
"If you have time, please come and attend." This pink note was posted on the wedding invitation.
Captain Shenmu took a deep breath, folded the letter into the envelope and put it away with a complicated expression.
Vice Captain Orange, who was watching Camilla intercepting information from the star network, raised his head slightly as if he noticed something.
"What's wrong?" Camilla asked.
"It's nothing." Tachibana thought for a while and decided to talk about it later.
After a while, she noticed Captain Shenmu leaving the command room and chased after him.
In Tiantai Mountain, I saw Shenmu alone, looking down at the terminal and meditating.
"What happened?" Tachibana asked bluntly.
Captain Shenmu's hand trembled subconsciously, and when Tachibana slowly walked up to him, he simply didn't hide it and handed over the invitation directly.
Tachibana took it and pulled out the letter from the envelope. A look of surprise appeared on her face. She obviously knew Captain Shenmu's daughter: "Yumi is getting married? Congratulations."
Hearing this, Shenmu looked at the terminal hanging on his waist with a complicated expression: "The wedding ceremony is tomorrow."
Tachibana was a little surprised: "Didn't she tell you before?" Then he thought of something from her perspective: "Then she made all the preparations alone."
Shenmu looked very ugly, and after a while he responded: "Well, that should be it."
As he spoke, he couldn't help but take a deep breath, as if to suppress something.
"I think you should go meet her. After all, the day before the wedding should be spent together as a family."
Captain Shenmu, who usually works very methodically, felt like his brain was knotted today, and it was even more difficult than dealing with Xiao Che.
After holding it in for a while, he slowly replied: "I think she doesn't want to see me."
But Tachibana couldn't help but smile. She showed the note on the invitation: "If she doesn't want to see you, then why did she put this on the invitation?"
"Yumi must really want to see you." Tachibana looked at Shenmu's still unattractive expression and couldn't help but sigh, put away the invitation and said nothing more.
But after a long silence and a serious expression, Shenmu seemed to be sighing or asking for help: "What gift should I bring?"
Tachibana's expression almost froze: "Huh?"
Captain Shenmu still looked confused: "It's not a good idea to go empty-handed, right..."
"Of course you can!" Ju laughed and offered a few tips: "Just go and stay with her, have a meal together or something."
Captain Shenmu thought about it tangledly, and then nodded tangledly.
Then he regained his dignity as a captain and seriously warned: "If anything happens, don't hesitate to contact me immediately."
"clear!"
XIO command room.
After the basic content was confirmed, Vice Captain Tachibana reported on the screen: "This G-shaped monster should be the ancient monster Gomes. Don't miss any signs of the monster."
"Understood!" all the team members replied in unison.
After tidying up, things started to loosen up. Hayato was the first to sigh: "However, it's really rare that the captain would choose to go out at this time."
As soon as this was mentioned, Asuna began to become confused: "Yes, he usually doesn't go out."
As she said this, she didn't know what expression to put on: "It makes me feel like he lives here."
A'Du: "Did something happen?"
Although Camila was silent throughout the whole process, her body was already leaning towards this side unconsciously.
The vice-captain didn't sell it: "Because his daughter is getting married tomorrow."
As soon as these words came out, everyone was shocked.
"Has the captain's daughter grown so big?" A'Du exclaimed.
"I don't know at all!"
"Why did you hide it from us?"
The vice-captain was stunned when he said this: "He probably didn't hide it from everyone? It's because he probably didn't know how to tell everyone about it."
What can't be said about this? Dadi poked his head out from behind the computer and whispered: "I don't quite understand this."
"Because he has been busy with work." The vice-captain said in his usual gentle tone: "He has not contacted his daughter for a long time."
"Including that year, because he was busy with monster matters, he didn't have time to see his seriously ill wife for the last time."
Not only was he worried about estrangement from his daughter, but he also felt disgusted with himself at that time. But if it happened again, he would definitely do the same thing.
At this point, the vice-captain suddenly became a little distracted and generally felt a bit sad.
"Work..." Dadi suddenly remembered that he had just joked with Xiao Che a few days ago that their captain had not left here for a long time.
But now I can no longer feel the urge to joke.
"Okay, okay," the vice-captain clapped his hands: "His job is to protect the earth and maintain peace. Since we don't have so much to do now, let's do our own thing."
There was no dignity in her speech this time, probably because of the less formal question.
Dadi transferred a file to Camilla's computer: "The code you asked me to make just now has been completed. The star network that should be able to tell you within three minutes... Camilla? What are you thinking about?"
Camilla recovered from her daze, picked up the coffee on the table and drank it all: "I was thinking about my parents. Captain Shenmu put the attention that should have been on his daughter and wife into defending the earth..."
She seemed unable to speak.
Dadi was worried that it might cause her PTSD, so she carefully removed the word "wife" and then asked: "Do you feel unworthy of this? Are your parents very good to you?"
Camila looked strange: "Sorry, I don't have any memory of my parents."