"I'm practicing..." She answered with some confusion.
"Xuanji is a standard novice. Plato Knight started practicing on the machine at the age of 14, and she didn't get the hang of it until she was 21." Zuo Geng, who was sitting opposite her, glanced at her, "Can the abilities be the same?"
Everything was kept secret, Xuanji was recognized as a vase, good-looking but without any strength.
"You have to concentrate." Major General Meyer spoke to her in a warning tone, "I find that you are always distracted."
"Yes, Major General, I know." Xuanji looked down at her meal. This was a man's world, and she realized that she had no place in this world.
The pilots of Gaia's genetically modified humans began to whisper, and they felt the strict chain of class discrimination among the Platons.
"Devoting yourself wholeheartedly to repeated practice can make up for innate deficiencies." Lieutenant Colonel Jürgen said.
Everyone nodded in agreement.
"Do you want to see what I looked like in the past?" Aliya took the initiative to say to Xuanji, feeling that she was under pressure.
"We are a military base here and cannot use wristbands, so I carry photos from my past with me. This is my entertainment project." Alya pushed her photos to Xuanji, and the six female pilots sat closely together
Together.
"What? Did you look like this in the past?" Xuanji said in surprise.
The photo in her hand shows the appearance of the most ordinary Gaian woman, with a standard smile, revealing transparent braces, brown hair, a somewhat broad face, and even a little oily and uneven skin tone.
She turned her head and looked at Alya. She had a cold beauty of the same race as Plato's male knights. Her face was long and pointed, not to mention the sense of nobility brought by her silver hair. She was completely different from the one in her photo.
.
"Have you had plastic surgery? Aliya..." Xuanji asked in surprise, she was always so straightforward, "and dyed your hair?"
"Genetic modification is the most thorough plastic surgery." Alia smiled.
"The Gaia War Department has been collecting the outstanding genes of all Platonic warriors," Yinglong explained. "As far as Yuanjiao teachings are concerned, everything is empty. When Platonic people come to this world, they should leave as if they had never been there.
But the Ministry of War will not think so. To them, the Platons are providing Gaia with the best gene pool, the genes of all captured senior soldiers, and all the outstanding genes that can be searched on the interstellar battlefield to confirm their identities.
For hundreds of years, they have been carefully preserved by the Gaians, but technology cannot completely clone these people. The ability to clone humans is too diminishing, otherwise the Platonians will face an attack by their best army.
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As soon as his words came out, everyone on Plato's side was stunned, followed by whispers.
"It is indeed the most thorough plastic surgery," Lieutenant Colonel Jürgen said suddenly. "My gene editing borrowed the genes of Kurt von Abenberg. Perhaps because I am of German descent, I successfully adapted
After all this, the two people in front failed..."
There was silence, and everyone stopped whispering and listened to what he said.
"The appearance, physique, and even thoughts will change...I suddenly found that I no longer loved my girlfriend, so we broke up. I would like things that I had never noticed before." He said, "At first, this change
It was slow, and then it was like I couldn't stop the car. I told myself, Jürgen, you are not Kurt von Abenberg, but he is invading and controlling me."
"Yes, that's what it feels like..." Conti, a dark-skinned female knight, said, "I started to like vegetarian food. My taste buds are completely different from before. Now I can only be vegetarian. I am slowly becoming a different person."<
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Everyone started talking softly again.
"Kurt von Abenberg, isn't he the leader of Visakha?" Major General Meyer showed a slightly embarrassed smile, "The complete genes of the dead people three hundred years ago are preserved.
In terms of foresight, the Gaians are really good."
A flash of lightning flashed in Xuanji's mind. Almost all the Platonians serving in the Gaia War Department knew that the Von Abenberg family, the current leader of Gaia's military community, came from the "White Tiger Bloodline" and were knights who rebelled three hundred years ago.
The von Abenberg family is a descendant of the regiment's highest-ranking "regimental commander", so the von Abenberg family is ever-lasting and prosperous.
Meyer observed Jürgen carefully. He originally had a condescending attitude toward Gaia's genetically modified people, but he didn't expect to use the top genes of the past to genetically modify Gaia's people.
Then Jorgen is not a "re-created person" similar to "Captain Visakha"? He thought to himself.
"Oh! Then the Gaians must have the fully sequenced genes of Grand Master Kalki. I think this should be the gene of the highest level Platonic nobleman that the Gaians have. Why not use it quickly?" Walter.
Meyer said in a light-hearted joking tone, "I think if we saw a transforming fighter pilot genetically modified by the Grand Master, one of us here would be stunned."
Almost all Plato people turned their attention to Xuanji.
She suddenly felt that she was alone in such a simple, empty restaurant that was almost like a huge box structure.
She was born in Plato and grew up in Gaia. She is neither a Platonian nor a Gaian.
"Grand Leader Kalki is not a genetic sequence." She said clearly and clearly, making a clear voice among the group of people. "He is a living person, with warmth and breathing, with emotions, anger, sorrow, and joy, and has his own dreams and
If you persist, you will also be confused and lost, just like all of us here."
"Each of us is unique and irreplaceable." Xuanji's fresh and pleasant face had an arrogant and refined look for a moment, "We will never become another person. This is the precious thing about the human species.
Place."
After she said these words, the whole place was almost silent.
"That is unique to us and irreplaceable..." Major General Walter Meyer gave Xuanji a meaningful look with his deep blue eyes, and then picked up a simple wine glass filled with non-alcoholic drinks to greet everyone, "
The goddess of war, she determines the fate of us warriors."
"To the lasting friendship and endless cooperation between human beings!"
Jürgen also led all the Gaia knights to pick up wine glasses and greet each other with the Plato rebel generals, and the atmosphere returned to the harmonious atmosphere of a banquet.
Xuanji, wearing casual pilot uniform, stood in front of the large transparent curtain wall, quietly looking at the night sky in the distance of the base.
The universe presents a deep color, and there is a colorful ring nebula in the darkness in the distance, with a golden-orange outer ring and a peacock blue inner ring. The colors are extremely gorgeous and indescribable.
At the end of the star's life, after most of the outer gas shell is blown away by the strong stellar wind, the ultraviolet radiation radiated by the high-temperature core will surround the core to form a hazy and gorgeous planetary nebula. The number of such nebulae is in the universe.
Unable to count.
Because of "Long Yuan", this ring nebula now has a name. It is called "Long Mu" by the people living in this base.
Such beautiful nebulae can only exist for a few thousand or tens of thousands of years. The life of a star is so short, just like the time when human beings are bathing in love, so fleeting.
Walter Meyer walked slowly toward her from the shadows behind him.
"Xuanji, can I take up some of your time? Zuo Geng just talked to me. He said that he would not accept you as a follower. He thinks that you cannot become a qualified transforming fighter pilot."
She bit her lip, touched the hand on the transparent curtain wall, and still refused to look back, standing there motionless.
Several knights have refused her to become their squire, and she has been kicked around like a ball.
"I think you can serve as my retinue, consider my suggestion, otherwise you will be sent back and sent back to the Ranger Mercenary Department in the middle of training"
Xuanji suddenly turned her head to look at him, and he noticed that under the dim light, bright liquid was flowing from the corners of her eyes.
"Don't think that I've taken a fancy to your beauty and am planning to hide it from you." The young major general said coldly, "Second Lieutenant Xuanji, you are a unique person. I have my own information channels. I know
The War Department values you very much. In the old earth era, pilots were a very superstitious profession. They needed some kind of mascot when flying to help them turn bad luck into good luck."
"You can be my retinue, which is a good choice for both of us." He paused and continued, "You can be my mascot. In this way, I can rise to great heights if I have the opportunity."
"Major General Meyer, I found that you are a man who can take advantage of women." Xuanji suddenly said bluntly, "This is nothing like Kalki. He is a knight who fights alone..."
"Stop talking about so many useless things." He raised his voice, "You only need to answer a multiple-choice question now and become my retinue, or quit."
She was silent.
"Why is it so difficult for you to be my follower?"
"I don't like you." She replied directly.
Meyer actually smiled. He has a fiery and direct temper, and her frankness made him very interesting.
"I promise that I will not treat you beyond the relationship between colleagues. I know that Kalki is unique in your heart. A man like the grand leader is like a bright star. His elegant court temperament, I
I don't know what I'm doing." The major general's tone softened, "Please don't mind what I said about the mascot."
Xuanji raised her head and stared at the blond man in front of her. He always looked a bit similar to Kalki, which would inevitably make her less focused, so she wanted to escape.
"Okay, I promise to be your retinue."
The major general smiled slightly.
"As your master, I have to remind you one thing first. You must cheer up now." Meyer said to her seriously, "You do not have a problem with your flying skills or physical strength, but you are often in a state of wandering.
This state is almost fatal to space knights. When we are flying a space fighter, we must concentrate and concentrate until we are not distracted. Nothing can pull you away from the tense battle. Only in this way can you enter the battle.
"I can't do it..." Xuanji murmured softly, wiping away the tears from the corners of her eyes with her fingers.
"If you can't do it, you must do it! Because you are a warrior, you are not a woman. You cannot show the weakness of a woman." He spoke with a serious look, "There is no room for weakness on the battlefield. In a space war, in an instant,
Decide life and death."
Why did she suddenly feel that someone had said similar words to her?
"Have you ever loved? Have you ever loved anyone?" she asked.
Meyer quickly turned his head. He admired her frankness, but she also had sentimentality that he hated.
"That's not the problem, you've gone too far. Forget Kalki! Either learn to be strong or stay away from the battlefield. Otherwise, other men will think that women only deserve to go home and take care of the children! We don't have time to contain a lovelorn little girl all day long
Crying, the battlefield is dangerous, and only the strongest people can persevere to the end."
"Hurry up and have some love..." He was talking to her almost in a commanding tone, "Just forget about Kalki!"
"A casual love affair?" Xuanji's eyes sparkled. She would be extremely displeased if others made fun of her feelings, "Do you think love is such a casual thing?"
"I'm not an expert on relationships. I just want to lead good soldiers and fight good battles. I admit that I don't understand love at all."
"You don't understand love? You are married and you don't understand love at all?"
"What does love have to do with me? I am married, but the choice is not out of love at all. I married my son because she is the daughter of a senator!" the young major general said bluntly.
Xuanji was stunned for a moment and said: "You men are really too realistic..."
"Yes, men are realistic...so, let me tell you frankly and clearly now," he approached her and looked at the short-haired girl as handsome as a teenager with sparkling blue eyes, "In the Platonic world,
There is no love in marriage, and you can't marry Kalki there, understand? It's best for you to focus on the matter at hand now and stop thinking! Don't think about him anymore! Forget him!"
"I have no way to do this... He is irreplaceable. If you have never loved or shown emotion, you will not understand this kind of pain."
"Love is not as noble and mysterious as you think. There are so many young and handsome men in the world. Is it difficult for you to find someone who can stimulate the secretion of dopamine in your brain?"
"Do you think love is just dopamine secretion?"
"Yes! Isn't this the most typical Platonic concept? What is the 'love nectar' in the wedding ceremony full of? It's just a lot of hormones, phenylethylamine, endorphins... So, you find another one
Wouldn’t it be nice to have a handsome blond guy who can make you happy in bed!"
Xuanji looked horrified and turned very pale.
These rude instructions from others made her grumpy and almost wanted to kill someone.
She stared at her teacher with eyes that glowed like flames.
She can't understand someone who doesn't understand love, just like they don't understand her.