Chapter 2447 Roaring Lion
Lloyd couldn't help but take a breath of cold air. Xiao Ran's so-called week means that the entire special mission's work must be at least doubled. You must know that the one to two weeks he just said to complete it already includes overtime, and it also excludes the testing time of the machine body. Now Xiao Ran's posture is basically to let them complete all the work within a week.
Lloyd's eyes couldn't help but twitch. Xiao Ran could also see it clearly. Xiao Ran couldn't help but smile in his heart. One week is actually not short. Now that the body has been completed to such an extent, the remaining week will allow the entire special mission to completely abandon other tasks and use all manpower It is not impossible to complete it on this machine body, and Xiao Ran has to do the system adjustment of the machine body himself. At most, these Technicians will cooperate with Xiao Ran to complete the remaining detailed adjustments to the machine body. The workload will be large, but it will not be so heavy that they will be too tired to get up.
In a week, if you put it in the hands of the Burning Legion, it is really not a matter of one or two units. It is estimated that many units of A-class mecha with standard configuration will be mass-produced.
"One week is enough. I will do the final testing and adjustments with you. I will put all the power of the special mission into this machine. I believe one week is completely enough."
Lloyd breathed out softly. "Oh, one week is really too tight. You simply don't treat us as human beings. I can only say that I will do my best and try my best to take out the body in one week."
"It's not about trying your best, it's about doing it for sure." Xiao Ran waved his hand and emphasized the last time again, then looked at the machine that had people working all the time and said, "Okay, I won't disturb your work here. I will be here in a week, come on."
Xiao Ran and Saki turned around and left, leaving only Lloyd who turned to look at the machine that was still being completed, scratched his head and sighed helplessly, "Oh my, it's such a simple and casual arrangement, one week is just terrible."
Leaving Special Envoy Research Institute along the same route, Saki asked as soon as she got in the car, "Where are you going next?"
Xiao Ran opened the car window and looked out the window. "I'm going back. The situation there is not suitable for me to leave for too long."
Saki Maski turned his head and glanced at Xiao Ran, and asked with a smile, "If you don't go and see Euphemia, that child will miss you very much while you are away."
"No." Xiao Ran turned back to look at Saki, shook his head and smiled, "No one else knows about my coming here, and besides, there is nothing wrong, so why do I have to go see her."
"I thought you would want to go see her." Saki Maski pursed his lips and smiled, and said, "Aren't you his guardian knight? Are you not going to see the princess you protect when you come back?"
Xiao Ran smiled and said nothing, but it is true that he has no idea of going to see Euphemia now, and now is not the right opportunity, but when he meets Euphemia next time, this country will become another look. By then, Xiao Ran doesn't know what kind of eyes Euphemia will use to treat him as a 'traitor'.
Saki Maski took Xiao Ran over to Area 11. It seemed that he just came here to take a look. Even this look could be done through communication. There was no need to waste time and come here in person. But for Lloyd's delay, It's not that this guy is deliberately delaying, Xiao Ran also feels the need to come and take a look in person to confirm to what extent the machine is completed, instead of listening to the lies made up by the guy Lloyd through Video Communication further away to reassure him.
After returning to Area 19 and making an appointment to pick up Xiao Ran next time, Saki Maski drove Variable Fighter away again, and Xiao Ran also drove the car he drove back to the frontline base in a leisurely manner, and then went directly to Command Center.
Command Center was still as busy as before, or busier than before. Xiao Ran walked directly to the big screen of Command Center. A lot of people were either standing in front of the big screen or lying on the table doing their work.
The arrival of Xiao Ran did not disturb these people, but when Xiao Ran stood next to Cornelia, Cornelia still stopped arranging the personnel and tasks, glanced at Xiao Ran, and said coldly, "Don't run around if you feel uncomfortable. You have gone somewhere in a few hours."
"I have some things to deal with and I left for a while." Xiao Ran was not surprised that Cornelia knew that he had been away for a few hours. He raised his head and glanced at the picture displayed on the big screen, nodded slightly and said, "The progress is not bad. In such a short time, almost 60% of the Rebel Army's territory has been taken over. Has the EU taken any action in response to our actions?"
Cornelia shook his head. "Not yet, but we have no way to take any action against them. The EU's defense is now arranged like a turtle and can't find a suitable breakthrough target. Then we can only concentrate on launching an offensive against the EU after we take our focus back from the Rebel Army."
"However, Crimson Knights still followed your arrangement and led a group of troops to continue to harass and attack the EU. They gradually eliminated the opponent's effective combat power. They were also looking for weaknesses in the EU's defense. However, we have intelligence that indicated that between yesterday and today, the EU also received support from a new effective force. However, there is no news on where this force has been deployed. I am not sure whether this force is the EU's special combat force."
Special combat power refers to the Participant Legion similar to Crimson Knights. After hearing Cornelia's words, Xiao Ran also lowered his head slightly, supported his chin and began to think, and said, "It's also very good. It may be both. The EU has always been a strong competitor to Britannia and it is absolutely impossible for them to sit back and watch the advantage they finally gained here be taken back by Britannia again. Maybe there is something going on here that we don't know about."
Cornelia looked at Xiao Ran: "What is it?"
Xiao Ran said thoughtfully, "Rebel Army and the EU were originally an alliance, but now that Rebel Army has given up resistance, the EU may have known the specific situation and made some countermeasures. Yes, it's normal. I will go and find out more about it. Anyway, we need to strengthen the defenses in various places, especially this base. Let Corgi send some people to assist in the defense. By the way, I want to ask when my body can be repaired. No matter what, it is best to survive this period of time."
Cornelia nodded. She thought that what Xiao Ran meant by surviving this period of time was the time when the Mazinger Kaiser was repaired and dispersed to receive When Rebel Army gave up its territory, it completely ignored the real intention of Xiao Ran. The real intention of Xiao Ran was a week before Area 11 was completely completed.
Over at Lelouch, under the protection of Corgi and some Crimson Knights members, the landline was safely parked at the airport, one of the few remaining bases for the Rebel Army. It was originally a civilian airport, but due to the war, it was transformed into a special purpose long ago, and the airport was completely transformed into a base.
In this base, the aircraft driven by Corgi and other Crimson Knights members who were protecting the landing of the aircraft were surrounded by countless aircraft as soon as they landed. Corgi and the others did not show weakness and raised their weapons to protect Lelouch Next to the plane they were on, but under the premise that the two sides were about to start real negotiations, even if a confrontation occurred, the two sides still maintained their rationality. Whether it was surrounding, raising guns, or confronting, they were just defensive measures taken by both sides to distrust the other side.
And after Lelouch got off the plane with the door open, wearing a black cloak and a helmet, and bravely and needlessly walked to the ground alone, Selucius, the leader of the Rebel Army side, also appeared in front of Lelouch. Unexpectedly, in this extremely tense situation, Lelouch's forehead was already covered with sweat, and even his back was soaked with sweat. He even secretly scolded Xiao Ran for asking him to take part in this kind of dangerous action of using small things to win big things, and one person persuading a group of people with nothing. Crimson Knights is like this, and now The same is true for the Rebel Army, but this time Xiao Ran was not by his side. He drank on the plane before to relieve the nervousness in his heart, and did not let Xiao Ran see his nervousness.
Selucius is very handsome, with blond hair and a sharp face. Wearing a white vest, he actively reached out his hand to Lelouch and introduced himself, "Selucius, Rebel Army commander in chief, Legion Leader of the Roaring Lion Legion."
Lelouch took a deep breath in the helmet, stepped forward and held Selucius's hand. "ZERO, the leader of Black Knights."
Selucius nodded, with a sunny smile, "I knew it when I saw you, Area 11 is the famous Black Knights leader ZERO, but I didn't expect that you would come to negotiate with us. I don't know what the relationship is between you and that Knight Lelouch."
"We are both the founders of Black Knights. The answer should not be difficult to guess. The purpose of my coming here this time is to let you join Black Knights. I don't know what Mr. Selucius thinks about this."
Lelouch did not hide this. After all, the purpose of his coming here this time was to merge Rebel Army, or the Roaring Lion Legion mentioned by Selucius, into Black Knights. There was no need to hide this, and Xiao Ran had already said that the other party would not change his mind.
Selucius shook his head. They were outmatched in terms of strength and had no choice when he failed. Although the appearance of ZERO was indeed a bit unexpected for him, and what was even more unexpected was that the other party asked him to join the mysterious emerging organization Black Knights. It was not clear whether there was an organization supported by the participants, but no matter what, he had no idea of going back on his word. After all, they really couldn't afford the price of going back on their word.
After shaking his head, Selucius looked at the machine driven by Corgi and others, and asked with some confusion, "Then Crimson Knights is also a member of Black Knights now, from the beginning?"
"No, just like you, after realizing that your strength is not enough to resist that knight, and that you are in urgent need of the material support we provide, Crimson Knights can only become one of us and obey our instructions, but there is still a long way between them and you. In the same place, for Crimson Knights, their allegiance is only to me and not to Black Knights. Although there is not much difference from my standpoint, your allegiance will be to Black Knights."
"I see, it seems that your identity, ZERO, is not simple." Selucius nodded clearly, and showed his sunny smile, "But we also have differences, after all, the person who defeated me was the Knight Lelouch, the request is also to be loyal to him. If it is his wish to join Black Knights, of course there is no problem, but just like the person Crimson Knights is loyal to, the person we are loyal to will only be Knight Lelouch."
Selucius stupid? Of course they are not stupid. Now that they have determined that the camp they are about to defect to is Black Knights, an organization that has no conflict and can be integrated, of course they choose to agree without thinking at all. Black Knights is essentially an alternative Rebel Army, and the two have no conflict at all and have never been considered enemies. There was no problem at all in defecting in the past.
Not to mention that the object of allegiance is Knight Lelouch. Knight Lelouch is already a strong man in Selucius's impression, but ZERO in front of him is just an ordinary person in Selucius's eyes. And the key is that the name Lelouch is too special. If you choose who to compare, the result will be obvious.
Lelouch feels completely indifferent to this. Anyway, Black Knights has always been the leader, and even if Crimson Knights is loyal to him, Xiao Ran It's not just that Crimson Knights is treated like a servant, and to a certain extent, the real leader in the cooperative relationship between him and Xiao Ran is actually Xiao Ran.
So Lelouch also nodded and said, "Of course there is no problem. As long as we are willing to become a member of Black Knights, even if we have reached an agreement on the unified goal, everything else can be discussed."
Selucius smiled and said, "Then we need to talk in more detail. For example, what kind of obligations we have to fulfill after joining Black Knights, and what kind of tasks we need to complete. I have arranged a place for you to rest. Let's take a rest first and we will talk in detail after dinner."