Tessa stood up immediately after hearing Xiao Ran's words and pointed at Xiao Ran's complex expression of astonishment, dissatisfaction, sadness, disbelief and even anger:
"You... how could you do this!"
Xiao Ran also stood up and slowly walked towards Tessa. After patting Tessa gently on the head, his originally domineering tone became gentler. "I said that in order to protect you, I will do anything at all costs. Anything that can threaten you and Mithril, a collaborator, is unacceptable to me."
"This incident happened too suddenly and seemed deliberate. I think you may have some suspicions about the unknown armed organization. It is unreasonable for such an organization to seize a US military base for no reason. In order to ensure your safety and prevent you from making wrong choices that may cause you to be injured or mithril to be damaged, I can only do this."
"And even with your status, it is impossible to understand all the mysteries of this world. I can't give you any explanation. You just need to believe me. If this is really just a conspiracy as I think, then if I don't do this, everything that happens next will be something you never want to see."
"This time, maybe the opponent is targeting not only Amalgam, but also me. If this is really the case, then the enemy we are about to face is definitely not someone like Mithril, who can fight with his current body."
"Ling ring ring~~"
The phone in the conference room suddenly rang. Richard glanced at Xiao Ran who was bending slightly and patting Tessa on the head with a gentle expression. Then he looked at Tessa who had a stubborn face and expressed her dissatisfaction all over her body. After exhaling gently, she picked up the phone in the conference room.
After hearing what was said on the phone, Richard couldn't help but glance at El-Elf who looked like nothing happened, nodded and replied, "Understood, start to float up to receive the goods, and stay alert."
Tessa felt Xiao Ran gently patting her head, and the expression on Xiao Ran's face that looked like coaxing a child. She puffed up her mouth and directly slapped Xiao Ran's hand away and turned her head away. "I don't want to care about you. This is my battleship, my Danaan. It will only obey my orders."
"Ahem." Richard walked to Tessa, coughed lightly, and said, "With the order from General Jerome, from now on Danner's Son will accept the command of Mr. Alex. In addition, the gift from the Logistics Department has arrived and must be opened by Mr. Alex himself."
Xiao Ran smiled at Tessa: "Now you have no way to refuse my order."
Tessa was very dissatisfied, so she looked at Xiao Ran with a faceless face. She should have been very angry, but she felt that she was not so angry under Xiao Ran's actions and smile, but the dissatisfaction still existed.
And Command Authority, who knew that Xiao Ran had been confirmed by the Operations Department, could not tolerate her refusal, but still expressed her displeasure. "Hmph, I will never agree to an unreasonable order."
"Haha." Xiao Ran shook his head and smiled, and looked at Richard First Officer: "Richard First Officer, did you just say that you had something sent to me from the logistics department?"
Richard: "Yes, there are still fifteen minutes left to receive."
"Then I'll trouble you."
Xiao Ran also felt a little baffled, but if something could be sent from the Mithril Logistics Department, it must be what Luo sent. But the problem was that Luo had never told him about such a thing before, so Xiao Ran couldn't figure out what the so-called gift was.
"Is it possible that Variable Fighter has been manufactured?"
Suddenly, this idea popped into Xiao Ran's mind. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that it was possible. Otherwise, Luo would never have sent it to Danner's Son with such fanfare. Moreover, it was chosen at such an important time. As soon as Main Mission was about to be completed, it was also the time when problems were most likely to arise.
Xiao Ran smiled, suddenly thought of something and asked Richard First Officer: "By the way, can the missiles on Danner's Son carry out coverage bombing on the island where the US military base is located?"
"Cover bombing?"
The question asked by Xiao Ran made Richard stunned for a moment. Such a domineering question as coverage bombing was said so easily in Xiao Ran's mouth, which made Richard feel a sense of It seems that Danner's Son should be able to do something to this extent, but in fact, with the missile equipment of Danner's Son, it is impossible to cover and bomb an island to the extent unless it uses nuclear bombs that do not exist at all.
However, even with Second Archangel, it is not necessarily possible to carry out coverage bombing in a short period of time. At most, it can only achieve propelled fire coverage. But if it is replaced by three ships: Galaxy Diva, Border, and Burning Legion, any one of them can cover the entire island with missiles.
Seeing the astonishment on Richard's face, Xiao Ran also understood what the other party meant, waved his hand and said, "It seems that I asked an unreasonable question. Load all the missiles before the mission starts. If necessary, I will give the coordinates for bombing."
Richard glanced at Tessa, who had her ears perked but had an expression of "I don't care." She nodded slightly. "Okay."
Ten minutes later, Tessa, Richard, Chidori, Yani, El-Elf, and Luo stood on the deck spread out in front of Danner's Son, which was out of the water. They were blowing the fishy sea breeze and shining on the hot sun in the sky, waiting for the arrival of gifts.
The combat commander Kalinin stayed in the combat conference room to explain the combat mission to all those who would participate in the operation. Of course, he would not forget to tell these combatants who was commanding the operation.
Soon, a black shadow appeared in the distant sky. As the black shadow appeared, a gentle roar sounded in the ears of Xiao Ran and others. As the black shadow got closer and closer to Danner's Son at a very fast speed, the roar gradually became louder.
At the same time, people also saw the appearance of the black shadow. After seeing the specific appearance of the black shadow, Richard protected Tessa from the deck. At the same time, he turned to Xiao Ran and said, "Let's go down. If that fighter plane lands, it will become very dangerous here."
El-Elf had no reaction to Richard. When Yani saw Xiao Ran standing still, he followed Xiao Ran and did not move. Chidori originally saw the fighter plane getting closer and was about to leave at the reminder of Richard. It can be seen that Yani did not move but quickly took Yani's hand, preparing to take her away from this dangerous place. However, Luo saw that Xiao Ran and El-Elf were not in a hurry, and could only shrug in the direction of Richard, indicating that there was nothing he could do.
"It's okay." Xiao Ran turned to look in the direction of Richard, signaling him not to be nervous. "If you stay, I believe what happens next will not disappoint you, but don't be scared."
The fighter plane that appeared in Xiao Ran's eyes was a fighter plane that clearly did not belong to this world. It was completely black with many golden lines in it. When he saw this fighter plane, Xiao Ran had already confirmed his previous thoughts. Luo had indeed rushed Variable Fighter into production at the most critical time.
The shape of this fighter is very unique to this world. The special adjustable forward-swept wings cannot be produced by the technology of this world. It is not the VF-25 Black Hawk that Xiao Ran is most familiar with, nor is it the VF-27 manufactured using Gundanium Alloy. It is also not the VF-171 that the fleet is gradually starting to replace now, but a fighter with a VF=19 shape.
"The VF-19 has similar performance to the VF-171, but has a shape that is more suitable for combat in the atmosphere."
Just as this idea came into Xiao Ran's mind, the black Variable Fighter accelerated and rushed towards Danner's Son, as if it was going to hit him head-on. Everyone present was shocked except for Xiao Ran, El-Elf and Luo who was a little unsure.
Variable Fighter's speed was extremely fast, and it quickly flew to a position only a few meters above the deck. It seemed that Setsuna could pass by Danaan. At that moment, the fighter jet's arms and legs popped out under the stunned eyes of Richard, Tessa and others.
The rising steps spurted out blazing flames that could be felt by everyone on the deck, causing Variable Fighter to stop from moving at high speed. Then he slowly stepped on the deck with his flame-spitting feet. As a burst of white smoke spurted out, the cockpit cover in front of the fighter plane was also opened, and a figure jumped out directly from it.
Before the smoke dissipated, Xiao Ran heard the familiar voice. "I was thinking that you might need its help now, so I sent it to you. I also tested the stability on the way. It seems to be pretty good now."
Xiao Ran also smiled bitterly when he heard Luo's voice, "Luo, thank you."
The smoke dissipated, and what appeared in the eyes of Xiao Ran and others was Luo, who was wearing a vest with his hair tied up and holding Little Eight in his hand. However, the Luo who appeared in Xiao Ran's eyes did not look as energetic as usual. Both his voice and appearance looked extremely tired.
Seeing Luo's look, Xiao Ran also walked towards Luo with a hint of apology and said, "Sorry, it seems that you have been under a lot of pressure because of my request. Just have a good rest and we will talk about it when you wake up."
"Ah~" Luo yawned lazily and stretched, and while pushing Little Eight to Xiao Ran, he said, "It doesn't matter, this is my mission, but I haven't slept for a few days. If you have any questions about this machine, just ask Little Eight. I really need to take a rest now."