Chapter 750: RGX-04: A New Mobile Suit
After sending word to the Moon, Xiao Ran and the others traveled through space for another dozen or so hours before reaching the Moon Base. By then, more than twenty-four hours had passed since Xiao Ran arrived in this world.
After the Gadi Ru reached the Earth Force's Moon Base, a group of Technicians quickly boarded the ship and began analyzing the Chaos Gundam, Gaea Gundam, and Abyss Gundam. Xiao Ran and Ian Lee, meanwhile, were brought before a bald brigadier general inside the base.
Needless to say, Xiao Ran had no impression of this bald brigadier general at all. He could say that he did not know the man in the slightest. Not just this bald man—even in the entire Earth Force Moon Base, there was probably no one Xiao Ran truly knew. Yet after Xiao Ran entered his office, the brigadier general wore a broad, courteous smile and even rose personally to greet him. "Colonel Neo, you're here. Please, have a seat."
Xiao Ran did not stand on ceremony and simply found a seat. Still, the man's politeness struck him as somewhat strange. Ian Lee, however, stood behind Xiao Ran with an unsurprised expression, as though the brigadier general's courtesy was perfectly normal—as though Xiao Ran truly stood on equal footing with him, or even held a higher rank. But then, as an independent unit, the Goufs naturally held considerably more authority than ordinary Earth Force troops. They could mobilize units of every level and were jointly commanded with LOGOS, so the brigadier general's politeness was understandable.
Few within the Earth Force knew Xiao Ran's true identity beneath the mask. But as the most tyrannical demon of the previous war, a man who dared to say, "Whoever causes trouble gets killed,"