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At this moment, the uncle was concentrating on making a pot of coffee.

"Captain Andrew, can't we get some fresh air?" The strong smell of coffee made the young man feel a little uncomfortable, and he subconsciously covered his nose.

"This is the flavor of the coffee I carefully blended," the uncle named Andrew said proudly. "Besides, is this the only reason you came here to say this?"

"No, it's not." Dagos turned serious when he got down to business. "This is a document sent from the Gibraltar base."

After that, Dagos handed a document to Andrew.

"Let me see what it is." Andrew poured the freshly brewed coffee into the cup and picked up the document handed to him by Dagos with his left hand.

After taking a sip of coffee, Andrew frowned slightly after seeing the words on the report.

For some reason, after seeing this news, Andrew felt that the coffee he had just carefully prepared was no longer fragrant.

"…What's going on back home?"

Andrew put down the coffee he had just taken a sip of and rubbed his temples.

"Can you refuse?"

"It's possible now, but in the future... it's hard to say." Dagos shook his head with a complicated expression.

"Tsk..." Andrew smacked his lips and sighed.

"A troubled autumn..."

Andrew put down the document and the office fell into silence.

Among the documents spread out on the table, a name was highlighted in red and bold.

"Copy Soldier"

Among them were several photos of King painted in white.

----split line----

PS: I was chatting with my roommates today, and found out that another guy in the dormitory is planning to rent a house in Chepai South.

Now, among the six people in the university dormitory, five have gone to Chepi South. They have turned the next target of the "Chep South Dormitory Gathering Plan" to living at home with me.

"Where's the dormitory we agreed to stay in for life?"

(Sweat pouring out)

Volume 30: Chapter 71 CE , a... "Journey to Lodz" (Fog)

When Ross changed into his pilot's suit and approached Zesta's cockpit, the atmosphere on the scene made him a little unsure.

It was obvious that the auras between them were so intense just now that they seemed to be on the verge of a fight, but now they seem to be getting along peacefully?

"Ready to attack, Ross?" Christina pressed the button on the tablet, announcing that her work was done.

"You...didn't fight?" Rhodes thought for a moment and asked the question in his mind.

"I get one point. You see, I told you he would ask us this." With the help of a mechanical claw, Big Harrow poked his head out of the cockpit.

"...I've given up on that position in the cockpit." Christina was silent for a moment before announcing her decision. "We both know, Ross, that my assistance in piloting your mobile suit isn't very effective. There are too many useless calculations and attitude vents."

"The battles ahead won't get any easier, they'll only get harder." Christina put down her tablet and approached Ross. "Being by your side is important, but if the price is putting you in danger, I can't accept that."

"Hello will do better than me. I've already talked to her." Christina suddenly reached out and hugged Ross's head, kissing Ross hard.

This was a completely different feeling from that of an ordinary human, the taste of bionic skin, the touch of electronic muscle bundles, and the cool temperature, the flexible tongue greedily plundering Rhodes's saliva.

"It's not heated, please bear with it for now." After a while, Christina stopped kissing and took a step back.

"I gave up this time, but next time, I won't let go."

Rhodes was still in a daze until Christina left.

He really treated Christina as his daughter all along the way. Now this sudden shock caused Ross, a guy who had never been in love, to have a brain short circuit.

"Okay, Ross, come back to your senses!" Ross came back to his senses after hearing Big Hello's words.

Zesta's armor and internal structure unfolded, revealing a circular cockpit with grooves already prepared in advance.

These grooves are just big enough to hold the four palm-sized mental skeletons.

"Grab your wrench and get to work, Roz." Big Harrow handed Roz a wrench. "She's been waiting for a long time."

Ross looked at the wrench in his hand, then raised his head to look at Zesta's head.

Zesta didn't activate his device, and his gray sunglasses didn't glow, but Ross seemed to sense that Zesta was waiting for something.

Ross lowered his head. The box containing the prototype psychic skeleton had been opened by Big Haro. Under the light of the hangar, the gray psychic skeleton was glowing slightly.

Reaching out and picking up a piece of spiritual skeleton, the cool feeling coming from it makes people feel at ease.

……

Perhaps due to reading the blueprints from when Ross built the Jegan, the notches for the Psycho-Frame on Zesta's cockpit were installed in the same way.

With the last piece of the Psychic Skeleton installed, Zesta's internal structure was reattached, and the outer armor was completely covered and locked.

Ross got into the driver's seat of Zesta, put on his helmet, and checked the communication device.

The cockpit door of Zesta closed, plunging into darkness. Then, a pale blue UI lit up, and everything outside the cabin was projected into the full-circle cockpit.

Rhodes reached out and swiped the touch screen on the console, getting a brief understanding of the machine.

"We almost got into a fight when we were talking to that little girl just now." Big Hello stretched out her mechanical arm and smoothly lifted herself from the upper right side of Ross to her current auxiliary position, completing the fixation.

"But you can tell she loves you very much," Big Hello waved his wings. "After I explained the difference between me and her assisting mecha pilots, she readily gave up her position."

Ross didn't know how to continue this topic, so he could only silently look through the machine's maintenance status.

Big Hello naturally knew the emotional intelligence of Ross, so he didn't torture him here, but instead brought up another topic.

"Come to think of it, this is Zesta's first official sortie since boarding the battleship. Why don't you just go up to the catapult rail and do a routine launch?"

"...We were just negotiating near the Archangel, so the catapult deck wasn't needed." At this point, Ross seemed lost in memory. "Besides, Zesta's first appearance was already quite impressive. I remember when Zegan launched his first A-Type attack, he blew up the scrapyard I rented."

Ross placed both hands on the joystick and pressed the buttons, causing the various nozzles on Zesta's body to move once or twice.

"Beep beep... beep beep..." At this moment, a communication request came from Zesta's communication channel.

"This is Rhodes." Rhodes answered the call and winked at Big Hello.

"Rods, this is Mu. We're leaving." Mu, now dressed in his Earth Army uniform, stood in the hangar and waved to Zesta. "The safety of Maru and me depends on you and Kira."

"Tsk... I'm only responsible for protecting Mariu, so leave you to Kira." Ross narrowed his eyes. Although he said he wouldn't protect Mu, he still switched his beam carbine to burst mode. "Let the little notebook containing my dark history disappear."

"Oh, so... Then I can only recite your classic quotes in front of the guerrillas." Mu obviously knew what Rhodes was thinking. Seeing that everyone had been on edge since Andrew's attack, it was a good opportunity to argue with Rhodes to let everyone relax.

Mu then deftly pulled his notebook from his pocket. "Listen, I've already written a detailed account of this, ahem... CE 71, a..."

"Alright, that's enough. Take it away. We've tasted it enough." Watching the Strike Gundam walk out of the hangar, Ross also controlled Zesta to take a step forward.

"Puchi..." Upon hearing this, Malu, who had originally had a stern face, couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Then, there was the sound of the other people on the Archangel being amused by these two guys.

It was common knowledge on the Archangel that when Ross got too excited during a fight, he would forget to turn off the communicator and then say all sorts of weird things that were incomprehensible but felt a bit like a prank.

But why did Rhodes specifically target Mu? Perhaps it was because Mu had written down Rhodes's words in a notebook and threatened to publish the book "Rhodes's Journey" after he retired. But rather than targeting, it was more like a quarrel between two bad friends.

"Okay, Mu, calm down a bit." Just as Ross was wondering whether he should continue, Malu spoke up. "Sir, I'll leave this up to you."

……

"Oh... those are the guerrillas..." When Rhodes saw several jeeps heading towards here, he zoomed in on the image of that area and carefully examined the enemy's weapons.

Zesta and the Strike Gundam stood on either side of the Archangel, like two gate gods, observing the approaching guerrillas.

"Rifles, bazookas, missile vehicles... a completely highly mobile configuration." Ross looked at the weapons marked by Zesta and analyzed the general fighting style of this group of guerrillas.

"But I remember the Baku itself is a highly maneuverable machine. Can a jeep outrun the Baku?"

Finally, the convoy stopped in front of Malu and Mu.

A middle-aged man with a scar on his face, a beard, a turban and a muscular body got out of the jeep.

Afterwards, the other people in the convoy also got out of the car and followed the uncle.

"Hmm?" Rhodes glanced at the group of people, seemed to have discovered something, and zoomed in on a burly young man.

"…something's wrong." Ross thought for a moment and pointed out the young man's problem. "The temperament is different."

It was difficult for Ross to describe temperament, but generally speaking, he could feel that the mental fluctuations within a group should tend to be similar yet slightly different.

The magnified young man's temperament is incompatible with this group of guerrillas. It is more difficult to say whether he is a member of the guerrillas or not, as he joined the guerrillas for a reason.

"And the other one..." Ross then zoomed in on the image of a blond boy? Or was it a girl?

From the second magnified image, Rhodes could sense the temperament of an idealist similar to Ryan.

"What a pity... If Ryan were still alive, he would be an expert in neurology now." Thinking of this, Rhodes couldn't help but sigh.

At this time, the negotiations between the two sides seemed to be going relatively smoothly.

Ross's finger, however, did not release the trigger. As long as Mu or Mariu gave the order, Zesta's beam carbine would fire at the group of guys.

After all, they have all been marked in the full-circle cockpit. Why don’t you hit them even though there are frames?

"Zizizi... Ross, this is Mariu." At this moment, Zesta's communication rang. "Negotiations are going smoothly, but the other party needs you and Kira to get out of the cockpit."

"...I understand." Rhodes was silent for a moment and hung up the phone.

"It's up to you to protect me from now on." Ross smiled at Big Haro and opened the cockpit of Zesta.

"Don't worry, my marksmanship will win." Big Harrow waved the wings above his head. "Is it hard to shoot with a frame?"

……

"This is a model I've never seen before..." The scarred man looked at Zesta and narrowed his eyes. "Cagalli, do you have any information on this machine?"

"No, I haven't found any information about this machine." The blond boy or girl called Cagalli shook her head. "Perhaps it was built by the Earth Army somewhere else?"

She didn't seem very confident in her words. After all, the Zesta machine had just appeared last night, less than twelve hours ago, and her intelligence network really couldn't find any information about it.

In her intelligence network, ZAFT had encountered similar sunglasses-shaped machines. They called them "cubs" or "missile hedgehogs," but that was just their appearance.

"But this pilot doesn't look like an Earth Army soldier." The scarred man shook his head. His sharp eyes immediately spotted Ross's difference. "His pilot's suit is completely different from the standard Earth Army uniform."

As he spoke, the scar-faced uncle pointed at Kira who was walking towards him.

Cagalli turned her head to look in the direction the uncle was pointing and was stunned.

Then, an inexplicable anger came out of nowhere, and she strode towards Kira, who had just taken off his helmet, in front of everyone's unprepared gaze.

"You guy!"

Seeing this scene, Mu subconsciously wanted to pull out his gun.

But then, the burly young man whose image Rhodes had just magnified in the cockpit stood in front of Mu.

"Wow, wow, wow... calm down, why is the atmosphere so tense right after we got down here?" At this time, Ross suddenly broke in between Kira and Cagalli, separating the two of them.

Then, Ross put his left hand behind his back, and in an area visible only to Mu and Mariu, he pointed at the holster on his waist and Zesta behind him, and gave a thumbs-up.

Mu also saw that Zesta was still in the startup state. Thinking of Zesta's record of quickly killing two Bakus alone without any operation last night, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Then, Mu smiled at the burly young man and stopped drawing his gun.

"Why are you sitting in that machine!" At this time, Cagalli was still questioning Kira.

"You know him? A debt of love?" Ross took the opportunity to make a joke and looked sideways at Kira.

"No... She's a girl I met once on Heliopos, and I stuffed her into the lifeboat..." Kira, who was rushed in the face by Cagalli, was obviously a little confused, and spoke intermittently about his meeting with Cagalli.

"...Oh, I understand." In fact, Ross didn't understand anything. He just watched the atmosphere on the scene go from tit-for-tat to slightly calmer, and then to a tense one. He wanted to take this opportunity to bring the negotiation atmosphere between the two sides in the direction of comedy.

"A hero saves a beautiful woman, and now we meet on Earth, right?" Ross spread one palm and pounded his other fist, his tone full of wisdom. "I never thought, I never thought, Kira, a guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes, your life script would be the same as the 8 o'clock soap opera on TV?"

"Ah, this..." Kira was affected by Ross's unconventional thinking, and his smart brain stopped working.

Cagalli was also distracted by Ross's words and was speechless.

The tense atmosphere began to become weird, and everyone's eyes were on Kira and Cagalli.

As we all know, gossip is human nature, whether it is a natural person or an adjuster.

Even Kira's friends on the Archangel were paying attention to this matter.

At this moment, Mu only wanted to do one thing, which was to pry open Rhodes's head and see what was inside this guy's brain?