Counterfeit Hero

Ludrit, the capital of the Leray Federation. It's early summer.

The scorching sunshine calmly bakes the earth, shining brightly on the flying cars, the whitened roads, the shuttle intercity passenger ships and sky trains, and from time to time, a dazzling light is suddenly reflected on the glass. .

However, in the eyes of the people of Leray, this beautiful weather is no different from the past. No matter how good the weather is or how bright the sun is, it cannot shine into the dark life.

They still line up to get a little bit of food, are still dressed in rags, still walk through the deserted and run-down city every day, ride on buses that have not been maintained for a long time, and go to work in companies that are almost all controlled by people in West York. They work every day After returning home exhausted for more than fourteen hours, I faced the pitiful eyes of a hungry child.

Everyone has lost count of how long this has been going on.

They just watched the city decay and the stores dwindle with goods. Eventually it closed. I also watched my neighbor move away with a gloomy look on his face, and watched his children become more and more depressed after crying goodbye to their neighbor's friends.

There are many more that I have not seen but know.

For example, in order to make a living, the men of a certain family eventually died of exhaustion, a certain woman was ruined by someone because she stole some food, or a certain family was framed and the family was destroyed, or an official in the government because He was arrested for having ties to the resistance and was to be publicly shot in a few days.

The peaceful and prosperous Lelei Federation sank to the bottom of the abyss little by little. The original life has disappeared without a trace without realizing it, and there is no trace of light anymore.

People are living like zombies and enduring.

When the occupier's luxury speed car passed in front of them, and when the Westerners who had occupied their property inspected the factory in a majestic manner under the protection of bodyguards, there was only numbness in their eyes.

However, as long as you go deep into their lives and breathe the suffocating air with them, you will find that in this seemingly dim world. There is a light that exists forever.

This light may come from the troops who fought and persevered in a foreign country, perhaps from the resistance forces that can never be wiped out, perhaps from their collection of news images of the Great Patriotic War, or perhaps from the fact that the roadside has been demolished with only a bare The hanging bulletin board of fallen martyrs may just come from a little hope for freedom.

The country that had been peaceful and prosperous for three hundred years has disappeared.

However, the heroic Federation that still refused to lower its head despite the siege of several major Western empires never died!

People who supported the Broidy regime already regret it. The people who persisted in the resistance still shed tears every day in front of the images of the Patriotic War with the sound turned off.

A force has been surging beneath the dark lives of the Lere people. So surging. As hot as the blood in the veins, as strong as the pulse!

People are enduring. They believe that that day will eventually come!

It may take five years, maybe ten years, or even twenty years...even for the most optimistic people. The most heroic and determined underground resisters never imagined that this day would come so quickly!

This afternoon, a piece of news spread crazily among the people of Leray.

Uninformed people were surprised to find a long-lost excitement and excitement on the faces of their colleagues, friends and family members. Then, from the other party's mysterious whisper, they got the news that came from nowhere.

"The bandits are attacking the Bermuda galaxy in a big way!"….

They looked at their companions who were so excited that even their voices trembled, and opened their mouths... No, it's not just that...

"The West York garrison fleets on Midway Star and Rodbia Star have been defeated by the outpouring bandit fleets! The Desik Fleet has been forced to rush for reinforcements!"

"The bandit army has landed on Midway Star. This time, they are really back!"

The companion's mouth closed quickly in front of his eyes, and the news he got from nowhere was spoken at once, as fast as a machine gun!

No one can digest that much.

Everyone's minds went blank, and their hearts were beating faster and faster, with only one thought...

This is real? !

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An old-fashioned space cargo ship flying a certain neutral flag sailed in the silent universe.

The cargo ship's radar was rotating rapidly, and its scanners and detectors were also turned on to their maximum range. In this way, the cargo ship also dropped a civilian detector from time to time to search farther away.

On the surface, this is just a spaceship carrying daily cargo. Only the watchful crew on board knew. The mezzanine of the ship's cabin is full of contraband drugs and weapons.

They need to pass through the Bermuda Galaxy, then bypass the Leray Central Star Field from the public galaxy, turn into the Free Galaxy, and then enter the Newton Galaxy via the Mars Channel of Free Information.

Perhaps the most dangerous place on this journey is the Bermuda Galaxy.

You know, in recent times, the Jiepen fleet and the Sus fleet have increased their patrol strength several times. In the space station of the channel, this period has been listed as a dangerous period for breaking through. Once the contraband is detected by those red-eyed Sussians and Jiepen people, everyone on the cargo ship will die without a burial.

As for the Dexiks at the Lelei central star field jumping point, no one dared to provoke them. Everyone would rather spend four more days orbiting in the starry sky than accept the inspection of the wolf-like Desik fleet. The frigates of those guys can be killed with one shot in a battle, but when it comes to searching and chasing down cargo ships, they are really good at it!

They even make things difficult for regular cargo ships, let alone break-in ships that conceal contraband!

In the old cab, Enyama, an old black captain who is over sixty years old, is nervously watching the data returned by the just-released detector. The first mate and crew members beside him were also staring at the data screen, not daring to express their anger.

The old captain has rich experience. It is a living map of this waterway.

This cargo ship, under his leadership, has successfully passed through several levels. Not only did it deliver much-needed supplies to the LeLei Federation, but it also exchanged a lot of money for the crew members who risked their lives.

And this time, it is the last breakthrough of the cargo ship [Haima].

Everyone knows that it may not be long before the Newton Space Jump Point is breached by the West-York Allied Forces, and the Seahorse will have to move to Galileo, or even the Gacharin Galaxy, to open up a new route.

Create new routes every time. They are far riskier than trying to navigate a familiar route.

Although they are not from Lere, everyone hopes that the Lere Federation can persist longer. In addition to the mentality of continuing to rely on this waterway to make money, everyone also really admires the courage of the Lelei people.

After defeating Gacharin, Desik, Suss and Jiepen, now those guys, with their patchwork old-fashioned fleet, are actually able to fight against the powerful Sheldon fleet.

Who in the world of break-through ships wouldn't give a thumbs up when mentioning such a hard-nosed thing?

For these men who are struggling to make a living in the universe with their heads up, those Lelei soldiers who stand in front of the West York fleet one after another are all strong-willed heroes! ….

They have always been unruly and unruly, and it is people like this that they admire the most!

Perhaps it is because of this recognition and admiration that everyone feels joy from the bottom of their hearts every time they successfully pass a level and land on Milok. Not only because I successfully broke through and made money, but I also felt a sense of satisfaction and pride in having done something for this strong country.

Although every time I arrived at Leray, I would be so drunk by the gang of Leray friends that I couldn't even walk. But they like this life, these friends, and this country!

The detector has flown to a place 150,000 kilometers away from the cargo ship and is still searching forward. In another twenty minutes, the probe will penetrate the asteroid belt and fly to the jump path.

Everyone now only hopes that the detector will not be discovered by the patrolling fleets of Jeppen and Suss. Otherwise, even if it is hundreds of thousands of kilometers away, the opponent's warships can easily catch up with this old cargo ship.

"Captain..." The information officer, who had been wearing headphones, raised his head from the computer and looked at Enyama with a confused expression, "I think you should come and listen to this?"

Enyama strode to the informant, took the headphones he took off, and listened attentively.

The first mate on the side bumped the information officer with his elbow: "What's going on?"

The crew members beside him also looked at the information officer nervously.

to be honest. Although the cargo ship has been carefully avoiding the main waterways and spending a lot of time sailing in remote airspace full of gravitational reefs and asteroid belts, everyone feels that today's Bermuda waterway is much calmer than the previous few days. Abnormal.

Not only were the patrol fleets waiting in remote waterways missing, but even a Western warship was not seen on the main waterway for a long time.

As if overnight, the Western battleship had disappeared!

This phenomenon is not a good thing for the pass-through ship. You must know that the reason why the customs-breaking ships can make a living on this waterway is based on their understanding of the Western patrol fleet and dangerous waterways and airspace. But once the other party disappears completely, all the rules disappear at the same time. Even the old captain Enyama could not make an accurate judgment.

No one knows whether the spacecraft will be caught by the fleet of Jepen or Suss in an originally safe airspace in the next second!

The information officer who had been listening to the secret route channel between the ships obviously heard something.

While looking at the old captain, the information officer lowered his voice and said to the first mate and others: "Guess what news I just heard announced by the [Little Seabird]?"

The Little Seabird cargo ship is another ship that everyone is familiar with. The performance is much more advanced than that of Haima. The captain is from Salega and has long used the waterway from Salega to Rodbia. Because the Sussians paid a high price to purchase the customs clearance permit, their technical difficulty in breaking through the customs clearance was much lower.

Many Lelei resistance groups have purchased weapons produced in Salega from Little Seabird. Among passers-by, the Little Seabird is quite famous.

However, no one had time to play guessing games with the information officer now. The first mate's thick arms suddenly wrapped around the information officer's neck, looked at the long-faced guy fiercely and said: "If you don't say anything, I will stuff you into the garbage chute." Excreted!"

The red-faced information officer quickly surrendered: "I said it, I said it!"

He glanced at the people around him thiefly and whispered: "The Little Seabird was originally going to arrive at Rodbia today. However, they are still parked outside and cannot get in. All channels are attacked by Midway Star. And the bandit fleet of Rodbia star has blocked it."

"Bandit army?" The first mate's eyes widened: "Attacking Midway and Rodbia?"

The information officer nodded: "I heard from the people on the Little Seabird that the Suss and Jiepen fleets were in dire straits this time. The Little Seabird was far away and didn't know anything. It just parked in place and was not allowed to leave. On those waterways The patrol fleets of Suss and Jiepen returned to the immigrant star one after another, but were completely killed by the bandit army. "...

He clicked his tongue twice and added: "And none of the transport ships and merchant ships registered by Suss and Jiepen have escaped. There are many wrecks of warships floating next to the little seabird!"

The first mate and the crew members looked at each other in surprise and asked in confusion: "Then you are saying that the reason we didn't see Xiyo's patrol fleet along the way is because they were all taken care of by the bandits?"

"Why else?" The information officer turned his attention to the old captain who put the earphones on his ears and listened attentively.

"It's the bandit army! They attacked Midway Star and Rodbia!" The old captain's affirmative voice made the whole cab cheer. While the crew members were relieved of their heavy hearts, they were also excited by the news that the bandits had attacked the West York fleet.

For these crew members who have been in the Mars Free Channel for a long time, the bandits are their own troops!

"But..." The old captain put down his earphones and frowned: "I heard from the spacecraft coming from Lerei's central star field that this news has spread throughout the capital of Lerei. If you receive Suss It’s impossible for Dethik’s Fifth Fleet to ignore people’s pleas for help, and maybe those guys are in front of us right now!”

The excited cheers suddenly stopped, and the crew members stared at each other and fell silent.

"Then what are we doing now..." the first mate asked.

"Let's avoid the limelight first and make sure Desik has passed the channel before we leave." The old captain's wrinkled black face had a frown between his eyebrows that looked like the word "Chuan".

"Understood." The first mate turned his head and looked at the observer: "Detonation detection..."

The last word was stuck in his wide-open mouth.

Following his line of sight, the crew turned to look at the screen transmitted back by the detector. The entire cab was filled with dead silence.

I saw millions of large and small fragments and steel debris floating quietly in the endless starry sky.

The large wreckage was the hull or bridge of a battleship, larger than a space building, while the smaller wreckage was about the size of a fist. They were either motionless or rolling and colliding left and right in this steel cemetery. Some of the wreckage was still sparkling with sparks of leaking gas.

A huge ship's bow wreckage slid past the detector's lens.

Through the unclear screen, everyone can see the number and markings of Desik's Fifth Fleet on the wreckage...

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