- At 2:00 am on June 12th? Galileo's secret airdrop boat -

"The fleet has all been evacuated..." Seeing the fleet's tail outside the porthole slowly disappearing from view, Li Jingyun sighed uneasy.

This retreat is probably the first time that the military forces under the Federal Alliance have taken together in history. If it is in normal times, it will definitely be quite inspiring for pacifists, such as Li Jingyun. Unfortunately, the two sides did not come from sincere peace and cooperation, but had to do so under greater threats. Now, the regular Earth Federation troops left in the Earth Circle include Pandora, who serves as intelligence officers. Thinking about the opponents they are about to face, Li Jingyun has no reason not to worry.

On the other hand, the Allied General Reinhardt, who unexpectedly had a deep prejudice against the Federation, disagreed with the public and did not send the Allied abilities to participate in this operation. The Allied Generals who always advocated "taking the opportunity in their own hands" were very dissatisfied. Only Reinhardt, who understood the whole story, knew that all this was a script designed by His Highness the Great British King. Although he was unwilling to give up, Reinhardt dared not fill in his new plot in this script that determines the future fate of the solar system and mankind.

"Okay, let me be more awake!" A loud slap in my ears came from my ears. Pandora stood on the stage and tried to attract the attention of everyone present. "Have you seen it so many times on the battlefield yet, but haven't seen it enough? Finally, I will explain the details of the plan to you. If you don't want all human beings to become empty-headed puppets, listen carefully to me!"

"Yes..." The answers of the members of the temporary airborne troops were uneven, especially the girls who were familiar with Li Jingyun were even weak. Fighting with such an untrustworthy commander was really unhappy.

"First of all, there are four of you who have acted together many times before the war begins, so you are a group of four. Colonel Katsujo and Lieutenant Colonel Suzuko are old partners, and Lieutenant Yubi and these two are old acquaintances. I hope that Lieutenant Wang, who temporarily joins this group, can obey their orders."

"Yes!" Wang Wenye had nothing to say about this. Although it was meaningless to talk about military ranks at this moment, for her, who was already disgusted with Li Jingyun and others' habits, it would be better to do it with another set of actions.

"Very good." Pandora nodded comfortably, "Then the landing location, the reservation is in Zhongdu Xiangshan National Park..."

"Wait, I have a problem with your intelligence officer." Vader and Yifang asked almost in unison.

"Say questions one by one."

"Xiangshan National Park is in the middle of Zhongdu City. Since the order is issued not to kill people, we will be placed in the center of a densely populated area. Is this arrangement inappropriate?" The two people who asked the questions looked at each other and understood that the other and themselves were going to ask the same question. After some eye contact, they finally decided to ask Vader.

With the advancement of urbanization, Xiangshan National Park, which was originally a suburb of the city in the 21st century, has now been completely surrounded by the city and become a large urban park. The concerns of the two people are not unreasonable.

"I'm sorry this is the most suitable landing place to be found nearby. It is a scenic spot, which is a place for relaxing entertainment. Now the people below obviously do not need entertainment. The satellite has also confirmed that it is a no-man's landing place. As for other options, it is difficult to find a landing place nearby that is no one and is not within the air defense range circle." Pandora made this explanation.

"Is the intelligence officer who designed a safe route for us? If there are a large number of civilians on the route, it will be difficult for us to reach the target location within the scheduled time." The side asked in the direction of Vader.

"Of course," Pandora confidently called out the local map. "There is a river inside Xiangshan Park and a tourist pier. After obtaining the boats here, you can directly reach the side city isolation area less than one kilometer away from the target location and you don't have to worry about exposure, because in densely populated areas, this river has been covered to become an underground river. Even if the boats are seen driving at high speed, they can't do anything to you."

"So that's it..." The two of them looked at each other again, and had a certain plan in their hearts.

Sure enough, this woman had known about this incident planned by the Council and Seele for a long time. Otherwise, it would be impossible for a series of very professional preparation actions such as environmental investigation, landing site selection, route survey, etc. within just a few hours.

"You may have heard of the last note several times, and I will repeat it again - unless you have to kill someone and cause fatal injuries, you will not be able to do so. Every life in your hands will narrow the distance between the fleet and the whole spirit. If the general general Reinhardt is also controlled, even if we successfully resolve this incident, the future of the earth will not be clear." As if Pandora was afraid that the few people would forget it, he repeated the words again.

"I understand!" The answer this time was very neat. None of the people sitting here were murderers. Even if they were asked to do it, they would not attack the civilians.

"Since there are no other problems, now we will start preparing to airborne and everyone will gather in the hangar!"

――Later? Airdrop hangar-―

There were two things that looked like vertical iron coffins in the hangar. Pandora walked over and pressed a few buttons on the operating plate. A thin layer of outer deck popped up at the top of the four sides of the "coffin". The space inside looked very small, and four people could barely stand in. There was no need to rely on equipment or something. As for the solid part in the middle, it must be a type of jet engine equipped to slow down the airdrop cabin.

"Information officer, this airdrop cabin is too small, right?!" The complaint was that Katsujo Toma, the iron claws on his right hand could not be inserted into the small space.

"This is a special airdrop cabin of the Military Intelligence Bureau. This can only be used to avoid the detection of ground-based radar. If you don't want to be volleyed by air defense missiles, I suggest you give up all your extra equipment." Pandora explained coldly.

"Uh..." Standing there and weighed for a while, Kamijo Toma carefully removed the iron claws that were almost integrated with his body.

"If you don't want your abilities to be ruined, please stay away from me when fighting." He warned Wang Wenye, who doesn't understand his abilities.

After some preparation, the eight people barely stood in two iron coffins. Among them, the cabins of the two Toma and Vida were particularly crowded. When the airdrop cabin was in contact with the full spirit, they needed to use their abilities at close distance to destroy the physical protective covers made by the full spirit. The operations that would be exposed to space forced the two to wear relatively bloated aerospace combat uniforms.

"The control room, here is the hangar, and the airdrop is ready." After confirming the safety of the airdrop compartment again, Pandora retreated to the safe area to contact Maria who was operating the airdrop boat.

"The control room received, and the airdrop will start at ten, nine, eight... one, release!" Maria pulled down the safety gate, and the two coffin-like airdrop compartments slid out of the hangar along the guide rails, and fell straight to the blue planet wrapped in gold.

"I hope they can be fine..." Maria prayed silently in her heart, but unfortunately her prayers were not effective, and there were big problems in the first part of the battle.

- Three minutes later? The boundary of the whole spirit -

"Pop! Sizizi..." The airdrop cabin bounced lightly on the surface of the whole spirit, and was then blocked by the rising five-color ripples.

"The descent route was blocked by Quan Ling, and the work began to be eliminated." Hearing Pandora's instructions from the headphones, Vader and Kamijou Tama opened their hatch doors and prepared to use their ability to eliminate Quan Ling's protective cover.

"This is!"

When he stepped on the sizzling ripples, even the spirited Vader couldn't help but feel his mind gone. This feeling was like walking on a bridge made of glass, with endless rivers flowing under his feet. Even though he knew that the glass would not break, he would not have anything to do. In his heart, he still kept surging out a fresh sense of fear that he had never experienced.

"This is the Squad of Katsujo. You must complete the work and start to adjust your posture and fall." Before Vader could recover from this sense of surprise, Katsujo Toma had already completed the destruction work and continued to move forward.

"Squad Moore, it's too slow, what are you doing?" Pandora urged on the channel.

"Ah... it's done soon!" Vader, who was a little dazed, woke up slightly and quickly reached out to touch the ripples.

With a "pop", the process was very simple. The ripples under her feet shattered like soap bubbles. However, Vader and the other three members of the team almost paid the price of her hasty actions.

"……call!"

After his feet were empty, Vader was surprised to find that he was not synchronized with the dropping position of the airdrop compartment. The open hatch door scraped at the edge of the protective cover, and the airdrop compartment subjected to external force suddenly lost its posture and began to flip (because the high-speed drop was almost completely weightless). The distance from the airdrop compartment was gradually increasing.

"It's a disaster!" At this moment, Vader could only grit his teeth and struggle, as if blood in his body suddenly surged onto his head. Without airdrop equipment to relieve the feeling of falling, she rushed into the atmosphere at an extremely high speed like a shell.

"Squad Moore, your airdrop cabin is losing its posture, make adjustments immediately!"

Such a sound was heard in the headphones in a vague way, but Vader could not react. Inertia pushed all her blood to the top of her head, causing great pressure on her skull cavity. Her hands and feet had long been out of control, and the vision in her eyes was blood red.

"Squad Moore...Squad Moore?!" Pandora on the airdrop boat did not expect that the situation had happened before the battle began. A few seconds later, the high-power camera captured the scene of Vader falling together with the airdrop cabin.

"This idiot, he doesn't even have to pull in the space!" Her hands were typing rapidly on the keyboard, and rows of remote commands were transmitted to the rolling airdrop compartment through radio waves. Several strong airflows were sprayed out from the bottom of the bilge, and the airdrop compartment began to approach Vader who was almost unconscious again.

"Did the rest of Moore's team hear? Vida Moore lost consciousness in the outer space. I am adjusting the airdrop cabin posture to try to synchronize your speed with her. One of you should open the cabin door and drag her back!" Pandora gritted her teeth and began to contact the three people in the cabin who had already noticed something was wrong and did not dare to move casually.

"But we are not wearing space suits..." The first response was the emperor's cowardly voice. Her impression of vacuum only stayed in the description in the novel, and in the novel, the person would immediately explode like an over-inflatable balloon as soon as he touched the vacuum.

"You won't die if you move fast enough! Take a deep breath and put on an oxygen mask. With some extra pressure provided by the circulating oxygen supply system, you can last longer. If you don't hurry up, this guy's cerebral blood vessels will be squeezed out by high blood pressure!"

"I'll do it!" Before anyone could react, Li Jingyun's hatch door bounced open with a "bang".

Vader, who was confused, seemed to feel that he was being hugged by something soft. The intense and extremely oppressive feeling in his mind finally relieved a little, but his body still couldn't move as if it had been drained.

"No, the hatch cannot be closed!"

Li Jingyun, who was holding Vader tightly, was in a miserable state at this time. He initially wanted to put Vader back into her cabin, but the damaged and transformed cabin door could not be closed, so he had to pull her into his cabin. Of course, the cabin door could not be controlled. The strong wind and oxygen supply mask emitted from the gas circulation system behind him provided some pressure to him, but the surface of his body was still losing pressure sharply. The most intuitive feeling was that both eyeballs were almost flying out of their eye sockets.

"Damn..." Pandora gritted her teeth tightly, but there was no good idea. How long can Li Jingyun survive in the vacuum without loss? One minute? Thirty seconds?

Suddenly, in order not to disturb Pandora's command of rescue, Maria, who could only worry about watching, snatching the communicator.

"What are you doing?!" Pandora was furious.

"Xiao Mengyu, what are you in a daze?! Wake up and change the structure of the airdrop cabin immediately!" Maria ignored Pandora's angrily scolded. Although she did not understand the theory of space operations, she was the person who was most familiar with the application of her students' abilities.

"Ming, understand!" Xiao Mengyu, who was still in a daze in another cabin, finally remembered what he could do, and quickly activated his ability to block the sealed system of Li Jingyun's cabin.

"Swish..." As the air filled the cabin, Li Jingyun coughed violently.

"Sister, are you okay?? It's all me... I was stunned just now!" Xiao Mengyu's regretful apology came from the communication. When the ability holder enters the full spirit influence circle, he will have a temporary trance state. Vader's operation errors and Xiao Mengyu's inaction seem to be the reason.

"Cough, cough! I... am fine?" Li Jingyun didn't know how much damage his body had been, but she felt sore and swelling all over her body.

However, this storm that almost killed two people was just beginning. Due to the changes in the structural appearance and the rolling just now, the landing coordinates of the airdrop cabin have become increasingly farther away from the scheduled airdrop location...

ps: When I wrote this chapter, I checked some information and basically it should conform to the laws of physics. Of course, this is a novel, and the author is not a scientist of Nasa. It is impossible to fully conform to reality...
Chapter completed!