Chapter 50 The Secret Award Ceremony(1/2)
4692 October 27, Gallent Federal Capital Galaxy, Cost, the Sixth Planet, Freedom Square
"You can go back, I'm almost hungry." Bai Yu said weakly as he watched the last firework explode in the sky.
Ola said: "Of course, my marshal."
Bai Yu pulled off the cloak, clamped it into his armpit, then carried the reduced spear on his shoulder, ready to leave the venue, and Kajia, who had dressed up, would pick her up outside the square.
"General, Lieutenant General, please wait a moment." Someone behind her called her. Bai Yu rolled his eyes in his helmet and pretended not to hear it. Who made the entire venue have more than 200 Lieutenant Generals alone.
"I won't see you for an old friend?" Ora asked.
Bai Yu turned around and found that it was General Alger. General Alger was wearing a social dress that was very common in the Federation, his hat was pressed down very low, and he was walking towards her quickly.
"Hello, General." Bai Yu happily greeted him.
General Alger shook hands with her and said deliberately loudly: "Can you ask you to sign an autograph?"
"Sign...sign?" Bai Yu was stunned. General Alger was fine, right?
Alger lowered his head and whispered: "This is not the place to speak."
Bai Yu immediately understood and nodded and said, "Oh, OK."
"I have a statue of His Highness Helend there. Can you sign in there?" Alger continued, but before Bai Yu agreed, he said again: "Thank you, please come with me."
Bai Yu followed him, bypassed the guests in the square, and came to an inconspicuous old hover truck. The hover truck started quickly and left the square.
Bai Yu glanced at the driving, it was Oma she was familiar with, but now she was a lieutenant colonel. Apart from him, there was no one else in the car. Bai Yu took off his helmet and looked at Lieutenant General Alger with a smile.
"Haha, it's you, although the Federation gave you a fake name, Resa..." General Alger obviously did not remember the fake name.
"It's Lisa, my General." Lieutenant Colonel Oma interrupted.
"Yes, it's this broken name." Alger nodded and said.
Ola laughed: "This broken name really doesn't sound good."
"Have your injury healed?" Bai Yu looked at Alger's arm, but forgot that it was his left or right arm that he had interrupted.
"It's been a long time ago. The medical equipment that sisters will give me is so..." Alger waved his hand first, and then said angrily: "Hey, don't change the topic. You don't say goodbye, everyone has a lot of opinions."
"Uh, there is something urgent suddenly." Bai Yu said perfunctorily.
"Hmph, is this your urgent matter? You have to wear this with a fake name. If Anita hadn't told me, I would have thought that Helende's descendant was found by the Federation to pretend." Alger said, knocking on her armored suit.
Bai Yu smiled and said helplessly: "There is no way, the identity is kept secret. Where are we going?"
Alger sighed, and obviously knew Bai Yu’s true identity from Anita’s mouth: “The Great Elder wants to see you, knowing that your identity is confidential, so change the place.”
"Great Elder? Well, is there... food there?" Bai Yu asked.
Alger and Oma both laughed, and Alger took out a big oily paper bag from his pocket: "Look at you, you didn't take off your helmet during the banquet, I knew you didn't eat anything. Come on, put some first, I got it at the banquet just now."
Bai Yu took off his armored gloves and threw them at his feet. After taking the paper bag and opening it, he found that it was a large piece of bread with several pieces of smoked meat and intestines. Although it was completely cold and the oil on the meat and intestines had solidified, Bai Yu still couldn't wait to stuff it into his mouth and chew it.
"Eat the appearance, pay attention to the appearance, my god." Ola jumped onto the projector on Baiyu's arm and said unbearably.
"No...outsider." Bai Yu's mouth was filled with oil and even his hair was sent into his mouth.
Alger looked at Bai Yu in surprise and said, "It's hard to imagine that the great hero who saves people from hunger in a city will be so hungry."
"She hasn't eaten for a day, and she has to keep carrying the broken stick that pretended to be a 'holy gun' and sticking it there all day. It's me, and I can't stand it." Oma turned around and looked at Bai Yu's down-and-out appearance and said sympathetically.
"This 'broken' stick is coated with at least a layer of supernova nokite powder." Ola, who wanted to save face, corrected.
"Huh, I finally recovered and almost gave my life." Bai Yu swallowed his last bite of food, sucked off the greasy one by one, and said with a long breath.
"It's thrown away, maybe it's a reporter." Oma said in the rearview mirror.
General Alger nodded and ordered, "Be safe, go twice."
"Is there anything wrong with the Great Elder looking for me?" asked Bai Yu, who was already 20% full.
Alger raised his eyebrows and looked at her: "Don't you know? Of course, he was awarded the title of marshal to you."
Bai Yu shook his head: "No one told me that I have no idea. I still have to give the honorary marshal?"
"Of course, you think our Marshal of Mimatal is so casual. If their "Marine Commission" hadn't interfered with it, we would have welcomed you back to Pador. Hey, to be honest, should you leave the Federation and go to Mimatal? There you don't have to hide your identity so wronged. Are you a jihadist or a marshal? With a call, the people and the army admire you. If you need you, you should be proud of you..." General Alger looked at Bai Yu seriously and said.
"Well, General, you're so incompetent." Ora interrupted.
General Alger obviously ignored Ola's sarcasm: "Think about it, don't be too anxious to reply to me. This is not just my personal proposal."
"I will think seriously, General." Bai Yu said with a smile: "You haven't invited me to dinner yet."
"I think beautifully. I'm here to visit this time. It's almost the same for you to invite me." Alger said with a smile.
The hover car parked at the entrance of a building, and it looked like a private club, but there was no light in the building, and a figure ran out of the club.
"It's finally here, I've been waiting for you for a long time." Anita was still holding a box in her hand.
"I'll go in first, you and Anita come over." General Alger got out of the car, looked around and said, Oma also got out of the car, pulled off the fake license plate tape pasted on the license plate, and put it in a ball into a ball and stuffed it into his pocket. Before leaving, he saluted Bai Yu.
Anita got into the car with a box: "Take off your clothes."
"What are you doing? It's so rude." Bai Yu said jokingly.
"Change clothes, your uniform, you still want to wear this thing." Anita opened the suitcase, which contained a black Mimatal uniform.
"Beautiful, this color is so energetic." Ora said as she looked at her clothes.
Bai Yu then noticed that Anita was wearing a dark gray uniform and had many medals on her chest.
"Why is your uniform dark gray?" Bai Yu asked curiously.
Anita said naturally: "I am a lieutenant colonel, of course I wear dark gray. In the Mimatal Navy, soldiers wear light gray uniforms, lieutenants wear gray, and the school officer wears dark gray. The general and the marshal are black. Okay, change clothes quickly, midnight is coming soon, and time is not enough."
Bai Yu moved around in the car and took off the armored combat uniform and put on a black uniform. Anita helped her comb her hair, put on a boat hat, and handed her a few qualifications on her chest. She pulled her out of the car and ran into the club.
"Where is this?" Bai Yu asked as he looked around, with a row of candles placed on the ground in the corridor, extending from the entrance of the club to the inside.
"It seems to be a social club opened by a merchant in Mimatal. I heard that it was temporarily borrowed by the Great Elder," Anita explained.
"Why do you have to award meritoriously at midnight?" Bai Yu asked incomprehensible.
Anita led Bai Yu to continue to go deeper: "This is Mimatal's tradition. All the officers' merit awards are held in the temple at midnight, which means breaking through the darkness. It is said that before Mimatal's independence, the ancestors were like this. Under the eyes of the Emma nobles, they secretly awarded merit in the middle of the night, so they continued. It's a pity that it was not in the temple at Mimatal, but the high priest presided over it himself, so I believe there is no problem."
The candles arranged on the ground extended to the entrance of a hall and ended. Anita pushed open the door and walked in with Bai Yu, then closed the door. It was dark and silent. Bai Yu looked around and saw nothing. This was a meritorious ceremony? Why did it feel like a cult party?
Just as Bai Yu was about to ask, a solemn voice echoed: "Listen, the midnight bell is about to ring, and the darkest moment is about to come."
Then, Bai Yu heard the sound of metal collision and knocking 12 times, but it was definitely not the sound of the classical clock.
"Look, Dark Lord, he brought not only darkness and cold, but also endless pain." A sigh sounded around, which made Bai Yu feel creepy. It sounded like there were many people around him. The room seemed very empty. Bai Yu felt Anita standing behind her, and her sighing voice was closest to her.
"Warrior, do you have persistent beliefs?" asked the old and solemn voice.
Bai Yu was at a loss. She felt Anita poking her waist with her hand behind her and whispered in a very low voice: "Hey, I forgot, I said yes, yes."
"Yes!" Bai Yu said loudly.
"Warrior, do you have the courage to do that?"
"Yes!" Bai Yu didn't need Anita to remind him.
"Will you break through the darkness and lead the tribes of suffering to find light?"
"I do." Bai Yu recalled the fierce battle scenes and high-pitched battle songs under the Auddatrik star, and the words "I will never die, long live Mimatal." They recalled the ruins of Matargrad, and the celebration after victory, the Mimatal folk song that pierced people's hearts like the cold wind...
"Will you swear to protect them forever in front of Helend's icon?"
"I do."
The surroundings instantly lit up, and the silent crowd around them lit up the candles in their hands, and the faint candlelight illuminated the devout faces one by one.
"Please come up, our holy warrior." Bai Yu's eyes adapted to the light and found that in front of him was a statue of Helend, nearly 3 meters high. Under the statue was the chief high priest in a robe, holding the black book that Bai Yu had just handed him to him in the morning.
Bai Yu strode forward, and the chief high priest signaled her to kneel down and handed the black book to her.
"Kiss the holy relics of Helende, may you keep your oath, may you protect the people of Mimatal, and I will grant me the supreme rights to promote Bai Yu to the honorary marshal of the Free Tribe Republic of Mimatal," the chief high priest announced loudly.
Bai Yu kissed the cover of the black book, and the chief high priest helped her up. General Alger had changed back to his uniform, walked up from the chief priest, and put Marshal's eaves on Bai Yu. His hands were trembling excitedly, and he did not button the eaves on the eaves several times. On the eaves were the huge national emblem of Mimatal...the curly desert scorpion tail thorn, and then, Alger handed her a scepter carved with beautiful patterns. Bai Yu took the scepter, Alger took the scepter, stood attentively and saluted her solemnly.
[For God's sake, Mimatal saluted with his right hand.] Ora reminded him in time.
Bai Yu still had not completely changed the habit of the Federation. He bumped his heels heavily, then raised his right hand and returned the salute to General Alger. After returning the salute correctly, the lighting in the hall returned to normal. Everyone around him applauded enthusiastically. Bai Yu turned around and looked at Anita at the door. The girl kept raising her hand to wipe her tears excitedly.
"My child, accept the congratulations from others." The chief high priest said, but for some reason, his expression seemed a little embarrassed. He handed the black book in his hand to an honor guard officer next to him holding a classical long sword. The officer quickly put his sword in his sheath. He heard the sound. Bai Yu felt that it might be him just now. He knocked on the scabbard with a long sword. The officer knelt on the ground with excitement, holding the black book, and looking at the cover with respect. Four soldiers behind him who were also responsible for the ceremonial guard opened a three-defense metal box. Bai Yu had seen Old Jack use that kind of box to hold precise instruments, even if that kind of box is a ship.
The cannon aimed and shot directly could not be destroyed, of course, the cost was also very amazing. The officer slowly put the book into the box at a speed of nearly one-sixteenth. He carefully checked the corners to ensure that they were not folded. Then he closed the box cover, entered a long list of passwords and locked the box. Then he handed the electronic key to the chief priest. The chief priest hung the long rope on the key directly around his neck, nodded to the officer. After the officer stood attentively saluted, the four soldiers each took out an electronic handcuff, clamped the four corners of the box and their wrists, and handed the key to the officer for storage. Finally, he carried the box and walked out of the hall.
"The defense is really strict." Bai Yu couldn't help but sigh.
The High Priest seemed to have heard a very complimentary word, and smiled kindly but slightly proudly: "This is one of the few sacred objects left to Mimatal by His Highness Helende. In addition to this book, there is also a holy gun. Only the holy armor is unknown where it is. The believers do not want to return to the Grand Temple of Pador to receive worship and worship. This is the pillar of the entire nation's free faith."
"Is the armored combat suit Helende wore?" Bai Yu asked, looking up at the statue.
The chief high priest turned around and looked at the statue and nodded, saying, "If you see that pair of holy armor, can you hand it over to the temple for preservation? Its spiritual value is far greater than its practical value."
Bai Yu was stunned for a moment and replied, "Okay, of course there is no problem."
The chief high priest turned around, looked at Bai Yu, bent down and saluted to her and said, "Thank you, thank you again for everything you did."
"Ah, you have to be polite." Bai Yu took a step back in panic and said, Anita had explained to her that bowing and saluting by ordinary priests is a sign of great respect, let alone the high priest who commands all the temples.
To be continued...