To be able to sit at the conference table of the Yeti Empire Mecha Research Institute, of course, there was no one with a bad brain. Due to their busy work, they didn't pay much attention to news related to the Empire's upper echelons and galactic current affairs. However, anyone who had read a little about the recent events would know that something that could make Duan Hangye reveal such an expression was most likely something that had happened in the galaxy that was closely related to the safety of the Empire.
But … what could it be?
Duan Hengye was looking at the optical supercomputer and didn't say anything. The rest of the people could only sit there quietly, not daring to ask anything. Compared to before, Professor Duan was a lot more "approachable" now. However, the pressure that he inadvertently exuded was still enough to scare a lot of people.
The researchers in the conference room who often worked with Duan Hengye knew that Professor Duan's reading speed was very fast. However, today he was different from usual … When he was reading, Duan Hengye didn't adjust the contents of the optical supercomputer. He kept browsing the same fixed page.
So what exactly was it that could make Duan Hangye look at it for so long, and even slowly frown?
Just when the people around him couldn't come up with an answer, Duan Hengye finally switched the interface of the optical supercomputer. Then there was an ear-piercing sound of metal rubbing against each other in the conference room. Before anyone could react, Duan Hengye had already stood up from his seat.
At this time, he pursed his lips and looked very serious.
The legs of the chairs in the Yeti Empire Mecha Research Institute conference room were made of metal. A long time ago, Duan Hengye had already discovered that if he didn't pay attention when he stood up, the chair would rub against the floor and make an ear-piercing sound. But today, after watching the images on the optical supercomputer, Duan Hengye actually forgot about this. Duan Hengye stood up directly. He didn't care if the chair made noise or if it would scare the other colleagues.
Duan Hengye had a very serious expression on his face, so the atmosphere in the meeting room was tense because of him. Now that they suddenly heard such a voice, the few staff members who were sitting close to Duan Hengye immediately had goosebumps.
"Is there a problem?" Su Mingge couldn't help but ask Duan Hengye.
After hearing this, Duan Hengye couldn't help but look down at him, then gently shook his head and said, "… I might have to leave for a while. During this time, I'll leave the work of the academy to you."
After Duan Hengye finished speaking, the surrounding people immediately looked at each other. Although Duan Hengye often handed over the research institute to Su Mingge when he was busy, he had never done it so suddenly.
Even though the meeting had been going on for a while, there was still a lot of content that hadn't been discussed yet. It seemed like there was still a long time before the meeting ended. Duan Hengye was an extremely dedicated director. Even when he was at his weakest state before the detoxification, he didn't miss a single meeting.
But now … Just because of the information on the optical supercomputer, Duan Hengye had to leave the meeting early and hand over the work to Su Mingge.
Seeing this, Su Mingge also stood up from his chair and said to Duan Hengye, "Okay … Of course, that's not a problem." Even though he knew that Duan Hengye must have encountered a major event that concerned the safety of the Empire, Su Mingge couldn't help but ask, "Are you leaving now?"
"Yeah." Hearing this, Duan Hengye nodded and left the meeting table. His movements were very fast, and it didn't take him long to reach the door of the conference room. At this moment, everyone saw Duan Hengye suddenly turn around again. He took a deep look at Su Mingge and said, "I'll transfer your authority in a bit."
"Transfer my authority?" After hearing these words from Duan Hengye's mouth, Su Mingge's voice became a lot louder. After that, the staff saw Su Mingge also walk over from the table like Duan Hengye. He stood beside Duan Hengye and asked, "What exactly do you want to do?"
Even though Duan Hengye and Su Mingge were both managers of the Yetian Empire's Mecha Smoke Technicians, one was the director and one was the deputy, so the authority they had was different. This was almost never reflected in their daily work, so no one paid attention to it before. But as the deputy director, Su Mingge was very clear about the difference between the two.
So after hearing Duan Hengye's words, Su Mingge immediately felt that something was wrong. Before today, Duan Hengye was busy with other things, but he never said anything about transferring his authority.
It was no exaggeration to say that when the words "transfer authority" came out of Duan Hengye's mouth, Su Mingge's heart skipped a beat.
However, Duan Hengye still didn't directly answer Su Mingge's question. After hearing Su Mingge's question, he first shook his head and said, "It's nothing … After a while, you should be able to see it on the galactic news." After saying this, Duan Hengye reached out his hand and patted Su Mingge's shoulder again. Then, he finally left without looking back.
As Duan Hengye's assistant, even though Ye Pu didn't know much about mecha, he would always be nearby when he was working at the research institute. Ye Pu knew Duan Hengye's schedule very well, down to the minute. Now that Duan Hengye walked out of the conference room so early, Ye Pu, who was standing not far away, couldn't help but be stunned.
Ye Pu quickly walked over to Duan Hengye and asked, "Professor Duan, do you have any plans?"
After Ye Pu finished speaking, Duan Hengye quickly walked towards the end of the corridor and said to him, "Arrange for a starship to return to Nan zhuxing."
"Nan zhuxing?" Duan Hengye had just arrived at the research institute from Nan zhuxing not long ago. Obviously, Ye Pu didn't understand why he wanted to go back so soon. After hearing Ye Pu's question, Duan Hengye suddenly stopped walking. He changed his words and said, "… No, we're not going to Nan zhuxing now, we're going to Ti Zhenxing."
Ye Pu realized that Duan Hengye's new destination was even stranger. Other than the previous attack on Ti Zhenxing, it was almost invisible. Judging from Duan Hengye's tone, something important must have happened, but … what could have happened on Ti Zexing?
Even though he was confused, Ye Pu was still Duan Hengye's assistant. After hearing his words, Ye Pu immediately nodded. He followed Duan Hengye's footsteps and walked towards the end of the corridor. At the same time, he took out his optical supercomputer and started contacting a starship to go to Ti Zhenxing.
Ye Pu was very efficient. By the time Duan Hengye reached the end of the corridor of the research institute's office building, the giant silver starship had already taken off from the docking platform and hovered near the building. Everyone here knew Duan Hangye's starship. Although the news of the dean suddenly leaving the meeting hadn't spread yet, after seeing the starship that suddenly appeared on the side of the building, the rest of the people couldn't help but sniff out something ordinary.
However, it was working hours now. No matter how curious they were, no one dared to come here to join in the fun. The corridor was still deserted.
The Yeti Empire Mecha Research Institute's laboratory building was a huge single building. From afar, it looked no different from a small hill. For the sake of convenience, the starship could naturally connect to the side of the building to dock. However, from Duan Hengye's point of view, this was a little too high-profile. After transmigrating from Duan Hengye, he had never used this function. Instead, he parked the starship at a special docking platform and then used the hovercraft to reach the final destination.
However, the situation this time was special. After seeing Duan Hengye's appearance, Ye Pu directly arranged for the starship to dock here.
Not long after Duan Hengye stood at the end of the corridor, the silver wall in front of him slowly cracked open. A white light came in through the crack and illuminated the corridor. Now that the starship was connected to the laboratory building, the crack hadn't fully opened yet. Duan Hengye already walked sideways through it.
Ye Pu, who had been following behind, was shocked by Duan Hengye's actions. After seeing him enter the starship, Ye Pu also walked in and immediately informed the starship's cockpit to take off.
In just a few minutes, Duan Hengye left the Mecha Research Institute's meeting table and boarded the starship. After entering, Duan Hengye's anxious feeling gradually weakened. He first stood in the middle of his study room to calm down. Then he quickly walked to the table and turned on his optical computer. Just like what he said to Su Mingge, he directly transferred his authority in the research institute to the other party.
Because of Duan Hengye's sudden departure, the meeting was temporarily interrupted. Although he knew that Duan Hengye must have something important to do, Su Mingge still couldn't help but send a string of question marks to Duan Hengye when he saw the notification on his optical computer. However, this time, he didn't receive a reply.
As the marshal's spouse, Duan Hengye has the highest authority in Nan zhuxing. He can also receive information from the military that hasn't been officially announced to the public yet.
After transferring his authority, Duan Hengye opened the message on his optical computer again and slowly read it.
As Duan Hengye expected, the "final battle" described in "Toppling the Stars" had arrived early. The old rival of the Yetian Empire, the League of Lisheng that just signed a compensation treaty, had made a comeback and contacted the four neighboring countries of the Yetian Empire. A few minutes ago, the League of Lisheng attacked the Yetian Empire's garrison. Because the location of the battle wasn't a habitable planet, the news hasn't spread yet. However, Duan Hengye knew that it was only a matter of time.
Planet Provider was located in the border area of the Yetian Empire. Because the distribution of the surrounding planets was somewhat special, this place had always been regarded as the weakest part of the Yetian Empire's border. "Toppling the Stars" didn't mention the specific location of the League of Lisheng's attack, but after seeing the location on the optical computer just now, Duan Hengye immediately had a feeling of "as expected".
After reading the notification again, Duan Hengye finally turned off the optical computer. The office chair in the starship's study room was made of leather. After reading the notification, Duan Hengye slowly leaned back and closed his eyes. Of course, Duan Hengye wasn't catching up on sleep, he was just using this time to calm his mind.
But this time, Duan Hengye didn't think for long. After a while, Duan Hengye's optical computer lit up again. Although it was blue this time, it was still dazzling. After feeling the dazzling blue light, Duan Hengye's closed eyes also opened.
He narrowed his eyes, then took the optical computer to his side. In the center of the screen, Meng Jinhuai's name was flashing towards Duan Hengye.
After seeing Meng Jinhuai's name, Duan Hengye immediately sat up straight and turned on the optical computer. This time, Meng Jinhuai sent a video call to Duan Hengye, so it didn't take long for Meng Jinhuai's face to appear in front of Duan Hengye. Duan Hengye saw that Meng Jinhuai was wearing a white military uniform at this time. Judging from the background image, Meng Jinhuai was in a mecha at this time.
Seeing that the communication was connected, Meng Jinhuai, who was looking at the optical computer just now, moved his gaze away from Duan Hengye and looked at Duan Hengye. Although Duan Hengye was now used to the serious look on the Marshal's face when he was working, it wasn't until Duan Hengye saw the expression on the other party's face that he realized that Meng Jinhuai might not be in a good mood at this time …
Duan Hengye obviously didn't feel that he had done anything wrong, but after seeing the look in the other party's eyes, he actually had the urge to lower his head and admit his mistake.
Meng Jinhuai was silent for a while, then said to him, "Where are you now?" Duan Hengye believed that Meng Jinhuai definitely knew that he was on a starship heading to Planet Provider. He was putting psychological pressure on himself by asking a question he already knew the answer to. But since Meng Jinhuai didn't directly ask this question, Duan Hengye pretended not to know what he wanted to say and looked away, then replied, "I'm on a starship heading to Planet Provider."
Sure enough, after hearing Duan Hengye's unusually calm answer, Meng Jinhuai's frown deepened. Duan Hengye saw the person on the other end of the screen completely put down the optical computer in his hand, then said to him, "Do you know the situation around Planet Provider now? It's too dangerous here, it's not a place you should be. "
Meng Jinhuai spoke very quickly and with a sense of command. He believed that if someone with a lower psychological endurance was here, after hearing his words, they would immediately follow the Marshal's advice. Unfortunately, this person was Duan Hengye.
Duan Hengye nodded, but didn't answer Meng Jinhuai's words. After seeing Duan Hengye's expression, Meng Jinhuai had to continue, "I've already issued a notice. After five minutes, everyone on Planet Provider and the surrounding planets will be transferred …" Meng Jinhuai didn't finish his words, but the implication was already very obvious.
"I know the situation on Planet Provider, and because I know, I have to rush there." Duan Hengye finally said.
At this time, Duan Hengye's starship was flying past a star. Although the window was quickly adjusted, there was still a large amount of red light coming in from outside the window. After shining on Duan Hengye's face, it produced a strong sense of beauty like a sunset. Although Duan Hengye didn't say anything again, just because of the scenery in front of him at this time, Meng Jinhuai's rather excited mood calmed down a little.
After the starship gradually flew away from the star, Duan Hengye said, "I have to go there because there is no suitable mecha maintenance master in 'Nan Wei'." After hearing Duan Hengye's words, Meng Jinhuai fell silent. He was right. As a new top-level mecha in service, there was indeed no one who could take on the task of maintaining and repairing Nan Wei – except for its designer, Duan Hengye.
As the designer of 'Nan Wei', Duan Hengye knew very well that a suitable top-level mecha maintenance master would at least have to wait for at least one or two years before they could appear. Therefore, since the day he guessed the League of Lisheng's next move, Duan Hengye had already prepared himself to play this role.
Unlike mecha training and experimentation, war was an extremely dangerous thing. Although the two of them were very confident in Duan Hengye's mecha design ability and Meng Jinhuai's skill in operating the mecha, they knew that they had to be careful. However, both of them also knew that on the battlefield, anything could happen. Perhaps Meng Jinhuai could guarantee that he would obtain the final victory, but he couldn't guarantee that his mecha would not suffer any damage in the battle.
Duan Hengye guessed that the League of Lisheng was so anxious to attack the Yetian Empire because of this consideration. Right now, there was no suitable mecha maintenance master in Nan Wei. If Meng Jinhuai didn't act cautiously during the battle, his mecha would be at risk of being damaged … Of course, the League of Lisheng also knew that Duan Hengye had the ability to maintain his mecha. However, these people didn't think that Duan Hengye had the determination to board a starship and head to Planet Nan Wei.
In their opinion, based on the close relationship between Duan Hengye and Meng Jinhuai, the Grand Admiral probably wouldn't allow Duan Hengye to come to Nan Wei.
Actually, this battle was to be blamed for starting so suddenly. If the Nan Wei side had received the news beforehand, Duan Hengye wouldn't have been able to leave Nan Wei so easily. However, the battle started so suddenly that Duan Hengye wasn't in Nan Wei. By the time Meng Jinhuai received the news, Duan Hengye had already boarded a starship and was heading towards Planet Nan Wei.
After hearing Duan Hengye's words, Meng Jinhuai didn't say anything for a long time.
Before meeting Duan Hengye, in the eyes of the Nan Wei staff, Meng Jinhuai was a purely rational person. He could even disregard his own safety completely and think of the future of the Yetian Empire. However, after Duan Hengye appeared, Meng Jinhuai changed. He clearly knew the importance of a mecha maintainer in a battle, but when he thought of the scene on the battlefield and Duan Hengye's safety, Meng Jinhuai subconsciously wanted to stop him.
While Duan Hengye and Meng Jinhuai were both silent, the Grand Admiral's order to evacuate Planet Nan Wei and the surrounding planets finally came into effect. Now, the entire galaxy knew that there was a new conflict between the League of Lisheng and the Yetian Empire. Due to the birth of the new mecha, everyone's estimation of the Yetian Empire's military strength was now at its peak in decades. Although the Yetian Empire was extremely confident in Nan Wei, when they saw the evacuation order, the entire Yetian Empire was instantly struck by panic.
At the same time, before the message was sent out, the news of Duan Hengye ending the meeting early and leaving the research institute on a starship was already known to everyone in the institute. Although Su Mingge had told the staff not to spread the news, it was too late. Not long after, Duan Hengye's abnormal behavior from before also spread out of the research institute and across the entire galaxy.
Now that the Yetian Empire was in a special situation and Duan Hengye's behavior was so abnormal, it was inevitable that people would associate it with the sudden outbreak of war. Could it be that he was also going to go to Planet Nan Wei?
This time, everyone's association was not wrong, because after a moment of silence, Meng Jinhuai finally sent the detailed location of the Nan Wei garrison to Duan Hengye's optical supercomputer.
— — This was not a compromise, but a reflection of the two people's trust in each other.
Now that the Yetian Empire was in a special state, other than Nan Wei and the surrounding planets, other places were not affected for the time being. But after receiving the news, many people in the Empire temporarily put their travel plans on hold. Before Duan Hengye arrived near Nan Wei, he sensitively noticed that the number of starships on the route had decreased a lot.
Compared to Nan Wei, the distance between the research institute and Nan Wei was much shorter. So when Duan Hengye arrived at the destination, Meng Jinhuai was not there yet. The person who greeted him was General Dongfang Hewen, who was stationed here in advance. Now that a small battle had just ended, Dongfang Hewen was still wearing a black mecha pilot suit.
Before Duan Hengye came, Meng Jinhuai had already informed Dongfang Hewen of the matter. So after the starship landed, as soon as Duan Hengye walked out of the starship, he saw Dongfang Hewen standing in front of him and saluting him. After seeing Dongfang Hewen's action, Duan Hengye couldn't help but be stunned. Although he had expected today's events a long time ago, and most of his work was dealing with the military, Duan Hengye was not a real soldier who could smell the scent of war. So after seeing Dongfang Hewen's action, Duan Hengye finally felt a sense of oppression from the bottom of his heart.
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