Thinking for a moment, zero decided to suppress the question of Franklin's identity first. It's about his secret. Even if you ask the giant, you don't have to say it. It's better to learn about it later. As soon as the topic changed, he said, "I heard hindrella say that you have been to ISTA. Then why are you here?"
Franklin rolled his eyes and said, "do you want to go to ISTA?"
"Yes, I want to make a deal with the rebels." zero ambiguity.
"Then you don't have to go." the giant sighed slightly and said, "ISTA is over. That's where I escaped."
"What?"
In the meeting room on the destiny, zero summoned Feng, others and hindrella to tell the whole story about esta heard from Frank Lin. Franklin did not hide in this regard, from the fact that he and the knights in the papal hall were rescued by the iron scale, to Solon's secret cooperation with dipola, and finally destroyed ISTA. However, he hid the fact that Solon took him away. He simply said that after escaping from ISTA, he was still chased and killed by Solon and escaped to this sea area.
However, this does not prevent zero from mastering ISTA's current information, but also has a more intuitive understanding of Solon's ability from the side. It can be seen from this that Sauron is not simple. The iron scale and diboraxian are pieces he arranged a long time ago, and they are not used until now. And completely destroyed the rebel headquarters in the posture of thunder.
Next, the western continent will usher in the most turbulent era. The papal hall, pirates and rebels are like three corners of the cornerstone. Now one corner has collapsed, and the papal hall is powerful. Without the resistance of the rebels, Sauron may soon operate on the pirates. Then roaring Bay will no longer be a refuge for pirates.
However, the news of the destruction of ISTA should not have spread, and few people have predicted the undercurrent of the times. But when we found that the undercurrent turned into a tsunami, it was too late to reverse the fate that could not be changed.
"No, we have to do something!" hindrella stood up. As one of the four pirate groups, she naturally knew what the consequences would be after the destruction of ISTA: "I have to go to the sea house immediately and tell everyone about it. Especially Deborah, he is Sauron's running dog. It can't be just that!"
"Don't be impulsive." zero grabbed her hand and said, "the news must be spread so that others can be prepared in advance. But the time of transmission is very important. Besides, your strength alone is not enough to deal with the papal hall."
"Franklin said that Solon just destroyed ISTA and killed the leader urson. Of course, many soldiers of the rebels must have been killed. But don't forget that the remaining two leaders are not dead, and all the troops won't let Solon and dipola eat clean. In other words, they still retain a certain strength."
Zero looked at everyone and said, "I want to go to ISTA, and Franklin asked me to take him back. He said that ISTA was indirectly destroyed in his hands. It is necessary for him to go back and confirm the current situation of the rebels."
"When I get back from ISTA, I'll go to the sea house with you to tell others the news. Believe me, we still have a lot to do. Sauron will never be big because of it. Because!" zero looked at hindrilla and said faintly, "I'm coming!"
Cinderella was stunned and said, "can you walk with me to the side of the ship?"
At zero o'clock, let Feng Dai pass on his instructions and take Billy and Franklin to consult the channel to easta. He and hindrella came to the ship's side deck outside destiny and faced the sea. Hindrella suddenly turned and said, "who are you? It should not be the so-called adventurous businessmen to intervene in the disputes in our mainland? Besides, your strength has far exceeded the power of a caravan!"
"Put away your strength." zero calmly sat on the deck and said faintly, "I know, Cinderella. You grew up in the war and will choose to become a pirate to resist the papal hall. But you don't want outsiders like me to step in and make things worse, so you will do anything to use force against me when necessary, will you?"
Cinderella clenched her lips and said, "yes, even because of this, I won't be happy in the future. But this continent is chaotic enough. I don't want you to make it more chaotic."
"You're wrong." zero waved and motioned Cinderella to sit next to her.
Hindrilla hesitated for a moment and sat down. Zero took her hand, kissed her gently and said: "Believe it or not, I'll tell you. Cinderella, my enemy is not here. It's not on any continent. It's so powerful that it needs everyone's strength to fight. For the western continent, I'm really an outsider. But what I bring is not chaos, but order. Because I hope that the western continent after restoring order will be safe in the future To become my ally and fight with me against that powerful enemy. This is not only for me, but also for the world. "
"Now you may not understand, but please stay with me. I believe you will understand soon, and you can supervise me. If you find that what I do is contrary to what I say at the moment, you can do it to me at any time." zero looked straight at Cinderella.
Hindrella looked at him and nodded after a long time: "OK, I believe you. But as you said, if one day I find you cheating me, then we are enemies!"
"Don't worry, I won't let that moment come, my queen." zero stood up and learned the language of the pirates on the water demon.
Cinderella couldn't help laughing.
Zero said, "come on, let's see how Billy's Waterway picture is."
When they came to the medical room, they just bumped into Billy and came out. Franklin's description was clear enough for Billy to quickly draw the route to ISTA. According to the speed of destiny, they can reach ISTA in three days. So destiny bypassed the sea house and headed for ISTA according to the channel provided by Franklin.
At night, destiny moored near an isolated island. Haiwei couldn't sit still on the boat, so she planned to go to the island. Knowing that everyone was busy next, zero proposed to hold a banquet on the island. The crew were very happy to hear the news, and zero invited Franklin. The giant's injury was basically harmless, and he didn't want to stay in the medical room, so he accepted it gladly.
It was only when he walked out of the medical room that Franklin had a clear sign. When he came to the island and looked at the destiny, Franklin couldn't help shaking all over.
"Scared, big man." Feng just took some food from the destiny. When he saw Franklin like this, he said with a smile: "our ship is different from ordinary ones."
"Yes, I was really frightened." Franklin lowered his head and his hands still trembled slightly.
The zero next to me looked in my eyes and thought deeply.
Soon, everyone lit a bonfire on the beach of the island. Feng and kaiton also called a few mutant animals to roast on the island. The crew had a good time. They hadn't been so relaxed for a long time. Finally, these guys didn't go back to the boat at all. They set up a marching tent and slept on the beach.
Zero is no exception, but in the middle of the night, he suddenly woke up. Zero quietly walked out of the tent and just saw the destiny undulating slightly on the water under the dark red sky. A huge figure jumped onto the ship's side deck and then entered the destiny.
It was Franklin. Instead of using the pass key, he pressed his palm on the ship, and destiny opened the entrance and exit for him. There were others on board, but the time was all asleep. Moreover, Franklin landed silently. The tall figure came to the control room along the main channel of the spacecraft. No one knew it at all.
He went into the control room and went straight to the console. Franklin kept sliding his hands on the light screen of the console. If Billy was next to him now, he would jump up with excitement, because the weapon systems that neither he nor Dr. cod could decode were untied one by one under Franklin's complex operation. The light screen shows one by one that in addition to the particle beam main gun, an antimatter gun and other weapon platforms on both sides of the bow have changed from the red unusable state to the green activated state.
Franklin searched other systems and finally said to himself, "well, all weapons can still be used. Although the efficiency of the energy system is not higher than before, it can also be used. With it, we may be able to save everyone!"
"That won't work."
Suddenly another voice sounded at the door of the control room, and Franklin suddenly turned around. After the dim control room gate, zero came out. Looking down at Franklin from the captain's high platform, he said, "it took us a lot of effort to put destiny into use. We can't let Mr. Franklin drive away at will, can we?"
"Destiny?" Franklin asked, "is this its current name? Destiny... Hey, it's appropriate."
"Let's talk about you, Mr. Franklin. Our engineers have been unable to decode the weapon system, but they opened it for you three times. It seems that you are very familiar with the ship of the last era. Then can I speculate that, Mr. Franklin, you are not from this era?" said zero lightly.
Below the control room, Franklin fell silent. But as his eyes gradually lit up and flushed, a rough and thick momentum also quietly came out. Zero shook his head and said, "don't get me wrong, Mr. Franklin. I don't intend to investigate your identity. There are too many strange things in the world. What's more if you are a person who doesn't belong to this era. I'm sorry to eavesdrop on your words, but just now your words seem to mean to save some people. Of course, these people are your compatriots!"
"You went to ISTA again before, which means you want to cooperate with the rebels in exchange for the opportunity to save your compatriots. Since the object of cooperation is the rebels, your enemy is naturally the papal hall?" zero showed a faint smile: "if it is the papal hall, our goals are the same. I think you may also cooperate with me."
Franklin looked at zero carefully. He had to admit that zero was very clever. He had inferred the outline of the whole event from only a few words, and zero showed that he didn't study his identity, which won Franklin's favor. So he nodded and said, "how do you want to cooperate?"
Zero said lightly, "it's very simple. I still lack a vice captain on board. Franklin is very familiar with the system of destiny. If you are willing to join, I believe the performance of destiny can be greatly improved. Of course, I hope you can tell my engineers about the real operation method of destiny. In return, I will help you save those compatriots, how about it?"
Franklin thought for a moment, nodded and said, "it's fair. I can't think of a reason to refuse."
"Then welcome, our vice captain." zero smiled.
Three days later, destiny reached the inner bay through the natural tunnel of Xianyue Island, and saw ISTA from a distance. In these three days, the people on board were shocked. First, Franklin suddenly became the vice captain of destiny, and then he began to guide several engineers, including Billy, to understand some previously encrypted systems of destiny. Under Franklin's guidance, the operators in the control room were finally able to use other weapon systems. After Billy's evaluation, the performance of destiny has been improved by at least 50%.
As for how Franklin could decipher the encrypted systems of destiny, zero only gave their explanation that the vice captain himself was also a weapons engineer. Naturally, no one will really believe this explanation, but since zero doesn't want to say, others won't ask the bottom. After all, everyone has more or less the secret of unwillingness and humanity.
Compared with Franklin's identity, ISTA's appearance shocked everyone's attention. From the three windows of destiny's control room, you can see that the flame on ISTA has been extinguished. But there are still smoke columns rising on the island, a scene after the disaster. Franklin had been to ISTA before, and now he had the deepest feeling when he revisited his hometown.
In particular, the previously calm inner bay of Xianyue island is now turbulent because the ISTA is divided into two, resulting in the change of ocean currents in the sea. Before that, the natural vortex on both sides of the island disappeared, leaving the rebel base unprotected by a natural barrier. If the papal hall waves in at this time, ISTA will be exposed to the guns of the order of the holy seal.
Seeing this scene, everyone had an idea in their hearts: ISTA is over!
ISTA has now been divided into two peninsulas in the East and West. On the East Peninsular wharf facing the inner bay of Xianyue Island, the sinking is under maintenance. Since pursuing the last fruit of the iron scale a few days ago, they didn't return to ISTA until two days ago. The damage of the sinking ship is not serious, but the air wave caused by Sauron's string moon vacuum chopping and broken air connecting bomb successively crossed a mast and some scattered parts of the ship's hull.
Now that urson is dead, Jesse and olan are taking in the remaining manpower of ISTA. The Solon attack was vicious. Compared with other losses, the heaviest loss was the loss of the leader, followed by the destruction of nuclear power plants and the tower of abundance at the north and south ends. The nuclear power plant is the source of energy supply for ISTA, and the tower of abundance is the command center. The former is like blood, the latter is the brain. Now the blood is cut off, the brain no longer exists, and the iron giant ISTA collapses naturally.
At present, the remaining two giants divide their work and cooperate. Jesse incorporates combatants, and olan urgently forms a temporary combat team. Of course, both of them can not be compared with before in terms of scale and capacity.
ISTA has survived in name, and the division of the island has led to the change of ocean currents, making the previous natural barrier disappear quietly. The island can't stay any longer, otherwise the Pope's hall can eat all their residual strength as long as two or three knights are dispatched. The combat team headed by olan provided several schemes, of which only two were more appropriate.
One is to choose another base area and start all over again; The second is to break up the whole into parts, infiltrate the western continent, and then continue the previous "Harvest Plan" in another way through the cooperation of the inner line of the papal hall.
In the end, Jesse and olan decided to choose the latter. After all, choosing another base is time-consuming and laborious. It is impossible to rebuild a base as large as ISTA in ten years. Now, they can't wait that long.
Now that the second option is chosen, the remnants of the rebel forces will have to be mobilized. It takes some time to recycle all available materials, assemble the remaining personnel and prepare the ships for migration to the mainland.
Therefore, when destiny entered the inner bay of Xianyue Island, the wharf of ISTA east peninsula showed a busy scene. On the lookout platform of the sinking at pier 3, destiny was soon found by the soldiers above and passed the news to Jesse. A moment later, Jesse returned to the dock from the inner island and boarded the warship. Taking the telescope from the soldier's hand and looking into the inner bay, destiny immediately came into Jesse's eyes.
"Without a flag, I don't know whether it's a pirate or a man in the papal hall. But the ship looks very strange. Is the blue flame an energy propulsion system? Pirates should not have such technology, so it's most likely that the papal hall!" Jesse put down his telescope and shouted: "Let the heavy Gunners of the wharf prepare. Once the enemy ship enters the shooting range, fire on me! Others are ready for battle!"
"Can you hear me?"
Jesse was giving an order when suddenly a huge voice came from the inner bay: "don't get me wrong, everyone of ISTA! I'm Franklin. I came back to see where I can help! I ask you to let my boat dock!"
On the side deck of the destiny, Franklin shouted at ISTA with his huge voice. The giant's voice, like thunder, resounded throughout the inner bay.
Jesse looked through the telescope. Sure enough, there was a tall figure standing on the strange ship. It was the giant Franklin they brought back from roaring Bay not long ago. But looking at the giant, Jesse said with gnashing teeth: "don't worry about him! It's because of him that we will give Solon an opportunity. Maybe he is also Solon's running dog like Deborah! Don't relax and wipe my eyes!"
On the destiny, looking at the fort on the other side's Wharf, he still aimed at them in this direction and said, "it seems that they are not so friendly. There is no way. In this way, they can only land by force."