Gundam: The Wind That Blows Through Space

Chapter 688 Lao's Changes
Nuremberg, after Berlin completed the siphoning effect on refugees, this city, which was once one of the largest cities in Europe, is now almost empty. With the complete collapse of the Eurasian Federation, its suburban military base has been abandoned for a long time. Now, there is a huge but slightly blurry barge of light and shadow parked in the empty port.

The Minerva was the figure in the shadow. It was ZAFT's flagship in the Battle of the Moon, but after the war, everyone from the captain to the crew was saddled with the reputation of "surrendering in the face of battle". In addition, Lacus returned the Eternity after the war, resulting in the successful return of ZAFT's flagship which had been vacant for three years. This tainted ship became completely dispensable in the ZAFT fleet sequence.

It was not until the formation of Compass that Orphie submitted the design drawings of the Bader-class battleship to the People's Revolutionary League. However, Hilde had already taken away almost the entire year's budget of the Space Fleet and used it to replace Bakilulu with the Volga-class battleship equipped with a pseudo-solar furnace, which directly led to the mass production plan of the Bader-class battleship being stranded from the very beginning.

In desperation, some officials had to ask for Minerva from PLANT to use as a temporary mothership for Compass.

But at a time when the Archangel-class has been assigned to second-line forces such as the Near-Moon Orbital Fleet, in terms of technology, compared to the Volga-class that has already fully deployed the pseudo-solar furnace, the Minerva, which does not carry the Pulse Gundam, has no new technology at all.

In terms of fame, Minerva, who almost fell at her own launching ceremony and bore the infamy of surrendering in battle, could not compare to the two angels with legendary experiences. But this was the choice that Luo Pan had no choice but to make at the moment.

"Is the Gullveiger not finished yet? I can't stay on this broken ship for another day."

After Siegfried kicked Orfe away in Berlin, he seemed to have disappeared from the face of the earth. Even Ingrid rarely saw this former brother. Now he was sitting in the seat where Kuratis once sat, and the disgust on his face was beyond words.

"Now that the gods are watching so closely, even though Minister Nars is still resisting public opinion and refusing to resign, there are still many difficulties in actually doing so."

Looking down at his watch, Tria didn't care about Orphie's mood at all and continued, "According to the latest progress, it should be possible to ensure completion before the election. However, the universe is the territory of the First Fleet, so how to receive it is still a problem."

"Can't we let Lao raid PLANT again?"

"Are you so sure that Aslan has gone to Berlin? What if he stayed in PLANT and waited for us to fall into his trap? Siegfried's situation is unclear now. We have finally gained a certain advantage in high-end combat power. Without Lao, who will fight Aslan or me?"

With an inconspicuous glance to the side, Tria quickly retracted the slightly contemptuous look. Ever since he took over Orphee's position, the Tuner has somewhat corrected some of his arrogant habits, but the arrogance engraved in his bones will still be revealed inadvertently.

Regarding this innate arrogance, Lao once commented: "If Orpheus was not so arrogant as to think that Siegfried was nothing, and if the Tuners were not so anxious to provoke Orb, then in time the Human Revolutionary League would definitely choose to form the Compass in order to check and balance the Heavenly Man. At that time, they would slowly weaken the influence of the Orb-Kingdom faction together with the local faction, and there is a possibility that they would overthrow the hero."

"But the situation is not too bad. After all, we have parasitized the People's Revolutionary League. As long as Mina cannot be successfully elected as the new chairman, we always have a chance to turn the tables. Oh, Shura should be awake by now. Don't you want to go and take a look?"

After hearing Tria's reminder, Orphie showed a rare hesitation, and then asked: "Is that technology really possible? If so, does it mean that the Tuner will never die?"

"Hey, that's your mother's masterpiece. It's well wrapped."

A moment later, the two of them came to the warehouse originally assigned to the Impulse Gundam to store backpacks. The previous automatic transmission elevator had long been removed, and the remaining large space was used to place a row of treatment cabins. Tria also found that someone had been waiting here before him. "Why? You also want to use this method? It's not that I don't want to help you. Currently, only Tuners can transfer consciousness. It is a racial talent derived from mind reading. You and I can't do it for the time being."

After hearing Tria's explanation, Lao just nodded and didn't say much. In fact, Queen Aura's potion still showed a certain effect. At least for now his body has stopped the rapid aging process, but the thing called "consciousness transfer" still made Lao curious.

"I haven't seen you much since the last time I failed to chase Lux. Is there something wrong?"

Lao glanced at the red-haired man with a little surprise. The whole world knew that he was a copy of Siegfried, and Siegfried himself had never been good at strategy, so for a moment Lao could not be sure whether Tria had seen something or just smelled something unusual based on his talent from the original body.

"Maybe it's because the obsession in my heart has loosened a little. You know, the suffocating feeling of knowing that you are going to die soon can make people completely crazy."

"Maybe."

Tria shrugged and didn't pursue the issue any further, but Lao's heart did not calm down after the conversation between the two ended.

He had seen a lot of things that went against common sense since he was photocopied, but neither mind reading nor the story of Queen Aura's rejuvenation had shocked him as much as Dolores had.

As the only MS pilot in the world who has fought against quantum projections continuously in a short period of time, Lao's body has undergone unexpected changes. Combined with the previous example of Mu evolving into a transformer by relying on a "particle bath", the genes of the Vlada family have some meaning of natural human selection, because Mu's biological father, Lao Lu Cruze, successfully awakened as a transformer solely by relying on the scattered GN particles.

Thanks to Orb's efforts to promote the policy of artificial transformation bodies, Lao easily searched for relevant information about transformation bodies after returning to the Minerva. He noticed the source of the strange memory just from the content disclosed by Hilde. It is likely that he received the brain quantum waves emitted unconsciously by Dolores at the moment of awakening, thus confirming the existence of parallel worlds and travelers.

After knowing all this, Lao did not tell anyone. In fact, with the current personnel composition of Compass, there is no suitable person even if he wants to find someone to confide in. The Tuner group has a sense of "high score and low ability". As for Tria, Lao can obviously feel that the other party is still on guard against him. At least the medicine for treating mitochondria has been firmly controlled by Tria.

A moment later, as the treatment cabin door opened, Shura slowly opened his eyes. Lao knew very well that this transfer was not replicable, and it was not even possible to use it continuously.

After waking up again, Shura was in an extremely weak state. Even a three-year-old child could easily take his life at this moment, and for quite a long time, Shura would not be able to perform consciousness transfer again.

"The Celestial Being killed Daniel, we don't have much time!"

(End of this chapter)