() Ever since I got to know her, and as my contact with her deepened, my evaluation of Edith has been changing, but one thing has never changed, and that is... her elusiveness.

In the streets, alleys, corridors and battlefields, she can suddenly appear like a female ghost in any unexpected place, scaring people to the point of heart failure. But I didn't expect that she has already gone to other countries and this guy can still act like a ghost.

He calmly appeared in front of me with the attitude of "one of our own", even in such a confidential meeting.

Now, this guy is dressed in formal clothes and wearing a pair of red plastic-framed glasses. He looks like a literary girl and is sitting quietly next to General Chen Tianmin. He doesn't look away and thinks that our teaching group members, whose jaws are about to hit the ground, are

Air.

Her appearance in the meeting caused a small stir, but it soon stopped because the military boss Chen Tianmin cleared his throat and began to speak.

"In the past two years, the international situation has become increasingly tense. The Republic of China has never experienced such great pressure since its founding. Not only has national defense been under heavy pressure, but our military's border defense crisis has continued to intensify. Territorial waters, borders, high seas... have broken out.

There were a total of seventy-six premeditated and organized armed conflicts, large and small. Our army made great sacrifices and performed very bravely, but... the results were very unsatisfactory."

As he spoke, Chen Tianmin turned his gaze to Lieutenant General Lin Haocheng, who was sitting silently on his left hand. His dissatisfaction was very obvious. The Lieutenant General did not speak, and other senior officers of the Navy also remained silent. I am a little unhappy, please.

Everyone has been beaten badly enough, what else do you want to do? Beat the corpse?

"Hey, Father Chen, don't move until it's time for us to talk."

The top student's voice suddenly came from the side.

"But……"

"I didn't directly name anyone, and I didn't make heavy criticism. I already tried to minimize the big issue. After all, everyone should also know that the Navy Department is just a scapegoat. Don't mess with it if you have nothing to do. Okay, big boss, look here.

Don't talk."

I still lack brains when it comes to playing politics, and I noticed that we were the only two chattering in the room, which was a bit unseemly, so I immediately shut up in a wise manner.

After glaring at this side, General Chen Tianmin continued to speak, but the topic had moved to another aspect.

"In order to ensure the continuation of the next battle, our army needs a new generation of mechas to fill this gap..."

The general's words were immediately interrupted by a person in the audience. He was an officer wearing a pair of glasses who looked like a university graduate student. His unique military rank on a white background indicated his unique identity as a technical officer.

He looked very excited, as if someone had suddenly taken his job away from him after eating half of his meal.

"General, I think our army's self-developed mechas can fully meet the needs. There is no need to purchase outsourced models."

General Chen Tianmin asked coldly.

"Colonel Li, I remember that your aircraft is still in the test flight stage. How long do you think we have to wait for you to finalize it?"

The technical officer immediately became speechless.

"Half a year of bottoming, no upper limit."

The madman muttered something. As a result, General Chen stared in this direction again.

"Hey, the teaching team over there, if anyone keeps chirping again, I'll beat you to death."

After all the fussing, General Chen regained his composure and started speaking again.

"Okay, so after hearing about our military's intention, this time the famous Craso Consortium is directly under the heavy industry group, and 'Pisces' has made a special trip to introduce their latest machine. Everyone is welcome."

After a round of neat applause like a recording, Edith walked up to the podium at the signal of General Chen, and then began to broadcast the information. I found that this guy had restrained his murderous look like a butcher, and it was indeed like a very outstanding diplomatic speech.

Man, I really don’t understand why it has to be as dangerous as a knife when it’s obviously good.

But when I saw the information, I couldn't laugh, and no one in the entire teaching group could laugh, because the machine shown was clearly very familiar to us - [Lavokin].

"Our company's newly developed interceptor mecha [Lavokin] can reach a maximum speed of over Mach 3.2 and a combat radius of over 1,300 kilometers. Its fixed armament is a 47mm armored machine gun and two 57mm automatic machine turrets.

There is also a thermal knife, which can be mounted with various guided and unguided munitions of various treaty forces. The parameters are second to none among the current interceptor mechas. Of course, if your army needs it, we are also willing to provide pylons and fire control.

The system will make corresponding adjustments..."

We listened patiently for a long time, and finally became anxious because the lady just kept expressing the advantages of [Lavokin] without any explanation of the fatal flaws of this thing. You know, even if we

The reliability of the modified [Lavokin] is still very worrying, not to mention the original version. Those officers must not be circumvented.

At this time, I also suddenly realized that in addition to Edith's identity, which I was familiar with, she also had another identity, that is, she was the head of the Craso family.

"Okay, do you guys have any other opinions?"

General Chen Tianmin suddenly used a question. Only then did I realize that Edith's explanation had ended, and the officers below were whispering.

"I remember that the current standard model of the Treaty Army is [Il] manufactured by the 'Capricorn' industrial group. Your company does not have a large amount of equipment for this type of aircraft. Is there any reason for this?"

The one who asked the question was the technical officer just now. The colonel had a litigious look on his face, and he was obviously holding back his unhappiness and looking for trouble.

Edith's face was calm.

"Because the tactical positioning of the Treaty Army mecha is that it is easy to produce, it can ensure sufficient quantity during large-scale consumption wars, and ensure a balance between cost and performance. Compared with [Il], [Lavokin]'s labor hours and costs

It is slightly higher, so it has not become a first-line equipment and is only used as a supplement to [Il], but I believe that this problem does not exist for your army."

The rhetoric is very beautiful, and she cleverly uses the well-known standard army building model of the treaty army as a shield, leaking out a few minor flaws, and at the same time bypassing thorny technical problems, and she also accurately hits the weaknesses of the republican army, because in

The Republic Army, which is still very weak in terms of the number of mechas, cannot throw a mere thirty mechas into the battlefield like cannon fodder for consumption.

But we were sweating coldly after hearing this, and quickly turned our attention to the elder brother, hoping that the expert could ask any more technical questions.

But who would have known that after the colonel scratched his head for a while, he actually sat back down, which surprised us. Thinking about it carefully, it was right. Because the Republic does not have a mecha unit, these experts can only do the most basic theoretical research.

I have seen some incomplete technical information. It is very likely that the mecha has only flown a few times, let alone technical problems.

"Well, since it is supplementary equipment, I would like to ask if this type of mecha has ever undergone actual combat testing."

At this time, Lieutenant General Lin Haocheng, who had been silent, suddenly spoke. We seemed to have found hope again, but Edith's next words were completely unexpected.

"General, you can rest assured on this point. Although the regular army has not used it, it has undergone a lot of actual combat testing in the hands of your teaching team. If I remember correctly, they not only used this aircraft to destroy something that our army could not shoot down no matter what.

The 'Blackbird' stealth drone also killed the famous ace mecha soldier of the resistance, the downer of the 'Blue Blade', the 'Gray Smile', and was commended by the Treaty Army."

This time the Sap was hit so hard that the entire teaching team was stunned. Come on, the Blackbird was just [Lavokin]'s special performance under special circumstances. It's not like there are such perverted machines in the street that can be beaten. As for'

"Gray Smile" was even more nonsense that time. What I gained was completely an empty shell. I am still sitting here. As for why the momentum was so loud, it was entirely because the Mao Xiong propaganda agency was trying to cover up the tragedy of the "Cangren" being shot down.

, and the result of the exaggeration has unexpectedly hit us in the foot.

But the biggest problem now is that all the generals are looking towards us, with big greetings in their eyes, as if they are just waiting for us to say a word. What's more terrible is that many of them are already a little interested, which is big.

Something bad happened.

"So, everyone in the teaching team, what do you think?"

Chen Tianmin coughed and asked us. Edith didn't look at us, she just lowered her head silently, but it made us even more stressed.

In the end, it was the leader Tieniu who showed his leadership courage.

"Ahem, let's have a meeting first. Everyone, come around."

In the surprised eyes of the senior officers, we raised our stools with a clatter and formed a circle in just a few seconds. Everyone put their heads in together, just like an ancient military formation.

Commonly known as the teaching group discussion method.

But this meeting didn’t go smoothly, because everyone got into a quarrel at the beginning, first of all, it was about the mecha. We all came to the unanimous conclusion that we must not have this dangerous thing. Just kidding, we have all been tortured to death.

It's happened once, why would you want to bring misfortune to others? That would be too unethical.

The boss, Tieniu, set the tone.

No, no matter how strong the relationship is, it won’t work! Absolutely not!

But when it came to how to refuse, we started arguing again.

"Hey, Tieniu, you are the boss, you should speak first."

"Bullshit, this kind of thing is announced by the political commissar. You do it, boss."

"That's nonsense. Did a human do this? How can you say it? Fat Tu, you are thick-skinned."

"Holy shit, that's fat, fat, I'm very thin-skinned."

"…….."

Finally, they finally determined their goal.

"Dad Chen, come here!"

I went crazy at that time.

"Damn it, why did you let me come!"

"Nonsense, you know her best, so it won't be too embarrassing to talk about it. Okay, that's it."

Before I could curse, someone poked me at an acupuncture point in my waist. I screamed and stood up straight. It was better now. I couldn't even think about it.

"Very good posture to stand at attention. What do you think, Second Lieutenant Chen?"

General Chen Tianmin had obviously forgotten me for a long time, so all eyes were focused on me, but Edith still didn't raise her head, looking like she was waiting for the verdict. I suddenly felt an urgent need to urinate. I'm not kidding, I really had an urgent need to urinate.

.

What the hell should I do? I can't let [Lavorkin] be selected, and I can't hurt Edith's face. Otherwise, the proud Slavic girl doesn't know how much she will be hit. Besides, her family's situation really doesn't allow for any more business.

failed.

If it doesn't work here, it won't work that way either... Damn it, is there a way to take care of both ends?

Wait, it doesn't seem like there isn't.
To be continued...