40 October 20, 4692, it is still Matargrad

"Where are we going?" Bai Yu asked Anita. Just after discussing the food issue, Ora was angry and went to trouble Major General Alger, while Anita pulled Bai Yu out.

"Go to the temple, I want to pray to the gods." Anita said with a smile.

"There is a temple here?" Bai Yu, who was trained to become an atheist by the Federal Navy, asked: "What god do you believe in?"

"There are temples in every city. We worship the patron god of the tribe. I am from the Krusha tribe, of course I go to worship the patron god of the Krusha." Anita said.

"Look, everyone on the street has begun to evacuate." Bai Yu watched the crowd walk towards them with luggage or bags.

"Yes, they also went to the temple. The entrance to the underground city is inside the temple, where it can withstand the bombardment of the Emmada fleet. As long as there are no ground troops entering, it is absolutely safe. Moreover, there are water sources in the underground city, and the water sources outside the city seem to be polluted." Anita explained.

"That's it, but why are you going to take me?" Bai Yu said depressedly. She actually wanted to go to her container to count the supplies. After all, there were a lot of snacks and coo, and there were still half a month of supplies: "Your God will not bless me."

"No, among the tribes of Mimathal, the patron saint of Krusha is 'Ariemireda'. As long as you help anyone from the tribe, you will be protected by her." Anita smiled and said, "And she is also the patron saint of women in all tribes. She is very tolerant and gentle, and will never refuse you."

"Okay, uh, what's in the sky?" Bai Yu suddenly found that there were many gray-yellow balls floating in the sky above the city.

"Oh, that's the airborne balloon, which can prevent Emmada's airborne troops from airborne directly in the city, filled with radio fiber explosives. If their airborne troops land near the balloon, the balloon will explode directly, destroying their energy shields and shaking them out. Their airborne armored soldiers do not use the airborne pod. If they faint, they will land from that height. Even if they wear armored combat suits, they will be disabled if they don't fall to death. However, they don't seem to be large and can only barely cover the sky above the city." Anita said, pointing to the gray-yellow airborne balloons.

"Now, we can defend from the periphery of the city, and if we fight street battles, we will definitely have the advantage." Bai Yu found that there was greater hope of defending the city.

"Yes, the entrance to the underground city is still a maze. At worst, you can retreat there. Look, there is the temple in front of you. Look, look, the temple must be the high priest on the top of the steps, and on both sides are six priests serving the guardian gods of various tribes." Anita said happily: "They are blessing, let's go quickly."

Mimatal is a towering white stone building with three steps, the middle is extremely wide, and the sides are narrower. Six priests in white are holding scriptures and following the high priests stand on the middle steps to bless the old, weak and weak women and children entering the temple to take refuge. From time to time, devout believers kneel in front of the priests and kiss the steps under their feet. The priests will hang their hands above their heads and recite scriptures to bless them. The speed of the crowd entering the temple was significantly slower. Anita took Bai Yu's hand and climbed the steps from the auxiliary road where the army next to them transported supplies to the temple, squeezed to one of the priests, knelt down, and kissed the steps under the feet of the priests.

"Child, Ariel Amy Rida will protect you, enter the temple, meet her loving face, and return to her warm embrace." The priest in white was a woman, holding the scriptures in her left hand and hanging her right hand over Anita's head.

"Hello, priest of Ariel Amy Reda, my friend comes from the Federation to help us fight off the Emmada. Can I take her into the temple of Ariel Amy Reda and pray for her?" Anita begged.

"So you are the female general from the Federation. Thank you for your selfless help to the people of Mimatal." After saying that, the female priest closed the scriptures and slowly bent down to salute Bai Yu.

The female priest's actions caused a commotion among the crowd. Everyone around them began to bend down to salute Bai Yu. The crowd of salutations spread from the temple steps to the bottom like rice fields blown down by the wind. Bai Yu stood aside at a loss, his face red with embarrassment.

"Take her in, Ariel Amy Reda will definitely bless her personally." The female priest straightened up and retreated respectfully to the side.

Anita bowed to the priest, then pulled Bai Yu, who had already lost all his life, and quickly walked into the temple.

"It's so sudden." Bai Yu held his cheek and cooled down: "How did that priest know me?"

"Haha, your story probably spreads all over the city. Why would the priest not know about you wearing the uniform of the Federation Army?" Anita said with a smile: "Why, are you shy?"

"I..." Bai Yu really didn't know what to say.

"Do you know that the priests of the temple will never salute anyone regardless of their position, even when facing the guardians who control the galaxy, they will only kneel down to the guardian god. If the priest bent down to salute, it means that she is directly favored by the guardian god." Anita explained excitedly.

Anita pulled Bai Yu into the temple hall. On both sides of the hall, there were six side halls. At the opposite end was a main hall, all made of mortar and large pieces of rock. Anita turned into the side hall that worshiped Ariel Amy Reda. In the temple stood a tall white female stone statue. Under the reflection of dozens of candles around, it emitted a soft and warm light. The statue was wearing a shawl and wearing a traditional long skirt of Mimatal, holding a long skirt in one hand and a circle of grass rings made of plants in the other, looking at the loving smile under her feet.

Anita walked forward, lit an extinguished candle, then knelt in front of the statue, folded his hands and held it high, as if holding a handful of water, and prayed in a low voice. Bai Yu also knelt in front of the statue like her. After a long time, Anita stood up and said to Bai Yu, "Look, Ariel Amy Reda likes you very much."

"Haha, how do you know?" Bai Yu asked with a smile: "Has she told you?"

"Of course, the candle I lit for you has not been extinguished." Anita said seriously at the candle she lit under the statue of God.

"Uh...this...this is so." Bai Yu smiled awkwardly. Perhaps because of the wind and sand protection, this side hall only had a palm-sized vent. The flames of the candles would not shake, and it would be strange if they would be blown out: "It seems that she likes a lot of people."

"Yes, so she is the most tolerant and loving goddess." Anita said seriously.

Bai Yu really couldn't refute Anita's logic, and followed her out of Ariel Amy Reda's side hall, looked at the prayer in the side hall opposite and asked, "Do you pray to God differently?"

"Yes, it's different. Ariel Amy Rida is holding a circle made of desert thorns. Legend has it that the goddess met a girl who was about to die of thirst in the desert, so she picked the desert thorns and made a circle. However, the desert thorns cut the goddess's hand, and a drop of blood flowed down the thorn circle, and it became a sweet spring water. The girl thanked the goddess while holding the spring water with her hands and drinking it. Then she survived and walked out of the desert. That girl was the ancestor of our Krusha people." Anita crossed her hands and made a prayer posture again: "So this posture is to hold the spring water given by the goddess and thank the goddess for her protection."

"So that's the case. Then the guardian saints of the seven tribes of your Mimatal?" Bai Yu guessed.

"No." Anita gritted her teeth and shook her head, "There is absolutely no patron saint of Nevada in the temple."

"How come the seven temples?" Bai Yu counted again.

"Don't you know?" Anita asked in surprise: "Don't you sing "The Song of the Defender of Mimatal"? We are the most tenacious and heroic in the... battle, because Helende is by our side, the attack formation is invincible, and he vows to push the invaders... into the deep abyss."

Anita hummed one of the passages, but found that Bai Yu was still confused and then said.

"The largest temple in the middle is of course His Highness Helend's temple."

"Helend? Which clan's guardian is she?" Bai Yu asked in confusion.

"The word 'Helende', in Mimatal's ancient great prophecy, means the savior, and you really don't know at all?" Anita asked in surprise.

"Haha, I don't know, I've used all the history classes in the Federal Military Academy to sleep." Bai Yu said embarrassedly. In fact, she didn't know that there would definitely be no records about "Helende" in the federal history textbooks.

"Oh my God, don't tell others that this is definitely a manifestation of ignorance in Mimatal. His Highness Helend is the savior of the Mimatal people. She led the Mimatal people to revolt 300 years ago, successfully broke away from the rule of the Emma Empire, and established the Mimatal Republic, and became a great figure comparable to the gods. This was mentioned in the prophecy." Anita said.

"Oh, it's your founder of Mimatal. Is she a woman?" Bai Yu suddenly realized.

"Yes, but she disappeared after the founding of Mimatal and never appeared again." Anita said: "Because everyone hates Nevantars, the Emmadas now, they destroyed the statue of their tribe's guardian gods, and put His Highness Helend into a stone statue in the temple to worship her. Some pilots of the Mimatal Republic fleet would carry her statue with them to protect themselves and protect themselves from invincible."

"Is Helende beautiful?" Bai Yu asked jokingly: "Let's go to her temple to take a look."

"I don't know, she is very mysterious. Few people have seen her face. I guess they still know what she looks like. Only a few elders in the Presbyterian Church have always been in the image of a fully enclosed armored combat suit, and they can't see their faces." Anita said: "You can't get in now, look, the entrance to the dungeon is behind her statue. Now everyone is lined up from there, crowding to death. I'll take you to visit her temple after the battle."

"Okay, that's all." Bai Yu looked at the long queue at the door of Helend Temple and said helplessly.

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4692 October 21, Retired Space Station, Bar

"Okay, boss, I've already contacted it. There are 40,000 tons of food, including: 20,000 tons of compressed biscuits, 10,000 tons of canned meat, 5,000 tons of canned fruits and vegetables, and 5,000 tons of combat energy strips and compressed candies. They will prepare them within 12 hours. Then we will go to the guitar to pick it up." Li Deshi's efficiency is not ordinary: "But he paid an additional ten points of extra cost. After all, he bought it from the black market merchants in Gadari. They are relatively polite. If the Navy of Gadari knows, it will definitely be bad."

"I'm going, it's really a black market businessman. It's not an ordinary black market. The extra fee of ten points is food! It's higher than the luxury goods tax collected by the government." Li Deshi, who was so poor, looked dark: "Also, just wait for Bai Yu to come to settle the score with you. You dare to use 20,000 tons of wheat biscuits to charge the 40,000 tons of grain to charge. That thing doesn't seem to be high-calorie food."

"Stop teasing him, Kajia, the Federal Navy can't make up so much food in a short period of time, but 10,000 magnetic rail assault rifles, 5 base ammunition energy boxes, 40,000 attack grenades, 1,000 portable energy cannons, 5,000 battlefield first aid kits, they are fine." Roy breathed a sigh of relief: "The price is fair, we just give a Ten Thousand Kings throne-class battleship, Lyon, tomorrow you drag the battleship to Alpha exchange."

"I understand, you need so much arms at once, so the Federation didn't ask you what you do?" Lyon asked with the cigarette butt that was about to burn.

"I was looking for Rita this time. She seemed to know everything and supported our actions very much." Roy said.

"If you really support it, send a fleet to help. The biggest problem now is how to transport it in." Kajia said: "The information I just collected is that there is still Mimatal combat power left in the Odatrik galaxy, and only half a squadron of tribal armed forces fleets. It is difficult for people to open the Odatrik 1 star gate that Emmada defends. Moreover, the No. 2 star gate has been completely scrapped, so it is almost impossible to transport so many materials in."

"Ah, that's my business." Old Jack stood up and patted the white clothes: "Old solution."

"Old solution? I'm going, you don't want it..." Samson thought for a while, and suddenly remembered something.

"Ah, there's no big problem, I'll go down the communication room." Old Jack picked up the coffee cup on the table, walked to the communication room, operated the console, and sent a signal. Not long after, a communication request was sent.

"Rose, long time no see, you are still so beautiful and charming." Old Jack greeted the young woman on the projection with a smile.

"Hehe, my old dean, you are still the same." Rose smiled charmingly and said, "I have contacted me for so long, have you forgotten me?"

"Haha, why is that? Didn't I think of you first whenever there is something wrong? Dear." Old Jack took a sip of coffee and said.

"Hmph, tell me, don't think I'll agree to anything if I have such a sweet mouth." Rose gave Old Jack a coquettish look.

"I have a friend who is in some trouble and needs you to help transport something." Old Jack said with a smile.

"Oh? My boyfriend is still a girlfriend. If it were a little vixen, I wouldn't help you." Rose joked.

Old Jack scratched his head: "Don't do this, my dear Rose, as long as you promise to help, I can... satisfy any of your conditions."

"Hmm? He's really a woman! Who is she?" Rose roared angrily: "I killed her with my own hands!"

"Haha, Rose, I just like you to be jealous, don't worry, just an ordinary friend, I can't tolerate anything except you and scientific research in my heart." Old Jack said with a big laugh.

"This is almost the same. Let's talk about what to transport," said Rose.

"Ah, let's take a look, 40,000 tons of various food, 10,000 federal-style magnetic track assault rifles, 5 bases of supporting ammunition and energy boxes, some attack grenades, portable energy cannons, etc., all in the guitar galaxy." Old Jack looked at the terminal on his arm.

Rose obviously frowned: "Where are you going to transport it? The food is okay, why are you transporting so many weapons? Last time I helped you, wasn't it enough for me to get into trouble?"

"I said that I was helping a friend transport it to the Odatrick galaxy in Mimatar." Old Jack explained.

"It's another war zone? Do you want to rescue the Mimatals? This time it doesn't work. They are surrounded by Emmadas. I heard that they will be airborne in the past few days. Although we want to help them, it is impossible. Moreover, you have to transport arms in addition to food, which is even more unrealistic." Rose shook her head and disagreed.

"Even if the Emmadas massacre the residents of Matargrad? Haven't you always aimed at saving the world?" said Old Jack.

"Yes, it's true that saving the world and exploring the land of ancestors will never change, but the Council will not agree to this rescue plan." Rose said: "Let your friends give up."

"Hey, you know my friend." Old Jack sighed, "I really don't want to tell you who she is."

"No one can do it." Rose said angrily, waving her hand.

"Where is Bai Yu?" Old Jack smiled faintly.

After hearing this, Rose's eyes widened and looked straight at Old Jack. Her mouth was wide open and she couldn't make any sound, and she couldn't even breathe.

"Well, it's her." Old Jack lowered his head and took a sip of coffee and said lightly.

Rose's expression now changed rapidly. First, she was frightened and her face was bloodless, then her face was flushed with excitement. Finally, she was panicked and at a loss: "She is not... Oh my god, how is this possible, you guys? She... God."

"Can you explain it slowly to you? A very long story, I have to clarify my thoughts first, my dear." Old Jack said.

"Okay, I'll convince the Council that you have the things ready, and I'll find a way to let the Emmada beasts die." Rose walked around as if she was out of control, her long, soft golden hair was rubbed into chaos with her hands: "But you have to explain it clearly to me, face it!"

"As you wish, my dear." Old Jack stood up and bowed very gentlemanly: "The situation is similar to last time, the speed must be fast. Bai Yu can't hold on for a few days. It's best to hurry before the Emmadas airborne starts."

"Then you can't go to the star gate. I want to go straight to the Odatrick galaxy, but I need a redirect jump point in the middle." Rose simply calculated.

"Oh? You have to use it..." Old Jack was stunned for a moment.

"Yes, that is, Bai Yu, but this is the second and last time. Otherwise, I wouldn't have convinced the Council to show our trump card. The nearest route... I need to do a redirect jump in the Emma Empire. Since it is Bai Yu, Sophia will not disagree." Rose said: "They are always in love."

"I'll ask Aura to contact Sophia. Bai Yu cannot have contact with Sophia now." Old Jack said.

"Oh my God, Ola?! Baby, how many surprises do you want to give me?" Rose said excitedly.
To be continued...