Gundam, driving a mass-produced machine will change the world

Chapter 257 Old Boss

The troops that just launched an attack on them came from the Southeast Asian base.

No matter how you think about it, there should be no reason for the Southeast Asian base to communicate with them now.

"Put it through."

Unlike the slightly surprised reactions of the other people on the bridge, Eli's reaction could actually be described as anticipation.

After all, in the final analysis, it was from this base that Eli truly began to step onto the world stage, which was of great significance to Eli.

But unfortunately, Eli did not have any more interactions with this base in the past.

Because, if we really talk about the stance of this base, it is a neutral one.

During the One Year War, the Southeast Asia Base was an outright anti-Rebil faction.

It seems that Major General Ethan, who was posthumously honored, had a personal grudge against General Rebill.

"Long time no see, Colonel Eli."

After the communication was connected, a slightly old-fashioned face appeared on the screen.

Eli almost couldn't help but stand up from his seat and salute at the first moment.

However, as the leader of Onde Tech who has raised the flag of rebellion against the current trend of the Federation, he absolutely cannot put on such an attitude in front of those who believe in him.

Even so, he sat in his seat and saluted the person on the screen.

"General Kojima, I'm glad to see you're in good health."

"Haha, then I'm definitely not as healthy as you, healthy enough to do something like this."

The person on the screen was Captain Kojima, Eli's first superior after he came to this world.

After Ethan died in battle, he was successfully promoted to commander of the Southeast Asia base, and now he has become a general.

When the two met again, they were actually standing on the enemy's side.

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Eli noticed that the place where General Kojima communicated with him was not in the command room of the base, but in his own office.

In this way, it seems like the Titans are using the relationship between Kojima and Eli to persuade Eli to give up what he is doing.

As if realizing what Eli was thinking, Kojima smiled, stood up, and left the frame. From the sound of it, he went to pour himself a glass of wine.

Sure enough, when Kojima returned to his seat again, he had a glass of whiskey in his hand.

This action seemed to ease the tense atmosphere.

"Come to think of it, this wine was bought by Ethan when you dealt with that Apsaras."

Captain Kojima took a sip calmly and said to Eli.

"So much time has passed in the blink of an eye. At that time, I was worried that you would be harmed by Ethan, but I didn't expect that you would develop all the way to now."

Kojima put down the wine glass in his hand and placed it on the left side of the screen.

He did not let go immediately, but rubbed it with his hand, as if he wanted to use it to reminisce the past.

But Eli clearly saw that after Xiaodao wiped off the water droplets on the glass caused by the ice inside, two figures were reflected on the wall of the glass.

All this was just like when Kojima calmly reminded Eli to be careful of Ethan in front of the field tent.

"Yes, I still remember the sweltering heat of the Southeast Asian rainforests when MS didn't have air conditioning."

"Hahaha, at that time I could only blow the fan. But since we were fighting for the Federation, I could bear it."

Eli smiled, remembering that when he first met Kojima, he saw him blowing an old-fashioned fan.

"So, if you were able to endure the hard conditions for the Federation back then, why would you want to go against the will of the Federation now?"

From the beginning, the atmosphere was as if Kojima was persuading Eli.

But Eli smiled sincerely. "Because, in my opinion, what the Titans did was no different from what the Zeon army did at that time. Zeon was able to land colonies and massacre villages, and the Titans did all these things."

Although the Titans haven't been made yet.

"There's still some room for maneuver in these matters, right? After all, the Titans are part of the Federation and won't threaten the Federation's rule like Zeon did."

Kojima began tapping the inside rim of the cup with his index finger as he thought.

"If this can be undone, then I will threaten the rule of the Federation."

Eli responded to Kojima with a determined look, not holding back on his opinion of the Titans.

"In that case, we have nothing to say."

Kojima's face, which had seemed softer when talking about the past, suddenly became gloomy and returned to its serious and old-fashioned look. He crossed his hands and interrupted Eli's explanation with cold words.

"Well, goodbye, Captain Kojima."

"Oh, call me General."

The communication was disconnected and the bridge fell into silence.

To others, it looked like Eli was completely severing ties with his old boss in order to pursue his own path.

It is admirable, but also heavy.

But the person involved didn’t have this idea!
"Can you replay the communication just now? I have something I want to confirm."

Eli left his seat and walked over to CIC.

"Ah, yes!"

The communication video was played again, and Kojima's serious face once again made the others on the bridge realize that he was a soldier who adhered to tradition.

"Speed ​​up..."

Eli dragged the screen directly to the scene where Xiaodao was tapping the wine glass with his hand.

"here!"

"Is it a code?"

Captain Otto naturally realized this when he saw that Eli was focusing on this point.

"That should be it... Let's try to crack it using this encoding method."

Eli read it carefully several times and played a set of encoding methods on his terminal.

"Yes! Successfully cracked - these are the coordinates, the location is on the east coast of the Bay of Bengal!"

When Kojima was a colonel, he was able to stay in command at the front-line field base.

At that time, no one was completely in the dark about how to fight in a Minovsky particle environment, so he had to sit in the front to make tactical changes at any time.

Therefore, he had a considerable understanding of the communication coding formats used by frontline soldiers.

The coding format given by Eli is the one used by the Far East Island Brigade.

"Can this coordinate be mapped onto the route?"

"Yes, if we want to go through the Strait of Malacca, this is the waypoint."

As the captain, Otto immediately demonstrated his expertise.

Although he seems to complain a lot on a daily basis, his professional knowledge is surprisingly reliable.

"If that's the case, then we have a reason to go there."

(End of this chapter)