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Mu shrugged and continued:

"I apologize if this makes you uncomfortable, but you also said that Orb might announce its joining the Alliance in a few days. It's okay to tell me first, right? This way, I won't get any inappropriate inquiries later."

The above words were not a threat. Mu felt that someone on the ship was capable of doing such a thing, and he wanted to gather some intelligence to fool the other party first.

As men, can’t we be considered good friends if we’ve fought in the battlefield together?

It's a pity that Rei can only ignore this kindness, after all, he hasn't figured out the situation yet.

"I feel like I'm an ace pilot who came from another world."

"what?"

PS: Let me ask a question. Do many readers vote only after seeing my update?

Chapter 7 World

"Um"

Rei has a habit of reading, and what he saw and heard as an AEU citizen is still vivid in his mind, and it is definitely not false.

But there is no point in thinking about these things now. Stories like Zhuang Zhou's Dream of the Butterfly have been mentioned in both ancient allusions and popular literary works. He can only accept the reality before him.

The terrorist organization Blue Cosmos, which harbors great malice towards the Adjusters, never cares whether innocent people will be harmed during their attacks. It is said that Ray's parents died in a terrorist attack.

Rei, who grew up in an orphanage, joined the Dawn Society. He didn't have any big ambitions and just wanted to make a living.

As an adjuster, he is just in a position to test the performance of heretics, which is a rare member for the Dawn Society.

Orb advocates harmonious coexistence between adjusters and natural people, so the vast majority of adjusters in Orb settle in Orb in order to escape the increasingly sharp conflicts between adjusters and natural people and to live in peace. It is impossible for them to voluntarily join the army and get involved in disputes.

However, the neutrality advocated by Orb requires strength to maintain. If such a small country is a poor and remote place, it would be fine, but it has vigorously developed technology and achieved results. Now things have become different.

"Aub joining the alliance should be a good choice."

Rei murmured to himself, at the national level, morality is a means to be used as a banner to condemn the enemy, not a rule that must be followed.

If we talk about morality, the Union was disbanded long ago because of the bombing of Junius 7 that killed 24 civilians. This behavior is completely untenable.

Later, in retaliation and to abolish the United Nations' nuclear weapons, PLANT launched neutron jammers at Earth. Its blockade of nuclear energy plunged the Earth into an energy crisis. How many civilians died as a result?

If you weren't in Orb, you wouldn't be able to see this news.

Rei's mobile phone stores a lot of news, which are news released by Orb, a neutral country, without interference from other countries.

That's right, would the Federation publicize the fact that it massacred 24 civilians? It would only say that it successfully attacked the PLANT logistics base and achieved impressive results.

The Federation then continued to publicize that PLANT was stubborn and resisted, ignoring humanitarianism and attacking the Earth, causing an energy crisis and the deaths of countless people.

At the same time, PLANT does not even need publicity. The tragedy of Junius 7 will inevitably drive the adjusters crazy. Under such blood feud, the war faction will inevitably rise. This is revenge, justice, and anti-aggression.

If we go back in time, why did the adjusters and natural persons end up in a situation where the earth and the universe were separated?

This is not something that can be easily summarized as a racial conflict. From the initial adjustment craze to the widespread anti-adjustment movement and then to the rise of the blue cosmos, the media must have played a big role.

Rei is very familiar with this. The AEU, the People's Revolutionary League, and the UNION, the three major countries will not report the bad things they have done. Whoever controls the media has the right to speak.

It's ridiculous to say, but the reality is that whoever shouts the loudest can guide public opinion. If a sentence is heard by 10,000 people, even if only a few hundred people believe it, it is not a small number. What if these few hundred people continue to shout so that more people can hear it?

Thinking of this, Rei stopped thinking. After all, he didn't know what the point of thinking about this was.

Wasn't it because he was overthinking that he left the army? And even if he did leave, what would happen? It was as if his departure would disband the army and the country would cease functioning. Wouldn't the same thing still be done now?

It's the same here. As a small nation, Orb needs to consider how to survive in this drastic change. What use is morality? National peace and prosperity are the most important.

That's all to say, but

Rey leaned back in his chair, he was at a stage where he could understand the injustice but couldn't accept it calmly.

That's why he thought about what happened before the war and what caused such sharp racial conflicts.

Slowly, a high feeling began to surface in his mind, and Rei came to his senses at this moment and remembered that he was not on Earth.

As a battleship, the Archangel did not have an artificial gravity module. As Rey leaned back, he didn't know when his head tilted downwards.

Rei, realizing something was wrong, quickly reached out to grab something. That's why when the students who were abducted aboard the ship because they had seen military secrets came to the lounge, they saw Rei grabbing the table with both hands as if he was going to lie down on it.

This scene can only be described as funny. In a zero-gravity environment, it is really difficult to land again after accidentally floating up.

"Just in time, come and help me, I'm weightless!"

Rei just turned his head, and now his feet were still pointing diagonally towards the ceiling, but if he pulled the table too hard, he might kiss the chair with his face, and that was not the right thing to do.

The students looked at each other, then rushed forward together and pulled Rei down from mid-air in just a few seconds.

"Thank you!"

Rei thanked him sincerely, otherwise he really didn't know how long he would have to float there. Unlike the Golden Heretic, he didn't install posture nozzles everywhere.

"The universe is terrifying."

People still cannot live without gravity, otherwise it would be difficult to even drink water.

Hearing Rey's sigh, Thor, one of the students, just said, "I think you are too much," but was immediately suppressed by Mirialia beside him.

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There are pictures here, which can be viewed after the updated version

But it was heard after all. Ray naturally didn't have the bad habit of getting angry at children. He spread his hands and said:

"Everyone has a first time. Next time I'll just jump to the ceiling and then push myself down."

Putting it this way, it suddenly becomes interesting.

"Wall jump?"

Rei thought of the video games he had played when he was young. The characters in those games had the ability to jump around using the walls as pedals. Now that he could play this in a zero-gravity environment, he could also cosplay those characters.

"nice."

He now discovered one benefit of zero gravity, and before he actually jumped onto the ceiling, one of the students, Sai, quickly spoke up:

"When can we disembark?"

Sai had previously heard from his friend Kira that the Rei in front of him was the pilot of one of the MSs.

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The most important thing was that the uniform of the Dawn Society that Rei was wearing made him feel a lot more relaxed. They had seen people wearing this uniform at school before.

At any rate, it's much friendlier than the United Nations soldiers who forced them to board the ship, right?

But it was useless to ask Rei this question, as he himself was half-forced onto the ship due to the circumstances.

"I do not know either."

After these words were spoken, the expressions of the students present varied. Some were uneasy, some were anxious, and among them, the girl, Mirialia, even shouted uncontrollably:

"We're not soldiers at all! We only saw these things because we happened to be caught up in that area. This has nothing to do with us!"

Perhaps it was because Rei seemed more approachable than the others that the students, who were already under pressure, started to pour out their frustrations after opening their mouths. They must have wanted to say these words for a long time.

And what could Ray say? He wasn't the captain, so he could only offer words of comfort.

Heliopolis is a satellite of Orb, so the students here should also be citizens of Orb.

Rei thought.

"Don't worry, as an ally of Orb, the United will ensure your safety. I will also—"

"wrong!"

I will also drive the MS to protect you, but he was interrupted before he could finish his sentence.

It was still the brown-haired boy that Ray had seen before. Kira denied Ray's words for the second time with a fierce attitude. He did not believe that Orb would join forces with the Alliance.

Kira couldn't accept this. If Orb and the Union were allies, what would he do? Would he accept that his own country was at war with his friend's country?

"Aub is a neutral country!"

Otherwise, the bullet made by Orb might pierce Aslan's heart in the future. Kira felt uncomfortable just imagining it.

Even his friends were frightened by his almost angry state, but Rey, who was sitting in the chair, was very calm. He was from Orb and he knew a lot of things through Orb's media.

News reports are not picky about their audience. What he has seen can naturally be seen by others, and the students in front of him may have seen it as well.

It's just that they are naive, and I wish they could always be so naive.

"Do you really think the war has nothing to do with Orb?"

"what?"

"Orb built mobile suits and battleships for the Federation because it is a country on Earth."

Rei saw clearly that concepts were illusory and reality was about strength.

"If Orb wants to survive this increasingly fierce war, it must choose a side. ZAFT, far away in space, cannot support Orb. Therefore, it has no choice but to join the Alliance. That's why this battleship exists."

Would ZAFT support Orb? Even if they did, what would happen? Orb would have been destroyed by the time they arrived.

Deploy troops in advance? Putting aside whether ZAFT has such military strength, you think the Union is stupid, destroying Orb before ZAFT arrives.

Sorry, being closer means you can do whatever you want.

"You think war is far from you, but from the moment Orb started manufacturing weapons for the Union, it's no longer unrelated to you. The Atlantic Federation relies on strength to maintain its hegemony, so what does Orb have? Small countries can only survive in the cracks, because hegemony has no room for others."

Rei stopped here. There was no point in saying more. After all, people who couldn't figure it out would think you were talking nonsense no matter how much they listened.

"Don't worry, I will pilot the mobile suit to protect you."

He smiled and stood up, leaving the lounge.

"Hi."

As soon as he left, he heard someone saying hello, which scared Rei.

It was Mu. He had been standing here since some time.

"Hegemonism, you really dare to say that."

Mu, a member of the United Nations Army, was grinning. He didn't know when this guy had been listening nearby, but his casual attitude didn't make him look angry.

Besides, so what if he's angry? Rei doesn't care at all.

"I'm not a soldier of the United Nations. Are you going to deprive me of my freedom of speech?"

His stubborn look made Mu laugh. After all, Mu was not the kind of lunatic who had to make others obey him.

"I don't intend to deprive you of your freedom of speech, but it's better if you don't act so freely in front of the deputy captain."

"What? Haven't you asked enough heresy questions?"

"That's not the case. I have something to discuss with you."

The words were beyond Lei Yi's expectations and he subconsciously turned his head to look at Mu, and in return he received a man's seductive look.

"Uh!"

"Ha ha!"

PS: RE Rey is the first generation adjuster, why?

Chapter 8 The Road Ahead

The door in front of him opened, and what appeared before Ray's eyes was the Archangel's fairly spacious bridge.

He is a test pilot of the Dawn Society. Although he knows about the Archangel, the various developments and tests here have nothing to do with him.

I still prefer the cockpit to the bridge.

Rei subconsciously thought so, and what he was going to say was probably somewhat similar to driving.

The sense of speed, the push back, the control, and the feedback from the entire machine when driving the MS made him feel unable to stop.

Unfortunately, just like when driving a car, one has to consider issues such as fuel consumption. Interests aside, Ray also has to consider more things when driving a MS.

Just because he likes to drive MS doesn't mean he likes war or killing, although MS was originally a weapon made for war.

Just as Lei Yi's mind was full of random thoughts, Mu, who had brought him here, said:

"Captain, I've brought the person here."

This sentence brought Ray back to his senses. He refocused on the teasing in front of him and asked:

"Can a civilian like me just go to the bridge casually?"

His tone was indeed very casual. This man who called himself a commoner seemed to care a lot about these things but his attitude was very casual.