Chapter 234: The Three Stooges

Handing over the slip of paper, Li Boyong left Orb with the ship.

He couldn't be sure if Natarle was in Orb, or if she was living with Captain Murrue and the others.

But at least he had passed on the information that he was still alive. If Captain Murrue received this news, even if Natarle wasn't in Orb, Li Boyong believed she would definitely find a way to let Natarle know.

However, it was a pity that because it was too hasty, they hadn't been able to establish a channel for mutual contact.

The aircraft carrier left Orb, turned northwest, and headed to Kaohsiung.

Li Boyong's next mission was to receive three biological CPUs from the Rodonia laboratory there, and then go to the moon base through Kaohsiung's mass driver.

In space, there was an important mission waiting for him.

Although the intelligence for the next stage of the mission hadn't been unsealed yet, Li Boyong could roughly guess that it should be the Gundam seizure operation at Armory One.

It was just that the mission only required him to take the Three Stooges to space, while the pilots for the Actaeon Project would be sent to a military base in Siberia along with the machines, where they would undergo training to familiarize themselves with the machines.

It seemed he would have to be separated from the Xia sisters for a while, which made Li Boyong somewhat uneasy.

It wasn't that he hadn't thought about using Wang Liumei's special privilege to let the Xia sisters continue to follow him.

But their combat power in the Earth environment was barely okay; as for how to fight in the space environment, it could be said they knew nothing.

Going to the battlefield would instead be dangerous; it would be better to continue staying on Earth. Anyway, he would notify Wang Liumei to take care of the Xia sisters as much as possible. And now the war hadn't started, so there shouldn't be any danger; they could take this opportunity to get sufficient training.

Of course, he also specifically instructed the Sven trio to take extra care of the Xia sisters.

As the aircraft carrier entered Kaohsiung naval port, Li Boyong prepared to leave the ship.

What surprised him was that the Xia sisters actually came to see him off, their red eyes, which were usually full of despair, now flickering with a hint of reluctance to part.

"Haha." Li Boyong was somewhat happy about this and gave his final instructions before parting: "Be good, train well when you get there; I will transfer you back under my command as soon as possible."

"Okay, Teacher." The Xia sisters nodded to show they understood. Although they still had that icy expression, in Li Boyong's eyes, they were already a bit different.

Subsequently, Li Boyong left the aircraft carrier, transferred to a base jeep at the naval port, and arrived at the spaceport not far away.

In the waiting room next to the spaceport, Li Boyong waited for half an hour before finally waiting for the military plane from Rodonia.

"Colonel Neo Roanoke, from now on we will join your command. Please give us your guidance."

A middle-aged man in glasses wearing a white lab coat saluted Li Boyong. Behind him were the Earth military's new Three Stooges.

The green-haired one was the unruly Sting, the blue-haired one was the silent expert Auel, and the last golden-haired one was Stella, who revealed a confused expression toward the strange environment like a kitten.

Seeing these three guys, Li Boyong somehow suddenly remembered Shani, Clotho, and Orga, who had served on the Dominion together back then.

For a moment, he was somewhat dazed, but he quickly regained his senses.

"No need to be polite."

Li Boyong returned the salute and at the same time cast his gaze behind the Three Stooges, where there was an entire maintenance team related to enhanced humans, including various medical personnel, research personnel, and maintenance facilities.

"Alright, you guys hurry up and salute the Colonel too."

Under the signal of the leading man in the white lab coat, the Three Stooges and all members of the team saluted Li Boyong.

Li Boyong returned the salute again and then signed the documents handed over by the man in the white lab coat, officially taking this enhanced human team under his command.

Subsequently, the group boarded the spaceport's shuttle and went to space, receiving the space battleship Girty Lue at the moon base.

As a space battleship designed specifically for frequently executing special classified missions, the Girty Lue was equipped with the Mirage Colloid system, which was explicitly prohibited by the treaty, making it very suitable for executing some dirty work that couldn't be seen.

And in terms of firepower, it was also extremely fierce, equipped with six Gottfried beam main cannons and twenty-four 8-tube multi-purpose missile launchers.

One could imagine that when the Girty Lue used the Mirage Colloid system to lurk to an extremely close distance and then fired with full firepower, the enemy ship would basically end up in an instant death.

From now on, this space battleship, along with the pilots belonging to the ship and the enhanced human team, would be Li Boyong's unit.

At the same time, he also obtained detailed information about the next stage of the mission from the base headquarters.

Li Boyong returned to the Girty Lue and roughly browsed the combat plan, finding that it basically didn't differ much from the original work. It was just that the Girty Lue would use the Mirage Colloid system to lurk close to the ZAFT military's Armory One, and then have the Three Stooges seize the three next-generation main machines of the ZAFT military with the assistance of spies and then withdraw.

However, to avoid accidents, Li Boyong summoned his new subordinates to verify the plan together.

The Girty Lue's captain, Major Ian Lee, was an extremely excellent space battleship captain who maintained a neither humble nor arrogant attitude toward Li Boyong, his superior.

With his assistance, several small shortcomings in long-term navigation in the plan were revised.

The other party's respectful and cooperative attitude made Li Boyong feel quite comfortable. It seemed that the cooperation with this captain would be a relatively pleasant process.

However, before executing the battle, he still had some preparatory work to do.

First was the adjustment of the three enhanced humans. As the new superior of the three enhanced humans, in order to facilitate Li Boyong's command, the researchers directly operated on the memories of Sting, Auel, and Stella.

Implanting false memories made the three become obedient to Li Boyong, their new superior.

However, memory implantation was ultimately not a 100% stable thing. The operation on Stella had some deviations, making her become extremely dependent on Li Boyong.

However, it couldn't be considered a big problem; being extremely dependent also indeed made it more convenient for him to command.

Immediately after, the Three Stooges began to invest in training, conducting simulated piloting training through the machine data sent back by spies, seeking to be able to withdraw smoothly after seizing the machines.

After all, Armory One was the ZAFT military's arsenal; just seizing the machines might not necessarily mean they could return safely.

Speaking of ability, it had to be said that through comparison, the three of Stella were slightly inferior to the Orga trio.

But relatively speaking, their state was more stable, and without needing to take drugs, they lasted longer in terms of duration.

If it were just weapons, the new generation of enhanced humans was indeed more excellent than the old generation, but Li Boyong seemed to find it very difficult to treat the three directly as weapons.

Originally, he had sympathy for the tragic colors on the enhanced humans, and then being stuck by Stella's side intimately every day, it was inevitable that he would show doting toward the three of Stella in front of others.

These researchers saw it all in their eyes. The leading man in the white lab coat specifically sought out Li Boyong to advise him on this aspect.

After all, back in the enhanced human research facility, it wasn't that he hadn't seen similar situations; spending a long time together and developing feelings for experimental subjects was an inevitable thing.

However, in the end, none of them ended in tragedy. After all, these enhanced humans were ultimately just combat tools whose memories and emotions could be manipulated by machines at will. Investing extra feelings was a self-seeking trouble.

For this kind of talk, Li Boyong accepted it on the surface, but inwardly he didn't agree.

It was just that after that, he restrained himself slightly, avoiding showing emotional tendencies in his interactions with the Three Stooges.

On this side, the Three Stooges were familiarizing themselves with the operation of this machine, while Li Boyong was simultaneously doing debugging work for his new machine. ===== CHAPTER 235 =====