The temperature in Philadelphia is never too low in winter, especially on the shore of the lake at the foot of the mountain, where there is only a shallow layer of snow on the rooftops, and the fresh morning light shines on the thin snow, making it seem to burn, and really begin to warm themselves and melt into a subtle stream of water, which trickles down the ancient eaves and falls on the wet ground.
These subtle rains have been pounding for many years, but they have not had time to smash the hard ground into clear marks, just like the old man in the house whose eyes are deep and thin, calm and shining, who has been shining in the Federation for many years, but still has no way to change too many old things in essence.
The slim hall in his hometown of Philadelphia opened its doors with riveted copper nails as usual, and young and young boys shouted white mist and kicked puppets tied to fine grass, just like he had back then.
The water on the eaves is still slowly dripping.
It is the boring swing of the hour hand that is always calm and makes people feel suffocated, the little boy who is holding a string of red candy and looking at the newborn red boy who is salivating greedily, and the comforting sound of electronic self-examination in the 37 mecha cabin where the right mechanical leg is tragically broken on the battlefield of gunsmoke, revealing a metal wire as thick as an arm.
Tick tick tick is a childhood imitation of a beautiful little girl in a white cotton suit playing the role of an emergency female doctor when her friends shot at each other with bamboo guns and then fell down exaggeratedly.
Tick tick, slow down the speed of ticking, and then it becomes the most familiar to the federal soldiers, the only physiological data monitoring electronic sound that can be heard when they are lonely and bored in the treatment chamber.
Tick stop.
The undulations of the light curtain, which had no sense of power jumping, had become a straight line, stretching directly to the edge from left to right, with no end and always calm.
On the other side of the glass curtain wall, the experts and federal generals of the treatment team of the Army General Hospital took off their headphones and instruments a little numbly, and looked at the old man on the bed in a daze, a little unable to believe their eyes, and always felt that the picture they saw was fake.
General Miles stared at the red eyes, silently, let the tears wash out of him, and washed the pupils and wrinkles of his eyes, which were also very old, but after washing for a long, long time, the picture in front of him did not change.
General Lee Jae-do knelt beside the bed, holding his father's increasingly cold hand tightly, there was no emotion in his eyes, and then lowered his head, pressed his hot forehead against his father's cold hand, hid his face in the shadows, and said some words of unknown meaning at great speed, as if he was saying goodbye, and as if he was confiding.
There was a sound of impact in the courtyard outside the door, some people seemed to want to stop explaining something, but some people didn't want to listen to any explanation, so they broke in directly, opened the closed door, and then saw the old man with his eyes closed on the bed and the middle-aged general kneeling beside the bed.
Li Feng, whose face was covered with wind and dust, blinked, his youth faded, and only a trace of distress and helplessness suddenly flashed between his calm and powerful eyebrows.
After a second, the look of bewilderment and helplessness disappeared in an instant, and he breathed deeply, walked slowly, walked to the bed, and then fell to his knees with a thud, slamming his hard head to the damn floor, falling like a mountain.
For him, the departure of his grandfather is like the fall of the highest mountain in his heart.
"My sister-in-law will arrive in three hours."
Colonel Li Feng put his head on the ground, trembling in pain, no one saw the uncontrollable eruption of eyes and snot on his face, and he said in a trembling voice: "I'm also late to come back." ” General Lee Jae-do slowly stood up, carefully tidied up his military uniform and appearance, looked at the bed quietly, raised his hand and saluted.
Behind the glass curtain wall, the general and the expert door of the Army General Hospital slowly raised his right hand and saluted the most noble military salute to the thin old man on the bed.
The death of the military god Li Pifu not only means that the highest mountain in his heart has collapsed sharply for Colonel Li Feng, but also for many people in the Federation, they have the same feelings.
The big events that happened in the early morning in Philadelphia were still under strict news control, but the official residence of the capital region, the terrace behind Mochou, and the Federation fleet on the other side of the distant stars had already received the news first.
President Pabur looked silently at the snow on the grass outside the Oval Office, at the fat pigeons foraging in the snow, and his quiet eyes showed sentimentality and heavy pressure.
On the terrace, Mrs.
Tai was holding a cup of coffee, listening to Steward Jin's report on the private jet to Philadelphia, looking at the picturesque country after the snow, her face was flowing with sadness and longing unabashedly.
She and Li Pifu have known each other for many years, she has an inseparable friendship with his family, and the most important thing is that Li Pifu is the person she really respects, so the whole universe is probably only his departure that can make her express the deepest sadness in her heart so unabashedly.
On the other side of the Evening Scorpion Nebula, somewhere in the distant and unfamiliar Left Sky Star Domain, Admiral Hong Yuliang, the supreme commander of the Federation Fleet, stared at himself in the mirror with red-eyed eyes, and naturally remembered that many years ago, the division commander who spoke loudly and liked to tell erotic jokes was completely different from the hero image in the propaganda brochure.
When the division commander saw her for the first time, he mercilessly laughed at her for her eyes red like a rabbit.
Rabbits, white rabbits, a pair of white rabbits, yes, that's what the division commander said then, that's how it was then.
Hong Yuliang turned on the hot water switch, let the mist cover the whole lens, cover the haggard and sad face in the mirror, and the pair of red rabbit-like eyes, and then began to cry bitterly in the hot mist.
Xilin Luozhou south, the apron of the federal Changfeng military base, the beginning of February of the seventy-second year of the federal standard calendar, it should have been a deep winter cold, but this is only for S1 after all, Xu Le, who was wearing sunglasses, enjoyed the sunshine sprinkled by the blue sky above his head, and enjoyed the warm smell clearly transmitted from the dark green military uniform, and was about to fall asleep comfortably.
The new Federation space battleship with a triangular floating wing design slid from the far side of the tarmac, and the clear Union military flag could be faintly seen in the somewhat distorted air that was shining strongly.
The space battleship drilled through the water gate formed by six water crutches in a row, and slowly came to a stop.
The grand welcome ceremony, the lively military music, the newly arranged gangway red carpet, the beautiful bouquet girl, Xu Le, who suddenly woke up, squinted his eyes and looked at these pictures through his sunglasses, thinking that Xilin had made so many preparations, even if the strangers who came to negotiate were still vigilant, they must be happier.
The door of the Federation battleship opened, and a middle-aged man in a black leather coat slowly walked out, standing at the top of the gangway, waving to the black crowd of welcome on the tarmac, judging by the frequency with which he waved his arms and his stiff posture, his mood was obviously very nervous.
In fact, it was not only him and the members of the delegation behind him who were nervous, but also the federal military and civilians on the tarmac, because everyone knew very well the historical significance of today's meeting.
Many years ago, the Empire's silent mission like a death squad visited the Federation, and for many years after that, the humans on both sides of the Evening Scorpion Nebula never had direct contact again, until today, another group of brave or stupid Empire people, not with ammunition but with negotiating conditions, came to the land of the Federation.
Stupid, a very insulting word, is certainly not an assessment made by me, a young historian with a conscience.
"Stupid."
The commander of the Second Rapid Reaction Brigade of the Xilin Military Region stood beside Xu Le, he looked at the imperial man with stiff movements above the gangway, took off his sunglasses and calmly mocked: "I actually came here wearing a leather, and let the HTD Bureau find trouble with him for a while." ” Calm and mockery generally can't be used in parallel, but this young Zhuang brigade commander behaved very naturally, because calling the Imperials stupid is a very natural, even almost truthful thing for a federal soldier, so he can be very calm.
Xu Le shrugged his shoulders and walked towards the gangway, not trying to dissipate this atmosphere, although he knew that this hostile atmosphere would not be beneficial to formal negotiations, but he knew better that decades of blood feud could not be suppressed by a few words of his own bullet.
Presiding over the negotiation of cooperation with the Empire's underground resistance is the latest assignment given to him by Mr.
President, and certainly the best excuse for the radicals to expel him from the capital's star circle, after all, this matter is the thread he has drawn in the empire from the beginning.
Xu Le, who walked towards the gangway in the scattered sunlight, was really in a very calm mood, he had a lot of contact with the members of the underground resistance organization who came from afar from the empire, and knew that the other party was not much different from ordinary Federation people, so he naturally did not feel troublesome.
He was just worried that there was trouble in Philadelphia, Shi Qinghai was in trouble, and he didn't know if the uncle would go to see the old man for the last time, whether there would be problems with the uncle's safety, and Shi Gongzi began to be elusive again, and every time he started to be elusive, it meant that something troublesome was about to happen.
Worried and without reply, Xu Le asked the old thing to help him check Shi Qinghai's whereabouts, but he was extremely surprised to find that the guy didn't know what method he used, and actually concealed the most critical scans of the charter glory.
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There was also a problem with the Colonel Lake.
The Internal Affairs Department of the Ministry of National Defense arrested this person, Tian Da Stick made it clear that he would not let him die very happily, now that the general election is imminent, everything must start from stability, this person is temporarily detained in a secret military prison, but the problem is that he really did not commit suicide.
Killing oneself is always a simple matter, especially for a well-trained special forces soldier like Colonel Lake, so he did not commit suicide, which means a very difficult thing for Xu Le.
There's a lot of confidence, why are they confident "Colonel Xu Le, it seems that you are not very happy to meet your old friend."
On the red carpet under the gangway, a middle-aged imperial man in a black leather coat looked at Xu Le in front of him, and waved his arms a little exaggeratedly and complained: "If you return to the Federation, you will forget about us guys who kill people and set fires."
The political axe interpreter standing in the middle of the crowd was very nervous when he heard this, and he didn't know what words to use, which could not only accurately express the militant friendship of the imperial revolutionary friends, but also prevent Colonel Xu Le from hearing the swear words.
Xu Le stopped the translator's efforts, took off his sunglasses, hugged each other with a smile, and said, "Mu En, welcome to my hometown." ” To be continued: