The city of Ink Planet Mart, where the Imperial Headquarters is located, has long since been deported to the plains further behind, and the buildings around the streets bear the scorched black marks left by the federal air strikes.
The building rich in superhard graphite fiber is sturdy and stubborn and refuses to fall, and the bullet holes in the walls create a series of passages, and the Imperial officers and soldiers in dark military uniforms walk through them with grim expressions, not looking for any childhood cat-like pleasure.
At the other end of the street full of craters, under the protection or surveillance of several Imperial scouts, a young man in a hooded sweatshirt walked silently, the style of the sweatshirt was very ordinary, and it was stained with the red mud unique to the suburbs, but it attracted countless curious eyes from the soldiers who were resting or walking among the remnants.
Three Imperial scouts handed the man in the hat to the command gendarmes, who saluted him with a snap and then politely invited him into the fortifications.
Entering the Imperial Front Command, the high-ranking officers inside knew more than the soldiers in the city, and vaguely guessed the identity of this man, although no one dared to kneel and salute, but whether it was a general or a second lieutenant, they all got out of the way and waited respectfully to the side and bowed their heads.
Pushing open the dark alloy door in the deepest part of the headquarters, Xu Le slightly bowed his head to thank the military police beside him, walked in, and then turned around and closed the door, the heavy and cold feeling from the alloy door made him only need a very short time to determine that this seemingly ordinary office could definitely be as stable as a mountain in the dense attack of the main guns of the Federation warships.
There were countless documents piled up on the desk, like countless rocky mountains that were about to collapse, and the data on the two most advanced computer workbenches of the empire on the side kept flashing, reflecting some strange feelings in the dim room, and the person behind the document mountain heard the sound of closing, and slowly raised his head.
Huai Caoshi rubbed her tired eyebrows, looked at Xu Le and said, "Although I would love to see you, you should be very aware of the situation on the Ink Flower Star now, the last mecha brigade in the Strait Theater is fighting alone, and my most urgent task now is to find a way to rescue them." ” "I'm sorry to bother you in this situation."
Xu Le said: "But I need some information now, without your signature, although I have that electronic identity chip, no one in the military will agree to my request." ” "Of course I know you're not here to fight for the Empire."
Huai Caoshi turned around and walked to the coffee machine in the corner of the room, poured two cups of coffee, put them in the narrow corner of the document mountain, looked at him and said with a slight sneer: "What information do you want?"
"A team you sent to the southwest graphite mining area was ambushed by federal forces many days ago, that guard is your direct guard, and there must be a very important task to go to the southwest graphite mining area, I want to know the return route of this guard, and the exact location of the ambush."
Huai Caoshi tapped the coffee on the table with her index finger, motioned for him to take it for himself, and asked, "I remember that you once said in Sangku Town that you would not come to the Ink Flower Planet, so my arrival surprised me, and what I want to know now is what my direct guard has to do with you." ” "I don't know if you still have an impression of Paul, I fled in the empire back then, and I lived in his house for more than half a year, and now he is an ordinary officer in the royal guard, and he has been on the list of missing people, according to the information I found, it should have been lost in that ambush."
After a slight pause, he continued: "There were many officers and soldiers killed in that ambush, and the bodies have been counted, but without him, then he was either captured by the federal forces, or he was lost in that war zone. ” "Sare City, I'll have someone bring you the specific information."
Huai Caoshi gave the answer directly, and then dialed a phone and said a few words, and then she looked at him quietly, frowning slightly: "The problem is that there are many missing people like him, and some imperial soldiers may be waiting for support on the flooded cliffs, and it is unfair and unreasonable to send troops to search for them because of personal relationships." ” "It's really unfair for a field commander or a superior to risk more deaths to save a soldier who may have died a long time ago, but I'm not his commander."
Xu Le replied: "My idea is very simple, if he is still alive, I will take him back and bring him to my aunt, and I don't need your troops to help me find me." ” "It will take some time for the information in the city of Sare."
Huai Caoshi motioned for him to sit down, still frowning, and said, "I heard that you have met with your father, so don't you understand, as long as you are willing, all the troops in the Zuotian Star Domain are yours, and you can have more strength to do what you want to do and protect those you want to protect." ” Xu Le replied: "The greater the strength, the greater the damage it can do, looking down on this planet in space, looking at the fires in the night, the more certain I am that I don't have the ability to calmly accept this ability and make good use of it." ” Three abilities in a row were a little wordy, but they fell into Huai Caoshi's ears but they were extremely clear, she quietly looked at her only brother and asked, "So you refuse the invitation of the rebel organization, even if their purpose seems to be wedged with your thoughts, you are not willing to be the emperor." ” "That's another important question I want to talk to you about."
Xu Le looked at his only sister calmly and said, "From them, I heard a concept called the Republic of the Void King, if you are interested, you can take a look at the relevant works after the war is over." ” "Huang Erxing's almost illusory political assumptions back then, whether it was called a hypothetical republic or a constitutional monarchy, had no practical significance."
"And you and I don't know how long this war will last, and it's not interesting to talk about reform at this time. ” "But you should know that there is no charter in the Zuotian Star Domain, it is impossible to control such a vast empire, the bloody suppression, the strict class system, can only be maintained for a while, not for a lifetime, otherwise the royal family will not think about improving it in the past few decades, and if it develops like this, one day the royal family will be ousted from the throne by the angry commoners, hanged on the gallows, and disappear from history."
Xu Le knew that there were not many opportunities to talk to Huai Caoshi like this, and the moment that could influence the future Empress of the Empire must be cherished, so his words seemed extremely direct and even a little rude.
"Isn't it okay to automatically withdraw from the stage of history like the Tai clan of the Federation, this is a happy ending for all."
Huai Caoshi looked at him with a smile, sighed softly, and said: "You used to admit that you were an idiot in politics, so I don't understand why you have to teach me a lesson today, the environment of today's empire is different from that of the Tai Dynasty back then, and the way you can take it is naturally different." ” "You should have seen the King of Jinzhang who temporarily manages the Intelligence Agency on my behalf."
She smiled and said solemnly: "Do you know how many young and ambitious royals like him are there on the Tianjing Star, do you think that these people are willing to give up their status and interests, just to embrace the bright and free future of the Left Heaven Star Domain, and those lights will be their darkness?"
Huai Caoshi stood up slowly, her body was thin and not tall, but it gave people a strong sense of oppression, looking at Xu Le's face and said indifferently: "My Bai Hibiscus Huai's blood is full of stubbornness and arrogance, we will never surrender until we are killed by the enemy, whether it is Prince Delin who died in your hands, or my own uncle who jumped from His Highness Picking Stars, or even yourself, it proves this." ” "I know why no one in the current royal family dares to challenge orthodoxy because my father is strong enough, I am strong enough, even if I am the only one left in the end, I am strong enough, and once I accept your suggestion, use those false political terms to bind my hands and feet, and declare my weakness to the entire Zuotian Star Domain, then my strength will be greatly discounted, and there will be many people like King Jinzhang who will come out to challenge me and my father."
Xu Le was silent for a long time, seriously understanding the meaning of Huai Caoshi's words, and finally could only shake his head, not disappointed, but felt that these things were really easy to get tired of.
An officer knocked on the door and brought in the materials Xu Le needed.
Huai Caoshi looked at him who was flipping through quickly, and suddenly said: "It's rare that you take the initiative to mention these contents, I always feel a little weird, let me guess, are you going to go back to the Federation" "It's possible."
Xu Le stood up and replied.
"What are you going to do when you go back" Huai Caoshi squinted slightly and asked, "Do you still have illusions about those hypocritical guys?"
” After Xu Le was silent for a long time, he scratched his head a little embarrassedly and said, "If I said that I wanted to go back to the Federation to end this war, would you think it was ridiculous?"
Hearing this, Huai Caoshi's squinted eyes slowly relaxed, and in her dark eyes, which were as dark as the center of the nebula whirlpool, a smile gradually brightened, and she whispered, "It's really ridiculous." ” Before saying goodbye, the two siblings hugged again, the movements still felt as clumsy and unnatural as the last time they hugged, the most powerful pair of siblings in the world to get used to getting along with each other as a family, it always takes some time, but fortunately they are still very young, and there is still a lot of time.
It is the beautiful season of early autumn when the autumn leaves are full of red leaves, but the heavy lead-like clouds in the sky are squeezing out the snow, and the snowflakes are stained with the smoke and dust floating everywhere, and the edges are gray and black and extremely ugly.
The advance base of the Federation troops of the Ink Flower Planet was shrouded in this strange snowflake, and they had just won a big battle, and the Strait Battle Zone was still receiving good news, but the officers and soldiers were already tired and numb and had no physical strength and mood for snowball fights.
In a certain room of the headquarters in a state of strict alert, Lieutenant General Hu Lian, who succeeded Du Shaoqing as the former commander-in-chief of the enemy of the Federation, looked at the officer in front of him with a gloomy face, and roared: "Colonel Li Feng is still fighting bloody battles in the Strait Theater Theater, and those four heroic mechanics are strangling in the Southwest Theater, at this time, you actually have the face and courage to command some troops to rescue your team."
Heray suppressed the anger in his heart and pleaded: "Commander, it has been almost two months since my NTR troops fell into the enemy area, and if you don't find a way to save them, they will be finished." ” To be continued: