The crisp sound of gunfire reverberated in the eardrums of the soldiers walking forward nervously, on the quiet highway in the northern suburbs of the university city, and in the snow-covered world.
Tai Zhiyuan withdrew his gaze from the light screen, tightened his coat, looked at the severely damaged black mecha in the distance, frowned, and said nothing for a long time.
The dead soldier didn't know the name, but he would find it soon after he came. This soldier is obviously the ace pilot of the federal army. From the initial raid in the stadium to the later manipulation on the road, this person has shown his incomparably strong military qualities.
Tai Zhiyuan looked at the other side of the road, a trace of heaviness that did not match his age flashed on his slightly pale cheeks. Today, he almost died under the attack of the mecha. At this time, after confirming the safety, he felt a little bit of fear, but he did not It was manifested, but the hands that were exposed outside the sleeves trembled slightly.
At the end of the road came the faint sound of a helicopter.
Butler Jin, who had dried up the blood on his forehead, took off the phone in his ear, came to Tai Zhiyuan's side, and said in a low voice, "How many schools are the soldiers in the mecha, four Purple Star Medals winners, fighting heroes, He belongs to the Special Mecha Brigade of the Second Military Region and serves as the deputy commander. He should have attended a training hosted by the Ministry of Defense in the Capital Territory today.”
After being silent for a while, Tai Zhiyuan asked: "The Second Military Region... The Ministry of Defense's spring offensive should be based on the Second Military Region. If the guess is correct, there must be many colleagues in this school who sacrificed their lives to the anti-government forces. under siege."
"Yes, this training in the Capital Special Administrative Region is aimed at the general attack on the anti-government army base in Qinglong Mountains in the spring." Butler Jin glanced at the young master's profile, "Yesterday, Senator Pabble reached a preliminary reconciliation agreement with the anti-government army. , there was an assassination attempt against you today, it seems that the military hawks are very angry at the family's intervention this time."
"Don't rush to find out who the suspect is. The investigation and trial afterwards is the federal government's business. Although I am angry, it is impossible for me to be above the law to convict some people." Tai Zhiyuan's eyes were the same as before. calm. "If this matter is related to the settlement agreement, there should be many people who do not want the government to reach a settlement agreement with the rebels."
Butler Jin nodded. Although the two did not say it clearly, they all knew that the most appalling assassination in the Federation in the past two decades must not be so simple behind the scenes. Congressman Pabble has taken the most solid step on the road to becoming the president of the Federation. Those families and economic giants in the Federation have their own partners among the presidential candidates. If we say this assassination, It is to eliminate the largest support force of Senator Pabble in the Federation, so there may be shadows of those family forces.
At this time, the simple phone in Butler Jin's hand rang again. He answered the phone, and after listening in silence for a long time, he apologized softly to Tai Zhiyuan: "The police and the FBI have blocked the underground parking lot of the gymnasium, and the representatives of the family have also entered... But I haven't been able to find yours yet. the whereabouts of a friend."
"I didn't find it?" At the tense moment when he was still being pursued, Tai Zhiyuan had asked Butler Jin to directly follow the government's handling of the gymnasium, just to know whether Xu Le... could survive in such a desperate situation, when I heard When the four words were not found, Tai Zhiyuan's tone was slightly high, and he said slightly angrily: "You can see people when you are born, and you can see corpses when you die... What does it mean if you didn't find it?"
"The firepower of the military mecha is too strong, and the remains... are basically incomplete." Butler Jin glanced at Tai Zhiyuan worriedly and adjusted his tone. "Government staff are cleaning up the site at this time, and it is normal to find nothing in a short period of time. According to the report over there, according to the situation on the site, even if it is a chip identification, it will take a long time, so it may be used. Biomarker identification procedure, but that would take two weeks.”
Tai Zhiyuan's usual calm eyes suddenly dimmed. Thinking that Xu Le might have turned into a few broken pieces of meat in the dark underground space at this time, his stomach began to twitch. If Xu Le could survive by chance, he should still be in the underground parking lot of the gymnasium at this time, if he... unfortunately died...
He forced himself to calm down his emotions, looked back at Butler Jin and said, "Whether it's life or death, I can't wait so long to know the news. Find a way to ask the elder from the Charter Bureau to help."
The easiest way to confirm the death of a federal citizen is, of course, through the central computer of the Charter Bureau. However, the Charter Bureau's computers are responsible for a network of electronic surveillance throughout the Commonwealth, and seldom specifically identify the death of a specific target, except in exceptional circumstances. Now the old director of the Charter Bureau is a collateral relative of the Tai family. Although he has been separated from Tai Zhiyuan by eight generations, he is actually the only relative of the Tai family in this world in the seven-generation Tai family line.
"If the Charter Bureau confirms that Xu Le is still alive, ask them to help find Xu Le's whereabouts." Tai Zhiyuan walked towards the tattered black car and left his last words.
Butler Jin's gray hair fluttered in the cold wind, and he looked at the young master's back with a complicated expression. Although he knew that this was the first time in the young master's growth, he experienced the blow of a friend's death, but he still did not expect that the young master was used to it. Calm was almost unable to hide his inner emotions, Xu Le was naturally dead, and it was not a wise way to use the Charter Bureau for help.
"It will take two days at the earliest to send an application to the Charter Bureau through the government department, and then to approve it." Butler Jin said behind him.
Tai Zhiyuan didn't look back, and said in silence that this matter must be done as soon as possible.
"mission failed."
A room in an apartment building on a quiet street in the Federal Capital Territory has windows covered with a light-filtering film to prevent surveillance and even prying eyes from military thermal imaging systems. In the dimly lit room, a soldier in his thirties, after putting down the phone, looked at his partner across the table with a solemn expression, and said softly.
His partner is very mysterious, but he provided enough information to their forces. The news that Tai Zhiyuan will go to the concert today was finally confirmed last night.
The soldier stood up from the table, began to organize the documents on the table, lowered his head and said, "Although I don't know who the person behind you is until now, and this cooperation has not been successful, I hope that in the future There are also opportunities for collaboration.”
The ordinary man in the gray synthetic sweater across the table smiled, didn't stand up, didn't leave in a hurry, looked at him deeply and said, "Who said our cooperation was not successful? Although the young master of the Tai family has a great fate. You escaped, but I think the purpose of those behind you should have achieved more than half of it."
After a moment of silence, the soldier laughed: "We are all little people who are put on the table, who we serve, and what exactly we are going to do, who can fully understand... But I'm curious how you know that I don't belong to the first Those hot-blooded officers in the Second Military Region."
"Because you are too calm." The man tidied up the slightly wrinkled synthetic sweater on his body, walked to the window, looked carefully at the extremely imposing and rigid building opposite, and said softly: "We are all The bystanders, the people who actually did it... are still in an office in the Department of Defense."
The soldier had already sorted out his belongings, walked behind the man, squinted at the Federal Ministry of Defense building, sighed and said, "As a soldier, I actually admire these people who have the courage to ignore the destiny of the Federation. colleagues of the law."
"And you made them go to jail." The pupils of the man in the synthetic sweater shrank sharply, watching a dozen military vehicles on the street rush into the training center next to the Ministry of Defense building, and said: "The officers of the Second Military Region , I don't know how much to be cleaned this time."
"I didn't expect the government and the Tai family to respond so quickly." The soldier stood up slowly and said with a hint of horror: "The assassination over there has just ended, and they can actually find the training center."
"My son almost died, and everyone can think of how angry that lady should be. In a sense, even the President, you must give in in front of the lady's anger."
"I have to go." The soldier turned around neatly and left the dark room.
He walked on the stairs of the welfare apartment belonging to the military officer of the Ministry of Defense, took out the phone in his arms, and began to report to his superiors.
"Your Excellency, the mission failed."
In the dark room, the man in the synthetic sweater also made a call, calmed his breath, and said softly, "Your Excellency, the mission failed."
After a moment of silence on the other end of the phone, an old voice sounded: "Throw the bait. I don't want to be the victim of the Tai family's anger, and neither do you."
The expression on the man's face suddenly seemed extremely shocked, and he didn't seem to have imagined that his Excellency Congressman would be so afraid of the Tai family that he would even cut off his biggest supporter in the federal government.
The soldier and the man in the synthetic sweater were indeed, as they said, just inconspicuous little people in the Federation, but the people they served were the most powerful and influential people in the Federation. They didn't know each other's names and identities, but they went everything temporarily for a common goal, reached a tacit understanding with some big figures in the federal military, and began to execute the most incredible assassination operation in the federal government in 20 years.
Now that the mission was confirmed to have failed, they smiled at each other and comforted themselves that their side could still gain some kind of political benefit from the follow-up progress, but they knew better that failure was failure, and it was a complete failure.
They and the big men behind them must get out of the storm that the Tai family is about to set off as soon as possible, so they must immediately throw the bait out and let the federal government's eyes turn to the mountain.