The pre-war mobilization ended.
As Xu Le himself said, it is of course impossible for the more than 100 soldiers in the audience to feel remorse just because of these unsavoury words, and they collectively transformed into three young people like him, but there are probably always some of them. People will feel it.
Be brave, you may not die, but if you leave the sadness of despair to yourself, it is impossible to have a little more hope of coming back alive. The silence in the auditorium gradually loosens the emotions of grief and grief, the sound of tables and chairs moving, coughing, and whispering sounded.
The photography team of the Jinxing Documentary Factory of the Ministry of Defense was finally allowed to enter the auditorium. Xu Le quietly walked out from the side door and stood under the night sky of Xilin. He lit a cigarette, thinking that there were still some things he didn't say , but that's not really necessary.
The military phone, which had been held in his hand for a long time, finally stubbornly rang again. After looking at it for a long time, he finally pressed the button to connect.
"Have the departure personnel been determined?" The prince asked calmly and complicatedly on the phone.
"Yeah." Xu Le replied.
"You know that I don't have any real friends in the federation except you. I can't count Yu Zi when I grow up, and neither is Xi Peng, but I have to remind you that he has a different identity."
Xu Le held the phone tightly and said nothing.
Tai Zhiyuan said lightly on the phone: "Speaker Zion's son and daughter-in-law were unfortunately martyred when they participated in a federal interstellar expedition. Their family is now such a male."
"What is identity?" After being silent for a long time, Xu Le said: "In the past three years, I have been very proud that I have not become your subordinate partner or something, I have always insisted on being an equal friend with you, yes Because I value this word very much."
"In addition to equality, there is also fairness. In my opinion, the demands made by the big figures in the capital star circle, including you, are very unfair. Every soldier who fought bloody on the front line has his own story, and I am also an old man. The last orphan of the Xu family... In my opinion, the only male in the Federal Deputy Speaker's family has no right to escape, not to mention that he is a soldier himself."
"Fair?" Tai Zhiyuan's calm and oppressive voice came from the phone, "A group of old soldiers who have not been trained at all, just because of the political needs of the federal government, they have been trained by you for dozens of days and will be sent to the front line. Do you think this is the fairness you seek?"
"Ten days." Xu Le corrected.
Tai Zhiyuan said coldly, "Is it fair?"
"Xipeng is the nephew of the vice-president of the Federation. I suddenly thought of the incompetent nephew of the Zhong family tiger." After thinking for a while, Xu Le turned and said, "He didn't go to the front line, but you and I both know that the Xilin Zhong family is related. About a quarter of the men here died on the battlefield."
Before Tai Zhiyuan could speak, he continued: "You have been a soldier in S2, you have been injured, and you have experienced danger. I know that you are also on the frontline of Xilin now."
"You are the prince of the Tai family, and the Zhong family is the Xilin warlord in the eyes of the capital's politicians, but you are not like some big men, hiding in the Seventeenth Division, enjoying glory and avoiding danger. It is because of you Human beings exist, so I never thought that the so-called noble family or high society had inherently shameless attributes."
"If I was under pressure and put these old soldiers back in the capital star circle, do you think it's fair to the Zhong family? It's fair to you? It's fair to the ordinary soldiers who died on the front line?"
After listening to Xu Le's words, Tai Zhiyuan on the other end of the phone fell into silence, and said softly after a while: "The Zhong family needs their own sacrifices to seek military strength that should not have been there in this democratic society, and I am only based on my own eccentricity. Temperament, otherwise I should be watching TV news in the capital star circle now."
"You have to admit, there are people in this world who are inherently more important."
"No." Xu Le answered simply and clearly, "There shouldn't be such a person in the world."
The other end of the phone was silent again. Tai Zhiyuan had been worried about being a friend of the knife because of Mr. President's aggressive actions this time, but because of the pride and restraint of the crown prince, he refused to say it clearly. At this time, he was rejected by Xu Le. Infuriated by the disrespectful attitude, his breathing became slightly heavy.
After a while, he said with a hint of sarcasm and disdain: "Don't forget, when it comes to equality and fairness, if you don't have the background of the Lee family in Philadelphia, if you don't have the appreciation of the president, and the secret help of those military bosses, it's up to you in the foundation. What you did in the building, do you think you can get out of jail and become the youngest lieutenant colonel in the Federation like Madman Li?"
Xu Le's hand holding the phone became tighter, he took a deep breath, and said in a deep voice with a trace of undisguised anger: "I never thought of myself as a hero who saved the Federation, because When I went to kill Medellin, I didn't even know that he was a spy of the empire, but after all his life was wiped by me, MX was smashed by me, Lin Yuanhu's face was slapped by me, and I , was pardoned by the President!"
He said to the phone: "Whenever, anywhere, anyone asks me about this lieutenant colonel's rank, I'm just as strong as a fucking strong man!"
After mocking and ranting, both ends of the phone became dead silent at the same time.
After meeting in a quiet library more than two years ago, this is the first time that this pair of young people with very different concepts of identity, status and temperament have gotten along with each other in the name of friends.
In the distant outer space of planet 3320, Tai Zhiyuan held the phone, looked back at the deep night sky outside the window and the Xunli fireworks lit from time to time below, calmly and attentively sipped Xu Le's rare long speech.
He is the prince behind the shadow of the Federation. Naturally, he has his own pride and is unwilling to take a step back after a quarrel, so he remained silent, but Xu Le on the other end of the phone was also silent.
I don't know how long it took, Tai Zhiyuan smiled mockingly, and gently stroked the fur on his lips with his fingers, thinking that when Xu Le was angry before, he didn't mention that he saved his life twice, understand this. Stone stubbornly sees these as personal friendships, not as righteous ones.
Thinking of this, his heart softened slightly, and he said calmly: "Even Mr. President can't stand the pressure of a certain class. You are only a small lieutenant colonel, why should you come? The president and the military choose this kind of pressure. I don't agree with the radical approach. Even if this approach can temporarily quell the protests of the people, it has already caused some kind of division at the upper level. I am even more worried that he will be so radical that he will point the finger at us. A family that is old but still has great power. The Federation and the Empire are at war, and if there is a problem with the deep structure, it is not a good thing."
In the barracks, Xu Le also calmed down, and said with emotion: "Mr. President is the political ally chosen by your family. I don't understand these lofty and complicated political affairs at all, but... Thank you for your concern."
"But you don't need to worry about what those big men will do to me after I return to the capital star circle." He raised his head and squinted at the starry sky above and said, "This is a battlefield, and countless people die every moment. I don't even know if I can survive and go back to S1, so what am I afraid of those old guys doing?"
"In the S2 building, I should have died; in the endless darkness of Fox Fortress, I thought I would die too; in Qingcheng Military Prison, I thought there was no way I could get out alive. But the president and the old man, still There are those big men in the army who still fish me out."
"My life was earned for no reason, and I owe the Federation. In fact, I'm also afraid of death, but... those imperial people always have to be driven out, right?"
Tai Zhiyuan said calmly: "Yes, this is a truth that does not need to be discussed."
Xu Le took the phone and laughed happily, showing his white teeth, and said, "After all, we still have a common language."
After being silent for a long time, Tai Zhiyuan said with a hint of emotion: "Sometimes I feel that we are only 20 years old and we should be young, but we are forced to think about a lot of complicated things and go through a lot of difficult choices, which is really uncomfortable. ."
"Think about Madman Li, and you'll find that our lives are not too miserable."
Xu Le leaned against the wall, and then said seriously: "My team members have been training these new recruits hard, they are already very tired, just to save their lives. I will not push these sons into the fire pit on purpose, nor They won't be hidden in the mecha fortress. In fact, you and I should both know that this mission won't be too tragic."
Tai Zhiyuan smiled and said, "You're right. What the president and the military need is for them to be on the front line, not for them to die."
After hanging up the phone, he slowly retracted his gaze, lowered his head and thought about his only friend in the distance, wondering where could there be a truly safe mission on the battlefield
A middle-aged man across the long table looked at him with interest and said, "You can't convince that stone. In fact, I really want to transfer him to Xilin to be my personal soldier."
This middle-aged man was wearing a standard Fourth Military Region uniform, with dazzling generals on his shoulders. Although he sat sloppily, he gave off a strong sense of majesty, as if the deep facial features carved out were full of majesty.
"I can't convince you either." Tai Zhiyuan replied calmly: "Mr. President and the military leaders all know your military talents. Now that the war has started, the more than seventy divisions in this star field, large Some are still in battleships, taking occasional vacations to the surface of planets...the longer this goes on, I'm worried about angering Mr. President."
"Is this what it means to represent the Tai family, or...a suggestion from my confidential secretary?" the middle-aged general asked indifferently.
"The latter." Tai Zhiyuan replied seriously after a pause.
In the hands of all the participating troops in this war, they are qualified to anger President Pabble and dare to let the prince of the Tai family be the secretary. In this starry sky, except for the one who has resisted the empire for more than ten years, no one dares to resist. The Zhong family tiger, who else is there
Xu Le hung up the phone and raised his hand over his forehead, as if he wanted to take off the sky full of stars above the night sky. At this moment, someone came over from behind.
Magnolia handed over the electronic manual and said softly, "The mission has been finalized. It is indeed the Charter Bureau's mission to reset the electronic monitoring network. The Charter Bureau officials responsible for technical guidance will join us directly on Planet 163."
Xiong Linquan, Liu Jiao, and all the members of the seven groups walked out of the auditorium in silence and gathered together.
Xu Le took out a Sanqi brand cigarette from his uniform pocket and began to seriously smoke to the surrounding team members. Whether smoking or not, all the team members took it seriously, then leaned over to his lighter and lit it.