It took less than ten minutes for the three full-page interviews of the Capital District Daily to appear. The reporters, cameras, and OB vans around the Wangdu Youth Apartment, as well as the 24-hour lighted rooms in the opposite apartment building, were suddenly reduced by more than half. The journalists who realized it with hindsight immediately started the race to Philadelphia after being shocked and speechless. The flights from the Capital Territory to Philadelphia were full on that day, and many people still failed to get that precious ticket.
It's a pity that Philadelphia is not Wangdu, and the seriously ill Lord of the Army is naturally not the young Colonel Xu Le. Before the planes of several famous TV stations could enter the airspace of Philadelphia, they were strictly ordered by the military to land at a certain place 3,000 kilometers away. The reporters who rushed to Philadelphia from an unknown small airport were also forcefully driven by the special guards of the First Military Region with live ammunition to the old city on the mountainside, and all long-distance high-definition video recording equipment was confiscated.
This is a serious violation of press freedom or human rights, but at this moment, no TV station or newspaper dares to raise any angry protests against the federal government's move. Facing the scene before the fall of the superstar, if anyone really dared to question anything, they would be ravaged by angry people into pieces of historical rubbish the next day.
Outside the youth apartment was no longer as noisy and annoying as the previous two days. Xu Le silently watched the electronic news on the light screen, stood up, held his forehead and thought for a moment, put on his military uniform and quietly climbed out of the back window. go out. With the help of the federal central computer, he easily avoided the prying eyes of reporters, rushed to the military airport in the western suburbs before evening, and boarded the special military aircraft that the Ministry of Defense had already prepared.
At 7:14 in the evening, Xu Le arrived in Philadelphia, came to the courtyard by the lake, walked into the room overflowing with the smell of medicine and the electronic sounds of precision medical equipment, sat quietly beside the bed covered with white clouds, and gently held the room. The thin but still strong hand of the old man living in the cloud.
No one knew what Li Piff said to him. People only knew that Xu Le did not stay in Philadelphia for a long time, so he returned to the Capital District again. The dark green military vehicle followed him and drove directly into the Xishan compound.
It was already early in the morning, deep in the Xishan compound, the small building of Minister Zou's house was shrouded in a light morning light, and the residual snow mixed with the dead leaves in front of the building, like the old wrinkles of the earth.
"Mr. President was in Philadelphia last night, and I met with him before I left."
In the study room on the second floor, Xu Le held the hot orange tea that Zou Yu had just brought in with both hands, frowning extremely tightly, and said softly, "Mr. President told me something, he mentioned his sick daughter, he said... Everyone has someone or something they care about, so at certain moments, there is always a need to make certain compromises and concessions, and such compromises and concessions often require more wisdom and courage than strides forward.”
He recalled it, and confirmed that he was repeating the president's words without a single word of error.
Minister Zou Yingxing was sitting on the opposite sofa, thoughtful.
After knowing the physical condition of the military god Lipif, the big figures in the Capital District went to Philadelphia to visit together. No matter whether these people can finally see the old man on the hospital bed, they must go to show their attitude.
However, as the Minister of Defense, he unexpectedly stayed, on the one hand because the war on the frontline of the empire was still going on, and on the other hand, it was also related to the scholarly general's way of doing things.
"How is the Marshal's body?" Zou Yingxing asked.
"The condition is very bad, the organs are failing badly." Xu Le put down the orange tea, rubbed his hair randomly, and said after a pause: "It's purely a matter of age and old diseases, and the Army General Hospital's view is extremely pessimistic. , I think the old man may leave at any time."
Minister Zou said after a moment of silence: "I have been in the logistics base all the time, and seriously, I have never done anything under the direct command of his old man, but every federal soldier will think that he is an ordinary soldier under the marshal. Hearing this news, under the weather."
Xu Le rubbed his left hand from his forehead to the back of his head, and said a few swear words in annoyance.
"The content of the interview of the marshal caused a great shock in the society." Minister Zou looked at him quietly, and said, "Actually, the marshal and the traitor... that is, the relationship between your teacher before, in the military upper echelons. It's not an absolute secret, after all, after fighting for so many years, an old man like Admiral Miles can more or less guess something."
"We originally thought that after the Marshal passed away, no one would mention this matter again, and naturally no one in the future Federation would know about it, but no one thought that the Marshal and his old man would actually arrange an exclusive interview by himself. This secret past has been told."
"what does that mean?"
Zou Yingxing took off his glasses, rubbed his eyebrows a little tiredly, and said with emotion: "Everyone must admit that Marshal Li is the only leader in the history of the Federation who can't pick out any shortcomings. When he left this world, he should have been extremely perfect. But he didn't accept that perfection."
He raised his head, looked at Xu Le quietly, and said, "You should know better than anyone why the marshal did this."
"I understand, this is to protect me." Xu Le lowered his head, stared at the dust on his military boots, and said, "The old man is already very weak. We didn't talk for too long last night, but I understand what he meant."
Xu Le raised his head, with tired bloodshot eyes and a calm after enlightenment in his clean eyes, and said, "The old man knows that my character is flawed. If I let things develop like this, I will be impulsive."
"The old man doesn't want me to be a scavenger-like character. Such a character can only destroy, not build, and has no real benefit to the federation and the people."
"I'm very pleased that you can understand the painstaking efforts of the Marshal. I believe the same is true of Mr. President."
Zou Yingxing slowly released the fingers that rubbed his brows, looked at him and said calmly: "Light and darkness are twins, no one can overturn this, even if you violently kill people today and destroy the darkness in front of you at the cost of your life It's wiped away, but what about the future? If you die, who will clean up the new darkness in the federation in the future?"
Minister Zou looked at him and continued: "The marshal was capable of clearing the government and even killing everyone, but he didn't do it. If you have a chance, you can read the marshal's resume carefully, dozens of Over the years, even he has been making concessions and compromises in order to move forward more firmly and smoothly in the future."
"A man with a real sense of responsibility, a soldier, should learn to forbear, watch, guard, not sacrifice lightly, and even disdain to perish with those younger generation, because only in this way can it be counted as giving up his entire life. To the Commonwealth and the people."
"The marshal has persevered like this all his life, and I hope you can take him as a model."
Xu Le was silent for a long time, then nodded.
"This is your latest appointment." Zou Yingxing took out an electronic document that was obviously just drawn up from the desk drawer, and said, "Mr. President has signed, you have been appointed as the special representative of the government, and you will go to Xilin to preside over the strategic ordnance test of the final assembly base. At the same time, you have full authority to negotiate on behalf of the government with representatives of the imperial underground resistance."
Xu Le slowly raised his head, his eyes were full of doubts. He could predict that he would be expelled from the center of the political whirlpool in the Capital Region, but he did not expect to go to Xilin to perform such a task.
After the exclusive interview of the Capital District Daily was published, the entire federation was in a state of unease and panic. This big article, which obviously had some kind of monumental nature, let everyone know that this meant that an old man might be imminent. is leaving, an era is coming to an end.
The people of the Federation can't imagine what it would be like if the Federation did not have a military god. Although the old man had already taken off his marshal's uniform for more than ten years and sat quietly fishing on the shore of Lake Philadelphia, as long as he knew that he was still alive, no matter whether he was in the frontline troops , still in Philadelphia, people are at ease.
Li Pif, the god of war who used to shake the universe, shook the entire universe once again when he was about to leave this universe. The news reached Bermuda, and the pirates and tycoons were collectively speechless. I don’t know how to react. The Baijin royal family began to hold a carnival dance, and the royal family with dark pupils did not know how many glasses of spirits they drank.
In short, everyone knew that the God of War was about to die, and everyone was waiting for that day with sadness, confusion, fear, peace or joy.
However, to everyone's surprise, after being declared dead by the top doctors in the federation, Li Piff did not die, but came back to life extremely powerfully. Although they knew that this was only a temporary phenomenon, the health of the military god had seriously deteriorated and could not last for too long. Countless people were still very excited.
The tenacious vitality and terrifying will contained in that old body seemed to make Death feel fear and chose to leave temporarily.
Li Pif, the god of war, as long as he doesn't die, he is the brightest star in the universe, shining on the Federation forever and ever. Rising fiercely, illuminating all.
Regardless of whether the sun will go out the next day, the old man on the hospital bed in Philadelphia expressed his attitude through an exclusive interview. The FBI immediately suspended the secret investigation of Xu Le, and the District Attorney's Office sealed the relevant files. No more MPs on Parliament Hill have called for special hearings, and no one has ever brought up treason charges.
People who have the potential to control and influence the political structure of the entire federation, or the federation as a whole, are forced to make concessions to one individual.
He gave in to the weak, dying old man who was almost unable to speak.
The people only know that the wind has stopped and the clouds have dispersed, and the entire Federation is peaceful and calm, with a certain commemorative solemnity.
The Charter Bureau was silent. The Ministry of National Defense stood behind Xu Le, but it was inconvenient to express its position. The same was true for the Presidential Residence. That party stopped accusing Xu Le, but it was impossible to allow him to continue his own investigation and allow him to access those core secrets.
One day in the deep winter of the 71st year of the Xianli calendar, Xu Le boarded a military spacecraft to Xilin.