Ink Flower Planet Mart City, where the Imperial Headquarters is located, all civilians within a 70-kilometer radius have long been expelled to the plain area further back, and the buildings around the street are left with black marks left by federal air strikes.
The buildings rich in super-hard graphite fibers stubbornly refuse to fall down. The bullet holes in the walls have created sidewalks. Imperial officers and soldiers in dark military uniforms walk through them with stern expressions, and they have not found any childhood hidden cats. of pleasure.
On the other side of the crater-filled street, under the protection or surveillance of several imperial scouts, a young man in a hooded sweatshirt walked silently. The style of the sportswear is very ordinary, covered with the red soil unique to the suburbs, but it attracts countless curious eyes from the soldiers resting or walking among the remnants. Civilian clothing is a very rare thing.
The streets in the northern suburbs of Mart City gradually sloped down and slowly entered a heavily guarded fortification along the sinking terrain. The three imperial scouts handed the man in the hat to the military police of the headquarters, and the military police slapped the man. He stood at attention and saluted, and then politely invited him into the fortification.
Entering the frontline headquarters of the empire, the senior officers inside knew more about the inside story than the soldiers in the city, and vaguely guessed the identity of this man. Although no one dared to kneel and salute, both the general and the second lieutenant gave way. Respectfully waited aside and bowed his head.
Pushing open the dark alloy door in the deepest part of the headquarters, Xu Le nodded slightly to thank the military police beside him, walked in, and then turned to close the door. The heavy and icy feeling from the alloy door made it only take him a very short time to determine that this seemingly ordinary office can definitely be stable under the intensive attack of the main guns of the federal battleship.
There are countless documents piled up on the desk, like countless rocky mountains that are about to collapse. The data on the two most advanced computer workbenches in the empire keeps flashing, reflecting some strange feelings in the dim room. The man behind the document mountain Hearing the sound of the door closing, he slowly raised his head.
Huai Cao Shi rubbed his tired eyebrows, looked at Xu Le and said, "Although I would love to see you, you should be very aware of the current situation on Mohua Star. The last mecha team in the Straits Battle Zone is fighting alone. My most urgent task now is to find a way to get them back."
"I'm sorry to bother you under this situation." Xu Le said: "But I need some information now. Without your signature, even if I have the electronic identity chip, no one in the military will agree to me. ask."
"Of course I know you're not here to fight for the Empire."
Huai Cao Shi turned around and walked to the coffee machine in the corner of the room, poured two cups of coffee, placed it in the small corner of the document mountain, looked at him and said with a smile, "What information do you want?"
"A team you sent to the southwest graphite mining area was ambushed by the federal troops many days ago. That guard is your direct guard. Going to the southwest graphite mining area must have a very important mission. I want to know the guards. The return route, and the exact location of the ambush."
Huaicao Shi tapped the coffee on the table with his index finger, motioned him to take it by himself, and asked, "I remember you once said in Sangku Town that you would not come to Mohua Planet, so your presence surprised me. I What I want to know more now is what is the relationship between my direct guard and you."
"I don't know if you still have any impression of Paul. I fled in the empire and lived in his house for more than half a year. Now he is an ordinary officer in the Royal Guard and has been listed on the list of missing persons. According to what I found It should have been missing in that ambush."
After a slight pause, he continued: "A lot of officers and soldiers were killed in the ambush, and the remains have been counted, but without him, either he was captured by the federal troops, or he was lost in that war zone."
"Sage City, I'll have someone bring you the specific information."
Huai Cao Shi gave the answer directly, then dialed a phone and said something, then she looked at him quietly, frowning slightly and said: "The problem is that there are many missing people like him, and some imperial soldiers may It's unfair and unreasonable to be waiting for support on a flooded cliff, sending troops to search because of a personal relationship."
"It's not fair for a field commander or superior to risk more deaths to save a soldier who may have died a long time ago, but I'm not his superior."
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 it."
"The information on Sage City will take some time." Huai Cao Shi motioned him to sit down, still frowning, and said, "I heard that you and the father have met, so don't you understand, as long as you are willing, left All the troops in the Tianxingyu are yours? You can have more power to do what you want to do, to protect those you want to protect."
Xu Le replied: "The greater the power, the greater the damage that can be caused. Looking down at the planet in space and looking at the firelight in the night, I am more and more sure that I have not calmly accepted this ability and made good use of it. Ability."
The three abilities in a row were a bit wordy, but when they fell into Huai Cao Shi's ears, it was very clear. She quietly looked at her only younger brother and asked, "So you refuse the invitation of the rebel organization, even if their purpose seems to be the same as yours. Your ideas fit, and you don't want to be an emperor."
"This is another important question I want to talk to you about." Xu Le calmly looked at his only sister and said, "I heard from them a concept called Xujun and Republic, if you are interested, war After the end, you can read the related works.”
"Huang Exing's almost illusory political assumption back then, whether it is called a virtual monarchy or a constitutional monarchy, has no practical significance."
Huaicao Shi calmly revealed his profound knowledge behind his ordinary face and terrifying force, "And neither you nor I know how many years this war will last. It's boring to talk about reforms at this time."
"But you should be clear that there is no charter in the Zuotian Star Region. It is impossible to control such a vast empire. Bloody suppression and strict hierarchy can only be maintained for a while and not for one lifetime, otherwise the royal family will not last for decades. They will think about improving, and if they continue to develop like this, one day the royal family will be expelled 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 Cao Shi, and the moments that could influence the future imperial queen must be cherished, so his words seemed extremely direct, even a little rude.
"Isn't it possible to automatically withdraw from the stage of history like Federal Tai's? This is a happy ending."
Huai Cao Shi looked at him with a half-smile but not a smile, sighed softly, and said, "You used to admit that you are an idiot in politics, so I don't understand why you are teaching me today, the current empire and the Tai Dynasty of the past. The environment is different, and the methods that can be taken are naturally different.”
"You should have met the Jinzhang County King who temporarily managed the intelligence agency for me." She smiled and said solemnly: "Do you know how many young and ambitious royals like him are on the Tianjing star? You Think that these people are willing to give up their status and interests, just to embrace the bright and free future of Zuotian Star Region? And those lights will be their darkness?"
Huai Cao Shi 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, she said indifferently: "My Bai Jin Huai's blood is full of stubborn and arrogant spirit, We will never surrender until we are killed by the enemy, whether it is Prince Delin who died in your hands, or my uncle who jumped from the Hall of Picking Stars, or even yourself, it has all proved this."
"Do you know why no one in the current royal family dares to challenge the orthodoxy? Because the royal 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 If I bind my hands and feet and declare my weakness to the entire Zuotian Star Region, then my strength will be greatly discounted, and many people like Jinzhang County King will come out to challenge me and my father."
Xu Le was silent for a long time, seriously understanding the meaning of Huai Cao Shi's words, and finally just shook his head, not disappointed, but felt that these things are really easy to tire.
An officer knocked on the door and brought in the information Xu Le needed. Huai Cao Shi looked at him who was quickly flipping through the pages, and suddenly said: "It's rare that you would take the initiative to mention these things, I always feel a little weird. Let me guess, are you planning to return to the Federation?"
"It's possible." Xu Le stood up and replied.
"What are you going back for?" Huai Cao Shi asked slightly with narrowed eyes, "Do you still have illusions about those hypocritical guys?"
After being silent for a long time, Xu Le scratched his head in embarrassment and said, "Would it be funny if I said I wanted to go back to the Federation to end this war?"
Hearing this sentence, Huaicao Shi's squinted eyes slowly relaxed, and in the dark eyes like the center of a nebula vortex, a smile gradually grew brighter, and she said in a low voice, "It's really ridiculous."
Before leaving, the siblings embraced again, and the movement still felt as clumsy and unnatural as the last hug. It takes some time for the most powerful pair of siblings in the world to get used to getting along as a family. Fortunately, they are still young and have a lot of time.
It was the beautiful season of high air and red leaves in early autumn, but the lead-like heavy clouds in the sky squeezed out the snow.
The federal troops of Mohua Planet advanced to the base, shrouded in this weird snowflake. Just after a big victory was won, and good news was still coming from the Straits Battle Zone, the officers and soldiers were already tired and numb without the physical strength and mood for snowball fights.
In a room of the headquarters that was under strict alert, Lieutenant General Hu Lian, who succeeded Du Shaoqing as the commander-in-chief of the former 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 in the Strait Battle Zone, those four The heroic mechanic was strangled in the southwest theater, and at this time, you have the face and the courage to command some soldiers to rescue your team!"
Hurley suppressed the anger in his heart and pleaded: "Commander, it has been almost two months since my NTR troops fell into the enemy area. If they don't try to save them, they will be finished."