After hearing the whole thing, Hu Benkang was already a little remorseful, but he still felt that these seven people died too unjustly, and it was on the day of the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, how could he bring back such bad news?

Minister Chen knows Hu Benkang's character very well.

He walked over and said, "Don't worry, although this operation is kept secret from the outside world, and they can't be rated as martyrs, the organization won't forget them, and the country won't forget them, so ...... You don't have to worry about the follow-up work, I'll take care of it. ”

It stands to reason that everything has been said to this point, and those who are a little more sophisticated should bear it silently.

But when Hu Benkang heard that these seven people would not be regarded as martyrs, his eyes widened, and he immediately became anxious with Minister Chen: "Minister Chen? What does it mean to be a martyr if you can't be rated as a martyr? Is that a lie?"

When Minister Chen heard this, his face suddenly showed deep disappointment: "What do you mean?" What's the matter, Hu Benkang, you have grown up in the Northeast in the past few years, haven't you? Yes? Do you feel that after handling a few big cases and winning a few awards, you feel that no one can control you, right? ”

Hu Benkang was even more furious when he heard such an answer, but after all, he was facing his direct boss, and he still reluctantly suppressed some of it.

But the conversation has not changed, and it is still pretending to be a "bayonet".

"Minister, I never had the idea of being arrogant, but...... Brothers' bloody sacrifices cannot be hidden silently, you said that at any time, any soldier must have the consciousness and courage to sacrifice his life for the country! No one should be a bad seed! Can ...... now But your words make me feel cold......"

"You!" Minister Chen was really angry, but he was helpless with the love in front of him.

Hu Benkang did not finish his words, he continued: "I can understand the fact that the emergency deployment was made to ensure the safety of the operation without prior notice, and I believe that the seven soldiers who died as a result can also understand it, and I can also understand the secrecy of the operation in order to clean up the residual poison inside the country in one fell swoop and remove this stinger that is deeply rooted in the country...... But...... Why is it that a group of soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the country in Chinese New Year's Eve don't even have the title of 'martyrs'...... This! I can't understand it anyway! Minister Chen, please explain! ”

"You!!"

"And!" Hu Benkang did not give Minister Chen a chance to speak at all, and he continued: "If this explanation still makes me feel cold, then I will take the initiative to submit my resignation and apply for disarmament and return to the field, and I hope that Minister Chen can understand." ”

"Considerate?!" Minister Chen was really angry, he slapped Hu Benkang in the face, and then scolded: "I understand a fart!" You bastard! What are you wronged with me? Yes? Don't forget, take off this military uniform, you are also the son of Lao Tzu! ”

Hu Benkang didn't move, and said lightly: "It's dry." ”

"Hey!!" Minister Chen raised his hand again to fight, but at this time Guan Dehou came in, and seeing that Minister Chen was so angry, he hurriedly stepped forward to stop him.

"Oops! Minister Chen! Don't be like him! I'm afraid this kid is blown up! You wait for him to come to his senses, and he will understand. ”

"Blown up? I think he's got his brain blown up! Bastard! Sentence by sentence! I thought you had grown in the past few years in the Northeast! But I didn't expect you to be such a bastard! The more Minister Chen spoke, the more angry he became, and he was stunned to break free of Guan Dehou and give Hu Benkang a mouthful.

This time, Hu Benkang dodged.

He stepped aside and said lightly: "You're right, I've been trained in the Northeast in the past few years, but what shouldn't be lost, even if I am beaten to death and crushed, I will never lose it!" The honor of a soldier is more important than life! I will never lose that! ”

"You!" Minister Chen didn't come up in one breath and almost fainted.

Fortunately, the relevant Dehou was here, and he quickly helped him and pinched the person, which made him relieved.

Then Guan Dehou asked Hu Benkang in a cold voice: "Hu Benkang? In your eyes, if a soldier has died, is it only those who are rated as 'martyrs' to be considered honorable and dignified? ”

Hu Benkang didn't say a word, and was not moved by Guan Dehou's rhetorical question.

Seeing that Hu Benkang stopped talking, Guan Dehou asked again: "Okay, according to your meaning, all these seven people will be rated as 'martyrs', and then by the way, they will be buried in a grand manner, and then the whole country will report condolences, so that all soldiers can see that their honor is respected, okay?" Satisfied? ”

Hu Benkang still didn't say a word, but it was obvious that he was moved.

At this time, Minister Chen smiled: "Dehou, don't mix with this blindness, I don't understand your thoughts?" I know...... It's just that, in this way, I'm afraid that everyone will lose face with this bastard! ”

Hu Benkang didn't speak, but his eyes changed, but when he remembered that Minister Chen in front of him was not just his boss, he was silent again.

Guan Dehou was stunned: "How come?" It is an honorable thing to be named a 'martyr', but for a flesh-and-blood soldier, his sacrifice has been proven and known to the world, how can it be a shameful thing? Minister Chen, I don't understand what you said at all! ”

Minister Chen slowed down for a while, poured himself a cup of tea, and then got up and said, "Okay, if you don't understand, you don't understand, just do as you say, but there are more than seven people...... But...... Let me do the math...... Three ...... Changchun Shanghai Nine ...... Iceland Twelve ...... A ...... in Tokyo, Japan Two ...... in San Francisco, USA Plus Nanjing's ...... Well...... The ins and outs...... There must be more than twenty, right? ”

Hu Benkang's eyes changed, he became shocked, he became uneasy, and he became remorseful.

Guan Dehou added: "Not more than twenty

, but thirty-one! ”

"Oh! Right! Look at me! It's thirty-one...... So that's ...... Three plus nine...... Add twelve...... Add ......"

"Fifty-eight." Guan Dehou has already been calculated.

"Fifty-eight?" Minister Chen was stunned for a moment, and then smiled, and the smile was very bitter.

"Fifty-eight...... This year...... Our soldiers alone sacrificed fifty-eight ......" Minister Chen seemed to have aged a lot all of a sudden, and when he brought the tea to his mouth, his hands trembled non-stop, and finally put it down.

"If you count the children who tracked down the old crow...... There has to be a ...... A hundred. "Minister Chen doesn't know it, he actually knows better than anyone else.

Guan Dehou nodded, then looked at Hu Benkang and said, "Did you hear that?" Brothers? Not seven, but a hundred! A whole hundred! ”

Of course Hu Benkang heard it, he swallowed his saliva with difficulty, and his mood was extremely complicated.

"Back then, the Americans fought with us on the Korean Peninsula and were beaten away by us, and then they ran away to Vietnam and walked away in disgrace...... There were still a lot of things going on in those years...... The Russians withdrew the specialists, we knocked out the nuclear bomb with an abacus, and also knocked out dignity...... I don't want to talk about these old things, because you know better than I do! Your favorite thing to read is modern history! But I found that you seem to have been reading these books as villain books, and you don't seem to have read the heaviness behind these stories at all! Minister Chen walked over and stood in front of Hu Benkang.

This time, Minister Chen didn't make a move, but Hu Benkang felt a hot pain on his face.

"When AOA appeared, the first people to notice the problem were the Americans, because some people actually came and went freely in the architecture of their proud national security information network as if they were in the back garden! And what annoyed and disturbed them the most was that these intruders actually appeared from us, and for a while, the whole world was pushed to the brink, you know what I mean? Do you know what this means? Minister Chen asked coldly.

Hu Benkang was silent, but he still nodded.

"But fortunately, before we could respond, this mysterious AOA made its own statement, calling itself an independent liberal, with no national background and no connection to any other organization in the world, and the reason why they left a mark was that they wanted the Americans to see what they were going to do next." Minister Chen said this, and his fist clenched unconsciously.

He turned around and walked to the table and said softly: "The Americans will naturally wait and see, and the AOA has not disappointed them, not only did it reproduce the previous trick in our case, but even leaked some important secrets to the Americans, and emphasized that this is not an equilibrium, but to prove that 'information' should have its own freedom." ”

Speaking of this, Minister Chen slammed his fist on the table, only to hear a bang.

Hu Benkang's heart also shook violently.

"The day after the advent of freedom of information, we received bad news...... Specifically, I won't tell you, as for why, don't ask, it has nothing to do with you. Minister Chen said, turned to look at Hu Benkang and said, "I didn't plan to talk to you so much before, because I think you, like Shao'an, are people with a big pattern and can control the overall situation from a higher perspective...... But now...... I understand that you are difficult to do this job, and you have lived up to my hopes for you, so ...... Take off this uniform, and go back to your hometown tomorrow, I don't want to see you again. ”

As he spoke, Minister Chen sat back in his place and no longer looked at Hu Benkang.

Hu Benkang, who was stunned, didn't know what to say for a while.

Guan Dehou didn't expect Minister Chen to suddenly say such a thing, he thought that the clever cooperation between himself and Minister Chen was just to let Hu Benkang understand the current situation and take into account the overall situation.

But......

"Yes, thank you for cultivating all the way." Hu Benkang finally chose his own position, and he also saw his ability and positioning.

So he bowed deeply and chose to leave.

Guan Dehou was stunned and hurriedly stopped him.

But Minister Chen said: "Dehou. ”

Guan Dehou: "Huh? Minister! ”

Minister Chen said with a calm face: "Let him go." ”

The matter has come to this point, and Guan Dehou also knows that it is useless to say anything.

Hu Benkang said with a faint smile: "Lao Guan, it's my own lack of ability, I don't blame anyone, I ...... in the future It's up to you and Shao'an! ”

With that, Hu Benkang left, leaving Guan Dehou with a straight but lonely back.

Minister Chen closed his eyes, sighed deeply, and asked Guan Dehou after a while: "How are the preparations for tomorrow's meeting?" ”

Guan Dehou came back to his senses and replied, "Uh...... It's almost ready, but the representative of the United States said that it might be about an hour late, and I hope we don't mind. ”

Minister Chen frowned when he heard this: "What? It's all at this time, and you're still putting up a fight with us? ”

Guan Dehou scratched his head and said with a smile: "I don't think it's enough, maybe ...... It's because they're having a headache too. ”

"Oh? How so? ”

Guan Dehou was stunned for a moment, and then asked rhetorically: "Haven't you watched the news recently?" I heard that there are already martyrs of AOA on the American side! Now this is in full swing! ”

"Is there such a thing?"

"Hmm!" Guan Dehou said, took out his mobile phone, pulled up the news he saw yesterday, and handed it to Minister Chen.

Minister Chen took it and looked at it for a while before frowning and said, "Are you sure that this person named Alan Schwartz is a spiritual follower of AOA, not a puppet actor directed and acted by AOA?" ”

Guan Dehou said: "I'm pretty sure,

However, at present, only the United States believes that Alan Schwartz's death is related to the recent emergence of AOA, but our analysts believe that there is no inevitable connection between Alan Schwartz and AOA, but it is an omen that cannot be ignored. ”

Saying that, Guan Dehou brought up the personal information about this Alan Schwartz.

Alan Schwartz is a talented American programmer, entrepreneur, author, and Internet activist.

His record of genius was not the focus of Minister Chen's attention, but his 2008 publication of the Guerilla Access Manifesto (Guerrilla Open Manifesto) caught Chan's attention.

In this declaration, Alan Schwartz called on the world to allow the flow of information to be completely free and unrestricted.

In this kind of information liberalism that he advocates, Minister Chan has noticed striking similarities with some of the strange statements he has made with the AOA.

One of them stands out in particular.

"We believe that information is a new kind of disposable labor force, it will be the future, the future of mankind, and even the future of the universe, but anyone who tries to use this disposable labor force as a slave and take it for himself will be disastrous, shameful, and pathetic, and these people or organizations are destined to be called obstacles to the development of human civilization and must be completely removed."

Originally, Minister Chen didn't care too much about this sentence, but now that he reads it again, he has a completely different feeling.

And it seems to prove that he is fighting for it.

Alan Schwartz hacked into JSTOR through an MIT computer, downloaded hundreds of thousands of scientific papers, and intended to make them all available to the Internet so that everyone could read them freely, but before he could do so, he was charged and subsequently arrested and brought to court, and Alan Schwartz chose to commit suicide before the verdict.

Such an incident is of no importance to the world in general, and to the general public in particular, and Minister Chan believes that many people will not know about it, and even if they did, most people would think that Alan Schwartz's actions were too naïve or too crazy.

However, in the view of Minister Chen, especially the United States, which was the first to suffer from the illegal invasion of the AOA.

Alan Schwartz's death is undoubtedly adding insult to injury.

It's not terrible for AOA to have followers, at least before the Alan Schwartz incident, many people were not worried and afraid that AOA had followers, after all, it was predictable that such an organization with advanced technology and strength would have a group of sick fans.

But if Alan Schwartz is proven to have nothing to do with the AOA, then the warning of this spiritually resonant "martyrdom" phenomenon is extraordinary!

Putting down the phone, Minister Chen pinched his eyebrows and asked: "Shao An said in the report he gave me before that he believed in Miao Lin's personality, and he was sure that she would not be in the same league as the people of AOA, she should have just been locked up in a different place, so her whereabouts are still unknown...... This thing...... What do you think? ”

Guan Dehou pondered for a while and then said, "I learned from Zhang Xuan...... Miao Lin has an innate affinity for data, she belongs to that kind of genius talent, so ...... I was exposed to such a major action so early......"

Minister Chen coughed and then turned his face to look at Guan Dehou: "I asked you what you think, I didn't want to hear you praise me like this." ”

Guan Dehou smiled bitterly, and then said: "Although I don't want to admit it, I think it...... Miao Lin may have joined AOA, and it should be completely voluntary, I think...... Shaoan thinks so too, just considering ......"

Minister Chen understood, and he waved his hand: "Okay, I understand, then...... Do you think this Alan Schwartz, the freedom of information he advocated, is it crazy, or is it the trend of the times? ”

Guan Dehou thought about it and shook his head: "I don't know." ”

"Don't know?" Minister Chen was stunned for a moment, and his expression seemed to say, 'How could you not know?' ’

Guan Dehou was puzzled: "Minister, I also hold a gun, not to engage in writing, let alone study computers and philosophy, don't you make me think about these questions, isn't it embarrassing?" ”

Minister Chen listened to the music, he nodded, and then sighed and said: "Okay, then you just hold the gun steady, I believe that no matter when it comes, the gun is the most useful thing, so ...... You're going to hold your ground! ”

Guan Dehou was shocked when he heard this, and then stood up and saluted: "Yes!" ”

……

Coming out of Minister Chen's room, Guan Dehou went straight to Li Shaoan's room.

As a result, when I entered the house, I found that Li Shaoan was not there, and when I looked back, I found out that he had gone to the airport.

As soon as he heard that Li Shaoan went to the airport, Guan Dehou didn't have to think about it and knew that he was going to see Hu Benkang......

It's a pity that these two people have been comrades-in-arms for eight years, but they are separated in this way.

Guan Dehou is not mixed up, he just wants to settle the matter at hand as soon as possible, and then hurry back to his hometown in Xuzhou to visit his newborn daughter.

……

"I don't know when this meeting will start, I don't think you have to wait, since you have already been approved to go home, you can go back first." Li Shaoan was kind to Guan De.

Guan Dehou stood outside the building and looked at the lights of the meeting on the third floor, it was already one o'clock in the morning, the meeting had been held for a day and a night, and he didn't know what the group of people were discussing, so they could sit still like this.

"Okay, I'll go back first, you can help me say hello to my younger siblings."

Li Shaoan smiled: "You just want to help me say hello to my sister-in-law and little niece!" ”

Guan Dehou smiled and said, "Let's go!" The car sped away.