A few years ago, Xu Le used a Taiping axe to cut out a fork in his life.

At that time, he was being held in a military prison of the Ministry of National Defense, which assigned him a legal officer named Xu Songzi as a lawyer.

So today, when he saw this beautiful face with a few traces of memory in the reception room of the Allure Military Prison, he always felt that time had turned back to a year ago, just like so many angry, sad, depressed, passionate and bloody stories had not been born in this year, and the trees on both sides of the street to the district prosecutor's office were still whispering the arrival of spring.

Xu Songzi, an officer in the Legal Department of the Internal Affairs Department of the Ministry of National Defense, sat calmly and indifferently across the table. She took out a few documents from the thick file bag, pushed them along the smooth surface of the table to Xu Le's side, and said: "Xu Le, on behalf of the Ministry of National Defense, I inform you that because of the suspected 6801118 case, all your authority in the general assembly base has been lifted, and the Ministry of Defense has appointed me as your legal adviser for interrogation. ”

"My name is Xu Songzi. Xu Songzi looked at the handcuffs on Xu Le's wrists across the table, did not stretch out his hand to shake hands, frowned slightly and said, "I have seen you before." If you don't have an opinion, sign these legal documents. ”

Secretly held by the Federation for nearly five months, without interrogation, and yet in the interrogation of these days, he was transferred from the fox fortress to a military prison on the ground, with the Ministry of Defense sending legal officers, and suddenly it seemed that everything was starting to work. Xu Le couldn't react a little, he squinted at the few legal documents on the table, didn't speak, and read carefully.

Alloy handcuffs slid across the white paper, making a rustling sound.

After carefully reading all the words on the legal document, Xu Lecai raised his head, looked at Xu Songzi and nodded, then took the pen handed over by the other party, moved his hands with some difficulty, and signed his name seriously.

Xu Zi looked at him calmly, and only after he signed his name did he breathe a sigh of relief, stood up and said, "The case has entered the procedure, and I will come over again the day after tomorrow." ”

"Thank you. Xu Le replied very seriously and said, "Can I ask a few questions?"

"Yes, but I may not be able to help you except for legal matters. Xu Zi still maintained a professional and serious expression, but a hint of strange color flashed in his eyes, as if he wanted to warn Xu Le about something.

Xu Le asked, "It's me and the person who was arrested by the federal government, can I know where he is now?"

"No, you can't. Xu Songzi replied crisply, and then began to clean up the documents on the desktop.

Xu Le noticed that her eyes blinked quickly at the moment she lowered her head, and her mood was suddenly relieved, in the case of surveillance, Xu Songzi's legal officer naturally couldn't tell Xu Le what he wanted to know, such as where Shi Qinghai was, but she could at least tell Xu Le if someone was still alive, in fact, this was what he cared about the most.

Seeing this beautiful female officer walk out of the door of the interrogation room, looking at her back, Xu Le suddenly thought that half a year ago, this female officer had been transferred to the Medellín task force, before he started, I heard that after the task force was disbanded, several prosecutors who insisted on continuing the investigation were fabricated by the FBI and temporarily restricted their freedom, including the prosecutor Xiao Wenjing, I don't know what happened to these people.

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Walking down the long corridor, Xu Songzi was able to leave this military prison with extremely strict surveillance after passing through strict inspections, and all the legal documents and personal belongings that he had brought into the interrogation room, as well as all the hard objects such as pens and cards, were confirmed to be correct.

The military vehicles that had been waiting at the main entrance of the prison roared in the direction of the wasteland military airport. Xu Songzi sat in the back row, did not talk to the soldiers in front of her, but thought of the scene in the previous prison interrogation room, and felt a little heavy, the interrogation room was chaotic, pale, and thin Xu Le, which made her feel that life was really not very fair.

As a member of the Medellín task force, she knew better than anyone that congressmen had committed local crimes, and when Ms. Xiao and two other prosecutors who insisted on a covert investigation were arrested by the FBI on that shameless charge, she became disillusioned with the federal government and the military for the first time.

However, when the high-ranking officials of the Federation reached a compromise with the Medellín congressman, what could she, a junior officer, do? So when she heard the explosive news of Medellín's assassination in January, she couldn't help but sigh at the cycle of heaven and retribution......

After the death of Congressman Medellín, the compromise of the investigation against him was no longer brought about, and the FBI released the prosecutors, Bob and Hutchison Wood, the editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper, and was no longer under federal pressure.

Xu Zi must admit that these pleasant changes are all due to the two "terrorists" who were so eager to be torn to pieces by the marchers.

Regarding the assassination of the Foundation building in January, which shocked the Federation, she didn't know until a few days ago that one of the murderers involved was Xu Le, who had dealt with her. She was very aware of Xu Le's background in the Central Territory of the Federation and the complicated relationship between Minister Zou Yingxing, so she didn't understand why he would do this.

In the past two days, she occasionally asked herself at night, and now she wanted to thank Xu Le, and for what he did, she gave birth to a legal work and a soldier's praise that he should never have.

Xu Zi looked at the faintly visible airport building in front of the glass, thought of the minister who was waiting for his return in the SAR, stabilized his mood a little, lowered his head and began to process the legal papers.

Xu Le is an active member of the federal military, and the crimes he committed are so appalling that whether it is from the perspective of secrecy or procedural regulations, the trial of his case must be carried out secretly by a military court. She knew very well that a legal person like herself, even the federal law itself, would not play any role in Xu Le's life and death.

The power that can really decide the life and death of that pale-eyed man is in the white mansion of the D.C. or on Parliament Hill.

She came here today just to send a signal to Xu Le, who had been cut off from news for a long time, to let him know that something was happening. It's a pity that under the strict monitoring of Allure Prison, she can't explain anything, and only hopes that Xu Le can understand the meaning of her coming this time.

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Returning from the interrogation room to the solitary cell, Xu Le sat on the edge of the bed and bowed his head and was silent for a long time. The message brought by the female judge is actually very simple, that is, the federal upper echelons have begun to reconsider the Medellín assassination case, and the trial is about to begin, which is not bad news, on the contrary, the dark seclusion of the previous months really means terrible.

It's just that he can't figure out one thing:

Even if the federal government is still misunderstanding the relationship between itself and Minister Zou, no matter from which point of view, the federal law and the government's will will not allow him to live again......

What went wrong?

When he was arrested in the Foundation building, Xu Le thought he was going to die, but he didn't expect to live for so long. He pondered the answer to the question of whether he should have died but not yet, but he could not find a reason why he should live.

This is because he could never have imagined that the Medellín Councillor, who crossed thousands of mountains and rivers, rained bullets and bullets, and was killed with one stroke, had a terrible identity that had been hidden for decades!

On this point, the federal central computer under the Charter Bureau, which strictly followed the provisions of the Charter and the level of authority, did not let him know the slightest.

It is precisely because of the true identity of the Medellín Councillor that Xu Le and Shi Qinghai's killing of Medellin can also be interpreted as two completely different meanings: light or dark.

Or a terrorist who deserves to die, or a hero who saves the Federation, it depends on what the big guys think.

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The Tokyo Special Administrative Region, the official residence of the President.

In the Federal Central Operations Command Room below the official residence, two rows of ultra-thin extended light curtains glowed with a faint blue light, and a serious and solemn emotion permeated the room, and the Secret Service agents standing at the entrance of the passage had eyes like eagles and falcons, and the big men sitting at the long conference table had solemn expressions, listening carefully to the explanation, looking at the constantly changing pictures on the light curtain.

The Ministers of Defence and Finance of the new Federal Government Cabinet attended the meeting. The commanders of the Second and Third Military Regions sat solemnly under Admiral Myers, and even Commander Zhong, who was preparing for war on the Xilin front, and Hong Yuliang, commander-in-chief of the Federation Fleet, who had been stationed in the Late Scorpion Nebula for the past six months, also attended the meeting through video remote connection.

The reason why so many important figures in the Federation are gathered in the operations command room of the president's official residence today is because they have to listen to the investigation report of a case today.

Relying on the Charter's powerful information-gathering capabilities and the huge and complex data archiving in the central database, it took nearly five months for the Charter Bureau to fully investigate the case.

In a sense, this case has almost caused irreparable and serious damage to the Federation, and the investigation report of this case will, to a certain extent, determine the Federation's strategic attitude towards the Empire.

Directly in front of the long conference table, President Pabul, with a swarthy face, was carefully reading the investigation report in his hand, listening to the sound of explanations from time to time around him.

In front of him was an inconspicuous pen, stored in a vacuum box made of superhard material, long gone.

"The special operations team of the Second Military Region went deep into Qinglong Mountain and risked to obtain the biomarkers on the bones of the Mai couple. ”

A middle-aged man with glasses, operating a display terminal, zoomed in on a light curtain, and continued: "Checking this mark against the Medellín biomarker on file with the FBI, we confirmed that they are not related by blood. ”

As an assistant to the director of the charter bureau, Cui Judong usually participates in secret meetings of the government on behalf of the old director, but this is the first time he has encountered a big scene like today, and his mood is inevitably a little nervous, his voice is slightly hoarse, and he continued: "After the 680118 case was born, we took the specimen from the body of Medellín and conducted a second check to reconfirm this judgment. ”

President Pabur did not look up, but waved his hand and motioned for him to continue. Director Tai of the Charter Bureau, who had been sitting silently on the right hand side of Mr. President, slowly opened his eyes, glanced at Cui Judong, and then let go of the old fingers pressed on the crutches, and gently and silently tapped the smooth wood.

Seeing this action, I don't know why, Cui Judong felt that his mood was much calmer, changed the picture on the light curtain again, and explained in a deep voice: "Beforehand, the Charter Bureau has used its authority to send a special operations team from the Xilin Military Region to infiltrate the Hundred Scenes Star Domain to try to obtain some relevant information back then. Although a little later, the team was able to obtain a list of Bermuda human trafficking syndicates ......in the penultimate year of the Thirty-Sixth Constitutional Calendar.

With Cui Judong's voice, the atmosphere in the command room glowing with a pale blue light became more and more strange. Although the federal dignitaries at the table had already received a message from the Charter Bureau after the attack on the 38860118 Foundation building, and had also seen the relevant top-secret files, in fact, they still had some thoughts in their hearts, hoping that the Charter Bureau's investigation was wrong.

Medellín is indeed dead, but the questions he invokes continue.

"You've already seen the video of the private meeting between Medellín and the Empire. Cui Judong glanced at the silent federal bigwigs, and said seriously: "The basic context has been sorted out, and here, I will make a report to you." ”

"After the first blitzkrieg between the Federation and the Empire, the Empire has concocted a strange and extraordinarily whimsical plan to break through the glorious blockade of the Charter. Through the human trafficking syndicate in Bermuda, they prepared a batch of newborn babies and took advantage of loopholes in federal law to sell them to parents in need in the Federation. ”

"There's a baby among them, and we'll call him Number One. Incident No. 1 was raised by federal adoptive parents, and in accordance with the relevant protection regulations, the parents easily applied for an identity chip for the baby, who was less than half a year old, and from that moment on, the baby became a citizen of the Federation. ”

"In the twenty-third year of the Xian calendar, Target One enlisted in the army, participated in the expeditionary force against the Empire, and received the Order of the Purple Star, and we believe that until this time, Target One still does not know his true identity. He even rebelled against the orders of his superiors to retreat because of his hatred for the Imperials. ”

"In the twenty-seventh year of the Constitutional Calendar, when Target No. 1 was in the most difficult stage of his life, failed in business, and his father died, it was in this year that he unexpectedly received a grant from an unknown source and entered the Faculty of History and Economics of Tokyo Metropolitan University. We now know that he had received a strange invitation to Bermuda to meet important people on the side of the Empire. ”

"It was this crucial meeting that radically changed his life, and the Federation welcomed one of the most sinister and terrible enemies, because this enemy appeared within us. ”