The pre-war mobilization ended. As Xu Le himself said, of course, the more than 100 soldiers in the audience could not repent just because of these salty and indifferent words. In a flash of inspiration, the collective transformation into a three-you youth like him, but there are probably some people who will feel it.

Being brave doesn't mean that you won't die, but keeping the sadness of despair to yourself is unlikely to give you more hope of coming back alive. The silence in the auditorium gradually loosened, and the sound of tables and chairs, coughing, and whispering began to be heard.

The camera crew of the Venus Documentary Factory of the Ministry of Defense was finally allowed to enter the auditorium, and Xu Le quietly walked out from the side door, standing under the night sky of Xilin, he lit a cigarette, thinking that there were actually some things that had not been said, but there was really not much need to say them.

The military phone, which had been silent for a long time in his hand, finally rang stubbornly again. After looking at it for a long time, he finally pressed the button that turned on.

"Have you already identified the departure personnel?" said the prince on the phone, calmly and with a complicated inquiry.

"Hmm. Xu Le replied.

"You know that I don't have any real friends in the federation except for you, and I can't even count Yuko when I grow up. Neither is Xipeng, but I must remind you that he is different. ”

Xu Le clenched the phone and didn't say a word.

Tai Zhiyuan said lightly on the phone: "The son and daughter-in-law of Speaker Zion were unfortunately martyred when they participated in a federal interstellar expedition, and their family is now such a man. ”

"What is identity?" After a long silence, Xu Le spoke: "In the past three years, I have been very proud that I have not become your subordinate partner or anything. I've always insisted on being friends with you on an equal footing because I value this word so much. ”

"In addition to equality, there is also fairness. Including you, the demands made by the bigwigs in the Capital Circle seem to me to be very unfair. Every soldier who fought bloodily on the front line has their own story, and I am also the last orphan of the old Xu family...... In my opinion, the only male member of the family of the Deputy Speaker of the Federation does not have the right to escape, not to mention that he is a soldier himself. ”

"Fairness?" Tai Zhiyuan's calm and oppressive voice came from the phone, "A group of veteran soldiers who have not been trained at all, just because of the political needs of the federal government, you have been trained for dozens of days, and they are going to be sent to the front line to die, do you think this is the fairness you are pursuing?"

"Ten days. Xu Le corrected.

Tai Zhiyuan said coldly: "Is it fair?"

"Xipeng is the nephew of the vice president of the Federation, and I suddenly thought of the nephew of the Zhong family tiger. Xu Le thought for a moment, then said: "He didn't go to the front line, but you and I both know that about a quarter of the men in the Xilin Zhong family died on the battlefield. ”

Without waiting for Tai Zhiyuan to speak, he continued: "You have been a soldier in S2, you have been injured, and you have experienced dangers, and I know that you are also on the Xilin front now. ”

"You are the crown prince of the Tai family, and the Zhong family is the Xilin warlord in the eyes of the politicians in the capital, but you are not like some big people, hiding in the seventeenth division to enjoy the glory and avoid danger. It is precisely because of the existence of people like you that I never think that the so-called family or high society is inherently shameless. ”

"If I am forced to put these old soldiers back in the capital star circle, do you think it is fair to the Zhong family? to you, and to those 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 silent, and said softly after a while: "The Zhong family needs their own sacrifice to seek undue military power in this democratic society, and I am only based on my own eccentric temperament, otherwise I should be watching TV news in the capital star circle now." ”

"You have to admit that there are people in this world who are inherently important. ”

"Nope. Xu Le's answer was simple and clear, "There shouldn't be such a person in the world." ”

The other end of the phone was silent again, Tai Zhiyuan had always thought that Mr. President's radical action was too radical, and he was worried that as a friend of the knife, he was only unwilling to speak out based on the pride and reserve of the prince, but at this time, he was angered by Xu Le's attitude of not entering and not appreciating, and his breathing became slightly heavy.

After a while, he said with a hint of mockery and disdain: "Don't forget, when it comes to equality and fairness, if you don't have the background of the Li family in Philadelphia, the appreciation of the president, and the secret help of those bigwigs in the military, just by what you did in the foundation building, do you think you can get out of prison and become the youngest lieutenant colonel in the Federation like Crazy Lee?"

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 great hero who saved the Federation, because when I went to kill Medellin, I didn't know that he was a spy of the Empire, but after all, his old life was erased by my own hands!"

He said to the phone: "Whenever and wherever they want to ask me about this rank of lieutenant colonel, I am as strong as a fucking strong man!"

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After the taunt and rage, there was a dead silence on both ends of the phone at the same time. After more than two years of meeting in a quiet library, it is the first time that this pair of young people, who have very different status, temperament and concepts, have broken out into such a strong hedge in the name of friends.

In the outer space of the planet, Tai Zhiyuan held the phone, looked back at the dark night sky outside the window and the beautiful fireworks lit from time to time below, and calmly and attentively tasted Xu Le's rare tirade.

He is the crown prince behind the shadow of the Federation, and naturally he has his own pride, and he is not willing to take a step back after the quarrel, so he remains silent, but Xu Le on the other end of the phone is also silent.

I don't know how long it took, Tai Zhiyuan smiled mockingly, gently stroked the fur on his lips with his fingers, thinking that when Xu Le was angry before, he didn't mention saving his life twice, and understood that this stone stubbornly regarded those as personal friendships, not like those that were righteous.

As soon as he thought of this, his heart softened slightly, and he said calmly: "Even Mr. President can't withstand the pressure of a certain class, you are just a small lieutenant colonel, why bother to come to the top? I don't agree with the president and the military choosing such radical methods." This tactic has temporarily quelled the wave of popular protests, but it has caused a kind of division at the top. I'm more worried about whether he's going to be so aggressive that he'll point the finger at us families, who are old but still powerful. The Federation and the Empire are at war, and it wouldn't be a good thing if something went wrong with the underlying structure. ”

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, but ...... Thank you for your concern. ”

"But you don't need what those big guys will do to me when I return to the Capital Star Circle. He looked up at the starry sky above him and said, "This is the battlefield, countless people are dying every moment, I don't know if I can survive and return to S1, in this case, what am I afraid of those old guys?"

"I should have died in that building in S2, in the endless darkness of the fox fortress, I thought I would die too, and in the Allure Military Prison, I thought I couldn't get out alive at all. But the president and the old man, and the big guys in the military fished me out. ”

"I earned my life back for nothing, and I owe it to the Federation. Actually, I'm also afraid of death, but ...... Those Imperials are going to be driven out, aren't they?"

Tai Zhiyuan said calmly: "Yes, this is a truth that does not need to be discussed. ”

Xu Le laughed happily with the phone, showing his white teeth, and said, "After all, we still have a common language." ”

Tai Zhiyuan was silent for a long time and said with a hint of emotion: "Sometimes I feel that it is really a bit unpleasant that the two of us are just twenty years old and should be young, but we are forced to think about many complicated things and experience many difficult choices. ”

"Think about Crazy Lee, and you will see that our lives are not too miserable. ”

Xu Le leaned against the wall, and then said seriously: "My team members have been training these recruits hard, they are already very tired, just to save their lives. I'm not going to deliberately push these boys into the fire pit, and I'm not going to hide them in the mecha fortress. In fact, you and I should both know that this mission will not be too tragic. ”

Tai Zhiyuan smiled and said: "You are right, what the president and the military need is for them to appear on the front line, not for them to die." ”

After hanging up the phone, he slowly withdrew his gaze, looked down and thought about his only friend in the distance, thinking to himself where could there be a truly safe mission on the battlefield?

A middle-aged man on the other side of the long table looked at him with interest and said, "You can't convince that stone, in fact, I would love to transfer him to Xilin to be my personal soldier." ”

This middle-aged man was wearing a standard military uniform of the Fourth Military Region, with a starry eye on his shoulders, although he sat casually, he gave people a strong feeling of majesty, such as carving out a deep facial features full of majesty.

"I can't convince you either. Tai Zhiyuan replied calmly: "Mr. President and the bigwigs of the military know your military talent. Now that the war has begun, most of the seventy or so divisions in this star field are still in battleships, and occasionally go to the surface of the planet to spend a vacation, and this situation continues for a longer time, and I am worried that it will anger Mr. President. ”

"Does this mean the Tai family, or is it ...... Advice from my confidential secretary. The middle-aged general asked indifferently.

"The latter. Tai Zhiyuan paused for a moment and replied seriously.

With all the troops participating in this war in his hands, he is qualified to provoke President Pabur and dare to let the crown prince of the Tai family be his secretary. In this starry sky, who else can there be except for the Zhong family tiger who has been alone in the empire for more than ten years and no one dares to disturb the Xilin?

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Xu Le hung up the phone and raised his hand excessively, as if he wanted to take off the stars in the night dome, but at this moment, someone came over behind him.

Bai Yulan handed over the electronic manual and said softly: "The mission has been finally confirmed, it is indeed the task of the Charter Bureau to reset the electronic monitoring network, and the officials in charge of technical guidance will directly meet us on Planet 163." ”

Xiong Linquan, Liu Jiao, and all seven members of the group walked out of the auditorium in silence and gathered together.

Xu Le took out Sanqi brand cigarettes from his military pocket and began to smoke to the team members around him seriously. Smoking or not, all the team members took it with great seriousness and leaned over to his lighter and lit it.