(This is 6,000 words in two chapters, it is a bit hard to write, it should be clearly expressed, Xu Le is a person with his own ideas, I like his kind of small peasant consciousness, because, more direct.) )

According to the passenger number, the girl who was supposed to be sitting in the open space transfer cabin was already on a medium-sized bus with an old-fashioned energy source and a somewhat pungent smell at this time, and was on her way to the Qinglongshan military area.

The middle-aged uncle with an obscene face was still sitting beside her. Zhang Xiaomeng looked at the primitive scenery outside the window, and was silent for a long, long time, not knowing whether she was thinking about the innocence of the past, or thinking that the news of her death would be given to her parents who were far away from the sea...... and Xu Le, what kind of impact did he bring.

The old-fashioned passenger car is constantly undulating on the mountain road, and the middle-aged man with a straw hat on his face seems to enjoy the rhythm. He is very familiar with the road around the mountains and four states, and even if he closes his eyes, he knows which section the bus has walked to. Maybe he was a little thirsty, the middle-aged uncle took off his straw hat, opened the kettle he was carrying with him and took a sip of water, only then did he notice the stunned look of the girl next to him.

The slightly messy bangs on her forehead, mixed with the dust and sweat in the mountains, looked a little embarrassed, and the girl's ruddy face had a faint sadness. He looked at this young face quietly and smiled slightly, he has been dealing with people all his life, so a few years ago, he dared to enter the Bi-Moon Festival ball alone, and had face-to-face negotiations with representatives of the federal elite, he is very good at reading people, so he is very satisfied with Zhang Xiaomeng's performance at this time, a young man who is loyal to his faith and has suffered great setbacks will mature quickly and become an indispensable fresh force in the great cause in the future.

The future of the revolutionary army is to be pinned on these young people, and the obscene-looking uncle sighed softly in his heart.

Zhang Xiaomeng found that he had woken up and lowered his eyes slightly. Asked softly, "What about the archives of the Charter Office if I were to die?"

"Being able to think about this question proves that you have made a lot of progress in the direction of professionalism. The uncle smiled and said: "No one can change the data of the computer in the Charter Bureau, but there is always a link for the data to reach the government department, and there are people in the link, as long as there are people, there is a way...... I'm an old guy with a special approach to people. ”

"Why did you come to arrange for me to leave in person?" Zhang Xiaomeng looked at him. How could the number two of the rebels come because of himself, although he knows some things about the Medellín parliamentarians, but it is still not enough to explain the problem.

"There have been traitors at the top of the organization, which has seriously damaged our cause...... But as I told you before, I can't change everyone's opinion of that comrade parliamentarian, after all, in a way, he represents the public image of the comrades in the mountains in the Federation...... It's just that I feel that you are innocent in this incident. You have a good background, but because of your kind heart, you have sympathy for Qinglong Mountain. We owe a debt of gratitude to young people like you. And you shouldn't watch a girl ...... Killed in the course of a struggle and a conspiracy of betrayal. ”

Speaking of this, a faint sorrow flashed between the middle-aged uncle's eyebrows, for his ideals and beliefs, he has been fighting in the Federation for many years, but now the situation is becoming more and more worrying, completely unequal resources, information and armed forces, so that the rebels can only survive in front of the federal army. Although the general population of the Federation is more and more inclined to sympathize with the rebels because of the influence of George Carlinism. But...... As Medellín stepped out of the mountains and into politics, most of those hearts turned to him for his non-violent advocacy.

The world in the mountains. It's about to become an outcast world. He was an excellent intelligence leader. But not a brilliant political leader. About the undercurrents in the committee. He has understanding. But it can't be calmed. After all, Medellin land claims. Although there is a suspicion of capitulation. But in a difficult situation. In the context of the deliberate gentleness of the federal government. But it looks very attractive.

In order to compete with the local forces of Medellín. Rebel leader Nam Shui. It also had to temporarily abandon the armed struggle. Instead, he sought to cooperate with certain powers of the Federation. That's why I made a trip to the Confederation. That's why there was a Double Moon Festival Ball. Only then did we have cooperation with Tai Jiadi. Only then did Councillor Pabur walk down the ramp of the transport plane...... The touch of clothes blown by the wind was solemn.

The middle-aged uncle's brows furrowed deeply. It's like a Sichuan character. Aggregate information from all sides. Especially the confession of the girl next to her. The source of intelligence on the assassination of the Linhai City Gymnasium. and an after-the-fact attempt to frame the anti-government military intelligence system. Thus destroying the settlement agreement between Pabur and Qinglongshan...... It's Commissioner Medellín. Or rather, Congressman Medellín.

But he had no evidence. Based on Zhang Xiaomeng's confession alone. It will never be possible to shake the esteemed Medellín. in the committee. It has a lofty position in the hearts of the people of the four states around the mountains.

What worries him even more is that. Medellín is not stupid. Political wisdom and experience are incomparable. Didn't this commissioner understand? If the Qinglong Mountain Armed Forces really perish. It is one thing for him to be able to gain a foothold in the federal political arena and eventually disappear by his side? But after all, the two sides are rooted in the same land. If even the foothold is scorched. No one can take root......

The problem is too far-reaching. Can't figure it out. The middle-aged uncle looked at Zhang Xiaomeng beside him who was deep in thought. With a hint of pity, he said, "For me." Let you learn from my side. Prepare for the future. There is another important reason. That's the relationship between you and Xu Le. ”

Zhang Xiaomeng glanced at him in surprise, not understanding the importance of his relationship with Xu Le, his eyebrows gradually squeezed together, took a deep breath, and said seriously: "I won't hurt him again, let alone agree to use him." ”

"Rest assured. ”

The middle-aged uncle had already retracted his gaze and began to read a magazine in his hand with relish, as if he was talking to himself, as if he was telling Zhang Xiaomeng again, saying: "Xu Le is a sympathetic and emotionally inclined to our people...... This can be determined from the details of these past days, and all such people are what we want to fight for. What's more, he is still a character who can influence Tai Zhiyuan's choice. Maybe it's a year, maybe it's five years, maybe it's longer. As long as you can influence him, it's worth the wait."

The magazine in his hand seemed to be some kind of newsweekly, but in fact, in the page, it was a very detailed summary of information, and the material on this page at this time was written with all the details of Xu Le's arrival in the university town of Linhai Prefecture.

The number two man of the rebels. The most successful intelligence leader in the thirty-seven constitutional calendars quietly looked at the file about Xu Le, and calmly thought in his heart that possibility is the most important foundation for the development of any career, and Xu Le, a seemingly inconspicuous little person, seemed to be more ...... than any character he met on this trip to the Federation All have more possibilities.

How did Xu Le know Tai Zhiyuan? The middle-aged uncle squinted slightly, his fingers gently rubbing the edge of the straw hat, for the rebels, for those who paid attention to all the subtle movements around the heir of the Tai family. It's all a puzzle. Judging from the archives, Xu Le, a veteran soldier with no relatives and no reason, could never have the opportunity to get close to Tai Zhiyuan in Ewha University.

"If it's really a relationship. If Xu Le can really enter, then when the First Military Academy visits, the black mecha that suddenly appears...... Is it Tai Zhiyuan who is manipulating, or is Xu Le manipulating? If it is Xu Le manipulating, where did he learn that kind of manipulation method?"

The second leader of the rebels smiled, and quickly sorted out the analysis in his mind. He has been dealing with people all his life, and he is an old guy who has a special way to deal with people, and he is forced to enter a low point in the cause of the anti-government army. He had set his sights on the future, on the young man who was still very inconspicuous.

At this time, Zhang Xiaomeng had already tilted his head to the side, looking at the scenery outside the window in a daze, his eyes gradually sparkling, missing but strong and no longer missing.

Xu Le's injuries were not all healed, but he no longer needed 24-hour intensive care, and the unnecessary medical equipment had long since left his hospital bed, and the experts of the General Hospital of the First Military Region also confirmed that his epilepsy was caused by external pressure. Non-epilepsy, an abnormal electrical discharge in the cerebral cortex, does not cause substantial damage to his body and brain.

So he moved out of the ward and into a quieter sanatorium at the back of the General Hospital. The facilities here are more complete, and the hot springs are steaming among the green trees, and if it wasn't summer in the southern hemisphere at this time, maybe he would really want to go down and take a dip. And the TV in the room has no medical control, and the whole channel is open. It's just that Xu Le still habitually only watches news channels and channels. He was not a person who cared about federal affairs, but after escaping from the Donglin Region. These bizarre encounters made him have to care.

On the same night, he saw the news of the crash of the spaceship flying from the Hong Kong capital Xinze Aviation Airport, to be precise, the crash of the air-to-ground transfer module. Xu Le's pupils shrank slightly, his fingers pressed slightly, staring at the clear light screen, looking at the names and photos of passengers that gradually flashed.

"Zhang Xiaomeng, female ......"

Xu Le only heard these four words, and saw the photo of a girl with a serious expression and black-framed glasses on the TV, and then there was a buzz in his brain, and he couldn't hear any sound anymore, the news anchor broadcast the sound with a little sadness, which was automatically silenced, and the photo on the screen began to gradually blur, without black-framed glasses, the bangs were gently rippling in the breeze, smiling with eyebrows and eyes, as cute and charming as an elf......

This is Zhang Xiaomeng, the real Zhang Xiaomeng's appearance, on the news, in the photos, they are all fake.

Xu Le rubbed his eyes, turned off the TV, lay on the bed, covered the quilt, shrunk up, and began to sleep, although he couldn't sleep, he still began to fall asleep, his eyes were wide open, his body trembled slightly, and suddenly he felt that the temperature in the summer of the southern hemisphere of the planet was so low.

Unable to sleep in the middle of the night, his mood was like a sad song.

He sat up silently, turned on the TV again, connected to the federal network, entered the official website of the General Administration of Aviation and began to query, constantly refreshing the page, I don't know how many times he confirmed it, how many times he checked it, he removed his fingers a little numbly, and lay on the bed limply. Staring at the snow-white ceiling in a daze.

At this time, how he wished that everything he saw in his eyes, like those structural drawings, was a picture in his mind, not a real thing. But after staring at the snow-white ceiling for a long time, there was no picture in front of me...... Get some sleep. It is not possible to make the sad news that I heard before become false.

The next day, Xu Le woke up on time according to his biological clock, brushed his teeth, washed his face, ate breakfast, and then walked into the quiet garden of the morning light, sitting on a slightly cold stone chair, with his buttocks not touching the ground. In that strange posture, he squatted and the uncle taught him to walk on the ground, while carefully and attentively tasting it. I remember the trembling in my body, the trajectory of the sourness that exists and runs.

The slightly hot shiver represents a mysterious power that has broken through the area where he was operating in the Donglin Region back then, gradually taking over his entire body, prompting each pair of his muscle fibers to begin to rub against each other, squeezing each other, extremely painful and pleasant.

However, the sourness in his heart, in his lips, refused to go away for a long time, making him want to vomit. His face turned slightly pale. The eye sockets are a little deep, but the small eyes are a little deep.

In the surrounding woods, there are several bodyguards of the Black Eagle Security Company, who are boredly looking at the surrounding environment, now the situation has calmed down, their task is not as heavy as a few days ago, they just don't understand, Xu Le's walk today seems to be longer than a few days ago.

Xu Le stayed in this quiet garden until noon. Then he said a word to the staff of the Tai family, and under the covert protection of several bodyguards, he walked out of the recuperation area and came to a steakhouse in the living area of the First Military Region, and began to eat Chinese food.

Before eating, he handed the waiter a bill and whispered something for something.

The knife and fork gently scratched the delicate appearance of the synthetic steak, and Xu Le lowered his head and slowly chewed on the very uniform meat fibers, without looking up. Because he didn't dare to look up. He knew as soon as he looked up. You can see that the seat opposite is empty.

He and Zhang Xiaomeng had eaten together many times in the cafeteria, and he was deeply grateful to that girl. Never because he was an auditor and seemed to be a poor porter, he would leave under the gaze of those strange eyes around him.

The first official date between him and Zhang Xiaomeng was to eat steak in a restaurant in Linhai Prefecture, and he was deeply grateful to that girl for giving him the first heartbeat in his life, the first kiss, the first kiss, the first love, even if it was charity, this is also the most beautiful charity in the world.

The waiter walked up to him, begging his doubts, and handed over a bag of biscuits. After Xu Le thanked him, he tore open the biscuit bag, took out the puppy biscuits inside, and began to stare in a daze.

He and Zhang Xiaomeng met for the first time because of a bag of puppy biscuits.

Xu Le began to eat biscuits, and tears flowed uncontrollably.

After the death of his uncle, he once swore that he would never cry again in the future, but today I don't know why, I just can't help it, I always feel that my heart is empty and sour, like something will never be able to fill that empty space, and it may be that from knowing Zhang Xiaomeng's death last night, to this morning's daze in the morning garden, those sour smells have been hidden for too long, stimulating his tear ducts.

A well-dressed young man, weeping silently in a lively restaurant. This is the living quarters of the First Military Region, and there are many soldiers in civilian or military uniforms, their families and friends, and many of them look at the young men in tears by the window in amazement, with sympathy or contempt.

They thought that the young man was crying because he had lost his love, but they didn't know that the young man thought that he had lost his lover forever.

Wiping away his tears, Xu Le regained his composure, took out a letter from his arms, and began to read it silently and carefully. This letter was written to him by Shi Qinghai before leaving, and he had already read it once, but when he knew about Zhang Xiaomeng's death, he wanted to read it again, because in his opinion, Shi Qinghai and Zhang Xiaomeng are actually the same people in their bones, those who he doesn't know and are willing to sacrifice something for their ideals.

The last few paragraphs of Shi Qinghai's letter are written like this.

"I used to think I was tired of being a spy, even though I hated the federal government so much in the first days because of my father's misfortune...... But in the middle of this, I felt tired and nervous, so I wanted to give up. It is for this reason that I began to try to break away from the organization, of course, in a passive way. I will never betray this organization. Because I agree with their philosophy and respect it. But I was really tired, so I looked for a lot of opportunities to try to be a less important person...... The confrontation at the door of the nightclub is one of my attempts, and I'm sorry that this incident has dragged you down. ”

"But when I was the most tired and tired. And when I began to doubt the ideals I once believed in, I personally brokered a reconciliation agreement between the organization and Councillor Pabul, although I was only a link in the middle, and never played an absolutely important role. But I knew that I had done the right thing, and that doing the right thing would still bring me a certain sense of mental pleasure to my numbness. ”

"But at that time, I still wanted to leave, I didn't want to care about everything in the world. I just want to be alone quietly drinking, singing twenty-seven glasses of wine, and having a free moment on the beach. Think of my poor father, who had never been in the capital in his life, who only knew how to take care of that small farm, and who died mysteriously. ”

"But at this moment my guide died before me, and he jumped from a very high building, as if he had jumped into a cloud, but fell to the ground. My teacher was actually like my second father in many ways...... It's amazing that although I have hatred for that traitor, I am not carried away by this hatred, but I am much more sober. Look at the teacher's body lying on the roof of the car. I suddenly realized that I was still willing to fight for the ideal I had back then. ”

"This ideal is not ridiculous, nor is it something distant and unattainable for the people or for you and me...... We're just trying to make the world a little bit better, a little bit fairer. At least there will be no more people like the Tai family, the Seven Families, and politicians...... This kind of existence above the law, at least there are fewer ordinary people in the world who died silently like my father. ”

"There has never been true fairness in this world. There was no imperial power in the past, nor is it in the current constitutional period, and it may not really be in the future. The empire did not, the Great Triangle did not. Even I sometimes wonder if there may be no other side of Qinglong Mountain. But not all that exists is reasonable, and what has not appeared is not all that cannot be pursued. Fairness and justice may be a very illusory word, but it is better to work for it than to be insensitive. ”

"There is a vague goal ahead, go, it is always possible to reach it. Don't go. But it can never be touched. I've calculated that I'll live at most ninety years in my life. People always have to die, and since that is the case, I would rather die on the path I choose to take. ”

"I am writing this letter to you, not to influence you in anything, but that I am lonely in this world, and the role I play is destined to be lonely, and I want to tell you what I think. I probably won't reconnect with the organization, because since we are on the same path, it doesn't really matter if we have a partner or not, as long as we are working in the same direction. ”

"The fairness of this world does not necessarily require sacrificing one's own, and I have always believed that being a law-abiding policeman, a lawyer who adheres to justice, and a soldier who bravely resists the invasion of the empire are all positive efforts for the fate of the Federation. You...... is a guy with a somewhat overflowing sense of justice, living according to your ideas, if not it can affect the world, at least it can affect the small environment around you...... In that sense, we are partners, and we have many partners in this world. ”

"Live, and then live well, live in peace, that's enough. Brother, I'm just going to find peace of mind. Xu Le silently folded the letter paper and put it in his personal pocket, where there was also a business card and a new bank card, which were the most important things in his life. Then he thought of Zhang Xiaomeng from this letter. It was still difficult for him to understand the thoughts of many people in the Federation, but after reading Shi Qinghai's letter again, his heart was touched.

People always have to die, and dying on the path they choose may be a kind of happiness. Xu Le thought quietly about Zhang Xiaomeng, the suspicion and anger he had before were not important at this moment.

Xu Le is a very silent and direct person, he doesn't know anything, he doesn't have any ideas, he is a young man who exists with intuition and intuition. He slowly looked up at the news playing on the light screen in the restaurant.

On the news, the opposition political leader Congressman Medellín, who gave a speech at the Capital University, is announcing that he will be the running mate of Governor Ross in Beijing and participate in the presidential election that will begin at the end of the year.

"If you can become vice president, won't my woman die in vain?" Xu Le took one last look at the news footage and walked silently towards the outside of the restaurant.