Xu Le didn't expect such a courtesy, and after being slightly stunned, he saluted the back, sat at the table, picked up the ordinary cup of jasmine tea, and took a few sips seriously.

Du Shaoqing turned around, waved his hand to let Ximen Dong and the officers of the Seventh Iron Division leave the room, walked to the table, removed the iconic sunglasses, took off the military hat, and sat down.

The two men sat on opposite sides of the table, watching each other calmly, no electric sparks growing in the meeting of their eyes, no swords and swords whistling in the air, only silence.

After not seeing him for a while, Xu Le noticed that Du Shaoqing's sideburns were already visible, and the indifferent, proud, and rigorous cheeks like ice sculptures in the past years were also a little tired and haggard.

Several years of battlefield career, especially in the last few months of expeditions to the empire, for the myth of the invincibility of the Iron Seventh Division, for the uninterrupted victory of the federal forces, Division Commander Du Shaoqing has spent a lot of effort, but Xu Le is still a little unable to adapt to the tired and haggard look, which will appear on his face.

Du Shaoqing's eyes drooped slightly, picked up the coffee that had been prepared by the orderly, took a sip gently, and then said very casually: "Slow death." ”

Xu Le was silent for a moment, then once again took the Qinli tea that the other party had personally brewed, took a big sip, raised his head, looked into the other party's eyes and said, "No." ”

Du Shaoqing put down the coffee cup, did not continue to complain about that problem, and turned to another topic, he looked at Xu Le's clearly scarred face, and said: "Three years ago in the base, we discussed whether the troops needed discipline and tactics or strong individuals. I said that there is only one god of war in the universe, and you said no, and now it seems that you have proven to some extent that you can do something that ordinary people can't do, but I still replied, if you die, what will happen to the troops?"

Du Shaoqing continued: "You miraculously survived, and you returned with merit, and the entire federation, from the president to the street vendors, everyone will give you some face." ”

"But I, Du Shaoqing, have never been a person who will give face to others, and I don't need to give face. ”

"I understand the importance of military discipline...... he raised his head, looked at Du Shaoqing and said, "But I believe that Bai Yulan is not a reckless man, and he naturally has his reasons for doing this." ”

"There is no reason to explain this. Du Shaoqing said: "I have paid attention to Magnolia before, and I know that he is a very good, even very rare soldier, but I have never thought of transferring him to my troops, because I know very well that I am like him, like you, like your team members...... Such a person is not a real soldier at all in his bones. ”

"The following offender tore Dongfang's ear and cut the crispy bone and meat into sixteen pieces...... , he cut off his back road with his own hands......"

Du Shaoqing stared at Xu Le's eyes, and his voice gradually became indifferent: "You haven't been a first-class military commander, but you should know very well what it means If my people do such a thing, I will definitely not intercede for him, I will only shoot him." ”

"Again, I'm sure my people would never do something like this for no reason. Xu Le had no intention of backing down, but stared at his eyes and said, "Master Shaoqing......"

The four words of Master Shaoqing came out of his mouth, and they looked extremely stiff, like cow bones that had been dried for thousands of years, jumping out of the cracks in the dry wasteland piece by piece, although they had four words, but the two of them knew very well what Xu Le's subtext was, and what he wanted to emphasize.

Gradually dark clouds accumulated between Du Shaoqing's sword-like eyebrows, and he said coldly: "The army, the first priority, discipline, the federation, the first law." The first and foremost evidence of both...... Colonel Xu Le, I respect the ruling of the court-martial, and will do whatever it takes to maintain the military discipline of the troops. ”

"I am absolutely sure that my subordinates will not do what you imagined, if you have evidence, please submit it to the Internal Affairs Department or a military court, if not, please return ......"

After listening to these neat and extraordinarily tough words, Xu Le frowned, and suddenly said, "Senior Commander Shaoqing, maybe you don't know your subordinates as well as you think. ”

Looking at the white hair of the sideburns of this famous federal general, he felt something in his heart, this person worked hard for the Federation, and could even burn his own life, but the pride and conceit in his bones still did not change.

"People are complex. Xu Le looked at Du Shaoqing's eyes and said, "Someone told me that human beings are first-order machines, and the more than 40,000 officers and soldiers of the Iron Seventh Division are under your training and command, and they are decently efficient and powerful, but ...... Man is not a real machine after all. A person like the commander of the Eastern Regiment is no longer the little soldier under you back then, he has his own thoughts. Trusting one's subordinates completely and unconditionally is a virtue, but it is also a risk, and no one knows if someone will take advantage of this trust. ”

Du Shaoqing's eyes narrowed, and a cold light shot out sharply, Xu Le's words would be too stupid if he was sowing discord, so he knew that the other party was talking about this issue very seriously, and when the smell of *brown gradually drifted away, he couldn't help but think of that rainy day in the capital, the subordinate he once trusted the most......

His eyes naturally drifted out of the room, Du Shaoqing glanced at the back of Ximen in the distance, his mood was unusually cold, probably because of this extremely complicated emotion, he was not willing to cast suspicion on another of his most loyal subordinates.

"Needless to say. Du Shaoqing waved his hand to stop Xu Le's speech, and after a moment of silence, he suddenly said, "There is something I must tell you." ”

"I still don't appreciate your casualness and personal elegance, but I know it...... I really admire you. ”

Xu Le's eyes lowered, staring at the gently rippling jasmine petals in the cup in front of him, and understood what the other party meant.

With Du Shaoqing's temperament, it is impossible to discuss with himself for such a long time on the issue of military discipline that seems to him to be extremely simple.

Whether it is this cup of tea made by Du Shaoqing himself, or the word "death delay" that the other party spit out from his lips at the beginning, it is not Du Shaoqing who gives him Xu Le's face, but a federal soldier who shows respect to another federal soldier who is not bad.

Director Xu stood up and put on his hat and saluted to say goodbye, and finally said in a deep voice: "At the battle meeting tomorrow morning, I will ask for a retrial of this case." ”

Du Shaoqing didn't answer, nor did he get up, he just waved his hand very casually, but when he looked at Xu Le's back as he walked out of the door, a rare touch of complicated and lonely emotion appeared in the eyes of this famous general of the Federation Young Zhuang faction.

Tea and conversation are respectful and thankful between soldiers.

Thank you for risking your life to go to the empire, killing Caton, avenging the tiger and her.

Half a kilometer away from the barracks of the New Seventeenth Division, at the corner of the escape door of a quiet metal tunnel, Xu Le squinted his eyes and said in a low voice, "Come out." ”

There were no gods, monsters, or ghosts, or unexpected beauties jumping out of there, running to him, hanging around his neck and embracing him warmly, except for an old butler in a black formal dress, silently appearing in his pupils, or more precisely, in the visual area of his brain.

In the breeze of the base, Xu Le turned around and leaned against the secluded metal plate, closed his eyes, stared at the housekeeper in the dark, and always felt that the wrinkles on this image seemed to be much less than a few years ago, and subconsciously asked a question that was a little inexplicable, but both sides were very clear.

"You...... Or are you?"

"It's a little weird, but I'm still me, besides, I haven't seen you for a long time, Xu Leshang,...... This is a greeting on behalf of another me. ”

Xu Le sighed, didn't have the energy to discuss the philosophical question of whether consciousness and wisdom could be split, reported the data of the root code of the preface that Gu Xifeng stole from him, and said, "Please help me check whether this military order preface has been manipulated." ”

After a short time, the Federal Charter computer replied: "This order has been revised, and the thirty-four military orders between the standard Q and the mouth are overwritten. ”

Xu Le calculated the time, it was the days before Magnolia was attacked in the Hui District of Fagar City, his closed eyes couldn't help but wrinkle tightly, but the hands hanging on his waist gradually relaxed, took out a Sanqi brand cigarette from his pocket, lit one and smoked gently, a smile appeared on his face.

"Help me get the raw data back. ”

"No, you can't. ”

"Why?"

"Because this is a battlefield real-time command sequence, according to wartime regulations, the relevant data is temporarily stored in the headquarters data box for easy access at any time, and then transmitted back within the standard time. ”

"What does this have to do with retrieving data?"

"Before the original data could be sent back, it was completely destroyed by the third-level clearance. ”

"Where's the permission?"

"S1 Charter Bureau remote operation. ”

Xu Le opened his eyes suddenly, and immediately thought of the information he sent back before going to the Empire, the reason why the Imperial Seed that destroyed the Ancient Bell was able to escape the purge of the Charter Bureau must also be related to the Charter Bureau.

He squinted and inhaled deeply. Cigarette asked in a low voice: "What did you ask you to help calculate before you came back, how did the calculation go? Also, what was the final result of the federal investigation of the case a year ago?"

"Based on the information and related information you have obtained from the Empire, it is estimated that this person has no access to the confidential route data related to the Ancient Bell, and this person has no access to the missing regional data of the Charter Network. ”

"The result of the case a year ago was: Assistant Director Cui Judong was examined and acquitted. Jiao Shouheng, deputy director of the Office of the Ministry of National Defense, committed suicide. ”

Xu Le took off his cigarette, licked his somewhat bitter lips, squinted at the foreign land outside the base, and looked at the dark clouds there, and his mood became heavy.

"Boss, how are you talking?"

Xiong Linquan, Da Vinci and other cadres came over and asked with an anxious look.

Xu Le came to his senses, snuffed out his cigarette butt, and said, "Du Shaoqing didn't agree to release him." ”

"What should I do then?" everyone was extremely disappointed, Xiong Linquan said in a depressed mood: "Boss...... , do you want to go and see Lao Bai?"

"No, after Lao Bai came out, I saw him as a flower. Xu Le thought of the revised military order and spat out: "I don't need him anymore Du Shaoqing nodded."

Countless dark clouds were floating in the sky, obscuring the clear sunlight and casting chilling shadows. Xu Le also has countless dark clouds in his heart, Secretary Jiao's death, the results of the review of Cui Judong, the powerful soldier who assassinated the little watermelon back then, the undercurrent in the army mentioned by the tiger in the Xilin restaurant, and the countless scattered apples that cannot be strung together, but they gradually condense, pointing to a chilling guess result.

If the attack on the Gu Zhong was really a conspiracy of some big figures in the Federation, how did they do it? The death of Secretary Jiao seems to have completely cut off this tea line, and where can we start to investigate? If the attack on Bai Yulan and his party is another move by the radicals of the army, why did they do this, just to cut off the influence they left behind, and what is it...... Did Du Shaoqing get involved? Did the lady in Mochou Houshan get involved? How many people in the government and government were involved in this ugly thing?

In the face of this rain cloud that I don't know how many layers, how thick, and how dark, the federal central computer is not omnipotent, and the old thing can rely on a huge database to comb, accurately go back and retrieve information, and accurately locate a certain year, month, and day, who has met and spoken to whom in a certain place, but based on the citizens' ** regulations, which are strictly protected by Charter I, there is no way to restore a lot of information except electronic data.

Society is an incomparably complex system, a person has to meet countless people every day, a note when they meet, a whispered word, or even a look, can construct an infinite possible conspiracy, and this simplest way of communication is also a way that is difficult for the central government to monitor.

As Feng Yu once said: the simplest is often the most powerful, the lock is like this, the machine is like this, and the person is like this.

Let the old thing continue to look for clues in the huge database, and Xu Le must turn his attention back to the base, because the impromptu conversation before this morning's military meeting will soon decide the life and death of Magnolia.

According to his military rank, there was certainly no place for him in the secret conference room of the offensive military plan, but he could sit in on it.

The coffee cup of the headquarters was broken a few days ago, so there was a teacup on the table today, looking at the steaming white mist in front of him, Xu Le squinted his eyes thoughtfully, but the afterglow gently fell on the figure of Du Shaoqing in front of him.

If he still had respect for Du Shaoqing as a real soldier in the past, then at this moment, these respects have long been covered by those dark clouds, not completely disappeared, but become extremely vague.

Xu Le slowly stood up under the gaze of the generals, and said calmly to a little weird: "I'm in a bad mood today, so I'll try to speak as fast as possible." ”

"My subordinate, Captain Magnolia, was sentenced to death by a military judge for being accused of assaulting his commander, and I express my unacceptability and strong incomprehension!"

The atmosphere in the conference room was stiff, and everyone, including Commander Yi, didn't expect Xu Le to be so tough as soon as he opened his mouth!

"What I don't understand is...... When my squad was put into a dangerous situation by the first regiment of the Iron Seventh Division with shameless and insidious means, and my comrades died tragically, why did Captain Magnolia only tear out one of the ears of the regimental commander. ”

There was a lot of uproar.

Xu Le stared at Du Shaobi's side face in front of him and said, "If it were me, I would never tear his ear, but would ...... it directly and killed him. ”

"Colonel Xu Le, I hope you would be better able to present relevant evidence. Du Shaoqing didn't look back, his fingers gently rubbed the edge of his sunglasses, and said lightly.

This military general didn't threaten anything, but the generals in the conference room heard his anger from this sentence, if Xu Le was just venting his anger because of the Magnolia matter, the Iron Seventh Division would definitely not give up.

Xu Le took out a chip and handed it to the staff officer beside him, looked at Du Shaoqing and said: "Division Commander Du, I remember that in the 5460 Glacier military operation, Commander Dongfang Yu was punished by military law for deliberately delaying the rescue of a certain unit of the Special First Army, such a person with a criminal record is really worthy of your trust?"

Without waiting for anyone to speak, Xu Le stared at Du Shaoqing and continued: "In less than two years, he became the regiment commander again, doesn't this violate the military appointment regulations............? Your words Du Shaoqing can replace military law!"

Du Shaoqing's sword eyebrows were slightly raised, his eyes were as cold as ice, he slowly turned his head, and stared at Xu Le's face without saying a word, just like looking at a guy looking for death.

Under these eyes, Xu Le didn't feel anything like a stone, squinted his eyes and said, "If you want evidence, I'll give you evidence." ”

"What is this?" Commander Yi Changtian frowned, looked at the scrolling list on the light curtain, and asked, "It looks like an order order, but what does the annotation next to it mean?"

"This is the underlying data ......" The staff officer next to him suppressed the shock in his heart and explained to the generals in the conference room: "Next to it is the data analysis results of the federal central computer, think ...... The sequence has been altered, the original data has been modified, and it has been destroyed. ”

"This is the sequence of defense deployment instructions of the first regiment of the Iron Seventh Division during that time, I can't completely fix it, but according to the remaining information, I can already see a lot of problems. ”

Xu Le looked at Du Shaoqing and said in a cold voice: "I have no way to tell if Dongfang Yu has drunk too much menstruation and his brain has become extremely stupid, or whether he is bold enough to dare to frame his allies, but because of these unreasonable orders, the remnants of the empire slipped in from your regiment's defense area, and my people died so much!"

At this moment, Du Shaoqing's expression was still indifferent and calm, but the corners of his eyes twitched slightly.

Liu Sifu, deputy commander of the Seventh Iron Division, stood up, frowned and said, "Is this record real?"

"This is a judgment from the highest authority of the Charter Bureau, you Seventh Division want to doubt the authenticity?" Xu Le said in a deep voice: "I don't care how you explain it, you first explain to me why this preface was erased by someone to erase the original record!"

Liu Sifu's brows furrowed extremely tightly, and he replied slowly: "Since the last conflict with the Charter Bureau on Planet 5460, everyone has guessed that you have a close relationship with the high-level members of the Charter Bureau, who knows if you erased the original records and then ......"

Xu Le's pupils shrank sharply, he didn't expect the other party to be so shameless, and scolded loudly: "The master was fighting with the imperial people to the death at that time, change your mother's face!"

Liu Sifu's scolded body stiffened, and when he was about to fight back, a violent shout with endless anger sounded in the conference room.

"Enough!"

Du Shaoqing slammed the teacup in his hand on the table, the porcelain pieces splashed, and the right hand of the concubine who was bleeding behind her back trembled angrily.

He tensed up and slowly stood up, his voice like a cold overflow from his lips as if he had been soaked in the blood of the three glaciers and the corpses of those warriors for countless years.

"Bring me the Oriental Jade. ”

(It occurred to me that I should finish making up for it?Let's get up tomorrow and settle the score...... I wish you all a happy weekend, and by the way, call for recommended tickets to come quickly, and push the fifth week, which is very comfortable...... ，）