20. The dice have been dropped! (6)
When a man is killed, he dies.
You only have one life, so it's precious.
No matter how evil a person is, he can only kill him once, and no matter how kind and pure a person is, he will not have a chance to come back from the dead.
Mikana is dead, and has vanished without a trace along with the rest of the Holy Capital, here only a monster modeled after her. So it's okay to kill her, just kill-
ββ
The vomit and sour taste welled up in his throat, and Roland finally swallowed back the bitterness in his mouth, and his mouth became more and more bitter with the louder and louder sound of nails scraping steel.
From the other end of the creaking ceiling, there was something like the gentle girl's.
The young mother soothed the wounds in Roland's heart like a sister. However, something with the same face and the same slender arms was tearing and scraping steel with his bare hands to kill Roland.
"Hahaha"
The boy gasped, and cold sweat flowed from his head, back, and armpits.
He felt that he was fully conscious.
As a human being, the consciousness of raising the flag against the agent of divine will;
The consciousness of determining the goal and constantly striving towards the goal;
If necessary, do not hesitate to become vile and cruel to consciousness;
Roland thinks he can do these things....
Wrong.
He just believes that he is ready to be enlightened, and when he really faces the trade-off between human life and puts his life on the scale and lets him make a one-way choice, he will truly realize that he is still a teenager at heart.
The only person who can thoroughly implement Machiavellianism, regard everything as a unified calculation of numbers and symbols, and take efficiency and results as the only criterion, is the ultimate strategist like Li Lin. It is impossible for humans to cut their emotions and memories and discard them as easily as they do math problems or dismantle machinery, and even adults cannot easily say that they can do it, let alone at Roland's age.
After all, human beings cannot change easily.
Even knowing that he would die, even knowing that it was something different, Roland still had to be shaken by the faces that were the same as Mikana.
In other words, if anyone encounters a similar situation, it is impossible not to waver, but it is better to say that those who can act without hesitation and hesitation can be called a normal person.
Vacillation is not a problem, nor is it impossible, but in such a life-or-death moment, vacillation and wasting time are tantamount to tightening one's neck.
"Holy!!"
Roland gritted his teeth and clenched his fists.
What should I do?
The young man, who is always calm and composed, has a mess in his head.
There are both vacillation, anxiety, and more importantly, helplessness about the situation.
(What the hell should I do?!Hurry up and think about it!How can I end it like this!It's stupid!Even if it's very unlikely, anyway-)
Tsk β
Everyone looked up in amazement at the ceiling where an unusual sound was coming from.
The two layers totaled 20 mm, and the armor plates, which were riveted and fixed with a large number of rivets with a diameter of mm, were slightly loosened by manpower. A broken rivet fell off and bounced around the deck, a crisp sound that creeped in everyone's ears.
Monsters that can pry open even armor plates with their bare hands will soon be killed in droves.
Time is running out for thought.
Subconsciously, Roland raised the beam Magnum rifle and aimed it at the ceiling.
A glimmer of light leaked out from the joint of the rattling iron plates, and the light leaked from the Tianjing that I don't know where shone into the hangar along the torn gap, and under the blue-white light, the girl's hollow and confused side face was faintly visible.
Mikana
Looking at the hollow pupils, Roland's trembling lips overflowed with a moan.
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Rastenburg, Eagle's Nest, 9:32 a.m.
Four hours and two minutes have passed since the revolving door was activated, and there is good news coming from all fronts.
For example, the march went smoothly, and there was no decent resistance except for manual work such as clearing roadblocks;
For example, when encountering Charlemagne's cavalry troops somewhere, the other party was very cooperative and laid down his arms, counted the number of people and equipment, and then lined up on the truck to the prisoner of war camp;
For example, some units were racing too hard and distanced themselves from the follow-up troops, so they had to stop at Bastogne and wait for the follow-up troops to follow;
In general, there were some major or minor problems, but they did not affect the pace of the march, and the only thing that can be counted as a problem is probably that the schedule set before the war is too conservative, and the final time to complete the mission may be less than the expected 0 hours.
The frequent reports of good news have greatly boosted the morale of the whole army, greatly improved the work efficiency, and everyone from staff officers and colonels to grassroots soldiers has been very busy, but all officers and men have not shown the slightest fatigue or slackness. Vigor and energy permeated the Ardennes front.
Compared with his subordinates, who are busy hitting the back of the head, His Excellency the Dictator can be described as very "idle". From beginning to end, after ordering the start of the campaign, he never gave a single order or said a word, just sat in his exclusive seat and drank coffee. At most, I only occasionally raised my eyelids to glance at the giant terminal display, and nothing else.
No one in the command felt out of the ordinary.
The combination of a convenient and high-speed communications system and an efficient and capable general staff will enable the commander-in-chief to be freed from all kinds of "trivial matters" and "miscellaneous tasks" and concentrate on controlling the general direction. The rest of the logistical support, building bridges and roads, mobilizing troops, coordinating and discussing, sorting out and analyzing intelligence, and so on were handed over to the staff officers in order to improve work efficiency.
His Excellency the Dictator is thinking about such important matters as the general situation of the world, the future of the country, and the rejuvenation of the nation, and it is a crime against the country and the nation to disturb him with a few trivial matters, said the General Staff.
Of course, as an efficiency supremacist, Li Lin really will not allow precious time to be wasted in a meaningless daze. However, after the revolving door was activated, he did not pay too much attention and interference.
What is the need and reason for doing so?
Not to mention that he had already sent his men to deal with the only force that could cause obstacles, so what if Roland had managed to pull off a miracle and keep the revolving door stuck for two or even three whole days? Charlemagne could have escaped the arranged end, and the world would have turned into another trajectory, and the future of humanity on an equal footing with the gods, or even above the gods, would appear at the end of the road?
No way.
Some people compare history to a blood-stained wheel, but this abstract concept is not a figurative description.
If you want to stop the wheels, you can only try to get stuck before the wheels start to turn, not after the wheels continue to rotate and accumulate speed and potential energy, at which point, whether it is a brave praying mantis or an inconspicuous pebble in front of the wheel, you will only be crushed into powder in the end.
The so-called historical inertia is such a heavy and cruel existence.
As for the current situation, after a long period of accumulation and operation, Alfheim has accumulated strength not only to eliminate Charlemagne, but also to resist the interference of foreign forces in the process. One or two setbacks to the battle plan β even if the revolving door caused major delays β could not save Charlemagne's defeat. On the contrary, Charlemagne may also become the world's first large-scale combat target of NB weapons because of his incomplete and rapid failure. It is believed that after the baptism of pneumonic plague, anthrax, botulinum toxin, smallpox, cholera, Ebola, sarin, Tabun, Soman, V, neutron bomb, thermite incendiary bomb, no country will turn against Alfheim for this wasteland. After that, the world will still enter the stage of game confrontation, but the atmosphere will be more tense, and the zero-sum game will be more and more intense.
In the era of total warfare, the gap in technology and industrial capacity was measured in terms of the number of corpses. If it had been twenty or thirty years ago, when Alfheim was just getting started, Charlemagne might have had a chance to change history. Now after being mired in the quagmire, it is too late to kill the full-fledged henchmen.
From the moment he completes the most important laying tasks, he doesn't need to interfere with the details, just waits for the final result. At this time, too much interference will cause unnecessary pressure on the following, which will affect the final completion of the task.
So he just had to put on a calm and composed, while keeping an eye on the progress of Roland's side, and occasionally learning about the progress of Army Group Bβthat was enough.