The City Hall is located on the 24th floor of Donghai International Hotel, and this floor is a multi-purpose hall dedicated to large-scale conferences.

The seating of the meeting was arranged according to the ranking of the martial arts of the previous National New Year Congress, and there were no requirements for the specific order, but the seating area of each team was divided.

Because Ling Qianhan had just left Li Lingqi's side not long after receiving a notice of the meeting of the Competition Association,

So she came to the venue relatively late, and simply sat next to Qianyue.

According to her words, everyone is a team member, and there is nothing so exquisite.

When Li Lingqi and Yu Beisheng arrived, most of the teams in the venue had already arrived, and there was not much time left before the meeting began.

At this time, Li Lingqi walked in front, and Yu Beisheng followed behind and hurried towards the position area of their team at the front.

When I passed through the teams in the southwest and northwest defense areas, I saw their empty seats, and I felt quite uncomfortable.

didn't think much about it, and when they arrived at the location of TD Company, Yu Beisheng casually pushed Li Lingqi into it, and then sat down directly with a "bang".

And Li Lingqi, who was suddenly "attacked" by Yu Beisheng and was originally going to enter the seat sideways, was still in a weak period of body bones, and his center of gravity was not so when he was stepping, so he fell steadily into the arms of Ling Qianhan, who was sitting on the side.

"Yu Beisheng, pay attention!"

After Ling Qian, who pressed Li Lingqi back to the seat next to him, said a cold word to Yu Beisheng, he didn't make any more moves, and continued to look at the information on his personal terminal abnormally, frowning.

Seeing this, Yu Beisheng also restrained his emotions and sat in his seat and waited for the meeting to start.

Within a few minutes, there were no more people walking back and forth in the room, and the row of seats in front of them facing the students was filled with the staff of the National Competition Association.

"Ahem~"

Seeing that the people were almost ready, Yu Qipeng, vice chairman of the competition association, auditioned the speaker slightly and reminded everyone that the meeting was about to start, and said with a serious expression:

"I think the captains here have received the casualty report I forwarded to you about the large-scale war in the 121st West!"

"In just five days, we lost more than 300,000 fighters and more than a million wounded!"

"This is a tragic loss that our country has never suffered since it entered a state of combat readiness! It is also the most powerful proof of the ambition of the imperial wolf!"

"Are we afraid in the face of enemy aggression and war?

"Even in the face of the threat of the enemy's high-energy weapon warfare, we have never flinched! But today, when the state of the earth is difficult to withstand continuous ultra-high-energy weapon strikes!"

"What are we going to do?!"

"Fight!", "Fight them!", "Fight them to the end!、......

The young people in the hall let out a deafening roar, which was impulsive and pure to defend their families and country.

In such an environment, even Ling Qianhan clenched his fists slightly, and Li Lingqi also had a surge in his heart!

It's too much of a deception!

On the eve of the transition to the virtual world, this action of the Empire is both a test of their attitude and a drain on the living forces of each defense zone.

It's just that from the national level, there is no way to fight to the death with the empire in an all-round way!

Because today, after more than ten years of war, in fact, the pace of virtual war is inevitable!

It can be said that this is not just an initiative led by an empire or a certain party, but a demand for the earth that has been creaking for years!

This is the reason why various defense zones and companies have formed special operations teams.

And the ultimate purpose of the empire in launching the 121 war is to make the country unilaterally refuse to implement a virtual war under the huge pressure of domestic public opinion!

Because, no matter who opposes virtual warfare and decides to fight to the end, the final result will be the outbreak of a war with ultra-high-energy weapons.

will also end up facing the pressure of the whole world!

Yu Qipeng looked at the angry team members and was satisfied, but he had to say,

"We're going to fight! And we're going to fight to the end! But we can't keep fighting on Earth!"

"You are all elites valued by various companies and defense regions, and the country hopes that you can understand that of course we can fight to the end regardless of everything, but the environment we live in no longer allows us to do so!"

"If nuclear weapons were just a deterrent a few decades ago, then when ultra-high-energy weapons appeared today, you have also conducted real-life sand table simulations, knowing that they really have the ability to cut and even destroy the earth!"

"Again, the state wants you to recognize this first, not like ......"

"Qiu Liyan, what are you doing!"

Looking at the captain of the Southwest Defense Region who suddenly got up and wanted to leave, Yu Qipeng suddenly burst into tears.

"The country can bear it, everyone can bear it, but I can't bear it!" Qiu Liyan, the captain of the Southwest Defense Region, shouted as he looked at Yu Qipeng on the rostrum.

"Thousands of soldiers in our southwest and northwest defense regions can't bear it!" he said, pointing to the direction in which the war was taking place in the northwest.

"There, just two days ago! I saw my teammates die under Imperial fire! I watched my teammates who had told us at night that they were going to come together to grab equipment for the defense zone died in the last counterattack before retreating!"

"Now you're telling me that the earth can't stand it?want me to endure it?how can I bear it?!"

"How can you let the soldiers who died in the battle in the southwest defense area and the soldiers who are still alive endure it?!"

"I know you have your considerations, and you have the so-called overall situation! But you can't want me to be the spokesman for you! I don't want people from the southwest and northwest to do it!"

While speaking, Qiu Liyan turned around and shouted to the young people in the venue, "I don't want those martyrs who died in battle to die in vain, what about you?!"

"No!" roared nearly half of the room.

They were also involved in the war of the previous days, and they also saw the tragic scene.

For them, the National Competition Association sends the captain not only rows and rows of data, but also their instructors, brothers, and comrades-in-arms.

"Then are you willing to accept this result and then go to the starry world with the empire to have that painless battle?"

"I don't want to!"

"Okay! Let's go, let's not be this sinner who is sorry for the thousands of soldiers in the southwest and northwest!"

After speaking, Qiu Liyan strode towards the gate of the venue.

And as he moved, nearly half of the team members stood up silently in the field and followed his movements.

Bang!

I saw Yu Qipeng slap the table angrily, and the microphone on the table shook with a harsh noise.

Even the departing team members stopped to look at the rumored mild-mannered vice president of the competition association.

"You think I'm willing to be this sinner?!"

"You think I'm willing to put up with it?!"

Thorny-

Yu Qipeng, who stood up and looked at Qiu Liyan, suddenly tore off the suit on his body, revealing his shoulders, chest and black mourning clothes with gauze inside.

"Only you have lost your comrades?Only you have experienced the war?Only you are angry?!"

"Half an hour ago, I just came back from the funeral of He Qiang, the second defense commander of the Northwest Defense Region! He is a comrade-in-arms of the same squad as me!"

"Three days ago, we were still talking about this war!"

"Only you are scarred? Do you feel that you have paid for the country? My mecha was blown up on the spot by the heavy fire of the enemy! Severe burns on the chest, abdomen and arms, I don't have to come and beg you little cubs!"

"Are you willing to endure it, am I willing to endure it? Who is willing to endure it?"

"When has our country been so cowardly in the past few decades?

Yu Qipeng pointed at Qiu Liyan, and pointed to Yu Beisheng, Ye Xingyan, and Haixu who stood up......

Pointing at them and yelling,

"It's not because of you! We're dozens of years old, and we're afraid that tomorrow a war with ultra-high-energy weapons will break out, and the day after tomorrow the earth will be shattered?"

"We've been licking blood from the knife for a lifetime!

"I'm afraid, I'm afraid, you, your children and grandchildren don't have a place to live!"

Yu Qipeng laughed self-deprecatingly,

"When my mecha exploded yesterday, people in the sky were still thinking that sooner or later they would hit the empire's hometown, and they would kneel and beg for mercy and never dare to land on our land again......"

"And then, the non-current shit came over to appease you, to appease those bastards who were bent on revenge?!"

"We can't win a real fight?"

"I really can't beat the Empire, and at this time, it wants to force us to refuse the virtual war agreement?!"

"We've beaten it, but we can't afford it!"

"Is it just to be happy for a while, just to avenge the dead brothers and ignore the living?"

"Look out there, those ordinary people, your parents!"

"I became a soldier, I became a city guard...... We, people, don't live for ourselves anymore!"

Looking at the bustling traffic and crowd downstairs outside the window, Yu Qipeng silently left tears.

"I won't stop you if you want to go, and I can't stop you. But I beg you to look outside, and think about what those warriors died for!"

"The future is yours, and the decision is yours!"

After saying the last sentence, Yu Qipeng silently took the shirt handed over by the person next to him and put it on, sat down on the chair dejectedly, and lit an electronic worry stick.

It can be seen that his assistant, after taking off his blazer, also has large and small bandages wrapped around his body, which is not good-looking.

“......”

Qiu Liyan didn't speak, just silently walked to the window and looked out the window at the East China Sea, which was bright and green in the sun.

The others were silent, and some sat back in silence.

Syllable!

In the quiet venue, Qiu Liyan suddenly gave a military salute in the direction of the northwest.

The salute lasted for a full three minutes, and then he walked back to his position in the southwest defense zone with tears on his face, picked up the table that he had brought down because of excitement, and sat back in his place.

He can decide his own life and death, but he doesn't want to decide for the people outside, and he doesn't dare.