"Is it Admiral Kelso, Chief of Naval Operations? This is Morgan Manor, and I'm JK's assistant Dani. ”

"Hello, Miss Dani, I'm Kelso, what do you command?"

"That's right, JK is about to make an inspection of the Navy, so please come to Morgan Manor the day after tomorrow morning to discuss this inspection. ”

"Okay, got it, I'll be there on time the day after tomorrow. ”

Hanging up, Kelso looked out the window quietly, looking a little sluggish, until a long time later.

After coming back to his senses, he straightened his face, took a deep breath, and opened the door with a smile on his face and walked towards his wife.

"Lena, today is the weekend, let's go to a show together!"

"Why do you suddenly want to go to the theater?"

"I don't usually have time to spend with you, but I have time today, so I want to be with you. ”

"Okay, you wait for me, I'll go change my clothes. ”

"Okay! I think the brown dress suits you perfectly. ”

Kelso and his wife first watched a show of The Merchant of Venice at the theater, then found a beautiful restaurant to have dinner together, and after dinner, they went to the mall together, where Kelso bought a necklace for his wife, and finally returned home until 10 o'clock in the evening.

The next day, before dawn, Kelso got up from his bed, quietly went to the study, turned on the lamp on the desk, and found a pen and paper to write his last words.

Receiving a call from Dani, Kelso knew that his time was up, from the moment he ordered the soldiers to launch missiles, he had been waiting for the arrival of today, and now that the time was up, he had to arrange his own funeral, and at the same time write down some words that he had not had time to say to his wife and children, which could be regarded as saying goodbye to them.

After the last words were written, Kelso put the suicide note in the drawer, got up and looked at the study and then came to the bedroom, his wife had not woken up, he bent down and kissed his wife lightly on the face, then turned to leave the bedroom and got into the car waiting outside.

After Kelso left, his sleeping wife opened her eyes and got up from her bed to the window, where she watched the car disappear into the darkness.

Not long after the car disappeared, several men in black walked down from a car not far from Kelso's house, knocked on the door of Kelso's house, and took Kelso's wife away from the house.

The next day, at nine o'clock in the morning, Kelso arrived at Morgan Manor with Secretary of the Navy John Dalton.

The Secretary of the Navy is the highest commander of the Navy, a civilian officer. Chief of Naval Operations, Navy Second in Command, Military Attaché.

In order to prevent a military coup, the US military secretary of defense and the secretary of the three armed services must be civilian officials, and the management system and command system are independent of each other.

"Minister Dalton, please follow me, Minister Kelso, please wait a moment. Dani went to the waiting room and took John Dalton to John's study, where John was to meet the two Navy Chiefs alone.

When John Dalton walked into the study and saw John, he quickened his pace to the desk and bowed to John: "Hello little boss!"

His attitude was very humble, but John did not appreciate it, and threw a stack of materials on the desk at him: "You can take a good look at what the navy has become by you! It is light to say that you have neglected your duties and dereliction of duty." ”

The stack of materials that John threw away was none other than the sexual assault that occurred in the Navy that year.

John Dalton leaned over to pick up the information, looked at the records on it, and broke out in a cold sweat. There are many cases of sexual assault in the Navy this year, hundreds of them, which are simply outrageous, and he, the Minister of the Navy, has an unshirkable responsibility for such a thing, and now it depends on how John deals with him.

"Don't say I won't give you a chance, I'll give you a year to straighten out the navy now, and if you let me see so many similar events in a year, you won't have to see me, you're cut off yourself!" John waved his hand and drove John Dalton out of the study like a fly, if he hadn't just become the heir and his position was not secure, he would definitely have done the navy boss.

After John Dalton was kicked out, Dani went to the waiting room to bring Kelso into his study.

However, just after Kelso was brought into John's study, the elder Morgan and the Grand Elder received the news that today was extremely important to the Morgan family, and that John's actions would determine the fate of the Morgan family for decades to come.

Kelso, like John Dalton, bowed to John behind his desk as soon as he entered the study: "Hello little boss!"

John didn't lose the information this time, but asked Kelso to sit down and talk.

After Kelso sat down, John stared at him for a long time, and only after he was about to look at the navy boss that he spoke: "I'm curious, since you know what will happen to you when you come to Morgan Manor this time, why do you still come? Why don't you choose to run away or resist, aren't you afraid of death?"

Kelso didn't understand why John said that.

John didn't explain when he saw Kelso's confused appearance, so he directly picked up the folder in front of him and threw it over.

Kelso opened it and saw that his eyes suddenly widened, and the contents of the folder were none other than the suicide note he had written in his study yesterday.

Why is this thing here?

Kelso was puzzled, but after thinking about it, he understood that John was going to clean him up, so it was natural that he would send someone to monitor his every move, so it was not surprising that this suicide note appeared here.

After Kelso figured it out, he put the suicide note on the table, took a breath and answered John's question: "I am a soldier, but I am afraid of death, but my duty is to obey orders, defend national interests, protect national territory, and escape and resist are not what soldiers should do." You are a sir, and as a subordinate I must obey your orders, even if the order is for me to die. ”

John nodded with satisfaction after hearing this: "I decided to give you a good time for your words, you can cut yourself off!"

John glanced at KA as he spoke, and KA then walked over to Kelso, pulled out the gun from his waist and loaded it in front of Kelso, and John got up and walked to the window with his back to Kelso.

Kelso took a breath and stretched out his right hand to pick up the gun, looked at John's back and pleaded, "Little boss! ”

"Don't worry, no one will embarrass your wife. "John is not the head of the feudal society, and he does not engage in the affairs of the nine clans.

"Thank you, little boss!" Kelso replied, holding his gun to his temple.

People are afraid of death, at the moment of death, people will instinctively survive, for people who do not want to die but must die, he must use a strong will to overcome the instinct of survival.

Kelso slowly closed his eyes, and after a strong battle of thoughts, he defeated his instinct and slowly pressed the trigger.

"Da!"

A crisp voice rang out in the study.

After the sound, Kelso slumped back in his chair, gasping for air, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead, which was the disintegration of will, the fear of death after the return of the survival instinct, a feeling that few people can experience.

After half a ring, Kelso slowly regained his composure, and when he came to his senses, he suddenly woke up, after many years of military career, he could naturally distinguish whether the gunshot just now was jammed or hollow, but what he didn't understand was why John gave himself a gun without bullets?

John also returned to the desk at this time, looking at Kelso's puzzled appearance, he said lightly: "Kelso!

"Why?" Kelso wondered even more, didn't he say that he had broken himself?

"Because I admire your courage, I decided to spare your life. ”

This reason is very earthy, but the spirit of seeing death as if it were home is really admirable.

John used to admire this warrior spirit whenever he read that the wind was sluggish and the water was cold, and when the strong man was gone, he would admire this warrior spirit, although Kelso was not a warrior, but he knew that he was going to die, did not resist or escape, and left a suicide note to die calmly This courage is also worthy of admiration.

Moreover, Kelso was just a pawn, he was just following orders at the time, and the mastermind behind the scenes was the elder Morgan, so John killed Kelso just to resist and express a kind of dissatisfaction.

But now John felt that it was unnecessary to express his dissatisfaction with a human life, which was too extravagant, not to mention that this human life had something to admire.