"There, do you see, the city wall, we're home."

"Calculate the time, I haven't been back for more than half a year, I don't know if my wife has stolen men behind Lao Tzu's back."

"Damn, I'm going back to drink a case of beer, eat a ton of barbecue, and sleep ten women......"

"Just you? I think it's a cart of bread people sleeping with you, hahahaha......"

The mud of the road diminished as they got closer to the Iron City, and outside the Thirteen Towns, the soldiers' military boots had already stepped onto the solid and neat Interstate 77, and people held pergolas in their hands, looking at the towering hundred-foot-high exterior walls of the Iron City, dozens of black rock pillars in the walls soared into the sky, and from time to time white birds on the lake gathered and dispersed, and a smell of smoke and dust finally overshadowed iron and blood, and the soldiers hugged each other, wept, and whistled in their hats to celebrate their return home.

They won the war! Won the Triumph!

Simon had an M27 rifle on his chest, his poncho still dirty, and he threw a handful of water at his face. Dripping down the pavement from their raincoats, hundreds of soldiers stood on the side of the road, waiting in line to take a shower in the public baths provided by the Thirteen Towns. Brigadier General Reginald Ledou, the commander of the Iron Army, insisted that the soldiers be washed outside the Thirteen Towns before marching into the city, where they were the first to return to the Iron City and deserved to be triumphant.

The soldiers who returned to their hearts were very happy with this order, and who did not want to return home in a majestic and triumphant manner, and the thirteen towns that had been depressed for a long time were the first to prosper with the return of the Iron Army, and a large number of brand-new soldiers were distributed in warehouses, all kinds of labor and military goods, and even went to Lake Erie to pick up water pipes and come back to wash the vehicles, and poured the outside of the town into a sea of water.

"Happy days." Bernhard walked up to Simon, put his arm on his shoulder, and said, The dirty soldiers had stripped off a big trouser in the spring cold, and they were flirting with the girls who had heard the news, and the hot steam was coming out of the simple shack. Farther away, tanks, Humvees, infantry vehicles, and all-terrain vehicles are parked, and technicians sent by the Iron City Industry Union are doing their best to make these mechanical monsters glow.

Simon glanced at Bernhard, who was still wrapped in a black ranger coat with a hole in the holes, resting his elbows on the butt of his rifle and said, "Why don't you go and wash up, I heard that you will be entering the city in the evening at most." ”

"Don't worry, look at this muddy pond, it's not enough to wash it once." Bernhard looked around his fingers, looked at Simon's basically long fingers, and said, "You are recovering well, although I don't know much about Hydra's abilities, but you are obviously a good fit." ”

Bernhard looked at the steel city under the protection of the towering city walls, the higher and thicker black walls of the western city, the blue and white sky without a trace of clouds, not like the way spring should be, the sun was surprisingly good, shining brightly. "So, what are your plans to go back to Area M right away? Most of the Hydra had returned on transport planes a few weeks earlier. Bernhard touched Simon with his elbow and teased: "After all, the beauty has an appointment." ”

Simon raised the corners of his lips and smiled, smiling naturally and comfortably, and did not rush to answer.

"Hey, you, don't run away with my soap!" Several soldiers chased and played, and until this time, it turned out that they were still half-grown children, and they were full of vitality at the age of eighteen or nineteen

of young people, not tools of killing. The two of them were standing on the edge of the roadbed, and the follow-up tanks were driving down the road one by one, and the machine gunners were proudly standing on the turret, waving their helmets, and someone shouted: "Whew! Whew! Whew! Causing everyone to shout together, "Huha! Phew! ”

"Phew!" Bernhard shouted, clenching his fist across Simon's eyes. "That's what home feels like, man, and I think you have more say than I do."

"That's right." The two clashed fists, and Bernhard walked up to the rangers waiting for him with his gun on his shoulder, and shouted, "Listen! They all dress up Lao Tzu beautifully, and they want to be as beautiful as a woman! At 4 o'clock, I want to see everyone so beautiful that people can't help but burst chrysanthemums, do you hear clearly! ”

"Hear me clearly!"

"Get out of here!" Bernhard waved. Someone muttered, "Is it beautiful or handsome, it makes me so messy." Before the words fell, this unlucky bastard was stuffed into the mud by the mischief of his comrades, and was picked up and thrown into the dug cistern. Swim fast! Say yes and make ducks together! The comrades-in-arms applauded and watched the unlucky ghost flutter.

Simon turned around and walked back to his ATV, handed the driver and co-pilot two packs of cigarettes, put his hand on the window and pointed to the parking lot, saying, "You guys go to the car wash quickly, don't hurry up when the time comes." ”

Simon called for three drooling pigs who were watching. "you, don't look at it, it's a holiday tomorrow, some of you are playing, is Lao Tzu not paying military salaries? Packed up my things and followed me. Simon was stunned and kicked to drag away the three people who were confused by the girl.

Simon's epaulettes carried a gold bar, so naturally he didn't have to squeeze a big water pipe with the soldiers to shower, but went to the single room carefully prepared by the slave owners in the thirteen towns with Bernhard and other lieutenants, who has the biggest fist in Steel City? It will always be the army, and most of these middle- and low-level elite officers are from the ruling family, and it is definitely a great profit to please them.

After happily taking the first hot shower in these months, changing into a new field gray and dark green uniform, Simon put on a long-lost big-brimmed hat, and really returned to the past in a trance, sitting in the C-5 strategic transport plane, the recruits sang loudly "The Army Moves Forward" and vowed to beat the Empire, Simon still remembers that he carved a sentence in a railway shunting yard.

"Call Mothros for dinner!"

Simon smiled "hehe", climbed to the top of the building noncommittally, looked at the sun that had also risen in the middle of the industry, and silently recalled all the things in the past six months.

Suddenly, his eyes were blocked by his hands, and a pretending old-fashioned girl's voice whispered from behind: "Did you carry me to someone else's bed?" ”

"Let me count them." Simon heard who it was in a second, rubbed his beard and pretended to think, but unfortunately Adolfina didn't give Simon a chance, and directly twisted his wrist. "Huh? Are you really cheating? ”

Her face was much sharper, but her red hair was glaringly red. Simon pulled out his hand in three or two clicks, Adolfina obviously didn't use force, and if he did, his hand would be over. "How can there be, even if I want to, I have to have someone, should I go find an old goat?" Simon took Adolfina by the way and took her into his arms, not at all surprised by her arrival.

"How did you get in? I remember downstairs

There were several guards. Simon asked, Adolfina raised her head and pecked quickly, and snorted: "I didn't climb the window and climb over the wall, I just said directly to the guards, 'I'll come here to find a guy who won't pay after prostitution, you stop me, and I'll tell all the kiln sisters that they won't take any business.'" ’”

"Poof." Simon couldn't help but laugh and hugged her tighter. "Well, it's a lot like you, it's the infamous Adolfina Morfin's style, and then again, you didn't get shot or something else."

Adolfina held Simon's purple and red mottled palm, frowned and put it on her cheek, and said: "Rudigal really likes to pull seedlings to help grow, thanks to this stupid fork left a relieving potion in the Iron Army in advance, it seems that you have already fought, return to Hydra, just ask Lemia to detoxify, I didn't expect you to kill the gun knight, this time ......"

"Morfinn." Simon pressed her shoulder, she was not tall, it was about to reach Simon's neck, it was estimated that Simon could lift her with one hand, looked at her serpentine pupils, and asked seriously: "I'm asking you, are you doing during this time, I know you went to Harrisburg." ”

"Qi. Adolfina arrogantly opened Simon's hand, turned around and folded his arm and said, "If I had something, would I still come here?" What a brainless man. ”

"It's not wrong to have no brains, but I'm more handsome than most people." Simon picked up Adolfina as soon as she picked it up, and the princess spun around a few times and kissed her slightly baby fat face fiercely, "I couldn't help but think it was you when I saw the red-haired girl, but who is so biao?" ”

"Well, it's really not a nice love story......"

"Ahem......" Just as the two of them were grinding between their ears and temples, Bernhard quietly pushed open the roof door, coughed awkwardly twice, bowed slightly to Adolfina and saluted: "Miss Morfin......" and then said to Simon: "The Thirteenth Council is here, the brigadier is asking us to line up, we are going to enter the city." ”

"Oh, so you're going to abandon your poor little girl and run away to the Iron Army, aren't you?" Adolfina put her hands behind her back, two bright red braids dangling in front of her chest, and rolled her eyes.

"Isn't it reasonable that you're not a colonel of the Iron Army? If you want, you can also join us, at least I have received so much favor from the Iron Army, and it seems a little unreasonable to run away at this time. Simon said, getting Adolfina's big eyes and middle finger.

"And what array are you going to stand on? Idiot, your name is not on the roster! Kicked in the head by a cow? If someone tells you to go to a military parade? Going to stand in the Ranger sequence? And then give Barrymore a mouthful? Are we Hydra? Not a regular army! You have to see that I naturally don't object, if you want to enter, you can do it! I don't have this person to throw you away! Don't think too much that the Iron Army spoils you, your roots are in Hydra? It was the blood of Hydra that brought you to where you are today. Honestly roll over to the viewing platform, you'll see the people of Hydra. ”

Adolfina finished saying these words in a hurry, and turned around to leave angrily, Simon heard a burst of chickens and dogs jumping in the corridor, looked at his own military uniform that was indeed extremely cool, and sighed silently, indeed, he should wear a military dress with Hydra trim on the viewing platform to watch others walk right and accept other people's salutes.

He is no longer a soldier.

。 m.