Chapter 716: Words from the Heart
Hearing this, Leng Kite was silent.
The old marshal, who had been angry, closed his eyes tightly, and when he opened them again, his eyes were already cloudy, as if they were mixed with the traces of countless years of precipitation.
"Ladies and gentlemen, let's all gather here today and listen to a few words from me." In a dead silence, the old marshal left his place and walked down the steps little by little, his body eroded by the years was no longer as strong as before, and he shook with every step, and the nearest central garrison saw this, and had to come up and support him.
The old marshal's aged eyes swept over the backbone of the empire in the synagogue, as if caught in the memories of the past: "I... It can be regarded as a person who was ordered in danger, and he has been sitting in the current position of marshal for ten years. On the first day I took over the country, I was inspired to turn the tide and bring a thousand-year-old country out of trouble. β
"However, not long after I took office, reality hit me hard. The Great Patriotic War was defeated, the Federation held my wife and daughter hostage, humiliated them to death, and left me only a grandson Ou Chen, who had no father and no mother, and I didn't keep the country and my home. β
"I'm not discouraged, I vowed to change all that in the future, but think about it, what have I done in the past few years? The wall of life was discussed between Fusu and the Federation. The southwest is in turmoil, and the cold kite is calm. and then went north to rebel, the Jiangnan army, the wilderness, and the pacification of the Sanjiangyuan, all of which had nothing to do with me. β
"Since then, I have known that this country is not supported by me, and my position as marshal is not important, the important thing is that you are the rookie descendants who are emerging one after another, and it is you, the backbone of the empire, who have supported this crumbling country and supported it not to fall."
The old marshal walked to the last section of the steps, ignored the dirt on the ground, sat down tremblingly, swept over the 214 participants with a pair of weathered eyes, and said silently: "Today, I will tell you about a person, about Luo Wei." β
"Who is Luo Wei? You must be all strangers, even if you don't see him, you will hear his name, is this person powerful? Terrible! It's so amazing that I admire him from the bottom of my heart! β
"Think about it, what were you doing when you were 17? Some people are reading, some are practicing, and some people haven't even touched a gun yet. But the 17-year-old Luo Wei has already stepped onto the battlefield, confronted Leng Luan, the greatest general of the empire in half a century, and once broke through the defense line of Xicheng. β
"Think again, what were you doing when you were 24? Some people have just arrived, and some people have been in the army for a long time, maybe they have won some awards in some exercises, and maybe they are still happy to be captains. What about Luo Wei? He traveled to the far north, stood in the coldest place in the world, and turned the tide with a shocking shot to save the entire human regime. β
"The incident of Sanjiangyuan has only been 3 years ago, and what happened at that time must be fresh in your memory. A 27-year-old boy, when his peers squeezed their heads and wanted to make a half-official position in the Imperial Army, he was already able to lead the team against the largest force in the wilderness and save the world... Save the world! Think about what the concept is? β
"There are many other things, the bloody battle against the bone dragon at dawn, the suppression of the coup d'Γ©tat in the Linjiang Military Region, the extermination of the vampire ancestor in the European continent, even the dilapidated death row camp failed to lock him up, and he was governed clearly, these things are worth half of my life."
"You think I don't know these things, but I remember and understand, why? In the distance, just after the crisis in the far north, he wrote to me twice in three days, praising Luo Wei's exploits. β
"Speaking of which, two days ago, the Commander-in-Chief of the Federation, Agroonso, called me and suggested that I include Luo Wei in the Central Garrison, and even people from foreign countries have asked Luo Wei for his life."
When the old marshal said these words, his words were full of admiration, and there was no falsehood, however, at the end, he turned his words and pointed to the closed door of the main hall: "But this door, I did not open for him, I forbid him to enter this synagogue, why?" β
"Because I don't want you to be like him." The old marshal stood up again, his eyes narrowed slightly, and said slowly, "A country needs a leader, he must support all the darkness, lead the people behind him to a new world, and the next national leader will appear here, in this hall, between the 214 of you!" β
"This person doesn't have to be eloquent, nor does he have to be invincible, but he must be satisfied: he can't be a bad guy like Luo Wei."
"I know that there are many bad people in this country, and many of these people are worse and more hateful than Loco! But it doesn't matter, these people are just the dust of history after all, even if they do a lot of evil, they will disappear when they turn their heads. β
"But Luo Wei is different, he is a fire in the darkness, destined to affect the whole age, so when he is revered, when I see that among you people, there are people who are proud of him and take him as an example, I will punish him tenfold, a hundred times, unreasonably."
"Ladies and gentlemen, sometimes I really wish you could open your chest, pull out your heart, and see if the ideals and justice of your youth are still there? When did it start to become unscrupulous and unscrupulous in order to achieve the end! β
"Think about it, our ancestors waged a people's war and wrested power from a ruthless dictator, how many times did this story, history books teach you? Forgot about it so quickly! Do you think that the people are like pigs and dogs, and if they give some benefits after being bullied, they will be able to forget about it? β
"No, the people remember it clearly! What bad things you have done, what kind of bad person you are, they know it in their hearts. β
"Today, you are ashamed of the people, and they endured it."
"After a while, you will do evil to the people, and they will endure it."
"After a few days, you become more and more cruel, but they still endure it."
"But endure it like this, endure it until one day, endure it until they can't retreat, and if they can't bear it anymore, all parts of the Red Blood Empire will rise up! Let you, you, and you! The old marshal's fingers swept over Leng Kite, Liu Fusu, and all the generals present, "Let all of you die without a place to be buried!" β
For a while, the generals present had a chill down their spines, lowered their heads and remained silent.
These heartfelt words made many people have mixed feelings in their hearts, some people wept, some people suddenly realized, and some people closed their eyes tightly and sighed.
"I... I can't stay with you for long, ten years? Five years? Maybe tomorrow? People will eventually die, I am the residue left over from the previous era, this era no longer needs to be held, the old will eventually sink into history, and there is only one direction to guide the way forward. β
"Mo Qian, I said these words to everyone, and I also said them to you." The old marshal looked into Mo Qian's eyes and said deeply, "I can see that you are a very talented person, and there may really be a stroke of you in history in the future, but you have to remember that you can't be a bad person, you can do a lot of bad things, but in the deepest part of your heart, you must be worthy of the most basic justice." β