Outside, the cold wind was bitter, the torrential rain destroyed the city, and a thin figure stood at the door outside, in the shadows of the night, his face was blurred, but under the reflection of the candlelight, he could vaguely see the mysterious red eyes, and he could hear the sound of some liquid dripping on the floor.

Luo Wei walked into the house slowly, his whole body was already soaked, the rain mixed with some kind of scarlet liquid, leaving one bloody footprint after another on the ground, he walked to a chair by the fireplace, stretched out his white hand, added some firewood to it, made it burn more vigorously, and said slowly: "Major General Cass, I'm a little cold, can you ask your attendant to help me get a bowl of ginger soup." ”

Major General Cass smiled and said, "Little Lei, go ahead." ”

Xiao Lei stared at Luo Wu's back and opened his mouth, but he didn't say anything, thinking that if Luo Wu had bad intentions, he would have done it a long time ago, and he could wait until now? He honestly left the house and walked to the kitchen to make soup.

Without Xiao Lei's tired spirit, Major General Cass leisurely opened the Braille version of "War and Peace", and read it with his fingers, as if Luo Wei was just an ordinary visitor, and he didn't care at all.

Soon, only the crackling sound of firewood burning was left in the room, and I don't know how long it took, Major General Cass finally finished a chapter, and he rubbed his sour fingers, as if he was catching up with an old friend: "Colonel Luo Wei, after a hard day's work today, don't you go to rest early?" ”

Luo Wei turned his back to Major General Cass, and a faint voice came: "There are so many people in my room that I can't fit it in." ”

"Why don't you let them go?"

"They won't move anymore."

Major General Cass smiled meaningfully, although his cloudy eyes had lost focus, as if he had already seen through everything, he closed the book and asked thoughtfully, "I'm a little curious, Colonel Luo Wei, what exactly have you done in Sanjiangyuan?" ”

"Take the oath breakers and some old comrades-in-arms to take 600,000 lives from the Wings of Freedom."

"This is a great achievement, why was you exiled here?"

"Because I couldn't save them all."

"Hahaha," Major General Cass stood up tremblingly, groped his way to the fireplace, found a chair to sit down, put his cold hand over and roasted it, and said vicissitudes, "There is no excuse for the sin that you want to add." ”

After baking the fire for a while, Xiao Lei came back after boiling the soup, but his steps were a little hurried, and his face was also pale, he put the ginger soup in front of Luo Wei, and then leaned down to Major General Cass and said something.

"Go find a new room for Colonel Row." Major General Cass patted Xiao Lei's hand, and after he left, he said slowly, "It seems that the establishment of the Fourth Company can be canceled." ”

Luo Wei picked up the ginger soup and took a sip, the spicy liquid flowed through his stomach, making his whole body warm, and his originally fair little face became ruddy, he said while drinking: "Don't worry... Grunt... There are still a lot of preparations to be canceled in the past two days... Gollum..."

"There are two main groups in the death row camp in Skull City, one is the Brotherhood, and their core members are all in the Fourth Company, and they have been wiped out by you, so now the Wild Dog family is dominant."

"What's the difference between the two?"

"The origins are different, and the members of the Brotherhood are mostly civilian criminals, or some wilderness outcasts. Most of the wild dogs, on the other hand, had been regular soldiers, but they had been put on death row for various reasons, and the two sides had been fighting openly and secretly for a long time, and there was a fight this morning, one dead and seven disabled. ”

"They won't fight anymore." Luo Wei drank the last sip of ginger soup, put the bowl on the table, wiped his mouth gently, and said, "Tomorrow, I will go to clean up the wild dogs." ”

Major General Cass was silent for a while, and then suddenly said, "Colonel Locho, do you know why I didn't stop you?" ”

Luo Wei said calmly: "Because you can't stop me." ”

"Maybe, but that's just a trivial reason." Major General Cass's cloudy eyes moved, as if he was looking at Luo Wei, "I didn't stop you because you didn't take pleasure in killing, you didn't kill because you wanted to kill, or to make yourself happy, but you had other purposes. ”

Luo Wei smiled briefly: "Oh? Like what? ”

"Hahaha, I'm not a psychic person, so I can't read your mind." Major General Cass narrowed his eyes blindly, shook his head slowly, and said profoundly, "I just want to tell you that the method of killing is simple and efficient. Many people have tried this trick and failed. ”

"Because they didn't kill enough." The moment Luo Wei's words fell, there was a thunder outside the window, and the short light illuminated the surroundings as if it were day, of course, this scene Major General Kas could not see.

"It's my turn to ask you, Major General Cass." Luo Wei moved closer to the furnace and pulled his hand up, his eyes fixed on the flames, "What do you think is the most important thing in our new era?" ”

Rear Admiral Cass said without thinking: "Strength. ”

"Power." The matches in the fireplace burned red, and occasionally burst out with scorching sparks, and all this was reflected in Luo Wei's eyes, and he opened his palm, as if he was roasting a fire, as if he was counting Major General Cass, "In this country, there are no more than five people who can win against me." But now, they were in heated suites, beds softer than feathers, silk pajamas, and perhaps servants sleeping next to them. And me? Soaking wet, sitting in front of a rudimentary fireplace, chatting with an old man with half a foot in a coffin. ”

The corners of Major General Cass's mouth lifted slightly, and he added some firewood to the stove to make it burn more vigorously, and he did not pick up the topic of Luo Wei head-on, but asked meaningfully: "Colonel Luo Wei, do you know how many active soldiers there are in the Republic of Glory now?" ”

Luo Wei shrugged: "More than two million." ”

"As of this evening, the three regions of the North, the Western Regions, and the Jiangnan have a total of 2,678,126 active duty soldiers." Major General Cass counted the heads as accurately as a machine, and the old hand kept adding firewood to the fireplace, and the flames became more and more raging, "All these people are loyal to the Generalissimo of the Republic, why do you think?" ”

"Because of power."

"But what is the point of this power if any kid with a knife can kill the generalissimo?" Major General Cass did not stop the movement of his hands, constantly throwing in firewood, his cloudy eyes were red by the flames, "Power is a lie, just like the two million six hundred and seventy-eight thousand one hundred and twenty-six soldiers under the command of the Generalissimo, huge and incomparable, but so fragile that it can be broken with a slight stab. ”

"A lot of people try to take control of power, but they all fail, and they lose that opportunity forever, just like these firewoods that are crushed underneath and can't be turned over, they can only be burned to ashes." Major General Cass is still throwing in firewood, and the newly thrown ones are burning, and those that were thrown in earlier have been burned to slag.

"However, even if there is firewood burned to ashes, there will still be new firewood to continue to be invested, because the flame is getting stronger and stronger, its attraction is getting stronger and stronger." The whole fireplace was almost filled with the firewood that had been put in, but Major General Cass kept throwing it in, and did not stop for a moment, "The old firewood tried to break free from the flames, but was pressed to death, and the new firewoods were ambitious to conquer the fire, and in this way, they were forced or fanatical to burn, so that the flames burst into the greatest light." ”

Suddenly, Luo Wei noticed something, he withdrew his hand, squinted his eyes, he had just listened too intently, and the increasingly vigorous flames reached a dangerous temperature, scorching the bandages on his hands and burning a piece of skin.

"But when the lie of power is torn apart, what is left?" As Major General Cass put in the last piece of firewood, like the last straw that crushed the camel, the originally burning flame lost the oxygen it was in contact with because of too much firewood, and it was extinguished with a sigh, and the previous scorching fire disappeared in an instant, leaving only a pile of burned firewood, and his voice was immediately heard, "It's a mess"

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