“…… The existence of parliament is itself a manifestation of inefficiency, but if a government tries to balance the interests of each class, rather than simply squeezing the other, it will inevitably lead to this inefficiency. It takes far more time to listen to the voices of each group than to make decisions based on imagination and guesswork. However, in many cases, the government cannot blindly try to balance all the classes, because this often comes at a much heavier cost...... Therefore, how to judge the scale of balance and decision is probably a question that needs to be explored permanently. ”

-- Coalition Times, "Congress or Cabinet?" It's a problem.

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"Where are we now?"

Ling Yu turned sideways and stopped the motorcycle, the closer he got to Washington, the stronger the interference, Ling Yu's contact lenses could no longer accurately give him the location information, so the young man turned his head and asked the girl who was holding him behind him.

This is the overpass west of Falls Church, where Route 66 and Route 495 intersect...... The damage is too strict, and there is no way to move on.

"yes, I saw it." Ling Yu turned off the headlights of the motorcycle, then closed his right eye, activated the night vision function of the contact lens, the overpass in front of him was completely blown up, several large and small cars were buried under the collapsed overpass, and seven or eight cars fell from above, overturned on the ground and fell into shape, these vehicles and collapsed concrete stones completely blocked the entire road, "Logan, you go to the front to see if there are any survivors, Herris, how do we go next?" ”

Ling Yu pushed the eyepiece of the motorcycle helmet open, and a fishy smell mixed with concrete entered his nose. To his right, Logan's bike drove forward at a very low speed.

To our right is a small town called Merrifield, which crosses the town to State Highway 29 and along National Highway all the way to Arlington, by the Potomac River.

Helis stretched out his finger and tapped it on Ling Yu's headset. The antenna on the headset was also the antenna for the contact lens, so a map was quickly teleported to Ling Yu's eyepiece.

I set up intelligent inertial navigation, as long as we don't run around, the error should be within a hundred meters.

"I see." Ling Yu nodded, looking at Logan who was trotting back along the road with a gun, "How is it?" ”

"There were seven or eight dead, no wounded were seen, there were traces of rescue and extinguishing the fire, and it seems that there was an organized evacuation." Logan ran over. The distance was very close, but the murmur in the headset was still loud, "It seems that there has been rescue." ”

"The response capability of the League's grassroots seems to be okay, and blocking this road should be part of the ACA to prevent the Alliance's large-scale advance, but on such a plain, tanks and armored vehicles do not need to rely on the road at all, such an act is really of little significance."

Ling Yu stretched out his hand and pointed to the nearby National Highway 650 leading to Merrifield, although there were also a few abandoned cars in the middle of the road. But it was a two-way eight-lane highway that was not inferior to a highway, and "the U.S. government was really good at infrastructure at the time." ”

"Get in the car. Let's go," Ling Yu waved his hand lightly, "We don't have Merrifield's evacuation information, be careful that the ACA may have occupied here, be wary of a possible ambush from the other side, Han Fei." You pay attention to the distance. ”

"No problem."

Ling Yu propped up the motorcycle with his feet and took a few steps back, then turned the handlebar and turned around, then turned left and slowly moved forward along National Highway 650 at a low speed of about 20 kilometers into the town.

Ling Yu didn't turn on the headlights of the motorcycle. Under the clear night sky, the low-light night vision device gave a clear view of the situation of the town, there were no lights, no sound, and the spacious streets were empty, only a lost pet dog with a collar and rope still hanging, and after seeing the three motorcycles of Ling Yu and others, they got into a courtyard next to them.

Ling Yu, left!

Suddenly, a text from Helis appeared on Ling Yu's contact lens, and almost at the same time, Ling Yu also saw the figure flashing in the left lane, one sideways in front of him, and took out the mysterious pistol in his right hand and pointed it forward.

Ling Yu's action made Logan and Linya, who were following behind and didn't see what was going on, also very nervous, and the two motorcycles instantly crossed the middle of the road one after the other.

Someone was hiding in that police car.

Ling Yu didn't speak, nodded slightly, made a gesture for Helis to stay here and hold on to the motorcycle, and then turned over and jumped out.

In the next second, several bright rays of light suddenly shot in the direction where Ling Yu was, Ling Yu subconsciously turned over, hid behind a car next to him, and then shouted.

"Confederate Army!"

said that this was a shout to the other party, but it was better to shout to Logan, who had already set up a sniper rifle, and sure enough, after the dense sound of gun loading, there was no bullet rain.

"Confederate Army! Friendly! ”

As if he was afraid that the other party would not hear, Ling Yu shouted again, and then got out of the back of the car, raised his hands to show that there was no hostility, and reflexively signaled the others to cancel their vigilance.

At this time, everyone else also recovered from their vigilance - the other party's dress was obviously the appearance of a small town policeman.

"Confederate Army Task Force 191, lay down your arms."

Ling Yu rubbed his left eye, which was full of tears and stinging violently, only opened his right eye, and made a gesture of pressing down with both hands at the policeman holding a shotgun on the opposite side, "Who of you is in charge here?" ”

"I, I'm the police commissioner here!" A middle-aged man about 30 years old walked out from behind the opposing line and said, "Throw your papers!" ”

Fuck, if I were the ACA, you'd be dead. Ling Yu rubbed his left eye, which was illuminated by the headlights, took out his ID and threw it over, which genius came up with attention, the ACA task force must all have night vision devices, and if this photo doesn't die, there will be half a life left, but fortunately, Lao Tzu only has one eye with a contact lens.

"It's the Confederate army, lay down your arms! Drop your weapon! ”

The director cautiously walked to the front and picked up the document that Ling Yu had thrown on the ground, scanned it, and then turned around and pressed his hand down.

"Is it the Confederate Army?! Are you here to save us?! ”

Suddenly, a man and a woman rushed out of the police camp, and the man was fine. The woman ran directly in front of Ling Yu, almost throwing herself into Ling Yu's arms, and at this moment, Herris rushed in front of Ling Yu with a sliding shovel, raised her leg over her head, and stretched out her foot to resist the woman's chest. prevented her from continuing to approach.

"Herris, be careful, don't kick you to death."

Of course, Ling Yu understood the reason why Helis did this, this was on the battlefield, in case this woman was wrapped in explosives Ling Yu would die, but Ling Yu was not so nervous, he had already seen the woman's gorgeous costumes, obviously the wife of a high-ranking official.

It's just that Helis is obviously not just for safety reasons when he blocked this woman.

"Alliance Task Force 191, why are you still here? Why haven't you evacuated yet? ”

Ling Yu ignored the one who was rushing towards him. But the young woman, who was stunned by Helis's murderous aura that burst out instantly, turned her head to look at the police commissioner.

"We had already evacuated the townspeople, but before we left, we received a radio signal from them." The police commissioner pointed at the man who was running over, "It's a councilor, no way, we'll come back to pick them up." ”

"Hello, hello!"

Although not as excited as the woman table xiàn. But the senator man in his forties also rushed up with a smile on his face and stretched out his hand to Ling Yu, and Ling Yu shook it perfunctorily. Then he stretched out his hand to stop the other party from introducing himself.

"Mr. Councillor, time is of the essence, you must get out of here immediately."

"Aren't you Confederate troops?! Didn't you come to protect us! Where are we going to run?! ”

The woman's shrill and sharp voice made Ling Yu frown, but the murderous aura that Helis burst out instantly made the woman close her mouth directly, her legs trembled constantly, and she turned her head and didn't dare to look at Helis's eyes.

Are you kidding. He is one of the seven TFs of the former ACA.

"It will take at least sixteen to eighteen hours for the Allied troops to arrive here, and we are in charge of it...... For reconnaissance and search missions, we also have to march into the interior of the city, and we can't protect you here, so you'd better go west along Interstate 66 with these officers. Don't stop until you get to Strasbourg, there are special temporary refugee camps there. ”

Ling Yu pointed to the west.

"Well, Captain, I've also heard that some of the ACA's paratroopers are running through the roads around Washington, and our firepower is really ...... It's a bit thin, can you escort us for a while? ”

The woman standing next to her wanted to speak, but the man seemed to have discovered that the woman might be kicked to death by the little girl in front of her who had just passed a meter if she said more.

So he reached out to stop the woman from speaking and asked the question tactfully himself.

"We've just come from Interstate 66, and we've opened up drones on the road to search and find no sign of the enemy, so the sooner you get out of here, the safer it will be." Ling Yu shook his hand, and before the other party could speak, he asked first, "Did you escape from Washington?" What's going on inside? You're a councillor, right, what about your bodyguard agent? ”

"Those ACA demons, they kill people when they see them!"

The woman finally couldn't stand anymore and squatted on the ground with a howl, but this time Helis didn't release her murderous eyes, but turned her head to look at Ling Yu.

"The situation was so bad, we weren't in downtown D.C., my wife and I were paying respects to a friend at Arlington Cemetery when we suddenly saw missiles fall all over the sky, and three of my Secret Service bodyguards immediately took us away, but we met ACA spies disguised as police officers on the road, and they attacked our car, and two of the three bodyguards were killed and one was seriously injured."

"So you left the wounded and ran out on your own." Logan shook his head with his sniper rifle on his back, and Linya gave a look of disdain.

"It's not ...... There's no way, that bodyguard himself wants to cover us off, we can't let them down. The man smiled awkwardly and tried to use his talent for eloquence, "You see, I'm a right-wing legislator, and I promise to wait until the end of the day, and I'll vote for whatever bills the left-wing front proposes, how about it?" ”

"A politician's promise." Linya spoke softly, and then shook her head, Logan whistled, Ling Yu smiled lightly, this man and woman are becoming more and more husband and wife.

"That's not my duty, sir, I have to get into downtown Washington right now, we have a very important mission." Ling Yu shook his head, it seemed that he couldn't ask for any useful information from the fox-like councilor in front of him, the point was that he was not actually here to carry out reconnaissance and search missions.

"In this way, we can contact Strasbourg, you tell them, let them release drones to cover your convoy, this is all right."

Just when Ling Yu was still thinking about how to refuse the guy in front of him, Han Fei rode his motorcycle to the front and proposed a pertinent proposal.

"Okay, that's fine!"

The woman on the ground seemed to be still dissatisfied, but the man grabbed Ling Yu's hand as if he had grasped a life-saving straw and shook it a few times, "I won't forget your help, I will do my best to help the military in the future, increase the budget, increase the pension, anything!" ”

Politicians are not stupid, on the contrary, politicians are in fact the most capable group of people in human beings who can use the resources at hand to the limit, you can describe a politician as hypocritical, cunning, untrustworthy, dirty...... But you can never describe a politician as stupid, or you can't say a politician is stupid before he falls in a political struggle.

"You've worked hard." Ling Yu looked at Han Fei who handed over the communication device, then turned his head to look at the police commissioner next to him with an obscure face, and smiled bitterly. (To be continued......)

PS: Careful readers may have noticed that the title of the first volume has changed, and this is because the first volume has been completed in its entirety! After looking at the whole volume, I feel that this name is more appropriate, and the whole group has difficulty naming it, and you can't afford to hurt it!