"Washington has all fallen, the president and his Excellency are unknown, several congressmen have been captured or shot by the ACA, which is conducting a large-scale landing from Baltimore, and there is no trace of the Confederate fleet and army! Crisis of the Alliance!! ”

-- A front-line correspondent of the Allied Times, using a signal from a long-wave radio station, was killed by a stray bullet during a subsequent interview.

***

I don't like the political zhì family.

The episode that happened in Merrifield didn't take long, it was only more than ten minutes before and after, and just as Ling Yu's motorcycle drove out of the town, Helis hugged his waist and said such a sentence.

"I don't like it either, but you have to admit that politics are part of human civilization." Ling Yu shook his head slightly, he knew that Helis had a very clear antipathy to the political family, so he explained, "It is the political government that ensures the orderly development of human society, although this is inevitably accompanied by some dirty conspiracies, or corruption and so on, but as long as there is the right to this kind of thing, these things are inevitable accompanying products, and denying the political government is like denying the contribution of the organizer in the production activities, which is very one-sided." ”

I'm just complaining, politics is a part of human nature, otherwise it wouldn't have happened with the birth of human beings until now, not so much that society gave birth to politics, but rather because politics is something that exists in human genes, it constitutes such a social form.

"Nice point." Ling Yu smiled lightly, then glanced at the map with his already recovered left eye, the time pointed to five thirty, and then pressed the headset, "Falls church ahead, let's go around it a little." There can be no further delays, and Arlington must be reached before dawn. ”

"Herris, release the drone."

Ling Yu turned his head to speak, Helis nodded, took out a small drone from under the cloak, and flicked it away. This new "hive" drone can release 8 "naughty" drones they used in Paris while hovering on its own, and with thermal scanning, it is easy to find out if there is an ambush in the town ahead.

However, even if there was an ambush, Ling Yu did not intend to deal with it.

Speaking of which, Ling Yu, you didn't wear the set of clothes that Sister Jiesi made for you?

Suddenly, Helis interjected.

"I don't think it's very likely that we will exchange fire with ordinary enemy soldiers, and I'm afraid the effect against TF will not be so good."

Ling Yu nodded, and Helis didn't say much. Just silently turned the cat's ears.

Ling Yu, there is something worth noting.

Just as Ling Yu was about to bypass the place south of Fallschchurch where no enemy had been found, Helis suddenly spoke, Ling Yu subconsciously slowed down, but Helis quickly gave an answer, making him speed up instead.

No, don't slow down, I found traces of the ACA reconnaissance post in Fallschurch. But they are already gone, gone probably...... Minimum 20 minutes. Direction unknown.

"Why remove a scout post?" Ling Yu waved at Logan behind him, and then twisted the throttle of the motorcycle, speeding up, the sound of the motor instantly doubled, and the sudden high speed made Helis reach out and hug Ling Yu tightly.

Not yet, but you're right. There's no point in stopping and investigating in Falls Church now, we have to hurry to Arlington.

"To get a drone flying to Arlington, I need to know what the hell is going on in Arlington." Ling Yu hesitated for a moment and spoke, "It doesn't matter if it's the limit of the range. As long as I see Arlington, it's fine. ”

Okay, wait a minute, let's keep this pace forward for another five minutes so that the drone can stay over the small town of Arlington for about fifteen minutes.

"Okay."

Ling Yu nodded, turned right and drove onto Interstate Highway 66, although it was safer to walk along the national highway, but it would go around in a big circle, and it would not be possible to reach Arlington.

Why do you think something is going to happen in Arlington?

Just as Ling Yu turned the handlebars and drove the motorcycle onto the intercontinental highway with a jolt, and then looked back at Logan, Linya, and Han Fei in the distance, and made sure that no one was left behind, he saw Helis's question.

"There's no reason, it's just intuition." Ling Yu replied flatly, but there was a little abnormal fluctuation in his heart, he took a deep breath, trying to keep himself from being disturbed by these messy strange feelings, the perception skills that had been deliberately honed in the fire and smoke of the No. 4 industrial city were mobilized by himself, and soon, the young man regained his thoughts, and did not dwell too much on the meaningless feeling.

Just as Ling Yu was steadily dodging the paralyzed vehicles on the road, Helis suddenly moved, she lifted her cloak, took out a drone that was larger than the "little naughty" from the cloak, put it in her hand and adjusted it, and then shook her hand and let it go.

The drone followed the motorcycle for a moment, then flew straight ahead.

You'll be over Arlington in about five minutes.

Seeing Helis's report, Ling Yu nodded slightly, and then Ling Yu suddenly felt Helis holding his arm tightly.

Fumes! Ling Yu, it looks like fighting is breaking out in Arlington Town!

"The Resistance of the League? I haven't heard of it at all! Ling Yu was stunned for a moment, and his brain began to run rapidly, the alliance did not have any resistance troops in Arlington Town, nor did any TF near Arlington Town, as for the possible police resistance, whether it was equipment or Su zhì, the ACA must have been cleared up a long time ago, otherwise it would not have sent an observation post to Fallschurch.

"Can you get closer and see what kind of firefight it is?"

Ling Yu raised his head and tried to look in Arlington's direction, in the darkness, TF finally vaguely identified the column of smoke that rushed to the sky, and then pressed the earphone, "All pay attention, prepare for the firefight, pay attention to identifying our unit." ”

The drone was shot down!

Ling Yu was stunned for a moment when he saw Helis's words, and before he could ask, Helis directly gave the reason.

The other party's TF...... An area-of-effect attack is used! Ling Yu, we have to recover the drone, I need to know the other party's attack method. Rest assured, the other party didn't find the drone, and it landed on the outskirts of the town.

"Okay." Ling Yu nodded, then pressed the headset again, "Attention everyone, we may have a very troublesome opponent again." ”

***

Arlington was originally just a borough of Washington, D.C. Over the past few hundred years, it has probably been best known for three things – Arlington National Cemetery, the Pentagon, and the Marine Corps Memorial.

If you don't know the last one, here's a hint: it's the monument carved out of a photo of the U.S. soldier planting the flag on Iwo Jima.

Since the League's founding, Arlington has three major attractions and is as profitable as most of Washington's boroughs, so it is still nominally a district of Washington, D.C., but it has grown in size as a small town.

The ACA also values this barrier southwest of Washington. So a battalion of paratroopers was sent out, with the Pentagon as the headquarters, and a defense system to the southwest, including an elite combat platoon with heavy weapons to defend Arlington, and this platoon also sent a four-man fireteam to extend the reconnaissance to Falls Church.

However, it is now in Quincy Square in the middle of the town. It was already drowned in a sea of fire.

An ACA paratrooper was struggling to crawl forward on the hot grass scorched by the flames, without any external injuries. Even the armor of the whole body was intact, but in his closed helmet, the blood flowing from his facial features had filled almost the entire helmet.

His optic nerve had burned out and he couldn't see anything; The eardrum was shattered and nothing could be heard. The blood gushing from his nose almost suffocated him, and the soldier, who had lost almost all of his perception of the outside world, could only move forward with his hands, with the only remaining strength, crawling forward even a meter more, as if he could escape from the palm of the demon behind him.

He even knew he was going to die. But even death was overwhelmed by fear, and as long as he had the slightest strength, he wanted to crawl farther away.

Even one step.

These ACA paratroopers are all elite, and even most of them have experience of escaping from TF's men, and since the appearance of that demon, their reactions are not incorrect, and the firepower density is definitely textbook.

But the results still did not change.

And more importantly, the sword behind the opponent's back has never been pulled out from the beginning.

"That's it."

A clear voice came from behind the last survivor, and in the flames of napalm, a girl about eleven or twelve years of age about the same age as Helis slowly stood up, the girl's white hair slightly shorter than Helis was neatly combed, the short blue coat wrapped around her much thinner body than Helis, and under the slightly darker skirt, it was outlined by white pantyhose, and there were almost only bone legs.

Beside her, several corpses lay on the sidelines, and these soldiers in ACA paratrooper armor had two things in common - the first was that their armor was intact, and the second was that their heads were missing.

The girl stood up and tossed aside a piece of minced meat in her hand, which seemed to have been part of some head, and the white brain was still sticking to the edge of the minced meat. The girl gently removed her gloves, showed her pale fingers, threw them on the ground, then stretched out her right hand, gently placed it on her left chest, took a half step back with her right foot, bowed to the ground in front of her, and saluted.

And in this disembodied land, which has been ravaged by incendiary bombs and grenades, is the words written by girls in human blood.

It turned out to be the lyrics of "Jingle Bells"!

The girl bowed deeply, then took a breath, picked up the wide earphones hanging around her neck, slowly put them over her ears, and gently pressed the switch, and the familiar melody sounded in the headphones.

"Ah, it seems that you are not dead yet," just as the girl started to play music, she suddenly noticed the soldier who was crawling slowly next to her, the girl raised her hand to turn off the headphones, and then solemnly took off the headphones, took a step, walked past the lyrics written on the ground by her own hand, walked behind the soldier who was still crawling slowly, and slowly drew the long sword on her back.

"I know you're going to be happy in life." The white-haired girl showed a warm and healing smile, and said in a brisk tone that the other party couldn't hear, "Because only happy people have such a strong desire to survive, right?" ”

The girl held up the sword that was about as tall as hers, and the blazing flames cast a strange purple color against the black sword.

"Because of happiness, please go and die."

Before he could finish speaking, the long sword that was raised high in the air spun one hundred and eighty degrees, and the blade was facing downward, piercing directly into the soldier's heart.

"Please die."

As if to emphasize, the girl who repeated these four words in a low voice, still with a serene smile, knelt down on one knee, stabbed the long sword into the ground, and then slowly turned half a circle, and then she stood up, and pulled it hard, and the bright red liquid was thrown into the air along the black blade, turning into artificial raindrops, falling on the girl's white hair and equally white face.

"That's it, it's perfect."

Not caring about the blood spilled on her body at all, the girl picked up the headphones again and hung them on her ears, and this time it was a piece of electronic music that was popular last year.

"It's really slow, those reinforcements that Uncle Yang Chengze said." The girl listening to the music thrust her sword back into the scabbard behind her back, put her hands in her pockets, and buried her face in the high stand-up collar.

She grumbled to herself, and turned to the east.

The flames were still burning, and the long sword on the girl's back was reflected in the eerie emblem of the Kronos Company. (To be continued......)