Chapter 49: A Snowy Night
"As long as I have a breath left, I'm going to kill all the ACA members who are still resisting, you can call me a butcher, criticize me for not respecting human rights - I just want to say that people who don't respect humanity are not qualified to be human beings, and I don't need to treat them as human beings."
"Character Interview: 'The mission of a soldier is to fight until the last moment' - iron-blooded general Yang Chengze."
-- League Weekend, Military Special Supplement, "Heroes".
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"Sometimes, I really miss the simple military life more than ten years ago, when our first thing was training, duty, patrolling, occasionally making a cameo appearance as a forklift driver at the port, welcoming the big man when he came, and occasionally using a small salary to avoid the gendarmes to try his luck in the card game to see if we could win half a month's salary from my comrades."
Yang Chengze dragged the metal mechanical legs, took out three bottles of Coke from the refrigerator, handed one bottle to Luo Gen, who was sitting on the table, and then put the other bottle in Ling Yu's place, and the disabled old general who unscrewed the cap with his left hand with only three fingers and the superior in front of Marven were like two people, at this time he was more like a retired old man chattering and complaining about his experience.
"There's no endless paperwork, no boring networking dinners, no need to face asshole politicians who haven't even touched a gun...... Well, actually, I'm the latter kind of person. Yang Chengze, who took a sip of Coke, looked at Logan and shrugged.
"This ...... Does Chinese food not go well with green tea? Logan picked up the Coke on the table, glanced at Ling Yu, who was busy in the kitchen, and smiled politely.
"If you want tea, I'll invite you to tea when I have the chance." Yang Chengze looked at the Coke bottle in his hand, "For us, this calorie exceedance has a special meaning. β
Logan looked at the old general, then at the Coke bottle on the table, not knowing what to say.
No one can talk and laugh in the face of a living legend - yes, a living legend, Yang Chengze is the legend of this era.
Even Logan, who had no interest in League propaganda, knew what the man in front of him had done in Heisenberg twelve years earlier.
According to his understanding, the fall of Heisenberg took only four minutes - this was the time when the renegade security captain killed his colleagues in the Guangkong zhì center, and then opened the locks to release the ship full of ACA commandos into the VIP locks, and from then on, all the soldiers and cadets on Heisenberg had to fight not only the ACA commandos armed to the teeth, but also Heisenberg itself.
This is the danger of full automation, the garrison soldiers cannot open the arsenal, every barricade is drowned in the flames of the explosion of the pipeline, any soldiers who try to resist cannot avoid the surveillance of the cameras, and the vast majority of them are killed by anti-materiel weapons before they can see the enemy.
All the escape pods were sealed, the sprinkler system was turned off, the power generation system was overloaded, and there were explosions of gas lines everywhere...... With the help of ghosts and holograms, the ACA commandos divide and annihilate all the living people - guards, researchers, teachers, students and even cleaners, this is the style of the ACA, and there are no hidden dangers.
In this case, Yang Chengze and his security detachment blew up the arsenal with the captured explosives, obtained the equipment, and then defended the core fusion reactor of the sea city under the onslaught of enemies four times his size, avoiding an ecological catastrophe.
There were not many survivors, most of them were seriously injured, and Yang Chengze left one of his legs, two fingers and one eye in Heisenberg forever.
"I don't know about you, I have your information, but I haven't read it properly." Yang Chengze looked at the silent Logan and stretched out to him with a Coke, "Anyway, you could have escaped first today." β
"That's not my style." Logan smiled lightly, picked up the Coke in front of him, unscrewed the bottle cap, and touched Yang Chengze gently, "Besides, this is Iceland, where can I escape to?" β
"Iceland...... The knights' hometown ......," Yang Chengze smiled bitterly, "Like the group of politicians in the alliance, the pretentious knights have long since lost the spirit of Iceland's independence and invasion of the three Nordic countries. β
The old general walked to the huge floor-to-ceiling window of the dining room and looked at Fahsa Bay at night, "According to me, we shouldn't have negotiated with this group of guys in a low voice. β
"Even I know that you are the representative of the Young Zhuang faction of the Allied military." Logan shrugged, "It's not surprising, but maybe the compromise now can make the future war a little smoother and pay a little less." β
"I appreciate your point of view, lad." Yang Song-taek smiled, and he turned around, "That's why I will enter politics after I retire...... I should have comforted me, an old man, but I would have felt a little more at ease when I heard you say that. β
"To those who died in the war." Logan's gaze also fell on the brightly lit harbor, and he held up the Coke bottle, but it seemed to have another meaning.
"There are not many materials, General, I only made a spicy fragrant pot, let's make do with it."
Ling Yu, who was wearing an apron, interrupted the old and the young, and he walked out of the kitchen and put the pot on the table, "Don't expect the taste, you can't eat the dead." β
"As long as you haven't regressed in 12 years." Yang Chengze smiled and turned to take a seat, "Do you remember the time we secretly went to the kitchen to have a gang?" β
"Remember, General, you almost blew up the kitchen," Ling Yu smiled a little hard, and turned his head to Rogan to explain, "At that time, not every army cafeteria had a Chinese food window. β
"It's better than those Mexicans who dare to open a Chinese restaurant with a bottle of soy sauce." Logan shrugged, "Really, I've met it in Chicago. β
"Unfortunately, I haven't drunk Coke in a long time." Ling Yu sighed, but still unscrewed the cap of the Coke bottle, "There is no Coke to drink in the military academy, this thing was the hard currency among the boys in the military academy back then." β
"It's a form of abuse." Logan picked up the fork that had been specially prepared for him, "I haven't heard that you can't buy Coke at the military school." β
"At that time, the researchers believed that Coke would interfere with the TF in the transformation and affect the actual results." Ling Yu curled the corners of his mouth, "But we actually drank it all." β
"It's ironic that the biomechanistic chemistry of a prehistoric civilization would lose to a little Coke." Logan smiled, but saw Ling Yu put down the chopsticks he had just picked up.
"General, I found him."
Ling Yu's words made Yang Chengze also stop his chopsticks, and the old general sighed heavily, then raised his hand and rubbed his temples.
"General, it's him, Charl Pierre," Ling Yu buried his eyes in the bangs in front of his forehead, his right hand holding the chopsticks tightly, "I've confirmed the scar on my left wrist, it's him." β
"Someone will follow you based on your intelligence, Ling Yu." Yang Chengze's voice was a little low, "I promise that the best TF commandos will go to Milan." β
"They will be slaughtered before they even set foot on Italian soil!" Ling Yu slammed his fist on the table, and a crack cracked from the table under his fist, "Just like those unjust souls who died on Heisenberg, the Alliance is a sieve, there are no secrets to speak of, I want to believe you, but I can't trust the Alliance, General!" β
ββ¦β¦ Even if you go, you will be slaughtered. Yang Chengze raised his head and stared at Ling Yu across the table with a half-burned face, "In the past twelve years, I have led fourteen assassination attempts against Char, and nothing has come of it except for adding a long list of the dead. β
"So you flinched." Ling Yu looked coldly at the legendary figure opposite, "But I won't. β
"Shut up!" Yang Chengze slapped the table and stood up, staring angrily at Ling Yu who was sitting opposite, "Being brave and sending him to death are two different things, and people who don't have this judgment are not worthy of being called soldiers!" β
"I wasn't a soldier in the first place!" Ling Yu jumped up without flinching, "I'm a gangster, a smuggler, a murderer, I won't take any cost, I won't mind using any means, I don't need boring military honor, I just need to fulfill my promise!" β
"He can run away, but I will catch up with him; He can hide, but I will find him, I will defeat him, kill him, at any cost! I can't beat him, but I don't believe he can escape the carpet bombing; Even if he dodged, I don't believe he would be able to ignore the nuclear bomb I detonated next to him. I'm not a soldier, I don't care about the reputation of a civilian, I just know, I'm going to kill him, I'm going to kill him, I just know that to eliminate a cruel terrorist, you have to be more cruel than him! β
ββ¦β¦ Ling Yu. The stunned Logan grabbed Ling Yu - this was the first time he had seen Ling Yu like this, for more than ten years, even when he was taking revenge on Han Fei, Ling Yu had never been so angry and made such a cruel declaration.
"This is war, and war cannot be won by one person." Facing Ling Yu's roar, Yang Chengze was unmoved, "Even if you kill him, there will be a second and third Char, if you don't destroy the miΓ¨ACA, the tragedy of Heisenberg will still happen." β
"That's what you soldiers should be concerned about." Ling Yu's anger disappeared on his face in an instant, but his gaze was still cold, just like when he heard that name in Brazil, "I'm not here to ask you for assistance, I just feel that as one of the survivors back then, you have the right to know." β
"I'm out of company."
Ling Yu shook his head, turned around and picked up the jacket on the stool, and walked towards the door.
"Ling Yu."
Just as Ling Yu's hand was gripping the doorknob, Yang Chengze's opening made Ling Yu stop.
"I don't blame you, I like the anger and sharpness of young people, this is what I am missing, but ......" Yang Chengze stood on the stool and turned his head to look at Ling Yu, "Come back to reality, child, don't continue to live in that painful dream." β
"Thank you," Ling Yu took a deep breath, "but I have my own judgment. β
After speaking, Ling Yu unscrewed the doorknob and left the room.
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Ling Yu walked on the deserted streets of ReykjavΓk, and most of the civilians of the Knights, who were all soldiers, strictly adhered to the habits of soldiers, and when the hour hand pointed to eleven o'clock, they would not wander around the streets even if they did not sleep.
Black military boots stepped through the white snow, leaving a trail of deep footprints.
The black youth raised his head, he regretted it a little, even if more than ten years had passed, he would still get out of control when he mentioned that matter-there was no point in getting angry with General Yang Chengze, Ling Yu knew that he had done a lot in the past ten years, in a sense, much more than himself who would only shrink into Rimlia as a courier.
Ling Yu knew that it was not weakness, but maturity, because maybe this qiΔ was not a grudge between Char and that girl for a long time, but Ling Yu didn't want to accept this reality - whether it was the country or justice, it was too big, too broad, so big that Ling Yu didn't need them, only needed to know a name, an object of revenge, and this was the limit that Ling Yu could bear.
Lying on the cold railing on the side of the street, Ling Yu looked at the white air he exhaled and the snowflakes falling in the dim light, and suddenly held the railing fiercely.
"I'll book a ticket for you to go to Milan, either."
The railing on the side of the street suddenly shook slightly, Ling Yu turned his head, and a blue figure was standing next to him, lying on the railing, and his own thinking was so engrossed that he didn't even notice her coming.
"Thanks, but I'm not in a good mood." Ling Yu reluctantly made himself want to laugh, "I don't want to be angry with you, I just want to be alone and quiet." β
"Yes, you can be alone for as long as you want." The girl in blue raised her hand and combed her blonde hair, "But you can't deal with Char alone." β
"......" Ling Yu subconsciously clenched the railing.
"Charl Pierre, originally from France, whose father was a drug dealer died in a shootout with the French police, or the Allied police, later joined the ACA and became the subordinate and number one thug of the current ACA president, Clark Robertson, who has carried out more than 100 terrorist attacks, planned at least 10 military operations against the Alliance, and is the most dangerous opponent after Clark Robertson, who is even more dangerous than the Snake-Eyed father you met, Michelle Colona."
"I know it's dangerous, so I don't want any of you to come with me." Ling Yu closed his eyes and took a deep breath.