"Commander, there's an encrypted communication request. "On Nord II, Edmundo Duke's dedicated AI lieutenant's synthesized voice sounds.

"Take it in. ”

Then Duke met Kane.

"Colonel, the feast has begun, but there is still a chasm between you and the banquet, I can build a bridge for you, as long as it is done properly, it will be time to call the general army next year. ”

Kane got straight to the point as soon as he came up, grabbing Duke's itch.

Duke didn't appear suspicious, thoughtful like most people his age, asking Kane why he wanted to help him and what he wanted from him. Instead, he asked Kane, "What are you going to do?"

"It's already being done. Kane gave Josara a brief introduction.

Duke realized, and then became more and more annoyed, the first direct contact with alien intelligent creatures, and the beginning of the war, for the military, there is really no more valuable performance stage, whether it is exposure, challenging is first-class, the main can hand over a fairly beautiful report card, will become a human hero. Even as long as you don't lose your level and play with momentum, even if you can't win, you can get people's understanding.

Duke is like an ant on a hot pan, no, in the words of Michael Liberty, the UNN reporter who was on his ship at this time, like a silverback gorilla with a prismatic head, the burly and indeed somewhat pointed on the top of his head and early with gray hair Duke always likes to lie around, which makes his already slightly long arms appear longer and longer, and indeed has a bit of a gorilla's majestic posture, especially when he is pacing back and forth.

Kane ignored Duke's anxiety about rushing over to Joshara and joining the fight. "Although we all know that the legendary Alpha Squadron is cruising the frontier to show off its strength to the governments that colonize the planets, the acceptable official order is to pursue the forces of the Sons of Keha, a self-proclaimed revolutionary organization that is actually a terrorist. ”

"And in order to better complete the mission, you naturally sent your subordinates, disguised themselves, to the planets to inquire about the news. After all, we all know that the greatest foundation for fighting guerrilla warfare is the base areas, and without anyone to provide intelligence and supplies, guerrilla warfare cannot be played. Then the son of Keha has been active for many years, and has repeatedly fled when he hears the news, and has not been extinguished repeatedly, naturally because he has his comrades and sympathizers who are blinded by him to protect and support. ”

"This is the clue to our capture or annihilation of the Sons of Keha, find their secret supply points, and then spread the net, they are just cunning, head-on, in front of the Alpha Squadron, not worth mentioning. ”

Duke's eyes lit up as he listened.

My heart is right, why didn't I think of this trick before?

Kane knew what he was thinking as soon as he saw Duke's expression. Secretly: "Just your urine sex like Dong Zhuo, who has been defeated and defeated repeatedly, has not been played to death by the mine boss Mengsk?"

Prior to founding the Sons of Keha, Arcturos Monsk was a successful prospector, mine owner, and businessman. This gives him the ability to use terrain and terrain second to none, and he also has a good understanding of the galaxies and planets in the Koplu Star Zone, which has a lot to do with the fact that humanity can quickly recover after the establishment of the empire.

In addition, when Arcturus was first mixed with the Union army, the highest position was colonel, so many people in the outside world called him colonel.

Kane continued to paint cakes for Duke, but in fact, the rest of the matter was simpler, a reasonable and credible excuse was equivalent to an invitation to the banquet.

Josara had my soldiers trapped, so I rushed over to save the scene.

What's more, my soldiers also showed the strength of the Alpha Squadron, organizing and saving the people of a city, and they asked me for help, how could a person like me who was anxious for justice and righteousness refuse this kind of salvation? It is very important to pursue the son of Keha, but it is also the duty and duty of a soldier to save the citizens of the Federation.

As for the fact that there are already a lot of Federation troops there, I'm sorry, my Alpha Squadron is out on the battlefield, and I don't interact much with other friendly forces, especially this kind of friendly army that suddenly came running, I don't even know that there has been a big change of guard here......

Duke's eyebrows fluttered when he listened, especially after watching a video, and his heart became more and more hot. Comment: "Well, the performance is okay, and the tactical use has the style of the Alpha Squadron." ”

Kane said in his heart: "Can you still have a face? Throughout history, you have never won except for the time when you cooperated with the children of fate, you were taught to be a human being, and finally died at the hands of Kerrigan, repeatedly defeated and defeated, and the mystery of self-confidence and arrogance, you are the first comedian in the entire period of the Three Clans War, okay?"

"No, Colonel, that's not enough. You have forgotten how trivial and malicious the media were in the early years, so that you have not been able to completely shake off the influence of those dishonors. I know there's a military correspondent from UNN on your ship. ”

Duke's face darkened: "Don't worry, that guy who was assigned has no chance to spoil my good deeds!"

"No, you misunderstood what I meant. I mean, the hero is out of his mouth. Although you are brave and good at fighting, and you like to lead the charge, people don't know this, and you must let the broad masses of the people know your bravery and the strength of the Alpha Squadron, so that everything is meaningful. Unfortunately, there are many misunderstandings about the Federation. In this case, Mike Liberty, who has always been known as the conscience of the industry, becomes very useful among the public. He has a column at UNN. ”

Duke nodded: "It's still thoughtful, I'll convince Mr. Liberty to write a few good articles." "He pronounced the word 'persuasion' a little harder.

"No, if you do that, it will only backfire, and if Mr. Liberty eats hard goods, he will not be a military correspondent. If you want him to write an enthusiastic hymn, not a yin and yang irony, it is useless to be soft or hard, you must make him believe that what he sees and hears is true. So, you have to convince your subordinates, and even yourself, that everything we are talking about is true. You did do a lot of secret arrangements, and the reason why you have not said it is because there are many people who misunderstand the Federation and sympathize with the Son of Keha, and once the news leaks, the Son of Keha will be prepared, and the agents you arranged will also be in danger. ”

"In short, you have to be secretive, only inadvertently reveal a little bit of guiding information, and let them guess and deduce the rest. People tend to believe what they presume to be true. ”

"Well, it seems to make some sense, you should be my advisor. I think that a person like me is not very good at playing tricks. Rest assured, I won't treat you badly. ”

"Yes, I think I'm up to the post of an alternative staff officer. Kane replied with his lips and said in his heart: "This is your fatal shortcoming, arrogance from within, and the stick is very thick, and the sweet dates are insufficient, who is willing to serve a superior like you?"

Kane didn't originally plan to do anything to Duke, but when things turned into the current situation, he felt that Duke and his Alpha Squadron, who played a heavy role in the original history line, could take advantage of it.

Why is there such a way to use instead of choosing to abandon it? Could it be that if you are completely independent and make another stall, you will show your own compulsion? Just to make things more complicated for the sake of compulsion, and indirectly let many people die in vain, this is too uneconomical. It takes 20 years for human beings to go from birth to adulthood, which is quite a long time, and it's a shameful waste!

The incense bait that Kane used to fish Duke was naturally not Oliver, Oliver was just a war arranged to cater to the vast number of D silk masses, and the core of the whole process was 'Survival is victory, on how an ordinary small and strong people survive in a difficult war environment. ’

At the heart of Duke's bait is the 'Wild Goose Death Squads—the impossible task is done by an improvised civilian-military complex. ’

In fact, whether it is the military or the people, they are all warriors with Rambo-like skills and courage, and secretly have intelligence support and certain equipment support.

For example, I was lucky to find a cache of weapons and ammunition, and even a combat vehicle.

Another example is that he is always on the right path, avoiding the large army of insects, and unknowingly completing a time difference operation, and successfully encircling the point to send reinforcements, and killing another team of returning insects.

In fact, this is all based on the information provided by the stealth reconnaissance drone preset early in the morning, driving the map to fight the alien insects in the fog of war, and fighting resolutely and decisively, bravely and strategically, this can repeatedly achieve miraculous feats.

This kind of victory by cheating looks very similar to the common theme in movies and televisions, ha! Send money and send artillery, ha! Win more with less, ha! Make up for what is lacking, ha! Feed the war with war, we don't need logistics......

Professionals will complain in all kinds of ways, but most people can't stand it from hearing about it. Especially when it looks real.

Producer and director Kane arranges Duke's final life drama and the show begins.

"Mr. Liberty, the captain has something to look for you. "The beautiful active-duty lieutenant, Emily Swarren, said through the hatch with a vernal equinox on her face.

Emily is Liberty's personal secretary and takes care of his life and liaison. He was also in charge of spying on him.

The lieutenant always had a professional smile on her face, and to Liberty looked to Liberty like an ancient American goofy girl, with a goofy optimism that suited her parents who were ready to trick their children into serving as soldiers in the remote frontiers beyond the five core galaxies.

And what is the truth? Miss Swarren had a bit of an interesting hobby, she liked to meet her boyfriends at the bar, take them to her private quarters, tie them up carefully, and finally pick up a sharp, thin kitchen knife for slicing fish and slice their flesh off the bone.

Before she was captured, Miss Swarren had calmly and gracefully slipped out 10 big men. Then she received the Federation's 'nerve center socialization reconstruction', which is simply electromagnetic lobotomy and brainwashing tutorials, and then became what she is now.

It is said that 50% of the front-line personnel of the Federation Interstellar Marine Corps come in this way, and according to Liberty's observation, this proportion can be adjusted upwards even more. As for whether everyone is like Swaren, the answer is absolutely no, this kind of talent is not very common even in today's era of decadence.

Like most people who are not successful enough in life, Liberty spits out a good groove and has a lot of venom in his stomach.

He joked that the builders of the Nord II had designed all the useful details of the compartments, officers' quarters, weapons systems, living systems, computer systems, etc., before they remembered that they needed aisles. So the corridor was so narrow that someone came on the opposite side, and both sides had to lean sideways against the wall to pass, and if it weren't for the armed interstellar marines who had to pass through, the passage would probably be even narrower.

He laughed at the novices who were in training, who operated the power armor rope and walked like a swinging penguin.

He also joked that Duke was a silver-backed gorilla who led his tribe with a pointed diamond-shaped head, and that he frightened his monkeys with his threatening posture of leaning forward (rickets).

Of course, when it was his turn to face the gorilla, he wouldn't show off his maverick and difference. This is a very simple emotional intelligence problem, the starship is the abnormal territory, and Duke is the largest in this land, and if he offends Duke, his life will be very sad.

However, Liberty still has his bottom line, that is, his professional ethics are worthy of recognition, and he will not lie to deceive those who read his reports.

This left him with no more combat operations and feats to praise after completing the first few patriotic stories with the battle flag fluttering.

This, combined with the boundless boredom and boredom of military and astronautics, made him depressed and compelled to have some fun.

Today, for example, he had just come back from an all-night game and had probably not slept for 5 minutes before he was woken up by Emily.

Although the soldiers who played cards with him were stunned young people who had nowhere to spend their salaries and didn't even know the slightest tricks, so that it was always pleasant to play cards with them, who could not get up a little bit?

But when I met Emily, who was always smirking and didn't mind being instructed to do this and that, Liberty had a fire and nowhere to go.

He didn't want to be stuffed into a body bag and launched into space, as is customary for a starship. With Duke's arrogance and stubbornness, this kind of thing may not be impossible.

However, this time Duke gave him a refreshing feeling, and after meeting, he didn't say a word, went straight to the point, and let him watch a video.

Liberty was immediately drawn to the content of the video.

The video is not long, it is obviously edited, and it is very unprofessional, or rather, the purpose is to explain the process in the shortest possible length, so it is very dry.

Then Duke opened his mouth: "I asked them to find the associates and refuge of the son of Keha, and they gave me this. I was very helpless, I did bad things back then, and the worst part for the people who took care of me was not following orders. Now I'm going to disobey again, and I'm going to get those people out of that damn place. ”

Liberty was amazed and could not hide his surprise.

If it were a different way of thinking, Duke would interpret this surprise as shock at the video.

But Kane gave him a new perspective, and Duke knew that Liberty was surprised that he could say such a thing.

This is indeed not his style, frank and skillfully exposed his scars, and expressed his protection of his subordinates very humanely, even to protect his shortcomings.

None of these are things he has, but judging by Liberty's reaction, they are needed.

Liberty had not been on the ship for a long time, but he was very good with the officers and men on the ship, and often lost to him at the gambling table, but it still did not prevent those soldiers from befriending him, which Duke was envious and jealous of.

It took him decades to learn this way of getting along with the officers and soldiers, let alone being embraced by them from the bottom of his heart.

So he thought about it now that some of the things that Liberty approved of in the world might be the direction he needed to correct, if he didn't happen to have one.

"It doesn't matter what you think in your heart, the key is to express something that meets the needs of success. Then there is success, so successful people are very good at acting. It's such a simple truth, I haven't even been able to fucking figure it out all these years!"

Liberty found that Duke seemed determined to show him a side he hadn't revealed.

I heard Duke say again: "To be honest, I don't really care about those stinky farms, but this time the nature is different, this is not the predation needed for survival, this is the invasion of intelligent races, organized slaughter. ”

Then he said with some self-deprecation: "We have finally found an intelligent race comparable to human beings, but the way is not very good......"

In this way, Duke's character image is full at once. He admits that he doesn't like ordinary people, which is consistent with his usual condescension for ordinary people.

However, he also showed that he was a soldier, a human being. As Roosevelt said in Congress that year: "Even if it is a son of a bitch, it is our son of a bitch." ”

Subtext: We abuse ourselves, that's our business, others can't beat and scold, otherwise I won't follow.

Since the other party is not a beast, but an intelligent race, then they can be equal to people, and they are all intelligent creatures. The thinking patterns of the intelligent race are deep and wide, and when making choices, they think about the consequences.

Now the insect is doing this, and the nature is completely different from that of ordinary beasts!