Ministry of National Defense, Yongshan-Tamamo District.
The Alliance Defense Department is located on Tenkai Street in Tamamo District. Although it is 1,025 meters above the ground, the artificial sun hanging high in the dome is extremely bright, casting no shadow on this long street that determines the political trends of the Alliance.
Slightly different from what ordinary people imagine, the Ministry of National Defense Building is not a futuristic building full of design passion like the People's Palace. It has neither exquisite and absolute geometric forms nor hollow anti-gravity shapes. As for the huge scale? Alas, it is just an ordinary "Fuxing Building": six stories high, symmetrical about the central axis, with a towering center, and the overall square shape is no different from any "Fuxing Building" used for office purposes. This is dwarfed by the surrounding majestic and solemn buildings of ministries and commissions that were only completed in the past twenty years.
The bicycle was ringing as it rolled over the stone pavement. A young girl wearing a red plush hat held the handle of the bike and shuttled past Dongfeng jeeps with military license plates. The braid around her shoulders swayed back and forth, sometimes touching her shoulder bag, and sometimes being hidden in the folds of her beige coat.
The street lamps with gold bases emitted a warm light, but the dignitaries stopped at the intersection by the traffic lights naturally had no intention of admiring the famous glazed jade covers of the Tianhai street lamps in their cars. They were thinking and debating the alliance's policies. and the future.
The girl was riding a bicycle, turned right, and drove lightly into the non-motorized lane. A couple walking slowly in the warm light cast her doubtful eyes. This is indeed a bit strange. Generally speaking, there are no bicycles on long streets. The non-motorized lanes that can accommodate one car can be used for emergency personnel to pass quickly. Moreover, people living and working in Tamamo District have ample fuel rations.
The girl pedaled in reverse for a few times. The bicycle made a "sizzling" sound as it decelerated, then decelerated with a "ding", spun, and stopped by the flower bed. After taking off her footrest, the girl pulled on her schoolbag strap and took off her gloves. She raised her head slightly and glanced at the purple star above her head, which was on the Ministry of National Defense building. Then she pursed her lips and walked quickly towards the door.
Wearing a steel helmet, holding an old-fashioned semi-automatic rifle in his right hand, holding the gun on his shoulder, with his left hand pressed together on the side of his thigh, the guard wearing a field gray military coat above his knees stood solemnly, looking far away. The girl opened the door with a "squeak" and then pushed open the second small door. She walked face to face with two school officials wearing big-brimmed hats. Compared with the "bang" of their riding boots, the girl's pair of small The leather shoes made a soft "click-click" sound.
People came and went on the yellowed marble surface. Portraits of great military strategists in modern times hung on the walls of the lobby on the first floor, while staff officers wearing tassels walked quickly with document bags under their arms. The girl glanced at the clerical staff at the reception desk. Was she wronged by them? Sitting in such a small pigeon cage. The girl thought.
The girl ignored the crowd and continued walking. She looked at the portrait facing her with interest. Has someone been replaced? Isn't this Ren Dingjia? The girl thought for a moment and recognized that this was another marshal. She walked straight to the main stairs without even looking at the group of... privates standing by the main stairs.
Before reaching out to take away the cord of the courtesy post, someone finally stopped the girl.
"No entry!" The collar badge showed that this person was a captain, his hair was combed meticulously, his beard was carefully trimmed into a mustache, and his face was very appreciated, with a Chinese character.
Looks like a goose, the girl thought.
"Good afternoon, Captain," the girl said, her hands hanging at her waist.
"Civilians are strictly prohibited from entering this important military area. Please return!" the captain said instructing with his hands behind his back. He was a little annoyed. The most puzzling thing about this old building was that there were no walls and there were not enough restricted areas in front of the door. It was impossible for the guards on duty to interrogate everyone who passed by the Ministry of Defense gate, so it became a kind of place where you could come and leave as you pleased.
The girl was unafraid, curled her lips, pointed to the registration book on the table and said, "Visitor registration?"
"Intention of visiting?"
"Ah, look for my father." The girl pushed up the round glasses on the bridge of her nose, held her shoulder bag with one hand, and continued: "My father is Gu Xuchun, the new head of the General Staff Department, and he should be yours too. boss."
The girl tilted her head and stroked her braid. She saw that the captain looked somewhat unnatural. Believe it or not is up to you. The girl thought.
"Even if your father is the Minister of Defense, ma'am, I can't let you in without a pass."
Ah, he is scared. The girl said in her heart, so she folded her hands on her chest, rolled her eyes, and said, "You can send someone to the office to ask... No, the Office of the Operations Department is in the General Staff Building, and you can't find him."
The captain regained the characteristic arrogant expression of the gatekeeper of the important place. The head of his head happened to be the bald marshal with the newly changed portrait. Although the marshal always wore a military uniform in public during his lifetime, the girl knew that this old man had bald spots.
Seeing that she was about to be kicked out of the house, the girl took a long breath and said calmly: "Please let me borrow the phone."
The number started with "1" instead of "0". After dialing the remaining 10 digits, with her ear against the receiver, the girl hummed a familiar tune: "Расцветали яблони и груши, Поплыли туманы над рекой; Выходила на б ерег Катюша,На высокий берег，на крутой”
When the buzzer ended, the girl tapped her foot lightly and said a few words. Then she handed the receiver to the captain, smiled at him, nodded, and said, "It's for you, Captain."
As expected, the captain took it doubtfully. Under the helpless gaze of the girl, he tensed up as if he had been electrocuted. He stood up straight with a snap, his posture no different from that of an ordinary guard at the door.
"Yes sir! Got it sir!"
The captain carefully waited until the other party hung up before putting the phone back. At the moment when he turned around, he took a long breath, then grabbed his military uniform shirt and straightened it, trying to keep a serious expression.
"You can enter, but you need to register, and..." The captain moved his Adam's apple. "And check your bag."
"Of course." The girl shrugged, opened her schoolbag and asked the captain to check whether there was a pistol or a bomb inside. Inside is nothing more than a copy of "Modern Political Thought and Action" (1964 edition) and a compulsory military course textbook. Eyebrow pencils are not considered cosmetics, so her bag contains only books and pens.
"Please sign your name here."
Ah~ The visitor registration form also has the wheat ear emblem, which is worthy of the army. The girl said in her heart, and signed her name "Gu Xiuyun" carefully, and then observed the captain's expression. His face turned a bit pig liver color, because in the blank space was the graffiti of a pouting little man with a big brain.
"Thank you~" Gu Xiuyun held her schoolbag and winked at the captain. She removed the buckle of the concierge pillar and retracted the rope in a "snap". She took two steps in one step and ran extremely fast.
To be honest, this was not the first time she had entered the Ministry of Defense building, and she had visited it several times when she was a child, regardless of the public activities organized by the college to visit the Ministry of Defense. When she was a girl, out of curiosity about military officers' readings, she begged her retired grandfather to take her to the underground library of the Ministry of National Defense. At that time, no one dared to ask the grandfather and grandson for a pass.
Since she had almost read all the interesting books in the library, Gu Xiuyun went to the reading room on the sixth floor, where internal reference materials would be updated frequently. Although she knew that she would find the same edition number in her grandfather's study, After all, we're not kids anymore, right?
The manager of the reading room was still the same old man. Hearing the commotion, the old man dropped the newspaper and said in surprise: "Hu Niu, why did you come here?"
"Waiting for my dad."
"oh."
Gu Xiuyun opened the window to get some air. She looked at the Ministry of Finance Building opposite, and suddenly realized that this place had really not changed at all since she could remember.
She was reading the latest issue of the Western Front Battle Report. The data written here are all relatively real data. For example, the briefing of the Fourth Battle of Gandur, the Renaissance Army was pulling out nails one by one. Just looking at the numbers, it was clear that the battle was very fierce and stalemate. As for what the news said about the defeat of the Guptas? She is not an ordinary citizen, so she has long since disbelieved it.
"You're not going to class today?" asked the uncle, who was wearing a regular school uniform without a title. His family also lives in the military compound, so Gu Xiuyun naturally knows everything about his uncle.
"Being absent from class." Gu Xiuyun replied. She turned over a page and found it boring, so she closed it and scratched the annoying pimples on her face. "I'm too lazy to listen to theory classes."
"It's okay to relax." The uncle was slightly startled.
"I haven't seen you for a long time, Huniu. How is your grandpa in good health recently?"
"If you stay strong, there is absolutely no problem in living to be a hundred years old."
"At this age, Lao Gu... I'm leaving early. I just want to go home and enjoy the happiness." The uncle sighed.
Gu Xiuyun choked back: "Why don't you continue to shine like you do?"
The uncle's old face was so slack that it could catch up with fermented dough. He said depressedly: "Isn't it easy for me, Old Li, to shine? I'm just old enough, a few years younger. I'm the indispensable director of the headquarters. I'm just an empty post here in the Ministry of National Defense." It’s so clean that the management is not willing to give out the money for renovations. If I didn’t come here to keep an eye on it, I wouldn’t even know if the building was demolished and the land was sold.”
This was old news. Gu Xiuyun had heard the argument between her grandfather, her eldest uncle, her second uncle, and her father at the dinner table about the empty Ministry of Defense. When my grandfather was promoted to general, reconstruction had not even begun. What he experienced was a continuation of the pre-war alliance system, trapped in a corner of Longshan, with a mere 100,000 members in the Renaissance Army, which also included fire fighters, police, etc. The FNA currently has more than 900,000 regular troops and more than 2 million military-industrial infrastructure troops under its jurisdiction. On the surface, it is handled by the FNA. So what is the use of the Ministry of National Defense? Naturally, power will be transferred to the headquarters.
This place is almost becoming a modern ruin! Gu Xiuyun thought as she poked her pimples.
After chatting with the uncle for a while, I regained the feeling of sitting on my grandfather's lap and listening to the chatter of these old guys. Gu Xiuyun looked at the clock and felt that her father's meeting was about to end. She drank the cold tea in the cup, said goodbye and ran away.
Gu Xiuyun sat outside the conference room on the third floor, took out the book from her bag, and read quietly. When the mahogany door opened inward, facing a group of uncles carrying generals on their shoulders, she half-raised her hand and shook her head. Shake and say hello.
The generals responded with friendly smiles, and Gu Xiuyun's father's face brightened. He held a big-brimmed hat under his arm, took Gu Xiuyun's arm and pulled her up, and then sent the generals away. , Major General Gu Xuchun suppressed his anger and shouted: "Why did you call in?! I asked you to wait at the Ministry of National Defense building, why did you have to come in?!"
"Have you ever said anything about the outside and the inside?" Gu Xiuyun withdrew her hand, her eyes also filled with anger.
"Okay, okay." Gu Xuchun waved helplessly and put on his general hat embroidered with golden wheat fringes. "Come on, come with me, this is the Department of Defense, stop getting angry."
"Where to go?" Gu Xiuyun took two steps back, grabbed the strap of her schoolbag, and held it in front of her body.
Gu Xuchun took off and left, and Gu Xiuyun followed subconsciously.
"Go see the third member." Gu Xuchun said, his tone was calm, as if he was not talking about the third member of the executive committee, the highest authority in the alliance, but a member of a family committee.
"No, thank you." Gu Xiuyun simply refused. Along the way down the stairs, a group of officers saluted her father, but her father only nodded slightly.
"Go ahead, she'll be happy to see you."
"No, Dad, I won't do this again." Gu Xiuyun swung her hands, swung her braid, and turned to stare at her father's side face.
"What else can I do?" Gu Xuchun said without stopping his steps, holding his hands behind his back.
"I won't be the little vase in your atmosphere ceremony anymore." Gu Xiuyun felt the blood boiling in her chest. When she walked to the lobby on the first floor, she saw the dull captain again and said angrily: "And I won't let you The stupid guard went through my bag again!"
While the father and daughter were talking, the captain who was guarding the door raised his hand in salute and stood aside with his hands tied, as if he was waiting for orders at any time. This made Gu Xiuyun feel deeply unhappy. She stopped, forcing her father and the arriving adjutant to stop. She stared into her father's eyes and said, "I don't want to have to explain the glory of our family the next time I see you." How unattainable is the lintel of historical narration? I am indeed a history student, but I am not your personal guide, nor am I a free street performer!"
After finishing this long sentence in one breath, Gu Xiuyun was still breathing, and her father still said in the same tone: "He is a guard, and it is his duty to check whether visitors are carrying dangerous goods." After speaking, he turned around Just leave.
"It doesn't matter." Gu Xiuyun said disappointedly. She turned around and came face to face with the portrait of a marshal. Oh really heck, who came up with this idea? Hanging in the nursing home every day, the old man accepts the old man's condolences? Maybe the only young person here is this stupid goose! Gu Xiuyun was angry.
"I will not perform at the Xidu Banquet Hall!"
The janitor captain opened the door for the general before the adjutant, and then opened the door. However, the adjutant did not even look at him, and just stayed close to the general's side.
Gu Xuchun stood in front of the Ministry of National Defense Building. Tianhai Long Street was already busy with traffic. The eight-lane highway was full of purple flag cars. The gorgeous car lights replaced the function of the artificial sun, creating brilliant stars in the "night sky". After scattering In the eyes of people who fall on the outskirts of Tamamo District, they are stars underground.
"It's too late. I have already promised them that your cousin has started practicing the music. You two will play Chopin's etude "The Sea" together." Gu Xuchun said calmly, standing on the flower bed with his hands behind his back.
"Hey, I thought you only listened to Yangchun Baixue." Gu Xiuyun mocked. "Aren't all foreign songs banned?"
"Cousin, she just doesn't have any opinions, so she listened to the letter from you and your follower. I refuse." Gu Xiuyun thought of her lovely cousin of the same age. She was 17 years old and still lived like a 7-year-old child. She was intoxicated with praises all day long. and in poetry.
Gu Xuchun raised his hand slightly, indicating to the adjutant to warm up the car first. Even though you are underground, the difference between hot and cold temperatures still drives the night breeze, or in other words, the fragrant breeze. The warm light of the glazed street lamp made the large stand-up collar of the general's uniform turn brighter red. Gu Xuchun took out a handkerchief and wiped his glasses. Different from his daughter's plain glasses, his glasses were real myopia. He had severe astigmatism. Everyone Anyone who has served on the surface for ten years will be left with scars.
"The third committee member invited me and my newly promoted colleagues to visit the health villa in Xidu District. It is our honor. Moreover, Mrs. Lin specifically asked me if you would come. You have always known that Mrs. Lin admires you."
"That's it." Gu Xiuyun took out her gloves from her bag and put them on. There were no white men coming and going, and she seemed to be the only minor on the street.
"So you think, 'Oh, what am I raising a daughter for?' Showing off is showing off, and you have to show it off, right? Ask her to play a Chopin etude for the third committee member, and look good to the general's father, and look back. It’s convenient to ask for funds. Oh, if you give me an extra million yuan, I can let my daughter continue to play music and dance. Thank you that I didn’t like dancing when I was a child, otherwise I would be studying at Tianhai Art College to do a great literary and artistic job. He has spent his whole life serving as a public servant of the people."
Gu Xiuyun said something sinister. Obviously, this level was not enough to anger her general father. In fact, his expression did not change. After Gu Xuchun listened quietly, he turned sideways and leaned forward. Even though Gu Xiuyun was tall and tall, he was indeed a head shorter than her father, so she immediately felt her father's gaze, even if she returned the look bravely.
"If you don't agree to my request, then take it as my order." Major General Gu Xuchun trained.
The anger disappeared, replaced by a sense of powerlessness. Gu Xiuyun didn't feel her shoulders softening. She paused and said, "The worst I can do is not go home. I don't need anything from you anyway!"
Gu Xuchun suddenly smiled, and his sullen face relaxed. He looked at his serious-faced daughter and said with a smile: "There are still a few months before your seventeenth birthday. When you become an adult, you can live wherever you like, and I Will be happy with your independence.”
The smile faded, and the lenses of his glasses shone with a cold light, "But until the law stipulates that you are an adult, I have the responsibility and obligation to take care of you, and you are also obliged to obey me."
"So this is a modern revival of the ancient Roman patriarchy, right? It's a small thing for you to take my little life..."
Gu Xiuyun was interrupted mid-sentence. "You are nothing more than a sophomore..." Gu Xuchun spread his hands and said, and then Gu Xiuyun grabbed the topic again.
"Speaking of the law, at least you know that citizens' private lives are absolutely protected after the ten-hour working day. I have to continue to participate in non-compulsory labor after studying for ten hours. Can I sue you to the Labor Bureau?"
A father can never defeat his daughter when it comes to sophistry. Gu Xuchun impatiently took out his pocket watch and looked at the time.
"There is no civil legitimacy in your world of command and conquest..." Gu Xiuyun kept talking, and then Gu Xuchun didn't want to listen anymore, and strode away after saying "I am not an ordinary citizen".
Gu Xiuyun didn't bother to pay attention to him, turned around and walked towards her bicycle. Before she had taken two steps, a voice came from behind, "Wait a minute, Huniu."
Gu Xiuyun became irritable. She turned around suddenly and threw her braid from her chest to the back of her shoulders. She looked at her father who was reaching out to hold him back and said angrily: "Don't call me by my nickname, I'll give you the same name." At least you should respect me as much as I do!"
Gu Xuchun was stunned. He even thought about what was going on for a second. He walked forward, lowered his body slightly, lowered his head in front of his daughter who was wringing her hands, and said softly and gently: "My dear Gu Xiuyun Miss, as this is my last request before you become an adult, before you leave home to live alone, can you please accompany your father to participate in activities for the last time?"
"You are interested in studying the history of island chain relations during the Second Tianhai Empire. There will be many important people present. You can tell them about the importance of history. Your mother and I are also happy to discuss history or law with you. "
"But it's not here..." Gu Xuchun pursed his lips toward the brown Ministry of National Defense building. "Not now either."
My father finally gave in. Gu Xiuyun tilted her head and looked at her father with squinted eyes, then lowered herself and made a blessing ceremony.
"As you command, my general."
Seeing his daughter who had transformed back into a good and graceful lady, Gu Xuchun felt sad for a moment. She wished she could stay like this forever. he thought.
"Come on, get in the car and I'll take you back to school."
Gu Xiuyun refused without hesitation. "Thank you, I have my own car."
After that, she walked towards her chrome-plated bicycle that cost 300 yuan, got on it and rode quickly on the sidewalk.
The adjutant had been standing by the car for a long time. He opened the door and put his hands on the door frame. After Gu Xuchun sat down safely, he closed the door again and sat in the passenger seat. Yes, there was a driver.
The purple flag car drove into Tianhai Long Street. After such a delay, the traffic jam became even worse. Gu Xuchun noticed a stack of documents beside his seat. According to his request, the adjutant would put documents that needed to be handled by him personally but were not very important in the car. inside so that he can quickly handle it on the road.
After approving several combat readiness plans that required his signature and seal, he opened a brown paper bag stamped "Confidential" and took out a report titled "Tunnel plan call for the early project under the QS1148.7-TD-LTE base station." Application report"
Although in order to eliminate the influence of other countries, the alliance has eliminated the use of foreign characters as much as possible and replaced them with "A, B, C, D" or traditional numerals. Of course, in the army, it can be as concise and fast as possible, but what makes Gu Xuchun strange is that this kind of report is not at all What a high-ranking general like him handled was a trivial matter that any lieutenant with D-level authority could handle.
But Gu Xuchun knew that his adjutant was not a fool. He opened the report casually, and the report was extremely simple. It described that a maintenance team of the Yanqi garrison passed through the Qianshan Mountains and found a helmet rat under the communication base station, but was forced to There was no early project tunnel plan and the base was asked for help. The base did not have this plan either, so it was sent to the Longshan headquarters. The headquarters staff found that they did not have enough authority to transfer this plan, and at the same time, the transfer request triggered a database alarm.
Gu Xuchun was preoccupied with the third committee member's banquet. He scribbled the report, but he couldn't remember the source of the database alarm for a while. He probably forgot all the details when handing over the work in the past few days.
He signed, put down the document, and stared out the car window. The car crossed the intersection and turned into the service road. Soon he saw the administrative building of the Ministry of Land, Resources and Environment, a unique building shaped like a torch.
Gu Xuchun suddenly felt that he had caught something, and the car passed by Bailong Square again, where the symbol of the sky and sea, the Dragon of Clouds and Mist, stood.
Like a dragon's cry exploding in his heart, Gu Xuchun opened the document, stared at the word "Qianshan", gritted his teeth and asked: "Xiao Zhang! How long has it been since this base station report was delivered to Longshan!"
"Midnight the day before yesterday," the adjutant replied affirmatively.
After hearing this, Gu Xuchun held up his forehead, his eyes were dull, and he exhaled a thick breath. He shouted: "Pull over and call the Supreme Command!"
"You two get out of the car immediately!"
While waiting for the call to be connected, Gu Xuchun read over and over again the report, which was only 200 words long. He could almost predict how a maintenance team with hunters would treat a small-scale cleanup operation. They would definitely ask for After getting the password to the combat reserve, it’s probably a done deal now!
The call was connected. Without waiting for the other party to speak, Gu Xuchun said quickly:
"I am Major General Gu Xuchun. Which special operations force is closest to Qianshan?"
After getting the exact answer, Gu Xuchun looked grim. He was the head of the First Department of the General Staff. No top-secret military plan could bypass him, and his duty was to eliminate all dangerous factors that interfered with the plan! He yelled into the car phone:
"Recall 'Little White Dragon'! Ensure the safety of Qianshan!"
