The officer did not answer, but shook hands with the noncommissioned officer on duty in front of the checkpoint. The latter clicked his legs together, stamped his boots on the ground, saluted and shouted: "Understood! I promise to complete the mission!"
The soldiers stared intently, as if Gu Hongdie did not exist. Their gazes seemed to be real, grazing Gu Hongdie's body like laser rays. Only then did the officer answer her question.
"Given the current situation, I am unable to answer your question."
The officer opened the blast door of the building that was integrated with the rock wall for Gu Hongdie and said, "You'd better ask the general directly."
The building was brightly lit, and many young officers who were about the same age as Gu Hongdie were rushing back and forth. The long leather boots made a "bang bang" sound on the wooden floor. The moment the door opened and closed, Gu Hongdie saw the computer control center, Staff officers arguing, high-precision maps hanging up...
There was only one door with two guards standing in front of it.
The officer knocked on the door "Dudu" and said softly: "General, I am Adjutant Liu, and the lady is here."
"Enter."
After passing countless levels, the door closed behind her, and Gu Hongdie finally saw her father.
Gu Xuchun, Lieutenant General, Chief of the General Staff Department, and one of the actual controllers of the Renaissance Army.
"Dad, has a nuclear war broken out?" Gu Hongdie said, looking at the man with his back to her, standing in front of a large world map.
"Almost." The man turned around, took off his big-brimmed hat with gold wire, and placed it on the table. The general whose face was half-submerged in the shadow of the lamp had a pair of narrow eyes. When he raised his head slightly, it made people feel that the eyes were not symmetrical. The outer canthus of his right eye was tilted downwards. No divine light.
Yes, he only has one intact eyeball.
"This is the war department, I shouldn't be here." Gu Hongdie said, so she didn't even sit down and stood upright in front of her father, like one of his soldiers.
"what do I need to do."
Gu Xuchun motioned his daughter to come closer, picked up a folder with one hand, handed it to her, and said: "This is a catalog that records the myths of various ethnic groups in the Far Sea and Desert Sea areas from before the birth of the Moslos Empire to the 19th century. .”
Gu Hongdie frowned and flipped through the document, which was about fifty pages long. This was not a very rare thing. You could get it with some effort in the Longda Library, and there was "The Myth of Rose" on her roommate's bookshelf. ", she still remembers that the spark of the World War was an offshore oil drilling named after the sun god "Dazhbog" in Russian mythology. The nuclear submarine that changed the destiny of all mankind was cruising near the oil well at that time.
"You are the pride of the Gu family."
Gu Hongdie knew that her father was not praising her, but stating a basic fact. She ignored it, put down the document, and looked directly into her father's left eye. Every blood thread was like a vortex, flowing into the dark vortex.
"You have two brothers and three cousins. They are all glorious soldiers of the Renaissance Army. They are replaceable screws in the war machine. The meaning of them protecting the country is for countless people like their sister. Children can do what they want and be who they want to be.”
"Xiaoyun, you are my daughter."
Gu Hongdie put the defense handout in her hand on her father's desk, bit her lip, and replied: "I am a qualified combat soldier, under your command, general."
Staring at his daughter's youthful and beautiful face, Gu Xuchun felt that she was just a purple violet grass growing on the White Jade Palace. Only the Zihai Palace itself could appreciate its breathtaking beauty.
The lieutenant general swallowed back half of his sentence and said: "The country is very difficult and subject to some restrictions. It only retains the minimum knowledge of literature, history, philosophy, sociology, psychology, etc. I checked the collection of domestic imperial history in the past century, and there is no one." Breaking away from the traditional narrative structure and mechanical recording, almost no one has the courage to explain the history of the empire from a new perspective and impress your staid professors like you."
"Not everyone." Gu Hongdie added.
Gu Xuchun seemed to smile bitterly: "The army has a plan that has been going on for a long time. We do not allow the slightest possibility of failure, and we do not hesitate to pay any price. The army once thought it had succeeded, but the result was very unsatisfactory. "
"Our only main battle mecha has been destroyed."
Gu Hongdie was stunned for a moment, that "Shan Wenjia"? That main battle mecha equipped with the only perpetual motion engine that has been successfully tested? That great weapon that can lead an entire armored army to carry out a nuclear blast assault?
That is strategic force! With the presence of "Shanwenjia", the torrent of steel can be called the torrent of steel. Without it, how can it deal with "Ivan the Terrible" of the Moslos Empire?
"Is it the imperial army bombing Longshan!"
"Yes, but we can't go to war now. The Renaissance Army has not yet gained the absolute advantage over Gupta. Once the war begins, the field army stationed in Linghai will not be enough to defeat the Imperial Army led by 'Ivan the Terrible'. Their tanks are better than ours." Twice as much!”
"How dare you let it go away!" Gu Hongdie shouted out of control.
What is "Shanwenjia"? It is the belief of the entire alliance and even any country! The perpetual motion engine represents infinite energy and is proof of the motherland’s power against nature! Gu Hongdie would rather keep "Shan Wenjia" if the sky falls. Anyway, it has already collapsed once in history!
Facing his daughter's accusation, Gu Xuchun could not answer, and sighed: "The remaining nuclear weapons on both sides are too few to guarantee mutual destruction, but the surface reconstruction is far from as good as you think. The Imperial people have calculated the load capacity of the giant underground city. Limit. If the Renaissance Army fails in a conventional military duel, we will be driven back to the underground city until we collapse."
The lieutenant general stared into his daughter's eyes, examined her, dug his nails into his palms, and said: "The army recruited several young people in the same situation as you from all over the country to join a special research team to find out the empire Human weakness! From now on, you have graduated! According to the alliance’s military service system, you will resume your military status at this moment. From now on, you are Second Lieutenant Gu Hongdie under my direct command!"
Gu Hongdie was silent for a while, and then said: "Understood, general, I want to ask questions."
"There's no need to do this for now, Xiaoyun, you haven't walked out of the door yet."
Gu Xiuyun raised her neck, tilted her head, and looked at a photo on the bookcase. Yes, it's a photo of a family of three, but the girl in it is not her now, but her childhood.
"I want to call He Yunfan."
The room was extremely bright, but her father could only give her a disappointed answer.
"Out of the consistent principle of confidentiality, my daughter has accepted the call of the motherland and served on the surface. As a soldier, there should be no love between children during wartime!"
The door opened, and the adjutant with a cold face stood at the door, saluting: "Second Lieutenant Gu Hongdie, please come with me."
"Goodbye, father." Gu Hongdie picked up her defense speech, turned around and saluted her father before walking out of the room.
Before leaving the restricted area and heading to the next restricted area, Gu Hongdie found the waste disposal room. Holding the stack of speech notes, she flipped through the pages and read the comments marked in red, blue and black. In the corner of a certain page, She saw her birth name written next to another name. Her lips trembled, her fingers twitched, and she opened the iron door. A wave of heat blew in. She threw the pile of speeches into the incinerator with her own hands.
Amidst the sound of burning paper, Gu Hongdie silently rubbed her big-brimmed hat, whose emblem was an ear of wheat and a gear. She raised her head to prevent tears from falling and sang softly:
"Edelweiss,Edelwelss
Everymorningyougreetme
Smallandwhite,cleanandbright
Youlookhappytomeetme
Blossomofsnowmayyoubloomandgrow
Bloomandgrowforever
EdelweissEdelweiss
Bless my homeland forever.”
