Looking at Chen Ling who was gradually becoming quieter, Lin Zihan knew that beneath Chen Ling's seemingly calm appearance, there was a violent beast that was suppressing the anger in his heart and suppressing the outbreak of his bestiality.
"Zhang Zheng and I are not done with this matter today!" Chen Ling looked at Zhang Zheng as he left the refugee area. The large group of people obviously put this account on the refugee area again.
"Yes, sooner or later, we will settle the accounts with these people who are working for us." Lin Zihan clenched his fists. The tragic situation of the experimental base still appeared over and over in front of Lin Zihan's eyes. Lin Zihan also remembered Zhang Zheng.
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"Uncle, I don't agree. The duty of a soldier is to protect those who are unarmed, not to use them as bait to hunt ferocious beasts." Yuan Shu landed on the tactical command map in front of Yuan Shu with a palm, and struck a decisive blow. said.
"Yuan Shu, I don't allow you to talk about this matter. I can't gamble with the coalition forces. It's better to sacrifice some people in exchange for long-term stability than to have the surrounding cities and Nandu being harassed by the beast tide every day."
In the command room of the Allied Army Headquarters, those who could enter the command room all started with the rank of commander, except Yuan Shu, who was just a newly promoted division commander.
"Uncle, those are human lives!" Yuan Shu still stopped in front of Yuan Tingkai, pressing one hand on the map, hoping that things would turn around. He looked at the people around him pleadingly, hoping that they could, like him, persuade his uncle to stop this battle plan.
"Yuan Shu, your uncle is right. This arrangement has already caused the minimum loss. It can also deal with the beast tide around here while retaining more effective forces of the Union Army to deal with the next attack by the Federal Army."
"Yes, when dealing with the beast tide, some sacrifices are inevitable. The number of soldiers lost each time the beast tide is exterminated is no less than the number of people who sacrificed this time."
"But those are all unarmed civilians!" Yuan Shu looked at the faces of the military commanders and continued. He hoped that things could turn around, hoping that it would not be at the expense of those small cities.
"Then the lives of our soldiers are not life? Are the lives of those garrison troops who died under the beast tide not life?" A military commander directly slapped the table and stood up, pointed at Yuan Shu and cursed, Roaring angrily, he looked down on Yuan Shu who was sitting here. If it weren't for his uncle, what qualifications would he have to sit in this command room.
"That's enough! Yuan Shu, get out!" Yuan Tingkai, who had been silent, looked at the quarrel and shouted loudly, controlling the situation that was gradually getting out of control.
Originally, Yuan Shu was not high enough to participate in this meeting, and Yuan Tingkai did not like to do things that relied on connections and leapfrogging, but thinking that he was his nephew after all, and now he was the only relative around him, he planned to let Yuan Shu follow him. Take a look and learn the strategies and tactics.
But he didn't expect that his nephew, like his father, was so kind and cowardly. He would only care about those ordinary beings who were not worth mentioning, but would not care about the losses of the military department or the life and death of the carefully trained soldiers.
"This matter is non-negotiable, get out!" Yuan Tingkai saw Yuan Shu still standing there, looking at him with his confident eyes, which looked at him as a sinner just like his brother.
This made Yuan Tingkai no longer able to contain the anger in his heart. The sound of the quarrel had already upset Yuan Tingkai, and Yuan Shu's gaze at this moment undoubtedly ignited the anger that Yuan Tingkai had been suppressing.
"..." Yuan Shu stared at Yuan Tingkai's angry eyes. He had never seen Yuan Tingkai get so angry. This was the first time he saw Yuan Tingkai shouting at him. Yuan Shu knew clearly that this matter was non-negotiable. After all, I can't change my uncle's decision.
Leaving the table angrily, Yuan Shu's heart was filled with confusion as to why his uncle would choose to sacrifice so many people in exchange for a large-scale annihilation of ferocious beasts. In Yuan Shu's opinion, wouldn't this be the same as the soldiers? It's contrary to duty.
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Seeing Yuan Shu leave the table, Yuan Tingkai felt a little annoyed. What he was upset about was not the price his decision would cost those small cities. What he was upset about was that he shouted to his nephew that his only relatives.
"Shu'er, actually, I didn't really want to reprimand you during the meeting. It's just that a meeting of that level is not something you should participate in. Naturally, I have to uphold fairness." Yuan Tingkai stood behind Yuan Shu and said softly, his eyes Following Yuan Shu's gaze, he looked towards the setting sun in the distance.
"I know, uncle, but in order to exterminate the ferocious beasts in this wilderness area, don't you really feel bad for sacrificing the people of those small towns?" Yuan Shu asked the doubts in his heart. His father once said However, my uncle is a ruthless person who will use any means to achieve his goals.
At that time, Yuan Shu didn't understand. He only knew that his uncle treated him very well, just like a father, and cared about his daily life in every possible way. But it wasn't until the United Army was established and Yuan Shu followed Yuan Tingkai, starting from the captain of a law enforcement team, that Yuan Shu saw his uncle's absolute iron-blooded military skills.
Whether he was facing the federal army, the remaining rebels in Nandu, or the waves of beasts that harassed the military garrison again and again, his uncle was always the fastest and the most decisive decision-maker, and sometimes he would even cut off his tail to survive.
"You have never experienced the days of being a refugee, and no one has faced a wave of beasts. Naturally, you will not understand that feeling." Yuan Tingkai said hoarsely, without the air in the command room, and even more Most of all, it is the sadness of memories.
"At that time, I once saw with my own eyes that my parents, your grandparents, were killed under the fangs of a ferocious beast. If your father hadn't tried his best to protect me, maybe I would have been killed. It turned into chyme in the stomach of the ferocious beast.
So to this day, I hope you can sit down with your father and have an open heart chat. He probably doesn’t want to lose you as his son. " Yuan Tingkai said with deep sadness in his eyes. Those days were his darkest time, and also the time when he and Yuan Tinghuan had the closest relationship.
"So this is why my father didn't support you, and you didn't force him to abdicate and use the military power of the coalition to occupy the southern capital?" Yuan Shu looked at Yuan Tingkai. Regarding that past, Yuan Shu just listened to his father briefly say a few words. sentence, as for many things, his father did not mention a word.
"..." Yuan Tingkai didn't say anything, just smiled and nodded, as if he acquiesced to Yuan Shu's answer.
"So, although your father cares less about you, I know that he is not a bad person. At least until now, he has not done anything that I think is unforgivable." Yuan Tingkai said with a look in his eyes. He felt slightly moved that the brother who had always taken care of him had finally drifted away from him.
"Uncle, but you can't choose this cruel method of extermination just because a beast wave once ruined your childhood. In order to get revenge," Yuan Shu said, the questioning and anger in his eyes had faded away, and there were more doubts and pleadings. .
"Perhaps you think I did it for myself, because the ferocious beast took away my relatives, so I became cold-blooded and didn't care how many people died.
But you are wrong, everyone is wrong. It was only because I was deprived of my loved ones by ferocious beasts that I understood how terrible the beast tide is. It was precisely because of my survival years living in the wilderness area that I understood the nature of the wilderness area. ruthless. Yuan Tingkai said seemingly calmly, but his heart was already full of mixed emotions.
"Did you know that if a mid-level beast wave attacks a city, even a city like Nandu with a strong military defense line, it will lose nearly 10,000 soldiers and countless resources." Yuan Tingkai frowned, he was deeply When the beast tide comes, a city loses its military strength.
"So it's not that I don't care about human lives. Aren't the soldiers I trained not human lives? I am an absolute supporter. I believe that with as few personnel as possible and a huge consumption of energy and weapons, we can exterminate vicious beasts. The opportunity is worth it.”
Yuan Tingkai walked down the hillside slowly without looking at Yuan Shu's face. He did not hope that Yuan Shu could understand him, but he would tell Yuan Shu his true thoughts.
"In my eyes, human life is a number. I exchange fifty thousand people for the opportunity to eliminate the herd that has been plaguing us. I think it is worth it for fifty thousand people for three hundred thousand." Yuan Tingkai left such a sentence, he He has never been a humanitarian. In his world, life is not worthy of respect, because the beast tide will not respect life.
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"Have you really thought about it?" Bai Xi waited at the foot of the hillside, looked at Yuan Tingkai, and asked lightly. There was no emotion in his tone. After all, for Bai Xi, a person who also came from a wilderness area, he was still an orphan. Yuan Tingkai saved him, and he was the one he wanted to serve.
"I have decided, actually you can leave. You have been by my side these years and you have done a lot of things. You have already repaid the kindness I gave you in saving you." Yuan Tingkai helped Bai Xi who was kneeling on the ground. , said calmly, the tone seemed to be to his own son.
"Are you going to drive me away?" Bai Xi asked back. He always expresses his doubts so directly. This is what Yuan Tingkai likes the most. He is much better than those old guys in the military department.
"Fine, follow me. Although Fengtian Pavilion can give you some virus preparations, I don't know what their ambition is. This is an abyss. I have already embarked on the road of no return. You are still young and you still have a chance.
Go to Dihao. Although I can't stand Wang Qin's little fox, he can give you better serum and virus preparations so that you no longer have to endure the pain of the virus eroding your bones. "
