Ten minutes ago.
"I don't want to eat it, so take it off first."
Bai Lingyu waved his hand, leaned on the office chair and pinched his eyebrows with a headache.
"Colonel, the council's answer is also expected. The retreat plan requires absolutely strong evidence to be approved."
Adjutant Xu reluctantly put away his dinner plate, "Just a full moon and an anomaly of the pollution value soaring and then falling back can't shake their stereotypes of more than ten years. It's better to wait for the survey station to provide substantive data evidence. In this way, the parliament will regress no matter how unwilling it is.”
"Substantial..." Bo Lingyu laughed angrily, leaned back completely on his chair, and looked at the cold and pale ceiling, "Yes, when I come up with substantive evidence, something will happen, and the parliament must not rush As an afterthought?"
"I think you are too pessimistic." Adjutant Xu comforted, "We have been fighting aliens for twenty years and have a certain understanding of them. We have occasionally experienced data anomalies before, but it is just a difference between the full moon. Today. The data of hunters returning to the city are also very stable, and the rescue team outside the city has found no abnormalities."
"A certain understanding? We don't even know the cause of the catastrophe now. The prevention and control office can't even remove the pollution from the alien corpses. I think the development of new material weapons is far away. So, what are we talking about?" Do you understand the word '?"
Bai Lingyu turned his office chair and turned his back to look at the night outside the one-way explosion-proof glass: "I just want to keep this city away from danger to the greatest extent possible and protect the citizens from alien killings."
Adjutant Xu sighed deeply and spoke hesitantly: "But the East Bank District is not completely managed by our Third Base. Isn't there still an overseas inspector general from the parliament..."
The overseas inspector general is an official sent by the parliament to manage the city together with the military commander.
Generally speaking, the military chief is responsible for city defense, hunters, weapons and other related matters, while the dispatched inspector general is responsible for the city's economy, order, pollution prevention and control, etc.
But when a war breaks out, the dispatched inspector general can also record and "auxiliary command" on military affairs.
"There is no separation between military and political affairs during wartime, but whoever is in charge of the army has the final say." Bai Lingyu twitched the corners of his lips and showed an unsmiling smile, "If we really fight, if he dares to get in the way, I will kill him. "
Adjutant Xu understands Bai Lingyu's style, and he has no problem joking with his subordinates for convenience. He doesn't even have any airs, but once the bottom line of "city defense security" is involved, he really doesn't recognize his relatives, and he will say it. Dare to do it.
"Do you need me to arrange a meeting with the Inspector General for you?"
"Okay, ten o'clock tomorrow morning."
"Understood," Adjutant Xu recorded it, and after a moment he said, "And the information about the girl you asked me to find...that is, your daughter, has been sent to your terminal."
daughter……
Thinking of his experience this morning, Bai Lingyu couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth. He picked up the tablet-sized military terminal from the table and unlocked it to view the information.
It's pitiful, only half a page.
Even the one-inch photo was discovered after Adjutant Xu asked technicians to intercept it from the surveillance camera in the morning.
"There is no information... Hiss, her ID registration time was last night? I can understand that she was rescued yesterday and may need to get a new ID. Some people will choose to give up their old identities in order to say goodbye to the past. But there should also be records.”
Bai Lingyu frowned and raised his head: "Can't you find some information from the database based on the photos?"
"We can only check the database of the outer city. If not, it may be in the residents' files of the inner city." Adjutant Xu replied, "But it does not rule out that there have always been unscrupulous households, parents, uh... parents are not available for various reasons. It is possible for her to be included in the file, and this possibility is even greater, after all, the rescue location is in the east coast area."
After he finished speaking, he looked at Bo Lingyu meaningfully.
The meaning is clear: I have to ask you, Colonel.
Bai Lingyu: "..."
I'm not! I don't! Don't slander me casually!
But he and Baizhu had agreed to continue the relationship of "father and daughter". At this moment, he could only press his forehead with a hint of bitterness and wave to Adjutant Xu: You can leave as quickly as possible.
But Adjutant Xu still had work to report, so he ignored the bitterness of his boss's "Scumbag Report" and continued solemnly:
"Colonel, as well as the blood test you stopped, all the samples have been returned. Do they need to be destroyed?"
"Well, all... no, send it to my office."
Bai Lingyu suddenly remembered something and thought for a moment after changing his words, "Has all the relevant data in the blood test equipment been destroyed?"
After he learned of Baizhu's identity in the morning, he immediately stopped the prevention and treatment center's examination of the remaining blood from the tentacles of the alien butterfly.
Originally, blood testing was a very quick process, but contaminated blood mutates, making it difficult to strip out stable DNA for testing gender, appearance and other information. Furthermore, the Empire's technology in this area is not mature enough, and it takes a long time. Relatively long.
This also gave Bai Lingyu the opportunity to call a halt and get the sample back before Bai Zhu's identity was exposed.
"They were all destroyed," Adjutant Xu nodded solemnly, "and I followed your instructions and watched the whole process."
In the eyes of Bai Lingyu of the prevention and control center, the only uses were "providing hunter missions", "providing pollution drugs" and "doing other groceries", and he could not trust the people inside.
Bai Lingyu nodded: "That's okay, you..."
"Buzz——"
The phone suddenly vibrated.
Bai Lingyu was stunned, took out his mobile phone and saw a row of encrypted numbers.
It was him who gave Baizhu the communication bracelet.
Bai Lingyu answered the call and silently signaled Adjutant Xu to leave.
"How are discussions with the Council going?"
The voice on the other end of the phone sounded immature due to age, but it was surprisingly steady.
It was so steady that Bai Lingyu immediately thought of Baizhu's calm eyes when he threatened him with a gun, and his demeanor and movements during the conversation... He really didn't look like a child, except when he rushed up to me and called me "Dad", but that There was a lot of thunder but no rain. Not even a few crocodile tears were shed to accompany the performance. It was really unprofessional.
Bai Lingyu clicked his tongue inwardly. In order to cover up his distraction for two seconds, he answered the question more seriously and concisely.
…
"Not optimistic."
Bai Lingyu's answer came in via Bluetooth.
Baizhu frowned slightly, but there was not much surprise. She had already expected the result, but she was just reflexively disgusted by the parliament. He paused for a second before speaking again:
"The parliament has not agreed to evacuate, and we need you to present substantive evidence."
This is actually a question, but Bai Zhu is very sure of the answer, which sounds just like a statement.
"Yes," Bai Lingyu said with a hint of sarcasm, "If I have substantial evidence, can I still discuss it with them in a good manner?"
No, it would probably turn into a "negotiation" of demands and threats. Bai Shu murmured in his heart and mocked:
“The current composition of the parliament is really worrying. They are a group of old diehards who are about to retire and do not want to start a war. They are a group of diehards who are newly appointed but are addicted to enjoyment and are more conservative. Others are gold diggers and they also have a bit of a stench. "
So damn reasonable!
Bai Lingyu felt relieved after being answered. Just as he was about to speak Atractylodes, he continued:
"But they can also understand that retreating early or closing the city will cause considerable losses, and after approving the East Coast District, other second city districts must also synchronize their strategies, and the loss index will increase, so they need to be cautious.
"To take a step back, although the Parliament does not care about the civilians in the Second Outer City, it cannot deny the role they play and the military significance of the Second City. The Imperial people definitely want to guard the front line, and even the Parliament is the same as us. So even if it is true, they still hope that the outer two cities will be put to death and survive, desperately holding on to the defense line, and not thinking about retreating."
"...You're right." Bai Lingyu sighed.
He knows all this.
Moreover, there is another Atractylodes technique that is hidden but not disclosed, but both of them are aware of it.
For the human collective alone, retreat is not the best option. If the second city cannot be defended, the cost of moving the residents will be several times that of abandoning the residents.
"so……"
"so……"
Bai Shu and Bai Lingyu were silent for two seconds, then spoke at the same time, and then became silent at the same time.
Bai Shu smiled silently and continued: "The evidence can also be found, but we have to look outside the city and do something more risky. Can we set a time?"
Bai Lingyu faced the single-sided mirror window, and the lights of thousands of houses were reflected in his eyes, like shining stars in the world, and he smiled:
"Can."
Bai Shu leaned against the wall and laughed softly.
Abandoning individuals to ensure collective interests is of course the "optimal solution", but at the same time, it is meaningless to abandon the collective interests of mankind preserved by countless innocent individuals.
Human beings can only exist if there are people, not only if there is the empty word human beings.
This was also the first lesson Bai Lingyu taught her:
"Love the person, not the word 'human being.'"
Bai Zhu always remembers it.
