District 9

"I...I'll go back right away." After the silence, Gu Tai'an replied with a trembling voice.

"I'll wait for you." Gu Yan hung up the phone directly.

In the mourning hall, Qin Yu asked expressionlessly: "What did he say?"

"He said he would come back."

"...If I can come back, that would be the most ideal result." Qin Yu responded with a sigh.

Gu Yan didn't reply, he just lowered his head and kept burning the paper money. After Qin Yu glanced at him with his peripheral vision, he slowly stood up, walked to him, and sat directly on the ground.

Gu Yan didn't say anything. Qin Yu put his arms around his neck and said nothing.

"... I'm so fucked, and now... I have nothing left." After Gu Yan felt Qin Yu's arm, he lost control of his emotions again. He turned his head and looked to the side with tears streaming down his face: "... My dad Ask me when you are leaving... Is Xiaojing okay... You know how I feel when I hear this... I have no fucking choice, I can only lie to him..."

Qin Yu was crying silently and did not speak. He just held Gu Yan in his arms and acted as a quiet listener.

…

That night, Gu Taixian wanted to return to Yanbei from Qufu to express his condolences to his eldest brother, but all the core generals of the Gu family in the World War II area directly blocked the door and prevented him from leaving.

Gu Taixian angrily took out his gun and shot it all over the floor at the door, but still no one gave way.

If I really go back, can I still come back?

This was almost impossible, so no one wanted to let Gu Taixian go.

But everyone also compromised with Gu Taixian, claiming that as long as Lin Yaozong could retreat, the follow-up issues could be discussed.

Gu Taixian was extremely helpless and didn't want to discuss with everyone at all, so he just waved his hand to disperse them.

The Chief of General Staff quickly contacted Gu Yan from the standpoint of the World War II Zone Headquarters and told him two things. First, Gu Taixian would not return to Yanbei to express his condolences. Second, he could choose a neutral location for negotiations.

Gu Yan was heartbroken when he heard this and replied directly: "If he hadn't talked about it, there would be no need for us to communicate!"

The Chief of General Staff thought and then responded: "He can participate."

…

Two days later.

The body of the old governor was buried on Fengshan Mountain in the southern suburbs of Yanbei, where there is beautiful clear water. You can sit south and look north and have a panoramic view of the motherland's rivers and mountains.

On the day of the burial, people gathered everywhere on Yanbei Long Street. Countless people from inside and outside the district followed the coffin vehicle all the way to the foot of Fengshan Mountain.

Qin Yu still had a plan in mind for how to deal with the subsequent events, so he still couldn't show up. In Yanbei, only a few people knew that he was out of trouble.

Fengshan.

Meng Xi looked at the old governor's tombstone with extremely complicated emotions in his heart. He had a secret that perhaps only Qin Yu knew!

He once thought of using his position in the Sichuan Mansion to assassinate the old governor, but this was a personal grudge. During the civil war in the Eighth District, when Yanbei City was destroyed, his Meng family was accused of being sentenced to the army, and all of them were sentenced to death. Zhu, if Meng Xi hadn’t been living overseas, he would certainly not have been spared.

Therefore, Meng Xi hates Gu Xi and the Sichuan government to the core. Of course, there are many details and processes involved, which we will discuss later.

It is only said that later Meng Xi entered the Sichuan Mansion and gradually attracted the attention of Qin Yu. The latter investigated him privately many times and roughly knew his identity. Therefore, Meng Xi received warnings from Qin Yu on several occasions. He emphasized again and again: "You can't cross the line!"

This is also why Qin Yu sent Meng Xi to stay in the experimental field for so long. Firstly, it was to temper the anger in his heart, and secondly, it was also to tell him from the side, I can use you, or I can abandon you.

In many subsequent incidents, especially when the establishment of a system was met with backlash, Gu Tai'an's decisiveness and layout direction were indeed based on the overall situation. At that time, he discovered that this old man was not what he had thought before. Warlord and executioner, he also knows many things that are done below, and the governor may not know either.

Meng Xi knew better that if there was unification, the old man's survival was the key, so he put down his hatred for the governor.

The hard-hearted Meng Xi was actually assimilated and infected during his stay in Sichuan Mansion.

Standing in front of the grave, Meng Xi bowed deeply to the tombstone, put down the flowers, and turned to leave.

…

The day after the funeral, Gu Yan took a plane with guards and went to Qufu to negotiate with Yanbei at a neutral location.

Entering the conference room, Gu Yan finally saw his second uncle.

"Sit down, Xiaoyan!" the chief of general staff greeted.

"You all ride out, I don't want to talk to any of you!" Gu Yan looked at Gu Taixian with a stern face and said, "I will talk to you, just the two of us!"

"Xiaoyan, calm down, now is...!" The chief of general staff wanted to speak.

"Get lost!!" Gu Yan glared at the other party and cursed.

Gu Taixian was silent for a long time, then waved his hand and shouted: "You all should get out!"

Everyone looked at each other and could only walk away, and only the uncle and nephew were left in the conference room.

"Can you stop beating me?" Gu Yan asked, standing beside the conference table and looking at his second uncle calmly.

Gu Taixian raised his head, looked at him and replied: "Do you think I want to fight?! Do you think I have to be in that position?"

"Don't make excuses, just ask if you can stop fighting?!"

"Why don't you understand? It's not something you and I can decide! I don't have to fight, and I don't have to be the commander! But the question is whether the people below will do it or not. Without me, Gu Taixian, they won't be able to elect the third Two commanders?" Gu Taixian stood up suddenly and shouted excitedly: "What the system touches is not my interests, but the interests of the majority of people, do you understand!! Li Yongnan, during the civil war in the Eighth District , one eye is blind, and one leg is missing! Zhang Chengfeng, was shot twice when he attacked Sanfeng Mountain! There are too many generals like them who have risked their lives for the Gu system. If you just say a word now, How can they do it to remove people from their rightful positions?! I am not the representative of the Alliance, they are! Do you understand??"

"You don't have to get involved!" Gu Yan looked at him coldly: "You can withdraw and let them make trouble!"

"I want to come down, there will be a mutiny in the World War II zone soon! Do you believe it?" Gu Taixian shouted with his eyes widened: "On one side are old brothers who have been squatting in a trench for more than ten or even twenty years, and on the other side are the family members Dayi, what do you want me to choose?! I have no choice, do you understand? If I hadn't been the leader of the alliance, the battle would have started the moment your father died yesterday! Do you understand?"

Gu Yan looked at him, his eye circles instantly turned red, and he almost said in a pleading tone: "Second uncle, we don't argue, and we don't talk about nonsense!! Can you consider me? Now that things have happened, I am already a relative. None! If you want to fight, what do you want me to do?! Huh?"

Gu Taixian was silent for a long time: "...can't we let Lin Yaozong delegate power? Ah?"

When Gu Yan heard this, his heart was filled with despair.

…

District Seven.

After Zhou Xingli thought about it for a while, he said, "If that doesn't work, let's call Li Bokang back. I think he has to be the one in charge!"