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On the seventh day, this was the day when Shangguanhui was supposed to come back as agreed. I stood quietly on the tarmac for almost a whole day, and there were more than a dozen members of Shangguanhui's pro-guard standing here with me.We are silently waiting for her return, even though we all know it is a hopeless wait.Shangguan Hui failed to complete the impossible task, but she has done well enough in these seven days, and her life response still exists is the proof.

I closed my eyes facing the dead place surrounded by layers, and suddenly my body trembled violently, and a terrifying chill quickly spread throughout my body.Shangguan Hui died just a second ago.Why, the induction that was obviously so stable suddenly died?Her sensory intensity is not in a dying weak state, how could it end suddenly?

I didn't tell anyone about Shangguanhui's death. Everyone had already expected that there was no need to mention hurting others again. It was just that when I woke up in the big bed alone at night, I felt a dull pain in my chest.For me, Shangguanhui is the same elder sister as Xueling, no, it should be said that Xueling is the lover, and Shangguanhui is the older sister. Losing it like this made me feel calm on the surface and my heart is already on the verge of collapse.At the moment when I felt Shangguanhui's death, my world was about to collapse, as helpless and terrified as when Xue Ling disappeared.Thinking about it carefully, many people have left me but I can't do anything for them. I don't even know what Shangguan Hui wants.I can't even fulfill the will of the dead, this kind of me... this kind of me...

Sister Hui, I want to do something for you, now, it's too late.

I'm such a useless person.

In the war, she could play her own role but did nothing. With the protection of her sisters, she hid in the back and became a beloved princess. She never thought that she had the obligation to fight together.At first, I said that I would learn to use bows and arrows to support my sisters when ammunition was scarce, but now I have reached this point.Even if he has the ability to listen to everything, even if he can fight with biological weapons, it's still...

Xueling, Shangguanhui, Ritsugu and Lu Qingcheng, including later Liu Pin, all want me to be a well-behaved little princess and let them protect me.

They were all wrong, and of course I was wrong too.

This is war, and no one can stay out of it from the very beginning.

The metal bird did not appear for the next few days, and may have found a new target and temporarily abandoned us.In the early morning of seven or eight days, the guards went to the office to decorate the room for the upcoming nuclear strike meeting. I stayed alone in the bedroom, and then Li Dan knocked on the door and came in, sitting in front of the bed and staring at me blankly.I don't know how she managed to pass through the final tunnel of the Sky Tower under the hail of bullets, but her ability to follow Shangguan Hui here is a powerful force beyond her own limits.I thought she was going to say it was all your fault or something and shoot me, turn off the alarm system and face death, but she looked at me for a few minutes and said something that surprised me.

Miss, tell me about Miss.

I don't know how to respond to her, I just heard her start to tell his story, how she met Shangguan Hui, was taken back from the orphanage by that man and raised as a adopted daughter, and when faced with the issue of inheritance rights, she resolutely chose to give up and do it. With Shangguan Hui's bodyguard and personal maid, this warm and deformed relationship has surpassed everyone's common sense.Of course, she is in love with Shangguanhui, and Shangguanhui also knows this, but Li Dan, who knows that Shangguanhui will not refuse, has never made any request to her, and just wants to silently guard her side.

You are all my children, even if you give up your inheritance rights, you are still my children, why do you claim to be Huihui's maid.

In fact, you want Huihui very much.She likes you too, and you won't be rejected if you say it to her.

I held back my tears, and said softly when he stopped: "Sister Li Dan, you should know, Sister Hui has..."

"I know. Of course I know she is gone, but so what. I have never been in the same world with her. Although we are sisters, she is so pure. I am far away... I can only grow up as a young lady. The big bodyguard and head maid, protect her, I am afraid that touching her will pollute her purity... My task is to protect her, and I should not have unnecessary feelings for her. When my father left, I entrusted Huihui to me. I also vowed to protect her, but it turned out like this in the end. I... just want her to live..."

Something in my heart seemed to collapse.

So I talked about Shangguanhui with her, told her the pleasant communication between Shangguanhui and me, and the nickname of the mascot I took care of, and the warm night I spent with Shangguanhui, and Shangguanhui's gentle smile and Warm embrace, she stood up slowly and bowed to me until I had nothing to say, and left with heavy steps.I don't know if she's better, but I'm worse.

Xue Ling and Shangguan Hui, the two people I least want and cannot lose, lost them all within a month.

In the conference room, Clemenceau and Alisa were already there.Clemenceau dropped a few small-equivalent atoms. The bomb blew up about tens of thousands of metal birds. Not big, as long as the metal nest is still there, it can produce more than [-] young birds every day. These young birds can mature sexually in a month and then reproduce asexually. Each bird can produce at least ten eggs a day, and the eggs hatch in a month and then a month later. Sexual maturity and repeated production - this is an endless loop, and no matter how hard we try to clear the board, as long as the metal lair is still there, it is impossible for the Terrans to seize any hope of victory.

"Mr. Clemenceau, the drone array on the Tulip side is roughly ready. Why is the railway you built here only [-] kilometers long, and how can you transport thermonuclear weapons?"

"This... Our laborers have done their best. They have built [-] kilometers in two days, which is already a world record. Before, it took a month to repair [-] kilometers." Clemenceau scratched his head in embarrassment Alisa, uncharacteristically, did not attack her old enemy but agreed: "Even with the best machinery, the best technology and the best workers in the entire Yunjian Continent, it will take at least one month to build a [-]-kilometer qualified railway. Little President, we..."

I smiled and looked up at the western sky.

You can't see the front line here, but I know our troops are fighting the Metal Birds, and they're fighting a war they can't win, just to buy enough time for those in the rear.But, so what if you win it?This is not a war between human beings seeking dominance, not even a war of dragon kings that can save their lives by kneeling like a dog. The metal birds of Belize are bloodthirsty predators. In their eyes, animals with flesh and blood are just food. , In such a war, even if you retreat to the end of the world, there will be no safe place.

"Look to the west. You can't see the front line here, but I know that every minute and every second, people are bleeding, wounded and dying. It's like two people who want to abandon the tens of thousands of besieged civilians, for the sake of war I have to do something to win. Mr. Clemenceau, I once had great hopes for you. I thought that the traditional land power country and the country under the civil law system would complete my vision. I did not expect you and stick to it. Tulips in the law of the sea are as benevolent. Then, you can prepare with peace of mind, I will definitely pull out a railway within seven days."

The meeting broke up badly. I took Cui Li, the former political commissar of the team, and went to the construction site. After communicating with the construction team for 5 minutes, I was annoyed by them.They are building a military railway according to the highest standards, requiring that this railway can carry rail train guns called land battleships, but what I am asking for is a simple disposable railway that can transport nuclear bombs to the front line, using their The standard to build a railway is probably not half a year, how can there be so much time.

The front line has been retreating, we have at most two months, and I can only tolerate ten days at most.Within ten days, this one-time nuclear bomb delivery railway must be pulled up for me no matter what the price is.

"Go and tell me about Clemenceau and Alisa, no, Tulip skips over Alisa and talks directly to the queen in the name of Zheng Bingyu, and let the two countries have more than 20 years left in their sentences Murderers, rapers, and rapists, no matter who they are, will be sent to me to work. By the way, tell them that I require no less than [-] labor criminals, otherwise I will stop playing. It is better to fly a plane to blow up the nest by myself. These mentally handicapped teammates are strong."

Cui Li saluted me with a standard Nazi arm salute, and I froze for a moment before responding to her with the same gesture.What I need is a short-term war. In this short-term war, I must concentrate. Power, concentrate the power of the entire country to fight the metal god Belis instead of the western parliament that flaunts people. Rights, freedom, equality. formal regime.Countries with the American and British model like Tulip can indeed gain a huge advantage over evil countries such as Nazi Germany in a long-term war, but the militarism of fascist countries has made the entire country highly prepared for war, and it has a unique advantage in short-term wars. The advantages.

I only want a short-term war, a war that does not exceed three years. As for whether the country will explode due to high pressure and low living standards in three years, what does it matter to me?As long as Belis can be defeated, I don't care what the Cloud Continent becomes.

"The head of state..."

"Sister Cui Li, do you know what will happen to extreme militarism?"

"know."

"Then why are you following me?"

"Because I want to win. I am a soldier. Since the Dragon War—since Aegulas conquered the cloud continent 1000 years ago, the soldiers of the human race have taken defeating the gods and regaining their homeland as their ultimate mission. For us In other words, life is just a one-time prop to defeat the gods and save the homeland, and it doesn't matter to the Dragon King or the metal god. As long as we can fight the gods, it will be fine."

Cui Li looked into my eyes, under the bloody setting sun, her eyes were as thick as the sky.

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