Longmen Memoirs

"Also, let's open the Ursus communication terminal on the day we seize it."

The snow monster seemed to have thought of something, and she glanced at Tallulah in surprise.

"You mean..."

"They all know the Patriot guerrillas are not here."

August 21

in the afternoon

On their way back to their base, the Patriots cut off Tallulah's path.

"Where are you going?"

"Mr. Patriot?" Tallulah didn't seem to expect to meet a Patriot. She subconsciously started to talk nonsense: "I am also preparing to join you."

In fact, she hadn't thought about how to tell the patriots that she was giving up the city. She was already prepared in her heart.

"You gave up the city to others?" the patriot asked, his calm voice still carrying a majestic low tone.

Tallulah was not surprised at all.

"Looks like you've received my message."

"Their actions can be described as betrayal. Your permission justified their actions and you undermined the enforcement of discipline."

"From the moment they asked to leave, we couldn't keep them." Tallulah answered calmly.

"Those who have no faith and no perseverance should not fight from the beginning to the end."

"According to this standard, no one is qualified to participate in the battle in the first place." Tallulah said.

"Discipline is stronger than iron." The patriot's words were like an order: "Kill them and take back the city. This is what you should do for your team and compatriots."

"Let them know that the infected can kill a group of desperate people for the sake of a dilapidated city, and can use the blood of their compatriots to lubricate the city's gears?"

"They violated discipline."

"They were not fighting for discipline from beginning to end."

The Patriot fell silent and looked at Tallulah.

He said after a long time.

"It's been four years since I first met you. I never gave you a formal order. I just let you participate or refuse to cooperate. Now, I don't know whether you are more mature or weaker than before."

"Is it because I disagree with you?" Tallulah asked.

"Now as long as you call on other infected people and announce that they have betrayed the cause of the infected people, they will be executed immediately." The patriot said: "You should make their actions public."

"I can not."

"You hesitated because they were infected, so you hesitated." Patriot said, and then asked: "Do you think this is disrespectful?"

"It's good that you don't love murder and you're not obsessed with power, but maybe you need someone to do it."

The Patriot had seen people who were similar to Tallulah, just similar.

"Sir, it's not that I can't do it, nor do I think it's more moral to isolate others."

"Then I'll go with the guerrillas. If you don't want to antagonize them, then we can take your place. If you think it's wrong to do this, someone has to bear the responsibility."

Tallulah looked at the patriot who said these words in disbelief.

"What? What's that expression on your face? Do you really think that I am a so-called pure and noble person like they say?" The patriot said solemnly: "This kind of person died before this war started. In addition to the victory of the war and the price of victory

What else is honorable?Defeating a hateful enemy is an inherent honor, but I am not proud of further sacrifices. "

"If there is one thing that can help us win and save one or two of our compatriots from dying, this is the right thing."

"Even if you have to kill innocent people for this?" Tallulah asked coldly.

"Are you afraid?" the patriot said, "Are you afraid of accepting the [}

"..."

Tallulah didn't answer.

"This poorly maintained city will break down within a few years, and it has served humanity longer than it was designed to last," Tallulah said. "You and I both know that their ultimate fate is still to survive on the ice sheet. They still have to find their own way out. Even if it only takes these three years, they still ignited a hope for themselves. I will not extinguish this hope."

"You're allowing others to divide our ranks."

"No, I've already said... they didn't belong to our team from the beginning." Tallulah retorted: "I won't say like you do that a person can't fight because of weakness. I will only say, Some people still don’t understand what we think.”

"We will have many companions, but not every one of them must serve the same goal as us. We borrow their power, not requisition, let alone oppression, enslavement, which will only make them different from our original Conflicting goals...suspiciousness and alienation will become even more inevitable."

"..."

"The purity of the team." The Patriot rarely said an inappropriate word.

Like being sarcastic.

Tallulah was stunned at first, and then helpless.

"If you want to use that word...although I don't like it."

"You are indeed an upright person, but with a more well-trained caravan garrison stationed nearby, misfortunes are bound to happen."

"Even though I hate to admit it, you're right, they might do it, so we should be prepared."

Tallulah paused and continued: "The snow monster has received the message sent from the city and sent it to the Ursus garrison in this area, exposing our position to them... They are using it. Let’s lure away the Ursus army, and no one wants this next battle to happen.”

"Their ignorance will lead them step by step to destruction."

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August 22

"...was that a spell just now?"

In the wilderness, Texas leaned in front of the car and looked at the snake filling the kettle.

More than an hour ago, they finally encountered the Ursus infected pickets. As the south became increasingly desolate and barren, a small Ursus garrison discovered their car driving in the wilderness and planned to They were detained for inspection reasons.

Especially when the other party finds out that the only woman is sitting in the car, it is difficult not to let people see their thoughts clearly from their explicit eyes.

Texas finally saw with his own eyes how he killed people, literally lighting fires to kill people.

That kind of blue flame, the high temperature rushing towards the face, even Texas, which is far away, can feel the terrible temperature.

He remembered the light he saw vaguely in Syracuse, which was also blue, like a huge pillar of fire. Texas didn't ask what happened after she fell into coma, but she could think of it.

"If you think so..." Chen Mo filled up the water and walked back to the car with the kettle in hand. She looked at Luper who was leaning in front of the car: "What's that expression on your face? Isn't it just a small flame? Why is it like this?" Did it scare you? I mean Texas, you are also a gangster in Syracuse after all."

"..."

Texas automatically ignored the teasing in his words, an ability she was getting better at.

"Why do you want to do it?"

"Huh? Why don't you do something? You should ask this. Didn't you see the way they looked at you? Good guy, if you really want them to take us back, I can tell you that you will have to be locked up in the basement. Maybe It will take a few months to wait..."

"... watch your words."

"Ah, if you think this description is offensive, just pretend I didn't say it."

"Won't your spell affect the body? I mean... you can obviously..."

"You can obviously kill them without taking action against them." Chen Mo said. He handed the kettle to Texas, who subconsciously took it.

"But it would be stained with blood, and it would be troublesome to dispose of the bodies. The most important thing is, remember those bodies hanging on the branches we saw on the way here?"

"Hard to forget."

"Those are all infected people." Chen Mo said: "They shouldn't die so cheaply. Although I don't have such a strong sense of justice, and I don't think I am a good person, but who let them block me, Texas? I was really forced to be a good person with great difficulty."

"..."

ps: In fact, a lot of foreshadowing has been seen. Different lives and experiences led to the differences between Chen Mo and Tallulah when facing the same thing, and his attitude towards patriots. Perhaps he is an intermediary with what patriots think. between , and Tallulah.

ps: Tallulah went south, and Chen Mo planted an informant in the south. Destinies will eventually converge.

Chapter 44 It always leaves the upright people covered in bruises

"Count the casualties."

In the snowfield valley, a sudden encounter had just ended. The guerrillas encountered an ambush on their planned route. However, the guerrillas prepared a response in advance. They hurriedly engaged the enemy and instead organized a small battle in an orderly manner. A large-scale counterattack, and successfully broke out of the encirclement network that the Ursus army had not formed a blockade.

The Patriot gave the order to the shield guard and then turned to look at Tallulah who was standing beside him.

"As you imagined, this battle happened with us as bait. Are you disappointed, Tallulah?"

He asked, and Tallulah scowled, gritting her teeth as she faced the Patriot's question.

She finally shook her head.

"No, sir, they do all this for a reason, and I know the reason, and those exact reasons will prevent me from raising my expectations too high."

Her answer seemed to be an excuse for herself. After saying this, Tallulah's expression relaxed a little.

He had expected this battle to happen, but he still had a bit of luck in his heart, and now the facts turned out that the infected people finally betrayed them.

The patriots who noticed this were silent for a moment.

"...Informers should be executed," he said.

"How do we select a traitor from those who want to run away from the battlefield?"

Tallulah asked as she looked at the guerrillas and infected warriors who had just broken out of the encirclement in front of them.

"These people betrayed their compatriots just for a moment's respite, and protecting them is a disservice to the soldiers." The patriot's tone was undeniably harsh.

"No, they have never been loyal, sir." Tallulah retorted: "You require everyone in the team to be perfect? ​​Impossible, such a team does not exist."

"Guerrillas..." The shield guard couldn't help but speak.

"The guerrilla fighters are not perfect." Tallulah interrupted. She looked at the shield guard: "There are only so many of you who think more. The others stayed because of various reasons. I’m willing to pay, but I don’t necessarily think clearly.”

She spoke with contempt for the guerrillas. The shield guard wanted to argue, but the patriot interrupted him.

"Back off, soldier, there's no need to argue with her."

The shield guard opened his mouth. He looked at Tallulah, but in the end he didn't say anything more and just closed his mouth unwillingly.

"It is much easier to destroy a city than to build one, sir, let them keep it." Tallulah turned her eyes to the tall patriot, her tired and frustrated expression half-pleading.

"If infected people can survive through various methods, then I would rather all of these methods work."

The patriot remained silent and did not answer.

Tallulah understood the infected as a whole. No, the Patriots didn't think so. Even the infected should belong to different groups, and their thoughts and their actions caused their will to deflect.

Rather than just relying on the three words infected.

She looked down at the girl standing next to her. He could feel Tallulah's sincerity when she said these words. She really held this simple thought and hoped that the infected would survive, even if their beliefs were not strong. one.

But how can we fight without unity and firm belief? It will only cause more unnecessary deaths, and the outcome is still doomed.

"Tallulah, you can't imagine not making sacrifices." Patriot said slowly.

"Sacrifice..." Tallulah was stunned, she frowned and asked, "Am I the one who should make the decision?"

"I know very well, you and I know very well that your so-called going to the south is the trigger for a war."

"The empire will not sit back and watch the infected unite and grow stronger. If it is as you preach, the infected will change their destiny with a series of actions. This war will be inevitable, even imminent."

Tallulah was startled.

She lowered her gaze and no longer looked at the Patriot.

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Even though she had countless excuses to refute, she did not refute.

She knew the patriots were telling the truth.

"……Yes."

Tallulah said.

"We must first let the infected people know that their lives are meaningful, but they have no obligation to face what happens next."