It was raining heavily. Water droplets the size of pebbles gushed out from the black clouds and hit everything between heaven and earth. They bombarded the yellow sand on the Jia Ma coast with countless deep and shallow holes that looked extremely miserable. The mist was so thick that it covered the usually gentle and beautiful appearance of the peaceful bay.
This was the most famous summer resort of the royal family in the southern hemisphere of Tianjing Planet. In this stormy early summer day, the soldiers and staff were forced to stay indoors. As a result, they did not notice that in the valley behind the green mountain to the north of the bay, there was an intense battle taking place.
The violent and gloomy rainstorm masked the sudden and crisp sounds of gunfire. The dazzling gunfire was also not so clear. Only the figures that fell from time to time and the blood that was washed away by the rain proved the cruelty of the battle.
A whistling bullet brushed past him, but Xu Le's eyelashes did not tremble at all. He held the gun with both hands and stood steadily in the wind and rain. He pulled the trigger quickly and rhythmically. Every bullet shot out from the barrel and passed through the rain, hitting a soldier of the Empire.
The brim of the hat could not block the pouring rain. The rain quickly flowed down his cheeks and caused some interference to his vision, causing him to squint his eyes. However, it did not seem to affect the accuracy of his shooting.
He stood calmly in the wind and rain like this, pulling the trigger and letting the hot and refined bullet shells jump out, fly above his wrist, and fall beside his feet.
In a short seven seconds, he fired more than ten shots. Among the Empire soldiers on the road who were using the military vehicles as cover, five of them fell under his gun. The cracked bulletproof glass and the car panels that were shot with sparks could protect the vital parts of the Empire soldiers, but there was no way to protect their exposed feet or hands.
The battle in the wind and rain started suddenly and ended exceptionally quickly. After dozens of seconds, the Empire soldiers who were ambushed were completely annihilated. The three logistics military vehicles that drove out of the royal summer resort were silent.
They stopped helplessly on the road.
The soldiers of the resistance organization who were lying in ambush around the valley rushed to the road in their old military uniforms without epaulettes. Some of them began to clean up the battlefield, while others surrounded Xu Le and boarded the three military vehicles.
In the short and hurried battle, four resistance fighters closed their eyes forever.
Xu Le sat in the front passenger seat and used his sleeves to wipe off the rainwater on his face. He didn't reveal any emotions. In order to send him away from Tianjing Planet and leave the Capital City, countless members of the resistance organization had sacrificed their lives for this. Having seen so much didn't mean that he was numb. He just kept this heavy feeling in the deepest part of his heart.
"Colonel Xu Le, if everyone in the Federal Army has such good marksmanship like yours, I think … we really won't be able to fight this war."
The gang leader, Mr. Mu En, who met with the crowd in the suburbs of the capital city, looked at the wet hair of the young people of the Federation in the front row and thought of the awe-inspiring shooting scene in the rain. He couldn't help but sigh emotionally.
Xu Le lowered his head and seriously checked the guns and ammunition in his hands. He replied, "At least, we're allies now. You don't have to worry about this, right?"
Mu En shrugged and didn't say anything else. He looked at the fur coat on his body that had been drenched beyond recognition by the rain with a slight headache and cursed in a low voice.
Qi Dabing, who had been silent all this while, finished checking the guns and lit a cigarette. After hesitating for a moment, he gave two cigarettes to Xu Le in front and Mu En beside him.
Mu En's subordinates were all skilled technicians in the repair shop. In a short time, they cleaned up the exterior of the three military vehicles until they were close to perfect. Thus, the three military vehicles that were forced to stop started moving again.
The violent wind and rain hit the windshield. The people in the vehicles had to speak louder. Perhaps it was because the physical and psychological toll of running for their lives had been too great. Everyone felt a little tired and didn't want to fight against the angry roars of nature, so no one spoke again.
The entire journey was silent. Only the pungent smoke filled the interior of the vehicle. Occasionally, it would drift out through the gaps between the windows, but it was instantly swept away by the violent wind and rain outside, leaving no trace behind.
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How could they leave Tianjing Planet? Xu Le didn't know about the plans of the Empire's underground resistance organization. As a member of the Federation, he maintained his silence the entire way and followed the soldiers as they made their way south.
In the process of escaping, he was surprised to find that even though the Empire's royal family had brutally suppressed them, the resistance organization still maintained a strong presence on this planet. No matter which city they went to, which mountain they went to, they would always see some ragged guerrillas coming to their aid. Sometimes, they would suddenly find the owner of a coffee shop extending his warm hands.
Furthermore, there was one thing that he couldn't understand. The Imperial armies, who should have been crazily chasing after them, didn't have a grasp of their whereabouts.
In the middle of the night, three military vehicles drove into a heavily guarded logistics base. Xu Le lowered the brim of his hat and looked at Qi Dabing's cold face as he interacted with the soldiers stationed there. Looking at the electronic customs codes that he had snatched, his eyebrows furrowed slightly.
Under the accompaniment of the night rain, the group silently walked into the underground armory south of the logistics base. A few stern-looking Empire officers walked straight toward them and shook hands with Qi Dabing and Mu En. They lowered their hands and said a few words about the launch in the early hours of the morning.
At this moment, Xu Le more or less understood the resistance organization's plan. He subconsciously raised his head to look at the sky. His gaze passed through the thick layer of cement and seemed to see a logistics spaceship. At this moment, it was already mounted on a rocket, waiting to be launched amidst the wind and rain.
"In order to send you away, many people in the slums of the capital have already died. You saw with your own eyes how many of us have died along the way. What you didn't see was that in order to cover our true destination, there have been uprisings and riots in all the cities and counties in the capital over the past few days. "
Hearing Qi Dabing's cold and extremely pressurizing words, Xu Le finally understood the answer that had puzzled him for a long time. In order to attract the attention of the Empire's military and the Royal Intelligence Bureau and cover their departure from Tianjing Planet, the resistance organization had chosen the most inopportune time to spread the flames of rebellion everywhere …
Having just suffered a cruel blow, what the resistance organization needed the most now was to recuperate and go underground. However, in order to send Xu Le away, they had made the opposite choice. Even the stupidest person could imagine how heavy a price the resistance organization would have to pay for this.
Xu Le was silent. He subconsciously took out a cigarette from the pocket of his military jacket, only to realize that the cigarette inside had long been soaked in the rain.
Qi Dabing passed him a cigarette, took out a lighter, but didn't light it immediately. He said in a low voice, "I don't really understand the true relationship between you and my teacher, and I don't really believe in the moral integrity of the people of the Federation. However, since Leader Voss has chosen you, then we will carry on with this matter.
"Remember." This man from the Empire, who was most likely to become the next leader of the resistance organization, looked into Xu Le's eyes and lit the flame with a snap. He said seriously, "Thousands of people have died because of you, and in the future, a very simple action from you could possibly make their deaths worthless. If that day really comes, we won't be able to make you compensate us, but you must remember that those thousands of wronged souls will always be floating behind your head. "
Xu Le took a deep puff of the cigarette. When he took the cigarette out, the filter tip stuck to the corner of his lips, causing him to frown slightly in pain. After a moment of silence, he gently pursed his lips. He didn't make any verbal promises and only nodded slightly.
"Actually, after observing you along the way, I feel that you are still trustworthy." Qi Dabing seemed to be very satisfied with Xu Le's performance. After pausing for a moment, he took out a chip and handed it to Xu Le. "This is a gift from Mister to the people of the Federation."
"What is it?" Xu Le asked.
"It should be a piece of information related to the people of the Federation," Qi Dabing said. Qi Dabing said, "Sir said that you might use it or throw it away, but it has nothing to do with us."
Xu Le was silent for a moment and suddenly thought of something. He looked at Qi Dabing and said, "There's something that I need your help with. The people of the Federation definitely think that I've died a long time ago. I've been worried that some messy things will happen because of this. Therefore, I hope that you can use your own channels to inform the troops over there that I'm still alive."
"What messy things?" Qi Dabing said mockingly. "Widows remarrying because of a misunderstanding?"
"I'm not married yet." Xu Le smiled bitterly and replied, "But if those ladies think that I'm dead and randomly remarry, it'll really make me feel so depressed that I'll vomit blood."
Qi Dabing was stunned for a moment. Then, the two of them looked at each other and couldn't help but laugh. Their laughter reverberated in the spacious underground armory like a rolling snowball, becoming louder and louder, completely covering up the faint sounds of the wind and rain.
A few hours later, in the darkness of dawn, accompanied by the deafening sound of engines, a military transport spaceship that was urgently in need of military equipment at the frontlines rode on a rocket and left a nameless logistics and equipment base on Tianjing, flying toward the dark universe.
The high-temperature flames at the bottom of the engine sizzled as they burned the rain that filled the sky. A stretch of slightly hot white steam rose from the launch base. Amidst the quiet green hills, Qi Dabing looked at the eye-catching ray of light in the night sky and thought of the young man from the Federation. After a long silence, he shook his head and coughed a few times. Then, he led the resistance fighters under him and walked silently into the wind and rain, into the darkness.
At this moment, a large Empire transport spaceship had already left the gravitational control of the local star system and passed through two small warp holes, advancing toward the boundless borders of the universe. Invisible particles hit the porthole of the transport spaceship, giving off a strange blood-red glow. It made Huai Caoshi's ordinary face on the porthole appear especially indifferent.
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