"Death or spending the rest of my life in prison. Is this the choice you're giving me?"
"Dying with the whole world, or bravely taking responsibility. For someone who has sacrificed countless times for others, it shouldn't be a difficult choice."
"I didn't expect you to still believe in law and justice in the Federation."
"Mr. President, you've never really understood me. Even when I was forced to flee Donglin to the capital ring when I was young, I still believed in the law. It wasn't until I found out that there was a problem with the people enforcing the law that I began to fight my own battles. "
The slightly warm metal bracelet was in his sleeve, sticking to his wrist. The two lines of small words related to the morality of the stars seemed to be deeply imprinted on his skin.
"If this is the end of the story, I really hope that the naive thoughts of my youth can be properly verified. That's why I insist that you must be tried. If you insist on not accepting, or if you're arrogant enough to say that the results of the trial are not satisfactory to me and those who died, then I will not hesitate to raise my gun. "
Xu Le stared into President Pabre's eyes and said word by word, "I will kill you with one shot, or two, or even a random shot."
As soon as he finished speaking, a series of gunshots rang out in the distance. The gunshots were some distance away, deep in the campus on both sides. It was probably the Special Task Force or the Federation Investigation Department's agents organizing some kind of attack.
Because of the chaotic gunshots, the atmosphere between the members of Group Seven and the Iron Seventh Division's Razor Sharp Company suddenly became more tense.
Xu Le raised his head and looked out of the tavern. His gaze, which was many times sharper than that of ordinary people, penetrated the tavern's characteristic Bermuda patterned glass window. It was not blocked by the falling snow and landed on a water tower in the campus about eight or nine hundred meters away, where he saw the reflection of a scope.
There were snipers trying to aim at him, but because the interior of the tavern was too dark, and he was too close to Pabre and Du Shaoqing, the snipers did not shoot for the time being.
Xu Le used his empty left hand to hold the frame of his glasses and adjusted it slightly. He narrowed his eyes and looked at the railing of the water tower, then at the cleaning room of a dormitory. He used a little force on his left wrist, and the muscles vibrated slightly to trigger the red trigger button hidden in his sleeve.
Pop! Pop! Pop! A few muffled but loud gunshots that sounded like spring thunder instantly cut through the snowy sky in the deep winter. The high-speed rotating ACW sniper rifle bullets seemed to have come from the sky and hit a certain spot in the water tower and the dormitory building on the campus with unparalleled accuracy!
Cement splattered everywhere, and the iron railings were twisted and broken. A terrible hole was blasted open on the top of the water tower, and thin pieces of ice were violently spurting downwards!
The officers and soldiers of the Iron Seventh Division's Razor Sharp Company were very familiar with this kind of gunfire. Today, when they were traveling from the southern encampment to the capital, they had to travel through the mountainous mountains and villages along the way. It was as if the terrifying gunfire had never stopped.
His gaze pierced through the glasses, and the hidden ACWs accurately bombarded the exact same spot. This was the true method of killing with one's gaze. This was the same method that Shi Qinghai used to kill Vice President Byron in front of the entire Federation when he barged into Parliament Hill alone in front of the Charter Square!
The main forces of the Iron Seventh Division and the mecha groups did not enter the city. There were still more than a hundred people from the Razor Sharp Company guarding the area around the tavern. Coupled with the agents of the Special Task Force and the Federation Investigation Bureau stationed outside the tavern, they were more than enough to suppress or even kill Xu Le and Xu Le, who had somehow managed to sneak into the tavern.
However, Du Shaoqing remained silent and did not say a word. This was because he had noticed the glasses on Xu Le's nose from the very beginning and knew that Xu Le's threat was very real.
Before the people who wanted to compromise killed him, as long as he kept his small bright eyes open, he could kill anyone he wanted to kill with one or two shots.
Like President Pabre.
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After a short and hurried exchange of information and orders, the gunfire outside the tavern stopped. The agents of the Special Task Force and the Federation Investigation Bureau no longer dared to launch probing attacks. As for the snipers, they all retreated to higher ground to avoid wasting their lives in vain.
In a dark corner of the tavern, President Pabre looked at Xu Le and asked with a frown, "You've always been looking for justice, but the question is, what makes you so sure that what you're doing is right?"
"I've spent too much time and too many words discussing this question with someone in a dark room before. So today, we won't be talking about justice. I can only say …"
After a moment of silence, Xu Le replied, "I can't be sure if what I'm doing is absolutely right. I can only be sure … that what you and Lee Jae-do did was wrong."
He raised his hand and pointed at Tai Zhiyuan across the small table and said, "If you're wrong, you have to admit it. If this guy becomes the president in the future and becomes the second you, I won't let him go."
President Pabre frowned slightly and said, "Actually, I've always been a little confused about you. If a normal person is like you, constantly encountering bizarre changes, entanglement, and tribulations in their life, they would have already broken down. At the very least, it would be very difficult for them to believe in certain things so firmly."
He looked at Xu Le's ordinary face and said with emotion, "But you're so strange. Time and encounters seem to have no effect on you. You're still as determined and persistent as before, as if nothing has changed."
"The people of the capital ring call us, the people of Eastwood, Eastwood Stone because we are smelly and hard. For a smelly stone like me … perhaps we can't change this world, but I can't let this f * cking world change me."
Hearing this, President Pabre's equally straight eyebrows slowly creased. His tanned cheeks showed a complicated expression. He looked at Xu Le as if he was looking at himself. He murmured softly, as if he was talking to himself, "Have I really been changed by this world?"
Under the dim light, around the small table, the deathly silence lasted for a long time. President Pabre seemed to have made a very important decision. His solemn and steady face suddenly exuded a long-lost relaxed expression. He smiled and said, "I agree with your disagreement."
When a government document required the president to sign an order, it would sometimes use an electronic fingerprint. Sometimes, it would simply be circled and then annotated. Most of the time, it would only say one word: "I agree."
"I agree with your disagreement." Everyone around the table understood this sentence.
Standing behind President Pabre, Du Shaoqing's eyes were at first shocked, then inexplicably gloomy. His face was expressionless. His hands behind his back were clenched so tightly that his veins could be seen.
Tai Zhiyuan looked at President Pabre across the table in shock. He did not hide his strong puzzlement. He frowned and did not understand. Could someone really be willing to make such a choice?
President Pabre slowly stood up. This time, he was not as heavy and tired as he was when he realized the Iron Seventh Division had not entered the city and the situation on Parliament Hill was dire. He appeared exceptionally calm and relaxed.
He smiled at the people and said, "Don't forget, I'm also a smelly stone from Donglin. A stone's ending should not be one of escape, but one of pride. "
"Your choice has won my respect in the end," Xu Le replied.
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"The truth can't be hidden forever. The right result obtained through wrong means will eventually become wrong. The government relies on … Well, everyone knows these words and can even recite the various versions. But unfortunately, just because you can understand and recite doesn't mean you can do it."
In the Oval Office of the president's official residence, President Pabre held a glass of red wine and looked at the clear scenery outside the window. He hugged his wife in his arms and smiled.
At this time, the phone rang.
Lee Jae-do's calm voice sounded from the phone. "Sorry, Mr. President. I had to prepare some things, so I didn't keep the appointment. And I think that now is not the time to reminisce. Reminiscing in small taverns should be something that happens when one is truly old. "
"Everything is over."
President Pabre looked at the disappointed and even pained supporters outside the lawn and said with a little emotion in his calm voice, "Parliament Hill has passed the impeachment proposal."
"No, it's not over yet."
On the phone, Lee Jae-do's voice didn't sound depressed or disappointed. Instead, it sounded unprecedentedly calm and confident. "Du Shaoqing and the Iron Seventh Division disobeyed the military order, but the three key areas in the capital are still under the military's control. We still have a lot of troops to support."
"I have made all the preparations and a perfect plan. Mr. President, please believe me. Even if we are forced to form a government-in-exile, we only need half a month to regain control of the order. I'll send troops to pick you up right away. "
Pabre held the phone and replied calmly after a moment of silence, "I had a dream last night. Do you want to know what the dream was about?"
There was silence on the other end of the phone.
"In the dream, I was flying freely in the sky. It was romantic and happy. After landing, countless mobs came roaring. I asked the officer next to me what had happened. The officer told me that in order to fulfill my dream of flying freely anywhere, the people all over the country were driven to set their houses on fire to create a large updraft … "
Some absurd dreams appeared in President Pabre's mind on the eve of the impeachment and the eve of the implementation of a powerful plan. It could explain a lot of emotions hidden in the depths of his spiritual world.
Lee Jae-do on the other end of the phone understood what Pabre wanted to say and what kind of attitude he expressed, so his voice became cold. "Mr. President, you have disappointed me."
"I'm no longer the President. Do you still remember our conversation in the tavern? "
Pabre said calmly, "Haven't you noticed that we are gradually becoming the kind of people we loathed and feared in the past?"
Lee Jae-do didn't answer. After a moment of silence, he directly hung up the phone.
Pabre was deep in thought. He slowly drank the red wine in his glass and smiled at his wife who was looking at him worriedly, saying that he was fine.
The heavy door of the Oval Office was pushed open.
Mr. Pabre took his wife's hand and walked out of the door.
Outside the door, Du Shaoqing and the other Federation soldiers, Xiong Linquan and the other members of Group 7, Tai Zhiyuan and Lin Banshan, and the representatives of the Judicial Committee of Parliament Hill were all quietly waiting for him.
He wasn't the first president of the Federation to be impeached.
But he was definitely the most courageous president of the Federation to be impeached.
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