after tomorrow is the end

Chapter 655 The Battle of Hope Valley Ends
The clouds in the evening were as golden as a wheat field, which reminded Valentin of his hometown.

Beep... The sound of the car's horn interrupted Valentin's thoughts. He was leading the officers at all levels of the headquarters to meet the head of the federal government: Li Jie at the door.

The war was over, and the corpses piled up outside the city were being killed intensively by the soldiers with flamethrowers.

Especially the corpse of the giant mutated beetle on Wolf Attack Peak, the flesh and blood were roasted inside the broken shell.

As for Ash...

"Hello, Führer!" Valentin stepped forward to salute, the door was opened, and it was Li Jie who got out of the car.

"Well, everyone has worked hard." Li Jie nodded, looking at the soldiers in front of him, except for the commander-in-chief Valentin, the others were also senior generals of the federal army.

There are old friends I know, such as Deputy Commander Wei Wen, who was the first generation veteran of Camp 666, and there are new faces that I don’t know.

"Yes!" Valentin raised his chest, showing respect to the young man in front of him. It can be said that Li Jie is his living bole.

Li Jie had a panoramic view of all this, walking in front seemingly casually, but deep in his heart, Ash's words were still echoing: "If they know your true identity, those who originally supported you will be the last ones. Jump out and kill your people first!"

"Even if you are the head of the Federation, there is no exception!"

This point, Li Jie deeply agrees.The love-hate entanglement between humans and the infected can be described as complex and changeable.

The group returned to the command post, where it was obviously cleaned. The dust that had fallen on the table had been wiped clean, and all kinds of military equipment had been rearranged.

Li Jie went straight to the command chair and sat down, while Valentin and the others lined up neatly in front of the table, preparing for the post-war summary.

"Okay, Valentin, it's up to you to summarize the battle situation." Li Jie signaled Valentin to start.

"Yes!" Valentin raised his chest and opened the battle book in his hand.

"Führer! Gentlemen! Our army won a complete victory in the Battle of Hope Valley this time! And wiped out the enemy army!" Valentin reported the results of the battle in a loud voice, and the generals at all levels behind him also held their heads high. I am honored to have participated in this campaign.

"But! We also paid a huge price! Among them..." Valentin began to report the losses of the participating units, and his voice was a little dull. This battle was more difficult than before, and the losses were the heaviest.

Behind the cold numbers that were reported, there were fresh lives.

All the people present were sad. These sacrificed people were their comrades-in-arms and heroes of mankind!
"Finally... dare to ask the head of state, the thief leader Ash?" Valentin asked tentatively. Only Li Jie and others who were present at the time knew about Ash's final outcome. He hadn't had time to ask the guard captain Van Lang orchid.

Because the Guards suffered heavy losses, almost the entire army was wiped out, and the commander Van Langeren was seriously injured and unconscious.As for the mutated Lin Lingxi and Noguchi Ichiro and other mutated demihumans... they are not in Guijian's team, nor have they been reported to the Federation, so no one knows about them.

"Oh, he was already burned to death. As for the corpses... there are too many, and it's hard to tell which one belongs to him." Li Jie directly defined Ash's death.

"Yes, then I will add to the report materials later." Valentin is convinced of this, because the corpse of the giant mutated beetle under Ash's seat has the pictures sent back from the scene and the report of cleaning the soldiers on the battlefield as evidence .

"Then... the head of state, what's our next step?" The battle was over, and Valentin knew the current affairs well, and the general power belonged to Li Jie.

"Let's take a rest in Hope Valley tonight. Tomorrow morning, after leaving a permanent garrison, the rest will follow me back to Nancy City to stabilize the situation there." Li Jie began to give orders, with his prestige , easily took over the army.

"Yes!" The generals saluted and accepted the order, and the remaining details were left to the United Front Work Department.

At night... Li Jie stood alone in the house, looking at the map of tomorrow on the wall. This is his temporary rest room, which used to be a rest room in the laboratory.

The elimination of the Ai Clan means that the territory of the Tomorrow Continent is basically under the control of the Tomorrow Federation.

but…

Li Jie moved his gaze to the Mouth Swamp...

The Mouth Swamp is located at the southernmost tip of Tomorrow Continent, surrounded by the sea on three sides, and to the north is Abyss #2, which was destroyed by the atomic bomb, and the mysterious Miska University.

There are swamps and poisonous miasma everywhere, and it has always been a forbidden area for human exploration.

However, in its depths, there are still villages, docks, and warehouses before the end of the world. There are infected people all over the place, but they still seem to have human nature. They always kneel in one place in groups of three or four, doing prayer postures.

Li Jie had set foot there, and almost died there.

But this also proves that the evil church is entrenched somewhere in the Mouth Swamp.

It is like a dragon hiding in the swamp, waiting for an opportunity to drag the creatures that unfortunately fell into the swamp and the creatures on the shore into the muddy abyss.

"Li Jie, have you decided? There will probably be a lot of people rebelling." Galar's sweet female voice came out, and they often talked like this when no one was around.

This seems to allow the rapid growth of robots' emotions and promote their evolution.Just like when human beings are babies and young children, adults will often talk to babies.

"Well, this is a step that must be taken." Li Jie nodded decisively. Today's Federation has absorbed the survivors of the original trade alliance and filled the citizens of the Northern Empire. The size is not what it used to be.

Among them, among the survivors of the Trade Union, there are many people who believe in this Prophet Church.

If the federation declares it a cult and starts to suppress it, it will inevitably lead to apologetics among religious believers, and violent conflicts are inevitable.

It's like a tumor, either you have to cut it out with pain, or you will die of cancer, there is no third choice.

Fortunately, from the very beginning, Li Jie tried his best to exclude religious believers, prohibiting them from working in government departments, prohibiting them from joining the army, and encouraging them to quit religion. The purity of the army.

"What about Ash?" Galal asked another mysterious topic. Every intelligent robot seems to have a hundred thousand whys. They have a lot of incomprehensions about the way humans do things. It seems that everyone has their own different ideas, and this is where they need to learn.

"Ash...is there still a need to exist?" Li Jie muttered to himself. This is both an interrogative sentence and a rhetorical question. As for how to explain it...it depends on one's understanding.

(End of this chapter)