Tomorrow's Ark, the journey of hardcore and ruthless people

"Next, after the old authority of the Ursus Empire is broken, a new authority must be established to integrate the authority of the movement." Comand's narrative has always maintained that excessive calmness.

As the host on the stage fired a gun into the sky, the instructors and administrators mixed in the crowd also tried to relieve their emotions, and people finally sat down again.

But that doesn't mean they aren't angry.

"Our integration movement is to uphold justice for everyone. We will never wrong a good person, and we will never let a bad person go. Now, the public trial meeting begins! Everyone has to vote to decide whether this guy lives or dies!"

The voting method is actually very simple. It refers to the "pottery exile method" of the Athens city-state in the ancient Greek era. The prisoner is tied with his back facing the voter and a large bowl is placed.Each participant can receive a colored glass ball, and it is up to them to decide whether to vote - and the standard for this death penalty is "only" [-] votes.

Although the students in the audience held four companies to death, miners accounted for the majority of them after all.Obviously, if the commander does some personnel work, he will not do any personnel work at all.The results can be imagined:

"According to the "Interim Regulations on Suppressing Counter-Revolutionaries in the Northwest Tundra Base Area", we pronounce that Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Alexandrovich Barclay of the Ursas Imperial Army is guilty of intentional homicide and abetting homicide and sentenced to death according to law. , execute immediately!"

"Damn!"

"Good judgment!"

"Kill him now!"

The excited students in the audience immediately responded with thunderous approval.

Firing squad shots rang out.

"You seem to have something to say, Andrei Berkonsky." Comand suddenly called the name, and everyone's eyes noticed Berkonski in the pose of a thinker.

Andre looked like, no, he was the student who was distracted in class and was suddenly called upon.He suddenly came back to his senses and swallowed: "Well. Well, a person should be honest, so...Comrade General Political Commissar, I feel scared."

People around him reacted in different ways.Tallulah and Froststar frowned, but Alina showed a slightly understanding expression.

"I can understand. Berkonski," Comand replied. "Fanatic and furious, people who want to tear something apart are of course scary. Besides, the nobles are their worst enemies. But, Berkonski, Please answer this question with equal honesty: Is the anger of the crowd in front of you justified?"

Berkonsky opened his mouth slightly, was dumb for a moment, and finally said: "...Yes, it's still very big."

"Thank you. As the earl's son, you are still willing to understand these soldiers, farmers, and miners who have nothing. Very good." Comand nodded, "There are no pure lies or truths, some are just unshakable and will not be influenced by words Yes, iron-clad facts. People describe and interpret it from their own standpoints.

"In my personal opinion, they have witnessed and even experienced exploitation and oppression, and have painful memories. The most fundamental thing in our transformation of them is to awaken their sense of personality and dignity. They will then find a way out for themselves , and the revolution led by the integration movement will be the optimal solution among all their options.

"Let me make it clear: These workers, farmers and soldiers will engage in cruel and bloody wars in the future and cause horrific killings - you must be mentally prepared for this. But who can say that they are not just?"

Alina slowly raised her hand, her expression extremely serious.Comand nodded: "Please tell me."

"Comrade General Political Commissar..." Alina asked in a low tone, "If justice requires more violence than evil to achieve, can it still be regarded as justice?"

"Very valuable question." Comand nodded, scanning the crowd with different expressions, "The end will give justice to the means, but the radical means will gradually deconstruct the purpose——What Comrade Alina wants to say is this. We must Take this seriously."

"Oh," Frost Star muttered dissatisfiedly, "Sister Xiaolu, could you please use your noble sentiments to impress the soldiers of Ursus?"

"Of course it's impossible. If we can't win militarily, everything is zero. But military alone is not enough."

Command pointed to the seething crowd as he spoke: "Of course the commander deserved his death. However, we didn't let him die at the hands of the angry crowd, we even held a rough and crude trial. There were many considerations in this.

"Now, they've gone from resigned living dead to burning flames. Passionate and irrational. Burning can open up vast swathes of wasteland; wildfires that get out of control just destroy the environment.

"We cannot let them directly kill people. Without the restraint of organizational discipline and the guidance of theoretical education, they will directly become thugs who endlessly vent their hatred and greed. Instead of revolutionaries who want to change the world.

"In this way, the justice of 'revenge' will be greatly reduced or even completely lost; neutrals and even sympathizers that could have been fought over will be driven to the opposite side; such a collective will have more and more enemies and fewer and fewer friends. . And everyone knows that revolution must make many friends and few enemies."

Comand, with his back to the venue, faced his students, waving one hand firmly and powerfully, and said in a cadenced tone: "Human nature cannot stand the test, so we cannot give human nature a chance to be tested. We must use written regulations and standardized procedures. Strictly restrict this kind of trial; deep-seated hatred should be transformed into a driving force to create a new world, not to destroy all evils. This is exactly the purpose of the revolution.

"Let's go back to Comrade Alina's question. The problem is that our integration movement does not take morality as the most fundamental criterion. Morality is just a social ideology. Different generations and different classes have different moral concepts, and there is no A kind of morality is eternal. As long as the integration movement represents the development requirements of the advanced productive forces on this land, represents the direction of the people’s happiness, and represents the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people!—then the integration movement’s own moral standards will be obtained. support."

Alina couldn't help but fell into deep thought... Ahem.

Tallulah clapped: "What a classic solidarity-criticism-solidarity."

The political workers all applauded.

Kelsey glanced at Comand, lowered her head and expressed deep emotion: "You are such a devil."

Comander smiled and replied, "No, I'm just a commissar."

**

The author says:

As I write this, I read it from the beginning again.

What the hell am I writing about?

A collection of KeyX interspersed with a few battle scenes?

It can only be said that the coolness deserves it, and the tepidness is quite lucky... what?Fire?

Wash and sleep, there is everything in the dream.

Chapter 21 Beat the Drums of War 1

"The visiting lady has left?" Alina asked.

Tallulah spread the books on the table and sat down by the window in the library: "Yeah, I left. I didn't make my attitude clear. Who knows if we will have new allies? That's not important. The question is, what class is our teacher Alina going to teach today?"

"You are so talkative! Do you treat others like this?" Alina put her hair into a ponytail and sat down across from her. "How have you been lately?"

"The frost star can freeze my mouth; that Comander guy will only fight back with ten times the slickness. The same old routine, speeches, current affairs introduction, political education..." Tallulah trimmed her hair, "Be a false leader. Being an actual idol is not easy either. What about you?"

"There's nothing wrong with being an ordinary civil servant." Alina rubbed her hands—it was a habitual action after getting ink. "It's a headache to be a part-time teacher to teach the little ones, but you can see the future from them. As for the theory seminar group... I'm still a student. Um, tired?"

She is very concerned, but Tallulah is a little ungrateful: "Being a canary in a cage, when you need it, you can sing beautifully. How can you be tired?"

Alina looked at her: "You seem unhappy again."

"I'm not, I don't."

Alina then folded her hands in front of her chin: "Comrade Tallulah, I'm here to have a heart-to-heart talk with you."

Tallulah curled her lips: "Why are you imitating that guy's moves?"

"Political Commissar Kang is also pouting, right?"

Tallulah took a breath: "Hiss... why are you so skilled!"

Alina slapped the table: "Hey!!!"

"Uh, ahem, okay." Tallulah hesitated rarely, "Then let me put it this way. I feel...that my existence is meaningless."

"Oh?"

"...commander is in charge of the work of the army; Ulyanov and Dzhugashvili are also doing the administrative work of dozens of villages and towns. But I feel that I can't keep up anywhere, and I can only make inflammatory speeches It looks like it can be effective." Tallulah smiled wryly.

Alina shook her head: "It's incitement! Incitement is a derogatory term! Besides..."

She pointed out the window: "Look."

Tallulah looked in the direction of Alina's finger: on the training ground not far away, the shield guards were still being beaten by the Space Marines; the snow monsters were jumping up and down in the 400-meter obstacle; the cavalry were watching the farewell of the new regiment leader. Erkonsky's equestrian demonstration; the recruits were still aiming at the target with their automatic rifles without a single bullet.

"The people who were chased and intercepted by the enemy in the ice and snow, and those who barely dug out food from the ground, now have a bright future. Your efforts are obviously very effective."

Tallulah laughed dryly: "My efforts? To be honest, I do feel that everything is on the right track, but I never feel that I am the leader of the integration movement. The people in the People's Federation are much more mature and talented than me. . They are also much more skilled than us in organizing and maintaining rebellions, and it seems that they can consider any problem in advance."

Alina shook her head: "They just experienced it in advance, and they have seen more than us...Talulah, those who are infected with ore disease are ordinary people, and those who are not infected are also ordinary people; The peasants and citizens in the People’s Federation—the people on this land, like the people in the People’s Federation, are ordinary people. Knowledge can be learned, and character can be experienced. And you, too, can become that kind of person.”

"Maybe. Alina, I broke away from everything in the past because of the problem of infected people. But suddenly, the problem of infected people is nothing, and it is ranked alongside the smallest disease. 'I became an infected person.' 'Oh, I've run out of oral liquid at home, go to the village health center for an injection.' When they came, the matter was solved all at once. It seemed like all the natural and man-made disasters caused by ore disease in this land, the infected people All the blood and tears have become... light and airy."

"Isn't that good?" Alina asked calmly.

"Of course not, ore disease is no longer a problem. But the battle will continue. No, the battle has just begun!" Tallulah raised her head, then lowered it, "This is just...a personal inexplicable emotion."

"It would be much better to say it..." Alina nodded and hesitated, "...Commander told me about it -"

Tallulah: "You met him alone? Why didn't I know?"

Alina: "That's almost it. You've been stuck with him all day long and you can't even tear him apart!"

The two stared at each other, and finally laughed together.

Tallulah: "What are you going to say? Just come on."

Alina bit her lip: "Everyone now knows all about your past... Do you still remember one detail? When you were kidnapped from Longmen, you said it was a rainy day."

"What's wrong?" Tallulah had a puzzled expression, "I remember it very clearly."

Alina took out a newspaper clipping from the briefcase under the table: "Commander gave me this. The kidnapping incident was a big deal. From the photos to the weather recorded in the newspaper, to the special weather records of Longmen City State …

"It was sunny from morning to night in those few days."

Tallulah was disapproving at first, then stunned, and finally her expression became serious.

"Black Snake... is a god who is good at playing with the soul after all." Alina said softly.

"I should have thought of it a long time ago. Subtly, starting from vague details...as early as that time?" Tallulah took a long breath and stood up, but her expression suddenly became brighter, "So I understand what you mean. Alina, I have no choice. The past in my memory is not reliable enough, but I still have the present and the future. If I identify with the scene he described, I will also fight for the cause of realizing that scene. I am a fighter, This is enough."

"That would be great, Comrade Chief." Alina smiled.

"It's embarrassing to call me that again. If I were alone, the integration movement would consist of dozens of guns and hundreds of warriors dragging more than a thousand infected people around the snowfield." Tallulah waved her hand. He said enthusiastically, "No matter what happens now, it's better than that. Since I have such a good stage, I will definitely do my best."

Comand's voice came from the side: "Okay, come with me."

Tallulah turned her head abruptly, and saw Comand with an unprecedented serious expression.

"Tallulah, come with me, emergency meeting."

"What emergency meeting?"

"The expanded meeting of the 113th Division's decision-making committee."

**

The five members of the Central Executive Committee of the Integration Movement were summoned in haste.The patriots who led the team for shooting training still smelled of gunpowder, Ulyanov’s briefcase contained economic work documents, and Dzhugashvili’s shoes were covered with mud.

There was silence in the small conference room, and the people across the long conference table made the leaders of the integration movement feel a little cramped.

A whole row of decision-making committee members of the 113th Division of the People's Federation Extraterrestrial Corps, dressed in red, green, gray, black, and blue uniforms, overalls, and even space fighter power armor, were collectively silent, with the same grim and sympathetic expression on their faces, watching with deep eyes. They formed a long wall.

A row of Central Executive Committee members of the Integrative Movement looked at Comand.As the general political commissar of the integration movement and a member of the decision-making committee of the 113th Division, Comand is the link between the two sides.

Comand nodded to the comrades of the integration movement, and the decision committee members of the 113th Division also looked at him.A certain pity for Comand suddenly surged in Tallulah's heart: this guy is under pressure from both sides at the same time.

Is he really as unshakable as he seems?

"Good morning, comrades." Command said in a toneless and undulating voice, "This is the first joint meeting between the decision-making committee of the 113th Division of the People's Federation of Extraterrestrial Corps and the Central Executive Committee of the Integration Movement. The purpose of this meeting is to inform situation and discuss countermeasures.”

Comand waved his hand, and as the stereoscopic projection image appeared above the conference table, he threw a blockbuster: "The Ursus Fourth Army is preparing for a large-scale operation."

——The jurisdiction of the Fourth Ursus Army includes the entire northwest tundra.The executive committee members of the Integrated Movement, who were already focused, almost jumped up.They looked at the stereoscopic image in silence.

In the center of the image is an aerial photo, on which is a magnificent phalanx spread out on the wilderness on the ground.Bodrokasti's huge body swayed slightly in his seat: he recognized the standard formation of the Ursus Empire army at a glance.