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Chapter 220 The Leaflet, 01:35 pm
On the top floor of the clock tower-shaped municipal center, in the mayor's office, the screen formed by the ceiling and the wall is not as usual, showing the real-time view of Cesina City under the sun, but the endless wind and snow, as if it is responsible for the relay workOfficers have been unable to single out a neighborhood free of riots for the mayor to watch.
According to the mayor's wishes, the setting was replaced with a video of Bloody Christmas ten years ago. There was only one person walking alone in the snow on the lonely street, his figure was like a white quicksand.This is not such a fantastic scenery, but the mayor ordered to maintain such a setting and not allow it to be changed. Since the start of the war, he can only dispel the fear in his heart by staring at the backs of his defeated soldiers ten years ago.
Robert Dillane was sitting behind his desk, flipping through several 3D leaflets. Catherine was standing next to the mayor holding two stacks of folders full of leaflets. Whenever Robert read one of them, she wouldJust in time to hand over another stack.
These leaflets are made of special materials that display 3D images that change according to the light.When the civilian signal is cut off, they are the most popular non-governmental media. All the underground printing outlets in the city can produce dozens of different content and tens of millions of coloring pages every day.
The two stacks of promotional pages that Catherine found, without exception, had the logo of pink and purple thyme printed in a conspicuous place. After the release of the second series of promotional videos about Rosie two days ago, this logo quickly spread among the public.
Robert has seen the promotional video, it can almost be said to be an excellent weapon to incite people's hearts. The filming team edited the video of Rosie speaking on the sentry tower with the video of him rushing into the partition door to save people, standing on a high placeThe radiant leader and the young man who bleeds from the corner of his mouth but never gives up in the dark tunnel complement each other. Light and darkness are intertwined into a gorgeous tapestry in the touching music.
When the speech came to the last sentence, "I can't promise that you will see the light on the ground after walking through the rough tunnel; but I can guarantee that in the long dark night, you will always see my figure accompanying you",The image in the tunnel was just played until Rosie hugged the baby and fell out of the partition door. The baby's immature fingers stroked the thyme, as if the god of courage was applauding him for fulfilling his promise.
"My name represents 'hope' in Chinese." At the end of the promotional video, there is a pre-recorded sentence. Rosie sat in front of the camera in a military uniform and said softly, "I hope everyone will not give up.Hope, in the city of Cesina, organs can be bought and sold, souls can be traded, and only hope can be held tightly in our hands."
The promo went far more widely than Rosie's city-wide live-streamed accusations and cemetery speeches, and the price of the disc with the video doubled.What followed swept across the city was the upsurge of wearing thyme on the chest as a symbol of rebellion. In two days, more than 300 people were labeled as criminals by Poseidon and wanted to go to jail.
However, this upsurge has not faded with the government's pressure, but intensified.The government does not allow thyme to be worn, so people embroider a pattern of four pink and purple petals on the front of their clothes, and the pattern is gradually simplified into a crossed pink cross, which has various variants and can be used as a secret sign.
According to Robert's instructions, Catherine collected all the propaganda pages marked with thyme and organized them in two folders for him to understand public opinion.Robert flipped through the pages, and the content of the leaflets Catherine found were all clichés, live broadcasts throughout the city, and speeches in the cemetery, all recurring moments when Rosie captured the hearts of the people.There are often two that float in, and they are no longer fresh.
"Is there no recent one?" Robert pushed away a stack of promotional leaflets at hand and looked at Catherine, "The promotional video titled 'Hope' released by the Second District two days ago, I heard that it caused quite a stir. The policeHundreds of conflict cases were reported to me yesterday, and there were riots everywhere in the city this morning. Catherine, don’t you plan to let me know what the people think? Knowing this, I can formulate policies based on public opinion.”
Catherine's blue eyes showed panic, as if she was afraid that he would get angry: "The recent leaflets... are there, but mayor, do you really want to read them? Those are just boring people talking nonsense behind their backs, you don't need to read them."I don't care. They are just too busy to panic, if you return the external device to them, this group of people will go home and lie down obediently."
"When the evidence in the Huanhai system is cleaned up, I will return the confiscated external devices, and I won't let Rosie succeed." Robert said coldly, then frowned again, "What are the people talking about behind their backs? OurIs the public relations department just for nothing? Rosie is instigating people’s hearts, so we counterattacked, saying that Rosie faked to win sympathy, the injuries she suffered were plasma effects, and the baby was a prop prepared in advance. I don’t need to teach such truths myself, right?”
"In fact, this is what the public relations department does. Many media outlets under CyberRose have disclosed the scandal of Rosie's fraud in large pages, but the next day, this appeared in the city." Catherine carefully took out a promotional page and put it onIn front of Robert, "This is the new leaflet you want. Nearly 100 million copies have been printed and distributed in two days."
Robert took it and glanced at it, and the first line of the promotional page was written in bold letters, "It turns out that a war zone that is deep in the rain of bullets is called a fake? Then, please Mayor Dylan make a fake for us." The signature is unfamiliar "Ecarg".
Such a joking headline was widely circulated. Robert read on and found that the content of the leaflet was gossip. The person who wrote the leaflet seemed to have a lot of experience in gossip.The history of Rosie and Robert studying at the Petrov Military Academy at the same time, and even picked out their final rankings, can be described as digging three feet.
In the flyer, the Ecarg eccentric wrote: "Although Mayor Dylan is not as talented as that leader, he still has a lot of knowledge on the battlefield. But why has Mayor Dylan never rescued people on the battlefield?What about refugees? Oh, it turns out that because he has never been on a battlefield, he has lost the qualification to 'falsify'."
"It can be seen that Mayor Dylan is absolutely innocent. He has never bribed the judges of the Wisteria Medal to cause the award to be falsified, nor has he embezzled public funds to cause the account to be falsified. In contrast, Rosie is too much. How dare heUse your own bravery to contrast the mayor's cowardice..."
"It's a bunch of nonsense!" Robert ruthlessly tore the solid leaflet to pieces, and then rolled it into a ball again, with a terribly sinister expression.Seeing that the situation was not good, Catherine was just about to hide the remaining ten leaflets in her hand, but Robert snatched them and slapped them on the table to read one by one.
The rest of the dozen or so are also written by this Ecarg, with similar themes.Robert browsed, his face became more and more gloomy, and finally couldn't contain his anger halfway through the reading, picked up the windproof lighter by the table, and lit the stack of leaflets.The burnt smell of special materials permeated the office, and the flying flames danced wildly, not half as strong as the jealousy in his eyes.
...he hates when people compare Rosie to him.This was true in military school, and even more so on the battlefield.
"Who is the person who wrote these leaflets?" The leaflets in his hand were burned to ashes, Robert threw away the paper ashes, and said in a deep voice, "I will send him to prison and execute the death penalty."
Catherine lowered her volume amid the mayor's anger: "This is just a pseudonym, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to find out valid information... Unless you search all the underground printing sites, you can find people who are related to the printed content."
"You just said that 100 million copies of the same leaflets were printed?" What did Robert think of, "Which underground printing site can have such a large volume without being discovered by Poseidon? Only hackers from the Hunter's Guild can do it."For this matter, they have enough financial resources and strength, and they can also organize multiple printing stations to work together."
"According to the intelligence department, there are indeed a small number of hunters who are responsible for the distribution of leaflets. Every day, there are bounty hunters driving motorcycles to non-fixed locations and throwing leaflets in the air. It is only because of the connection between the government and the guild. The intelligence departmentNeither the police nor the police can control this matter." Catherine reported truthfully, "The Hunter's Guild has remained neutral for so many years. For some reason, it suddenly turned to the second district after the war."
"Deng Huailing." Robert sneered, "But does he really think that he can win the war by distributing plausible leaflets in the main city? It's ridiculous! As for the hunters who cooperated with him in the main city... the guild leaders temporarilyYou can’t move, you can always kill a few errand runners, go inform the STF, let them clean up the task list, don’t let a traitor who spread leaflets go.”
"However, this is a serious violation of the contract signed between the guild and us. The government cannot interfere with the normal progress of the mission. It is written in the terms. There are a total of 120,000 bounty hunters in the main city. In case of riots..."
"If you betray the main city, you betray me, and anyone who betrays me deserves to die!" Robert seemed to have been touched by the most sensitive string in his mind, and suddenly he spoke sharply, with a look of madness in his eyes, "Catherine, what are you doing?"What objection?"
"No...no." Catherine stepped back subconsciously, and she suddenly had a feeling that the other party wanted to strangle her to death.
Robert smiled again, and walked over to gently caress her face, the action caused her skin to tremble: "I know, you won't have it. Ask someone to get the car ready, and I will go to the military base in ten minutes. Second DistrictI want to fight a public opinion war with us, but I don't plan to give them time, and a new batch of bionics can be debugged and factory-built, and you can witness my victory with your own eyes for a month at most."
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After Robert left, Catherine hid in the unmonitored dressing room, kicked off her twelve-centimeter bright red high heels, and stepped barefoot on the carpet.She was leaning against the cabinet in shock, her blond hair and shirt were soaked in cold sweat. If anyone passed by at this moment, they would find that she was not tall, but rather thin. The reason why she wore high heels all day long was because the mayor once said he liked it.
Now she already understood everything, from the day Rosie invaded the city live broadcast and counted Robert's crimes, she understood everything.The mayor likes how tall she looks because the girl the mayor loves is naturally tall.
She also understood that the words "witness my victory with my own eyes" were not meant for her. Robert looked over her body, looking at the girl who would never return from the past, tender and cruel.The mayor just wanted to strangle her, but also to that girl... Rosie once said that the mayor killed that girl with his own hands!
With trembling hands, Catherine took out a roll of crumpled promotional pages from the inner pocket of her suit, and opened it to smooth out the wrinkles.This is one of the very common publicity pages in the city, with the mark of thyme blooming in the upper right corner, and the content is the content of crimes listed by Rosie during the live broadcast throughout the city.
One of the charges was followed by a blurry photo of a blonde girl named Rose.She held up the flyer to the light, and compared her appearance with Rose's again, which she had done countless times these days.That's right, it's really the same, the same blond hair and blue eyes, the same high spirits, the same oblivious to death.
... There was never a girl more like Rose than her.
She also remembered that Deng Huailing said that before her, there was another movie star named Mary Ellis.When Deng Huailing was recuperating in the ward of the municipal center, she said a lot to her. Later, she secretly went to the torture room to find out the truth, and the other party told her how to contact him through the dark net.
Deng Huailing said with a smile that when she wanted to get away, she would naturally go to him.At that time, Catherine was still dismissive, but now she was trembling, and entered a large paragraph of text in the dialog box on the dark web, and the mayor's stern face suddenly flashed in her mind, and she was shocked again, and quickly deleted it.
Finally, she slowly put the communicator back into her pocket, closed her eyes weakly against the wardrobe, and slid down.
In the second district, in the suite of East 1 command center, the lights of medical equipment flickered, and the liquid medicine fell from the drip funnel of the infusion set into the body of the pale patient.
In the room that was supposed to be a bedroom, several pieces of medical equipment were crammed side by side, and the remaining space couldn’t even accommodate a folding bed. Deng Huailing sat cross-legged on the ground, lying on the edge of the bed, her brown eyes focused on the unconsciousness on the bedRosie.Rosie's hand with the infusion needle inserted was a little cold, so he held that hand lightly day and night, always making the other's palm warm.
Other than that, he didn't know what else he could do.Rosie was in a coma for three days after the operation. Although the wound on the side of her waist was sutured smoothly, she suffered from overwork these days, coupled with weakness from excessive blood loss, she developed a low-grade fever for a while.The explanation of the doctors is that Rosie's body is being forced to rest, but there is no fixed number at all for how long it will rest.
The killer came from East 5 night and day, and took over the command of the East 1 battlefield.This person came to see Luo Xi just after jumping off the capsule train, because he said disdainfully, "What a big deal, I thought I was going to die." He was almost beaten by Deng Huailing, but Deng Huailing resistedThe public discussion persuaded the officials of East 1 to let the killer act as the acting leader and take charge of Dong 1's affairs temporarily.
Deng Huailing is not very proficient in political affairs, but he is proficient in Rosie.He could feel Rosie's trust in the killer. The war in East 1 became more intense in these three days as Robert sent more troops. The refugees who fled from East 2 also needed resettlement. Only the killer has the ability to settle these things.Made the decision instead of Rosie.
"Rolla sent a message saying that the cooperation between the Hunter's Guild and Yanling may not be able to continue in the short term. Robert sent a task force to slaughter the hunters who distributed the leaflets. Although she was angry, she couldn't think of a way to deal with it. We capturedThe position of public opinion in the United States may return to Robert's hands within a few weeks."
When facing Rosie alone, Deng Huailing would babble on about some information for the other party, regardless of whether Rosie could hear it or not, "I have a hunch that the next battle will be more difficult. Rosie, the second district needs you, youBeloved people, they miss you very much."
"...And, I miss you too."
Little egg: If you can’t guess who Ecarg is, you can spell the letters backwards (??ω??)