Ralph was reading quietly in the room, and his son was waiting on him like a butler, sometimes refilling his father's tea cup and sometimes bringing some late-night snacks.
When there was a knock on the door, Ralph closed the book and nodded slightly to his son Bender. On this ship, if someone knocked on the door, it must be to find Ralph.
After the door opened, Bender saw the gentle Tang Xin standing outside. He said politely: "Mr. Tang, good evening, please come in."
Tang Xin nodded and walked in. Ralph stretched out his hand to signal Tang Xin to sit down. Ralph was wearing a coat, while Tang Xin took off the coat that He Min had just given him, took it in his hand, and sat down. Then he looked at Bender and said a few compliments casually.
"Bender, you go out first."
Ralph could see that Tang Xin had something to say, and these words could only be said in the presence of each other.
After Bender left the room, Ralph stared at Tang Xin indifferently and said, "Tang Xin, if you have anything to say, just say it. There is an old saying that the person who knows you best is your enemy. There should be a relationship between us. We understand each other very well.¡±
Tang Xin agreed and said: "Yes, you know me and I know you. You are always thinking about how to kill me and prevent my people from taking crazy revenge on your family afterwards. But, can you tell me, What am I thinking about at this moment?"
When Ralph heard this, he sneered and said: "Tang Xin, you have changed. In the past, you were so unscrupulous and unscrupulous. It seemed that you wanted to trample under your feet all the powerful people who appeared in front of you, and let people know how powerful you are. Your fearlessness, and your That ability to scheme against people. Haha. You are young, but you know the most powerful survival technique in the world, utilization. Only those who can make good use of people are qualified to hold power, and you happen to be this kind of person. What are you thinking? What? I don¡¯t know what happened to you. Maybe you are really tired of killing and fighting, and you start to disdain it. You start to restrain yourself, as if you have become indifferent to the world, and you want to live an indifferent and stable life. You are wrong, your destination is only It can be a battlefield.¡±
Tang Xin sighed softly, among many people. Indeed, Ralph knew him better than many people. Although they met from time to time, they would always listen to each other's information on a regular basis. This kind of special friendship was a process of in-depth understanding.
Know what the other person is doing in their daily life. Where to focus, even your eating and traveling habits, and so on.
"That's right, I don't want to continue fighting."
Hearing this, Ralph narrowed his eyes and said calmly: "So. Are you here to seek peace?"
"You are already sixty years old. In Chinese terms, sixty is easy to hear. As you said, yes, no matter how you understand it, let's put aside our grudges. You and I are rational, cold and sharp. We The reason why we haven't taken action is actually a consideration of profit and loss. If I kill you, your people will crazily retaliate against me and my family. If you kill me, my people will do the same thing. The gain outweighs the loss. Therefore, we have been Restraint creates a strange peace. However, one day, you will die of old age, and your descendants will take over. Will your heirs be like you? Will they consider the interests between gains and losses? If a mad dog started a war, Then, in the end, it may be a lose-lose situation. The only difference is which family has to dig more graves for their loved ones. So, I hope we can put aside our grudges and end it here."
Tang Xin looked at Ralph candidly, and the other party fell silent. There was silence in the room, and only the subtle sound of the waves reached his ears from outside, as if to remind him that time was flowing.
Ralph said with no expression on his face: "Then are you ready to apologize to my grandpa?"
Hearing this, Tang Xin shook his head without changing his expression, and said in a deep voice: "Ralph, I have no apology. To be honest, I salvaged the sunken ship and threw your grandfather's body into the seabed, like garbage. This is my fault." Is it your fault? No, it¡¯s your fault, he is your family member, why? You didn¡¯t find your grandfather¡¯s body before me? You shouldn¡¯t blame me, you didn¡¯t do enough!¡±
"That's nonsense! Tang Xin, the glory of the Hohenzollern family cannot be tarnished even by the deceased! And you, after you did such a thing, do you still expect me to shake hands with you and make peace? You don't even have the slightest chance to make peace with me. There is no sincerity in apologizing!¡±
Ralph¡¯s expression suddenly changed, and he scolded the man opposite him in a cold voice.
Tang Xin sighed softly and said helplessly: "Ralph, when we shake hands and make peace, it's not that anyone is afraid of the other, but just that we don't want tragedy to happen. There is no right or wrong in war, there is only the difference between standing and falling. Have you never thought that one day, maybe, you, a descendant of Hohenzollern, will have no descendants?"
Ralph stood up and said angrily: "If you just compromise like this and give up on washing away the humiliation suffered by your ancestors, what will happen to you if you are still alive? People in our family have dignity!"
Looking up at the furious Ralph in front of him, Tang Xin couldn't understand his anger.
??Every person is a clean and simple blank slate from birth, and Tang Xin is no exception. The environment he has been exposed to since childhood has shaped him into a very realistic person.
Dignity is often talked about, but what exactly is dignity?
Is it dignity to be envious and jealous of others but pretend to be noble?
"You are being bullied but pretending to be a gentleman and keeping aloof from the world. Is this dignity?"
Tang Xin doesn¡¯t understand. For him, in his past life, there has never been a concept of dignity, only strength and weakness, truth and falsehood.
Facing an enemy who is strong and weak, he will use strategies to deal with it. If he still cannot defeat such an enemy, he will choose to retreat and either work hard to strengthen himself or give up the idea of ??confrontation.
In order to take care of his family and everything he cherishes around him, he will always take it into consideration when thinking about doing things. He is not prepared to change him because he does not want to taste the taste of loss. If he sacrifices what he cherishes, he will change it. When victory comes, he is not sure that he can hold his head high proudly. Does that mean he has dignity?
Ralf Metzger, a German royal family and a descendant of the Hohenzollerns, his ancestors were deposed from the throne, his grandmother fled the motherland, and his father returned to Germany to carry out the great cause of family rejuvenation, until today. Ralph carries everything that his forefathers had to offer, honor or shame. It's all on his shoulders. Maybe it's because of that kind of family history that he can speak out with dignity.
Tang Xin doesn¡¯t have that level of consciousness at the moment. For him, it may take a long, long time for the Tang family to continue. Only when he enjoys this glory and power for a long time, and subtly transforms him from an ordinary soul into the noble one that everyone yearns for, will he realize the dignity of the family.
And that kind of dignity is definitely not the dignity that ordinary people often talk about proudly.
Tang Xin stood up, his eyes became cold, and he said softly: "In this case, Ralph. Then there will be no end to death between you and me, and I promise that if you are the one who falls first, your descendants will I will leave no one behind. One day, I will even topple the Deutsche Bank conglomerate and steal everything you and your father fought for."
Ralph smiled grimly. His eyes were sharp and he said, "Me too, everything about you is so coveted."
Tang Xin walked slowly to the door with his coat, opened the door and passed by Bender who was waiting outside.
Bender returned to the room, closed the door, and asked Ralph, who sat down with a serious expression: "Father, what is he doing here?"
Ralph shook his head silently, slowly closed his eyes, and thought to himself: Tang Xin, your death is coming soon.
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Two days later, the ship, which had been transformed into a cargo transport ship, arrived in the Pacific Ocean and slowed down when passing an island.
Tang Xin, Ralph, Bovakoev, and Carter stood on the bow deck together, each holding a telescope in their hands, observing the movement in the northeast direction.
There, there is a desert island that looks ordinary.
It is the island where the Minos League is located.
Tang Xin put down the telescope and said calmly: "We slowed down the ship. If we keep doing this, it will arouse suspicion. The other party has a submarine loaded with missiles. If it launches missiles to bomb us, we will simply be seeking death."
"We can't drag it out any longer here. Bovakoev, when will we start taking action?"
Ralph looked calm, but his words clearly agreed with Tang Xin.
Their ship was traveling at a slow speed and was less than ten nautical miles away from the island. If suspicion aroused and it was attacked, the consequences would be disastrous.
Bovakoev took out a pocket watch and looked at it, looking at the calm sea in the distance and said leisurely: "Three minutes, three minutes from now, things will be different before you."
Carter also held a watch in his hand. After looking at it, Feng Qingyun smiled lightly.
Everyone held their breath and stared at the calm island in the distance.
Three minutes passed in the blink of an eye.
Just when Tang Xin was about to question Bovakoev, a shocking loud noise came from the sea, and the calm sea suddenly seemed like a hole had exploded, setting off huge waves!
Boom, boom, boom!
In an instant, two water columns exploded on the sea around the island.
The people on the boat held onto the railing, and the waves hit and the boat swayed.
He Tianci was soaked all over by the sea water, but he stood on the side of the boat and stared at the sea in the distance. He stretched out his hand and shouted: "Look! Submarine!"
????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????On the surface, it was obvious that one end of a submarine lifted up from the sea and then slowly sank. That was naturally the place where the explosion occurred. Seeing this scene, Tang Xin turned his head and looked at Carter, who chuckled and shrugged. shrug.
It is obvious that the American submarines attacked two submarines near the sea area at the appointed time, and as expected, the two submarines have sunk. Although the direction of the explosion of the other submarine is farther away, from the sound and the explosion Judging from the waves, it shouldn¡¯t be wrong.
At this moment, several fighter planes flew across the sky. Tang Xin looked up and saw a giant bird flying across his sight, flying straight to the small island and launching a bombing as it passed by!
Boom boom boom!
Tang Xin was completely stunned. The small island in the distance was filled with smoke and flames. The previous movements on the sea quickly dissipated and disappeared. The submarine that sank on the seabed was quickly forgotten when it was out of sight. The gap in the sea surface that had been blown up before Like a shroud, the submarine was swept away into the arms of death, and the war-torn island in front of it seemed like a real and shocking war movie!
The virgin forest on the desert island was ignited by fire, the mountain collapsed, and rolling stones fell down the slope. Tang Xin picked up the telescope and observed the details without blinking. After the bombing, the sky was covered with smoke and dust, and almost nothing could be seen. However, On the coast, I actually saw some people running to the beach, trying to push a speedboat from behind the rocks into the sea to escape. Looking at the clothes of those people, flat-collar slim black suits, it was indeed the Minoan Alliance that always appeared in front of the world. dress up.
On the cargo ship they were on, Bovakoev ordered people to lift the curtain of the cargo, commanded the people to throw the speedboat into the sea, then lowered the rope, and ordered people to board the ship and rush to the island one by one to start the operation to kill everyone.
Tang Xin looked back and looked around, and was surprised to find that Carter was putting on a bulletproof vest. He asked in disbelief: "What are you doing?"
Carter said of course without raising his head: "Go to the island! I don't want anyone under my command to get the technological information of the Minoan Alliance and abscond immediately. The allure of such technology, haha, can create a business empire." , just like your success."
While he was speaking, he had already put on his bulletproof vest and bent down to re-lace the boots he used for running in the field.
Tang Xin was stunned, and Ralph said behind him: "I'm getting older, so I'll let my son go for me. Bender, you have to follow Mr. Bovakoev's command, do you understand?"
Bender, who was fully armed and ready to go, nodded solemnly and said in a deep voice: "Father, please don't worry!"
Tang Xin turned his eyes and saw Bvakoev putting the last speedboat on the ship into the water, commanding the ground force armed personnel brought by Ralph to board the speedboat, and then he climbed down the rope, Bender Afterwards, before Carter went down, he found Tang Xin standing still and frowned: "What are you doing? Hurry up and put on your bulletproof vest and come with us!"
Tang Xin pointed at his nose in disbelief and asked, "Should I go too?"