Chapter 2559: Don’t Fire the First Shot
Looking at the prisoners going away, Erwin and Hanji understood for the first time the power beyond hatred. “It’s not about destroying the carriers of hatred, it’s about destroying hatred itself.”
Hearing what the regiment leader said, Han Ji couldn't help but nod: "Treat prisoners preferentially, educate them, make them realize their mistakes, use this to give up hatred, and even win them to join the militia. This is great wisdom."
While Alvin and Hanji were boasting about Duran's ideas, Kenny Ackerman, the only victim of Duran, hated Duran deeply. Because he changed from a powerful killer to a powerless beauty, and also experienced such a tragic fate in the underground city, she wanted to take revenge on Dulan.
But she no longer has the power to take revenge, so she hopes the soldier commander can help her take revenge. It's a pity that although she pretended to be her daughter and became the soldier commander's cousin, what position did she have to let the soldier commander oppose Dulan?
Although Levi didn't believe in Duran, Duran did clean up the underground city and reformed many gangsters. It was a path he had never imagined. The soldier commander has always believed that the existence of underground cities is inevitable, and that people born in underground cities have bad luck. However, Dulan used thunderous means to crack down on pornography and criminal gangs, directly turning underground cities into history. He never thought that he could do this. into such a thing.
Although the soldier was born in the underground city, he is very smart. After he came to the surface, he read a lot, listened a lot, and thought a lot. He realized that the country was originally divided, even the four major corps, the Survey Corps, the Gendarmerie Corps, and the Garrison Corps. Both the corps and the training corps have their own interests, and they will play tricks on each other for their own benefit. Different urn cities and different city walls are the same. Although everyone is an Eldian, everyone is trying to clear the door. Who would really give up their interests for the sake of others?
Dungeons will inevitably exist. The reason Levi thinks so is because dungeons are the interests of certain nobles, so they cannot be solved.
But Duran did it. Not only the underground city, but also the interest groups in various places were actually taken care of. Levi only felt that the changes in the past few years were greater than those in the past hundred years. All the forces and everyone within the high wall were Unspeakably united.
Although Levi didn't know what the essence was, he admitted that Duran's methods were indeed powerful. The only thing that made him doubtful was the origin of Dulan. It was because Duran was so powerful and appeared as a macho man descended from the sky, which made him suspect that Duran might not be from the high wall.
The soldier commander has been secretly investigating Du Lan, but he has no clue.
But Duran would not stop just because someone was suspicious. In the country of Marais, an uprising had already begun. At the same time, Malai Kingdom suddenly contacted all countries in the world, saying that it wanted to expose the ambitions of the Eldians on the island, and seemed to want to establish a coalition to attack the island together.
Not only Marley's allies, but also Marley's enemies also received invitations, and the meeting was arranged in a civilian area.
The initiator is the patriarch of the Daiba family.
Seeing how arrogant his enemies were, Allen couldn't bear it anymore and wanted to show them off. So he deceived the children in the quarantine area and delivered letters for them to contact the Volunteer Army, get in touch with Xiao Mikasa and Armin, hoping to strike first, launch an attack on Marais first, and severely damage the coalition meeting, in order to achieve the purpose of delaying Purpose.
Allen believes that once the coalition is successfully established, war will break out immediately, and the island will have no chance to prepare. Therefore, at this time, we must cut through the mess quickly, strike first and carry out a decapitation operation, and kill all the commanders of various countries, so that the time for the coalition forces to dispatch troops can be delayed.
After Mikasa and Armin got in touch, they immediately decided to take action, and a group of soldiers who believed that Allen was the savior also responded.
At this time, Duran stopped them: "You are really Allen's private soldiers. You want to carry out this operation without my consent? Have you not thought about the consequences?"
Armin said: "I think Allen is right. At this time, the weapons on our island cannot resist the coalition forces. We have to buy time, at least until our remote control giant's combat power is fully established. So we should take action first. "
"Allied forces? Tell me where the allied forces are?" Duran was curious if they could predict the future. Why didn't he see the allied forces?
"Whether it is the Volunteer Army, Allen, or our intelligence personnel have already investigated clearly, Marais will hold a meeting soon, and then countries around the world will send troops to form a coalition to attack the island." Armin said , the intelligence is true, their beheading operation is also to delay the coalition forces.
"Haha, have you read the other information? Countries are suspicious of Malai, as well as each country's own interests. Even if a coalition is really formed, will they all rush to the island in one go? There are also countries How will their interests be distributed? How will they divide the spoils after capturing us? "Dulan said to the coalition forces? He knew that the eighteen princes finally fell apart: "How long do you think it will take to establish this coalition? What will be the combat effectiveness after it is established?" "I think Marley's establishment of a coalition at this time is a strange move. If they send troops themselves If so, we may still need to worry, but if they want to bring a group of sluggish people to build a coalition, I will laugh. "
Mikasa and Armin did not expect that Duran would view the coalition forces this way, thinking that the coalition forces would drag each other down and would not succeed.
"But Allen." Xiao Mikasa wanted to say something else.
"But Allen thought that the other side of the sea was full of enemies, so when he heard that the people on the other side of the sea wanted to unite, he panicked and was afraid. But he forgot that there were not only Marley on the other side of the sea, but also many countries. Even if they were all afraid of the giants and hated the Eldians, there were still people who were close and distant, and there were also people who had priorities. It was impossible for them to be of one mind. But Allen ignored these objective facts." "Think about it. It might take a year or two to build a coalition. What would happen if you suddenly attacked the meeting and caused a large number of casualties?"
Armin was stunned, and then said: "It would unite them and give them more reason to build a coalition."
"That's right. If we really launch an attack, then we will be very passive. And if we don't act openly, but just buy and alienate, then the formation of the coalition will become a long and costly thing, which is thankless." Duran said that although the coalition looks good, it is much more expensive to manage than the army of a single country, and if the cost is not in place, the combat effectiveness will not be brought into play at all.
Duran didn't think Marley would pay for the management costs of the coalition, and other countries certainly wouldn't pay, so this coalition was just a mob.
Armin suddenly realized that Eren's current thoughts were indeed a bit strange, and there was something wrong when he looked at the sea. I don't know why he was full of hostility towards the other side of the sea.
"Then what should we do next?"
"We won't fire the first shot next, and leave it to the rebels. When Marley attacks us, we can join the war naturally, and then stand on the side of justice to spread our ideas, so that the whole world can witness a brand new Eldia, an Eldia that has completely cut off from the past and has completely liquidated the reactionary forces." Duran said: "This time we will stand on the side of justice, and let Marley be the villain."