If Landa had not come here with a mission, she would have nearly been moved to tears by Jiana.
But her mission was to get Jiana to stand up, not silently endure everything alone.
This world did not need saintly martyrs. It needed one person after another to charge forward with bayonets fixed.
Landa looked at Jiana, raised her hand, and wiped the tears from her face. "You're a strong woman. I know that very well."
"But the reason I came to find you today is that there are other people who need you to stand up for them, too."
"What happened to you isn't unique to the military. There are many more cases like it."
"Even now, some people are still trapped in the hell you once experienced!"
"They aren't as strong as you. They lack the courage you possess, so all they can do is silently endure..."
Landa took a file from one of the people accompanying her and handed it to Jiana.
The file contained the investigation report into a female soldier's suicide. It had actually already been tucked away in the Western Military Region's archives and should never have appeared outside.
But as Lin Qi's cooperation with the Western Military Region developed, some things beyond Lin Qi's reach had become accessible as well.
The file's contents were straightforward. It introduced the girl's identity, when she had enlisted, and in which region she had joined which unit's Training Camp.
The girl had killed herself less than four months after joining the military. Among the materials was a photograph of her lying naked on a Corpse Bed.
Her body was covered in scars. Some were cuts, some were cigarette burns, and parts of her skin had even been cut away.
"Some people's names were tattooed onto the skin