Loyalty and filial duty have always been hard to reconcile! Loyalty to the nation is the greatest filial devotion to one's parents!

Soon, the group reached the depths of the Cemetery, threading their way through the densely packed gravestones.

These gravestones were utterly unlike any Yue Xiaofei had seen outside.

There were no photographs, no accounts of their lives, not even... a name!

Only a cold line bearing a codename was engraved on each.

[Kite]

[Sparrow]

[Mountain Eagle]

[Old Cat]

[Secret Envoy No. 2]

Each codename represented a life once full of vitality, a hero who had quietly burned away in the darkness to light the way for the nation.

"Grandpa Sun, why... don't they even have names?" Yue Xiaofei's throat felt dry.

Sun Desheng, who was leading the way, paused but did not turn around.

His deep voice echoed through the somber forest of gravestones.

"Because they were soldiers on the covert front. Their identities are the nation's most closely guarded secrets."

"Even after they fall, their files cannot be unsealed."

"If their real names were engraved on their gravestones and discovered by enemies lurking among us, their families... would all face retaliation."

Sun Desheng's words struck everyone's heart like a sledgehammer.

Retaliation against their families!

Those words sent a bone-deep chill through every Bureau 7 agent present.

They knew better than anyone how deranged those enemies were, how there was nothing they would not do!

Yue Xiaofei's heart twisted into a knot.

They could not even leave their names behind.

Their parents, wives, and children probably did not know they lay buried here, let alone how they had died.

Every year during the Qingming Festival, while incense curled above other families' graves and loved ones gathered to pay their respects, the heroes here had only solitude for company.

"Then can their families never come to mourn them? Will they never know that their children, husbands, and fathers have already