Chu Xiaoxiao shuddered and hugged me tightly, “It’s horrible, how did you guys get through it?”
Cai Xiaobing said, “That alone is not really a big deal. The first few days were scary, but then my beard grew out and I wasn’t scared anymore.”
Lin Yue’er couldn’t help but laugh out loud.
Cai Xiaobing said with a shy face, “Yue’er, don’t laugh at me. It’s true, ask the captain if you don’t believe me, he must be similar. We don’t have a beard cutter, so I just touch my beard every once in a while. My biological clock isn’t accurate, but I can still count the time.
I laughed, “Yeah, I’m pretty much the same. Originally I was going to keep exercising every day and eat when I was hungry, to approximate the three meals. But then I didn’t think it would work, there was no way to do much exercise in such a small room, my metabolism was much slower, and I was worried that the food they were giving us wasn’t adequate. I did pretty much the same as Cai Xiaobing, touching my beard. But I was a bit different from Cai Xiaobing, I was so bored that I broke off a piece from the iron bed, sharpened it into a blade and insisted on shaving it after the beard sprang up, so that the time calculation was a bit more accurate.”
Cai Xiaobing smacked his lips and said, “You have the fortitude to not try to kill yourself with a knife in the end. I couldn’t, I wanted to hit the wall and kill myself at the end, really, I’m going crazy thinking about it. They really didn’t give us enough food, I was already saving it, and after about 20 days, we ran out of food and nobody let us out. I was going really mad, suspecting that everyone else had been let out and I was the only one being held, that I had been forgotten.”
I laughed and said, “Yeah, I thought a lot, maybe there’s been a nuclear explosion outside and the world doesn’t exist and I’m going to be starved alive.”
Speaking of this, Cai Xiaobing and I both shuddered, this was definitely a painful memory we both shared, every qualified special forces soldier has to go through a thousand hardships.
It was more than just physical pain, it was mental torture.
Of course, after we entered the special forces, we realised that this was not the most painful torture in the world. Watching your teammates go without you and not being able to do anything about it is ……
The golden shield, forged in blood.
What we’ve traded our blood and youth, and even the lives of our teammates for, cannot be destroyed by anyone.
Cai Xiaobing lamented: “Yes, I hit my head against the wall and no one came to save me. Later I thought, even if I want to die, I have to die in a manly way, I can’t kill myself in such a shameful way. I also thought that if I died by banging my head against the wall, my parents would be sad to see me. I don’t know how many days passed before someone took me out, and after I got out, I asked about the assessment period, which was 30 days. I guess I was slow in counting the days because I was touching my beard and felt it was 20 days, but it was actually more than that. Captain, did you have any thoughts of dying at that time?”
I laughed and shook my head, “No, I really didn’t. It was only a few months before I went to be a special forces soldier that I found out from Han Kun that I was a second generation rich man. Other than that, I couldn’t kill myself for that much money, I had to get through it.”
Cai Xiaobing was so angry that she honked her horn: “Too much, Captain, zing!”
When our car arrived at the hospital entrance, Jiang Ming was more punctual than the alarm clock and the call came immediately.
I held onto the door frame and waited for Cai Xiaobing to help me get my wheelchair down, while waiting for my phone to vibrate, I could imagine how anxious Jiang Ming was right now.
When the phone was almost hanging up, I pressed the answer button while getting into my wheelchair, and Jiang Ming’s unpleasant voice came from the other end of the line, “Let the man go.”
“Since you’re so direct, I’ll be straight with you, have a couple of blood banks around here transfer the blood over to me. When I see the blood, I’ll let the man go.”
“Don’t you get ahead of yourself.”
“I don’t want to, come on.”
I hung up, and after a quarter of an hour, Zhao Zichen told me that the blood bank had been contacted to pick up the spare blood.
Jiang Ming’s call came back on time: “You can let the man go, if not, we don’t need to continue negotiating. I don’t want the man, let him go down there to keep Han Kun company.”
“Let go, but you have to find someone to receive it. Or else, should I release it indiscriminately in place? It’s not good to release something that pollutes the environment like this indiscriminately, is it?”
“What do you want?”
“You can’t afford to pay for a car, Mr Jiang? Send someone to pick him up.”
“What the hell are you thinking?”
I hemmed and hawed, “Are you afraid I’ll use it as an excuse to arrest you? How could I be so bad.”
“What the hell are you trying to pull.”
“I’ve brought you the man, just see if you dare to make the trip.”
I hung up the phone and saw Yue Manshan being escorted off the car by soldiers, his head hanging down, luckily he had a black cloth bag over his head, otherwise, according to how famous he was in Tong City today, someone would have recognised him by now and posted his current appearance of Young Master Yue on the internet.
The two soldiers were standing at attention, forbidding anyone to approach Yue Manshan and, of course, forbidding him to move about.
Yue Manshan has long since lost the arrogance he had a month ago and does not dare to make a mess.
A month ago, he might not have been timid even if a gun was put to his forehead.
But he is different now. I don’t need to control him with any weapon, I just need to let him know that if he messes up, I will let him go back to the black house at any time, and that will be enough.
This invisible yoke is enough to control his mind.
After ten minutes or so, Meng Meng called me to say that Jiang Ming had just set off, and that Jiang Ming himself was sitting in the car, but Yue Zhengjun was not there.
It was normal for Yue Zhengjun not to be there, he was our most wanted man and unless he was tired of living, he would not show up.
“Captain, should we set up control?”
“Yes, let Fox and Old Li come. Both of them carry guns.”
“I’ve got them in position.”
“Good job.”
Monk hesitated, “Did you really choose to shoot Jiang Ming in front of so many people?”
“Why? It’s just that the report is a bit difficult to write.”
Meng Meng cried and laughed, “Is it the report that’s the problem? Captain, you could be suspended and court-martialled, you know better than me what the consequences are.”
I took a deep breath, “So you think I can’t kill him?”
“You can’t, the consequences of killing him now would be too severe.”
“That’s right, he thinks I can’t kill him either. This just might be the best chance I have to kill him.”
I smiled and cut off my conversation with Meng Meng, as Jiang Ming had already arrived on the scene.
I knew there must be a bullet pointed at Jiang Ming’s head not far away.
Jiang Ming’s eyes were not kind when he saw me.
I patted the leg that was in a cast and laughed, “Are you still afraid of me? This leg is thanks to you.”
He took my wheelchair from Chu Xiaoxiao’s hand and pushed it towards the less crowded garden.
Cai Xiaobing and Chu Xiaoxiao tried to follow, but I waved my hand, “Don’t worry, we’re just going for a stroll.”
Knowing that Jiang Ming and I had something to talk about, Chu Xiaoxiao pulled Cai Xiaobing to a halt and waited in place.
If Han Kun saw that, he would think I was crazy, Jiang Ming was a dangerous beast and it was too dangerous for me to do something like that.
But the situation was not dangerous now, it was Jiang Ming who was really in danger.
Now Jiang Ming was completely exposed to sniping, and as soon as I gave the order, Fox and Old Li would shoot.
I would be able to put an end to this beast who had killed my parents and my rescuer once and for all.
