Chapter 79: Border
Jiang Yi took me to the hospital, which was also a secret hospital, but the medical staff here were a little more ordinary, really treating illnesses, unlike the hospital where I was, which treated the so-called “incurable diseases” of the cultivators.
Through the thick glass, I saw the child that Lao Hui had risked his life to save, and that I had desperately saved, the child that Lu Fanming used to practice on.
At this moment, he was in the sterile room, with tubes all over his body, breathing a little too fast and sleeping.
My hand unconsciously pressed against the glass and gently stroked it, as if I were stroking the child’s face. To some extent, I felt that he was living with Lao Hui’s wishes, and that he was living as part of Lao Hui.
“Is his life in danger? Can he survive?” I didn’t look at Jiang Yi, I just looked at the child through the glass.
“The child has been tortured for too long. When you rescued him, the wound became infected, and he had multiple internal and external injuries. But don’t worry, the child is very strong, and there is a good chance that he will survive. Fortunately, he is still young, and I hope that he can completely erase this memory from his mind and grow up to be a sunny and upright person.” Jiang Yi said to me.
“Where are the parents of the child?” I asked softly.
After all, with the department’s capabilities, it is not a difficult task to find out who the child’s parents are. How come I didn’t see the child’s parents when I came to the hospital this time?
“There are no parents, or the parents have been quietly killed by Luo Fanming. I have studied the secret method of refining little devils. If I can find the heart’s blood of the biological parents, I can use the secret method at the last moment to make the little devil’s hatred reach an extreme, and eliminate the little devil’s parents, leaving the little devil with no weaknesses.” Jiang Yi said in a low voice.
I silently clenched my fists鈥擫u Fanming!
“There are many things you can talk about when you get there. Since you insist on participating in this operation to the end, there will be someone to explain many things and information to you.” Jiang Yi also looked at the child and said quietly in my ear.
“Does the child have no parents or relatives? What will happen to the child in the future?” I asked.
“Unfortunately, his mother has no relatives. His parents died before he came of age, and all he has left are some distant relatives. As for his father, he was a single parent, and his mother raised him. But after his father died, his grandmother also died of grief because her family was destroyed. As you know, some distant relatives are not necessarily reliable, and the department’s affairs are also confidential. So, after careful consideration, I decided that this child will be the child of the department in the future. Everyone in the department will contribute a certain amount of allowance to raise the child according to the situation. Of course, I will contribute the most. Jiang Yi explained his decision.
“Well, if I have time, I will send him some money from time to time! Children who can be used to refine little devils have a special fate. Although this is not the path he chose, it is also fate.” If the department raises him, the child should be able to grow up without problems, but he is destined to lack some family warmth. I hope that the warmth given by everyone can make up for this poor child a little.
“Give the child a name. His parents died too early, and he had no name. Luo Fanming raised him for more than a year, and only used him to refine the little demon in recent months. I only know that his father’s surname was Zhang, and he went back to the old days. You can pick the name.” Jiang Yi said lightly.
Although it was a simple sentence, it contained a lot of information. At least from Jiang Yi’s words, Lu Fanming had done something that was already in the department’s grasp. Take a name? I was silent…
It was probably a minute before I said, “In addition to passing on the name, we Chinese have always had a habit of naming boys after Chu Ci and girls after the Book of Songs. But I don’t want to be so pretentious. This child is going to be named Zhang Yihui! I just hope he can remember that there is one most important person in his life. Although he has never met him, he must know and remember this person.”
Yes, the child had been blindfolded during the escape. He had never met Lao Hui, but he had heard his voice. He was so young, how long would he remember that voice? The name was a reminder to him not to forget that there had once been a person who had used his life to support his.
“Yi Hui, that’s a good name. Do you want to be the godfather of the child?” Jiang Yi suddenly asked.
“Yes, but I may not have much time to be around.” I was speaking from the heart. My life is also caught up in one thing after another because of my obsession. Just as Jiang Yi described my master, my master’s life is like rushing from one place to another. How can I not be the same? I don’t know how much free time I have to be a good godfather.
“It doesn’t take much time. Having a godfather may be a good way to make up for the child’s lack of a godfather,” Jiang Yi said quietly.
I hope so.
The location of the operation was in another city. I didn’t understand why Jiang Yi didn’t arrange for me to take a plane, but instead had me take a special car, which took a day and a night to get to this border city.
Jiang Yi didn’t explain why, and I didn’t bother to ask why. I probably knew that the operation had reached a high level of secrecy, and that except for departmental transportation, any other means of transportation was eliminated, in order to prevent the news from being spread through any channels or for any interested person to happen to see anything.
All I know is that I slept in the car for a night, and then when I took the second pill the next day, we finally arrived in this small border town.
It was a small border town, but it was not as developed as some small counties in developed areas. And it was only then that Jiang Yi told me that this operation could not be carried out in the city, but in the remote area of this border town. After all, there were many issues to consider.
But when he spread out the map, I saw that the location he was pointing to for the final battle was a mountain range, which was usually uninhabited, but occasionally some illegal immigrants would cross the mountain range.
I sneered, “What, is Lu Fanming preparing to sneak back?”
“You could say that, but the truth is that we have been gathering our forces and forcing him to this area. This time’s cleanup operation also involves some insiders who cannot be cleared of their connections. They can’t stay in my country, so they can only choose to live in Southeast Asia. But once a great emperor said, ‘Whoever is a threat to the glory of our country must be punished, even if they are far away! I will never let them become fish that escape the net. They can’t escape.” Jiang Yi’s expression became serious.
In fact, I feel that Jiang Yi is different from the average cultivator. Compared to other cultivators who are indifferent to worldly affairs, he has a different, deep love and bond for his country. This time, we all know that the operation will not fundamentally undermine the foundation of Company C, but it will further crush them, break the relative balance of power, and extinguish their arrogant flames.
However, the headquarters of Company C had already been moved abroad, and they had long since left a back door to escape. Therefore, there was a big gap between the uprooting that had been expected and the actual result.
I was afraid that Jiangyi would be disappointed, but I didn’t want him to be so solemn, nor did he show the slightest bit of discouragement. He said to me, “This time, we must complete the operation cleanly, even if sacrifices are inevitable! Although the result is not what I expected, it doesn’t matter. The balance of power has been broken at least, and they must be more careful in their future actions. After all, the little ghost incident has made some people into street rats! This is a fuse for victory, and if it spreads, it can detonate the entire C company.”
These things should have happened a long time ago, right? Where was I at that time? On the way to find Kunlun, or had I already arrived at Kunlun? This was what I thought at the time!
But who knows what will happen? Will the human conflict spread to the immortals because the fire is too big? Or will some people be destined to be involved in it? Who knows?
At this moment, the car finally stopped at a place that looked very poor. The border town at least had some prosperity brought by trade, but this place was really poor!
One-story and two-story buildings. Jiang Yi told me that this is where the people involved in the operation live. After tomorrow, when the net is closed, the people living here will be the main combatants.