nucmednet Chapter 288 Urgent Matter
Chapter 288 Urgent Matter
On the unfamiliar bed, Xi Yu tossed and turned for a long time, unable to fall asleep.
It's all because of Yan San's nonsense. Just thinking about how he sleeps in the room next to hers with only one wall makes her feel uncomfortable.
After turning over again, Xi Yu decided not to sleep anymore. She sat up abruptly and began cultivating the Thousand Brocade Technique.
Gradually, she calmed down and focused on her cultivation.
In the stillness, a faint, hurried footstep suddenly sounded, followed by a gentle knock on the door of the next room.
Xi Yu withdrew the spiritual energy circulating within her body and slowly opened her eyes.
The fact that a subordinate came to report this urgently at this time suggests that it was no ordinary matter.
"Commander, Lieutenant General Luo wishes to see you."
Xi Yu heard what the messenger said, and then she heard Yan San walking out with that person.
She didn't go out to ask; after all, important military matters were not something an outsider like her could know.
……
Luo Zheng waited nervously and gloomily in the reception room. Only when Yan San finally arrived did his expression change.
Yan strode into the reception room and waved away the subordinate who came to deliver the order.
"Uncle Luo, what happened?" He didn't beat around the bush and asked directly.
"Greetings, Marshal." Upon seeing Yan San, Luo Zheng greeted him with the respect due to a marshal, then took a breath and said, "If the situation weren't so critical, I wouldn't be bothering you at this time. I truly had no other choice..."
Yan San immediately stepped forward to help him sit down: "Uncle Luo, there's no need for formalities when we meet in private. Just because I call you 'uncle,' I won't ignore your affairs."
Luo Zheng looked grateful. He was the old marshal's former subordinate and also the head of the Luo family, one of the ten great families. He naturally knew Yan San's true identity.
"Has something happened to Hongyuan?" Yan San personally poured Luo Zheng a glass of warm water and pushed it in front of him.
Luo Hongyuan was Luo Zheng's only son, born in his later years. He and Yan San were childhood friends. The only reason Luo Zheng would lower himself to beg for help was if something had happened to this son.
As expected, Luo Zheng nodded heavily, his tone sorrowful: "Marshal, do you still remember my Hongyuan serving as the garrison captain on the southern border two years ago?"
"That's true." Yan San nodded slightly. Luo Hongyuan was a member of the Sixth Legion. Despite his young age, he was highly regarded in the Sixth Legion and was sent to the south two years ago.
“Hongyuan went south just to cover his tracks. In reality, he accepted a secret mission to infiltrate Bailan, one of the allied nations, as a spy,” Luo Zheng said with difficulty. He had initially disagreed with his son accepting the mission, worried that his son lacked experience and couldn’t handle such a heavy responsibility as a spy. But his son was adamant, so he had no choice but to let him go.
“Just half a month ago, Hongyuan barely escaped with his life on the line. There wasn’t a single muscle on his body that was intact; it was obvious that he had been tortured. He collapsed before he could even say anything. Under such circumstances, I couldn’t send him to the military medical department, nor could I let the legion know…”
Luo Zheng closed his eyes. He should have reported to headquarters, but his son's condition was unclear. He dared not and could not just hand his son over. He could only hide his son in a villa in the suburbs.
“In that case, Uncle Luo’s first priority is to wake Hongyuan up. I will have someone prepare medicine immediately,” Yan San said calmly, but Luo Zheng quickly refused.
“The medicine is useless. I’ve tried everything. Hongyuan’s external injuries aren’t fatal, and they’ve been almost completely healed in half a month. But the strange thing is, he shows no signs of waking up at all, and the life support device is almost failing…”