IRCDM Chapter 66

Chapter 66: Evidence of Guilt, I’m Back to Get My Clothes

The military’s encrypted internal network’s leisure section has been unusually lively recently.

Someone nicknamed Silver-Saddled White Horse Lad posted a piece of gossip: “[Minister Lin and Dawn Star seem to have the same ‘white moonlight’ (idealized love interest). Dawn Star’s wife seems to be Minister Lin’s first love!]”

Seemingly having finally found the real reason why Minister Lin Chen had been so persistent in capturing Dawn Star for so many years, this gossip instantly swept the military’s internal network. Tens of thousands of comments piled up below, with Lin Chen’s faction and Dawn Star’s old subordinates tearing each other apart, almost leading to a brawl on the training grounds.

But soon, a clarification post appeared. An anonymous military officer called Secretary Not Easy to Be said: “[Lin Chen and Dawn Star seem to have been married once. Dawn Star’s second marriage partner is the newly appointed Deputy District Chief of Eastern Third District, Liang Huan. According to reliable sources, they peacefully separated more than a month ago and were blacklisted by the Population Matching Center, unable to apply for any matches for three years.]”

The Silver-Saddled Lad was furious: “[You’re talking nonsense! How could Minister Lin possibly marry Dawn Star?! Are you crazy?!]”

Someone vouched for the Secretary: “[Non-encrypted level news, my brother is responsible for guarding Dawn Star on the nineteenth floor. Minister Lin Chen went to visit – marked in red, ‘relative visit’. It is said that the stamps on it were from Commander Huan and the Population Matching Center.]”

“[Fck,]” the Silver-Saddled Lad didn’t know who to ask for verification and ended the battle with one word.

Someone threw Liang Huan’s photo onto the internal network.

“[Let’s tentatively deduce, Minister Lin can still apply for visitation permits, which means that Dawn Star and Minister Lin divorced less than a year ago, but they haven’t been blacklisted by the Matching Center. Their marital relationship must have been at least a year or longer. In other words, they just divorced this year, and Dawn Star then got a certificate with that Liang Huan, and then divorced again before a year was up?]”

“[Understood, Minister Lin is the true love, definitely the primary wife.]”

“[But Liang Huan is good-looking.]”

“[Minister Lin’s position and rank crushes Liang Huan.]”

“[But Liang Huan is good-looking.]”

The debate escalated again. One side thought the other’s position wasn’t worthy of Dawn Star at all, while the other side thought this appearance was enough to rival Li Yao. A small minority raised a question: “[Brothers, don’t you think this Deputy District Chief Liang looks a bit like our Minister Lin Chen in build?]”

Immediately, technicians threw out human skeletal comparison charts and facial analysis diagrams: “[Liang Huan is obviously a clerical worker with higher mental power and a poorer physical level. The skeletal structure and muscle explosiveness are obviously weaker than Minister Lin’s. If the official data is true, then he’s even a few centimeters shorter than Minister Lin. The most important thing is the facial structure. Minister Lin’s mask is the latest technology, fully covered and form-fitting. This is the facial reconstruction diagram given by the brothers in the Technology Department.]”

“[Holy sht, I always said Minister Lin must be outrageously handsome! Everyone, come over here and look at this!]”

“[From today onwards, I’m a soldier in Mecha I Department.]”

“[Minister Lin is the most handsome! Minister Lin is mighty!]”

“[Minister Lin is the most handsome! Minister Lin is mighty!]”

“[Keep it down, have you forgotten that he destroyed the Mecha III Department alone with a mecha? You still dare to talk about the mask.]”

The internal network instantly fell into an eerie silence.

But someone wasn’t afraid of death: “[I still feel like they look alike. If Liang Huan’s facial features were a bit more three-dimensional, wouldn’t he be the same as Minister Lin?]”

“[Do you think this is a game where you can change the bone density as you wish?]”

“[Brothers, isn’t this enough to explain the problem? Dawn Star clearly has a preference for this type. He’s purely hung up on a type, and his second marriage partner is a substitute for our Minister Lin.]”

“[Understood, Minister Lin and Dawn Star both like Liang Huan. Liang Huan is the ‘white moonlight’. Minister Lin and Dawn Star were definitely in a fake marriage.]”

“[What kind of brain circuit do you have?]”

“[Dawn Star actually remarried and even got a substitute ‘white moonlight’. I’m no longer in love.]”

“[Wake up, you won’t even get a third marriage, hahaha!]”

“[! You come to the training ground, I’ll fcking kill you!]”

…

Tzz—The internal network’s entertainment section instantly went black for a few seconds. When they logged back in, all traces of Dawn Star and Lin Chen had been completely erased.

At the door of the Mecha I Department’s conference room, Lang Shao and Huo Jie, who were guarding the door, exchanged glances. Huo Jie raised a finger and pointed inside the door, then made a throat-slitting gesture towards Lang Shao, whispering: “Stop playing around. If the boss investigates, anyone in there could kill you.”

Remembering the group of devils inside, Lang Shao silently deleted his internal network entertainment account.

Inside the room, four people sat on each side of a long conference table. The first seat on the right was occupied by Mao Ming, and the first seat on the left was occupied by a young man of about twenty-six or twenty-seven years old. His eyebrows were gentle, and his eyes were affectionate. The nameplate on his chest clearly indicated his position: Deputy Minister of Mecha I Department, Ye Zhen.

Although his 2S-grade mental power and physical ability weren’t outstanding among this group, his most powerful weapon was his brain. He was admitted to the military a few years ago and was frantically fought over by three commanders, who almost started cursing at each other at the table. But in the end, he was “invited” to the Mecha I Department by Minister Lin Chen. To this day, the commanders can’t help but sigh when they see him.

This Deputy Minister Ye closed the entertainment forum and smiled: “Although the entire undercover plan had some deviations in the process, the result is still quite good.”

The other eight people present, including Liang Huan, fell silent.

Ye Zhen said helplessly: “It’s just a divorce. When we take over the military and take over the Population Matching Center, we’ll just clean up the blacklist. The boss’s remarriage is just around the corner.”

Liang Huan finally looked up from the chip files: “Let’s talk business.”

Ye Zhen understood and stopped joking, becoming serious: “Commander Huan’s high mental power organ dysfunction is now very serious. The medical department is still helpless. Qi Mingjing and Wei Luotong are fighting fiercely for the position of deputy commander. Whoever can become deputy commander will definitely be the next commander of the Eastern District base. Yi Yuan and the Administrative Court Headquarters behind him are their key targets for wooing. At this time, whoever takes the Administrative Court Headquarters will be able to seize the initiative.”

He cleared his throat: “But our Minister Lin took a risk and took over the Eastern Third District in just a few months, gained control of the Black Market and the Mercenary Base, and successfully infiltrated the Administrative Court system. At the same time, he used Dawn Laboratory’s investment to connect with the Administrative Courts of Eastern Sixth District and Eastern Seventh District… In general, I have a lot of confidence in Ms. Ling Xuan. The cooperation between the three parties is expected to happen.”

Sitting next to him was a middle-aged man in his fifties. He had broad shoulders, deep-set eyebrows, and a gray-white goatee on his face, making him look shrewd and powerful. This person was Zhao Zhiren, the chief instructor of Mecha I Department. Hearing this, he continued: “Deputy Minister Ye is right. To remove Wei Luotong, the first step is to break up his alliance with Yi Yuan. But I still stand by my previous view. We should still try to cooperate with Qi Mingjing as much as possible and make certain concessions when necessary.”

Ye Zhen frowned.

“Old Zhao, I think you’re still too conservative.” A young man in his thirties with curly hair and blue eyes raised his hand and spun a pen. “Now the Mecha I Department is completely in our hands. Nearly half of the entire military’s high-lethality weapons are in I Department, and the boss has been in the training ground for these few years, and his prestige and popularity are no less than Dawn Star’s. There’s no need to cooperate with those old geezers at this time. If you ask me, let’s not wait, let’s just rebel.”

Xiao Heng looked directly at Liang Huan: “Boss, as long as you nod, I’ll immediately twist off that old brat Wei Luotong’s head for you.”

Zhao Zhiren said in a deep voice: “That’s easier said than done. Killing Wei Luotong now is unjustified. How are you going to explain it to the brothers in the military? How are you going to explain it to the public? If you act directly now, Qi Mingjing will dare to send troops to suppress I Department. He’s worried about not being able to find Minister Lin’s weaknesses.”

Xiao Heng slammed the pen on the table: “After all this discussion, isn’t it just about finding an excuse? I think Wei Luotong is a high-level heteromorph spy.”

Zhao Zhiren: “…”

Sitting next to Mao Ming, Shen Fangxing and Du Han exchanged glances and turned their heads away, laughing in unison, and were glared at by Xu Jiong, whose face was expressionless.

Ye Zhen stroked his chin: “Well, that’s not impossible.”

“Ahem.” Mao Ming lowered his head and cleared his throat.

A group of people turned their heads to look at Liang Huan in unison, their eyes full of eagerness to stir up trouble. Obviously, as long as Liang Huan opened his mouth and said that Wei Luotong was a heteromorph, they would beat him hard and squeeze out the high-level heteromorph brain of Commander Wei.

“Although Chuan Wu was saved, he’s in a coma. The possibility of waking up is slim.” Liang Huan flipped through the meeting materials in his hand, “Wei Luotong now controls the entire Eastern District base’s protective shield hub. Moving him now is too hasty.”

Ye Zhen said: “The protective hub is a joint project between the military and the Dawn Group. Whether it’s Qi Mingjing and Wei Luotong, or Deputy Commander Yi Yuan, they all have close ties with the Dawn Group. It’s one move affects the whole body. We really can’t act rashly, brothers.”

“The current focus is still on the Dawn Laboratory. We need to take over the laboratory before anyone else. In addition, the Eastern Third District Administrative Court needs to cooperate with Eastern Sixth and Seventh Districts.” Xu Jiong said, “As soon as Dawn Star comes back to the military, Yi Yuan will definitely be in a state of chaos. In this way, the alliance between Wei Luotong and Yi Yuan will collapse without being attacked. If we can get the Dawn Project’s black box first, we can occupy an absolute advantage…”

Liang Huan lowered his eyes and looked at the real-time monitoring on his personal light screen. Li Yao seemed to be still sleeping.

A trace of doubt arose in his heart. Li Yao would only sleep for thirteen hours at most, but it had already been fifteen hours.

Mao Ming was organizing the meeting minutes when his chip suddenly vibrated. He turned his head to look at the unperturbed boss next to him and clicked on the private message that the other party had suddenly sent.

“[Check if anyone is applying to visit Li Yao.]”

Mao Ming dutifully opened the dual light screen at the meeting, imitating his superior and using it for two purposes at once.

…

Nineteenth floor of the military.

Li Yao sat on the sofa in the reception room, picked up the coffee in front of him, looked at it twice, and put it back down.

“Doesn’t suit your taste?” The middle-aged man sitting opposite him smiled, “I remember when you were in the military, you loved this flavor of military coffee the most. Heng Bai heard about it and specially went to buy their company.”

Li Yao smiled: “The damage to my mental power is too severe. I get mental confusion as soon as I drink it, so I’ve quit.”

Although Yi Yuan was already in his fifties, he didn’t look his age at all. His face was very smooth, his figure was slender, there were some fine lines at the corners of his eyes, and he looked very kind when he smiled, but his too-thin upper lip sometimes made him look cold and arrogant, with an arrogance that was difficult to hide after living in a high position for a long time.

He looked at Li Yao like he was looking at a rebellious junior in his family, with some helplessness: “You should have come back to receive treatment properly. Even if you don’t trust the military, the best treatment team on the planet is in the Yi family—”

“Deputy Commander Yi, do you have something to say?” Li Yao interrupted him, his tone a bit impatient.

No one in the entire military dared to talk to Yi Yuan like this, but Yi Yuan didn’t take it to heart, as if he was used to his disobedience: “This time, I’m visiting you in the name of family, not as the Deputy Commander of the military. Heng Chen, I’ve been very worried about you these years.”

Li Yao said stiffly: “Leave if you’ve finished looking.”

“Chuan Wu didn’t die, he was saved by Lin Chen, but his brain was severely damaged. He’s in a vegetative state now.” Yi Yuan said, “I want to thank you. Chuan Wu knew too many of our secrets. If he had fallen into the hands of people like Wei Luotong, they would have used him to deal with me.”

“Don’t get me wrong, I killed him purely because he didn’t do human things.” Li Yao crossed his legs and twitched them impatiently.

Yi Yuan was silent for a moment: “He told you everything?”

“Told me what?” Li Yao raised his eyebrows.

Yi Yuan looked at him and said slowly: “The fact that all one hundred and twenty members of the vanguard team had undergone heteromorph gene modification.”

Li Yao’s gaze suddenly sank, and he looked up at him.

“Heng Chen, the situation back then was far more complicated than you imagined. The joint fleets of the four major districts had intertwined forces, and the Eastern District base was leading the project, allowing for no errors.” Yi Yuan said earnestly, “Half of the military opposed the heteromorph gene modification, and half were waiting to see. But time waits for no one. Not everyone is like you with a 3S+ level. The pollution sources left by heteromorphs in space could take their lives at any time. If the vanguard team hadn’t accepted gene modification back then, they wouldn’t even have been able to leave this star system.”

“Don’t make it sound so high-sounding!” Li Yao interrupted him sternly, “I said that I alone could lead them to open up a path!”

“But you’re just one person!” Yi Yuan’s tone was urgent, “If something happened to you, who would be next? Who could take your place? Behind them is a joint fleet of one hundred thousand people. The entire human race is watching the progress of the Dawn Project. Can you take responsibility?!”

“Who said I can’t take responsibility!” Li Yao slammed the table and stood up, “Isn’t all of this just to put their lives on the line!”

The coffee on the table shook violently.

Yi Yuan took a deep breath to calm his emotions: “This was the joint decision of several commanders, including Commander Huan and Deputy Commander Chen An agreed.”

“Why did you agree? They were my people, my brothers.” Li Yao stared at him, suppressing his anger, “You don’t know how stupid this approach is. The pollution sources in space were left by heteromorphs. At the time, they didn’t have any mental power disorders. I was wondering why they didn’t have any reactions. They could even accurately identify high-difficulty coordinates—but only a few months later, they all developed symptoms of high mental power organ dysfunction.”

He gritted his teeth, his eyes bloodshot, and said word by word: “I used all the medicine on the spaceship for them, used all the methods I could think of. I sent communications to the military, but you didn’t respond. I asked the joint fleet for help, but the medicine they sent was useless. I requested the vanguard team to return urgently, but you still didn’t respond—”

He almost choked uncontrollably, and said in a hoarse voice: “I watched them turn into monsters and kill each other in front of me. They wanted to attack the joint fleet behind them. At that time, as long as you sent me the experimental gene segment, I could have saved them. I sent tens of thousands of communications to the military, but there was not a single response! Not a single one!! What were you doing at the time?!”

Yi Yuan closed his eyes and said in a low voice: “At that time, the protective shields of the four major districts had simultaneous failures, and all communications were interrupted. The Northern District base was captured by heteromorphs, the Southern and Western Districts experienced zombie outbreaks and invasions, and unknown bands of heteromorph mental power appeared within the Eastern District base’s military. At the time, the signal you sent was highly similar to the heteromorphs, and we couldn’t judge.”

Li Yao slowly shook his head.

Yi Yuan said: “If it was a signal sent by heteromorphs, once received, the final coordinate segment of this star would be blocked, and the way out for humanity would be completely cut off. We couldn’t afford to gamble.”

Li Yao looked down at the cup of coffee, turned around and sat back on the sofa.

“You pressed the self-destruct button on the spaceship and personally ended their lives. The military has already found out the truth and will not hold you responsible for anything.” Yi Yuan said calmly, “You don’t have to blame yourself.”

Li Yao’s jaw was tense, and he lowered his head in silence.

“Familiar? These conversations have happened countless times in the First Prison.” Yi Yuan’s voice rang softly in his ear, “But the fact is that the vanguard team did accept gene modification, but the military didn’t receive any communications from the vanguard team. The communication interruption, the Northern District being captured by heteromorphs, the zombie tide in the Southwest Second District, and the final coordinate segment were all things you imagined yourself.”

A buzzing sound filled Li Yao’s brain, and the pain caused cold sweat to break out on his forehead.

Yi Yuan looked at his clenched hands and, seeing that his emotions had calmed down, slowly said: “Li Yao, you have a very serious stress trauma disorder. The vanguard team turning into monsters that you just described is also very likely your own imagination.”

Li Yao’s hands were shaking uncontrollably.

“But we still choose to believe you.” Yi Yuan said, “Your high mental power has suppressed your stress trauma to a certain extent, but this is not a good thing. Your brain has been severely damaged in space, and you can’t guarantee that your memories are accurate.”

He looked at Li Yao, his eyes slightly red: “Maybe this is just your subconscious reaction to protect yourself. Child, as long as you are willing to accept and cooperate with treatment, no matter what, Commander Huan and I will give you an accurate and correct truth.”

“But you must explain clearly why, after you destroyed the vanguard team and returned to the joint fleet, the joint fleet suddenly experienced a chain explosion twenty-four hours later, completely cutting off contact with this planet, and all data mysteriously disappeared.”

Li Yao’s face turned pale, and his mental power began to fluctuate violently. He raised his head and stared at Yi Yuan, the scene of the vanguard team members turning into heteromorphs and the explosion of the joint fleet intertwined in front of him. The pain of the annihilation of the mental source and the communication request wave were intertwined, tearing at his soul. The scalpel in the laboratory and the mechanical arm of the life capsule divided his brain in two. Pain and despair swept through every inch of his nerves like a doomsday hurricane. Chen An’s trembling voice kept echoing in his ear.

‘Take the black box back. Don’t trust anyone. Never hand it over to them…’

‘Go back… Li Yao, you must go back…’

‘As long as you live, humanity still has hope…’

“…These are all fake, just your imagination.” Yi Yuan’s gentle voice rang in his ear, “Heng Chen, you don’t need to fight alone. The entire human race is standing with you. As long as you hand over the black box and the coordinates inside, you will not only clear your name, but you will also be a hero who saves all mankind.”

“You are the Dawn Star. Your existence is hope.”

The drug side effects caused by the severe mental power fluctuations made Li Yao spasm all over his body. He shook his head in confusion, his whole body soaked in sweat: “No… I can’t…”

“What?” Yi Yuan couldn’t hear his voice. He leaned forward slightly and placed his hand gently on his shoulder, his voice gentle: “Good child, tell me, what do you want to say?”

“Black box—” Li Yao’s pupils began to dilate, his voice hoarse and weak, “The black box was hidden by me in…”

Yi Yuan patted his shoulder reassuringly: “Where did you hide it? Tell me.”

Li Yao chuckled, pushed away his arm, picked up the cold coffee on the table, and suddenly turned and slammed it at Yi Yuan’s temple.

Bang, bang, bang.

The door of the conference room was suddenly knocked.

Zhao Zhiren and Xiao Heng, who were arguing, stopped talking in unison. Liang Huan said, “Come in.”

Huo Jie came in and saluted him: “Commander Lin, there’s an emergency situation, something happened on the nineteenth floor.”

At this time, Mao Ming finally found useful information and said in a low voice: “Yi Yuan applied for a relative visit and has been inside… for an hour.”

Liang Huan stood up directly, and a group of people in the conference room looked at each other.

“The meeting will stop here, you guys go and be busy.” Liang Huan closed the document in front of him and strode out of the conference room. Huo Jie and Lang Shao at the door immediately followed him with the Silver Saddle Team.

Xiao Heng scratched his curly hair: “Crap, does the boss really have something going on with Dawn Star?”

Ye Zhen said: “Let’s go take a look and find out.”

When Liang Huan brought people to the nineteenth floor, Li Yao’s door was already under complete lockdown. The door was half-open, and the mental power shielding device inside could be vaguely seen. There were also doctors and officers walking back and forth inside. The Silver Saddle Team’s guards were blocked outside the door by Yi Yuan’s people. Yi Yuan was sitting next to them, and the doctor was treating the wound on his temple.

As soon as he appeared, Yi Yuan’s people instantly looked like they were facing a formidable enemy.

“Deputy Commander Yi, I remember you don’t seem to be on the interrogation list.” Liang Huan walked slowly to him, raised his eyes and glanced inside the door, not seeing Li Yao’s figure.

Yi Yuan raised his hand and wiped away the blood on the bridge of his nose, saying lightly: “I’m just visiting my nephew in the capacity of a family member. Minister Lin is being a bit too broad with his control.”

“Dawn Star was captured by me personally, of course I have to be responsible for his safety.” Liang Huan smiled slightly, “Deputy Commander is in such a hurry to interrogate people, is it because you’re afraid that Chuan Wu said something he shouldn’t have said?”

“Minister Lin, be careful with your words.” Yi Yuan raised his eyelids and looked at him.

Liang Huan raised his hand in a gesture.

Huo Jie and Lang Shao led the Silver Saddle Team and rushed into the door without saying a word. The doctors inside sternly stopped them, but without exception, they were all thrown out with their arms held. An officer was about to draw his gun, but Huo Jie was faster than him, pointing the gun at Yi Yuan’s chief secretary’s head, forcing him to retreat outside the door. Lang Shao shot at the mental power shielding devices, each shot accurately hitting the core chip, and the surrounding mental power interference was instantly cleared.

The Silver Saddle Team directly occupied the door without any scruples. Lang Shao carried a gun and blocked the door, looking like he would kill anyone who came.

“Lin Chen, don’t be too presumptuous!” Yi Yuan’s chief secretary, Qin Chao, said angrily, “Hurry up and tell your people to put down their guns!”

Huo Jie’s gun directly pointed at his forehead, glaring at him and saying sternly: “Speak politely!”

Qin Chao was so angry that he gasped, but he didn’t dare to act rashly.

Yi Yuan said slowly: “Minister Lin, what are you trying to do?”

“I agreed to the joint interrogation because of Commander Huan’s face, but even if you are the deputy commander, you can’t just interrogate my people, no matter what the name.” Liang Huan gave him a cold look, “If you have any objections to me, you can go to Wei Luotong.”

After speaking, he ignored Yi Yuan and walked directly into the room where Li Yao was.

As soon as he entered the door, he felt a strong mental power fluctuation. The reception room had a broken table and a sofa splattered with blood and coffee. The mental power shielding device at the door still had a weak signal. Lang Shao said: “Chief, Li Yao is in the bedroom, we can’t get in.”

“You all get out.” Liang Huan said coldly, “Anyone who dares to force their way in will be killed without exception.”

“Yes!” Lang Shao called people to quickly clean up the scene and retreated.

Liang Huan walked to the door of the smallest bedroom, attached the unlocking chip, and opened the door very smoothly.

The room was empty, and the sound of water came from the bathroom. Liang Huan paused slightly, feeling a bit familiar. He walked to the bathroom door and knocked politely: “Li Yao?”

There was no response.

He pushed open the door without hesitation and saw a bathtub full of blood. His pupils contracted, and he rushed up and grabbed the person in the water.

Splash—

Li Yao was gasping for breath against the bathtub, icy cold blood flowing down his hair, making him blink unnaturally and cough a few times.

Liang Huan frowned, took out a handkerchief, and wiped the blood off his hands: “Li Yao, is your interrogation experience so rich that you can’t withstand this little test? You’re actually trying to kill yourself.”

Li Yao struggled to curl up one leg and leaned back against the edge of the bathtub, his wet hair hanging down a bit embarrassingly, his face pale, his breathing obviously becoming rapid, and his whole body was shaking, his muscles spasming unnaturally.

Liang Huan frowned even deeper: “Are you alright?”

Blood spilled from Li Yao’s mouth and flowed into his neck.

Liang Huan’s gaze narrowed, and he reached out and tentatively touched Li Yao’s cheek. When the other party didn’t resist in any way, he knelt down and reached out to take Li Yao’s pulse. The chaotic pulse was like that of a dying person.

But it was also somewhat inexplicably familiar. Li Yao’s current embarrassed appearance overlapped with the scenes in his memory, but his pulse was far less strong than it was back then. He directly sealed the pressure points around Li Yao’s heart meridian and gave the other party some internal energy. After hesitating for half a second, he made a mental connection with the other party.

Unexpectedly, he didn’t encounter any attacks.

He suppressed the strangeness in his heart, released a soothing mental power, gently comforting Li Yao’s restless mental source, and then directly picked up the person horizontally.

The blood soaked through the black military uniform. Li Yao frowned, rested his head on his shoulder, and raised his hand to grab his collar.

Liang Huan paused, looked down at him, his eyes full of vigilance.

“…Liang Huan.” His hoarse voice carried a hint of imperceptible choking. He tightly clenched Liang Huan’s collar, a drop of blood from his palm fell on the floor with a drip. His whole body was shaking, his pupils dilated, and his consciousness was unclear, but he was still repeating this name, “Liang Huan… don’t look.”

The last two words were like a heavy hammer, causing Liang Huan’s mind to buzz, and the heart in his chest thumped heavily.

He lowered his eyes, carefully and seriously looking at Li Yao’s embarrassing appearance, followed the strength of the other party’s hand and lowered his head, his nose touching Li Yao’s cold, wet hair.

“Why don’t you let me look?” He moved slowly, smelling the bloody smell in Li Yao’s hair, and asked softly, “Do you find it embarrassing?”

Li Yao closed his eyes, his eyebrows furrowed tightly, refusing to answer.

Military boots left a string of wet blood footprints on the floor.

Liang Huan carried him to the bedside, placed him in the soft, clean bedding, but Li Yao was reluctant to let go, so he could only lower his head slightly and kneel half-kneeling by the bed, holding Li Yao’s cold hand.

And the little black dragon on his wrist.

He stared at the scar on Li Yao’s nose and said in a low voice: “Li Yao, let go of me.”

Li Yao didn’t let go.

“Let go, I won’t leave.” He pressed down the corners of his mouth, coaxing in a gentle voice, the strength in his hand gradually increasing, forcibly breaking open Li Yao’s hand that was clutching his collar.

“Good boy.” He touched Li Yao’s hair as a reward, and then, with a handkerchief, slowly and carefully wiped Li Yao’s hand clean.

There was a deep, bone-deep wound in Li Yao’s palm. Liang Huan thought of the wound on Yi Yuan’s head just now, his eyes darkened, and the displeasure in his eyes was even greater.

…

When Li Yao regained consciousness, he saw Liang Huan sitting on a chair by the bed, looking at a document.

He was in a daze for a moment, then suddenly sat up from the bed, the quilt covering his body slipped off, revealing his body without any cover.

“Fck!” He grabbed the quilt and barely covered the important parts.

Liang Huan’s gaze remained on the document, his voice cold: “Yi Yuan illegally used a mental power interference device, with a shielding device shell outside. You fell into a period of explosive mental power disorder, and because you often overdosed on mental power enhancers in the past, it triggered the side effects left by drug accumulation.”

He raised his head, meeting Li Yao’s wary gaze: “You tried to drown yourself in the bathtub, and your clothes were all wet. I helped you take them off. I think you shouldn’t mind.”

Li Yao’s right hand was still wrapped in a treatment device. He sneered: “No need to take credit, if it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t have been interrogated and suffered this damn crime.”

Liang Huan: “…”

Li Yao sat cross-legged on the bed, unceremoniously shooing people away: “What are you doing here, do you want to interrogate me too?”

Liang Huan closed the document: “I have already applied to Commander Huan for a prohibition on visitation order. Before the official interrogation, no one will bother you again. This incident was an accident, I hope you will forgive me.”

Li Yao waved his hand with a look of irritability, signaling him to get out quickly.

Liang Huan said: “There are still five minutes to complete the treatment. This treatment device is my personal item. I need to take it away.”

“…” Li Yao looked at the treatment device on his hand with a troubled expression, and flung it twice carelessly.

Liang Huan said calmly: “At least this can let you thank me?”

Li Yao tapped the shell of the expensive treatment device with his other hand: “Convert it into compensation for my mental damage. I will reserve the right to sue you and Yi Yuan, Commander Lin Chen.”

Liang Huan said: “For your sake, I had to interrupt an important meeting.”

Li Yao raised his eyebrows: “What do you mean, I have to thank you today?”

Liang Huan smiled slightly: “I just hope that Commander Li can appreciate my favor. After all, I saved your life. Please cooperate more in the subsequent interrogation.”

He got up, unfastened the treatment device on Li Yao’s hand, nodded politely and distantly to the person, and then walked towards the door with the treatment device and the document.

“There’s something I want to remind you. The current mental power interference device in the military is strong enough to cause hallucinations. Don’t trust what Yi Yuan said too much.” Liang Huan suddenly stopped when he opened the door, turned his head to look at Li Yao, “Oh, by the way, all the surveillance in the room has been turned off. It will be turned on again when you get better.”

The door was gently closed.

Li Yao tsked, and his tense mental power relaxed instantly. He lay back on the bed, habitually crossed his legs, pillowed his arms, and thought about what Liang Huan had just said. In the next second, the door was pushed open unexpectedly.

He met the eyes of Liang Huan, who had returned, and then grabbed the quilt with a straight face, slowly covering his brother who was airing out.

Liang Huan walked in without changing his expression, picked up the shirt hanging on the bedside, and the blood color on the collar flashed past. He said calmly: “I’m back to get my clothes.”

Li Yao nodded calmly: “Take them.”

Liang Huan draped the shirt on his arm and turned to leave.

The moment the door closed, Li Yao immediately jumped up, cursing and grabbing his pants to put on. After fastening his belt, the more he thought about it, the angrier he became, and he kicked the end of the bed, the bed frame was kicked to one side, and a glimmer of light flashed through the gap at the bottom of the bed.

He looked at it suspiciously, pulled the bed back, and touched something small and took it out.

It was a thin, long silver needle, the style of which he was very familiar with – Liang Huan used this thing for acupuncture for him before. Basically no one in the New Era would, and he was very sure that since he moved into this room, no one had entered except Lin Chen.

He twisted the silver needle in his hand and slowly narrowed his eyes.