Two days later, Huai Shi was discharged from the hospital after the observation.
The doctors in the hospital lined up to applaud and send him off warmly. The atmosphere was extremely strange. It was as if they were celebrating the release of a prisoner from prison and hoped that he could turn over a new leaf.
However, it was already good enough that he was not sent to the VIP room in the hospital. Huai Shi did not dare to be too particular.
He did not know how he got there, but when he came back, he went straight to the Bifrost.
He went directly from the Wangu Group's chain of border medical treatment to the border reception of the Yingzhou branch of the Central Administration.
Among the bustling crowd, Huai Shi, a young man wearing a cap and carrying a saddle bag, was particularly conspicuous. He looked like a delivery man from yesterday.
While lining up at the front desk of the office, he looked down at the messages on his phone. When it was his turn, he looked up and said to the receptionist, "I have an appointment at one o 'clock this afternoon with Minister Yusheng of your department."
The receptionist's polite smile stiffened. She looked up at the message on the screen, then looked at Huai Shi and confirmed, "Sir, your name?"
"Huai Shi."
Huai Shi showed his ID.
For a moment, the atmosphere changed, but it also seemed that it did not.
It was as if the pause button was accidentally pressed. Soon, the picture began to flow again. The noise was still there, and even the footsteps on both sides were much more hurried.
The clerk did not let Huai Shi wait for too long. After quickly arranging the right of passage for Huai Shi, he returned his ID with both hands.
"The elevator on the left goes straight to the top floor."
"Thank you."
Huai Shi politely said goodbye.
It was not until the elevator door closed that the clerk curiously poked her head out and looked in the direction he left. Her expression was stunned and complicated.
"What's wrong?" The colleague who came back from lunch looked over curiously. "You look like you saw a ghost."
The clerk pointed in the direction he left. "The person you have been talking about these two days just went up."
"Really?"
The colleague could not believe it. She looked with her, but saw nothing.
"Will they quarrel?"
"Who knows?"
The clerk shrugged. "After all, he is Danbo's hero …"
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He didn't put on a show of strength as expected. He didn't even pretend to make Huai Shi wait.
After the elevator on the top floor opened, the secretary brought him to the reception room and served him tea. Not long after, the sound of heavy footsteps could be heard outside the door.
René hurriedly pushed open the door and entered with a thick stack of documents in his hands.
This was the first time he had met René. He did not expect him to be so thin. His eyes were full of shadows, like those of a night owl. It was also René's first time seeing him. He was surprised that he was so young.
Both sides were surprised, but the oppressive and gloomy atmosphere was no different from what they had expected.
Huai Shi didn't get up, and René didn't greet them either.
She just stared at him.
"Look, who is this? It's our hero! "
Huai Shi didn't answer. He just held his teacup.
Slurp.
Expressionless.
René didn't hide his disgust and unhappiness. He sat in the chair opposite Huai Shi, threw the documents in his hand in front of him, and asked directly,
"Yoo Dong-ri is dead?"
"Yes, wasn't the body found at the scene? Or is the report not clear enough? "
Huai Shi asked, "You are so enthusiastic. Are you in a hurry to burn incense on the seventh day of his death? Why don't we do it together? We can also kowtow in front of his grave and swear to be sworn brothers. "
When you kowtow, I will chop off your head with an ax, then kick you into the ditch so that you can share the anniversary of his death.
He thought maliciously.
"Huai Shi, it's too much to expect you to be polite."
René shook his head indifferently. "Is Yoo Dong-ri really dead? It doesn't matter. Since the report has been handed in and the file has been deleted, he is dead.
The decision-making room knows that you are hiding something, but the decision-making room doesn't care anymore. The talent you have shown is enough to redeem the mistakes you have made. Even though you almost made everything go to waste. "
Huai Shi finally raised his eyes. "What do you mean?"
"What you understand," René said, "What you did almost made our work for a year go to waste.
"…"
In the silence, Huai Shi's eyes widened little by little.
"René, what are you talking about?"
"Have you finally realized it? You got yourself involved in the struggle between the Border Party and the Sovereignty Party … "
René sneered. "How do you think an important target like Yoo Dong-ri was able to escape from prison? If it wasn't for the General Administration's indulgence, how could a person who still has the Resonance Physique escape surveillance? "
From the beginning, this was a plan against Green Sun, to interfere with the blockade of the border – Canaan through hybrids.
Yoo Dong-ri's escape from prison was just one part of it. The ultimate goal was to use his death to trigger a struggle between Green Sun and Golden Dawn.
To isolate the hidden danger from the Present Realm.
At the very least, the goal was to prevent the two sides from joining forces in the upcoming War of Worlds to ensure the safety of the Present Realm.
Although under the influence of the Sovereignty Party, there were also variables like Ai Qing and Huai Shi, but in the end, the expected result was still obtained.
The Sovereignty Party obtained the right to speak, but the Border Party also obtained the predetermined goal.
As early as a year ago, René's mission was to ensure the completion of all this.
In the long silence, Huai Shi raised his head stiffly and looked at the man in front of him. "Even if hundreds of thousands of innocent people have to be sacrificed for this?"
"The result is to ensure the safety of hundreds of millions of people and ensure the stability of Yingzhou."
René replied indifferently. "For this, countless people have been sacrificed. Do you think you are the only hero, Huai Shi?
How much do you think we have to pay to maintain this operation?
Not only the Danbo Inner Circle, eight years ago, in order to expel the erosion of the destructive element, Boxun, the entire Manchester was completely purified. Three years ago, the border of Avalon was sacrificed to the last one thousand people. After the collective sacrifice, it sank into hell after the permanent blockade. Two years ago, in Chengdu, the Immemorial sunk, and the elite team of the Dongxia branch sacrificed more than three thousand people. Four years ago, in Florence in Rome, in order to save two hundred survivors, the branch carried out a collective Vivisection.
The Madagascar tragedy, the Hindenburg massacre, the Feuerbach incident … except for a few people, including you, who had some achievements, the others died in obscurity.
If you want to avoid those tragic results, you have to make cruel choices, you have to make sacrifices! "
René asked indifferently, "Huai Shi, why can everyone in the world be sacrificed, but not those hybrids? Is it because they were born noble?! "
"Because sacrifice and consumption are two different things —"
Huai Shi raised his voice, suppressing his anger as he retorted, "They are not lowly, and they are not a threat. They just want to live well! It is already very difficult to just live, but some people who hold justice in their hands still want to push them into the real hell! "
That stubborn look made René completely lose his patience.
He coldly opened the document in front of him, pushed it over, and pointed to the empty space at the bottom.
That was the approval document for the operation of the Danbo Inner Circle campus.
"Sign it, take what I gave you and leave, Huai Shi," he said impatiently. "From now on, don't appear in front of me again."
Huai Shi lowered his head and looked at the document in front of him.
After signing this, from now on, the Danbo Inner Circle would truly be free.
This day had finally come.
But for some reason, he suddenly remembered the happy smile of Sheng Tianmu.
That was the redemption that the old man had been looking forward to all his life. But when this day finally came, he could no longer see it.
For the sake of this mirage-like hope, how many people had struggled in hell?
Sheng Tianmu Cang Jie, Qianye Long Er, and even the future of the Divine City in despair.
The number of people who died for this was uncountable.
Niu Dao, Ms. Rahe, Akasaki …
Now that this moment had finally come, Huai Shi could not feel any joy or joy. Instead, when he thought of those who had died, he could not help but want to cry.
"… These are the treasures of those who sacrificed themselves, René."
Huai Shi whispered softly.
For this, they sacrificed everything, paid everything, waited for a lifetime, and wanted to defend and obtain the treasures.
René did not speak. He just raised his hand coldly and handed over the signature pen.
Huai Shi closed his eyes and sighed silently.
He reached out, grabbed the signature pen, and pulled it out.
It was at that moment that thunder burst forth.
Huai Shi raised his eyes and looked at the man in front of him. A fierce light appeared in his dark eyes, like lightning bursting out of a thundercloud.
The one-step distance was instantly torn apart by the tip of the signature pen, and it sank into René's throat!
In an instant, blood spurted out.
The skin on Huai Shi's arm cracked inch by inch, and cracks burst out of his bones. Under the recoil of René's protection, his fingers were twisted into strange shapes.
"I don't need you to give it to me, René."
He replied softly, "I will take what they left behind myself."
René froze in place. He lowered his head in disbelief and saw the signature pen that pierced through his throat.
His eyes widened.
Almost instantly, a healing radiance descended from the sky and enveloped him. Then, a sharp sound burst forth, lingering in the ears of everyone in the branch at this moment. It was a spreading alarm!
In Huai Shi's hand, the signature pen was slowly pulled out. His twisted and broken fingers clenched tightly, and with a wisp of scarlet, a blood-stained name was left on the paper.
When the door to the reception room was smashed to pieces, the Ascendants who were guarding the room rushed in. What they saw was the contract written with blood.
At the two ends of the long table, there were two people looking at each other indifferently —
Huai Shi calmly placed the signature pen next to the document and raised his head to look down at the opponent in front of him. He was arrogant and cold, as if the person who had just attacked the higher-ups of the Astronomy Association was not him.
Even if René gave the order, he would be thrown into the trench prison and never see the light of day again.
But he did not feel regret.
Instead, he felt relieved and indescribably refreshed.
Finally, he did not need to put on that fake smile to face everything. Perhaps this was the darkness and hostility that truly belonged to him under the vanity of the hero's halo?
Just looking at the person in front of him made him want to chop off his head.
He wanted to kill him.
It was as if he also wanted to kill him.
But in the end, René did not speak. He just raised his gloomy eyes and looked at him coldly. He let the blood in the rapidly shrinking wound on his throat flow out.
He did not let his emotions affect his decisions or complicate matters. He restrained his anger.
Just like any qualified bureaucrat.
Always rational.
He just raised his hand and pointed at the door.
"Get out, Huai Shi," he said. "Don't waste my time."
"Just what I want."
Huai Shi got up, picked up the document on the table, and turned to leave under the stunned gazes of the people around him.
But when he stood in front of the door, he glanced back at the figure behind him. He did not want to say goodbye. He just politely said goodbye. "I hope we never see each other again."
Just like that, he left without looking back.
Leaving behind a mess.
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When he walked out of the elevator again, he saw a familiar figure in the smoking room opposite.
She was also looking at Huai Shi. Her eyes were complicated. After a long time, she shook her head and sighed. "Although not very rational, it is very much your style."
"To be honest, I regret it, but it is too late for my brain to react." Huai Shi shrugged. "He won't report me, will he?"
"… Isn't it a bit too late to panic now?"
Ai Qing glanced at him and could not help but sigh. "If someone comes to you because of this, you can write a resignation letter. Don't worry, the higher-ups will not accept it. At most, they will give you a warning and then suspend your position as the inspector of Xinhai. "
"Then I will suffer a great loss!"
"A fourth-grade military officer will become a second-grade military officer. You should be secretly happy." Ai Qing said, "You are now the actual person in charge of Danbo's inner circle. There should be a new position for you. Even if there is no such thing, the inspector of Xinhai will not let you hold the position anymore. "
"To be honest, I haven't reacted yet." Huai Shi shrugged. "I don't know if I can get used to it."
"You will get used to it eventually," Ai Qing said.
Huai Shi sat on the chair next to her. He touched his pocket and realized that it was empty. He raised his head to ask, "Do you have a cigarette?"
"A lady's."
"That works too."
Ai Qing raised her hand and passed the cigarette box to Huai Shi, but Huai Shi looked at her bloody hand and hesitated for a moment. Ai Qing glanced at him and shook her head. "You can have the whole box. I just opened it. You are lucky."
"I thought you would say take as many as you want. I don't mind …"
Huai Shi took a sniff. "Is it mint-flavored?"
"I bought it from the vending machine," Ai Qing said. "I will give you the lighter as well. I brought it for you in the first place."
The lighter was made from copper. It was not flashy. The simple style suited Huai Shi's preference. It looked sturdy and durable. It was printed with the archeological team's logo. It was specially made by the technical department to provide hellish survival equipment.
Especially since his name was carved on the base.
"Thank you." Huai Shi beamed. He opened and closed the lighter, closed and opened it again. It crackled like a child playing with a toy.
"When are you leaving?" He couldn't help but ask.
"In half an hour," she said. "I'm going to catch the train in a while."
Huai Shi was stunned for a moment. He raised his head and said, "I was thinking of going for a drink together …"
Ai Qing was amused. "Milk tea?"
"You can drink anything else if you want."
"Forget it." Ai Qing shook her head. "Drinking during the day will ruin things. I have to report when I get back."
"I'll send you back."
"No need. It's just a few steps."
Ai Qing slowly got up and turned to say goodbye. However, when she turned around, she saw Huai Shi walking up to her. He suddenly reached out and hugged her gently.
"Thank you," Huai Shi said softly.
After a long time, he heard Ai Qing's laughter and felt the stiff Ai Qing in his arms gradually relax.
"It's okay," she murmured softly.
When Huai Shi let go of his hand, Ai Qing took a step back. She seemed to want to say something, but in the end, she just said calmly, "Take care, Huai Shi."
Through the glass of the smoking room, Huai Shi watched her turn and leave. She gradually walked away in the crowd in the distance.
She didn't look back.
There were several times when Huai Shi wanted to chase after her, but he didn't know what to say.
In the end, he quietly watched her figure disappear.
In the long silence, he sat in the chair and held the lighter in his hand. After a long time, he quietly finished the cigarette she left behind and patted the dust on his pants.
He silently said goodbye to the place where she left.
Huai Shi got up and walked in the direction of the customs.
In front of the checkpoint leading to the Present Land, the bustling crowd was surging. They were watching the timetables of ships and trains on the huge screen. The long line slowly moved forward.
Huai Shi mingled among the passengers and looked around curiously, like a young man who had come to the Present Land for the first time.
But through the customs, he could see a large crowd. In the crowd was the vice principal, Mr. Isaac. He had his head down and was seizing the time to review the thick reports and budgets.
His expression was indifferent as always.
At the front, Shangye held a sign high in his hand. When he grinned, his mouth was full of sharp teeth. He was looking around excitedly, attracting a lot of curious gazes.
But the sign in his hand didn't have a name written on it. The word "Boss" was written crookedly.
God knows who he could meet.
Huai Shi scratched his head, but he couldn't help but laugh.
He didn't know why, but he didn't feel so lonely anymore.
Soon, he finally walked in front of the customs window. He raised his hand and handed his ID to the inspector.
Behind the window, the inspector looked down at his ID, then looked up at him. He nodded and stamped to let him through.
"Welcome to Kyoto, sir," he said. "I wish you all the best."
The process of passing through the checkpoint was almost unbelievably smooth. There were no questions, which made Huai Shi a little surprised. "You didn't even ask for my name?"
The inspector laughed.
"I know you."
The stranger pointed to the newspaper beside him. The smiling face on the headline of Tomorrow's News was so clear.
He said:
"— Your name is' Huai Shi '."
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Event Limited Gold Card.
— No.1 [King of Danbo, Huai Shi (Leader)]
Miracles operate on the earth.
When this card enters the battlefield, the depth of the battlefield -1. All hell creatures would be intimidated by this round of attacks.
Sacrifice: Move all the cards of the same faction from the graveyard back to your hand. If more than 10 cards are moved back to your hand, flip them and obtain the effect 'Future'.
Future: The cost of cards of the same faction and frame cards you cast can be 0.
[— The sun will rise again. I promise, everything will have a bright future.]
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