Chapter 879 Chapter 881 Zhuang Shanhai
Cui Lie is a rare high-end combat force, and the Thunder Vanguard Battalion he leads is even more crucial. How could Zhu Tianliang agree to his retirement and leave?
At the beginning, he mainly used persuasion, appealing to Cui Lie's emotions and reasoning with them. After knowing Cui Lie's heart knot, he even went out of his way to help the Tianhe Mercenary Group resolve several troubles.
However, Cui Lie remained unmoved and was still determined to quit the army. This made Zhu Tianliang very angry, so he secretly detained him for disobeying military orders. He thought that Cui Lie had concerns and would compromise soon!
However, they happened to encounter a spiritual energy riot, an alien world invasion, the barriers of various secret places disappeared, and crises occurred frequently. Without Cui Lie, the soul figure, the morale of the Thunder Vanguard Battalion was low, and they no longer had the previous momentum to carry out their missions. After failing in several important operations, the Fourth Legion suffered heavy losses.
Cui Lie had not yet compromised, but the officers of the Fourth Army could no longer stand it.
Seeing this, Zhu Tianliang had to release Cui Lie and promised to give him freedom as long as Cui Lie helped the Fourth Legion to overcome this crisis, as he repaid the army for training him for so many years.
Half a year later, the situation stabilized, and Zhu Tianliang kept his promise and agreed to sign the retirement application. However, he made one last request. Cui Lie had performed many tasks with higher security levels involving confidential information. Zhu Tianliang asked him to erase the relevant memories to avoid leaks.
Cui Lie is a high-level cultivator with a powerful soul. If the hypnotist wants to tamper with his memory, not only does he need dozens of people to work together with the help of high-tech products, but he also needs Cui Lie himself to cooperate and release the soul barrier.
Cui Lie thought this request was reasonable at the time and agreed. However, in the process of erasing his memory, Cui Lie discovered that the real purpose of those people was to erase the memories of him and Sister Rong from the beginning of the apocalypse to before going to Beijing.
In the past six months, Cui Lie has experienced countless battles and used the beast soul armor too much. His soul is relatively weak at this time. Therefore, even if he discovered the intentions of those people, he was powerless to fight back. He had to seal his own consciousness and remain ignorant from then on. This is better than having his memory usurped and becoming a weapon controlled by others.
"General Rong, Major General Cui is an active-duty officer of our Fourth Army. He..." Wu Jun, the chief of staff of the 412th Regiment, had just started to speak when he felt a gust of cold wind blowing. Then, the corners of his mouth felt cold, and something cold and hard was stuffed into his mouth, blocking what he wanted to say.
"Hmm..." Wu Jun was filled with grief and anger. He looked at Captain Hua behind him and gestured to start a war. At the same time, Rong Xianxian also looked over.
Hua Xiaotian was staring at the communicator in his hand, but there was no response from the communicator yet. Noticing Rong Xianxian's gaze, Hua Xiaotian forced a smile and said, "General Rong, Major General Cui is in there. He is recuperating here because of excessive use of the beast soul armor, which has damaged his soul. Commander Zhu has issued a strict order that no one is allowed to disturb him."
Except for a very few people, no one knew the inside story of Cui Lie's self-sealing of his spiritual consciousness. Hua Xiaotian's words at this time were the truth he knew, so his expression was frank, his tone was sincere, and there was no trace of evasion in his eyes.
Hua Xiaotian thought that his attitude was very sincere, but the answer he got was a black wall of fire. Wherever the black wall of fire burned, heat waves rolled, spiritual energy was cut off, and the raging flames continued to spread. Sensing the danger, the garrison unconsciously split to both sides, and his whole body was stiff, being pinched in Ning Qingyun's hand.
Since it was confirmed that Cui Lie was inside, Rong Xianxian didn't want to waste any more words and said to Hua Xiaotian, "Lead the way."
Hua Xiaotian turned his head away angrily to show his resistance.
"Ah!" Wu Jun screamed and was burned into a fireman by the black flames.
"If you hesitate for a moment, someone else will be in trouble!" Rong Xianxian looked at Ning Qingyun, who was setting people on fire without saying a word, and knew that he might not be in a good mood.
Hua Xiaotian was afraid that another one of his men would die, so he staggered forward.
With Hua Xiaotian leading the way, after more than twenty minutes, the few people passed through the military camp, went deep underground, and came to a building that was converted from a sulfur mine cave. It was deep and quiet here, and all the light came from the oil lamps dotted on the walls.
As soon as Rong Xianxian and others arrived at a stone chamber, they were stopped by someone, "Stop, Hua Xiaotian, I said, you are not welcome here."
A tall man in black emerged from the darkness and stopped Rong Xianxian and others. At the same time, dark shadows lurked around the stone chamber, filled with murderous intent.
"Brother Zhuang, it's not me who came here. It's General Rong who wants to see Major General Cui." Hua Xiaotian turned sideways, and Rong Xianxian's bright face came into Zhuang Shanhai's eyes.
Zhuang Shanhai's mouth trembled slightly, "You really are..."
"Sister Rong, you're finally back! I knew nothing would happen to you!" Chen Lishu walked out of the darkness with a trembling voice. He wanted to get closer to Rong Xianxian in a somewhat inappropriate manner, but was stopped by Ning Qingyun with a long sword.
"Greetings, Captain Ning!" Chen Lishu took a half step back, clasped his fists, bowed his head, and saluted Ning Qingyun.
Rong Xianxian glanced at Chen Lishu. After not seeing him for five years, the young man who used to have a reckless and unruly personality seemed to have become much more stable.
"Have you seen him?"
"Yes, Sister Rong." Shen Lishu's eyes turned red and he couldn't help choking up.
"Take me to see him!" Rong Xianxian frowned.
“Brother Zhuang…” Shen Lishu looked at Zhuang Shanhai.
Zhuang Shanhai raised his hand and pressed lightly. A crackling sound came from one side of the stone chamber, and soon a small door appeared.
"Qingyun, you watch them, I'll go in and take a look!" Rong Xianxian didn't trust either Zhuang Shanhai or Hua Xiaotian. However, as long as Ning Qingyun was watching, she was not afraid that they would have any bad intentions.
"Okay!" Ning Qingyun nodded.
"Brother Zhuang, do you think General Rong can wake up the boss?"
"Of course he can! The boss has long said that if he gets into an accident, only General Rong can save him!" Zhuang Shanhai said firmly, but his heart was in turmoil.
"Only when the boss wakes up can we know what happened at that time?"
Most people in the Thunder Vanguard Battalion were skeptical about the official statement that Cui Lie fell into a coma due to damage to his soul.
The area of this stone chamber is only a few dozen square meters. The stone chamber is smooth and flat from the ground to the walls, without any bulges. There is a man lying on the stone bed next to the north stone wall. He is wearing military uniform, with his eyes closed and no sound. It is Cui Lie.
Rong Xianxian stretched out her hand and held Cui Lie's pulse. After a moment, she said to Chen Lishu, "Stay here."
Rong Xianxian brought Cui Lie into the foggy space and checked his pulse. Cui Lie was in good physical condition, his breathing was steady, his pulse was unobstructed, and there was no stagnation.
It seems that there is something wrong with the soul.
She separated a wisp of her soul and carefully probed into Cui Lie's sea of consciousness, only to find that his sea of consciousness barrier was not affected at all.
(End of this chapter)
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