Chapter 117 The Living Yama of the Archives? He'll Toughen Anyone Who Disobeys!
"During this mission, I was hit by shrapnel and fell in the jungle, bleeding almost to death. I thought I was going to die, but Commander Gu found me."
“He carried me for more than ten miles along the mountain road. I fainted several times on the way, and each time he woke me up and made sure I didn’t fall asleep again.”
"Later, my consciousness became increasingly blurred, and I felt that I couldn't hold on any longer. Commander Gu took off his own amulet and put it in my hand."
The young soldier's voice was already breaking into sobs.
"He told me that his wife had personally prayed for it for him, and that it would ensure his safety. He said that his wife was the most powerful person in the world, and if she said it could ensure safety, then it definitely could!"
"The regimental commander said that he had shared his greatest blessing with me, and that I must hold on until I returned to the military region, then his wife would have a way to save me!"
"Dr. Su... I survived until the very end thanks to those words, thanks to that protective charm..."
His words moved everyone present.
Dean Wang's eyes were red, and he kept wiping them with the back of his hand.
So there's a story behind this!
The way everyone looked at Su Yue completely changed.
If before they were in awe of Su Yue's medical skills, now they have heartfelt respect for her.
What an outstanding woman she is!
Not only is she a skilled doctor, but she also has such a wise and righteous husband.
At the critical moment of life and death, Commander Gu gave his soldiers the peace charm that his wife had given him. What trust and affection this shows!
And Su Yue truly lived up to that trust, snatching the person back from the jaws of death!
In an instant, the image of Gu Beichen and Su Yue as a couple was elevated to an almost legendary level in the eyes of the public.
Su Yue's heart was also struck hard by these words.
Looking at the amulet that the young soldier treasured, her nose tingled and her eyes welled up with tears.
Gu Beichen...
That idiot.
He gave the amulet she gave him to someone else.
But what about him?
How did he survive amidst the hail of bullets?
Su Yue forcibly suppressed the turmoil in her heart, personally helped the young soldier up, and carefully checked him over again. Only after confirming that he was unharmed did she let Dean Wang and the others take him back to his ward.
The office was finally quiet again.
Su Yue sat in the chair, not moving for a long time.
The young soldier's words about being a "second parent" and about the amulet still echoed in her ears.
The thread between her and Gu Beichen seemed to have been twisted even tighter and more tightly because of this incident, making it impossible to separate them anymore.
After a long while, she slowly exhaled and prepared to get up to wash her face and calm herself down.
But just as she stood up and her gaze inadvertently swept across the ground, her eyes suddenly stopped.
Right next to the leg of the chair where the young soldier had just sat, a small, crumpled piece of paper lay quietly.
It appeared to be a small piece of wrapping paper torn from a cigarette pack, still carrying a faint tobacco smell.
Su Yue's heart stirred, and she bent down to pick it up.
She carefully unfolded and smoothed out the crumpled piece of paper on the table.
When she saw what was above, her pupils suddenly contracted!
There were no words on the piece of paper.
There was only a crooked, simple line drawing made with a pencil stub.
The painting depicts an eagle.
No, more accurately, it was an eagle's claw.
The eagle's claws were strong and powerful, firmly pressing down on something.
It was a blurry Arabic numeral.
——7.
Su Yue's breathing almost stopped at that moment.
She suddenly pulled out the piece of paper with "Lone Eagle" written on it from her pocket, along with the white paper with "1947.10.23" printed on it, and placed the three items side by side.
A lone eagle.
date.
The eagle's claws are stepping on the number "7".
All of this is definitely not a coincidence!
That young soldier, he must know something else!
Or perhaps, he carries some crucial information that she is unaware of!
Did he drop this pattern unconsciously, or... did he leave it intentionally?
One question after another, like boiling water, churned in Su Yue's mind.
She felt as if she had grasped a thread, and with a pull, a huge secret buried for more than 20 years would be pulled out of the abyss of darkness, little by little, to the surface!
Su Yue looked at the three items on the table, her eyes becoming sharper than ever before.
It seems she needs to go and have a "good" chat with that Comrade Zhang again.
Dean Wang's specially approved warrant was Su Yue's strongest pass.
Clutching the thin yet weighty piece of paper, she stepped into the military region's most crucial and confidential archives room for the first time.
A heavy smell, a mixture of old paper, mothballs, and dust, wafted over, and countless tiny dust particles floated in the air, swirling and dancing in the beams of light streaming in from the high windows.
It's so quiet here that you can hear your own heartbeat.
Rows of towering metal cabinets stand like silent giants, guarding countless faded secrets.
Su Yue's heart was racing uncontrollably.
She knew that the truth about her father, "Lone Eagle," and the past that had been sealed away for more than twenty years, were hidden in these cold iron cabinets.
We are only one step away from the truth.
"Cough cough!"
An aged and deliberate cough broke the silence of the room.
In the deepest corner of the archives, behind an old pear wood desk, a thin, gray-haired old man was slowly cleaning a purple clay teapot with a small brush.
He didn't even glance at Su Yue, as if she were just a speck of dust that had intruded into his territory.
This is the old man Zhou, the eccentric and stubborn archivist that Dean Wang mentioned.
A "living fossil" who has been guarding the archives here for decades, with more seniority than the commander.
Su Yue composed herself, stepped forward, and respectfully placed the approval slip in her hand on the table.
"Hello, Mr. Zhou, I am Su Yue. I am here on the orders of Dean Wang to review a file from more than 20 years ago."
Old Zhou finally stopped what he was doing.
He slowly raised his eyelids, his cloudy eyes scrutinizing Su Yue behind his reading glasses, his gaze filled with scrutiny and impatience.
He picked up the approval slip, brought it close to his eyes, almost pressed it against his glasses, and read it word by word.
"snort."
A cold snort came from his nose.
"A note from Dean Wang? That's quite a high-ranking official."
He threw the approval slip on the table, his tone full of sarcasm.
"But the rules in this archives are bigger than the sky! Not just anyone can see whatever they want."
Su Yue frowned slightly, but still maintained a polite smile: "Uncle Zhou, the files I need to check are of great importance, please do me the favor."
"Would you mind if I made a request?"
Old Zhou chuckled and pointed to the outermost row of filing cabinets.
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