Seemingly unable to bear watching any longer, she turned her head away.
"You haven't tried purification or treatment?" Ye Ran couldn't help but ask.
"We've tried everything, purification and treatment have no effect on Zhang Hedong..." Ye Shaoguo said in a deep voice.
He looked at Ye Ran, his eyes lost in memories:
"Ye Ran, do you know that when the military recruited Zhang Hedong, we gave him a sum of money, and he gave it all to his mother?"
"As a result, when I took Zhang Hedong away, Zhang Hedong's mother insisted on returning the money to the military."
"She said she didn't want money, she just wanted me to take good care of her child..."
As Ye Shaoguo spoke, his voice began to deepen.
“Zhang Hedong’s mother was an ordinary person, and that amount of money was more than she could earn in several lifetimes.”
“She didn’t want it. She didn’t even glance at it. She didn’t want the riches and honors of several lifetimes. All she wanted was for her son to be safe and sound.”
Ye Shaoguo looked at Ye Ran, his voice low and deep:
"Ye Ran, I am not a merciful person. As a general, I can accept that my soldiers, including myself, die on the battlefield."
"But I can't accept that my warriors, my men, died in confinement without any explanation..."
"I can't accept my soldiers lying on the ground like animals, begging me to kill them when they're lucid!!!"
Ye Shaoguo's aura was tinged with anger and sorrow.
Ye Ran remained silent for a moment.
Then, he raised his head.
He said to Ye Shaoguo:
"General Ye, could you please open the barrier? I'd like to go see Zhang Hedong."
Upon hearing this,
Ye Shaoguo paused for a moment, then asked again as if he hadn't heard clearly:
"What did you say??"
Ye Ran's firm reply:
"General Ye, please open the barrier. I would like to get up close to Zhang Hedong."
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