"If that hadn't happened, he would have had a bright future."
A hint of regret suddenly appeared on Old Hu's face. He also focused his mind, knowing that the important part was finally about to begin.
"Yu Shousi came to Jingcheng a while ago. Did he look for you?" Old Hu suddenly asked.
"Yes, you know him?" Shen Qian nodded.
"Of course, Xiao Yu was also a student of military academy, but he graduated more than 20 years ago. We are also familiar with each other."
Old Hu sighed, "Since he has approached you, you must know that the military provides a benefit to top students, which is to grant them military rank and a real position."
He nodded and said, "He had promised me the position of centurion in the elite troops."
"Jiang Chengye... is the same."
Old Hu said, "Not long after he joined the military, he was promoted to centurion because of his outstanding performance. This was both a benefit and a test for top students."
"Once you have a military rank, you need to regularly go to the army to perform your duties. As a world-renowned strong army, Jiangzhong Army has a lot of responsibilities, and you will spend most of your time on missions outside the army..."
"Those battle experiences did indeed help Jiang Chengye grow faster. He became increasingly dazzling, and everyone thought he would continue like this, until..."
Old Hu's face showed even more regret, and tears involuntarily streamed down his face.
"It's all my fault. I shouldn't have agreed to his request. I shouldn't have agreed to his request..."
After a while, once Old Hu had calmed down a bit, he couldn't contain his curiosity and leaned forward to ask, "What happened?"
Old Hu said in a daze, "It just so happened that it was the end of the semester. Jiang Chengye went on an expedition with the army and wiped out a scavenger stronghold, no, to be precise, a town... an extremely rare scavenger town."
"Jiang Chengye was gone for three days, and finally returned at dusk on the fourth day."
"That day, snow was falling heavily."
"I pushed open the apartment door, and Jiang Chengye was kneeling in front of me, covered in blood and ice, his eyes filled with a look of bewilderment I had never seen before. But in the end, he pressed his head to the ground and remained silent for a long time..."
“I treated him like my own son, and he regarded me as his teacher and father. I understand him. He must have something he wanted from me, but he knew I couldn’t possibly agree to it.”
Shen Qian recalled the regretful look on Old Hu's face earlier and immediately realized that Old Hu must have agreed to something he shouldn't have.
Sure enough, Old Hu said with a somber tone, "I finally agreed. After he knelt in the snow for half the night, I agreed to let him bring that woman... no, that monster into the school!"
"Woman? Monster?"
Shen Qian was taken aback, then a bold and unbelievable guess surfaced in his mind, "...a scavenger?"
"Looks like you guessed it." Old Hu's smile was more like a grimace. "Indeed, if it weren't for that, why wouldn't I have agreed?"
"That woman... also looked like a scavenger?"
Shen Qian asked curiously.
The scavengers he had seen had their faces covered with bluish-purple patches and their features were slightly distorted due to radiation mutations from the restricted area, which did not conform to basic human aesthetics, hence his question.
If that woman is like that too, then this Senior Jiang... has really too much of a taste.
"Well, how should I put it? Although I loathe her bloodline and identity, I have to say that the woman, whose age I'm not even sure of, is quite different from ordinary scavengers. Although her appearance has also changed, she has a kind of... eerie beauty."
After considering it for a moment, Old Hu described it this way.
Shen Qian breathed a slight sigh of relief, but then frowned again. "Just because of her beauty, Senior Jiang took her back to school without permission, disregarding military discipline and school rules. Isn't that too superficial?"
If that's his mindset, Shen Qian doesn't quite believe he can reach that level.
Lust may be a common flaw among men, and I myself am no exception, but when it comes to matters of principle, one should not act in this way.
"Cheng Ye said that woman saved his life, and if it weren't for her, Cheng Ye wouldn't have been able to come back."
"That woman has lost all her relatives and has nowhere to go. If we don't take her in, she won't survive a day in the forbidden zone..."
Old Hu sighed, "That's the real reason I agreed to his request."
He murmured with relief, "And then?"
“I used my position to help Cheng Ye place that woman in the most secluded place on campus, and made an agreement with Cheng Ye that he would send her away within a month at most.”
"A month passed in the blink of an eye, and that woman indeed disappeared."
"I thought Chengye had kept his promise, so I was relieved. Who knew that a student would go missing so soon, and the location of the incident, according to the clues, was near the woman's original hiding place..."
“I sensed something was wrong and confronted Cheng Ye, but he refused to admit it. At that time, I already realized that Cheng Ye had changed, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on what had changed.”
"More and more students were getting into trouble, and the school's higher-ups formed an investigation team, but they couldn't find anything. I only found out later that the students in Jingcheng had all helped Jiang Chengye cover it up, which is why he was able to keep getting away with it..."
"Why not seek out a king or noble?" Shen Qian couldn't help but interject. "A king or noble can see through everything. If you ask a king or noble to take action, no mysterious event can be concealed, right?"
There is a basis for Shen Qian's statement. Take the big boss Gao as an example. When he sat on the top of the Tower of Babel, the entire city was under his sight, with nowhere to hide.
For ordinary incidents, the Marquis of Jingcheng would not intervene.
There might be some reason behind this, but Shen Qian didn't know it.
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