36. Make a promise by example

When Jian Ling woke up, he found himself lying on a hospital bed.

Yun Yan, who was transcribing the data next to her, saw her wake up, and her eyes showed surprise: "Doctor Jian, how are you feeling now?" ”

"What's wrong with me?" She only remembered that after leaving Xia's house, she felt that her body was very weak, so she found a bench on the side of the road to sit and rest, but she fell asleep unexpectedly, and she couldn't remember anything about what happened next.

"It was a young general who came to the hospital in person, and he had already examined you, and severe anemia and overexertion will make your body faint all of a sudden. But fortunately, it was found in time, and Dr. Duan said that you are no longer in serious trouble, infuse some nutrient solution, and rest for a few days and you will be fine. ”

In fact, the result of Dr. Duan's test was excessive blood loss, but Jian Ling did not have the slightest wound on his body, so this result could only be overturned and covered with the conclusion of anemia.

"Well, thank you."

A few simple words immediately made Yun Yan's eyes light up, as if she had won some kind of award, and she straightened her waist proudly: "Doctor Jian have a good rest, I'll go see other patients." ”

After she left, Jian Ling slowly sat up, picked up the communicator next to her, and found that she had slept all day.

Open the space, raise Barbara, bite your finger and drip blood to it.

Barbara didn't pounce on it to drink blood this time, it shrank back to face the sweet and tempting blood in front of it, and silently lowered its head: "Master, I'm sorry......"

Although it was greedy, it never intended to make its owner sick.

It feels like it has anorexia and doesn't want to eat.

Jian Ling glanced at a certain fat worm and said casually: "If you don't eat it now, don't eat it in the future, and don't come to me if you starve." ”

Woo, what an indifferent master--a certain fat worm raised its head, and tears were about to burst out of its eyes.

Just when Jian Ling was about to wipe out the blood, it suddenly rolled on a lazy donkey, pounced, and drank the blood clean in one gulp-what, the insect feeds on the sky, and it obeys the laws of nature

Jian Ling watched speechlessly as he finished drinking it, and then got into his palm to be coquettish, thinking that Xia should give the Gu medicine to Zhou Bodong at this time, and he didn't know if the Gu medicine was useful or not.

At this moment, some chaotic fragments suddenly flashed through her mind, those images stained with blood and killing, which made her subconsciously tense her body.

- General, they are powerless......

-- Military orders are like mountains, and we have no choice.

-- Heavy artillery fire toppled the building, countless screams rang out one after another, broken limbs were blasted everywhere, blood could no longer contain the killing, and cold mechs walked through it, they were emotionless killing machines.

- Someone was burned, screaming and rushing out of the building, the smell of burnt flesh filling the air and disgusting.

--The mother protected the child under X, trembling and kneeling on the ground begging, and was mercilessly cut in the stomach by the steel knife, and the blood flowed like a river.

-- Life is trampled on, and this is hell on earth.

-- Even if you know that you are wrong, you will not be allowed to retreat from your faith.

-- Their honor is forged from flesh and blood

Noticing that something was wrong with her, Barbara quickly climbed onto her nose and stretched out her little fleshy paws to shake her eyes vigorously: "Master? ”

The picture in her mind disappeared, her eyes widened and she was dazed, and then shook her head vigorously: "I'm fine, but when I think of Major General Zhou, a lot of strange things suddenly pop up in my mind." ”

Barbara blinked her little bean eyes: "The person who eats the Gu medicine will be spiritually connected with the person who has taken the Gu." ”

What are Zhou Bodong's memories just now?

Jian Ling was a little unaware in her heart, she had seen a lot of winds and waves, but she had never been on the battlefield, so she couldn't appreciate the horror of war.

The tragic aura exuded by those sporadic pictures just now undoubtedly shocked her.

Trying to calm herself down, she began to wonder if those memories were the cause of Zhou Bodong's post-war syndrome?

Unable to sit still, she put on her coat and got out of bed, walking through the empty hallway to the outside of the intensive care unit. Through the glass window, she saw You Jian still sleeping inside—her ability could only allow her to save this one person.

On the same day, news came from above, saying that the attack in the base had been investigated and that there would be no similar attack in the future.

As for the murderer who was caught, he didn't say a word. It's like, there is no such person at all.

Xia secretly reported Zhou Bodong's matter to the top of the military department and applied for a closed trial.

Soon, the high-level agreed to his request, and because Zhou Bodong was mentally unstable and inconvenient to go to the middle of the army, they unknowingly sent a judge over and held a temporary private military court on the Red Planet, and secretly made a final verdict on the crime that Zhou Bodong had put down.

In view of Zhou Bodong's past exploits for the empire, coupled with his mental problems, the judge sentenced him to life imprisonment, stripped of all military ranks, and deprived of political rights for life.

After the verdict, Zhou Bodong's mental state unexpectedly recovered a lot, and he asked to see his old comrades-in-arms before being imprisoned, and the judge considered it at his discretion and agreed.

Xia personally accompanied him to Mora Mountain, which is located in a remote area and has a harsh environment, not to mention that there are hundreds of wild graves with no names and surnames on this mountain.

Zhou Bodong stood silently on the mountainside, facing the three hundred and thirty-one wild graves, and looked at them for a long, long time.

Natsu followed him, dark eyes dark.

Standing like this for a whole afternoon, the sun slowly went down, and the scarlet afterglow sprinkled on these cemeteries, bleak and deserted.

Finally, Zhou Bodong slowly opened his mouth, and his voice was terrifyingly hoarse: "There are three hundred and thirty-one soldiers here, the oldest of them is only twenty-eight years old, and the youngest is only eighteen years old. They swore allegiance to the Empire and paid with dignity, pride, and life for it, but the Great Empire refused to admit their existence. ”

"For so many years, I have been telling myself that they deserved to die, and although there are regrets, this is their choice and fate."

"I thought I could deceive myself in this way, but I didn't expect everything to be a scam, I was actually deceived by myself, it's ironic to say it"

"I'm starting to wonder now, did we ever act right? Does the faith to which we pledge allegiance really exist? ”

- No one gave him an answer.

On the night of his return, Zhou Bodong was found guilty of poisoning in his room, leaving no words.

He was immediately rushed to the medical department for emergency rescue surgery.

When he was pushed by a group of people and sent to the operating room, he happened to pass by Jian Ling, and then all the unrelated personnel in the medical department were cleared, and she was asked to stay in the ward and not come out.

Leaning against the window, she looked at the empty training ground below, guessing Zhou Bodong's situation at this time.

But no matter how hard she tried to establish a spiritual connection, she couldn't detect any information about Zhou Bodong.

Barbara says that the failure of the spirit link can only mean that one of the parties is dead.

It wasn't until dark that the ward door was unlocked.

With her hands in her pockets, she walked out of the room in a wide patient gown and walked slowly to the door of the operating room.

In the distance, she saw Natsu leaning against the snow-white wall, smoking vigorously one puff after another, his features obscured by the smoke, a little hazy.

She walked over, took the cigarette from his hand, snuffed it out and threw it into the garbage disposal bin: "The hospital is not smoking. ”

He looked at his empty fingers, froze, and then pulled a cigarette out of his pocket, didn't light it, and just held it in his mouth. He swept Jian Ling's patient gown, and his tone was still so out of tune: "How is your body?" ”

"I'll be able to go to work tomorrow, well, thank you for taking me to the hospital."

He sneered: "It should be me who wants to say thank you, I have written down this favor, and I will definitely promise it in the future." ”

Very cold joke, no one laughed.

When the operation was over, the doctors and nurses had already left, and they were the only two of them in the usual passage.

There was silence for a long time.

He raised his head and stared at the snow-white ceiling: "I once cooperated with Major General Zhou on a mission, he is a conscientious soldier, this time I thought I could help him find out the murderer, but I didn't expect the result to be like this, I spent so much effort, but I still couldn't save him." ”

"I didn't expect you to know it's uncomfortable?"

He didn't answer, and he couldn't see anything in his dark eyes.

Jian Ling took out a chip from his pocket and put it in front of him: "I took advantage of the rest time in the past few days to read all the examples of post-war syndrome in recent years, combined with my own opinions, and made a report after collating them. I'm not an authority on this subject, and there are some things that can't be perfected, and I just hope that you will hand this report on to the military headquarters so that those officials will pay attention to it. After all, warriors are human beings, and they need someone to really pay attention to them. ”

He took the chip and held it tightly in his palm: "Yes." ”

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