Chapter 446: 425 I just want to hold you and go!
He washed her, wiped her down, and then wrapped her up tightly. Despite his injured hand, he stubbornly insisted on carrying her back.
"My shoulder is injured, not my legs. I can walk by myself."
She murmured softly, leaning against his shoulder.
"But I just want to carry you."
Wen Nian looked at her and said affectionately, "Carrying you, carrying our child."
Song Lili slightly lowered her head, lightly curving up her lips.
In the bamboo forest at night, there were only the small electric lights shining dimly and intermittently in the distance, where Song Yangling and the others relied on portable power sources, casting light and shadows and forming circles of light.
Stepping on the bamboo leaves, the "rustling" sound from the soil seemed to settle into music.
"You’ve been away from President Mansion for three or four days now. Apart from Qu Yu and Minister Long, does no one else know you came here?"
"No one else."
"But you haven’t been there for three or four days; can Qu Yu really handle those people?"
Song Lili asked with some concern.
"The matters at home, Qu Yu can handle well. Three or four days are not long."
Wen Nian said this, but Song Lili couldn’t help but feel a vague worry. It would be fine if only Qu Yu and Minister Long knew.
"Vice President Zhuo Ting is quite sharp-minded. Even though he’s the Vice President and wouldn’t do anything harmful to the country or its people, his ambition is well known to all."
"He has been watching you so closely; it’s hard to ensure he won’t find out you have already left G country."
"Then what?"
Wen Nian asked her.
"I’m afraid he will seize the opportunity to make a move."
"What kind of move could he make?" Wen Nian tugged at the corner of his mouth lightly. "If Qu Yu can’t handle even this, then when I return, I’ll have to seriously evaluate his abilities and actions."
Seeing how confident he was, Song Lili thought he must have made thorough preparations and arrangements.
So she didn’t ask any further.
The two entered the tent and rested, nestled against each other.
Time passed second by second, and at this moment, in the Cross Rebel Army base in the Chuhai Mountain Area, Ling Lan and Hui Yan were looking at the eleven bodies that had been brought back with a very ominous premonition!
"Are we certain Chief Qing Luo isn’t among them?"
"It’s true, only this Colt pistol."
The subordinate presented the pistol that Qing Luo always carried with him.
Looking at the pistol, Ling Lan said to Hui Yan, "It’s the Chief’s..."
"However, we found traces of a fight at the edge of the cliff, and we also saw dried-up blood nearby. There had been a fierce battle."
The subordinate analyzed.
This was a large factory that had been simply modified.
At the moment in the meeting area, several core members of the rebel army were gathered.
"Chief Qing Luo will be fine."
Ling Lan stated confidently, "There’s no one in this world who could kill Chief Qing Luo!"
Hui Yan patted Ling Lan’s back,
"We need to see the living, or we need the body of the dead. Since we haven’t seen the person, we have to prepare for the worst. But since we haven’t seen a body, we must maintain a sliver of hope."
"Hui Ge, do you think... the man with the surname Bai from G country, could he have set us up?"
Ling Lan turned the thought over and suddenly considered the possibility,
"Is Joy still around? Call him over, he must know!"
Ling Lan frowned deeply,
"This afternoon, when the Chief said President Wen Nian from G country was here, I found it very strange, and the person named Tang that the Chief knows, her appearance in M country is also peculiar!"
"To run to Caesar, where war has broken out, just to save someone? What kind of friend would go so far? This Tang suddenly becomes someone else, the President’s wife, with another name, another identity, and their President just decides to risk danger for a woman and come to our territory?"
While saying this, Ling Lan spoke with a questioning tone.
"That woman with the surname Tang, she’s not so simple, there’s definitely something fishy about her—she’s a classmate of Chief Qing Luo, and her military prowess shouldn’t be lacking."
"How could she manage to escape right to our newly built military stronghold by such a coincidence?"
"Chief Qing Luo had just spotted President Wen Nian, and Joy immediately brought the news to Chief Qing Luo that Tang was the President’s wife..."
"And after that, Chief Qing Luo led a chase, and now a whole elite troop has been wiped out, and Chief Qing Luo is missing."
"Hui Yan, do you think there’s a problem here?"
As Ling Lan said this, Hui Yan also felt it made sense.
It was all indeed too coincidental.
"What if that Bai actually wasn’t cooperating with us, but was deceiving us to gain our trust, and then relaying information to the government army..."
Ling Lan was terrified at the thought.
Her eyes widened, and without waiting for Hui Yan to comment, she immediately ordered,
"Bring Joy here!"
"Yes, sir!"
Her subordinate received the order and immediately went out.
Ling Lan leaned against the table, stroking her chin in thought.
Hui Yan then sent people to search the mountains for Qing Luo, while also deploying two companies of troops to capture someone.
Before long, Joy was brought in, expressing dissatisfaction with the rough treatment from these people,
"What does this mean? I’m your ally, why are you treating me like a criminal?"
"Joy, stop pretending!"
With a cold face, Ling Lan, who naturally possessed an androgynous visage, looked truly fearsome at the moment.
She walked up to Joy, without beating around the bush, she laid out all her previous speculations!
At the mention of Wen Nian’s name, Joy’s face showed disbelief and astonishment,
"Say that again? Who’s here?"
"Still pretending?!"
Ling Lan raised her hand, her punch nearly flew out, but Hui Yan timely restrained Ling Lan.
He had been watching Joy’s expressions all along.
The smallest expressions can reflect a person’s true mental state.
Hui Yan was much more composed and steady than Ling Lan; he initially judged that things might not be as Ling Lan had speculated.
"The President of your country, Wen Nian, is right here in the Chuhai Mountains. Chief Qing Luo said he wanted to give you, Bai, a grand gift this afternoon. If I’m not guessing wrong, it should be Wen Nian’s head."
Hui Yan squinted his eyes, closed in on Joy, and looked down at him from above,
"Your Old Master Bai just wants to seize power in Gorlia, to force his way into office, right?"
Joy took a deep breath and looked up slightly,
"You say President Wen Nian is in the Chuhai Mountains, do you have solid evidence?"
No news of President Wen Nian leaving Gorlia had come from President Mansion, not even the slightest hint had leaked out!
Now to abruptly appear in Mara in the Chuhai, he found it quite shocking.
Hui Yan picked up a tablet nearby; it was Qing Luo’s, but Hui Yan had the authority to use it.
He too searched the files on the basis of possibility.
There were records of drones being used by Qing Luo in the morning, so there should be video footage.
Indeed!
He handed the tablet to Joy, the screen slowly panned up, four people sitting at the edge of a cliff, chatting and laughing. Suddenly, the frame froze on Song Lili hugging Wen Nian’s head, on full alert, eyes staring intently at them...
"It’s really... Mr. President."
Joy was astounded, but then a smile curved up the corner of his mouth,
"This just got interesting. I need to tell Old Master Bai this news."
"..."