SCOM - Chapter 107
Chapter 107
Once the defense network was down, the Gashiro in the capital would most likely assume they had control of the port. Even if it was discovered later, it would buy Ji Yuezhi and the others some time.
The most crucial thing now was that Ji Yuezhi needed to quickly understand what had happened in the capital.
His team members had nearly finished inspecting the port. Ji Yuezhi turned his head to look at the injured Scavenger Army soldiers in the control room. They had mostly been bandaged and treated, and the severely wounded were being slowly carried away.
Zuo Luohuan wiped her hands clean and walked to Ji Yuezhi's side. "I'll watch things here. You go find Instructor He. She should know something."
After arriving at the port, she had tried to contact people she knew, but received no replies. She didn't know if the signal was being blocked or if they were under enemy control.
Ji Yuezhi looked at Zuo Luohuan and frowned. Unable to resist, he took a step forward and raised his hand to touch her jaw near her ear. "You're injured."
"I was ambushed when I first entered the control room," Zuo Luohuan said casually.
The wound wasn't deep, only about eight centimeters long. It indeed didn't look serious, more like an accidental scrape from a sharp object.
Ji Yuezhi walked over to a medical kit on the floor, took out a bottle of healing agent, and lowered his eyes, carefully spraying it onto Zuo Luohuan's wound.
"I'm fine." Zuo Luohuan looked at Ji Yuezhi's lips, which were pressed into a thin line, and said reassuringly, "It doesn't even hurt much."
During their usual training, they sometimes sustained wounds more severe than this one. But this wasn't training; their lives were in constant danger, and Ji Yuezhi still couldn't suppress his worry for Zuo Luohuan.
"Are you... injured anywhere else?"
"No." Zuo Luohuan held out her hands and even rolled up her sleeves to show Ji Yuezhi. "Just that one cut."
Only then did Ji Yuezhi feel completely relieved. He pressed the healing agent into Zuo Luohuan's hand and turned to leave.
Watching his departing figure, Zuo Luohuan let out a small sigh of relief. What she had said wasn't exactly a lie. She really only had that one wound on her body. It was just that her skeletal mech had been damaged.
The moment Zuo Luohuan pushed open the control room door, five Gashiro and several fourth-generation robot dogs had surrounded her. If Ji Yuezhi were to inspect her skeletal mech, he would discover that the cut on her jaw perfectly matched a gash on the mech.
If not for the skeletal mech, the injury on Zuo Luohuan's jaw would have been far more than just a shallow cut.
Unaware of this, Ji Yuezhi descended from the weapons tower. He found Instructor He Yue. The wound on her chest had been bandaged. She had been holding on by a thread and had now passed out.
The medical corpsman watching over Instructor He Yue saw Ji Yuezhi and immediately stood up, calling out in a low voice, "General Captain."
Ji Yuezhi waved his hand, signaling the corpsman to follow him out. "How are Instructor He Yue's injuries?"
"The chest wound is very serious, but Instructor He's constitution is strong. She'll definitely pull through." After saying this, the medical corpsman hesitated, looking like he had more to say.
"Is there something else?" Ji Yuezhi didn't miss the corpsman's expression and couldn't help but ask.
"Instructor He's Achilles tendon was severed. If it had been treated sooner, there would have been no lasting effects." A look of admiration and awe flashed in the medical corpsman's eyes. "Judging by the wound, Instructor He kept fighting for a long time after being injured. Now, even if the wound heals, it will affect her movement... I'm afraid she'll only be able to walk normally with difficulty in the future."
Ji Yuezhi nodded to show he understood. "Go see if anyone else needs help. I'll watch over Instructor He."
"Yes, sir."
When Ji Yuezhi re-entered the medical room, He Yue had opened her eyes, but she was clearly not fully conscious. The intense pain from her wound had simply woken her from her stupor.
Seeing Ji Yuezhi, her eyes were still heavy with exhaustion, but she still tried to sit up.
"Instructor, just lie down and rest," Ji Yuezhi said, stopping her.
He Yue caught her breath and forced herself to speak. "I don't know what happened in the capital's center. At the time... it was too chaotic."
In just one night, the entire capital had been turned upside down.
"The Scavenger Army came to the port because we received an anonymous tip that a traitor was leaving with a large batch of new-model robot dogs." He Yue said it all in one breath, then subconsciously reached for the wound on her chest. She was having trouble breathing.
He Yue closed her eyes to recover for a moment before continuing, "The tip mentioned a large number of robot dogs, and with the Federation cracking down, the Scavenger Army couldn't afford to be careless. We mobilized almost the entire force in the middle of the night... We came to the port and searched until dawn but found nothing."
The Scavenger Army often encountered situations like this. Some were false alarms, while others meant the traitors had already left.
"At that point, we were planning to head back." He Yue's face was frighteningly pale, and her voice grew fainter. "But we never expected Gashiro to appear with robot dogs and attack the port directly."
In broad daylight, in the Federation's capital, Gashiro appearing at the capital port with a swarm of robot dogs... never mind the civilians at the port being terrified, even the Scavenger Army soldiers felt a sense of absurd disbelief.
"They wanted to seize the port." A bitter smile touched He Yue's lips as she added thankfully, "I don't know who reported it, but if we hadn't come, the port would have been taken days ago..."
Ji Yuezhi watched the instructor fall back into a deep sleep. He sat for a while before getting up and leaving.
Someone had known in advance that there would be trouble that night, so they used a tip to lure the Scavenger Army to the port.
It had to be said, this was the only way to do it without arousing suspicion.
The Scavenger Army was not under the jurisdiction of any army group. It operated independently and could arrest anyone. They received all sorts of true and false tips almost daily, moving through the capital at all hours of the night.
The deployment of the Scavenger Army was a routine task in the capital; no one would find it suspicious.
If something really happened at the port, although the Scavenger Army was only responsible for eliminating traitors and Gashiro, they were still a Federation army and wouldn't just stand by and watch. Conversely, if the port was fine, it would just be another night of the Scavenger Army coming up empty, with no consequences.
Ji Yuezhi looked up at the port's sky. Most importantly, aside from the Winter Army and the Seventeenth Army, the Scavenger Army was the strongest and best-equipped force in the entire Federation, bar none.
Only a force strong enough could arrest and eliminate traitors hidden deep within the system, because such traitors often wielded immense power.
To know about this in advance and come up with such a plan... it could only be Ji Xixiu.
However, his father had made no other moves since then. Something must have happened. Ji Yuezhi's mind raced, thinking about the situation to come.
In a medical room near the observation tower.
Luo Shaoyuan, blushing, zipped up her combat suit jacket and stammered, "How could you... how could you lie to me? You're not... not in heat at all."
An Yingjing's clothes were in disarray. He leaned lazily against the bed in the medical room. "I thought I was. I was all wet..."
Before he could finish, Luo Shaoyuan covered his mouth. "Don't... don't say it."
An Yingjing slapped her hand away, turned his head sharply, and scoffed. "You've already touched me, what are you blushing for?"
Luo Shaoyuan tried to defend herself. "I didn't mean to!"
"I meant to," An Yingjing retorted. "We're already dating, so what's wrong with letting you touch me?"
Luo Shaoyuan was silent for a long moment before forcing out, "...Stop being a hooligan!"
An Yingjing deliberately contradicted her. "I want to."
Luo Shaoyuan was no match for An Yingjing. Seeing that he was fine, she bolted from the room and fled.
"Coward." An Yingjing pouted. He got dressed and stood up, but as soon as his feet touched the ground, his legs gave way. He had to brace himself on the bed to keep from falling.
An Yingjing's expression darkened. After a moment, he seemed to remember something, and his mood brightened again. He muttered, "I'll get all of this back from her later."
It wasn't until nine o'clock at night that all the injured personnel at the port had been bandaged. Zuo Luohuan had also returned. She glanced at the anonymous tip that Instructor He Yue had received.
"This was sent by Doctor Fang."
"Doctor Fang Yong?" Ji Yuezhi was taken aback. His father wasn't familiar with Doctor Fang Yong.
"The tone is very similar, and Doctor Fang runs a private clinic, so he's very familiar with being anonymous." Zuo Luohuan pointed to the comma at the very end. "Besides, when he sends messages to people online, he never uses periods, only commas at the end."
Even if it wasn't Doctor Fang Yong, it was a message from someone familiar with him. However, there was no point in impersonating Doctor Fang, as no one could be contacted right now anyway.
"Is it possible someone contacted Doctor Fang and had him send the tip?" Jiang Hong asked from the side.
"Fang Yong isn't familiar with those people from the capital's Military Committee," Zuo Luohuan said with certainty. "Fang Yong is only known in private circles. That bunch from the Military Committee would have no use for him."
Something flashed through Ji Yuezhi's mind. He remembered his father had once investigated Doctor Fang and Zuo Luohuan.
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