kingnovel Chapter 1068 Chen Qing 7
Chapter 1068 Chen Qing 7
The standoff at the nursing home continues.
Zhang Qishan looked at Zhao Zhenguo's back as he walked away with big strides, and for the first time he felt out of control.
He knew that he was finished.
He was not defeated by Zhang Ruiqing's weird methods, but was completely defeated by the Northeast soldier in front of him who was completely enraged and had an iron rule of blood feud!
Zhao Zhenguo walked out of the room, stood at the door, and took a deep breath, but he was unable to suppress the anger and sadness in his heart.
He glanced at the thin document in his hand, the only one he had kept as evidence, and then at the bodies of ordinary victims being carefully collected by the soldiers.
Silently, he pulled out his lighter and set the document on fire.
The orange flames jumped, devouring the cold words and reflecting his resolute and sad face.
"Keep their bodies...carefully bury them, find out their identities, and notify their families..." His voice was low and hoarse, with a heavy sense of fatigue and unquestionable determination, "Use the best coffins...I, Zhao Zhenguo, will personally send them home."
Fire flickered in his eyes, like a never-extinguished flame of revenge.
Inside the sanatorium, Zhang Qishan sat slumped on the cold ground, his face ashen.
However, the storm has just begun.
The blockade order issued by Zhao Zhenguo lasted less than half a day.
Several low-key but imposing black cars with special license plates broke through the cordon of outer soldiers and drove directly into the core area of the sanatorium.
The car door opened and several middle-aged men wearing dark Mao suits, with gloomy faces and eyes as sharp as hawks got out.
They are representatives of "above", representing the huge and hidden power that authorized and condoned all this.
The leader’s surname is Wang, and he is known as Director Wang.
He didn't even look at the "useless man" lying on the ground, and walked straight towards Zhao Zhenguo, whose face was ashen.
His eyes swept across the remaining blood and chaos on the ground, his brows furrowed in a look of condescending displeasure.
"Commander Zhao," Director Wang's voice was calm, but it carried unquestionable authority.
“We understand the situation.
Everything that happens here involves the country's top secrets.
Your people can withdraw now, we will take over the scene.
All information and personnel, including Zhang Qishan, need to be handed over to the special investigation team."
He handed over a document with a bright red seal. "This is an order."
Zhao Zhenguo didn't even look at the document. His tall body was like a wall, blocking Director Wang, his eyes as sharp as a knife.
"Director Wang, top secret?
Using living people for experiments and killing compatriots, is this also a top secret?
What I saw was a war crime worthy of being shot a hundred times!
My people will not retreat! Zhang Qishan and everything here must be tried by the military court! No one can take them away!"
"Zhao Zhenguo!" Director Wang's voice suddenly rose in anger.
“Watch where you stand!
This is a strategic requirement!
Some sacrifices are inevitable!
Zhang Qishan’s work is necessary!
You have no right to interfere!"
"Strategic need? Sacrifice?" Zhao Zhenguo laughed in anger and pointed fiercely at the bodies that were being collected for burial.
“What about them?!
Are these ordinary people who are being slaughtered by you like pigs and sheep also a strategic need?!
Their lives are not lives? !
I, Zhao Zhenguo, am making this clear today: As long as I am here, no one can take away a criminal or destroy a piece of evidence!
If you have the guts, ask the higher-ups to send troops to suppress this 'rebel general' like me!"
The atmosphere instantly became tense!
The attendant behind Director Wang put his hands on his waist, and Zhao Zhenguo's guards also raised their guns without showing any weakness.
The cold confrontation froze in the corridor filled with the smell of blood and disinfectant.
At this moment of stalemate, a man wearing a sophisticated grey gown, with an elegant face but eyes as dark as a deep pool, appeared at the corner of the corridor.
Behind him followed a few people with restrained auras, like shadows.
A member of the Wang family! And judging from his bearing, his status is definitely not low.
The representative of the Wang family looked with interest at Zhang Qishan, who was lying on the ground with a deathly pale face, then looked at Zhao Zhenguo and Director Wang who were confronting each other, and a meaningful smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"Director Wang, why are you so angry?
Commander Zhao is just doing his job and he is impartial.
As for Master Zhang Dafo..."
He looked at Zhang Qishan, his tone containing a barely perceptible hint of sarcasm.
"What a pity. He didn't study the Qilin blood thoroughly and ended up getting himself into trouble.
It seems that the Zhang family's 'immortality' is not so easy to come by."
Director Wang's face looked even uglier.
The appearance of the Wang family made the situation more complicated.
The Wang family's pursuit of immortality is a semi-public secret, and they are not here to watch the fun.
"Mr. Wang," Director Wang said coldly, "We don't welcome anyone here. Please leave."
"Nothing to do with it?" The Wang family representative chuckled and walked slowly forward, ignoring the soldiers' vigilant gazes.
"Director Wang is wrong.
This "Qilin blood", this mystery of immortality, originally has no owner and belongs to those with virtue.
You officials screwed up and made a mess, but you don't allow others to clean up the mess and look for that ray of hope?"
He looked meaningfully at the sealed refrigerators marked "Qilin Blood".
"Besides, Zhang Qishan may have some information that we are interested in."
His words were like a huge rock thrown into stagnant water, stirring up new waves.
Some "researchers" and "consultants" with complicated backgrounds who were originally frightened by Zhao Zhenguo's thundering means and collapsed on the ground pretending to be dead, now had the light of greed rekindled in their eyes.
Immortality! The Wang family mentioned immortality! This is the most fundamental reason why they are willing to take huge risks to come here!
A bald man in a white coat, whose lower body was also paralyzed but who was struggling to raise his head, shouted hoarsely.
"Mr. Wang is right!
Qilin blood is the hope of mankind!
We can't give up just like that!
Although Zhang Qishan failed, his information is still there!
We still have a chance! Commander Zhao, you can't destroy the hope of all mankind just to vent your personal anger!"
His words immediately aroused several weak echoes.
Zhao Zhenguo looked at this group of inhumane fellows whose minds were twisted by the desire for immortality, and he felt sick and sad.
He shouted angrily: "Shut up! What a bullshit hope!
Your so-called hope is built on piles of bones!
This is a crime more despicable than that committed by the Japanese devils!"
The Wang family representative seemed not to hear it. He looked at Director Wang with a smile, and then glanced at Zhao Zhenguo, whose face was gloomy and uncertain, like a skilled chess player.
"Director Wang, Commander Zhao, why are you making such a fuss?
Everyone has different desires, but that does not necessarily mean we cannot cooperate?
The government needs stability and respectability, the military needs explanation and justice, but our Wang family only wants the illusory secret of immortality.
As for Zhang Qishan and his mess
There's always a way to deal with it, right?
For example, putting all the blame on the 'mysterious' attacker Zhang Ruiqing?
For example, sharing some less core ‘results’ with truly capable partners? "
His words were full of hints and temptations, attempting to divide and disintegrate.
Zhao Zhenguo was so angry that he almost laughed.
"Looking for immortality among the dead.
Why don't you just die!
Judging from the appearance of your coffin lids, you're worthy of death!
Living not only wastes air, but also wastes resources!
Without you, the air is fresh and the world is full of blue sky and white clouds!
Oh! Even Qin Shi Huang didn’t find immortality, how can you be worthy of it!
I remember that the Zhang family has an ancestral tomb. It’s ridiculous that you are looking for immortality among the dead!
Torture them all!
I will take all the blame and I will break this hole!"
No one can leave. At worst, he will kill these cancerous tumors himself. He is fed up with these lunatics.
"If you work hard to practice martial arts, you can live to 120 or 30 years old. If you don't want to practice, and you conduct human experiments, God will not approve of it."
The Heavenly Dao wanted to applaud, but it just didn’t agree at all.
A bunch of psychos.
Zhang Qishan slumped in the corner, listening to all this, as if he was in an absurd dream.
He smiled, glad he wasn't the only one arrested.
They were all shot to keep him company.
He hated the Zhang family for owning such a sacred object as Qilin Blood, he hated the Zhang family's so-called "guardian mission", and he hated even more why his father was driven out, otherwise, his father and the clan members would have survived.