It was early autumn.
The autumn chill gradually deepened, but the weather remained dry.
However, Chen Jinzhao’s heart was already cold. Just as Ning Fei had said, despair had set in. Could he really just watch a life slowly slip away before his eyes?
Zhang Wanting cried until she fainted.
Yu Mengzhi asked the doctor to take good care of Zhang Wanting and to calm her emotions.
The two stood outside the special ward. Inside lay Li Xiaoxi, in a sterile environment. Her condition was deteriorating at a visible rate; she might not even last seven days.
Yu Mengzhi felt a pang of sadness. She couldn't bear to see such tragedies.
“What should we do now? Are we just going to sit here and wait for death?” she asked Chen Jinzhao.
*Pat.*
Chen Jinzhao lit a cigarette. At this critical juncture, Yu Mengzhi didn’t blame him; perhaps Chen Jinzhao needed to calm down. She waited patiently. Chen Jinzhao soon extinguished the cigarette butt and precisely threw it into the trash can.
“Do you feel that the tragedy that befell the Li Zhongxiao family of three is too concentrated, too coincidental?” Chen Jinzhao asked.
Yu Mengzhi nodded. “It is a bit.”
First, the family of three was caught in a fire, then they encountered telecom fraud, and then the donation pledge was retracted…
It was hard not to make further connections.
“Wait!”
“You mean, someone is targeting the Li Zhongxiao family?” Yu Mengzhi looked at Chen Jinzhao. Chen Jinzhao nodded slowly. “There’s a possibility, and not a small one. The last time I saw Li Zhongxiao, he was beaten and limping. If all of this was orchestrated, then there’s only one possibility – Ning Fei!”
Yu Mengzhi furrowed her brow.
She found it hard to imagine that someone could be so deranged.
“The immediate priority is to stabilize Xiaoxi’s condition. I will find and bring the mastermind to justice afterward,” Chen Jinzhao said.
“I’m going to make a call.”
Chen Jinzhao walked to a quiet corner and, after careful consideration, dialed Li Zengqi’s number.
Li Zhongxiao was formerly a special forces member of the Jiangnan Military Region, so Chen Jinzhao hoped the Jiangnan Military Region could provide some assistance. Li Zengqi was shocked to hear this, “Mr. Chen, you say this Li Zhongxiao was a special forces member of our Jiangnan Military Region? I recall him. Didn't he once kill several people in anger after his mother was crushed to death due to a real estate developer’s forced demolition?”
“Yes, that’s him.” Chen Jinzhao was surprised that Li Zengqi knew so much about Li Zhongxiao.
This also made him uneasy.
Could it be that the Jiangnan Military Region was not going to offer help?
The next moment.
Li Zengqi immediately said, “Mr. Chen, please wait a moment. I will inform Elder Wu about this immediately. Elder Wu thought highly of this young man back then and intended to protect Li Zhongxiao. Who knew the other party bought so many media outlets and widely publicized Li Zhongxiao’s brutality, forcing Elder Wu to give up that plan.”
“Then I’ll trouble you, Secretary Li,” Chen Jinzhao said.
After hanging up the phone.
Li Zengqi immediately reported the matter to Wu Dingfeng. Wu Dingfeng smoked several cigarettes after listening, and then instructed Li Zengqi to find volunteers within the military whose bone marrow matched Li Xiaoxi’s. This matter emphasized voluntariness rather than coercion.
This was all he could do for Li Zhongxiao.
Upon receiving the order, Li Zengqi made arrangements. Wu Dingfeng looked out at the training grounds and sighed, “This child’s fate is too bitter.”
He had high hopes for Li Zhongxiao back then, believing he had the potential to reach the A-list.
What a pity!
Wu Dingfeng immediately became enraged, cursing, “Does this greedy merchant have any regard for the law? If I didn’t have to consider the consequences, I would have brought several guns to confront him!”
With this thought, Wu Dingfeng personally called Chen Jinzhao. First, he informed him that the bone marrow search was being arranged. Then, he said to Chen Jinzhao, “Little Chen, I think this matter is not simple. If you can help, you must find out who is behind it! This old man will give you all the support I can. Just go ahead and do it, understand?”
Chen Jinzhao nodded. “I will not fail you!”
The search for a matching bone marrow donor proceeded steadily. Xuanwu also fell silent for a long time after learning of this matter. Li Zhongxiao was once his soldier.
He immediately called the major military regions one by one, hoping to get their assistance.
The military region was a place of great human warmth. Upon learning of the situation, the various military regions widely publicized it, leading many people to participate enthusiastically.
In addition,
Xuanwu also specifically called Chen Jinzhao, saying much the same thing as Wu Dingfeng.
If this matter was indeed orchestrated, it was too horrifying. It was hard to believe that such heinous things still existed in society.
“Zhu Long, if it’s inconvenient for you to act, you can tell me the person’s name, and I’ll go confront him myself,” Xuanwu said, suppressing his anger. Chen Jinzhao replied solemnly, “You can rest assured on this matter. I have already preliminarily locked onto the target. If he is truly the mastermind, I will absolutely not let him get away with it.”
“Okay, I’ll leave it to you then!”
Time flew by, and three more days passed.
For the past few days, Chen Jinzhao had barely slept, working tirelessly for Li Xiaoxi’s sake.
It was on this day that the good news finally arrived—
The Jiangnan Military Region had found a matching bone marrow donor.
Yu Mengzhi was also happy about this and wanted to offer a large sum of money to the bone marrow donor as a token of gratitude. However, the donor refused upon hearing this, stating that they were willing to donate out of solidarity with Li Zhongxiao as a fellow soldier and did not wish for money to tarnish this friendship.
If money were involved, everything would lose its original meaning.
With a matching bone marrow donor found, the surgery was also being carried out with great urgency.
To ensure the surgery proceeded on time and smoothly, Wu Dingfeng specially dispatched experts from the best military hospitals to perform the operation, eliminating the possibility of someone bribing hospital doctors to orchestrate a surgical accident.
With the efforts of all parties, the surgery proceeded smoothly!
When Chen Jinzhao learned that the results were good, he finally felt a sense of relief. He had been running around frantically for Li Xiaoxi’s matter these past few days, his eyes already bloodshot.
Yu Mengzhi was also very happy, “We have snatched a life back from the clutches of death!”
“Yes, it was not easy,” Chen Jinzhao sighed.
The two thought of many things.
What would happen if such events befell them in the future?
It was only then that Chen Jinzhao understood how cutting-edge the research of Wen Fulai and Xu Nianqing was. If it were successful, patients like Xiaoxi would not have to desperately wait for bone marrow transplants.
It was a feat that would benefit the present and the future!
No wonder several foreign forces were trying to steal their research results. Whoever obtained that valuable experimental data would have the opportunity to become the world’s highest-valued enterprise and monopolize the global market!
It would be not just a company, but hundreds, even thousands, of printing presses.
“Now I finally have time to talk to Zhang Wanting about what happened that night. I must not find any trace of Ning Fei in this, or I will not let him off,” Chen Jinzhao said gravely.
Li Xiaoxi’s successful surgery brought joy to some and sorrow to others.
The joyful ones were naturally Chen Jinzhao and his companions, while the sorrowful ones were Ning Fei and Chu Zixiong.
Chu Zixiong stood nervously before Ning Fei’s desk. Ning Fei was smoking continuously, filling the office with smoke. He asked sternly, “You can’t even handle this small matter, what use are you?”
“Master Ning, it’s not that I can’t handle it, but military personnel got involved! The doctors I arranged couldn’t intervene at all. How did this Li Xiaoxi manage to alarm those people? Did we step on a mine?” Chu Zixiong was fearful.
“Useless trash!” Ning Fei snorted.
“I’ve already inquired. I heard Li Zhongxiao is from the Jiangnan Military Region. It is indeed a bit troublesome. However, as long as we are careful, those people won’t be able to do anything to us.”
Chu Zixiong quickly assured Ning Fei that he had left no loose ends.
“That’s good,” Ning Fei nodded.
“Next, we need to turn our attention to Chen Jinzhao. Do you have someone under you who was Chen Jinzhao’s high school classmate? Find out from him where Chen Jinzhao’s mother lives, and then teach her a lesson.”
“You dare to oppose me, and I will make everyone around you suffer in succession!”
Ning Fei fiercely extinguished his cigarette butt!