Shi Hu shuddered and asked, "Are you a doctor?"
Lu Chuanxin replied, "My brother Ye here is a divine physician. He cured my terminal illness. Shi Hu, you've met your benefactor!"
Shi Hu clearly didn't quite believe it. He nodded, "Divine Physician Ye, it's a pleasure to meet you."
Ye Tian said, "Sit down and tell me."
Lu Chuanxin added, "Let's have some tea first. The kitchen is already preparing food and drinks. Once Old Yang arrives, we'll eat."
Without a doubt, Old Yang must be Yang Shoucheng.
Ye Tian remarked, "Old Yang is also coming to freeload."
Lu Chuanxin chuckled, "Old Yang is in trouble and wants to ask for your help."
Ye Tian asked, "I only treat illnesses, how can I help him?"
Lu Chuanxin replied, "You'll know when the time comes."
Shi Hu finally couldn't hold back and asked, "Divine Physician Ye can heal my injuries, right?"
Ye Tian glanced at him, "Of course, I can heal you, but the medicine used is quite expensive, so the consultation fee won't be cheap."
Shi Hu stated, "As long as my injuries can be healed, the cost is not a problem."
Ye Tian then said, "I heard from Old Lu that you went to a very terrifying place. Can you tell me about it?"
A deep fear flickered in Shi Hu's eyes. For a top soldier, this was clearly abnormal.
He fell silent for a moment, lit a cigarette, took two puffs, and then said, "Three months ago, we were on a secret mission at the border. The mission level was five-star top secret!"
Ye Tian and Lu Chuanxin exchanged a glance. Ye Tian asked, "Five-star top secret, that should be the highest level of secrecy, right? Are we allowed to listen?"
Shi Hu replied nonchalantly, "The mission has been declassified. They've probably given up on it, so it's fine if you listen."
Ye Tian said, "Alright, please continue."
Shi Hu then briefly recounted the situation.
Three months prior, Shi Hu, known as "Death God" and the foremost soldier in the Southwest region, suddenly received a directive from the highest authorities. He was ordered to select ten subordinates from the nation's most outstanding soldiers to carry out an extremely arduous and dangerous mission.
Shi Hu accepted the assignment. Five days later, at a military base in the west, he met three hundred of the army's most exceptional soldiers. Relying on his experience, Shi Hu selected ten individuals from this group to form the mission's team, codenamed "Gray Cat."
After three days of integration, the Gray Cat team departed that very night, landing by helicopter on the edge of a dense forest in the southwest. From there, they marched 115 kilometers on foot to their destination.
Along the way, they were attacked by unidentified armed personnel. Fortunately, being elite soldiers, they easily dealt with their assailants.
The closer they got to their destination, the more uneasy they felt. This was because the forest was littered with the corpses of animals and even humans. The sheer number of them astonished them.
The closer they approached the destination, the more bodies they found. Moreover, there were many fresh human corpses nearby. Each body appeared to have been gnawed by some ferocious beast, presenting a gruesome sight and emitting a foul stench.
Eventually, they had to don gas masks to continue their advance.
At dusk, they arrived before a low, downward-sloping cave. The cave was about two meters high and nearly three meters wide. The sides of the entrance were covered with all sorts of corpses, both human and animal.
At this point, Ye Tian asked, "Is this cave the place you were heading to?"
Shi Hu confirmed, "Yes, that cave. To be safe, I had my team send in a drone and observe from the outside. That drone, with a manufacturing cost of over three million yuan, possessed the world's most advanced technology, and we always liked using it. But this time, it failed. The drone lost signal as soon as it entered."
"We had no choice but to send in a three-man team to explore. The three-man team was equipped with cameras and powerful flashlights, so I could see very clearly from outside. The cave was filled with bones. They went down nearly a hundred meters, and the bones piled up higher and higher. It was only when they looked back that I realized they were descending a massive slope!"
Ye Tian inquired, "What was different about this slope?"
Shi Hu took a deep drag of his cigarette and said, "The slope was entirely made of piled-up bones! If it weren't for these bones, that place would have been a cliff!"
Hearing this, Ye Tian's scalp tingled. These bones had actually filled a cliff!