Chapter 67: Brother, It Hurts

On the other side, at the Chinese embassy, a Flying Eagle helicopter was parked on the rooftop helipad.

"Xiao Bei, you must be careful."

Liu Shengjing patted Qin Hao Bei's shoulder with a solemn expression.

At this moment, Qin Hao Bei was wearing a camouflage combat uniform, a tactical helmet, and a black pistol at his waist that glinted with a cold light. His posture was as straight as a pine, his deep eyes like cold stars, his gaze sharp and firm.

"Yes, Uncle Liu, don't worry, I guarantee I will complete the mission."

After saying this, he turned and climbed into the helicopter.

The massive propellers began to spin with a "humming" sound, and the Flying Eagle helicopter was about to take off when a figure came running over in a hurry from behind.

"Ambassador Liu, Kabango has started live-streaming again, take a look at this!"

The ambassador's secretary, his face panicked, handed the phone that was live-streaming to Liu Shengjing.

Liu Shengjing took the phone and looked at it; his brow immediately furrowed deeply, and his face turned pale inch by inch.

"Ambassador, about the hostage being injected with the virus... should we tell Qin Hao Bei?"

The secretary asked cautiously.

Liu Shengjing looked toward the helicopter, a worried expression in his eyes. He had already sensed that the girl was incomparably important to Xiao Bei; he had never seen Xiao Bei have such an emotional bond with anyone. Once Xiao Bei knew about this, his emotions would certainly be affected.

After a while, he shook his head and said to the secretary with a firm gaze:

"Do not let Xiao Bei know about this. The plan proceeds as usual."

"Yes."

Time passed second by second. This time, the video stream was not cut off and was still continuing...

Perhaps to deliberately stimulate the hearts of the viewers, all the lights in the room were turned off, leaving only pitch blackness in the frame... but the volume was turned to the maximum.

People could only judge whether the girl was still alive through the faint sounds coming from the frame...

At first, no sound came from the frame, and there was complete silence; everyone thought Shi Yi was already dead.

In the camp, some began to cover their faces and weep:

"Sigh, she was such a good girl, how could she be dead!"

Someone shouted in despair:

"Kabango, you beast! Don't you claim to be the messenger of Heaven? Don't you say that everyone in the world is a citizen of the Heavenly Kingdom? Why do you still torture an innocent Chinese girl!"

Others, while wiping away tears sadly, muttered to themselves:

"But it's better if she's dead; the little girl won't have to suffer so much... I'd rather believe she is already in heaven right now... We will never forget her kindness to us..."

At this very moment, Shi Heng was sitting in a car rushing to Ngoro Province, his eyes fixed on the pitch-black screen.

As if he wanted to stare right through the screen.

He did not believe Shi Yi had died just like that!

From childhood to adulthood, her life had been like a blade of grass—unbroken by the wind, unburned by the fire; how could she have died so easily?!

Finally, after a while, a faint coughing sound was heard from the pitch-black frame.

Cough... cough...

The coughing sound sounded very weak and powerless, as light as a feather falling to the ground, but it struck Shi Heng's heart directly.

She was still alive!

Immediately after, the coughing sound grew smaller, but the sound of breathing grew louder. The sound fluctuated, sometimes sounding like she was gasping for air, and sometimes slow, as if she had no strength left, occasionally interspersed with painful, suppressed moans.

"It hurts... it hurts so much..."

"Brother..."

That "Brother" struck Shi Heng's heart like a giant boulder; Shi Heng felt his heart stop suddenly!

"She... she is calling for Brother?"

Shi Heng couldn't believe his ears, fearing he was having auditory hallucinations under high pressure, so he shoved the phone to the driver's ear and said in a commanding tone: "Listen, what is she saying?!"

The driver, while driving, listened to the sound on the phone for a while, then frowned and said:

"President Shi, it sounds to me like the little girl is saying, Brother, save me..."

"Clatter"—

The phone dropped to the side, and Shi Heng's face turned pale in an instant.

Just then, a "humming" sound—

The phone that had fallen into the corner of the seat began to vibrate again, the vibration sound non-stop; someone was calling.

Shi Heng took a deep breath, caught his breath, picked up the phone, and pressed the answer button.

"Shi Heng, is the matter with Xiao Yi true?"

Shi Zhenyuan's deep, suppressed-anger voice came through the phone.

Shi Heng knew this matter could not be hidden from Shi Zhenyuan; now that things had come to this, he didn't want to hide it from him either.

"It is true."

Shi Heng answered calmly.

"How is she now?! Is she alive or dead?!" A roar from Shi Zhenyuan came through the phone.

Shi Heng sneered inwardly; he knew Shi Zhenyuan was actually still worried about Shi Yi, but, just like his former self, his worry was always so condescending, full of oppression, as if the one in the wrong was Xiao Yi.

However, for over 20 years, it was clearly they, the Shi family, who had failed Shi Yi!

"I don't know."

Shi Heng replied faintly; at this moment, he had no heart left to deal with Shi Zhenyuan.

He heard Shi Zhenyuan gnash his teeth in unwillingness on the other end, as if he had a belly full of anger and didn't know who to vent it on. After a pause, he said again:

"Then where are you now?"

"Sozali."

"What? You really went to Sozali! What are you doing there?"

Shi Heng was in a state of confusion and said impatiently:

"Dad, why do you think I'm here? I'm here to save Shi Yi!"

"Shi Yi is now in the base of an armed force; as an ordinary person, what are you going to save her with? Haven't people from the embassy already gone to save her? Why are you going there to add to the trouble?! Return to the country immediately!"

"She is my sister!" Shi Heng finally couldn't bear it anymore and said through gritted teeth, "Dad, she is also your biological daughter; don't you care about her life or death at all? Watching her suffer torture and abuse, don't you feel any heartache at all?!"

Shi Zhenyuan immediately scolded:

"So what if I feel heartache! Life and death are fated, Heaven's will cannot be defied! Do you want me, the Shi family, to lose two children at once? With such a big incident, the Shi family still has a pile of messes waiting for you to handle; return to the country immediately!"

Hearing Shi Zhenyuan's words, and remembering the "Brother" Shi Yi had called out while unconscious, Shi Heng felt a huge sense of despair and powerlessness wash over his heart.

"Don't say any more."

Shi Heng suppressed the churning in his chest and spat out a sentence coldly.

"Nothing else, I'm hanging up; I'm going to save my sister now." ===== CHAPTER 68 =====