"Lin Yao..."
Xiao Deli suddenly walked up to Lin Yao, his expression very serious. He stared into Lin Yao's eyes and said in a low but firm tone, "I want to ask you for a favor."
Lin Yao didn't make any promises of "doing whatever he can without hesitation," he just looked at Xiao Deli quietly without saying a word.
"Is that so..."
Xiao Deli was slightly disappointed that Lin Yao did not cooperate. "If... I mean if I can no longer see Lili in the future, please take good care of him."
“I know that Lili already considers you his biological father. Although he may know that he is adopted, I can see his feelings for you. You are also a good father. I’m entrusting you with my care from now on.”
Xiao Deli's nonsensical words confused Lin Yao. He frowned slightly, looked at the other party without speaking, and waited for an explanation.
"I'm sorry to Lili, and I'm sorry to his mother." Xiao Deli's face suddenly showed a look of farewell. As if he had made up his mind, he gritted his teeth and his eyes shone brightly. "Please promise me! Take good care of Lili from now on and let him have a happy life."
"Kid, what are you doing? Are you entrusting your child to someone else?"
Before Lin Yao could respond, General Xia's voice rang out. Gone was his previous air of superiority; his condescending tone revealed a hint of concern: "Speak plainly, don't whine like a woman!"
"My son-in-law needs a reason to help you raise your child, right? Tell me, what's going on?"
General Xia's last words were delivered in a very stern tone, exuding an imposing aura that allowed Lin Yao to truly witness the old man's style of doing things in the army. Unlike his previous fiery temper, this was a powerful aura emanating from his very soul, an indomitable spirit.
Xiao Deli frowned even more deeply. He didn't look at General Xia at this moment, but stared at Lin Yao and the others to reply. His attitude was very firm, and he was obviously unwilling to answer General Xia's question.
Lin Yao remained silent, cooperating with General Xia's actions. He was also curious as to why the other party had suddenly uttered such a sentence, which clearly implied entrusting his son to someone. Could there be any foreseeable danger in peacetime that could bring Xiao Deli, the commander of the North Sea Fleet, to misfortune?
General Xia's fiery temper suddenly vanished, and his voice immediately became deep and somber. "Military secrets?"
"Hmm." Xiao Deli hummed through his nose, nodded emphatically, but his tightly closed mouth remained shut.
"Then I won't ask anymore." General Xia immediately stopped pressuring him. He knew the military regulations and that he shouldn't keep asking about such things. "Don't worry, no matter what, that brat Lili will not be harmed. We will raise him as our own child. Whether he is given to Zhuo Fei in the future or we keep him, we will not let him suffer any more grievances."
"Thanks!"
Xiao Deli first nodded his thanks to Lin Yao, bowed slightly, and then turned to General Xia, "Uncle Xia, I beg you!"
"Yaoyao, Lili's father is leading the fleet to the Diaoyu Islands waters for combat. The situation there has become tense. The other side has launched an attack, and two of our ships have already been attacked. One patrol boat was sunk, and the other destroyer was severely damaged."
Xiaocao's voice suddenly rang out. She was incredibly adept at finding information in the military. As long as she identified the target, even if classified documents were locked in the most secure safe, Xiaocao could still see the contents of those documents intact.
"Satellite surveillance images show that Japan has gathered an entire '8.8' fleet in that sea area. One document shows that Japan has already built 25 drilling platforms in that sea area, where huge oil and natural gas reserves have been discovered. Our country's intergovernmental negotiations have been completely ignored by the other side."
"I see..." Lin Yao replied to Xiao Cao in his mind, "I understand, I'll ask General Xiao."
"General Xiao, are you worried about what might happen if you go to the waters around the Diaoyu Islands to command operations?"
Lin Yaoshi's startling remark made Xiao Deli and General Xia stare wide-eyed, looking at him as if he were an alien. "But as the commander of the Beiyang Fleet, your personal safety shouldn't be in any danger. In this day and age, even if there are conflicts, they are only small-scale and small-scale. Everyone stops short of causing trouble. It shouldn't come to the point of entrusting one's son to another, right?"
Lin Yao's straightforward use of the phrase "entrusting the orphan" did not cause any adverse reactions. On the contrary, his knowledge of military secrets was shocking. Even General Xia, a retired lieutenant general, did not know this kind of information. Yet Lin Yao spoke so confidently about Xiao Deli's mission that even the usually indifferent Elder Yi Potian lost his composure and was deeply shocked at where Lin Yao had obtained this information.
"How do you know all this?!"
Xiao Deli did not answer Lin Yao's question, but immediately raised his own doubts. His expression became more serious, and his tone already contained a sense of vigilance.
"You don't need to investigate this. I know a lot, more than you can imagine. I even know that you plan to send out most of the North Sea Fleet this time, a total of 189 ships, including a nuclear submarine squadron."
Lin Yao did not conceal his information. His timid and hesitant manner was clearly inappropriate, as evidenced by the treatment he and Min Hong were receiving. It would be better to make a high-profile attempt, which might attract more attention and be more helpful in resisting "Morning Mist".
"General Xiao, is it really necessary to send so many naval forces there? Is it worth taking such a large-scale action for 25 energy resources? The situation is not that serious yet, is it? Didn't Japan explain that the missile launch system suddenly malfunctioned, which sank one of our patrol ships and accidentally damaged one of our destroyers? I saw in the news that only all government-to-government exchanges at all levels have been canceled, but exchanges between civilians have not stopped."
Lin Yao's words contained a lot of information, and Xiao Deli immediately assumed that he knew the whole truth, his expression becoming uncertain.
"Excuse me, I need to make a phone call."
Before anyone could respond, Xiao Deli rushed toward the stairwell. He was going to report Lin Yao's situation to the special hotline in his father's study. This was an organizational principle; he couldn't take any action before receiving instructions from above, not even to Lin Yao say something like, "Your information is wrong."
"My good son-in-law..."
After Xiao Deli left, General Xia immediately looked at Lin Yao with only doubt in his eyes, without a trace of suspicion or panic. He would never distrust someone he trusted, and besides, Lin Yao and Min Hong's actions deserved his unconditional trust.
"Grandpa, it's alright. I heard about this from another source. General Xiao is reporting the situation right now, but the general who answered the phone is undecided and said he'll discuss it before giving a reply. Let's just wait."
Lin Yao smiled as he revealed the details of Xiao Deli's confidential phone call, as if it were a trivial matter. This gave General Xia a new understanding of the abilities of advanced ancient martial artists, and he secretly thought that these people were simply omnipotent monsters. However, Elder Yi Potian, who was also a Heaven-level expert, had doubts. Because no sound came from General Xiao Li'ao's study, which was sealed very tightly, he couldn't hear a single word.
After a long while, Xiao Deli finally appeared at the top of the stairs. His expression was a little strange, and his gaze towards Lin Yao was very complicated. Doubt, surprise, suspicion and other emotions could be reflected in his eyes and expression. Finally, he gritted his teeth and walked over quickly, standing in front of Lin Yao without taking a seat.
"Lin Yao, let me explain it to you."
Xiao Deli glanced at General Xia, who was full of interest, and Elder Yi Potian, who looked indifferent as if he were in a trance. After a moment's thought, he decided not to avoid the two of them anymore. He had already explained the situation in detail when he reported the information, and the two of them had not attracted any special attention from the leaders above. He figured that he would not need to avoid them when reporting information.
"The real situation is more serious than you just described."
Xiao Deli's words immediately made General Xia's heart skip a beat: "It is true that two ships were involved in an accident, but one of the patrol ships was sunk after being attacked by fifteen missiles and shells. This situation is definitely not accidental."
"And the other 'Luhu'-class guided-missile destroyer 'Harbin' was not just an ordinary accidental hit, nor was it damage sustained in a typical ship battle. Instead, all 230 officers and soldiers were massacred, leaving only an empty ship. The weapons and various instruments on board were severely damaged, and it was even impossible to send anyone back."
Xiao Deli's words shocked the other three men in the room. It is normal for there to be casualties in a battle between ships, and damage to ships is inevitable. However, the current situation shows that this serious damage was not caused by normal combat, but by a massacre that was like an attack from the inside. If it weren't for the fact that the main body of the ship was still intact, from the army's perspective, this "severely damaged" destroyer would have been completely wiped out.
"The Japanese navy? Their methods of slaughter are similar to those used in the last land battle over the Diaoyu Islands?"
Lin Yao asked two questions in a row and received two nods of approval. He felt a chill in his heart, and a fierce and malevolent aura suddenly emanated from his body. This pressure, which combined the power of the original witch power, the pressure caused by the transcendent realm, and the momentum generated by extreme anger in his heart, instantly filled the entire hall.
"Sir! Stop!"
The First Elder, Yi Potian, only had time to shout loudly before he immediately mobilized the energy of heaven and earth to counter Lin Yao's aura. He himself was fine, but there were still people in this building who did not know martial arts, such as Xiao Deli and Gu Zhuofei. Moreover, no matter how proficient Gu Li and Nannan were in using "human core force," they were still very vulnerable in the face of this kind of aura-based attack.
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