Subordinate Doting - Chap 38
When Ji Tingyu walked over, he actually felt a layer of sweat on the palm of his hand.
”Xiao Qing, you…” He turned his head to look at He Zhuo: “Did you bully him?”
”Why would I bully a child?” The intimidation in his eyes had faded, and he became gentle, respectful and courteous again.
”I’m not some shitty kid. Wouldn’t it be more suspicious if you showed up out of nowhere?”
”But you have to know that there are many cases in this world where the latecomers surpass the leaders.”
”I’ll kill you and see if the dead can still prevail!” It was the first time in his life that Sha Moqing spoke so many words and rushed forward to duel with He Zhuo.
”Stop it! I’m spoiling you, aren’t I?”
Ji Tingyu really didn’t understand why the two of them didn’t get along at first sight. It was the same when they were on the snowy mountain. When He Zhuo fell and pounced on him, Mo Moqing almost kicked him.
”What’s the situation now? Are you here alone?” Ji Tingyu pushed his brother into a chair and poured him a glass of water.
Before he could reply, someone outside the door shouted, “Boss! There are still us!”
Meng Fan jumped and waved, and Sangbu asked if they could be let in.
”Come in, thank you Uncle Sang.”
Not only the two of them came together, but also the monkey driver that day, the beautiful snake Rosalyn and the doctor Eric.
Meng Fan rushed in and threw himself at him. The little rabbit’s eyes were red and looked particularly pitiful: “Wuwuwu Boss, I knew you were still alive… I thought I would never see you again in this life…”
”What are you talking about? Who said I’m dead? Wait…” Ji Tingyu’s voice suddenly lowered, and he pinched Meng Fan’s left ear, which was obviously shorter, “Little bastard, what’s wrong with you?”
”I…” Meng Fan couldn’t hold back any longer when he heard him calling him. Tears fell down his face and his lips trembled. He looked extremely aggrieved and wanted to complain to his family immediately.
But when he saw He Zhuo behind Ji Tingyu, he stopped talking again.
The other team members then noticed that there was a stranger standing behind Ji Tingyu. He Zhuo had a cold expression and sharp eyes, revealing an indifference that showed he didn’t care about anyone equally. He just put his hand lightly on Ji Tingyu’s shoulder.
Like a silent but solid backing.
”It’s okay, we’re one family.”
Ji Tingyu patted the back of his hand that was on his shoulder.
Meng Fan nodded and cried, “We brought a lot of people with us to rescue, but halfway through we found that all the guns we had were blanks. We called the base and they said that the person in charge of the warehouse made a mistake and gave us guns for the exercise.”
He cursed and said, “Bullshit!” Then he said, “After that, we encountered another group of bandits. They were not hunters but they had great firepower. Thanks to Desert Green for protecting us, we escaped back to the base. But as soon as we got back to the base, someone said, “Boss, you died…”
He was overwhelmed with grief when he thought of this, and cried breathlessly: “Those people are too much! They are not from our base at all, and they just brought back a charred corpse, and insisted that it was you without even doing a DNA test! They also didn’t let us out to continue searching! We were caught as soon as we came out. Fortunately, Xiaoqing searched the snowy mountains day and night for the signal you left behind, and he was almost dying of exhaustion before he found this place.”
Upon hearing this, Ji Tingyu looked at the young man standing in the corner. Mo Shaqing’s eyes lit up instantly, but he quickly turned his head away as if he was angry.
Just like a little wolfdog that has been wronged and will ignore its owner for a minute.
Ji Tingyu didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, and said to him, “Come here.”
So before even a minute had passed, the puppy immediately rushed over, wagging its tail, hugged him tightly, buried its face in Ji Tingyu’s shoulder and muttered something.
”What?” Ji Tingyu didn’t hear clearly.
Sha Moqing said in a low voice: “Brother scolded me…”
This was the first time he was separated from his brother at a critical moment of life and death, and also the first time he was scolded by his brother because of an “outsider”.
After thinking for a while, he asked again: “Is it because I didn’t do well enough?”
Ji Tingyu’s heart suddenly felt sour.
After all, he was just an eighteen-year-old, very small eagle. It was really difficult to put the safety of so many people on his shoulders.
”No, you’ve always done well.” Ji Tingyu rubbed his head and found it funny: “You feel so wronged after I scolded you? I’ve even beaten you before.”
”That’s different.”
”What’s the difference?”
Ji Tingyu couldn’t understand his obsession, so he took out a few candies from his pocket and gave them to him, “Don’t worry, I will always be your brother, and no one can take me away from you.”
Sha Moqing took the candy with both hands and put it in his pocket with great care. But he thought bitterly: Ke Ge has been taken away…
Ji Tingyu was not surprised by the current situation. When he heard Meng Fan say that he mistakenly thought he was dead, he had guessed it. After all, this was a common trick used by the higher-ups to kill a person. However…
”Who are the leaders who stopped you from coming out and took back the charred corpse?”
”William! It’s all him.”
”Um.”
In fact, he guessed that the person behind the scenes was also William. He and William had had disagreements for a long time, and the other party probably wanted to kill him by borrowing a knife to get rid of him.
But William had absolutely no idea about the location of the windbreak. That hole had been a secret base for him and his teammates since it was dug.
Unless someone in the team collaborates with William.
Who could it be…
Ji Tingyu remembered what the criminal once said: The one who betrays you is the person closest to you.
Is this the truth or a cover-up? And the people closest to him…
Ji Tingyu raised his eyes calmly and looked at the people opposite him.
They were all injured to varying degrees.
Monkey had a knife wound on his face, Eric had a bruised face and nose, Meng Fan and Rosaline were the worst injured, one had the tip of his ear cut off, and the other had his right hand in a cast. It looked like they were exhausted these days, but they still smiled broadly when they looked into his eyes.
The monkey cried and laughed at the same time, while Rosalin wiped her tears and mouthed to him with trembling lips: I’m so scared…
In any case, Ji Tingyu was unwilling to suspect that these people would harm him.
