RPAGF Chapter 337 Era: XCMG's Simple-minded Wife 41
Chapter 337 Era: XCMG's Simple-minded Wife 41
Lin Zhiyuan's arrival undoubtedly reassured the people at the steel plant.
Over the next ten years, Ji Xiaosong brought back dozens of experts from abroad.
As they secretly brought back yet another chip expert, thunderclouds suddenly gathered in the sky.
Ji Xiaosong stood on the barren slope behind the steel plant, next to Zhang Mingyuan, a chip expert she had just brought back from abroad.
She looked up at the sky; dark clouds rolled in, and lightning flashed. An invisible sense of oppression suddenly descended.
"Let's go!" She shoved Zhang Mingyuan hard.
Before Zhang Mingyuan could react, Ji Xiaosong quickly altered his memory and then turned to face the sky.
"boom--!"
A bolt of purple-gold lightning tore through the night sky and struck straight down!
"Ah Song!" Rong Rong leaped out from the shadows, transforming into a beam of white light to shield her.
The instant the lightning exploded, Ji Xiaosong was thrown back by the shockwave and crashed heavily into the rocks.
She felt a sweet taste in her throat, and blood spilled from the corner of her mouth.
"Interfering with history...going against the will of Heaven..."
A deep, resonant voice of the heavens came from the clouds, like a great bell, causing her to feel excruciating pain in her soul.
Ji Xiaosong struggled to get up, wiping the blood from the corner of her mouth: "Everyone I brought... were scholars who, according to later records, should have returned to their country but encountered accidents... How can you interfere!"
"Lies!" The second bolt of lightning was thicker than the first, swooping down like a giant dragon!
Ji Xiaosong had no other choice but to tough it out.
To ordinary people, the eighty-one bolts of lightning that struck down were just bad weather.
Ji Xiaosong was covered in blood and lay on the top of the hill behind the mountain, barely alive.
A majestic voice echoed from the void:
"Defying fate should have resulted in your soul being scattered. However, considering your good intentions, if you are willing to repay with all the merits of your life, you may be spared."
"I am willing."
*
The rain poured down, and lightning ripped through the night sky.
Xu Weidong was suddenly awakened from his sleep. He reached out and touched the blankets beside him, which were ice cold.
Ji Xiaosong has disappeared.
"Xiao Song?"
He rolled out of bed, his voice echoing in the empty room.
Thunder rumbled outside the window, and raindrops pounded against the glass, like some kind of ominous premonition.
Xu Weidong's heart sank.
Ji Xiaosong would never leave without saying goodbye in the middle of the night.
Unless something bad happens.
He frantically searched everywhere, but there was no sign of Ji Xiaosong.
Ji Dan left after his three children were admitted to the university's gifted youth program.
The only person who truly understands Ji Xiaosong right now is herself.
Xu Weidong first went to Shen Hongying's house and knocked on the door. Since Zhao Bo and Shen Hongying got married, the two had been living in the steel plant's staff quarters.
Since the two families lived close by, Xu Weidong quickly arrived at Shen Hongying's doorstep.
His urgent knocking woke up Shen Hongying and her family.
"Xu Gong?" Shen Hongying opened the door, still wearing her coat, and saw Xu Weidong, who was soaking wet. She was instantly wide awake. "What happened?"
"Xiao Song is missing!" Xu Weidong's voice was hoarse. "Has she been here?"
Zhao Bo rushed over upon hearing the commotion, and immediately turned to grab his raincoat: "She hasn't been here. She's not the type to wander around aimlessly, something must have happened. I'll go get Old Li and the others!"
Soon, the lights in the entire residential compound came on.
Workers, wearing raincoats and carrying flashlights, searched everywhere in the torrential rain.
“Xiao Song…” Lin Xiaomei led the female workers to ask from house to house.
Old Li led the men from the maintenance team to inspect every corner of the factory area:
"Could he have gone to the lab?"
"What if she faints somewhere?"
The technical staff went through all the duty logs, "Maybe they left some clues..."
However, they gained nothing.
Xu Weidong ran around like a madman to every place Ji Xiaosong might go.
Shopping malls, clinics, schools...
Finally, he stood at the foot of the back mountain, looking at the dark mountain road, his heart pounding.
Ji Xiaosong has been going for walks in the back mountain recently.
"To the back mountain!" he shouted, leading the way into the rain.
On the muddy mountain road, Xu Weidong slipped and fell, but got up again.
The group trudged up the mountain, their flashlight beams appearing particularly weak in the torrential rain.
"Xiao Song—!" His shout was swallowed by the thunder.
When they reached the halfway point of the mountain, Zhao Bo suddenly grabbed him: "Xu Gong! Look!"
In the grass, a familiar blue hue appeared—a fragment of Ji Xiaosong's jacket from today, stained with dark red blood.
Xu Weidong's breathing stopped.
They practically scrambled to the top of the mountain, using both their hands and feet, and then everyone froze in place.
Ji Xiaosong lay on the rock, covered in blood, her white hair disheveled and plastered to her face, the rainwater beneath her stained a pale red.
"Xiao Song!!" Xu Weidong rushed over, his trembling hands barely daring to touch her.
Her breathing was so faint it was almost imperceptible, her face was as pale as paper, and there was dried blood at the corner of her mouth.
"Who did this...?" Zhigang's fists clenched so tightly they cracked, his eyes bloodshot. "Who did this to Mom?!"
Shen Hongying took off her coat and covered Ji Xiaosong with it, her voice trembling: "Quick! Carry him down the mountain! Take him to the hospital!"
*
In the corridor of the city hospital, enamel ashtrays were piled high with cigarette butts.
"Multiple fractures, internal bleeding, severe burns..."
The doctor adjusted his glasses. "But strangely, there are electric shock marks around the edges of the wound."
"Electric shock?" The old factory manager jumped up. "The steel mill hasn't inspected the high-voltage electricity recently!"
"Could it be..." Zhao Bo lowered his voice, "...enemy agents? After all, Comrade Ji has made considerable contributions over the years."
Xu Weidong leaned against the wall, staring blankly at the red light of the operating room.
His work clothes were still stained with his wife's blood; the glaring red reminded him of how she looked when she married him many years ago, wearing a red wedding dress.
“Wei Dong…” Lin Zhiyuan rushed over, holding a telegram in his hand, “The ministry has sent the best doctor.”
Xu Weidong didn't say anything, but slowly squatted down and buried his face in his palms.
This man, who had spent decades toiling in the molten iron of the steel mill, had shoulders trembling like leaves in the wind.
A day and a night passed, and the surgery was finally over.
Three days later, Ji Xiaosong finally opened her eyes.
The ward was packed with people.
Three children, Lin Zhiyuan's family, colleagues from the technical department, old coworkers in the workshop...
Even the head chef of the cafeteria was standing guard at the door with a thermos.
"I..." Her voice was so hoarse it was almost inaudible, "What's wrong..."
"Don't speak." Xu Weidong carefully held her hand. Those hands, which could once calibrate precision instruments with their bare hands, were now as gentle as if they were holding fragile porcelain. "The doctor said you need to rest."
Ji Xiaosong's gaze slowly swept over the worried faces of the crowd, finally settling on the sky outside the window.
There, a ray of sunlight pierced through the clouds and shone on the windowsill of the ward.
She knew that in this life, she would never be able to use magic again.
But when she saw the latest experimental data in Zhigang's hand, the "Advanced Physics" textbook peeking out of Nian'an's schoolbag, and the "Special Steel No. 7" design blueprint peeking out of Xu Weidong's pocket...
She smiled softly.
worth it.