The Guest: Book 3

by Yufeng Zhuang

Chapter 29

  Not keeping anything from each other

  “My name is Sheilor.” his voice was a bit hoarse, didn’t know whether he didn’t have the water supplement through the mouth for days, or had the outbreak in the fight in the parking lot too severe and shocked the vocal cords, or… because he saw the federal idol in front of him, felt the nervousness from the bones.

  Jane Sue that head of messy purple hair had already been combed very tidy, and braided it very optionally. Just because the hair was too short, the braid seemed very short, flipped up and down behind her head, it seemed very cute, and it appeared much younger than the previous dressing up.

  “My name is Jane Sue.” she said to that in the hospital bed young man with a smile.

  Sheilor couldn’t help but laugh out loudly, he felt that this answer was very wonderful, there so many imaginations could be in life, but who could think of that Jane Sue would introduce herself personally is Jane Sue? You should know that in the billions of federal citizens, the people didn’t know about Jane Sue this lovely face, were absolutely much less than the people didn’t know about the President Hoove.

  The laughter stopped abruptly, because he affected the ubiquitous wounds on his body, Sheilor felt the pains. So it’s Jane Sue’s turn to have a laugh embarrassedly, because she knew it clearly why this called Sheilor guy laughed about, and she also really had not had the self introduction for a long time, except when she was in the Nebula Awards as the prize presentation.

  Just didn’t know why, after she heard the self introduction of the other party, then she answered him subconsciously.

  After the laughter, it’s the silence. When Sheilor woke up, just happened that sister Torrey left the ward and went to make a phone call, so the first eye he saw, was this purple hair little girl again. This time he could confirm it very much, he was not in the dream, but the other party really appeared in his eyes. He became very nervous, somewhat blindingly to listen to the other party talk about what happened after he fell into coma.

  “Enterprise, forward!”

  Listened to the words poured out from Jane Sue’s mouth, but Sheilor was thinking of other things. The federal idol said that classic lines in the TV play mouth, would also unexpectedly talk the things about him?

  In the slightly embarrassing atmosphere, Jane Sue had the smile on the corners of her mouth, was quite interested to look at this just woke up from the coma young man. Until just now, she always didn’t know about the name and the background of the other party. Because besides the government departments, even the general hospital of the First Military Region, also didn’t have the authority to scan out the file of any citizen.

  If just for avoiding the reporters, besides this full of liquid medicine smell hospital, in fact, Jane Sue still had a lot of places which she could go to, but she still would take time to come to the hospital once everyday in these several days. She thought that the other party fell into the hard to predict death of life danger condition for protecting her, and didn’t know why, staying with this young man, her mood would become much calmer.

  In the coma this young man, seemed to have a kind of calming the spirit and relieving the insomnia effect. Several days in succession, Jane Sue all would fall into sleep in the sunshine. She occasionally would quietly look at the ordinary face of the other party, because she wanted to confirm the other party wouldn’t wake up, the more she looked, the more she felt familiar with.

  However, since the other party had already woke up at this time, of course Jane Sue wouldn’t stare at his face any more. But under that smiling lovely face, she still couldn’t help to recall that day in the dark underground parking lot, that firm and persistent and brave figure, and that later thrilling fight.

  In that fight, Sheilor that strong and swift left the deep impression to Jane Sue, although she had seen many the strong of the military, but she always hated those people. But didn’t know why, she didn’t hate Sheilor’s breath.

  Sheilor is a people not like to speak too much, unless in the necessary circumstances, he would rather to choose silence, learnt silently, practiced silently, and made move silently. Only in front of the closest people, his words would be a little more, such as in front of uncle, Charming, Shielding, Charlie Tai, Levi…

  Especially when facing the idol who only appeared in his dream, he even didn’t know what he supposed to say.

  The two should stay extremely distant away young man and woman, sat next to each other in the awkward silence just like this. At this moment, the countless millions KM distance between the East Forest Region mine and the Capital Planet Circle disappeared, even the distance of four minutes and twelve seconds which the information transfer needed also was missing.

  Finally, it’s still Sheilor who broke the silence, he looked at Jane Sue that clear and attractive face, said with the hoarse voice very seriously, “thank you for saving my life, in the future, if you have any thing needed me to help, please don’t hesitate to mention.”

  This sentence sounded somewhat awkward, it’s much like that kind of underworld tone in the movies. But Sheilor said it out earnestly. Everyone used to charge more good compositions on his own idol, and what’s more, Jane Sue really saved his life, so he said it out very sincerely and very earnestly.

  Jane Sue also recognized the sincerity in the words of the other party, after she was slightly in a daze, the light flush floated on her face, it made her look so beautiful to watch, because she always felt that the other party saved her life.

  Sheilor didn’t pay attention to this point, but thought of that he had already fallen into coma for that long, in Coastal state those several care about him friends, perhaps they had already worried about him very much, a little anxiety emerged in his forehead.

  Jane Sue could tell what he was thinking from his look, so she said with a smile, “whether you want to inform your friends? Rest assured, we have already informed the Tai family.”

  Sheilor was somewhat embarrassed to have a smile, his body still couldn’t move, but the smile was still that sincere and honest like the past twenty years, “I want to make a phone call to another friend.”

  “Girlfriend?” Jane Sue asked curiously.

  “Former…” Sheilor answered with a little bitter, “I am trying to get rid of former this word.”

  Holding the not to delicate, but had the metal breath mobile phone, Sheilor didn’t know that this was the latest generation fingerprint touch mobile phone, he just thought of from the slight warmth on the palm, just now Jane Sue opened and handed the mobile phone to him personally, the metal surface of the mobile phone still had the residual warmth of Jane Sue’s fingers remained…

  He had a swing on his mind, then he scolded himself couple times in the heart immediately. On the man and woman aspect, he is a very honest guy, at least he thought that he had already had a girlfriend at that time, and the most important thing was… although under the green tree on the suburb of the West River state, he dared to say it loudly that he wanted to marry Jane Sue as his wife, but that was because he thought that Jane Sue would never show up in his life in this lifetime. Once she really showed up in his life, how would he have any neither here nor there endless ambition.

  Charming that pleasantly surprised voice came from the other end of the phone, and then was the sound of cry which she was trying to suppress. At that moment, Sheilor didn’t have anyone else in his heart, not even Jane Sue, only that waiting for his news in the Coastal state woman. Yes, she was my woman originally, and a stupid woman who liked me.

  And then there was a little of complex emotion in his eyes, because he thought of something else.

  After he made a phone call to Charming, then he made a phone call to childe Shielding. While Sheilor was pressing the numbers which he kept firmly in his mind, he was slight frustrated to think, after all, in this world, he just knew only these few close people. Once he really was dead, wouldn’t it be a little too few people crying by the side of the cemetery? Or rather to
say, there would be no one to prepare for his funeral?

  This kind of feeling is very bad, and the phone call to Shielding was through, but there nobody picked up the phone, Sheilor felt the very bad omen more. He knew about his that rascal official friend very much, he had missed for several days, the other party should have been waiting for his phone.

  The door of the ward was opened, that sister Torrey came in, and she took a look at the in the bed staring open the eyes Sheilor in surprise.

  “The doctor has already been here, he said that the condition of his injury is too heavy, he needs to speak less, and can’t move neither.” Jane Sue answered for Sheilor with a smile.

  Sister Torrey looked at her and said, “the people of the Tai family are here, Miss, do you want to meet them?”

  “No need.” Jane Sue stood up, bowed her body slightly and had a ritual to the in the hospital bed Sheilor, “goodbye.” she said.

  Sheilor was worrying about Shielding at this time, he replied with a hem subconsciously, and didn’t notice the leave of Jane Sue.

  No long later, the door of the ward was pushed open, a large number of wearing the white coat doctors poured in, and the middle that one looked like an official.

  This official walked to the front of the hospital bed, had a deep ritual to the surprised Sheilor, the bow was over ninety degrees, and he said solemnly, “master will come to here tomorrow.”

  The state where the general hospital of the First Military Region was in, had the not small time difference from the Coastal state, when the ward over there had the play of the big family meeting at night for the gratitude on, the streets of the Coastal state were just waking up, the to and from every company and government agency people, while they were having the breakfast, they were walking quickly.

  Shielding stood by the side of the street, and leaned on the phone booth lazily. He was having the bread which had the lettuce in, the red tomato sauce flowed out from the corners of his mouth like the almost congealed blood. He looked at that kept ringing mobile phone, but he didn’t have the intention to get it through. Until that persistent ring tone ceased after a very long time, then he put the mobile phone back into his jacket pocket, and continued to walk to the direction of the Sophie Street.

  The numbers showed on the mobile phone were very strange, although the arrangement of the numbers is very beautiful, just like a music. But Shielding didn’t have the habit to receive the strange phone calls, especially at present this kind of tense moment, any no necessary contact, perhaps would let him fall into the situation beyond redemption.

  In the wee hours, the FBI sent the notice to every subordinate departments to withdraw a certain assistant investigation, Shielding inquired once through the internal relationship, confirmed that Sheilor had already been found by the Tai family, and he didn’t have the mortal danger. He didn’t need to worry about Sheilor any longer, and he began to worry about his teacher who had been as the spy for tens of years in the federal government.

  The last few days, Shielding always felt that there was an invisible net by his side, it was covering him in the extremely high sky, could fall down at any time, and put him in the net. After his careful observation, he confirmed that at least a few groups of targets were watching on him. Associated to that phone call which his teacher made to him in that day, he knew that the situation was somewhat not going well.

  The early morning is the time of the easiest to relax time for the intelligence officers, as an excellent intelligence personnel, Shielding seized the opportunity, got rid of the monitoring of the “colleagues”, and took the risk to go to the Sophie Street.

  The field service office of the Coastal state was on the Sophie Street.

  Shielding walked through the side lane next to the bureau building, just like a going to work in a hurry white-collar, but then he was stunned to look up, because he found out that some heavy object was falling down from the sky.

  After a huge stuffy noise, the car next to him was smashed flat, on the top of the car, that fell down from the high altitude people was already dead. The grey hair showed that his age was not young, and those kept shedding blood, just like the watery ketchup, and looked abnormally disgusting.

  Shielding gazed at there blankly, narrowed his eyes slightly, the bread had already been crumbed in his hand, and the ketchup inside flowed out.