Chapter 1638: Chapter 1638 Ling Kong is Rescued
On the other side, at the location of the incident, the west coast of the Aus Empire.
To the west of Corona City, the large central city of the empire, is a densely populated area where many of the empire’s high-ranking officials reside. This area is heavily guarded, with soldiers stationed everywhere. Among the vehicles coming and going are major political figures from various government departments, holding the key to political, military, and economic lifelines.
Their luxurious residences are all built in this picturesque region, forming a unique cultural circle of political elites and nobility, an echelon that the ordinary class of the empire can never touch, existing high above.
And in the very center of this generation of luxurious and unique architecture, the largest area, is none other than the symbol of the empire’s power center—the grand councilman’s residence, which holds the greatest real power in the empire, an architectural complex occupying the entire street.
However, at this moment, the councilman’s residence is not peaceful.
In the study, the councilman and his wife were having the most intense argument since their marriage.
The usually calm and composed Councilman Halian Jing, for once, had his brow tightly furrowed, barely suppressing his emotions:
"This person has an unclear background, shrouded in mystery, and even upon waking, refuses to explain his past. Who knows if he is a spy trying to infiltrate the empire. Madam, you brought him back; I closed one eye and opened the other, merely letting people watch over him and not sending him to the investigation bureau for severe interrogation, already making a big concession. But now you’re saying you want to adopt him as a son. Absurd, utterly absurd. How can someone with such an unclear background be adopted lightly? I do not agree."
The councilman’s wife Yun Yuejing’s delicate, pale face changed; her gaze was relentlessly stubborn, and she angrily replied:
"Don’t politicize everyone. He’s just an ordinary child I saved. He initially didn’t even know who I was, what conspiracy could there be? Although he is unwilling to speak much about his origins, I can tell he has no malice toward me."
"Madam, you have been in little contact with outsiders for years, how can you understand the complexities of the world and the deceitfulness of humanity? No, I absolutely don’t agree." Halian Jing’s face was full of helplessness, but there was a rare solemnity in his eyes; he had seen the rescued person named Ji Lingkong.
With his seasoned eye, cultivated over many years in politics, could he not tell if one was ordinary or deeply concealed?
Although he didn’t appear like a spy, such demeanor and extraordinary discourse could not come from someone of ordinary background, it was evidently from a distinguished family.
Such a person, even without intent, is unsuitable.
The councilman’s wife’s eyes were moist, and there was deep pain in her eyes: "I have never asked you for anything, not even when our son, Ling Yun, was sent by you to carry out a dangerous mission, I never blamed you. But our only son died because of it, died during the mission!"
Her voice was agitated and sorrowful, sharply targeting Halian Jing.
"Do you dare say you have no responsibility at all? If it weren’t for you insisting on toughening him up, making him take responsibility for the Halian family, he wouldn’t have died. His health was so poor, how could you bear to force him to join the military, you killed him."
Even someone like Halian Jing could not withstand such accusations from his wife, his face turned pale, eyes filled with anger and grief, hands clenched tightly.
"I never thought... such an accident would happen." How could he not be saddened by his son’s death; he was also his only son, and even if their father-son relationship was indifferent, the bond of flesh and blood made it a pain in his heart.
