Before long, Nie Yun helped Elder Yu establish a video link with their contacts back home, using a special communication number Elder Yu had provided. If Elder Yu contacted them through that number, it meant nothing was wrong. Otherwise, he might be communicating under duress!
Nie Yun had expected this sort of caution and thought nothing of it.
The call connected quickly, and Commander Hu's face appeared on the screen.
To better handle matters involving the Ghost Captain, the authorities back home had decided to make Commander Hu their representative. After all, they had already enjoyed several successful collaborations and knew each other well.
So this time, Commander Hu had also personally taken on the role of Elder Yu's contact, allowing him to obtain firsthand information!
"Elder Yu? Huh? Who are you?" Commander Hu called out to Elder Yu the moment he appeared on the screen, only then realizing that the middle-aged man before him was not Elder Yu at all.
His heart lurched. He dreaded hearing the other man's next words: Either give us such-and-such, or we kill the hostage!
"Commander Hu, I'm Yu Zhou!" Then the middle-aged man suddenly said something that nearly made Commander Hu jump out of his seat.
"Wh... what?! You... you're saying you're Elder Yu?" Commander Hu stared at that ruddy, "middle-aged face," his expression practically saying, Are you kidding me?
"That's right! The treatment was a great success. I feel decades younger now!" Elder Yu said with a beaming smile.
A suspicious look crossed Commander Hu's face.
Are you serious? We only parted a little over an hour ago! I'm still on my way back, and you're telling me the treatment is already over-and that it was a great success?
*Do you think you just went in for an appendectomy? Or had surgery