"What did the front lines say about my father coming back?"
"Although the policy stated that those seriously injured could retire early, as I said before, engineers like your father who can repair heavy mechs are scarce on the front lines. So your father didn't agree to come back."
He hadn't agreed?
Going by Ma Mingyu's words, the military should have allowed his father to retire early, but his father had chosen not to retire out of concern for the safety of his comrades on the front lines and the nation's peril.
For a moment, Xu Ziming did not know what to say. His resolve really was nowhere near that of the older generation. Perhaps his father had not been forced to go to the front lines; perhaps he had longed to be there all along.
Since that was the case, he naturally could not make the decision for his father.
"However, your father did ask me to give this to you."
Ma Mingyu took a small porcelain bottle from his wristband. Inside was a vermilion-red medicinal pill.
"It's a great pill refined from the Flame Clan Sacred Fruit, a precious Blood Qi-rich medicine found in Flame Spirit Clan territory. Given your current Life Energy Level, refining it should allow you to reach 5.0 directly."
Xu Ziming accepted the pill from Ma Mingyu.
There was no need to think about it. This must have been exchanged with the military merit his father had earned this time.
Though they were separated by thousands of miles, his father's favoritism toward him had not diminished in the slightest.
Xu Ziming solemnly put the pill back into his wristband and secretly swore to himself: I must undergo my first Life Evolution before the College Entrance Exam and take first place in the province.
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