Chapter Thirty-Eight: Frogmen

Ye Yuan was pulled by Xu Hang into a military compound. The car drove straight to the outside of something resembling an air-raid shelter. The sentry recognized Xu Hang's license plate and let them pass.

The car drove into the cave for five minutes, stopping outside a door that looked like a laboratory.

After getting out of the car, Ye Yuan joked to Xu Hang, "You're not going to treat me like a guinea pig, are you?"

"No, we're just giving you a physical. Don't overthink it."

Ye Yuan underwent various examinations throughout the day, including blood tests, blood pressure, blood lipids, lung capacity, and more.

Ye Yuan himself had never had so many tests done from childhood until now.

It took the entire day. Finally, Xu Hang drove Ye Yuan back to the guesthouse and told him to keep his phone accessible.

"What? Everything's normal? He's just a little stronger than the average person? Not even as good as our frogmen?"

Old Master Xu was also surprised to receive the physical examination results.

He hung up the phone and said to the middle-aged man, "Perhaps you're right, he's just an ordinary person. But how do you explain finding a submarine in such deep water?"

Old Master Xu fell into deep thought.

The middle-aged man didn't know how to answer the old master's question. He could only take a sip of tea and say, "Should we have him continue?"

The old master thought for a moment, "Let him continue. We just can't tell him too much. Just let him help look. Our frogmen, over three months, only found three pieces of that thing. According to the analysis, there should be a lot more there."

"Why not use submarines or underwater robots?" the middle-aged man asked the question he had wanted to ask for a long time.

"It's not that we don't, it's that we can't find them at all. The few pieces found were under the seabed sand, discovered by the frogmen's feet. Submarines and robots are not feasible."

"Whatever you say. Since you think so highly of this kid, let him give it a try." After speaking, the middle-aged man stood up, tidied his clothes, and walked out.

At Shangjing Naval General Hospital, a middle-aged doctor, wearing a white coat over his military uniform, stood at his desk and yelled into the microphone, "What kind of data are you people sending over? The patient doesn't have cancer at all. We've done multiple tests and found no cancer cells."

The other side said something, and the middle-aged doctor's voice suddenly rose, laced with sarcasm, "Are you saying that the consensus of three authoritative directors from three top-tier, Grade-3 hospitals here is inferior to an ordinary doctor from a Grade-3 hospital in Blue Island City?"

"Or are you saying that Blue Island's medical equipment is even more advanced than ours?"

"Alright, I'm not saying anymore. The patient is here now, and I will take responsibility for what I say." He then hung up the phone directly.

Ye Yuan returned to the guesthouse. Seeing that it was still early, he went to visit Li Hui's father. He arrived at the ward, where the family was chatting and laughing.

Seeing Ye Yuan enter, Li Hui quickly got up and brought Ye Yuan a stool to sit on.

Ye Yuan saw that Li's father was in good spirits and asked, "I could hear your laughter from outside. What's making you so happy?"

Li's mother, with a smile, directly replied, "The big hospital is really different. We had the tests done, and the results came out this afternoon. It's not cancer at all. The doctor said it was very likely a misdiagnosis from the other hospital. If things are fine after a few days of observation, he can be discharged."

It seemed the Space Water he gave his father that morning had worked. Fortunately, he drank it before the examination. If the cancer cells had suddenly disappeared after the tests, Li's father wouldn't have been able to be discharged. It would have been a miracle if he wasn't captured and treated like a lab rat.

Unbeknownst to Ye Yuan, this action would lead to an unprecedented major inspection at the hospital in Blue Island. And during this inspection, many problems within the Blue Island City hospital were uncovered, which also helped solve many difficulties for the citizens of Blue Island in seeking medical treatment.

In the ward, Ye Yuan pulled Li's mother to sit down. Looking at Li's father's face, which had regained some color, he said to the family of three, "Auntie, actually, I came this time to your family's printing factory..."

Ye Yuan explained why he was looking for Li's father, how he knew about their family's recent situation, and how he found Li Hui.

Finally, Ye Yuan said to Li Hui, "I've contracted an island now, and the workers are all fishermen from our village. They are generally older. My father is helping me manage it. I want to find someone more professional to help me manage it. Can you come and help me?"

Li Hui's family never expected Ye Yuan's business to be so large now; they were all happy for him.

"No problem, as long as you don't mind that I haven't graduated from university. I studied business management."

"Of course, no problem. Uncle and Auntie can come and live with me. The transportation there isn't very convenient, but the environment is very good, which will greatly help Uncle's recovery."

Ye Yuan took his leave, also telling Li Hui that he wouldn't be able to visit for the next few days due to other matters. Li Hui, cheered by his father's improved condition, was in much better spirits and told Ye Yuan not to worry about things here, then escorted Ye Yuan out of the ward.

The South China Sea, one of Huaguo's important maritime territories, has coastlines of multiple countries and is a region of constant disputes. A warship sailed across the vast sea surface.

Ye Yuan sat in the ship's cabin, listening to Xu Hang's explanation. The day after his physical examination, Xu Hang had taken Ye Yuan to HM City. The two then boarded this warship and headed directly to the South China Sea. Xu Hang told Ye Yuan that this mission required Ye Yuan to search for a type of stone in a certain sea area. This stone was the same type that the middle-aged man had shown him at Old Master Xu's house.

No one knows exactly how many of these stones are in this sea area; even Xu Hang doesn't have the right to know the source of the information.

Xu Hang only knows that these stones are very rare. The navy dispatched a large number of frogmen, who searched this sea area for over three months and only found three such stones.

As Ye Yuan listened to Xu Hang's account, he looked at the information in his hands. This sea area is far from the mainland, and the nearest island is Southwest Cay.

Although this is our country's territorial waters, it is closer to Country F than it is to us.

The underwater terrain in this area is very complex, with a trench that reaches a depth of over 5,000 meters. Ye Yuan's mission this time is to search the seabed in the vicinity of the trench, at a depth of 100-150 meters.

Upon arriving at the designated waters, Ye Yuan changed into his gear. Ten frogmen would be diving with him.

Frogmen are troops responsible for underwater reconnaissance, demolition, and special combat missions. They are called "frogmen" because the equipment they carry includes swimming aids shaped like frog's feet. They are amphibious troops who can swim underwater for extended periods, wearing masks, flippers, rubber suits, and oxygen tanks to carry out special missions.

This is an indispensable force for the navy underwater. The frogmen here are elites from various units. According to Xu Hang, "This is the last search; regardless of the outcome, we will not continue searching here."

Before diving, Ye Yuan had to sign a non-disclosure agreement with the military. The general content of the agreement stated that the operation was completely confidential, and Ye Yuan was not allowed to disclose it to anyone for any reason or in any form.