Frogmen

Ye Yuan was pulled by Xu Hang into a military compound. The car drove straight to the entrance of what looked like an air-raid shelter, and the sentry waved them through as soon as he saw Xu Hang's license plate.

The car traveled through the tunnel for five minutes before stopping outside a door that looked like the entrance to a laboratory.

After getting out, Ye Yuan joked with Xu Hang, "You're not treating me like a lab rat, are you?"

"No. It's just a physical examination. Don't overthink it."

Over the course of a day, Ye Yuan underwent all sorts of tests: blood work, blood pressure, blood lipids, lung capacity...

From childhood until now, Ye Yuan had never undergone so many examinations.

After an entire day of testing, Xu Hang drove Ye Yuan back to the guesthouse and told him to simply keep his phone on.

"What? Everything was normal? He was only slightly stronger than the average person? Not even as fit as our frogmen?"

Old Master Xu was equally astonished when he received the examination results.

After hanging up, he said to the middle-aged man, "Perhaps you were right. He's just an ordinary person. But how do we explain how he found a submarine in such deep waters?"

Old Xu sank into deep thought.

The middle-aged man did not know how to answer Old Master Xu's question. After taking a sip of tea, he said, "Then should we still let him continue?"

Old Master Xu thought for a moment. "Continue, but don't tell him too much. Just let him help us search. We sent so many frogmen, and after three months, they only found three pieces of that stuff. According to the analysis, there should still be plenty more down there."

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

"It's not that we didn't use them. We simply couldn't find anything that way. The few pieces we discovered were all buried beneath the seabed sand, uncovered by frogmen stepping on them. Submarines and robots won't work."

"Fine. Since you think so highly of this kid, let him give it a try."

With that, the middle-aged man stood, straightened his clothes, and walked out.

At Shangjing Naval General Hospital, a middle-aged doctor in a white coat over his military uniform stood at his desk, roaring into the receiver, "What kind of data did you people send us? The patient doesn't have cancer at all! We conducted multiple tests and found no cancer cells whatsoever."

Whatever the other party said made the middle-aged doctor's voice rise sharply. In a mocking tone, he said, "You mean the joint consultation of three authoritative chief physicians from top-tier Grade III hospitals here is inferior to some ordinary doctor at a top-tier Grade III hospital in Blue Island City?"

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

"Enough. The patient is already with us now, and I'll take responsibility for what I said." With that, he hung up directly.

When Ye Yuan returned to the guesthouse, it was still early, so he went to visit Li Hui's Father. When he arrived at the ward, the whole family was chatting and laughing.

Seeing Ye Yuan enter, Li Hui quickly stood up, brought him a stool, and invited him to sit.

Seeing that Li's Father was in good spirits, Ye Yuan asked, "I could hear you laughing from outside. What's got everyone so happy?"

Li's Mother smiled and said directly, "A big hospital really is different. We had the tests done, and the results came out this afternoon. It isn't cancer at all. The doctor said the hospital over there most likely misdiagnosed him. We'll observe him for a few more days, and if nothing is wrong, he can be discharged."

It seemed the Space Water he had given Li's Father that morning had worked. Fortunately, he had drunk it before the examination. If the cancer cells had suddenly disappeared after the tests, Li's Father would never have been allowed to leave the hospital. He might even have been seized and treated like a lab rat.

Ye Yuan did not know that because of this incident, the hospital in Blue Island would soon undergo an unprecedented inspection.

During that inspection, many problems within Blue Island City Hospital were uncovered. It also helped solve many of Blue Island City's difficulties with getting medical treatment.

In the ward, Ye Yuan pulled up a chair for Li's Mother. 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 because I wanted to visit your family's printing plant..."

Ye Yuan told them everything: why he had gone to find Li's Father, how he had learned about the family's circumstances, and how he had eventually found Li Hui.

Finally, Ye Yuan said to Li Hui, "I've contracted an island now. The workers are all fishermen from our village, and they're generally rather old. My father is helping me manage them, but I want someone more professional to assist with the management. Could you come and help me?"

Li Hui's family had never imagined that Ye Yuan's career had grown so large, and they were all happy for him.

"No problem, as long as you don't mind that I never finished college. I studied business management."

"Of course I don't mind. Uncle and Auntie can come live on my island too. Transportation isn't very convenient there, but the environment is excellent. It would be a great help for Uncle's recovery."

Ye Yuan said goodbye and also told Li Hui that he had other matters to attend to over the next few days, so he would not be coming by. With his father's condition improving, Li Hui was much more cheerful as well. He told Ye Yuan not to worry about things here and escorted him out of the ward.

The South Sea was one of Huaxia Nation's most important waters. Its shores bordered several countries, and disputes there were constant. A warship sailed across the vast sea.

Ye Yuan sat in the cabin, listening to Xu Hang's explanation.

On the day after the physical examination, Xu Hang had taken Ye Yuan to HM City. The two then boarded this warship and headed directly for the South Sea.

Xu Hang told Ye Yuan that this mission required him to search a section of sea for a certain kind of stone. It was precisely the sort of stone the middle-aged man had shown him at Old Master Xu's home.

No one knew exactly how many of these stones were in these waters. Xu Hang did not even have the authority to know where the information had come from.

Xu Hang only knew that the stones were extremely rare. The navy had deployed large numbers of frogmen to search these waters for over three months, yet they had found only three such stones.

As Ye Yuan listened to Xu Hang, he read through the documents in his hand. These waters were far from the mainland, and the closest island was Southwest Cay.

Although these were Huaxia Nation's territorial waters, they were actually closer to F Country than to them.

The terrain beneath these waters was extremely complicated, with an ocean trench more than five thousand meters deep. Ye Yuan's mission was to search the seabed near the trench, at depths of one hundred to one hundred and fifty meters.

Upon reaching the designated waters, Ye Yuan changed into his equipment. Ten frogmen entered the water with him.

Frogmen were troops responsible for underwater reconnaissance, demolition, and special combat missions. Because their equipment included swimming tools shaped like frog feet, they were known as "frogmen." They were amphibious troops who wore masks for extended underwater operations and carried fins, rubber suits, oxygen tanks, and other equipment for special missions.

They were an indispensable force for the navy beneath the sea. The frogmen sent this time were elites from various units. According to Xu Hang, "This is the last search. No matter what the results are this time, we won't continue searching here."

Before entering the water, Ye Yuan had to sign a confidentiality agreement with the military. Its general contents were that this operation was completely classified, and Ye Yuan could not disclose it to anyone for any reason or in any form.