“What are you looking at? Write down what I’ve said.”
Lucas frowned slightly. He looked around all people at the scene coldly, emanating a significant
pressure.
Maddie immediately said, “No! Lucas, you’d better think about the consequences for it. You are a major
now. The feats stamp on your body can cover a whole office, but these feats can’t compare with your
deliberate mistake. Do you understand? If you really have admitted it and let them write the report like
that, your military-political career will end.
“Don’t you like the military the most? Didn’t you swear to stay here forever? You said you were so
anxious that you calculated the wrong direction and trajectory speed. Lucas, no one will believe what
you said. You joined the military when you were five years old. It’s been almost twenty years already.
Anyone can make such a stupid mistake, but you! You must have been affected by something at that
time, right? As long as you tell us, the leaders will investigate it clearly. At that time, although you will
be punished, you won’t be forced to resign.”
Maddie was so upset about the forced retirement that Lucas might face.
Lucas had always been a pride for the military region. His contributions made in the past several years
couldn’t be copied by anyone else.
If such an outstanding soldier would resign from the military, he should leave in this way.
The leaders should ask him to stay, and his colleagues should hold a farewell ceremony for him instead
of being forced to resign.
Maddie knew how much Lucas loved the military. If he was asked to leave, he’d rather be killed.
She just couldn’t believe what he had said.
He said he had miscalculated the wind direction because of his anxiety, so he mistook the kidnapper’s
movements. Even a new recruit wouldn’t make such a mistake. He was an experienced soldier. How
could it be possible?
Others all thought the same as Maddie.
“Major Green, you might not be in a good mood right now. We’ll come back in a few days,” one of the
people from the military headquarters said.
“Write down what I said,” Lucas insisted in a colder tone.
Looking at the soldiers in front of him, he knew how much they liked and respected him as his
colleagues. However, he wanted to protect Yasmeen, so he must take all responsibilities.
Since he had made a choice, he clearly knew what the consequences would be.
He would have to leave the military camp, be punished, and be expelled from the army, which would
become his lifetime taint. Even he wanted to be a soldier of reserve duty, he wouldn’t be qualified.
From then on, he would never be back to the military camp, which he knew clearly.
However, if he needed to rat out Yasmeen because of those things, Lucas wasn’t unwilling.
He was reluctant.
He questioned Yasmeen but didn’t get her answer. After considering for a long time, he still made such
a decision. Probably, when he deleted the surveillance video, he had known that he didn’t deserve to
be a soldier any longer.
However, Lucas didn’t regret it. He felt sorry, but one should know what to give in his life. He had just
decided to protect that wrenched woman.
Lucas’s eyes darkened. He said in a deep voice, “You are all thinking about how many feats I have and
how I can escape my responsibility. But have you thought about that innocent hostage? I heard she
was still in ICU and was not out of danger. I heard that she was only twenty-three years old and had no
chance to be a mother for the rest of her life because of my mistake. Of course, I can give you some
other reasons, but I was the one who shot and injured the hostage. This is the truth. No matter what the
reason is, I don’t deserve to be in my current position just because of this fact.”
“But, Major Green, even you’ll receive a punishment, with the persuasive reasons, you don’t have to
resign from the military. Probably you could still work in logistics, but your military status would remain,”
one of the soldiers said.
Their military status was exchanged by blood and lives. Lucas was quite outstanding with so many
feats. He had completed so many missions perfectly. They believed that this only-time mistake could
be set off by his previous contributions.
No one would believe that Lucas would make such a stupid mistake.
They guessed that it must be something that had impacted him.
Lucas also knew it. If the person hadn’t been Yasmeen, he would tell her out without hesitation.
Unfortunately, it was she.
Yasmeen was a foreigner.
Her identity would make her appearance on the kidnapping scene be classified as a malignant event.
Probably it would cause suspicion between two nations. That was the thing that Lucas didn’t want to
see the most.
Her girlfriend made a mistake. No matter what the reason behind it was, he must take responsibility for
injuring the hostage.
Lucas wanted to be accountable.
He took a deep breath and said, “I know you all don’t believe me, but I’m telling the truth. There are no
other reasons. I might be a bit sleepy at that time.”
Lucas had just come back from another mission before being assigned to this one, so his reason
sounded quite reasonable.
The others exchanged glances with each other, feeling hesitant.
Maddie hurriedly said, “I’ll let you consider it again. They can come back tomorrow.”
After that, despite Lucas’s agreement, she sent the people from the military headquarters away directly.
Lucas knew that they were all trying to protect him. However, he had made up his mind already.
When he was alone in the ward, Lucas pulled out his phone and sent Edison a message on Twitter.
“No matter what you can do, send Yasmeen abroad right now! Don’t let her appear in Country Z
recently.”
Edison was slightly startled.
He reread Lucas’s message, wondering if Lucas was still dizzy when waking up.
Who else could convince that devil except for Lucas?
“Boss, what are you talking about? I can’t do it.”
Lucas immediately replied: “Tell her I want her to go home and ask Uncle Steve for help. She will leave.
As long as she’s left, tell Daisy to keep her home and not let her go anywhere. At least, she must stay
home in the following ten days at least.”
Edison was surprised that Lucas even wanted Daisy to help as well.
Suddenly, he sensed something wrong.
“Is there anything wrong with you, Boss? Are you truly deaf?”
“I’m fine. Do as I said. This should be the last mission I assign you to.”
Reading Lucas’s words, Edison became uneasier.
“What on earth happened, Boss? You’ve just injured a hostage by mistake, haven’t you? What else
happened at that time? Boss, tell me honestly. Mr. Morty can help you. At the most, we can give the
hostage more compensation...”
“How much compensation can make the young woman become a mother again?”
Edison couldn’t utter any word when reading this line.
The atmosphere became quite solemn for a moment.
Rescuing the hostage must guarantee absolute safety. Under the average circumstances, the mission
would be assigned to the best sniper. No mistake was allowed. Lucas was the most outstanding sniper
in the army, and he never made a mistake before. However, no one had expected that he would make
such a mistake in this mission.
If they had known it earlier, Edison would instead do it himself rather than let Lucas do it. At least,
Lucas wouldn’t feel so guilty in that case.
Edison knew this incident would become lifetime guilt and knot for Lucas.
“Boss, does this incident have anything to do with Yasmeen?”
As soon as Edison asked the question, Lucas became nervous.
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