Chapter 067. Loved Ones
In those days, Old General Crist's body became seriously ill, he was unable to continue leading the Legion. The Rose Legion urgently needed to find a successor, but looking at the whole Shaman Family, Udir is undoubtedly the greatest talent. The S-Class mech developed by the Shaman Family's mech-making masters has already been completely manufactured. Out of the entire family, Udir is also the only one whose mental threshold can manage to pilot that mech
The younger generation of the family was fading away. As the head family member at the time, Crist had to make a decision.
The decision to allow Udir to undergo a memory removal operation had caused considerable controversy among several elders in the Shaman family. Some soft-hearted people thought that treating Udir like that was too cruel, and while others thought that this so-called young-love was insignificant when compared to the family interests.
The unyielding Crist finally decided to sacrifice his most dearly beloved grandson.
Or in his view, it was not a sacrifice at all.
—rather, it was saving.
Even though Udir was very clever to bring Ling Feng to seclude themselves in a small remote town, the Shaman Family's power dashes to the skies. In reality, it is not difficult to find two people. Soon, Crist found their hiding place. He brought soldiers from the First Guard Battalion to go in-person and catch Udir to take him back. He wanted to kill the man named "Sander", but he didn't expect that person to actually receive the news in advance and fled before they arrived.
Crist returned Udir to the capital star and performed a memory removal operation on Udir.
In his view, Udir's so-called love is simply not worth mentioning when compared to the position of the head of the Rose Legion and the future of the Shaman Family. He will choose the most beautiful Omega for Udir, and very soon, Udir will forget that man and from then on, start a brand-new life.
However, what shocked him was that Udir's hand was always holding on tightly to that necklace with a name engraved in it. The first words he said when he woke up was: "Who is Ling Feng?"
He asked with a puzzled face, "Who is Ling Feng?", several elders were unable to respond to his surprise, and even guiltily shifted their line of sight.
In the end, Crist casually made up an excuse saying that Ling Feng was one of his comrades-in-arms whose life had already been sacrificed on the battlefield.
Udir did not speak and merely pursed his brows in silence.
Udir, who was wiped of his memories, shut himself away in his room for an awfully long time and was not willing to see anyone.
He always felt that he had forgotten something of the past that should have never been forgotten. Being aware of it like this made it difficult for him to sleep through the night. The vague shadow in the depths of his heart seemed to be about to completely dissipate at any time. He tried desperately, but he couldn't remember it. Udir had splitting headaches all day long, and he would even hit his head against the wall as hard as he could, just to alleviate the intense pain in the deepest parts of his mind.
The doctors can only repeatedly give him sedatives to let him sink into a deep sleep. Once he wakes up, he will once again have a headache and can't sleep.
This image of Udir falling apart made the Shaman Family's elders very uneasy. In desperation, they sent a psychiatrist along with Udir's mother to go straighten him out.
Udir's mother, Lianne, is an Omega woman with an extraordinarily gentle and soft personality. She has always been extremely against the elders of the Shaman Family's way of handling things. Unfortunately, Omegas in the family have no say whatsoever, she can only helplessly watch her own son being washed of his memories and turn into a walking corpse. As a mother, she is terribly distressed, but she is unable to do anything.
Lianne gave her son a meal every day and she softly comforted him. But, concerning Ling Feng, she did not dare mention those words.
After half a month, Udir finally recovered from his state of refusing to interact with anyone. As if nothing had happened, he smiled refined and courteously at the elders.
He took over the head position of the Rose Legion, successfully mastered that S-Class mech, and named his mech Silver Snow.
In his dreams, they always circled back to the vast expanse of a white snowfield. He always felt that was where his home was.
And there is only one reason why he recovered so quickly.
—He wants to find Ling Feng and find everything that he has lost.
So he chose to make a temporary compromise and became the heir to the Shaman Family's Rose Legion according to his grandfather's wishes.
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In fact, in comparison to Ling Feng, Udir is much more fortunate. Immediately after he was taken home by his grandfather, he was arranged to have a memory removal operation. Although he was sad when he woke up, he did not remember everything.
Ling Feng, however, clearly remembered every detail of each interaction the two shared.
On that day, Ling Feng received an urgent confidential letter from Berg saying that the Shaman Family had made abnormal movements. That Old General Shaman appeared to be heading towards the Cigar Galaxy. Ling Feng was immediately on-guard and guessed that his hiding place was discovered. At that time, Udir was out shopping. Ling Feng was forced to hastily to pack up a piece of luggage and send a message to Udir to make an appointment to rendezvous in a small tavern. He left the house with Little Snow in advance.
He waited in that small tavern for a very long time without Udir showing up, he, however, saw the Rose Legion's suspension car passing by the street.
With a window standing between them, he saw a man sitting in the suspended car at the window, his familiar blond hair and blue eyes like the azure sky, and his strained, expressionless handsome face.
Little Snow leaned forward at the window and said in a puzzled voice: "Dad, that person looks like......"
Ling Feng's fingers trembled and covered his son's mouth, picked up Snow in his arms, and quickly turned to leave the tavern.
Udir was taken away by that Old General Shaman, which means that their happiness had finally come to an end.
Ling Feng was forever unable to forget that day. After Udir was taken away, he carried his son, walking on that snowy street.
The gale was intermingled with large swaths of snowflakes that pelted his face. The devastating snowy wind blurred his vision. He couldn't clearly see the road in front of him. He could only rely on his instincts and quickly move forward.
The child in his arms seemed to perceive his Dad's abnormal mood, drawing himself into his neck, obediently leaning into his chest, not saying a word.
The child's warm breaths brushed against his chest, Ling Feng's eyes were bitter and tears nearly flowed down.
That Old General Shaman wanted to kill that pair of father and son down to the last one and conducted a carpet search throughout the planet. That father and son had to pass through with the secret assistance of Berg to get in contact with the Undercurrent members in Planet Oman to disguise their appearances with masks. They left that place that very night.
In the early morning of a winter day, there was three feet of snow and a bone-chilling wind.
No matter how cold the weather outside is, it can't compare with the icy coldness at the bottom of his heart.