Chapter 434 - Relief (6)

11 May, JL International Mall, City F

Matthew, watching the exchange between Phillip and John realised the moment when it dawned on them exactly who Bronwyn was. But thankfully it did not reveal anything about what they did.

After Phillip gathered himself, he looked back and forth between Head Honcho and John before saying "You are kidding me?" Chester, however, was laughing at John.

John realising, he had brought the situation under some control said "No, but Chester I can understand the desire to kill Matthew, he knew all about Bronwyn's background and decided that he would keep quiet, leaving me to be blindsided when General Li paid a visit to base and ensured that I had to meet him, totally unprepared. But taking that step was not worth it, because in the end that was Bronwyn's secret to tell me."

Sensing that Chester was calmer, Matthew said "Chester, do not blame me. Lexi was meant to be in City Y, dealing with business while her retail manager was meant to be here, but they swapped over because of whatever was happening in City Y and told no-one. It was only by chance that Joseph and I were here trying something with Phillip's cooperation, and in the seconds before the explosion I spotted Lexi on the CCTV footage. If not for that none of us would have an idea."

"Well, we all know why that is."

Before Matthew could retort, a voice and the entrance said, "Generals Li and Rong, Colonel Zhang is here."

Head Honcho said "Show her in."

Within a minute, Colonel Zhang was shown in and snapping to attention said, "General Li, General Rong, gentleman."

"Colonel, at ease," quickly responded Head Honcho.

"General Li, it is General Rong I am after," quickly responded Colonel Zhang. She turned and said "General, your wife has been brought back from the Imaging facility and has just started to wake…"

Before anyone could say anything, Matthew dropped the folder in his hands and started running towards the field medical facility. Turning to follow, she said, "I will be back General…" and then started to follow Matthew.

Seeing Chester moving to follow, John said "Stay Chester."

Head Honcho, knowing what would happen if Chester headed towards the facility said "Mr Yao, as you are not injured you will not be allowed into the field hospital. Other than medical staff, either military or civilian, the only people allowed in are the police, to take witness statements, and military. You go near the place; you will be arrested. But at least there was a piece of good news, Mr Yao your sister is waking up. Keep a hold of that."

After seeing Chester had sat back down, John said "Phillip, we need to hold a press conference. My connection to you, as well as my role as a police-military liaison officer had me sent here to manage things. I have just had my briefing from the military in relation to this matter and have the police position. I was just waiting on whoever the onsite company representative. Matthew was fine for a few hours, but we needed someone who works in the business."

Phillip nodded and said "Let us get this over with. There is too much to be done, and while I have a team here…"

"It is the last place you want to be. That I get. Give me ten minutes and I will get this press conference arranged."

Meanwhile, Matthew followed by Colonel Zhang reached the field hospital. As he stopped at the entrance Colonel Zhang reached him and said "General, come with me please." She then moved past him and motioned for him to follow her inside.

On reaching a quiet space, she turned and said "General, since returning to civilian work, normally I would wait for the radiologist to give me the results, over multiple deployments I have learnt to trust radiologist opinions as to results. They are usually right, and much quicker than the radiologist formal opinion. As I only need a preliminary view that there is nothing to prevent your wife from being evacuated to City K, rather than a detailed report on your wife, I decided to have the radiologists focus on the more serious injured and rely on the view of the radiologist. Their view is that there is nothing critical on the X-Rays and scans to prevent her from being flown to the military hospital in City K."

"And…?" came Matthew's response.

"I have spoken to Major Yu at the City K base hospital. He has served under me on several deployments as my head surgeon, so I trust him. After I had the radiologist opinion, I sent him the images and we both reviewed them to formulate our opinion. She can be flown as soon as it can be arranged to City K and taken directly to the military hospital. She has a right broken arm and leg, both clean breaks, and the decision is to stabilise them here for the flight. Before you ask, that is because we need to deal with cuts inflicted on her by flying debris, and we do not have the appropriate skilled staff here nor the time to deal with those, before a case is placed on her arm and leg. However, sir, she was extremely lucky. Several people even from the area around where she was found are worse off due to the impact of the shockwave on them. Go in, be gentle on her, and as soon as we have the evacuation flight organised, I will inform you."

Quietly Mathew said, "Thank you," and followed the direction that Colonel Zhang pointed, gently pulling back the curtain.

Spotting Lexi he said, tears starting to flow, in a strained voice "Lexi…?"

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