The Sweet Rival (Mango Shen and Nathaniel Ye) novel Chapter 1144

Zion's face turned sullen gradually.

Who else would contact him with this method other than the members of his team?

"Benjamin?"

Zion quickly sent a message over to Benjamin.

Meanwhile, the other party responded swiftly.

"Sir, it's me."

Benjamin's message popped up in the notification panel. When Zion saw this, he suddenly started missing his members again.

"Can't you send me a proper message if you want to talk to me? Why do you have to hack my computer, huh? Heh. Are you keen on finding out which one of us is better at designing the Trojan horse virus?"

Zion's fingers danced across the keyboard as he typed rapidly.

However, Benjamin paused for a moment before he replied, "Sir, I have bad news for you."

"Urgh! The new year is coming up soon. Can't you at least bring me some good news?"

Zion thought that Benjamin was quite an

interesting guy.

However, the latter changed his font colour into black and white directly as he said in a heartfelt tone, "Sir, one of our team members, Sasa, was sacrificed on a mission."

Zion paused for a movement when he read the message.

"Huh? What did you say?"

Sasa was a member of their team, and she was also the only female who was over eighteen years old in the team. Before Zion joined them, Sasa had always been the leader. However, she gave up her position because Zion had great computer skills. Despite this, she still took good care of her team members.

Zion had always seen Sasa as an older sister. In his memories, she was as gentle as his mother and as bright as Rita was.

So, why did someone like her have to die?

"What happened?"

Zion noticed that his hand was trembling slightly as he typed this.

Suddenly, Benjamin let out a sob out of the blue before he sent a video call request to Zion.

When Zion saw that Benjamin was bawling his eyes out, he felt extremely upset.

"Hey, stop crying. Tell me, what's going on?"

Zion growled in a low voice, and Benjamin stopped crying immediately. He said with a shaky voice, "Base's father was a member of the special task force. Not long ago, he went abroad on a peacekeeping mission, but our enemies shot him while he was there. The terrorist h...held him hostage and threatened us to retreat from the battlefield. Then, Sasa caught wind of it somehow. She secretly went there behind everyone's back and confused the enemies with her hacking skills. However, she didn't last long, and our enemies killed her on the spot while she was trying to save her father. Sir, they told me that she bl...bled a lot, and they also said that a plane will bring her home soon. So, boss asked us to gather at the airport and welcome her home. Argh!"

Benjamin sobbed as he spoke.

When Zion heard this, he felt himself tearing up as well.

Fresh blood!

He had been plagued by the notorious bright red hue of blood in his dreams recently.

However, he would never have imagined that the blood one of his comrades would be spilled in the battlefield.

At this thought, tears rolled down his cheeks uncontrollably.

"I'll be right there. Keep your mouth shut and stop crying! We will always be proud of Sasa. She is a hero and a fallen martyr! She is coming home, so we can't welcome her with teary eyes."

Zion's voice was hoarse and filled with suppressed emotions as he spoke.

Meanwhile, Benjamin tried his best to hold back his tears, but he really couldn't help it.

After that, Zion hung up the video call directly and rest his head on the computer. His shoulders were trembling.

Sasa was a comrade that he had worked together for a long time, but he would never see her again after this. After she was buried in the martyrs cemetery, she would never be seen in this world again.

Zion was overwhelmed by intense sadness when he thought of this.

After all, he had never known the cruelty of war. However, he realised that there were still many people who were sacrificed everyday even though they lived in a peaceful era.

He remembered the fear he felt when he first shot a person, but at this moment, he felt that it wasn't terrifying anymore.

After all, his enemies deserved death!

That criminal had violated the law and endangered Zion's parents, so he was a heinous man instead!

Meanwhile, Zion was a soldier who served the public.

Thus, he had to protect the countless civilians that were relying on him.

They didn't know how to fire a gun, nor did they have the right to do so. Therefore, if their country got into a war, they would be the most venerable people. On the other hand, he was a soldier.

Therefore, his duty was to protect the civilians.

So what if he shot that person?

He was only performing his duty!

Suddenly, Zion seemed to have understood many things. Thus, he decided to use those negative emotions and the pressure that he was facing to move forward.

At this thought, he raised his head and wiped his tears away. Then he quickly changed into his usual clothes and went downstairs.

Nathaniel and Mango had just packed up their stuff. They were about to get Zion when they saw him downstairs in a military uniform, so they couldn't help but freeze momentarily.

"Wait! Zion, what are you planning to do?"

"I'm going to the airport. Mom, can you send me there? I'm fine with Mr. Ye sending me there as well. My team member... someone is seeing my comrade back home by plane now. I'm the team leader, so I'm going to welcome her home."

Tears still clung to his eyes as she said this, but there was a determined and solemn look in those orbs as well.

Mango felt that her son seemed different, but she couldn't pinpoint the difference. However, Nathaniel could tell the subtle change that had happened in Zion.

After all, his son was more mature now.

Zion seemed to have understood a lot of things in just one day, and he became more emotionally reserved now.

"Your comrade has fallen, right?"

Nathaniel had experienced this before, so he naturally understood the hidden sorrow in Zion's eyes.

Zion almost couldn't choke back his tears, so he nodded his head in reply hastily.

"I'll bring you to the airport then."

When Nathaniel saw this, he stopped what he was doing straightaway.

However, Mango was a little worried.

"I'll go with you guys then!"

"I'll tag along too."

Wisdom chimed in as well.

Nathaniel noticed that everyone had requested the same thing. Besides, he would be worried too if he left them at home. So, he simply nodded and brought them with him as they left the Ye's Mansion.

Meanwhile, Zion was quiet on the way to the airport.

When Mango saw this, she nudged Nathaniel with her elbow worriedly. She asked in a voice that was only audible to the two of them, "Is Zion's secondary personality in charge now?"

"Nah, I think he's acting pretty normal now."

When Nathaniel said this, he threw a glance at Zion and noticed that the latter was looking outside with eyes full of sorrow.

He sighed softly as he said, "Alas! I think Zion looks depressed. I don't know how long it'll take for him to climb out of the pit of sadness this time."