My carefree life in space

Chapter 108 The Lin Family Matters

As he waited, Lin Chenghui felt increasingly uneasy. His eyes blazed with anger. If this accident was indeed caused by someone, could it be the same person who stole the ore last time?

Wait, ore... He suddenly remembered something and quickly contacted the mine manager again.

"What did you say? The top-grade amethyst ore is gone?" Lin Chenghui raised his voice, startling Deng Yunfang, who was standing to the side, into stopping her sobbing instantly.

“Sir, didn’t you take it away? We did not find any top-grade amethyst ore at the scene after the accident.”

"I didn't even have time to collect it before the unexpected happened," Lin Chenghui retorted loudly.

The person on the other end paused for a long time, presumably also surprised by this fact.

"But the whole incident was very brief, and someone stayed there to guard it afterwards, so there was no possibility for outsiders to enter." The person in charge was extremely uneasy. Could they have been accused of embezzlement?

"Investigate quickly, there must be some clues left behind. The ore couldn't have disappeared without a trace." Although Lin Chenghui said this, he had a bad feeling.

Wasn't the last time we were robbed, it was in the same situation as now?

But no matter what, he would not give up on finding the truth. It wasn't for the ore; to be honest, although the ore was precious, it was nothing to the Lin family.

He was looking for the person behind it all. Thinking of his son's current miserable state, he felt a surge of rage, even a desire to devour the person alive. Once he found that person…

Lin Chenghui's eyes flashed with boundless hatred; he was determined to get revenge on that person tenfold or a hundredfold.

Finally, the mining area responded again.

"Sir, we've checked all the surveillance footage and questioned everyone, but we haven't found any suspicious individuals," the mine manager reported nervously.

Although he had expected it, Lin Chenghui still couldn't accept it: "What about the surveillance footage from the time of the accident?"

"I've checked. The collapse was caused by the excavation work loosening the rocks. I'll send you the on-site video surveillance footage right away."

Soon, Lin Chenghui received the video surveillance footage sent by the other party.

Projecting the video into the void, Lin Chenghui carefully examined the magnified image, scrutinizing every frame and second, determined to find anything suspicious.

The video footage pulled him back to that heartbreaking moment, and he saw the instant his son pushed him away.

Lin Chenghui suppressed his heartache and watched the video several times from beginning to end, but unfortunately he found nothing.

He slumped back in his chair, his eyes vacant and lifeless. How could there not be something suspicious about him?

Just then, he heard a heavy thud beside him. Startled, he immediately turned around and saw his wife lying on the ground.

It turns out that Deng Yunfang had also seen the video. She witnessed the entire process of her son's accident and finally couldn't bear the shock, so she fainted.

"Quick, someone come here!!" Lin Chenghui immediately stepped forward, picked up his wife, and shouted for medical personnel.

After a period of chaos and confusion, Lin Chenghui looked at his wife and son in the two hospital rooms, and his eyes finally welled up with tears again.

He trembled as he took out his personal terminal and dialed his mother's number.

"What did you say? Zihao is in trouble?" Ning Ya's incredulous voice came from the other end of the line.

Lin Chenghui closed his eyes, as if he had made a decision, and told the whole story without reservation.

After waiting for a long time without a response, Lin Chenghui became anxious. He knew that his mother loved Zihao very much and that she might not be able to bear this blow. However, he was already at his wit's end. Now that his wife and two children were all in bed, he simply couldn't take care of them all by himself.

Sure enough, a different person answered the phone, "Brother, Mother has fainted."

He is Lin Chengye, Ning Ya's second son, and also Lin Miaomiao's father.

Lin Chengye felt conflicted. He wanted to blame his elder brother for upsetting their mother and causing her to suddenly faint, but he also knew that his brother wasn't to blame. He had been right there beside them and had overheard the whole story.

I never expected my nephew to encounter such a thing. That spirited young man, who should have had a bright future, is now in a vegetative state. No one could bear this.

"It's my fault for not being able to help Mother, but I can't do anything about it. First it was Coco, then Zihao, and now your sister-in-law has fainted from excessive grief..."

As he spoke, Lin Chenghui couldn't help but cry in front of his younger brother, something that would have been absolutely impossible in the past.

"Brother, don't worry. Mother is fine. She just fainted because she was excited. She'll be alright when she wakes up."

Lin Chengye could only comfort him in this way. After thinking for a moment, he asked again, "Brother, should we send Zihao and Keke back to the Imperial Star for treatment? The medical conditions on the Imperial Star are better."

"It's already being arranged. We'll go back once Zihao's condition stabilizes," Lin Chenghui replied.

"Is Father home?" Lin Chenghui finally couldn't help but ask. From childhood to adulthood, their father had never cared about them, and their relationship was so distant that they didn't seem like a family at all.

If his cold treatment of them stemmed from his guilt towards his first wife, then why did he not show any concern for that...elder brother? Even when the news of that elder brother's death arrived, he showed no sign of sadness.

"This... it should be there, right..." Lin Chengye replied somewhat uncertainly.

“Go find him and tell him about Zihao. I want to see if he’ll be moved at all.” Lin Chenghui’s words were full of resentment towards his father.

He didn't want to see his father's cold face, but he needed his father's strength now. He was willing to do anything to find out who was behind it all. What did his father's cold face matter?

Moreover, Zihao is his own grandson; how could he stand idly by?

"Okay, I'll go right away." Actually, Lin Chengye was quite afraid of his father; in fact, he and his siblings were all afraid of their father. But there was a reason for this, and he couldn't avoid going to see him just because he was afraid.

In the ancestral home of the Lin family, in the simple and quiet study, Lin Chengye recounted the entire incident to Lin Yu in detail.

"You mean, your older brother thinks this was done by our enemy?" Lin Yu's words were calm and indifferent, as if he were talking about something else entirely.

“That’s right. First, Coco contracted a strange illness for no reason, and then Zihao became the way he is now. It’s obvious that someone is deliberately targeting him,” Lin Chengye said with certainty.

He was extremely anxious and wanted his father to come forward as soon as possible to find the person behind it all. After all, his daughter was still there, and if something happened to Miaomiao, he would be devastated just like his older brother.

"Alright, you can go now. I'll send someone to investigate."

Sensing his father's coldness, Lin Chengye felt somewhat resentful, but seeing his father's expressionless face and his long-standing fear of his father, he couldn't utter any words of complaint and could only obey and leave.

After he left, in the silent study, Lin Yu's somewhat hollow self-talk echoed, "Seeking revenge?"