Chapter 26: What status!?

Qin Qianyu left the Lu mansion with a better impression of Lu Mingxi and the Lu family as a whole.

She sat in the backseat in contemplation as she stared out the window. However her own thoughts were soon broken when she spied a person inside of another car that drove past them.

"Oh that's the Duan car,"

"Do you know those people?"

"Ah! Oh, yes, they were the guest that were coming over tonight but canceled."

"And the young man who is he?"

"I'm not sure? A guest of the Duan family I guess."

"Follow them,"

"Pardon?"

"Follow the Duan car quickly. Don't let them see you."

"Ah! yes."

The Lu car stalked the Duan car as they did, Qin Qianyu made a series of messages.

She explained the situation about how her current client, the Lu's had gotten her information from someone close to the commander of the Azure Dragon Team.

[Foxy Sister his name is Gu Ping, he has an uncle in that city that works as doctor in a private hospital.]

[Why are people connected to your brother giving out information about me?]

[Brother doesn't know! He met the Gu Guy for the first time when he woke after you had given him treatment.]

It didn't take long for Qin Qianyu to figure out that Gu Ping had been name dropping to show off.

[Man the guy is a pain in the arse! No wonder I couldn't find out which troupe he joined! It's because he didn't! Now this mess! Seems like he doesn't even know your status haha poor guy,]

"Status!? My status!? I'm just a middle school kid with a love for science! What status!?"

Qin Qianyu thought to herself. She had no idea what Xiaoling was talking about.

[My status!? What do you know of my status?]

[Foxy sister don't be mad, I only over heard brother telling dad that you have triple zero status. This even freaked my dad out when he heard it.]

Xiaoling relayed to Qin Qianyu what both her brother and father spoke about. How he had concerns about Qin Qianyu on the base and went to see the base commander regarding it but suddenly the base commander told him about Qin Qianyu having Triple Zero status.

She said that her brother was upset that there was someone throwing out Qin Qianyu's and his name out like business cards and if Gu Ping knew that Qin Qianyu had triple zero status he'd be better off eating shit for the rest of his life than to use his mouth to utter Qin Qianyu's phantom fox identity.

Qin Qianyu started forming an incomplete picture in her mind, she asked the driver if this road led to Jing Hospital and after getting verification that it indeed goes towards the hospital she nodded her head and immediately made a phone call to grandpa Wú.

She knew the only other person who could have done something so daring like giving her this status could only be him.

She needed to know what the hell this Triple Zero business was all about.

The call kept getting rejected by grandpa Wú. This caused Qin Qianyu to frown so she sent a message.

"Master! It's disciple."

When grandpa Wú finally read the message he understood and called her right away.

"What's wrong were are you!"

"On my way to Jing Hospital!"

"What! How did you know that I was here!?"

"Huh!?"

Qin Qianyu was even more confused but then realised that he was rejecting her call because he was either visiting someone there or for himself. She told him that she was heading there for a different reason.

"There's a doctor heading there soon with members of the Duan family. This guy has been talking about me since our road trip but he doesn't seem to know my status,"

Qin Qianyu chose her words carefully because of the Lu's driver.

"You know about having the triple zero status?"

"Mhm that's right, what can you tell me about it?"

"Wait, are there other people around you?"

"Yes,"

Grandpa Wú now fully understood the cryptic wordings she was using, he started to sigh then he told her why he elevated her to such a status.

"It's a special status within the government but it's mostly related to the military. Because you had to enter Shenlong it would have taken them 10 seconds to find out every little thing about you, even knowing what colour your poop was that morning."

"The hell is up with you and your human waste fetish!?"

" . . . "

"Anyway, I called in a lot of favours in order to protect you, but that's only while you're in that mask and cloak. Your true identity however is still that of a 15 year old school girl so do your best to keep them separated."

Qin Qianyu sat in the car shocked and didn't say anything. She only listened intently. After digesting the small details she asked,

"What are the entitlements with this status?"

"You can command soldiers or any military and governmental personnel per say, while, they technically can't do anything to you they could do so through schemes and such."

"Seems like more trouble than it's worth."

"You can use this status to apply pressure to any governmental or military branch which would more likely than not be granted and afforded to you. You can go all out to protect yourself and you can also take a life without repercussion."

"So all in all, it's basically a Hero license! You are the country's hero. I didn't think it would go any further than Shenlong, but, I do apologise, it's all I could think of to protect your everyday livelihood."

Qin Qianyu understood everything up to here. She noted how OP this status was to wield, she didn't hate it, but, she also didn't like it.

"Alright I'm just about at Jing where are you? I'll come to you, at the same time I can check out this doctor and iron out some suspicions."

Qin Qianyu couldn't help but think that these coincidences with the Lu family, the Duan family, Jing Hospital and Gu Ping were all connected somehow.

Her curious nature kicked into overdrive.

She paused her conversation with grandpa Wú and tapped the driver's shoulder.

"Pull over here, let me out then you can head back to the Lu's."

The driver did as he was asked, the hospital was walled in with a single entrance and exit and they were around 400 meters away from it.

Qin Qianyu stood, leaning against the high wall and continued her conversation with grandpa Wú.

The driver pulled away from the hospital wall and immediately contacted Lu Li telling him that Qin Qianyu had asked him to follow the Duan's car and about him dropping her off at Jing Hospital.

"There's so many ways to aid the country and its people, why would the military even need such a title and status for? When you think about it, it's more of a leash than anything else."

"War was a very different thing in my time, it's only after that, that things started heading towards a better future for all. But you also have to remember, just as we progress others are also doing the same."

"Okay, what are my obligations for have this damn status?"

"Obligations for having a triple zero identity is that when the country is in strife you must protect it and it's citizens till your death. But in this day and age wars are all done via online networks, if you know what I mean."

" . . . "

"Can I give it back?"

"Yes, you just have to stop using the mask and cloak."

"So I have to die is what you're saying?"

"Yes,"

Qin Qianyu really didn't like this double edge sword now. She didn't want to be involved with any political activity whatsoever nor did she want anything to do with the military.

Too much power invokes envy, jealousy, greed and death. None of which she wants or needs ever.

"Alright I'm at the wall I'll meet you shortly."

Qin Qianyu scaled the wall and was making her way towards the hospital when she heard the sound of a camera shutter on burst.

She located and pin pointed the area where the sound emanated from. She saw a young man that kind of looked familiar to her.

Then she saw what he was shooting,

"That's grandpa Wú's personal car! Why would her be taking photos of that?"

Qin Qianyu flashed towards him and placed her hand on his shoulder.

"Odd place to be bird watching, what kind of bird has four wheels?"

The young man jolted in shock from being caught and spoken to. He turned to properly see Qin Qianyu wearing her fox mask.

He was truly shock at seeing this fox mask wearing woman in a dark metallic like cloak with a firm grip on his shoulder.

However he stood firm in his conviction and stated righteously,

"The Jings aren't who they seem to be, that car belongs to one of the Jing family members that's having a love affair with a girl from my school. I'll expose them and that sugar baby slut if you don't let me go."

The young man threatened her. He explained that he had setup an automated system that would upload everything that he's captured so far online along with a testimonial.

He explained everything. This shocked Qin Qianyu because the sugar baby he was going on about was her, and the sugar daddy he was talking about was a combination of the joggers park stalker and grandpa Wú.

"Oh okay, well I don't really care about all of that. The fact of the matter is that I'm after the Jing's for a different reason anyways."

She didn't have time to deal with this guy's delusional thoughts, she'd deal with him when the timings right.

"Wait your not part of the hospital?"

"Nope! I was investigating a different matter when I chanced upon you. So here's some options. You can hand yourself in to the police yourself, I can hand you over to the Jing's or I can break your legs and and let both the Jing's and police fight it out, over who gets you."

"Who do you think you are!? It's illegal to hurt people!"

The young man was truly scared because he had been trying for the longest time to shake loose from Qin Qianyu's grip but couldn't.

If she wanted to kick his arse, she could do so easily. That was what frightened him the most.

"Illegal!? . . . You skulking in the shadows with the camera and also stalking people wants to talk about legalities? What should be illegal is you not being at home doing your homework, what should be illegal is your delusions and obsessive nature. Never mind, stay here till I get back."

With that said Qin Qianyu hit a few points on the young man's body locking him in place. No matter what he did, he couldn't move a single inch.

Qin Qianyu walked into the hospital with her mask still on and made her way towards where grandpa Wú was waiting for her.

"Master, what's going on is it your flu?"

Grandpa Wú looked at Qin Qianyu who had removed her mask and after a long moment he told her about the condition of his body.

The frown on her face deepened when she heard him.

Her vision blurred as her entire eyes flooded with liquid and after a single blink, the tears flowed down her cheeks.

The atmosphere was sombre at least for grandpa Wú. Qin Qianyu however was thinking about what she could do for him.

If she had a lab and equipment she could dig into his genetics and even manipulate his own genes, culture organs to replace his damaged ones and more.

"Why are you here anyway what's going on?"

Grandpa Wú asked as he wanted to break the awkward silence.

"Forget that this is more important, why are you here again?"

Qin Qianyu asked. Her tears stopped flowing but her eyes were still very wet and red.

"The doctor asked me to come back stating that he has an experimental drug that would lead to a non invasive solution to not having any operations but could yield better results."

Hearing all this her mind started firing off in all sorts of directions. She took the report in his hands and looked it over. Her eyes widened and she asked in all seriousness,

"Is the doctor that saw you surnamed Gu?"

"Oh!? Mhm, how'd you know? Is this part of why you're here?"

Qin Qianyu nodded and gave him the abridged version along with her summations.

"Do you think that this doctor has been using patients as his guinea pigs for this drug he's been trying to develop?"

Qin Qianyu nodded, the thing that hit home for her was the fact that the same things that were in Lu Mingyu's report were also found in grandpa Wú's results.

This was now something she couldn't overlook because it concerned someone close to her.

"Come in with me when I see the doctor,"

"I was going wether you asked or not, but,"

"But what?"

"Which identity would have the desired effect, this . . Or this?"

Qin Qianyu asked as she pointed to her bare face then pulled the mask down.

"If you want to gather evidence the first one will do, but if you want to act right away and kick some answers out of them, then I'd say the mask."

"Hmm, why don't I do both then at the same time!?"

"Mhm, alright, what do you have planned?"