Absolute Double Power
Verse-23

Yeliushen Capital…

"You're really badly damaged, Commander," the governor's court physician clucked to find Shin Wu's wounds here and there. Then clean them one by one, sew them up and wrap them.

Shin Wu sat down slumped leaning on the head of the bed with her mouth clenched.

It took more than an hour for the healer to finish his work. "I'm surprised you're still alive" he said, bowing to a table in a corner of the room, washing his hands and all his medical equipment in a silver container the maids had brought.

Shortly after, governor Pao-Lu entered the young man's room and the rest of the room bowed.

Shin Wu was still frozen in his silence.

His father stopped in the middle of the room, then folded his hands in front of his chest, looking at Shin Wu with a frown. "You okay?" he asked after a moment of silence.

"Yes," Shin Wu replied without raising his face.

The governor arched his brows towards Shin Wu as if trying to ascertain if it was true that the young man was fine.

"Actually I'm already dying," muttered Shin Wu, still with a flat expression and not raising his face. "Mi Sai Ya recovered me in an instant!"

Suddenly the whole room was frozen.

Governor Pao-Lu squinted his eyes, casting a sharp glare at his son. Then he cleared his throat and looked. "Can you give us privacy?" he said to everyone.

Simultaneously, Consort Yuwen and the girls burst into the room in a row.

The whole room turned rowdy, then it went back to freezing.

The women stammered realizing the governor was there. Then all of them bowed at once.

Pao-Lu turned her head towards the door and cast a sharp glare at them which automatically made the women inching back and sideways from the doorway, the palace healer bowed to the governor then walked towards the door followed by Shin Wu's servants.

Concubine Yuwen instantly pulled one of Shin Wu's servants to fill in, then leaned on her with a series of questions. "What's going on? Why does His Majesty the Governor look angry? Is my son okay?"

Xi Xia and his sisters fellow son concubines were simultaneously all around them.

Unprepared for the surprise attack, Shin Wu's servant only stuttered in confusion to answer which one he used to be.

"Java!" urged Consort Yuwen while shaking the servant's shoulder.

"We're not sure" said the waiter at last. "We only heard a little, Your Majesty the Governor directly drove us out."

"What do you hear?" Concubine Yuwen cut impatiently.

"We only heard Mr. Commander say that he was actually dying—" 

"What did you say? Dying up? My son's dying?" Concubine Yuwen raised her voice in surprise, almost sounding like a scruffy person.

"Calm down! He's fine now. Said someone was restoring it in an instant. He is fine," replied the servant Shin Wu quickly. "But." the maid frowned, trying to remember what her master said afterwards.

"But what?" Consort Yuwen did not want to understand.

"I forgot her name, Mi Sao.

"Mi Sai Ya?" cut Concubine Yuwen quickly.

"Yes!" the waiter answered enthusiastically.

Concubine Yuwen and her stepchildren simultaneously exchanged glances with sparkling faces.

Meanwhile, in the room…

"The news is true," Shin Wu finally raised his face, looking at his father. "I saw him, he raised the dead!"

His father tightened his jaw, next to his eyebrows raised high, casting a skeptical gaze.

"God Yuoji is in him!" Shin Wu added.

His father chuckled wryly, "In him?"

"Then who is he? The half-god?"

"If the god is mortal, then that's him!" Shin Wu reassured his father.

The governor snorted while twirling his eyeballs with a fed up look on his face. "What kingdom did you forget to live in?" he asked with a cold expression.

Shin Wu instantly fell silent. He returned with his mouth closed.

Pao-Lu approached her slowly, then sat on the edge of her bed and leaned over leaning towards Shin Wu. "Listen, Warrior," he said with a flat expression. "Gods are symbols, they have no power. For the slaves, the gods might exert considerable influence. But we are masters. Lord—God! You're the bastard Luoji. You have to see the gods for who they are. To us, god is control."

Shin Wu blinked and gulped, then looked at his father's face.

"I am God!" Pao-Lu hissing sharply. "And you can be God if you can control them and make them your slaves."

Shin Wu again bowed, speechless a thousand languages.

"You can go in again!" pao-lu orders everyone outside the room.

And immediately the room was back in a row.

Pao-Lu got up from Shin Wu's bed and passed from the room.

Concubine Yuwen rushed towards her son with a worried look, followed by Xi Xia behind her. Then the other sisters.

Shin Wu groaned and twirled his eyeballs with a sloppy look.

"Sir Shi Wu!" The girls immediately scrambled to greet Shin Wu. A little too hysterical. So noisy!

"These buggers will destroy my room" Shin Wu grumbled at his mother.

"They're worried about you" persuaded his mother in a soft voice.

Xi Xia crawled up to the commander in chief's bed with a grin, then curled up on Shin Wu's chest, revealing the sad face of a small child.

Shin Wu groaned again, "You're an adult, Xi Xia! Can't you act your age?"

Xi Xia puffed his cheeks while wrapping his arms around Shin Wu's stomach, "I miss you," he said spoiled. "Sound you're dying?" Xi Xia began to launch his interrogation. "Tell us!" her door while shaking Shin Wu's stomach in her arms.

Shin Wu grimaced as Xi Xia's arm pressed against the wound on his abdomen. He tried to get rid of the girl's hand, but the girl tightened her embrace in Shin Wu's stomach.

"Tell us! Tell us!" The other girls pranced around while clapping in support of Xi Xia.

"Forget over! You won't understand" Shin Wu said without interest.

But then her mother's gentle touch confirmed the same request.

Shin Wu frowned, throwing a look of wonder at his mother. "Since when have you been on their side?"

His mother smiled sadly, "Something happened to us, it hit us too hard to make us realize that we were no different from each other" he said grimly.

Shin Wu frowned again, then looked around, scrutinizing his half-brothers one by one.

"Really! We were robbed last night" the smallest sister chimed in with a sullen look on her face.

"What?" Shin Wu was flabbergasted. "Mugged?" Shin Wu looked around with squashed eyes, looking at his mother, looking at his sisters one by one.

Mother nodded.

The girls also nodded with sad faces.

Shin Wu instantly fell silent. Then look at his mother. "Is that Shashou?"

His mother nodded again.

Shin Wu tightened his jaw and clenched his teeth.