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Chapter 243 Me?
"Xiao Jiming!" Zhai Lequ shouted at Xiao Jiming, his voice smug and mocking. "I heard your team's latest mission failed?"
"It's only been a few days, how did you all end up like this?"
Song Juexiao and Ye Xunnan, who were standing next to Zhai Lequ, exchanged a glance and both understood the helplessness in each other's eyes at the child's sudden whim.
"Can't you control your captain?" Song Juexiao asked silently with his eyes.
Ye Xunnan still had a gentle smile on her face. She completely understood the look Song Juexiao was giving her, but then pretended not to understand and looked away.
—Although she really didn't understand why Zhai Lequ was so attached to Xiao Jiming's team, it was always a good thing for a child to have a goal to challenge.
Since it won't harm anyone, of course we should spoil him.
Pei Zhaoye saw Xiao Jiming's headache-ridden expression with schadenfreude.
"I told you so," he grinned. "Good things will be waiting for you when you get back to school."
Xiao Jiming really couldn't understand it—how could someone be like a fixed-point NPC, constantly provoking, getting slapped in the face, and then repeating the same process again and again?
If he hadn't felt that his life wasn't as smooth as the protagonist's in a novel, he would have really been delusional and thought he was the protagonist.
"...Just tell me who you want to fight and where you want to fight," Xiao Jiming said calmly.
Since the final process always ends up like this anyway, we might as well skip the process and just start fighting.
Upon hearing Xiao Jiming's direct question, Zhai Lequ hesitated for a moment and fell into deep thought.
"Let's go back to the battlefield." Then he expertly made the arrangements. "I'll fight you, and Jiang Fuyuan and He Jing will fight together."
Jiang Xingni followed a group of people to a new location.
The most exciting verbal sparring session was over—although, to be honest, it wasn't really a verbal battle at all.
Zhai Lequ had barely uttered those few provocative words when Xiao Jiming immediately abandoned any attempt to refute him, instead launching into a sarcastic retort and getting straight to the point.
[Hey, the comic has been updated.] The system reminded Jiang Xingni in his mind.
...?
What can be updated at this point?
While the group walked ahead, Jiang Xingni quietly slipped to the back of the line.
She opened her phone, and the first thing she saw was a message about a new comic.
The update was exactly as Jiang Xingni had expected; it wasn't the latest manga update, but rather the side story that Longinus and the 49th Bureau had just experienced in the Lower City.
However, the screenwriter did not reveal all the truth.
—For example, no one knows that Longinus is actually Jiang Xingni except for Jiang Xingni and the system.
Perhaps Xie Yungui is also involved.
Jiang Xingni didn't know whether Xie Yungui knew about this matter or not.
The entire side story isn't very long; it unfolds from Shan Qing's perspective.
At the very beginning, a group of people disobeyed orders and went to the lower city to find the legacy left by Jiang Qishi and Ji Hanzhang. On the way, they encountered Jiang Xingni—Longinus. Then they fought monsters, monsters, and monsters. In between, they took some time to chat and increase their mutual favorability. Finally, they died while trying to escape.
When the mountain scenery sank to the bottom of the water, everything in front of me turned blue.
Blue sky, blue explosions, blue flames, blue blood.
She could feel the heat flowing out of her body, while the cold seeped in little by little.
cold.
So cold.
it's too cold.
Hypothermia caused by being on the verge of death.
Then she saw the revolving lantern light before she died.
Getting to know Ji Hanzhang was actually quite simple.
At that time, the situation in the mountains had just entered the forty-ninth phase.
Being selected as a top soldier and entering the secret organization, the 49th Bureau, made Shan Qing feel especially proud.
Then, as an ordinary person, this pride was reduced to rubble by the successive attacks from those with superpowers and monsters.
The girl, who already had a lot of practical experience, pursed her lips and reviewed her actions in her mind to see where she went wrong and what led to the current situation.
Shan Qing, who was hiding in a corner, encountered Ji Hanzhang, who had just finished his experiment.
Both Ji Hanzhang and Shan Qing are supporting characters with little screen time in the comics, and they did not receive much favor from the writers. Even their appearances were too ordinary, with no distinctive features, just black hair and black eyes.
In the comic, Jiang Xingni can only tell who is who by their clothing.
The screenwriter was even unwilling to let the illustrator differentiate the two characters' appearances.
Even if it were just one eye that's upturned and the other that's downturned, it would be far better than the current situation where the two people have completely identical faces.
"I have some experimental results, would you like to give them a try?"
Ji Hanzhang wasn't particularly good at comforting others.
Shanqing is not the kind of person who needs to be coaxed when she is wronged.
She met Ji Hanzhang, but it just so happened that she needed someone to be the test subject for her new experimental results—and Shan Qing just happened to appear in front of her.
In fact, Ji Hanzhang did not notice Shan Qing's dejected expression and pale lips at all.
She only saw the badge on Shan Qing's body, and the muscles on his arms that were still clearly visible even when he was squatting on the ground.
—With sufficient training, she won't be easily intimidated by what she sees. As an official soldier, she seems to have plenty of time left and won't delay her own mission.
This was Ji Hanzhang's initial impression of the mountain scenery.
So Shan Qing put on the goggles that Ji Hanzhang had developed.
So she was finally able to see the strange creatures that ordinary people could not see before.
*
On the other side, Zhai Lequ was deep in thought.
He fought against Xiao Jiming, while Jiang Fuyuan fought against He Jingtong.
These personnel were arranged well in advance of the holiday.
But what about Ye Xunnan?
Zhai Lequ had not yet decided who Ye Xunnan should fight.
Previously, Ye Xunnan had always been at odds with Song Juexiao.
However, as a healing-type ability user, Ye Xunnan could never possibly win against Song Juexiao, who possessed the power of words.
Despite Ye Xunnan saying he didn't care about losing so many times, Zhai Lequ, as the team captain, was still a little bothered.
This time, he was determined to find a suitable opponent for Ye Xunnan.
He was determined to make Ye Xunnan win a game.
Pei Zhaoye is a good choice. If the internet is cut off, he and Ye Xunnan will only be able to rely on physical skills to fight each other.
That leaves only the newcomers as options.
Zhai Lequ recalled the supernatural abilities of those three people.
—Foresight. Pass. It sounds like some kind of superpower that would be incorporated into the country.
—Space. Pass. Sounds like a superpower that could wipe out all three of them at once.
—The Eye of Truth. The name itself is baffling.
It's you I've decided on, Jiang Xingni!
"The third group, Ye Xunnan and Jiang Xingni, are going head-to-head!"
"I?"
Jiang Xingni pointed to himself.