Xia Chujian got off the airship and went to the Small Combat Aircraft where Ye Shijie and Qiu Zijun were.
They parked the Flying Vehicle near the airship, making it easy to walk over.
In another half hour, Xia Chujian would be flying the airship away.
Before leaving, she had to tell Ye Shijie something.
She quietly approached the Flying Vehicle, hid in the Ferns nearby, and imitated a bird call.
Actually, there were no birds here at night, so any sound was particularly abrupt.
But Ye Shijie would recognize it, because it was one of their Team's contact signals.
Sure enough, Ye Shijie, who was dozing in the Flying Vehicle, suddenly opened his eyes.
The Flying Vehicle's radar system was connected to his headset.
He would know immediately if there were any changes in the outside environment.
Xia Chujian's bird call outside immediately brought Ye Shijie back to his senses, and he knew that Xia Chujian was greeting him.
It meant she had something to say.
Since she was contacting him in this way, she probably had something to say in private, not wanting Qiu Zijun to know.
But Qiu Zijun was sitting near the hatch, and the injured teenager was lying on the back row of seats. It seemed like he had no legitimate reason to go out now.
Ye Shijie thought for a while, twirling a cigarette in his hand, and said as he got up, "There seems to be some movement outside, I'll go take a look."
Qiu Zijun was almost asleep, and was woken up by Ye Shijie. She only opened one eye to look at him, and then opened the hatch.
Ye Shijie jumped out directly.
He was already a Rank A Mental Strength Gene Evolver, and although the nuclear radiation outside was strong, it had no effect on him.
He put the cigarette in his mouth, lowered his head, cupped his hands, lit the cigarette, and started smoking outside.
Qiu Zijun secretly observed Ye Shijie, and when she realized that he had only gone out to find an excuse to smoke, she twitched the corner of her mouth speechlessly and continued to close her eyes to sleep.
Ye Shijie leisurely took a few puffs of his cigarette, and casually waved away the smoke, as if worried that the smoke would be blown back into the Flying Vehicle, before reaching back to close the hatch.
He walked a few steps forward, all the way to the dense Marine Plant Forest.
The depths of the forest were not dark. Green fluorescence shone from the mutated Coral Trees, making it look a bit eerie.
Only the cigarette butt in Ye Shijie's hand emitted a little red light.
Xia Chujian stood in the darkness and said with a smile, "Ye Dui, the way you are, you're a perfect target."
A cigarette butt in the dark was the target a Sniper aimed at.
Ye Shijie shook his head indifferently and said, "Where would there be a Sniper in this kind of place? You don't have to bring the habits of the Beichen Empire here."
Xia Chujian's eyebrows rose high: "Ye Dui, don't tell me you haven't seen a Sniper among the Shang People?"
Ye Shijie was suddenly shocked, and the cigarette in his hand almost fell: "What are you saying?! How could there be a Sniper among the Shang People?!"
Xia Chujian said calmly, "The Shang People are not as backward as we think. They have the conventional Thermal Weapons from Beichen, and they also have Snipers."
Before Ye Shijie could continue to ask, Xia Chujian said again, "I've encountered them."
Ye Shijie knew that Xia Chujian was not someone who didn't know the importance of things.
She wouldn't lie to him about this kind of thing.
Since Xia Chujian said she had encountered them, then she definitely had.
Ye Shijie's brow furrowed tightly: "Could it be that there is military manufacturing on this planet?"
Xia Chujian said coldly, "No, there shouldn't be military manufacturing here. The Shang People's weapons come from certain countries in the Beichen Galaxy."
She didn't flatly state that it was the Beichen Empire.
After all, those guns were old-fashioned, modified, and of other countries' designs. Although it was possible that someone in the Beichen Empire was supplying them with weapons, it was also possible that it was related to the other three countries.
Therefore, she didn't say for sure which country it was.
Ye Shijie didn't speak for a long time.
He threw the cigarette butt on the ground and crushed it with his foot, saying, "If that's the case, then our plan has to change. We need to go back immediately."
Xia Chujian said, "Just the two of you? Relying on that Flying Vehicle?"
Ye Shijie said, "Aren't you planning to leave right away? If the Shang People really have Thermal Weapons, then if a fight breaks out..."
Xia Chujian said, "I'm a soldier now, and soldiers don't run away without a fight."
Ye Shijie said, "Soldiers also don't fight battles they can't win. Do you think you can defeat so many Shang People with Thermal Weapons with just over a thousand people?"
"I heard Qiu Zijun say that there are probably 100,000 Shang People here..."
Xia Chujian thought, there aren't 100,000 anymore, only over 80,000.
She had already killed over 10,000 Shang People.
If the remaining Shang People don't come to attack her, she wouldn't be so bored as to fight them to the death.
Of course, in the long term, both the Shang People and the Haidagong should be eliminated.
Otherwise, they will be a future threat to all humans in the Beichen Galaxy.
But she hasn't reached that position yet, so these things are just thoughts.
Xia Chujian said with a faint smile, "I didn't come here to fight them. I have my mission. After tonight, my mission will most likely be completed, and I will leave."
Ye Shijie was silent.
He didn't expect that Xia Chujian could leave before him...
Seeing that he wasn't speaking, Xia Chujian took the initiative to ask, "Ye Dui, what exactly is going on with the boy you rescued? Was he really rescued from the Alligator Dragon Nest?"
Ye Shijie said, "Is there any doubt about that? Second Lieutenant Qiu and I came down from the Airship separately, originally to find her companions first."
"But we flew all the way from the South Pole and couldn't find them."
"Later, after crossing the Equator and flying north for a while, we encountered a storm."
"We were worried that lightning would damage the Flying Vehicle, so we stopped temporarily."
"Unfortunately, the place we stopped was right at the Alligator Dragon Nest."
"Because there are many Alligator Dragons there, three or four meters, even four or five meters long."
"But they didn't care about us at the time. They were chasing a boy in groups."
"That's the child you saw."
"At that time, he wasn't wearing clothes at all, but large Fern leaves tied with tree bark."
"But he was quite skilled. Although he wasn't a Gene Evolver, he didn't seem to be afraid of radiation."
"Then Second Lieutenant Qiu jumped out and dragged him into the Flying Vehicle, and we took him away from that place."
"Those Alligator Dragons can't fly. Once the boy got into the Flying Vehicle, the Alligator Dragons couldn't do anything."
Xia Chujian was curious, "...Then why was he being chased by Alligator Dragons? Did he tell you?"
Ye Shijie shook his head regretfully, "No, he didn't say a word from beginning to end. Even when his wounds were so painful that he was about to die, he didn't open his mouth."
Xia Chujian's expression became strange, "He's not mute, is he?"
That's really useless.
Her A Wù could talk as soon as it was born! That little voice was so cute and adorable that people couldn't help but give it their lives...
But this boy didn't say a word, too weird.
Ye Shijie said with a wry smile, "He probably just doesn't want to talk, because he can still understand us when we talk to him."
Xia Chujian asked, "Then what's his reaction when he hears you?"
Ye Shijie said, "There's no special reaction."
"He was very wary of us before and always wanted to escape."
"Yesterday, when you came over, he found an opportunity to run out again and was caught by you."
"After that, he became much more obedient and didn't want to run anymore."
"This afternoon, Second Lieutenant Qiu and I went out to scout, and I deliberately left the Flying Vehicle's hatch unlocked."
"But we were out for several hours, and when we came back, we found he was still obediently staying in the Flying Vehicle."
"It's just that the wound on his back seems to have worsened again."
After speaking, Ye Shijie looked at Xia Chujian, hesitating.
Xia Chujian knew what he meant, he still wanted to heal the boy's injury.
She thought for a moment and said, "We have medics here, and they have medicine for treating external injuries. I'll get some for you later."
Ye Shijie nodded, "I didn't know I would encounter this kind of thing, so I didn't bring any medicine for treating external injuries."
"You know, medicine for treating ordinary people's external injuries is useless for us Gene Evolvers."
Xia Chujian waved her hand and said, "I don't know, I'm not a Gene Evolver."
She had said so much to Ye Shijie, but Ye Shijie still didn't reveal anything about Qiu Zijun's mission.
Xia Chujian no longer tried to get information out of him, and said, "Ye Dui, go back first. I'll go to your place in a while and talk to you and Second Lieutenant Qiu about something."
Ye Shijie nodded, "I should go back too, it's about time for a cigarette."
Xia Chujian nodded, watching Ye Shijie return to the Flying Vehicle.
She waited outside for another ten minutes before coming to the Flying Vehicle's hatch and knocking.
Ye Shijie had just entered a light sleep when he was awakened by the knock. He yawned and vaguely woke up Qiu Zijun, pointing to the radar display screen, and said, "The person in charge of that Airship is here."
Qiu Zijun rubbed her eyes, muttering, "Why isn't she sleeping so late..."
Although she complained, she still tidied herself up and opened the hatch.
Xia Chujian was still wearing her fully enclosed Mecha, with a fully enclosed helmet and goggles covering half of her face.
She didn't go inside, standing outside the Flying Vehicle, she directly said to Qiu Zijun, "Second Lieutenant Qiu, our Airship will be leaving here in fifteen minutes to carry out a mission."
Qiu Zijun's sleepiness immediately vanished, and she said nervously, "Where are you going to carry out the mission? Can you take us with you?"
Xia Chujian: "..."
She shook her head, directly refusing, "No. Second Lieutenant Qiu is also a soldier, you should understand that military missions are not like inviting people to dinner, you can't just come and go as you please."
Qiu Zijun bit her lip, and continued, "I know it's against the rules, I will explain the situation to my family after I go back."
"At that time, our Qiu family will definitely remember Captain's favor."
"By the way, what is Captain's surname? Is it convenient to leave a contact method?"
The corner of Xia Chujian's mouth twitched, thinking that this girl's tone was even more arrogant than Quan Caiwei's...
Speaking of which, which Noble family is this girl from? Xia Chujian asked curiously, "Which family is Second Lieutenant Qiu from? What's the use of remembering my favor?"
It would be better to give her a definite amount of real money...
Qiu Zijun's tone carried a bit of reserve, and she said with a smile, "My father is an Earl."
Xia Chujian thought for a while, and shook her head, "Never heard of him."
Qiu Zijun: "..."
How could this female Captain have such a big tone? Did she not understand the Noble system? Qiu Zijun said with a bit of solemnity, "Captain, be careful with your words."
"The Qiu family is not only an Earl, but also one of the Four Great Earls."
"The Beichen Empire has been established for more than ten thousand years, and the number of Nobles is constant."
"If the original Nobles do not die out, or are deprived of their titles, there will be no new Noble appointments."
"So once a title is granted, it is hereditary, unless it is deprived or dies out."
This is the first update, the second update will be at one o'clock in the afternoon.
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