Chapter: Chapter 234
“Qianqian, you’re finally back… Huh?” Hearing footsteps not far away, the captain immediately turned her head, and then she rubbed her eyes in confusion.
Strange, why did she see Song Ji, that traitor of the Hero Association?
“Are you Song Ji? The S-class hero who betrayed the Hero Association?” Lu Siyu asked the question that Song Ji had expected before the captain.
Just as Song Ji was about to explain, Leticia spoke first, “It’s not a problem for people to find a new job after retiring.”
How can Song Ji be called a betrayal? Hadn’t she retired from the Hero Association when she joined the Divine Seat? At that time, Song Ji was just an ordinary girl with some special abilities.
One cannot say she betrayed the Hero Association just because she was later recruited by the Divine Seat. That doesn’t make sense.
“Uh, it seems, it seems reasonable.” The captain scratched her head. Song Ji did join the Divine Seat after leaving the Hero Association. If anything, the Divine Seat merely picked up a member that the Hero Association didn’t want.
Is it not allowed for Song Ji to find a new employer and contribute her talents after retiring?
“But…” Lu Siyu felt that something was not quite right, but she couldn’t quite articulate it.
Leticia immediately coughed twice, interrupting the increasingly convoluted topic: “In short, Miss Song Ji is here to help. In terms of protecting this city and killing the monster in the sea, the Divine Seat and we are on the same side.”
Song Ji was about to say that her original goal was to snatch the divine artifact from the sea and that the destruction of the city had nothing to do with her, but Leticia pinched her waist, making her swallow the words that were about to come out.
Leticia’s meaning was obvious: she should let Song Ji perform here and not interfere unnecessarily as an outsider.
“Is that so? Since Qianqian brought her, she is our comrade, Miss Song Ji, I hope we can cooperate happily this time.” The captain did not dwell on the matter. Since Leticia vouched for Song Ji, how could she not believe her?
She was currently the strongest person in this city, and her relationship with Xiaobai was not ordinary. At this time, she would never do anything detrimental to the city. Everything she did must have a reason.
She shouldn’t ask any more questions and just cooperate with Leticia.
“Just like this…” Lu Siyu wanted to say something else, but the captain forcefully covered her mouth.
“It’s getting late. Qianqian, you two should go back and rest. You must be very tired after defeating such a big monster. Leave the cleanup work here to us.” The captain, while covering Lu Siyu’s mouth, said to Leticia with a smile.
“Then I’ll really go.” Leticia blinked her eyes.
“Go, go. I might not be useful in combat, but I’m very good at other things.” The captain chuckled, “Don’t you think so, Siyu?”
You’re asking me a question, so why don’t you take your hand off my mouth! Lu Siyu roared in her heart.
But it wasn’t until Leticia and Song Ji disappeared at the end of the street that the captain removed her hand from Lu Siyu’s mouth.
“You almost suffocated me.” Lu Siyu said to the captain with a flushed face and gasping for breath, “Isn’t that woman full of suspicious points? And the organization she joined, isn’t that an organization that the Association has repeatedly warned us to guard against?”
The captain shook her head. Under normal circumstances, that organization should indeed be guarded against, but the situation today was different. “Since Qianqian thinks Song Ji is trustworthy, I will believe her judgment. She just disappeared, she should be going to talk to that organization.”
“If you think about it that way, then we can also guess whose the white aircraft belongs to.”
“You mean the aircraft that just helped us kill the monster belongs to that organization?” Lu Siyu’s eyes widened. Did that organization have such high-tech creations?
This was much better than the things from their Hero Association.
“That’s right. They helped us defeat that monster, which at least shows that they are not our enemies now. Since they are not enemies, then we can cooperate at this time.” The captain narrowed her eyes and said in a low voice, “Of course, the main reason is that I can see that person’s future, and she will not pose a threat to us at least in the near future.”
Lu Siyu covered her face. She actually forgot that the girl next to her was the kind who could change the script.
Alright, since Captain and that Su Qianqian both think Song Ji is fine, then she is fine.
“Okay, we still have a lot to do tonight. We couldn’t fight just now, so it’s our turn now.” The captain glanced at the time and sighed, “It’s going to be another sleepless night tonight.”
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“The weather here is a bit eerily good.” Sasha jumped out of the aircraft cautiously, holding an old-looking scroll in her hand, her eyes filled with vigilance.
This was the center of the storm. It took them a lot of effort to break through the most terrifying layer of the storm to enter here. During the breakthrough, even Black Wing, known for its sturdiness and durability, suffered some damage.
“Sister Sasha, I feel a chilling aura here, as if something is staring at me.” Shuang crawled out of Black Wing with Sasha. She had originally prepared to confront the monster directly after breaking through the storm, but she did not expect the center of the storm to be so calm.
Here, one could only see a thick wall of dark clouds in the distance. Looking up, one could see a clearer night sky than usual.
“Indeed, increase your vigilance. The divine artifact should also be here. What is going on? The divine artifact and the monster are here at the same time… Could it be that something terrible is sealed here by the divine artifact?” Sasha pondered, touching her chin. Her gaze turned to the speedboats parked in the temporary port not far away. “There are still people here, but there are no signs of life on the surface of the island, which means they are underground?”
“Sister Sasha, look over there, isn’t that the entrance?” At this moment, Shuang pointed to a dark hole in front of them.
The entrance? It should be this one.
Sasha nodded: “Yang, you stay here, Shuang and I will go in and check the situation.”
Yang, who was sitting in Black Wing and inspecting the equipment, immediately replied: “Okay.”
“Get ready for battle, this journey will likely not be peaceful.” Sasha took a deep breath and took the first step towards the deep black hole.
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“I’m sleeping on the sofa?” Hugging a lump of quilt given to her by Leticia, Song Ji was momentarily confused.
“Otherwise, do you want to sleep on the bed?” Leticia glared at Song Ji helplessly. “There are already two girls sleeping on the bed over there. What would happen if we squeezed in?”
It was already past midnight. The Sisters of Repose had also gone to bed early. However, upon hearing the sound of the door opening, Repose woke up and took a look. Seeing that it was Leticia who returned, she went back to sleep.
Although the bed in the bedroom was quite large, squeezing four people in was too much.
Besides, Leticia and Song Ji were not familiar with each other. Was Leticia the type of girl who would casually share a bed with someone she was only half-acquainted with?
Obviously not.
“Okay, then I’ll go rest first. I’ve been traveling all day, and I’m exhausted.” Song Ji yawned and obediently walked towards the sofa, holding the quilt.
She had no ability to refuse.
After arranging Song Ji’s accommodation, Leticia stretched and quietly pushed open the bedroom door.
In the dim blue light from outside the window, Leticia saw two girls embracing each other on the bed. If the air conditioner hadn’t been set to a lower temperature, these two girls would have been uncomfortably warm.
Wait… blue light?
Leticia suddenly looked up. Why was there blue light in the room?
She had been living here for a few days, but when she got up in the middle of the night, she hadn’t seen any blue light. At most, it was a little pale yellow light from the streetlights coming through the window.
Blue and pale yellow, Leticia was not colorblind, she could distinguish such vastly different colors.
She walked to the bed and carefully pulled the curtains apart a little. What greeted her was an incredibly normal night street view. The blue light seemed to have vanished without a trace.
Strange, she thought. At this hour, she didn’t dare to be careless.
What was the blue light trying to do by appearing here? Before she arrived, the blue light should have existed for a long time. Could it be that it had set its sights on someone in this room?
Was it Repose? Or was it Anya?
“I can’t figure it out.” She shook her head in annoyance. She couldn’t guess the reason for such a thing.
She was already troubled enough. If another unsolved mystery appeared, her intelligent little brain couldn’t handle it.
Forget it, let’s sleep first. She was indeed a little tired after a whole day of busyness.
But before going to sleep, she took out her magic sword and drew a circle around the bed as a protective measure for sleeping at night. If anything really tried to sneak attack her while she was sleeping, this magic would surely give the attacker a hard time.
“What are you doing, performing a ritual?” Repose, who was not fast asleep, watched Leticia pace around the bed, chanting something, and thought this black-haired girl was a bit crazy.
Leticia glared at Repose, “You can understand it that way.”
“Oh.”
“Done. Now I can sleep more peacefully.” Leticia put her magic sword back into the artifact space and then climbed onto the bed.
This made Repose’s eyes widen. “Aren’t you going to change your clothes?”
She remembered that Leticia had been wearing the same clothes all day, and shouldn’t she change into pajamas when sleeping?
“No one is watching me, so what’s the point of changing clothes? Let’s sleep soon, there are a lot of troublesome things waiting for us tomorrow.”
Watching Leticia close her eyes and prepare to sleep after saying this, Repose hugged her sister tighter. This black-haired girl was indeed strange.
“Mmm.” Anya let out a soft whimper in her sleep.
Am I hugging her too tightly? Repose quickly eased her strength.
Leticia was indeed right. There was still a lot to do tomorrow. It was best to rest well today.
Thinking this, Repose closed her eyes again and soon fell asleep.
After the three girls closed their eyes and their breathing became steady, the faint blue light reappeared outside the window and remained there until the sun rose the next day.
When the first ray of sunlight appeared, the blue light disappeared from outside the window.
A while later, Leticia woke up from her dream, looking confused. She felt like she had a beautiful dream last night.
She sat up from the bed and clenched her fist, finding that her condition was even better than when she first arrived. Could this be the progress mentioned by the ancestors through subtle influence?
The movement of Leticia getting up also woke up Repose, who was sleeping next to her. Like Leticia, Repose also looked to be in very good mental state.
After sleeping for so long, it was normal for her to be in good spirits.
“Are we going to work?” Repose asked, rubbing her eyes.
“Probably. I’ll go wash up first. Be careful, and let Anya sleep a little longer. Children need a lot of sleep.” Leticia looked at Anya, who was still tightly hugging Repose, and a hint of envy flashed in her eyes.
How long has it been since Kira was this close to her? It seemed like a long, long time ago that Kira no longer wanted to sleep with her older sister.
Even though her sleeping posture was a little bad, and sometimes her feet would accidentally poke Kira’s face, she had corrected these bad habits.
However, no matter how she promised, Kira still didn’t want to sleep with her anymore.
“Sister, I’m grown up now, I’m not a child anymore.” Every time Leticia asked to sleep with Kira, Kira would answer with a stern face. It was probably because her sister’s sleeping posture had left too deep a psychological shadow on her.
To tell a joke, Kira’s biggest childhood trauma was actually Leticia, her own sister.
Forget it, forget it. Her sister was growing up, so it was normal for her to be distant from her sister. Leticia shook her head and walked into the bathroom.
When she came out after washing up, Anya had also woken up from her dream. Like Leticia and Repose, Anya also looked to be in good condition today.
In fact, she was a little too good.
“That’s strange. Anya’s condition seems to have improved compared to a few days ago.” Leticia looked at Anya in surprise. In her vision, Anya’s current physical condition was much better than when she first met her.
What happened, did time go backward?
The out-of-control energy within the little girl seemed to show signs of being reined in. Leticia took a closer look and confirmed this change.
This should be a good thing, right?
