Chapter 298: Chapter 298
Su Ang brought two basins of warm water, as well as a clean towel and soap he somehow found, and handed them to Qian Qi, allowing her to freshen up a bit in the tent.
Qian Qi used the soap to wash her hair, and after vigorously toweling it dry, she immediately felt much more refreshed.
"By the way, Senior Su, weren’t you in the Sealed City?" Qian Qi asked curiously, "Why did you come to Hong City?"
"The Sealed City is now under my father’s control." Su Ang stood outside the tent guarding the door for her, "Both Hong City and Qing City were short of people, so I was sent over to make up the numbers."
"You, an S-Class, just making up the numbers?" Qian Qi slightly opened the tent door zipper, sticking her dog-head out from the opening, "Aren’t you supposed to combat the Magic Beasts with unmatched skill, the best of all?"
Su Ang lowered his gaze to her crooked dog-head, smiled silently, pushed her head back in, and handed a hand warmer from his coat.
"Get some rest early, you’ll be busy tomorrow."
Qian Qi took the hand warmer, blinking, "Oh, alright."
It seemed she was indeed right; Su Ang really didn’t want to go. Otherwise, he wouldn’t always be staying in the military camp instead of going out to save people with Nangong Yan and Gong Qiang.
Qian Qi leaned back with a "plop," lying on the ground of the tent. She turned to pull the pillow and blanket that Su Ang had neatly folded earlier, and her gaze inadvertently landed on the black trench coat in the corner of the tent.
Unlike the meticulously folded coat she had seen in the hovercar, this one was carelessly thrown in the corner, random and disheveled, as if finally free from rigid constraints yet trapped in another weird twisted freedom.
Qian Qi got up, casually folding the trench coat again and placing it back in the corner.
"Sleep~" She hugged the pillow, spreading her whole dog-body in a ’大’ shape on the ground, and soon fell into a deep sleep.
After Qian Qi fell asleep, Gong Qiang finished the family meeting on his side, and along with Nangong Yan, came to find Su Ang to discuss the arrangements for the next day, including the excavation team, strategy instance team, defense instance guards, the signal advance team, and arranging the continued transport of resources...
That night, none of the three slept, staying up all night to finally outline the first day’s plan until around 5 AM, when Su Ang, rubbing his temples, exhaustedly returned to the front of the tent.
He didn’t really want to be involved in these matters, initially dragged by Gong Qiang to the meeting, zoning out at the conference table, thinking about whether Qian Qi would catch a cold sleeping with wet hair in winter, pondering on what meals and snacks to prepare for Qian Qi tomorrow, contemplating how to keep the Seven Great Families from recognizing her identity.
Yet, when witnessing Gong Qiang and Nangong Yan’s chaotic resource management, he couldn’t help but take on the duty of the meeting, organizing the day’s affairs despite his own rejection.
When he came to his senses, the action plan was finalized, and Gong Qiang’s comment "You should have hosted the meeting from the start, it would have saved so much time," made his mood sink to the depths.
"So..." what about retirement?
With great determination to not care in the future, unexpectantly facing difficulties right from the start, forcibly pulling him back in.
Standing in front of the tent, Su Ang lowered his hand from rubbing his temples, preparing to call Qian Qi, only to find the tent door zipper already open.
Peering in, he found the tent empty, with the army-green pillow and blanket folded neatly to the side. Though folded, it wasn’t very visually appealing but not unpleasant, like a stubborn kid, adding a bit of vitality to the gray-blue tent.
Remembering something, he turned to find his trench coat, only to see that the trench coat, previously tossed carelessly in the corner, had been folded at some point.
The folding method of the trench coat and the army blanket were identical, simply folded, making him imagine the girl’s relaxed state when folding it, much like her, truly free like the wind.
Su Ang tightened his grip on the trench coat, the fatigue in his eyes dissipating as if understanding something, he got up, draping the now unburdening black trench coat over himself, heading towards the mess hall to find Qian Qi.
As expected, Qian Qi was indeed over by the mess hall, squatting in a rather inconspicuous corner, pushing a thick stick of fried dough through the eyehole of her dog-head costume.
Su Ang couldn’t help but laugh at the sight, striding over, bending to knock on the dog-head costume, "Are you there?"
Qian Qi pulled the fried dough from the dog eye, adjusting the dog-head costume to reveal her bright eyes, "I’m here."
"Why aren’t you eating in the tent?" Su Ang squatted down, sitting beside her to ask.
"Too far, didn’t want to move." Qian Qi sighed deeply, "Of course, mainly I forgot where your tent was."
She had followed the scent of food here and realized while eating that she hadn’t noted the way back.
Trying to get the system to guide her, it had the audacity to demand three bucks.
Could she indulge the system?
Absolutely not, she rather eat through the dog eye.
"Let’s go, I’ll take you back." Su Ang smiled wryly, stood up to get his own breakfast from the mess hall, and took Qian Qi back to the tent.
Gong Qiang, having had a light sleep for two hours, got up to find Qian Qi, ready to take her to verify the location of all instances.
"The hovercars and planes have been mobilized, signal teams borrowed in an emergency from the neighboring city thanks to the Dungeon Association last night have also arrived at the military camp." Gong Qiang said quickly while chewing on a bun, "The Ye Family sent four A-level Earth Gold System Awakeners to assist us, oh, and Xi Ye has already gathered the Su Family Army for the A-level instance strategy, while the Gong Family Army and Nan Family Army will have to wait, they’ll head directly to the location we send."
"So..." Gong Qiang swallowed the last mouthful of bun, urging, "You two hurry up and get ready to set off!"
Su Ang didn’t have much to pack, but Qian Qi didn’t forget to bring her fortune-telling banner, claiming, "Without the fortune-telling banner, I can’t determine the instance location."
Gong Qiang had to endure her bringing along that bizarre fortune-telling banner.
Outside the military camp, numerous advance troops had already gathered, and Qian Qi spotted several reporters holding microphones, interviewing a tall, handsome man.
The man bore a seventy percent resemblance to Xi Pingzhe, but unlike Xi Pingzhe’s almost deer-like youthful face, this young man in a white combat suit looked mature and dashing like a grown-up Pan’an, his sky-blue phoenix eyes with a laid-back smile, one hand casually pocketed at his well-proportioned waist, his long legs slightly bent, the short cyan hair lightly swaying like a spring breeze, accentuating his carefree and unrestrained demeanor. The source of thɪs content is 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓵⚑𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓮⚑𝓷𝓮𝓽
However, if anyone assumed he was merely another rich playboy, they’d be mistaken.
Being the renowned second in command of the Su Family Army, someone who frequently accompanied Su Xingchen in and out of instances, Xi Ye possessed formidable strength that was on par with other successors, even subtly climbing towards Su Ang’s status, though merely a single-element S-level Awakener, unable to truly reach Su Ang’s level of power.