Weapons! Hou Zi is the boss of the underworld, so he must have guns and ammunition somewhere on his hands. Xia Jinyuan was an illegal mercenary that needed arms and ammunition since his mission wasn’t over, how can he be caught without any weapons on him!
“You came back to Yunnan because you trusted Hou Zi a lot and was sure he’d definitely help you out! You need Hou Zi’s help to get weapons!” She was practically speaking with tremors in her voice; she was shaking so much that even her fingertips were shaky.
He needed to carry weapons even after returning home, what kind of people did he mess with before coming back? There’s one thing that she was certain, the people that he had brought here, they themselves also had weapons!
The smile on Xia Jinyuan’s face etched deeper, besides that, even his eyes seemed to show a different light.
He led Ye Jian to know the danger of his current mission; then, he listened as she analyzed each and every clue behind the reason he had returned here. It had actually made him feel prideful from the bottom of his heart.
This was his little fox, a brave, tough, girl who becomes more courageous the more trouble she faces, a girl who wouldn’t easily give up.
“That’s right; also, my current identity is an illegal mercenary; it’s impossible for me to return to the military and claim my weapons. Even if I wanted firearms and munitions, I’d have to get it from Hou Zi. Returning to Yunnan is my best option.”
“This time we came back, our mission is to ‘draw out the snakes.’ While I am in charge of leaving behind clues along the road, whether intentional or not, to lure these overseas ‘snakes’ into Yunnan province and provide a chance for the others to return safely. That’s why I said, Ye Jian, I’ve brought a huge danger to your side.”
“Are you afraid?” He asked her just like that, only three words, and he asked with a hushed voice, but each word he said was brimming with an imposing feeling. Every word is no different than a huge mountain crashing overhead.
Ye Jian wasn’t afraid; she wasn’t afraid of danger in the least; also, what she was worried about was not whether he brought danger back!
When she spoke up once again, Ye Jian noticed her voice was so tense it sounded like a violin string on the brink of snapping, “Then what are you going to do now? What’s going to happen to your identity?”
She wasn’t afraid of danger; she was afraid that his identity could not be restored!
Her words soured the edges of Xia Jinyuan’s eyes. The girl that he liked wasn’t afraid that he had brought danger to her, instead… she was afraid his identity cannot be restored.
With a sting rising in his heart, Major Xia forcibly suppressed his impulse to pull her into his embrace. He drew in a deep breath then calmly continued: “Though my current identity is one of an illegal mercenary when all of this is over, my identity will naturally be restored.”
When Ye Jian heard his words, it was as though she had seen the giant mountain pressing on her heart being blasted to smithereens with a ‘boom’ and her whole body relaxed…
So his identity can be restored once the mission is over, that’s great, that’s great… before she breathed that unwanted feeling out of her heart, the next few words from Xia Jinyuan caused her heart to grow chilled.
“Actually, those aren’t much of a problem; the problem is the injured K7. He contacted G3 last night, but he didn’t even send so much as a coordinate. That’s why I suspect he didn’t escape; instead, he was ‘bitten’ down. Little fox, that’s the greatest problem so far.”
“G3 is K7’s point of contact, while I am G3’s point of contact. During this mission, everyone is responsible for contacting and receiving someone else. K7 crawled out from the midst of an artillery barrage; even his fake mercenary uniform was ripped to strips, so when I saw your school uniform, I thought about the situation of K7’s injury…”
He stopped, he was reluctant to personally voice out his doubts that his comrade was being taken, hostage. His gaze that was fixated on Ye Jian also revealed a somber glow.
Ye Jian, whose emotions were being spurred on by Xia Jinyuan, stared at him with narrowed pupils. She stopped pursuing to ask other questions. Instead, she asked for her own reasons: “Captain Xia, now that you’ve told me your mission and the problems your team is facing, that means not only can I ask questions that involve the operation of this mission, I can also directly participate in this mission, correct?”
