The blonde woman chuckled and said to her companion, "Looks like a fresh graduate, a complete newbie!" Then she asked Chu Nian, "How many interstellar battles have you participated in?"

Chu Nian: "Not even once."

The blonde asked again, "How many missions have you been on?"

Chu Nian: "Once."

The blonde immediately chuckled again: "You got such a great deal after only one mission!" Then she and her friends burst into laughter.

After laughing, she added, "Why don't we encounter such good things? Why don't you share the money you got this time with us?"

Chu Nian blinked innocently and asked, "Why?"

Blonde woman: "Why? Why don't you ask why you got a spaceship after just one mission? If it weren't for us risking our lives in outer space, would your patrol team be able to stay at home and collect money so easily?"

Chu Nian: "Our patrol team was captured by the pirate group in outer space within the Milky Way galaxy. This should be considered a dereliction of duty on your part!"

The blonde woman's face immediately darkened. "You, a newbie who just joined the company, dare to mock our dereliction of duty? It's clearly your patrol team that's incompetent..."

"Wang Nian!" At this moment, a young man's voice rang out.

All the women turned to look at the direction of the sound and saw a person standing not far away, Ling Ren, the one who had delivered steak to Chu Nian earlier.

He said seriously, "The brigade leader wants you to go to his office."

Chu Nian was a little stunned.

Ling Ren frowned and urged, "Hurry up, don't keep the headquarters waiting for too long."

"Oh," Chu Nian replied, stepping out from the group of female guards and following Ling Ren.

Ling Ren led Chu Nian quickly into the office area, and when they reached a secluded corner, he breathed a sigh of relief and asked with a smile, "Are you alright?"

Chu Nian shook her head. This guy is so experienced in dealing with the bullying of the guards. Could it be that he often encounters this kind of thing?

Ling Ren said, "Those guards just like to bully newcomers. It's okay, they'll get over it in a year or two."

Chu Nian gave a faint "hmm".

"Pfft!" Just then, a snicker came from behind, and the blonde woman from before had followed, her face full of mocking smiles.

However, perhaps because she was genuinely afraid of the headquarters looking for Chu Nian, she didn't bring her group of friends.

Chu Nian possessed strong mental power and noticed her suspicion early on. After hesitating for a moment, she followed her alone.

"I knew you guys had something going on!" the blonde woman said with a sneer, her gaze sweeping over Ling Ren. "A mere patrol captain like you wants to meddle in our guard's affairs?"

Chu Nian said to Ling Ren, "Captain Ling, you go ahead and do your work!" This woman was looking for her, and besides, Ling Ren's strength is clearly inferior to this woman's.

Ling Ren thought for a moment and then said, "Then be careful." After saying that, he left.

The blonde woman watched his departing figure and chuckled mockingly, then said to Chu Nian, "You don't really think this man will stay and help you, do you? Let me tell you the truth, those cowards on the patrol team avoid our guard team like the plague."

Chu Nian asked impatiently, "What do you want from me?"

The blonde woman's face immediately turned cold, and she said in a low voice, "Give me all the money you got from this mission, or else..." She then gave a sinister laugh.

Chu Nian stared at her without saying a word, her expression shifting between light and shadow.

"Niannian." At this moment, another voice rang out.

The voice sounded a little unfamiliar to Chu Nian, but the other person was calling her "Nian Nian," which seemed to be someone the original owner knew. However, the original owner did not have any similar voice in her memories!

Chu Nian looked over with some confusion and saw a handsome middle-aged military officer accompanying Zhang Siyuan, smiling and gesturing at her.

Was it Zhang Siyuan who just called her? No, the voice that called her wasn't young, so it must have been the middle-aged officer who called her? And the middle-aged officer looked at her with a peaceful smile, clearly he knew her.

Chu Nian stared at the two men with a puzzled look on her face. She did feel that the middle-aged officer looked somewhat familiar!

The blonde woman immediately tensed up upon seeing Zhang Siyuan, standing at attention and saluting perfectly, calling out, "Commander-in-Chief!"

The middle-aged officer and Zhang Siyuan had already walked over.

Zhang Siyuan nodded to the blonde woman and smiled, "I remember you, Martha from the Third Guard..."

Seeing that the headquarters actually remembered her name, the blonde was clearly very happy, her face beaming with pride, and she proudly called out her full name: "Yes, Martha Crotillon!"

Zhang Xingyuan exclaimed, "Very good! I heard that your Third Guard Team is going to Pisces again tomorrow to capture a wanted criminal. It seems you're going to make another contribution!"

Martha immediately replied very politely, "I guarantee to complete the task assigned by my superiors!"

The middle-aged officer had been scrutinizing Chu Nian, and Zhang Xingyuan also turned his gaze to Chu Nian at this moment.

Chu Nian paused for a moment, then quickly followed Martha's example, standing at attention and saluting, calling out, "Commander."

Zhang Xingyuan nodded solemnly to her, then turned to the middle-aged military officer and said, "Father, you two talk here first, I'm going back to my office."

The middle-aged officer nodded to him.

Chu Nian then said with a hint of realization, "So you're the captain's father. Then I should call you uncle." As she spoke, she tried hard to recall the plot: What was Zhang Xingyuan's father's name again? In which chapter did he appear? The book didn't seem to provide much information...

However, after hearing her words, Zhang Xingyuan was about to turn around and go back to his headquarters office when he unexpectedly stopped and looked at Chu Nian with some surprise.

The middle-aged officer looked at Chu Nian with extreme embarrassment.

"What's wrong?" Chu Nian asked, puzzled. She glanced at the middle-aged officer's rank and said, "Okay, I was wrong. This is a work setting, I should address you as General!"

Zhang Xingyuan turned his head slightly to look at the wall on one side.

Chu Nian keenly noticed that he seemed to be suppressing a laugh, and couldn't help but say, "What's wrong, Captain? Was what I said so funny? If you want to laugh, just laugh. Why are you holding it in? Aren't you afraid of getting internal injuries from holding it in?"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Xingyuan suddenly became serious and said, "What nonsense are you talking about? I didn't mean to laugh at all."

But he seemed a little guilty when he said that.

At that moment, the middle-aged officer said with a hint of resentment, "My name is Wang Xiao."

“Wang Xiao? Why isn’t the captain’s father surnamed Zhang?” Chu Nian murmured. “This name sounds familiar!” Suddenly, she remembered this name from the original owner’s memories…

She pointed to herself with some surprise and said something that shocked everyone present: "You're my dad!"

"Cough!" Zhang Xingyuan coughed lightly, his face turning red.

Wang Xiao, looking disheveled, said, "Please go back to the office, Captain. Wang Nian and I have something to discuss."