Chapter Three: Riding the Wind
Qi An's hand instinctively reached for his waist, but then stopped.
There was another person behind her.
I don't know when I got close, but now I'm only about two meters away from her.
What kind of speed enhancement value is this?
Qi An completely abandoned the idea of drawing his gun, and simply said, "I was just passing by during my morning run. I'm a purifier."
She raised one hand and stretched the other out, displaying the blue Purifier badge tied to her wrist in the beam of light.
The beam of light in front pressed down slightly.
Qi An lost his sense of the person behind him, and a tall figure walked towards him from the same direction as the pillar of light. He exclaimed in surprise, "Dr. Qi?"
The voice relaxed Qi An's tense nerves, and she was also somewhat surprised, "Captain Yu?"
This "Captain Yu" landed silently, clearly the same person who had quietly circled behind Qi An earlier.
This person was two heads taller than Qi An, with thick, coarse short hair, slightly dark skin, and a angular face. At first glance, he looked like a man, but upon closer listening, his voice was definitely that of a woman.
The man beside her, holding a flashlight and a gun, was also tall and straight, but with delicate eyebrows, beautiful eyes, and thin, cherry-like lips, he was more dazzling than the flashlight beam.
These are the main characters in the trending topic she spent half the night browsing: Yu Shuang, the captain of Team Ride 2, and Zhao Bohan, the vice-captain.
Encountering it here was truly unexpected. Qi An glanced at the flame again and saw that it was a basin with several pieces of yellow paper burning inside. He immediately understood.
Burning paper money is said to be an ancient form of ritual performed before the end of the world.
When Yu Shuang saw Qi An looking at the brazier, she didn't try to hide it, but just gave an awkward laugh: "Sorry, Dr. Qi, it was dark, we were just acting out of our professional habits."
Qi An quickly replied that he understood.
She knew Yu Shuang; in fact, one could say that Yu Shuang was one of the most important people to her in the entire base.
Yu Shuang's physical enhancement rating is A, and her speed enhancement reaches 8, making her a true elite warrior. Zhao Bohan, on the other hand, is said to have achieved a very rare balance of physical and mental enhancement, with both ratings at B.
Yu Shuang and the rest of the Chengfeng Team 2 members, except for Zhao Bohan, are all regular customers of Qi'an Purification Room.
Although they were acquaintances, the night was deep, and the misunderstanding left the three of them somewhat embarrassed standing in the cold wind.
Qi An hesitated for a moment, then walked over and picked up a small stack of thin paper—upon closer inspection, he discovered it was just normal office A4 paper that had been yellowed...
He vaguely felt that the yellow paper burned for the dead before the apocalypse shouldn't have been made like this, but Qi An remained expressionless and threw the paper into the brazier.
"Please accept my condolences," she said softly.
Yu Shuang raised a thick eyebrow and then sincerely said, "Thank you."
Zhao Bohan thanked him and put away his pistol.
The three of them squatted in a triangle around the brazier, the atmosphere becoming harmonious. Qi An hesitated again, but finally asked the question he had been thinking about for a long time last night:
"I want to switch to Emergency Purification Specialist. Should we add more members to Team 2? Are you short of a dedicated Purification Specialist?"
After these words, there was silence.
After a long pause, Yu Shuang asked incredulously, "Doctor Xiao Qi mean that you want to come to our team as a purification specialist?"
Qi An nodded seriously.
Zhao Bohan's gaze swept over her Purifier badge, and when he saw the "7" in the Mental Enhancement Value column, he pursed his lips and remained silent.
Yu Shuang stared at Qi An again to confirm, "It's not the Riding Wind Team, but Riding Wind Team 2?"
"yes."
Silence fell again. Yu Shuang ran her hands through her hair, seemingly trying to clear her thoughts, before finally speaking after a long pause:
"Hearing Dr. Qi say these words today, I suspect it's the spirits of Xiao Zhou and the others appearing in my life."
However, there are two problems here!
She held up her finger: "First, how did you manage to join our team as a purifier?"
When our team was at full strength with 9 people, we didn't have a Purifier. It was all Old Zhao. He had a mental enhancement value of 5, so he could barely be used as half a Purifier!
Even so, teams 3 and 4 are still incredibly envious!
Second, Dr. Qi, why do you want to join our team? Haven't you heard about our lawsuit with Team 1?
"That guy, Captain Zhou Yang, his aunt is the Logistics Minister of the Army! His own aunt!"
Qi An was not frightened.
She regularly eavesdropped on the hospital's cleaning staff gossip in the corner, accumulating connections and spending half the night scrolling on her phone. She knew that Aunt Zhou Yang was the logistics manager, named Liu Hui, a high-ranking and powerful figure.
Qi An looked at the two people in front of him and threw the question back at them directly: "I know about the backstage situation of Team 1, and I also have some ideas on how to transfer them to your team."
However, my superiors have given me a high rating. If I join your team, you probably won't have any replacement players.
Your tasks may become more difficult in the future.
With the addition of valuable professional first aid and purification personnel, the chances of survival on the battlefield have greatly increased, making the Wind Chaser 2nd Team a different force in the entire army.
They will become the only ultra-elite special forces team, and the difficulty of their missions will be incomparable to that of the past.
There's also the grudge against Team 1.
Team 2 clearly lost the lawsuit. Have they completely backed down? Do they still dare to expand their strength right under Team 1's nose?
Yu Shuang and Zhao Bohan looked at each other and remained silent for a moment.
Qi An knew that her question was powerful, and the silence between the two made her heart sink.
But a moment later, Yu Shuang laughed:
"Sigh, Dr. Qi, the way you're asking that is like asking a soldier if he wants to be a general."
More difficult tasks mean more opportunities to make contributions; stronger capabilities will allow you to crush those cowards and parasites under your feet!
Who wouldn't want this?
When it came to "becoming a general," Yu Shuang's eyes shone brightly and her smile was dazzling, but when it came to "cowards and parasites," she ground her teeth together, reminding Qi An of the dull sound of a ferocious beast sharpening its claws.
She unconsciously moved back a little, but also raised the corners of her mouth.
Team 2 didn't back down.
Qi Anyou remembered that after the great battle on February 9th, all the surviving members of Team 2 had very high contamination levels. Yu Shuang was sent to her.
The pollution level was too high and her emotions were too volatile, so Qi An had to perform a deep purification on her.
The term "deep purification" was invented by Qi An herself; she had never heard any other purification master mention it.
During deep purification, she can see the memories of the person being purified.
Those intense emotional memories, as well as those important memories that they themselves had forgotten, deeply hidden in their subconscious and used to build their personalities, all appeared in Qi An's mind as if she were experiencing them firsthand when they resonated with each other spiritually.
On that day, before retreating, Team 1 threw a micro pulse grenade into Team 2's position, destroying all their electronic equipment.
Originally, Team 1 was arrogant and at odds with Team 2. The two teams were forced together by the leaders to undertake a joint task, supposedly to bridge the conflict.
Team 2 was on guard. From the moment they discovered the polluters to when they discussed with Team 1 whether to engage, the two teams discussed tactics, and the progress of the battle, Zhao Bohan recorded the entire process on video.
When Yu Shuang came to perform the purification, besides feeling grief and indignation, all she could think about was whether the memory card containing the videos could be repaired.
Judging from the court's ruling, it seems that the repairs were either not completed or only partially completed.
However, judging from the fact that the two of them don't seem to be too afraid right now, they may still have a backup plan.
Qi An stood up. "Then it's settled. The transfer procedures will be completed tomorrow. I'll go back and write the application now."
I can't guarantee 100% success, but I will do my best to get into Team 2.
She extended her hand to Yu Shuang and said with a smile, "I hope that tomorrow I can truly call Captain Yu 'Captain'!"
After shaking hands with both of them, Qi An continued his morning run.
The sky was already beginning to lighten, but Qi An was heading west, her petite figure gradually being obscured by the morning mist.
Yu Shuang and Zhao Bohan were both a little stunned.
"It feels like a dream," Yu Shuang murmured.
Zhao Bohan retorted, "Did she choose to join our team to repay a debt of gratitude to you?"
If Yu Shuang had soda in her mouth, she would have sprayed it two miles away. "What kind of favor are you repaying?"
"You and Tang Long both boasted at the dinner table that three years ago you found a very promising, very young Purifier in the wild and brought her back to the base."
For this, you two each received a third-class merit award.
"This purifier, is that Dr. Qi?"
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