"Let's go hiking."
Qin Tan grasped the angel's hand and walked towards the towering mountains.
The icy plains were silent in the darkness. Qin Tan, still in a state of resonance with the princess, could see in the dark as if walking on flat ground.
In an abandoned room at the base, Xia Shuang looked at the two people following behind her, her expression thoughtful.
"what's on your mind?"
Under that chilling gaze, Bai Yucheng trembled and shrank into the corner, looking like a wronged little wife.
Bai Yucheng, who was quite the drama queen, received a sharp look from Xia Shuang in return.
"Shouldn't you all go your separate ways? Why are you all following me?"
From the very beginning, this team was destined to become a battleground for various forces; she never expected that the members would be of one mind.
When a wall falls, everyone pushes it down; when disaster strikes, everyone flees for their lives. This is the true principle.
She never expected that the two of them would stick to her side.
"My mission has failed anyway. If I want to go back alive, the chances of me getting there are better if I stay by your side, Captain."
Fan Zhi spoke frankly and without reservation.
Of the nine people in the team, Shen Qing died, Qin Tan was outside, two were captured, and Ke Yuanyun was missing. The remaining two, Fan Zhi and Bai Yucheng, had been following Xia Shuang.
That reason is barely acceptable.
"And what about you?"
Xia Shuang looked at the situation outside and asked Bai Yucheng in a low voice.
"Didn't you hook up with Ke Yuanyun? He's disappeared, why didn't you follow him?"
Bai Yucheng's eyes twitched at the question.
You know?
He thought he had hidden it very well.
"Of course I know, I've known from the very beginning."
How could she not have noticed the way the two of them were secretly exchanging glances?
"Don't worry, I don't feel like you betrayed me, so there's no need to put on a melodramatic act."
"Instead of using that energy, you should think about the present."
Xia Shuang's rational remark shut Bai Yucheng up, and he chuckled awkwardly before his expression became much more serious.
"My deal with him is over. Although he later tried to recruit me, I refused."
"I'm not stupid, I won't bring about my own destruction."
"This isn't our territory. We have plenty of stuff here."
Bai Yucheng, who said this, touched his eyes.
His discerning eyes can see through not only his opponent's moves, but also many other things.
For example, this discordant city.
Beneath his warm and cheerful exterior, he believes that many people live behind a mask.
They greeted everyone with a smile.
It was extremely fake.
Xia Shuang was slightly surprised to hear Bai Yucheng's words.
"Then look at those people outside, how many of them are the masked people you see?"
Xia Shuang pointed outside.
Not far away, a group of people came searching.
Although Tianchi discovered that they had tampered with the site, they have not yet made a big announcement to everyone.
The people who came out to chase them were also very careful.
In addition, it was already night, and there were hardly any people on the streets, so those few figures were easy to spot.
"Let me take a look."
Bai Yucheng, who leaned his head over, had a mysterious and unpredictable look in his eyes.
He looked at the people not far away and muttered something to himself.
"One, two... four, five."
Qin Tan felt that the other party was trying to fool her.
Keep in mind that the team that caught up with them consisted of only five people.
“They all are.”
Bai Yucheng's words were resolute and confident; at least Xia Shuang couldn't detect a hint of lying in them.
“My eyes tell me that they all have a problem.”
"But Captain, why do I feel like you know something's wrong with them?"
Bai Yucheng pulled his head back and asked Xia Shuang with a grin.
Fan Zhi rolled his eyes at his shameless, obsequious manner.
Now that things have come to this, there's no need to hide anything. Xia Shuang recounted the matter of the angels, focusing naturally on the white ghosts in Base Eight.
"White Ghost?"
"That explains the feeling of incongruity."
"I'm really amazing."
Bai Yucheng boasted about himself with an hindsight-based expression.
"What do we do now?"
Fan Zhi couldn't help but interject, asking, "They're like rats in the street now, hiding here and there. This can't go on forever."
If Tianchi takes drastic measures and informs the entire base, they will have nowhere to hide.
Not to mention, if Tianchi were to mobilize even more extraordinary individuals, or even those robots, how would they cope?
Xia Shuang was also pondering this question.
She didn't know the situation on Qin Tan's side, but he was the type of person who wouldn't sit idly by and wait for his fate, nor would he walk into a trap.
It's impossible to get the other side to come out and surrender willingly. Since the angel is with Qin Tan, it means that Tianchi's focus is also on that side.
In that case, they could...
"Do the opposite of what is expected."
Xia Shuang kept repeating this sentence.
"Captain, you mean..."
Fan Zhi seemed to understand and chimed in.
"We need to find a way to rescue them. If we can't, we need to disrupt their operations against Qin Tan and buy them time."
The normal reaction when someone is being arrested is to hide, just like they are doing now.
This means that the people of Tianchi will gradually expand the encirclement in an effort to find them.
But what about Tianchi's side?
Does this mean that the defenses there are relatively weaker?
If they were to launch a surprise attack at this moment, they might be able to rescue the two prisoners.
In this way, Qin Tan outside doesn't need to have any worries.
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