Chapter 197 The three members of the Shen family lost face.
"Miss Lin, I apologize for not informing you beforehand. I came uninvited."
At this moment, Xiao Li spoke first.
Lin Muyan nodded to him. She could have invited Xiao Li inside to talk, but unfortunately, the other people were oblivious and refused to leave, so she had no choice but to keep everyone outside the door to discuss the matter.
Mrs. Shen then nudged Shen Jiaojiao and gave her a meaningful look.
Shen Jiaojiao couldn't stand seeing Xiao Li and Lin Muyan speaking so politely, so she followed Mrs. Shen's hint and interrupted the conversation between Lin Muyan and Xiao Li whenever she could.
"Colonel, do you remember me? I am Shen Jiaojiao, whom you met alone in the tent last time. I have awakened spatial abilities."
Shen Jiaojiao deliberately emphasized "meeting alone" and couldn't help but secretly glance at Lin Muyan with a smug look.
Lin Muyan pursed her lips and gave him a half-smile.
[Shen Jiaojiao is being way too teasy! Saying she wanted to meet alone makes it sound like there's some kind of affair going on. Luckily, Lin Muyan doesn't like Colonel Xiao, otherwise, wouldn't that have created suspicion and resentment?]
[Tsk tsk tsk, Shen Jiaojiao is really challenging my worldview again and again. I'm starting to wonder if she was possessed by someone along the way.]
[Perhaps she was good at pretending before, or perhaps her flaws were concealed during favorable circumstances, but now that things are not going well, her true nature has been exposed.]
People change. Few people suddenly realize their mistakes, but quite a few change their original intentions and turn bad.
Let's see how Colonel Xiao handles this. Anyway, I'm finding Shen Jiaojiao increasingly difficult to understand...
Lin Muyan glanced at Shen Jiaojiao, then at Xiao Li, and said nothing.
She knew everything they had said in the military tent.
Shen Jiaojiao is truly courageous. She was openly humiliated by Xiao Li last time, but she still hasn't given up.
Could it be that her superpowers have improved? And she's become more confident?
Or perhaps she was genuinely anxious. Colonel Huang Zhen, who had verbally promised to let her join the military, had yet to arrive, and with awakened humans appearing one after another recently, she was getting worried.
Xiao Li frowned slightly. He had come to see Miss Lin, and he was already angry that these people were bothering him without any sense of propriety. Now, this woman was shamelessly saying things that could be easily misunderstood. Did she really think he was a fool?
Xiao Li's gaze swept past Lin Muyan's somewhat mocking eyes, and his dislike for Shen Jiaojiao grew even stronger. His tone, once friendly, became cold and indifferent as he spoke:
"I did have a private conversation with you about your superpowers, but I remember making it very clear that you are not worthy of joining my Hidden Dragon Team. If there's nothing else, please leave."
Upon hearing this, Shen Jiaojiao's face turned deathly pale, and she swayed, almost losing her balance.
She thought that in front of so many people, the officer wouldn't be so disrespectful and wouldn't say anything unpleasant.
But how could this officer utter such humiliating words so casually? What gave him the right?
Shen Jiaojiao would never allow her pride to be trampled on, especially since she felt that Xiao Li was just an ordinary person and probably hadn't awakened any special abilities yet.
An ordinary person, even if he is a colonel now, his future is uncertain!
Shen Jiaojiao was also someone who could explode at the slightest provocation. Seeing that her face was extremely ugly and she looked like she was about to explode at any moment, Shen Shiqiu, who was good at assessing the situation, immediately pulled her back and nodded with a smile to Xiao Li.
"Colonel, my daughter is young and may have misunderstood what she said. She didn't mean anything by it; she just wanted to do her part for your military. You see..."
Shen Shiqiu, being a businessman, is certainly better at lying than Shen Jiaojiao.
He could tell that the young officer in front of him was not treating his daughter well, and that he probably wouldn't get what he wanted from him.
But so what? As long as we can get in touch with him through other channels, it's the same. We don't necessarily have to join his Hidden Dragon Team.
To everyone's surprise, Xiao Li didn't give Shen Shiqiu any face and immediately rejected his smile, saying:
"Immature? Misunderstanding? She's such a grown woman, how can she be immature? Then, according to you, if she's so immature, she shouldn't join the military, lest she cause trouble for our side!"
[Haha! I think Xiao Li is quite the smooth talker!]
Shen Shiqiu's face turned green, and Mrs. Shen's face was contorted with anger. How satisfying!
[This time, Shen Jiaojiao's chances are completely over. She probably never imagined she'd be betrayed by her own father.]
Shen Jiaojiao glared fiercely at Shen Shiqiu, a glare that made Shen Shiqiu feel as if he had been punched in the heart, his heart chilled as if frozen solid by an extreme cold disaster.
He suddenly felt that this biological daughter was too unfamiliar. After all, he hadn't raised her by his side since she was a child, yet she would give her biological father such a resentful look.
Mrs. Shen, oblivious to anything amiss, quickly stepped in to smooth things over.
"Young officer, that's not what Jiao Jiao's father meant. Don't misunderstand. We just think it's good that Jiao Jiao has awakened her special abilities, and we're thinking about serving the country, aren't we?"
Xiao Li sneered.
"I misunderstood? So you mean I'm wrong?"
One of the Hidden Dragon Team members immediately rebuked the three members of the Shen family: "How dare you! How could my colonel be wrong? She's the one who's wrong! Don't think that just because you've had some contact with her, you can speak to my colonel. You think too highly of yourselves!"
[Hahaha, you have some nerve! Who gave you the audacity to speak ill of Colonel Xiao?]
[I didn't realize Xiao Li could grasp the key points. Judging from the pale faces of the Shen couple, they probably didn't expect a colonel to actually take them seriously.]
[Xiao Li must know about the complicated relationship between the Shen family and Lin Muyan, which is why he was so unfriendly to them. Before the three members of the Shen family even spoke, Xiao Li had already labeled them as enemies.]
[Excellent, excellent. Seeing Xiao Li's attitude towards Lin Muyan later, these three will probably be even more defensive, right?]
Seeing that the situation might get out of control, Lu Zhe hurriedly stepped in to smooth things over, but naturally sided with Xiao Li.
He smiled and said to the three members of the Shen family:
“The three of you, S Special District will soon release a recruitment plan. At that time, anyone with the ability can give it a try. We don’t do backdoors here; you have to rely on your skills.”
Lu Zhe glanced at Shen Jiaojiao with an ambiguous look, but his meaning was quite clear.
Trying to gain benefits by getting close to someone? Dream on.
Lu Zhe's first instinct was that he didn't like Shen Jiaojiao either. Not only did she try to get close to the colonel in her words, but she also seemed particularly unfriendly to Miss Lin. Her eyes were very vicious, and even he could see it clearly.
Shen Jiaojiao was so angry that her face turned red and then pale, which was quite a sight.
Her anger surged, she clenched her fists and roared:
"Of course I have the ability! We'll see!"
She's determined to join the military through recruitment and then crush these guys under her feet!
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