Li Gangtie nodded, "Okay, I'll report to my superiors after the mission is over."
"Well, after all this talk, you still haven't told me whether I need to go on a mission. My wounds are almost healed."
Shen Yanming said this not because he particularly liked his job, but because he wanted to see how real guards handled armed conflicts.
Another reason is to find out exactly how big the gap is between myself and the other person.
Li Gangtie didn't agree after hearing this. He patted Shen Yanming on the shoulder and said, "Go back and rest. Make some more medicine when you have time."
You've only been training for a little over a month; you're still far behind them. Once you've improved, you'll have plenty of opportunities to go on missions.
Shen Yanming nodded, not pressing the matter. However, he still asked, "What about the medicinal herbs...?"
"If you weren't entertaining guests tonight, it would have been delivered already. Wait until tomorrow. Have the guard deliver it to you first thing tomorrow morning. You should have met that young man before; just hand the finished product to him."
“Okay!” Shen Yanming replied.
Li Gangtie wanted to say a few more words of advice, such as taking good care of his injuries, when he heard Qi Xili shout, "Let's go!"
Li Gangtie immediately started running back to the group, falling to the very back. As he passed Shen Yanming, he waved, as if to say, "Hurry back!"
Shen Yanming whispered, "Be careful!"
A considerable number of guards were deployed for this operation. They ran forward in neat formation, and it was unclear whether Shen Yanming's instructions were drowned out by the thumping sound of their footsteps.
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Suburbs of Suzhou.
It was almost dawn, but Yuan Ruoxi was still wailing and howling in the room.
She had more than a dozen pustules on her face, each the size of a thumbnail. Her left leg was strapped to a wooden board and wrapped with white gauze.
The guards and residents of Suzhou who heard her voice whispered that Yuan Ruoxi had been punished. Otherwise, how could Tao Jianian have broken his left leg, and she had suffered the same fate in the same spot?
It was only because Li Sikai and his team discovered it in time that they were able to stop it; otherwise, the person might have been crippled!
But Tong Xianbao, Lu Nanfang, and the other guards, including Li Sikai, all knew perfectly well that Yuan Ruoxi hadn't suffered any retribution. As for why she was injured, well, they simply couldn't bring themselves to say it.
How shameful! A person with superpowers, stealing again and again!
But Yuan Ruoxi didn't take it seriously. When she was criticized, she simply said, "I didn't do it. What proof do you have?"
That's obvious. Who could find evidence on her? She hid the stolen goods in her spatial storage long ago.
Li Sikai and his gang were seething with hatred, but there was nothing they could do.
Tong Xianbao had long been assimilated by her, and instead of being ashamed of such behavior, he was proud of it.
In the end, they're the ones who benefit, so what does it matter if others criticize them a bit?
As for Lu Nanfang, she appeared to be joking and laughing with the two of them, but in reality, she utterly despised them. She was just waiting for an opportunity to kill them.
Just like today, Yuan Ruoxi broke her leg, and it's hard to say whether she was involved.
Inside the room, Yuan Ruoxi was sobbing uncontrollably. Despite paying such a high price, she showed no remorse for her actions; instead, she felt that the gains were insufficient and that she had suffered a loss.
Therefore, her tears were both out of sadness for her injured leg and regret for the missed opportunity.
Yuan Ruoxi lay on her pillow, crying as she thought, "My food! I've been looking forward to you ripening for so long, and I haven't even managed to get much into my space yet. How did it become someone else's?"
My heart aches, I'm so sad, my heart is shattered into pieces...
Three thousand catties! We gave Tao Jianian so much grain for nothing, causing us huge losses, and we still haven't recovered.
I thought that with farmland all around and no one around, I could steal at least five or six thousand catties. But how come I was discovered after only putting in about a thousand catties?
She was so careful, stealing from the temporary dormitory area for five or six days without incident. How come she got caught so soon after moving to a new location?
Who exactly tripped her up yesterday?
What grudge or hatred could there be?
However, Yuan Ruoxi's mind wasn't working so well; she kept blaming everyone and everything, and hadn't sorted out the people and events of yesterday at all.
Finally, she cried herself to sleep until she was exhausted.
She frowned slightly, not thinking about what had happened during the day, but because her left leg was broken and hurt!
Seeing that there was no sound from the room, Li Sikai was a little worried and came over to check.
As it turns out, the person was really carefree. Regardless of how things were handled or whether it would damage their reputation, they just fell asleep.
He sighed, realizing he really couldn't control it anymore.
As I stepped out of the room and was about to close the door, I saw Tong Xianbao and Lu Nanfang return.
Li Sikai nodded and instructed them, "Thank you for your help during this time. Please take good care of her."
Lu Nanfang smiled and said, "Okay!"
Tong Xianbao said somewhat obsequiously, "No trouble at all, no trouble at all. Taking care of my girlfriend is the least I can do! But Captain Li, if Ruoxi really didn't steal any grain from that wheat field, you'll have to investigate thoroughly!"
Just deny it, they have no evidence!
Li Sikai looked at Tong Xianbao with a half-smile until he felt the hairs on his body stand on end, then looked away and said, "Hmm!"
When he returned to the dormitory, he heard his teammates discussing the events of the previous day in hushed tones.
"Sigh, tell me, does a superhuman need to do such a despicable thing?"
She could have just sneaked a couple of bites nearby, but why did she have to cause trouble and go into the mountains? She got caught red-handed, and she completely disgraced the entire guard team!
"She's inherently irresponsible and doesn't care about other people's lives at all. Tao Jianian's incident was somewhat related to her, but her behavior afterward was so cold-hearted."
And what about when she discovered the small grain warehouse? Did she really not take anything for herself? I doubt it!
The small warehouse was crammed full, leaving only an empty space on the outside, which was covered in her footprints.
She denies it, does she really think we're blind? It's just that we have no evidence; she's stored the supplies in her spatial storage, and there's nothing we can do about it.
"It's not that we can't do anything about her, it's just that we don't want to confront this only superhuman. Normally, it would be fine if everyone just turned a blind eye, but she just had to go and court death."
This time they injured one leg; next time, will they risk half their life?
"I bet she won't just be half-dead next time, she'll be too weak to even breathe!"
"Dude, that's really vicious. Even if we don't like her, we shouldn't curse her to die, it's bad luck!"
"Pah, pah, pah, never mind! But I'm just stating the facts, she really isn't very bright. It's only because we were there to protect her, otherwise she would have been torn to pieces by a pack of wolves."
"The ridiculous thing is, they actually treat wolves like treasures and best friends!"
"Hahaha, that's right!"
As Li Sikai listened to their increasingly absurd talk, he coughed heavily twice.
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