Before going to bed at night, Li Xue gave everyone a glass of spiritual spring water and two fruits, plus a set of sportswear.

The next morning, after breakfast, Li Xue called everyone out to the square.

"Wait, Xiaoxue, you forgot to wear a mask." Jian Hui reminded Li Xue.

"I won't wear it in the future." Li Xue said with a smile.

"That's right, you are so beautiful, why do you have to cover up all day long like you are ashamed to see people." Lin Miao agreed with Li Xue's decision.

"I used to be afraid that my face would cause trouble, but now it seems that when trouble comes, it can't be stopped by just a mask." Li Xue meant something.

After taking the things, several people went out in high spirits. There were eight people in the Hope Mercenary Corps, all wearing the same sportswear. The three women were wearing light green, and the men and Haohao were all wearing light gray. Everyone looked radiant, and walking on the main street of the base, they looked like a beautiful landscape.

The eyes of passers-by were all attracted by them, and when they saw Li Xue's face, they were all stunned.

"Who is that incredibly beautiful girl? I seem to have never seen her before?" Someone couldn't help but ask.

"The people here seem to be from the Hope Mercenary Corps." Some people who knew the Hope Mercenary Corps said.

"The captain wearing a mask is not here, could it be that captain?"

"That's impossible, the captain's son is already grown up, how old is this girl, she is no more than 20 years old."

...

Several people couldn't help but smile as they listened to the words of passers-by.

Soon, they arrived at the square.

The square was crowded with people, and because they were the people who were to be commended, they were quickly arranged by the staff to sit in the second row at the front. Opposite their seats was a large cement platform similar to a stage. The stage had a red curtain as the background, and a banner with the words "W City Combat Hero Commendation Conference" was hung. The seats in the first row were still empty, and there was a row of long tables in front of the seats, with water cups on the tables. It was obvious at a glance that those were the seats prepared for the leaders of the base.

Jian Hui and Lin Miao both curled their lips. It was already such a long time, but they still couldn't change their bad bureaucratic habits. Wherever they went, they would set up a queue.

The people from other teams were almost all there, and they all greeted Guo Qing and the others.

"Deputy Captain Guo, why don't I see your Captain Li?" Captain Zhou asked loudly. There were too many people in the square, and the noise was very loud.

"Isn't our captain sitting here?" Guo Qing pointed at Li Xue.

"What?! She is Captain Li!" Zhou Zhaoqing pointed at Li Xue and shouted strangely, attracting everyone nearby to look in the direction of his finger. Then, everyone around them quieted down and stared at Li Xue blankly.

Although Li Xue was prepared to be stared at, she still felt a little uncomfortable being stared at by so many people.

Fortunately, the big guys from the base arrived quickly and diverted the attention of those people. Li Xue secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Lin Miao and Jian Hui couldn't help laughing: "How is it? It feels good to be the center of attention."

Li Xue waved her hands: "No, I can't stand it."

"It's okay, you'll get used to it." Jian Hui covered her mouth and laughed.

Li Xue: ...

After the leaders finished their official speeches and sat down, there was movement on the stage. A beautiful female host came on stage with a microphone. The red curtain behind the stage was pulled open to both sides, revealing a huge display screen. The scene on the stage was displayed to the people in the square through the big screen. Even people standing at the outermost edge of the square could clearly see every move of the host on the stage.

The host greeted everyone in the square and then began to speak passionately about how many survivors the base had accepted since its establishment, and how hard the leaders of the base had worked to build the base.

"Is this going to end? Is this a commendation meeting or a meeting to praise the leaders of the base?" Some people in the crowd began to complain quietly.

They came early in the morning, and the sun was already high in the sky, but the commendation meeting had not yet started. If they had not come to see the heroes, they would not have stood here stupidly in the sun. The sun was so strong, and there was not much water to take a shower in the apocalypse. So many people were squeezed together, sweating profusely, and the smell was terrible.

By the time they finally got to the topic of this commendation meeting, half an hour had already passed.

When everyone thought they were about to get down to business, the host said with great emotion, "Next, please invite our Base Director Wang to come up to the stage and give a speech!" Then, the host led the applause. In the audience, except for the superpowers who were to be commended who clapped a few times to cooperate with the occasion, there was very little applause from the crowd.

The base commander is indeed a person who has experienced all kinds of situations. He did not feel embarrassed at all in the face of such a situation. He walked onto the stage without changing his expression, summarizing the present and looking to the future in a rhythmic manner, and fully praised and affirmed the spirit of all the superpowers in W City this time... When the base commander finally finished speaking and stepped down, the patience of the people in the audience was almost exhausted.

"Now, please invite the heroes who have returned from W City to the stage."

The members of the Hope Team followed the other mercenary teams onto the stage and stood in the last row. The people in the square kept cheering and clapping enthusiastically.

"Today, we want to cheer for these heroes... With the strength of more than a hundred people, they fought against hundreds of thousands of zombies in W City. They are not only the lucky ones who escaped death, but also made huge contributions to our human cause of eliminating zombies. They are the heroes of our human race and the pride of our H base!" The host's passionate voice spread through the speakers to the first corner of the base.

"Next, I would like to introduce to you the biggest contributor to this W City battle - the captain of the Hope Mercenaries, Captain Li Xue. Captain Li is an ice-type psychic, and in this W City battle, her ice-type psychic laid a solid foundation for this victory. Although she is a woman, she has the calm and composed demeanor of a general who remains calm in times of crisis." The host said excitedly to the people in the audience.

Then the host turned around, looked at the superpowers on the stage and said, "Captain Li has always been low-key, so many of us are not very familiar with Captain Li. I hope that today's opportunity can let everyone see Captain Li's heroic figure."

Standing among the many superpowers, Li Xue was still interested in listening to the host's passionate explanation, but she never thought that the topic would be brought to her, and she was a little dumbfounded. I didn't hear that there was such a link!

"Captain Li, please come out and say hello to everyone!" Seeing that Li Xue did not take the initiative to stand up as he said, the host came out again to invite her.

"Xiaoxue, why are you still standing there? Hurry up!" Jian Hui and Lin Miao desperately signaled to Li Xue. "This is a great opportunity to show off!"

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