Winter arrived much more fiercely than expected. After just one night, the temperature in the entire Nanxiao base dropped to several degrees below zero. Ji Yueyao put on several layers of clothing, but still felt very cold.
"This weather is unbearable," Ji Yueyao complained, clutching the hot water in her cup on the table. She was extremely sensitive to the cold, and with no heating on such a cold day, she was freezing even though she was inside the house.
"Captain, are you cold?" Bai Yi came out of the kitchen and poured hot water from the thermos into the blanket in front of Ji Yueyao. He looked at Ji Yueyao, who was wrapped up tightly, with a strange expression.
"Didn't you see how bundled up I am?" Ji Yueyao rolled her eyes silently, picked up her cup, and took a sip of hot water.
“But Captain, this doesn’t make sense…” Termite looked helplessly at Lin Xuan, then at himself, and said, “Logically speaking, people with superpowers are less sensitive to cold and heat. In other words, we try our best to adapt to the environment as quickly as possible, no matter how harsh the conditions are. But Captain, you’re afraid of the cold… That’s too strange.”
She was also conflicted... Ji Yueyao silently glanced at Bai Yi. Well, this guy was indeed only wearing a thin sweater on his upper body. Then she looked at Lin Xuan, who was even more ruthless. He was wearing a shirt and dozing off on the sofa while reading a book. It was really cold just looking at him.
Kachi was bundled up tightly, and at that moment she was sitting by the window looking outside, wearing a thick cotton-padded coat.
Looking at Kaqi, who was dressed in a round and plump outfit, Ji Yueyao finally felt a little better.
"Kachi, what are you looking at?" Ji Yueyao didn't take her fear of the cold to heart, guessing it was because she wasn't born and raised here and her body wasn't used to it yet.
"It's snowing heavily outside," Kachi said softly, looking outside. "At this time of year, I would be out here in the snow, dressed in very thin clothes."
Kachi's voice was soft, always carrying a hint of melancholy.
Ji Yueyao glanced at Kaqi in silence, put down her cup, and shook her head. "That was all in the past."
“Hmm…” Kachi smiled, “Meeting you, Yueyao, is such a lucky thing for me.”
"Look at what you're saying. I didn't do anything. It was all your own choice." Ji Yueyao scratched her head, then turned around and started flipping through her book.
Lin Xuan laughed out loud, "At this time of year, I was also standing guard in the wind and snow. If it weren't for you, Captain, I'd probably still be freezing right now."
"This is never going to end, is this some kind of reminiscence session?" Ji Yueyao glanced at Lin Xuan, a faint smile playing on her lips.
Just as Lin Xuan was about to reply, he heard the door slam open and then slam shut.
Looking at the person who came in, Lin Xuan snorted twice and said, "Bamboo and wood, are you trying to demolish the house? If you're any more ruthless, the door will fly off."
Zhu Mu clearly didn't take Lin Xuan's words to heart. He jumped in and pounced on Ji Yueyao. "Captain, it's freezing outside! My limbs are stiff and my heart is about to stop beating!"
Seeing the snowflakes splashing onto the table, Ji Yueyao's temples bulged with veins. She looked at the bamboo and wood clinging to her like a leech and was about to make a move when several emerald green vines sprouted from the ground, quickly wrapped around the bamboo and wood, and were thrown away.
"Are you looking for death?" Lin Xuan glared at Zhu Mu, who was lying on the ground, on the verge of tears, and said coldly.
"Tsk, how cruel." Zhu Mu got up from the ground and looked at Lin Xuan angrily. "I worked my butt off to get things for the captain, and you just come here and start hitting me?"
"Who gave you permission to lay a hand on the captain?" Lin Xuan ignored Zhu Mu and continued reading his book.
"This isn't touching me!" Zhu Mu muttered. "This is clearly a way of begging for affection, okay?"
Ji Yueyao rolled her eyes and gestured for Zhu Mu to come over. "Zhu Mu, where's the thing I asked you to bring?"
Takeki nodded, looking aggrieved, and then took out a stack of documents from the backpack behind him. "These are all intelligence and information obtained from Bar."
Ji Yueyao reached out and took it, then tore open the confidential document bag in a few quick movements and began to read the documents inside carefully.
"The Night Seeds have sent word that Qin Lichang seems to be planning to target both Chongyuan and Qian Wenyu at the same time." Ji Yueyao handed the documents in her hand to Baiyi beside her, a smile of interest playing on her lips. "He's really not afraid of not being able to handle it all."
Bai Yi quickly finished reading the information, a mocking glint in his eyes. "There's no other way. That's the downside of striking first. No matter which side he attacks first, the other side could benefit. So, to be on the safe side, he can only unite his military forces to attack both sides at the same time."
“Actually, I don’t have any grudge against Qin Lichang… but after all, Wei Qin is his man, and if he were to take control of the Nanxiao base, it would be very troublesome for me…” Ji Yueyao lowered her eyes to look at the documents in front of her. “But is this information accurate? How long have your Night Seeds been infiltrating? How could you find out such confidential information?”
Upon hearing that Ji Yueyao did not believe the Night Seeds, the White Ant quickly shook its head and said, "Apart from not being a superhuman, the Night Seeds are almost as strong as the Dragon Group members. They can be said to be the elite among the elite. Moreover, this kind of information is usually not spread by newly sent Night Seeds. It is usually the Night Seeds that we have been planting for a long time who obtain the intelligence, and the newly planted ones are only responsible for passing it on."
"Is that so..." Ji Yueyao leaned back in her chair and let out a long sigh. "Hey, Baiyi, what do you think? If Wei Qin dies, who should take the second seat?"
The termite paused, looking down at Ji Yueyao who was chuckling, and murmured, "Captain... you mean..."
"We can't cooperate with Chongyuan and end up with nothing, can we?" Ji Yueyao yawned, casually flipped through the documents in front of her, and suddenly her gaze sharpened as she stared at the documents in a daze.
"What's wrong, Captain?" Bai Yi asked, puzzled, when Ji Yueyao suddenly stopped talking.
Ji Yueyao flipped through the documents and said in a calm voice, "The Beihuang Base... has begun evicting residents."
“The Beihuang Base is located in the north, in an extremely cold place. The soil there is thin, and even crops cannot be grown much. It would be fine in other seasons, but if the entire base is left in winter, more people will die.” Baiyi glanced at the information in front of him and said calmly, “So every year the Beihuang Base will expel ordinary residents without merit and recall those who are still alive in the spring.”
"So troublesome?" Ji Yueyao raised an eyebrow. "Then the people they expel will naturally join other bases or die in this extremely harsh place, and their Beihuang base will have fewer and fewer people, right?" (To be continued.)
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