Chapter 41

"Team Meng, I have learned everything here." Lan Huiyu stopped recording and said politely, "Regarding the suspected manipulation of 'him' in the murder of Painted Skin, we will summarize the relevant information here and then send the data directly to Director Jiang. If there are any questions later, I will ask you. I hope you will cooperate."

"Okay." Meng Ziqiu nodded, "Did Xiao Shuo go to the scene?"

"Yes." Lan Huiyu knew his team members very well. Although Xiao Shuo seemed a little slow at ordinary times, he was very reliable. After they finished talking, Xiao Shuo estimated that he had checked the scene almost completely. "If there is no special situation, they should come down to report to me within half an hour."

Meng Ziqiu's face was complicated for a moment. He looked up at the hanging potion, not knowing what ingredients it contained. His emotions became more and more stable, and he became more and more sober. "Deputy Team Leader Lan, I want to ask whether the task sharing authority is with you or with Tu Jiaojiao?"

Generally speaking, after a group in distress sends out an emergency distress signal, any nearby group that can arrive will automatically receive the mission and generate a unique mission number. The follow-up of the matter will also be taken over by the rescue team. If the group in distress wants to know the follow-up or even get involved, the rescue team needs to initiate mission sharing.

"I have the authority to share the task," Lan Huiyu said. "Please wait a moment. I will ask the team leader."

Although Tu Jiaojiao has given her full authority over the affairs of Group 9, Lan Huiyu is still used to consulting with others and will not act on her own unless it is an emergency.

Lan Huiyu sent the message, and within a minute there was a knock on the door. The door opened, and Tu Jiaojiao, followed by Bailing and Xiao Shuo, strode in.

Lan Huiyu has joined Group Nine for the shortest time, but she already knows their leader's character well. Although she doesn't know how their leader became "enemies" with the leader of Group Seven, this does not prevent her from judging how their leader should react at this time - if he doesn't continue to gloat over the misfortune, it means that something must have happened that needs more urgent attention than his "adding insult to injury".

Lan Huiyu showed a look of surprise on her face, and she asked Xiao Shuo: "Have you found out?"

Xiao Shuo slowly raised his eyes to look at her, and then slowly replied: "It looks very much like his spiritual spell."

"Hiss——" Qin Fei, who was sneaking close to eavesdrop, took a breath of cool air. He couldn't help but glance at Meng Ziqiu with his peripheral vision.

Meng Ziqiu's index finger on his infusion hand trembled. He looked at Tu Jiaojiao and said, "Share the task authority with me."

"If you want me to share, I will—" Tu Jiaojiao retorted subconsciously, and then his face froze, almost showing a grin. He rolled his eyes in dismay, "If someone doesn't know, they would think you are my leader and I am your subordinate!"

After he finished complaining, he shared the task with him through the dedicated channel for communication between different departments. Meng Ziqiu lowered his head and took out his phone to confirm: "Thank you."

Tu Jiaojiao looked as if he had seen a ghost.

Then, he was pinched by the waist again by Bai Ling who was standing behind him.

Nine group chats——

[Heaven and Earth Are the Greatest]: Lingling, why did you pinch me twice? The flesh on my back is turning blue!

[Not as good as the free crying in the forest]: Team leader, shut up right now, immediately, quickly!

[The greatest one in the world]:?

[Not as good as the free crying in the forest]: I'll tell you later, shut up.

Tu Jiaojiao: “…”

Okay.

After he shared the task authority with Meng Ziqiu, he resisted the urge to continue mocking Meng Ziqiu and turned to ask Lan Huiyu: "What are we going to do next?"

[Not as good as the free singing in the forest]: Ayu is not an external brain, can you use your own brain, team leader?

[Heaven and Earth are the Greatest]: No, I don’t have a brain~

【Shaking the head of a proud parrot.GIF】

Bailing looked at the screen of his mobile phone and almost ignored the situation and scolded their team leader - you still feel justified, right?

But Tu Jiaojiao's external image had already hit rock bottom, and Bailing didn't want to add any more "great achievements" to him, so he could only suppress his thoughts in his heart and prepare to go back and take the others to have a good talk with their team leader.

The two sides successfully completed the task sharing and exchanged all the information. It was already late at night. Tu Jiaojiao and his team drove an armored vehicle. In order to save time and to prevent them from getting into trouble, they ran through several red lights. Now they have to submit a written report to the Illegal Return Office and pay the fine for the violation.

Even though the circumstances were extenuating, Tu Jiaojiao still used electronic payment to transfer the two thousand yuan fine. After the transfer, he felt pain in his heart in the room: "No, I have to ask Meng Ziqiu to return the money. The red light was opened to save them."

"If you ask me, you should just forget about the money and leave a deep impression on you." Bai Ling was sitting cross-legged on the sofa in the room. On her left was Lan Huiyu who was writing and drawing, and on her right was Xiao Shuo who was hugging a pillow in a daze. Tu Jiaojiao was sitting right opposite them, looking like they were going to have a three-way trial.

"Lingling, why are you contradicting me today?" Tu Jiaojiao felt that he was wronged. He lifted the hem of his shirt and could see a piece of blue flesh on the back of his waist. "I haven't even settled the score with you yet!"

"Keep your voice down. If you speak any louder, the whole building will hear it." Bailing sighed, "Did you really not notice it or are you pretending not to notice it?"

Tu Jiaojiao: “…Ah?”

"Just tell me, Lingling." Lan Huiyu stopped writing, his face full of helplessness, "Although I don't know exactly what happened, but I believe that with the team leader's ability, he should really not know."

Tu Jiaojiao: "...Are you implying me?"

Bai Ling ignored his question and asked, "Have you not noticed that in the past few years, Meng's team has participated in all the missions related to 'him' that they could? Obviously, Painted Skin has been caught, so why did they mention Director Jiang in front of the controlled Painted Skin, and finally ended up asking us for help?"

"Meng Ziqiu is a frivolous person. He never does anything unexpected..." Tu Jiaojiao retorted unconvincedly. As he spoke, he became hoarse. "Okay, he has become more stable in recent years, but he is frivolous by nature!"

Lan Huiyu tapped the armrest of the sofa thoughtfully.

Bai Ling looked up at him, eyes filled with an unbearable despair: "Group 7 has always had only three people, don't you find it strange?"

There are staffing requirements for special group personnel. The first 20 groups are generally elite groups, with a minimum of five people and a maximum of eleven people. Once a vacancy occurs, they will be screened and filled from the groups after the 20th, so there will be no vacancies for too long.

Team Nine itself has six people, but only four came this time because they found a clue to an unsolved case when they were closing the last mission, and the other two went to investigate, and now they are unable to spare time, so they did not come.

Bai Ling: "It's been five years since Qin Fei graduated, and two years since Lu Yayin graduated. Apart from these two, there have been no new people in Group 7."

Tu Jiaojiao curled his lips and said, "He is stubborn and refuses to complete the team. We can't force him to add new members, right? The lives of new members are also lives! Didn't he recruit two people? Sooner or later, he will recruit all the members."

This time, not to mention Bailing, even Lan Huiyu wants to help.

"The vacancy period cannot exceed half a year, this is the rule." Lan Huiyu sighed, "Don't you realize what's wrong now?"

If members of the first 20 groups suffered irreparable serious injuries or experienced a decline in strength, they would have been transferred to groups after the 20th or directly transferred to the logistics department. The fact that Meng Ziqiu was not transferred speaks volumes about the problem.

Tu Jiaojiao was used to being carefree. When Bailing said this, he suddenly remembered something from the distant past—

When he first joined the Abnormal Bureau, he had heard of the name of Team 7 Leader Meng Ziqiu. The swordsman who graduated from Kunlun was young and frivolous. He was never afraid of his opponents. When performing a mission, he always defeated the enemy with one sword and had a very high completion rate.

The members of Group 7 can always be seen in the mission hall of the Alien Bureau, full of energy and enthusiasm, until... they unfortunately encountered the B-level mission [Greedy Spring] on the way to carry out their mission.

The mission records of that year were kept extremely confidential, and Tu Jiaojiao was not qualified to check them at that time. He only knew that after the mission, only Meng Ziqiu survived out of the seven groups of six.

Tu Jiaojiao suddenly realized that after that B-level mission, Meng Ziqiu rarely used the sword. He wore glasses and started to carry a computer with him. Sometimes when new employees saw him, they thought the leader of Group 7 was a graduate of Chang'an Academy, and no one would think of him in the direction of Kunlun.

"But as long as they are in a different place and are still on a mission, there will definitely be casualties." Tu Jiaojiao pulled his haircut, "He is not the kind of person who will dwell on the past and cannot get out of it."

The surface world is not peaceful at all. Over the years, they have seen off many colleagues who had worked with them day and night. Perhaps everyone was greeting each other happily the day before and making plans to go out for dinner after the mission was completed, but the next day they received the news that they had died during the mission.

Separation and death in a foreign place is a very common thing.

Even his group nine had seen the departure of several companions over the years, but what could they do about it?

Missions must be taken and life must go on. The dead are already sleeping in the ground, but the living still have things to accomplish. No one can stop, and no one can stop.

"If it was a normal mission sacrifice, I don't think it would be the current situation." Lan Huiyu put away the notebook in his hand, "I'm afraid it was human interference."

Unless a mission related to this has occurred or there is a compelling reason to activate it, most people would not choose to view the dusty files of this team that was almost wiped out, because the records of the file retrieval will be sent to the survivors of the mission at the same time, which is no less than another injury.

"I don't have the qualifications to access files of this level, but I know that if 'him' hadn't interfered with the B-level mission [Greedy Spring]..." Bai Ling pursed her lips, and the emotions that she had deliberately forgotten slowly resurfaced, "Team Meng was about to lead the people to escape."

Just a little bit——

Just a little bit...

They were about to escape this high-risk mission and return safely.

If Di Changqing wasn't there, the person on the other end of the conversation... should still be checking in with her to let her know he's safe, right?

After completing the mission, they can go shopping hand in hand, explore the newly opened milk tea shop, find delicious restaurants on the street, and hide under the quilt at night to quietly share the strange experiences during the mission.

It should be so.