"Dark Night Hunter?" Zong Ruoan frowned, nodding after a moment, "You have a point, I almost forgot about them. But I still don't understand, the Dark Night Hunters are at most a spontaneous civilian bounty hunter organization, how could they be full of experts? If they have such powerful experts, why aren't they recruited into our Special Security Bureau? Are our conditions not good enough?"
You're a young master from the Zong family, Yi Nanping thought, always high above, you probably don't know how deep the water is in civilian organizations like the Dark Night Hunters...
He coughed lightly, "I'm just guessing, I still need to investigate carefully to find out who did it. Also, the traces at the scene show that those tentacle Remnant Species were killed by Zong Military Industries' No. 085 and No. 093 bullets."
Zong Military Industries was an industry belonging to the Zong family, and Zong Ruoan happened to be a direct descendant of the Zong family in this generation.
Zong Ruoan looked up in astonishment, "Produced by our Zong Military Industries?!"
He subconsciously wanted to deny it, but quickly felt it was inappropriate. The words swirled in his mouth before he changed his tone and said doubtfully, "Could the bullets be just a superficial cause? Could it be to cover up the Mental Strength Rank A Peak expert behind it?"
Yi Nanping frowned.
He hadn't thought about it from this angle, because the scene was too shocking. He almost immediately concluded that this wave of Remnant Species was killed by conventional thermal weapons.
Although there had never been a precedent before.
Thinking from this perspective, Zong Ruoan's analysis made sense.
But to know the truth, there must be actual data to support it.
Yi Nanping stood up straight, "Yes, Colonel Zong is wise. We will continue to investigate."
Zong Ruoan frowned and nodded, "Okay, continue your investigation. Have you uploaded all the data? Our technicians are waiting to model and analyze it."
"It's all uploaded."
"Okay, keep up the good work."
Zong Ruoan ended the call after speaking.
As soon as the call ended, the light and shadow in the room changed, returning to the simple and unadorned appearance it had when he first entered.
It looked like an ordinary home.
...
While Yi Nanping was being questioned, Xia Chujian and her teammates were also discussing the "regular army" rushing over in the team's combat aircraft.
"Captain, this is clearly an operation for us hunters, why are these 'regular army' getting involved? Who are they? Where did they get the news?!"
Li Fu was the first to express his dissatisfaction.
"Could someone have leaked the information?" Song Mingqian had always been a paranoid skeptic.
But he was only worried about one thing: "Our mission was to kill the traffickers and rescue the abducted hostages. We completed the former requirement, but we failed to take away the abducted hostages... Will it affect our score settlement?"
Ping Qiong also said, "If Team Lead Ye hadn't urged us to leave quickly, I would have woken those people up and taken them away no matter what. We could have squeezed them in, they're not that big anyway..."
Ye Shijie was also puzzled, but he didn't show it, just calmly said, "After I sent the situation at the scene to the branch's cloud system, they confirmed that we completed the mission, so it shouldn't affect the score settlement."
As for why the "regular army" could also get involved in this operation, that was a matter for the higher-ups.
Ye Shijie didn't say it explicitly.
It wasn't their business.
The few of them grumbled, but gradually, the joy of surviving the ordeal and the secret satisfaction outweighed those dissatisfactions, and their mood wasn't too depressed.
...
Ten minutes later, they arrived at the location of the Dark Night Hunter Association's Guiyuan Branch in Mulan City.
This branch was located on the top floor of a commercial building in the central district of Mulan City.
Standing on the top floor of a building hundreds of stories high, clouds swept past under their feet, and people on the ground looked like ants.
The small combat aircraft slowly landed on the rooftop balcony.
Xia Chujian followed her teammates and jumped out of the aircraft.
It was already one thirty in the morning. There weren't many people in the branch, but because of the nature of the branch, it was definitely open twenty-four hours a day.
Going through the bulletproof glass door on the balcony was the branch's lobby.
The interior was decorated in a simple and low-key style, with special metallic silver-white covering the entire space from the ceiling to the floor.
Walking in felt like entering a shiny, high-tech, oval-shaped snow cave.
In the center of the hall was a huge square counter, handling tasks such as mission postings, reward settlements, personnel assignments, and complaints.
Xia Chujian first ran to the reward settlement counter and said to the staff on duty, "I am a member of Team 321, Group 9, of the Guiyuan Branch. We accepted Ding Grade Mission No. 2578. Today, the mission is complete, and we successfully killed all the human traffickers."
Her emphasis was on highlighting that they had killed all the human traffickers, which would obscure another key point of the mission: rescuing the abducted victims.
The staff member used the supercomputer in front of them to check for a long time, then nodded and said, "The system confirms that Team 321, Group 9, of the Guiyuan Branch, successfully killed five human traffickers and rescued the abducted victims, completing the mission and qualifying for B-Grade Merit."
"Ah? A Ding Grade mission can earn B-Grade Merit?!" Xia Chujian's eyes lit up, but she remained calm and asked, "How much money can B-Grade Merit be exchanged for?"
The staff member was very surprised and finally looked up at her.
Xia Chujian was wearing a black mask, obscuring her full appearance, but she had taken off her helmet, revealing a pair of eyes like autumn water. In the faint silver-white light of the room, they shone like stars, bright and beautiful beyond description.
But when she spoke, she tilted her head slightly, revealing the birthmark on her face.
Under the snow-white skin, the red birthmark on her left temple was particularly noticeable.
At first glance, it looked like a blooming cluster amaryllis, but upon closer inspection, the fine red blood vessels were clearly distinct.
Extremely beautiful and pure eyes, clearly defined in black and white, were surrounded by a hideous red birthmark, adding a touch of imperceptible murderous intent to her stunning appearance.
The staff member was momentarily stunned speechless.
It wasn't until Xia Chujian looked puzzled and tapped the counter, made of some unknown material, with a crisp sound, that the staff member came back to their senses and asked again, "Are you sure you want to exchange the B-Grade Merit for money? No one has ever exchanged B-Grade Merit for cash before."
"Yes, I'm sure," Xia Chujian said calmly, looking at the staff member with sharp and firm eyes.
The staff member lowered their head and calculated for a while, saying, "It can be exchanged for 500,000 Beichen Coins."
Five hundred thousand?!
Xia Chujian remained calm, but her bright eyes almost burst out with brilliant sparks of "money."
Five hundred thousand!
Li Fu happened to come over and, hearing this, happily patted Xia Chujian on the shoulder: "Five hundred thousand! We used to get only five hundred at most!"
"Five hundred thousand Beichen Coins is enough for you to buy a large flat with five bedrooms and three living rooms in the best location in the best western district of Mulan City! It even comes with a separate bathroom and kitchen!"
Ping Qiong also came over, saying enviously, "My parents' combined annual income is less than 10,000! Xia Chujian earned my parents' income for fifty years in one go!"
Because the wages of ordinary people in Mulan City were really too low, 500,000 Beichen Coins was definitely a huge sum of money here.
Xia Chujian tried hard to remain calm, but the corners of her mouth turned up slightly.
While waiting for the staff to exchange the money for her, she glanced back at Ping Qiong and said casually, "Cai Jie can also exchange money."
She knew that Ping Qiong's greatest hatred in life was the name her parents gave her, so from the time Ping Qiong started elementary school, she had given herself the nickname Cai Jie.
Being called by her nickname by Xia Chujian, Ping Qiong beamed and said excitedly, "I need to think carefully! Think carefully! It's actually B-Grade Merit! B-Grade!"
Song Mingqian flicked his long bangs, never forgetting to strike a pose, and said with a deep expression, "Many teams may not get a B-Grade Merit even after doing missions for fifty years. What was so special about this mission? Why can a Ding Grade mission get B-Grade Merit?"
A Ding Grade mission corresponds to D-Grade Merit. It looks like there are only two grades difference from B-Grade Merit, but the value is completely exponentially different.
Like the difference between five hundred and five hundred thousand.
But why?
"Yeah? Why?"
Li Fu and Ping Qiong echoed to themselves, not understanding.
Xia Chujian's eyes flickered slightly, and she lowered her head to send a message in the team group using her smart bracelet: [I advise you to exchange it for money too, in case the staff member made a mistake in the exchange, it's not easy to recover cash...].
As soon as she sent this, Li Fu, Ping Qiong, and Song Mingqian immediately nodded in agreement.
After the three of them had exchanged their rewards for Beichen Coins, team leader Ye Shijie entered the hall.
"What are you guys doing, huddling together so suspiciously?" Ye Shijie was very displeased with his team, always feeling disappointed in them.
"Captain, hurry up and exchange the money... B-Grade Merit! It's probably a mistake..." Li Fu, as tall as a brown bear, ran over to give Ye Shijie the message.
Ye Shijie's pupils shrank sharply: "Wasn't it a Ding Grade mission?! How could it be B-Grade Merit?!"
"Yeah, yeah! That's what we thought too! So we all chose to exchange it for cash! Now it's safely in our pockets!" Li Fu happily patted the pockets of his long fur coat.
It was as if the 500,000 in cash was right there in his pocket.
Actually, the money was in digital currency and had already been transferred to their personal accounts.
Ye Shijie glared at him, "You're so hopeless! Do you know how many good things a B-Grade Merit can get
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