"Although firing six micro-missiles at once is a bit extravagant, there are five of us in the aircraft! On average, just over one missile per person saved a life! -- Worth it! Worth it!"
Ye Shijie pursed his lips, and after a while, he nodded stiffly, "Well, since they attacked first, your retaliation is reasonable. But... but..."
He really wanted to say, you can't just launch six micro-missiles at once!
If this goes on, even a noble family won't have surplus grain! In their Dark Night Hunter Association, they only get free equipment when they receive a new mission. The rest of the time, they have to pay for it themselves! The family fortune he had painstakingly saved was squandered by Xia Chujian in one day...
Ye Shijie wanted to cry but had no tears.
But after careful analysis, Xia Chujian's method was the most effective, ensuring that the other party had absolutely no chance to fight back.
For example, if the other party had locked onto their aircraft with six missiles from the start, no matter what Xia Chujian did, she wouldn't have been able to retaliate.
This is called using the enemy's methods to leave them with no way out.
Ye Shijie felt sorry for his depleted resources, but still said, "This time, we'll let it go. Also, this matter is quite strange, so don't mention it to anyone else for now."
"Not even report it to the higher-ups?" Li Fu asked, puzzled. "We were ambushed! Aren't the higher-ups going to seek justice for us?!"
Ye Shijie said coldly, "Our aircraft's autopilot system was hacked..."
Xia Chujian immediately interjected, "Team Leader Ye thinks there might be a mole within the Association?"
Ye Shijie secretly praised the little girl's intelligence while maintaining a stern face, "The Association's aircraft are managed by the information systems of each branch, especially the autopilot system. Without the underlying password, it's impossible to hack our aircraft's autopilot system."
Even Ping Qiong, who was the least willing to use her brain, understood. Her face paled as she said, "This time we were ambushed, at least someone from the branch was involved..."
Someone within the Association wanted them dead.
The aircraft was unusually quiet for a moment.
Ye Shijie didn't dare to use the autopilot function again, and instead had Xia Chujian continue to drive manually, calmly saying, "Anyway, that person has already been killed by us, and even their aircraft has become a meteor shower. As long as we don't upload this video, we can pretend nothing happened."
"If the other party wants to cause trouble, it's a good opportunity for us to wait and see who's pulling the strings behind the scenes."
Xia Chujian nodded, "Captain is right. There seemed to be electromagnetic shielding just now, so I couldn't upload it to the cloud. Let's take this opportunity to change the monitoring system on the aircraft."
Li Fu quickly found a new monitor from the spare equipment and replaced it.
Ye Shijie said, "Both times, Chujian unexpectedly saved us. I think it's because Chujian is an ordinary person, without gene evolution or mental power, so she's always overlooked by the other party. If anything happens in the future, it's safest to keep this monitoring video with her."
Li Fu, Song Mingqian, and Ping Qiong all raised their hands in agreement.
"Chujian is our lucky star! It's best to leave it with you!"
Xia Chujian's lips curled slightly, and she casually put the monitoring video into the gun case, solemnly saying, "Then I'll keep it. Everyone be careful, I don't know who in the Association wants us dead."
"It's okay, we're all bounty hunters, who knows when we've offended someone." Li Fu shrugged, waving his hand nonchalantly.
Song Mingqian looked up at the sky, wondering what he was thinking.
Ping Qiong also frowned, seemingly organizing a list of people she had offended.
Only Xia Chujian felt that she was just a small fish affected by the disaster. Most likely, Team Leader Ye Shijie had offended someone, and someone wanted him dead. They were just collateral damage.
She imperceptibly glanced at Ye Shijie, wanting to stay away from him.
Ye Shijie noticed her small movements, crossed his arms, and snorted softly, without saying anything.
Because even he himself felt that it should be directed at him. His team members were just fish in the pond affected by his burning city gate.
Ye Shijie decided to send Xia Chujian home first.
Because he, Li Fu, Song Mingqian, and Ping Qiong all lived in the West District of Mulan City, while only Xia Chujian lived in the North District.
It was already past three in the morning when Xia Chujian arrived home.
She stood in the open space in front of her house and waved to them, watching them leave.
...
Xia Chujian's home is in District 177 North of Mulan City, a very ordinary residential area where salaried workers live.
This residential area is in the eastern part of the North District, because the East District is just across the wall.
From her residential area, she could see the towering buildings in the East District to the east.
The East District was full of these skyscrapers, with silver-black special building materials for the walls, tall and straight, soaring into the clouds, with invincible sea views, managed by dedicated personnel, and guaranteed landscape and security.
Her own neighborhood, however, was filled with old-fashioned buildings constructed from obsolete scrap steel and concrete.
The buildings in the neighborhood were no more than ten stories high, packed tightly together, with barely enough space to insert a hand between them.
There was no landscaping, and no security.
Separated by a single wall, it felt like a barrier between two different worlds.
Xia Chujian's rented house was located at No. 101, Building E, Block 177 North, Mulan City.
Yes, it was on the ground floor, and the innermost small single room, a single room with only one room.
The only advantage of this single room was that it had two doors, one inside the building hallway and one on the outer wall.
So she could go home directly without entering the building hallway.
Because of this door on the outer wall, she built a simple kitchen at the entrance.
One side leaned against the building as an inner wall, and the other three sides were built with cheap, discarded building materials, forming a square shed.
The roof of the shed was also made of discarded building materials, and she didn't know what material it was. When it rained, the roof would clang and bang non-stop, like noise, and she was often complained about by her neighbors.
Inside the shed, there was only a dilapidated long table, with a second-hand electric stove on it, which was their main cooking tool.
Xia Chujian entered the small single room from this simple kitchen.
The temperature inside the single room was the same as outside, as cold as an ice cellar.
The intense battles of the past few hours had exhausted her.
She was so sleepy that she didn't bother to boil water for a bath, and fell asleep directly on the bed wrapped in a thick down comforter.
When she opened her eyes and woke up, it was already seven in the morning.
At this time, she would normally be getting up to go to school.
At seventeen years old, this was her last year of high school, and she would be taking the college entrance exam next summer.
But she didn't want to study at all. She was usually busy working to earn money, so where would she find the time to study? Her grades weren't good either, just barely passing in each subject.
How could she possibly get into college?
And even if she did get in, she couldn't afford the expensive tuition fees.
As for the 500,000 Beichen Coins that had just been transferred to her personal account today, they weren't for improving her life or going to school, but for saving lives.
Xia Chujian stared blankly in bed for a while, and decided not to go to school today.
She sent a message to her teacher using her smart bracelet, saying that she was sick and asking for a day off.
Then she went to the simple kitchen outside to boil water, took a quick shower, and changed into clean clothes.
While boiling water for the shower, she also plugged in the rice cooker, using the little bit of rice left in the rice bucket at home, and the black truffle wild rhino pig ribs that Aunt Chen had given her, to cook a pot of fragrant rib porridge.
The black truffle wild rhino pig came from the mysterious Exotic Beast Forest, a place that even low-level hunter teams like Xia Chujian's didn't dare to go.
She didn't know how Aunt Chen could go "scavenging" once a month.
While washing up, Xia Chujian looked out the window, her thoughts running wild like wild horses on the prairie.
Thinking about the two battles in the early hours of the morning, the near-death experiences, still made her very vigilant.
She had been a member of the Dark Night Hunter Association for three years, and this was the most dangerous time.
Fortunately, her marksmanship was accurate.
Xia Chujian decided to spend more time practicing her marksmanship.
Fortunately, she had a little bit of talent in firearms, otherwise she really wouldn't be able to survive in the Dark Night Hunter Association.
She dried the water droplets on her face with an old towel that had been washed until it was faded, her face feeling tight and a little chapped.
But she didn't have money to buy any skin care products, not even the cheapest kind of cheap chemical products.
After changing her clothes, it was already daylight outside. The temperature wasn't as cold as at night, but there was no sun, and it was foggy with low visibility.
The rib porridge was cooked, fragrant and appetizing.
But Xia Chujian didn't drink any of it. She only ate a tube of low-grade nutrient solution that tasted like plastic, and then put all the rib porridge in a thermal lunch box and took it to the hospital.
As she went out, she ran into Aunt Chen, her neighbor, who was just returning from outside with a large bundle on her back.
She looked Xia Chujian up and down, and asked with a smile, "Chujian, are you going to the hospital to see your aunt again?"
Aunt Chen knew that Xia Chujian depended on her aunt, Xia Yuanfang, for survival, and had lived in this building for many years.
Xia Chujian also quickly glanced at Aunt Chen.
It was obvious that Aunt Chen had cleaned up, but there were still some unhealed wounds on the back of her hands, and there was a wound on the side of her face that had just stopped bleeding, almost cutting across her entire left cheek from top to bottom.
Did she go to the Exotic Beast Forest again? Or was she beaten by her husband?
Xia Chujian sighed in her heart and said politely, "Good morning, Aunt Chen."
Aunt Chen hefted the large bundle on her back, her face full of smiles: "You're early too, much earlier than my daughter."
Xia Chujian smiled, not wanting to talk about herself, and changed the subject, saying, "Aunt Chen, did you go hunting in the Exotic Beast Forest again?"
Xia Chujian had joined the Dark Night Hunter Association's team for three years, but had never taken on a mission to the Exotic Beast Forest, because it was too dangerous.
Even with their team's good equipment, they didn't dare to take on missions to the Exotic Beast Forest.
But Aunt Chen, this seemingly ordinary housewife neighbor, had to make a trip to the Exotic Beast Forest every month.
And she never came back empty-handed.
Xia Chujian knew that Aunt Chen was using this method to supplement her family income and save tuition for her daughter to go to college.
Because Aunt Chen's husband always beat and scolded her, saying she was a useless person who only knew how to eat...
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