"You're rebelling against me!" Ye Shijie was amused by her anger, slapped at her, and got into the aircraft.
Xia Chujian easily dodged Ye Shijie's slap, stepped on the accelerator, and the aircraft transformed into an off-road vehicle, heading towards the checkpoint.
Li Fu and the others then noticed the difference in this aircraft.
"Ahhh?! It's actually amphibious! Chujian, Chujian! You actually got the latest aircraft from our association!" Li Fu screamed, wishing he could push Xia Chujian aside and drive it himself.
They had also gone to the association's base to collect supplies, but because of the urgency, they hadn't carefully reviewed the weapon list that came with the mission, only selecting the supernatural weapons and supplies they needed.
Ye Shijie glanced at the equipment in the aircraft and was also surprised: "... Small Controlled Nuclear Fusion Generator?! And two of them?! Chujian, did you empty their warehouse while the association people weren't looking?!"
Xia Chujian smiled slightly: "Captain, do you distrust me that much? These are all listed on the mission's equipment list, I only picked a small batch. How could I possibly take things from the association's warehouse without asking?"
Song Mingqian and Ping Qiong exchanged glances and raised their eyebrows.
Ping Qiong rested her chin on her hand and said thoughtfully, "It seems that this mission isn't really Geng Grade level. I'm wondering if it's like the mission we carried out at dawn, seemingly Ding Grade on the surface, but actually corresponding to B-Grade Merit!"
Ye Shijie nodded: "Very likely. It seems we've struck gold!"
"Hehe, Captain, you were the one who said whoever took it was an idiot..."
"So what? Being an idiot occasionally is a blessing," Ye Shijie joked for once.
While Xia Chujian was at the checkpoint going through procedures, the four teammates checked the equipment in the aircraft again.
Unsurprisingly, they saw the box of cheap, low-level Nutrient Solution that was about to expire, which Xia Chujian had deliberately placed in the corner.
But the aircraft was only so big, and with so many people, anything hidden would be exposed.
The four exchanged glances, understanding without saying, and quietly threw the box of cheap, low-level Nutrient Solution that was about to expire out.
When the aircraft took off again and entered stealth mode, they opened their rucksacks and took out the things they had prepared, placing them in the aircraft's small storage compartment.
Ye Shijie said lightly: "This time I applied for five boxes of Advanced Nutrient Solution from the association. Five hundred tubes in a box, and one tube can last for forty-eight hours. Two boxes are extra, so they're for you, Chujian."
Xia Chujian's heart skipped a beat.
Advanced Nutrient Solution was something that money couldn't buy, because in addition to providing rich nutrition, its most important function was to restore Mental Strength.
Low-Level Nutrient Solution and Mid-Level Nutrient Solution didn't have this function.
Therefore, in the empire's official and various folk organizations, Advanced Nutrient Solution was rationed, only allocated to Gene Evolvers.
Xia Chujian, an ordinary person whose genes couldn't evolve, and who didn't have Mental Strength, would never get an Advanced Nutrient Solution quota in her life.
She hesitated and said, "Captain, I'm not a Gene Evolver, and I don't have Mental Strength, so you should use this Advanced Nutrient Solution that can restore Mental Strength. I brought my own Nutrient Solution, it should be enough for a month."
"Oh, I was careless when I was packing things just now, and I accidentally threw your box of Nutrient Solution away, so now I'm compensating you," Ye Shijie said casually.
Xia Chujian understood immediately, knowing that her teammates had seen her box of cheap, low-level Nutrient Solution that was about to expire.
She tried her best to control herself, but the tips of her ears still slowly turned red.
She had never talked about her family affairs in front of her teammates, and didn't want them to take care of her out of sympathy.
But they seemed to know anyway.
Xia Chujian couldn't describe how she felt.
She should have felt embarrassed and awkward, but these teammates were different.
In these three years, they had gone through life and death together, entrusting their backs to each other.
In the face of this life-or-death friendship, her family secrets that she wanted to hide but couldn't seemed not so important.
Xia Chujian looked away and said softly, "Thank you, everyone. My aunt has been in the hospital for three years, and I need to save money for her surgery."
Ye Shijie and the others didn't actually know what was going on with Xia Chujian's family. If she didn't say, they would never pry.
They only knew that she seemed to be short of money, and now they suddenly understood.
Ping Qiong quickly said, "Tell us if you need help. No wonder you're so frugal, I thought you were saving money to buy a house..."
Ye Shijie also wanted to say a few words to comfort Xia Chujian, but the words that came to his mouth were: "Frugal... she's incredibly extravagant when she fires a gun, using up one hundred thousand bullets at a time!"
Xia Chujian: "..."
Is this one hundred thousand bullets thing never going to end? She glanced at Ye Shijie, changed the subject and said, "Captain, are you driving the aircraft, or am I?"
Thinking of the time they were crushed by a Mental Strength expert, Ye Shijie narrowed his eyes and said, "You should drive. This time, we all received Supernatural Defense Weapons. As long as the opponent's Mental Strength isn't Rank A, we can withstand it."
"That's good." Xia Chujian smiled and activated stealth mode, manually operating the aircraft, which rose into the air.
After ascending, the long wall on the ground could be seen.
In the dark night, the wall shone brightly, like a crystal dragon, separating the Exotic Beast Forest and Mulan City.
Sitting in the back row, Li Fu opened his combat backpack, took out a helmet, and handed it to Xia Chujian, who was driving the aircraft in the front. He said, "Chujian, we got you a Supernatural Helmet that can resist Mental Strength attacks below Rank A. You should wear this too. In case you're attacked by Mental Strength, it can help you resist it."
Xia Chujian wanted to say it wasn't necessary, but what if? The first two times could be said to be luck, the opponent didn't take her, an ordinary person without Mental Strength, seriously.
The third time might not be so lucky.
Xia Chujian nodded, freed a hand, reached behind her, took the helmet, and looked at it. "This is a Supernatural Helmet? It looks no different from the regular helmet I got?"
"Of course there's a difference. The difference lies in the internal partition of the helmet. The internal partition of a regular helmet can only block sound, not Mental Strength attacks. The internal partition of this Supernatural Helmet is made of special materials that can resist Mental Strength attacks below Rank A."
Li Fu happily put on his Supernatural Helmet and even pulled down the mirror on the aircraft's cabin roof to look at himself.
"Can it block everything below Rank A?" Xia Chujian was very surprised. "What's the level of the most powerful Mental Strength expert in our entire Mulan City? I heard it's only Rank B peak?"
"Doesn't that mean we can walk sideways in Mulan City?!"
Ye Shijie scoffed, "A Mental Strength expert at Rank B peak won't only use Mental Strength attacks. Moreover, this kind of helmet can't block the Mental Strength attacks of Remnant Species, even if they're Rank C. We already tested that last time."
Li Fu rolled his eyes and said sullenly, "Captain Ye, don't bring up the past... There aren't that many Remnant Species... We're already hitting the jackpot if we encounter one. The next time, it'll probably be many years later!"
Xia Chujian thought, it wasn't just once, they had clearly encountered them twice.
She twitched the corners of her mouth and said repeatedly, "Pui pui pui! Jinx! Li Fu, don't talk nonsense!"
As she spoke, she set the aircraft to automatic flight mode and then began to change her helmet.
Since the two helmets were identical in terms of regular equipment, it was better to have an extra layer of Mental Strength protection.
After changing the helmet, Xia Chujian checked the various devices on the aircraft again and contacted the information control center of the Dark Night Hunter Association.
The other party confirmed her aircraft model and mission objectives, indicating that everything was normal.
Xia Chujian didn't dare to be careless and specifically checked the approximate coordinates of the mission location and the distance from Mulan City.
"... No way?! The location where the Blood Kirin appeared is 100,000 kilometers away from Mulan City?!" Xia Chujian's eyes widened as she looked at the data displayed by the aircraft's location management system.
Ye Shijie crossed his arms, closed his eyes, and pretended to sleep, while saying, "Chujian, do you have some misunderstanding about the size of the Exotic Beast Forest?"
Xia Chujian: "..."
She said weakly, "I know the Blood Kirin is in the Land of the Far North of the Exotic Beast Forest, but 100,000 kilometers away from Mulan City is too outrageous, right?"
Looking at it this way, Aunt Chen's little distance could only be considered wandering around the edge of the Exotic Beast Forest.
She pondered in her heart.
"You think this is far?!" Ye Shijie glared at her. "The area of the Exotic Beast Forest accounts for one-tenth of the entire Guiyuan Star, think about it yourself."
"Otherwise? Do you think the association is just bored and would equip this mission with an aircraft powered by a Small Controlled Nuclear Fusion Generator?"
"And our team, with the lowest Mental Strength and the lowest combat power, why do we never take on missions in the Exotic Beast Forest?"
"Am I not working hard enough? Or am I timid and afraid of trouble? Use your brain and think about it!"
Ping Qiong was unhappy when she heard this and shouted, "Captain Ye, don't boost others' morale and diminish our own prestige! Our Mental Strength may be the lowest, but how is our combat power the lowest?!"
"That's right, we have Chujian! One is worth three! Mental Strength experts are no match for her!" Song Mingqian chimed in, and even flicked his long bangs in what he thought was a dashing manner.
Li Fu chuckled, "If we send out the video of Chujian's six micro-missile saturation attack on the spindle-shaped aircraft, who would dare to say our combat power is the lowest!"
Ye Shijie: "..."
Okay, that was indeed reasonable.
But he didn't want this group of people to be blindly optimistic.
He coldly poured cold water on them, "Even a blind cat can catch a dead mouse... 100,000 bullets, six micro-missiles, even if you equip someone with quadriplegia, they can kill a string of Remnant Species, can that really be considered strong combat power? It's just a love of extravagance and waste!"
Xia Chujian: "..."
She was sure that Ye Shijie was really going to talk about the 100,000 bullets for the rest of his life!
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