Just as Leina was about to strike back, she heard, "I surrender. No more fighting."
Leina fell silent at once, anger burning inside her.
Leina spotted Ge Xiaolun. The loser who had hugged her leg from the very start was lying on the ground. She walked over and kicked him twice. The first kick was fine, but after the second, the awakened Ge Xiaolun grabbed her leg.
Ge Xiaolun was still shouting, "Fuck your sister! Fuck your sister!"
Leina rolled her eyes. "The fight's over. No more kicking. Let go, let go."
Ge Xiaolun gave an awkward "Oh," scratched his head, and stood up.
Su Yi ran here and there, giving the unconscious people injections. One after another, they gradually woke up.
Baili Shouyue was talking to Qi Lin about something. In any case, Su Yi could not understand them.
Then he looked at Zhao Yun, who was relentlessly saying that Zhao Xin was embarrassing.
Su Yi was left standing off to the side.
"Quack... quack, quack..." Little Duck drifted past.
Seeing Su Yi standing alone nearby, seemingly with nothing to do, Qiangwei walked over and asked, "Little one, you're all by yourself. Why don't you chat with your big sister while you wait for your uncle and the others to finish talking?"
Su Yi looked at the pretty older sister and bluntly said, "No. You're fake."
Qiangwei's mouth twitched. She pulled a small volleyball from her wormhole storage and said, "Look, little one."
Su Yi turned and saw the small volleyball in Qiangwei's hand. He disdainfully said, "We have lots of those at home. Right, Little Duck?"
Little Duck said, "Quack, quack, quack..."
Qiangwei looked at the duck on Su Yi's head, then at Su Yi, who was not even half her height. A duck laughed at me. A duck laughed at me. Calm down, calm down.
At that moment, Liu Chuang walked over and said, "Yi, why did you come here? Aren't you afraid Little Two will complain that you didn't bring her along?"
Su Yi said, "No. I told her the first crocodile handbag I make will be hers."
Liu Chuang looked at Su Yi with a grin. "Next time, Uncle Chuang will take you out to have fun." After saying that, Liu Chuang glanced at Qiangwei. The meaning was obvious: don't even think about prying for information.
Qiangwei knew that with Liu Chuang here, she would not get anything out of Su Yi. She asked Liu Chuang, "Why did you betray us?"
"Betrayal? Heh, what a big accusation." Liu Chuang curled his lip as he looked at Qiangwei.
He continued, "I made it clear when I joined. Whenever I no longer wanted to stay, I could leave at any time. Besides, you saw it yourself. What exactly did I betray? See Zhao Yun over there? He's the one who fought aliens during the day. Being with him is called betrayal?"
Qiangwei frowned. "Then why not join the country and serve it?"
Liu Chuang said indifferently, "Can't I serve the country as I am now? You want me to serve something blindly, don't you? I was a thug. I used to be a bad person. But did any of you ever accept me? When I was causing trouble, why didn't you come educate me? When I was being bullied, why didn't you come help me? Now that you need me, you demand things from me. I'm not someone you can summon when you want and dismiss when you're done."
After hearing that, Qiangwei said, "Even so, you can't betray us."
Liu Chuang shouted, "This isn't betrayal, understand? Since you've been watching me grow all this time, when I made mistakes, none of you helped me. When I screwed up, only one person ever saved me. That person appeared three years ago. He told me that if I made a mistake, I had to change and make up for it."
Liu Chuang glanced at the people who had turned to look because of his loud voice, then continued without caring, "I didn't know how to apologize back then. That man stayed with me outside someone's house while I knelt there all night. Do you know what it feels like to kneel all night?"
"When they asked me for money as compensation, that man agreed without hesitation. Do you know how much? Two million. Two million! How could we possibly have had that much money back then? But in three months, three months, he brought it back." As he spoke, Liu Chuang's eyes reddened.
"Do you know what he went to do, Qiangwei?" Liu Chuang asked as he stared at her.
"What did he do?" Qiangwei asked.
"I didn't know either. He only said four words: he went to gamble with his life. I asked him about it, and he only said, 'Chuang Zi finally changed for the better. How could I give up over such a small hardship?'" Liu Chuang grew more and more emotional.
"Just because I didn't join your department, you call it betrayal? Pah! What a joke. I don't change my name standing or sitting. I'm Liu Chuang of Great Wall One."
"Some people think I'm a thug, but Xiaolun was the first one to help me just now. You didn't step forward. You also think we're nothing but a bunch of misfits. So what makes you any different from the aliens? A department like that isn't worth joining." Liu Chuang picked up Su Yi and turned to leave.
Zhao Yun ran over and said, "Brother, I'm a misfit too. Wait for me."
Baili Shouyue chased after them as well. "Hey, you two misfits up front, wait for me."
Qi Lin looked at everyone but ultimately did not follow. She took out a small booklet and handed it to Ge Xiaolun. "Baili asked me to give this to you. Baili said you'll become stronger. He told you to keep it up."
At that moment, Su Jiu and Ryze appeared before everyone. Qiangwei recognized at once that the man before her was Su Jiu. This time, Su Jiu was not using any black technology to conceal himself, which was why Qiangwei could recognize him. She struggled to find something to say, but in the end, said nothing.
Leina then pulled the absent-minded Qiangwei to the Command Center on the Juxia Aircraft Carrier.
Seeing his daughter looking utterly devastated, Du Kao asked, "What happened?"
Leina explained the situation to Du Kao.
Du Kao understood what had happened and said, "Qiangwei, this isn't your fault. Go back and get some rest first."
Four people remained in the Command Room: Leina, Lian Feng, Yu Qin, and Du Kao.
Du Kao spoke with a heavy heart. "So that group stands with China, but their attitude toward us is not very good. You could even say they resent us."
Lian Feng analyzed, "I'd resent it too if an alien were my instructor, especially after being called a bunch of misfits. Anyone would be angry."
Leina lowered her head upon hearing that. "It was my fault. I didn't do well enough. I'll slowly integrate with everyone."
Seeing Leina like this, Du Kao knew she could no longer serve as the instructor. After thinking for a moment, he said, "Leina, train with them instead and slowly work things out. I'll have A Jie train that group. Now, let's continue discussing Liu Chuang."
Yu Qin, the technological expert, said, "Not entirely. If another department invited Liu Chuang, he might even be happy about it."
Du Kao asked, "How so?"
Yu Qin considered her words before saying, "Liu Chuang isn't the type to betray anyone. He spent the first half of his life as a thug, but he never had a single true friend. When Su Jiu appeared three years ago, what he gave Liu Chuang was not acceptance, but a new life. Can you honestly say Liu Chuang hasn't become a better person now? Haven't we been monitoring him all along?"
Lian Feng smiled. "After observing Su Jiu for three years, we know he's someone who would brave blades and flames for his friends. Do you remember Liu Chuang's two million?"
Du Kao asked, "How do I not know about this?"
Lian Feng replied, "At that time, General, you had gone home to pick up Qiangwei. Su Jiu heard that Changbai Mountain had a ginseng king that could sell for over two million at the time. He bought an alloy knife online and went alone into Changbai Mountain, where savage beasts roamed, searching for two and a half months. No one knows how he survived. He was still an ordinary person at the time. Think about it—an ordinary person. Still, Liu Chuang was lucky to make a friend like Su Jiu."
Leina listened blankly as Lian Feng spoke about Su Jiu.
Leina murmured, "A friend can do that much... I want one too."
Du Kao patted Leina's shoulder. "You will. There's plenty of time, and the world is vast."
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