Rushing to the Front Lines

Lin Xue arrived, bringing Lin Feng's little girlfriend Sally and a pitch-black disc.

In the Shadow Fortress command headquarters lounge, Miss shoved the two "things" in front of me with a face full of smug self-congratulation. She looked so pleased with herself that I almost wished I could attach a little tail behind her butt and watch it wag back and forth.

"Wood! I found something about Sally's family!"

After forcibly pressing the bewildered Sally—who had become tense from suddenly being brought into the heavily guarded headquarters—into a chair, Lin Xue spoke to me proudly.

Although I no longer felt that the intelligence Lin Xue had brought was all that important, I still cooperatively put on an interested expression. Forget an Atlantis descendant. There's even a living fossil aged several hundred thousand years lying in the lab behind us right now.

"Sally having Atlantis blood is nothing special. Viska tested that," Lin Xue said. Just as she did whenever she came to cause trouble, she casually snatched the drink off my desk and gulped it all down before wiping her lips. "I mobilized every resource I could, had Intelligence Department agents working around the clock, and practically traced Sally's family history all the way back to the Neolithic Age..."

"Pfft!"

I sprayed out a mouthful of Kang Shi Fu iced black tea. "What the hell have you been doing these past few days?"

Come to think of it, Lin Xue really had not appeared much in my sight these past few days. Aside from accompanying me to two official events, Miss had been acting mysterious lately. She claimed to be investigating Sally's family secrets, but hearing what this girl had accomplished now—I seriously doubted what she had actually been up to.

"I took several Shilin Mainframes and a bunch of