"How did you end up here?" Chen Han asked Baili Pangpang, Cao Yuan, and An Qingyu as they removed their masks as well. "Didn't you leave Anta County a long time ago?"
Lin Qiye smiled. "We came back."
Chen Han stared at them blankly for a moment. Then, some memories suddenly surfaced in his mind.
"I still have a few students. They're quite proud of me..."
"Mm, very impressive. They're the Fifth Reserve Team... or perhaps, by now, they've already become the Fifth Special Squad..."
At that moment, Chen Han seemed to return to that snowy night.
That day, it had been this same young man. Standing in that freezing, dilapidated house, he had pointed the straight sword in his hand at Chen Han's nose and said:
"I am Lin Qiye, captain of the Fifth Special Squad Reserve Team of the Night Watchmen. Now, I regret to inform you that Li Deyang, captain of Team 332, died heroically in battle against the Queen Ant in red armor..."
As though he had connected something, shock appeared in Chen Han's eyes.
"You really are the Fifth Special Squad?! You're the Sword Saint's students!"
Lin Qiye spoke helplessly. "You only believe our identities now?"
Chen Han was speechless.
When Lin Qiye had told him that he was the captain of the Fifth Special Squad Reserve Team, Chen Han had not fully believed him. From beginning to end, he had never heard any news about the Fifth Special Squad, so he had remained skeptical.
Only at this moment did he truly realize... these people really were Great Xia's Fifth Special Squad.
They had not lied to him.
"You must have crossed through the mist to get here too, right?" Chen Han asked.
"That's right."
Chen Han's expression became somewhat strange.
Back then, when he