Beneath the Huangpu River.
After hearing Tang Mingxuan's account, Lin Qiye frowned slightly.
"Such a major matter as Bai Ze giving birth—why didn't you request Special Squad support from headquarters?"
"Special Squads? Wasn't your squad established just over half a month ago? You've been running all over Great Xia these past two weeks. When would we have had the time to find you?"
"What about the other Special Squads?"
Tang Mingxuan studied Lin Qiye with confusion. "Aren't you Great Xia's first Special Squad? Aside from you, where would there be any other squads?"
Lin Qiye froze where he stood.
Great Xia's first Special Squad?
That made sense... The concept of Special Squads had only emerged some time after the Night Watchmen adopted the "local garrison" model. In the early days, there were very few Night Watchmen; having one team per city was already extremely difficult.
In this era, Night Watchmen teams in second- and third-tier cities had at most three members. Only major, densely populated cities like Huaihai City had garrison teams of five or six people, let alone gathering elites and geniuses from all across Great Xia to form Special Squads.
Lin Qiye had initially believed that the Heroic Spirits were Great Xia's earliest Special Squad. But on second thought, Nie Jingshan was still alive at this time. Within Great Xia's National Destiny, at most General Huo Qubing and Senior Gongyang Wan existed. Perhaps Commander Nie of this era had not even discovered them yet—so where could a Heroic Spirit Squad have come from?
So Li Kengqiang was a member of the first Special Squad in Great Xia's history?
"I mean, you could report this to headquarters and call in Night Watchmen from other regions for support." Realizing he had let something slip, Lin Qiye immediately changed his wording.