"Kid?"
After Lu Xin said those words in a serious tone, as though they were only natural, the atmosphere around him suddenly changed.
Everyone looked at Lu Xin strangely.
It was as if they had suddenly been rendered speechless.
Or as if they were carefully trying to determine whether Lu Xin was joking.
Their looks made Lu Xin uncomfortable. He instinctively touched his face and found that his expression had not changed.
Only then did he relax and ask, "What's wrong?"
"Captain, you were talking about Qinggang's Kid..."
Gecko spoke in a drawn-out tone. "Because she insisted on coming out to find you this time, Qinggang has been thrown into complete chaos."
"When we set out, Old Chen was crying so hard his nose was running. He slapped his grandson, who had come to ask him for pocket money, into the office to do his homework. Those Big Sisters from the Service Team insisted on forming a suicide squad to come with us. We barely managed to talk them out of it..."
"You could say that Qinggang had no way to keep her there except dying together with her, so they had no choice but to go with the flow and let her join our team and come out to support you. Even then, those professors repeatedly made our big-chested... respected Team Leader Chen swear several times that we absolutely had to bring her back safely..."
"..."
Gecko's seemingly simple explanation left Lu Xin somewhat at a loss. "And then?"
"And then it would already be a blessing from heaven if we could bring Qinggang's precious treasure back in one piece..."
Gecko looked at him strangely. "But not only did you really treat her as one of your team members..."
"You even want her to display some of her strongest