At dusk the next day.
Inside a hidden office building.
The beautiful captain, Xu Rong, sat behind her desk. Her coffee had long gone cold, yet she had not taken a single sip, her eyes fixed absently on the distant street.
Li Weiwei lowered her head as she finished her report, then slowly closed the folder.
"All Charm Spirits that appeared have been eliminated. Only a few low-level ones remain; they are incapable of harming civilians. We will continue searching over the next three days until every Charm Spirit has been cleared..."
Seeing her captain staring into the distance in a daze, the guilt in her eyes deepened.
"Boss, yesterday was all my fault."
"If I had trained harder normally, I wouldn't have held you back when we encountered the Scarlet Charm Spirit. That person wouldn't have gone missing yesterday..."
At those words.
Xu Rong turned back and nodded, a rare look of comfort appearing in her beautiful eyes.
"It wasn't your fault."
"You have already worked very hard. Raising your combat strength isn't something that can be done in a day or two."
Even if it was only two short sentences, coming from the famed Cold-faced Asura, it was already tolerance as unprecedented as the breaking of heaven and earth.
Yet the more she said so.
The more guilty Li Weiwei felt.
Her captain had never made a mistake. Her combat strength and abilities were unmatched. Losing a civilian last night was not uncommon in other teams; there were always times when one's abilities fell short. But for her captain, it was likely an error she could never tolerate.
This had something to do with her. Even if her captain said nothing, she could not forgive herself.
The two of them suddenly fell silent.
Li Weiwei secretly gritted her