Guessing Game

The three Special Forces members took turns explaining what had happened.

It turned out Su Yuqing had once proposed to his girlfriend here.

Thinking he was being romantic, he bought loads of flowers to decorate the apartment, prepared a heart-shaped cake and a ring, and even invited all his colleagues.

In the end, his girlfriend—Ye Zheng, Qingjiang City's strongest combatant—rejected him with a very serious expression.

Her reason was that she disdained using a piece of paper to prove their feelings, and she also hated so-called surprises. To Ye Zheng, Su Yuqing's proposal had been quite a fright.

Although they made up after talking things through, being publicly rejected had dealt Su Yuqing a heavy blow. Whenever he recalled it, he was embarrassed to the extreme and unwilling to return to the apartment, afraid those memories would attack him again.

Ye Zheng saw the knot in Su Yuqing's heart and advised him to sell the place. Su Yuqing pretended to be magnanimous and said he had long forgotten such an embarrassing incident, but in truth, he cared more about it than anyone.

So when Feng Ling suggested that Su Yuqing give the house away for free, it was as though Su Yuqing had returned to that nightmare, and his expression management failed for a moment.

After hearing the gossip, Feng Ling could not help asking, "Then when Ye Zheng was transferred to Yunhai City, weren't the two of them basically separated?"

"Worrying over nothing, huh?" Zhou Diao smiled suggestively. "Our Captain Su's ability is duplication. He can split off as many bodies as he wants."

Feng Ling's eyes immediately lit up.

That ability was great, comparable to that Mirror Newt Card.

"How does he control different bodies? Do they share the same consciousness? If body A is in Yunhai City and body B is in Qingjiang City, with one eating and the other drinking, would their actions get mixed up? Would their consciousnesses interfere with each other?" she asked curiously.

Zhou Diao shrugged. "You'll have to ask Lao Su about that. I don't know either."

Then he teased Feng Ling again. "I'd say you have no sense of your own situation. Your Corruption Value is already at 29%, yet you're still thinking about other people's Cards."

Feng Ling smiled without denying it.

At that moment, Zhou Diao's phone suddenly rang.

He looked down at it and immediately grinned. "It's Lao Su."

Zhou Diao answered the call, glanced at Feng Ling, gave a mild "Mm," then put down his phone and said to Feng Ling:

"Lao Su wants you to make a post on the Exo-Star Forum at eight tonight, saying you've arrived in Yunhai City. The network technicians have already changed your IP address to Yunhai City. If we're putting on an act, we might as well go all the way. Fool however many Xenomorphs we can."

Feng Ling was deeply impressed.

Su Yuqing had not directly told her to pack up and get lost, but mentally, he had already expelled her from Qingjiang!

"Alright, got it." Feng Ling nodded, then asked Zhou Diao, "So what are you planning now? You're not leaving?"

"Heh~ Can't leave. We're staying here." Zhou Diao flopped onto the sofa, propped up both legs, and said with his eyes closed, "Lao Su told us to stay and protect you. After all, you're a rare Hidden Boss~"

"More like you're monitoring me, afraid I'll go crazy." Feng Ling sounded helpless. "Then you'll have to handle your own meals, and you need to cover part of the water and electricity bills too. There are so many of you."

"Such a nag~" Zhou Diao waved a hand as if swatting flies. "Don't worry about it. We'll get the bureau to reimburse us."

Feng Ling sighed.

Not having a home of her own was truly inconvenient. She did not even have a reason to kick people out.

She stopped paying attention to Zhou Diao and returned to her bedroom with a gloomy expression.

After a while, Huangfu Miaomiao came back, and Feng Ling changed clothes to get ready to go out.

Zhou Diao immediately became alert. With a sudden kip-up, he sprang off the sofa. "Where are you going? Lao Su said you can't run around!"

"He's not my dad. I can just listen to what he says casually." Feng Ling answered offhandedly.

Zhou Diao froze for a moment, then felt that Feng Ling's words made sense. Rolling his shoulders, he said, "It really is stuffy staying indoors all the time. Then let's go out for a stroll. If we run into any Xenomorphs, we'll beat them into the ground!"

Watching the two of them, Qin Liang hesitantly said, "Shouldn't we ask Captain Su for instructions first..."

"You can take your time asking." Feng Ling tucked her phone away and left.

Huangfu Miaomiao glanced at them, turned, and jogged after Feng Ling.

"Hey, wait for me!" Zhou Diao chased after them too.

The three team members left in the room were troubled.

Xiao Li said, "Her Corruption Value is already 29%. According to regulations..."

Qin Liang sighed. "According to regulations, she should be sent to the Observation Room. But even Deputy Captain Zhou isn't following the rules. Can the three of us stop them?"

Cao Hongyi put his gun back into his bag. "We should get going too. Don't lose them."

The three of them let out a long sigh together. "Sigh..."

Feng Ling hailed a taxi at the entrance to the residential complex and headed for Qingjiang City's largest Amusement Park.

The Amusement Park used to be so crowded it could barely contain the visitors. Tickets were divided into daytime and nighttime sessions, and people could play until eleven at night.

Later, Xenomorphs appeared, and Qingjiang City's nighttime economy was basically destroyed. Hardly anyone came out for fun, so the nighttime tickets were canceled, while the daytime session was extended until seven thirty in the evening.

It was just past six when Feng Ling arrived.

The sky was still bright. The sun hung in the west without sinking, and the temperature had not dropped much either.

The Amusement Park's colorful flags hung motionless in the sweltering air like strips of dead fish.

She bought a large-and-small combo ticket at the Amusement Park entrance and took Huangfu Miaomiao to ride the Ferris Wheel.

To make Huangfu Miaomiao look like an ordinary child, Feng Ling forced her to take off her Skull Mask.

All the way there, Huangfu Miaomiao kept her head lowered as if she were too ashamed to face anyone.

But that appearance made Zhou Diao find her much more pleasing to the eye. Following behind the two of them, he occasionally tossed out a few teasing remarks, his mouth truly obnoxious.

The three Special Forces members were still anxiously buying tickets at the entrance, worried that the Amusement Park tickets might not be reimbursable later.

Not far away, the enormous Ferris Wheel slowly turned.

Against the azure sky, the brightly painted cabins hanging from the Ferris Wheel stood out vividly.

Feng Ling walked toward the Ferris Wheel full of anticipation.

Since closing time was approaching, no one was lining up. Couples and families of three kept getting off the Ferris Wheel cabins, while the staff looked listless, merely waiting to get off work.

Feng Ling waited patiently nearby for a while.

When Huangfu Miaomiao saw the green frog-painted cabin about to come down, she tugged Feng Ling's arm.

"It'll be here soon." She pointed at the green cabin. "That's it."

—The Frog in a Top Hat charged toward the clouds.

The corners of Feng Ling's lips curved upward, and she immediately strode over.

Zhou Diao had no idea what was going on. Following behind them, he pressed, "What is it? Who is it? What are you two talking about?"

"A guessing game." Feng Ling looked back and smiled at him. "We're looking for the Frog in a Top Hat."

Once they found the frog, the next step would be finding the lone White Bird.

Feng Ling was brimming with confidence, feeling that she had already achieved 33% of her victory.

She bent down and sat in the cabin with Huangfu Miaomiao. Zhou Diao also squeezed in at the first opportunity. After a jolt, the cabin door closed, and the cabin slowly rose—

Their view gradually widened, and the Amusement Park's brightly colored attractions began to look like toys.

They continued rising higher.

Even the distance to the blue sky and white clouds seemed to shrink.

Feng Ling looked left and right while urging Huangfu Miaomiao, "Find the White Bird, quickly."

"Hey! You two have been acting strange this whole time. What exactly are you doing?" Zhou Diao was about to lose his temper.