Long Tianyu raised his voice. "You mean the man who just beat me up?!"
Hao Jingye nodded and added, "Also the man who pinned you to the ground with six shots this morning. Our Captain Qi."
Long Tianyu: "..."
Pinned to the ground...
Seriously, you didn't have to emphasize that.
He wanted to shout, to demand a one-on-one fight with that man, and to say Sheng An must be blind to have fallen for him.
But then he thought of the man's physique, his face, his marksmanship, and his presence.
Before awakening his ability, he had to admit he couldn't have held a candle to that man. After awakening his ability, he... had been thrashed twice more and nearly died under his gun.
Long Tianyu couldn't get any of his bluster out.
His breathing quickened.
With the folder tucked under his arm, Hao Jingye continued smiling. "Don't get worked up. The more worked up you get, the more your neck will bleed."
Huh?
Long Tianyu let go and looked down at his chest.
It had already been soaked before, but now more blood was streaming down, and there was even a puddle on the floor...
Holy shit!
It's that bad?!
His vision went black, and he passed out.
Hao Jingye called out with practiced ease, "Emergency treatment!"
Outside.
After Sheng An and Qi Lingwu left the room, they exchanged a smile.
Sheng An's eyes curved with amusement. "Nicely done, Captain Qi. We still work so well together. You didn't actually kill him."
When a kid misbehaved, you gave him a beating.
Long Tianyu was the spitting image of an arrogant, overpowered protagonist, with an ego that knew no bounds.
But he still had a rare decency at his core. He still trusted his teammates, split two steamed buns among three