648. The Storm

"What exactly are you two doing?"

Piggy folded her arms, her scarlet eyes staring coldly at the two of them.

Ming and Norris knelt on the ground, eyes fixed on the floor, not daring to speak.

"I told you to get some practice and adjust to the atmosphere of a battlefield, and what do you do? You charge straight into the enemy formation. Were you afraid you weren't dying fast enough?"

"Especially you, Ming!"

Louisa jabbed a finger hard against Ming's forehead, which had already recovered completely thanks to the Water of Life.

After feeling as though she had just poked a great iron gate, Louisa withdrew her finger without changing expression and continued her lecture.

"You ignored orders and acted on your own. Did you think the battlefield was your stage alone? Do you know that this time, not only did you drag Norris into suffering with you, you also disrupted the delaying plan Boss had made? Are you only capable of causing trouble for Boss?"

Causing trouble for Boss!

Those words made Ming visibly tremble, tears the size of beans falling one by one.

Norris, watching Ming like this from the side and thinking of his age, could not help wanting to say a few words for him.

However, he had only just raised his head when Louisa glared the words right back down his throat. "And you! Why didn't you stop him immediately? And why didn't you contact me the moment he ignored orders? Did you have to wait until you were really in danger before remembering to call for rescue? Are you a child only a few years old too?"

"I was wrong, I was wrong—"

[Hehehehe.]

To the side, the Yellow Book, now two layers thinner, savored the two people's emotions with gleeful schadenfreude.

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