Will You Choose to Join?

"Chief, we've made a major discovery. There was a note inside the other intact doll. It looks like a letter."

"Oh, that's good news!!!"

Hearing the laboratory staff call out beside her, Lianfeng immediately perked up.

This was good news indeed.

In front of everyone, she opened the white sheet of paper.

"Dear Brother Qian, by the time you see this letter, I'll already have gone abroad. I bet you definitely won't have opened this letter, hehe... (All right, I don't want to pad the word count, and I don't want to make up a story either. Brothers, just imagine the rest yourselves.)"

"It's a farewell letter. Shanghai, May 20, 2022... Shanghai, is that a place name?"

As Lianfeng read the several-hundred-word farewell letter, she fell into deep thought. She understood the date at the end, but 2022 was seven or eight years in the future. Did Huaxia have a place called Shanghai? She did not think it was a foreign place name.

Lianfeng then handed the letter to Qiangwei beside her to read while she paced back and forth through the laboratory, thinking.

Suddenly, Lianfeng's eyes lit up. Qi Lin had said that the man yesterday had accurately named her genetic model and even recognized her.

What did that mean?

It meant that perhaps in a future war, the Shenhe Sniper had made a name for herself and become widely known. That was why the man could accurately identify Qi Lin's Super Gene.

Once Lianfeng considered it that way, everything seemed much easier to explain. The man had come from 2022—from the future.

"Aunt Lianfeng, the way this letter begins is so intimate. It seems this doll holds special meaning for him.

"And below that... Hiss. Do we need to use the Deno Three system to find him?"

Qiangwei felt they had to find this unstable factor. After all, there was an angel behind him. It would not be pleasant if some misunderstanding arose.

Most importantly, there was the time and place.

Both appeared on the same sheet of paper. That did not seem too pleasant either.

"No. We only need to keep that place under surveillance from every angle. From a psychological standpoint, when someone loses what they love most, they will return to the place where they made their greatest mistake to search for it. They will repeatedly verify their memories, then return to the places they have been. Since there was a farewell letter inside this doll, it must be very important to him.

"Qiangwei, put away the letter and the doll. We're going to see Chief Dukao."

Lianfeng also realized the seriousness of the matter and hurriedly had Qiangwei put away the letter before going to find Dukao.

Her analysis was spot-on. Meanwhile, Long Qian sat on the bed, carefully recalling whether he had opened his backpack last night.

"Where the hell is my huge Spark Prism? That was Nagano Hiroshi's signed edition! It cost me a full eighty-eight thousand! It must have fallen into the grass last night. The gift she gave me must have fallen too."

"Tiga, I can never become light again."

"No, I have to go back and look. It's just a toy. Surely nobody picked it up, right? It's only been one night. It definitely can't be gone."

Angel Yan watched Long Qian shift from frustration to determination, completely unable to understand what was going on. She then asked, "Kid, did you lose something?"

Although Angel Yan had searched through Long Qian's backpack, she did not think there was anything inside worth her special attention.

Her perception exceeded that of ordinary super soldiers. Aside from a few silicone doll figures, expired potato chips, an employee ID badge, several work documents, headphones, and a charger, there was nothing else in Long Qian's backpack.

"Yeah. My ex-girlfriend... the birthday gift she gave me, and a limited-edition toy. They should have fallen into the grass yesterday."

Long Qian nodded honestly and answered.

He wanted to go back and look, but he was a hundred thousand miles from Juxia City. No, more like one or two thousand kilometers. Taking a car or plane was unrealistic.

Even if he could go, he did not have enough money. Even if he had enough money, he could not use his ID.

And because Angel Kayle had sent him away, she had been temporarily sealed. She could only be released two days later. Although Kayle could not remain in the Super Seminary Universe for long, she could stay for a few days under normal circumstances. Still, she needed to be unsealed after two days.

By then, it would be too late. It would probably have already been picked up as junk.

That was close to two million yen, and its resale price was even higher.

No matter how small a mosquito's leg was, it was still meat. No matter how little two million yen was, it was still money—his money.

Damn it. The more he thought about it, the more his heart ached.

His villa. His millions.

He could not give up even the smallest bit of money now. Every little bit added up, and eighty thousand could at least make him a little happier.

So, he cast a pleading look toward Angel Yan.

"Hm? You want to go to Juxia City? Then get ready!!!"

Seeing Long Qian's pleading gaze, Angel Yan could not bear to refuse him.

"Mm-hmm-hmm, I have to get all those things back. They're very important to me."

Long Qian nodded directly. They really were important to him. Whether they were worth money was another matter.

Two in the afternoon.

Angel Yan brought Long Qian to the place where the house had exploded last night.

The whole way, Long Qian had clung to her without letting go, making her very uncomfortable.

In more than seven thousand years of her life, she had never been held by someone for so long.

Although she did not feel anything for Long Qian, this little brat, he was still male—a boy who had barely experienced the world.

"This shouldn't be happening. Why isn't it here?"

"What's wrong? Didn't you find it?"

Wearing ordinary clothes, Angel Yan sat on a rock nearby, watching Long Qian's dejected expression as she asked curiously.

It had to be said that Huaxia's cleanup speed was extremely fast. The road that had still been covered in ruins last night had been cleared of the blockage in just one day.

"No. It doesn't seem to be here, but I remember never opening my backpack."

"I'll help you take a look. Maybe I can find some useful information!!!"

Angel Yan then activated the Eye of Insight and began searching.

She found some useful information. It seemed Long Qian's toys had been picked up by Qiangwei from the Super Seminary.

"Your things seem to have been picked up by someone. It looks like they were from the Super Seminary."

"The Super Seminary??? Xiong Bing Lian??? Then forget it. If they picked them up, I'll just leave them there for now. I can go get them when I have time!!!"

Upon hearing that someone from Xiong Bing Lian had picked them up, he sighed in relief. But when he thought of that protagonist group, he shook his head helplessly.

He was not so bored that he would swear brotherhood with the protagonist group. As for joining Xiong Bing Lian, that was even more impossible. He did not even have a Super Gene—wouldn't that just be throwing his life away?

Those God-Slaying No. 1 Bullets, and those elusive demons... What if one suddenly killed him? Then his blissful life would come to an end.

He still wanted to find a few angels to marry here, or maybe date Qi Lin.

But it seemed a new female demon would later appear in Demon Civilization. She seemed quite pretty. If he got the chance, he would ask Liang Bing about her.

"Xiong Bing Lian—is that the name of the team they'll establish later?" Angel Yan asked with a puzzled expression.

"Yeah. Huaxia's higher-ups named it Xiong Bing Lian. One Xiong Bing Lian can stand against a million soldiers."

Long Qian then stood atop a large rock, gazed at the distant stars, and sighed:

"Huaxia's civilization, Huaxia's ancestors, Huaxia's soldiers... no matter which world they are in, no matter where they are, no matter whether they are in danger, they have never yielded to invaders. In the future, here on Earth, Huaxia will stand shoulder to shoulder with gods in mortal bodies.

"Their powerful will can make even gods afraid. Just as Kaidie said, what is truly powerful is not strength, but the unyielding will and faith within one's heart."

Hearing Long Qian's heartfelt words, Angel Yan asked curiously, "Then will you join them in the future?"

"I don't know. This isn't my Earth. She doesn't belong to me!!!"

Long Qian did not know how to answer Angel Yan's question, but his response seemed to earn Angel Yan's agreement as well.