Chapter 1602
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Chapter 1602 Lin Chu, This Is a Small Token of Appreciation…
“Snow Storage Plan?”
Hearing this unfamiliar name, Xia Simeng and Old Dog Wu were both stunned.
“Revoke the special squad’s designation, privileges, including all benefits such as transportation, salary subsidies, only retain the original special squad personnel composition and files, freeze them until the Snow Storage Plan ends.” Lin Qiye explained the meaning of the “Snow Storage” plan, and everyone present pondered thoughtfully.
“…What does that mean? I don’t understand,” Su Zhe scratched his head and asked quietly.
“It means that the [Night Curtain] and [Mask] squads will only keep their names and members, all other benefits will be reclaimed. You can understand it as canceling the team without disbanding it,” Li Zhenzhen grew up in Squad 006 and was very familiar with these things.
“The existence of each special squad requires a large amount of resources from the Night Watchers. Instructor Lin is directly contributing the resources of these two squads to new special squads… I’ve never heard of this method before, it should be a new plan established by Instructor Lin using his authority as director.”
“If he doesn’t give up the designation and resources, even if we complete all the conditions, we can’t become a true special squad…” Fang Mo sighed deeply, “He’s doing all this for us.”
“I see… it’s actually a good method.” Old Dog Wu nodded slightly.
Lin Qiye and Shen Qingzhu exchanged glances, a smile appearing at the corners of their mouths.
This plan was indeed proposed by Lin Qiye. Since he is now the director of the Special Operations Department, he does have the authority to establish and modify certain things. Left Qing letting him take over the Special Operations Department also contained this deeper meaning.
This plan is the best choice for both [Night Curtain] and [Mask].
“Next, I’ll briefly allocate the authority changes and work assignments for each special squad in the coming period…” Lin Qiye followed procedure and distributed documents to the two special squads and one reserve squad present.
All special squads should be uniformly deployed by the director of the Special Operations Department. Back then, Lin Qiye and his team’s missions were all issued by Left Qing.
And now, Lin Qiye has become the person issuing missions to other squads.
“Wait!” Xia Simeng finished reviewing the materials and suddenly looked up, “Director Lin! This isn’t fair! Why does our squad have the heaviest workload?”
Lin Qiye raised an eyebrow and spoke helplessly, “This can’t be helped. The [Medium] squad has already reached its ceiling and needs to simultaneously handle confronting outer gods and guarding war checkpoints. The reserve squad’s strength is still insufficient… Only your [Phoenix] squad has enough manpower and time to conduct ‘mystery’ cleanups within Great Xia’s borders.”
“This, this…” Xia Simeng’s face had collapsed like a bitter gourd. She had gone to such great lengths to come here just to please Lin Qiye, hoping he might arrange some easier work for them… but now they’ve directly become model workers.
“Director Lin, we can actually take on more tasks, even more dangerous ones,” Fang Mo said seriously from the other side.
“These tasks are already dangerous enough for you. You need to take things one step at a time,” Lin Qiye shook his head. “This matter is settled for now. Shen Deputy and I will share some of [Phoenix]’s burden, so you don’t need to worry too much.”
Xia Simeng sighed deeply with a bitter face.
“Today’s meeting ends here… if there are no other issues, let’s adjourn,” Lin Qiye paused for a moment. “[Phoenix] squad, please stay behind.”
Hearing the latter half of his statement, Xia Simeng’s heart suddenly skipped a beat, suddenly feeling like a student being asked to stay after class by a teacher…
She felt a bit anxious.
As [Medium] and the Sixth Reserve Squad left, only Lin Qiye, Shen Qingzhu, and the golden-cloaked [Phoenix] squad remained in the conference room.
“Director Lin, I know smoking in the conference room is wrong, in the future I will definitely…”
Before Lin Qiye could speak, Xia Simeng lowered her head and began to admit her mistake, with a sincere attitude, fluent speech, and steady rhythm, clearly showing rich experience in admitting mistakes.
Lin Qiye was stunned for a moment, then spoke with a mixture of amusement and exasperation:
“Captain Xia, you’re overthinking. I asked you to stay because I have something specific to ask you.”
He took out a file and handed it to the [Phoenix] squad members. Xia Simeng finally relaxed and curiously began to look through it.
“Six years ago, a girl named Chloe and a man shrouded in smoke met with Commander Ye Fan and then entered Great Xia’s borders… According to this file, the [Phoenix] squad was responsible for escorting them in and out?”
“Them? Yes, that’s right, though I wasn’t the captain then, Sister Feng was,” Xia Simeng nodded.
“What do you know about them?”
Xia Simeng thought hard for a moment, then said: “That man was very strong, at least at the main god level. He was like a specter – if he concealed his aura, none of us could sense him… His gaze was piercing, like a hunter’s, making one shudder.
That girl… hmm… was very beautiful, with fiery red hair, very fair skin, a hot figure, at least a C-cup, possibly even D…”
“Wait, I didn’t ask about that,” Lin Qiye quickly interrupted. “What about other aspects?”
“For other aspects, I’m not sure… I couldn’t sense her level, and she didn’t talk much with us, just occasionally smiled.”
“What did they do within Great Xia’s borders?”
“They just wandered around Great Xia, as if looking for something, and left when the seven-day time limit was up.”
“Looking for something?”
Lin Qiye fell into deep thought.
Now it could be confirmed that those who visited Great Xia years ago were indeed No. 27 and the red-haired girl Chloe he had been searching for. But what happened after they returned to the mist, and then Chloe disappeared?
Originally, Lin Qiye thought Chloe might be No. 27’s old flame from this era… but based on the clues collected these past two days, this matter might not be so simple.
The legendary Sequence 001, Yerande’s proxy, even acting together with ancient primal gods, and even recorded in Han Dynasty scrolls.
This girl was shrouded in unknown mist, and Lin Qiye had a feeling that this girl might also be related to the little boy inside him… Their simultaneous appearance in Han Dynasty scrolls couldn’t simply be a coincidence, could it?
“Alright, I understand,” Lin Qiye nodded. “You may go now.”
Xia Simeng grinned and was about to turn and leave when she seemed to remember something. She pulled out a pack of Soft Zhonghua cigarettes wrapped in a bright red plastic bag from behind her and furtively handed it to Lin Qiye:
“Director Lin, this is a small token of our appreciation… Please accept it!”
