Chapter 416
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Chapter 416: The Missing Document
“Zeh, it really doesn’t let one rest easy…”
The man wearing the white fox mask narrowed his eyes slightly, his gaze falling on the few figures who were stepping on the wind and flames, chasing after the plump Bai Li.
He slowly raised his right hand, on his index and middle fingers were two rings.
One was silver-white, the other was pitch black.
Snap—!!
A crisp sound of a finger snap echoed in the night sky.
The four object enforcers who were stepping on the wind to chase Bai Li suddenly halted!
In an instant, all the air around them was sucked away, the surrounding wind and flames vanished, and an unprecedented sense of suffocation enveloped their hearts!
Without the force provided by the wind, the four of them simultaneously began to fall towards the forest below, their eyes wide open, looking around as if trying to find something.
The three figures riding the replica of the [Yaoguang] also stopped under the intense feeling of suffocation, their veins bulging, hands clutching their necks, pain evident in their eyes.
In a moment, all the figures chasing Bai Li were frozen in place.
The young man in the white fox mask calmly observed this scene, confirming that Bai Li had escaped the scene, then silently tucked his hands into his pockets and turned to walk into the dark forest.
After about twenty minutes, another figure appeared in the woods.
“Shen Qingzhu, I just heard some noise from your side. Did you find the trace of Bai Li Tuming?” The figure walked up to him and asked.
Shen Qingzhu shook his head, “Reporting to the Ninth Seat, I haven’t found Bai Li Tuming’s trace. The other members of the Bai Li family are just searching for him; I don’t know where he has run off to.”
The Ninth Seat furrowed his brow thoughtfully, “Why did the Bai Li family come out to look for him… I wonder if they are here to protect him or, like us, to hunt him down?”
Shen Qingzhu pondered for a moment and asked, “We are hunting him for the bounty, but aren’t they family? Why would the Bai Li family want to hunt him down?”
“Who knows? Big families are always chaotic; there are all kinds of people.” The Ninth Seat shook his head, “Let’s reanalyze Bai Li Tuming’s possible escape routes. If we can’t find him during the next ambush, we’ll have to stake out in Guangshen City.”
Shen Qingzhu nodded, “Understood.”
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Gusu City.
Ding-dong—!
The doorbell rang, and Lin Qiye, sitting on the sofa, raised an eyebrow and quickly walked to the door. He looked through the peephole and then opened the door.
“Hello, Captain Lin Qiye.”
Outside stood a young man in casual clothes, holding a black long box, which he presented to Lin Qiye.
“The bow and arrows you wanted repaired are finished, along with new medals and team documents. Please sign for them.”
Lin Qiye nodded, took the long box in his arms, signed his name on the night watchman’s dedicated document card, and then turned to walk back inside.
This was a safe house arranged by the night watchman headquarters in the suburbs of Gusu City. From the outside, it looked like a long-abandoned villa, but inside, the furniture was regularly maintained, and accommodating a few people was not a problem. Besides the night watchmen, no one else knew about this place.
Lin Qiye entered the house with the long box, and Jia Lan quickly approached, pointing at the black box and then at herself, blinking curiously.
“Is it… mine?”
“Yes, it’s yours.” Lin Qiye handed the black box to Jia Lan, smiling as he said, “Open it and take a look.”
Jia Lan excitedly placed the black box on the coffee table, pressed the button on the handle, and the black box automatically popped open. Inside the black foam lay a light yellow hard wood bow.
Jia Lan’s eyes instantly lit up. She gently took the bow out of the foam, carefully rubbing the bow’s body with both hands, finding no signs of breakage, as if it had always been whole.
A faint smile appeared on Jia Lan’s face, her eyes filled with affection.
“Isn’t this just like before?” Cao Yuan, sitting on the sofa, asked in confusion upon seeing the bow that looked no different from the previous one.
Lin Qiye took out a card placed on the foam, glanced at it, and said:
“The headquarters said that using a straight knife material to reshape the bow would cause the original bow to lose its elasticity, so they only restored the bow using technical means and applied a thin layer of a nano-coating similar to the straight knife material on the surface of the bow. Although it looks the same as before, its hardness far exceeds that of ordinary steel.”
Cao Yuan nodded thoughtfully, “It seems the headquarters really put in effort…”
Lin Qiye turned to look at Jia Lan, who was cherishing the light yellow wooden bow, and smiled, “So, do you still like it?”
Jia Lan nodded like a chick pecking at rice.
“That’s good.” Lin Qiye removed the foam from the black box, and beneath it lay two sealed confidential documents.
Lin Qiye casually took out one document and began to read.
This document mainly contained feedback from the higher-ups regarding their team’s involvement in the [Bell Crand] incident. Overall, they were very satisfied with the results of the Fifth Reserve Team and decided to award them a collective “Star” medal, to be issued alongside the “Starlight” medal from the original forest.
In the document, the higher-ups also inquired about how Lin Qiye wanted the medals to be distributed.
Medals of “Star” rank and above have two different distribution methods: one is to deliver them directly to their hands like this, and the other is for the entire team to go to the night watchman headquarters in Shangjing City for a formal awarding ceremony.
After thinking for a moment, Lin Qiye decided to use the first method of delivery.
Although this method is somewhat informal, it is the most convenient for a special team that often needs to travel across the vast Xia region. After all, they can’t keep going back to Shangjing for awards, wasting time and energy.
Moreover, they were set to depart for Guangshen tomorrow to attend Bai Li’s birthday banquet, leaving no time to go to Shangjing.
Lin Qiye set down this document and glanced at the other one, a slight smile appearing on his lips.
This one was Jia Lan’s official team entry document, which also included a night watchman emblem unique to her. Since she was not originally a member of the night watchmen, the emblem needed to be issued.
This meant that from this moment on, Jia Lan officially became a member of the Fifth Reserve.
Just then, Lin Qiye seemed to think of something and frowned slightly.
Since Jia Lan’s entry document had already been issued, why hadn’t Bai Li’s entry document appeared yet?
