Chapter 193 - 131: The Squad’s First Mission

Chapter 193: Chapter 131: The Squad’s First Mission

[In the past few days, you captured the Fox Sisters alive and killed the King Kong Barbie Fox, successfully attracting the attention of the Fox Race Saintess.]

[The Fox Race Saintess, seeing your exceptional looks, demanded that He Haikun capture you and present you to her as a bed slave within three days.]

[He Haikun found this difficult. He wasn’t confident he could snatch you from the Night Court Headquarters without a sound, so he proposed to her that they turn you into one of their spies instead.]

[She agreed, giving He Haikun a three-week deadline to turn you.]

[He Haikun has his own little scheme. He doesn’t plan to turn you into a spy for the Fox Race. Instead, he plans to invent a double agent identity for himself.]

[On the surface, he’d pretend to have been turned by the Fox Race. But in reality, he would be playing them at their own game, using his "turned" status to infiltrate the Fox Race as a deep-cover agent and serve the Night Court with distinction.]

[He wants to use this fabricated double agent identity to trick you into becoming a so-called double agent too, making you a foolish pawn he can use to eliminate the Fox Race in the future.]

[Of course, his desire to eliminate the Fox Race isn’t because he’s turned over a new leaf and wants to be a good person.]

[It’s simply that he feels his own power has grown, and it’s time to break free from the Fox Race’s control.]

[If he really did manage to eliminate the Fox Race, he would absolutely kill you immediately afterward to bury the truth forever.]

[The above is the reason why he just approached you with such sudden enthusiasm.]

’Holy shit, this He guy is that sinister?’

Magic Mirror: [Now that you know the truth, you don’t have to expose him. You can play him at his own game and pretend to become the double agent he’s fabricating. In the future, you can pull a double-cross and refine both him and the Fox Race in an instant.]

"Jeez, you’re even more sinister than that He guy."

Gu Qing couldn’t help but joke, "Before you became the Magic Mirror, you weren’t some vicious female side character from a novel, were you?"

Magic Mirror: [Not as sinister as you, thank you.]

Gu Qing: "I’m not sinister. My Qi and blood are as scorching as magma. I’m the epitome of virility."

Magic Mirror: [Heh.]

"I’m done talking. I have to get out of here."

With that, Gu Qing put the Magic Mirror back into his Storage Pouch and unhurriedly left the restroom.

When he returned, he saw only his junior waiting for him.

"Where are the other two?"

Gu Qing asked casually.

Xia Shuran replied in a soft, sweet voice, "Liu Yue said she was going for a swim. I don’t know where Wu Jiahao went. He didn’t tell me when he left."

Gu Qing nodded. Paying the other two no mind, he said calmly, "Let’s go, we’ll go check out the dorms."

"Okay."

Xia Shuran answered softly.

The two of them quickly walked out of the conference hall building.

They headed straight for Dormitory Building 8.

「More than ten minutes later.」

The two arrived at the dormitory building.

Gu Qing’s room was 608.

Xia Shuran’s was next door, room 607.

Their dorm rooms were identical: studio apartments of nearly forty square meters.

Gu Qing walked into the apartment, his eyes carefully surveying everything inside.

He discovered that it was fully stocked with daily necessities, so he wouldn’t need to buy anything extra.

The floors, furniture, and everything else were spotlessly clean, ready for immediate move-in.

"Hm, it’s a bit like checking into a hotel. I don’t have to worry about a thing."

Gu Qing muttered to himself.

After speaking, he took off his clothes and stepped into the bathroom to take a relaxing shower.

He ended up showering for a full half-hour.

Gu Qing dried himself off, got dressed, and emerged from the bathroom feeling refreshed and full of energy.

But he had just stepped out of the bathroom when a knock came from the door:

"KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK!"

Immediately after, his junior’s crisp, clear voice rang out:

"Senior, I brought some chocolate chip cookies from home. Would you like some?"

"CREAK—"

Gu Qing opened the door and smiled at his junior standing outside. "I was just getting a little hungry, and you show up with food. Come on in."

"My timing is pretty good, then."

Xia Shuran smiled sweetly, walking into Gu Qing’s dorm with a bag of cookies.

She slipped off her shoes at the entrance, revealing a pair of innocent-looking white socks, and walked briskly toward the living room inside.

Seeing that she was still wearing socks, and white ones that could get dirty easily at that, Gu Qing couldn’t help but say, "Why are you still wearing your socks? Take them off and put them in your shoes, so they don’t get dirty from walking around."

"It’s fine. If they get dirty, I can just wash them when I get back."

Xia Shuran said politely, "Going into someone else’s home barefoot is almost the same as not taking your shoes off at all. Both are very impolite."

"Who says that?"

Gu Qing said dismissively, "I’m the owner of this place, so my word is final. Hurry up and take off your socks, or it won’t be long before your white socks turn into grey socks."

"Alright, then."

Seeing that Gu Qing had insisted, Xia Shuran didn’t feel right about keeping her socks on.

She put down the bag of cookies she was holding, obediently returned to the doorway, and playfully took off her socks, revealing a pair of small, fair feet.

Gu Qing glanced at her small feet and noticed that the skin on them seemed much more tender than before.

One could only say that the Innate Jade-Foot Saintly Physique was truly ridiculous.

Even though she practiced martial arts year-round, causing all sorts of high-intensity friction between her feet and her shoes, her feet never became rough. They remained soft and smooth.

Xia Shuran walked toward Gu Qing barefoot.

As she walked, she said excitedly,

"Senior, these studio dorms are actually equipped with an oven, a microwave, a juicer, and other dessert-making appliances. This is amazing!"

"From now on, if there are any desserts you want to eat, just let me know anytime. I’ll make them all for you."

"I guarantee they’ll be more delicious than anything you can buy outside!"

Xia Shuran was full of confidence as she said this last sentence.

Gu Qing smiled. "Alright. Since you’ve said so, I definitely won’t be shy about asking if I’m craving any desserts in the future."

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「In the following days.」

The Extraordinary Beings of the Night Court left the base in groups, heading out to prepare for the upcoming Spiritual Energy Recovery.

As newcomers, Gu Qing, Xia Shuran, Wu Jiahao, and Liu Yue were all kept at the Night Court Base for orientation, systematically learning the rules and procedures for handling Extraordinary incidents.

In their spare time, Gu Qing would seek out the other three for sparring matches.

It was still 2v2 sparring.

He and Xia Shuran would team up to fight against the two Extraordinary Awakened, Wu Jiahao and Liu Yue.

Clash after clash.

Exchange after exchange.

Before he knew it, Gu Qing’s True Martial Arts Dao accumulated rapidly, and in turn, his Qi Blood Strength continuously rose.

When his accumulated True Martial Arts Dao had increased by twenty points,

Gu Qing’s body once again evolved.

[Your Biological Level has successfully evolved from High-Tier One to High-Tier Two.]

The instant the text prompt appeared,

Gu Qing could clearly feel the Qi and blood in his body grow even hotter, his Physical Strength multiplying several times over as a result. His overall combat power had skyrocketed.

’I didn’t expect the High-Level to also be subdivided into Tier One to Tier Nine.’

’Going from High-Tier One to High-Tier Two feels like going from a freshman to a sophomore in high school.’

’The improvement is very noticeable.’

Gu Qing thought to himself.

Just then, a massive rift suddenly tore open in the sky above the quiet training grounds, accompanied by a piercing sound.

Gu Qing followed the sound and looked up.

The next second, he saw Steward Tian, titled [Spatial Master], step slowly out of the rift and stop before the four of them, who had just finished their 2v2 sparring match.

His gaze was as sharp as a torch as he looked at the four before him. He spoke slowly, "For the past few days, Rat God Cultists have been causing trouble over at Hai City University."

"The two Extraordinary Contactors stationed there don’t seem to be able to handle it on their own."

"The four of you will now proceed to Hai City University to assist those two Extraordinary Contactors and root out the Rat God Cultists hiding there."

His tone grew more serious as he spoke, "This is the first mission for your newly formed Awakened Squad. I hope you will perform well, complete the mission successfully, and get your field careers off to a good start."

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