Back to the normal timeline—
The instant Yue entered the internet café, she felt several dozen people’s gazes turn this way, but they very quickly rotated back to their own screens.
She looked at Liuli swaggering in the door ahead of her, and inwardly she was still a little surprised.
This fellow was actually willing to use this form in front of people other than her.
Mm. Somewhat hard to believe.
It seemed this fellow had been living rather well these last two years.
At the very least, the subordinates were all treated as their own people, unlike before when carrying out missions in the squad, when this form had never been revealed in front of other teammates.
At the start of a mission they would even leave the squad first, stubbornly turning a team mission into a solo mission.
A lone-wolf cub, very obstinate.
Now that they were a little farther from that dark environment, they were performing more and more like an innocent, artless little girl.
It was a surface, but better than nothing.
Shifting her gaze off Liuli, Yue looked over the internet café’s environment with some novelty.
It was not the dilapidated wreck she had imagined, nor the cloud of smoke she had imagined. It could even be called extremely neat and clean.
This no longer looked like an internet café. It was more like a proper office floor, if the clothes of the people sitting in front of the computers were not so casual.
[Haven’t come to this place in two years. The changes are really big.]
Yue tried strengthening her intent toward Liuli. He had a soul-type Heaven-Chosen Skill and could “hear” it.
[Changed it a year ago.]
This time the voice that came from her heart was a male one, sounding very crisp and clear. It was precisely the [Hua Jun] Yue was familiar with.
[After all, this broken place doesn’t have many people coming anyway. The money earned opening an internet café isn’t even enough for me to eat breakfast alone.]
[Originally taking over the internet café was just to put up a front. Result was nobody came at all. Fine then, don’t even want the front. Anyway our main source of income isn’t running an internet café, so we simply changed it.]
[Ai, you have no idea how bad that environment used to be…]
From the main door to the hidden door, from the hidden door to the inner building, from the inner building to the basement, from the basement to the concealed private room, Liuli complained the whole way about how bad the internet café’s environment had been a year ago.
Indeed. This fellow had mysophobia. Enduring it with all their might for a year, it had been hard on them.
Arriving at the concealed underground private room, Yue dropped her hood, collapsed onto the sofa, and let out a long breath.
“Stifled to death, starved to death, tired to death! Haa…”
“…”
Eh, a bit quiet. Why had Liuli gone still? Shouldn’t he be pouncing over right now to sniff-sniff her?
Yue sat up straight on the sofa, only to find Liuli looking over with a strange gaze, that gaze like a senior in a group examining a newcomer who had just joined.
“You can tell too. That crowd outside is all our own people. You can communicate by speaking directly.” A meaningful smile gradually surfaced at the corners of Liuli’s mouth, looking to hold no good intentions.
“Communicating with the mind won’t be noticed by ability users with enhanced hearing, but visual enhancement… how are you going to hide? Heehee. That crowd outside has all been through special training. Just looking at the skeleton they can tell you’re a little loli. What’s more, every one of them is a Chosen One.”
Looking at little Liuli, whose tail was about to lift to the sky, Yue’s expression immediately stiffened a little.
This fellow… was quite arrogant…
But she then thought of something else and counterattacked with a kind smile.
“So the reason you can use this form so calmly in front of this crowd is actually that you got found out earlier, right?”
“Your own stern, majestic boss suddenly turning into a cute beast-eared little loli. Tsk tsk. They must have been stunned, huh?”
Noticing Liuli’s tail sway several times, Yue was already prepared to jump and dodge.
This was the precursor of launching an attack in this form.
However, after the tail swayed a few times, Liuli only took out a phone, tapped twice, tossed it over, snorted once, and walked out.
Yue rubbed her nose and shrugged, unconcerned.
Ma-ma. Daily bickering had accidentally poked a sore spot. No way they were truly angry. Coax a little and it would be fine.
She lowered her head to look at the phone. A pink bunny case.
Mm… a little fox eating a bunny. No problem.
But why give the phone to her?
Yue shifted her attention to the content on the screen and immediately raised a brow.
Mm… a chat group. The group name was “[Cat Nest] [Intel Group One].”
Hard to imagine, right, that an assassin organization would be called [Cat Nest]…
But in reality, specially taking in those excluded children and raising them with care—was that not exactly the feeling of carrying a bunch of “little stray cats” back to the nest and giving them a home?
One hundred eight people in total. One hundred seven online.
And the messages were still scrolling without stop, extremely active. Of course none of that was the point. The point was the content of their chat—it was Yue!
Yue pulled straight up to the place where the topic had begun.
【cFcFLV】: woc, Boss rushed out in such a hurry and ended up bringing a woman back? Who is this person, this much fanfare?!
【Broken Star】: Uh, maybe customs are different. Over here we generally call this kind of woman a loli. And didn’t you see her build is a size smaller than Boss?
【WuWUPG】: Weird, when did Boss change tastes? The ones brought back before were always the mature-sister type. How come this time it’s a loli?
【Qilinlin qwq】: Those big sisters looked so capable and still got carried back. This little sister looks so tiny… ai, so pitiful.
【beita】: woc!
【beita】: woc!
【beita】: wocccccc!!!
【cFcFLV】: @beita How is it how is it? Does the little loli look good?
【beita】: Peak!
【cFcFLV】: Better looking than Boss?
【beita】: I never said that, okay!
【cFcFLV】: Understood.
【cFcFLV】: @Jiu Yue Add me, send me a picture of the little loli!
【Jiu Yue】: Not adding.
【cFcFLV】: @Jiu Yue Good sister, just send it. In the whole group only you have both visual enhancement and information-share abilities. Send it~
【Jiu Yue】: ???
【Jiu Yue】: Disgusting! Lecher! Crawl!
【Broken Star】: @cFcFLV Hahahaha, see that? Pervert, crawl!
【cFcFLV】: @Qilinlin qwq Good little sister add beita, you two coordinate your abilities and send me the picture, I’m begging!
【Pure-Simple-Rakitic11】: Ahem, I want it too. Linlin add me as well.
【why40】: +1
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【Broken Star】: +1
【cFcFLV】: @Broken Star You’re an sp too and you have the face to talk about me? Crawl!
【cFcFLV】: @Qilinlin qwq Ignore that Color Star. I came first, add me first!
【Qilinlin qwq】: All right, sent to everyone.
【why40】: Holy crap!
【Pure-Simple-Rakitic11】: Holy crap!
【Broken Star】: Holy crap? What’s the meaning of putting up an old granny?
【Qilinlin qwq】: ??
【cFcFLV】: ?? How about I slap some loli onto your face?
【Qilinlin qwq】: ?? What are you all even talking about??
…
…
【cFcFLV】: That’s not right!
【cFcFLV】: @Qilinlin qwq How is it a muscle man! Where’s my little loli? That cute little loli?
【Qilinlin qwq】: Ah? How?
【WuWUPG】: @cFcFLV What muscle man? You’re calling that cute little loli a muscle man?!
【Pure-Simple-Rakitic11】: I think LV is just jealous. He’s jealous!
【cFcFLV】: @Pure-Simple-Rakitic11 Jealous my ass! Mine is clearly a muscle man!
【Jiu Yue】: @cFcFLV The muscle man was sent by me. Hmph.
【cFcFLV】: @Jiu Yue Why, Big Sister? I don’t recall doing anything to wrong you. Why target me?!
【Jiu Yue】: You don’t look like a good person… I’m afraid you’ll do something bad to the little sister.
【Broken Star】: Pff hahahaha, LV you see that? Sister Jiu Yue said you don’t look like a good person!
【cFcFLV】: Fuck! You people are too much. This daddy will go look himself!
【Broken Star】: LV left. Linlin, quietly connect to him and pass us the live feed.
【Qilinlin qwq】: Ah? That’s not very good…
【Broken Star】: Ai, don’t tell me you’re not curious what Boss and that little loli will do in there? Don’t tell me you don’t want to watch?
【Qilinlin qwq】: I do… but LV refused…
【Broken Star】: Damn, this guy’s not decent.
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…
One hand covering her forehead, unable to speak.
Damn. Head hurts so much.
Yue now understood why Liuli had looked at her with that kind of gaze. What a soul-type Chosen One could perceive was far, far more than what a mole inside a group knew.
Forget it. It was only a stay of a few days. Endure a little and it would pass.
Yue set the phone on the tea table.
The next instant.
Footsteps came from outside the door. There were two people.
Dong dong dong—
Eh?
Yue looked at the door of the private room on the left in confusion.
The dong-dong-dong just now was clearly not a knock. It was… the sound of fists striking flesh…