Chapter 715: Accidentally Made a Great Contribution
Lin Tian shook his head, patted his shoulder, and said, "I’m fine. This bulletproof vest is of great quality. But when you held my head just now, I almost suffocated. I’m still a bit dizzy now."
Chen Moxiang, hearing this, looked a few more times and finally breathed a sigh of relief when she found out he was indeed okay. She patted her broad chest and said, "As long as you’re fine. If you’re dizzy, just rest for a while."
Lin Tian blinked, grinned like a goofy dog, and asked, "Were you really worried about me just now?"
Chen Moxiang’s body stiffened for a moment, her delicate eyebrows furrowed, and she glared fiercely at Lin Tian, "Worried, my ass! Didn’t you see not a single tear from me?"
Lin Tian took a closer look, and it was indeed true.
In fact, Chen Moxiang had rubbed her eyes with her hands just now, wiping away the tears so Lin Tian couldn’t see them.
"I did save you just now, with my life, no less. Can’t you be a little gentle with me?" Lin Tian said, rubbing his chest and pulling the corners of his mouth, pretending to be seriously injured.
Chen Moxiang felt a bit embarrassed by his words, her face blushing slightly, but Lin Tian couldn’t notice it with all the blood splatter on her face.
"Alright, considering you saved me, I’ll be a little gentler." Chen Moxiang indeed softened her tone.
Lin Tian grinned and couldn’t help but laugh, "According to the TV and novel cliches, I saved your life, so you should repay me with your life."
Chen Moxiang’s lingering guilt was swept away by sudden shame and anger. Now, she didn’t think of any life repayment; she just wanted to bite this shameless guy!
At this time, the others who had acted separately, Burning Wine and Jiang Huaisi, returned.
There was also a gunfight where they were, so they dealt with it for a while and only now came over.
"Boss, the four people in my room, they’re all dead."
"Same here. These insane dogs from Sakula Country could turn invisible, which was really bizarre. Fortunately, the brothers were sharp and took action first."
The one who really suffered was Lin Tian. The others weren’t injured at all and didn’t even give the enemy a chance to resist; they just wiped them all out.
However, in Lin Tian’s room, those few people from Sakula Country wearing barely anything were watching a movie, which caused Chen Moxiang to make a mistake. Otherwise, it wouldn’t have been such a mess.
Thinking of this, Chen Moxiang turned her face away, giving Lin Tian an apologetic look.
Jiang Huaisi didn’t notice the strange look from the boss. She just rested her chin on her hand, puzzled, "How did these people from Sakula Country become invisible? Our Security Management Institute has invisibility cloaks too, but flaws are revealed from such a close distance. They didn’t have any cloaks on, and neither did they have time to put them on."
Lin Tian knew about the invisibility cloaks from the Security Management Institute, and he wore them during the national treasure theft and saved himself several times. He used to marvel at its magic, but compared with these people from Sakula Country, the cloak’s concealment was still inferior.
Suddenly, Lin Tian remembered something and murmured, "These people are practitioners, and their strength has reached the Intermediate Martial level. What they used just now were probably Blinding Skills."
"Intermediate Martial?"
"Blinding Skill?"
As people from the Security Management Institute, they had more or less encountered practitioners from Sakula Country and had frequent fights, but they really didn’t know how to judge Low Martial, Intermediate Martial, or High Martial levels.
As for Blinding Skills, they were even more baffled. What kind of Blinding Skill could make people invisible? This completely defied common sense.
"In this room just now, all four practitioners made a move. They took turns and appeared to be uncoordinated on the surface—as if it was the Seven Little Gourds rescuing Grandpa—but in reality, they secretly set up an array. The first person acted as a pioneer, the two behind were flanking, and the last one was ranged attack."
"Their goal was simple: the pioneer should first take me out. If he failed, the two flankers could not only stab me but also hurt Mr. Chen. The final ranged attack could finish anyone left standing. Each move was extremely ruthless. If any misstep had happened, we would all have met King Yama by now."
Lin Tian looked at Chen Moxiang and said, "These people are very much like those from Sakula Country I faced at Yongxing Bridge. Their coordination was seamless, probably all at Intermediate Martial level. As for why they could become invisible with the Blinding Skill, that’s a mystery to me. The practitioner development in Sakula Country has a long history and has formed its own system. So, to know how they do it, you’d have to ask them yourself."
As Lin Tian said this, he suddenly noticed that besides Chen Moxiang, everyone else was giving him strange looks.
"Why are you all looking at me like that?" Lin Tian was completely puzzled.
"Bro... the Yongxing Bridge incident, was it you who did it?" someone nicknamed ’Hou Yi’ asked. Known for his sharpshooting skills, hence the nickname.
"It was me... what’s the matter?" Lin Tian still had a head full of questions.
"Do you know what happened after the bridge was blown up?" Jiang Huaisi asked with interest.
Lin Tian shook his head dumbly.
"Hey, those practitioner corpses were used by our Outer Protection Bureau leaders to accuse Sakula Country, scolding them like crazy. More importantly, they suffered a huge loss in silence!"
Lin Tian’s curiosity grew, "What huge loss?"
"Hey, I can’t say too much about it. It’s classified, and we only found out while on a mission. But we really took a big advantage that time."
Hou Yi got more excited as he spoke, wanting to put an arm around Lin Tian’s shoulder and give him some great praise.
Hou Yi grew up in a military camp and had a strong sense of belonging to his country. This time they gained a big advantage all because of this boy Lin Tian, hence his favor for him increased greatly.
This made Lin Tian kind of cry and laugh. I was tricked into it. How did I accidentally achieve great merit?
Burning Wine chimed in, "Don’t be fooled by how the news said nothing happened. Some fellow countrymen even claimed our Outer Protection Bureau was inadequate. They don’t really understand. Our country’s Outer Protection Bureau has quite a strategy. Obviously gaining a big advantage, they pretend as if they suffered a loss. But if it came down to facing off with those foreigners, they wouldn’t hold back!"
Speaking of which, Burning Wine puffed out his chest with pride for the country.
Chen Moxiang waved her hand and said, "Alright, alright, stop praising him. If you keep praising him, his tail will be up in the sky."
Suddenly, Jiang Huaisi seemed to remember something and shouted, "There should be one more person on the ship! The one who drove it!"
Chen Moxiang’s eyes darkened, and with a big wave of her hand, "Hou Yi, Burning Wine, Peony, go capture them! Preferably alive!"