Chapter 298: Trip To Langde Village
“Yesterday I went back and thought about it carefully, and I still think it’s better for Chang Ning to be in charge of my safety.”
Xia Lan seemed to have gone to extremes to disgust Chang Ning. Through these few days of contact, she knew full well that Chang Ning hated her.
Of course, she hated Chang Ning now too, so she came up with this method that would harm the enemy by a thousand while damaging herself by eight hundred.
Seeing Chang Ning’s face full of resistance, Xia Lan felt as refreshed as eating a big watermelon chilled in well water on the hottest day of summer.
“We need you to give a reason!”
Geng Jihui looked at Chang Ning and Ostrich; both of their faces looked terrible. Of course, his own face wasn’t much better.
Temporarily changing the plan—what did Xia Lan take B Group for?
“The reason is that my informant hasn’t received proper military training. I can handle it alone, but you insist on sending someone to protect me.
So let’s not waste manpower. Just send one person to follow me.”
Once this reason was stated, the entire B Group didn’t know how to refute it. What she said was quite reasonable.
“Why choose Chang Ning? Your relationship doesn’t seem amicable.
In terms of overall quality, Ostrich isn’t much worse than Chang Ning.”
Since there was no way to refute it, Geng Jihui tried to communicate on behalf of his comrades.
If they had to choose one person, Ostrich would work too.
This way, Ostrich, Chang Ning, and Xia Lan would all get what they wanted.
“To save manpower, we’ll change the sniper team to a single person. That person needs to have the strength of two people. If we’re choosing, we choose the best!”
Seeing the seven people sitting in front of her lost in thought, Xia Lan couldn’t help but feel a bit smug. These arguments were something she had thought about for a long time last night.
“Alright.”
Now Geng Jihui had no rebuttal. Xia Lan’s arguments had no flaws.
The next trouble was how to deal with the negative emotions in Chang Ning and Ostrich’s hearts.
One couldn’t protect the woman he liked, and the other had to passively protect someone he hated. Just thinking about it showed how deep the resentment in their hearts was.
“Fine, no problem from me.
Let’s see what Chang Ning says.”
There was no way Ostrich could watch Geng Jihui be put in a difficult position over something like this, so he directly stated that he had no issue.
Though he said that, anyone could see how awful his expression was.
“Since that’s the case, I have no problem either.”
At this point, if they wanted to successfully help the villagers of Langde Village win this battle, they had to let Xia Lan obtain the relevant intelligence.
Therefore, this time it would be centered around Xia Lan.
Even if Chang Ning knew this was deliberate on Xia Lan’s part, no matter how unhappy he felt, he had to grit his teeth and get it done.
Seeing Ostrich and Chang Ning both state their positions, Geng Jihui could finally breathe a sigh of relief.
Although he knew both were sensible people who wouldn’t misjudge the situation, he was afraid their tempers might flare up and make them disregard everything.
“Good. Chang Ning, you and Xia Lan communicate the operation time. Everyone else, carry on with what you’re doing.”
After saying that, Geng Jihui gave the medic a look.
Now, the only one who could counsel Ostrich and help him recover quickly was the medic. Don’t let their constant bickering fool you—they actually had a deep bond.
The medic noticed and nodded imperceptibly.
After the meeting adjourned, Chang Ning came in front of Xia Lan: “Tell me when you go to meet the informant.”
After saying that, Chang Ning left without looking back.
He had nothing to say to Xia Lan. Protecting her was just work.
Since it was work, communicating the time, location, and work content was enough. There was no need for extra chit-chat, especially since they weren’t close!
Their relationship was already on the verge of mutual disgust. What topics could they even talk about?
But this time, Chang Ning had misjudged.
“Hey, wait a minute.”
Chang Ning didn’t expect Xia Lan to call him. Hadn’t she sensed how much he hated her?
Or had he been too reserved in showing it, so Xia Lan hadn’t noticed?
“Is there something?”
Xia Lan walked up to Chang Ning; the distance between them was less than a meter.
After sizing him up, she asked: “Did I offend you before?”
Xia Lan silently thought to herself that the only previous contact between her and Chang Ning was attending training at Gao Zhong Dui’s invitation. Could it be that she had accidentally offended this guy last time?
“No.”
After saying that, Chang Ning wanted to turn and leave. He didn’t want to spend a single moment with Xia Lan.
If Ostrich found out, wouldn’t he be insanely jealous?
“Hey, wait.”
Xia Lan grabbed Chang Ning as he turned to leave and asked again: “Then why do you hate me so much? Since I didn’t offend you, there has to be a reason.”
Being hated for no apparent reason was truly baffling.
She didn’t care about being disliked—no one could be liked by everyone—but she needed to know the reason.
“No reason, just simply don’t like you. If I have to find a reason, it’s that I don’t like your personality.
Your kind of personality will get teammates killed.”
Seeing Xia Lan’s stance that she wouldn’t let him go without an explanation, Chang Ning told her what he really thought.
If his dislike for Xia Lan before was because she indirectly caused Xiao Ying’s death, now it was simply disliking her as a person.
It wasn’t because of any specific incident, just pure dislike for Xia Lan.
After hearing Chang Ning’s words, Xia Lan felt he was talking nonsense. She was so angry she laughed: Have you ever seen me cooperate with comrades? And you say I’ll get them killed!
If she weren’t afraid of a bad influence, she really wanted to punch that hateful face of his a couple times.
“Heh~
If you’re not willing to say it, fine. Next time you slander me, I won’t let you off so easily.” Xia Lan said viciously.
They were about to go to war with the criminal gangs, and now having a conflict with a comrade would just delight the enemy and pain friends.
Slander?
Chang Ning laughed to himself: Don’t you know what you’re like? Millions of viewers would vouch for me. Do you even need me to slander you?
“You don’t believe me? Then I’ll say it plainly.
When we first entered Langde Village, why did you shoot at Xiao Zhuang?
Don’t tell me you didn’t see the national flag and military flag on our chests!”
Hearing Chang Ning’s question, Xia Lan stated bluntly: “That was to warn you. You were charging through the jungle like bears and had already been discovered.
If I hadn’t seen the national flag and military flag, with my marksmanship, do you think that bullet would have hit the ground?”
Seeing her act like she was totally in the right, Chang Ning didn’t know how to evaluate this woman.
Even now, she hadn’t recognized her mistake.
“Warn?
Do you know what the consequences are of shooting at us? And you have the nerve to say that bullet hit the ground.
If not for the fact that you didn’t hit Xiao Zhuang, do you think you’d still be standing here talking to me unharmed!”
By this point, Chang Ning’s tone had risen several notches.
Until now, he still couldn’t understand why this woman dared to shoot at them after seeing their identity markers.
