Chapter 669: 696: Mission Progress

Chapter 669: Chapter 696: Mission Progress

“Speak up, why aren’t you speaking?”

“What can I say? Say that I miss you?” Bai Oulan stubbornly bit her lip and refused to utter a word.

“Do you still think you’re the team flower, Meng Fan’s fiancée? Who are you putting on this act for?” Shen Yu’s cold mockery came as his hands gripped her with enormous force, showing no tenderness. His rough hands, calloused and thin, clutched her fiercely.

Finally, Bai Oulan couldn’t hold back and shouted, “If you don’t like me, you can just let me go; there’s no need to humiliate me. I have a heart too, not like you – always a cold, cold stone that never warms up no matter what.”

The two had been in a cold war for over a month, and from the moment she took the initiative to come, it meant she had lost.

“Who says I don’t like you? I like you the way you are right now.” “Shen Yu, you’ve gone mad…” Today’s Shen Yu frightened Bai Oulan, but she found it even more exhilarating. Her mouth cursed him, but her body’s response was honest.

Shen Yu snorted. The longer he spent with her, the harder it was for him to stay away. It had been tough for him not seeing her for over a month.

“Do you love me? Will you always be good to me?” Bai Oulan asked urgently. She felt insecure and desperately needed Shen Yu’s promise. “Will you support me unconditionally in whatever I want to do?”

“Of course, even if you wanted someone dead, I would make it happen.” “I don’t want anyone dead; I just want certain people to suffer.”

“Heh, heh, heh… Is that your main purpose in coming to see me today?”

“Tonight, let’s go to your place.”

“Fine! I’ll listen to you; wherever you say we go, we’ll go.”

“Good! That’s more like it.” Women cannot be spoiled too much, or else they’ll forget their own names.

*****

Su Jiang’s arrival left the senior leadership of the Northern District quite dissatisfied. The meeting hadn’t even started, and the atmosphere was already charged. He had been here for two days, and although he hadn’t made any move in that time, his actions had been significant, drawing unfriendly glares from everyone.

Especially Hai Shuangjie, whose look at Su Jiang was a mix of fear and hatred.

Shen Yu sat in the furthest corner, quietly observing his surroundings.

“My apologies for making everyone wait.” Hai Yunfeng and Meng Xingzhi hurriedly entered, and everyone in the room uniformly stood up to greet them.

“Please sit down,” said Hai Yunfeng politely and took his seat at the head of the table. “Bring in the comrades.”

“Yes!”

Soon, the conference room door opened again, and Shen Jianguo, leading two comrades, entered front and back. They greeted everyone present in the room solemnly. Jianguo had an injured left arm, supported by a white bandage, but his greeting was meticulous, fully demonstrating the iron spirit and quality of a rescue worker.

All the leaders stood to greet them.

“Please, have a seat! You are all exemplary comrades,” Meng Xingzhi gestured, and someone immediately arranged seats for the three of them.

Throughout, Su Jiang remained silent, only giving Shen Jianguo an extra glance when he entered.

It was said that they owed their lives to the cold weather gear prepared in advance.

“Yes!” Shen Jianguo stood up and recounted the details of their evacuation in detail once more.

When he finished, someone asked, “You mean to say that when you reached your destination based on the prior information, the place was already vacated?”

“Yes.”

“If that’s the case, then retrieving the core information will undoubtedly be even harder.”

So many lives had been put on the line, yet they came away empty-handed.

The atmosphere in the conference room fell into a unanimous silence, and for a moment, it became somewhat oppressive.

Su Jiang tapped the table with his hand, drawing everyone’s attention before asking, “Why didn’t Xu Qigang’s men return with you?” This was what he was most concerned about, and the real reason he had come to the Northern District.

Everyone else looked at Su Jiang and rolled their eyes. This was their own business; what did it have to do with him? Nosey as a dog minding mice.

“Speak up!” Hai Yuntian gestured with his hand, signaling that they should focus on the more pressing matters at hand.