Chapter 2

"Ye Xiu?"

"Hmm? What are you doing here, Old Ye?"

"So unusual to see you coming out of your room at this time of the day."

As soon as Ye Xiu reached the lobby, he was bombarded by the people there. They are none other than those from national team members: Wang Jiexi, Huang Shaotian, and Yu Wenzhou.

Ye Xiu ignored them and walked passed them.

"Hey hey hey hey hey! Are you going to ignore us like that?! Where is your teammate bond?! Old Ye!" As expected Huang Shaotian couldn't stay quiet as a sideline watcher.

Ye Xiu just raised his hand that's still gripping the cigar box, not saying anything. Silently he walked out of the building.

"Did something happen to him?" Wang Jiexi couldn't help but ask.

"That Old Ye! He looks as if a soldier that's on the verge of dying! If I don't know he is Old Ye, I'd probably thought that he is a returned soldier!" Huang Shaotion grumpily complained. Beside him, Yu Wenzhou just calmly smiled. He didn't utter anything to refute nor agree.

***

Ye Xiu returned to his room with a new pack of cigarettes. He lighted the cigarettes and take a drag on it. He stood in front of the window, looking outside to the street. It's 8 p.m. right now, but the street is still full of pedestrians.

Taking a few more drags, he crushed the cigarette butt on the ashtray. He walked back to his PC and shook the mouse to activate the monitor. That's when he noticed the blinking QQ icon.

Immediately he sat down and opened the minimized window.

New notification from "Ye Qiu" and "UnknownCode080". And one missed call from "UnknownCode080".

Ignoring Ye Qiu's chats, he directly clicked on UnknownCode080.

[ Sorry, the call was disconnected. I mistouched it when I was going to report to the commander. I'll be a little bit busy in the next 72 hours, so ttyl. Love, Me. ]

A simple message and yet it gave a huge relief to Ye Xiu. Confirming that the woman is still alive, he replied.

[ Take care. Call me as soon as you can. YX. ]

Hitting the enter button, he moved the cursor to "Ye Qiu".

[ She is in the middle of an emergency mission, don't know where she is but it's has a RED code in the mission letter. We can assume that it's either an urgent mission or a dangerous one, or both. But that's all I can dig.]

[ The commander has great expectation on her success, so she should be able to complete her mission perfectly.]

Ye Xiu frowned as he read the messages, clearly not happy with the news. His fingers started typing quickly.

[ Got it. Tell me if you get any other news later.]

He hit the send button. Not even a second, he got a reply. It seems like that triplet of his was online this whole time.

[En.]

Ye Xiu closed the window and switched back to his forgotten game. He stared blankly at the game for a while before choosing to log out from the game. Shutting down his computer, he went to his bed and take a rest.